Re: [techtalk] File sharing over the internet

2001-07-07 Thread Conor Daly
atest info. As a matter of interest, how does CVS cope when: 1. I checkout source and start editing. 2. You checkout the same source and start editing. 3. You finish editing and checkin your version. 4. I finish editing and checkin my version. And we've both modified the same bits of the sam

Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality

2001-07-06 Thread Conor Daly
pics if you tell it to, but it assumes you may be > reading on a console so it won't do that by default. (It > tells you the attachment is present, and you can either > open them on a "as you meet them" basis, or you can set it > up always to open certain sorts. > > Tel

Re: [techtalk] switch function in C (or how to read commandline args?)

2001-07-05 Thread Conor Daly
me, "String Value"); break; where hash("String value") returns the token (int) associated with "String value" > Strings. A Parable. > > Three strings were walking down the road one day, and were very > thirsty. After being rejected f

Re: [techtalk] switch function in C (or how to read commandline args?)

2001-07-03 Thread Conor Daly
case BAR_INSTR: > do_bar(); > break; and case FORCE_SWTICH: force=1; break; case CONFIG_SWITCH: strcpy(config_file_name, argv[2]); break; > which will be a lot faster. > >

Re: [techtalk] switch function in C (or how to read commandline args?)

2001-07-02 Thread Conor Daly
h on the same strings. > In that case, converting the strings to tokens once and switching on the > tokens is probably a decent way to go. Now that's interesting. So how do I tokenise the strings? Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-)

[techtalk] switch function in C (or how to read commandline args?)

2001-06-30 Thread Conor Daly
readconfig($CONFIG_FILE) ;; *) echo "AARRRGGG!" ;; esac I even tried case (! strcmp(opt,"config-file")): to try and return an integer for the case statement but it seems to need a constant rather than the return valu

Re: [techtalk] dead mouse

2001-06-23 Thread Conor Daly
e wrong mouse type configured, since the driver > then interprets the coordinates the mouse sends wrongly... > I get behaviour like this using a KVM (Keyboard, Vidoe, Mouse) switch to share inputs between three boxes. switching from X to console and back resets the mouse but maybe only becaus

Re: [techtalk] Looking for a script

2001-06-16 Thread Conor Daly
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:38:33PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Conor Daly thought: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:45:37AM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > Keith Barringer thought: > > Some time ago I posted a question here regarding FTP > > servers. From

Re: [techtalk] Looking for a script

2001-06-16 Thread Conor Daly
ming you substitute actual values for $FTP_ROOT and $X Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 11:34pm up 23:51, 0 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 Hobbiton.cod.ie 11:34pm up 23:52,

Re: [techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-06-01 Thread Conor Daly
the mailboxes. b Works for mbox folders, don't know about maildir but I suspect so. Don't think it'll work over IMAP though Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 9:53am up 12 days, 22:02, 0 users, load avera

Re: [techtalk] Progeny Debian

2001-06-01 Thread Conor Daly
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:42:37PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, David Merrill thought: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:23:30AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:26:35PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > > Michelle Murrain thought: > > &

Re: [techtalk] Progeny Debian

2001-05-31 Thread Conor Daly
n how to click a "send" button by now) -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 12:11am up 12 days, 12:19, 0 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 Hobbiton.cod.ie 12:16am up 11 days

Re: [techtalk] samba help

2001-05-31 Thread Conor Daly
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:40:29PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, ktb thought: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:10:06PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:19:39AM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > > ktb thought: > > > If you don't c

Re: [techtalk] samba help

2001-05-31 Thread Conor Daly
ry. OTOH, if you *do* require encrypted passwords (hardly necessary at home though) you'll need to look at the "encrypted passwords" stuff and smbpasswd. Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor

Re: [techtalk] Delurk - RH 6.2 question

2001-05-29 Thread Conor Daly
e confirm() { echo -n "Start service $1 (Y)es/(N)o/(C)ontinue? [Y] " read answer case $answer in y|Y|"") return 0 ;; c|C) return 2 ;; n|N) return 1 ;; *) confirm $1 return $? ;; esac } -- Conor Daly Met Eireann,

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
;m not involved in any "unauthorised access" but I could be the object of harassment dur to the display of such material. Conor (Who harasses the NT admin by hanging up Tux and userfriendly.org posters :-) -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-)

[techtalk] hardening firewalls (was Re: hdparm and DMA "not permitted")

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:22:11AM +1200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Penguina thought: > > > On Wed, 23 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > > Sure thing, glad to help. Now I just gotta go install 2.4 in place of the > > 2.2.16 that's currently running. RH7.1 time? &g

Re: [techtalk] Re: rpms r bad?

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 01:45:09PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Telsa Gwynne thought: > On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 10:24:40AM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote: > > The thing that gets me with rpm is the way I cannot query an uninstalled > > package to s

Re: [techtalk] Re: rpms r bad?

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
1.3.9-i386.rpm and I get back "pagkage is not installed" I KNOW it's not installed, that's why I'm trying to look inside for the proggie I need. If I could do that, I could do an rpm -ql * | grep xanim and figure out which rpm I need to start with! ARRGHH! Conor (Who t

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
roved the account > in the first place. Viewable by all! Only problem is the privacy issue. She may not be *allowed* to do that. > Then leave it up to them to figure out what to do. Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie

Re: [techtalk] Delurk/Getting started

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
ots though rarely now), a hub, one keyboard, one mouse, one monitor and a 4-port KVM switch. The whole rig, including the printer and scanner fits into two PC desks. Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 12:28am up 6 days,

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
the email porn pretty quickly!)) http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 12:16am up 6 days, 12:24, 0 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 Hobbiton.co

Re: [techtalk] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

2001-05-23 Thread Conor Daly
it handles disk *writes* from my DV > camera now...) > > Thanks again! > > Cheryl Sure thing, glad to help. Now I just gotta go install 2.4 in place of the 2.2.16 that's currently running. RH7.1 time? Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) --

Re: [techtalk] OpenSSH Trusted Host Setup Question

2001-05-22 Thread Conor Daly
keys and use the filenames ssh_known_hosts2 and authorized_keys2 I *think* that'll do it... Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 8:35pm up 3 days, 8:43, 0 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 Hobbiton.cod.ie 8:36pm u

Re: [techtalk] windows sucks

2001-05-22 Thread Conor Daly
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:04:29PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Conor Daly thought: > Yes, I *know* 2.2Gb won't fit on a CDROM but you should be able to gzip > the image into less than 640Mb and then use 'zcat' to restore it. Another thing I didn't thin

Re: [techtalk] windows sucks

2001-05-22 Thread Conor Daly
HD Yes, I *know* 2.2Gb won't fit on a CDROM but you should be able to gzip the image into less than 640Mb and then use 'zcat' to restore it. Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 12:52pm up 3 day

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-20 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:38:20PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Julie thought: > From: Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:49:20PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > > > Interesting something comes to mind there... What will it cost me to

Re: [techtalk] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

2001-05-20 Thread Conor Daly
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:17:18PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, James Sutherland thought: > On Sun, 20 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > > > Little problem here with hdparm and DMA. I'm using an AMD K6-2 350MHz on > > some kind of amibios mobo with "Ultr

Fwd: Re: [techtalk] My bad NT day

2001-05-20 Thread Conor Daly
I asked a colleague of mine who is/was using a FreeBSD box as firewall for comments. Here's what he said... Conor - Forwarded message from Steffen Higel - On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:42:52PM +0100, Conor Daly articulated: > > Did you get your FreeBSD firewall set up? Would

[techtalk] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

2001-05-20 Thread Conor Daly
rq 15 hda: Maxtor 91021U2, 9770MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1245/255/63 hdb: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63 Any thoughts? Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 11:04am up 23:12, 0 users, load average: 0.15,

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread Conor Daly
something comes to mind there... What will it cost me to put /home on an NFS volume over a 4-box 10Mbit network? It's gotta be slower than local disk but you get to carry your settings across boxes. Not that anyone else in the house uses much more than the "main" computer thoug

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread Conor Daly
e linux install and go as far as partitioning the HD and making filesystems. Then I'd kill the box, reconnect the 'doze disk and restart the linux install. At that stage, the partitioning (which is really the dangerous bit) is done and the linux partitions should show

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread Conor Daly
what my one looks like anyhow . do a 'lilo' to install the new boot order Don't forget you need to set the linux drive as "master" to use it by itself and then reset it to "slave" when you reconnect the 'doze disk. Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [techtalk] window manager preference?

2001-05-19 Thread Conor Daly
having a husband who'll write you a new kernel on demand... :-) Conor (Who only knows how to _compile_ one...(A kernel that is, not a husband)) -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 12:55am up 18 days, 3:45, 0 users, lo

Re: [techtalk] window manager preference?

2001-05-19 Thread Conor Daly
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:01:33AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Conor Daly thought: > OK console heads... I use console (well, xterms) almost exclusively > myself. The reason I use terms rather than the consoles is I can get more > onto the screen. Like, an 80x25 char dis

Re: [techtalk] window manager preference?

2001-05-19 Thread Conor Daly
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:52:51AM -0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, psyche thought: > > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > > > now, the point of these ramblings... Can I set the console to 128x50 or > > something like that? Had a look at stty bu

Re: [techtalk] newbie

2001-05-19 Thread Conor Daly
rce hungry beast and, with your config, it will take some time to load. Open Office (the open source version of StarOffice) is in the pipeline and is expected to be less of a hog though it's not ready for the big time just yet. Conor PS. Welcome! -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [techtalk] window manager preference?

2001-05-18 Thread Conor Daly
amblings... Can I set the console to 128x50 or something like that? Had a look at stty but couldn't find anything helpful there. TIA Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 10:47am

Re: [techtalk] Internet Connection Sharing

2001-05-18 Thread Conor Daly
HOWTO, so don't be afraid! :) Then just add in diald to get dial on demand connecting and you can forget about it thereafter. I use a 486/DX2 66MHz with 16Mb RAM, 250Mb HDD and a custom kernel to do dial on demand, ipmasq and firewall. Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dom

Re: [techtalk] Parallel port zip drives under RH 7.1 (2.4 kernel change, perhaps)

2001-05-17 Thread Conor Daly
for the device. I have a SCSI zipdrive on ID 5 and it's not Incidentally, did you try /dev/sd[bcde]4 ? Does this ppa module mean I can hook up a parallel port CDRW also? Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 9:45pm up

Re: [techtalk] Layman's Guides to Computer Security

2001-05-16 Thread Conor Daly
on-linux OS's". It just feels nice. :-) PPS. Another colleague, looking at my linux-only box with staroffice running, said "OOOHH! Can I deal with word docs and excel spreadsheets and run my marine wave model without rebooting?" Another convert (well, she's been *ni

Re: [techtalk] Layman's Guides to Computer Security

2001-05-15 Thread Conor Daly
ayman type books / articles. They won't be quite up to date since he's dead now (Boo Hoo!) but good and non techie enough for all. Conor (Who recently got a present of "Issac Asimov's guide to the Bible") -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-)

Re: [techtalk] Eric Raymond, MS security, and open source..

2001-05-15 Thread Conor Daly
d and close the backdoors with open source stuff (or was that irony above?). Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 11:34pm up 15 days, 2:25, 0 users, load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.01 Hobbiton.cod.ie 11:41pm up 15 days, 2:33

Re: [techtalk] Layman's Guides to Computer Security

2001-05-15 Thread Conor Daly
uter Security Primer" Or is that too passe at this stage? (Inspired by digital's "The Little grey Book, An Ultrix Primer" which, btw is a very nice (commandline) intro to unix/linux for a new user) Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) -

Re: [techtalk] GTK+ Prob - Mandrake 8

2001-05-14 Thread Conor Daly
pt should do. something like #!/bin/bash ssh -l root localhost '/usr/bin/xcdroast $*' ## end ## save that as xcdroast.sh Now all you need do is set up ssh on your box! Alternatively, you could "chmod -s xcdroast" and then run it as root. Finally, you cou

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #449 - 9 msgs

2001-05-14 Thread Conor Daly
to use a flatbladed > screwdriver on a philips screw. :) and if you want to be *really* correct about it, you should be willing to use a flatblade screwdriver on a "Pozidriv" screw! :-) Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.i

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #445 - 11 msgs

2001-05-12 Thread Conor Daly
t LILO, set a CMOS *setup* password, set the CMOS to boot from HDD *only* (It irritates me the way some CMOS's only allow me to set the *order* of boot devices but not to disable any). Then buy a big chain and padlock and lock the box to the floor! Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [techtalk] Win 98 question....

2001-05-08 Thread Conor Daly
ry to /dev/hda2 (or /dev/hda5 depending on whether you used fips or fdisk) 6. use linux fdisk to change the partition type of /dev/hda1 to fat32 ('b' in the "types" option in fdisk) 7. boot from dos floppy, format c:, sys c: 8. boot from HDD and run setup #

Re: [techtalk] botched newbie kernel compile

2001-05-08 Thread Conor Daly
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0 I can tar up the firewall modules along with its kernel and install without messing up the system I compiled on Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 11:22pm up 8 days,

Re: [techtalk] Audio tape to CD

2001-04-29 Thread Conor Daly
r 'doze with Adaptec's Spin Doctor from the Easy CD Creator suite. I kinda think there's something that will do that in linux but I've not had a need for it since. Conor. -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 12:22

Re: [techtalk] How do I make the first ssh connection?

2001-04-28 Thread Conor Daly
to watch the communication > between the hosts. Still stumped, I've asked work to enable port 22 for my work box so I'll wait for that and see if I get any further. I suspect it's the work firewall now. Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-

Re: [techtalk] light laptops for linux?

2001-04-26 Thread Conor Daly
my laptop so long as I don't use them!? Conor (wondering would they let me carry a 15" monitor and PC into the cabin of the airplane..) -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 6:41pm up 10 days, 4:55, 0 users, load average:

[techtalk] How do I make the first ssh connection?

2001-04-26 Thread Conor Daly
e sshd[2679]: Connection from yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy port 8120 Apr 23 14:01:10 Valkerie sshd[2679]: Did not receive ident string from yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy TIA Conor. -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 9:15pm up 10 days, 7:29, 0 users, load ave

Re: [techtalk] Minor ln -s question

2001-04-23 Thread Conor Daly
ual exercise to try and figure out what I was saying in the first place) :-) -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 9:52pm up 7 days, 8:07, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Hobbiton.cod.ie 10:1

Re: [techtalk] Minor ln -s question

2001-04-23 Thread Conor Daly
st go straight for the man page first nowadays. =) Though I find that command --help is more succinct and often enough. Conor -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 9:51pm up 7 days, 8:05, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Re: [techtalk] RE: [grrltalk] webads

2001-04-18 Thread Conor Daly
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:22:36AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Telsa Gwynne thought: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:12:43PM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote: > > > > And I thought mainland Europeans had it nice already. Here in Ireland, > > the "loca

Re: [techtalk] RE: [grrltalk] webads

2001-04-17 Thread Conor Daly
get TV, phone and cable modem access (4Mbit/s and 1 static IP, not > the lousy ADSL 768/128kbit with dynamic IPs you get over here (or not)) > for 60 or 70 USD a month. Let's talk about envy ;-/. This rollout started here also with NTL for about 90

Re: Vim and regular expressions (was Re: [techtalk] Any good HTML editors for Linux?)

2001-04-05 Thread Conor Daly
the same page with perl5, and so on. Somewhere in www.linux.ie there exists a vi(m) tutorial which goes into greedy/ non-greedy regexps or else there're links to one. I may have a printout somewhere that might have a URL. I'll post if I find it. -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D

Re: [techtalk] How about SGML editors? (was: Any good HTML editors for Linux?)

2001-04-05 Thread Conor Daly
a variant for user > tutorials, another for user manuals, another for business proposals... > > Advice? Help? Tea? LyX from lyx.org? did a little in docbook with it with relative ease. Did NOT attempt any hacks though (no time). Earl Grey in your local tea s

Re: [techtalk] Any good HTML editors for Linux?

2001-04-05 Thread Conor Daly
in the config file and still retain useful stuff like arrow keys and syntax highlighting (that's not available ion vi is it?) > > I don't "think" when I use vi -- it's all just very automatic. So I wind > up doing things completely wrong because I've been habitu

Re: [techtalk] Slightly OT: My dopey sysadmin strikes again!

2001-04-05 Thread Conor Daly
the teachers having their passwords stuck on their monitors with postit stickers. Conor. -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 12:40pm up 36 days, 22:15, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Hobbiton.cod.ie 11:55am up 36 day

Re: [techtalk] dual boot/ linux writing into win98 partition

2001-04-03 Thread Conor Daly
oring a machine would be as simple as using dd to restore the disk and then copying back the machine specific files. I have a suspicion that I heard somewhere that dd could not be used to image from one disk type to another (something about the low-level disk geometry or something) but I&#x

Re: [techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk.

2001-03-27 Thread Conor Daly
S. In this case, we start off with a (relatively) simple program on the floppy. This mounts the zip disk thereby adding a layer of complexity and capability and the zip disk, in turn, mounts the CDROM and loads the main OS. > I'll post again later, I am already la

Re: [techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk.

2001-03-25 Thread Conor Daly
> --- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:07:06AM -0800 or so it is > > rumoured hereabouts, > > Maria G Martinez thought: > > > > > > > > > I have a SuSE 7.0 Live Evaluation CD. It boots > >

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread Conor Daly
" europe! :-) > I'm from "central" Europe. It's just that it's central in a North-South sense rather than East-West though! Conor (from Dublin, Ireland) -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 2:29

Re: [techtalk] Dual boot machine

2001-03-22 Thread Conor Daly
onfig.sys and autoexec.bat depending on your choice. Timeouts and default choices are supported. My Corel linux entry loads nothing in config.sys and directs autoexec.bat to fire up the loadlin batch file so the DOS boot bit takes all of oh, 5 seconds before the linux boot starts. config.sys

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #369 - 9 msgs

2001-03-22 Thread Conor Daly
XP programmers learning a new > language...) > Er.. HI- as in [HI-techtalk]? Perhaps I'll crawl back under my stone now... -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 1:36am up 22 days, 12:11, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00,

Re: [techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk.

2001-03-22 Thread Conor Daly
ome) which I think you can resize or at least specify as larger and doesn't affect the M$ setup at all. You're welcome to a copy if you wish. -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie

Re: [techtalk] Re: REJECT packet is logged as DENY....

2001-03-20 Thread Conor Daly
27:2336 64.230.122.92:111 L=60 S=0x00 I=61932 F=0x4000 T=45 SYN (#14) > Mar 19 09:37:52 shadowspar kernel: Packet log: input - ppp0 PROTO=6 >195.92.249.252:2573 64.230.122.92:25 L=60 S=0x00 I=56226 F=0x4000 T=37 SYN (#16) TIA -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-)

Re: [techtalk] Printing to Deskjet printer

2001-03-15 Thread Conor Daly
hand. I can send these if you wish. Al you *really* need is rhs-printfilters which was up to 1.81-1 when last I looked. Don't know where to get it but I can send you the (25k) tarball if you're interested. Now whether it'll work for another distro I don't know but I'

Re: [techtalk] Telnet trouble with RH7.0

2001-03-11 Thread Conor Daly
, I get a "connected" message but no login. tcpd sits >> there (presumably) waiting for the user to be authenticated. >> /var/log/messages shows nothing >> >> Any thoughts? > FIXED IT! Did an rpm -ivh telnet-server-0.17-i386.rpm UURRGH! Ever feel stupid

[techtalk] Telnet trouble with RH7.0

2001-03-10 Thread Conor Daly
#### end telnet ## -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 12:36pm up 10 days, 23:11, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Hobbiton.cod.ie 11:39am up 10 days, 21:49, 2 us

Re: [techtalk] tty lockup

2001-03-09 Thread Conor Daly
telinit 3 Testing. Yup, that worked. RH 6.2 You gotta do it on a single line with semicolons though since you'll lose your connection once the box goes to single user mode. Once it goes to single user and then back to a normal runlevel, it'll sta

Re: [techtalk] Error installing Red Hat Linux 7.0

2001-03-07 Thread Conor Daly
ice. OTOH, a quick grep on ls -l /dev reveals brw-rw1 root disk 8, 41 Aug 24 2000 /dev/sdc9 device 08:41 appears (on my system AMD K6-2 350) to be the 9th partition on the 3rd scsi disk on my scsi-less system!?? -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin

Re: [techtalk] tcl/tk problem in Slackware 7.1

2001-02-24 Thread Conor Daly
have the libs for tcl/tk 8.3 installed. is it >possible that xcdroast *requires* the older version of tcl/tk? or could >there be a good reason why the configure script can't see the version i >have installed? > I suppose you _could_ try editing the configure script to look for

Re: [techtalk] Re: disappearing mouse

2001-02-03 Thread Conor Daly
don't > know about RedHat though, it does not always follow standards.. > /etc/X11/XF86Config Try running "mouseconfig" (I think) as root. That will configure only your mouse and leave your video stuff alone. -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) --

Re: [techtalk] HP Productivity Center 2001

2001-02-02 Thread Conor Daly
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:02:36PM -0600 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Kathryn Hogg thought: > Is this spammer really subscribed to the list or does the MLM allow > non-subscribers to post? > AFAIK the linuxchix lists are open for posting. -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [techtalk] filename special characters

2001-01-22 Thread Conor Daly
hem in several directories. > > > > Verifying that the rename files are unique in thier own folders is a > > seperate problem that I can solve once I'm able to search and replace the > > '[]' characters. > > > > find . -name "*\[*\]*"

Re: [techtalk] DNS

2001-01-21 Thread Conor Daly
ehind my firewall or > run it on the firewall (The firewall is a masquerading box)? I'm using an old 486 as ip masq firewall and router and have the DNS on the P200 server. > > - Kath the Very Confused ^^ You mean Kath the shortly to become even more confus

Re: [techtalk] SAMBA

2001-01-15 Thread Conor Daly
ly Conveniently packaged as part of the samba distribution these days from www.samba.org -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - 12:50pm up 11 days, 19:57, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.07, 0.02 ___ techtalk ma

Re: [techtalk] Parition help

2001-01-12 Thread Conor Daly
the MS DOS/Windows version of fdisk to recover that by issuing > the command: > >fdisk /MBR > > Eric The Windows setup will kill that nicely, no worries there! -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) ---

[techtalk] HP JetDirect print server (and how they don't work!)

2001-01-11 Thread Conor Daly
a telnet portscan on the server and could only connect to the direct port which ain't exactly useful when trying to print graphics is it? Any ideas where to go? (bin / skip / shop for new external print server) TIA -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) --

Re: [techtalk] .biz, .info new domain news

2001-01-09 Thread Conor Daly
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:13:40PM + or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Telsa Gwynne thought: > > Telsa ("always look on the bright side of life...") ^ While dangling from a crucifix? or just anyway... :-) -- Conor Daly &

Re: [techtalk] .biz, .info new domain news

2001-01-06 Thread Conor Daly
t* require any action to avoid receiving more! -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - 12:52pm up 2 days, 20:00, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.01 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Woes :\

2001-01-04 Thread Conor Daly
increasing the relevant log level for the pop server and try a few times while tailing the log. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to do these things myself but I'm sure they can be done. -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - 2:08pm up 21

Re: [techtalk] Red Hat 7.0 and video cards

2001-01-02 Thread Conor Daly
n favour of an S3 Trio 3D 2X+ which ran out of the box. I can't remember if I had replaced the card before I put on RH7.0 though. -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - 11:13pm up 14 days, 11:04, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00 ___

Re: [techtalk] Re; Smoking kills!

2000-12-16 Thread Conor Daly
45-minute session with a hairdryer on medium heat. That gets it mostly dry and I can live with the occassional key remapping! -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - 5:01pm up 14 days, 18:58, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.10, 0.02 __

Alan Carr Cures!! (was [techtalk] Smoking kills!)

2000-12-12 Thread Conor Daly
too busy/stressed to) stop just now, get the book and just read it. You don't have to stop while reading, you can carry on just as normal just so long as you read the book. -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - 4:55pm up 10 days, 18

Re: [techtalk] Using CD-Rom drives with linux.

2000-12-11 Thread Conor Daly
here # CDR_SPEED=2 # # The default FIFO size if, not specified elswhere # CDR_FIFOSIZE=4m # # The following definitions allow abstract device names. # They are used if the device name does not contain the # the characters ',', ':', '/' and '@' # # dr

[techtalk] Re: SGI & Linux (was: Soundcard/DMA Timeout)

2000-12-08 Thread Conor Daly
r low end boxen with *Intel* processors run Linux. Anything with > a MIPS processor runs Irix. Their "low end" boxes are glorified, > expensive, proprietary PCs with really nice graphics cards. > Aw! -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) _

Re: [techtalk] Re: Soundcard/DMA Timeout

2000-12-07 Thread Conor Daly
iate distro/kernel to use for SGI (said he showing his ignorance)? > > Later, > Caity > -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] RE: backup newbie

2000-11-29 Thread Conor Daly
llowing? 1st of Month: Full backup Sunday: Differential Backup from Monthly Daily: Differential Backup from Sunday -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

[techtalk] Keyboard/Mouse Reset Hardware Problem

2000-11-12 Thread Conor Daly
ata switch. Will this break stuff (eg. MOBO, Mouse etc)? d). How long can a PS/2 or VGA cable be? I want to relocate the server and router in the attic and it would be nice to be able to physically connect to them from my usual workstation using

Re: [techtalk] gnome inter-panel rivalry

2000-11-07 Thread Conor Daly
> Now the spooky thing about that is that the two panels are running on *different* hosts and will correctly start up any apps on their respective hosts when launchers are clicked. I would expect similar behaviour from the embedded applets also. Seems a bit bug-like to me. I'm

Re: [techtalk] gnome inter-panel rivalry

2000-11-06 Thread Conor Daly
Guess I'll go ask gnome-devel eh? -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

[techtalk] gnome inter-panel rivalry

2000-11-05 Thread Conor Daly
happily monitors the mail spool on the RH client which never gets any mail since that all lives on the IMAP server! If I then logout from the RH client and login at the server's console and startx, panel-h has no lost its clock and mailcheck! This behaviour seems bug-like to me. Anyone

Re: [techtalk] IO and IRQ Question for Samsung NE2000 NIC

2000-10-30 Thread Conor Daly
msung website, write it off to a floppy, boot from a DOS floppy and start configuring... Alternatively, you could try some typical NIC settings like IRQ 10 I/O 0x300 -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) ___ techtalk mailin

Re: [techtalk] Re: Help! Au secour! Mayday!

2000-10-29 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 08:10:22PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Kath thought: > Its www.linux-firewall-tools.com > > - Kathy > > > Conor Daly wrote: > > > Go to > > > www.linuxfirewalltools.com > > > and build yourself an ipchains ruleset.

Re: [techtalk] windoze-based distros

2000-10-26 Thread Conor Daly
;linux" at the DOS prompt. > (maybe a shortcut with the right parameters would work) > Set up a shortcut to linux.bat and set it to run in MSDOS mode. (ClicK the "advanced" button under the "program" tab) -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) __

Re: [techtalk] Help! Au secour! Mayday!

2000-10-25 Thread Conor Daly
nd tell me necessary configuration to get things running > the linux box I have now is RH6.1 running on Intel386. > > Hope to hear from you... > > Cheers > anton xie Go to www.linuxfirewalltools.com and build yourself an ipchains ruleset. Read the Firewall HOWTO, the ipc

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