Re: [newbie] Telnet session

2002-08-14 Thread Mad Scientist
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 04:05 pm, N E N I S T E R wrote: Hi everybody, I’m wondering to know, how can I accept Telnet conections into my linux server, I already have installed the telnet-server, stop the ipchains service and nothing happened, I did this before and never has this kind of

Re: [newbie] Linux DVD player [my .02 and addt'l Q]

2002-08-12 Thread Mad Scientist
On Monday 12 August 2002 06:16 am, Sabin, Matthew wrote: I've installed mplayer and ogle, and have broken the ML original install of xine. All of which are supposed to be excellent DVD players. I can play .avi and .mpeg file happily with either ogle or mplayer, but they stutter when they

[newbie] Re: Xmms thinks it's speedy gonzalez

2002-08-12 Thread Mad Scientist
Isaac Curtis writes: Apparently some of the software takes this too seriously, because when I tried using Xmms to play some mp3's, it got a little carried away. It's playing all my songs about 10-20% faster than normal, and I know it's not the files because I can play the exact same ones

Re: [newbie] can't remember how to mount hda1

2002-08-04 Thread Mad Scientist
On Sunday 04 August 2002 03:10 am, Sean Goh wrote: eri'm a real newbiewhat does it mean to mount? A filesystem (usually on a disk partition, floppy disk, or cdrom) can only be accessed after it's been mounted. Mounting sets a flag on the filesystem so that if there is a sudden crash

Re: [newbie] ctrl+alt+del

2002-08-03 Thread Mad Scientist
On Saturday 03 August 2002 09:54 am, Joan Tur wrote: I'd like to forbide the use of ctrl+alt+del in a linux box. It's already blocked in X but I'd like to be able to forbide it's use in the text terminals also. Look in /etc/inittab for the line: ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

[newbie] Re: Manually editing a file

2002-08-01 Thread Mad Scientist
Howard Stredwick writes: There are loads of Linux editors; Gurus will be using VI or EMACS, newbies like you and me will be using Pico. From the shell: I used pico for a while. I now use vi. My suggestion: bite the bullet and learn vi. It will hurt at first but it's well worth the effort.

Re: [newbie] network usage script

2002-08-01 Thread Mad Scientist
On Thursday 01 August 2002 08:28 am, you wrote: Does anyone have a shell script example or a better idea on how to monitor network usage? I don't think I need anything as big as MRTG. I have a small network behind a Linux router (2 LAN cards) Can I pull this info with a shell script with

Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front

2002-08-01 Thread Mad Scientist
On Thursday 01 August 2002 08:43 pm, shane wrote: Nimda virus affects Linux! My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS. I had a script during the code red days that ran on my apache server. If a remote server tried to run cmd.exe or

Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front

2002-08-01 Thread Mad Scientist
On Thursday 01 August 2002 09:03 pm, Mad Scientist wrote: ...changed the script to do a net send to the server's subnet. The server's domain, not subnet, I meant... meaning the Windows domain of course, not the *real* domain in the sense that those of us who make us of the Internet think

Re: [newbie] can't remember how to mount hda1

2002-08-01 Thread Mad Scientist
On Thursday 01 August 2002 11:00 pm, you wrote: i was wondering how to mount hda1 so i can access my win xp files even though i hate win xp. mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk Replace /mnt/disk with your mountpoint. -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows

[newbie] Re: Lost 1G of data

2002-07-30 Thread Mad Scientist
Klemm writes: I have some lost files I do not find anywhere, but I know I just copied them there 3 days ago. The dir is empty. I use konqueror as my filemanager and when I have a look at the properties of /home the following makes me wonder: Size 738,1 M Free space 494,1 /2.3 Gb

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-29 Thread Mad Scientist
On Monday 29 July 2002 01:55 am, civileme wrote: Thanks for the heads-up. I haven't seen that one before but it works very nicely. I can reproduce by intentionally malforming a menu entry in /usr/lib/menu Shoot. looks like we need a syntax checker for thoser entries with an interactive

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-29 Thread Mad Scientist
On Monday 29 July 2002 01:12 pm, civileme wrote: Right now what I see is that the easy way to analyze this is likely going to be using a script The following is a very simple-minded one which should do some magic [snip] Thanks for the script. Is there a latency from when it removes the

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-28 Thread Mad Scientist
On Sunday 28 July 2002 08:24 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus in my various windows managers are missing many items. All items are visible in menudrake,

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-28 Thread Mad Scientist
On Sunday 28 July 2002 02:21 pm, you wrote: If you look at /usr/lib/menu you will see all sorts of files that have to do with menu. In those files is a needs clause. If it needs kde then it disappears when kde is removed. Those files are written directly into the mdk rpm spec files and are