Re: Messaging server software for Linux

2003-10-01 Thread pottee
There's always good ol' IRC. -Earl Question: Is there any freeware/shareware/open-source messaging server software available. In our office I need to make shared info. available for 4 to a maximum of 5 people and I would like to host the server on RH 8. Thanks, Bob --

Re: up2date or apt?

2003-10-01 Thread pottee
I use to use Debian for a gw that I had at my house and one in the office. Apt is the package manager of choice for that OS and they have a curses frontend called dselect. And I loved it! Considerably easier than rpm's. You selected a package to install, it took care of all the dependency's

Dynamic DNS.

2003-09-30 Thread pottee
Hey all. I have a RH 9.0 box being used as a router for my house and my cable ISP uses DHCP to assign my front end address. Over the last few days, I've been building/digging and piecing bits of info together (NAT, ip_forward, ipchains, etc.) and have the thing working pretty well. I have 2

Re: cd burning software

2003-09-30 Thread pottee
Have you tried /usr/bin/cdrecord? [home]$ sudo /usr/bin/cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'SONY' 'CD-RW CRX1611 ' 'TYS7' Removable CD-ROM

Re: Dynamic DNS.

2003-09-30 Thread pottee
Speaking of far from the correct way to do things, right now I'm using Cron! Ugh! That's interesting to here about the pinging from comcast. I'm still vunerable in the case of an unforseen outage timed just so. I appreciate your feedback. I'm still hoping that someone here has something.