Re: restricting Samba user accounts

2002-12-20 Thread blkline
"James D. Parra" wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to restrict Samba user accounts to only browse Samba shares and > not have logon access to the RH 7.3 server. Is this possible? > Simply set their logon shell to be /bin/false usermod -s /bin/false username Barry -- Please avoid sending

Re: Moving Linux to Larger Drive

2002-12-03 Thread blkline
Fred Paredes wrote: > > Hello All, > > I had a problem boot disk with my mail server so I took it down and moved all data >to the new drive. > > I use lilo as the boot manager and moved the boot drive from /dev/hda to /dev/hdc. I >also made sure that the swap was also changed to point to the n

Re: Linux seems pokey with 684MB RAM

2002-12-02 Thread blkline
Daevid Vincent wrote: > > I use GRUB. Is there an equivillent command for that? > Don't bother adding the mem= parameter. The output from free that you gave: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:643140 632108 11032 0 3924 i

Re: Setting Up StarOffice 6 with RH8?

2002-11-25 Thread blkline
mike wrote: > [snip] > I assume you ran setup without any options? > > To get it working for all users you need to to install as ./setup -net > > then rerun setup as each user that will be using it > When you run the user setup, don't run the one from the CD. Instead: /opt/startoffice6.0/se

Re: I HATE my computer!!!

2002-11-25 Thread blkline
Kent Perrier wrote: > > > Gee, I have a 190 node dual Althon Linux cluster here at work at it runs > like a champ. I guess it's really true, garbage in, garbage out. > > Kent Kent... did you make this comment to provide empirical evidence that Athlons run well, or to make me jealous? If the

Re: I HATE my computer!!!

2002-11-22 Thread blkline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:20:54AM -0600, Christopher Henderson wrote: > > Arg! I'm never going to buy AMD again > > SNIP ( it was long ) > > Synopsis: > Chris has a Dual SMP AMD system on a Tyan MB that is unstable and crashes > periodically. > > Chris -

Re: I HATE my computer!!!

2002-11-22 Thread blkline
Christopher Henderson wrote: > If you have a dual motherboard, try setting the SMP Protocol to 1.1 in the BIOS and see if that helps. My Tyan Thunderbirds are unstable with the default setting of 1.4 in their Phoenix BIOS. Barry -- Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments

Re: How to setup a name server?

2002-11-06 Thread blkline
> The Redhat Warrior wrote: > > Hi, I was wondering if someone could tell me how to setup a name > server and have multiple domain names under my web server? Thanks > for any info. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html -- Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://

Re: Getting data off an old hard drive

2002-10-30 Thread blkline
"J.R Ong" wrote: > Any suggestions and opinions welcome, as I am at a dead end! I munged my reply and hit "Send" before I was done... So... start linux in single user mode Use: tune2fs -l [old drive partition] on each partition of your old drive to find out which is which. Us

Re: Getting data off an old hard drive

2002-10-30 Thread blkline
You've run into the Filesystem Volumne problem. If you used: tune2fs -l /dev/hda1 (or whichever is a Linux partition) you'll see at the top of the listing: Filesystem volume name: /boot (this is off my system) If you look in /etc/fstab you'll note that this label is used for mounting the p

Re: Sound card

2002-10-29 Thread blkline
> RHA wrote: > > Hello All > > How it is possible to change the irq settings manually in RH 7.1 ? > Particularly I want to change the Sound card's irq. > > Thanks in advance > They are in /etc/modules.conf -- Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.fsf.o

Re: Update

2002-10-29 Thread blkline
Greg Klofa wrote: > > Just recently installed Red-Hat Linux, and know nothing about linux in > general. When I go to the up2date service, there was a number of > patches and updates. All installed o.k., except the kernel files. They > just freeze, and do nothing. Are these not updateable throu

Re: How to send a pop up message to windows?

2002-10-27 Thread blkline
Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Hi all, > > I know its dead easy to send a message from one linux workstation on a LAN > to another linux workstation, but suppose I want to send a message from a > linux workstation to a windows 98 workstation. What should I use on the > linux worksation and what should

Re: Tar Gunzip Question

2002-10-26 Thread blkline
MET wrote: > > I have a folder called 'webroot'. Inside of webroot I have 2 dozen > folders and some more files. Simple layout, nothing fancy. I'd like to > archive and compress them all using a shell script which of course would > be run through the cron daemon. I compress as so: > >