"Anthony E . Greene" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:13 Chris Morton wrote:
> >Is there a way to add a single user and password using parameters from
> the
> >command line?
>
> man chpasswd
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> These may do the trick for you.
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Is there a way to add a single user and password using parameters from the
command line?
I've set up a script for a user to add users, create directories, set
permissions, etc. I have the user type in "usersetup ".
This adds the user, creates some subdirectories, changes ownerships and
changes
At Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:24:31 -0700, you wrote
>Onstream (http://www.onstream.com) has 30gb and 50gb tape drives. (30g=ide,
>50gb=scsi). The unit is about $200, but three tapes will cost you $100.
It supposedly doesn't work under RH6.2, but there's a patch available. The
patch is busted, but ca
peter wrote:
>
> Yesterday I successfully installed rh6.2 on my 486/66 computer (64MB
> RAM), but the ethernet card doesn't work.
>
> I have tried three different cards: a 3c590-TPO (PCI), 3c900 (PCI), and
> 3c509 (ISA) all with the same failure.
>
> The OS recognizes the cards through PNP when
Samba is the easiest way to go for sharing files and printers with Win9x
machines. O'Reilly has a new book out on Samba.
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From: linda hanigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 4:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: home network
Hi all,
Now t
You need a hub with as many ports as you're going to have devices on the
network. 3 network devices, at least 3 ports on the hub.
It's possible to connect _2_ PCs back to back with a crossover Ethernet
cable. The problem is that it's usually so hard to find a store with
people who know what a c
I think that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the correct address, as I seem to
recall sending spam complaints there and receiving acknowledgements.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 3:58 PM
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Subject: Re: someo
fdisk /mbr
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From: Alan Mead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 10:36 AM
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You need to over write the MBR with 'sys c: /mbr' (or is it 'fdisk c:
/mbr'?). I don't kn
Oh, I don't know. You might get some action if you attached to your
email complaint, some material from the Falun Gong religious sect, which
you "claim" they sent you.
You DID want the perpetrators SHOT, didn't you...? : )
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From: Jeff Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Try taking the spaces out of the append statement.
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From: Jason Grovert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 4:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 128 Megs of Ram only showing up as 64..
I have 128 megs of ram (bios detects it) in my computer, b
om jacks, plug in my laptop, & wallah - I'm in business.
I currently have to pull out my 100ft cable and string it down the hall,
which I invariably end up tripping on before putting it away.
charles
who forgot how out of shape he was until trying to run a couple thousand
feet of cat5
sage-
From: Andy Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 3:17 AM
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Subject: Re: Good Book for beginner? (GCC?)
Is there a good book specific to the gcc compiler?
TIA
Andy
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> To: &
I also thought it looked neat... until I noticed the same thing. I'm
not so sure it's such a good deal, since as you note, the same How-tos,
etc. are available free from the net, AND if you print them out and put
them in a ring binder, you can add to or replace things at your
convenience.
My sol
No, not mixed terminology, since the free end of the cable is punched
down on the back of the patch panel after it's pulled. The punchdown
blocks are on the back side, the RJ45s on the front. It is also
possible to use a telephone style punchdown block as well. This has
certain advantages such
What a patch panel does is make it VERY easy to both organize your
wiring runs at the hub/switch end, and to change things if necessary.
Since the cable runs are punched down on the patch panel side, it's easy
to label the jacks as to room/station number, etc. Plus since they're
punched down, th
There's a difference between what you need to know to use and administer
Linux, and what you need to know to program.
Two good books are "Running Linux" by Welsh and Kaufman and "Linux
Network Servers" by Craig Hunt. "Linux in a Nutshell" is also good, but
somewhat cryptic for a beginner. There
I believe that Red Hat will remain the superior server distribution.
What I think will eventually happen is that Corel will sort itself out
and become a very popular workstation distribution for less
sophisticated users, as easy or easier to deal with than Win9x, with the
added benefits of the ent
1. Ascertain the manufacturer and model of the drive, then go to their
website. They almost always have such information online now, along
with jumper settings, etc.
2. Take the drive out and look at it. This information is usually
printed on the top of the drive, often along with jumper settin
sting Win9x installations on previously
purchased machines.
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From: Hal Burgiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 9:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: aWhich Linux should I get?
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 08:36:18AM -0500, Chris Morton wrote:
My best hope for Corel Linux is that it'll finally shape up into the
distribution that will shove Windows off of the desktop. It doesn't
have to do everything, and do it better than everything else. It just
has to be easy to install, use and maintain for end users, and do what
it does well. If
You actually should only have to make _one_ floppy. Do this from any
DOS/Windows PC with an accessible CD-ROM drive.
Go to a command prompt.
>From the RH 6.0 manual:
C:\>d: (where d: is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive)
D:\>cd \dosutils
D:\dosutils> rawright
Enter disk image source file
No, you can use it as an NT or 9x PDC; I'm doing it myself at home. The
problem I ran into was that regardless of how many How-tos I read, it
wouldn't work. It kept telling me either that it couldn't find a domain
controller or that the password was wrong. Then I went into Linuxconf
and started
If I'm not mistaken, entries for BOTH localhost and the actual machine
name are required.That's how I have mine set up, and it works the
way it's supposed to.
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Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 11:11 PM
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Su
What does a 13gig. IBM drive go for where you are? They're not that
much more than Western Digital, if they're more at all.
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From: Benjamin Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 8:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [OT] build a Linu
I'd stay in Germany rather than move to Connecticut. You might as well
enlist in the Bundeswehr as move anywhere on the east coast.
If I thought I needed that much individual government supervision, I'd
join the Marines. : )
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From: David Krings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
I've got a 500meg. Fujitsu with a four or five year old installation of
Red Hat on it. It was slow as hell, but reliable.
Try the 13gig. IBMs. They seem to be pretty good.
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From: David Krings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 1:27 PM
To: [EMA
We've been putting IBM 13gig. drives in customers' machines lately and
haven't had any complaints.
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From: Fallout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 2:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OT] build a Linux box for $800
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999,
Nah, move to Ohio. We get Maxtors that work and you can go to the fish
fry at the Vereinigung der Donau Schwaben in North Olmsted on the
weekends. : )
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"Kroenigen" is a pun Senor Rreyes. : )
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From: David Krings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Hi !
Was just sharing my experience, maybe they sell the b-stuff
Now that I've solved my compile and Samba problems (I think), I'm
interested in moving my internet access off of my Win98 machine and onto
my Linux server.
My question revolves around whether there are any special considerations
from my using MCI as my ISP, and Newsguy as my newsfeed.
Right now,
At Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:02:24 -0800, you wrote
>I have one machine with 4 maxtor drives and 2 others with 2 each. My son has
>2 in his machine and my daughter has 2. I will not use any drive but Maxtor.
>I have had problems with WD, Seagate and Quantum.
I haven't had many problems with Western Dig
S! - Salute! Congratulations to somebody who just shot another pilot
down in Red Baron 3D.
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From: Chuck Mead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 2:48 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Abbrv.
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Jeff Graves said:
JG>Okay,
I don't even bother with phone support for routine tasks involving
Maxtor drives. As I recall, it's a snap to go to their web site and
find out pretty much anything I need to know, especially jumper settings
and the like.
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From: Ward William E PHDN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC
ure a Home network?
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Chris Morton wrote:
> That's what I thought. I'm not running DNS on my home network and it
> seems to run fine, with one exception:
>
> When I telnet from my Win98 machine (which has a modem) to the Linux
> server, the 98 machi
Achtung Herr Krings! (Or should that be "Kroenigen"?) : )
I've got two Maxtors, which have given me no problems. Constrast this
with the current recall order on Western Digitals, and the two WD
2.1Gig.s that crashed semi-simultaneously on me.
My sources tell me that there aren't any really good
I considered that, and it definitely has potential.
Thanks.
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From: Anthony E. Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 1:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Low Cost Win9x Xserver Software
A web/cgi interface would be easy to use, extensi
That had actually occurred to me, so it appears to definitely be an
option.
Thanks.
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From: Duncan Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 1:50 PM
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Subject: Re: Low Cost Win9x Xserver Software
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Anthony E.
I've got it installed at home. Haven't quite figured out how to get it
to work yet.
Thanks.
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From: Jim Kannengieser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 2:22 PM
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It's not X, but i
You'll need a hub unless the cards support coax cable, or you can find a
crossover ethernet cable. A regular straight through patch cable won't
work.
Assuming you only have UTP compatible cards, your best bet is a hub,
since the hub will cost you FAR less in time and aggravation than trying
to e
I downloaded it yesterday and will install it when I get a chance.
Thanks.
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From: Yashodhan Barve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 1:34 PM
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Subject: Re: Low Cost Win9x Xserver Software
Hi
Take a look at
MicroImages, I
Thanks.
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From: COXG1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 1:41 PM
To: Chris Morton; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re:RE: How to configure a Home network?
Under Win98, (I forget the exact wording) set your internet connection
to not
aut
I'd put a bit more money into the hard drive. Maxtor 20gig. drives are
ridiculously cheap these days. If I'm not mistaken, a 27gig. Maxtor
goes for less than a 540*meg.* Western Digital went for five or six
years ago.
You can NEVER have too much disk space.
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From: Hug
riday, November 12, 1999 11:17 AM
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Subject: Re: Low Cost Win9x Xserver Software
How about MySQL on the server and MyODBC on your Win9x so you can use
Access
to use the data?
Chris Morton wrote:
> This was addressed a while ago, but not specifically in terms of low
>
The hosts file is correct. Hosts.conf might not be. I'll have to check
that out tonight.
Thanks.
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From: Edward Dekkers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 8:06 PM
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Subject: Re: How to configure a Home network?
> When I t
Well, I suppose it depends then, doesn't it?
I have Access 97 on my Win98 system and could buy Visual Basic if I
needed it.
I'm a competitive shooter and would like to work up databases of both
cartridge reloading information and competition results. I've got a
Linux server and network, so I fi
Unfortunately it appears to be down right now, even when I trim back to
the basic address.
His how-to on share-level Samba installation is excellent.
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From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 5:32 PM
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Maybe he meant 6.0.
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> This a RH5.2 running the 2.2.5 Kernel from the 6.1 distro.
??? 6.1 comes with 2.2.12. Did you upgrade everything, or just the
kernel?
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Let me suggest Partition Magic. It'll take care of most of it for you.
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Subject: Best way to partition a 10 GB IDE disk for Win98+RH6.1
1999 1:41 PM
To: Chris Morton; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re:RE: How to configure a Home network?
Under Win98, (I forget the exact wording) set your internet connection
to not
automatically use the dial up connection. You could set it to try the
lan.
(Using, IE 4 and above, it&#x
Thanks, I'll check them out. The price is certainly right.
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From: Yashodhan Barve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 1:34 PM
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Subject: Re: Low Cost Win9x Xserver Software
Hi
Take a look at
MicroImages, Inc.
999 1:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to configure a Home network?
Chris Morton wrote:
>
> That's what I thought. I'm not running DNS on my home network and it
> seems to run fine, with one exception:
>
> When I telnet from my Win98 machine (which has a mode
This was addressed a while ago, but not specifically in terms of low
cost. Also things may have changed since then.
I've got an RH 6.0 server and a Win98 workstation on a LAN at home. I'm
planning to start some SQL database development on the server, but would
like to be able to access it from
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Subject: RE: How to configure a Home network?
I do just fine without running DNS, not even a chachign name server.
Just
use a hosts file on you linux box, and point all the machines to your
isp's DNS servers
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Chris Morton wrote:
> Is DNS really n
Is DNS really necessary, or will a hosts file do?
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Subject: RE: How to configure a Home network?
>DNS. Gte the ipchains thing sorted next so that you're
Do you have NFS support compiled into the kernel?
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Dear all,
I've two boxes running RH6.0. I want to setup an
And judging by their paper catalogs, they have a pretty good selection
too. I'd consider them if there wasn't a large store nearby, or you
weren't willing to pay store prices.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Have you got the drives properly jumpered?
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From: Edward Schernau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 4:07 AM
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Subject: IDE drive detection
Hello, I'm stumped here.
Got an old P5-75 board with 2 built in IDE controllers. /d
Don't forget the salient fact that the Linux community will actually try
to FIX bugs in the OS, as opposed to pretending they don't exist and
blaming the user.
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inuz /boot/vmlinuz.old
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz
/sbin/lilo (VERY important or linux might not boot!)
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Subject: Networking hardware
I am beginning a project to network the PCs in my house. I plan to use
an old PC (P5-133) ru
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I'm trying to recompile my RH 6.0 kernel for my Pentium 200.
Make xconfig sometimes crashes during configuration. It may have
rebooted the system a time or two also.
I get errors during compile, to include "Segmentation Fault".
The system is a Pentium 200 with 64meg. and a 10gig. Maxtor drive.
Good. They're great printers, even today. I wish I had one to print
out documentation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 10:40 PM
To: Chris Morton
Subject: RE: [OT] HP LaserJet Series II
Thanks! It worked! G
That was because of CMI, the contractor who built the drives for the AT,
not the XT. They were a little outfit that bid on the contract for the
drives for the AT on a lark. Unfortunately for them, they won.
Apparently they didn't pay much attention to the quantities solicited,
because when they
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