On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 05:22:21PM +1100, Bill Taylor wrote:
RH 7.1 uses ext2; 7.2 offers ext3 as default. Does anyone have opinions
or preferences?
also, what does debian use?
I use ReiserFS with Debian (woody). It rocks!
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quote who=Bill Taylor
RH 7.1 uses ext2; 7.2 offers ext3 as default. Does anyone have opinions
or preferences?
ext3 by a long shot; by default, it uses ordered writes (a kind of
journalling), so your data is safer, and you don't have to wait through
laborious fscks when you start up. You can
ext3 by a long shot; by default, it uses ordered writes (a kind of
journalling), so your data is safer, and you don't have to wait through
laborious fscks when you start up. You can also turn on full data
journalling, which, whilst slower, is safer again (it's also oddly faster
for some
I'm after some clues on testing a USB scanner under Linux, i.e
a)modules to load
b) should xsane then see it, or other tests I can run.
It is a HP something or other and the system is RH7.1 if this
matters.
I'm glad I stick to almost classic scsi gear (this is a clients that is
suspected
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:07, Terry Collins wrote:
It is a HP something or other and the system is RH7.1 if this
matters.
Are you sure it'll work in Linux? Some HP models work, some don't.
Check the working devices list at http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/
USB scanner clue can be found in
Try
http://www.motherboards.org/index.html
BUT that bd is old/old, so dont be hopeful.
Doug
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My preference is rieser, but ext3 is a very good fs to used. from what I
have been told
if your system crashes you won't go through the tedious fs checking like
what you would
go through with ext2.
Bill Taylor wrote:
RH 7.1 uses ext2; 7.2 offers ext3 as default. Does anyone have
opinions
Don,
Best suggestion I can give and I don't want to be rude is RTFM.
Honestly learning samba for a windows environment will become
your greatest asset.
Does RedHat still provide HOWTOs in their documentations?
Kevin
D. Babbage wrote:
Is there anyone who can guide me through how to set up
quote who=Antony Stace
How do I set the journalling level?
Add 'data=journal' to its fsck options. If you want to use full data
journalling for your root parition, add 'rootflags=data=journal' to your
kernel parameters (usually with append= in lilo.conf). By default, an ext3
kernel will mount
quote who=David Fitch
I have a directory shared/exported by samba and mounted on another (linux)
machine. The problem is when mounted on the second machine all the files
and dirs in there are owned by root:root and rwxr-xr-x. This is despite
me mounting it by specifying a username and
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 11:10, Adam Hewitt wrote:
Maybe someone should write a distro that combines Mandrakes installation
with debians package management system (pms??)
have you ever tried user rpm (urpmi) - mandrake's equivelant of apt??
package management seems to be everyone's beef with
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=David Fitch
I have a directory shared/exported by samba and mounted on another (linux)
machine. The problem is when mounted on the second machine all the files
and dirs in there are owned by root:root and rwxr-xr-x. This is despite
me
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Jessica Mayo
I recall trying this with smbmount recently and it appearing to have no
effect... filesystem still mounted root:root... I can't guarantee what
samba/kernel version it was on though.
So: If anyone does get this to work,
On 11 Mar, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
The only reference I ever used was the original ATT Unix manuals. If
you're nice to someone working at Aurema, they might let you make a
photocopy of the relevant bits.
There's a lot to be said for those (especially some of the Tbl
manuals), but I've
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 22:27, Terry Collins wrote:
Um, no. That is what I thought until I had an old compag P75 boxen. I
needed to feed it a MAC address for some reason. Since then realised you
can fiddle them all. It is only for the life of the boot or until
changed.
It was my understanding
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:15, Christopher Booth wrote:
Almost got a working system between us :)
I have a working processor, you have a working motherboard.
:D
I have parts of a Compaq Proliant (P75 I think) that are up for
grabs...:-)
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Hello All,
It's been a while since i've posted here.
I have just set up a RH Linux 7.2 machine, and
I have been having various probems. The first
problem was that it wouldn't install and i got the message:
Install exited abnormally
before the installation had copied any files. I
installed it on
David Kempe wrote:
The only practical reason I can think of is another security factor -
you limit network connects to only certain MAC addresses.
How is it you do this on linux? is there a MAC addresses filtering package
or some kernel patch?
I only know how to change it - use arp .
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:08:51PM +1100, David Kempe wrote:
The only practical reason I can think of is another security factor -
you limit network connects to only certain MAC addresses.
How is it you do this on linux? is there a MAC addresses filtering package
or some kernel patch?
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 23:08, David Kempe wrote:
The only practical reason I can think of is another security factor -
you limit network connects to only certain MAC addresses.
How is it you do this on linux? is there a MAC addresses filtering package
or some kernel patch?
I know
I know netfilter in 2.4.x can match MAC addresses.
Yeah that was what I was after.
after some diggin on google it seems to be fairly extensive. - you can
intergrate MAC addresses filtering into the firewall rules.
Noice.
dave
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quote who=David Kempe
How is it you do this on linux? is there a MAC addresses filtering package
or some kernel patch?
Standard netfilter feature - I think my comments on the bridging firewall
patch the other day might have confused the issue a bit. ;-)
- Jeff
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hi all
A little off topic but.. I am looking for some old non intel computer, possibly around
sydney. I have no clues on where to start except ebay. I already saw some people on
the
list which seems to be addicted to that kind of hardware so any tips 'd be great. I am
particulary looking for:
On Mon 11 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] bloviated thus:
Eh? I use it all the time. Unless you mean, use groff instead? I
have to agree, that I think nowadays the groff version of troff is
better than the original, as of about last year.
No, don't use troff or groff. There are _FAR_ better ways
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
My point precisely. Use something that _IS_ interactive, or at least
something that is a bit easier to learn.
err - suggestions please Simon. I was planning to invest time in learning
groff but if there are better typesetting programs I want to
We're trying to set up an Internet gateway (ADSL) for an establishment that needs to
be able to track who is generating the
traffic.
The Network runs on DHCP, so users will not a fixed IP address that can be associated
with a location. So we have to do it
either through :
* a solution
I also use reiserfs for my /home file system. Is anyone able to download or
has reiserfsprogs-3.x.1a.tar.gz. I get (or dont get):
ftp get reiserfsprogs-3.x.1a.tar.gz
502 Command not implemented
If anyone has a reiserfsprogs-3.x.1* can you please send
TIA
BB
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henry was once rumoured to have said:
[Mess cleaned up with M-q - yay for emacs - C.]
I need to add blank to each string from a file so that they are of
the same length.
read: perldoc -tf sprintf
Simliarly: perldoc -tf chomp
is also significant to your query.
then locate them on screen as I
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:40:36PM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
No, don't use troff or groff. There are _FAR_ better ways to lay out
a document that don't have you learning incredibly obscure commands
and syntax. Troff has had its day.
Could you please point to a more enlightened way of
David Fitch was once rumoured to have said:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:32:51PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=David Fitch
I have a directory shared/exported by samba and mounted on another (linux)
machine. The problem is when mounted on the second machine all the files
and dirs
Crossfire wrote:
...snip
No, you need to use a protocol that can deal with the concept of unix
(numerical) user IDs. NFS is still generally the only thing that
actually works in this category. I've heard allegations that SFS
(Secure Filesystem?) also works. We use a mix of AFS
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:32:51PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=David Fitch
I have a directory shared/exported by samba and mounted on another (linux)
machine. The problem is when mounted on the second machine all the files
and dirs in there are owned by root:root and rwxr-xr-x.
Terry Collins was once rumoured to have said:
Crossfire wrote:
Of course, you do need to have your UID/GID space unified for NFS or
other systems to work, or you need to build mapping tables and use the
UID/GID remapping tools. *ugh*.
The easiest protocol for small situations is called
I am doing a tech course final semester and i require NT for the
database component (Microsoft Transaction Server that comes with NT
server) (would prefer a linux solution but what the heck this is South
Sydney TAFE after all can't have open systems there !!!???? GR
anyway and I
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 08:11:32PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Bill Taylor
RH 7.1 uses ext2; 7.2 offers ext3 as default. Does anyone have opinions
or preferences?
ext3 by a long shot; by default, it uses ordered writes (a kind of
journalling), so your data is safer, and you
Quoting Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:04:56AM +1100, stephen wrote:
I am doing a tech course final semester and i require NT for the
database component (Microsoft Transaction Server that comes with NT
server) (would prefer a linux solution but what the heck
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:40:36PM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
My point precisely. Use something that _IS_ interactive, or at least
something that is a bit easier to learn.
nothing produces plain text documents as well as troff (see manpages for
example). and wysiwyg is a flawed concept
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:44:36PM +1100, Andy Eager wrote:
Just so happens I am working on a script to do a similar thing for the
LPIC course currently being undertaken at Granville TAFE.
rpm -qai | egrep ^Name|^Size | sed s/ */ /g | awk 'BEGIN {FS= } \
$1 == Name $2 == : { printf
# The following directives define some format nicknames for use with
Hi slugs,
I'm wanting to implement e-smith SME V5 server.
I'd like to use webalizer with the virtual domains.
I'm used to having the access_log in each V.domains area however SME
currently has all http hits log into one file.
Terry Collins wrote:
The easiest protocol for small situations is called head space and
chart on wall.
I currently have five users that are entered onto all machines in the
same order so they all have the same uid/gid.
I have a similar setup, but running with NIS (ok, the win2k and iMac
Hi all,
So Debian is snack eh ? :-)
I am trying to do a dist-upgrade from potato to woody but dont have enough
space in /var for the deb archives (have 70Meg need 120 Meg). As gnome is
big and I dont actually use it I though I would remove that which would free
up lots of space and those
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:34:53PM +1100, Mike Lake wrote:
So Debian is snack eh ? :-)
Yup.
I am trying to do a dist-upgrade from potato to woody but dont have enough
space in /var for the deb archives (have 70Meg need 120 Meg). As gnome is
big and I dont actually use it I though I would
I bought a 2nd hand P200 with ATX motherboard on the weekend, I don't need the
processor, and unfortunately the motherboard bios won't pick up my 6GB hard disk in
any configuration.
Philippus, the processor is spare, let me know if you want to buy it.
Chris
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:33:00 +1100
Dear list,
I decided to 'play' with a perfectly good production machine and stuffed
it.
I finally fixed it after a many hours, but one this I do not understand.
The system has two harddisks hdb and hdc.
All the Linux systems on hdb and all the home directories on hdc.
The system is a RH
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:35:12AM +1100, Mike Lake wrote:
Need to get 13.9MB/24.0MB of archives. After unpacking 3003kB will be used.
I have just seen the no-download in 'man apt-get' and thats great as my system has
already
downloaded the needed debs
Apparently not all of them, it wants
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:48:37AM +1100, Mike Lake wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:41:31AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:34:53PM +1100, Mike Lake wrote:
I am trying to do a dist-upgrade from potato to woody but dont have enough
space in /var for the deb
David,
Under Redhat 7.1 in /etc/samba/smb.conf there are some examples
one is with mary and fred file share. The command that you need
to add to the share is create mask = 0765. You should be able to
change the mask to what ever you like so that anyone could modify
the file.
Kevin
Hi all,
Can someone please enlighten me on how to yank from mark a to mark b and place it
in
1. the default no name buffer
2. a named buffer
Cheers
Tony
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Jim Clark (Logique) wrote:
Q: Can anyone recommend a KVM (2 or 4 way) that
will support 1600x1200?
search the archives.
I was also considering getting something like the
Logitech cordless freedom optical kbd + mouse (I
assume these will just be seen to the machine as
a standard usb
on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:14:04PM +0900, Antony Stace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone please enlighten me on how to yank from mark a to mark b and place
it in
1. the default no name buffer
:'a,'by
I didnt know it myself, :h y and :h range in vim gets the answer.
2. a named
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:14:19PM +1000, Jim Clark (Logique) wrote:
I've finally got around to finishing the (home) office.
But for what I have in mind, I would like to run the
CPU boxen away in a cabinet (so I can pretent all the
machines are as quiet as the iMac :)
Q: Has anyone
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:52:38PM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote:
Under Redhat 7.1 in /etc/samba/smb.conf there are some examples
one is with mary and fred file share. The command that you need
to add to the share is create mask = 0765. You should be able to
change the mask to what ever you like
1) he automatically puts his cup of coffee in the empty space between
mouse and receiver {:-).
But they're wireless, as in RF wireless. Glass and liquid dont do [shouldn't
do] nothing. Comments?? I do not use one everyday.
Point 3 - They're heavier, I personally prefer a standard optical
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Terry Collins wrote:
Peter Hardy wrote:
Out of interest - why would you want to change the MAC anyway?
The only practical reason I can think of is another security factor -
you limit network connects to only certain MAC addresses.
You also need to be able to change
I've just bought a Belkin F1DS102T .. .this is 4 way with USB/PS2 input
but only PS2 out. It's very cute and makes a nice bleep when you
switch boxes.
Works well for me, except that you have to re-boot the boxes to get them
to recognise it. My old one was crappy but it would hot plug. I got it
On Sun, 03 Mar 2002, Mick Howe wrote:
What tools do I need for this?
Postfix, fetchmail, and some IMAP server like Courier-imap or Cyrus.
Avoid imapd from the University of Washington like you would unsanitory
crack addicts.
Are there any configuration gotchas or other conciderations?
Yep,
At Tuesday, 12 March 2002, Alan Vink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) he automatically puts his cup of coffee in the empty space between
mouse and receiver {:-).
But they're wireless, as in RF wireless. Glass and liquid dont do
[shouldn't
do] nothing. Comments?? I do not use one everyday.
I Can
I was getting used to my Ximian-Gnome Potato system when I thought I'd
check my mail last Wednesday. I had three workspaces open under Sawfish
- one running bash, one Mozilla-Mail, the last Evolution. I hit
send/receive in Evolution and - after downloading 4-5 messages - it
crashed. I tried with
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:24:00AM +1030, David Fitch wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:41:31AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
Generally if you want to remove a big sub-system, picking on of the
dependant libraries is a better choice. I'd suggest trying libgnome (or
libgnome32).
(I
Hello,
Im having a problem with my Red Hat 7.0 Distribution concerning the
switching and cofiguration of screen resolutions. I am using a Cyrix MII 233
mhz with a SiS6326 4mb Video Card and a LG monitor with the heighest
resolution of 1240*1080. I try the [ctrl] + [alt] + [-] short-cuts
I would expect it not to get affected by mobile phone emission since the
receiver is an infrared receiver and not an RF receiver...unless its
components are super sensitive to rf emissions.
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From: Steve Downing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 12 March
Hi All,
I have just installed gnome with enlightenment and I want to run
Sawmill/Sawfish as the windows manager, however under the Gnome Control
Center Sawmill isn't listed in the Window Managers section, although I have
installed it. I am running Debian.
Does anyone know how I can get
quote who=David Fitch
My 2c to chuck in is to mention you can also do 'dpkg --purge pkgnames'
to completely wipe all traces of said package(s) from your system.
'apt-get remove' leaves behind config files and other bits.
You can also use apt-get remove --purge, which does the same thing, but
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 16:56, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Although Klez.e is aimed at Windows addresses and ICQ files, it is also
programmed to delete files with varied suffixes which may have affected
the Linux kernel. I could be wrong on this - but it all started with a
routine send/receive
quote who=Mike Lake
Still cant get rid of gnome.
Perish the thought I'd actually answer a question about removing GNOME! ;)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libbz2-1.0 libcapplet1 libdb3 libdps1 libfreetype6 libgdk-pixbuf2
libglade0 libgtk1.2-common libscrollkeeper0
quote who=Adam Hewitt
Does anyone know how I can get Sawfish into the list?? Or a reason why it
is doing this??
Install the sawfish-gnome package.
- Jeff
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plate gold.
quote who=Ben Donohue
I'm wanting to implement e-smith SME V5 server.
I'd like to use webalizer with the virtual domains.
I'm used to having the access_log in each V.domains area however SME
currently has all http hits log into one file.
There are lots of combined log file splitters
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 18:12, Adam Hewitt wrote:
Hi All,
I have just installed gnome with enlightenment and I want to run
Sawmill/Sawfish as the windows manager, however under the Gnome Control
Center Sawmill isn't listed in the Window Managers section, although I have
installed it. I am
quote who=Jamie Honan
Databases are like the proverbial hammer. Everyone uses them because they
know them. But they may not be completely appropriate, sort of like every
problem becoming how to drive a nail.
So, on that point, what Free Software non-overkill-database systems are
recommended
Clear DayHi,
I need to automatically (via cron) transfer some files to an ftp server.
I have tried WEEX, but it give me trouble with creation of new directories
on the target server (pure-ftpd)
I have also tried to manually transfer with midnight commander (mc), but the
same problem with
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:22:41PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Ben Donohue
I'm wanting to implement e-smith SME V5 server.
I'd like to use webalizer with the virtual domains.
I'm used to having the access_log in each V.domains area however SME
currently has all http hits log
Gidday.
I just ran chmod -R o-rwx on /home/users as root. (don't ask about why I
didn't check it out or even think about it first!)
Got a good command to reset only the dir's?
There are no (human) unix users on this machine.
Martin
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quote who=John Clarke
That shouldn't be necessary; apache can generate separate log files for
each virtual host. Just put CustomLog and ErrorLog directives inside each
virtual host block, e.g.:
Within the context of e-smith, splitting will be easier to manage.
- Jeff
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