Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-02 Thread Declan Moriarty
Was it Collins Richey who wrote on Wednesday 02 January 2002 01:31: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 17:06:48 -0600 "R. Quenett"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > " > > Perhaps they'll urge Americans to switch to a safer OS ;-) > > " > Not likely during the current administration. > > " > > " Or any other. > > >

Re: More SxS Steps 01-Jan-02

2002-01-02 Thread Chang
is there an article on the path issue? Someone in the list mentioned that there were about 8 places to look into if one wants to be sure... Net Llama wrote: > > Bedtime Reading -> BASH Startup Process Scripts (Chris Kassopulo) -- The pivotal point is the "second chance", judged by another set

Re: kde

2002-01-02 Thread kwall
On January 01, Collins Richey enlightened our ignorance thusly: [deletia] > You're preaching to the choir. Take it up with the LSB goons. It appears > that they love the Rehat way of doing things, and it's doubtful that they > will listen to reason. Nope. Red Hat was the source of most of LSB

Lilo question (HW-RAID5)/Error

2002-01-02 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I have RH7.2 installed on a Compaq Dual-PPro with HW RAID5. It's an old box (200MHz for each proc) but it seems to run ok. I am attempting to update my lilo config and running into problems. Here is my lilo.conf file: prompt timeout = 100 boot = /dev/ida/c0d0p1 map = /boot/map install = /boo

Re: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Aaron Grewell
I'd recommend picking a temperate zone to live in, but I'm not sure whether or not Australia has those. That's what I get for going to public school. I'm not sure where half the states are here in the US, much less anywhere else! ;-) BTW, here in Washington State, USA the weather is currently s

Re: elx

2002-01-02 Thread Myles Green
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:01:05 -0800 Vern W Heesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ty

USB hotplug

2002-01-02 Thread Tony Alfrey
Hi gang! I'm trying to set up USB hotplugging for a Canon digital camera on my Caldera LTP box (2.4.0 and 2.4.4 kernels). I already have USB compiled as a module but the hotplug feature appears to be something different and there is a variety of very complicated undecipherable info about thi

Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-02 Thread Glenn Williams
- Original Message - From: "R. Quenett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 4:06 PM Subject: Re: Will they recommend LINUX > " > > Perhaps they'll urge Americans to switch to a safer OS ;-) > " > Not likely during the current administration.

Re: Re: Is This Thing On?

2002-01-02 Thread Myles Green
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 01:18:44 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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

Administrivia: December stats

2002-01-02 Thread Douglas J Hunley
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Administrivia: upcoming outage

2002-01-02 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Connectivity to linux.nf, www.linux.nf and news.linux.nf will be interrupted periodically this weekend (Jan 5+6) for system maintenance. Mail will also obviously be delayed slightly during the downtime. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf

Re: elx

2002-01-02 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I am confused at this thread. Why are people strung so tight about it? Let's stop pissing on each other's opinions and be a little more rational. Each distro has its faults and each distro has their typos. Come on! Yes, Caldera has theirs as well. But this is rediculous. I can appreciate

Re: Lilo question (HW-RAID5)/Error

2002-01-02 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Sorry to reply to my own post, but the issue WAS the [dos] file. I copied and pasted the config into a new file in vi and lilo ran flawlessly. Thanks anyway! Matt On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:42:01 -0500 "Matthew Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have RH7.2 installed on a Compaq Dual-PPro

reiserfs?

2002-01-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
What hoops and hurdles must one navigate in order to have reiserfs supported in the kernel such that it shows up in xconfig or menuconfig? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mai

Re: Lilo question (HW-RAID5)/Error

2002-01-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 08:42 am, you wrote: > I have RH7.2 installed on a Compaq Dual-PPro with HW RAID5. It's an old > box (200MHz for each proc) but it seems to run ok. I am attempting to > update my lilo config and running into problems. Here is my lilo.conf > file: > > prompt > timeou

Re: reiserfs?

2002-01-02 Thread Net Llama
--- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What hoops and hurdles must one navigate in order to have reiserfs > supported > in the kernel such that it shows up in xconfig or menuconfig? None. Reiserfs has been in the official 2.4.x kernel for quite some time. I'm not terribly sure why you'd

Re: reiserfs?

2002-01-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 10:09 am, Net Llama wrote: > --- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What hoops and hurdles must one navigate in order to have reiserfs > > supported > > in the kernel such that it shows up in xconfig or menuconfig? > > None. Reiserfs has been in the official 2

Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-02 Thread Ian
Glenn Williams wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "R. Quenett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 4:06 PM > Subject: Re: Will they recommend LINUX > > > " > > Perhaps they'll urge Americans to switch to a safer OS ;-) > > " > Not lik

Re: CAL_UP.SH and Douglas

2002-01-02 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Herbert H. DeLong babbled on about: > Do you have CAL_UP.SH yet? Where can it be found? yep. it's just the script without the install or other docs, but check http://hunley.homeip.net/tools/ -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http

Re: start bind-9.2.0 using uid named

2002-01-02 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Chang babbled on about: > sorry. found a response from http://www.isc.org > I move the pid file to /var/named > > Mr. Hunley, you may need to add some notes to your bind9 installation > guide... :) It's Doug, Chang.. we're all friends here I have to disagree with ISC. pid files go in /var/run. P

Re: locking max tag count?

2002-01-02 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Net Llama babbled on about: > I did a bit more digging and it seems that the newer aic7xxx driver is > not all that its cracked up to be. Some recent traffic on a Debian 2.4.17 Llama. So, setting CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMOS_PER_DEVICE=110 probably won't help after all? Or will it? -- Douglas J Hunley

Re: reiserfs?

2002-01-02 Thread Andrew Mathews
Ted Ozolins wrote: > It is the default fs installed by Elx linux. In setting this distro up, > trying to choose anything else sends you off to never-never land. I've > downloaded 2.4.17 and reiserfs is blocked out. (there doesn't seem to be a > way to select this option) I was sure that reiserfs

RE: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-02 Thread Burns Macdonald
Everyone is right. The Government in the US and Canada are "tinkering" with Linux, but there are few if any large scale enterprise-class projects underway. Microsoft, Sun and to a lesser degree, HP, are firmly entrenched in the culture. There are a few of typical reactions/misconceptions which ex

Re: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 03 January 2002 02:45 am, Aaron Grewell observed: > I'd recommend picking a temperate zone to live in, but I'm not sure > whether or not Australia has those. That's what I get for going to > public school. I'm not sure where half the states are here in the US, > much less anywhere el

updated steps (jan2)

2002-01-02 Thread Linux StepByStep
Bind 9 updateed for /var/run perms issue ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: USB hotplug

2002-01-02 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 03 January 2002 03:00 am, Tony Alfrey observed: > Hi gang! > > I'm trying to set up USB hotplugging for a Canon digital camera on my > Caldera LTP box (2.4.0 and 2.4.4 kernels). I already have USB compiled > as a module but the hotplug feature appears to be something different > and t

Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-02 Thread Ian
Burns Macdonald wrote: > > Everyone is right. > > The Government in the US and Canada are "tinkering" with Linux, but there > are few if any large scale enterprise-class projects underway. Microsoft, > Sun and to a lesser degree, HP, are firmly entrenched in the culture. There > are a few of typ

Re: locking max tag count?

2002-01-02 Thread Net Llama
Eeek...this is a bit old. Ummm..i can't exactly remember what the original issue was. I don't think it would hurt anything to set it to 110, but i don't know that it would have any effect either. --- Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Net Llama babbled on about: > > I did a bit more

Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-02 Thread Joel Hammer
Just to put things in their proper perspective: Today the Wall Street Journal reports that MS has 36 Billion dollars in cash. They expect a free cash flow of about ? 1 billion dollars per month or so and are expected to have 46 billion (I may be off by a few billion here)in cash assets by the end

Re: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Aaron Grewell
Yeah, when it hits 80F around here people start screaming about the heat. We're just not used to it. And God help us if anything catches fire and the weather doesn't help us out. It all goes up in smoke. Once I've got a handle on the US Midwest and South regions I'm making plans to see some oth

Re: vi question: mapping a key to esc in insert mode

2002-01-02 Thread Dave Anselmi
Joel Hammer wrote: > I use vi. I'm sorry to hear that. No, no, just kidding. I use it too. ;-) > The biggest nuisance I have with it is constantly having to hit the esc > button to exit the insert mode. I have remapped my ; key to do this. But, > now I have to type cntrl-v59 to insert a semic

RE: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
> -Original Message from Aaron- > BTW, here in Washington State, USA the weather is currently set at > default. A little below 50F and raining. > -Original Message from Keith- > Due to it's size, like the States, Australia has many > differing climate > zones. Brisbane has o

Re: USB hotplug

2002-01-02 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 11:57 am,Keith Antoine wrote: > On Thursday 03 January 2002 03:00 am, Tony Alfrey observed: > > Hi gang! > > > > I'm trying to set up USB hotplugging for a Canon digital camera on > > my Caldera LTP box (2.4.0 and 2.4.4 kernels). I already have USB > > compiled as a m

Re: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Dave Anselmi
Burns MacDonald wrote: > For more measuring trivia, see http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/ > It is truly mind-boggling and aptly demonstrates the need for a simple, > global 10-based suystem. Well, metric is only half the answer, isn't it? Shouldn't time be measured in powers of 10? Unfortunat

RE: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Aaron Grewell
We have to keep up the illusion of endless pouring rain, it's all that holds the Californians back from swarming up the coast and turning us into another LA. That and the fact that our freeways were designed by idiots. I'm sure that's why mass transit hasn't ever happened. The city councils fig

RE: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
> From: Dave Anselmi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > How about angular measures like lat & long? Radians are 2 pi > to a circle > because it makes some calcualting simpler (what's with that pi thing, > anyway?!?) Hey, that has been solved. In the State of Indiana in 1897 the House of Represen

RE: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Net Llama
--- Aaron Grewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have to keep up the illusion of endless pouring rain, it's all that Feh. Never been to northern California between December & March i take it? Its been raining here *non-stop* for the past 2 weeks. Mudslides, flooding, the works. = ~~

RE: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Aaron Grewell
I'm not surprised, but if you visit Western Washington you'll probably hear it more than once: "Traffic is so awful. It's all those Californians that moved here. They don't know how to drive in the rain." CW is that if we tell everybody how awful the weather is 'round here, they'll stay somepla

NSS API

2002-01-02 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm doing some research for a new project I can't find the API for implement a nsswitch.conf module. Can anyone give me some URL/book/something where I can find info about this?? The idea is implement something like the LDAP module but using a

RE: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Net Llama
Oh, i agree 100%. Most native Californians don't know how to drive in rain (forget snow). I curse them all the time. I've seen it drizzling, and people start freaking out like its a hurricane. I'll take a downpour over a blizzard any day. -Lonni (who spent the first 25 years of his life livi

Re: vi question: mapping a key to esc in insert mode

2002-01-02 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks. That worked. I was readinging a semicolon from a file, but that was really a silly hack. Joel On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:33:18PM -0700, Dave Anselmi wrote: > Joel Hammer wrote: > > > I use vi. > > I'm sorry to hear that. > > No, no, just kidding. I use it too. ;-) > > > The biggest nu

Re: NSS API

2002-01-02 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Forget it, I've found 3 projects doing what I want. (Google rules!). On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 20:06:57 -0300, Federico Voges wrote: >Hi, > >I'm doing some research for a new project I can't find the API for >implement a nsswitch.conf module. > >Can

Re: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:09 pm,Net Llama wrote: > Oh, i agree 100%. Most native Californians don't know how to drive > in rain (forget snow). I curse them all the time. I've seen it > drizzling, and people start freaking out like its a hurricane. > I'll take a downpour over a blizzard an

Re: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Net Llama
--- Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:09 pm,Net Llama wrote: > > Oh, i agree 100%. Most native Californians don't know how to drive > > in rain (forget snow). I curse them all the time. I've seen it > > drizzling, and people start freaking out like its a

Re: Administrivia: upcoming outage

2002-01-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:31:33 -0500 Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Connectivity to linux.nf, www.linux.nf and news.linux.nf will be > interrupted periodically this weekend (Jan 5+6) for system maintenance. > Mail will also obviously be delayed slightly during the downtime. > And your

Re: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:09:54 -0800 (PST) Net Llama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, i agree 100%. Most native Californians don't know how to drive in > rain (forget snow). I curse them all the time. I've seen it drizzling, > and people start freaking out like its a hurricane. > I'll take a do

Re: elx

2002-01-02 Thread Collins Richey
[ snips ] On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:48:30 -0500 Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am confused at this thread. Why are people strung so tight about it? > Let's stop pissing on each other's opinions and be a little more > rational. Each distro has its faults and each distro has their

Re: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:51 pm,Net Llama wrote: > --- Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:09 pm,Net Llama wrote: > > > Oh, i agree 100%. Most native Californians don't know how to > > > drive in rain (forget snow). I curse them all the time. I've >

RE: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Aaron Grewell
Well, I don't know if it's the Californians or if Washingtonians just use them as an excuse (leaning toward the latter) but every time the weather changes it's the same. It starts to rain, they hit their brakes. Sun comes out, brakes. Snow begins to fall, brakes. The only thing they *can* driv

Re: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Net Llama
--- Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:51 pm,Net Llama wrote: > > --- Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However, us native Californians have the luxury of not having to > > > know about > > > a) putting on snow tires just to go get a six pack > >

Memory lapse

2002-01-02 Thread Glenn Williams
Hi, Group: I want to delete this Linux and the associated partitions from my hard drive. Currently, I dual-boot SuSE 7.2 and Windows XP. I think LILO was installed in the MBR. IIRC, that's what "boot=/dev/hda" means. I've attached my /etc/lilo.conf in hopes some kind reader will verify

Re: Memory lapse

2002-01-02 Thread Ian
Glenn Williams wrote: > > Hi, Group: > > I want to delete this Linux and the associated partitions from my hard > drive. Currently, I dual-boot SuSE 7.2 and Windows XP. I think LILO > was installed in the MBR. > > IIRC, that's what "boot=/dev/hda" means. I've attached my > /etc/lilo.conf in

Re: Administrivia: upcoming outage

2002-01-02 Thread Net Llama
--- Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Connectivity to linux.nf, www.linux.nf and news.linux.nf will be > interrupted > periodically this weekend (Jan 5+6) for system maintenance. Mail will > also > obviously be delayed slightly during the downtime. Just curious, what kind of mainten

Re: Memory lapse

2002-01-02 Thread Ian
Ian wrote: > > Glenn Williams wrote: > > > > Hi, Group: > > > > I want to delete this Linux and the associated partitions from my hard > > drive. Currently, I dual-boot SuSE 7.2 and Windows XP. I think LILO > > was installed in the MBR. > > I suppose if all else fails I can boot with a Window

Re: Memory lapse

2002-01-02 Thread Glenn Williams
Thanks, Ian: I want to download elx, and I don't have a large enough staging area on my hard drive to hold the iso files. I plan to install elx on this machine later, but in the meantime I can delete the SuSE partitions and then resize the Windoze partition to accomodate the large download. Tha

Re: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 06:25 pm,Net Llama wrote: > --- Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:51 pm,Net Llama wrote: > > > --- Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Snow tires won't save your *ss if you don't know how to drive in > > > snow. I've

Re: Memory lapse

2002-01-02 Thread Glenn Williams
Ian: I simply neglected to change the Windows label in LILO after "upgrading" to XP, so it still refers to Win98SE. It dual-boots SuSE and WinXP just dandy. Or perhaps I misunderstood your warning? Thanks for your alert! Regards, Glenn Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux use

Re: reiserfs?

2002-01-02 Thread Net Llama
--- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 10:09 am, Net Llama wrote: > > --- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What hoops and hurdles must one navigate in order to have reiserfs > > > supported > > > in the kernel such that it shows up in xconfig or menuc

New Steps, 02/01/2002

2002-01-02 Thread kwall
Upgrade -> Compiling and Installing GLib and GTK+ (Kurt Wall) Kurt -- You will be Told about it Tomorrow. Go Home and Prepare Thyself. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: christmas and its HOT!

2002-01-02 Thread rickf
Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 06:25 pm,Net Llama wrote: > > --- Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:51 pm,Net Llama wrote: > > > > --- Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > > Most likely true. At lea

Re: Memory lapse

2002-01-02 Thread Myles Green
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:27:49 -0700 Glenn Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Group: > > I want to delete this Linux and the associated partitions from my hard > drive. Currently, I dual-boot SuSE 7.2 and Windows XP. I think LILO > was installed in the MBR. > > IIRC, that's what "boot