Re: [techtalk] .iso format

2000-01-27 Thread The Cat In The Hat
>mount -t iso9660 /redhat/iso/location /mnt/rh-iso Actually what you are looking for to mount an ISO is mount -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop1 /redhat/iso/location /mnt/rh-iso The only way I am aware that you can make changes to what is in an ISO is to copy the files from the mounted ISO to anothe

[techtalk] Computer clock way slow

2000-01-27 Thread Judith Bush
I've had a similar problem in my Debian disto. Check /etc/adjtime. It's safe to simply remove. That should quit the drift. I find using hwclock --systohc is what creates the /etc/adjtime file. Hope this helps, j --- Judith E. Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] P O Box

Re: [techtalk] GTK-engines paths...

2000-01-27 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 02:36:04AM +0100 or thereabouts, Sunnanvind wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Laurel Fan wrote: > > http://gtk.themes.org/php/docs.phtml?docid=55&secid=2.1 Poking around from this list I found a pile of stuff I could really have done with knowing about. Thanks! > Unbelievab

Re: [techtalk] .iso format

2000-01-27 Thread coder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey All, > I was wondering if anyone has any info about the iso > images (such as RedHat ftp site). I want to build a RH > distro that already includes security and bugfixes. I am > under the impression that the .iso images copies onto > the CD which also make it bo

[techtalk] Dumb Question !!

2000-01-27 Thread Systems Administrator
hey gang, thisquestion might me very dumb but had to ask. How do I change the system time on my linux machine ?? sorry again .. - klayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Dumb Question !!

2000-01-27 Thread Britta Koch
The way I do it is with date -s "hh:mm:ss" (h = hour, m = minute, s = second) - man date for other options Be careful with make right after this, esp. if setting the clock back - it won't like it! Britta [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] .diff

2000-01-27 Thread Naomi Hospodarsky
Hello all, I have what seems like a simple question what do I do with a .diff file? It is a software patch, but I'm not sure how to apply it. Any suggestions? Thanks everybody, Naomi [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] .diff

2000-01-27 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:15:14 -0600, Naomi Hospodarsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Hello all, I have what seems like a simple question what do I do >with a .diff file? It is a software patch, but I'm not sure how to >apply it. Any suggestions? "patch < file.diff" usually works. If not, tr

Re: [techtalk] .iso format

2000-01-27 Thread moebius
Hey Cat, Thanks for that info. What I can't seem to find is whether the iso is a compressed filesystem or not. It seems from the size that it is compressed. Does anyone know where I can find docs on this. Thanks, Harry Quoting The Cat In The Hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >mount -t iso9660 /red

[techtalk] Mail Server

2000-01-27 Thread moebius
Hey All, I have gotten some response over this question before but nothing I seem to do corrects it. I am connected via 1 IP. My network, of which includes a mail server, sits behind a MASQ'd router. The name of the mail server is pony.ip-solutions.net. When I send mail I have sendmail.cf

Re: [techtalk] Computer clock way slow

2000-01-27 Thread Sunnanvind
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Judith Bush wrote: > I've had a similar problem in my Debian disto. Check > /etc/adjtime. It's safe to simply remove. That should quit the drift. For more information, see the clock mini-howto. On my system it's at /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Clock "How to set and keep your computer

Re: [techtalk] Computer clock way slow

2000-01-27 Thread Britta Koch
>For more information, see the clock mini-howto. > >On my system it's at /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Clock >"How to set and keep your computer clock on time". Ooops - sorry that I didn't RTFM before asking ;) It's amazing to see all the docs you get with debian - even rfcs!!! Britta [EM

[techtalk] Default Deny

2000-01-27 Thread Subba Rao
Hi, I have been using ipchains for a while and am fairly comfortable with them. Now my filtering needs are growing and becoming more specific. So, I decided to impose the DENY policy as the default on the "input" chain (for the external interface). After I DENY everything at first and try to im

Re: [techtalk] Mail Server

2000-01-27 Thread Jenn V.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey All, > I have gotten some response over this question before > but nothing I seem to do corrects it. I am connected > via 1 IP. My network, of which includes a mail server, > sits behind a MASQ'd router. The name of the mail server > is pony.ip-solutions.net.

Re: [techtalk] Default Deny

2000-01-27 Thread Jamie Walker
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 >

Re: [techtalk] Dumb Question !!

2000-01-27 Thread Tamara Thompson
There is a command called date to change the system date and time. date MMDDhhmm.ss(as root) (all digits, month, day, hour, minute, year etc) Hey, a neat command to remember when searching for how linux does something, is "apropos". You can typeapropos date and get a list of

Re: [techtalk] printer probs with 2.2.13 and lpd

2000-01-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Dakota Surmonde wrote: > > Yup. I live :) Fine :-) > So, I upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36 to 2.2.13 (yeah yeah, and this was a > few months ago..can we say the cobbler's children go without shoes? ) > and the printer quit working. It worked fine previously. In part, this

Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

2000-01-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Marie Fischer wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It is possible to run many different resolutions and > > color depths on an X server. If they are all setup right > > the key sequence [ctrl+alt+"+"] will bring higher > > resolutions and the "-" si

Re: [techtalk] Computer clock way slow

2000-01-27 Thread Sunnanvind
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Britta Koch wrote: > >For more information, see the clock mini-howto. > > > >On my system it's at /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Clock > >"How to set and keep your computer clock on time". > > Ooops - sorry that I didn't RTFM before asking ;) I never do that, as people may have noticed

RE: [techtalk] Default Deny

2000-01-27 Thread Brian Engle
someone might want to correcct me if I'm wrong on this my default firewall rules are set to REJECT: # Change default policies to REJECT. # # We want to only EXPLICTLY allow what traffic is allowed IN and OUT of the # firewall. All other traffic will be implicitly blocked. # echo " - Set

Re: [techtalk] Default Deny

2000-01-27 Thread Jamie Walker
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

Re: [techtalk] printer probs with 2.2.13 and lpd

2000-01-27 Thread Dakota Surmonde
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Nils Philippsen wrote: > What does `lsmod | grep parport` give? since I've got a monolithic kernel absolutely nothing :) but dmesg | grep parport gives parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [SPP,PS2] parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. lp0: using parport0 (polling). um..also, I s

Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

2000-01-27 Thread moebius
Quoting Nils Philippsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, color depth can only be run side-by-side on different virtual > terminals, e.g. 32bpp on tty7/:0 and 8bpp on tty8/:1 > > Nils > -- > Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 That's what I get for posting to a thread I had not fully f

RE: [techtalk] Default Deny

2000-01-27 Thread Brian Engle
I figured I wasn't quite on target with that description, I just couldn't think of a way to phrase it there are several different arguements for and against stateful(REJECT) and stateless(DENY) firewalls, and many other many other mailing lists used to debate which is better/worse and why

Re: [techtalk] .diff

2000-01-27 Thread Naomi Hospodarsky
Thanks, Kelly, that worked. >"patch < file.diff" usually works. If not, try >"patch -p0 < file.diff". Often there are instructions at the start of >the file. > >Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] Dosemu

2000-01-27 Thread Sunnanvind
Hello everybody! I got my dos partition to work with sound and cdrom (no mouse yet), so I figured that I finally would get dosemu working. Oddly enough, when I got xdos booting my dospartition in a box in X, the CD-drivers won't work. Neither will the sound, which gives me a: "Fatal Error!! PCI BI

Re: [techtalk] Default Deny

2000-01-27 Thread Andre Pang
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 07:32:07AM +1300, Jamie Walker wrote: > > ipchains -A input -i ppp0 -p UDP -s I.S.P.NS -d $LOCALIP 53 -j ACCEPT > > ipchains -A input -i ppp0 -p UDP -s I.S.P.NS1 -d $LOCALIP 53 -j ACCEPT > > These two rules are both assuming that DNS requests are going out

RE: [techtalk] Default Deny

2000-01-27 Thread Wendt,Andrew
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Brian Engle wrote: >there are several different arguements for and against stateful(REJECT) and >stateless(DENY) firewalls, and many other many other mailing lists used to >debate which is better/worse and why. The response returned by the firewall doesn't relate to whet

[techtalk] netscape and javascript problem

2000-01-27 Thread Esther Lumsdon
This is a problem I'm having at work. netscape 4.5 and later under linux and netscape have this problem when attempting to upload a file to the company website. The website is programmed in javascript 1.2 (this part of it). netscape makes a call to oldselect() with a timeout of 86400 sec (24 hou

[techtalk] test please ignore

2000-01-27 Thread moebius
This is a test [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] test2 please ignore

2000-01-27 Thread moebius
this is the second test [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] LinuxPPC

2000-01-27 Thread AccordionNerdGrl
Has anyone used this distribution? What do y'all think of it? I may be getting an i-book soon (my job will supply with money for a very cheap computer (as in, sub-2000$), so it makes no sense to plunk it down on a desktop not as good as my current one;), and i was just wondering a) if LinuxPPC

Re: [techtalk] LinuxPPC

2000-01-27 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone used this distribution? What do y'all think of it? I may be > getting an i-book soon (my job will supply with money for a very cheap > computer (as in, sub-2000$), so it makes no sense to plunk it down on a > desktop not as good as my current one;), and i w

Re: [techtalk] A favour? (off topic, but forgive me :)

2000-01-27 Thread Dan McGarry
- Original Message - From: Deb Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 12:32 AM Subject: [techtalk] A favour? (off topic, but forgive me :) > Hi all. > > As some of you know, LinuxChix is one of the two Open Source-rela

Re: [techtalk] LinuxPPC

2000-01-27 Thread Jamie Walker
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

Re: [techtalk] LinuxPPC

2000-01-27 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
There are 3 button mice for macs ;o) The recent X server release has USB support as well (I would wager iBooks only have USB and not ADB... my powerbook only has USB). I have never used X in linuxPPC... and I have a 3 button mouse for my laptop. I will check the LinuxPPC website on that one. I c

[techtalk] A favour? (off topic, but forgive me :)

2000-01-27 Thread Deb Richardson
Hi all. As some of you know, LinuxChix is one of the two Open Source-related projects I coordinate. The other is the Open Source Writers Group. I've been working on a new OSWG website, and it has just recently gone into the beta testing phase. I would appreciate it if the folks on these lists