Every now and then my FC3 server gets bogged down with heavy disk usage, to
the point where the system is unusable and I have to reboot. I've tried
# tail -f /var/log/messages
but nothing comes up when this happens. Also, nothing unusual crops up when I
examine dmesg; the system just bogs
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 11:16:07 Alex Mandel wrote:
Richard Crawford wrote:
Every now and then my FC3 server gets bogged down with heavy disk usage,
to the point where the system is unusable and I have to reboot. I've
tried
# tail -f /var/log/messages
but nothing comes up when
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 12:29:57 Gandalf Parker wrote:
Do you have a web server like Apache running? Do the apache logs show alot
of bot hits? I recently had to do some major robots.txt work for no other
reason than the google image bot falling in love with my system.
I hadn't thought about
I'm finding that quite a lot of email I send from my server at home is being
bounced by various services because my server does not have a Fully
Qualified Domain Name. I'm not certain, however, how to go ahead and set
this up. I have a static IP address, and an account at dyndns.org that
On Monday 29 January 2007 12:19:48 Rick Moen wrote:
In fact, his headers say his MTA is announcing itself to SBC/Yahoo as
sneezycat, in the HELO.
sneezycat is the name of my laptop; I have KMail set up on this computer to
use SBC/Yahoo as my SMTP server. My main server, though, uses Sendmail,
We're having a strange domain resolution issue, and it's stumped me. Here's
the setup.
Domain http://unexdlc.ucdavis.edu should be resolving to IP address
152.79.198.9. However, it is instead resolving to http://extensiondlc.net,
which is an entirely different IP address. Similarly, typing
Thanks, all. We tracked it down to a router issue.
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AIM: Buffalo2K / GTalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skype: underpope
You can't trust your judgement if your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain
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I have two laptops, both running Kubuntu Dapper, both updated. Both have the
same brand and model wireless card, which is enabled in both with
ndiswrapper. However, for some reason, I can get to computers in my local
network with one, but not with the other. The other laptop -- an old IBM
On Sunday 11 June 2006 14:23, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Well, with all WAPs I have had experience with, they are
configured as routers with a NAT firewall on the upstream
side, and you have omitted the upstream network configuration of your
WAP. However, in that case you need DIFFERENT network
On Sunday 11 June 2006 16:07, Richard Harke wrote:
My laptop is configged to use a wired connection also. I have a jack in the
dining area in case I work on the dining room table. But I found I had to
do a ifdown eth0 (the wired connection) before eth1 would work. eth0 is
auto but eth1 is not.
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 15:27, Ryan wrote:
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 10:32 am, Richard Crawford
rscrawford-at-mossroot.com
|lugod| wrote:
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I've taken that bad HD out of my computer and I'm messing around with it
now. There's nothing critical on the disk, so I'm attempting to run some
Running Kubuntu Dapper flight 6 on dual-core PIII. The hard drive is 120 GB.
This evening, while working on this computer, it started telling me that my
filesystem was read-only. I rebooted, and the system got as far as checking
the root filesystem, whereupon it gives me the following
On Sunday 26 February 2006 11:39, Cylar Z wrote:
---
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~myuser on this
server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered
while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the
request.
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If I recall, you're using
On Saturday 25 February 2006 10:55, Alex Mandel wrote:
I've had the same problem with Norton Anit-virus scans. I want it to
scan when I'm not at work but that means I have to lock my station, if
I log out it won't run until I log back in. Utterly useless.
My best guess is that these software
On Sunday 15 January 2006 22:49, Alex Mandel wrote:
The problem is that I can't get on my network with the card, I'm using
Network Manager (also from repo) and it sees my neighbors network and I
put my network info in, including WEP key and it just doesn't work even
if it says it connects it
On Friday 13 January 2006 23:45, Richard Crawford wrote:
All right, I finally bit the bullet and installed Kubuntu on my laptop.
The MBR survived, and GRUB updated normally.
Unfortunately, the computer won't start now. When I boot, I get as far as
Checking battery state [ ok
On Saturday 14 January 2006 15:10, Alex Mandel wrote:
Did you install ATI drivers?
I'm pretty sure they came with the distribution. I know that there are some
other ATI drivers out there which I'll try to download and install later.
Right now I'm just happy to have it working.
Maybe boot
All right, I finally bit the bullet and installed Kubuntu on my laptop. The
MBR survived, and GRUB updated normally.
Unfortunately, the computer won't start now. When I boot, I get as far as
Checking battery state [ ok ], and then the computer hangs. I've done some
research and found
I've decided I'm fed up with Fedora, and I'd like to switch over to Kubuntu on
all my systems. I've switched to Kubuntu on my desktop workstation, and I'm
pleased with the results; it feels more stable, and it's nice to use a distro
that is actually built around KDE instead of just giving
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 21:38, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
There are many ways to hose a system... but installing a fresh Linux distro
over almost any other OS is pretty straighforward (at least for me). I
would think you should be getting pretty familiar with it by now, too.
You'd think. I've
I'm trying to get gpg-agent running on my FC3 laptop so that I don't have to
type in my passphrase each time I send out an e-mail. Unfortunately, when I
try to start gpg-agent with the command:
$ gpg-agent
I get the following error message:
gpg-agent: can't connect to
discovered the fish protocol in KDE, which I love.
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 16:44, Richard Crawford wrote:
My wife has frequently talked about using our webhost as a place to store
her personal files in the event that both her computer and our server here
fail. Today I downloaded FUSE
On Thursday 15 December 2005 13:05, Rod Roark wrote:
On Thursday 15 December 2005 12:56 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
...
It really seems like someone sat down with pen and paper and wrote out
all the things that suck about cvs, and fixed it with subversion. I
think _choosing_ to use cvs
My wife has frequently talked about using our webhost as a place to store her
personal files in the event that both her computer and our server here fail.
Today I downloaded FUSE and SSHFS-FUSE and installed them both. I was able
to mount our account on our webhost to a directory in our
I spent my morning developing my personal homepage, http://www.mossroot.com,
using Quanta+ on my Linux computer and checking it in Firefox. When I
finally got around to trying it out with IE, IE refused to finish loading the
page. When I tried IE under WINE, I was told it got an error number
On Monday 03 October 2005 15:22, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
Everything seems okay. I notice Connection: Keep-Alive is set by
default, and wonder if that has anything to do with it (although I was
pretty sure IE honors that correctly). Have you tried using tcpdump?
Maybe do tcpdump -vv -s 0 -X port
Apparently, moving the JavaScript function that creates the menu outside of
the nested div tags fixed the problem. Weird.
On Monday 03 October 2005 16:46, Richard Crawford wrote:
On Monday 03 October 2005 15:22, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
Everything seems okay. I notice Connection: Keep-Alive
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 05:44, Henry House wrote:
- Is there as good Free GUI wrapper over SSH that emulates the look and
feel of a GUI FTP client for windows?
I've had some success with WinSCP (http://winscp.net/eng/index.php). If he
installs it with an Explorer-like interface and
Does anyone know if there's a way to protect certain files from being touched
by Subversion during an update? Or to prevent the same from from being sent
during a global commit?
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http://www.mossroot.com
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Well, apparently my friend realized that in order to boot a computer from CD,
you need to have the CD in the CD drive *before* you turn on the computer.
*groan*
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Richard S. Crawford
http://www.mossroot.com
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Let's suppose you have a set of Linux CD's (in this case, SuSE Enterprise 9).
The computer already has SuSE 8.2 installed. The user cannot get into the
BIOS to change the boot sequence (I don't know why, and she doesn't know
enough about the BIOS to tell me). Is there a way to start a fresh
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 15:32, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
All you need to do to install Linux is to boot off Linux install medium.
What OS is on the hard drive is inconsequential. You don't install Linux
from within Linux; you just boot a Linux install disk/floppy. That said,
I'm sure there are
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 09:48, Josh Parsons wrote:
I'm intrigued: does interrupt balancing still work under this
configuration? Can you look in /proc/interrupts and see whether both
cpus are serving interrupts?
Looks like only CPU0 is handling interrupts. Is this a bad thing?
--
Richard S.
My dual-p3 system has, for a very long time, been unable to use the smp
version of the 2.6 Linux kernel; when I tried it, the system would be unable
to communicate with either the network card (and I tried several) nor with
any USB devices.
Today while installing Kubuntu on this computer, I
On Monday 02 May 2005 17:59, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
Is that acip or apic?
Apic. Sorry. Chalk it up to the serious pain in my mouth from the dental
work I had done today. :-P
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Richard S. Crawford
http://www.mossroot.com
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On Tuesday 26 April 2005 09:02, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
I like Kmail.
I do, too. I used to use Evolution, but switched back in January when I
switched from GNOME to KDE. I haven't looked back since.
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http://www.mossroot.com
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On Tuesday 26 April 2005 09:18, Rod Roark wrote:
I suspect the best bet is either KMail or Thunderbird. I
use KMail but sometimes get annoyed with its quirks. Would
love to hear from anyone who has tried both.
When in Windows (extremely rare these days), I usually use Thunderbird, though
The task was to connect to port 1433 on a remote server running MS SQL Server
via port 22 on a Linux machine that I have SSH access to, and which itself
has access to port 1433.
It was actually pretty simple once I figured it out. The command, run on my
local machine, was:
$ ssh -f -N -L
I'm new to port forwarding, and I thought I had it down. Apparently I haven't
got it quite yet.
Now that I can use my Linux box at work to connect to our MS SQL Server
database using dbbrowser, I'm trying to figure out how to get to that server
from home over port 22 via an intermediary host.
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 07:19, Daniel A. Lorca-Martinez wrote:
I might be completely in the dark here, but it sounds like you might
be the victim of a spammer a) using your machine to send garbage out
or b) using a @stonegoose bogus return address. I think the former
is likely though. Do
I have my server at home set to check my e-mail using fetchmail every five
minutes. When it generates an error, the error message is sent to my
account.
I received this error message a few minutes ago. It scares me; should I be
worried?
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject:
On my Solaris server at work, I'm running Samba and sharing the web directory
over it so that it can be viewed by the Windows computers at work. I'd like
to be able to access this share via SSH on my Linux computer at home; is this
possible? I've enabled port forwarding in the /etc/sshd.conf
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 08:10, Richard Crawford wrote:
On my Solaris server at work, I'm running Samba and sharing the web
directory over it so that it can be viewed by the Windows computers at
work. I'd like to be able to access this share via SSH on my Linux
computer at home
I'm still working on this LuMiX box (thanks to Pete for helping me with
the cdrom problem). I've done the following:
Used Tom's Root Boot on a floppy to fdisk the hard drive into three
partitions (for the sake of simplicity and ease): /dev/hda1 (bootable),
/dev/hda2 (swap), and /dev/hda3. I
I have not closely followed this thread, but I have a suggestion: have you
tried starting a shell having the newly installed LuMiX partition as its
root filesystem, then running grub from there? (Use chroot(8) to do this.)
I didn't even know that could be done.
--
Slainte,
Richard S. Crawford
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:52, Ken Bloom wrote:
Let's have a look at what's inside the .gz archive. If you hve another
Linux computer, mount the CD there, and run
$ tar tzf thearchive.tar.gz
You'll probably go about installing this system by downloading an
image of tom's root boot floppy,
I'm attempting to install LuMiX (http://www.lumixtech.com) from the CD
that they sent me. The instructions that came with the CD say to gunzip
and untar the files onto a bootable partition on the destination
computer's hard drive.
Unfortunately, I'm at a loss here. I've installed Linux plenty
I'm having a truly annoying issue with my printer. It used to be just
fine, but now it's... well, not.
Here's the setup:
Windows XP laptop
Print server running RH 8.0
HP 710C printer connected via parallel port
Samba 2.something running on the RH server
Everything seems to look good; however,
I've seen this done, so I know it's possible. What I'd like to be able
to do is the following:
Have a main browser window, say index.php. On this page is a list of
names or other information plus a link that reads Add your name.
Clicking on the link opens up a popup window with a form for
Rick Moen said:
Quoting Richard Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Never mind. I cleared out my Firefox cache and now it works fine.
That's good -- because a wise man once observed: He who attempts to
fix a problem using mod_rewrite emerges, often as not, with two
problems. ;-
Sadly true
I'm having an issue with mod_rewrite.
I've got the following bit of rewrite code set up in my httpd.conf file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/DLC/(.*)$ /cfmx/DLC/$1 [R]
The idea is that URLs of the form:
http://mysite.com/DLC
will be transformed into
http://mysite.com/cfmx/DLC
I don't want
Never mind. I cleared out my Firefox cache and now it works fine.
Richard Crawford said:
I'm having an issue with mod_rewrite.
I've got the following bit of rewrite code set up in my httpd.conf file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/DLC/(.*)$ /cfmx/DLC/$1 [R]
The idea is that URLs
Bruce Wolk said:
Peter Jay Salzman said the following on 08/23/04 05:09:
I'm having an awful time getting a web page to display. The service
advertises Internet Explorer only, but I've been able to get this to
work under Galeon, so presumably, Firefox is capable of it.
Here's the URL in
A user came to me today and told me that he was unable to open or edit a
couple of his files. I went in to look and saw that the permissions on
the files in question were set to 000, so that the directory entry looked
like this:
-- 1 joe webdev 152 Aug 13 15:27 img1.jpg
-- 1 joe
Bill Kendrick said:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 01:58:45PM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote:
A user came to me today and told me that he was unable to open or edit
a couple of his files. I went in to look and saw that the permissions
on the files in question were set to 000, so that the directory
I've installed Apache 1.3.31 on PHP 4.3.8 on my Windows XP computer, and
created a test.php file which contains just phpinfo(). When I try to
open this file by going to localhost/test.php in Firefox, I do not get
my PHP page; instead I get a dialog box asking me what to do with a PHP
type
Richard Crawford wrote:
I've installed Apache 1.3.31 on PHP 4.3.8 on my Windows XP computer, and
created a test.php file which contains just phpinfo(). When I try to
open this file by going to localhost/test.php in Firefox, I do not get
my PHP page; instead I get a dialog box asking me what
Robert G. Scofield said:
I gave a friend some LUGOD-inspired advice to switch her browser from
Internet Explorer to Firefox. She is trying to, but there's a catch.
Her ISP is MSN. When she connects to MSN with Internet Explorer she
gets the membership webpage which allows her to do things
Bill Kendrick said:
I'm pulling FireFox for Debian Woody from:
# Firefox for woody
deb http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/backports.org/debian woody
mozilla-firefoxdeb
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/backports.org/debian woody
flashplugin-nonfree deb
While trying to install SuSE 9.1 Pro on my desktop the other night, I had
a big problem connecting to the Internet.
I have a DHCP server on my router, but I've set up my Linux boxes to
retain their own IP addresses: 192.168.1.110, 192.168.1.113, and
192.168.1.120, for example.
When setting up
Last night I sat down and started trying to install SuSE Pro 9.1 on my
computer. I encoutered a weird issue with my USB cordless mouse, and I
don't know if it's an issue with the 2.6 kernel or with SuSE itself.
During the initial stages of the installation, the mouse was detected
normally and
]
Option AutoSoft on
Option Device /dev/mouse
Option Name Autodetection
Option Protocol AUTO
Option Vendor Sysp
Option ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection
Jonathan
Richard Crawford wrote:
Last night I sat down
Clarification:
I have a Linksys WAP11 plugged into my Linksys router. Just in case
that's relevant. ;-)
Richard Crawford said:
I'm trying to fix things up with my wireless setup at home. I was using
WEP for awhile, but decided to stop because (a) our computers were
having a lot of frame
I have a large flat file generated by SQL Loader that I'd like to mess
around with; specifically, I'd like to replace all of the carriage returns
in one field with some other character, since they're messing up my data
load.
I figured I'd use awk, since it's a pretty powerful little tool for
I am apparently doing something wrong while trying to burn Knoppix CD's
with my Windows XP laptop. I had assumed that I would just download the
.iso file onto my hard drive, insert a blank CD into my CD-ROM drive, then
copy the file from the hard drive to the blank CD using WinXP's native CD
Jonathan Stickel said:
[snip]
With whatever burning software you use, you need to choose burn from a
CD image or such. I don't think WinXP's native CD writing software
gives you this option; it is only for writing data. For windows, try
Roxio, Nero, Disk Juggler, or the like.
Got it,
Foo Lim said:
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Richard Crawford wrote:
I am apparently doing something wrong while trying to burn Knoppix
CD's with my Windows XP laptop. I had assumed that I would just
download the .iso file onto my hard drive, insert a blank CD into my
CD-ROM drive, then copy
Rick Moen said:
Quoting Richard Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I am apparently doing something wrong while trying to burn Knoppix
CD's with my Windows XP laptop.
My apologies for my advice of a minute ago being inapplicable: I was
reading this thread in reverse-date order, and so hadn't
Ken Bloom said:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:15:27AM -0700, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Richard Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Any recommendations for software? I'm not all that keen on paying
money for such software if I can avoid it.
I recommend burning
Matt Roper said:
Do your files have the form and the reset on different lines? If
so, I think you need to add the 's' modifier to your regexp. I.e.,
change
$data =~ s|form.*reset|!-- form action removed --|g;
to
$data =~ s|form.*reset|!-- form action removed --|gs;
The 's'
Whenever I ssh into my Debian box, Lucien, with Cygwin from a Windows
computer and try to execute Vi or top or similar tools, I get an error
like the following:
Unknown terminal cygwin in $TERM
Naturally, this doesn't happen when I SSH into my Red Hat computers.
How do I fix this issue so
Mark K. Kim wrote:
You can fix this several ways. For simplicity sake, you probably wanna
set your terminal type to ansi if it's cygwin from .bashrc in your
debian box:
if [ $TERM = xcygwin ]
then
export TERM=ansi
fi
Assuming, of course, you're using Bash.
That worked perfectly.
Peter Jay Salzman said:
On Tue 10 Feb 04, 9:56 AM, Richard Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I'm trying to write a Perl application that will go through a
directory and give the amount of space used by each directory,
including each subdirectory. So, for example, if myDirectory1 has
three
Peter,
I don't have a solution for you, but if you find one, please let me know.
We have a similar situation in our office.
Richard
Peter Jay Salzman said:
i'm teaching a few classes and keep my scores/averages in gnumeric
spreadsheet (which i can convert to openoffice of course). i want
Dave Margolis said:
somewhere in that belkin software there is a device setting. the
default is /dev/ttyS0.
maybe look in dmesg to see if it is registering a usb device?
Here is the line that looks most relevant to me from dmesg:
hiddev0: USB HID v1.00 Joystick [BELKIN UPS] on usb1:2.0
Our department's website is showing up blank for certain users of Internet
Exploder. The code validates as 4.0 with no problems (well, a couple of
minor issues with body tag attributes). This problem doesn't show up (as
far as I know) for users with Opera or Mozilla-based browsers.
I can't
I'm writing a Perl script which will go through all of the files in a
directory and delete all of the text between FORM and RESET. In each
file, there are about ten lines of text between the two strings. This has
been breaking my head for a couple of hours now. Anyone got any
suggestions?
When attempting to connect to a remote server for work, I continue to get
the following error:
550 Requested action not taken
Our network administrator insists that the firewall is set up, that ports
20 and 21 are both open to my home computer's IP address, and so on. I've
tried using both
Mark K. Kim said:
telnet to port 21 to see if it makes a connection.
telnet remote_host 21
Mark,
Thanks for the suggestion. I telnetted to port 21 and it worked just
fine. When I tried to telnet to port 20, the connection was refused.
Sláinte,
Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K)
Dave Margolis said:
There is a chance (and this is a vague guess) that their FTP server is
doing reverse DNS lookups and if you machine says
localhost.localdomain or some other generic hostname, it will refuse
the connection.
I asked our network administrator to simply set up the firewall to
Peter Jay Salzman said:
and got a whole bunch of things which might point you in the right
direction. most of the documents seem to indicate that the 550 error
indicates something liek file not found, file busy, you don't have
access to the file, invalid permissions, etc.
None of these seem
Peter Jay Salzman said:
richard, seriously, you need to write your emails better. you led mark
and david on a wild goose chase. this could have been potentially a
very long and difficult thread if nobody thought to ask you exactly what
you were doing.
It is a subtle and fine art. I think
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
if you could connect ok, log in ok, dir ok, get ok, but couldn't put ok,
i was betting on permissions or disk space.
Permissions was the first thing that crossed my mind, and the first
thing I checked. It seemed odd, since I had so carefully set up the
permissions on
I've got my department's Oracle 9i database running happily on Solaris 9,
but I would like to be able to connect to it from home. I've installed
TOra on my desktop at home, but that appears to be inadequate. Port 1521
is open on our department's firewall to my home network, so I should be
able
I'm trying to get cvspserver running on my system (RH 8). I added this
line to my /etc/xinetd.conf file:
cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs
--allow-root=/usr/local/cvs pserver
then issued:
# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
...which seemed to work okay.
Then I tried to check
Peter Jay Salzman said:
i recently moved from pserver to ssh authenticated cvs myself.
As my doctor's head nurse says, If I had a brain, I'd take it out and
play with it.
Turns out I'd set up ssh authenticated CVS over the weekend, and
completely forgotten about it. Sheesh.
Perhaps I just
I love my Linux computer, but the display needs a bit to be desired. The
display is slow, streaming video skips and the screensaver flickers; this
does not happen on my other Linux computer, which has less memory and a
smaller hard drive and an older processor.
Is there a way to increase the
Bill Kendrick wondered:
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 07:18:48PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
Simply decreasing my color depth seems to have solved many of my
problems.
From 24 to 16? Or?
Exactly! I noticed no change in the quality of display, either. I've
been laboring under delusions of
so we have a guy who presumably owns a solaris box. he wants to install
something. i forget what it was. oracle? anyway. he wants to do it
from an account named joeschmo, rather than root.
I installed Oracle on a Solaris 9 box. To do so I created a user for
Oracle, but nothing special
Let me add a disclaimer at the beginning of this: I do not know why this
person wants to do this, and I have already advised them that it is not
the safest course of action.
But anyway.
They want to set up their user login on their home *nix machine so that
they have root privileges. I have
David Margolis said:
Assuming you have sudo installed, the safest way is to do a sloppy (in
my opinion) entry in /etc/sudoers that matches root's entry in that
file. 'man sudo' for lots of good info...
Sudo is not installed on these machines. Hm. Not yet, anyway.
I've discovered that the
After much wrangling and deliberating, I finally went and (very
regretfully) removed Debian from my dual-boot Sony Vaio. Deleting the OS
itself was easy enough -- I just used Partition Magic to delete the
partitions and reformat them as NTFS partitions that I can use to store
Windows files and
Jeff Newmiller said:
The solution is merely a boot disk away, Ryan. See the lilo manpage for
-b and -C options. Hurrah for Knoppix. :)
Brilliant! And I just happen to have a Knoppix disk on my Binder O'
Operating Systems. Thanks for the tip.
Sláinte,
Richard S. Crawford
Thanks to everyone who wrote back with suggestions about my bouncing WAP
connection. I simply changed it from channel 6 to channel 7 and that
seems to have done the trick.
Thanks again. This is a great list!
--
Slainte,
Richard S. Crawford
AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404
I have a Linksys WAP11 at my house, and I use it to connect our two
laptops, which happen to be running WinXP.
Every few minutes, the WAP seems to drop the connection; or, at least, a
message appears on the laptop telling me that the link has been lost; and
a few seconds later it comes back.
Chris Brick said:
Have you tried changing channels? Does it happen all the time or only
when playing mp3s? Is the timing of the drop predictable?
Haven't tried changing channels. I'll do that tonight. It happens all
the time, and it's fairly predictable. Have five to fifteen seconds
MB said:
I have seen a similar issue with XP. Is your wireless adapter set to
use 802.11x or any other authentication? If so try turning it off.
If this does not help, can you supply your setup?
brand/firmware of wireless cards:
firmware of WAP11:
That info will have to wait for awhile.
I'm trying to perfect my home network. I have a server running Red Hat
8, and I'd like to connect to it from my Windows XP laptop so that files
I create on my laptop can be edited easily from my Linux desktop.
The problem is that even though I map to the network drive with the
user other
Thanks to everyone who replied to me, on and off list, regarding how to
resize the root partition or what to do about a root partition that had
gotten out of control.
I had recently installed PostGreSQL as part of a large-ish project that
I'm working on for school. I deleted the installation
I'm trying to install Java onto my server at home so that I can start
mucking around with JSP and Tomcat. Unfortunately, the Java SDK refuses
to install, telling me that I don't have enough disk space. I ran df to
get the disk usage, and this is what I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/
# df -h
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