Shuttle Spacewalker SV25

2002-09-24 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I have gotten a Shuttle Spacewalker SV25 mini-ITX computer. Can anyone tell me what drivers I should be using? Sound & X graphics are my first priorities. rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Getting Woody

2002-06-28 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On 27 Jun 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 16:41, Matthew Tedder wrote: > > of different things including plenty of Potato and jigdo but where is > > Woody?? > jigdo is the new way of getting woody iso's. You have to download a > program and use it to get the iso's Is there a

Re: Help w/ attbi.com & linksys BEFSR41

2002-06-25 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On 24 Jun 2002, Reid Gilman wrote: Reid, thanks for the response on the BEFSR41 & attbi.com. I'll get back to you after I next have a chance to work on the problem. rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Help w/ attbi.com & linksys BEFSR41

2002-06-24 Thread Rob Ransbottom
After a lightning strike fried my modem, cable-modem, router, tulip card, motherboard, power supply, and mouse, I was happy that my disks survived intact. After replacing things I find that I have munged my network configuration fiddling with it. I can successfully connect directly to the cable m

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On 18 Jun 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > > then go ahead and get a service contract. If you're running a > server than has to have five nines up-time, then you'd better > pay to have somebody guaranteed on-site in 60 minutes from when > the phone rings. And

Re: Deactivating swap ..... takes forever

2002-06-18 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On 18 Jun 2002, tvn1981 wrote: > Hello, I just recompile the kernel for my old machine. I can boot into > this new kernel and everything seems like what I wanted, except when I > shut down the computer > It tries to turn off all services and such but at the line > "Deactivating swap " the

Size of debian?

2002-06-14 Thread Rob Ransbottom
How do I determine space required mirror the source and binary-i386 aspects of stable, unstable and testing? rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian source package usage?

2002-06-12 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I am trying to build 'ls' from source. > > > > Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the > > fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from debian. > > Being more of a GNU type of person than a Debian type of person (yet!) > I would like to ask wh

Re: Debian source package usage?

2002-06-12 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, G. L. `Griz' Inabnit wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Wednesday 12 June 2002 12:46 pm, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > > I am trying to build 'ls' from source. > > > > Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I gra

Re: Debian source package usage?

2002-06-12 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:46:55 -0400 (EDT), > Rob Ransbottom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to build 'ls' from source. > > > > Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the

Debian source package usage?

2002-06-12 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I am trying to build 'ls' from source. Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from debian. I find the /usr/doc/debian/source-unpack.txt file and follow it. Now, what do I do next? That is: When/what do I do with a debian/rules file? rob

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-29 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Petro wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:04:17PM -0400, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Petro wrote: > > > > Even then I ask: You _want_ to keep your users going when your shared > > libs are flakey??? > > I don't h

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-23 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Petro wrote: > > on Tue, May 21, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > All I'm asking for at this point is something that the rest of the > > > Unix World has done forever, a statically linked /sbin/sh for > > roots > > > use. > > So it has been brough

Re: chmod

2002-05-01 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Daniel D Jones wrote: > I want to set specific permissions on a group of directories and all > sub-directories. I can't figure out how to do this other than manually > tracing through the directory tree. You got good answers pointing you to find(1). > And if anyone's in a '

Re: Backup of debian

2002-02-19 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote: > So we put together a new system, plugged in a new tape drive, inserted our > last backup and got... > nothing at all... > the drives (we were told by the data recovery guys) gradually degrade with > the heads physically dropping and writing lower and lo

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-15 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: | I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX | (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) | before they go to the rubbish. | I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail | (exim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail, etc..)

Re: Tulip chip Netgear card

2001-11-14 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a pair of Netgear FX-310TX NICs. (I'm uncertain of the precise model > card running the PNIC chip (marked LC82C169), which is a Tulip compatible. > installation isn't. This is undoubtedly a silly thing. What am I doing > wrong? The CMOS s

Re: cpio causes shoe-shinning on my tape drive

2001-11-07 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Andrew Dixon wrote: > #find /home -xdev |cpio --create >/dev/nst0 > > the tape spins and then stops and rewinds and then spins and stops > etc... > > Any ideas how to make this work nicer? Try find ./home -xdev -depth | cpio -o -C 1024k -H crc -F /dev/nst0 -o for

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-11-02 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:50:45AM -0500, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Donna. wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Banshee wrote: > > > > How do I get the module for

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-11-01 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Donna. wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Banshee wrote: > > How do I get the module for debian? I downloaded a module from > Last year, we had to use the 3com card to (1) install and (2) get the > latest source from netgear.com, cuz the stuff on the floppy

xRe: scsi-partitioning

2001-10-03 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:25:11PM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > I have no idea why you are getting the error. Have you tried > the "fdisk" command? I have seen it work in cases where cfdisk > fails. Yes, first try fdisk. Sometimes a new disk wi

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-25 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I've been running a small business network on about 16 linux machines and 1 mswindows machine since 1995. At that time I found NIS' special /etc/passwd entries to be a great aggravation. Ordinary passwd utilities, like adduser, would choke on them. Perceiving a lack of server power, I set up a

Re: what command in linux such as mem in dos

2001-09-13 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, thomas anderson wrote: > is there a command in linux to show a more detailed information on memory > usage and alternatively also cpu usage? currently I use 'ps aux' > but I need > more information... An inci

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-05 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I agree. See you don't know what part of whose post I agree with. More in readable order follows. On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:53:24PM -0600, John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > In case nobody told you, this is a mailinglist, not usenet.

Re: Partitioning Advice

2001-08-30 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, John Purser wrote: > network gateway and provide DNS, DHCP, Web, and database service for my > small network. Not a lot of users and not a lot of data. I'm a programmer > who just wants a test network to play with. The partition scheme I'm > considering is: > / 243 Megs

Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-08-28 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Just a thought and matter of taste, but... You may also embed commands near the start of your file: :vi set tabstops=4 showmatch: This has the dwindling advantage of working with most of the vi clones. rob Live the dream.

Mouse problem w/ X

2001-08-08 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I have just changed from a Alps glidepoint PS/2 touchpad to a Logitech Cordless Trackman trackball. (The touchpad was occasionally flakey in high humidity.) The logitech has a two buttons and a clickable wheel. It is a nice unit. All the events seem to be properly generated. My problem is I can'

Re: Debian Tiny Install Suggestions

2001-08-08 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Lance Peterson wrote: > I would like to attempt to create a tiny install of Debian. Not as small > as the Linux Router Project, but much smaller than the standard base > Would it be possible to start out with just a kernel and the apt-get > utility? Then I can use apt-get to

telnetd log interpretation

2001-07-30 Thread Rob Ransbottom
Logchecker sent me this as an unusual event: Jul 30 06:30:32 phavl in.telnetd[8705]: connect from cr943209-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com A quick # cat /var/log/* /var/log/*/* | grep "^Jul 30 06:" > /tmp/log shows nothing else of concern. Does the above indicate a login succeeded or just that a

Re: Restrict dhclient to 1 interface?

2001-07-19 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, John Bagdanoff wrote: > > How do you configure dhclient to only > > seek servers on specified interfaces? > Ahh, just did this last night. In /etc/dhclient.conf: > > interface "eth0" { >send host-name "your_hostname"; >send dhcp-client-identifier 1:your_ethernet_ad

Re: perl question

2001-07-18 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: > > What would be a nice command to remove a dirtory that had files in it? > rm -rf directory But if you don't want to spawn a sh. Check all this as it is off the cuff and I would usually use backticks or system to do this type of thing. #!/usr/bin/per

Restrict dhclient to 1 interface?

2001-07-16 Thread Rob Ransbottom
How do you configure dhclient to only seek servers on specified interfaces? rob Live the dream.

Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?

2001-07-16 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Dan Berdine wrote: > The Redhat machine I use at work seems to include ./ in the PATH > variable, I can always run executables from my current directory > without using ./ like on my home debian system. This has always seemed > more convenient to me and I wondered why Debi

Re: which rc file for hdparm commands?

2001-07-13 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Gladimir wrote: > Of course, I have no such file on my system, and it would be futile to visit > all 7 of the rc#.d directories and grep for the hdparm command because that > command was not on my system until a few moments ago. This is not true you just: # cd /etc # grep -i

Any MUAs like trn?

2001-07-13 Thread Rob Ransbottom
Are there any MUAs like trn? strn? -- rob Live the dream.

Re: md5 password authentication

2001-07-13 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > > How can I get my passwords to be md5-authenticated? > #dpkg-reconfigure base-config > then answer yes when prompted for md5-authentication. Then change your passwords so the md5 can take effect. -- rob

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread Rob Ransbottom
You have gotten a lot of responses, mostly addressing technical aspects and implying a scorn for an admin who doesn't want linux on his already hetero network. On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Brian Stults wrote: > Hello, > > In the fall, I will be starting a new position as Professor of Sociology > at the

innd and suck

1996-11-22 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I am using suck and inn. I am using a file feed to collect news to send out. I am confused as to the mechanism to get the INN system to fill the .outgoing/news.ultranet.com file. I thought ctlinnd flush news.ultranet.com would do this, but I guess there is a bit more to it, and I'm missing it.

Summary: Re: memory over 64Meg

1996-11-13 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > I have just upgraded to 80Megs from 32Megs on a ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4 board > running Debian 1.1 (stable). free(1) only sees 64megs. Thanks for the help. The answer is use the "mem=80M" parameter to the kernel. More info is in

memory over 64Meg

1996-11-11 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I have just upgraded to 80Megs from 32Megs on a ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4 board running Debian 1.1 (stable). free(1) only sees 64megs. POST shows the memory ok. I can't say how anything else works, as I only run linux. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAI

Re: which..

1996-05-18 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I'm from the whence side of things, but I would be surprised if which doesn't return something. Rob Ransbottom [EMAIL PROTECTED]

News

1996-05-10 Thread Rob Ransbottom
With the installation of 1.1, I would like to set up a news server to serve myself news which which will be snagged by 'suck' or equivalent. What package should I be installing? Any other tips appreciated. (I've stretched my knowledge of bnews far enough.) Thanks.