Britta Koch, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> My home directory at work is mounted via NFS on my Linux box.
> It's got a .profile and a .bash_profile file. When I login
> from Linux, it reads my .bash_profile file. When I telnet into
> the Solaris 5.6 box that hosts my home directory, my .profile
> fil
C. M. Martin, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> Those first two destination addresses are *wrong*. How can netstat,
> which I believe reads directly from the kernel routing tables, get
> out of sync with ifconfig? More importantly, how on earth do I fix
> this?
Hm, the ifconfig and netstat outputs loo
Subba Rao, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> I am pretty new to GNOME. My .xinitrc has gnome-session at the end.
> What I am looking for is virtual desktops (like I had in
> FVWM2). I would like that available on the desktop or in the panel(if
> that's what it is called) on the bottom.
>
> Where can I
jennyw, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> I'm still kind of new to Linux/Debian ... the way I know to
> get files is to use apt-get. When we tried this for LILO,
> it didn't get the latest.
My guess is that apt is looking in the slink (2.1, current stable
version) archive, while the new LILO would be
Weilbacher, Katie, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA, said:
> he's running RH 5.2 on a sun sparc 10, with a floppy drive. the plan is to
> download mysql & burn on a cd here at work (with the fast connection).
then
> at home (on NT 4.0), he wants to create an archive of mysql that spans
> multiple floppy disks. s
Patricia Jung, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:17:41AM -0400, Fan, Laurel wrote:
> > So, someone is working for a company on a closed source product...
> > and not getting paid? I don't know what that convinces me of.
> Why shouldn't he get
Patricia Jung, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> Harmony died the day one of its core developers decided to do the real
> thing and join Trolltech to develop Qt. No one asked him to change his
> mind, no one payed for that -- and even if he's a single person: Isn't
> it that -- if anything -- convincin
Caitlyn M. Martin, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> Thank you for the clarification. The fact is, the KDE people and
TrollTech
> both say it's fine to distribute it. Maybe they need to fine-tune their
> license, but really, it's their call what to do with their
> product, isn't it?
Maybe so. But
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Whenever I send binary attachments with elm, they come across
> as ascii.
You need to encode the attachments (which elm, AFAIK, does not do
automatically). Are you doing this?
(If you aren't, or don't know what I'm talking about, look up
'mpack' or 'uuencode'; I don't r
Muralidhara N, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> My problem is that if compile a c program. It compile the
> program but it is not executable, that results in a.out not
> found at /bin/bash.
Have you tried (in the directory that the executable called
a.out is located) typing:
./a.out
The ./ at
Kath, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> How can I setup apt-get to work through a proxy?
For an http proxy, set the environment variable[1] http_proxy to
your proxy's url (ie. http://proxy:port/). This also works for
other http-y things, like lynx, so it would probably be worth it
to put it in .profile/
Amanda Owens, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> I have a photo that started out as a jpg or gif or something, but has been
> turned (via gimp or xv) into a .ps file. What my boss wants me to do is
> now edit that postscript file, and insert some lines and text. Is it
> possible? If so, how?
If I underst
Susannah D. Rosenberg, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> yep. but there's a difference between being able to /telnet/ to port 25,
> and opening an smtp connection to port 25.
No, there is not.
Unless by "telnet" you mean something besides "run a program named telnet
and connect to port 25". (In which
Susannah D. Rosenberg, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> yeah, but it still leaves rlogind and telnetd flapping in the wind. can
> you say "telnet to port 25", boys and girls?
>
> gaping security flaws are /bad/.
Taking out rlogind and telnetd won't close port 25. And I'm assuming a
mail server would
Lynn Kuhlman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> How can you go to a particular line in a program and execute it and the
> following lines? I want to jump over a loop and examine the contents of
> the hash table and then move on. I know it is line number something but
> the something part I can't remember.
Lothan, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 11:44 PM
> The American National Starndards Insititute (ANSI) and the International
> Standards Organization (ISO) have several standards (and authority) on
> computer devices and languages (QIC tape hardware and protocols, and the C
>
[moving to techtalk. can we please stay on topic here?]
JoAnne Abbott, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> The standards are preventing me from making a 128 bit direct connection
> to a video chip as a innovation. I don't have enough room on the worktable
> for Four motherboards.
No. You are wrong. Th
[moving to techtalk to conform to the topic "standards"]
Yeah, who needs standards?
Why adhere to the outdated, archaic standards of punctuation
and grammar when I can nNOvate by writinglike this??!?!?!!!1!!
Why bother with the standard method of quoting by prepending
a character to each li
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I've been reviewing the IPV6 specs (the 128 bit address space
> proposed to replace the current 32bit IPV4 addresses), and I
> can't figure
> out what the anycast field in the IPV6 header is for. Does
> anyone know?
I'm not familiar with the guts of ipv6, but I've rea
Carolyn Jarie Getter, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> Sure 'nough. Turning off Java and JavaScript did the trick.
> (Shouldn't such quirks be ironed out by now?!)
Netscape isn't open source. You can't really expect them to be
enthusiastic about fixing bugs.
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Lynn Kuhlman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> I don't have a debugger at work so I'm blind.
If you're talking about perl, you do actually have a debugger,
since one comes with it. man perldebug, which in essence says
"perl -d is a debugger".
(of course, it must be 'compiled' ok, so it might not help
Stewart Larsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> to start X later, type startx at the command line.
> pretty sure you have to do that as root, though I may be wrong.
No, you do not have to be root, unless Mandrake is really strange,
(or the config is messed up, but the fact that you have working
X s
(forgive the strange quoting... seems that cmu has conveniently ignored
the existance of compaq again.)
01 2 3 4 5 6 7
8
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456
7890
Lilly S., [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> On
Melissa Plunkett, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> Hey perhaps all of us can review our favorite books that we
> are posting
> and then put them on the linuxchix.org site and/or FAQ?
http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=107898&group_id=4338
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Amanda Owens, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said
> Whoever's working on the Techtalk FAQ (Jenn?), this looks like a
> *marvelous* template for a newbie section! Anyway, here's my attempt.
If you (Amanda or anyone else) have an idea for a question or answer
in the techtalk FAQ, I encourage you to file a bug
Carolyn Jarie Getter, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> I think I run into trouble mostly when my files are buried ten
> directories down a tree. Okay, maybe not ten, but definitely down the
> tree. Am I correct that to read, write or execute, say, three
> directories down a tree, I have to give read,
Lilly S., [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> Does anyone have a reference that tells what files need to be what? For
> example, what permissions do CGI files need to be? How about the cgi-bin
> directory? And the html or public_html directory?
It depends what user your webserver is running as, so it migh
Nicoya Helm, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> However, the other day I
> switched from ksh to zsh. Now when I try to repeat past searches,
> instead of recalling a previous string, up arrow inserts capital
> A,B,C,D, etc into my document. Talk about annoying! It didn't start
> doing it till I switched
I'm curious, why don't you have a mouse?
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Phil Savoie, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> I was wondering if anyone had any idea as to how to make text in an
> /etc/issue file a different colour than the norm. Also, I
> would like to make it blink as well. Any thoughts?
If the issue file is going to be viewed by reasonably vt-100/ansi-fied
te
Davida Schiff, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> Is there a program that I can use to make a master image of
> my tweaked Linux OS?
Yes. You don't need any special program to do that. Unless
you did something really strange, you should already have
dd.
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Kath, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> What do I need to do (what packages to apt-get, files to
> change...) to get KDE
> running on Debian?
AFAIK, debian does not distribute KDE because of license issues. There's a
list of unofficial apt-sources at
http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sour
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> There is currently no techtalk FAQ. The rough outline exists, but is
> really nothing more at this stage than a set of docbook tags and a
> couple of headings.
Haven't been able to do much on it, since I'm away from my unix machines,
and therefore don't have a) cvs, b)
For those of you who want to work on free software but don't know how to
get started or where to find the time, you might want to take a look at
the recently formed wannabees mailing list, at
http://wannabees.sourceforge.net/
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