On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 11:38:59PM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> Well, it's worth remembering that TrueType isn't Microsoft technology...
But in this day'n'age most closly associated with MS OSs, at least in my
experience. Besides: The problem is not as such TrueType related - it's
a problem w
Hi folks,
I'm trying to move my legacy Win 3.1 system off my main drives onto an
old 600MB external SCSI drive I have standing around, as I'd rather use
the space on the main drives for Linux.
However, I'm aware that WinDOS has quite some problem with not being on
the first drive of the system.
O
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 03:06:40PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:
[...]
> I don't think you will fix it with any of this. Probably what you are
> hitting is webpages that specify TrueType, and there is no good
[...]
Too many people nowadays seem to think WWW is a MS invention and forget
about the fact
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 03:54:46PM -0500, David Talkington wrote:
[...]
> xterm intstead of gnome-terminal,
[...]
If you want to save memory on terminals, it would be better to use rxvt
instead of xterm. xterm has more emulation capabilities (TEK
terminal...), which hardly anyone needs theses day
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:30:53AM -0700, Edward Moon wrote:
[...]
> When I rebooted the PC, lilo freezes after "LI".
>
> I've tried various options in lilo.conf (pointing to /dev/sda1,
> /dev/hda, /dev/hda1, removing the append = "mem=128M" line), but I
> can't boot the PC without using a boo
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 02:38:50PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
> The SIS 530 will not work with the XFree86 in RedHat 5.2,
[...]
XFree has been updated at least twice since RHL 5.2 was released, so
anybody keeping up with the errata should now be at 3.3.5. So, the best
guess really is
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 07:40:11AM -0500, Vidiot wrote:
[...]
> There are no man pages for wget, only info pages, which I hate. The interface
> to traverse info pages is not intuitive. It is easy to get lost, hard to get
> back to where you were, etc.
[...]
Hint: "info2html" comes in most help
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:25:32PM -0700, Steve Lee wrote:
> does anyone know the commands that are similar to the: cp -af that
> I can invoke using scp. need to preserve ownership, permission, the
> whole thing.
I don't know any suitable options and can't check as this machine has no
scp, b
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:41:27PM -0500, Joe Cooper wrote:
[...]
> You may want to consider one of the small micro-distros however (LRP,
> Trinux, etc.), as Red Hat these days even in a very small install takes
> nearly 500MB, which doesn't leave a lot of breathing room.
[...]
Hm, with RHL 5.2,
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 10:19:22PM -0500, Chad W. Skinner wrote:
> I installed linux on my laptop this weekend and noticed that the cooling fan
> is not running so I shut it down. Does anyone know what would keep the fan
> from running? I have a Sager 2330 and have installed 6.2
Wild guess: Could
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 10:08:56AM -0500, Bjornson, Matt wrote:
> Yes you assume correct ( I must be more clear with my postings). I am going
> to reformat the DOS harddrive in the 486, then create a boot floppy to start
> the install...how can I do a FTP install until the NICs are recognized?
> W
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 09:31:52AM -0500, Bjornson, Matt wrote:
> I am looking to install linux on a 486 to use as a router/firewall and
> perhaps a DNS caching server. The challenge is that my 486 does not have a
> cdrom drive.
[...]
As you intend to use it as firewall/router, I assume that a)
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:52:20AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> Does anyone know what package contains oclock?
Assuming it's in one of the packages supplied with Red Hat (which I
don't know):
cd into the RPMs directory on the CD, then use:
rpm -qilp *| less
and search for oclock.
HTH,
Thom
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:53:47PM +0200, Gustav Schaffter wrote:
>
> I have an old 486 sitting around and I wanted to use it for some logging
> purposes, but I can't get it going.
>
> The 486 has a 3Com Elink III ISA card. I've setup the card to run on the
> RJ-45 twisted pair port. (And verifi
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 03:29:11PM -0400, David Yates wrote:
> Does anybody here wish they had not upgraded from 6.1 to 6.2?
> I have been using redhat since 4.0, and this is the first new version that I
> have been unhappy with.
> It sort of seems like a downgrade for me.
Could you please elabor
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:44:28PM -0500, linda hanigan wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a program out there that worked like motd
> but would allow you to have a file of messages to cycle through. I thought
> it would be a nice way to help people to remember things that they don't
> use ever
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:21:52PM -0500, Bob Hartung wrote:
[...]
> My question is that since I am sure this machine will be
> upgraded in the future and that I am not going to install
> unnecessary packages on this HD how should I patitiion it?
>
> My ideas were:
> /boot 20-
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 08:57:00PM -0600, Dave Watts wrote:
> One of the minor problems that I have continually had with Linux
> (Redhat 6.1) is that the right side of my screen shakes. Regardless of
> which windows manager I use it is the same.
[...]
My guess would be that X isn't tuned properly
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:38:13AM -0400, Rick Ingersoll wrote:
> I haven't received an email from the list since April 8. Is the list down
> or is it just me?
Same here. The occasional mail comes through, but very few. Same for
rpm-list and redhat-announce. Seems that their mail is having proble
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:51:55PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>
> I've got an image of a partition (made with the dd command) that I want
> to put on a system with DOS/Windows 3.1. This system has no floppy,
> cdrom, nor network card, and it's got only one hard disk of 72 MB. I
> connect a zip dr
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:31:21PM -0500, Alan Mead wrote:
> I have a dumb question: Let's suppose I like to keep the RPMs and
> occasional tarballs that I DL. Where is the "right" place to keep them?
[...]
I usually keep them in /usr/local/src/(RPM|SRPM|TAR), but there's no
"right" (as in can
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:25:33AM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote:
[...]
> In a passive mode the connection is initiated from the client and all
> is well with the firewall. I know I have to set my ftp clients behind
> the firewall to use passive only or I can't get it to work.
>
> Unless I am missin
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 04:44:31PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Try loading the ip_masq_ftp.o module. It takes care of the return
> connection of an active FTP connection.
>
> modprobe ip_masq_ftp
I'm pretty certain that I have, as FTP didnt work at all in the
beginning (actually, this m
Hi folks,
I'm looking for some info with regard to ncftp and firewall. What happened
was this: If for example I tried to connect to ftp.heanet.ie with ncftp, I
get an error message "no route to host" and my firewall log showed this:
Mar 28 22:40:21 magrat kernel: IP fw-out rej ppp0 TCP MY_DYNAMI
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:16:08AM -0500, Prentice wrote:
[...]
> As a result I got a bunch of flames, but no useful answers for getting the
> color out of my man pages.
[...]
As I'm still running 5.2 I don't know exactly how to change this, but if
you're wondering which config file man might acc
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:31:31PM -0500, Dave Reed wrote:
[...]
> Ok. I thought there would be compatibility problems since they're
> compiled against different version of glibc, but maybe not. I won't
> clutter the list with any more replies.
Just as an additional option: Often it is sufficie
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:46:29AM -0800, Stan Isaacs wrote:
[...]
> Anybody have a method that will allow someone on the same machine to
> check if mail was delivered?
[...]
Just an idea: How about using procmail to generate either an
automatic reply or some kind of "delivery status file" (in ca
Hi folks,
as there has been talk about StarOffice recently... ...maybe someone can
provide me with some information, as I wasn't able to find this on Sun's
pages:
Does the Linux version of StarOffice 5.1 (specifically StarWriter) have
import filters for AmiPro? The Solaris version has and Sun's
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:15:09PM -0500, Virtual Angel wrote:
[...]
> Sigs are indicated by "-- " at the beginning of a line.
[...]
If only they were. There are still too many mailprograms out there not
enforcing this Netiquette standard and many people simply don't know
what the "-- " stands fo
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:11:59AM -0700, Tony Pearson wrote:
[...]
>(a) Is there any way to configure my printer without having "X"
>running, using command line commands and the "vi" editor.
The best idea would probably be to have a look at the Printer-HOWTO.
As was mentioned in another
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 01:33:20PM +0100, Jonathan Ruano wrote:
>
> I dont know if there're more, but I'm using mutt, and it's quite easy
> to configure it. See an excerpt of my .muttrc (of course, copied from
> another person's):
>
> send-hook . "my_hdr From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; set pgp_autosi
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:46:50PM -0500, Timothy Lillicrap wrote:
> I have a 486DX 66mhz which I am thinking of using as a firewall/gateway in a
> similar manor. Unfortunately I live in the country and have to use a dialup
> connection.
[...]
That should work fine. I had a 386/33 running in a s
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:40:46AM -0500, Bill Taylor wrote:
[...]
> How did I err?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > egrep driver latest/*
> > BEGIN---cut here--
> > ../.bin/arch_retrieve: /bin/nice: Argument list too long
> > END-cut here-
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:02:22AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> Seriously? Why would that be?
>
> I've been wondering about this incredibly annoying issue for ages.
Simple. num_lock is regarded as a modifier key on most setups - quite
similar to Shift, Ctrl, Alt and Meta. So, obviously, for X n
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 10:02:33AM -0600, Vidiot wrote:
> If you don't use ntp to keep your clock aligned with the National
> Bureau of Standards clock, you should. It is a simple program that
> runs as a daemon. But, it does require a 24x7 net connection.
[...]
Not really. You can also use chr
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 08:31:46AM -0500, Jerry Winegarden wrote:
> To configure a mouse, use /usr/sbin/mouseconfig
I always thought "mouseconfig" was only to configure gmd, i.e. the mouse
in console mode, whereas for X the mouse would have to be configured
using Xconfigurator or similar tools?
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 03:46:16PM +, Thomas Ribbrock Design/DEG" wrote:
> My apologies, but I haven't gotten any mails from the list over the past
[...]
Thanks a bunch to all who replied. That way I was able to verify that
the problem wasn't the list. I was later ab
My apologies, but I haven't gotten any mails from the list over the past
24h. If anybody does indeed read this (i.e. it got through) and would
drop me a line privately, I'd be most grateful.
Thanks in advance,
Thomas
--
"Look, Ma, no obsolete quotes and plain text only!"
Thom
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:19:38PM -0800, Marty Nopola wrote:
[...]
>
> Then I installed a new 56K Zoom/Faxmodem on com1 which was not
> recognized and changed to com4 and on boot it was recognized
> and asked to install. I have never been able to dial to my ISP.
>From this I deduct that it's
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:55:36PM -0700, Philippe Moutarlier wrote:
> I think this is an old story : installing NT doesn't screw up the hda
> master boot record but installing any Win will. Win2000 just shows
> it didn't improve that ...
[...]
But then again, Win2k was supposed to be NT's su
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:58:02AM -0500, Joe wrote:
[...]
> Can't locate MD5.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
[...]
> I assume I need something called MD5.pm; where could I get it?
[...]
That "something" is a Perl module - and for anything related to Perl modules,
CPAN would be the first address to t
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:57:13PM -0800, CCH wrote:
[...]
> That's true (almost). Netscape froze on me before in Linux and I use kill
> with right clicking on X button and it's gone. BUT, when I visited the java
> webpage then Netscape froze disabling my keyboard and my mouse moves still
> but
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:12:05PM -0500, Piet Barber wrote:
[...]
> They (real) just released a new version very recently. Like today.
>
> http://proforma.real.com/real/player/linuxplayer.html
That pages states that glibc 2.0 is required. Does that mean it works
under RHL 5.x? Has anybody tr
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:54:42PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:
[...]
> I don't think portsentry will modify ipchains but I could be wrong
> about that.
I think that's configurable. portsentry can either use tcp wrappers,
simply drop the route and/or add a firewall rule when it detects a scan.
I haven
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 07:04:23AM -0600, Vidiot wrote:
> >http://www.cast.org/bobby/
>
> Nope, it too doesn't parse the FONT tag.
Pity, that.
Thanks,
Thomas
--
"Look, Ma, no obsolete quotes and plain text only!"
Thomas Ribbrock | http://www.bigfoot.com/~kaytan | ICQ#: 158
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:35:32PM -0500, Edward Schernau wrote:
> Every time the compilation of ssh gets to "sqrt.c" it
> signal 7s on me. This is 100% reproducible, it dies here,
> only here, and never anywhere else.
[...]
Hm - have you tried running something like "top" in parallel during t
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 12:33:47PM +1100, Danny wrote:
> and if you don't select "everything" in the custom install it won't
> install the C Compiler for you.
>
> Solution to your problem :-
>
> Goto www.rpmfind.net and get the RPM for cc or gcc.
I haven't looked at a 6.1 CD yet - but shouldn't
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 06:05:23AM -0600, Vidiot wrote:
> >http://validator.w3.org
>
> Nice idea, but it does not validate the fonts faces listed. It only
> checks the syntax. I mispelled a font face on purpose and it ignored it.
Haven't tried it yet, but maybe "Bobby" could help there?
http:
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 04:36:23PM -0500, Jason Hirsch wrote:
[...]
> Anyway. I have to surf with java off. Too risky otherwise... i'll crash
> in the middle of a download, etc...
[...]
Actually, using Netscape for downloads (unless one really has to) is
kind of, hm, daring... I made far better
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:34:13PM -0600, Matt Housh wrote:
> > There are some versions of X that do not allow you to install TT fonts.
[...]
> They can easily request that the system administrator do it for them.
Sorry, but they can not. Especially not in a corporate environment. What
do
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:45:55AM -0600, Vidiot wrote:
> Excuse me, but if you use style sheets you still are making assumptions
> about fonts if you use the "font-family" directive. The only difference
> with using style sheets is the the user can override the values, which is
> a must for some
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:46:46AM -0500, Randolph K. Zeitvogel wrote:
> > Ok, I'll out myself: What's "LVD"?
>
> Low Voltage Differential.
[...]
Thanks for the explanation (also to David who contacted me off-list). I
thought it would be something like that, as I'm aware of the existence
of diff
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:05:59PM +1100, Stephen M Lavelle wrote:
> I have recently changed the times of a cron job. How do I tell cron that
> this file has changed (aside from rebooting)
If it's your own cron you're talking about (as opposed to e.g. the
systemwide one), "crontab -e" should star
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 11:22:28PM -0700, Brian Schneider wrote:
> I was mis-understood, what I want is to have my other machines get the
> time of of this machine, not the other way around.
I've been doing this with chrony:
http://www.rrbcurnow.freeserve.co.uk/chrony/
HTH,
Thomas
--
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 12:01:47PM -0500, Pieckiel, Kevin A wrote:
[...]
> connect it to our fileserver. It's a Pentium running Linux, kernel 2.2.14,
> and it has an Adaptec 29160 (this one has an external 68-pin LVD connector),
Ok, I'll out myself: What's "LVD"?
Other than that: I don't know
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 11:13:28AM +, Thomas Ribbrock Design/DEG" wrote:
[...]
> I'd also *highly* recommend having a look at some introductionary books
> for Linux. I can list any right now,
Duh! Trigger happy...
The last sentence should have been:
"I can't l
Since you pulled it on the list again...
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:46:49PM +, Graham Hemmings wrote:
[quoting vs. downloadsize]
> Smartarse!
Well, you asked for it... ;-)
> Anyway, it seems that we soon have free access here - so hurrah!
Congrats! Who's paying?
The day that happens
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:41:50AM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote:
> I'm having problems seeing fonts correctly in netscape. I created a web
> page using the StarOffice HTML editor. I chose Verdana for the font.
> When I view this page in netscape, the font appears as really small,
> hard to read Time
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 05:31:35PM +0800, Kyle Hargraves wrote:
>
> Has anyone seen anything like this previously - and if so what is the
> problem ? The termination does seem ok !
>
>
> Mar 5 04:04:11 localhost kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :pid
>272041, scsi0, channel 0, i
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:41:53PM -0800, Jimmie Brandon wrote:
> I just finished installing Red Hat 5.1.
>
> The computer has rebooted and it is asking for
>
> "localhost login:".
>
> In the installation process, earlier it asked me for
> a login and password. I tried using the password at
>
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 05:53:28PM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote:
>
> I posted two messages to this list today. I haven't seen either. In
> fact, I've hardly gotten any messages from this list today. Has it been
> suddenly deactivated? Thanks,
Same here, for the past 24h. What's up?
Thomas
--
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:28:37PM -, GEORGE CHANTZOPOULOS wrote:
>
> I've just got a serious problem in my Linux. I rebout my system, I
> login either as root or user the enlightment configuration starts and
> then I get only a blue screen! Not a taskbar, not icons. The only
> thing I change
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:41:47AM -0500, Paul Crossman wrote:
> I'm trying to perform an IP audit of my local network. I need to find
[...]
Maybe you could use "nmap" to do this? I usually something like
nmap -sP x.y.z.1-254
to find out which IPs are in use/which hosts are up.
HTH,
Thomas
-
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 11:49:32PM -0600, Vidiot wrote:
[...]
> with 6.1 custom. I believed that the 6.1 installation would provide the
> same level of installation support as 6.0 did. Mistake #4.
[...]
Ok, in fairness to Vidiot, there have been more than his mails about the
RHL 6.1 installer o
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 07:52:24PM -0600, M. Smith wrote:
[...]
> However, roughly every 2 weeks, the firewall PC locks up and I get an
> "out of memory" error. You can escape back to the prompt, but the
> machine then won't take a "shutdown -r(or h) -now" command. A reset or
> power recycle is t
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 04:39:28PM +0100, Daniel Persson wrote:
[...]
> After this i had to shut the power and then the machine wont start.
>
> I comes to "Uncompressing Linux..."
>
> Out of memory
>
> -- System halted
[...]
To me, this does indeed look like bad RAM. It might actually even b
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 08:32:39AM +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> Are you sure that the //'s break it?
[...]
Most likely they don't. To the best of my knowledge / = // on all Unix
systems (or at least all I've been working with so far).
HTH,
Thomas
--
"Look, Ma, no obsolete quotes
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 11:48:22AM +1100, Chuck Dale wrote:
> But have you noticed that it is not RPM which is doing any of the
> compiling of the source code? Ok so it runs configure and make for you
> but that is about it. It doesn't do any checking on your system to find
> dependies as the orig
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 03:31:42AM -0400, Agustin Navarro wrote:
[...]
> 3.start xconsole
> You start xconsole by entering in an xterm
>
> xconsole -daemon
[...]
For completeness' sake: Instead of xconsole, you can also use other
terminal windows, e.g.
rxvt -C or xterm -C
They (and probabl
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:24:47AM -0500, Ryan Marinoff wrote:
> Sorry for being a little off topic, but why am I seeing that a few people
> use the older version of Red Hat? Are the older versions more stable or is
> it a preference?
Many possible reasons - one of the most important ones is pro
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 10:33:18AM -0500, David Filion wrote:
[...]
> I'm trying to compile a C program that I wrote on a Sun system
> but it won't work. The code compiles and runs fine on the
> Sun server. However, when I copy the code to my linux box
> (RH 6.0) from the Sun system via ftp and
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 09:18:29PM -0500, fred smith wrote:
>
> For most of us English speakers "route" rhymes with "snout", though
^^ I'd say, make that US, not us... ;-)
Around IONA[0], "route" often rhymes with "root" in my experience.
As for the term "rooting": In my understan
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 05:11:03PM -0600, Bret Hughes wrote:
> I used wget the first time yesterday. Too cool. One mostly unrelated
> question though. The manual came as info files. I have never gotten
> the hang of info. Is there a tool to generate html with the links and
> such setup from a
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 11:56:50PM -0700, Philippe Moutarlier wrote:
> what do you look for as a web browser ???
Hm, something that's fast (which Netscape is not), as standard compliant
as can be (which Netscape is not), lean (which Netscape is not),
Java/JavaScript supporting (which Netscape is
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 01:25:18PM -0800, matt boex wrote:
> i am trying to alter my firewall to not allow ip
> spoofing. i have read the man pages on ipchains and
> there is a small script to run on boot before any
> network devices are initialized. which file would i
> insert into, i don't fig
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:35:15AM +0100, Gustav Schaffter wrote:
>
> Still, you're most likely violating the agreement with your local telco.
This is *very* likely true in Germany, as the Deutsche Telekom is rather
strict - in theory, all modems have to have a suitable certification.
Among othe
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:20:03AM -0600, Zaigui Wang wrote:
>
> I would like to use a tool that can go through an entire web site and
> figure out those broken links. Anybody has a recommendation?
wget is able to do this, using the "--spider" option:
`--spider'
When invoked with this opti
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 01:00:24PM -0500, jack wallen jr wrote:
> i don't believe that rxvt terms can do transparencies.
[...]
As of version 2.6.1 (or was it earlier?) they can: "rxvt -tr". There's a
RPM of the version in contrib.
HTH,
Thomas
--
"Look, Ma, no obsolete quotes and p
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 09:28:37PM -0600, Bret Hughes wrote:
[...]
> In short the 386 version wil run on a 686 but not at optimum speed.
> Not sure what "unexpected results" might occur if a 686 kernel was run
> on a 3-4-586. Probably anything from no worky at all (unlikely in my
> estimation) to
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:41:41AM -0500, David Yates wrote:
> I just added a 13.6 gig drive to my system. Due to dwindling space on my
> 10 gig hard drive, I am wanting to move my /tmp directory(on the /
> partition)
> to my new drive (/mnt/drive2). is it possible to move the /tmp to
> /mnt/dri
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:42:51PM +0100, Mohammed Ennasar wrote:
> My modem (type: winmodem) work only with windows, so can anyone tell me an
> modem who work perfecly with linux? (i'm in Belgium).
External modems should always be a safe bet - at least I've never heard
of an external Winmodem.
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:24:02PM -0800, Mark Ivey wrote:
[out of memory -> crash]
I might be completely off target, but I seem to remember that Linux
actually starts killing off random processes once it runs out of space,
which would explain the behaviour you described. I think it came up in a
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 05:52:02PM +0100, Jasper Jans wrote:
> Why dont you go for something in between.. solaris is out for Intel
> machines as well now.
> So you can stick with your current setup, and if you have your
> things working under Solaris for sparc - there is a big changes
> those prod
Hi folks,
ok, I need some backup here... Our group is looking into replacing the
machines which are running our measurement setups. Most of our network
is running on Sun Solaris, but well supported Data I/O cards for Suns
are few and far between (even if it's PCI, there's usually no driver...
:-(
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 10:09:42AM -0500, Christopher Molnar wrote:
> What would be on port 33172 and 33532?
Try "FAQ: Firewalls: What am I seeing?" at
http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html
Maybe you can find it there.
HTH,
Thomas
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"Look, Ma, no obsolete quotes
Hi folks,
might be slightly off-topic, but does anybody know where I can find
documentation on how to program (i.e. write to and read from) the
parallel port? Background: I have one machine where I'd like to use the
parallel port as 8bit I/O connection, which should technically be
possible with m
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 01:37:40PM -0500, Steve wrote:
> Portsentry flagged a scan on port 1080 today. I got the following:
>
> Active System Attack Alerts
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Jan 28 13:30:19 localhost portsentry[585]: attackalert: Connect from host:
>24.64.239.167.ab.wave.home.com/2
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 06:03:18AM +0100, Reiner Rusch wrote:
[...]
> I took a html-file which a converted to postscript via html2ps. Everything
> worked fine.
> I transfered this to a windows-machine and processed it via
> Acrobat-Destiller, which had several problems. I think the reasons are the
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:35:14AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Automated spreadsheet]
> What tools are available for doing something like this?
[...]
I'm not aware of any existing tools to do this, but I'd choose Perl for
the job. If you really don't want to go down the LaTeX road (which was
Hi Bill,
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 08:33:18AM -0800, Bill Ries-Knight wrote:
[...]
> Is there a good archive of info on the MANY
> scanners out there?
You might want to check out the "Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE)"
project: http://www.mostang.com/sane/
HTH,
Thomas
P.S.: It would be nice if y
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:32:34PM +0800, Kyle Hargraves wrote:
[...]
> Secondly, I've installed egcs and egcs-c++ in the hope of obtaining a cc
> or CC compiler. rpm -qlp does not identify a stdio.h file and hence
> the following simple program fails to comple :
[...]
If I'm not completely mi
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 09:15:43AM -0500, David Filion wrote:
>
> I pulled out the remaining old SIMMs before I started the testing andi
> noticed a
> change in system stability right away so it probably was a conflict between
> the
> old and the new. The documentation I have (motherboard etc)
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 03:34:09PM +, Frank Carreiro wrote:
[...]
> As for protocol I'd recommend I.P. While IPX is faster, you probably
> won't notice a difference and you'll be ready for the Internet when you
> connect (though your I.P. address will need to change when that happens)
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:13:36AM +0900, Steve Frampton wrote:
>
> I'm admin'ing a system which is the mail server for several hundred
> users. What I would like to do is have a copy of each incoming e-mail
> message be appended to a "logger" file (to be able to rescue the "I
> accidentally del
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:18:43PM +0900, Steve Frampton wrote:
>
> Yeah, this would have been a snap under 6.x. But the server is Red Hat
> 6.0 based, and procmail wasn't automatically executed by sendmail on the
> older versions -- you needed to call it using a .forward file. ;-(
Hm - is 6.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 11:32:17PM -0500, Larry Mintz wrote:
> Did Y2K effect anyone running RH Linux 5.0/5.2 on a 486 based system ?
Not a 486, but a 386, but that's an old machine, too... :-)
Yep, I had problems with a Dell 333P (386/33) running RHL 5.2. When I
switched on for the first time
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:35:49AM -0600, Steve Borho wrote:
>
> I would recommend a firewall building package called mason.
[...]
Thanks for the suggestion, Steve! I downloaded it yesterday and played
a bit - looks promising. The only drawback I can see so far: You sure
need a lot of patience t
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:34:05PM -0500, Kevin Diffily wrote:
> Does anyone know of the existence of a script that will 1) monitor a
> local folder(s) on a regular basis and 2) send an email notification?
I'm using this script for a this task, run daily by cron:
#!/bin/sh
tmpfile=${HOME}/.owc
Hi folks,
(Warning: Lengthy!)
ok, I tried to solve this withthe IP Masquerading HOWTO and the Firewall
HOWTO but I suspect I'm missing something fundamental here. The whole
firewall thing is new to me so be gentle... :-}
The situation: I'm trying to setup a dedicated
dial-up/masquerading/firewa
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 08:32:25AM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote:
[...]
> problem is, even when you install the card in Winblows 9x, it actually loads
> a DOS program first that goes through and depending on what you told it when
> you installed, throws the card into either Windows Sound System OR
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