On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> And if you get it backwards, ln will happily tell you that the file already
> exists.
unless you're trying to make a symlink to a directory, in which case you
get no error and a very useless broken link in your directory ;)
V.
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Lora wrote:
> Megan McGuire wrote:
> > My laptop goes into sleep mode after a while in screen saver, but I
> > cant ever wake it up, I end up having to restart... is there a way to
> > turn off sleep mode? I'm using Mandrake 7.2 and KDE.
I've been having the 'can't wake up' p
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Steve Kudlak wrote:
> Maybe I should read more closely.
Yes, you should.
http://www.linux.org.uk/pipermail/techtalk/2001-April/003353.html
> MY wonderment is that no one ever
> asked what was the problem of running telnet.
I think it's because everyone here already prett
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Kath wrote:
> They are putting new windows in the area where the T1 line enters our
> school building. They UNHOOKED the T1 line and left it dangling from
> a nearby telephone pole. Actually I surely hope it was unhooked and
> not cut. These construction workers have cut
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, A Kozic wrote:
> But the use in question was using `faggotry' as a synonym for lameness,
> which I could say is offensive to the disabled folks, but I'm not disabled
> or offended, so I won't.
/me wanders out of his lair.
Okay, I will. Words are just that -- it's meanings
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> Just take vim !
>
> http://www.vim.org
>
> Pro: vim is extremely fast - once have learned how to use the keyboard
>
> Con: (sorry, I don't know of any con's)
Con: the learning curve goes straight up :)
that said, it's worth learning, for
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Terry Yesse wrote:
> The parts I'm unsure about:
> 1. how to get Linux to write into the Windows partition
Compile your kernels with VFAT support, then mount them as a regular drive
check out http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html
> 2. will just copying t
you know, this spam would have been much more interesting had it actually
been sent on friday
jeeze, the spammers don't even know the days of the week. pitiful.
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, David Merrill wrote:
>
> Don't whine, help.
>
I don't think I archived the ones I really liked...
The problem with the ones I saw were mostly that if you're a rank newbie
there's probably not enough info (and unfortunetly I'm at the point where
I don't know if I could writ
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) of howtos dealing
with multi-booting..now there seems to be a much smaller
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jason wrote:
> I think I've isolated the oddness. If I change the refresh interval (I
> forget the variable name now) in my .pinerc, it doesn't do anything. I
> tried changing it in /etc/pine.conf, and suddenly it's working. Beats me,
> since it's reading other configurati
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Mary P. Wood wrote:
> Would anyone care to share their recommendations on
> favorite books/CDs/online courses/etc. to cram, train, and
> hopefully pass A+ Certification? Also, correct me if I'm
> wrong, but I've heard that it's supposed to say to the world,
> "Hey, I can fix
try www.freeshell.org
and a free shell account to boot! :) (and membership is less than $40
bucks -- for a lifetime account :) )
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Katneko wrote:
> whats a good web host thats free with min-no bann
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> I await the day with horror when the spambots get the trick of looking
> for mailman lists, subscribing (the message is pretty standard and
> requires you merely to reply with the subject intact or quote a single
> line of the body), sending the stuff, a
7;make distclean' copy back
in, it gives you your already configured settings back.. at least with
make config it does)
Also, you might want to see if it's the SMP rule XOR the processor family
XOR both settings that fix the problem
Vinnie (who spends way too much time tweaking kernels
um...is there a reason it's trying to compile smp code (like, do you have
more than one processor?)
anyway, just for kicks, you might try compiling with smp turned off if
it's on and on if it's off and see if that helps
if turning it off helps and you have more than one processor, then life
ay 'one track mind' (as in,
what-does-vinnie-have-these-days?)
the sad part is I actually went to the first two, and didn't catch on to
this, which is really sad considering that I've *read* most of these :P
btw, the twelve truths of networking (rfc 1925, as I recall) is
esspecial
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, curious wrote:
> > I tried searching the RFCs and decided there's way too many for me to want
> > to read :)
>
>
> Here are some good rfcs to start with:
> gigabit and trends:
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1216.html
okay, what's this have to do with the use of IP addresse
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, alissa bader wrote:
> if you only have an ip address though, you might be
> able to send mail, but how would you receive it?
well, I just sent mail from my work account to surmonde@[63.68.131.237]
and received it here. I suspect that this *may* require specific setup of
you
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Kath wrote:
> Can you have a mail server without a domain name for it (just an IP)?
I do recall having a linux server set up just this way in high school (the
addresses were actually something like user@[255.255.255.255] as I recall,
but don't take that for gospel -- this w
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Olivier Tharan wrote:
> Vim has a '-Z' option enabling 'restricted mode':
>
> -ZRestricted mode. All commands that make use of an
> external shell are disabled. This includes suspending
> with CTRL-Z, ":sh", filtering, etc.
>
> This option may also be avai
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Jeff Dike wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > using group read and write is not an option.
>
> Why not? The obvious thing is to chgrp file foo to group foo_group
> and anyone who's allowed to modify foo is a member of foo_group.
the first reason is because of the software
So I'm working on finding a good way of delegating root privs to non-root
users -- sudo is something of the defacto standard way, but I'm finding
it's not great for what I need to do
what I really need to do is give specific users read and/or write access
to root owned 600 files -- and using gro
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Anthony Russello wrote:
> Basically, I need a server based distribution, with all the built in
> features of Mandrake, but all the flexibility and control of Debian. I
> just started trying out Caldera, but their partitioning program during the
> graphical install left much
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Olivier Tharan wrote:
> The search list is currently limited to six domains with a total
> of 256 characters.
>
> The last line is important: check that you don't have more than 6
> domains listed and do not have more than 256 characters.
Yup, already took that
distro: VectorLinux 1.0
problem: /etc/resolv.conf looks like this
search domain.com sub1.domain.com sub2.domain.com domain.net
sub3.domain.net sub4.domain.net
nameserver
nameserver
the problem is that the search path doesn't work :( the *first* domain
will work, no matter what it
Out of curiousity, has anyone tried using VMWare with a monolithic kernel?
(yes, I'm being sick and twisted and altogether vinnie-like here)
I really haven't got the first clue how to start, but it strikes me as an
interesting challenge...anyone else done it yet?
Vinnie (who real
> Programmers need food, too.
Shopping list:
Purina Programmer Chow (hmm..should get some sysadmin chow too, shouldn't
I :) )
> Of course. But any company or more wealthy person should buy a version
> of the distribution/program or give a donation to the folks developing
> them, in order to ens
unately this doesn't seem to work. Is there another way
> to restrict access? If there is how do I do it?
that sounds about right...how is it not working (i.e. letting everyone
in? letting no one in? -- what happens if you have nothing in
h
et up to support ssh2 with ssh1
compatibility..check out
http://www.onsight.com/faq/ssh/ssh-faq-9.html#ss9.4
Hope this helps.
Vinnie
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ing me that they're handy, but I
can't seem to see them as anything but extra weight)
Vinnie (toying with the idea of moving back right now, the home-in-my-pack thing is
getting a bit old...)
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;d use the split/cat combo
with a binary...split/mv might work okay)
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as in the 'make' command is not found, or it can't find the compilers?
for the former, install make ;)(I'm so helpful,, no? :P ) for the latter,
check paths?
Vinnie
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Julie Meloni wrote:
> Ok, I've wracked my brain and now I'm just tir
sort of IP masquerading, so I'm a bit lost right now...I've
done routers and firewalls before, but this is the first one I've done
with the 2.2.x series (yeah, really...I'm getting behind the times
here)...any ideas one what I"m missing (I'm pretty sure it's
have 1 2000 under my belt..buwahahaha :P ) )
but with it goes fairly simply
> ARG!! i turn 30 and suddenly i can't remember a thing!!!
that's okay..I'm 21 and can't remember a darn thing anymore (senility is
setting in early or something)
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bootpart.exe is a necessity, though...
Vinnie
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my mind...it'll
wait until spring :)
Vinnie (who will be getting two dec multias to tide her over until then,
though. wheee!)
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pecially if you keep hot spares of all the important things
(especially hard drives, and make backups whether or not you have new
hardware) around so if the fit does hit the shan, it's just a matter of
popping new whatever in and throwing it back on line.
Vinnie
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On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As Vinnie said: apache, check out .htaccess. I *think* that's
> clear-text passwords, I'm not sure. There's almost certainly something
> in the apache documentation for more security - or maybe someone here
> knows so
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Vinnie Surmonde wrote:
> Probably not that much..If you want to go intel and by new, I'd spec out
> something like a pII whatever (doesn't matter that much) with 64 or 128 MB
> ram (depends on how price sensitive you are, obviously) and a few gigs for
>
which I should expect to get the
> best results. I'm a pretty quick learner and I'm studying O'Reilly's
> Programming Perl and I know Java.
that's web development..I know nothing about that ;)
Vinnie
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get all the linux-on-ix86
users, but not all linux users, much less all unix users :)
and the internet worm was a worm, not a virus :)
Vinnie
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wait a minute
you're right..I apparently can't read
actually, I read all the 3s as 5s...sometimes the automatic error
correction in my brain is annoying :)
Vinnie
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Vinnie Surmonde wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Beverly Guillermo wrote:
>
> > I&#
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Beverly Guillermo wrote:
> I've seen a runlevel like that in a Solaris environment. =) I've
> never seen that on linux, what are you running?
I know deadrat does it like that (or similarly enough that it's not worth
thinking about :) ) ... what are yo
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Nicole wrote:
> Well, I think we have this one just about covered ;o)
no kidding! But I saved them all off. Even *I* learned a lot from
that :)
Thanks everybody!
Vinnie
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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Wendt,Andrew wrote:
> What is it you'd want the floppy drive to tell the OS?
well, on many (if not most) hardware platforms the disk (cdrom or floppy)
cannot be ejected unless it's unmounted
granted, this can be annoying when you want that cd *now* and who cares
which user
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Janus wrote:
> the most common way to pass viruses was not, despite the hype, the
> internet, but booting Wintel with a floppy in the A drive.
not just booting -- *accessing* an infected floppy could infect your
machine. Annoying as all get out.
Vinnie
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er to 30-40 depending on what I'm up to and how long the machine has
been up ;) ] windows sorted :) )
thanks for the tip, though (I think I did know at one point, but I forgot
)
Vinnie
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sector virus for linux, so while that would be an issue (and a major
one...) under dos/win95/win98, but not linux
Vinnie
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input, and do better at a command line (me, for instance..I think it might
be related to the dyslexia, but I have no idea, really..)
Vinnie
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tandard install..since I don't often do *standard* installs, I don't
know this for sure...I haven't met one that won't accept it after install,
however.
Vinnie
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well, I've searched the howtos, searched the site and I can't seem to find
a canonical 'list of gcc supported platforms' document...any ideas on
where to find one?
Vinnie
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