Re: [techtalk] resolv.conf issues

2000-08-31 Thread Olivier Tharan
Le 31 août 2000, Vinnie écrivait : > search domain.com sub1.domain.com sub2.domain.com domain.net > the problem is that the search path doesn't work :( the *first* domain >From the resolv.conf(5) man page: search Search list for host-name lookup. The search list is normally determi

[techtalk] Kooldown (KDE 2.0 beta 4)

2000-08-31 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, everyone, I did a rebuild of my main system, got it all cleaned up and configured the way I wanted, and then installed Kooldown, a/k/a KDE 1.93, a/k/a KDE 2.0 Beta 4. I've only been using it for a few days, but it's sure come a long way since Kleopatra (KDE 1.91). It really loooks to b

Re: [techtalk] resolv.conf issues

2000-08-31 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 31-Aug-100 [techtalk] resolv.conf issues by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2. Can anyone confirm/deny this behavior in another linux distro? I don't > recall ever trying multiple search domains before, personally, but it > works fine on solaris 2.7 and openBSD 2.7 /etc/resolv.conf

[techtalk] resolv.conf issues

2000-08-31 Thread Vinnie
distro: VectorLinux 1.0 problem: /etc/resolv.conf looks like this search domain.com sub1.domain.com sub2.domain.com domain.net sub3.domain.net sub4.domain.net nameserver nameserver the problem is that the search path doesn't work :( the *first* domain will work, no matter what it

Re: [techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] extremely new

2000-08-31 Thread Kathryn Hogg
Nancy Corbett said: > A segmentation fault is reported when you run a program and it tries to > access something it doesn't have permission to access...at least that's my > understanding of it. A program will skip merrily along until BAM! it > hits a wall when it tries to occupy a space where it

Re: [techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] extremely new

2000-08-31 Thread Nancy Corbett
A segmentation fault is reported when you run a program and it tries to access something it doesn't have permission to access...at least that's my understanding of it. A program will skip merrily along until BAM! it hits a wall when it tries to occupy a space where it isn't allowed to be. It wi

[techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] extremely new

2000-08-31 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:35:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I forgot to ask in my last post - what is a segmentation fault? In short (because I don't know much about the kernel), it's the signal the kernel sends a process when it's eating into memory that the kernel didn't give it. If it

Re: [techtalk] Preserving Permissions

2000-08-31 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I thought the -p option preserved the permissions. How can I preserve > my files original permissions scheme (in directory B)? The permissions being preserved are those of the copied file. Any files that get copied over don't matter. Did you try not preserving permiss

Re: [techtalk] Preserving Permissions

2000-08-31 Thread stephanie1200
You're not copying from an NFS mount, are you? a few days ago I tried to do something similar and the permissions would not preserve, and the ownership changed to nobody. We finally decided it was an NFS thang, since it runs as nobody. Davida Schiff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > >

[techtalk] Preserving Permissions

2000-08-31 Thread Davida Schiff
Hi, I have a question about preserving permissions (for files). It seems like the -p option during a copy does not work. Here is the scenario: Directory A has 4 files with the following permissions: file1=777, file2=666, file3=667 & file4=676. Directory B has the same (contents) 4 files with th

Re: [techtalk] Open AOL server?

2000-08-31 Thread curious
I'm not sure if there is an opensource AOL server however the jabber project has come quite far: www.jabber.com (has a free windows client and they produce a "commercial" jabber server {ie. "redhat jabber" } www.jabber.org (the original jabber site hosts the server/transport development) www.jab

Re: [techtalk] Open AOL server?

2000-08-31 Thread JLG
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, moira wrote: I was looking for a server not a client. I'm a huge fan of gaim, and everyine here at my office seems to like IM, but we don't want to rely on AOL's servers, additionally we'd like the privacy of one on our internal network. > haven't used it but my boy seems to

[techtalk] samba question

2000-08-31 Thread JLG
I've got a samba server and need to give full rwx privs to all the admins at my job. I tried setting: admin users= admin1's username, admin2's username, admin3's username in [global] but it did not have the desired effect. I had seen this done in one of the example scripts that samba comes with