Re: XFS filesystem revisited

2003-11-20 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 1.4K bytes, Collins Richey blathered: > FYI. > > >From time to time we have threads about the use of various filesystems (usually > degrades rapidly to "my fs is better than your fs"). Well, my FS *is* better than your FS, but I digress. ;-) [Gentoo description of XFS shortcomings sni

Fedora - Whoops!

2003-11-20 Thread Kurt Wall
Evidently, a pre-existing project named "Fedora" has objected to Red Hat's claims on the name: http://www.fedora.info/fedora.htm Kurt -- Polymer physicists are into chains. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http:

Re: Which file system am I using?

2003-11-20 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 1.0K bytes, Joel Hammer blathered: > OK, mount shows that my original disk is reiserfs. My new partition is > ext2, whichI just created with fdisk. There is no choice for reiserfs or > ext3 with fdisk. Does one simple run mkfs to get the file system of choice? fdisk creates a partition.

Re: Which file system am I using?

2003-11-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.3K bytes, Joel Hammer blathered: > What command can I issue to see what file system I am running on a > linux partition? mount usually works for me: $ mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (r0) /dev/hdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw) /dev/hdb2 on /archive type e

Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 1.2K bytes, James McDonald blathered: [...] > Because we only have windows I had to take a laptop up to the radio > repeater site and use it to change each ip address. The problem was that > windows (w2k) will allow you to change your ip address once but if you > try it again it prom

Re: [InterLUG] AOL now in the Linux PC business

2003-11-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.4K bytes, Terence McCarthy blathered: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:00:04 -0500 > Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kurt > > -- > > A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. > > I can see why you stopped ther

Re: [InterLUG] AOL now in the Linux PC business

2003-11-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.7K bytes, Henry Keultjes blathered: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > http://www.aolcheckout.com/aol-pc/aol01.asp?srccode=subp1b447695&vcid=a1 No Linux there... Kurt -- A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.

Re: Hooray

2003-11-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.6K bytes, Collins Richey blathered: > LinuxToday (Nov 18, 2003, 20:00 UTC) (4004 reads) (10 talkbacks) (feedback) > > "But in a filing yesterday the SCO Group gave a strong hint that while it > anticipates riches from IP licenses, its current business is falling apart..." Gee, what a

Re: TextMaker

2003-11-15 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.3K bytes, Kurt Wall blathered: > Has anyone received their TextMaker $11.11 download instructions > yet? I've not seen mine... Works everytime - I send this message, and the license informaiton arrives. Kurt -- Hacker's Law: The belief that enhanced un

TextMaker

2003-11-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Has anyone received their TextMaker $11.11 download instructions yet? I've not seen mine... Kurt -- It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linu

Re: way

2003-11-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.9K bytes, Andrew L. Gould blathered: [veering wildly OT here] > Possession-0.5 is an application that will install a daemon that can make > these movements quite easy (see "The Exorcist"). Unfortunately, it has never > gotten past alpha because the client-server relationship is all

Re: A First Look: Next-Generation Debian Installer

2003-11-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.6K bytes, Collins Richey blathered: > FYI > > Some "Breaking News".. > A First Look: Next-Generation Debian Installer > > http://www.linmagau.org > > For those of you who aren't familiar with the site, it's work bookmarking. > linmagau issues a lot of informative howto reports. As

Re: Late Friday

2003-11-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.3K bytes, Roger Oberholtzer blathered: > http://www.rinkworks.com/said/insurance.shtml Kurt's favorite: "I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law, and headed over the embankment." -- Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it

Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.7K bytes, Bill Davidson blathered: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:20:53 +0100 > Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:08:55 -0500 > > John Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > You can also use the -j option to tar: > > > > > > # tar -xjvf file

Re: Commas in 'c' printf

2003-11-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 1.1K bytes, Michael Hipp blathered: > > Ok, I should have looked at the man page for printf: > > -- > The five flag characters above are defined in the C standard. The SUSv2 > specifies one further flag character. > > ' > For decimal conversion (i, d, u, f, F, g, G) the output

Re: FW: [EmperorLinux-os-RedHat] do not use : GLIBC update packages ( from Red Hat Network)

2003-11-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.8K bytes, Net Llama! blathered: > On 11/13/03 17:04, dep wrote: > > >quoth Kurt Wall: > >| Consuming 2.3K bytes, Net Llama! blathered: > >| > I can vouch for this. My RH9 box is trashed as a result. > >| > >| [badly borken glibc] > >| >

Re: rms: "i'm clueless, dammit!"

2003-11-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 1.3K bytes, dep blathered: > http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/13/cz_dl_1113sco.html?partner=yahoo&referrer= My favorite part: "Oddly enough, on Nov. 11, SCO Executive Vice President Christopher Sontag complained to Forbes about IBM's decision to send subpoenas to investors and analysts who

Re: Commas in 'c' printf

2003-11-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.5K bytes, Michael Hipp blathered: > It's been a long time since I programmed anything with financial-style > numbers in c, but I thought there was a printf option to put commas in > the numbers so you get 1,234,567 instead of the hard-to-read 1234567. > > Is there a simple c way to d

Re: FW: [EmperorLinux-os-RedHat] do not use : GLIBC update packages ( from Red Hat Network)

2003-11-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 2.3K bytes, Net Llama! blathered: > I can vouch for this. My RH9 box is trashed as a result. [badly borken glibc] Whoops! Kurt -- Are you a turtle? ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-

Re: Matrix III

2003-11-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 1.8K bytes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] blathered: > > > > > I agree with your assessment. This movie was a proper end to a bad a@@ > trilogy. The film critics I've read seemed to have missed the real message > in the movie. Definitely a good one to see. No surprise there. Since we're on a

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.5K bytes, Terence McCarthy blathered: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:12:39 -0600 > "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I forgot the wink. (I hope I'm not **that** cynical.) :-) > > Remember Ambrose Beirce (The Devil's Dictionary) " A cynic is a man > whose faulty vision see

Re: pictures from the desert

2003-11-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth burns: > On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 20:39, Net Llama! wrote: > > On 11/09/03 16:12, burns wrote: > > > > > Nice pics, Lonnie. What are the 'beehive' buildings? > > > > Charcoal Kilns: > > Ahhh. I was afraid you were going to tell me they were ancient Druid > dwellings. Presumably, they had some

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth dep: > i use textmaker -- couldn't live without it -- and it is very, very > good. i got this note from 'em tonight and thought i'd pass it along in > case anyone had been interested but didn't want to pay $50 for the > product (though if it were $200 it would be worth it, imho). Just ord

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth M.W. Chang: > better than open office? Yup, in the same way that single malt scotch is better than Listerine. Kurt -- Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. -- D. J. Hicks

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-06 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Roger Oberholtzer: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 20:41:55 -0500 > dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > quoth Kurt Wall: > > > > | > 43 passed by here a few days ago... > > | > > | It does go whizzing by lately... > > > > it gets worse. &

Re: RBL list

2003-11-05 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Gary Wilson: > Does anyone have a current RBL list that is working? Not I. K -- It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -- Phil White ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://s

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Collins Richey: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:31:26 -0600 "Jack Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Indeed so... > > -jhb- > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Rick Sivernell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:20 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subjec

Re: a thought

2003-11-05 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth dep: > something just occurred to me in re. sco and suse and all. > > seems to me there's one big honking breach of contract lawsuit available > to, say, suse and turbo and conectiva against sco. i mean a *whopping* > big breach of contract suit available to them. after all, when your > p

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth dep: > quoth Kurt Wall: > > | > 43 passed by here a few days ago... > | > | It does go whizzing by lately... > > it gets worse. So I hear. Barely. Kurt -- Why do we have two eyes? To watch 3-D movies with. ___ Linux-u

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Roger Oberholtzer: > On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:16:09 +0800 > Chong Yu Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > That's amazing ! I thought most of the people on this list were in their > > 30's, because you guys sound so young ! I'm probably the youngest here, > > I expect (I'm 34). But I am a

Re: Spam to Stop Spam

2003-11-03 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Roger Oberholtzer: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:00:54 -0500 > Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, surely, they wouldn't do something like *that*? > > My reaction exactly. But you gotta trust someone in these spam-filled > days, no? True. Just

Re: Linux in Dallas at the SEG

2003-11-01 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Alan Jackson: [...] > the AMD Opteron 64 bit for clusters. IBM had a rather nice blade > system which could take whatever you want, AMD, Intel, or other. And > I saw a Sun system perform much like an SGI. So things are continuing to > progress. Stupid question: What exactly is a "blade" se

Re: tar vs cp

2003-11-01 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth M.W. Chang: > > It's from a how-to on converting a root partition to xfs. > what does the following command do? > > mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /mnt Mount the ext2 file system on /dev/hda6 at /mnt > cd / Obvious. > tar lvcf - . | (cd /mnt ; tar xpvf -) Invoke tar on the current directory

Re: Lightweight Distro (Was "Re: Lightweight Desktop Help.")

2003-11-01 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Ben Duncan: > Immediate response to slackware: > > MIKIE LIKESIT !! Knew you would. It's kind a retro, as Linux distributions go, but my experience is that it leaves you close to the metal and doesn't install a bunch of crap you don't need.

Lightweight Distro (Was "Re: Lightweight Desktop Help.")

2003-11-01 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Ben Duncan: > Ok, tried to load SuSe 8.2 on a P 150MHZ with 80MB ram and > a 4GB hard disk ... needless to say, WAY OVERKILL for the poor old machine. > > Need some sort of distro that can: > > A: Includes the Gcc compiler/Python/Perl/etc ... > B: Will work on such a weak machine (hmmm a fe

Re: [GWAVA:1cfeg11o] Subject filter message notification

2003-10-31 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth GWAVA: > This is an automated Notification e-mail message from GWAVA. > > The message you sent, from the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > to [No To Addresses] > > Concerning: Lightweight Desktop Help. > > Was not delivered because it contained content not accepted by the University of > Nat

Re: Lightweight Desktop Help.

2003-10-31 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Ben Duncan: > I need to any recommendations on a -easy- to configure, resource light > desktop manager. Need to add and run Open Office, some email programs, > and a "terminal" emulation. I've been using Blackbox with great satisfaction here. http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ Kurt -- A co

Re: Spam to Stop Spam

2003-10-31 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Roger Oberholtzer: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:03:16 -0500 > Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not quite sure what to think about spam that wants to sell > > me some sort of spam blocking. That would be metaspam, yes? > > > > Grumbl

Mandrake 9.2 Destroys some CD Drives

2003-10-30 Thread Kurt Wall
Here's a interesting one for you Mandrake fans, as seen on another mailing list. > Some LG CD-ROM drives that do not meet the ATAPI specification are being > destroyed by Mandrake 9.2. Not mandrake's fault, LG's fault for > interpreting the FLUSH_CACHE command as the UPLOAD_FIRMWARE command! > Her

Spam to Stop Spam

2003-10-30 Thread Kurt Wall
I'm not quite sure what to think about spam that wants to sell me some sort of spam blocking. That would be metaspam, yes? Grumble. Sigh. Wherez my pillz? Kurt -- To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load. ___

Re: ADMIN: DNS changes

2003-10-30 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Bill Campbell: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: > >Quoth Matthew Carpenter: > >> Will this break my email filtering rules again? > > > >Probably. > > I don't know what DNS would have to do with filtering rules. Ah, you're correct of c

Re: This is just a test

2003-10-30 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Jay Nugent: [whack] >Sendmail ships with its configuration set to ONLY listen to the > loopback device. You can reconfigure it by simply changing one line (no > need to run m4 and all that crap!). Well, Red Hat certainly ships Sendmail this way. The default Slackware Sendmail installa

Re: This is just a test

2003-10-30 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Robert E.Raymond: > Hi all, > > I'm testing sendmail. You have my sympathies. > If you receive this you all know it works. I'm *so* relieved. > If you don't, no one but me will know it doesn't work. Pity, that. > I'll also know it works, but you're welcome to respond just to confirm th

Re: ADMIN: DNS changes

2003-10-30 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Douglas J Hunley: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 [DNS woes on mothership] > Kudos to Bill for his wonderfull service and generosity in offering this to > the SxS community. Indeed. Huzzah! Kurt -- An exotic journey in downtown Newark is in your future. ___

Re: ADMIN: DNS changes

2003-10-30 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Matthew Carpenter: > Will this break my email filtering rules again? Probably. Kurt -- We wish you a Hare Krishna We wish you a Hare Krishna We wish you a Hare Krishna And a Sun Myung Moon! -- Maxwell Smart ___ Linux-users mailing

Re: Mozilla 1.5 with antialiased fonts

2003-10-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth James McDonald: > > According to Kentucky state law, every person must take a bath at least > > once a year. > > How dare they try to curb my freedom of expression ;) As you're in New South Wales, you're not bound by Kentucky law, and us yanks are far enough away that we won't mind if you n

Re: Mozilla 1.5 with antialiased fonts

2003-10-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Klaus-Peter Schrage: > Mozilla 1.5 is out for a little time now, and if you don't like ugly > fonts and don't want to waste time searching and doing frustrating > installs (as I did), then you should get the 'xft-enabled' build from > ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/m

Re: Moving to London

2003-10-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Federico Voges: > Hi, > > Just wanted to let you know that I've accepted a job in London (UNIX > Admin). This is a big change (and challenge) for me (I'm from > Argentina). > Luckily I have a friend (he's the one who recommended me for the job) > and my sister living there. > > I'm leaving

Re: backwards

2003-10-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Net Llama!: > http://www.linux-sxs.org.mirror.sytes.org/ .gnorw *os* si sihT "rev" is our new friend, I see. $ echo "This is *so* wrong." | rev .gnorw *os* si sihT Kurt -- "My pants just went on a wild rampage through a Long Island Bowling Alley!!" -- Zippy the Pinhead __

Re: Bar Code Reader and Software?

2003-10-25 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Leon Goldstein: > Anyone know of a Linux-friendly bar code reader and supporting software? > I need to scan the bar code for a pet microchip ID registration form. > I could also use some ideas for a Linux form maker/form filler, if such > exists. As usual, Google is your friend: http://www

Re: test message

2003-10-24 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth dep: > quoth Kurt Wall: > | Quoth Keith Morse: > | > Please ignore. > | > | Pardon me? Did you say something? No? I didn't think so. > > hey. cut him a break. he's probably married. That explains it! ;-) Ku

Re: test message

2003-10-24 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Collins Richey: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:08:14 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > quoth Kurt Wall: > > | Quoth Keith Morse: > > | > Please ignore. > > | > > | Pardon me? Did you say something? No? I didn't think so. &g

Re: test message

2003-10-23 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Keith Morse: > > Please ignore. Pardon me? Did you say something? No? I didn't think so. K -- "Virtual" means never knowing where your next byte is coming from. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smt

Re: One Slackware Issue

2003-10-22 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Robert E. Raymond: > Hi all, > > Slackware is running almost nicely on my friend's machine now- everything > works except when I logout from KDE, Gnome, etc. the entire thing locks up > and the only way to fix it is with a hard reboot. > > This is with XFree 4.3, kernels 2.4.22-xfs, and t

Re: glibc question

2003-10-21 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Tony Alfrey: > > Yes, I read the SXS. My principle question is . . . > if I have applications complied earlier against glibc-2.2.1 and I > install glibc-2.2.4, will the applications now crash? No. Going the other way -- apps compiled against 2.2.4 running on a 2.2.1 system -- might not ru

Re: Crappy fonts in Redhat

2003-10-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Alan Jackson: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 07:27:22 +0800 > Chong Yu Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Robert E. Raymond wrote: > > > > > Terence McCarthy wrote: > > > > > >> Rehat is too buggy. > > >> > > I'm using Red Hat 9.0 on my laptop. I have to admit that if you're > > instal

Re: test

2003-10-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth ronnie gauthier: > > test 10/19 Damn, and I forgot to study! Kurt -- Every absurdity has a champion who will defend it. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-us

Re: The SCO Group Closes $50 Million Equity Financing

2003-10-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Myles Green: > $50 Million Private Investment Transaction Led by BayStar Capital > Provides SCO With Funding for Future Software Development, SCOx Web > Services Partnerships And Acquisitions, Future Licensing Opportunities > and the Protection of the Company's Intellectual Property Assets >

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Collins Richey: > http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html > > This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO and its > brethren. It smells no better when it comes from OSS. Naturally, you're reading a slanted article from a magazine that doesn't understand

Re: sourceforge.net

2003-10-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Ted Ozolins: > anyone able to connect to the above. I keep getting timed out. Times out here. traceroute falls over at 66.35.210.202: $ traceroute -n www.sourceforge.net traceroute to sourceforge.net (66.35.250.203), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 192.168.0.1 0.410 ms 0.253 ms 0.250 ms

Re: Importing mutt aliases into Netscape 7

2003-10-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Joel Hammer: > Does anyone know of a way to import addresses from a text file like mutt > aliases into a more convoluted file like the abook of mozilla? > Or,failing that, is there a simple explanation somewhere of the abook > data format? http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/index.html K

Re: More RPM madness - I'm sure it's just me ...

2003-10-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Michael Hipp: > Kurt Wall wrote: > >I'm betting that a %post-install script creates a symlink. Perhaps > >a command like "rpm -q --scripts pkg.name.rpm" (if memory serves) > >will tell you what you want to know? You're looking for a command > >t

Re: More RPM madness - I'm sure it's just me ...

2003-10-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Michael Hipp: > Andrew Mathews wrote: > >Sounds like your rpm isn't built for the distro you're trying to install > >it on, but something altogether different. Can you properly query the > >package with rpm -qpl and list the fileset? > > It's the RPM that came in RH9 as far as I know. I don

Re: More RPM madness - I'm sure it's just me ...

2003-10-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Michael Hipp: > If you can follow this conversation, could someone tell me why the file > 'wx-config' immediately becomes an orphan as soon as it is installed? > What am I missing THIS time? Is wx-config a symlink to another file that *is* installed by the RPM? Kurt -- It is easier to ch

Re: test

2003-10-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth ronnie gauthier: > > > anyone home? No. I'm at work. Kurt -- It is the business of little minds to shrink. -- Carl Sandburg ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mail

Re: question

2003-10-07 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Rick Sivernell: > you guys are the cats meow, take a small situation and turn it into the comedy We certainly like to think we're the cat's meow, anyway. Kurt -- What is a magician but a practising theorist? -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ___

Re: question

2003-10-07 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Rick Sivernell: > list > > I have converted my wife machine to linux, as I said about 10 days. Her only > complaint is no printing. What a great idea! Upgrading should be a lot easier, and getting new wife machine would have to be a lot cheaper! Did you purchase her retail or order over

Re: question

2003-10-07 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Joel Hammer: > If > you can't ping the ip's, it would suggest your wife is on a different > subnet. Most married men would suggest that their wives are on completely different networks... -- A UNIX saleslady, Lenore, Enjoys work, but she likes the beach more. She found a good way

Re: Clock Sync in RH9

2003-10-04 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Michael Hipp: > Net Llama! wrote: > > >It uses ntp. > > Okay, I figured that. But what initiates the sync? And how often? And > does it have an "agression" algorithm if it's not had a good sync in so > many hours/days? And where is this all configured? The NTP daemon, ntpd, and the confi

Re: stale NFS handle

2003-09-30 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Joel Hammer: > I mounted a drive on a server via samba on a client (/mnt/Backup) . > I then changed smb.conf on the server to reference a different path, and > now my client complains that there is a stale NFS handle on /mnt/Backup. > > Is there a way to fix this problem without rebooting?

Re: SUSE vs Knoppix

2003-09-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Collins Richey: > > Hey, if you agree with me 50% of the time, you should definitely seek treatment > soonest . All kidding aside, I have difficulty playing with those who > have rigid opinions. So, I'm guessing this means you don't play with yourself? ;-) Kurt -- An Englishman never enj

Re: from an sco press release today

2003-09-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Net Llama!: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, dep wrote: > > quoth burns: > > > > | Ballocks > > > > i pretty much agree with you, but what i thought was significant was a > > company, in court, saying that the gpl won't hold up. this is what > > we've been waiting for and to some extent feared (court i

Re: from an sco press release today

2003-09-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Collins Richey: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:13:12 -0400 > dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > that having been said, i have every confidence in the ability of david boies > > to do for sco what he did for algore. > > Excuse me? I thought the only thing he did for algore was to push him to >

Re: SIGNATURE

2003-09-28 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Collins Richey: > My favorite signature in recent days (on gentoo forums): > > "SCO has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." [chuckle, smirk, guffaw] Kurt -- "To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question ... or is it?" __

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d (SOLVED!)

2003-09-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth burns: > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 21:19, Kurt Wall wrote: > > > > http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/tcpflow/ > > domo aregato, kurt-san (or something like that) You're welcome, I think, Burns-san. Kurt -- Certainly there are things in life that money can&

Re: Swen

2003-09-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Bill Campbell: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: > >Oh, this is just *too* ridiculous. I log my spam rejections and keep a > >graph of rejected connection attempts to my SMTP server. Thanks to > >Swen, on 24 September, Postfix rejected 4628 attempts just

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d (SOLVED!)

2003-09-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth burns: > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 20:49, Bill Campbell wrote: > > > FWIW, tcpflow is a program that's very useful for debugging things like > > this. It is very similar to tcpdump except that it creates files for each > > connection (e.g. one for the connection from the pop/imap client to the

Re: Thanks to Mr. Campbell

2003-09-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Bill Campbell: > > Sounds good so long as it's not someplace where the choices of ``beer'' are > Miller Lite, Bud Lite, and Coors. That's not beer. It's refrigerated horse piss. Kurt -- Chicken Little was right. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMA

Swen

2003-09-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Oh, this is just *too* ridiculous. I log my spam rejections and keep a graph of rejected connection attempts to my SMTP server. Thanks to Swen, on 24 September, Postfix rejected 4628 attempts just from hosts lacking hostnames that resolve to known IP address. Kurt -- Whenever people agree with m

Re: ignore this

2003-09-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Sys Admin: > testing mailman. ignore Fat chance. Kurt -- Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, it is damn near zero. -- David Ellis ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscri

Re: test

2003-09-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth ronnie gauthier: > > test 1 echo $? 0 Kurt -- One difference between a man and a machine is that a machine is quiet when well oiled. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/list

Re: Configuring Bin-Utils ...

2003-09-22 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Ben Duncan: > Anyone know how to get the bin-utils configure script to do > alternate targets? I want to make the current version for elf and coff, > and SuSe's objdump/objcat is compiled ONLY for elf-i386. configure --target= Replace with the canonical name for the target you want. For ex

Re: Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Michael Hipp: > Allan Rabenau wrote: > > >Dear sir: > > I have in my posession a very nice bridge, in good shape. I will > >gladly sell you a license to charge tolls on this bridge if you will but > >supply me with your credit card number. An opportunity such as this > >should not be m

Re: Program Snapshot

2003-09-20 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Ben Duncan: > Unfortunately, the program was not compiled with debug, so that > is out of the question. > > What I am wanting to do, is like the OLD debug program > that was in MS-DOS, where you could step thru and OR see the > ASM code. A debugger, such as gdb. Kurt -- Boy, life takes a

Re: X fonts

2003-09-20 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Collins Richey: > I, too, am straying from the path. > > Is there a standard way to list all the fonts currently available to X, perhaps > with selection only for standard ISO8859-1 encoding? For CLI, xlsfonts: $ xlsfonts -fn -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 -adobe-courier-bold-i-norm

Re: Program Snapshot

2003-09-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Ben Duncan: > Is there a way to do a "core" image/snapshot of a running program? Probably. I don't quite understand what you mean, though. > I do not have the source for the thing, and need to figure out what it > is doing. Kurt -- Schwiggle, n.: The amusing rotation of one's bott

Re: Upgrading RH8 to RH9 - accounts?

2003-09-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Alma J Wetzker: > Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 21:52:53 -0400 > > > >The files and directories will retain the UIDs and GIDs, so when the > >proper password and group files are restored, the UIDs and GIDs will > >map to the appropriate n

Re: Upgrading RH8 to RH9 - accounts?

2003-09-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Alma J Wetzker: > Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:23:07 -0500 > >Net Llama! wrote: > > > >>Why would you need to cheat? Are you using the 'upgrade' optoin from the > >>RH9 Installer, or do you mean, reload the box fresh with RH9? If you're > >>reloading, then you need t

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Collins Richey: [...] My last post in this thread. > Except for the Oklahoma City incident, I can't think of a single terrorist > activity in the past 10 years that was not perpetrated by young Arab/Moslem > males. If the US government is detaining non-citizens of "middle eastern > descen

Re: ADMIN: Kurt has the con...

2003-09-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth James McDonald: > Kurt Wall wrote: > > >Quoth Douglas J Hunley: > > [Kurt in charge] > >Be afraid. Be very afraid. :-) > > > Captain Kurt ;) Like I never heard *that* before. Kurt -- Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You st

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Collins Richey: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:34:28 -0500 > "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:21:25 -0500 > > Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > But I'm dreaming again. If that flagship of New Americanism (Dept. of > > > H

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth David A. Bandel: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:21:25 -0500 > Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > But I'm dreaming again. If that flagship of New Americanism (Dept. of > > Homeland Implosion) can't see it, then likely will few others. > > You're scary. Is this what Ameri

Re: sftp hash marks

2003-09-17 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Shannon Scott: > Does anyone know a method for showing hash marks or download/upload progress with > sftp? > I would like to get the same effect the hash command has for ftp. I don't see that sftp supports this. Kurt -- Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tom

Re: ADMIN: Kurt has the con...

2003-09-16 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Douglas J Hunley: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > for 9/16 and 9/17. Any issues come up with the site/email/whatever, email kurt > (kurt at linux-sxs.org) . If he can't handle it (as if!) he knows how to get > a hold of me Be afraid. Be very afraid. :-) Kurt -- Tod

Re: ADMIN: power restored

2003-09-16 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Douglas J Hunley: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Obviously, the power is back. Maintenance is concluded, and the power > distribution is now a lot more even. Sorry for the service interruption Didn't even notice. Kurt -- E Pluribus Unix ___

Re: linus to darl: huh?

2003-09-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth dep: > http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,84782,00.html?nas=AM-84782 I want some of what Darl's been taking. Kurt -- Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.

Re: Wind River dropping BSD

2003-09-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Harry Giles: > http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/2003/09/News105.html > > Bummer. Bummer, indeed. If I could persuade them to drop the $995.00 price somewhat, I'd pop for a copy. The source code license is another $1200, though. Ouch. Kurt -- Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: Th

Re: Server question

2003-09-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Condon Thomas A KPWA: > > I'm moving a server to a remote location where it will have a dedicated IP > and higher bandwidth to serve several websites. > > My current plans include only the following services on this server: > Apache > SSH > iptables > Shorewall > > The firewall will be pro

Re: no mail?

2003-09-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Bob Hemus: > Doug, is the users' mail down or did my fp-linux-ws make you disappear? What's a "fp-linux-ws"? Kurt -- Tax reform means "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree." -- Russell Long ___ Linux-users

Re: GTK Ticked-Off

2003-09-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth James McDonald: > > I noticed that in some of the backwardly compatible API's developers are > saddled with the good and the bad from a previous implementation and the > extra effort to maintain compatibility. Well, all I can say is that maintaining backward compatibility is part of the con

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