Re: [techtalk] ipchains -- allowing specific IP's

2000-01-29 Thread Dan McGarry
- Original Message - From: Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 3:53 PM Subject: [techtalk] ipchains -- allowing specific IP's > I assume that this must be possible, using > ipchains... (and, btw, I don't mind reading > the manual, but I tend

Re: [techtalk] Mounted drive

2000-01-29 Thread Dan McGarry
- Original Message - From: Gustavo Sudre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: techtalk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 8:17 AM Subject: [techtalk] Mounted drive > Hi guys! > Well, when i executed #df -m, i was surprised with the little space that > left after my installations. S

Re: [techtalk] sound.

2000-01-29 Thread Robert Kiesling
Judy Marie Kadoura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm very new at this. > > i just installed linux KDE on my aptiva and i haven't been able to get the > sound working, or set up the printer > > does anyone have any ideas? Hi Judy, There are free HOWTO documents for a lot of different subj

Re: [techtalk] sound.

2000-01-29 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> > '/dev/MAKEDEV audio'. > > Oh, if you want to make devices in /dev [1], make sure that's the > directory you're in when you run MAKEDEV. By default, it creates them > in the current directory (at least debian's does). > > [1] There's nothing wrong with having devices somewhere other than /de

Re: [techtalk] sound.

2000-01-29 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 29-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] sound. by Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] > '/dev/MAKEDEV audio'. Oh, if you want to make devices in /dev [1], make sure that's the directory you're in when you run MAKEDEV. By default, it creates them in the current directory (at least debian's does)

Re: [techtalk] sound.

2000-01-29 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
My latest problem with sound (after following the semi useful sound HOWTO which only helped me in diagnosing whether I had the IRQ/IOs right) was the permissions on my /dev/* sound devices. Even though my sound card was working (compiled into the kernel... looked in dmesg for the spot where my s

Re: [techtalk] ipchains -- allowing specific IP's

2000-01-29 Thread Phil V Savoie
Hi Walt, To answer your questions indirectly at least, may I suggest the following url as there is an abundance of good info there: http://www.linuxstart.com Regards, Phil At 12:53 29/01/00 -0800, you wrote: >Currently I'm using ip-masquerading to pass >internet access to my local network. >

Re: [techtalk] ipchains -- allowing specific IP's

2000-01-29 Thread Jenn V.
Walt wrote: > > Can I only allow certain IP addresses on > my network to get 'out'? I believe so. > or, better yet, > allow activity on only certain ports to have > outside access? This is a definate - hunting through the firewalling HOWTOs and FAQs (or finding a firewall example) will sho

Re: [techtalk] printer probs with 2.2.13 and lpd

2000-01-29 Thread Dakota Surmonde
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Nils Philippsen wrote: > What's this? I guess it's some kind of automatic converter for the various > formats into postscript/ascii. It's a print, erm, non-spooler -- like lpd, but instead of queueing, it just sends directly to the printer. BTW, it's working (nearly) pefectl

Re: [techtalk] sound.

2000-01-29 Thread Phil V Savoie
I believe with Caldera 2.3 there is an icon in the bottom left of the tool bar in kde that is COAS. This is the utility I believe that will help you out. I believe it contains a bunch of utilities for most setup things. At 13:06 29/01/00 -0500, you wrote: > >i have caldera... does this make a d

[techtalk] ipchains -- allowing specific IP's

2000-01-29 Thread Walt
Currently I'm using ip-masquerading to pass internet access to my local network. I assume that this must be possible, using ipchains... (and, btw, I don't mind reading the manual, but I tend to learn a _lot_ easier from example type things...) Can I only allow certain IP addresses on my networ

Re: [techtalk] How do I get rid of login screen

2000-01-29 Thread Jenn V.
Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:09:52 GMT, Karl-Heinz Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Sorry about that, but why not giving your mother a nice little > >account e.g. called 'mom' without any password but reserve the true > >'root' account for yourself to pre- vent her

Re: [techtalk] sound.

2000-01-29 Thread Phil V Savoie
Hi Judy, I don't know what distro you have but if its RH the command sndconfig will help set up your sound and I believe the printtool command should help to set up a printer. regards, Phil At 11:47 29/01/00 -0500, Judy Marie Kadoura wrote: > >i'm very new at this. > >i just installed linux KD

Re: [techtalk] Mounted drive

2000-01-29 Thread Andre Pang
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 11:17:51AM -0200, Gustavo Sudre wrote: > Hi guys! > Well, when i executed #df -m, i was surprised with the little space that > left after my installations. So, i created hda5, linux native, with 1gb (my > main linux partitions are hdb1 and hdb2 -> swap). But i've a doubt:

[techtalk] sound.

2000-01-29 Thread Judy Marie Kadoura
i'm very new at this. i just installed linux KDE on my aptiva and i haven't been able to get the sound working, or set up the printer does anyone have any ideas? thanks. -judy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] How do I get rid of login screen

2000-01-29 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:09:52 GMT, Karl-Heinz Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Sorry about that, but why not giving your mother a nice little >account e.g. called 'mom' without any password but reserve the true >'root' account for yourself to pre- vent her from destroying the >system by accident?

Re: [techtalk] printer probs with 2.2.13 and lpd

2000-01-29 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Dakota Surmonde wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > > What does `lsmod | grep parport` give? > > since I've got a monolithic kernel absolutely nothing :) but dmesg | grep > parport gives > > parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [SPP,PS2] > parport0: no IEEE-128

Re: [techtalk] Mounted drive

2000-01-29 Thread Phil V Savoie
Hi Gustavo, Perhaps what you may want to do is create an empty directory off of / and mount your newly created device there. Or, if you want create a directory /usr2 then mv all of /usrs files into /usr2 then rm /usr then rename /usr2 back to /usr. Sounds a bit confusing but if you are very car

[techtalk] Mounted drive

2000-01-29 Thread Gustavo Sudre
Hi guys! Well, when i executed #df -m, i was surprised with the little space that left after my installations. So, i created hda5, linux native, with 1gb (my main linux partitions are hdb1 and hdb2 -> swap). But i've a doubt: how can i enjoy all this new space? I know i've to moutn it using mtab,

Re: [techtalk] How do I get rid of login screen

2000-01-29 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
On 28.01.00, 23:10:17, Davida Schiff wrote: > I guess I was not clear. I am setting up this PC for > my mom. I want her to be able to power on and have > the PC go directly into the GNOME desktop. No user > (or root) login screen at all. I have already > figured out how to get rid of the splash

[techtalk] Problems with my /dev/ files

2000-01-29 Thread Gustavo Sudre
Hi guys! Since i've migrated to slack 7, i'm having problems with my /dev files. After trying to configure my sound card following many howtos as u can imagine (i didn't know that the problem was in /dev/audio), i installed sndconfig. it configured my sound, but when that time to play some sample