what can i use to automate a stfp + ssh connection ?

a public key with no password

does /etc/hosts.deny need tcp wrappers to work or does linux itself respect this? Ie, does it always work for all daemons or just some?

hosts.{allow,deny} is an invention of TCP wrappers. will be used by anything linking to the libwrap library. some NFS implementations might understand it by themselves, but I'm not sure

yes that's what I thought, thanks

anyone use syslog-ng?

Seems my desktop has decided to up and leave, don't suppose anyone can wager a guess why that is eh?
All I really want is to open a plain old folder, but without the ones on my desktop I can't figure a way to do it.

*checking calender* solar flares!

I've found this linux help place surprisingly unhelpful as of late, or as of ever.
If I felt like blaming all my problems on things like solar flares I'd take up believing in god.
Agh, sorry getting grumpy and offensive.

you know, most of us are not omniscient. we dont know what your problems are if you dont describe them

Been a long night.

compare with the first two sentences in our /topic

Well, my problem is my desktop is just a blank blue space where nothing can be clicked.
It's not there, I don't know how to better explain it.

but your mouse is still moving?

It moves over the space, but if I click it nothing happens.
My task bar is still there, everything else works fine.

SCSI Error return code
1/0 error, dev gda sector 102124529 Ext-fs device (Sda1):ext

Nothing out of the ordinary except that I don't have a desktop.

3_find_entry reading directory #637446 offset

what windowmanager are you using and what should be there instead of the blue space?

any ideas?

I wouldn't care that there's no desktop if I could just figure a way to open a folder though.

is it a bad disk or what?

Instead of a blue space it's supposed to be a a picture of what I can't remember.
And an Icon of whatever's in my CD drive.

that doesnt answer my question. at least not the first part

Oh, I'm using Xubuntu, default everything.
So Xfce window manager I guess.

ah.
can you open a terminal window?

Forgive me, I'm kind of lacking in linuxosity.
Yeah

type ps ax in there and paste the output to a pastebin

A paste bin?

you can find a link in our topic

k
Alright so it's pasted, do I just hit upload and that's it?
That seems suspiciously simple.

and tell me the link to your pasted text

Where would it tell me the link?
That is to say, I don't see any links on the page.
It just gave me the screen I first saw when I opened the link.

it should tell you the url after you uploaded your text

Oh, hahaha, apparently uploading isn't it, I had to click "send" instead.
http://paste.debian.net/33460
Man I should try sleeping sometimes, WHOLE lot sharper with sleep.

did you change anything before your desktop started doing that?
looks like you are trying to run parts of kde with parts of xfce. at least that might explain the behaviour

yeah I think most of the programs I use are KDE based.
As for my desktop I didn't change a thing before it started acting up, I burned some CDs and shut down to bootup my windows drive, played some vids and when I came back it was fucked up.

im trying to compile libbonoboui & i get this compile error error You must define GETTEXT_PACKAGE before including gi18n-lib.h.
could someone help me figure it out, here is the full error http://rafb.net/p/4k8sk611.html

Speaking of windoze, I'm starting to doze in and out here so maybe it's best that I just let my computer be broken before my by brain ends up in said condition.
Thank you for the help Kase, if you have a suggestion my comps on and I'll see it later. As my thanks here's something for you.
bThank you for the help Kase, if you have a suggestion my comps on and I'll see it later. As my thanks here's something for you./b

morning guys
hey anyone know of linux packages that help blind people use the computer?
i know they got JAWS for windows but seeking open-source alternative

there is a distro called "blinux" for blind peoplke. I dont know what its status is.

k i'll have a peek

that's mostly a resource site, but it does link to emacspeak

kewl.. er "cool"

hi there

any suggestions?

do i have to have libbonoboui for gnome to work?

is it possible to see who the recipient is of a file encrypted with gpg but not have the secret key?

if all you have is the file, no.

"dd if=/dev/sde of=my.dmg" how can I expose this as a device to other programs?
Is there some sort of way in linux to treat a file as a disk and have it mapped in /dev/???

I believe you can use a loopback for that
Using losetup

ahh losetup
thanks

np

its called a loopback file system

Well it's not *exactly* that

Ok.

As he needs to loopback a whole disk, not just a partition

i wouldn't say loopback filesystem as losetup and the loop modules are unaware of any filesystem on the files

rite

I was referring to the concept of mounting a file to be used as a disk - ( often done to access a filesystem within the file )
rite is fine. so are write, right, wright and riet…

savethePool, yea, but dosn't have to be, you could losetup /dev/loop0 ./image.jpg and it would still work

yup ttue.

then you could display /dev/loop0 if you wanted

*true

Greetings
how do you display the local TZ
via commandline,

date | cut -d' ' -f5

that's actually not safe as the output of "date" will vary completely depending on your locale. you can use a format string instead

anybody here ever broadcasted video over the internet?

uh-huh…

with what?

ffserver was the last thing I used

hello\
hello who uses oracle databases ?

no polls please
Also #oracle does exist

aha okay
sekhmet i wonder wheter somebody does have a oracle version for RHEL

I suspect their web site has that information

Also Google

yeah, http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/install/index.html

What key combination is "M–" ?

Triskelios and, do you realy need 2 Gb of swap for oracle 10 ?

This is from nano inside help

will it work on a P3 ?

#oracle would be a better place to ask
And swap requirements probably depends on your app requirements
Meta-(dash) I'd imagine
Meta is generally Alt

Meta is usually Ctrl, actually

Oh
What Triskelios said

It seems to be ESC here
Kind of hard scrolling down (M-+), when for each step one has to press ESC and after that +, and then release both and repeat
Should change metakeys somehow I guess

xmodmap would do that for you
I believe

i'm making a script where im copying a directory, and uploading it to another ftp — im trying to make this easier(hah..) by first tarring the directory up, however, i want the file to be named todays date — the question is will a command like "tar -pczf $today.tar.gz /the/directory" work? and translate it to 072607.tar.gz, or will it puke?
i guess i should protect it with { }

vi - how do I delete from = to end of line? (but not the

s/=.*/=/

doh.
but that isn't tricky like I was expecting…

non linux question, but worth a shot. anyone in here got experience with avocent kvm matrixes?

hi guys I have good night, what do I need to set up a email server with a webmail?
postfix + imap ? postfix + qmail ?
imap + qmail?

postfix + horde is pretty good.
I've also been looking at this thing called zimbra, but I dunno if I'm completely sold on it yet.
qmail and postfix are mutually exclusive by the way

[Mathman]: can I use postfix to autenticate on ldap ?

to authenticate on ldap? whatever your machine happens to authenticate with is what postfix would go with

whats the difference between using only postfix and use courier-imap?

postfix is your mta. the imap thingy is for clients that connect and want to download their mail.
or something like that. I'm really not the worlds greatest mail admin here…
but anyway, postfix talks to other mail servers and routers and whatnot. postfix just dumps the stuff in /var/spool/mail or where ever. the imap thingy talks to other clients.
the imap program talks to the clients I mean. it grabs the stuff from the mail spool and throws it into your imap directory or sends it to the client or whatever.
but if you're strictly after webmail then I'm not sure you'd even need that.

What are all you hard core guys using as a home router?

the linksys batwing thingy

so what for solution would you recomend? postfix + dovecot, or postfix + courierimap??

neither. I've only used dovecot

so only dovecot does the job?

works on my end

Hmm.. I was thinking something more like a fedora linux box.. but I don't know if I like pfsense (or similiar products)

ah, ipcop then. definitely.

ipbarf

or clark connect
fine. don't use ipcop. what do I know jerk.

dovecot + webmail website host , but what about if I want to use outlook or thunderbird would I be able to download the messages?

yeah, that's where dovecot comes in

nice

Mathman:
hmm I kinda want an alternative to windows vista home server
but also the router feature

hey, anyone here use smokeping?
Am I right in saying that if smokeping has only 1 block of smoke in the lightest shade of gray, that all other packets were close enough to the ping time of the median as not to be graphed? So a very tall, super light-grey line would indicate only one packet with a high ping out of the whole batch?

Howdy. Kernel compilation question: When patching vanilla kernel I dont see certain options available at the menuconfig stage, but I see them if I grep config. Why is this?

hello everyone

hi

i need help with something simple I guess…
I need to make a shell script

whats it do?

text manipulation, it should replace a string
using input from a pattern it matched from another part of the file

Im not too hot with that stuff…but I imagine sed might be the key

yeah
it's a very long file
it's a named.conf file
for bind
there are a lot of zones
I don't know
this thing is killing me

same here…I cant seem to figure my problem out either…and nobody seems to want to touch it

what have you got?

Im trying to patch a kernel and at the menuconfig stage I cant see certain options. but I can grep them out of the config

can anyone in here help me with a install of a linux distro it is called paldo

I dont get it

I am not sure how to get started with the install
I have booted from the live cd and now I am not sure what to do next there is not a Install option or anything like that and I am still new to linux
I hve a 250gig HDD and i am only going to run linux no dual boot so i hav to first partion that drive but i am not sure how to break it up
how big should the swap file be and how many partions should I make
is there anyone who can help me

where is torvalds when u need him

so is there anyone who can help me out

I can recommend a distro to ya
that will help you learn to install and setup

gentoo

nah
Arch
nuff said on that though…not a fanboy

i have arch also but could not get that to install either
there is only a few out there so far on the live cd that i found work with my pc

I would help you if you want

with arch

sure

?!?!
ok let me reboot from the live cd on arch
can you PM on here

nah burn the latest iso

so i can get your yahoo or AIM name or a way to contact you once i am back on line
i burned the latest iso

leadghost, is arch similar to gentoo?

two days ago

where you boot a live-cd and build the system?

I think arch is unique in some ways

ok so reboot with the new ISO that i have, it is a Live CD correct leadghost
ok brb
going to reboot with arch and log back onto this channel on IRC
and IM you leadghost will that work for you

2007.05 (Duke) Base is what you want

i have ubuntu but not happy with it
i want something with a little more freedome
if you know what i mean

arch party

that is what i have
let me check it really quick
i have about 15 diff distro that I have dl and burned the last few days
my pc came with vista 32bit prem but i hate windows
i have a dual core 64bit amd
and would really like to be able to take use of that

I run crap..crap run good

but jave and flash dont support it yet on linux
my other two boxes are older and still run windows till i get my main setup and then i will turn them into linux servers
for my home network and maybe a FTP tomcat server hosting for some distro or something like that
not sure yet

Ive run gentoo debian blah blah…that stopped years ago
brb

Is there anybody here?

yes

okay
ignore me then

I guess, he wanted to aske something

what the ….

and he should have

still no takers on the "where do kernel config files come from ?" question eh?

is there any way to run autocad on linux? is it any good?

there are multiple cad clones for linux
never tried them, tho

yeah i know kasc, i've investigated but it's no good i need to use the real thing.. cheers

anyone awake in here

hey

anyone know a way to run Linux on a Windows machine via virtual machine, I am installing linux on a 5gig Microdrive
going to test something out. and would like to know if there is a way to run it once booted in window$
anyone have any ideas on this

Use VM software like VMware, VPN, qemu, etc….
Kinda vauge question on your part

sorry bout that
i have tried to make my system complete linux but can not find one the works 100%well with my pc
i tried to get arch to work but once installed it would not boot into the xwindows so i tosed that I have copies of SOL, Ubuntu, FC, and a few other dirivited version, but can not seem to find one i like, any suggestion i am all ears but for now i am going to try this with the microdrive and see what i can get

mediahunter, in the end its linux underneath

Hi guys! What might cause my wine installation to show every non-numeric character as an = sign?

so if you can make stuff work with one distro you can make it work with the other

ok well with some my soundcard would not work with FC i could not see my mouse pointer the only few distro that seem to work is Ubuntu and PC Linux and Ganular so far
right now i am running the granluar live cd while i install it to my Microdrive
just to test it out

That's probably an installer issue.
you could tweak it to work in fc I expect.

the other issue is 64bit is not supported by adobe for flash player nor is it by java
and I have a 64bit dual core AMD so i am limited to using 32bit but i rather use 64bit
that is the funny thing with FC during the install i can see the mouse but once it is installed and boots up i loose the point, the mouse works it is just ivisable
so i will just keep pluging away, I guess I can always just do a dual boot too with win vista =( and either Ubuntu or Granlur/ PC Linux

Is granular like debian?

i think it is built of gentoo
let me look really quick
it is made by the same as PC Linux OS
so not %100 sure at this time
it is really user friendly and newbi ready
banyan yes it is debian base

hi there]

ok can we help you iamamoron

would it be possible in ls command to list only those file that the date is 1 week old from now?
1 week old and beyond

it maybe
try ls -help

ok
anybody else?
thanks for the attemp to help mediahunter

iam8up, ithink you can do that with find
or you can dirty grep it

?

any reason ff won;t accept adress in the adreess box
i press enter buts it won't execute the dns lookup ort something

hi
yeh sannata kyun hain bhai
hi all
hello

this is strange, i have removed a user and its home direcotory, but it still says user exist when i try to add the same user again

can grub boot over nfs ?
hey
if i dd a livecd to a partition and tell lilo to boot off it will it work ???

anyone here know how to extend net-snmp with external checks?
anyone here know anything about storage clustering? I want a distributed clustered redundant filesystem across several servers. I would ideally need it to be as redundant, expandable (by adding servers) and fast as possible. I'm not sure if I should be looking at AFS, ZFS, or Lustre or something. I guess really I want the Google File System!

hello
anybody speak french ?
how can i find a french channel about linux ?

HI guys, Goodmorning, I'm trying to build a mail server Autenticating on LDAP what should I use? postifix? courier-imap ? dovecot?qmail?

I have a fileserver on linux, all users share a network drive, but need to be able to delete files ending in .fxp. I don't want to give them any rights though, is there a way to write a script which can do only this and give them a mechanism from windows to activate this script with a file name which I can them check is a .fxp to allow deletion?