Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Henry
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > II) Use dhclient's supersede facility to override gwen's DHCP offer. > After struggling with the various DHCP manpages, I can't figure out how > to supersede the IP address; all the examples deal with superseding > things s

Re: Uniq is not unique ?

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Bhasker C V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For fairly large file 100K+ lines > uniq command does not filter the repetitive lines. > > Am I doing anything wrong on the usage ? > > For eg:- > > I had run this script in my home dir > > find . -name \* -

Re: Install Memcache in debian

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:52:29 +1000, hce wrote: > > Hi, > > > > While I am building and installing Memcache in debian, the README says > > "If using Linux, you need a kernel with epoll.". Is the debian 4.0 > >

Re: Why debian sucks! [was Re: Distributions]

2008-04-04 Thread Chris Henry
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Oh, and the other thing I don't like is how darn easy it is. It makes > it hard to learn anything past a certain point... hence my occaisional > attempts to do things the hard way... Agree! Agree completel

Re: number of users accessing a wireless network

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Henry
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: > > > put them all in the same subnet (ie 192.168.0.128-255) and then nmap -sS > > - -PN 192.168.0.128/25 | grep [uU][Pp] > > What does it mean to say 192.168.0.128/25 ? /25 indicates the subnet

Re: [OT] Mail address

2008-03-21 Thread Chris Henry
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03/21/08 20:30, Charlie wrote: [snip] > > It didn't show it correctly in Kmail: showed it as unknown, but did show it > > correctly when I sent it to the trash folder? > > In Tbird/icedove, the Sender is blank. But l

Re: [OT] Mail address (was: disassembling machine code)

2008-03-21 Thread Chris Henry
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-03-21 19:29 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:39:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to > say: > ^^ > Huh? > > >

Re: DCHP

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Henry
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:01:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > You say there are two DHCP servers; perhaps what you're > > seeing is a different IP reply from one or the other server? > > This was my first thought als

Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Henry
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Henry wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I > > can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an > > e

Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Henry
Clarification below: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Chris Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I > can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an > external drive, it won't allo

Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an external drive, it won't allow flexible usage of external drive/thumbdrive. I realized that Ubuntu allows users to plug just about anything and have it automaticall

Re: DCHP

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Cassiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every time I restart my Lenny I obtain a new ip addr from one of the 2 dhcp > servers. We have a 1 month lease on this servers and this should never > happen within this period. You can't guarantee what IP address you'll rec

Re: Where is the pcre-devel package?

2008-03-12 Thread Chris Henry
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:58 PM, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Where is the pcre-devel package, I could not find it: > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package libpcre-devel I think Debian does not use -devel for development packag

Re: ssh to Vmware linux on a MS Window machine

2008-03-12 Thread Chris Henry
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:40 PM, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Local network have an IP address 192.168.1.105 > VMnet1 = 192.168.100.1 > VMnet8 = 192.168.50.128 > The bridge is connected between local network and the VMnet8, the > bridge IP adderess = 192.168.50.129. > > In window console

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-04 Thread Chris Henry
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:08:47PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > > > > Luis Maceira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I see all the messages > generated by > > a bash command (configure make make install, > >

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, You can use tee. e.g. ./configure | tee filename Chris On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Luis Maceira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I see all the messages generated by > a bash command (configure make make install, > for example) to standard output(computer screen), > and at the same

Re: su doesn't work "Authentication failure"

2008-01-31 Thread Chris Henry
On Feb 1, 2008 1:10 PM, Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What should I be worried about and start looking for? > BTW, nobody can get access to my system unless they > break into my house, and that hasn't happened. I even > did a reinstall of the login package just to make sure > the abo

Re: "The xlogin widget, ..."

2008-01-28 Thread Chris Henry
On Jan 29, 2008 2:39 AM, PETER EASTHOPE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folk, > > "which login" tell me immediately that the familiar command line > authentication is done by /bin/login. > > xdm.man refers to "The xlogin widget, which xdm presents ...". > Good, but what program is it exactly? There i

Re: Memory Stick is sg1?

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Henry
On Jan 27, 2008 10:22 PM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in /etc/fstab but when I tried to mount /usbdrive the system responded, > "This is not a block device". It was after this that I found that as > root I could mount the memory stick with mount /dev/sda /mnt. - Tom Hi, then try

Re: Brief question as to the Linux kernel in use in the Stable version of Etch

2008-01-26 Thread Chris Henry
On Jan 27, 2008 3:41 PM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-01-27 08:23 +0100, David Palmer wrote: > > Then you need to upgrade to the 'lenny' distribution. > > Or depending on what you are running, even SID. > > That's my standard desktop now. > > Please stop giving such clueless an

Re: How to set up simple cgi web

2008-01-26 Thread Chris Henry
On Jan 26, 2008 6:33 PM, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought if I create /www or /etc/www in my debian PC, and add an > index.htm and cgi file to cgi-bin directory, I should be able to > access http://my_ip_address/index.html. But, it did not work. how can > I make that work? > Hmm. Shall s

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works

2008-01-20 Thread Chris Henry
On Jan 21, 2008 3:29 AM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc Auslander wrote: > > You might look in the conf files in /etc/security and see if anything > > is funny. > > > > > > > That was a good idea, but all files are their defaults (or so I assume, > all options are commented out)

Re: debian install questions

2008-01-20 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, > nowhere for example does the section tell exactly how to enter > the boot parameter (cheart code) which tells the installer where to find the > preseeding file. The boot parameter is the first question the installer asks when you boot from the installer of your choice. To install KDE for ex