Re: Downloaded Perl Scripts

2002-02-26 Thread Alan Mead
Is the file format dos or unix? An easy way using vi (you may be deluged with alternatives) is to edit the file (e.g., 'vi scriptname.pl'), then type ':set fileformat=unix', then enter, then write the file (':wq' or 'ZZ' will write and quit). I have found that newline differences can confuse per

Re: AT&T @home

2002-02-26 Thread Alan Mead
I thought @home was going out of business? Up until several days ago, I would have had an @home address. So maybe that's a caveat. Also, as you have been told, different ISPs may do things quite differently (and even the same ISP may change things around). My ISP did block some ports. Also, m

Re: [OT] Software Distrobution using HTTP

2002-02-21 Thread Alan Mead
IE thinks it's being helpful. IE will also prompt you if you tell it to but IIRC you have to configure each extension and I find it extrodinarily difficult to find the menu where one does this. I believe it's on the file types dialog. But you seem to be seeking a general solution for the people

problems with HP g55 using usb on RH 7.2

2002-02-19 Thread Alan Mead
Office Jet ready" and this should be a snap. I'm hoping someone can show me where I went wrong. I'll also post briefly to the hpoj/hpijs lists. -Alan Mead ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

XMMS squelches gaim

2002-01-11 Thread Alan Mead
one a google search, looked at the two products' websites, and looked through their preferences. No mention of anything like this. There do not seem to be any messages in the system logs. -Alan Mead ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Making Gnome+RH 7.2 faster?

2001-12-20 Thread Alan Mead
I am preparing a used computer for my mother. I installed win98 SE and then Enigma. Of course, I'm rooting for Linux but I notice that when I boot Windows it flies while Gnome is quite slow. KDE seems to run faster (also the little "hourglass" animations are psychologically pleasing). Is it po

Re: Web Server authentication via web form?

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Mead
- Original Message - From: Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 9:11 AM Subject: Re: Web Server authentication via web form? : On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:31:04AM -0500, K Old wrote: : : Any ideas how I can do webserver authentication

Re: File and Directory Permissions

2001-04-14 Thread Alan Mead
- Original Message - From: Jeff Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Redhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 3:06 PM Subject: File and Directory Permissions : Hi Guys, : : It's been a while, but I just threw together a Redhat 7.0 FTP server and : have a very basic question whic

Re: SSH Client for Windows

2001-04-14 Thread Alan Mead
t I now use putty most of the time, but IIRC it is harder to cut and paste between putty windows than TeraTerm (with it's SSH module; both free, AFAIK). TT also supports printing the screen buffer. Putty may be a shade more reliable but they are both more reliable than, say, Window

Re: server recommendations?

2000-12-18 Thread Alan Mead
Ed, I think Dell (and others) are way overpriced. IIRC, they wanted to put a 17" monitor and a high-powered graphics card in their server (what do they think I'll be doing with it... Quake?). But to answer your question: yes, my experience has been that Dell power edge servers (I've used the 13

Re: Bash questions

2000-11-17 Thread Alan Mead
At 01:50 PM 11/17/00 , Stan Isaacs wrote: >I have several qustions about the Bash shell, some of which are probably >true also of ksh and maybe other shells. Is there a good, detailed >description/explaination for bash and why certain decisions have been made? Stan, this is a poor excuse for a

Re: [CGI] Primary and Alternate Web Site

2000-11-10 Thread Alan Mead
Ted, You should check out these URL's: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/linux-ha/High-Availability-HOWTO.html http://linux-ha.org/ http://community.turbolinux.com/cluster/ After you understand clustering/high availability/failure roll-over/whatever at a single site, you can decide if it

Re: Primary and Alternate Web Site

2000-11-09 Thread Alan Mead
This sort of behavior is called names like "high availability" or "failure roll-over". As you note, when the primary host is not operating, it cannot refer surfers to the second. So this is not a solution you can implement on the primary host. It has to be implemented "earlier" in the proces

Re: memory doesn't not release when program closed.

2000-11-08 Thread Alan Mead
At 12:37 PM 11/8/00 , Mark Lo wrote: >Hi, > > I close them with "Ctrl + Z" key. You need to read about bash. I suggest finding a good book. Or, at the least, type 'man bash'. Both of these commands persist until you close them. Control-Z does not close jobs, it "freezes" them. Control-

Re: memory doesn't not release when program closed.

2000-11-08 Thread Alan Mead
At 12:25 PM 11/8/00 , Mark wrote: > I have something strange in my Redhat 6.2 Server. I found out that >memory doesn't release when program closed. When I type the command >"tail -f /var/log/cron" or "top"or . I can see the program is >running by using the command "ps -aux". But w

Re: Network and booting

2000-11-06 Thread Alan Mead
At 04:39 AM 11/5/00 , Dave wrote: >You see I reinstalled red hat 7.0 bare bones, to learn how it all works, I >figured I would install the right packages for the job and go from there. I >have learned so much through the process it's all good, but I cannot seem to >figure out how the network setu

Re: [OT] Gore v Bush Website Servers

2000-11-06 Thread Alan Mead
At 11:07 AM 11/5/00 , Jason Costomiris wrote: >Ok, hands up! Who actually believes that EITHER OF THEM know what OS and >web server software their sites run on? The article that described this, I believe it was in Wired, related that the message was conceived and implemented by Gore's webmaster

Re: [OT] Gore v Bush Website Servers

2000-11-04 Thread Alan Mead
Gore's main page also used to have a little comment for folks who look at the code.. something like "Thanks for checking out the code... it's innovators like you who make this country great" I wouldn't vote for someone because they use Linux.. but I might avoid someone who thinks NT is a good ide

Re: Where is Ping?

2000-11-04 Thread Alan Mead
If you happen to be running 6.1 though: [amead@rh61server amead]$ rpm -qf `which ping` netkit-base-0.10-37 - Original Message - From: Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Red Hat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 6:52 PM Subject: Re: Where is Ping? : rpm -qa | grep

Re: Windoze FTP to Linux is S L O W!!

2000-10-31 Thread Alan Mead
equest. Solutions include: fixing the offending service (e.g., sort out the DNS/ident/whatever issues) and not requesting this info (in ftpd). -Alan Mead ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Kind of OT: (Redhat) Linux vs NetWare?

2000-10-31 Thread Alan Mead
At 02:40 AM 10/31/00 , you wrote: >1) Is NetWare a reasonable beast to administer, they have the license already, >the setup is pretty stable (after 10 months of screwups & problems!) > and I'm >thinking that there is no point going in there and changing > everything. Will >I be able

Re: stupid linux tricks??

2000-10-26 Thread Alan Mead
What is 'qotd'? Do you want to put fortune or a similar program in /etc/bashrc? -Alan At 02:59 PM 10/26/00 , you wrote: >The motd is static (same on every login), the qotd if dynamic (changes with >each login). > >On Thursday 26 October 2000 15:58, you wrote: > > - Original Message -

Re: ver 7.0

2000-10-24 Thread Alan Mead
At 08:23 AM 10/24/00 , you wrote: >I have been using RH since ver 4.0. I have also faithfully upgraded to the >next version of RH the first day I could get my hands on it. That is until >this 7.0 upgrade. I bought the cd, but I can't make myself feel good about >upgrading to ver 7.0. Between this

[SOLVED] Re: BASIC (ugh) on RH 7

2000-10-23 Thread Alan Mead
BASIC code. -Alan At 01:09 PM 10/21/00 , you wrote: >On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Alan Mead wrote: > > I have a book with BASIC code intended to run on a DOS system (like BASICA > > or GW-BASIC). I can port it but I feel that running the original and > > ported code on the same data

Re: [RHSA-2000:087-02] Potential security problems in ping fixed.

2000-10-22 Thread Alan Mead
There's about a 3-5 day lag in my feed here at home so forgive me if this has been discussed. The 6.2 RPM installed fine on my 6.2 machine but it looks like the packages are formulated differently for 6.1 so that ping is part of another package. I deleted the old ping and installed this fix. It

BASIC (ugh) on RH 7

2000-10-20 Thread Alan Mead
20-10. The old 5.x package runs but it fails every time I try to load a file with "Type mismatch file". The Bywater BASIC doesn't support all the DOS features like INPUT$. Can anyone suggest an alternative. I may have to find an actual DOS system! -Alan --- Alan Mead, Ph.D. /

Re: Message Board/Forum Software (OT?)

2000-10-19 Thread Alan Mead
ipat.com/learnlinux/wwwboard/ Or, there is a link on the bottom somewhere to their web/ftp site. They claim it's "free and open" or something like that. -Alan Mead ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

[OT] tcp port 427, srvloc

2000-10-13 Thread Alan Mead
OT to be sure, but can anyone point me towards more info on why several of our Windows machines are TCP port 427 open? I found explanations about MacOS using this... -Alan --- Alan Mead, Ph.D. / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute for Personality and Ability Testing 1801

Re: Linux firewall/router on 420M drive? Plus other questions...

2000-10-13 Thread Alan Mead
At 06:40 PM 10/12/00 , Kevin Holmquist wrote: >connection, etc. etc. Realistically, you shouldn't notice a difference (I >have more trouble with lag from Battlenet than anything else!). Amen! >One final note: (legal disclaimer on) check with your isp before you set >this up. In my case I had

Re: Linux firewall/router on 420M drive? Plus other questions...

2000-10-12 Thread Alan Mead
At 12:16 PM 10/12/00 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I want to setup a Linux firewall/router to share my internet connection >between several >computers. Problem is, I only have an old 420meg harddrive to use (rest >of system is Cyrix 166 >w/64meg RAM). Is this possible? > >I have minimal experien

Re: Multiple e-mails from this list.

2000-10-11 Thread Alan Mead
A simpler way (in my version of OLE, YMMV) is to look at, I think it's file/properties/Internet (or "details")... It shows all the headers. Better than Eudora, actually. Multiple emails?!?! Apparently, I cannot even get a single copy of each email to my home address. Maybe I need to subscri

Re: wierd wu-ftpd problem

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Mead
identd starting on your host is not an issue. If the ftp server is demanding identd information from the Windows clients that they cannot produce, that could cause trouble. I've never seen that with wu-ftpd but I don't run it anymore. I just checked the man page ('man ftpd') and glanced at t

Re: wierd wu-ftpd problem

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Mead
At 01:18 PM 10/9/00 , listmail wrote: > In redhat 6.2, I have st up an ftp server using the wu. I have set >up jails for the various users, to seal them into their home directory. My >problem is that while everything works fine in ters of connecting with a >unix ftp program (such as ftp, a

Re: 7.0 breaks WordPerfect & Acrobat??

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Mead
At 08:58 PM 10/6/00 , you wrote: >On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 02:39:06AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Morning all > > > > I've just installed 7.0 on a spare Thinkpad, and find that I can not > run some applications that worked fine on previous editions of RH. > > > > Acrobat reader installs ok

Re: graphing software question

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Mead
At 06:05 PM 10/8/00 , Michael Stack wrote: >Is anybody familiar with software that would enable me to create simple >graphs of linear equations? Did a search of redhat.com, but couldn't find >anything. Is there a good place to go look for things like this? Normally >I'd run over to rpmfind.net, bu

Re: myserver/~users/ (i.e. public_html ) not working

2000-10-05 Thread Alan Mead
Yes, apache needs be able to see those pages to serve them. And apache runs as nobody which has no special power to read files. You could run apache as root but that's a significantly risky solution; not the kind of thing one does on a tight ship. You might be able to add nobody to each group b

[SOLVED] insmod rio500.o fails

2000-10-05 Thread Alan Mead
have detected and handled the dependency? Or else how was I supposed to know? Thanks! -Alan PS - What's with the list? Yesterday I got something at home five days after I sent it from work! Now it just seems down... --- Alan Mead, Ph.D. / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ins

insmod rio500.o fails

2000-10-05 Thread Alan Mead
XX or later kernel with 2.3 series usb support backported in place. ... Thanks! -Alan --- Alan Mead, Ph.D. / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute for Personality and Ability Testing 1801 Woodfield Dr / Savoy IL 61874 USA 217-352-4739 (v) / 217-352-96

Re: Locking down a multiuser system.

2000-10-05 Thread Alan Mead
At 03:50 PM 10/4/00 , Alan Mead wrote: >At 11:09 AM 10/4/00 , Steve Curry wrote: >>/home/username and I don't want them to be able to view any directory >>structures below their home directory. How do I do this? For example a user >>called ted in /home/ted shouldn'

Re: Locking down a multiuser system.

2000-10-04 Thread Alan Mead
At 11:09 AM 10/4/00 , Steve Curry wrote: >First of all thanks ahead of time! I'm building a multiuser system that will >be home to many untrusted user accounts. They are being setup in Unsolicited advice: IMHO it's really hard to keep a system secure if you cannot trust the users. The vast major

Re: installing perl modules

2000-09-28 Thread Alan Mead
At 08:39 PM 9/25/00 , Eileen Orbell wrote: >I seem to have great errors installing Perl modules. > >For example if I type: >perl -MCPAN -e'install DBD::mysql' >It returns >[...] >sh: y/sources/authors/id/J/JW/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz: No >such file or directory >Could not open >y/bu

Re: logout

2000-09-27 Thread Alan Mead
At 09:46 AM 9/27/00 , Mohammed Ennasar wrote: >Hi all, > >in the past the Logout in the Main Menu turn Ok, but now i can't logout, i >have to reboot me linux Redhat 6.0 to change to user I don't understand the question so I cannot help solve the underlying issue. However, I think Control-A

RE: getting started with web hosting(bandwidth)

2000-09-27 Thread Alan Mead
At 09:34 AM 9/27/00 , Chris S wrote: >we have a dedicated cable line, i don't think there is anyone sharing it >with us. i do know that the @home business package is totally separate >from the regular @home line that people normally get into their homes. if >we wanted to host 100 2page sites

Re: getting started with web hosting

2000-09-26 Thread Alan Mead
At 02:48 PM 9/26/00 , Chris S wrote: >we have a cable business line with one static ip (max. 3 static ips). i >didn't want to ask them directly if we are able to do hosting until i knew >a little more about what was needed. is there a way that i can set up my >own DNS server so that i don't

Re: getting started with web hosting

2000-09-26 Thread Alan Mead
At 01:16 PM 9/26/00 , you wrote: >i would like to host multiple sites on my server and was wondering where >to start. more specifically how to configure the server, what h/w >requirements i will need (including bandwidth), and what documentation i >can use to get up to speed with this. right

Re: Network & system adm

2000-09-25 Thread Alan Mead
At 11:05 AM 9/23/00 , Jason Costomiris wrote: >On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 12:12:16PM +0600, Selim Jahangir wrote: >: Dear all >: The fundamental differences between Network administration and system >administration is what ? >: >: If the answer is with u then please send it to me . > >One guy cares

Re: ssl virtual servers

2000-09-24 Thread Alan Mead
Eric, I didn't see any replies to this and I don't know what your error message means. But I have some ideas. Are you using name- or IP-based hosts? Name-based will not work (per se) with SSL because the name is transmitted by the browser and it is not decrypted until after the server has sort

[OT] Apache serves English and Chinese equally well?

2000-09-22 Thread Alan Mead
ssue. Am I correct? Or would I need to modify the server (a stock RH RPM install, I think)? Is there any reason not to say, "Yes!"? -Alan --- Alan Mead, Ph.D. / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute for Personality and Ability Testing 1801 Woodfield Dr / Savoy IL 6187

Re: vi-Thanks

2000-09-22 Thread Alan Mead
At 05:58 PM 9/21/00 , Stephen King wrote: >That did it. It was the good o'l Windoze telnet program that was ruining it. >I downloaded the Tera Term and it works great.Thanks again to everyone! >SK > >PS-Jason thanks for your idea but my eyes would be killing me after a couple >of minutes. It looks

Re: vi

2000-09-21 Thread Alan Mead
get a better client, I like Tera Term). When I ssh from one Linux machine to another, my terminal type stays Linux (which, incidentally, is probably the best). If you are connecting from one UNIX/Linux machine to a remote Linux machine, what terminal typ

Re: Apache Settings [more]

2000-09-20 Thread Alan Mead
rrectly? It's hard to screw up the password but the username could have a typo and if it is this, you'll be pulling all your hair out... BTW, I think the default Red Hat Apache explicitly disables overriding authconfig... so that's why you have to add the directory entry in httpd.con

Re: Linux is More Secure than NT? Prove It.

2000-09-16 Thread Alan Mead
Linux is more secure (or securable) than NT/2000. -Alan Mead ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

probing port 22

2000-09-11 Thread Alan Mead
57:41 zeus portsentry[578]: attackalert: UDP scan from host: premiumA57.eugn.uswest.net/209.180.177.57 to UDP port: 22 -Alan --- Alan Mead, Ph.D. / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute for Personality and Ability Testing 1801 Woodfield Dr / Savoy IL 61874 USA 217-352-473

Re:[OT] crappy list latency

2000-09-09 Thread Alan Mead
At 09:57 AM 9/8/00 , John wrote: >On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, Eric Clover wrote: > > just do what i did and get a job working for your isp. > > > > this way there is noone to blame but yourself :) > > >Heh. I know that feeling ALL too well! :-) i'm in the same position, >although I got the job before the

[OT] crappy list latency

2000-09-07 Thread Alan Mead
I'm just seeing posts I made, and have been discussed, hours ago. I joined this address years after my work address... But I guess my provider, At Home, is to blame? My experience complaining to them has been like arguing with the wind. Anyone have any advice? The bandwidth is nice anyway :)

Re: [RETRACTION :-] Was ---->Re: simple way to list full path of files

2000-09-07 Thread Alan Mead
At 05:18 PM 9/7/00 , Chuck Mead wrote: >Sheesh! Dummy me! :-) I think we can cut you some slack. :) I didn't think of 'find'... so I'm feeling that it was a pretty dumb question. Thanks to Steve and others for that suggestion. -Alan ___ Redhat-l

RE: SSH & Machine permissions...

2000-09-07 Thread Alan Mead
At 02:03 PM 9/7/00 , you wrote: >My understanding is that hosts.allow/deny only effect those services run by >inetd... One would think so but that's not the case. You can think of SSH as going out of it's way to use hosts.allow/.deny. If the TCP_WRAPPER option was used at compile time, they W

simple way to list full path of files

2000-09-07 Thread Alan Mead
7;t executables nor in my path (nor does which apparently accept multip[le lines of input). Am I missing something or is this not simple to do this? Maybe I need a shell script? -Alan Mead --- Alan Mead, Ph.D. / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute for Personality and Ability

ps detects context?

2000-09-07 Thread Alan Mead
why the output varies between depending on whether it's going to the screen to a pipe. I sense the possibility that I could learn something here... -Alan --- Alan Mead, Ph.D. / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute for Personality and Ability Testing 1801 Woodfield Dr / Savoy IL

RE: [OFF TOPIC] Dell PowerEdge

2000-09-07 Thread Alan Mead
At 04:46 AM 9/7/00 , you wrote: > I can only give a cursory responce to this one (massive conflicts of >interest and what have you), but if you're going to buy a Poweredge anyway >and then trash what's on it (NT or wever) to install Linux then why not >start with RH and build from there ?

Re: ssh basics

2000-09-06 Thread Alan Mead
I echo what Eric said. You basically, install the RPM binaries and it works. Only thing you need to do is connect once to a new host (once per login) and say 'yes' (*not* 'y') to the prompt to store that hosts' cert. Oh, you have to start sshd in /etc/rc.d/init.d. If you don't have the RPM'

Re: Backspace key

2000-08-27 Thread Alan Mead
David, I only have trouble with BS within a few programs (actually, I think it's a readline problem) and even then it does not "delete the entire line". I do not know what is wrong with your install but what you describe is not the usual behavior. -Alan - Original Message - From: David

Re: Telnet disconnects on inactivity

2000-08-25 Thread Alan Mead
At 07:54 AM 8/25/00 , you wrote: >Hi all, > >Is there some "disconnect after x seconds inactivity" >setting for remote connections somewhere? Telnet >on windoze locks after ~20 seconds of inactivity. > >I'm running a standard RH 6.0 server installation. You mean the telnet client that comes wit

Re: Redirection of URL

2000-08-04 Thread Alan Mead
At 06:53 AM 8/4/00 , you wrote: >Can you please send me the DNS way to redirect the URL. I also would like to >know about apache redirect/rewrite methods!! I haven't seen any answers to the list is either slow, or they've been off-list, or you've gotten none. I don't administer our DNS but I t

RHCE objectives and questions of RHCE's

2000-07-31 Thread Alan Mead
I am preparing some Linux training for our programming staff who would like to know about Linux but who work almost entirely with Windows right now. I figure I'll stand on the shoulders of giants and follow the RHCE exam objectives, edited for my company's context. Ok, so am I totally thick or a

Re: printer on lpt1: will not work on RH 6.2

2000-07-27 Thread Alan Mead
Jim, This is a fairly frequent problem. I would find an archive and search for lpt1 and perhaps for [SOLVED] although I think a lot of people don't report their success. You can check that there is a 'parport' in your /etc/conf.modules. If not, I or the archives can tell you what to put. But

Re: Using Solaris binaries on Linux

2000-07-21 Thread Alan Mead
At 04:38 PM 7/21/00 , you wrote: >Is it possible to run Solaris binaries under Linux? I know that M$ IE and >Windoze Media Player are out for Solaris, but would like to use these under >Linux. I don't know. I've only heard great things about vmware (except that it's slow). -Alan -- To unsu

Re: monitoring firewalls

2000-07-19 Thread Alan Mead
At 02:01 AM 7/19/00 , Mark Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >I keep seeing comments similar to "someone port-scanned my firewall today, >and here is who they were..." and I was wondering how you manage to get >this information (both the fact that someone scanned you, and then the >info on th

Re: Installing cable, need to know about where to put the modem.

2000-07-18 Thread Alan Mead
- Original Message - From: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Installing cable, need to know about where to put the modem. : On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 05:03:38PM +0200, Zoki wrote: : > What I would like to know is if I

Re: Cable router vs. IPMASQ

2000-07-18 Thread Alan Mead
From: RTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 4:46 PM Subject: Re: Cable router vs. IPMASQ : I have used both for several clients. : : I find the Linksys router very easy and in turn has little features. This was my fear (fewer features). Could you elaborat

RE: Hardware questions - FIC VA-503+ and HD > 32GB in Dual Boots.

2000-07-18 Thread Alan Mead
At 12:40 PM 7/18/00 , Jeff Graves wrote: >-Original Message- >From: Ward William E PHDN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 1:14 PM >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: RE: Hardware questions - FIC VA-503+ and HD > 32GB in Dual >Boots. >the first drive (13GB) would a

Re: Hardware questions - FIC VA-503+ and HD > 32GB in Dual Boots.

2000-07-18 Thread Alan Mead
At 09:02 AM 7/18/00 , you wrote: >I have a FIC VA-503+, an AMD K6/2-500, 64MB 100MHz SDRAM, a Maxtor 13G >UDMA-33 HD, an IO Magic 44X UDMA-33 CDROM, and a HIVAL 2x2x24 CD-RW with a >PIO Mode 4 IDE interface. The rest of the system isn't germaine to the >discussion, I think, except for something I

Re: I'm a big dumb newbie and

2000-07-17 Thread Alan Mead
ba'), read the ends of those files ('tail -50 /var/log/samba/smb.log'). Or use swatch. And post here if you have trouble. -Alan Mead -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Cable router vs. IPMASQ

2000-07-17 Thread Alan Mead
Has anyone used this? Does it give comparable performance and flexibility? -Alan --- Alan Mead, Ph.D. / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute for Personality and Ability Testing 1801 Woodfield Dr / Savoy IL 61874 USA 217-352-4739 (v) / 217-352-9674 (f) -- To unsubscribe: mail [

Re: FW: samba?????

2000-07-17 Thread Alan Mead
resolved. I must say that I've never had trouble with the Red Hat packages but I have a pretty vanilla setup too... -Alan Mead -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: FW: samba?????

2000-07-14 Thread Alan Mead
At 07:22 AM 7/14/00 , you wrote: >Perhaps the smb-client? > >Try typing mountsmb, you'll either get instructions, or command not found. >If the latter, install smb-client. > >Tom Hey thanks! This fixed a long-standing problem of mine. Since samba seemed to work fine, except that every time I

Re: apache list?

2000-07-14 Thread Alan Mead
At 12:01 PM 7/14/00 , you wrote: >I'm looking for an apache mailing list that is not read-only. Is there one? > >I'm looking for an automated statistical analysis program/script for httpd >use (web use), such as number of hits, and by whom, and when... compiled >all tidy and aesthetically pleasin

Re: Hardware Watchdogs / Alternatives

2000-07-14 Thread Alan Mead
At 09:32 AM 7/14/00 , you wrote: >Looks good, I have used similar for monitoring remote, network connected >systems but, and I quote; > >"The first thing you'll need is two computers. You need not have identical >hardware in both machines (or amount of memory, etc.), but if you did, it >would ma

Re: ssh install

2000-07-14 Thread Alan Mead
At 09:30 AM 7/14/00 , you wrote: >Hello all, > >I have attempted to install ssh on a Redhat 6.1 machine. First I I think I had trouble installing rpm 3.0.3. So, this probably isn't the answer you were looking for but I just upgraded to 6.2. -Alan -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

RE: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status 0x01

2000-07-14 Thread Alan Mead
At 09:00 AM 7/14/00 , you wrote: >I have not seen the messages in 35 hours or so since I noticed them. I >wondered whether it signalled a piece of hardware failing, but I guess >I'll have to wait and see. Well, it's dangerous to speculate but not knowing the source of these messages, I would haz

Re: Hardware Watchdogs / Alternatives

2000-07-14 Thread Alan Mead
At 08:53 AM 7/14/00 , you wrote: >Most software doesn't run very well if the sytem board hangs, or the power >supply dies. To be effective a watchdog need to be outside of the box >being monitored, and looking for a periodic signal that the box is still >working. A typical, far from perfect, bu

Re: Hardware Watchdogs / Alternatives

2000-07-14 Thread Alan Mead
At 03:55 AM 7/14/00 , you wrote: >All, > >I'm looking for a good watchdog card for Linux and am coming-up short. >Any pointers? I don't know what a 'watchdog card' is. There are software packages like 'heartbeat' that monitor something and raise an alarm if that something stops. >Another thing

Re: Linux Machine

2000-07-13 Thread Alan Mead
At 09:08 PM 7/12/00 , you wrote: >I already have a network in my home which I built. I have an 8 port 10/100 >switch, and 3Com 10/100 NIC's in al 3 of my computers. This one will just >add to >what I have. Thanks everyone for all your help. Cool. I think you will have excellent luck with t

Re: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status 0x01

2000-07-13 Thread Alan Mead
ould be less than, oh say 1-5% of the packets. (Does anyone know, do you count incoming+outgoing or just one of them?) -Alan Mead -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Linux Machine

2000-07-12 Thread Alan Mead
h for about $100. Probably less in places like Silicon valley. -Alan Mead -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: winmodems vs. Lucent vs. open source

2000-07-10 Thread Alan Mead
mains somewhat of an Achilles' heel for "desktop Linux" that most people's modems don't work with Linux. The real villain here is the manufacturers who refuse to support Linux at all. -Alan Mead At 02:47 PM 7/8/00 , you wrote: >The same logic of why a winmodem might

RE: Copying hidden files with cp

2000-07-07 Thread Alan Mead
Does that always work? I learnt to type something like .[a-z]* on Solaris (or SunOS, it was a while back). -Alan At 12:55 PM 7/7/00 , you wrote: >cp .??* > > > -Original Message- > > From: Brian Wright [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 12:33 PM > > To: [EMAIL P

Re: WinModems Internal vs External

2000-07-07 Thread Alan Mead
At 11:26 AM 7/7/00 , you wrote: >So let me get this straight most Internal modems are WinModems. Were as all >External modems aren't WinModems? >SK Not quite. First, although it's often used generically, winmodem is actually a real name of a ... US Robotics? product. So some "winmodems" are

Re: FTP connecting slow

2000-07-06 Thread Alan Mead
I have read that you must use a hub for reliable connections. I suppose your slow speed is because of errors. If you cannot get a hub, you could try getting (or making) a parallel cable and using plip. I think there is a plip howto at http://www.linuxdoc.org -Alan - Original Message

Re: SSH backups -1hr daytime; 8hrs nighttime?

2000-07-05 Thread Alan Mead
At 09:50 AM 7/5/00 , you wrote: >Just another shot... > >I know other Solaris people who have reported unthinkably slow >connections using SSH, though neither I nor they could figure out why. >Point being it is possibly a problem only on the Solaris host and not >necessarily unique ;-) The one So

rl5 to rl1 makes init wig out

2000-07-04 Thread Alan Mead
ange run levels without a reboot? What did I do wrong? I'm using an old 486/66 running 6.2. -Alan --- Alan Mead, Ph.D. / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute for Personality and Ability Testing 1801 Woodfield Dr / Savoy IL 61874 USA 217-352-4739 (v) / 217-352-9674 (f)

Re: new to linux

2000-07-03 Thread Alan Mead
TO's of the Linux Documentation Project: http://www.linuxdoc.org Then I would post specific questions here (or a more appropriate list/newsgroup). Best of luck, -Alan Mead -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: New Distribution [LONG]

2000-07-03 Thread Alan Mead
Hey Mike, I'll be interested in what others have to say about some of your specific points. I think the LAST thing I need is another Linux distribution. I would like a set of USER-SPACE packages all tweaked to run on, oh say Red Hat 6.x. As I start to use Linux as a desktop environment, I fi

[OT] network bandwidth

2000-06-30 Thread Alan Mead
r thoughts, corrections, etc. are appreciated, -Alan Mead [amead@hera amead]$ traceroute www.yahoo.com traceroute: Warning: www.yahoo.com has multiple addresses; using 216.32.74.52 traceroute to www.yahoo.akadns.net (216.32.74.52), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 ipatrtr (64.5.73.1) 1.803

RE: changing password

2000-06-30 Thread Alan Mead
At 10:22 AM 6/30/00 , you wrote: >I was trying to use "adduser" command but it returns: "adduser: command not >found " >any idea why? For security reasons, the root account on a stock RH system does not have many directories in it's path (and thus cannot find the command). Try /usr/sbin/adduse

Re: Netscape looks like crud

2000-06-30 Thread Alan Mead
At 11:54 PM 6/29/00 , you wrote: >The main problem is the fonts mostly are not clear and small regardless of >what I set the font settings to in the preferences. My monitor is perfect >for all other applications it is a 15" running at 1024x768 and before you >say that is my problem I can see every

Re: How to Fix Corrupt Hard Disk?

2000-06-29 Thread Alan Mead
Hey Fred, It's been a while and no replies so I'll say this: badblocks will find badblocks. However, it is to be used in the context of making a new fs, I think. So you would need to tar that partition, copy the tar file to another partition (or tape, etc.), remake the filesystem with mke2fs.

Re: using dd to copy files from tape drive

2000-06-28 Thread Alan Mead
Well, you rewound it first, right? (mt -f /dev/st0 rewind) Are you sure your drive can read their tape? It's possible the tape is just unreadable (perhaps by any tape drive). I would try retensioning the tape 3-4 times before I gave up. -Alan - Original Message - From: Nigel Trivass

Re: samba

2000-06-28 Thread Alan Mead
ownership of a process (surely I'm wrong?). There is a trick for not getting your grep in the output: ps -ef | grep [n]mb Finally, I've never used -ef on Linux, isn't that Sun or HP-UX? ps is one of those apps that is fairly different between different unicies. I use 'ps aux

[ARGGG--SOLVED] Amanda, operator, and access

2000-06-28 Thread Alan Mead
ouldn't be read to authenticate amanda's process. I discovered this just AFTER sending my previous message. (sigh) and this is mentioned briefly in a file in the amanda docs (a file added by the packager) but I misread it to be an issue with backingup /root. So, never mind. -Alan

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