Re: sendmail won't start

2003-11-20 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to do something that is admittedly a bit > foolish. I'm trying to > get the sendmail RPM from Redhat-7.3 working on my > ancient Caldera box. > There's really not much Caldera left in it, as I've > been upgrading it > piecemeal to assorted

Re: Background question

2003-11-05 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess this is a bash question, and probly FAQ-ish, > but... > Say I set a make job to execute in the background > with 'make >make.log > 2>&1 &' and the job then stops to ask for user > input, like asking, "mv: > overwrite `.deps/alarmdaemoniface_stub

Re: DSL (scary) question

2003-09-30 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brad De Vries wrote: > > > Call the ISP and asked if DSL really is > available at > > the address in question. They said "yes it is". > I > > asked "how it was possible that you can provide > D

Re: DSL (scary) question

2003-09-30 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Aaron Grewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The phone companies tend to be very conservative > with distances so it is > > indeed possible that another ISP could reach the > spot. That said, > > however, speed and reliability is always a rapidly > diminishing quantity > > with distance

DSL (scary) question

2003-09-30 Thread Brad De Vries
Hey all, I was trying to order DSL for a friend's company yesterday and I thought you all might like to hear the story. First, since the company uses Ameritech phone lines, I thought I'd start there. Checked their website but it was too far. Verified distance problems with DSLReports.com and qui

Re: migrating system files (info)

2003-09-30 Thread Brad De Vries
Thanks for going Off Topic on this, my head was starting to hurt from reading the other posts. I think it might have been withdrawl symptoms. Anyway, to pass assignmment values into an awk script, use the -v option: for i in `awk -F: ' ($3 > 99) && ($3 < 65530) { print $1}' /etc/passwd`; do aw

Re: Networking issues

2003-09-26 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some kind of crazy arp poisoning maybe? > > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Brad De Vries wrote: > > > I have a network of WinXX PC's with a single Linux > box > > acting as the gateway/firewall/dhcp server/e-mail > > s

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d

2003-09-26 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Morse wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: > > > >>I just did a clean install of RH9 on a server that > was running RH8, > >>everything is working great except that ipop3d > won't authenticate any > >>users. Just says "Bad authen

Networking issues

2003-09-26 Thread Brad De Vries
I have a network of WinXX PC's with a single Linux box acting as the gateway/firewall/dhcp server/e-mail server/etc. My Linux box connects to the ISP via 128K ISDN dial-up line (too far away for DSL and cable is N/A). When I first connect the Linux box to the ISP, I can: 1) Use the Linux box to t

X-server sounds

2003-09-22 Thread Brad De Vries
I have a RH7.3 box and a WinXP box running Cygwin. While sitting at the XP box, running Cygwin, I can make a connection to the RH box using the Cygwin X-server and run all the normal X stuff. However, I can not get the sound from any X-client applications to come through to the speakers on the XP

Re: C Question now ....

2003-06-09 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Ben Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, now for my question of the day. > After 18 years in UNIX and 8 in linux, started > getting serious on > developing my C skills. Most of revolves around > Appgen stuff. > > Anyway, I wrote a C program to tell me what kind of > application an > Appgen

Re: Bash Script Ques

2003-06-09 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, first post (in a long time) ... > > I thought to do something like: > > if [ -f myfile* ]; then > # do something > fi > > That's to find if there are one or more like > myfile001, myfile002, but > it reports an error "too many arguments"

Re: ISC's dhcp

2003-06-05 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Man-wai Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how could I configure the package such that it would > not use /usr/local > but /usr? its configure script doesn't have --prefix > option. > After running "./configure" the resulting makefile should contain the install directory. You might be ab

Re: Multi-line regular expression matching

2003-06-03 Thread Brad De Vries
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm attempting to write a script that will delete a > certain portion of a > data file. What I want to do is delete everything > between (and including) > two lines, line A and line B > > The "file": > ... > #lineA > ... > #lineB > ... > > To an extent I don't real

Re: XFS resizing & Win2k

2003-05-31 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: > > On 5/29/2003 3:05 PM, someone claiming to be > Andrew Mathews wrote: > > > Net Llama! wrote: > > > > > > | Anyone know if Win2k has any ridiculous need > to be on hda1, or will it be > > > | ok sitting on hda4?

Re: XFS resizing & Win2k

2003-05-30 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've painted myself into a corner where i need/want > to turn a Linux only > box into a dual boot box with Win2k. Right now, the > box (which is a > laptop) has just RH9 (XFS) installed, and occupying > the entire disk as > follows: > hda1 /boot > hda2

Re: Bash scripting question

2003-05-27 Thread Brad De Vries
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Brad De Vries wrote, > > You could try: > > - > > TOTCNT=$# > > for ((NUM=1; NUM <= $TOTCNT; NUM++)) > > do > > echo "$NUM: $1" > > shift > > done > > - > > Wouldn

Re: Checking a microphone on Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Brad De Vries wrote: > > Does anyone know of a program to simply save a > > recording from a microphone? I've installed and > > configured the kphone program, signed up for FWD > > (http://www.

Re: Checking a microphone on Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 March 2003 5:20 pm, someone claiming to > be Brad De Vries wrote: > > Does anyone know of a program to simply save a > > recording from a microphone? I've installed and > > configured the kphone p

Checking a microphone on Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Brad De Vries
Does anyone know of a program to simply save a recording from a microphone? I've installed and configured the kphone program, signed up for FWD (http://www.freeworldialup.com) and, before I make a complete fool of myself calling people, I wanted to check the levels on my microphone. Currently run

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread Brad De Vries
I must admit I didn't get the icon until after I bookmarked the pages (including both Linux-sxs and KurtWerks). Now I get it everytime. Brad. --- Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kurt Wall spewed electrons into the ether that > res

Re: Windows client, linux X server

2003-02-02 Thread Brad De Vries
You are very close with the definitions you used. The only changes I would suggest is that the PC is actually running the X-server because it's serving up its screen, keyboard and mouse. The system running the X-windows system is actually called the X-client because it runs the applications. The

Re:

2003-01-24 Thread Brad De Vries
Here's yet another link: http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5b43/ Brad. --- Rick Sivernell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > List > > At the below url is a place to get stickers of > Tux, first it is great > sticker, but it is in Germany, I speak no German and > do not know the > money sy

Re: xterm/tty problems

2002-12-17 Thread Brad De Vries
Something easy to check is the TERM environment variable. The value should have come across the rlogin from the originating session but that doesn't mean that it's correct. There is also a possibility that it's being reset in the .bashrc/.profile scripts. To check it: $ echo $TERM To set it: $

Re: RH 8 font problem

2002-12-09 Thread Brad De Vries
Tim, two quick questions: 1) I seem to remember that either chkfontdir or ttmkfdir could only handle fonts with lowercase names. When you copied the fonts from Windows, did the newly created font files contain uppercase letters? 2) Again, IIRC, the ttmkfdir command only created the fonts.scale fi

Re: Allow all access to database files (dumb newbie question)

2002-12-06 Thread Brad De Vries
Has anyone suggested taking advantage of the security within Linux/UNIX? Why not: 1) create a group for the project 2) add users to the group who need access to this project 3) create a directory such as /opt/project or /home/project or /home/projects/project 4) assign the permissions for this dir

Re: Need help with PPP Server Setup Please.

2002-11-26 Thread Brad De Vries
--- RBE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 25 November 2002 3:05 pm, DragonsFireBurns > wrote: > > RBE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:mailman.86.1038256699.691.linux- > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >

Re: USB cameras poll

2002-11-12 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about those with digital usb cameras telling us > which ones work > easily in linux, and which do not? and which disto? Red Hat 7.3 Kodak MC3 (camera, video recorder, MP3 player) Works fine for both download and upload. Not bad since I picked it u

Re: writing a MBR to a non-boot disk that will end up being a bootdisk

2002-11-05 Thread Brad De Vries
Actually there are options within the lilo.conf file to set/reset the BIOS numbers of the drives. If you read the man page for lilo.conf, you'll see an option: disk=/dev/ that option has a "sub-option" to set the BIOS number. I realize it probably is not going to satisfy Steve's original r

Re: Finding out IP Number.

2002-10-22 Thread Brad De Vries
You could try the command: # last -i Brad. --- Ben Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to know a users telneted/rlogin .etc ..etc.. > IP on a flat > network that does not have DNS. > > Any Idea how to get it? > > Who -l , only does a DNS resolution. ___

Re: Network Duplex settings

2002-10-10 Thread Brad De Vries
It's also in RH7.3. Try: # locate -i mii-tool or # man 8 mii-tool --- Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's in UnitedLinux... > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:02:37 +0800 > "m.w.chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > where can I find this mli-tool? I don't have it... > > > > > > > I a

Re: about Cypheus

2002-09-25 Thread Brad De Vries
I'm guessing that the German message translates into something like: Your C:\ does not have enough free diskspace. You need at least 26.91 MB to install this package. Free up some disk space and click . If that doesn't appear to be the problem, I would look for any upgrades/patches to Cypheus t

Re: cut

2002-09-23 Thread Brad De Vries
You could try the 'sed' command: cat kernel.01 | sed -e "s/.*DPT=/DPT=/" -e "s/ .*//" That would replace everything up to the first "DPT=" with nothing and everything from the first space character to the end of the line with nothing. HTH, Brad. --- "m.w.chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cat k

Re: how to send mail without human intervention?

2002-09-22 Thread Brad De Vries
Here's another suggestion: - mail -n -s "test2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] << EOM This is the body of the message With line breaks and everything. EOM - HTH, Brad. --- Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing a bash script where I need to send email > out depending on >

Re: Question

2002-09-18 Thread Brad De Vries
Rick, assuming these are not image files (i.e., do not contain binary data) and also assuming that you are running bash, you could write a simple shell script like: TMPFILE=/tmp/tmp.$RANDOM for file in *.xpm; do echo "$file" sed -e "s/static/const/g" $file > $TMPFILE cat $TMPFILE > $file;

Re: keyboard

2002-06-12 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During the install of RH 7.3 the Logitech Itouch > keyboard was recognized and > selected. However none of the additional keys seem > to do anything. This > system is in Vancouver B.C. so I can't varify what > it does or doesn't do. > Would this not

Re: open-sourced MRP system

2002-06-07 Thread Brad De Vries
--- "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 15:44:46 +0800 > begin "m.w.chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed > forth: > > > > > I just wondered whether there were brave souls out > there to try this... > > > > I knew there were general ledger systems, > workgroup soluti