Re: [SLUG] Passing usernames

2002-04-08 Thread Kevin Saenz
Ok I have worked with the LDAP and w2k. The only Issue is that you might have a look at Netscape's version of LDAP as you will be able to sync between windows and Linux user ids and so on. Download Netscape directory server it's free as well. The only problem is that netscape directory server

[SLUG] (Belated) Debian SIG Announce

2002-04-08 Thread Craige McWhirter
I've been busy and offline, blah, blah, blah but yes, it's still on and this month we have the absolutely fabulous Yvonne Thomson all the way from cosmopolitan Mudgee to deliver a presentation on Debian as used by vision-impaired people (note: this will focus heavily on emacs-speak). Don't

Re: [SLUG] Passing usernames

2002-04-08 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:53:52AM +1000, GR Development wrote: Hi slugs, We are a group of IT students at Coffs Harbour Education Campus and we are having problems with our project. If anyone knows how to pass a Windows username to a linux system we would greatly appreciate it as we are

[SLUG] Committee meeting minutes - 26th March

2002-04-08 Thread Peter Hardy
Minutes of the SLUG committee meeting 26th March 2002 Present: * Jeff Waugh * Craige McWhirter * Jaime Wilkinson * Peter Hardy * Mary Gardiner * Tony Green * Jan Schmidt SLUG Meetings Decisions: * Meetings to be more closely moderated,

[SLUG] Evolution plain text fonts

2002-04-08 Thread Paul Copeland
Hi All, I have recently installed Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 onto my computer. While I am impressed with the program, I detest the way it displays plain text fonts. I have been to their support page but it only tells you to change the fixed width fonts in GNOME control centre, but they are all

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla trouble

2002-04-08 Thread Peter Rundle
FWIW, the backslash is not valid in a URL. My guess: Netscape convert errant backslashes to forward slashes in such URLs, whereas Moz and Galeon do not. Just another example of M$ dirty inovation. IE is improved so that sites that put backslashs in instead of forward still work. Then

Re: [SLUG] Evolution plain text fonts

2002-04-08 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 19:03, Paul Copeland wrote: Does anyone know how to make Evolution use nicer fonts (eg Times or helvetica) for plain text messages? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I don't see any way of convincing evolution to do it, without patching the gtkhtml widget it uses

Constitution changes (Re: [SLUG] Committee meeting minutes - 26th March)

2002-04-08 Thread Mary
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:49:36PM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: * General Meeting to be held at May SLUG meeting to discuss proposed changes to the Constitution. IIRC, this should actually read to vote on proposed changes to the Constitution, since constitutional changes need to be

[SLUG] Re: EMACS: auto indent customisations not loading

2002-04-08 Thread Angus Lees
At 08 Apr 2002 12:52:37 +1000, Simon Wong wrote: On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 15:34, Angus Lees wrote: i'm guessing you are also setting it somewhere else, and that setting is overriding the customize option. Not intentionally! I couldn't find anything in the site wide /etc files that set

Re: [SLUG] config for DoV ISDN?

2002-04-08 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 12:43, David Fitch wrote: I pinched a copy of your ijolt program too Crossfire although I ended up not using it, just pinched some ideas and incorporated them into a script I was already using to do much the same thing for a modem link. spoke too soon on that bit, I was

Re: [SLUG] Linux in the enterprise?

2002-04-08 Thread lukekendall
On 8 Apr, Andrew Bennetts wrote: Usually they get dumped to /var/log/messages if the system isn't too far gone, so that you often don't need to write anything down. That should be mentioned in the man page for ksymoops. Not that it would have helped me, since I never saw any Oops stuff

[SLUG] SLUG: TV Freeze

2002-04-08 Thread raen7
I am running SuSE 7.3 on PC Celeron 600, 20gig hd with free -tom mem 359. I have a Magic TView TV Card and I have colour on 800x600 which gives the best full screen image. My monitor is a Hyundai 14plus. Video card is a AGP Riva tnt2. At odd moments the screen image freezes and I have to

Re: [SLUG] SLUG: TV Freeze

2002-04-08 Thread Terry Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this terminal or curable? I don't know. I have it happen consistently on one of the six systems I've tried TV/radio/capture cards in and it happened with four different brands. I suspect it is a motherboard problem, but I've never been that motivated to solve it as

[SLUG] Re: Committee meeting minutes - 26th March

2002-04-08 Thread Angus Lees
At 08 Apr 2002 19:49:36 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: Minutes of the SLUG committee meeting 26th March 2002 Suggestions for future talks: [...] As always, volunteers for these or any other talk would be most welcome. still willing to do intro to emacs, intro to perl and

[SLUG] Re: Linux in the enterprise?

2002-04-08 Thread Angus Lees
At Mon, 8 Apr 2002 22:31:41 +1000 (EST), lukekendall wrote: On 8 Apr, Andrew Bennetts wrote: Usually they get dumped to /var/log/messages if the system isn't too far gone, so that you often don't need to write anything down. That should be mentioned in the man page for ksymoops.

[SLUG] Volunteer Project Leader

2002-04-08 Thread Craig Warner
ComputerBank NSW is looking for a individual who would like to manage the installation of pilot project for the installation of a K-6 school computer network with 20 linux clients. Regards Craig Warner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Linux in the enterprise?

2002-04-08 Thread lukekendall
On 8 Apr, Anand Kumria wrote: On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:00:53AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not being on any of the kernel mailing lists, I wouldn't know id the following subject has come up, and so I thought I'd ask here if anyone knows of any planned work in this area... You

Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer

2002-04-08 Thread lukekendall
On 8 Apr, Broun, Bevan wrote: Just a note: make sure your dont compile with that RH gcc (2.96). Why not? It's the default version of gcc on RH7.2, and I did nothing special for building any of the 2 dozen or so kernels I've experimented with over the last few months, with no compiler-ish

Re: [SLUG] RE: slug digest, Vol 1 #1792 - 7 msgs

2002-04-08 Thread lukekendall
On 8 Apr, Upendra Singh wrote: I am running Red Hat Linxu 7.0 with kernel version 2.2.16-22. sendmail-8.11.0-8 is currently running and we are using this computer as primary mail server. I have RedHat 7.2 CDs and want to upgrade the Red release to 7.2 and the kernel version to

Re: [SLUG] Re: Committee meeting minutes - 26th March

2002-04-08 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:01:58PM +1000, Angus Lees wrote: docfest in june. saturday 15th unless anyone has any objections. (markup languages (troff, (La)TeX, Docbook), yada yada. proper announce/CFP to follow room booking) can whomever deals with room bookings please book me the

[SLUG] stopping StarOffice services

2002-04-08 Thread Nick Croft
Morning, I notice in gtop's memory view, that about 20% of my precious 128M is going to sschdled and ssserverd - processes owned by root, or perhaps more accurately Sun StarDivision, as neither I nor root can stop them. I only use StarOffice 3 or 4 times a year. It's a waste of memory the way

[SLUG] Extended partition

2002-04-08 Thread George Vieira
Hi, I have a problem where I've built a RH7.2 system and on another system which is the exact model/specs I've used Ghost to mirror the drives across to save time (10 machines to do).. The first machine looks OK as below: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 *

Re: [SLUG] Extended partition

2002-04-08 Thread Crossfire
George Vieira was once rumoured to have said: Hi, I have a problem where I've built a RH7.2 system and on another system which is the exact model/specs I've used Ghost to mirror the drives across to save time (10 machines to do).. [chop] I tried using fsck and e2fsck but it's been a while

RE: [SLUG] Extended partition

2002-04-08 Thread George Vieira
But I cant map this /space partition as it's erroring.. about the superblock.etc.etc.. anyway to fix that? thanks, George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: Crossfire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: [SLUG] Extended partition

2002-04-08 Thread George Vieira
Actually, I just noticed... [root@cutter1 root]# mount /space/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda6, or too many mounted file systems it's /dev/hda6 not hda4 that it's complaing about.. thanks, George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L

Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer

2002-04-08 Thread Broun, Bevan
on Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:03:08AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8 Apr, Broun, Bevan wrote: Just a note: make sure your dont compile with that RH gcc (2.96). Why not? It's the default version of gcc on RH7.2, and I did nothing special for building any of the 2

Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer

2002-04-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have installed the gcc3 rpms from ximian, but it only puts a gcc3 in the /usr/bin dir. how do i get gcc3 to be the default? can i just delete the gcc file and replace it with a symlink to gcc3? Regards, Karl Bowden On 8 Apr, Broun, Bevan wrote: Just a note: make sure your dont compile

RE: [SLUG] Extended partition

2002-04-08 Thread Ben Donohue
HI George, You might like to check the BIOS settings on the cloned machines and that they are the same as the original one. Make sure that the hard disk is set to the same mode the clones. ie. NORMAL LBA LARGE Just a thought. Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Trying to compile Apache with php

2002-04-08 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, I am having a hard time trying to get Apache built with php support to test Squirellmail!! I am using Apachetoolbox as I have no experience in doing this sort of thing other than with tollbox. When I get to the make in Apache I am getting: In file included from ../include/httpd.h:74,

RE: [SLUG] Extended partition

2002-04-08 Thread George Vieira
I've actually managed to get it working.. I changed the /etc/fstab to read the file systems as ext2 and not ext3 and they came up fine.. But the original machine was configured for ext3 partitions.. it doesn't make sense (sounds like a commercial I know).. I don't know how to chnge the

RE: [SLUG] Extended partition

2002-04-08 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi George, Can't help you with ext2-ext3 conversion. Someone will know... Probably Ghost does not know how to handle ext3. Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] Extended partition

2002-04-08 Thread George Vieira
OK.. I fixed it... FYI. All I had to do was run tune2fs -j /dev/hdb6 tune2fs -j /dev/hda6 and it created a journaling FS.. on reboot it's mounting fine now.. hopefully this was correct. Thanks for the help guys. George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L

Re: [SLUG] Trying to compile Apache with php

2002-04-08 Thread David Fitch
have a look for the definition of ap_ctx cos the bit you've included looks ok. Usually for these sort of errors I've found you need to look for the #ifdef bits and see if something is not defined that should be, or vice versa, then tweak the makefile to set or unset it and recompile. Dave. --

RE: [SLUG] KDE printing

2002-04-08 Thread Ben Donohue
Yes you're right it did start %! but it was from my memory. Anyway it's working now as the suggestion from Christopher Booth worked. ie set it to HPLJ4 PCL Funny though... the test page said it had PS version 3 installed. Anyway, don't really care so long as it works with something! Thanks to

Re: [SLUG] stopping StarOffice services

2002-04-08 Thread Michael Lake
Nick Croft wrote: I notice in gtop's memory view, that about 20% of my precious 128M is going to sschdled and ssserverd - processes owned by root, or perhaps more accurately Sun StarDivision, as neither I nor root can stop them. . Gtop's kill and the command line kill don't seem to work.

[SLUG] [Auug-announce] Reminder: Notice of election (fwd)

2002-04-08 Thread Conrad Parker
Hi, if you care about Unix/Linux/*BSD in Australia please consider this from the AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group): - Forwarded message from Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annual Election of Officers and General A reminder: there's less than a week to

Re: [SLUG] Re: EMACS: auto indent customisations not loading

2002-04-08 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 22:30, Angus Lees wrote: you can probably brute force it with something like: (add-hook 'c-mode-hook (lambda () (setq 'c-basic-offset 4))) This didn't seem to work. I got an error which I will look into. i'd suggest running emacs with -no-init-file first, just to

[SLUG] DVD region

2002-04-08 Thread Peter Spratt
Hi, I am after the same thing as you. If you can please tell me what you have found that would be great.Thanks for your time. If I find anything out I will let you know. Kelly Davis

Re: [SLUG] Evolution plain text fonts

2002-04-08 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 19:03, Paul Copeland wrote: I have recently installed Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 onto my computer. While I am impressed with the program, I detest the way it displays plain text fonts. I don't have any complaints aboutthe text viewing! Does anyone know how to make

[SLUG] Help with backup tape

2002-04-08 Thread Simon Bryan
HI all, Have had a major disk crash in one of our critical systems. It has been backing up nightly to a SCSI tape drive. Now I want to restore that tape to another system. Old system is RH7 new system is 7.2 I can't seem to get the tape drive to mount, i have tried mount /dev/st0 /mnt/tape and

RE: [SLUG] stopping StarOffice services

2002-04-08 Thread Visser, Martin (SNO)
Try using pstree (specifically pstree -n -u ) to find out the call tree of the process in question. You can thenn determine how the daemons are started. (Probably you can also do egrep -r (sschdled|ssserverd) /etc/init.d/* to find the startup script.) You should be able to kill the process

Re: [SLUG] Help with backup tape

2002-04-08 Thread Broun, Bevan
you would not normaly mount a tape (thought Im sure it can be done). Do you know the command that was used to do the backup? Assuming it was tar, the command you want is tar -xvf /dev/st0 while your current directory is some place with lots of space, perhaps an freshly made filesystem. BB on

Re: [SLUG] Extended partition

2002-04-08 Thread DaZZa
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, George Vieira wrote: I have a problem where I've built a RH7.2 system and on another system which is the exact model/specs I've used Ghost to mirror the drives across to save time (10 machines to do).. The first machine looks OK as below: Device BootStart

[SLUG] SLUG archives

2002-04-08 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Slugs, Is there a way to get at the mailing list slug archives of prior to mid 2000? Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] SLUG archives

2002-04-08 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:51:50PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: Is there a way to get at the mailing list slug archives of prior to mid 2000? http://slug.org.au/archives.shtml lists two external archives. Have you tried those? Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F