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Posted: 28 Dec 2004 08:47 AM PST

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Subject: script writing
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:47:53 -0800
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1) When all else fails, RTFM.
2) Knowing the actual OS might influence the answer

FC3 - kernel panic.. please help !!

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 05:48 PM PST

Trent Buck wrote: 
<snip>

tee hee, synaptic has all of the function i need at the moment, getting
to grips with other stuff is taking up all my time, like getting my
favourite windows game to work with linux! tried cedega, crossover
(didn't expect that one to work tho, really) and vmware... oh well, back
to rebooting!

One thing i've been meaning to get to grips with is rpmbuild. I've done
way to many tgz builds to keep track of. If you're interested, check out
: http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/

Kind Regards.

I need to install Linux for Small Office purpose, which is best version?.

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 04:42 PM PST

On 27 Dec 2004 16:42:21 -0800, com wrote: 

Truly possible with almost any distribution you could choose. I've done
developer workstations with RedHat and servers with Debian. I've also
done it all with Debian and it works just as well. You can get all the
tools working on a debian workstation install pretty easily and have
pretty eyecandy window managers too. To generate PDFs from other
documents, I've used OpenOffice 1.1.x as a debian package. It has a
handy-dandy export to PDF function on the menu which delivers for my
purposes quite good PDF files.

I would think you could do all of the requirements for a server on one
system. I would lean toward a nice IMAP solution for mail and postfix
as an SMTP server. Debian ships with lots of IMAP server solutions.
I've used UW, Courier, and my current fave Dovecot. Dovecot is pretty
nice because it does both mbox and maildir mailboxes pretty easily.
Postfix is nice because with one single line added to its main.cf you can
do maildir if you so desire. For mail clients, I would definitely choose
Firefox 1.0 and I would take a look at Thunderbird 1.0.


--
Michael Perry | do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda
org | http://www.lnxpowered.org

cron.daily

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 04:26 PM PST

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:26:44 -0600, Matt wrote:
 

If the script in question relates directly to logrotate, look into the
'prerotate' option in logrotate.conf

--
I had to hit him, he was beginning to make sense.

SUSE install halts

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 03:12 PM PST

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 

I've tried booting from Disk2, but being a newb, I'm not sure how to proceed 
It's as I thought

I've tried the SuSE Pro 9.2 Eval Bootable DVD; it pretty much does the
same thing as my 9.0 and Personal 9.1

Then I come to the confusing 'mess' that is the Novell transition...

I take it that Novell Desktop is the continuation of Personal?
I've tried the DVD iso, it boots fine... when I try the install I just
get a Novell welcome screen
I'm currently downloading Desktop 9 CD's, I'll at least be able to boot
from the second disk

Thnks for the reply

Linux tape boot/bare metal recovery

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 01:22 PM PST

Here's some software for Linux that does tape backup and then creates
bootable CDs.

http://www.storix.com/linuxbackup/index.html

RH FC3 & IMAP

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 11:33 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup ana <com>:
[..]
 

There are quite a few, (www.tldp.org) "imap" in the search box.

[..]
 

It looks like your client wants plaintext authentication which
your server doesn't support. Check your imap server software hp
for docs/faq and check/search mailing lists, include full info of
commands you tried with command-line, it doesn't help if you tell
'imtest' failed but don't include the command-line you used.
Report versions you are using and include log messages.

--
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 175: OS swapped to disk

splitting of harddisk partitions

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 05:32 AM PST


"volkman" <askme@that> wrote in message
news:41d00edb$0$2028$news.be.easynet.net... 

Some folks said "use parted". Be very careful of this, if there are any
partitions from the Windows world or if you are using a slightly out of date
parted and a new 2.6 kernel, there are some interesting bugs if you have
more than 1024 cylinders on your hard drive. (Typically a drive of more than
8 Gig).

Dual boot - Linux (Red-Hat) & Acronis Secure Zone

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 03:09 AM PST

Thank you for you answer Michael.
CU,
Marco

Building new kernels for SuSE

Posted: 26 Dec 2004 09:39 PM PST


"Michael Heiming" <michael+heiming.de> wrote in message
news:heiming.de... 
 

I did not buy this hardware. I had *absolutely nothing to do* with
specifying this hardware. I did not choose SuSE. I'm just stuck with it.
 

I really wish I could, believe me.

error code 254 on Fedora core2 / core3

Posted: 25 Dec 2004 05:02 PM PST

>>snip
 
 

Your suggestion worked. I installed:

id3lib-3.8.3-7.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm
libmad-0.15.1b-3.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm
k3b-0.11.18-1.xcyb.fc3.i386.rpm

Logged in as root and burned a CD. (Logging in as normal user produced
a crash.)
-Mike

Can't connect to DSL!

Posted: 25 Dec 2004 12:32 PM PST

In article <net>,
"Mike T." <0.0.1> writes: 

Upper loocks bad, but from here it loocks good.

Set your mtu to 1500 to avoid furter problems
ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500 do this for the current session.

 

this looks good. Try debug for your pppd (in /etc/ppp/options , the
commandline or the configfile you use)

 

--
MFG Gernot

setting up INN

Posted: 25 Dec 2004 02:53 AM PST

Peter T. Breuer writes: 

Well, I run Cnews here so that my wife and I can read news offline (I'm on
a shared dialup). I use Cnews rather than INN because I've been running
Cnews since before INN was developed.
 

Newsguy is happy to give me a feed for $40/year. Of course, I have to use
Suck for the feed. It worked ok with my ISP's server before I went to
Newsguy.
--
John Hasler
gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

squirrelmail

Posted: 24 Dec 2004 02:34 PM PST

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:51:03 +1300, Lawrence D¹Oliveiro wrote:
 
 

It's likely then that your distros came with /etc/pam.conf already
configured for imap. What are the line entries in that file containing
imap? That will answer the OP's question.

Problems with dvdauthor - please help.

Posted: 21 Dec 2004 02:36 PM PST

Hi all,

It looks like the video I was trying to write to a DVD did not have
some information in it required by dvdauthor. I looked at the man page
for "mpeg2enc" and the "-f" option states the following:

-f|--format 8
- DVD MPEG-2 for 'dvdauthor'
This version adds special dummy navigation packets into the output
stream that the dvdauthor tool fills in to make a proper .VOB for
authoring. Bit-rate defaults to 7500kbps, buffer sizes to the maximum
permitted by the DVD specification.

This is what was missing in my mpeg file.

I used the "tovid" tool to properly convert my mpeg and it worked! I was
able to successfully get qdvdauthor to make a dvd for me. (mind you,
there were some other big bugs in the qdvdauthor tool that I figured out
how to avoid. :))

However, there was a big drop in quality from the original MPEG video
using "tovid". It reads the mpeg and modifies it. I'm sure I could
optimize all of the settings for mpeg2enc but there are so many and I
know very little about mpeg files.

What I'd like to know is what the "special dummy navigation packets" in
the mpeg file are? If I knew this, I could add them myself without
having to re-process the mpeg file again (and decrease the video quality).



Thanks!
George

P.S. Thank you noi, Wiseguy, and Peter for your help! I really
appreciate it! :)



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