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Cruel Office Situation

Posted: 02 Jul 2005 09:09 AM PDT

On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 12:19:14 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
 

They still would require the motivation to make that purchase. Or perhaps
they really are so incompetent as to believe that financial reporting
requirements require data encryption.

New Thread - Linux newbie

Posted: 30 Jun 2005 09:55 PM PDT

R wrote:
 
Download and burn a couple of the various live CD's and see how the run on
your hardware.

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Suse 9.2 Yast Runlevel editor error

Posted: 30 Jun 2005 01:32 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup nl: 

Firstly, you are replying from google groups in its default way
which does not quote the text you are replying to. This makes it
harder for people not using google groups to help you. IIRC there
is an option to show text and then you can use the reply button
at the bottom.
 
 
 
 

There's no script called apache2 in /etc/init.d, look there for
the name. Might be "apache" or "httpd", depending on the distro.

[..]

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Install Ubuntu without CDROM

Posted: 29 Jun 2005 10:54 AM PDT

The technique can be done with atftpd and dhcpd, along with a netboot
folder from the Ubuntu CDROM and some extensive configuration. The
thing I can't understand, however, was why can't some community effort
on sourceforge put together something a lot more smooth to handle all
of this. It would be great to simply bring up a daemon with a command
line switch to point it to the Ubuntu install, and another to tell it
the 3 part octet subnet (subnet prefix) that you want, and off you go.

Help with installation - Gentoo

Posted: 29 Jun 2005 02:24 AM PDT

No_One wrote: 

Didn't find a script, but did find a discussion of using kppp and
it did settle what protocol to use. I think I tried those, but I
will see later. Thanks.

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Setting up Suse dual boot with an XP NTFS partition

Posted: 28 Jun 2005 11:17 PM PDT

Brona,
Thanks for the suggestion but being that I have 2 partitions with
data on it then completely erasing the HD is out of the question. I
already did that once, backed up my data to about 10 DVD's and I don't
think I want to do it again. -:)

What I'm going to do is delete the linux partition using DOS and
then create a create partitions with DOS fdisk and then resize the
partitions when I reinstall linux. Thanks for the help, though.

syslog severity

Posted: 28 Jun 2005 02:25 AM PDT

I've done a quick seminar with the most important syslog concepts.
Eventually, it is helpful. It's available at
http://www.monitorware.com/Common/en/SeminarsOnline/Intro-Syslog.php

Rainer

Trying to build LFS 6.0 on a Red Hat 8.0 system

Posted: 27 Jun 2005 07:02 PM PDT

I am compiling on 2.4 and as far as I know the kernel-headers is not
the 2.6 version. That might of course be the problem.

When all of the code that I am compiling actually "goes live," it's
going to be running on a 2.6 kernel. (Right now I am compiling the
"toolchain" of stuff under the old compiler, in preparation for using
it to compile the new stuff in such a way that there will be no
lingering dependencies on the old environment.)

I am following section 5.8 of the instructions given at
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org.

As they say, "it's educational." Boy howdy, it sure is!

how come GUI can do while command line can not

Posted: 27 Jun 2005 06:00 PM PDT


"Jean-David Beyer" <com> wrote in message
news:supernews.com... 

Yes, they work fine, if you have the security setup as standard. These
things vary from OS to OS.

Some operations done by tools in the GUI, such as opening CD drives, require
root privileges. Whether those privileges are held by the GUI or by a
command line tool depends on the software in question, but it's why "suid"
programs that run as root exist.
 

sudo is your friend. So is hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X session
and get the xdm login screen, and using the "shutdown this machine" option
iin most such login screens.

network and dsl

Posted: 27 Jun 2005 12:46 PM PDT

>>>>> "geder" == geder s dorf <gedersdorf @ despammed.com> writes:

geder> I have two computers, LINUX - XP, connected via a switch. I
geder> use static IP address set up on Linux. The network was
geder> working. Then I added a DSL modem, connecting it to the
geder> switch. I can get on the internet on the XP, but I lost
geder> the connection between the two computers. I have not set up
geder> a internet connection with LINUX. When connected to the
geder> internet the modem assigns a IP address for the XP
geder> computer. When I disable the internet connection, the
geder> connection between the computers is restored.

geder> How can get the internet connection and the two computer
geder> connection at the same time?

you probably want 'internet connection sharing' on the xp box. but
the other advice, to get a router, is also better. ics makes your xp
box into a kind of ad hoc router but without the advantages of a fully
functional separate unit. get a linksys for around $60 (or less)
online if you can afford it.

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004SB92/102-3488001-3826565?v=glance

i have a wireless/ethernet combo (linksys, i swear by them) and it
works great. configure it with a web browser. let it dhcp your
network. put samba on the linux box as a wins master browser and the
win machine will automatically connect to it when you need to, just
like to another win machine.

mp

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Packages description

Posted: 27 Jun 2005 07:47 AM PDT

Thank you very much for your answer, but what I was meaning was : seeing
all the packages avalaible with a distribution BEFORE processing the
setup (that is : on the C.D.)



Unruh a écrit : 

need help with Debian-Sarge modules/soundcard issues

Posted: 26 Jun 2005 06:09 PM PDT

com wrote: 

It's not supposed to. You do. Then you say which driver to load.
 

Well, load the es1371 driver then!

% locate 1371 | grep module
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre18-SMP/alsa/snd-card-ens1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre18-SMP/misc/es1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.2.20-SMP/misc/es1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.16-SMP-XFS/misc/snd-card-ens1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.17rc2-SMP-XFS/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.17rc2-SMP-XFS/misc/snd-card-ens1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.19-SMP-XFS/alsa/snd-card-ens1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.19-SMP-XFS/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.20-SMP-XFS/alsa/snd-card-ens1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.20-SMP-XFS/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.22-SMP-XFS/alsa/snd-card-ens1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.22-SMP-XFS/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.3-SMP-pre-supermount/kernel/sound/pci/snd-ens1371.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.3-SMP/kernel/sound/pci/snd-ens1371.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-SMP/kernel/sound/oss/es1371.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-SMP/kernel/sound/pci/snd-ens1371.ko

etc. etc.
 

Choose a driver and load it.
 

Sure! Common sense, intelligence, reading, etc. Everything everyone
normally does. The Sound-HOWTO is a useful starting point.
 

Don't be silly. Nothing is there after you shutdown. You have to tell
the system to load your modules - any way you like.
 

Eh? What needs configuring about it? Soundcards just work. When sent a
few bits of data they make sounds.

Peter

Looking for a minimal boot script set

Posted: 26 Jun 2005 06:00 PM PDT

27 Jun 2005 01:00 UTC, com typed: 
 

Why not make use of the LFS/Fedora bootscripts and just remove/modify the
ones that call programmes you don't have?

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Updating RHEL3 using CD-ROm (without up2date)

Posted: 26 Jun 2005 12:22 AM PDT


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

I've had problems with it, especially when dealing with kernels on weird
architectures. (Putting an i686 kernel accidentally on an athlon machine can
be.... interesting.)

new install login

Posted: 25 Jun 2005 04:25 PM PDT

BOB wrote: 
It's really insecure to use a distro that old. May I suggest Debian
Sarge? http://www.debian.org/

Newbie Q: Filesystem depency conflicts

Posted: 25 Jun 2005 09:55 AM PDT

 

No sweat. Grab *all* the installed RPM's into a directory, all at once or
one at a time, and do a "rpm -Uh $name --dry-run --replacepkgs" with them to
see if there are conflicts.

RedHat has a little cron job called /etc/cron.daily/rpm that puts a list of
all your installed packages, with full package names, in /var/log/rpm. I
highly recommend the widget for use elsewhere for exactly this sort of
situation.

Physical Memory Size Mismatch

Posted: 25 Jun 2005 04:33 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Rudolf Usselmann <com>: 
 
 
 

No it's not related to swap.

The corresponding line from arch/i386/mm/init.c (on i386) you
should find the same for your architecture, all use more or less
nearly the same info:

printk(KERN_INFO "Memory: %luk/%luk available (%dk kernel code,
%dk reserved, %dk data, %dk init, %ldk highmem)\n",

Haven't looked deeper into it, due to no problems. But you might
like to take a closer look? If you like, I could double-check for
similar output on some opteron next week?

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2nd DVD drive not detected

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 01:59 PM PDT

peter smith wrote:
 

The same way the other DVD device was configured. Check your boot loader
(LILO or GRUB), do you see someting along the lines of 'hdX=ide-scsi'
if yes then do the same for the other device. Hint: read the top of
this message.

FYI: with the current cdrtools and current kernels the use of ide-scsi
emulation is not needed;

$ cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c
1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R6112' 'X231' Removable
CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *



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Linux Beginner, Which Linux to install?

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 12:12 AM PDT

I have Xandros as well. In fact, I have Xandros on my laptop (dual-boot
with WinXP) and on my desktop (the desktop is Xandros-only). I got a
Zoom 3048 56k V.92/V.90 external serial modem today at Staples for the
desktop. All I had to do in order to get the modem working was go into
the console and type in "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem". That allowed
NetZero to dial out. Getting online on Xandros is muy cool. The connect
speed and overall speed (even on this old 400MHz dinosaur of a desktop
with 256MB RAM) is very good. I tried for a year to get my desktop's
winmodem to work, then I decided to just get a REAL modem...best
decision I ever made.

how use "mail" without a MTA?

Posted: 22 Jun 2005 09:06 AM PDT

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:09:00 -0700, jeff wrote:
 

That's great stuff Jeff, but that is the link for the Win32 version.
However, the Linux version is at http://freshmeat.net/projects/smtpsend/

thanks again, it's just what I want.

Larry

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