On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:54:48PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I set up Linux to do my internet connection sharing for now. Does anyone
> > have experience using OpenBSD as a firewall? Or even, securing up a
> > decent Linux box to share a modem connection and do firewall chores.
>
> I
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
> to display a login prompt over a LAN? The machine has almost no load
> on it.
It's trying
Hi!
I am trying to turn off the ability to see the directories for the a vhost
on my server. I figured I could just add a Directory directive to the conf
file and leave Indexes out. However, its not working. Is the Directory
directive for /web (where all vhosts are located) default? Is the
Thank you!
Jamie
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Brian Sweeney wrote:
> For instance, I ran a top on a computer, and it had approximately 68Meg
> "free". During the tar process, I kept the top going, and the memory stayed
> steady for a while, then the free memory suddenly went down to about 2Meg,
> popped back up to about 3, and stayed there.
root wrote:
> Well, I'd like to have KDE2, because I always love the greatest newest
> bestest thing :)
The newest thing isn't always the greatest and bestest unfortunately. I
find KDE2 to be significantly slower than KDE1.x, and little things bug
me about it like not being able to rearrange the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, it's the max transfer (or transmission) unit: it determines the
> largest packet that the router will spit down the modem. Precisely how
> it's set depends on the way you're routing packets - for Dancer and I,
> that's a debian linux box which acts as our gateway/f
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:54:23PM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> screensaver wasn't SMP compatible or some such. The machine doesn't get
> any heavy traffic. Just personal use and a few friends grabbing stuff
> occassionally. Oh, the box is running twin 466 mhz Celerons and scsi
> and IDE dr
alissa bader wrote:
> I am trying to figure out what type of hardware, how
> much disk space, how much ram etc is on a box. I know
> if I was doing this on a mac I'd click on "about this
> macintosh." I know if I was doing this on an NT
> machine, I'd check out the properties under "My
> Comput
Hz refresh rate), flicker free up tp 200Hz,
PCI card.
I do work best with a 'recipe' format of docs.
Sincerely,
jamie
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!) That's way
beyond my realm of knowledge. Is there another way to do it? If there
isn't, can someone explain to me exactly how that would be done? Please?
Thanks,
Jamie :)
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Dan Nguyen wrote:
> I've been very disappointed in Slackware, lately. Originally for not
> support glibc2, and then for their silly version jump from 4.0 to 7.0.
The lack of glibc2 support was apparently for stability reasons. I've
been using glibc2 for the last year and had no problems with it
"Jenn V." wrote:
> And being able to do basic diagnostics makes them feel much
> more in control - they don't panic when they know they can
> /do/ something. And they get so enthusiastic when they know
> they've been helpful. :)
Heh.
It's *great* supporting (Linux using) PhD. students. As often
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> Hey All,
> I do not all ping responses in my network, as a matter of security. I
> have futher disabled users from doing things like traceroute, host, etc.
> The point to this is that there should be no need to do this in a work
> environment unless you're on a networ
Laurel Fan wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to make linux store a copy of the boot messages?
>
> try the dmesg command for the kernel boot messages. you can > that to a
> file if you want.
Redhat stores the boottime output to /var/log/dmesg.
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GJS wrote:
> Not wearing glasses won't work for me. In fact, my opthamologist
> told me that many of his patients who wear bifocals and work
> with computers end up having to get "computer" glasses. Looks
> like I'm headed that way :-<
I received a new prescription for glasses last week, and my
Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> From what I have seen of it it's not much different than an i386 distro
> (similar to other RH-based distros) and the iBook is (IMHO) the best
> laptop you can get for that kind of price. Of course, this comes from a
> long time Mac+unix user who was introduced to window
Brian Engle wrote:
> REJECT is a little different than DENY in that rejecting it just looks at
> the originating IP, sees if it's allowed, if not, connection closed...if
> telnet traffic is rejected and someone tries to telnet, the client almost
> immediately sends the message "Connection Refused
Subba Rao wrote:
> I cannot go out to the Web nor resolve any DNS names. Mail will not go out.
> My system does have a small DNS which forwards requests to my ISP's nameserver.
> Nothing really works.
[snip]
> ipchains -A input -i ppp0 -p UDP -s I.S.P.NS -d $LOCALIP 53 -j ACCEPT
>
J B wrote:
> most of the ones with software switches will query the CPU, and if it can,
> it sends the speed (voltage and multiplier) and the BIOS applies the
> appropriate values so that there is nothing to set (my ASUS was like this).
> If it does not get a response, it sets the CPU to the lowe
Britta Koch wrote:
> As I said, my computer clock is way slow. Whenever I set it, it only
> takes a few days for it to get a few hours behind again. Do I just need
> to change the battery? My computer is only 10 months old - could it be
> that something else is amiss (the clock chip)?
>
> I only
Terri Oda wrote:
> My computer is a laptop (a Eurocom 3100c, specifically, with a mobile
> celeron under the hood) using a maestro sound card. It plays CDs
> beautifully and seems to have no problem with wav files or anything
> else... until I come to mp3's. Winamp skips, as did the other playe
"Jenn V." wrote:
> 2. I don't understand this. You say it's an IDE drive, so you DISABLED the
> IDE? Um. Why? Wouldn't this be the most logical place for your problem to
> be?
Most Linux based CD-R(W) software can only talk to SCSI devices. To get
them working under Linux, you use SCSI emulation
Any bright ideas on how to make a system-wide setting (rather than each
user setting it voluntarily) to stop a certain app being restarted via
session management when a user logs back in?
The situation is that we have a number of desktop machines in labs which
we allow users to make their own cho
Linda Walsh wrote:
> I'm trying to autoset the DISPLAY value when I log in remotely.
> Under Sunos, the remote system name was output by the 'who -m' command,
> and under IRIX it was in REMOTEHOST, but I am not readily seeing how
> to handle this in SuSE 6.3. I thought about trying to pick value
coder wrote:
> i would die without my green text on a shaded Eterm background..
> Makes me think of the old 'green screen' CRT's way back when.. :)
>
> My roomate seems particularly fond of the classic amber color on a clear
> eterm with a dark theme background.
I'm used to white on black as s
Linda Walsh wrote:
> Also -- cables and cable length make a difference -- unshielded long cables
> result
> in bleeding and/or fuzzy character.
Yep - my dad has exactly this. He runs a 21" monitor in 1280x1024 with a
two or three metre extension cable and the picture looks absolutely
_disgus
"Jenn V." wrote:
> As for the original question: go to shops. Look at monitors. The only
> person with your eyes is you, and what's perfectly acceptable to me can be
> absolutely useless to someone else. Sorry, but that's the truth.
Unfortunately if you _really_ want to see what you're getting,
K Kirby wrote:
> > "Robert The Fanatical Masochist"
> Thank you, Brian... I like your
> first explanation best..
I chuckled too...
If we're making them up, then we could say that to a lot of mean and
nasty newsgroup readers who like jumping down people's throats for this
sort of thing, it mean
J B wrote:
> >We stopped buying Dell servers because their hard drives pop out >randomly
> Have never heard of anything like this. We have two Dell servers...4300
> Poweredge, and they are pretty good machines...got another 128 MB PC100 to
> put in them, but Dell sold us buffered RAM, and the bo
Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
> >image plus initrd can fit on a floppy-sized image. In our case, the
> >limit to kernel size is about 520k or thereabouts.
>
> Is that the size after bzipping? My current kernel is 422k bzipped,
> and I don't have _everything_ moduled out that I possibly could,
> alth
Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
> >You'll save some memory by saying 'm' to things you don't need too
> >much, but that's about it.
>
> Also, you will probably have to put some stuff in modules if you use a
> lot of devices because there's a limit to how large your final
> monolithic kernel image can b
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> Hey All,
> It seems as though I have port 79 opened (finger). I have it
> commented out in inetd so I can't figure out where else it would be coming
> from. Any ideas??
As root, try netstat -ap | grep LISTEN, the -p will tell you which
process is listening on a
Jennifer Tippens wrote:
> I'm using ipchains to filter packets. I have pop open from the outside
> so we can check our mail from home, I do not allow telnet into the box
> or ftp for that matter. How do I open up port 22 for ssh connections?
> I've tried:
> $IPCHAINS -A input -i $E_IF -p tcp -s
MGreen wrote:
> I seem to recall that Linux cannot use swap over 128MB. Anything over
> this is a waste. Can someone back me up?
This was true prior to 2.2.x (and even with 2.0.x and older you could
have multiple swap files to give more than 128mb swap). Nowadays you can
have much larger swap
Dakota Surmonde wrote:
> I use it on a k5-133 with 32MB -- it's dog slow and swaps something fierce
> (127 MB swap partition, yes, I believe in over doing it :) ) but it works
127mb is anything but overdoing it. I have 240mb swap and sometimes it's
been getting a bit close for comfort (machine h
Cathy James wrote:
> % cd /
> % find . -name *java40.jar* -print
>
> and look at the output generated. If you find a java40.jar
An easier way is:
locate java40.jar
assuming your slocate database has been updated recently.
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sara korhonen wrote:
> I've many times thought of writing a book about the subject, I'm a master of
> doing stupid things, which I mainly explain by the fact, that I've learned most
> of the things that I know from someone, not by myself, which leads to a
> situation, that I don't understand why
Just This Girl wrote:
> I used to be able to play CDs from KDE - KSCD CD Player. This has
> mysteriously stopped. The CD spins and KSCD acts as though it were
> playing save for one thing... no sound comes out. Is this KDE screwing
> up? I have version 1.1. Will an upgrade fix this?
>
> I perform
Victor Stratan wrote:
> Here is some problem i encountered:
> I downloaded the 2.2.12 kernel source and compiled it
> and installed it. Everything is ok, but when i whant
> to install another RPM it says that it needs
> kernel-2.2.12-14.rpm
>
> Well I know that I did not installed the kernel rp
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