Re: [techtalk] Parition help

2001-01-11 Thread Eric Richard Turner
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Kath wrote: > Ok, my friend installed Red Hat 6.2 and has decided she hates linux. > Oh well. Lets not lecture her on Linux vs. Windows. > > What is the easiest way for her to delete her linux partition and > create a FAT32 one so she can reinstall Windows? cfdisk? fdis

[techtalk] Samba question...

2001-01-09 Thread Eric Richard Turner
I have a Linux box doing IP Masquerading for a small home LAN, and want to provide SMB shares on it for the Windows machines on the LAN. The hostname and IP address of the Linux box is assigned by a dhcp server via the interface on the Internet side (eth1 in the diagram below).

RE: [techtalk] Smoking kills!

2000-12-12 Thread Eric Richard Turner
Check out the keyboard at http://www.inspace.com/flexi.html... I think that one should be dishwasher (and smoker) safe! ;-) Cheers, Eric R. Turner On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Davida Schiff wrote: > Rumor has it (thousands of years ago) HP put all their "used" keyboards in > the dishwasher to clean the

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

2000-12-10 Thread Eric Richard Turner
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Tania M. Morell wrote: > Hi all! Happy Holidays! > > I'm having a huge problem getting both my IDE Creative Labs CD drive > -and- my SCSI Plextor CD-RW drive working under Mandrake 7.2 .. > > FIRST PROBLEM: > How can I mount a IDE cdrom drive with an audio cd in it? Appar

Re: [techtalk] RE:backup newbie

2000-12-01 Thread Eric Richard Turner
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Brian Sweeney wrote: > > >Good question. I suspect it depends on the backup utility and/or operating > >system. I know that NTBACKUP on Windows NT uses the archive bit on each > >file. During a full-system backup it clears the archive bit on all files. > >When a file is change

Re: [techtalk] RE: backup newbie

2000-11-29 Thread Eric Richard Turner
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Conor Daly wrote: > but can I do the following? > > 1st of Month: Full backup > Sunday:Differential Backup from Monthly > Daily: Differential Backup from Sunday > Good question. I suspect it depends on the backup utility and/or oper

RE: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #275 - 10 msgs

2000-11-29 Thread Eric Richard Turner
This board has one. On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Angela Nash wrote: > Most likely there isn't a BIOS EEPROM to replace. Most modern boards don't > use them anymore. > > Jason > -- My public OpenPGP key can be found at http://www.wwu.edu/~turnere/turnere.asc

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #275 - 10 msgs

2000-11-29 Thread Eric Richard Turner
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Anthony Russello wrote: > > You said that the computer won't power down using the power switch, and > that when you plug it back in, it just starts up, again no power switch, > try using a different power supply and see if that works before oyu go > buyinga new motherboard.

Re: [techtalk] RE: backup newbie

2000-11-29 Thread Eric Richard Turner
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Magni Onsoien wrote: > Eh, what exactly is the difference between incremental and differential > backups? With differential, every file that has been changed since the last full-system backup is saved. When you restore, all you have to do is restore from the full-system back

[techtalk] Motherboard repair?

2000-11-28 Thread Eric Richard Turner
I purchased an Asus P2B-DS motherboard 13 months ago (with a 12 month warranty) for $413, and built a nice dual-processor system. It has been working fine for the past year, and I haven't had to do any work on it. Last shutdown everything was normal. Now when I power on, it won't POST (it never

Re: [techtalk] Followup (was no subject)

2000-11-28 Thread Eric Richard Turner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, arindamC wrote: > This mailing list is really great. Guys and gals are very friendly and > helpful. But I must say something. I have observed that some of our fellow > subscribers become silent after posting a problem. They don't bother to > inform whether the they have got t

Re: [techtalk] can't add default route.

2000-11-22 Thread Eric Richard Turner
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Kristin Ziel wrote: > > i was just reading over this again, and I am confused on one point. YOu > are correct in that if my gateway is 194.200.10.xxx , then my eth0 > interface should be 194.200.10.yyy, and it IS currently that way...well, > that's the intention, but it won

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: Re: [announce] Women for KDE

2000-11-22 Thread Eric Richard Turner
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Marie Fischer wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 Justine Cubbage tenZeldam wrote: > > > KDE is awesome! > > > > > Used it the first time Oct. 28 during the Simi Valley LUG Fest, > > > while running a Star Office presentation. Al

Re: [techtalk] Desperate Plea for CDROM mounting help!!

2000-11-18 Thread Eric Richard Turner
Hi Susan, I'm not sure I can help, especially considering that a Linux User Group already looked at it, but I'll give it the ol' college try! Let's start at the beginning. Login as root, insert a CD (that you know for certain is good) into the drive, and type at the command line: mount -t iso

[techtalk] Please use a descriptive subject line

2000-11-05 Thread Eric Richard Turner
I've noticed that several messages have recently been posted without a subject in the subject line. Please fill in the subject line when posting email to the list. It can be hard to follow the course of a discussion when the subject is simply "(no subject", especially if there are several of thes

Re: [techtalk] OpenBSD vs. Debian 2.2

2000-11-01 Thread Eric Richard Turner
The biggest drawback of OpenBSD in my opinion is (as stated in section 1.2 of the OpenBSD FAQ): "Yes, OpenBSD will run on your multiprocessor machine, but it will only use one processor. There currently is no support for SMP". If you aren't using a multiprocessor machine, then OpenBSD is probabl

Re: [techtalk] last straw (was directory that is writable...)

2000-10-31 Thread Eric Richard Turner
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Even if you *can* find a manual, or a relevant man page, sometimes it > doesn't help... I'm supposed to run ldconfig after make and make install > for a program I want to have, and on my red hat box, I get a not found > error message. Funny, there

Re: [techtalk] Apache Server

2000-10-23 Thread Eric Richard Turner
It's usually a good idea to back up a working copy of httpd.conf before messing around with it ;-) Eric R. Turner On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Christian MacAuley wrote: > > > I have found out that my webroot dir is in /home/httpd/html/index.html > > I tried to configure as you have pointed out in etc/

Re: [techtalk] Inetd Server

2000-10-22 Thread Eric Richard Turner
OK, I'm having a bad night. I think it's time for bed :-) ps -x | grep "inetd" Eric R. Turner On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Eric Richard Turner wrote: > ps -x | grep "inted" -- My public OpenPGP key can be found at http:/

Re: [techtalk] directory that is writable by web server process

2000-10-22 Thread Eric Richard Turner
OOPS! I only gave read and execute permissions... chmod 770 ./foo/ On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Eric Richard Turner wrote: > chmod 550 ./foo/ -- My public OpenPGP key can be found at http://www.wwu.edu/~turnere/turnere.asc ___ techtalk mailing list [EM

Re: [techtalk] Apache Server

2000-10-22 Thread Eric Richard Turner
It works from http://202.143.143.54. To find out where to store your html documents, check the value of the DocumentRoot directive in http.conf. My http.conf file is located in /var/lib/apache/conf/, but that's on a Slackware system. Actually, if you can find your httpd.conf file then the location

Re: [techtalk] Inetd Server

2000-10-22 Thread Eric Richard Turner
To find out if inetd is started, running the following command will show something like "63 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd" in the output: ps -x | grep "inted" The place to configure inetd is in /etc/inetd.conf. Details about inetd can be found using "man inetd", but the basics of the /etc/inetd.con

Re: [techtalk] directory that is writable by web server process

2000-10-22 Thread Eric Richard Turner
Assuming the web server is running as nobody, make the directory, change the group on the directory, then change the permissions. Here's an example of making directory foo which is writeable by the httpd process: /bin/mkdir ./foo chgrp nobody ./foo/ chmod 550 ./foo/ If at all possible you should

Re: [techtalk] Dynamic DNS

2000-10-18 Thread Eric Richard Turner
I haven't had experience with them, but www.dyndns.org is probably the most popular free dynamic DNS service. Eric R. Turner On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, David C. Merrill, Ph.D. wrote: > I'm interested in using a dynamic DNS registry for my home machine, now that > I have a cablemodem. Can anybody reco

Re: [techtalk] laptop on linux

2000-10-17 Thread Eric Richard Turner
Slackware 7.1 on an IBM Thinkpad 385XD. Installation went fine, setting up X was a pain. Also, the Thinkpad comes (came) with the first serial port (ttyS0/COM1) disabled in order to enable the IR port (they use the same IRQ). In order to change this setting I had to create a MS DOS-bootable disk a