Re: [techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-06 Thread Jeff
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 02:44:54PM -0500, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: > Hi, Conni, > > The main reason I switched from Gnome/E to KDE/kwm, aside from the fact the > E was a resource hog, was the kind of problem you described: Netscape > freezing hard, and other random freeze ups. When I went away

Re: [techtalk] Linux Agents/Robots ??

2000-03-06 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Robert Siemer wrote: > > Are there any command line search agents/bots/crawlers for Linux? I want > > to search a few engines at the same time for some key topics. > > Search-engines: ht://dig, e-swift(?), web-glimpse I want to add UdmSearch engine to this list - this is a project I work on duri

Re: [techtalk] Linux Agents/Robots ??

2000-03-06 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:52:13 -0500, Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Are there any command line search agents/bots/crawlers for Linux? I >want to search a few engines at the same time for some key topics. If you do perl, check out the LWP module. It includes a relatively easy to customize ge

Re: [techtalk] SuSE and soft power again

2000-03-06 Thread S. D. Rosenberg
V Clarke wrote: > > ...well, we've tried flashing the BIOS. Halt achieves a reboot (same as it > did before) rather than the system powering down. Any suggestions, > eg. kernel versions to use etc? My current kernel is 2.2.10- someone did > suggest something about kernels before but I've lost the

Re: [techtalk] Linux Agents/Robots ??

2000-03-06 Thread Robert Siemer
Re! From: Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Mar-100 [techtalk] Linux Agents/Rob.. by > Subba [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Are there any command line search agents/bots/crawlers for Linux? I want > > to search a few engines at the same time for some key topics. > ... > I look

Re: [techtalk] Linux Agents/Robots ??

2000-03-06 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Mar-100 [techtalk] Linux Agents/Rob.. by Subba [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Are there any command line search agents/bots/crawlers for Linux? I want > to search a few engines at the same time for some key topics. > > Any pointers or info appreciated. Have you looked on freshm

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> Well, if there were actually anything *useful* in those files, I sure > couldn't tell. One appeared to be a dialogue that was saved, the rest > were random 4 character bits of text. And there was one that seemed to be > linked to porn. *sigh* I think you're going to have to convert them or d

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, Jeff Dike conjectured: > > Strings? How do I do that? Then how do I get the stuff from the > > output? > > strings is a very handy little utility. 'strings filename' goes through > filename printing out anything that looks like text. Well, if there were actually anything *useful*

[techtalk] SuSE and soft power again

2000-03-06 Thread V Clarke
...well, we've tried flashing the BIOS. Halt achieves a reboot (same as it did before) rather than the system powering down. Any suggestions, eg. kernel versions to use etc? My current kernel is 2.2.10- someone did suggest something about kernels before but I've lost the message, unfortunately.

Re: [techtalk] Linux Agents/Robots ??

2000-03-06 Thread Robert Siemer
Re! From: Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Are there any command line search agents/bots/crawlers for Linux? I want > to search a few engines at the same time for some key topics. Search-engines: ht://dig, e-swift(?), web-glimpse crawlers: pavuk, wget and others... Look at freshmeat.net Ciao,

Re: [techtalk] Bandwidth management

2000-03-06 Thread moebius
Hey Sriram, My bad, check out rshaper then this will actually allow for bandwidth shaping as opposed to just monitoring. HTH, Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. 206.634.3082 x. 270 On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Sriram. V wrote: > If I am right, iptraf gives the iptraffi

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Jeff Dike
> Strings? How do I do that? Then how do I get the stuff from the > output? strings is a very handy little utility. 'strings filename' goes through filename printing out anything that looks like text. It is a zero-order approximation to any number of blah2txt utilities :-) In this case, it

[techtalk] Linux Agents/Robots ??

2000-03-06 Thread Subba Rao
Are there any command line search agents/bots/crawlers for Linux? I want to search a few engines at the same time for some key topics. Any pointers or info appreciated. Thank you in advance. Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ => Time is relative. Here is a new way to

Re: [techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, Robert Siemer conjectured: > From: "Caitlyn M. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ... Netscape > > freezing hard, and other random freeze ups. When I went away from Gnome > > (admittedly an older version) my problems went away. Oh, Netscape still > > hangs sometimes (4.71), but it doe

Re: [techtalk] DHCP, cable modem, and boxen

2000-03-06 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:25:01 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Hey Snarf, If that a ref. to pinky/brain, right on! Actually, "snarfblat" is probably a reference to The Little Mermaid. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Bandwidth management

2000-03-06 Thread Sriram. V
If I am right, iptraf gives the iptraffic on a lan or wan segment. I am looking for a bandwidth management software, typically like Floodgate. Cheers Sriram -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, March 06, 2

Re: [techtalk] DHCP, cable modem, and boxen

2000-03-06 Thread Snarfblat
Thanks to all who replied... This was actually for a friend of mine, as I am still on 56k (they must enjoy tormenting me with delayed ADSL deployment dates..) It appears that the disconnect and reconnect works for two machines.. although he might try using IP masq since getting multiple IP's

Re: [techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-06 Thread Robert Siemer
Re! From: "Caitlyn M. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... Netscape > freezing hard, and other random freeze ups. When I went away from Gnome > (admittedly an older version) my problems went away. Oh, Netscape still > hangs sometimes (4.71), but it doesn't take X or the OS with it. The OS? - Whe

RE: [techtalk] DHCP, cable modem, and boxen

2000-03-06 Thread moebius
Hey Snarf, If that a ref. to pinky/brain, right on! About your DHCP, I'm going to start with a few dumb questions. Do you have eth0 setup to grab a DHCP addr? are you running pump? and how are you going about setting up the DHCP enabled interface? Usually, you can run something like Linuxconf to

RE: [techtalk] DHCP, cable modem, and boxen

2000-03-06 Thread Julia Frizzell
[didn't see the original post...] >Anyone have any experience with using multiple boxes on a single cable >modem configured for DHCP? > >There is a Win box that is able to configure and connect fine. however a >linux box attached to the same cable modem will not work. No ip is >assigned, and no

Re: [techtalk] Bandwidth management

2000-03-06 Thread moebius
Hey Sriram, Check out the iptraf command. I believe it is what you're looking for. Regards, Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. 206.634.3082 x. 270 On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote: > #if Sriram-HO > > I have a 2 MB pipe from the ISP. Now I want to allocat

Re: [techtalk] DHCP, cable modem, and boxen

2000-03-06 Thread Shad Young
You need to configure the box as a masquerading gateway to your subnet. You will need to configure the DHCP client. There are a number of tools for that available (pump I believe is a DHCP client configuration tool), do not bother with Linuxconf. Some cable modems allow the use of a static IP. For

RE: [techtalk] DHCP, cable modem, and boxen

2000-03-06 Thread Sally_Hutchinson
Woohoo, finally a techtalk question I know about :) Not sure if it works different with different providers, but this is what I did with Roadrunner. Unplug your cable modem and release all IPs from machines (and make sure they're all set for DHCP... that was my big boo-boo when I couldn't get it

Re: [techtalk] Dual Boot - Thanks to All

2000-03-06 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi, Thanks to all who responded. It would appear that the answer lies thusly: First install Win2k then Mandrake and let lilo look after the booting (why did I bother worrying?) Phil At 01:25 06/03/2000 -0500, Phil V Savoie wrote: >Hi All, > >Would anyone have any experience with dual booti

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, Laurel Fan conjectured: > > Yeah, I didn't read the message after that before replying, sorry... 'Sokay :) > So in my reply to that, I said basically "yes, probably a version > problem". Since upgrading ICQ is not an option, have you tried strings > on the files? If that works, you

Re: [techtalk] Bandwidth management

2000-03-06 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if Sriram-HO > I have a 2 MB pipe from the ISP. Now I want to allocate this bandwidth to > some of my other locations. I should be able to say location a be given 64 > K, location b 25 k and so on using the bandwidth managment software. Typical > example is Floodgate. Well looking at the Linux k

[techtalk] DHCP, cable modem, and boxen

2000-03-06 Thread Snarfblat
Anyone have any experience with using multiple boxes on a single cable modem configured for DHCP? There is a Win box that is able to configure and connect fine. however a linux box attached to the same cable modem will not work. No ip is assigned, and no traffic can travel through the cable mode

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Mar-100 Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/i.. by Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one > I tried that. It sat there and froze up. I tried putting the idx file in > ~, and that didn't help either. My ICQ version is not ICQ99. so I don't > know if this is a version compatibility problem, a

Re: [techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-06 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, Conni, The main reason I switched from Gnome/E to KDE/kwm, aside from the fact the E was a resource hog, was the kind of problem you described: Netscape freezing hard, and other random freeze ups. When I went away from Gnome (admittedly an older version) my problems went away. Oh, Netscape

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> Well, I can't tell if this is working. It appears not to be. All it does > is freeze my mouse and sit there blankly. It's asking specifically for > icq99 idx files, and I have an older version. COuld this be causing the > trouble? the db files from a version earlier than 99 (like 98 ;o)) a

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Mar-100 Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/i.. by Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one > Well, I can't tell if this is working. It appears not to be. All it does > is freeze my mouse and sit there blankly. It's asking specifically for > icq99 idx files, and I have an older version. COul

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, Laurel Fan conjectured: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Mar-100 Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/i.. by > Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one > > A ls of that directory gives me uin.dat and uin.idx. 'more'ing them gives > > me garble. If it's possible to import the file, that might work, but I > > haven'

Re: [techtalk] fstab query.

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, aaron conjectured: > Change msdos to vfat in the fstab. Line 4 is probably the filesystem > type that it's complaining about. I don't believe "auto" is valid. According to a message from Feb 16, from K-H Zimmer, it is. I'd cut and paste, but that's a pain in pine. However, man moun

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Mar-100 Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/i.. by Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one > A ls of that directory gives me uin.dat and uin.idx. 'more'ing them gives > me garble. If it's possible to import the file, that might work, but I > haven't seen a way to do that yet. I can look more

Re: [techtalk] fstab query.

2000-03-06 Thread aaron
Change msdos to vfat in the fstab. Line 4 is probably the filesystem type that it's complaining about. I don't believe "auto" is valid. The vfat option mentioned above assumes you have vfat support in your kernel. Do a cat /proc/filesystems to see if it is supported. - Aaron Schultz - [EMAIL

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun conjectured: > > A ls of that directory gives me uin.dat and uin.idx. 'more'ing them gives > me garble. If it's possible to import the file, that might work, but I > haven't seen a way to do that yet. I can look more, though. Well, I can't tell i

[techtalk] fstab query.

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
/dev/hda3 / ext2defaults 1 1 /dev/hda2 swapswapdefaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc msdos defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy autosync,user,noauto,

Re: [techtalk] Is this normal?

2000-03-06 Thread coder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is this normal? I -think- this is just place-holder, but I don't really know what is >going on here or if it is a good thing or a bad thing. Any information would be >appreciated! Root is not logged in at the time of this ps. > Yes, that is normal. Each one of th

Re: [techtalk] Is this normal?

2000-03-06 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:41:40 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Is this normal? I -think- this is just place-holder, but I don't >really know what is going on here or if it is a good thing or a bad >thing. Any information would be appreciated! Root is not logged in at >the time of this ps. agetty is

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, aprilk conjectured: > > > In the icq directory there is one called 'Db99b' if you have one of the more recent >versions or 'Db' for the older ones I think, it has files in there with your icq uin. >Those are your contact list and history databases. > I don't know if everybuddy uses th

Re: [techtalk] Is this normal?

2000-03-06 Thread aaron
Yup, it's normal. Those are just the processes waiting for logins on your console's virtual terminals (ALT-F1 through ALT-F6). - Aaron Schultz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following lines show up on a ps -eaf | more > > root 218 1 0 1

[techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
The last 2 nights around 10pm, my system has been freezing up totally. What I was doing at the time: case a (sat): seti@home on tty2 pppd running, modem connected. enlightenment/gnome netscape xchat everybuddy ssh in terminal 'make' as su for xmms install. it froze right after i told it to 'make'

[techtalk] Is this normal?

2000-03-06 Thread lilith
The following lines show up on a ps -eaf | more root 218 1 0 11:38 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux root 219 1 0 11:38 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux root 220 1 0 11:38 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux root 221

Re: [techtalk] Dual Boot

2000-03-06 Thread moebius
Hey All, It's always good to keep a spare of the mbr around. Kinda like inode are every 4096. Any how, my recommendation is this: dd if=/dev/hd(?) of=/dev/fd(?) bs=1024 The hd(?) is your hard drive, it cannot be a partition number it must be the letter ie -> /dev/hda to grab from the start of th

Re: [techtalk] Dual Boot

2000-03-06 Thread moebius
Hey All, You don't need 'liloconf' to do it. Just run 'lilo' usually in /usr/sbin you will see it says something like '* Added Linux'. Regards, Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. 206.634.3082 x. 270 On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Nathan T. Lynch wrote: > On my Red Hat 6

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread aprilk
Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since I was having infinite trouble getting ICU to work, I went and >downloaded everybuddy. Now I need to get my ICQ contact list back. THat >means booting windows, though, unless it's findable in my windows >partition from under li

Re: [techtalk] Bandwidth management

2000-03-06 Thread Jenn V.
Sriram-HO wrote: > > Jenn > > What I want is this: > > I have a 2 MB pipe from the ISP. Now I want to allocate this bandwidth to > some of my other locations. I should be able to say location a be given 64 > K, location b 25 k and so on using the bandwidth managment software. Typical > exampl

Re: [techtalk] Bandwidth management (was: Dual Boot)

2000-03-06 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:53:02PM +1100 or thereabouts, Jenn V. wrote: > Sriram-HO wrote: > > > > Is there any bandwidth management software for Linux available? Something > > like Floodgate? > > Not sure - I do know that Dancer is constantly tweaking > /something/ to ensure that large downloa

Re: [techtalk] Bandwidth management

2000-03-06 Thread Sriram-HO
Jenn What I want is this: I have a 2 MB pipe from the ISP. Now I want to allocate this bandwidth to some of my other locations. I should be able to say location a be given 64 K, location b 25 k and so on using the bandwidth managment software. Typical example is Floodgate. Cheers Sriram ---

[techtalk] Bandwidth management (was: Dual Boot)

2000-03-06 Thread Jenn V.
Sriram-HO wrote: > > Is there any bandwidth management software for Linux available? Something > like Floodgate? Not sure - I do know that Dancer is constantly tweaking /something/ to ensure that large downloads don't interfere with someone MUSHing... (we share a 28.8. It matters.) Jenn V.

Re: [techtalk] Dual Boot

2000-03-06 Thread Laurel Fan
Speaking of mbr's and debian, debian comes with a pretty nice mbr (not lilo), which can boot from any partition with a boot sector. So if you mess up lilo somehow on a >1-boot system, you can boot to another os and try to fix stuff (or make a rescue floppy. yes, I know. I had one, but I hadn't

Re: [techtalk] Dual Boot

2000-03-06 Thread Nathan T. Lynch
On my Red Hat 6.1 box (on which I installed every package except for some foreign-language docs): [root@dolphy /root]# which liloconfig which: no liloconfig in (/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin) So I think the chances of it being

Re: [techtalk] Dual Boot

2000-03-06 Thread Sriram-HO
Is there any bandwidth management software for Linux available? Something like Floodgate? Cheers Sriram -Original Message- From: Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, March 06, 2000 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [techtalk] Dual Boot >I beli

Re: [techtalk] Dual Boot

2000-03-06 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
I believe, even in this case, you can run liloconfig (/usr/sbin/liloconfig here) to overwrite the MBR at any time after linux is installed (unless liloconfig doesn't "come" with mandrake, but I believe it's 'standard' within a distributed version of lilo). It does the same thing lilo does on first