Re: *cry*

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 02:21:18PM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > On Mar 18, Jeff conjectured: > > > Ack! That cheap mobo comment wasn't directed at you, Lighthouse Keeper, > > that was the quality of the i586 mobos I had to deal with... The 486 > > might use a wierd chipset

Re: moderator

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 09:54:32AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW: The response I sent to you about the Xserver question was intended as > a list response. I KNEW the list was still messed up, and I STILL forgot > to check the 'to'. Grump. Very annoying, besides I was looking forward to

Re: ping

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:44:14PM -0600, Darren Osadchuk wrote: > pingpingpingping Pong Pong Pong Pong, alive and kicking... someone. -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+ o? K++ w--- O? M V- PS+ PE(--)@ Y+@ P

Re: ipchains

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 07:23:04PM -0500, Shelly L. Hokanson wrote: > my question is - what is the best way to test that the firewall is secure? i > configured mine using ipchains (also doing masquerading for my internal lan, > which is set up as a 192.168.x.x network - my external interface is an

Re: *cry*

2000-03-18 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 12:26:33PM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > So I made sure to install all the gcc stuff, and the c compiler > *still* doesn't work. I still get the error 'cannot create executables.' > I'm attempting to install ssh-1.2.27 from source. Could *that* be th

Re: ipchains

2000-03-18 Thread Heather Clark
Is there a reason that techtalk message aren't coming with their title in the subject line lately? Without that my filters don't pick them up. Just curious, thanks. Heather __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: ipchains

2000-03-18 Thread Shelly L. Hokanson
while on the topic of firewalls i just finished configuring my first one (well my first successful attempt anyway) with caldera open linux 2.3 (e-server release) - it only took four days straight and about 200 pages in printed-out HOWTO's to do it =) my question is - what is the best way to

Re: *cry*

2000-03-18 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 18, Jeff conjectured: > Ack! That cheap mobo comment wasn't directed at you, Lighthouse Keeper, > that was the quality of the i586 mobos I had to deal with... The 486 > might use a wierd chipset, or just be getting worn out (sometimes that > happens, but not often). My apologies. :) I

Re: *cry*

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff Dike
> Any more ideas? Send in some complete error messages. Console logs. Anything that looks out of the ordinary... Jeff

Re: *cry*

2000-03-18 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
Argh. So I reinstalled the whole bloody thing. Thsi time I told it to go only to cylinder 1024 (the old disk has 1046 cylinders) and unmounted the dos partition before updating the db. It seemed happy, except that, for some reason, the DOS partition is mounted read-only. Even if I explicitly t

Re: *cry*

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 11:00:58AM -0800, Jeff wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:19:18PM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > > That is truly strange. I'm really temped to blame this on > bad/incompatible hardware, yes, it does exist, unfortunately, but I'm > not going to say th

Re: *cry*

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:19:18PM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > past end of block". And the gcc is either not there or non-functional. I > put RedHat 6, kernel (June 1999), no X services except the libraries that > it installed by default. I put egcs on it, and it didn't

Re: moderator

2000-03-18 Thread Deb Richardson
dez wrote: > >>Your posting (Subject: "multiple xservers") has been sent to the > moderator ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]") for approval. When the > moderator approves the posting, it will be automatically distributed > to the group.>> This is _really really really_ odd. Under no circumstances should th

Re: od [Thanks to All]

2000-03-18 Thread Phil Savoie
Sorry for not getting back sooner but circumstances dictated otherwise. It would appear that RH6.1's GNU od does not do the same as in Solaris. I will keep searching to see if there is a util that does do this and post if I find one. Again thank you to all who responded. Phil

Re: ipchains

2000-03-18 Thread Darren Osadchuk
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hey Darren, > Unfortunately, you did not succesfully compile firewalling into your >kernel. What sys are you using? Perhaps with a little more info we can >give a lot of help. Please post kernel, distro, etc... Here's all the messy details: Distro:

Re: moderator

2000-03-18 Thread dez
it seems all my posts are going through the moderator...every one i send i get a message back telling me it is going to the lists moderator for approval and then posted on... the turnaround is quite a considerable ammount of time. I never got any info when i joined the list ( as usually you do on

Re: ipchains

2000-03-18 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Darren, > Unfortunately, you did not succesfully compile firewalling into your > kernel. What sys are you using? Perhaps with a little more info we can > give a lot of help. Please post kernel, distro, etc... Ho, hum, I'm bored this morning, I

Multiple X Severs is solved --thanx to all who replied--

2000-03-18 Thread dez
thanx to all who took the time to reply to my rather ungrammatical question I apologise for sounding as confused as i was :) thanx dez

Re: ping

2000-03-18 Thread Steve Kudlak
Darren Osadchuk wrote: > pingpingpingping Alive and well

Re: *cry*

2000-03-18 Thread dez
Im new to the list and hazard to put my 2cents worth but it may be a partitioning error/problem. Im not positive but i think the "read past end block" means that the disk geometry in your kernel doesnt match the bios ...as i said Im not sure but it may be worth checking the bios and your bootu

Re: multiple xservers

2000-03-18 Thread sara korhonen
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, dez wrote: > something about setting the display varible to 0.0 and 1.1 or something.. > i.e. so you can have 2 xservers running at once and switch between them??? i'm not sure whether this was answered already or if i even understood it correctly, but running another

Re: moderator

2000-03-18 Thread jenn
dez wrote: > > do all posts have to go through a moderator... > i posted a request for information on xservers and got this reply...(this is > why i am asking..i am new). The lists went down due to some sort of fault. Deb is struggling to get them back up and correctly configured. She doesn

Re: ipchains

2000-03-18 Thread moebius
Hey Darren, Unfortunately, you did not succesfully compile firewalling into your kernel. What sys are you using? Perhaps with a little more info we can give a lot of help. Please post kernel, distro, etc... HTH, Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. 206.634.3082 x.

Re: *cry*

2000-03-18 Thread lilith
I can't say for sure, but maybe you have a bad harddrive, or harddrive controller? I got my old 486 (a packard hell, no less) up and running without any problem using Slackware 7. And with Slackware, you don't have to install anything for X. On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert