Aloha,
I'm having some trouble with a mouse on FC4T2. In short, I can't get
FC4T2 to respond to any mouse I have tried. I have tried a Logitech
first mouse (serial mouse) as well as a Logitech MX310 (PS/2).Anyone
else having mouse troubles?
Mahalos in advance,
Ben
Aloha all,
I just bought a Logitech MX310 optical mouse and hooked it up. The
basic mouse works fine, but I can't figure out how to get all the
buttons to work. Googling showed me how to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
file to get FC2 to recognize the mouse. So far so good.
Now I
Richard,
Most likely your problem is one of two things. Either the
permissions for the drive device are for root instead of a user, or the
default mounting options do not allow a user to unmount the drive.
To check the device permissions type ls -l /dev/zipdrivedevicename
and see what com
ren Togami wrote:
> Ben Beeson wrote:
> > Aloha all,
> >
> > I found a more permanent fix to this one -- reference the thread that I
> > started Mon Sep 13 19:48:58 HST 2004 in the September 2004 LUAU
> > archives.
> >
> > I discovered that FC2
Aloha all,
I found a more permanent fix to this one -- reference the thread that I
started Mon Sep 13 19:48:58 HST 2004 in the September 2004 LUAU
archives.
I discovered that FC2 does not have the Red Hat sound configure tool
any more. It also appears to be missing the /etc/mod
Aloha,
After I recently applied a few patches and upgraded to kernel
2.6.8-1.521smp I noticed my USB system quit working. Just for grins I
reviewed the LUAU list archives and googled for a while. The items I
found in the LUAU archive aren't helping the current situation. I think
the USB
Al,
I haven't had to tinker with a printcap file in a long time (and I was
forever tweaking it once I started...), but I am wondering if your box
thinks the psc750 is a dnj750 in one spot and finding it not to be so in
another spot. Tracking down printing troubles in Unix is not fun, I
fe
Eric,
Wow! way to go!
Good luck,
Ben
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 11:41, Eric Brown wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I thought I'd share with you a successful k12ltsp story from the mainland.
> I was inspired by the HOSEF's work in Hawaii after reading an article about
> them on Slashdot a few wee
Tom,
Many Mahalos -- that fixed it!
VR,
Ben
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:26, Tom_Gordon/RISE/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> remove kudzu from the options to make it not managed by updfstab and thus
> hotplug.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
Aloha,
I'm running FC2 and am trying to get my thumbdrive (a Verbatim 512 MB
USB drive) to continue to work. I have tried adding a line to
/etc/fstab like:
/dev/sdd /mnt/usbdriveautonoauto,user,kudzu,rw 0 0
which works fine until you unmount the thumbdrive and then try to
rem
Aloha,
Does anybody know why the MD5 digest on the new Mozilla 1.7.3 packages
is bad?
error: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: MD5 digest: BAD
Expected(67b3d629db3c95b784350b927e087eb6) !=
(0a137ed2894888039c71991a2045b769)
Mahalos in advance,
Ben
Aloha,
Looks like you guys are slashdotted today! Congratulations!
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/04/09/19/023218.shtml?tid=146&tid=106
Great Job!
Ben
:
> Switch to GNOME (on an x-term, run the command swtichdesk gnome), log
> out and log in. Turn up your volume, then see what happened.
>
> Ben Beeson wrote:
>
Aloha,
I upgraded to FC2 from RH 9 yesterday and today I noticed that
the CD player will not make any noise. Grip, xmms, the gnome-cd etc all
start up OK, and will 'play' their files -- only no sound is heard from
the speakers. My box has a soundblaster 16 card, the same card that has
wor
Never mind... I fixed it. Reinserted the usb storage module and added a
line to etc/fstab for the mounting of the camera. Don't know why tall
that quit working, but it's fixed now.
Ben
Aloha,
It used to work, but not any more, and I can't figure it out. I am
running RH9 and need to download some pix from a USB camera to my hard
drive. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Mahalos in advance,
Ben
Tom,
Mahalos for your suggestions. I checked all that -- no firewall here
(I'll switch the internal one back on after I get this working and tweak
the firewall to allow internal connections to ftp..), even lokkit is
open. The vsftpd just acts weird. I can log in as myself and it
correc
Aloha,
I find my self in need of an ftp server for internal LAN use only. It
will never be seen outside the walls of my humble abode ;-) Anyway, I
read the man pages etc and configured vsftpd to work, only it only sort
of works. I can log in as a user or anonymously on the box running t
Thanks for that. I'll check into the bios issue. Essentially I'd like
to just put this box in an out of the way spot around the house and let
it run...
Aloha,
Ben
> Usually is. Linux will happily start without a video card or anything of the
> like (though redhat may get mad). In fact,
Ron,
All fixed now, the cards both work fine ;-)
Ben
Devon,
I finally axed the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts eth1.route and
ifcfg-eth1 files. So far that seems to have fixed the problem.
VR,
Ben
MonMotha,
I'll look into this.
VR,
Ben
>
> Another thing you may look at is the networking init script (in /etc/init.d)
> itself. Most of redhat's scripts provide some way to save the current
> configuration as the default. Running the init script with no options, using
> --he
Devon,
Tried all that stuff. Same symptoms when I restart the network. I even
disabled eth1 but that didn't fix it either. I believe the system is
reading a file somewhere when the network starts. I'll dig and see if I
can find it.
Thanks,
Ben
Aloha and Hauoli Makahiki Hou,
Today a strange thing happened. My routing tables got messed up and
now although I can fix them, they don't stay fixed when the network
restarts. I can't seem to find any reference to files that hold the
'non-volatile' parts of networking info to track down
Mahalos
Ben
Mahalo Warren!
>
> I suggest you subscribe twice, but go into the list options for the
> second account and enable "nomail". That allows the second account to
> post, but receives no mail.
>
> Warren
Aloha all,
I haven't found the race yet, but after enabling the magic_SysRq, I
mostly have good luck with sync'ing the filesystem to clear the problem
up. Even so, every once in a while the hard drive still grinds away
until 'Alt-SysRq-b'
Cheers,
Ben
On Tue, 2003
Vince,
Does this include submission from subscribers that may be submitting
from an address different from their subscriptoin address? For example,
I normally access this list at my home address, but once in a while I
may send something from my work address. What ever the 'rule' is going
Aloha,
I have been experiencing a fairly frequent occurrence of a race
condition that appears to use swap to the death of all other processes
on my box. Does anyone have any ideas on how to track down the offending
application? I'd like to at least identify it so I can either renice
it, o
Aloha,
When I ran RH 7.2, I had the zip drive set up to automount and it
worked fine when I inserted a disk in the drive. In RH 9 I am having
difficulty reproducing this and so far I can't decipher from the fine
manual why what I have doesn't work Any ideas? My fstab is here:
LABE
Aloha,
Just for grins, I found this while researching a paper on the
'futility' of export restrictions for computer technology about 2 years
ago. This system is no longer running as it was, but it was a cool use
of 'junk' hardware and some very useful science came out of it inthe
meantime
Vince,
Thanks, I would have replied to this sooner, but I had internet
connection troubles since 28 Oct that were just resolved about 20 min
ago. Yep, fetchmail is the the path of least resistance, I was just
looking for a way to avoid that one. I'll get on it...
Cheers,
Ben
Aloha,
For some reason I can't see my post on spamassassin to the LUAU list,
so I just resent one only to discover that Warren had already addressed
it. Please forgive the double post. (I see the new post now.)
Warren thanks for your help. I had fetchmail setup quite some
Aloha,
I'm up on RH9 now and I was wondering if anyone has had any
success with spamassassin and Ximian Evolution? I read the fine RH
manual that came in the box, and it says to make a 'procmailrc' file
with a few rules in it to get the spamassassin to work. So far, no
luck None of t
Aloha,
I'm up on RH9 now and I was wondering if anyone has had any success
with spamassassin and Ximian Evolution? I read the fine RH manual and
it says to make a 'procmailrc' file with a few rules in it to get the
spamassassin to work. So far, no luck
It seemed easier to i
ut as you can see here, it appears that on at least this occasion, it did
not stop a connction to my ftp directory that it should have.
Reinstall coming very soon
Thanks,
Ben
On Sunday 12 October 2003 09:09 am, you wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 09:47:35PM -1000, Be
Vince,
That's the rub, I can't figure it out. I guess I can safely ignore
this one?
Ben
> Where is the fs that is mounted ext2? Despite the warning in
> dmesg, they are mounted ext3.
>
> -Vince
Aloha,
I saw in my logs today an attempt to install a bunch of directories on
my
box in the /home/ftp/pub/.. area. So far, it does not appear to have been
successful, but I am now curious how this may have happened. I am running
MonMotha's firewall (pre9) and the TCP_ALLOW variable is
Vince,
> More clues would help. What do you have for:
> 1) grep ext /etc/fstab
$ grep ext /etc/fstab
/dev/sda2 / ext3defaults1 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3defaults1 2
/dev/sdb2 /home
Aloha,
I noticed a different message in my logs today. I am hoping someone
can
help me track this one down.
EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,17)): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 filesystem
as ext2
So far I have figured out that one of my partitions is mounted as ext2 fs
instead of ext
Jaymes,
Wow, something else for me to learn how to do when I get done buying my
house and moving in ;-). I'll put that on my list of things to do!
VR,
Ben
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 06:45 am, you wrote:
> Your Welcome.
>
> If you want to monitor real time, either use ethereal t
Jaymes,
So far so good. I'll watch my logs specifically for this for a few
days and
see what I can see. So far nothing is there today. I don't know if that
means the packets were dropped or if none showed up today...
Cheers, and thanks for the hint!
Ben
>port 135 is rpc (remote procedure call) related. used extensively with
>active directory and other useless parts of windows
>
>Try this in IP Chains
>-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 135 -p tcp -j -y DENY
>
>this will drop all packets destined to or from a source port 135
>
Jaymes,
H-m-m-m. Tha
Ben Beeson wrote:
>> snip ...
>>
>> Is there an easy way to just drop those port 135 packets dead on the
>> floor and forget about them?
>>
>See the BLACKHOLE option, then set the policy on it to "DROP".
>
>--MonMotha
Thanks for that.
Aloha,
I am currently running -pre9 on a single machine that I am using as my
sole
connection to the internet. (I used to run behind a router + firewall, but
that got packed up and moved to California recently.) Anyway, I am now
seeing a bunch of entries in my console logs related to
Aloha,
I have a chunk of javascript that places a row of digital clocks on a
web
page. It works OK, but now I'd like to move that code to a different file
and then include it in an html page anywhere without having to copy and paste
the javascript into each page that I want it in. Ho
Doug and MonMotha,
Thanks to both of you for enlightening me.
On Saturday 21 June 2003 02:08 pm, you wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The cable modem in most cases is a bridge, but the 10-net address that is
> > the first hop in a trace route is the headend router (CMTS) that is the
Monmotha,
Thanks for the info.
> Well, there's the imfamouns 10.x.x.x one, which I do believe is your cable
> modem (which oddly enough, acts as a bridge, but still decrements the TTL
> and sends back a time exceeded as if it were a router...)
You're probably right here, the 10.x.x.
Aloha,
Has anyone stumbled across any "internal" RoadRunner routers? I think
I may
have stumbled onto one or two and I thought I'd check before I "sound the
alarm" at RR.
Ben
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Aloha,
I ran across this today. This is interesting as is the link at the
bottom to
the AT & T blunder.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10018
Enjoy,
Ben
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Warren,
Try "gftp" avail from: http://gftp.seul.org/ and probably already on
your
box I use to transfer files to/from a web server for our SCUBA club. It
has modes fro ftp, http, ssh, and local file transfers. You can bookmark
pages, even save your passwords etc if you so desir
To all,
In short, I need one to install/upgrade my OS from a minimalist RH6.1
to
something a litle more modern/complete so I can use it more effectively as a
terminal etc. Nothing else needed, just an install. I thought I'd try
aurora. My pizza box has a hard drive and a little RAM,
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Aloha,
Anybody know where I can find a Sun CD drive for a Sparc 20?
Mahalos,
Ben
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Aloha,
I have read the fine manual and I am stumped. I would like to use VM
(in
Xemacs) to access mail on a pop server, but I cannot figure out how to do it.
I can get system mail just fine, but I can't make the pop mail part work.
Any ideas would be greatly apreciated.
Thanks i
Thanks for the informative reply!
Ben
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Aloha all,
I saw the following advisory today in the Linux Today news letter and
was
wondering if the MonMotha firewall is effected by this behavior in its as
delivered form.
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Aloha,
I don't know if this has made it to the list yet or not, but...
http://www.hawaiibusiness.cc/hb52003/default.cfm?articleid=11
Congrats!
Ben
Ray and others,
I got it to work finally. I had to type "java -cp . Scubatoolkit" to
get it
to run once I compiled it. Seems kind of a quirky way to get it to work, but
I've got it running now. Now I can play with it!
Thanks for all your help,
Ben
Sorry about that, I accidently hit the "wrong" address. I meant this to go
to the list.
Ben
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Subject: Re: [luau] Java question
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 00:33:42 -1000
From: Ben Beeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Roderick Gammon, Ph.D
il 2003 12:04 am, you wrote:
> It means Java cannot find that class, Scubatoolkit. There should be a
> Scubatoolkit.class file in the same directory as where you executed that
> command.
>
> Don
>
> On Thursday 17 April 2003 10:23 pm, Ben Beeson wrote:
> > Aloha,
>
Aloha,
Trying Java now... does anyone know what the following error really
means?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] SCUBATOOLS]$ java -cp .Scubatoolkit
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: /Scubatoolkit
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:native)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:52)
Mike,
Thanks, I actually had about 5 versions of kernels lying around and I
needed
to clean out the ones I no longer use. I did save two recent ones just in
case something blows up on boot... (probably never need it though...)
Ben
t to be safe, move 2.2, wait a while, then delete
> it.
>
> -Eric Hattemer
>
> Ben Beeson wrote:
> >Aloha,
> >
> > I need to free up some space on my hard drive and I thought /usr/src
> > might be a good place to start as it appears I have several versions of
>
Aloha,
I need to free up some space on my hard drive and I thought /usr/src
might
be a good place to start as it appears I have several versions of old kernel
sources stored there. I need some advice on what is safe to delete without
screwing up the system references to libraries etc
See ya'll when I get back!
Ben
Florian,
Sometimes I need to use "passive mode ftp" on my box to get it to work
right.
Cheers,
Ben
On Thursday 09 January 2003 07:41 pm, you wrote:
> Whats up guys,
>
> I think im dense today because im missing something I shouldn't be.
>
> I'm running a RH7.3 system (all updates) w
Bruce,
Cool, I'll have to get with you off line sometime soon to discuss it
more.
Thanks for the reply and sorry about your crash,
Ben
Nope, still looking... When I find it, I'll post a link.
Cheers and Happy New Year,
Ben
On Thursday 02 January 2003 06:04 am, you wrote:
> Did you ever find that article? If so could you pass on the URL?
> I just used rsync -avr to transfer stuff from two old partitions over to a
> new driv
Mahalo!
Ben
On Monday 30 December 2002 03:51 pm, you wrote:
> On Sunday 29 December 2002 07:44 pm, Ben Beeson wrote:
> > Aloha,
> >
> > Recently I saw an article where the author used an extra hard drive and
> > rsync (I think) to automatically back up his syste
Aloha,
Recently I saw an article where the author used an extra hard drive and
rsync (I think) to automatically back up his system. Now I can't find it,
and I may be interested in doing something like this myself on my home boxes.
Does anyone recall seeing this article???
Thanks,
Ben
Derrick,
Welcome to the list!
Ben
Stan,
I'll take a stab...
It probably doesn't like your disk. Try using a different floppy disk.
Chances are a protion of the disk is corrupted. (You may have to try more
than one floppy before you get one that works.)
Hope this helps,
Ben
Warren,
I downloaded and installed this about 3 minutes after you posted it.
So far
it works great and I want to thank you for preparing such a clean install
package for us to use. It worked with out a hitch!
Thanks again,
Ben
On Thursday 12 December 2002 08:25 pm, you wrote:
> ht
Aloha,
I haven't played much with this or any other cdripper, but... I recall
that
default permissions on my cdrom drive have caused me trouble in the past.
Making the cdrom chmod 777 when combined with an appropriate set of
permissions in the fstab file fixed all my troubles without
Thanks Dean,
Ben
> FWIW, I believe that 6346 is the default port for limewire/gnutella...
>
> dean
Eric and Vince,
So essentially, snort is seeing a lot of other traffic on my external
interface that is not necessarily destined for my box. Is that right???
Mahalos,
Ben
Aloha,
I have several entries in my router's /var/log/messages that look like
this
one.
Dec 11 20:12:50 router snort: [117:1:1] (spp_portscan2) Portscan detected
from 66.8.222.33: 6 targets 9 ports in 20 seconds {TCP} 66.8.222.33:49582 ->
12.246.156.221:6346
I'm curious why the log
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Miguel,
> "bash: smtpd: command not found"
The message means the shell can't find the executable in the list of
directories stored in the $PATH variable. (See your .bash_profile and
/etc/profile for example...) Type "echo $PATH" at the
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Bruse,
You are the first person I've seen on the list that admitted to using
Aurora. I'm curious how much trouble it was to install it and how complete
the distro is. Please let me know what you think. BTW, does it come with
ssh?
Thanks
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Dusty,
Right now it will be a 'smart terminal' on my home LAN. I have
another box
with some good toys on it, and soemtimes more than one of us wants on it...
In the future it may turn into a file server of some sort, or a firewall +
rout
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Aloha,
I have a Sparc 20 running a partial RH 6.1. This box also does not
have a
floppy drive or a CD drive. Any ideas for an OS upgrade? Can I place the
needed CD in a drive on another box on the LAN and then maybe do an FTP
install?
Rick,
Thanks for your help. That will probably do what I need to do for now.
When I upgrade to my next rev, I'll wipe my drives and start over with a
better file plan
Yes, it's Linux, RH 7.2 for now...
Thanks again,
Ben
On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:23 pm, you wrote:
Rick,
I got the tar part, nice trick. But I only have about 7% usable
filespace
left on the /usr partition. The real fix I need is one that makes the system
think it is looking at /usr when the actual files may reside on say /home/usr
or someother filesystem so all the gadgets that n
Aloha,
Any good ideas on how to "apparently" move files from one partition to
another without tar + a pile of tapes and fdisk??? Would a link to another
partition work?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
Aloha,
I'm thinking of trying CVS instead of RCS for manaigng some source
files.
I've tried to setup CVS, but so far I can only get it to work as 'root' and
that doesn't seem right. It seems I should be able to create a group such as
'cvsusers' set up the CVS directories etc and then
Thanks,
Ben
> Red Hat 8.0 is amazingly solid with one critical exception... RPM has a
> nasty race condition that causes it to completely fail in some
> instances, necessitating a kill -9, deleting some lock files or reboot
> in order to regain RPM functionality.
>
> I would wait for them to fi
So Warren,
What's your take on RH 8.0??? I may wait until I finish a class I'm
now
taking before I upgrade so I don't lose my term papers, but in any case, is
it a "go" now, or should we wait for 8.1???
Thanks,
Ben
On Monday 07 October 2002 07:57 pm, you wrote:
> http://www.mplug
Aloha,
I'm running RH 7.2 and I'd like to upgrade my perl to 5.8. I noticed
that
if I uninstall the perl 5.6 via RPM that came with my box, a whole bunch of
stuff is dependant upon it. I also noticed thar the new perl ver 5.8
installs to a different locaiton than /usr/bin/perl and so
Aloha,
I am pondering SpamAssassin for my box. The volume I now get after
becoming
a moderator on a mailing list is pretty disgusting. I find it even more
depressing that most of the UCE does not have opt-outs. Since I can't
opt-out, I need a better filter.
I read the fin
Julio,
I use the McAfee Anti Virus. There is a *nix version available that
will
scan all kinds of goodies, even mail attachments in case you are serving mail
to a mixed environment. Go here:
http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/products/virusscan-cl/default-virusscan-cl.asp
for details and se
> I personally think that any proxy that modifies page content, especially
> by modifying javascript, is bound to cause problems in some
> circumstances. I think you may have better results with a proxy that
> only replaces ad banners with blank images of the same size, combined
> with Mozilla pop
Aloha,
I just tried something tonight and discovered something odd. When I
tried
to log in to Yahoo Groups and sign in to an account I have as a moderator, I
received an error message saying the browser refused to set a cookie and that
cookie was needed (Mozilla 1.2 just download
Aha, I see that little box now I missed it before..
Thanks,
Ben
After checking the Print To File box, I just select
> postscript as the file type, and save the file with a .ps extension.
> It's so easy, that I have to wonder if there's a deeper configuration
> problem with your system tha
Wayne,
I use both Bluefish and vim for html editing. I like many of the
features
that Bluefish has, including its shortcuts to weblint and other tools. The
syntax highlighting and 'templates' for inserting things in the html source
are nice too.
Bluefish is not as "featur
Aloha,
I need to save an open office file in .ps format and I can't figure out
how to do it. It seems like I should be able to "print to file" using a post
script printer driver, but I can't figure out how to do that with in Linux.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ben
Thanks for your other help.
> However, if you use devfs, you'll want to make sure you have a disk in
> at boot time so devfs makes the device nodes. I still cannot figure out
> how to make it make the device nodes later on (including hdparm -z, the
> whole block device doesn't exist, not just ind
Aloha,
I need to add a Zip drive to my box. Does anyone have any experience
running one? I am considering either an internal IDE or a USB drive, but
before I plunk down my $$$ I thought I'd ask if anyone knows of any
showstoppers.
Thanks in advance,
Ben
Aloha,
A separate computer just changes the architecture of the problem, it
doesn't
fundamentally change the problem. I believe this macro option could be used
to facilitate an attack regardless of Internet connection because the method
allows for information leakage. This is because
Aloha,
I noticed today that I have a lot of old stuff in /tmp. The filesystem
standard says this stuff should be 'purged' when the system is rebooted, but
apparently, mine isn't... Does anyone have an init script or a
'modification' to their rc.local that works??? If so, I'm intereste
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: [luau] Virus Scan/Checker
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 20:04:34 -1000
From: Ben Beeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dan,
I use the McAfee AntiVirus for unix on my box. In my case, my employer
requires a firewall and
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