[techtalk] Re: Rotating apache logs

2001-06-04 Thread David Merrill
rsonal web site with some resources used by the LDP staff. So, a big load is not an issue for me. It just doesn't happen. Thanks for the info, though. If I ever have problems due to load, which is conceivable since I just started mirroring the LDP as well, then I will look at cronolog. >

Re: [techtalk] Progeny Debian

2001-06-01 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:53:17AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > 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

Re: [techtalk] Uninstalling Nautilus

2001-06-01 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:47:59AM -0700, Michelle Dukich wrote: > Hello fellow Chix: > > I am trying to uninstall Nautilus and my google > searches to find help all point to Eazel, which is > dead since they went under. Does anyone have the > instructions they can send out? What distro are y

Re: [techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-06-01 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:59:45AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:51:01PM +1000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > Claudine Chionh thought: > > Hi Michelle and others, > > > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:24:05PM -0700, Michelle Dukich ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scripsit, > > >

Re: [techtalk] mod_virgule compile problem

2001-05-31 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:05:27PM -0500, Daniel Manrique wrote: > > > > I *do* have the kernel headers installed. Installed by rpm, to > > /usr/src/linux-2.2.19/ - not /usr/src/linux. Looks like that is the > > problem, then. > > > > Any problem creating a symlink as /usr/src/linux/? > > no, t

Re: [techtalk] mod_virgule compile problem

2001-05-31 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:56:17PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > > /usr/include/linux/param.h:4: asm/param.h: No such file or directory > > Looks like you don't have the kernel headers installed. I'd go looking for a > package that says kernel-headers or something in the name and install it. > > A

[techtalk] mod_virgule compile problem

2001-05-31 Thread David Merrill
Hi, I'm having a problem when compiling mod_virgule. It doesn't seem to be a problem with mod_virgule, which is why I'm asking here and not there. ;-) In file included from /usr/include/sys/param.h:25, from /usr/include/apache/ap_config.h:1011, from /usr/include

Re: [techtalk] Progeny Debian

2001-05-31 Thread David Merrill
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: > > > > The one minor snag is that at the same time as I did this change, I > > decided it would be a great time to change from POP

Re: [techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-05-31 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:23:43PM -0700, Michelle Dukich wrote: > Hi to all the HIPpy HIPpy Chix: > > I am on the quest for a mail client that is not going > to make me work so hard to make it work. I am > currently looking at, but not even close to making a > decision. In my search, I have 3

Re: [techtalk] cron.hourly vs cron.daily timing

2001-05-29 Thread David Merrill
command > 0 1 * * * /test/nancy/bin/cleanlogfiledir -P /test/nancy/outdir > 0 2 * * * /test/nancy/bin/cleandatasourcefiles -P /test/nancy/outdir > 0 3 * * * /test/nancy/bin/cleandatabasetables -P /test/nancy/outdir > > > On Tue, 29 May 2001, David Merrill wrote: > > >

[techtalk] cron.hourly vs cron.daily timing

2001-05-29 Thread David Merrill
I'm configuring webalizer on my machine and am scheduling a cron job to process the web logs. I need to make sure the processing of web logs happens *before* the log rotator. The log rotator is called from a script in cron.monthly, and the log processor is going to be in cron.hourly (for now). Ca

Re: [techtalk] window manager preference?

2001-05-18 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:13:25PM +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:01:33AM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote: > > > gnome-terminal and can read all the all of the subject lines in mutt. So > > now, the point of these ramblings... Can I set the console to 128x50 or

Re: [techtalk] Internet Connection Sharing

2001-05-17 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:11:36PM -0500, Julie wrote: > From: coldfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > well, i particularly enjoy networking stuff ... so if you need any help, > > feel free to post and i'd love to help out as i'm sure others would too :) > > quick question .. are you using ipfwadm, ipcha

Re: [techtalk] Internet Connection Sharing

2001-05-17 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:33:56PM -0400, coldfire wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I was using Mandrake 7.2 for Internet Connection on my home PC's. They > > are > > > sharing > > > a modem there since I can not get DSL or cable yet. I had to convert the > > > machine to > > > Win 2K for work reaso

Re: [techtalk] ssh slow login

2001-05-17 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:40:55PM +1200, Jamie Walker wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:26:36PM -0400, David Merrill wrote: > > > When I ssh into this box, it sometimes takes 20-30 seconds for the > > login prompt to come up. Does anyone know why it would take this long >

[techtalk] ssh slow login

2001-05-16 Thread David Merrill
I just set up a new alphaserver on my home network. It is running Debian testing. When I ssh into this box, it sometimes takes 20-30 seconds for the login prompt to come up. Does anyone know why it would take this long to display a login prompt over a LAN? The machine has almost no load on it. T

Re: [techtalk] Benchmarking, Bandwidth, server speed

2001-05-15 Thread David Merrill
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:11:18PM -0700, Raven, corporate courtesan wrote: > There are a few different ways to test your throughput. Many ISPs > will have test files that you can FTP to and from them to use up all > the available bandwidth. Or, you can try to pingflood your line Try runn

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

2001-05-14 Thread David Merrill
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:24:14AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > > > > Novice? Newbie? > > I want something which clearly states that I know it's not > necessarily something they *want* to learn. Like I don't want > motor-mechanics-for-the-novice because I'm not in

Re: [techtalk] "Developing not Fixing"

2001-05-14 Thread David Merrill
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:28:16AM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >From memory there is a Linux specific one: > > I probably am not going to be the only person to post a pointer to the whole > thing, but maybe I'll be first :-) > > http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/linux/

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #450 - 14 msgs

2001-05-13 Thread David Merrill
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:15:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snippage] > D) I posted to the linux documentation project's feedback page, > stating that there was a referencing/indexing problem with single > user mode - that a newbie (you) had had problems finding the > information about i

Re: [techtalk] What can cause a computer to turn off on its own?

2001-04-27 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:45:33AM -0700, jennyw wrote: > Here's an interesting hardware question. My computer has this habit of > turning on by itself and turning off by itself, and I'm not sure why. I'm I need an old priest and a young priest. The Power of Christ Compels You! The Power of Chri

Re: [techtalk] The manager to send flames to:

2001-04-18 Thread David Merrill
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:32:31PM -0400, Tami Friedman wrote: > > Last week I sent out email detailing my experience as an accused telnet > criminal. No one has yet made any convincing argument that I was in any > way jeopardizing the machine I was telnetting from, but the unnamed system > mana

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake and DiskDrak

2001-04-14 Thread David Merrill
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:40:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm trying to get into DiskDrak to resize my partitions so that I can > install win98 (to play Everquest with my husband:) . Anyone know where it's > stored??? I've tried everything I can think of to find it (but I'm a newbie,

Re: FW: [techtalk] Redhat Linux 7 Crashes

2001-04-14 Thread David Merrill
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:31:51AM -0700, Lothan wrote: > I didn't see anything in the system log that might help trace the problem. > The first hiccup was a complaint that the file system was not unmounted > cleanly (which seems appropriate considering the file system was reported > 'busy' during

Re: [techtalk] Almost arrested for using telnet

2001-04-12 Thread David Merrill
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:45:00PM -0500, Julie wrote: > From: David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > FYI, at least here in the States, `fag' isn't considered good usage > > even in gay circles. Some folks use `queer' because they are happy to > > identif

Re: [techtalk] Almost arrested for using telnet

2001-04-11 Thread David Merrill
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:28:36PM +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > "fag" is used for a cigarette, yes. But I've had so many "um, I mean cig" > experiences talking to people not from here that I try to avoid it. > It's also used as a word for gay people, and is generally not intended > nicely, althoug

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

2001-03-27 Thread David Merrill
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:09:15PM -0800, Maria G Martinez wrote: > that right... One question, is the BIOS = CMOS? How The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is the software that performs machine level tasks. CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) is a type of RAM which your BIOS stores

Re: [techtalk] Oddness

2001-03-23 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:19:36PM -0500, Kath wrote: > My sysadmin friend, DraX, was able to fix it. Something with my DNS being > b0rked. It's so nice to have sysadmin friends. It's like having a doctor in the family. -- Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net Linu

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

2001-03-23 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:07:47PM -0900, psyche wrote: > > > > Mr. and Mrs. Brown are normals. A knight and a knave would not agree. > > If Mrs. Smith were a knave, her husband would be a knight and she > > would not call him so. And if she were a knight, she would not call > > her knave husband

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

2001-03-23 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:43:24PM -0500, David Merrill wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:54:47PM -0800, Nancy Corbett wrote: > > > > --- > > Knights and Knaves problem. > > > > Suppose you visit a strange island with three types of people. Knights, > >

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

2001-03-23 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:54:47PM -0800, Nancy Corbett wrote: > > --- > Knights and Knaves problem. > > Suppose you visit a strange island with three types of people. Knights, > who always tell the truth, Knaves, who always lie and Normals who > sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth. It i

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

2001-03-23 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:32:08AM -0500, Michelle Murrain wrote: > I have a question for the group. > > I imagine many of you are self taught, as I am. Although I've been > programming on and off (on for about 8 years, then off for about 8, then on > for the last 3), and have learned, in that

Re: [techtalk] Dual boot machine

2001-03-09 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:44:06PM -0600, Vinnie wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, A Kozic wrote: > > > Although I managed (with plenty help) to get linux onto my > > previously-windows-only laptop, I am now stumped. > > which windows? > > the LDP used to have a number (greater than five, even) o

Re: [techtalk] Dual boot machine

2001-03-09 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:51:47PM -0500, A Kozic wrote: > > Although I managed (with plenty help) to get linux onto my > previously-windows-only laptop, I am now stumped. > > I need to get Windows onto my Linux-only computer. (My boy needs his AOL! > ^_^) > > How do I partition the sucker and

Re: [techtalk] tty lockup

2001-03-09 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:59:24AM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:16:25AM -0500, David Merrill wrote: > > > > It's Ximian's new update agent. Works very much like dselect. I know > > the debian folks have been planning an update to dselect, but it

Re: [techtalk] tty lockup

2001-03-09 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:56:45PM +, James A. Sutherland wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, David Merrill wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:32:51PM +, James A. Sutherland wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, David Merrill wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, &g

Re: [techtalk] tty lockup

2001-03-09 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:32:51PM +, James A. Sutherland wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, David Merrill wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I was running red-carpet and it ate up ALL my available ram. I killed > > it. Now I can get no responsiveness at the console. I am logg

Re: [techtalk] tty lockup

2001-03-09 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:00:39AM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:09:01AM -0500, David Merrill wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was running red-carpet and it ate up ALL my available ram. I killed > > it. Now I can get no responsiveness at the console. I am

[techtalk] tty lockup

2001-03-09 Thread David Merrill
Hi, I was running red-carpet and it ate up ALL my available ram. I killed it. Now I can get no responsiveness at the console. I am logged in from another machine right now so I can send this mail. I suspect that the oom condition caused Linux to kill (somewhat) random processes, and one of them

Re: [techtalk] LILO problems

2001-03-07 Thread David Merrill
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:30:41AM -0500, A Kozic wrote: > I've got my laptop set to dual boot RedHat & Win98, with linux as the > default. My boyfriend uses the computer to play windows-specific games, > and very frequently he isn't paying attention to the computer when it > boots, so it goes int

Re: [techtalk] killing processes on dead pts/n 's

2001-02-28 Thread David Merrill
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:43:10AM -0700, Elaine Poulsen wrote: > Are you using kill -9 to kill it? Yes. > > David Merrill wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > I access my linux box from work with PuTTY, and occasionally I lose my > > connection. When

[techtalk] killing processes on dead pts/n 's

2001-02-28 Thread David Merrill
Greetings, I access my linux box from work with PuTTY, and occasionally I lose my connection. When this happens, I wind up with a process (mutt usually, or vi) that is still running, that I sometimes cannot kill using "kill", or with top. It seems to be because the process no long has a pts assoc

[techtalk] Time & Billing Applications

2001-02-19 Thread David Merrill
Hi, I'm going to be starting two separate independent consulting jobs soon, and I need to find a good tool for tracking my time and billing for it. I'd appreciate any advice on a good tool for this type of job. I did searches on sourceforge and freshmeat, and didn't see anything that looked promi

Re: [techtalk] ssh file transfer

2001-02-16 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:02:59PM +, James Sutherland wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, David Merrill wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I know there is supposed to be a way to transfer files from one > > computer to another once I have an ssh connection set up, but

[techtalk] ssh file transfer

2001-02-16 Thread David Merrill
Hi, I know there is supposed to be a way to transfer files from one computer to another once I have an ssh connection set up, but the man page is very vague. Can anyone give me some pointers or point me to some docs? Thanks, -- Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.ne

Re: [techtalk] shell scripts at boot

2001-02-05 Thread David Merrill
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 04:53:14PM -0800, I guess I'm an underwater thing wrote: > > Hey guys - > > I don't know much about startup/shutdown. I have written a shell script > that starts my web servers and a few other services so that I don't have > to manually do it every time I reboot. What I

Re: [techtalk] disappearing mouse!!

2001-02-03 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 06:58:47PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:06:15PM -0800, I guess I'm an underwater thing wrote: > > > > > > > Not much info to go on. Is this a console mouse? If so take a look at > > > gpm. Is it in X that you lost the mouse? If so look at the backup

[techtalk] belkin keyboard

2001-01-18 Thread David Merrill
I just got a new Belkin ErgoBoard and I am having the strangest problem with it. The caps lock goes on and off semi-randomly. Sometimes pressing caps lock converts to uppercase, sometimes it does not. The number row sometimes yields !@#$%^&*()_+ for no reason. It happens at the console. It happen

Re: [techtalk] Basic networking

2001-01-16 Thread David Merrill
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:42:34PM -0500, Angela Nash wrote: > You can set up a system and use what is known as NAT (Network Address > Translation), or Masq in Linux. Basically, this lets more than one PC use a > single IP address. > > My recommendation is to go buy the LinkSys Etherfast Cable/D

Re: [techtalk] Re; Smoking kills!

2000-12-15 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:55:17AM +0100, Magni Onsoien wrote: > David Merrill: > > Some electronic devices store an electric charge even when unplugged, > > but your keyboard does not. When it is disconnected from its power > > supply, it is completely charge-free. Nothing

Re: [techtalk] Re; Smoking kills!

2000-12-14 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:57:50PM -0700, Wood, Mary wrote: > > I have a friend who (for some reason) has been working > > in PC repair for 5 years. He stands by giving keyboards > > cold showers. I did it to one of my keyboards after a > > coffee incident a few years ago, and it still works > >

Re: [techtalk] Smoking kills!

2000-12-13 Thread David Merrill
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:11:06AM -0500, Christian MacAuley wrote: > > Rumor has it (thousands of years ago) HP put all their "used" keyboards in > > the dishwasher to clean them, and then sent them out as replacements to > > their customers when their keyboards failed, as warranty replacements.

Re: [techtalk] Sendmail 554 buildaddr: no host

2000-12-06 Thread David Merrill
f --update", and now all is well. Whatever screwey thing linuxconf had done to my configuration file is now fixed, I'm receiving all my mail, and all is right with the world. > -----Original Message- > From: David Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 0

[techtalk] Sendmail 554 buildaddr: no host

2000-12-05 Thread David Merrill
Arrgh! I'm having a problem with my sendmail configuration that I can't figure out, and I'm hoping somebody here will be able to help me. I've been having mail bounced from my server lately, and so I went to the MX-verify CGI at www.zmailer.org/mxverify.html to see what was going on. I i

Re: [techtalk] a PDA question

2000-11-22 Thread David Merrill
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:18:12AM -0800, alissa bader wrote: > not really a *nix question, but ah well :> It is if you look at the iPaq. There's a project to get Linux running on it. It's even supported (I think was started) by Compaq. Now, how cool is that? http://www.handhelds.org > I am loo

Re: [techtalk] installing RAID controller on existing RedHat 6.2 system

2000-11-21 Thread David Merrill
Naomi Hospodarsky wrote: > > hey folks, > > Anyone have any tips regarding taking an existing RedHat 6.2 server and > adding a RAID controller to it? > I've got the driver loading (I think) but when I boot, I only see my > original disk. How do I tell RH that there's a whole new giant space that

RE: [techtalk] two NICs don't work

2000-09-06 Thread David Merrill
Thanks to everybody. I think I got enough new information to try again. I'll let you know tomorrow how things go... Regards, -- David C. Merrill, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.TerraServer.com ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux

[techtalk] two NICs don't work

2000-09-06 Thread David Merrill
Hi all, My partner is getting upset with me because we've had cable modem for over a month now and I still haven't been able to get a firewall installed so we are simultaneously connected. He is *not* happy. So, in the interests of domestic harmony... I am running RH6.2, and whenever I try to in

[techtalk] I'd like to introduce myself

2000-08-25 Thread David Merrill
Hello all, I just subscribed to the list, and want to introduce myself. I'm a web developer and longtime programmer. I've been using Linux for about 2 years now, having started with RH5.2 and stayed with RH since then. I have also attempted a Debian install but was unsuccessful as my laptop wasn

Re: [techtalk] want linux free software/open source web tools

2000-08-25 Thread David Merrill
Kathy Hargreaves wrote: > > Anyone have a list handy of what free software/open source web tools > (e.g., Dreamweaver; I already know about GIMP) are out there? There is an editor called BlueFish (I think it's for GNOME) and one called Quanta, for KDE. I'm sure there are others as well. I have u