Re: [techtalk] a PDA question

2000-11-22 Thread alissa bader
--- David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, wireless (you are talking wireless > here, right?) and cheap > don't go together. Not only do you have relatively > high prices for the > wireless models, but you pay pretty hefty (~$40 last > I checked) monthly > fees as well. By th

[techtalk] a PDA question

2000-11-22 Thread alissa bader
not really a *nix question, but ah well :> I am looking to buy a PDA/palm/whatever, I'm going to be travelling pretty soon and need something to keep myself organized. A notebook would probably be better, but I really want a vaio and even refurb, those things are out of my budget ATM :< what

[techtalk] can't get my gcc working as cc

2000-10-20 Thread alissa bader
Hey there all, yet another really solaris question, but I think it's general enough to apply to this list :> I have installed gcc and it seems to work all right. but when i try to compile some software that asks for cc, the compile fails. I've tried setting up a symbolic link for /usr/ucb/cc to

Re: [grrltalk] Re: [techtalk] Linux Chix in Louisville, KY

2000-10-16 Thread alissa bader
--- Justine Cubbage tenZeldam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anything in Sacramento, Stockton or foothill area? well, there is one is in the Bay Area: http://www.linuxchix.org/docs/chapters/bayarea.html but I'm sure you could start up a closer regional chapter if you want. :> --alissa

Re: [grrltalk] Re: [techtalk] Linux Chix in Louisville, KY

2000-10-16 Thread alissa bader
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anything in the Dallas area? http://www.linuxchix.org/docs/chapters/fortworth.html --alissa __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ ___

Re: [techtalk] Mail server

2000-10-12 Thread alissa bader
if you only have an ip address though, you might be able to send mail, but how would you receive it? i mean, if you are [EMAIL PROTECTED], you could send mail out, sure. but if users wanted to respond to you, they'd have to send a message to user@ipaddress, not user@domainname. and this might

Re: [techtalk] Mail server

2000-10-12 Thread alissa bader
depends. :> on what MTA you're going to use (sendmail? etc?), how many accounts are going to be on the machine, lots of things. bet you there'd be a howto somewhere on this (maybe on red hat's website?), or you might want to check out the very excellent Essential System Administration book by

[techtalk] .tv = .lame

2000-10-11 Thread alissa bader
turns out you have to be a registered user to get any whois information (for a .tv domain name) does anyone else find this the lamest thing ever? turns out their advisory board is headed by people associated with movie studios and stuff, damned commercial crap. I really hate the web and what it

[techtalk] script help -- thanks!

2000-09-28 Thread alissa bader
I would like to thank everyone who helped me with that DNS script the other day. This is how I wound up writing it: #!/bin/sh # to fix secondary dns entries for DOMAIN in `cat /tmp/ns1stuff` do for DIR in `echo $DOMAIN |cut -c1` do echo "zone" '"'"$DOMAIN"'"' "{"

[techtalk] need help with a shell script

2000-09-26 Thread alissa bader
hey there. I am trying to write a shell script to update the named.conf file on our secondary nameserver. I want the formatting to read: zone "domain.com" { type slave; file "d/db.domain"; ^^ masters { 204.177.32.2; }; };

Re: [techtalk] !@#$#$YT emachines and XF86

2000-08-19 Thread alissa bader
did at first, ,then i killed it and tried running XF86Setup and xf86config. Still no luck on the mouse. And yanked out the winmodem too. --alissa --- Beverly Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have the gpm working in console? > > Beverly __

[techtalk] !@#$#$YT emachines and XF86

2000-08-18 Thread alissa bader
okay, I have in front of me an emachines box. I decided to put Slackware 7.1 on it. Installation itself seemed to go well. But I am running into problems when trying to configure xwindows. I'm using the XF86Setup utility and I swear to god, I can't get the mouse to work. I have tried all of t

[techtalk] how to get hardware specs

2000-07-11 Thread alissa bader
ok, acutally this is *really* for solaris, instead of linux, but surely there's a similar command for both. :> 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

Re: [techtalk] help with sorting text in a file

2000-05-12 Thread alissa bader
--- srl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what part of the line do you need to grab, other > than QAA? > got some sample data? actually I needed to grab a particular string. For example, all patterns matching QAA: May 11 23:59:57 smtp-out sendmail[7569]: QAA14179: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=

[techtalk] help with sorting text in a file

2000-05-12 Thread alissa bader
or, duh. I need to grab a list of stuff with a matching pattern in a log file. Specifically, anything containing the string "QAA." Tried doing a grep, but I got the entire line again, not just the portion of it that contained "QAA." Argh. The frustrating thing is I know I did something like t

[techtalk] dumb DNS/BIND question

2000-05-11 Thread alissa bader
and so it has come to this... what does "cannot redefine zone 'zonefilename.com' class IN" mean? I've looked and looked and looked and looked and looked...in the cricket book and elsewhere. grr. thanks in advance! --alissa __ Do You Yahoo!? Sen

Re: [grrltalk] RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

2000-05-04 Thread alissa bader
It's also hit the Pentagon. And the National Institutes of Health. And the British House of Commons. And our parent company's Exchange server in Texas. well, tee hee on them for using M$ products! anyway links to possible fixes: http://www.zdnet.com/tlkbck/comment/22/0,7056,88754-421758,00.h

[techtalk] disk space monitoring?

2000-04-17 Thread alissa bader
ok, so I'm a dork and this is really for Solaris 2.6, but what the hell. What's the best way to monitor disk space usage? Ok, the most efficient way to monitor disk space usage? I do a du and it lists all of the files being used. I'm looking for something that just mentions the specific direct

[techtalk] desperate plea for help: MS FP 2k extensions/unix

2000-03-23 Thread alissa bader
hey there all, I'm not sure if this is the proper place to post this message, but oh well. We are trying to run Microsoft FrontPage 2000 and 98 extensions in tandem on the same shared webserver. We put them into different directories. We use a different fpsrvadm.exe for each. We set up each we