Slackware

route command question
I'm trying to migrate from an old box to a new machine, using rsync to port over all the stuff I've collected over the years. But it won't work. Says the target machine doesn't exist and that is trying it both ways. So, looking at the route table, no listing (I'm sure there used to be one). Whatever the case,... 10 Jun 2010 16:46

Boot failure with 13.1 on mixed S-ATA/IDE system
Hello everybody, having upgraded my computer's mainboard recently, I also needed to replace my old IDE harddisk with a S-ATA disk, because I needed the one remaining IDE slot on my new mainboard for the DVD-R and DVD-RW drives. So now I've got a mixed configuration, which works perfectly under Windows XP/7. ... 9 Jun 2010 11:56

Upgrade 13.0 -> 13.1 with slackpkg?
Hello, For upgrades, I follow the UPGRADE.txt in the root of the cdrom1. But How's the status of upgrading with slackpkg? A sort of: 1/ point to the new 13.1 tree in conf 2/ slackpkg clean-system slackpkg upgrade-all slackpkg install-new Or I must take care of some points, like glibc, slackpkg itself ... 7 Jun 2010 06:20

slack 13.1 kernel & ata devices
Finally upgrading an old p3 box running ~slack10 (more or less) to slack13. The box has an artop-based aec pci ide card in it which isn't picked up by either install kernel (i have to use huge.s as hugesmp.s hangs detecting devices on an adaptec scsi card). It appears there's some ide-scsi layer in here though.. as... 6 Jun 2010 09:24

How to move on from 13.1 first CD?
I just installed Slackware 13.1 on a P-III using only the first CD. In the package selection I unchecked the two KDE check boxes. At the step "continute to next CD?" I said No. Now I have a running system, with access to a fast ADSL-line, without X. My plan is to get xorg and openbox going as the window manager. ... 14 Jun 2010 10:37

Acer Nplify
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:32:53 +0100 barnabyh <address(a)invalid.org> wrote: Hi, any experiences here with Acer Nplify wireless? Is it easy to get set up and running or something that needs 3 days of trickery and possibly more. Acer Laptops look and seem quite nicely specced for my purposes, b... 5 Jun 2010 15:48

more on lost password
Well it happened again, but this time I was a little better prepared. It seems that my /etc/shadow file got modified somehow. Knowing the time of the new file I was able to go back into my /var/log/messages file to see if anything of interest was happening. It definitely was! Jun 4 03:33:27 myacer sshd[26933]:... 7 Jun 2010 16:34

Returning printer problems on Slack 12
Hi, My MySQL/file/printer server is running Slack 12. Currently I'm experiencing returning printer problems (printer suddenly on pause, giving garbage, unable to connect to the printerserver (lprng), unable to remove printjobs from queue). Now I read that in Slack 13, lprng has been replaced by cups. All my ... 5 Jun 2010 13:35

Email problem
I use nail to send/read email. I have come across a problem which may have been around for some time. The problem affects my outgoing mail when I respond to an incoming message. Here is what I see in the header of the outgoing message: Return-Path: <root(a)cc.home.org> Received: from mta21.charter.net (mta21.cha... 9 Jun 2010 23:06

Alt.OS.Linux.Slackware FAQ pointer
Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3.1 (Perl 5.010) Archive-name: aolsfaq Current-maintainer: aolsfaq-maintainer(a)therockgarden.ca FAQ last updated: Fri Dec 4 01:11:57 EST 2009 This is a periodic pointer to the Frequently-Asked Questions list (FAQ) for the alt.os.linux.slackware newsgroup. The FAQ which may be frequent... 3 Jun 2010 03:28