Looking for advice from the linux gods...

2012-02-19 Thread timothy grey
My father is the owner of a small business. He has 2 registers with pos software and a machine in the back for photoshop/pagemaker. I set up file sharing and backups in windows to hold the pos database and his other documents (ads, clip art, etc). He also has a laptop with access to those resources

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-08 Thread grey
Scott Fitzgerald said: > If I yank exim off my desktop box, and run something detached, how can I > set it up so any error report will try to go over another box on the > 192.168.0.* network? nullmailer > Also on email, would it make sense to > ssh-or-telnet-or-remote-X onto the heavy box for

Re: Squirrelmail folder problem

2006-02-13 Thread grey
ms linux said: > I've got Squirrelmail 1.4.5 installed on my unstable > box using sid with PHP4, uw-imap ssl and apache2. > The installation went fine. But everytime I access the > Folder link, there's nothing happen. How many folders do you have? Also do you have any circular links in your f

Re: Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-05 Thread grey
Alvin Oga said: > obviously i can spend the same 2-3 minutes doing exactly that too, > but you're missing the point that one can spend a week to harden the > server and verify that its been hardened ... the more paranoid you > are, the more time will be required to harden the server... No, yo

Re: Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-05 Thread grey
Yay, more of Alvin's nonsense! > personally, it is 1000x easier to fix and remove the security problems > than it would be to start from step -1 reinstalls Uh no, it's not if you do it properly. > ... and spend > another week or month to harden and verify all the all configs > and user i

Re: Xvnc giving errors after kernel upgrade

2006-01-28 Thread grey
Chris Howie said: > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' Well, obvious question; is the fixed font somewhere on your system? If so, can Xvnc find it? I mean if the server's giving a clear indication of the problem like that it would be the first place to look. :D -- S

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-10 Thread grey
b RAM. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} ps ux | grep xf grey 2909 0.0 0.9 10760 1780 ?Ss Mar27 0:29 /usr/bin/xfce4-session grey 2978 0.0 1.1 13220 2112 ?Ss Mar27 1:11 xfce-mcs-manager grey 2982 0.0 1.3 10484 2600 ? S Mar27 1:34 xfwm4 --daemon grey 29

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-10 Thread grey
Frank Copeland said: > If you want to set it up as a desktop system you will be pushing your > luck. It can be done but you will learn to live with swapping. A desktop system with a GUI? Sure. A desktop using just the TTYs and maybe screen? He's golden. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

ppp as normal user

2003-03-05 Thread Gandalf the Grey
well, that, the interfaces are not usable as a normal user in default instalation.. i add my user to the groups: dialout,dip ok.. pon is ok but poff NO.. in fact i use the gnome applet modem lights and it can start the conectios but not stop it, i have to stop it from console but is posible to d

Re: Upgrading the kernel package from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 on Woody

2003-02-03 Thread grey
> Earlier, I had problems installing Debian on my system because of the > Realtek 8139 ethernet device on my desktop's motherboard. I got round > that problem by building my own boot floppy with a newer kernel on > it. Why not just get the sources and use kernel-package to make your own custom

Re: Linux in the company

2001-03-26 Thread Corwin Grey
endorsed by my employer. */ Corwin J. Grey Techline, Inc. http://www.techline.com Engineering and Application Development "What does this tell me? That if Microsoft were the last software company left in the wor

Re: How can I start from a terminal instead of gdm

2001-03-23 Thread Corwin Grey
mpt after booting to gdm using CTRL+ALT+F1. ---- Corwin J. Grey Techline, Inc. http://www.techline.com Engineering and Application Development "What does this tell me? That if Microsoft were the last software company left in the world, 13% of t

Broken Debconf::Question on woody after -u upgrade

2001-03-20 Thread Corwin Grey
After performing an apt-get -u upgrade today, I have a broken debconf, which is keeping me from configuring a number of packages. I haven't done an upgrade for about three weeks. Everything in the upgrade appeared to go normally until it started to install debconf. I get the following error: Se

Re: bad hard drive?

2001-03-19 Thread Corwin Grey
ain. its now to the point where i cant > even mount the drive read/write because there are so many errors! > > is the drive simply too big? am i getting these errors because bios didnt > detect them? ---- Corwin J. Grey Techline, Inc. http://www.tech

Re: Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state

2001-03-19 Thread Corwin Grey
t he's able to do everything even > damaging the system? I think so! Not if the attributes are set. If +i is set, the file is IMMUTABLE, even by root until the attibute is removed. ---- Corwin J. Grey Techline, Inc. http://www.

Re: Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state

2001-03-19 Thread Corwin Grey
tributes which are shows by lsattr. I'm guessing it is set +i, +u or possibly +a. ---- Corwin Grey "What does this tell me? That if Microsoft were the last software company left in the world, 13% of the

Re: Getting rid of portmap

2001-03-16 Thread Corwin Grey
t an exit as the second line. Corwin J. Grey Techline, Inc. http://www.techline.com Engineering and Application Development "What does this tell me? That if Microsoft were the last software company left in the