RE: [techtalk] bare metal recovery nightmare

2001-05-30 Thread Brian Sweeney
Well, I now be the only one (I think) to have reponded to my own thread ;). First off, I shouldn't have even posted these questions; I was just too damned tired and making too many mistakes. Once I slept and thought about it logically, I realized there was no way what I was trying to do would wo

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-30 Thread Mark Foster
At 17:28 30/05/2001 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> But not while you're on my payroll, and not using my equipment and not > >> using my telephone, and not using my internet connection. I, as a > >> private employer, have every right to monitor what goes on with my >stuff, > >> including wha

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: disaster recovery of linux server

2001-05-30 Thread wildgrass
>A quick glance at the taper man page shows that this information is layed >out in what appears to be pretty plain language. What I get is "no manual entry for taper". How to install the man page? taper was compiled from the source on this machine. Then I tried installing the taper rpm on anot

Re: [techtalk] Printing from Linux using Samba 2.0.8 to Win2K

2001-05-30 Thread Mandi
M$ changed a bunch of stuff with win2k. (not better, just different...) If you can, try upgrading to samba 2.2, which just came out within the last couple months. win2k uses additional information when authenticating users to services that nt4 didn't. you might try the samba mailing lists or s

Re: [techtalk] 'Nuff sed

2001-05-30 Thread Nancy Corbett
Ahh!!! It worked!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!! You cured my sedache! Nancy On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > sed: command garbled: s/NEWDAY/Wednesday,05/30/2001/g > > sed lets you specify an alternate delimiter. I normally use '@', so I wo

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-30 Thread Martin . Caitlyn
Hi, > Oh so now suddenly James decides to Be Specific. While I disagree vehemently with some of James' views, in all fairness he was specific to the EU from the outset. That became less clear as the thread went on, and I'm not at all sure that's his fault. The thing we all need to remember, I

Re: [issues] Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-30 Thread Kai MacTane
At 5/30/01 01:11 PM , Penguina wrote: >On Wed, 30 May 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > > > i.e. don't mention it to the people whose human rights she's violating, or > > the employer who'll fire her for doing so, or the police who would fine > > the company into the ground for allowing her to do so

Re: [issues] Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-30 Thread Penguina
On Wed, 30 May 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2001, Penguina wrote: > > > At 5/29/01 06:02 AM , James Sutherland wrote: > > > > > > >The *US* courts, you mean? I'm talking about *EU* law. That's the whole > > > >point: this is legal in the US, but NOT in the EU. One of the few a

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake 8 revisited

2001-05-30 Thread Martin . Caitlyn
Hi, James, and everyone else, > Not Perl SCRIPTS per se; vim-enhanced (the "colourful vi") is a binary > linked against libperl.so. When I installed vim-enhanced, installation of > libperl failed - leaving me with a broken vi, instead of an error > message from the RPM installer... Ah... this m

[techtalk] 'Nuff sed

2001-05-30 Thread Nancy Corbett
Okay...I don't get it. I'm trying to format a date using sed. When I do the command from the command line, it works. But when I try it within the sed statement, I get a message saying: sed: command garbled: s/NEWDAY/Wednesday,05/30/2001/g 2 Any sed proficient folks out there who could lend a

Re: [issues] Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-30 Thread marisa mack
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:56:53AM +1200, penguina sed: > If the EU has its head so far up its hindquarters that it doesn't > allow private employers to monitor and regulate the use of company > infrastructure, then no wonder the EU is so far uh..."behind." This kind of nationalistic attitude d

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-30 Thread James Sutherland
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Penguina wrote: > > At 5/29/01 06:02 AM , James Sutherland wrote: > > > > >The *US* courts, you mean? I'm talking about *EU* law. That's the whole > > >point: this is legal in the US, but NOT in the EU. One of the few areas > > >the EU has got it right, IMHO - for the most par

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-30 Thread Penguina
> At 5/29/01 06:02 AM , James Sutherland wrote: > > >The *US* courts, you mean? I'm talking about *EU* law. That's the whole > >point: this is legal in the US, but NOT in the EU. One of the few areas > >the EU has got it right, IMHO - for the most part, I think I prefer the US > >system (2nd am

[techtalk] Printing from Linux using Samba 2.0.8 to Win2K

2001-05-30 Thread Michael Carson
I've had my Linux box using Samba 2.0.8 printing to a WinNT 4.0 server for some time without a problem. Well, today "they" decided to move the printer from the WinNT machine (which is also the PDC) to a Win2K box (that is part of the domain, but is not a controller). Now, having made the app

[techtalk] Fwd: disaster recovery of linux server

2001-05-30 Thread wildgrass
Dear all, I am resending this again in the hopes of getting a response as I haven't got any. Would someone be so kind as to give some ideas to a helpless, clueless newbie? >Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:01:50 -0700 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: wildgrass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: disaster recove

Re: [techtalk] knowledgebase solutions..

2001-05-30 Thread Tricia Bowen
We use twiki here at work and so far it's been very useful. See http://twiki.sourceforge.net for a breakdown of it's features. I think most of the ones you're looking for is listed. -tricia On Wed, 30 May 2001, Sarah wrote: | |Hi all, | |One of my recent projects at work has been to attempt to

Re: [techtalk] Sound card problem :(

2001-05-30 Thread Tricia Bowen
If that doesn't work you might want to try installing oss (www.opensound.com) which is pretty cheap. -tricia On Wed, 30 May 2001, Rialian wrote: | |> I am running RH 7.0. |> My PC has Ensoniq AudioPCI card. But I can't make it |> work :((. | |===Adjust the #. If it is the newer Ensonique, you

[techtalk] knowledgebase solutions..

2001-05-30 Thread Sarah
Hi all, One of my recent projects at work has been to attempt to find a good knowledgebase solution for our support website. Our current 'solution' is NT based and does things like take the machine down to a crawl (95% CPU usage) doing one search- not a working solution, in my opinion. The pro

Re: [techtalk] Sound card problem :(

2001-05-30 Thread Rialian
> I am running RH 7.0. > My PC has Ensoniq AudioPCI card. But I can't make it > work :((. ===Adjust the #. If it is the newer Ensonique, you want to have it detect as the slightly older one that is supported. (mine is a 5880, and you want to set it to the es1371) ===A bit annoying, but it wi

[techtalk] Sound card problem :(

2001-05-30 Thread Iveta Ilieva
Hi all, I am reading this mailing list for quite a while now. I have learned many things thanks to you people :)) And now I have enough courage to ask the question that is bothering me for a few months. I am running RH 7.0. My PC has Ensoniq AudioPCI card. But I can't make it work :((. I run sndc

RE: [techtalk] bare metal recovery nightmare

2001-05-30 Thread Brian Sweeney
Hmmm..should've seen this sooner. Looks like I'm having permissions issues. Must've dropped a -p flag somewhere. I changed all the /bin, /sbin, and /etc permissions appropriately. Now it boots and I get the following (RedHat stuff): (lots of services start ok; sendmail complains 'cause of a pe