Re: [techtalk] newbie question

2000-02-25 Thread Jeff
und with the /etc/fstab file would look something like this: $ mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos Again, assuming hda1 is your dos partition, and that /mnt/dos is your desired mount point. I hope that helps. -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>?

Re: [techtalk] Can I change my mind now??

2000-02-28 Thread Jeff
head of having an XServer going all the time (depending on how much RAM you have, this could be a Bad Thing (tm)). -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+ o? K++ w--- O? M V- PS+ PE(--)@ Y+@ PGP++ t+

Re: [techtalk] 1st time adding a modem to linux.

2000-02-14 Thread Jeff
:), it really is a fun program. > > byw, I was kindof wondering whether or not "Ji" is a male or female > name. ;) Couldn't tell ya. -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+ o? K++

Re: [techtalk] SuSE -> Mandrake?

2000-02-14 Thread Jeff
rchy standard and > I'll just bet SuSE doesn't conform. I haven't heard of one. The LSB has one in the works, but nothing yet. Besides, SuSE is a member of the LSB. As far as I can tell, SuSE doesn't have any file system quirks (I compile a lot of software myself,

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake NFS install

2000-02-22 Thread Jeff
#x27;t quote me on that one (someone else did this part of the installation, they weren't my boxes). -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+ o? K++ w--- O? M V- PS+ PE(--)@ Y+@ PGP++ t+ 5 X++@ R++@ !tv@

Re: [techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-06 Thread Jeff
rd it is getting rather usable. Anyone tried it yet? Any Caveats about M14, any massive problems in the basic interface or any showstopping bugs? -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+ o? K++ w--- O? M V- P

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Jeff
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:01:12PM -0600, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > AHA! My DVD is bootable! And I have a CD-RW > > Will let you know if this works tonight... thanks Jeff! > > Cool. Since it's a bit larger than a floppy, you can put a whole r

Re: [techtalk] Proggy for Linux that will create PDF files??

2000-03-03 Thread Jeff
een the ff's (or fi's, I don't remember the tag off the top of my head; I usually only convert to PS, which handles them just fine), search/replace works nicely for this. -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$

Re: *cry*

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff
#x27;t get any advice from > y'all... or if your advice is to include it. ;) ) I don't think I > installed the objective C on this computer, and its gcc works fine. You don't need objective C on your computer. It is a separate language based heavily on a runtime library (fu

Re: *cry*

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 11:00:58AM -0800, Jeff wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:19:18PM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > > That is truly strange. I'm really temped to blame this on > bad/incompatible hardware, yes, it does exist, unfortunately, but I

Re: ipchains

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff
lan - no ports > specified). Sounds pretty good. The only cases where you might want to block out specific ports with Ipchains is if you want to monitor a specific port for abuse; like to watch if people are trying to DOS your win boxes on one of the netbios ports (I don't think win98

Re: ping

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:44:14PM -0600, Darren Osadchuk wrote: > pingpingpingping Pong Pong Pong Pong, alive and kicking... someone. -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+ o? K++ w--- O? M V- P

Re: moderator

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff
looking forward to that responce. Dez, could you forward it, or Jenn, could you resend? -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+ o? K++ w--- O? M V- PS+ PE(--)@ Y+@ PGP++ t+ 5 X++@ R++@ !tv@ b++ DI+++

Re: *cry*

2000-03-18 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 02:21:18PM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > On Mar 18, Jeff conjectured: > > > Ack! That cheap mobo comment wasn't directed at you, Lighthouse Keeper, > > that was the quality of the i586 mobos I had to deal with... The 48

Re: [techtalk] Re: ipchains

2000-03-19 Thread Jeff
(it is kind of fun to watch as hole after hole in NT/9x/IE5 gets posted...). Anyway, you can find more info on bugtraq at http://www.securityfocus.com, it is in the forum section (there's a link in the navigation bar). -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu)

[techtalk] Re: ipchains

2000-03-20 Thread Jeff
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:54:32AM -0500, Michael Carson wrote: > Jeff wrote: > > Sounds pretty good. The only cases where you might want to block out > > specific ports with Ipchains is if you want to monitor a specific port > > for abuse; like to watch if people are t

Re: [techtalk] Hey all!

2000-03-20 Thread Jeff
technical one... it just seems like this would be better for grrltalk.. -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+ o? K++ w--- O? M V- PS+ PE(--)@ Y+@ PGP++ t+ 5 X++@ R++@ !tv@ b++ DI D- G e- h! r%

Re: [techtalk] html editors

2000-03-21 Thread Jeff
got more mileage out of an editor where I can switch between files quickly, but I haven't done heavy webdev since I switched to linux). You might want to look into it and an xterm running vim... -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++(

Re: [techtalk] html editors

2000-03-21 Thread Jeff
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:27:12PM +0800, dez wrote: > thanx ..jeff..BTW all yours are cpoming thru as an attachment which i > thought was odd... Yeah, mine does that on purpose, except it isn't html; it is a PGP signature. > i guess ive been spoilt being able to code/d

Re: [techtalk] html editors

2000-03-22 Thread Jeff
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:38:30AM -0500, Julia Frizzell wrote: > At 11:44 PM -0800 3/21/00, Jeff wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:27:12PM +0800, dez wrote: > > > thanx ..jeff..BTW all yours are cpoming thru as an attachment which i > > > thought was odd... >

Re: [techtalk] html editors

2000-03-22 Thread Jeff
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:29:36PM +, Steve Howes wrote: > Jeff wrote: > > Um, no. I use it to identify myself in my email. I personally believe > > that we all should be using encryption in email, so we can have some > > form of authentication. You can get PGPi or

Re: [techtalk] Shell Scripts

2000-03-22 Thread Jeff
look is in the man page. Well, after you learn the basics. Anyway, what do you know about them as it stands, can you write basic ones, or are you totally confused as to what the heck these things are? Just wondering, so I know where to start... -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version:

[techtalk] my last message...

2000-03-22 Thread Jeff
I did send the one about the shell scripts. I messed up on the signing (I temporarily turned it off to be a little nicer to someone I was communicating with offlist, their mail client was being a pain in the ass about the attachments, it was Outlook...) -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK

Re: [techtalk] Switching between desktops...

2000-03-23 Thread Jeff
xec gnome-session # if you want to use gnome, or: exec afterstep # if you want afterstep Be sure to do two other things, first put `#!/bin/bash' as the first line in the file, and only *one* of those three lines (all three will do funny things, it won't kill your system, but it isn&#

Re: [techtalk] Shell Scripts

2000-03-24 Thread Jeff
a comment which lasts until the end of the line. I don't really have time to get into the if/then stuff, but hopefully, someone else will pick up the slack (time might avail itself a little later for me to continue). * Well, technically there are multiple line commands... but the definition

Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-25 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 12:39:11PM -0600, Darren Osadchuk wrote: > > Which is what they are: > > drwxr-xr-x 27 501 users4096 Mar 25 01:09 darren I've seen this before. You don't 'own' your home directory. Log in as root, and run: chown darren /

Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-26 Thread Jeff
Menu doesn't work). Go grab KDE 1.1.2 for right now (I think that is the current stable release). -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+ o? K++ w--- O? M V- PS+ PE(--)@ Y+@ PGP++ t+ 5 X++@ R++@

Re: [techtalk] SpreadSheats, XSpread

2000-03-27 Thread Jeff
owever, if you need to do Spread Sheet calculations, there isn't anything that is really better. I also couldn't find the main homepage, however if you head on over to http://www.google.com and search for `Xspread' you'll get plenty of hits for your favorite distros package (

Re: [techtalk] Linux DBMS

2000-03-27 Thread Jeff
e best hardware, the stuff that works the absolute best with Linux and is the most stable. They carefully profile the heat in the case and make sure it gets dispersed. They make rock solid computers. If you are putting your money on a solid linux system, these are the boxes to look into. -- Jeff -

Re: [techtalk] mutt- help! (was: Checking e-mail on server)

2000-03-29 Thread Jeff
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:29:23AM -0500, Lori wrote: > My problem is mutt: I found the POP support part in the manual, and read about Run Mutt, and type `G' -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@

Re: [techtalk] cak-handed mouse in X ?

2000-04-01 Thread Jeff
but for now: xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1" will solve your problems (I believe you'll need to do a little more to make this permanent, but I don't remember how off the top of my head). -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++(

Re: [techtalk] cak-handed mouse in X ?

2000-04-01 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:07:33PM +0100, Rik Hemsley wrote: > #if Jeff > > will solve your problems (I believe you'll need to do a little more to > > make this permanent, but I don't remember how off the top of my head). > > Probably just add it to your ~/.xinitrc

Re: [techtalk] Opinions about Linux and Streaming Media

2000-04-04 Thread Jeff
just have room to grow in that case. -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+ o? K++ w--- O? M V- PS+ PE(--)@ Y+@ PGP++ t+ 5 X++@ R++@ !tv@ b++ DI D- G e- h! r% y? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- My Pub

Re: [techtalk] Printer stairstepping

2000-04-05 Thread Jeff
ure it out without downloading apsfilter. RH uses Printtool and SuSE uses apsfilter; they do about the same thing, but the arcane incantations needed to make them go seem to be radically different. -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L++

Re: [techtalk] Printer stairstepping

2000-04-05 Thread Jeff
what I come up with tomorrow. For now, I'm off to bed ;) And before you say, ``don't go through all that trouble,'' just remember, I'm having fun, and I'll have to do this eventually anyway ;) -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+

Re: Re: [techtalk] Printer stairstepping

2000-04-06 Thread Jeff
oesn't change the fact that the textonly.cfg file doesn't exist on an SuSE install. -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+ o? K++ w--- O? M V- PS+ PE(--)@ Y+@ PGP++ t+ 5 X++@ R++@ !tv@ b++ DI D-

Re: [techtalk] Printer stairstepping

2000-04-06 Thread Jeff
omputer doesn't know what the printer can do and that the remote print server will do the translation. Ugh, printing doesn't just suck under linux. It SUCKS. That's what I've learned today ;) -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17&g

Re: Re: Re: [techtalk] Printer stairstepping

2000-04-06 Thread Jeff
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 07:54:49PM +, Jennifer Tippens wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 Jeff wrote: > > > Oh yeah, those are all going to print in plain text, at least the ones > > you mentioned, but that still doesn't change the fact that the > > textonly.cfg

Re: [techtalk] no modem etc

2000-04-07 Thread Jeff
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 11:36:37AM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > None of that really matters if you're serious about security. It may prevent > people from accidentally doing stupid things. It does nothing to prevent > malicious people with access to the hardware from hitting th

[techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] Linux for Kids???

2000-04-07 Thread Jeff
ression) { /* code */ } Don't get me wrong, OO has its place. It is a great abstraction and makes some things way easier. * I have to qualify that statement, see http://www.ioccc.org -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++()

Re: [techtalk] Perl for idiots?

2000-04-07 Thread Jeff
re. Usually they want you to have 5 > years of experience in a product that's only been out for 3. I'd probably > grab it. If they will let you learn on the job, definately go for it. -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++()

Re: [techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] Linux for Kids???

2000-04-07 Thread Jeff
an extremely strong grasp on Calculus, math and computers. Beyond that, I'm also decently well rounded. I think I'm in a really good position for what is going to be thrown at me next year. > One of the many reasons I did not choose the UW, even though it's close to > home.

[techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] Linux for Kids???

2000-04-08 Thread Jeff
s. It's been four > years since I broke up with my ex-, and left what had been my home > behind. I've been in apartments since then. Good luck. -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+

[techtalk] Journaling File Systems...

2000-04-11 Thread Jeff
nyone have any experience with these filesystems? -- Jeff -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/M/>P d-(pu) s+:- a17>? C++() L+++ UL@>$ P+ E--- W++@ N+ o? K++ w--- O? M V- PS+ PE(--)@ Y+@ PGP++ t+ 5 X++@ R++@ !tv@ b++ DI D- G e- h! r% y? --END GEEK CODE

[techtalk] Re: [issues] That clothes thread...

2000-04-14 Thread Jeff
pants" comments). Cute ;) > > now, if only Hot Topic made leather pants with pockets that wouldn't > kill the line. (i only wore the jacket so i'd have somewhere to stick my > wallet, palm pilot, knife, cell phone, etc, etc). Hardcore backpack. Then again, I have

Re: [techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.

2000-04-17 Thread Jeff
wer versions of LILO and/or newer BIOSes this is no longer > the case, but don't quote me on that. Ok, now I need to jump in on this one. A year and 8 months ago, when I installed SuSE 5.3 on an older P120, I dualbooted with win95. I had two drives, one linux (hdc),and windows (hda). I can

Re: [techtalk] localhost, etc.

1999-10-16 Thread Jeff Dike
it (which is standard): order hosts,bind which says "check the /etc/hosts file, then the real nameservers if that doesn't work. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] localhost, etc.

1999-10-16 Thread Jeff Dike
ot;/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY)= 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40014000 read(4, "#\n# /etc/nsswitch.conf\n#\n# An"..., 4096) = 1542 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-20 Thread Jeff Dike
mpass a toolkit, a set of applications, and a session manager. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] SMP/threaded programming

1999-10-22 Thread Jeff Dike
.text.lock,\"ax\"\n" "2:\tcall __down_failed\n\t" "jmp 1b\n" ".previous" :/* no outputs */ :"c" (sem) :"memory"); } Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] logins

1999-10-27 Thread Jeff Dike
user-name is all numbers because they'll try to treat it as a uid. So, that's probably not the best idea. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] 6.1 install, the undead

1999-11-01 Thread Jeff Dike
ounted on it. If those are true and the mount still fails, then there's going to be another, more informative message from mount and probably some interesting stuff in the log. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] kmail issue...can't send ..ARG!

1999-11-07 Thread Jeff Dike
Have a look in /var/log/maillog. There might be some interesting error messages in it. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] kmail issue...can't send ..ARG!--fixed!

1999-11-07 Thread Jeff Dike
> Do I have to tell what and give away my stupidity? Everybody's done stupid things. Wanna trade "I can't believe I did that" stories :-) Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] swtiching rhat drives . . .

1999-11-08 Thread Jeff Dike
g it up. Then go into /blah/etc and edit lilo.conf, and rerun lilo with the switch that tells it that /blah should be considered root. Then reboot, and you should be all set, except that you might need to tell you BIOS to boot off a different disk. Jeff ***

Re: [techtalk] swtiching rhat drives . . .

1999-11-09 Thread Jeff Dike
r less > error prone, because people have less to type and actually understand > what they do. And in all of the normal output, there might be an error that you will completely miss. I like things that shut up unless they have something to say that I really need to know about.

Re: [techtalk] swtiching rhat drives . . .

1999-11-09 Thread Jeff Dike
ut only after I sent that mail. And I actually didn't like the results. My machine hung. I took that as evidence that something other than a mknod was happening. So, tar vs cp -a (and cpio) would be more a matter of taste. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] swtiching rhat drives . . .

1999-11-10 Thread Jeff Dike
as -dpR -d is preserve symlinks, -p is preserve attributes, and -R is recurse. -d and -R obviously weren't relevant, so I tried -p in case the file type was considered an attribute (which tar doesn't do, -p is just permissions and owners). Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] GPL Questions

1999-11-11 Thread Jeff Dike
else can implement that API and license the code any way they want. IANAL, but that's my understanding of the situation. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] resolution

1999-11-12 Thread Jeff Dike
tty quickly. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-14 Thread Jeff Dike
E or 98. Then look at the arguments, and if it was a socket operation, then look at the arguments to the previous operations on that socket, especially bind. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-14 Thread Jeff Dike
tell you something about what's going on with that socket. I don't at all guarantee that this will tell you what you're really interested in knowing, but you find out lots of stuff that you didn't know about :-) Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-14 Thread Jeff Dike
olved, and what the history of the file descriptor is. If you want, send me a hunk of that strace output, like from one of those reads to the next, and I'll see what I can see in it. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Problems w/Gimp

1999-11-20 Thread Jeff Dike
is is > perfectly normal, and longtime X-on-displays-that-can-only-do-256-color > s users have pretty much gotten used to it Right. And the technical term for this is "colormap flashing". "Technicolor" is another. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] X, GNOME, and xpm.h

1999-11-22 Thread Jeff Dike
you can use to tell it that you really know what you're doing. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] TERMCAP

1999-11-22 Thread Jeff Dike
uot;:xv:LP:G0:" -- esr) screen3|VT 100/ANSI X3.64 virtual terminal:\ :km:mi:ms:\ :co#80:it#8:li#24:\ ... I would guess that you're seeing the error message that esr did. How old is your installation, anyway? If there are xv, LP, etc, in the screen definition in your /etc/termcap, then try removing them. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] TERMCAP

1999-11-22 Thread Jeff Dike
> but thanks anyway for you effort, jeff :) Oh well. I guess if I'm going to be any help, you're just going to have to have easier problems :-) Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-27 Thread Jeff Dike
h the rest of the rules :0 f | perl mail.pl Jeff %boundaries = (); $html_index = -1; $text_index = -1; $part = ""; while(<>){ chop; if(/[Bb]oundary="([^\"]*)"/){ my $boundary = $1; $boundary =~ s

Re: [techtalk] Bourne Shell Programming and Awk

1999-12-04 Thread Jeff Dike
> Basically, I'm writing a script that takes two parameters from the > user, an alphanumeric character and a directory. What's the matter with find -type d -name "$ALPNANUM*" -print Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Slackware and RPM

1999-12-05 Thread Jeff Dike
rmat and install it. Available as an RPM :-) Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Newbie: Apache question

1999-12-08 Thread Jeff Dike
o in ~user/public_html by default. Change either according to taste... Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] X Display

1999-12-08 Thread Jeff Dike
ser. This works when you're root, but might need to be done somewhat differently if an unprivileged user is trying to use your display. You might also look into turning off xauth authentication and sticking with xhosts. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] truncated file names

1999-12-14 Thread Jeff Dike
eing the filenames (eg 'ls' or some kind of file drowser), and an example or two of the truncation. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] truncated file names

1999-12-14 Thread Jeff Dike
ly nested filesystem organization, e.g., /, /usr, /usr/dos as separate filesystems, the /usr/dos might do well to have a pass number of 3. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] RedHat newbie question

1999-12-18 Thread Jeff Dike
12 /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/cpp-1.1.2-1 2.i386.rpm I'm also running RH6.0, so there's a good chance that everything is identical down to the version numbers for you. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] not 8 bit clean?

1999-12-18 Thread Jeff Dike
d of things. Retrying eventually gets me a good connection. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] modules and xconfig

1999-12-20 Thread Jeff Dike
a second later when something wakes them up. You'll save some memory by saying 'm' to things you don't need too much, but that's about it. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] kernel compilation

1999-12-21 Thread Jeff Dike
ou just boot up the old one. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Filename star

1999-12-28 Thread Jeff Dike
out > embarassing myself, Heathen :-) Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] linux + disk

1999-12-28 Thread Jeff Dike
ev/hdb is a little messy, but seems to do the trick. I'm not sure whether fdisk tells you about unused space, though. grep hdb /var/log/messages|more is better. It tells you what the disk told the OS when it booted. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Filename star

1999-12-28 Thread Jeff Dike
> dired is ^X ^B. Sorry to follow up on my own blatant disinformation, but the above is wrong. dired is ^X d; ^X ^B is the buffer editor which is real similar. I stand by the rest of it. (heh) Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk-digest V1 #90

1999-12-30 Thread Jeff Dike
> > grep hdb /var/log/messages|more > > is better. It tells you what the disk told the OS when it booted. > Bingo. Thanks, Jeff! Actually, this is probably the right way to do it: hdparm -g /dev/hda /dev/hda: geometry = 1048/16/63, sectors = 1056992, star

Re: [techtalk] X11 and xauth

2000-01-01 Thread Jeff Dike
nse to try to rebuild it. If you can post the errors you're getting or any relevant-looking readable parts of your .xsession-errors, that might help. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] missing posts

2000-01-01 Thread Jeff Dike
> I am beginning to believe that I sent to wrong place, say > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something.seems strange I did not get > them back though. Why not go poking through /var/logs/maillog to see what really happened? Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [techtalk] missing posts

2000-01-01 Thread Jeff Dike
> Because I screwed up my linux install, and had to start over yesterday > :-) Gotta hate it when that happens... Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] missing posts

2000-01-02 Thread Jeff Dike
> Because I screwed up my linux install, and had to start over yesterday > :-) BTW, what did you do? I'm having trouble thinking of anything short of trashing a disk that would call for a complete reinstall. Jeff [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [techtalk] missing posts

2000-01-02 Thread Jeff Dike
e of us with sufficiently twisted minds, it's interesting to see what does work and figure out how to use them to fix everything else :-) Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] need database recomendations

2000-01-03 Thread Jeff Dike
"real" enough for you. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] need database recomendations

2000-01-03 Thread Jeff Dike
side). See True. I was being a bit glib, meaning you can get it and play with it for free... Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Other OSes on a Linux box

2000-01-03 Thread Jeff Dike
s) was that they are local (Manchester, NH). We bought one of their boxes, and except for a video card which seems to like coming loose, it's a nice box. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] libraries gtk+ and glib

2000-01-06 Thread Jeff Dike
ow about them. So, just stick a --nodeps on the rpm -i command and everything should be fine. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] missing posts

2000-01-07 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I got same weird message every time I tried to boot, so I wimped out > and reinstalled. :-) Guess I need to buy a book eh? Pay attention to the chapter called "Single-user mode". :-) Jeff [EMAIL P

Re: [techtalk] initrd/kernel building

2000-01-08 Thread Jeff Dike
root, make modules_install reboot Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] put a drive to sleep...

2000-01-11 Thread Jeff Dike
this utility is intended primarily for use with regular hard disk devices, several of the options are also valid (and permitted) for use with scsi hard disk devices. So, check it out, and maybe it works enough with scsi. Jeff [EMAIL P

Re: [techtalk] System CRASH - one solution

2000-01-13 Thread Jeff Dike
o fsck sees an unreferenced file and has to clean it up. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] ipchains logs and nmap audit

2000-01-22 Thread Jeff Dike
> What exactly is printk()? I haven't found any information about that > particular function. And the reason that this internal kernel function is appearing in user-level docs is that printk'd stuff shows up in the log. Jeff

Re: [techtalk] ipchains logs and nmap audit

2000-01-23 Thread Jeff Dike
> It is the print function for the kernel routines. I don't know the > workings of the output of this fuction yet. It's just like printf, without a lot of the bells and whistles (no floating-point, numbered arguments, etc). Jeff

Re: [techtalk] How do I get rid of login screen

2000-01-28 Thread Jeff Dike
n write a little script that runs the X server and then runs the gsm with as the appropriate user with the right args (and I have no idea what they might be...). That ought to do what you want. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] newbie question

2000-02-25 Thread Jeff Dike
ike a floppy, "noauto" would be reasonable (and so would "user", so you can mount it as a normal user). > Also should the last set of numbers be 0 0 or 1 1? Doesn't matter. One of them is the fsck order and the other is the dump order. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] gcc versions and bus error

2000-02-29 Thread Jeff Dike
y (swap_out in mm/vmscan.c) the page fault handler failing to handle a fault because it's out of memory (do_page_fault in arch/i386/mm/fault.c). Other unixes probably do things differently. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

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