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corrupt superblock 4664
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 19:32:44 -0700, rr2 Is this when you try to mount the parbreastion, or after it is mounted and...
corrupt superblock 4665
Hi, Only two physically distinct systems are involved here: 1) The laptop with RH9 where this drive was to primary boot drive since it (the drive) was...
corrupt superblock 4666
When booting the laptop with the drive in question, i get: GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... ... some audible HD activity, over a minute long ... Error 25 Booting the laptop with floppy I...
Call For Papers: SCALE 4x 2006 Southern California Linux Expo
2006 Southern CAlifornia Linux Expo - SCALE 4x The USC, Simi-Conejo, and UCLA Linux User Groups are...
Friend is interested to learn Linux Sys admin, will it help for his Career 4668
Probably won't hurt. Linux is used forsomethingin most networks. There is a mbuttive shortage of *good* Linux-Unix people. I don't know poo and...
Friend is interested to learn Linux Sys admin, will it help for his Career 4669
On 5 Sep 2005 16:33:40 -0700, Noah Roberts staggered into the Black Sun and said: Er. Noah, I wouldn't say that you "don't know poo". Everybody's got gaps in their knowledge...
Friend is interested to learn Linux Sys admin, will it help for his Career 4670
Most of us recognize that we're not "elite kernel hackers;" I think his statement of there being a "mbuttive shortage of *good* Linux-Unix people" seems pretty fair. If...
Friend is interested to learn Linux Sys admin, will it help for his Career 4671
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 06:26:23 GMT, Christopher Browne staggered into the Black Sun and said: Hm. I was looking for a...
CLI: Using Locate
CLI= Command Line Interface Bash you get a list of the paths to files that you have to type or cut&paste onto the...
Unable to do backups in cronjob
I'm having no end of problems getting backups to work from cron. I currently have a script which works when invoked directly, but fails when invoked by cron...
What directory is a program running in
On 5 Sep 2005 14:18:45 -0700, Random Penguin staggered into the Black Sun and said: proc is a pseudo-filesystem. If you look a little more deeply atproc , as with ls...
Cannot change samba pbuttword: "Error was : RAP86: The specified pbuttword is invalid
Hi! For some reason unknown to me, I'm completely unable to change my Samba pbuttword using smbpbuttwd. I always get: Old SMB pbuttword: New SMB pbuttword: Retype new SMB pbuttword: machine 127.0.0.1...
Moving Home 4676
Will Line 4 in my fstab allow me to have myhome on hdb1? Existinghome copied using cp -a tomnt-hdb1 ?? # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details...
Moving Home 4677
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:00:46 -0500, CWO4 Dave Mann Nope, too simple :-) I did that and upon rebooting I got the message thathome-dave...
A new reader Welcome to comp.os.linux.misc, read this first if you're new here FAQ 4678
Netiquette 2005-09#1 New reader? Great! Welcome! Here's how to make best use of this newsgroup and get yourself a slice of the best...
wireless lan 101 4679
Peter's bedside manner is notoriously lacking, but he did actually have a reasonable point: The problem with erasing and reinstalling is that, well, it erases...
wireless lan 101 4680
John-Paul Stewart You have a point. My error and I apologize. Still does not excuse rudeness. It's...
wireless lan 101 4681
Peter T. Breuer Sorry if I seemed to be flaming. That was not my intent. I am using Suse 9.3 in a laptop with Pentium 4, 2.66gHz. It has a built...
wireless lan 101 4682
Peter T. Breuer OK, I had to log out and re-login as root to run the command. Then...
killpg shell command 4683
On 2005-09-08, Keith Keller Who said anything about command names? -n where n is larger than 1. All processes in process group n are signaled. When an argument of the form...
killpg shell command 4684
You're taking things to literally. Please think back to algebra, where we learned the concept of a letter being a subsbreastute...
Kaddressbook
In my continuing effort to make my SUSE v9.3 servicable, I looked today at Kaddressbook. I have two questions, which I have not been able to answer for myself by reading through the...
Kaddressbook 4686
I wrote to the author maintainer at KDE because I thought this had earned their attention. Tobias responded immediately and requested this be posted for all: Thanks for the hint...
Kaddressbook 4687
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:19:01 UTC, "peanutwhistle" Thanks for doing that. Judging from the number of responses to the question, nobody else knew how to...
Sympatico bouncing email sent *to* my home server
I run a Debian-Sarge box that is permanently connected to the internet via DSL through...
Sympatico bouncing email sent *to* my home server 4689
Peter Schaffter If they cannot find it, they must not be looking very effectively: $ dig faustus.dyn.ca ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION...
Sympatico bouncing email sent *to* my home server 4690
No it is not. YOu would be amazed at how long some places hang onto dns ip addresses for. Even if you set...
Enhancing battery lifetimes
Hi I have had a LinuxCertified LC2210 laptop since April, 2004. On the whole, hardware compatibility with Linux has...
Enhancing battery lifetimes 4692
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:47:48 -0400, Madhusudan Singh I believe that most laptop batteries are Ni-Cad (Nickel - Cadmium), although why you don't get something better for that...
Enhancing battery lifetimes 4693
Madhusudan Singh Most, if not all, notebook batteries have a charge counter in them. They add one every time a live power cord is inserted. Once...
RFC2822 Standard
Clark Zahn said the following, on 09-07-05 23:54: I don't have any specific suggestions. As I'm sure you know, you are using a very old version of Netscape, and RFC 2822 does introduce...
Please help. How to revive a broken raid1
OK. It's a bit complicated. I've got a server with a raids 1 on two discs...
It's solved
Walter, big thank you for your response. Actually, I got the things right on Friday but it got late and I scheduled calling off the help request for Monday...
Couple of renice questions
Hi guys. I've got a couple of questions about nice-renice.... 1) Is it possible for root to increse the range of nice-renice...
Re:sbinloader 4698
I already knew the position ofsbin-loader when I asked my original question. That's why I asked for source in my original posting. I'm not sure the likes of me can ask RedHat for source...
Re:sbinloader 4699
A google search last night for stuff related to loader.c turned up a hit which I neglected to write down but which I couldn't go to anyway...
4 out of 5 Professors say NO LINUX
My first day of school at University and already I am feeling ill. I use Vector Linux on an old Dell laptop and it has served me quite well over...
4 out of 5 Professors say NO LINUX! 4701
Perhaps things are different in the U.S., but I found the post rather puzzling, Rex. My own "first day at University" is now a good few years behind me...
4 out of 5 Professors say Windies sux
Heddy Seafield My first day of school at University and already I am feeling ill. I have virus...
Randomness is incomplete information
Hi WGUnruh, Holy poo... what an honor to meet you ! I saw this link of yours when I Googled: "W.G. Unruh" site:Physics.UBC.CA I'm surprized that you're...
4 out of 5 Professors say NO LINUX! 4704
begin virus.txt.scr Heddy Seafield (flatfish) Hi flatfish, how is that open relay in brazil working? Fast enough for your inane trollings and lies? You...
desperately Openexchange update40.sh searched
Hi folks, I'm absolutely desperate .-( The company I'm working for at the moment has an Suse openexchange 4.0 Server installed, which holds about 160 Mailboxes, so you may imagine, what happens when this...
got it working: working: drbd, drbdadm segfault, no such device
I've been dealing with a few drbd problems. I figured I would post this to usenet so that when I forget all of this...
linux.debian.user 4707
Results 1 - 100 of 12,300 posts in the last year 1 alt.autos.bmw 1 alt.fan.madonna 2 alt.gossip.celebrities 1 alt.os.linux 1 ...
linux.debian.user 4708
You are not missing much. That mailing list is dominated by a small cabal of some of the worst spammers on the...
need help with math co emulation
Back in the late 1970s or early 1980s, IIRC, they took out the floating point emulation from the UNIX OS because it was...
Best solution for large 300GB external drive to be used on Win and Linux
Top posting fixed). The only "inefficiency" is with the block size. FAT32 supports up to 2TB volumes with file sizes up to 4GB. It also supports 255 character file names...
FC3 surfing still extremely slow
John Strazzarino Not really. I run a nameserver on my own machine, and since it has never...
More about getting an address book to dial the phone
I have installed kppp, and am trying to get it to dial the phone. In going through the configurtion...
More about getting an address book to dial the phone. 4713
In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article Yes, it's trying to be helpful, and not bother you with technical...
More about getting an address book to dial the phone. 4714
Moe Trin) opined: This is very Windows-like, and one of the things that I like least when I see Windows on my neighbor's machine. It seems fair to...
More about getting an address book to dial the phone. 4715
In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article The most common O-S that users are familiar with. Lots of newbies are...
files won't delete
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:45:16 GMT, johnny bobby bee staggered into the Black Sun and said: ...Not...
Help me install a program 4717
In a message on 11 Sep 2005 04:41:19 -0700, wrote : The difference (and sudo is even better then using...
Help me install a program 4718
Jack Ouzzi It is unfortunate that you have gotten some of the replies you have gotten here...
Help me install a program 4719
Of course they are not. Where do you get that imnpression from? This is not a helpdesk! What a...
Help me install a program 4720
In a message on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:29:07 +0200, wrote : It probably depends on whether or not you create a non-root user account during the install...
