Re: Exim and Maildirs

2004-02-05 Thread Carey Evans
Jamie Dobbs wrote: Have been in the process of setting up a Debian box to act as a mail server at home. I've got to the point where everything works except I can't for the life of me work out how to get exim to use Maildirs - can someone help. You should use exim4 instead of the old exim 3

Re: Robert, Volker or Rik

2004-02-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:22:36 +1300, you wrote: hi, i've just discovered that i actually do need a copy of Redhat 9.0. are any of u still able to burn me a copy?, i'd really appreciate it :). i can either give u some blank discs (3 right??) or pay for them, whichever is easiest. also, what

disabled drive

2004-02-05 Thread stm23
hi, i'm attempting to install Redhat9 alongside XP (already installed). i used partition magic to setup a linux partition chose (stupidly) to disable the NTFS drive. now i can no longer start XP. does any1 know how i can re-enable the NTFS drive, i'm not sure how - as i can no longer access

2.4 config - 2.6??

2004-02-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
Hi folks, Does anyone know of a way to convert my current 2.4.24 config to support a 2.6.1 kernel. I'm still in the 'wont compile' stage. Mind you, it's going to be fun after that, as I run Oracle 9.2! It'll keep me off the streets for a while, anyway. Cheers, Steve

Re: 2.4 config - 2.6??

2004-02-05 Thread Mike Beattie
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:11:27PM +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone know of a way to convert my current 2.4.24 config to support a 2.6.1 kernel. I'm still in the 'wont compile' stage. Copy the 2.4.x config into place as .config, and run 'make oldconfig'. Mike. -- Mike

Re: disabled drive

2004-02-05 Thread Nick Rout
what do you mean disable? did you delete it? what boot manager did you install? In an emergency, make a grub floppy and boot off that. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622 On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:10:09 +1300 stm23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'm attempting to install Redhat9

DHCP setup failing

2004-02-05 Thread Nathan Cook
Hi all, I'm trying to setup DHCP on my server here at home. I keep getting this error: /etc/dhcpd.conf line 2: subnet 192.168.1.1: bad subnet number/mask combination. Subnet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 I'm kinda lost, I'm sure I have the dhcpd.conf file correct as follows: # evil.local

Re: DHCP setup failing

2004-02-05 Thread Lee Begg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 23:45, Nathan Cook wrote: this error: /etc/dhcpd.conf line 2: subnet 192.168.1.1: bad subnet number/mask combination. Subnet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 # evil.local Subnet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 {

Re: Robert, Volker or Rik

2004-02-05 Thread pmw57
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 06:22, stm23 wrote: hi, i've just discovered that i actually do need a copy of Redhat 9.0. are any of u still able to burn me a copy?, i'd really appreciate it :). i can either give u some blank discs (3 right??) or pay for them, whichever is easiest. also, what

Re: disabled drive

2004-02-05 Thread Darrell Olsen
If you have created the set of magic emergency disks, you'll be able boot off that which in turn will start the rescue version of partition magic. You'll be able to unhide the partition after that. On Thursday 05 February 2004 23:16, Nick Rout wrote: what do you mean disable? did you delete

Re: 2.4 config - 2.6??

2004-02-05 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:11, Steve Holdoway wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone know of a way to convert my current 2.4.24 config to support a 2.6.1 kernel. I'm still in the 'wont compile' stage. This works for me... http://www.fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz/linuxnote.htm#kernel_update -- Robert Fisher

Re: disabled drive

2004-02-05 Thread Roger Searle
hang in there, sam. i'm very close to the bottom of the learning curve, and i had to make mistakes all along the way and start from scratch with my linux install more times than i care to admit to here. then i found clug . . . it's all good experience! booting from your xp disk and

Re: Getting Debian

2004-02-05 Thread Vik Olliver
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 08:47, Michael Pearce wrote: The only other thing you may want to re-install is open-office, as it to is the german version. I installed 3.3EN on a friend's PC yesterday and it had the English version of OpenOffice. Vik :v) -- This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus

RE: Getting Debian

2004-02-05 Thread Vik Olliver
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 15:15, Jim Cheetham wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:34, Brad Beveridge wrote: How can I use the various apt commands to tell me what packages are installed? dpkg -l will tell you what you have - look for lines starting with ii for packages that are really

Re: CLUG meetings-the future

2004-02-05 Thread Yuri de Groot
Sigh, this means more motion moving again doesn't it? (grunt) Must. Not. Make. Joke. About. Eating. More. Fibre.

Re: Dinner was great

2004-02-05 Thread Yuri de Groot
Hiyas All ye who didn't make it to dinner last night missed out *Sigh* Julia lost her ESOL teaching job due to declining number of students (fscking vocal redneck politicians scaring off our asian clients / fscking high NZ$ / fscking backward study visa requirements / fscking anti-asian

OT: Asian Students (was Re: Dinner was great)

2004-02-05 Thread anton
*Sigh* Julia lost her ESOL teaching job due to declining number of students (fscking vocal redneck politicians scaring off our asian clients / fscking high NZ$ / fscking backward study visa requirements / fscking anti-asian policies) Actually the situation is, unsurprisingly rather more complex

RE: DHCP setup failing

2004-02-05 Thread Nathan Cook
Thanks for all the help, still having problems though, may have stuffed the install of the DHCPD rpm, I'm going to uninstall it and try again :) At least I have samba, ftp and the intranet going I was pretty impressed with myself I had even got that far :) Cheers Nathan -Original

Re: 2.4 config - 2.6??

2004-02-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:24:25 +1300, you wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:11:27PM +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone know of a way to convert my current 2.4.24 config to support a 2.6.1 kernel. I'm still in the 'wont compile' stage. Copy the 2.4.x config into place as