Re: rsync over ssh

2002-04-11 Thread Ian Truelsen
; But how do I do this from a bash shell script, so that it automatic uses the > root password? > Try looking at the SSH key management articles on the following page: http://www.gentoo.org/index-articles.html It works quite well, and should, I think, work for this situation. Ian Truels

Re: editing eth1

2002-02-27 Thread Ian Truelsen
. The command touch will create an empty file for you that will get rid of the no such file error. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quote: "No great civil

Re: Odd printing problem - even more info

2002-02-22 Thread Ian Truelsen
Ian Truelsen writes: While fiddling with printcap files I discovered some other things: trying service lpd restart results in: [root@dark-lord root]# service lpd restart Stopping lpd: [FAILED] Starting lpd: No Printers Defined

Re: Odd printing problem

2002-02-22 Thread Ian Truelsen
Ian Truelsen writes: In addition to all below, I just noticed that printconf does not make any changes to the default /etc/printcap and /etc/printcap.local files. I have never actually checked on this before, but shouldn't the printcap files be modified by printconf? > My printer

Odd printing problem

2002-02-22 Thread Ian Truelsen
not used to happen So, as I say, I am stumped. Can anyone think of anything that I havn't tried? Any interesting responses from ouija boards? Consultations with a medium? A small? I'll try anything at this point. Thanks. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University o

Uninformative printing error

2002-02-16 Thread Ian Truelsen
same results. Can someone suggest any other things that I can look at to try to get my printer working again? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quote: "No

Uninformative printing error

2002-02-16 Thread Ian Truelsen
same results. Can someone suggest any other things that I can look at to try to get my printer working again? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quote: "No

Re: laptop extra keys

2002-01-27 Thread Ian Truelsen
On 2002.01.21 16:53 Ben Logan wrote: > I have a Logitech keyboard with similar keys. I got them to work > (under X) by using the following method: > > Run 'xev' to get the keycode. > > Use 'xmodmap' to map the code to a keysym known to X. Once I got the > commands right, I put them in my .xini

Re: laptop extra keys

2002-01-21 Thread Ian Truelsen
t; > Hope this helps, > Ben That is pretty much what I was hoping for. Thanks. I'll have to go and play around for a while. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current

Re: slashdotted?

2002-01-21 Thread Ian Truelsen
JW writes: > Hope that makes sense :-) > Sure does. Thanks. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quote: "No great civilisation likes forests.&quo

slashdotted?

2002-01-21 Thread Ian Truelsen
I have been seeing the term 'slashdotted' come up a few times, both here and in other lists. I am not sure if I am just dense, or if I am too new to this to know the lore, but what does the term refer to? Thanks for filling the knowledge gap. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters

laptop extra keys

2002-01-21 Thread Ian Truelsen
can be used to identify the code that these keys are sending? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quote: "No great civilisation likes forests." K.F. O'

Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

2002-01-19 Thread Ian Truelsen
nt > managerial input ...or the heirs of the Henry Luce. > > Time-Warner is a company built on exclusive intellectual property rights and > brand names. GPL???? > Keyword RedHat.gone Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfr

Re: automounting nfs (nevermind)

2002-01-15 Thread Ian Truelsen
Ian Truelsen writes: Figured it out. For some reason the noauto section of my fstab entry migrated to the .OLD version, but didn't stick around in the regular version. > Is there a way of keeping the fstab entry for an NFS drive and not having > it try to mount at boot up? It is

automounting nfs

2002-01-15 Thread Ian Truelsen
Is there a way of keeping the fstab entry for an NFS drive and not having it try to mount at boot up? It is a bit of a problem since it tries to load before my PCMCIA network adapter, plus it will not always be attached to the network. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy

Setting up PCMCIA networking

2002-01-14 Thread Ian Truelsen
sign of an eth connection. In dmesg I get NE2000 coming up as eth0, but I can't seem to locate it anywhere else. How do I get this up and running? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROT

Re: dual boot suggestions

2002-01-11 Thread Ian Truelsen
Dale Kosan writes: > Install Win 98 first, then Redhat, lilo or grub will have no problem booting > Windows or Linux from the MBR. > This doesn't seem to work with WinMe. I'm not sure if it is just me or if ME uses the MBR differently. Has anyone gotten this to work wi

Re: Network speed

2002-01-06 Thread Ian Truelsen
Statux writes: > 3Mbps or 3MB/s? There's a big difference. > Sorry, my bad. I obviously missed the shift key. It's 3MBs. Still kind of slow, but I found the culprit in the incredibly slow speed of my server's drive. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy U

Re: Network speed

2002-01-05 Thread Ian Truelsen
Stephen Torri writes: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Ian Truelsen wrote: > >> Recently I have been transferring some large files between my computers. I >> have a 100Mbps connection between the two, but the actual transfer speed is >> being reported at less than 3Mbps. Now

Network speed

2002-01-05 Thread Ian Truelsen
normal? If not, what can I look to to troubleshoot the problem? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quote: "No great civilisation likes forests." K.F

Re: Parrallel port connectivity

2002-01-04 Thread Ian Truelsen
to use an ethernet card. I though of getting one of the parrallel ethernet adapters but they are expensive and would likely give no better throughput. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTEC

Parrallel port connectivity

2002-01-04 Thread Ian Truelsen
Does anyone know if there is a program available that will allow two computers to communicate over a parrallel null-modem cable? I am thinking of something like direct cable connect in Win. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid

Small Linux distro

2002-01-02 Thread Ian Truelsen
be a good fit? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quote: "No great civilisation likes forests." K.F. O'Connor Lincoln College, Chris

Dictation software

2001-12-18 Thread Ian Truelsen
Has anyone had any success with dictation software for Linux. I am looking into ViaVoice. Has anyone used this? Does it work well? Are there any other ones that I should be looking into? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid

Re: Linux player for 7.2?

2001-12-11 Thread Ian Truelsen
hould get it for you. You'll have to do this to get Ogle working anyway. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quote: "No great civilisation likes f

2 quick questions

2001-12-11 Thread Ian Truelsen
any? Thanks. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quote: "No great civilisation likes forests." K.F. O'Connor Lincoln College, Christchur

Re: fvwm2 instead of kde

2001-12-06 Thread Ian Truelsen
that I am impressed with what I see on your sight, but do you have any idea of how well it supports multiheaded displays with xinerama? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current fav

Running without a gnome panel

2001-12-06 Thread Ian Truelsen
Is it possible to eliminate all gnome panels from the desktop? I have it down to one floating panel, but I don't have the option to remove it from the desktop. Do you know if there is any way to get rid of it? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Win

Sound has locked up

2001-11-27 Thread Ian Truelsen
I had xawtv running when it crashed. Now the sound from the television signal is still running through the system and I can't stop it. I have unistalled xawtv and still the TV sound is still running through the system. Does anyone know how I can stop this? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters pr

gtk programming

2001-11-26 Thread Ian Truelsen
I've been looking to experiment a little with using gtk in programming. I was wondering though, if I have gtk+ and the gtk+-devel package installed from the 7.2 CDs, do I have the sources necessary to program with it? Do I need to get the source tarballs? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters pr

Re: Shutting down linux

2001-11-25 Thread Ian Truelsen
power. A > machine that can be set up to do a normal shutdown by hitting the power > switch would make a LOT of people very happy. > It is a pretty standard feature of the newer ATX style machines and motherboards. With the introduction of the ATX form and associated power supplies

Re: Shutting down linux

2001-11-24 Thread Ian Truelsen
signal and associate it with the 'shutdown -h now' command, but I have no idea how. Anyone out there have any ideas how that might be possible? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: another user admin

2001-11-22 Thread Ian Truelsen
whether it is a part of a package that I don't have installed, but I don't have the sudo command on my system and no man entry for it either. Should it be included by default in the a 7.2 installation? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,

Re: ssh automation

2001-11-19 Thread Ian Truelsen
Gordon Messmer writes: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Ian Truelsen wrote: > >> Andreas Hansson writes: >> > Try checking the permissions of the files and directories. ssh doesn't like >> > if ~/.ssh/identity is readable by anyone but owner. Also authorized_keys &g

CD players

2001-11-19 Thread Ian Truelsen
ies of say xmms (which I find clunky for CD play) Any thoughts? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quote: "No great civilisation likes forests." K.F.

missing SDL

2001-11-19 Thread Ian Truelsen
aries associated with SDL. Does anyone know where SDL installs? It is right out of the box RH7.2 with current up2date run. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite

Re: ssh automation

2001-11-18 Thread Ian Truelsen
Bret Hughes writes: > Ian Truelsen wrote: > >> Dave Reed writes: >> >> > Looks to me like it's trying protocol 1 and then protocol 2. Which are >> > you trying to use? I've got it working using protocol 2. >> > >> > Fo

Re: ssh automation

2001-11-18 Thread Ian Truelsen
Dave Reed writes: >> From: "Ian Truelsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Dave Reed writes: >> >> >> > Looks to me like it's trying protocol 1 and then protocol 2. Which are >> > you trying to use? I've got it working u

Re: ssh automation

2001-11-18 Thread Ian Truelsen
a, and 0644 for the authorized_keys. On the local machine, the id_dsa file is set to 0600 and the id_dsa.pub is set to 0644. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quot

Re: ssh automation

2001-11-18 Thread Ian Truelsen
Dave Reed writes: >> From: "Ian Truelsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Cameron Simpson writes: >> >> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 12:53:24AM +, Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> > | > Say this: >> &g

Re: ssh automation

2001-11-18 Thread Ian Truelsen
Cameron Simpson writes: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 12:53:24AM +0000, Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > Say this: > | > eval `ssh-agent` > | > That will start one and also tell your shell enough for the other commands > | > to contact it. > |

Re: ssh automation

2001-11-18 Thread Ian Truelsen
; > Try checking the permissions of the files and directories. ssh doesn't like > if ~/.ssh/identity is readable by anyone but owner. Also authorized_keys > shouldn't be writeable by anyone but owner. > The permissions are fine. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Phi

Re: ssh automation

2001-11-17 Thread Ian Truelsen
Werner Puschitz writes: > > On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, David Talkington wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Ian Truelsen wrote: >> >> >> >Now, when you said to put the authourized_keys at the far end, did you

Re: ssh automation

2001-11-17 Thread Ian Truelsen
Cameron Simpson writes: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 12:11:51AM +0000, Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > Make yourself a key pair with the shh-keygen command and copy the > | > public half into the .ssh/authorized_keys at the far end. > | > Then make sure

Re: ssh automation

2001-11-17 Thread Ian Truelsen
Cameron Simpson writes: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 12:11:51AM +0000, Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > Make yourself a key pair with the shh-keygen command and copy the > | > public half into the .ssh/authorized_keys at the far end. > | > Then make sure

Re: ssh automation

2001-11-17 Thread Ian Truelsen
Cameron Simpson writes: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:24:36PM +0000, Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I have been trying to set up a command-line call to a program on another > | machine using SSH. It works fine when I call it from a term and enter the > | passwor

ssh automation

2001-11-17 Thread Ian Truelsen
Can anyone give me some pointers on this? Am I going in the wrong direction here? Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quote: "No great civilisation likes for

playing cds

2001-11-16 Thread Ian Truelsen
n you give me some trouble shooting hints on how to figure out what I am doing wrong. Oh, and the sound module is loaded and seems to work for system generated sounds. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University)