I'd just remove the file
/etc/sysconfig/clock-- or something like that then do
rdate -s time.nist.gov
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
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Doug Stalker wrote:
Tom Massey wrote:
2. Compile the ppp module from 2.2.14,
What version should I look for?
I'm talking about the kernel module, not ppp daemon. In the kernel
source tree it's under linux/drivers/net. You need to download the
2.2.14 kernel, compile it, edit the ppp.o
Is this machine dual booting, cos if not then it is better that the BIOS
time is set to UTC.
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Peter McCarthy wrote:
Howdy
I'm having a rather strange
No it is not a dual boot only Linux, but how is UTC better ?
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Is this machine dual booting, cos if not
yeh I thought of that didn't work, nor did a full reboot either..
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Hi ,
I had the same thing happen
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Graeme Merrall generated:
Additioanlly, are there any gotchas with sound? I'm not sure if I need to
load a module for sound since it said it found no fader chip.
My card has a line out and a short cable that plugs in to the line in on
the back of the soundcard.
oh yeah, if
I have been looking at alot of email clients that support Mutiple email
accounts
retrieving and sending , And i used to use TradeClient but its stability
was poor so i huntered around tryed balsa, gtkmail etc etc and i ented up
with spruce
but as far as i can tell spruce has support for multiple
That is the message I always used to get when I was doing an X connection
over an unauthorised ssh connection.
Have they tried the Xauth file to see if it exists and is correct. Is the
X-Server a local or remote one? Can root get X? (Has Xconfigurator been run
at any point?)
Cheers
Stephen
James Wilkinson wrote:
Excuse me if i'm missing something, but why not use fetchmail and mutt?
If they sound too hard, remember that there's lots of people out there who
battled with them at first (and most who'd never go back) who have written
HOWTO-like documents, plus you've always got
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:48:20PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been looking at alot of email clients that support Mutiple email
accounts
retrieving and sending
You're going about it the wrong way. Well, an argument could be
made that there's a reason to want to do things the way
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Matt Hyne wrote:
We probably do, but why should I buy something when I have a Linux box I can do it
on already !!!
Staff prices ???.:-)
Note-^^^
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Ian Ward wrote:
What works for me to debug a dialin script is to connect to the modem using
cu
Sometimes you need to set the permissions, so try something like this.
#chmod 777 /dev/ttyS0
# cu -l ttyS0
at
OK
atdt22
blah
blha
~.
#
Just write down the steps or questions you
Rick Welykochy wrote:
Steven Kerr wrote:
Thanks for those who responded.
The fix was a bit of patience and Reading TFM
e2fsck -b 16385 -c /dev/hdd1
The -c did a bad block check, in frustration I left the system
overnight as it appeared just to hang... no disk activity for about
I'd just remove the file
/etc/sysconfig/clock-- or something like that then do
why are you removing that file first ??
later
marty
"I can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what they want
because I'm me." - Corduroy, Pearl Jam
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James Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HOURS=`expr $CONNECT_TIME \/ 3600`
CONNECT_TIME=`expr $CONNECT_TIME - \( $HOURS \* 3600 \)`
MINUTES=`expr $CONNECT_TIME \/ 60`
CONNECT_TIME=`expr $CONNECT_TIME = \( $MINUTES \* 60 \)`
SECONDS=$CONNECT_TIME
Erk, ugly.
You could use the POSIX
I don't know why this topic has to be connected to Cisco. Basically I am trying to do
something with Linux - why, because I want to and I can - end of story. It doesn't
matter that I can buy something from Cisco - internally or not.
M
At Wednesday, 6/09/2000 08:47 PM (+1100), Jon Biddell
Tom Massey wrote:
b) if so, how do you get into BIOS setup on the things?
Try all your function keys (plus modifiers - shift, ctrl, alt) and most of
your 'grey keys' (at which point I realise my keyboard doesn't have grey
keys at all).
- Jeff
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Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
Just to update folks, I got Multilink PPP running. Contrary to what
Jeff said, it was damn easy and works boodifully.
:P Me, say what? mock horror ;)
I was dissing the non-2.4 solutions - all the very un-Linuxy ways of doing
it in = 2.2. One piece of software I
If I remember correctly, the old 286's had alt-esc as the entry to the
bios, and some of the early 386 bios' carried this over as well.
Cheers
Erich
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Jeff Waugh wrote:
Tom Massey wrote:
b) if so, how do you get into BIOS setup on the things?
Try all your function keys (plus modifiers - shift, ctrl, alt) and most of
your 'grey keys' (at which point I realise my keyboard doesn't have grey
keys at all).
So you'd be saying 'Hit every
Erich Schulz wrote:
If I remember correctly, the old 286's had alt-esc as the entry to the
bios, and some of the early 386 bios' carried this over as well.
Nope, doesn't work, Alt-Esc gives me 'keyboard error'. Why didn't
somebody think 'Hey it'd be a nice idea if we displayed the key
Call me weird but at the slightest sign of trouble I'd be ditching the
386 and moving onto another one. Not like there's any shortage of 386s
around...
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Hello Sluggers,
Just trying to install SuSe 6.4 on a Bondi Blue iMac. All goes well
right up to the login when the keyboard keys get re-maped to something
weird i.e. the Enter key is 'J', letter R is the 'TAB' key etc.
How do I fix this if I can't use the keyboard???
Any help would be
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
Tom Massey wrote:
b) if so, how do you get into BIOS setup on the things?
Try all your function keys (plus modifiers - shift, ctrl, alt) and most of
your 'grey keys' (at which point I realise my keyboard doesn't have grey
keys at all).
Search
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Scott Branden generated:
How do I fix this if I can't use the keyboard???
Your console keyboard is set to another language keyboard, but if you can
telnet into it you won't be using the console. I don't know how you'd do
it though, but on Debian it's /usr/sbin/kbdconfig
Anyone else going?
Perhaps the SLUG Choir should start rehearsing the Free Software Song.
Penguinillas, it's DEFCON 3, upgrades to 5 imminent.
- Jeff
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Dear Mr. Jeff Waugh,
We would like to kindly remind
Hey all,
I have a laptop running Redhat 6.2 that is going for a little trip with
me. I have setup kppp with my ISP's details and it dials and
everything... When it gets time to run pppd, ppp tries to use the IP
number of the main server at the ISP, and then refuses to change. It
hangs up almost
Suse 6.4 kernel 2.2.16 backport patch
usb-2.4.0-test2-pre2-for-2.2.16-v3.diff DualCeleron Gibabyte
GA-6BXD MBoard.
The Netcomm Roadster 11 AM5050 R3 usb modem is now working ok. Patience
and Research seems to be the way. The modules that came with the patch
and are used with the modem are
I have several printers on smb shares on an internal
network and all work well, but how do I print to them
from netscape. I can print locally but i wish to print
to other printers. the default in Netscape is to
print to lpr. My printcap is below, and I am trying to
print to the laser.
Kind
Hi all,
I have had home users public_html directories working before but this time
it's been giving me hell.
I am running virtual hosts and enabled the users "UserDir public_html"
directive but for some reason I'm getting "You are not authorized to view
this page" in IE. I have tried looking at
I think you just have to alter the command that Netscape uses.
Instead of lp you would alter it to specify the printer, eg lp -d myprinter
I think if you alter the settings during print... it saves them between
sessions.
That's for Linux users.
For Windows users on the other side of the SMB link,
Jill Rowling wrote:
I think you just have to alter the command that Netscape uses.
Instead of lp you would alter it to specify the printer, eg lp -d myprinter
I think if you alter the settings during print... it saves them between
sessions.
Solution was to change the default lpr to
lpr
Sluggers,
I just tried to upgrade from deadrat 6.1 to 6.9. Seemed to go ago but
crashed with a few rpms still not installed. Re-ran the install and it
crashed again in the same place. I managed to get the system back on
it's feet and it has been running for about a week now. All is fine
except
Hi Sluggers,
I just got this in the linuxworld news email:
In the last 10 days of August, the Motion Picture Association of America Inc.
(MPAA) began sending cease-and-desist orders to people who post or link to
the De-Content Scrambling System (DeCSS) program from their Web sites.
Read more
OK well I've got a little further along with this. The blisteringly
insightful 'read the man poge' was like an epiphany to me, but enough on
that.
My problem is not configuring xawtv but ensuring my bttv etc modules are all
OK. I'll sketch some details here but if someone has one of these beasts
What happens when you try to mount the full command eg.
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
I have problems sometimes where it doesn't know where to place it.. weird.
Also, is the CDROM on the primary master IDE slot as it looks like it's
pointing to it via /dev/hda..???
thanks,
George Vieira
Network
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, George Vieira wrote:
I have had home users public_html directories working before but this time
it's been giving me hell.
I am running virtual hosts and enabled the users "UserDir public_html"
directive but for some reason I'm getting "You are not authorized to view
I was wondering what the MPAA could do to someone outside the USA who posted
DeCSS on a webserver, again outside the USA, using a content provider outside
the USA. Do they really have any juristiction to "cease and desist" these sites?
They are the MPA-America, and I certainly do not live in
David Kempe wrote:
Dougie,
tail /var/log/messages
it may not be pppd that is dieing, but chap. or chat.
I've listed what I get in /var/log/message below (I removed some lines to reduce
the size) . The crash is immediatly after "Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/modem" so I
think Tom Massey is right
Hi,
I have set up a linux powered (RedHat, PII 400)
gateway for a few home computers to utilise the @home
service. While I can get 200-400 Kb/sec from say
mirror.aarnet.edu.au with most of these machines, I
find net usage with the gateway itself is almost
impossible. The speeds are appalling,
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:15:39AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Anyone else going?
Perhaps the SLUG Choir should start rehearsing the Free Software Song.
Penguinillas, it's DEFCON 3, upgrades to 5 imminent.
As a WarGames movie fanatic I can tell you it goes the opposite way.
DEFCON 5 is
Folks {Rachel, are you listening? :-)}
I've got really, really vague memories of a discussion somewhere in the
past which may or mayt not have been on SLUG about running SOlaris
binaries under Linux.
My question is simple - is it possible without recompilation? Is there
some form of
I believe you can, but only the same hardware architecture (eg Linux x86 can
run Solaris X86 version, but not the SPARC version).
I came across it one day buried deep on http://www.sun.com - sorry I can't
be more specific.
Either that or I'm totally confused and they were running Linux binaries
This is the email your talking about BUT it was for SCO..
snip
iBCS is usually a standard module
Just do a insmod iBCS. Most SCO binaries will run (WordPerfect 6.0 for
X-windows did)
Most applications written in older 3rd Generation languages will. (Dataflex,
COBOL Stuff)
/snip
thanks,
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Jill Rowling wrote:
I believe you can, but only the same hardware architecture (eg Linux x86 can
run Solaris X86 version, but not the SPARC version).
I came across it one day buried deep on http://www.sun.com - sorry I can't
be more specific.
Bugger. :-( I guess I'll
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:58:04AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:15:39AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Anyone else going?
Perhaps the SLUG Choir should start rehearsing the Free Software Song.
Penguinillas, it's DEFCON 3, upgrades to 5 imminent.
As a WarGames
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:34:05PM +1000, George Vieira wrote:
This is the email your talking about BUT it was for SCO..
snip
iBCS is usually a standard module
Just do a insmod iBCS. Most SCO binaries will run (WordPerfect 6.0 for
X-windows did)
Most applications written in older 3rd
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The MAA has ZERO authority outside the USA iin this
matter - in fact, by sending a "cease and desist" order
to an Australian site, for example, they are breaking
the law themselves (from our legal department !!).
Thanks guys,
Its stuff like this that I was hoping to hear :)
Cheers,
Aaron
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