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move from single disk IDE to RAID 1
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Please forgive me if this is a simple question. I have been unable to find an answer to my situation, and cannot come up with a simple way to solve my problem. Situation: I have a single RH 9...

Fun installing Debian in a Sun IPX
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 1 Comments

If you have provided the same information to the Debian Sparc mailing list, you would have gotten your answer. You did not provide your partition layout to the Sparc mailing list. Anyway, the root...

HDTV card?
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 1 Comments

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:03:59 +0000, Kevin wrote: There are a few people that are using a hdtv card. Mythtv is very much like tivo/replay, better IMHO. Jayson Garrell

Ramdisk size
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 3 Comments

LEE Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes: Thanks for both of your input. I will play with ramfs and tmpfs. Vilmos

Suse migration to gentoo
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 5 Comments

On 4 Dec 2003 14:39:44 GMT wrote Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@usa.net> in comp.os.linux.misc with <slrnbsuhir.pu1.danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@samantha.crow202.dyndns.org> Not yet, but I...

how to set up the domain name ?
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 1 Comments

j wrote: A) you want your machine to handle all the domainname-stuff ? (your machine is nameserver for your domain): then you need to setup a nameserver on your machine that handles your domain....

How to ftp data from linux machine
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 16 Comments

John> David L. Johnson writes: John> "Desktop metaphor", remember? Bad metaphor: when do/can/would you put a real folder into another into another? And if a directory would be a folder, why...

is it possible to configure both PS/2 & serial port mouse in the same machine
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 6 Comments

On 4 Dec 2003 01:29:45 -0800, thegreatkarthik@yahoo.co.in (karthikeyan) wrote: ..... 'sir'? well, when you put it like THAT: Second Mouse in X...

Debugging cron jobs (faubackup specifically)
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 0 Comments

The Gnerd <gnerd@localhost.localdomain> wrote: More likely your environment. Cron does not necessarily have the same environment (TERM, PATH, etc.) that you have. ...

xpm library without X
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I need a library to open and save data in xpm format, with no dependency on X11 libraries. for example libXpm depend on libX11. thanks -- Mastupristi? Posted from X-Privat Free NNTP server -...

Specifying runlevel at boottime?
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 9 Comments

Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: editing field. For run-level 3 simply enter: 3 -- Jan Schledermann Mierlo, The Netherlands

Linux - 100,000,000 Seti@home Work Units
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 5 Comments

steve <steve@wenowut.org> wrote in message news:<QSCyb.10700$ws.994793@news02.tsnz.net>... It's catching up but it isn't faster at this point. The time that it takes for Windows is still less tht...

Linux useradd id sequence skip
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hi, ok managed to get the answer from "man useradd", the uid and gid selection is from the file /etc/login.defs. By default the next uid and gid is chosend from the maxumum uid/gid from the range of...

MRTG problem
Posted on December 4th, 2003 | 26 Comments

"Ron Gibson" <ronBLOCK@rsgibson.com> wrote in message news:eleS4DQ3N6dS-pn2-rzkjpWnt2kyL@localhost Good, you're learning. I knew you could do it if you put your mind to it. --

rsync exclude file - directory name without directory contents
Posted on December 3rd, 2003 | 0 Comments

When using rsync to maintain incremental backups significant space can be saved on the backup server by excluding directories that have non-critical or transient data such as /tmp, /proc, /mnt,...

Debugging cron jobs (faubackup specifically)
Posted on December 3rd, 2003 | 0 Comments

The Gnerd wrote: According to man 5 crontab, command output is mailed to the user unless turned off or redirected to another user.

Scripting with md5
Posted on December 3rd, 2003 | 3 Comments

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:50:19 -0500, Andy Baxter wrote: Looks like he needs to create an keyed hash, not just the digest that md5sum will provide. Rob Gamble

Password only in ncftp bookmarks and encrypted
Posted on December 3rd, 2003 | 12 Comments

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:05:43 -0500, tigervamp <rob_gamble99@hotmail.com> wrote: I use ed for my pager, troll. Unless someone has proven the worth of their posts, I read them one line at a...

Gnome/Nautilus
Posted on December 3rd, 2003 | 0 Comments

Apparently the Gnome desktop delegates the menu, bound to the Button 3 mouse in the root window, to Nautilus (which also puts icons on the desktop). But does Nautilus have a way to alter that root...

Best way to share printer/Scanner with Win98?
Posted on December 3rd, 2003 | 12 Comments

Thanks for all the input, guys - you were a BIG help! Hadn't thought about the problems with using a scanner over the network - I just thought "scanner, printer, same breed'o'dog, just...