RE: [luau] Slashdot: Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity

2003-10-10 Thread Erich S.
I agree with Eric, but respectfully disagree on LCD's. I work on two video workstations both that have dual monitor setups. We recently switched to LCD and the deskspace freed up to place logging notes or other useful information while producing video is most welcome. I don't particularly like the

Re: [luau] Speaking of hard drives

2003-05-15 Thread Erich S.
Usually I just have them send me a new drive and I send back the defective in the packaging material the replacement was sent in. Unless the drive you are returning is that old? Have they changed their policy? I might have an old box and carrier still if it didn't get tossed in a recent spring

Re: [luau] Problems with MySQL

2003-04-22 Thread Erich S.
Hi, It sounds like mysqld is not running based on your description. Are you sure the mysqld process running? I usually check this by doing a 'ps aux' to see what processes are running. mysqld needs to be running for you to be able to use mysql. I can start this process manually by running safe_m

Re: [luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box?

2002-12-11 Thread Erich S.
Hey, Welp, I'm a bit frustrated with PAM. Maybe my brain is dull. Does anyone have any pointers to good PAM tutorials out there? The one I read is written in such a way that if I was at that level I wouldn't need the tutorial in the first place :P I gather disabling PAM to run proftpd is proba

Re: [luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box?

2002-12-09 Thread Erich S.
Hi All, I'm kinda stumped, I still can't seem to connect via Dreamweaver (DMX). DMX is set up to use passive FTP, and when I click on the 'test' button in DMX, plink fires up with it's session, and I can log in with my username and password. After logging in and minimizing the plink window, it se

Re: [luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box?

2002-12-09 Thread Erich S.
Heh, OK, well artsy types like it because it fits the culture they've accustomed themselves to. Most of them don't want to do anything technical or have a desire to learn anything they deem 'technical'. (not all Mac users are like this, but it tends to run heavy that way) Not meant as a slight to

Re: [luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box?

2002-12-09 Thread Erich S.
Hiya, I haven't run FTP on my server for several years now. But I didn't write Dreamweaver, I just would like to use it remotely on my server. :) I'm not sure what functionality that SCP provides (I use it, but mostly for single file transfers between my boxes). I suspect it needs to use certain

Re: [luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box?

2002-12-09 Thread Erich S.
Thanks Brian! Wow...OK. Welp I'll chuck wu-ftpd out (dang, just got the RPMS and installed it) and get proftpd and give that a shot. Really appreciate the info and the explanation. It all makes sense, but wrapping my head around tunnels gives me headaches :P I'll let ya'll know how it goes onc

RE: [luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box?

2002-12-09 Thread Erich S.
IL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box? > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 09 December 2002 09:48 am, Erich S. wrote: > > Hi Folks! > > I have very minimal services set up on my machine and FTP by defaul

[luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box?

2002-12-09 Thread Erich S.
Hi Folks! I'd like to use Dreamweaver's Remote folder facility for working with files that are on my RedHat 7.3 server. Dreamweaver is set up so that it'll use SSH to connect to the remote server. They even provide links to putty.exe and plink.exe. (I've used putty for SSH connections and like

Re: [luau] vnc for UNIX/Linux?

2002-10-11 Thread Erich S.
Hiya, I use it and it's been very useful. Sharky On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Charles Lockhart wrote: > I've seen vnc used to view and control a Windows machine, but I've never seen > anything like that for UNIX/Linux. Is the same functionality there? Anybody > here ever use it? > > Thanks, > >

Re: [luau] Searching for text string in across source files

2002-10-01 Thread Erich S.
Hah...never mind. Didn't realize grep could do a recursive search. Still not finding what I'm looking for though. Dang, must be embedded in a DB field somewhere...ugh Thanks, Sharky On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Erich S. wrote: > Aloha folks. > > I'm trying to change

[luau] Searching for text string in across source files

2002-10-01 Thread Erich S.
Aloha folks. I'm trying to change some source in PostNuke, but can't seem to find the file that holds the source I'm trying to change. I've searched and tried the IRC channels but haven't found an answer yet. However, I do know some of the unique text I'd like to change in the source file (bas

Re: [luau] Apache...again

2002-09-30 Thread Erich S.
Hiya, Check your httpd.conf file. It should be set in there. Do a search for the keyword "UserDir" and that should get you in the zone. Normally you'd get to it by going to: http://www.yourdomain.com/~username Where 'yourdomain' is your domain name, and 'username' is your username on your ser

Re: [luau] Re: imap

2002-09-26 Thread Erich S.
On 26 Sep 2002, Warren Togami wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 10:16, Eric Jeschke wrote: > > I HIGHLY recommend that if you access imap to a login account over the > > internet that you run it in secure mode, tunnel it over ssh, or in some > > way secure it. > > Agreed. I personally always use IM

More Mail Q's; was Re: [luau] Blocking mail relayers

2002-09-26 Thread Erich S.
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Mike Ballon wrote: > This doesn't look like a relay attempt but normal spam using an e-mail > address generator destained for your domain and the user(s) didn't exist. > > [snipped mail logs showing attempts to spamify me...sans rice] Thanks Mike, Florian, et al. for the h

Re: [luau] Multiple E-Mail Accounts in KMail

2002-09-25 Thread Erich S.
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > One of the main advantages of Mozilla Mail is that it is easy to set up > "true" > multiple e-mail accounts. > > Microsoft Outlook Express supposedly also allows multiple accounts; however, > all the mails from separate accounts are comingled togeth

Re: [luau] Blocking mail relayers

2002-09-25 Thread Erich S.
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Mike Ballon wrote: > Sendmail does NOT need to be restarted when updating the access file, it > does need to be built of course 'make access.db' but that's it. > > I'd like to see a snip of the maillog to see if he was actually being > allowed to relay though. > Hmmm I didn

RE: [luau] Blocking mail relayers

2002-09-25 Thread Erich S.
Hiya, Thanks for the response guys! I think I found the abuse.net test site earlier, and it passed all the tests, but I was wondering if somehow this bozo was getting through. What's really irritating was that it was coming from that IP every 20 minutes. I added the IP to hosts.deny and resta

[luau] Blocking mail relayers

2002-09-24 Thread Erich S.
Hiya, Still getting used to my new RH 7.3 setup, and was wondering about some logwatch entries I've been getting. I see entries in logwatch showing a lot of mail for unknown users. They have what appear to be random names with my domain attached to the end. There was a whole slew of them all g

RE: [luau] RH 7.2 vs. 7.3 questions

2002-08-19 Thread Erich S.
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Florian Hines wrote: > I got 7.3 pro when i went to the RH lab's and like it, but i can't compare > it 7.2 because i went from 7.1 straight to 7.3. > > Lately thats what i've installed for all my client's also. Hehe OK fair enough...at least I know it hasn't caused you enoug

[luau] RH 7.2 vs. 7.3 questions

2002-08-19 Thread Erich S.
Hi folks! I'm building a new machine for myself to tinker with, and I've got RH 7.2 pro boxed set that I bought awhile back. I have a couple of questions though. 1) Is it worth going out and buying the boxed RH7.3 set, or is it cheaper to just burn a copy of RH7.3 and buy the yearly subscription?

Re: [luau] beg your pardon....

2002-07-31 Thread Erich S.
Hmmm I think that Euro's do dates : DD/MM/YY and us Yanks do dates : MM/DD/YY... So I'd imagine they'd be referring to the same date. The time appears to be within minutes of each other. Sharky On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Elizabeth Long wrote: > > This site, The Register UK: > > http://www.th

Re: [luau] Re: Checking E-mail in Linux

2002-07-19 Thread Erich S.
Yeah...I still use email, but the AP style guide (used by many journalists and reporters uses the hyphenated style; e-mail). No preference is noted in a newer websters between either though. Does it really matter all that much if we know what the author meant? :) Sharky On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Ray

Re: [luau] RedHat LAMP suggestions?

2002-06-08 Thread Erich S.
Hiya! Good to hear from you. We are very overdue for a lunch! Hmmm I'd like to find out a bit more about the titanium too.. In the meantime could you shoot me your contact numbers...I'm gonna be going full time downtown soon and my last palm crash lost my numbers :( Here's what I've been doing l

[luau] RedHat LAMP suggestions?

2002-06-07 Thread Erich S.
Hi Guys! I'm rebuilding an old setup (PII-266 w/ 256MB RAM, 40GB drive) and want to put together a LAMP Setup (Linux/Apache/mySQL/PHP). When installing what do most of ya do? Choose the options for these packages on the initial install, pull down the RPMs for what you want, or roll your own from

Re: [luau] Firewire PCI card

2002-04-18 Thread Erich S.
t and a bag of chips?" 8) Or > maybe not worth the big bucks? > dean > - Original Message - > From: "Erich S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:00 AM > Subject: Re: [luau] Firewire PCI card > >