Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Oct-99 [techtalk] Building ADSL - LAN by Just
This [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> assistance. I went and bought the Linux Network Administrators' Guide
> from O'Reilly, but to my horror discovered that it hasn't been updated
> since 1995!!!
Stuff hasn't actually changed a whole l
Excerpts from linuxchix: 9-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] request for .. by
"erica raspberry"@sedona
> How about how to save a file to a floppy disk?
Use mtools. It's easier than mounting stuff, and most likely you won't
mind using a dos formatted floppy.
> I downloaded a file the other day...and I h
Excerpts from linuxchix: 9-Oct-99 [grrltalk] request for ideas by Deb
Richardson@thepuffin
> I'm hacking together an outline for it at the moment, and I would like
> to know what you think such a Guide should include. Input from users of
> all experience levels would be appreciated. When you st
Excerpts from linuxchix: 11-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] request for .. by R
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I can see a scenario where 'dir a:' coughed up the incorrect information
> from the cache, and therefore lead to user error that caused the loss of
> data.
It is possible for a cache to cause misplaced data
Excerpts from linuxchix: 12-Oct-99 [techtalk] Re: virtual term.. by Ian
Hall-Beyer@nerdherd.
> > > My highly-modified Redhat setup has 45 virtual consoles. My /etc/inittab
> > > has this to deploy it all:
Wow. I can't help but wonder how much memory this takes up...
[EMAIL PROTE
Excerpts from linuxchix: 12-Oct-99 [techtalk] Re: virtual term.. by Ian
Hall-Beyer@nerdherd.
> > > My highly-modified Redhat setup has 45 virtual consoles. My /etc/inittab
> > > has this to deploy it all:
Wow. I can't help but wonder how much memory this takes up...
[EMAIL PROTE
Excerpts from linuxchix: 12-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] Re: virtual .. by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I doubt much if they are console logins. I can open 35 terminals in X before
> my memory starts hurting.
Hm.. looks like here agetty takes 840k, and X has 8M at the moment. So,
thats 40*.84 + 3*8 = 57.60M.
And here's a descriptive list of signals from Solaris's signals.h (which
is UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T). Sometimes it's fun to
kill -SEGV stuff. STOP and CONT also let you suspend and resume stuff if
you don't have a shell with job control (ie if its a daemon, or you
started it
Excerpts from linuxchix: 12-Oct-99 RE: [techtalk] Is there a K.. by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm just sitting here in awe, thinking about putting everything together
> and binding it for later use. It looks like Deb's book is on it's way, eh?
It would be great if the book had this type of in depth h
Excerpts from linuxchix: 12-Oct-99 [techtalk] newbie questions by
"Shelly L. Hokanson"@hom
> 1 - can multiple distros of linux be dual-booted? can't find that
> answer anywhere, though i'm sure it's a case of
> why-the-heck-would-ya-want-to-do-that... i thought of it out of
> curiosity about t
Once I had . in my path, but I took it out. I like not having . in my
path and having to type ./blah. Why?
1) The trojan thing. On any big multiuser system, users will try to do
things to other users. Plus I like looking in other peoples dirs :)
2) When I'm coding, I can always do:
!./
To re
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Oct-99 [techtalk] Netscape and Java by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> How does everyone else get on with Netscape and Java (developing and
> browsing)?
My ns 4.5 works fine. However, I don't particularly like random Java
applets, so whenever I see that gray rectangle come up I h
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Oct-99 [techtalk] Winmodem problem? by Cathy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Could someone here explain to me exactly what the issue
> is with Winmodems? Why is it so difficult to write a Linux
> device driver that will work with a Winmodem?
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/w
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] Netscape and.. by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> What happens if you don't hit the stop button? Does your browser crash?
No.. it's jsut slow.
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Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Oct-99 [techtalk] Real audio playe.. by Greg
Mader@geoanalytics.
> I have downloaded and installed the latest real audio player (5.0 ?)
> for my linux box. I can get their stupid default url to play, and
> the player will start when I click on a *.ra link in netsca
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] Is there a K.. by Jane
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm sorry, if I bother you with a really silly question,
> but...what shall I do, if this "kill -9" just does'nt work?
> Not very long time ago it just happened, so what to do for
> avoiding such situat
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Oct-99 [techtalk] Glibc by Just This [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I installed Slackware 4.0, then I upgraded my kernel from 2.2.6 to
> 2.2.12.
>
> What am I going to break if I install glibc2?
Nothing, if you do everything right, and if your system is set up such
that you ar
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] newbie quest.. by
Beverly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Did you hear that VA Linux, O'Reilly, and SGI are preparing to package
> Debian in the future to sell in Retail stores? I haven't been to clear
> about how the volunteers/maintainers feel about this m
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Oct-99 RE: [techtalk] Different Li.. by
Henti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> location of some files ( userspace, config, other arb things)
> syntax in commands ( there are small differences
> C libs used.
> startup system ( System V or something el
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] Different Li.. by
Ingrid Schupbach@miranda
> Linux Journal's September issue had a nifty chart comparing the various
> Linux distributions which showed what each requires, costs, and and their
> various features.
More specifically, at:
http://207
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] Glibc by Shannon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> You mean it's not? Bleah.
I believe it [is|will be] released under Sun's source code license,
which basically means "You can have the code but you can't do anything
with it". However, I can't even seem to lo
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] Netscape and.. by Mike
and Mary A. Cox@spr
> I'm still very much a newbie, but I'm wondering if anyone has successfully
> installed the Neoplanet Browser version for Linux.
Where's the linux version? I can't seem to find it. (You do mean the
neo
Hmm. It is well known how to exploit a buffer overflow for any unix
platform. It is also usually possible to determine remotely or locally
what OS a machine is running. Root can watch what any user does. So,
to have an interesting virus/worm:
1. Get on a system.
2. Get root. (Either use a n
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Oct-99 [techtalk] pine 4.2 by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:27: linux/limits.h: No such file or
> directory
This is strange. It's complaining that it can't find the file
/usr/include/linux/limits.h, which is on my computer, so I'm assuming
that it
Excerpts from linuxchix: 18-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] localhost, etc. by
"Wendt,Andrew"@neo.rr.co
> Then what is /etc/nsswitch.conf for?
This is for something called nss, or NameService Switch. It's a libc6 thing.
(I dont have it on my libc5 system, which uses /etc/host.conf like its
supposed to...
Excerpts from linuxchix: 19-Oct-99 [techtalk] Would like advic.. by
Cathy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'd like advice on a recommended motherboard. I'd also
> like to know if anyone else has had issues with LBA on really
> large disks. I was never able to get either BootMagic or LILO
> to wor
Has anyone actually used Y or Berlin, etc? (For that matter, where are
their websites? "Y" and "Berlin" seem to be way to generic to find with
a search engine...)
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Excerpts from linuxchix: 20-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] GUI's by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I've been trying to follow the whole KDE/GNOME fiasco, and I was seeing
> down the road GNOME merging with KDE, because of the whole licensing
> resolution with the QT 2.0 set. It's now perfectly GPL, I thought and
Excerpts from linuxchix: 21-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] GUI's by
"Wendt,Andrew"@neo.rr.co
> KDE is released under the GPL... If both KDE and Gnome are GPL'd, you would
> think there wouldn't be a problem with licensing.
KDE is released under the GPL. Qt is not released under the GPL. KDE
is useless
Excerpts from linuxchix: 21-Oct-99 [techtalk] [Fwd: SECURITY: .. by Lyta
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> If you are running wu-ftp from a RedHat 6.1 install, there is a major
> security hole! See below for details...
All ftpds suck. The only one that doesn't have more holes than a
fishing net is the openb
Excerpts from linuxchix: 22-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] GUI's by
"Wendt,Andrew"@neo.rr.co
> I don't see it. The issue being discussed was the possible
> merger of Gnome and KDE.
Ok. I thought you were saying that there's no reason for Gnome to exist
if KDE is GPL.
KDE and Gnome are not not merging
Excerpts from linuxchix: 27-Oct-99 [techtalk] Please help with.. by
"Clare Smith"@pcisys.net
> My c++ compiler at home work just fine with the "g++ " command.
> The one at work seems to be in pieces. I''ve figured out where they hid the
> includes but can't figure out the "collect2".
>
> My com
Excerpts from linuxchix: 28-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] linux 6.1 in.. by
"Tonya Winter"@hotmail.c
> Is it possible for me to create a disk online in windows?
Yes. Have you tried looking at your 6.1 cd in windows? Most linux
distribution CDs come with floppy images and directions/programs to
create b
Excerpts from linuxchix: 29-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] linux 6.1 in.. by Kir
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 2. Mount CD-ROM, cd to its "images" directory (on my machine I type "mount
> /mnt/cdrom; cd /mnt/cdrom/images") and do
>
> cp boot.img /dev/fd0
>
> This command will create boot disk for you.
Are yo
Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Oct-99 [techtalk] partitions etc by
Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one
> Is it possible to format a partition of an existing drive?
Yes. The mkfs command takes the device name or mount point of a
partition as an argument, for example:
mkfs -t ext2 /mnt/dosc
(Don't paste that
Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] linux dual-b.. by
Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Debaian is supposedly bare bones.
Bare bones? While it is possible to install Debian such that it is bare
bones, Debian is one of the largest (in terms of total, not default)
distributions there is. I
Excerpts from linuxchix: 31-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] partitions etc by
Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one
> That will format /mnt/dosc as ext2 (linux native?), right? That's what I
> want to do.
Yep. Oh, one thing I just realized... you may have to change your
/etc/fstab entry for that partition after you
Excerpts from linuxchix: 31-Oct-99 [techtalk] Cursor decided t.. by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Problem: my mouse pointer remains the X shape from startup, rather than
> becoming the arrowhead.
>
> System: Gnome and Enlightenment over Debian (potato)
If its Gnome and Enlightenment from potato, have yo
Excerpts from linuxchix: 1-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] 6.1 install,.. by
"Tonya Winter"@hotmail.c
> One of the reasons I wanted to upgrade is that I can't seem
> to mount the CD ROM. I have tried many different pieces of
> advice
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5
describes how to mou
Are you sure your chat script is correct? The default one doesn't
always work; for example, my dialup server uses "annex username:"
instead of "login:".
You can try it out by connecting directly with a terminal program (such
as minicom) and typing in each step of the chat script manually. If yo
Excerpts from linuxchix: 7-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] pppd problem.. by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> You may want to try turning the debuging output on for the dial up process by
> editing
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 and changing the line: 'DEBUG=' to
> 'DEBUG=yes'
Or, if you don't use redhat
Excerpts from linuxchix: 9-Nov-99 [techtalk] netscape woes by Shahla
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Can anyone suggest advice or diagnostic tricks? Should
> I ditch Gnome/Enlightenment? Go back to an older
> Netscape?
What bit depth are you running in? X programs running in 24 or 32 bit
color mode can occ
Excerpts from linuxchix: 10-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] netscape woes by
Shahla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> What if I decide not to use a desktop
> environment at all? I was pretty happy with
> plain old fvwm in a former life, but I don't
> know how to get back there.
So you'll want something like:
---cut
Excerpts from linuxchix: 11-Nov-99 [techtalk] Arpwatch by "Norma
Ford"@ci.casa-gra
> I need to know how to track ip addresses with the host name on our system =
> to verify our dns configuration is correct.
> Does any one know of any tools to do this?
> Any help would be appreciated.
I'm not cle
bash is annoying in that way. From the manpage:
"When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, it first reads and
executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.
After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile,
~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order
(IANAL)
Excerpts from linuxchix: 11-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] GPL Questions by
Stephan Zaniolo@mindspri
> I read through the GPL and at the end it says that GPLed
programs are
> not
> allowed to be incorporated into proprietary systems. I was planning on
> publishing an API for this system
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] Arpwatch by "Norma
Ford"@ci.casa-gra
> At one point I had accidently ran arpwatch on one of our linux rh6
boxes and I
> was able to see ipaddress with the host name
> I'm not sure how I even got to this point.
> Well know I have another linux box
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Nov-99 [techtalk] bind problem...a.. by
Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I don't know what bind's problem is, but here's what I have on it:
>
> Every one minute, cron runs a job in /tmp (/tmp/ns, the cron listing for
> this job is also in /tmp). Every one minute after cron
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] bind problem.. by
Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> i believe i will nix or move the /tmp/ns and /tmp/cron files... i have
> no idea what they are supposed to do, but i do not trust them
Looks like you might have been hacked. I'd also look for other st
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Nov-99 [techtalk] a really dumb "m.. by
Julie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have compilers out the wazoo, BUT why does "make" (anything) return
> command not found? Issuing individual gcc commands on *.c files works.
What's the error message?
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Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] Free Purify .. by Nils
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Try memprof (http://people.redhat.com/~otaylor/memprof/), it just checks
> for mem leaks (i.e. no array out of bounds etc.). It does this by running
And if you want to find the buffer overflow stuff, tak
Excerpts from linuxchix: 17-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] Tar file spl.. by
Vinnie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I guess split would work, but I"m not sure that it would work after
> compressing (a tar file of ascii files is mostly ascii [completely? I
> don't actually know the file format standard, this is just w
Excerpts from linuxchix: 19-Nov-99 [techtalk] really weird fil.. by
Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one
> Okay. So I got ppp working, and IP masquerading and ipchains all set up.
> So, I wanted to get a file from a remote computer where I have stuff
> stored. I ftp'ed (don't mention security, okay...) and
Excerpts from linuxchix: 20-Nov-99 [techtalk] Problems w/Gimp by Darren
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm having some odd colour problems with Gimp (and Wordperfect, it turns
> out). When I start Gimp, I get a message which reads, "Unable to allocate
> sufficient colormap entries. Try exiting other color i
Excerpts from linuxchix: 20-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] Problems w/G.. by
Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> My next question is, why is this the default choice for X? My video card
> can definitely support higher colour depths, and those settings are in
> XF86Config, so how do I make X start in a higher colou
Speaking of which, I want to do rtf->(some relatively standard graphics
format like jpg or png) in batch on unix. Any ideas? (->postscript is
fine as well, since I can use imagemagick convert for ps->(* graphics
format).
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Excerpts from linuxchix: 26-Nov-99 [techtalk] Users and everyt.. by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm currently logging in as root, but I've been told 9 times that
> that's a bad idea. So how can I move all mail email settings,
> KDE desktop settings and so on to my recently added user (myself)?
> Thanks i
Excerpts from linuxchix: 27-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] Rtf-files? by Tina
Johnsson@penguinpow
> > format like jpg or png) in batch on unix. Any ideas? (->postscript is
> You can do like this; first convert the rtf-file to html using rtf2html.
> Html files can easily be converted to ps in netscape, ju
Excerpts from linuxchix: 1-Dec-99 Re: [OT] Porject-y software.. by
Robert Kiesling@localhos
> I noticed that the server archive is only 51K, so I'm not sure how
> far along you all are with the project. But the SDL library looks
> like exactly what I was looking for. So I'll check it out! Tha
Excerpts from linuxchix: 3-Dec-99 [techtalk] Problems with vi by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi. :)
Hi :)
> I am currently running Slackware 7.0 with vim 5.5
>
> I am encountering an odd error that when I am remotely connected to my
> computer and su to another user (any user, including root), I ge
Excerpts from linuxchix: 3-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] Problems wit.. by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks, I'll look into that, but I should have mentioned earlier that I am
> trying to use the text mode of vim. :/ I have vi linked to vim, and I
> thought to use it as X, I needed to issue xvim instead.
Stra
Excerpts from linuxchix: 5-Dec-99 [techtalk] Slackware and RPM by Subba
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I am a Slackware user and typically count on "tar" and "gzip" to 3~
> extract packages.
> Some of the tools that I want to install are in RPM archives.
> How do I extract this source?
A search of the Lin
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] Slackware an.. by Nils
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Unless you count perl as a normal unix tool. On
> http://www.iagora.com/~espel/rpm2cpio you can see how to grab the cpio.gz
> out of the rpm in perl -- rpm is just a cpio.gz with a header.
Well, technical
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Dec-99 [techtalk] file transfer qu.. by Emily
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ok, this is a case of "I know what I want to do, so what is the best way
> to do it?". I'm up to two machines that run linux at least some of the
> time. Neither can do 'net access under Linux at the mome
Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Dec-99 [techtalk] X Display by Subba
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I do need other users to be able to use the same display
> at the same time. How do I accomplish that? What files do I need to change?
If you want all users on your (the xserver's) machine to be able to
access th
Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Dec-99 [techtalk] X Display by Subba
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I do need other users to be able to use the same display
> at the same time. How do I accomplish that? What files do I need to change?
If you want all users on your (the xserver's) machine to be able to
access th
[Crossposted to and Reply-To set to techtalk (i think. this mailer is strange)]
Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Dec-99 [issues] Re: linux and the .. by
"Natalie C. Heinen"@loui
> Several times, many things have been mentioned about the lack of games in
> the linux world, which leads to less appeal of
Excerpts from linuxchix: 9-Dec-99 [techtalk] networking print.. by
Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one
> I know there has to be info somewhere on this... but I can't seem to find
> it. I've found tons of sites telling me how to share my printer with NT
> or Windows, but I am needing to share it with my guy
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] bizarre by "Jenn
V."@simegen.com
> Except that it looks like the problem occured while she was
> offline.
Well, it's possible that it happened when she was online, and she only
noticed next time she dialed up...
Even so, the logs disappearin
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] bizarre by Nils
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> You won't catch added files with rpm -Va -- they're just not in the
> database, so they won't get checked. You might want to find setuid/setgid
Of course, the cracker could always have replaced rpm..
***
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux? by Subba
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I was wondering if Linux has support drivers for DVD CD-ROM. I
> have the DVD-ROM, but cannot use it for anything else other than
> data CDs and music CDs.
>
> If there is no support for DVD on Linux, I
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 [techtalk] winmodem sound d.. by
"Theresa Radke"@corelcit
> I have a PC-Chips MB with a winmodem onboard, I visited their
> website and asked an engineer to please provide me with a
> driver, I was actually shocked when he produced a driver for
> my sound card
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Dec-99 [techtalk] update by Lighthouse t. D.
Sun@one
> Any ideas as to what would cause this?
Possibly, X is trying to run at a higher resolution/colordepth/refresh
rate than is possible with your monitor and video card setup. You could
try editing your XF86Config (d
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Dec-99 [techtalk] truncated file n.. by
"Theresa Radke"@corelcit
> I am sure I chose a wrong option someplace along the way because
> now my long file names are truncated.
What filesystem? (vfat, umsdos, ext2..) What are they truncated to?
> Any ideas what I can do t
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] truncated fi.. by
"Theresa Radke"@corelcit
> Ok, I changed the mount for c drive to vfat, and it fixed the
> truncation issue, but now c drive is not automatically mounted
> in my file manager on boot.
What is in your /etc/fstab?
It's much easie
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] truncated fi.. by
Kelly Lynn Martin@povert
> Sometimes it's quite unobvious what might be "relevant". :)
Well, she said she changed something. Hopefully it's obvious that the
file she changed is relevant :)
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Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Dec-99 [techtalk] X in Corel vs. R.. by
Caitlyn Martin@netferret
> Red Hat graphical installer may not have handled it correctly,
> is all. I suspect if you prefer the selection of packages in
> Red Hat (and the wide availability of Red Hat RPMs on the web),
> you can
Have you looked at the Mail HOWTO?
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Mail-HOWTO.html)
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Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Dec-99 [techtalk] Corel Linux by Jane
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> yesterday my friend got the Corel Linux Deluxe and I was
> wondering, has any of You installed Corel already?
> If so, would you please let me know about the possible problems.
> (Currently i'm using Debian Sl
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Dec-99 RE: [techtalk] POP mail by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> okay, what's this i've heard about "Secure POP"? I'm assuming this is a
> modified POP that sets up a secure connection between the server and the
> client, to avoid sniffing?
Yep. basically, it just uses ssh to cr
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Dec-99 RE: [techtalk] POP mail by Di
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The thing that really got me, is that when I hooked up my old roommate's
> email through POP, the school's servers will send it if you're not dialed
> up into them, but when he sent an email, the receiver's ser
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] POP mail by Laurel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
> This is a mail.
Hm.. looks like it actually used the "." on a line by itself..
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Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Dec-99 RE: [techtalk] POP mail by Di
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> It's my PERSONAL email that I am concerned about with the POP. My
> regular email address is currently a Unix shell account. They do have
> POP3 setup but AFAIK not SMTP. If they do have it, I can't use it
Excerpts from linuxchix: 16-Dec-99 RE: [techtalk] X in Corel v.. by "Ian
Phillips"@tibco.com
> What's better about it? I know (roughly) how RPM works and what
> features it offers, but what advantages does dpkg give me?
One of the big things I like about debian is apt-get. No need to look
throu
Excerpts from linuxchix: 18-Dec-99 [techtalk] glibc and libc5 ? by "K.
Ziel"@scc.net
> I have seen systems referred to as glibc or libc for a long time, but have
> never had any idea *exactly* what the implications were. Can someone please
> give me a little introduction on this?
Here's a descri
Excerpts from linuxchix: 20-Dec-99 [techtalk] Mounting CD's an.. by
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> 1) Mounting CD's and floppies in X from my user account.
>
> I can mount these with the mount tool but not copy from either
> or write to the floppy, not even if I su - and try it again. I
> can mount both f
Excerpts from linuxchix: 21-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] Mounting CD'.. by
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> The CD line in fstab is actually /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> iso9660 etc. I can only blame my bad typing and aging eyes.
It'd probably be easier and less error prone to cut and paste (do you
know how?)
> Un
Excerpts from linuxchix: 22-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] Mounting CD'.. by "T.
E. Pickering"@astro.
> under RH 6.1, the permissions on floppies and cdroms and such are
> switched over to be owned by whoever is logged on to the console.
> when noone's on console, they switch back to root.
Interesting.
Excerpts from linuxchix: 3-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] need databas.. by Jeff
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> Also, mysql (mysql.com) and msql, both free. Freeness makes them good for
> learning what you want in a "real" database. And they might turn out be be
mysql is not free according to the DFSG[1] (or op
Just because I think roxen challenger's database access tags are cool,
and somewhat on topic:
http://www.roxen.com/documentation/creator/database/index.html
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Excerpts from linuxchix: 3-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] Other OSes o.. by
Kelly Lynn Martin@povert
> If you have any "nongeneric" hardware expect problems.
It couldn't hurt to ask the specific vendor(s) you're interested in
about win* compatibility or at least detailed hardware lists.
>From what I've
Excerpts from linuxchix: 4-Jan-100 [techtalk] Disk imaging sof.. by
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> I believe that many products can
> image a Linux partition, but that it can't browse it, change it, or do
> anything else interesting to it.
What's wrong with dd'ing an image and browse|change|whatever-ing it
Excerpts from linuxchix: 5-Jan-100 [techtalk] POP mail security by Subba
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> What is the best way to protect my users passwords from being sniffed?
> Can a user use an encrypted tunnel to send the userid and password to
> the pop server?
Most unix programs come with documentation
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Jan-100 [techtalk] TNT/TNT2 drivers.. by
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> Anyone ever use the TNT/TNT2 cards under linux with the modified XFree86
> server and OpenGL ?
Yeah, I'm using a TNT2 with the binary dist from nvidia.
> Im looking for a compiled server or code / patch an
Excerpts from linuxchix: 7-Jan-100 RE: [techtalk] POP mail sec.. by
"Linda Walsh"@sgi.com
> I typed man on pop, pop3, imap and imap4 and they all came up
> null.
Would it help you if I pasted the relevant part of the fetchmail
manpage? Would it help you if I said the manpage for fetchma
Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] POP mail sec.. by
"Jenn V."@simegen.com
> Presumably, since I /think/ the original requester wrote saying 'I looked
> there', she didn't.
Well, the original requester didn't say anything about having looked
anywhere. Note that the original reque
Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] POP mail sec.. by
"Jenn V."@simegen.com
> if I know I'm planning to search a man page I pipe
> it through less. I can save myself a step now. :)
If you prefer less, you can set the environment variable PAGER to less.
It can be set to anything, b
Excerpts from linuxchix: 12-Jan-100 [techtalk] Xfree86? by
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> How can I upgrade my Xfree86?
> I'm looking at
> ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.6/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc21/ and I
> don't know wich files I need?
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/ says:
Q.A6- What files do I ne
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size by Linda
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> Another option -- flat panels of the same size are usually sharper
> imaged than CRT's. The CRT's almost always have some skew at the
> edges and it's difficult to keep all 3 guns in perfect alignment --
Excerpts from linuxchix: 18-Jan-100 [techtalk] Windows ssh clientsSubba
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> Is there an HOWTO document for setting up SSH server and SSH clients?
Hm. Whenever I've installed ssh, I've done either A:
./configure
make
sudo make install
or B:
apt-get install ssh
It's no
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