Re: Re: Is This Thing On?

2001-12-30 Thread kwall
On December 30, Tony Alfrey enlightened our ignorance thusly: > On Sunday 30 December 2001 09:47 pm,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I *still* dislike sendmail > > On what?? On drugs? Well, I've often wondered if Eric Allman, because he was at Berkeley, was using another famous Berkeley product whe

Re: Is This Thing On?

2001-12-30 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Sunday 30 December 2001 09:47 pm,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I *still* dislike sendmail On what?? On drugs? -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing" ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/lis

Re: gphoto compile

2001-12-30 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Sunday 30 December 2001 09:19 am,Net Llama wrote: > --- Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi gang! > > > > Can anyone recommend good switches for ./configure for compiling > > gphoto > > on Caldera (I'm running LTP but I suppose switches appropriate for > > 2.4 > > > > or 3.1 would wor

Is This Thing On?

2001-12-30 Thread root
I *still* dislike sendmail ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: elx and kylix (not)

2001-12-30 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 17:39:43 -0800 David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On December 30, 2001 05:19 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > > > I haven't had success on gentoo with kylix, either, so I'm not really > > surprised. > > > > Guess I'll kill it and move on. > > As I found out via the borland

Re: elx and kylix (not)

2001-12-30 Thread David Aikema
On December 30, 2001 05:19 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > I haven't had success on gentoo with kylix, either, so I'm not really > surprised. > > Guess I'll kill it and move on. As I found out via the borland newsgroups (see http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-users@linux.nf/msg07067.html ) Kylix 1 i

Re: elx and kylix (not)

2001-12-30 Thread Ken Moffat
I'm using kylix with success on Libranet (Debian). If you did the system (root) install I think there is an additional setup step you should do, but I'm not sure. Be sure to read the INSTALL file throroughly. I just run ./startkylix in my home directory. (I installed to a kylix directory off my ho

elx and kylix (not)

2001-12-30 Thread Collins Richey
elx does offer a trial version of kylix, but I haven't gotten this to work yet. Will report to elx forum as well. The basic procedure is 0) su 1) untar the package 2) cd to kylix_trial 3) cd to borpretest 4) ./testsystem - reports good results "kylix should work" 5) ./setup.sh - install successf

Re: Netscape 6.2 Composer

2001-12-30 Thread Joel Hammer
Yes, mozilla is working as expected. Thanks. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: dhcp help, please...

2001-12-30 Thread Dave Anselmi
Jerry McBride wrote: > Well... That's about what I've done. I've got the server reliably online via >dhclient. I have to figure out how to get my fixed IP firewall to work correctly with >dhcp. > > Could you give me a "heads up" if I need to set anything in dhclient.conf to allow >for my intra

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Sunday 30 December 2001 04:01 pm, you wrote: > > > > Granted, no distro is going to recommend running as root other than > > briefly to accomplish brief tasks, Elx recomends this, heck they even expect that from new users see their reply in one of my earlier post.s > Us anal types? uncool,

Re: /dev/hda failing?

2001-12-30 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Sunday 30 December 2001 04:00 pm, you wrote: > The 440BX chipset is by Intel. I wasn't aware that they ever let Asus > put their chipsets on their mobos. Actually Intel chipsets are well represented on Asus mobos. The mobos designed for used with AMD cpu offerings usually sport the VIA KT-XX

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Sunday 30 December 2001 03:22 pm, you wrote: > [ snips ] > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:10:46 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 30 December 2001 01:48 pm, you wrote: > > > > > If your typos are in a product you're selling, I won't buy it. If > > > > > you can't proofread,

Re: /dev/hda failing?

2001-12-30 Thread Net Llama
The 440BX chipset is by Intel. I wasn't aware that they ever let Asus put their chipsets on their mobos. --- Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did keep the WinDOS partition and dual boot with GRUB. > SMP is enabled in the kernel, too. I got some bridge resources problem > when the kernel boot

Re: /dev/hda failing?

2001-12-30 Thread Chang
seems so, but I need to find the old boot log. The last time was 16 days ago... > Are these new since the recompile? > I have an old compaq that started getting these errors, in particular the > first. I turned off dma to stop the timeouts, which were frequent but only > in linux, not win95. It's

Re: /dev/hda failing?

2001-12-30 Thread Chang
I will back it up anyway... the harddisk is about a year old. It's a 5400rpm IBM DTLA drive. (not the problematic 7200rpm version) > > Yup, it appears your disk is dying, the BadCRC error message is > particularly indicative of this. Back it up and replace it. > stinfo/linux-users -- The pivot

Re: /dev/hda failing?

2001-12-30 Thread Chang
I did keep the WinDOS partition and dual boot with GRUB. SMP is enabled in the kernel, too. I got some bridge resources problem when the kernel boots. Puzzling. It's just a Asus P2B-F that uses 440BX chipset. It's ACPI support is not standard enough, though. > > > Dec 29 22:53:14 server kernel: h

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Collins Richey
[ snips ] On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:10:46 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 30 December 2001 01:48 pm, you wrote: > > > > > > > > > If your typos are in a product you're selling, I won't buy it. If > > > > you can't proofread, how good are you at testing your software > >

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Vern W Heesch
LOL, thanks. Good thing I wasn't doing this for production type work, I'd have to ignore myself. > Vern: > > In view of the foregoing, (in this thread) I feel compelled to point out > that the plural form of "typo" is "typos" and not "typo's." > > FWIW > > Regards, > > Glenn > > Glenn Williams -

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Sunday 30 December 2001 01:48 pm, you wrote: > > > > > > If your typos are in a product you're selling, I won't buy it. If you > > > can't proofread, how good are you at testing your software > > > (corporately > speaking, obviously individual people may be > > > better at one or the other).

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Glenn Williams
Vern: In view of the foregoing, (in this thread) I feel compelled to point out that the plural form of "typo" is "typos" and not "typo's." FWIW Regards, Glenn Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user # 135678 since 1994 Amateur Radio Packeteer since 1988 - Original Messag

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Sunday 30 December 2001 01:23 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:58:57 -0700 Dave Anselmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Collins Richey wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > < "ELX WELCOME'S YOU" > > > > > > BFD! If I had a nickel for every one of my typos, I'd be retired by > > > now. > > >

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:58:57 -0700 Dave Anselmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > [...] > > > < "ELX WELCOME'S YOU" > > > > BFD! If I had a nickel for every one of my typos, I'd be retired by > > now. > > If your typos are in a product you're selling, I won't buy it. If

Re: Netscape 6.2 Composer

2001-12-30 Thread Net Llama
--- Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to use Netscape 6.2 to create html; but the choice for > opening > a page in composer is dark in the menu. Does anyone know if this is a > bug or > am I just missing something? I dunno. It works just fine in Mozilla. = ~~

Re: MPEG movie editing software

2001-12-30 Thread Bruce S. Marshall
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:28:34 -0800 (PST), Net Llama wrote: >Does anyone know of any MPEG movie editing software? I'm looking for >something that will allow me to crop scenes from movies, and even crop >the shape of the movie. > I just came across a site you should look at: www.hitsquad.com L

Re: dhcp help, please...

2001-12-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:46:59 -0700 Dave Anselmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > ---snip--- > > The dhcp hurddle I haven't quite cleared is understanding what I've done. ---snip--- > What you have is the software from the Internet Software Consortium. dhclient is >the cl

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Dave Anselmi
Collins Richey wrote: [...] > < "ELX WELCOME'S YOU" > > BFD! If I had a nickel for every one of my typos, I'd be retired by now. If your typos are in a product you're selling, I won't buy it. If you can't proofread, how good are you at testing your software (corporately speaking, obviously in

Re: dhcp help, please...

2001-12-30 Thread Dave Anselmi
Jerry McBride wrote: > I'm getting ready for the pending @home to @comcast change over and the biggest >hurddle I have yet to make is implementing dhcp. > > I'm working with dhclient as supplied with workstation 3.1. From the commandline or >a fresh boot I can get dhclient to negotiate with my

Re: gcc 3.0.2

2001-12-30 Thread Dave Anselmi
Keith Antoine wrote: > On Sunday 30 December 2001 12:33 am, lesley observed: > > What is gcc 3.0.2 ??? A linux Platform??? > > Its an essential part of any running linux distro. I guess the debian server I maintain isn't running. No wonder it's so easy to take care of! ;-) I didn't put gcc or

Netscape 6.2 Composer

2001-12-30 Thread Joel Hammer
I would like to use Netscape 6.2 to create html; but the choice for opening a page in composer is dark in the menu. Does anyone know if this is a bug or am I just missing something? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at htt

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Collins Richey
[ snips ] On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 18:05:25 + Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I read the posts from Ray, Collins and Ted with interest while > I was downloading with a 56K modem - 3 or 4 days. bummer! I shure love my cable connection! > INSTALLATION > My box has wintendo98 (

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Sunday 30 December 2001 10:05 am, you wrote: >> > I too have not got Webmin to start yet and I haven't been > able to check how kylix works - still lots more playing > around to do. > > By the way, I don't think it's anything like Mandrake. Take a look at your "hosts" file and you'll notice th

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Peter Ruskin
Well, I read the posts from Ray, Collins and Ted with interest while I was downloading with a 56K modem - 3 or 4 days. The CDs burned OK and here are my obsevations. INSTALLATION My box has wintendo98 (disk 1), Mandrake 8.1 (disk 2), and Mandrake Cooker (disk 4). Disk 3 was ready for ELX, forma

elx forum

2001-12-30 Thread Collins Richey
After a little further research (it's hidden pretty well at the elx site) there is an elx forum where you can exchange ideas with other users and the developers. At the elx site (www.elxlinux.com) navigate to ELX -> Forum. Enjoy -- Collins Richey - Denver Area WWTLRD? - ELX-1 system k2.4.17+xfc

MPEG movie editing software

2001-12-30 Thread Net Llama
Does anyone know of any MPEG movie editing software? I'm looking for something that will allow me to crop scenes from movies, and even crop the shape of the movie. = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lin

Re: gphoto compile

2001-12-30 Thread Net Llama
--- Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi gang! > > Can anyone recommend good switches for ./configure for compiling > gphoto > on Caldera (I'm running LTP but I suppose switches appropriate for 2.4 > > or 3.1 would work just fine). > Thanks in advance! Funny you should ask. Depending o

Re: Fwd: Re: elx linux

2001-12-30 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:07 am, you wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 07:48:54 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -- Forwarded Message -- > > Here is the reply I received from "elx" re: some short-coming with their > > distro. Its almost scary to think that anyone w

Re: elx linux evaluation continued

2001-12-30 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:00 am, you wrote: > > You could try updating the uucp entry in /etc/group to read > > uucp:x:14:uucp,collins > > where 'collins' is my normal user name. That was my first step before I tried anything else. :( -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. __

Re: Fwd: Re: elx linux

2001-12-30 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 07:48:54 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -- Forwarded Message -- > Here is the reply I received from "elx" re: some short-coming with their > distro. Its almost scary to think that anyone would be foolish enough to > run their system main

Re: elx linux evaluation continued

2001-12-30 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 07:32:52 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 30 December 2001 07:12 am, you wrote: > > > > > > /etc/inittab and reboot. > > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > telinit is just a link to init > > > > > > init 3 doesn't work either. > > > > init should be in

Fwd: Re: elx linux

2001-12-30 Thread Ted Ozolins
-- Forwarded Message -- Here is the reply I received from "elx" re: some short-coming with their distro. Its almost scary to think that anyone would be foolish enough to run their system mainly as root. Their approach is starting to look and feel ___ almost Micro$oftish :( H

Re: gcc 3.0.2

2001-12-30 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Sunday 30 December 2001 14:45, Tony Alfrey wrote: > > Damn! I thought it was "goats cause cancer"... > > No, silly; . . . . "Great Caesar's Coats" Got Corrupting Code? Terence ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/m

Re: /dev/hda failing?

2001-12-30 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Sunday 30 December 2001 05:44 am, you wrote: > On December 30, Chang enlightened our ignorance thusly: > > Should I be disturbed by these entries? > > I just re-compiled my kernel-2.4.17 yesterday night with gcc-2.95.3 and > > rebooted. There is no special noise out of the disk. > > > > Dec 29

Re: /dev/hda failing?

2001-12-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:39:31 +0800 Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should I be disturbed by these entries? > I just re-compiled my kernel-2.4.17 yesterday night with gcc-2.95.3 and > rebooted. There is no special noise out of the disk. > > Dec 29 22:53:14 server kernel: hda: dma_intr: status

Re: elx linux evaluation continued

2001-12-30 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Sunday 30 December 2001 07:12 am, you wrote: > > > > /etc/inittab and reboot. > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > telinit is just a link to init > > > > init 3 doesn't work either. > > init should be in /sbin. Is it there? You may need to execute '/sbin/init > 3' Works on this install of elx. I us

gphoto compile

2001-12-30 Thread Tony Alfrey
Hi gang! Can anyone recommend good switches for ./configure for compiling gphoto on Caldera (I'm running LTP but I suppose switches appropriate for 2.4 or 3.1 would work just fine). Thanks in advance! -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing" __

Re: elx linux evaluation continued

2001-12-30 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Collins Richey chose to write: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 14:58:16 -1000 (HST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 30-Dec-01 Collins Richey wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > 5) Unlike every distro I've used in the past, elx does not include the > > > telinit command, so the only way I could switch to

Re: gcc 3.0.2

2001-12-30 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Saturday 29 December 2001 10:07 pm,Jerry McBride wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 15:59:06 -0500 Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 30 December 2001 12:33 am, lesley observed: > > > What is gcc 3.0.2 ??? A linux Platform??? > > > > Its an essential part of any running linux dis

Re: elx linux evaluation continued

2001-12-30 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 14:58:16 -1000 (HST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 30-Dec-01 Collins Richey wrote: > [snip] > > > > 5) Unlike every distro I've used in the past, elx does not include the > > telinit command, so the only way I could switch to run level 3 was to > > edit > > /etc/inittab an

Re: /dev/hda failing?

2001-12-30 Thread kwall
On December 30, Chang enlightened our ignorance thusly: > Should I be disturbed by these entries? > I just re-compiled my kernel-2.4.17 yesterday night with gcc-2.95.3 and > rebooted. There is no special noise out of the disk. > > Dec 29 22:53:14 server kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { Drive

/dev/hda failing?

2001-12-30 Thread Chang
Should I be disturbed by these entries? I just re-compiled my kernel-2.4.17 yesterday night with gcc-2.95.3 and rebooted. There is no special noise out of the disk. Dec 29 22:53:14 server kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Dec 29 22:53:14 server kernel: hda: dma

Re: DNS server won't start in eD2.4

2001-12-30 Thread kwall
On December 29, Kevin O'Gorman enlightened our ignorance thusly: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 08:23:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On December 29, Kevin O'Gorman enlightened our ignorance thusly: > > > This is very odd. > > > > > > My 'named' server won't start from SysV. > > > > > > It w

Re: dhcp help, please...

2001-12-30 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:33:22 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream: [snip] I'll let someone else handle the first question. > > Also, what happens when the lease expires? Is a new lease automatically negotiated or do I have to manually intervene in some manner like

Re: DNS server won't start in eD2.4

2001-12-30 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:02:09 -0800 "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 08:23:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On December 29, Kevin O'Gorman enlightened our ignorance thusly: > > > This is very odd. > > > > > > My 'named' server won't

Re: Request for Assistance - Consulting Opportunity For Pay

2001-12-30 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Saturday 29 December 2001 23:11, Mike Andrew wrote: > > I rather get the impression you don't like the situation? 8-) Terence ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users