Re: html and web application

2003-11-17 Thread Michael Hipp
dep wrote: a couple of weeks ago, when the textmaker sale was coming up, there was some discussion here of a wysiwig program to make html editing easier. while poking around today, i found this, which looks promising, and which appears to be free: http://www.nvu.com/ From the web site: "Finall

Re: virii

2003-11-16 Thread Michael Hipp
Bob Hemus wrote: The server from which I receive my mail started using for a mail filter. Up 'til yesterday they mostly screened spam with an occasional virus, may one or two a week. Starting late Thursday through Friday there were 29 messages that they had flagged for spam. Have you folks

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-15 Thread Michael Hipp
M.W. Chang wrote: did you train the filter by flagging all those slipped messages as junk? iF you just delete them, the filter would not be improved! Yes. I always hit the 'Junk' button which promptly gets them out of my sight and into the Junk folder. This seemed to work great on Mozilla but I s

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Michael Hipp
Collins Richey wrote: Agrred. Since Mozilla have indicated that Firebird is the once-and-future-browser, it would seem that improvements are to be expected. I've been using Firebird since it's early days, and it's quite good. Nevertheless, 0.7 has more of a propensity to "just go poof" (TM) th

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Michael Hipp
Tim Wunder wrote: I've been using Moz Firebird as my only email for quite some time now. You have? How did you get the stand alone browser product to do e-mail? Perhaps you mean Thunderbird. ;-) Hehe. I still think of them as one. > FWIW, Mozilla's intergrated MUA is still better than the st

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Michael Hipp
M.W. Chang wrote: It seems that mozilla's built-in bayesian filter works better than SpamAssassin. Until now, SA failed to identify many Chinese spam while mozilla can correctly move them into the Junk folder on reception. I've been using Moz Firebird as my only email for quite some time now. And

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

2003-11-13 Thread Michael Hipp
James McDonald wrote: I think Richard Stallman is carrying a rather large wound in his pride because the hurd kernel has never taken off. Admittedly the tools GNU provides are critical to the functioning and construction of the Linux Kernel (please correct me if I'm wrong). But why is RMS so dogge

Re: Commas in 'c' printf

2003-11-13 Thread Michael Hipp
Michael Hipp wrote: Kurt Wall wrote: See setlocale(3), printf(3), locale(1), locale(5), and locale(7). Note that the single quote between % and d is correct... Thanks. My reference book doesn't tell about the single quote. Ok, I should have looked at the man page for printf: -

Re: Commas in 'c' printf

2003-11-13 Thread Michael Hipp
Kurt Wall wrote: See setlocale(3), printf(3), locale(1), locale(5), and locale(7). Note that the single quote between % and d is correct... Thanks. My reference book doesn't tell about the single quote. Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

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

2003-11-13 Thread Michael Hipp
Net Llama! wrote: Redhat did re-release the packages about an hour ago. Fixed my problems on RH9. That's a pretty quick response. Kudos to 'em. Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org

Commas in 'c' printf

2003-11-13 Thread Michael Hipp
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 do this or do I have to write it? Michael _

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

2003-11-13 Thread Michael Hipp
For once I'm glad I procrastinated about installing a security update. Thanks, Michael Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Folks, Since we've been talking about updates, I got this today from the Emperor Linux folks, who installed RH on a couple of work laptops. -Original Message- Customers run

Re: Fedora getting some bad reviews

2003-11-13 Thread Michael Hipp
Collins Richey wrote: If my memory serves me correctly, fedora is using the same philosophy that RH used in the past. RH releases (at least until very recently) have always needed more time in the oven. In the past that was true of RH in my experience, but since about 7.1 their releases have a

Fedora getting some bad reviews

2003-11-13 Thread Michael Hipp
The first couple of reviews of Fedora were pretty fawning, but others are starting to show up. Here's an example: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5111 Gives the impression that Fedora needed more time in the oven. Which isn't fatal. RH9 works great and it's no hardship to stick with it

OSS Alternative to RealPlayer

2003-11-12 Thread Michael Hipp
Can anyone point me to an OSS alternative to RealPlayer for streaming audio. (If it had both Linux and Windows versions would be even better.) Thanks, Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sx

Re: RHEL & Fedora Comparison

2003-11-11 Thread Michael Hipp
Collins Richey wrote: I put up a copy a few days ago and ran it for a few days using the default Gnome and Evolution. It's not a bad distro. Easy to install, but a few fatal flaws. It failed to detect my NIC as a Tulip card (picked some off the wall choice), but it did select the appropriate OS

RHEL & Fedora Comparison

2003-11-11 Thread Michael Hipp
Red Hat finally put up a fairly well done side-by-side comparison between RH Enterprise Linux, Fedora and the now discontinued RH Linux. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/ Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Su

Re: Love on board

2003-11-11 Thread Michael Hipp
Ken Moffat wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this former ceo the one who lead Caldera to it's present state of affairs? Love can be blamed for a number of bad decisions at Caldera, but compared to the current despotic regime at SCO, he looks like my very best friend. Michael __

Re: SBC Yahoo DSL

2003-11-11 Thread Michael Hipp
Matthew Carpenter wrote: Anyone have any experience with SBC Yahoo DSL and Linux? I believe it's PPPoE setup but I can't figure out how to generate or find a username and password... Then, I'm attempting to use an ethernet card to plug into the DSL Modem. So far I've seen nothing. SBC Yahoo wan

Re: Textmaker open for business

2003-11-11 Thread Michael Hipp
Alan Jackson wrote: If you want to buy textmaker for $11, the site is now open for business... I ordered a couple of copies last night for $22. The download instructions and serial numbers were in my mailbox this morning. Nice. Michael ___ Linux-use

Re: My new Linux User

2003-11-09 Thread Michael Hipp
Rick Sivernell wrote: Does any one have a recommendation for a good cad program that will read in/out acad files. Since he paid over $400 for the lite version, he opposed to paying again. I've not used any of these, but here a few links I bookmarked some time ago: http://www.linuxcad.com/ http:/

Re: a thought

2003-11-05 Thread Michael Hipp
dep wrote: 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 partner in an

Re: Novell buys SuSE!

2003-11-04 Thread Michael Hipp
Tony Alfrey wrote: The people on the SuSE list are going berserk. So are they glad or sad? Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning]

2003-11-03 Thread Michael Hipp
Susan Macchia wrote: Well I thought so too when I got the message. But a new project built from Redhat 9 called Fedora is going to continue the stream (sponsored by RH). Since I've already got systems configured on that, I'm going to give it a try and see how it goes... My plan (at this moment an

[Fwd: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning]

2003-11-03 Thread Michael Hipp
Just FYI. Michael Original Message Subject: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 10:29:47 -0500 From: Red Hat Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear mhipp, Thank you for being a Red Hat Networ

Re: Lightweight Desktop Help.

2003-10-31 Thread Michael Hipp
Ben Duncan wrote: 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 few years ago we

Re: rdesktop and Win Terminal $erver

2003-10-31 Thread Michael Hipp
David A. Bandel wrote: Why don you just use vnc? I've tried 2 - 3 different varieties of VNC (Ultra, Tight, etc.) and I use them routinely for administration of remote boxes when I need a gui. But for applications VNC has never seemed reliable enough or responsive enough for heads-down work. It

Re: rdesktop and Win Terminal $erver

2003-10-31 Thread Michael Hipp
Tom Wilson wrote: > It isn't rdesktop that is the problem. It would be your temporary TS access license expiring. The only way I can think of to trick it is change the name of your pc connecting to it. It may issue a new temporary license then. There used to be an option, -l I think, that was

Re: rdesktop and Win Terminal $erver

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Hipp
Wil McGilvery wrote: I don't know any way around the licensing. I guess if you use the software, you pay the price. What applications are you trying to access? For now, mainly Quicken, QuickBooks, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, MPLAB (PICmicro IDE), PowerBible CD, MS Office, TaxACT. That covers about 9

Re: rdesktop and Win Terminal $erver

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Hipp
Wil McGilvery wrote: Are you using terminal services for remote admin or as a terminal server? How many people are accessing the box at one time? Wil Just me for now but I plan to add others later (and don't want to be limited to 2 sessions). So I set it up in the "application" mode. Also, admi

rdesktop and Win Terminal $erver

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Hipp
Rdesktop works like a champ as a way to get into a W2k Server box and run Win apps. But it appears it will only work for 90 days unless I cough up some *more* $ to MS. (I own more licenses of various MS junk than any 3 people I know. The idea of having to buy yet another license in order to run

Re: Tuning Network Connections in Linux

2003-10-27 Thread Michael Hipp
Keith Morse wrote: >>I would recommend fwbuilder it's a great gui interface to create a complete firewall script. Has alot of check box style tuning options. Indeed so would I. In fact it has become rather indispensible for maintaining my main firewall. The rulesets have become rather complex

Re: Audio mixing, recording

2003-10-25 Thread Michael Hipp
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I need to set up an Audio mixer type system with three computers and a stereo system being the inputs. I want to take these inputs, mix them and then output them. I also want to be able to record the stereo system input on a computer so I can convert my tapes and record

Re: xfs_check permission denied.

2003-10-25 Thread Michael Hipp
M.W. Chang wrote: I booted my system with Knoppix 3.3 and attempted to xfs_check a xfs partition on the harddisk. it reported an error "permission denied". what could possibly caused that? Does it need to be mounted r/w for that? Michael ___ Linux-use

Re: Free space via C call?

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Hipp
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I use the following in a program. It wants to know about free space on the disk where a data file is, as that is what we are interested in. It should be enough to get you started. It works on SVR4/5 and Linux. The comments are just what was there. int DiskFreeSpace() {

Free space via C call?

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Hipp
Anyone know a simple call from c that will give the free space available on a volume (e.g. /dev/hda1)? Thanks, Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: 'smbmount' hangs

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Hipp
Tim Wunder wrote: I've seen something similar to this on comp.protocols.smb, IIRC Yes, check out: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=9Xb4b.38159%24yg.16583965%40news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dfstab%2Bgroup:comp.protocols.smb%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUT

Re: more .pdf -- why not?

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Hipp
dep wrote: (for those who might be interested as to why i need to do all this, i draw your attention to the october 27 issue of "national review," page 44, an essay by me.) Any chance there's a link for that? You don't seem to be on the list of authors for NR and I don't know if I could buy a pr

Re: Run QuickBooks on Linux server?

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Hipp
Bill Campbell wrote: Has anybody successfully run QuickBooks Professional where the QB data is on a Linux server with the Windows boxen accessing it via Samba? I have found some articles via google search that say it may be possible by turning on strict locking in Samba, but there still seem to b

'smbmount' hangs

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Hipp
I have a script file thus to automatically mount some smb shares: #!/bin/bash # Mount our Samba shares smbmount //linux/public /mnt/public -o username="",password="",workgroup=workgroup,uid=michael,gid=michael smbmount //linux/shared /mnt/shared -o username="",password="",workgroup=workgroup,uid

Re: Telnet port change

2003-10-16 Thread Michael Hipp
Swapana Ghosh wrote: Hi One of our client is very much stick to use the telnet in their server. But for security purpose we are trying to convince them, but failed. So if we change the telnet port and ask them to use - is it ok? I am asking for security level only... That won't

'nice' or something like it

2003-10-13 Thread Michael Hipp
Is there any way to tell the system to give a certain process no more than x% of the CPU? 'nice' seems to only change the scheduling priority, but a single process can still use 100% indefinitely if there is no competition. I have an app I want to throttle even if the system is otherwise idle.

Re: IFS variable in bash

2003-10-11 Thread Michael Hipp
Matthew Carpenter wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:36:47 -0500 Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't seem to understand the IFS variable in bash. I know it's the internal field separator and it defaults to SPACE TAB NEWLINE. But I want to set it to just NEWLINE. I'v

Re: linux telephone apps

2003-10-10 Thread Michael Hipp
David A. Bandel wrote: yep -- I use gnomemeeting w/ a PhoneJack card and call the US all the time -- anywhere, $.03/min (beats $1.05/min + connection charge any day of the week). I've save thou$and$ (no kidding). When I'm not at my system, I leave ohphone running so I can receive VoIP calls (or

Ok, it's possible I was wrong ...

2003-10-10 Thread Michael Hipp
Here's a fairly glowing review of Red Hat Fedora with some good tips. I also like the idea that Fedora will be the basis of the "Enterprise" versions of RH Linux - that hopefully ensures RH will stay interested in it. http://www.johnmunsch.com/articles/FedoraCore094GettingStarted/ Michael

Re: RH9 and xedit

2003-10-10 Thread Michael Hipp
James McDonald wrote: Net Llama! wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, James McDonald wrote: To compile mplayer mean't a search of the web for many supporting libraries that came standard with Mandrake. That wasn't my experience. mplayer build on both of my RH9 systems without a single problem.

Re: IFS variable in bash

2003-10-10 Thread Michael Hipp
Matthew Carpenter wrote: I show: IFS=$' \t\n' Try IFS=$'\n' Thank you. I'll try it later. Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

IFS variable in bash

2003-10-09 Thread Michael Hipp
I don't seem to understand the IFS variable in bash. I know it's the internal field separator and it defaults to SPACE TAB NEWLINE. But I want to set it to just NEWLINE. I've tried "\n" '\n' and just \n all to no avail. Those mostly seem to change it to "backslash enn". Surely there is some way

Re: RH9 and xedit

2003-10-09 Thread Michael Hipp
Net Llama! wrote: Now that I've started to deploy RH9 on several boxes, the lack of xedit has started to annoy me a lot. I like xedit, because its a bare bones X text editor. Anyone know why RH9 doesn't include xedit (which i thought was part of XFree86)? Anyone know how i could get xedit witho

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

2003-10-08 Thread Michael Hipp
Matthew Carpenter wrote: First off, what Linux distro are you using, and secondly, do you need 2.4.2 or would 2.4.0 work? If you are running SuSE, check out: http://packman.links2linux.de/?action=312 It's Red Hat 9. I've been running 2.4.1 with no problems but thought to upgrade to 2.4.2 as it i

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

2003-10-08 Thread Michael Hipp
Andrew Mathews wrote: Sorry, I wasn't clear, I meant the package you're trying to install, not rpm itself. It's not Red Hat specific in any way, but I've been using the slightly earlier version with no problems. And, in fact, this one is working fine now. Whereas yesterday bash kept telling me it

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

2003-10-08 Thread 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 that creates a symlink. It's been awhile since I was intimate with RPM, but symlink

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

2003-10-08 Thread 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't recall upgrading it unless it ca

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

2003-10-08 Thread 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? # ls /usr/bin/wx-config /usr/bin/wx-config # rpm -e wxGTK-devel-2.4.2-1 wxGTK-2.4.2-1 # ls /usr/bin/wx-config ls: /usr/bin/wx

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread Michael Hipp
Simper, Brian D wrote: Is there a theoretical or functional maximum memory you can put in a Linux machine? I have a server with 2GB installed but the free command stubbornly says: At risk of suggesting the obvious, does your BIOS recognize all the memory? Some machines have built-in hardware limi

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-07 Thread Michael Hipp
Net Llama! wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Michael Hipp wrote: # rpm --rebuilddb error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy "ps ax | grep rpm" is clean. And the above command was even issued from a fresh reboot. Looked for a lock file, coul

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-07 Thread Michael Hipp
Andrew Mathews wrote: Because -i installs a package set and -e uninstalls a package name, e.g. one is a bundle of files and one is already "extracted" which is recorded in the rpm database. Same as you can't tar -zxvf a .tar file but you can a .tar.gz file, since the .gz hasn't been gunzipped yet.

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-07 Thread Michael Hipp
Michael Hipp wrote: # rpm --rebuilddb error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy "ps ax | grep rpm" is clean. And the above command was even issued from a fresh reboot. Looked for a lock file, couldn't find one. Anyone know what the error might mean?

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-07 Thread Michael Hipp
That works. Thanks. And I feel dumb for not figuring it out. But why would anyone in their right mind design it so that one of these works, but the other doesn't? rpm -i wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm rpm -e wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm Back to my sandbox ... Michael Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Leave o

Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-07 Thread Michael Hipp
Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong, or is RPM a Microsoft conspiracy to make Linux look bad: # rpm --rebuilddb error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy # ls wxGTK-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm wxGTK-devel-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm wxGTK-devel-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm

Re: question

2003-10-07 Thread Michael Hipp
Kurt Wall wrote: 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 the Internet? He built her from parts he bought at the LUG meeting. Michael ___

Re: recording wavs (or aiffs)

2003-10-06 Thread Michael Hipp
Squabsy wrote: My reason for considering an insall of Knoppix is that I am able to record wavs fine in it. Understand. But Knoppix has no corner on that market. Any distro should be able to handle the job - including SuSE. If switching is indeed the solution, I'd go for something more targeted fo

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-04 Thread Michael Hipp
Net Llama! wrote: yea, Thinkpads are very nice, and are virtually indestructable. My employer gave me a T20 (somewhat older, PIII-700, 512MB RAM), and it is also running RH9 + XFCE4. Here's another vote for ThinkPads. I've owned several and all worked flawlessly - very well built. I'm currently u

Re: Clock Sync in RH9

2003-10-03 Thread 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? Michael ___ Linux-users ma

Clock Sync in RH9

2003-10-03 Thread Michael Hipp
RH9 gives the option to have the system clock automatically synced to clock.redhat.com or clock2.redhat.com . I've observed it attempt to do this on boot-up. But does it also sync at regular intervals? And what controls this? Can't find any mention of it in the docs. I've been tempted to put an

Re: recording wavs (or aiffs)

2003-10-02 Thread Michael Hipp
Squabsy wrote: I have only been on SUSE a couple of months and have a fairly basic set of applications so sitching to Knoppix would not be too painful Or I could parallel run although I'm running out of disk space. I'm still a bit puzzled as to why you're looking at KNOPPIX as a replacement fo

Cross Compiling to Windows

2003-10-02 Thread Michael Hipp
Can anyone point me toward a good resource (tutorial) to learn to cross compile Windows programs on Linux? Can anyone recommend a good toolset for same? Thanks, Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://sm

Re: [linux-elitists] Linux and main

2003-10-01 Thread Michael Hipp
dep wrote: quoth Matthew Carpenter: | From what I know, DEP's been working quite heavily on a couple books. is so. when i can afford to support linux and main with time and treasure once again, i shall pick it back up; with some luck, it will be before long. Here's one vote for it to be sooner r

CLI 'poweroff' while in GUI

2003-10-01 Thread Michael Hipp
If I'm in my favorite GUI (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, whatever) and I do a 'poweroff' or 'reboot' at the command line, does everything shut down cleanly? Or do I have to do it the GUI way with lots of clicking and confirming? Michael ___ Linux-users mailing l

Re: recording wavs (or aiffs)

2003-10-01 Thread Michael Hipp
Squabsy wrote: Quoting Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Should I need to do a HD install of knoppix to get it working ? No, although you will need to remount a partition read/write. Excuse me denseness but I tried last night to do this using various parameters with the mount command but faile

Re: DSL (scary) question

2003-09-30 Thread Michael Hipp
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 DSL over Ameritech lines but Ameritech can't?" The salesman said, and I quote, "because we have more powerful equipment.

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-29 Thread Michael Hipp
Squabsy wrote: I still don't understand why any of the above limits would create a problem when I'm trying to record a wav file that would be 500k at most. I would propose a test: - Create or find a test file of about 1M bytes - Do this over and and over ... 'cat 1mfile >> bigfile.wav' and se

Re: Big /proc problem

2003-09-29 Thread Michael Hipp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow I've done some not-so-wonderous things to my RH9 installation: I have a Monsterous (348Mb) /proc/kcore file which I cannot remove or edit down. It is preventing me from using the system as it has filled the / partition to full. I can't change permissions (even

Re: cablemodem and wireless network

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Hipp
Harry Giles wrote: Sorry for the dumb questions, but before I spend the money: 1.With a cable modem, can you just connect it to the network hub, or do you need to use a router, as with adsl? Use a router. Or use your Linux box as a router. But don't hook the cable modem directly to the hub. The

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

2003-09-27 Thread Michael Hipp
Keith Morse wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Well, problem solved. Turns out things were NOT authenticating correctly on normal logins, hence ipop3d couldn't either. It fooled me because everything I was doing used ssh keys to get in. I must have glossed over that part of

Re: Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Michael Hipp
Alan Jackson wrote: Well I got a Linux box at work last week. On my desk. This is significant, because we are looking to replace all Unix desktops with Linux over the next couple of years (about 5000 systems). I'm the local guinea pig. It's a pretty good box. It's an HP with dual 3 Ghz Xeons, 4

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

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Hipp
Well, problem solved. Turns out things were NOT authenticating correctly on normal logins, hence ipop3d couldn't either. It fooled me because everything I was doing used ssh keys to get in. Anyway, it does not work to copy the user entries from /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, /etc/gshadow

Re: ignore this

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Hipp
Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Sys Admin: testing mailman. ignore Fat chance. I thought the correct phrase was "slim chance". Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-use

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Hipp
Bill Campbell wrote: I suggest you look in your /var/log files to see if there's a clue there. Doesn't seem to be much help ... Sep 26 07:32:10 linux ipop3d[13043]: pop3 service init from 192.168.0.152 Sep 26 07:35:10 linux ipop3d[13043]: Autologout user=??? host=michael [192.168.0.152] Sep 26 15

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Hipp
Keith Morse wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: WAG here. Take a look at /etc/xinetd.d/ipop3 and/or /etc/hosts.allow. Thanks. The xinetd.d/ipop3 file is clean and exactly the same as the one that worked in RH8. The hosts.allow is empty meaning, I assume, allow everyone. And I

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Hipp
Keith Morse wrote: and chances are it'll be imap-2001a, which is the default. Never seen this problem and I've been using the wu-imap package for quite awhile now. Yes; imap-2001a-18 to be exact. So now I at least know to look at http://www.washington.edu/imap/ might be a possibility. Thanks. I

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Hipp
Brad De Vries wrote: What e-mail clients are you using? Some have the ability to send user/passwd in clear text or encrypted. Have you tried both? I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird on a W2k box. But I've also tried the direct method of telnet straight to port 110 and entered the auth stuff myself.

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Hipp
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 authentication". This was working fine on RH8 and I don

Re: OT: I don't get this - Red Hat

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Hipp
Net Llama! wrote: I personally think that Redhat is doing a smart thing. They've finally split their offerings so that one focuses on the enterprise where the real revenue comes from, and the other focuses on the random home user where all the word of mouth comes from. Thanks for the info. I wish

Re: it just gets weirder

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Hipp
dep wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,85288,00.html?nas=PM-85288 SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - In a bold move aimed at reassuring its enterprise users that Linux is the right choice for their businesses, Hewlett-Packard Co. today is announcing tha

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Hipp
Squabsy wrote: I'm really stumped & frustrated now. My PC is a similar spec to yours Michael (but with a K6 processor) but my recording, even using this sox rec, still hangs after 7 mins and creates a 2gb wav file with 7 mins of music then 100 (approx) mins of d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d I was beginn

Re: knoppix 3.3

2003-09-23 Thread Michael Hipp
Collins Richey wrote: I see from slashdot that knoppix 3.3 has been released. Since the knoppix site is tied up with the European copyright idiocy, not much info is available. Has anyone found a mirror with 3.3 available? http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=44 The label says 3.2, but the

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-23 Thread Michael Hipp
Squabsy wrote: Yes I noticed that and was going to have a play with it myself. Can you set the bit rate and the hz from the command line ? Yes. It has several of the most common options. There is a companion 'play' command that takes the same options. The man page tells all. I recompiled 'sox' fr

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

2003-09-22 Thread 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 missed! Lemme guess, the bridge is in

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread Michael Hipp
Squabsy wrote: ... or is there a Linux program that writes straight to disk ? I've been working this afternoon with the 'sox' package from http://sox.sourceforge.net/. It comes with a utility called 'rec' that is about the simplest recorder ever. It's a CLI tool, give it a command like ... $ r

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread Michael Hipp
Michael Hipp wrote: I have 256M in this PII-233 box. While the recording was taking place, memory usage stayed at 250M with a small slice of swap being used. It never increased. (I'm running this in the latest version of apt-get kde-redhat, oink, oink). Audacity says it's storing its

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread Michael Hipp
straight to disk as a WAV and then later pull it into something sophisticated like Audacity for manipulation. I'm still looking, but Audacity actually seems to work pretty well. Hope this helps, Michael Hipp ___ Linux-users mailing list [EM

sshd restart - is this right??

2003-09-20 Thread Michael Hipp
Over the last couple of days I've been updating systems for the openssh exploit. Using RH's 'up2date' tool, I download and install the openssh updates, then do '/sbin/service sshd restart' to get the new code running. Weird thing is, my ssh session I'm using to do this never drops, even when ss

Re: RH 5.2 & Printing

2003-09-20 Thread Michael Hipp
Ted Ozolins wrote: I know RH 5.2 is anciant but that is what is used for accounting where I work. It is well hidden behind a firewall and seen only by the intranet. We've moved to a new location and have made a lot of changes. The intranet use to be in the 199.xxx.xx.xxx series and is now 192.1

Recording audio - processor speed?

2003-09-19 Thread Michael Hipp
I'm building a box to record from the sound board at our church. My humble choices for a processor right now are between a PII-233 and a K6-300. Anyone have any experience to indicate if these processors are capable of continuous recording at 44.1kbps 16-bit stereo in wav format? Any preference

Re: Upgrading RH8 to RH9 - accounts?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Hipp
Alma J Wetzker wrote: That should keep all your data. Owner information may be a problem with the /home stuff depending in how you do it (a real backup that preserves owner/group data as opposed to a cp from a backup CD for instance.). I think the accounts need to exist for the data to keep th

Re: Upgrading RH8 to RH9 - accounts?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Hipp
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 to backup all of /home and backup /etc/passwd, /etc/group & /etc/shadow Yes, sorry, wrong word. I'm doing a

Upgrading RH8 to RH9 - accounts?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Hipp
I have a server box that I want to upgrade to RH9 while doing a major disk upgrade. (RH8 just has some instabilities I can't tolerate.) This box has quite a few accounts defined on it. Is there any way to "cheat" and just copy over /etc/passwd to make the accounts magically re-appear? Is there

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Hipp
Ted Ozolins wrote: > If that is granted then I feel sorry for anyone with darker skin living in the USA for their rights will be shit on. Yes. Or any of the other oppressible groups like, for example, white males, gun owners, farmers, SUV drivers, conservative Christians, hunters, fishermen, mem

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Hipp
dep wrote: so dealing with the microsoft problem *must* include some way of dealing with the substantial financial problem that handling the software problem would entail. it's easy to say "screw 'em," but that aintagonna happen. it's a real mess. I'd be happy with a simple market-based response

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