network users, set up queuing for
those of us who *still* have only dial-up internet access. Oohh lots of
things!...
All in perl (I think) so those fortunate enough to understand perl can have a
read and try to figure out how it works!
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What's KOffice anyhow? Where can I get it? Is it Open Source or free or
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.exe, maybe something.bat) and others. The usual way to start it is to
run the something.bat which should use loadlin to actually start up linux.
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of
"libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3"
I looked through all the rpms, even downloaded those that I had originally
thought I didn't need but no luck. I tried symlinking the lib name to an
existing lib of nearly the same name but that didn't help.
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>
Guess...
Is it anything to do with forwarding port 20 (the ftp data port) also?
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Conor Daly thought...
> Anyone know how a bash / csh script can tell if it was called in a pipeline or
> directly from the commandline? I've a script that I want to run either by
> catting a file throug
an set up a boot menu before Windows starts
the GUI. You use the menuitem commands in the Windows config.sys and either
load Windows or run loadlin on the basis of the choice made at boot. I can
post or mail samples if you like.
> Is this asking too much, or someone thinks it's doable?
>
using ipchains to set up forwarding from the server
to the gateway (which, itself, uses ipchains for the firewall / Ip masq)?
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:24:25AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Fergal Daly thought...
> At 19:48 16/08/00, Conor Daly wrote:
> >
> >Nice answers everyone but, alas, there is an implicit assumption that there's
> >only one arg or none involved. I'm ac
I can automate
> this?
>
There's a way to pick up the Ip of the machine you're coming in from (can't
think of it now). You could have something that checks that IP and does a
source .profile
on the basis of the IP. Does a .login or any
fying a config file with vi, linuxconf
doesn't seem to read back the config from the same file(s). Does it keep a
database of settings elsewhere or something?
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onnect the Linux drive for safety). That
should rewrite the MBR and is (usually) conservative in its setting up
(All of the Windows settings should remain intact).
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 12:14:17PM +0200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Helena Verrill thought:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Conor Daly wrote:
>
> ...
> > We'll take /home as an example.
>
> Thanks, an example is really helpful.
> I followed this, repartitioned a b
do much the same but in this case you need to have
stuff live on drive D: instead of drive C:. I have all of my applications
on drive D:, My Docs on E: and *only* the Windows system files on C:. I
can send you a brief doc on partition layout for dual-boot systems if
you're interested.
-
the fstab line back and reboot again.
> What could be easier?
>
> OK .. both these methods look pretty involved on the screen, but I have
> used the second one successfully. For extra safety, you may wish to wait
> a couple of days and see how many peo
## See, This bit... #
> > To reclaim your disk space, remove the above line from fstab,
> > reboot again (this puts the old /usr directory back) and then
> > remove all the contents of
ppp0
(maybe bind the tunnels to eth0 rather than to ppp0)?
4. Can you adjust the bandwidth parameters on the fly or only at setup of
the tunnel? Can a single client on-line get the benefit of the full
bandwidth and get throttled back when another user goe
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:26:10PM +0200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Harald Welte thought:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 09:47:29PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> >
> > Just half a page on traffic control but it raises some questions. I'm
> > using a similar setup:
>
roducts that break your desired MBR and force you to have a boot floppy
on hand... More FUD from Redmond...
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o checked my dmesg output for what ports were being configured for
> which IRQs, and I got the following output which seems to be fairly standard :
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
>
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seems that my shell acct with my ISP doesn't know what that is. Grrr.
>
man tr
then
cat file-with-
-characters | tr -d >
file-without-
-characters
thassit.
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Conor Daly thought:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:34:55PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Nancy Corbett thought:
> >
> > I know I've seen someone use a command something like dostounix t
mount it as
"/boot" all should go well.
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nd drool^H^H^H^H^Hclick IMAP aware mail client
though. kmail is nice I'm told but is pop only.
Any suggestions? eh? eh? eh?
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nt.
Is this a seperate program or does it work just like in netscape (ie. you
must load the browser to load the mail client)?
>
> I still need a point and drool^H^H^H^H^Hclick IMAP aware mail client
> though. kmail is nice I'm told but is pop only.
>
> Any suggestions? eh?
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:34:13PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Angela Nash thought:
> Opera just released a new build of their Linux browser. I'm playing with it
> now and it's FAST. Check it out.
>
Er.. Where?
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speak! :-) will "iconize" that app. A second
click should bring it to the foreground...
BTW, I've abandoned Netscape altogether by now. See the "Not using
Netscape" thread in this list.
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entation can
be dealt with without needing to take down the entire system. More
convenient for system upgrades etc also since your data is safe on /home
when you reformat / at upgrade time...
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time...
> >
> I wish your e-mail could have been sent through with lots of red stars,
> highlighted, flashing, and so on... Yes, always put /home separate! Anyone
Hmmm... Does mutt support HTML or javascript, I'm sure I could get it to
flash that wa
> windows.
>
>
>
> Judging from the man page fsck does only check for filesystem damage.
>
> Mary.
Ah, my mistake, I was mislead by the way it quotes filesystem
fragmentation figures when it runs at boot.
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w/o losing your data or appllications. Using this method, I can
completely (including applications) restore my Windows side of things in
under two hours!
I had it posted somewhere on the web but can't remember the URL off-hand.
If anyone's interested in having a look, give me a shout a
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:37:09PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Conor Daly thought:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:35:00AM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Caitlyn M. Martin thought:
> > HI,
> > >
> >
> > > Does /home never need updating
server
> > > > > in Red Hat 6.2? What software should I use? Any
> > > > > tips/advice?
> > > > >
> > > > > - Kathy
> > > > >
Check out Donncha O'Caoimh's "Install Sendmail" program at
w
e
su'ed and started my own panel without logging them out.
If you're going to su to root regularly, you should look at the
bash-prompt-HOWTO for info on setting up your root prompt to look
different. I have my root prompt as brightred on all machines while
root's X sessions hav
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:41:38AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Telsa Gwynne thought:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 08:21:15PM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:30:55PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> > Telsa Gwynne thought:
nd tell me necessary configuration to get things running
> the linux box I have now is RH6.1 running on Intel386.
>
> Hope to hear from you...
>
> Cheers
> anton xie
Go to
www.linuxfirewalltools.com
and build yourself an ipchains ruleset.
Read the Firewall HOWTO, the ipc
;linux" at the DOS prompt.
> (maybe a shortcut with the right parameters would work)
>
Set up a shortcut to linux.bat and set it to run in MSDOS mode. (ClicK
the "advanced" button under the "program" tab)
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Kath thought:
> Its www.linux-firewall-tools.com
>
> - Kathy
>
> > Conor Daly wrote:
> > > Go to
> > > www.linuxfirewalltools.com
> > > and build yourself an ipchains ruleset.
msung website,
write it off to a floppy, boot from a DOS floppy and start configuring...
Alternatively, you could try some typical NIC settings like
IRQ 10 I/O 0x300
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happily monitors the mail spool on the RH
client which never gets any mail since that all lives on the IMAP server!
If I then logout from the RH client and login at the server's console and
startx, panel-h has no lost its clock and mailcheck! This behaviour seems
bug-like to me.
Anyone
Guess I'll go ask gnome-devel eh?
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Now the spooky thing about that is that the two panels are running on
*different* hosts and will correctly start up any apps on their respective
hosts when launchers are clicked. I would expect similar behaviour from
the embedded applets also. Seems a bit bug-like to me.
I'm
ata switch. Will
this break stuff (eg. MOBO, Mouse etc)?
d). How long can a PS/2 or VGA cable be? I want to relocate the server and
router in the attic and it would be nice to be able to physically connect
to them from my usual workstation using
llowing?
1st of Month: Full backup
Sunday: Differential Backup from Monthly
Daily: Differential Backup from Sunday
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iate distro/kernel to use for SGI (said he showing his ignorance)?
>
> Later,
> Caity
>
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r low end boxen with *Intel* processors run Linux. Anything with
> a MIPS processor runs Irix. Their "low end" boxes are glorified,
> expensive, proprietary PCs with really nice graphics cards.
>
Aw!
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#
CDR_SPEED=2
#
# The default FIFO size if, not specified elswhere
#
CDR_FIFOSIZE=4m
#
# The following definitions allow abstract device names.
# They are used if the device name does not contain the
# the characters ',', ':', '/' and '@'
#
# dr
too busy/stressed to) stop just now, get
the book and just read it. You don't have to stop while reading, you can
carry on just as normal just so long as you read the book.
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ran out of the box.
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increasing the relevant log level for the
pop server and try a few times while tailing the log. Unfortunately, I'm
not sure how to do these things myself but I'm sure they can be done.
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:13:40PM + or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Telsa Gwynne thought:
>
> Telsa ("always look on the bright side of life...")
^
While dangling from a crucifix? or just anyway...
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a telnet portscan on the server and could only connect to the direct
port which ain't exactly useful when trying to print graphics is it?
Any ideas where to go? (bin / skip / shop for new external print server)
TIA
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>
>fdisk /MBR
>
> Eric
The Windows setup will kill that nicely, no worries there!
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Conveniently packaged as part of the samba distribution these days from
www.samba.org
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ehind my firewall or
> run it on the firewall (The firewall is a masquerading box)?
I'm using an old 486 as ip masq firewall and router and have the DNS on
the P200 server.
>
> - Kath the Very Confused
^^
You mean Kath the shortly to become even more confus
hem in several directories.
> >
> > Verifying that the rename files are unique in thier own folders is a
> > seperate problem that I can solve once I'm able to search and replace the
> > '[]' characters.
> >
>
> find . -name "*\[*\]*"
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:02:36PM -0600 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Kathryn Hogg thought:
> Is this spammer really subscribed to the list or does the MLM allow
> non-subscribers to post?
>
AFAIK the linuxchix lists are open for posting.
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don't
> know about RedHat though, it does not always follow standards..
>
/etc/X11/XF86Config
Try running "mouseconfig" (I think) as root. That will configure only
your mouse and leave your video stuff alone.
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>possible that xcdroast *requires* the older version of tcl/tk? or could
>there be a good reason why the configure script can't see the version i
>have installed?
>
I suppose you _could_ try editing the configure script to look for
ice. OTOH, a quick grep on ls -l /dev reveals
brw-rw1 root disk 8, 41 Aug 24 2000 /dev/sdc9
device 08:41 appears (on my system AMD K6-2 350) to be the 9th partition
on the 3rd scsi disk on my scsi-less system!??
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Testing.
Yup, that worked.
RH 6.2
You gotta do it on a single line with semicolons though since you'll lose
your connection once the box goes to single user mode. Once it goes to
single user and then back to a normal runlevel, it'll sta
#### end telnet ##
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, I get a "connected" message but no login. tcpd sits
>> there (presumably) waiting for the user to be authenticated.
>> /var/log/messages shows nothing
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
FIXED IT! Did an
rpm -ivh telnet-server-0.17-i386.rpm
UURRGH! Ever feel stupid
hand. I can send these if you wish. Al you
*really* need is rhs-printfilters which was up to 1.81-1 when last I
looked. Don't know where to get it but I can send you the (25k) tarball
if you're interested. Now whether it'll work for another distro I don't
know but I'
27:2336 64.230.122.92:111 L=60 S=0x00 I=61932 F=0x4000 T=45 SYN (#14)
> Mar 19 09:37:52 shadowspar kernel: Packet log: input - ppp0 PROTO=6
>195.92.249.252:2573 64.230.122.92:25 L=60 S=0x00 I=56226 F=0x4000 T=37 SYN (#16)
TIA
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ome) which I think you can
resize or at least specify as larger and doesn't affect the M$ setup at
all. You're welcome to a copy if you wish.
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XP programmers learning a new
> language...)
>
Er..
HI-
as in [HI-techtalk]?
Perhaps I'll crawl back under my stone now...
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onfig.sys and autoexec.bat depending on your choice. Timeouts and
default choices are supported. My Corel linux entry loads nothing in
config.sys and directs autoexec.bat to fire up the loadlin batch file so
the DOS boot bit takes all of oh, 5 seconds before the linux boot starts.
config.sys
" europe! :-)
>
I'm from "central" Europe. It's just that it's central in a North-South
sense rather than East-West though!
Conor (from Dublin, Ireland)
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> --- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:07:06AM -0800 or so it is
> > rumoured hereabouts,
> > Maria G Martinez thought:
> > > > >
> > > > I have a SuSE 7.0 Live Evaluation CD. It boots
> >
S. In this case, we start off
with a (relatively) simple program on the floppy. This mounts the zip
disk thereby adding a layer of complexity and capability and the zip disk,
in turn, mounts the CDROM and loads the main OS.
> I'll post again later, I am already la
oring a machine
would be as simple as using dd to restore the disk and then copying back
the machine specific files.
I have a suspicion that I heard somewhere that dd could not be used to
image from one disk type to another (something about the low-level disk
geometry or something) but I&#x
the teachers having their passwords stuck
on their monitors with postit stickers.
Conor.
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in the config file
and still retain useful stuff like arrow keys and syntax highlighting
(that's not available ion vi is it?)
>
> I don't "think" when I use vi -- it's all just very automatic. So I wind
> up doing things completely wrong because I've been habitu
a variant for user
> tutorials, another for user manuals, another for business proposals...
>
> Advice? Help? Tea?
LyX from lyx.org?
did a little in docbook with it with relative ease. Did NOT attempt any
hacks though (no time).
Earl Grey in your local tea s
the same page with perl5, and so on.
Somewhere in www.linux.ie there exists a vi(m) tutorial which goes into
greedy/ non-greedy regexps or else there're links to one. I may have a
printout somewhere that might have a URL. I'll post if I find it.
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get TV, phone and cable modem access (4Mbit/s and 1 static IP, not
> the lousy ADSL 768/128kbit with dynamic IPs you get over here (or not))
> for 60 or 70 USD a month. Let's talk about envy ;-/.
This rollout started here also with NTL for about 90
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:22:36AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Telsa Gwynne thought:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:12:43PM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
> >
> > And I thought mainland Europeans had it nice already. Here in Ireland,
> > the "loca
st go straight for the man page first nowadays. =)
Though I find that
command --help
is more succinct and often enough.
Conor
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ual exercise to try and figure out what I was saying
in the first place) :-)
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e sshd[2679]: Connection from yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy port 8120
Apr 23 14:01:10 Valkerie sshd[2679]: Did not receive ident string from yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
TIA
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my laptop so long as I don't use them!?
Conor (wondering would they let me carry a 15" monitor and PC into the
cabin of the airplane..)
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to watch the communication
> between the hosts.
Still stumped, I've asked work to enable port 22 for my work box so I'll
wait for that and see if I get any further. I suspect it's the work
firewall now.
Conor
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suite. I kinda think there's something that will do that in linux but
I've not had a need for it since.
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/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0
I can tar up the firewall modules along with its kernel and install
without messing up the system I compiled on
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ry to /dev/hda2
(or /dev/hda5 depending on whether you used fips or fdisk)
6. use linux fdisk to change the partition type of /dev/hda1 to fat32
('b' in the "types" option in fdisk)
7. boot from dos floppy, format c:, sys c:
8. boot from HDD and run setup
#
t LILO, set a CMOS *setup*
password, set the CMOS to boot from HDD *only* (It irritates me the way
some CMOS's only allow me to set the *order* of boot devices but not to
disable any).
Then buy a big chain and padlock and lock the box to the floor!
Conor
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to use a flatbladed
> screwdriver on a philips screw. :)
and if you want to be *really* correct about it, you should be willing to
use a flatblade screwdriver on a "Pozidriv" screw!
:-)
Conor
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pt should do. something like
#!/bin/bash
ssh -l root localhost '/usr/bin/xcdroast $*'
## end ##
save that as xcdroast.sh
Now all you need do is set up ssh on your box!
Alternatively, you could "chmod -s xcdroast" and then run it as root.
Finally, you cou
uter Security Primer"
Or is that too passe at this stage? (Inspired by digital's "The Little
grey Book, An Ultrix Primer" which, btw is a very nice (commandline)
intro to unix/linux for a new user)
Conor
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d and close the backdoors with open source stuff (or was
that irony above?).
Conor
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ayman type books /
articles. They won't be quite up to date since he's dead now (Boo Hoo!)
but good and non techie enough for all.
Conor (Who recently got a present of "Issac Asimov's guide to the Bible")
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on-linux OS's".
It just feels nice. :-)
PPS. Another colleague, looking at my linux-only box with staroffice running,
said "OOOHH! Can I deal with word docs and excel spreadsheets and run my
marine wave model without rebooting?" Another convert (well, she's been
*ni
for the device. I have a SCSI zipdrive on ID 5 and it's not
Incidentally, did you try /dev/sd[bcde]4 ?
Does this ppa module mean I can hook up a parallel port CDRW also?
Conor
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HOWTO, so don't be afraid! :)
Then just add in diald to get dial on demand connecting and you can forget
about it thereafter.
I use a 486/DX2 66MHz with 16Mb RAM, 250Mb HDD and a custom kernel to do
dial on demand, ipmasq and firewall.
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amblings... Can I set the console to 128x50 or
something like that? Had a look at stty but couldn't find anything
helpful there.
TIA
Conor
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