Re: Old hdd and cdrom errors at bootup

2004-02-22 Thread Peter Billson
Deboo, This is normal behavior. You have the secondary IDE controller enabled in your BIOS. Linux is probing to find out what drive(s) are on your secondary IDE controller. Since there are none, the IRQ probe fails. If you do not want these errors, simply disable the secondary IDE in your

Re: Script to upload files

2004-02-21 Thread Peter Billson
Antonio, Below is a simple perl script that will upload a file to the server. 1) WARNING This is VERY insecure as ANYONE could upload ANYTHING to your server. You will want to wrap this in some type of security. DO NOT USE THIS AS IS! 2) The file will be written as the user running the Web

Re: Script to upload files

2004-02-21 Thread Peter Billson
Antonio, Are you looking for a script to automaticlly grab files or are you looking for the ability to have the client select a file, click a button then upload it to the server? Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting Antoni

Re: X upgrade, Wheel mouse stopped working -fixed

2004-02-21 Thread Peter Billson
Richard Lyons wrote: > Rats! I've never had a wheel working under linux, and I was following this > thread sure the solution would be revealed... Richard, To make the wheel work under X change your /etc/X11/XF86Config file so that the line in the Pointer section that now reads: Protocol

Woody install problem on LSI 53C1030 SCSI

2004-02-21 Thread Peter Billson
Hello *, I am having a heck of a time trying to install Woody on a Dell Poweredge 2600 with a LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 53C1030 SCSI adapter. This machine DOES NOT have a RAID controller. I have used the bf24 boot option from the Woody CD and have extracted the mptbase.o and mpts

Re: Sharing dotfiles between diverse accounts

2001-12-13 Thread Peter Billson
> > This seems like a common enough problem that anybody sufficiently > > geeky (say, who has a Debian machine at home and some Unixy machine > > at work/school) would have run into it. Are there any pre-canned, > > or at least not-too-groady home-baked solutions out there? How about: run an rsyn

NFS problem

2001-12-12 Thread Peter Billson
Hello *, I am having permissions problems with a NFS mount that I just can't figure out and I'm hoping someone can help. I am NFS mounting a USB floppy drive on machine A by using automount on machine B. The floppy shows it is mounted rwxrwxrwx and owned root.root. Any user can read and wri

Re: powervault 100t dds4

2001-04-17 Thread Peter Billson
> Has anyone gotten a Dell powervault 100t dds scsi tape drive to work? > I want to set it up with Amanda, but I am finding a lack of > documentation and examples. Dell does support Linux (weakly but they do), have you called them/checked their Web site? > Do you know where a good HOWTO is or e