Re: [SLUG] NFS mount on Debian Woody not working

2004-03-13 Thread Terry Collins
Jeff Waugh wrote:

 Do you have nfs-common installed?

Yes. That version has
nfs-common
nfs-kernel-server
nfs-user-server running.

All three were restarted with no difference and the machine was rebooted
with no difference, aka same error.

and ps axf |grep rpc returns

rpc.statd
rpc.nfsd
rpc.mounted


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Re: [SLUG] NFS mount on Debian Woody not working

2004-03-13 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 07:55:26PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
 Jeff Waugh wrote:
 
  Do you have nfs-common installed?
 
 Yes. That version has
   nfs-common
   nfs-kernel-server
   nfs-user-server running.
 
 All three were restarted with no difference and the machine was rebooted
 with no difference, aka same error.
 
 and ps axf |grep rpc returns
 
 rpc.statd
 rpc.nfsd
 rpc.mounted

You could also check that portmap is running.
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Re: [SLUG] NFS mount on Debian Woody not working

2004-03-13 Thread Terry Collins
Patrick Lesslie wrote:

...snip.

 You could also check that portmap is running.

Yes, it is running.

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[SLUG] Mandrake10

2004-03-13 Thread ksaenz
Appologies if this has been address, my webmail won't show me my slug folder :(

I have just found that Mandrake 10 is 4 CDs. So far I have only seen 3CDs on
most Mandrake mirrors. If anyone is downloading Mandrake and has seen the 4th
iso please let me know.

Thanks

Kevin


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Solved Re: [SLUG] NFS mount on Debian Woody not working

2004-03-13 Thread Terry Collins
Terry Collins wrote:
 
 1) mount -t nfs -va
 
 returns
 mount RPC:program not registered

Sigh! . I solved this last October and just forgot. It was in the
archives.

NFS RESTART DOES NOT WORK.

You must stop all nfs stuff on host, then start them again.


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Re: [SLUG] Pine: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding

2004-03-13 Thread Simon Bowden
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, David wrote:

 I've been exchanging email with a guy and have twice got the following
 message half way through a sentence in his email:

 snip
 .. This way I know exactly where the
[Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding]

 after which pine doesn't display the rest of his email.

 I can read the rest of his email from mbox with less or vi. I can't find
 any sign of a dodgey character.

 I've never seen this problem before... anyone got any suggestions? This
 guy seems to be sending email from a web mailer thus:

 This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC
 GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from
 any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free!
 https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl

Hi David,

[wonder how this rates for longest delay before initial reply]

You've actually pasted the dodgy character here :-)

I recently became similarly annoyed with this message and took a closer
look. It arises from sourceforge adding taglines like the one you've
pasted above without taking notice of the message encoding. If a message
is encoded in quoted-printable, then 8-bit characters are encoded in a
little hex string, prefixed by '=', meaning that '=' is also encoded. SF
adds adverts that have non-encoded '='s, thus breaking it. sf.net
has a master bug report here:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=652897group_id=1atid=21

Anyway, I figured I'd reply since I couldn't find any decent references or
fixes for this problem with a google search. There are two workarounds
that I've got:

1) Turn on enable-full-header-and-text in the pine config. Then you can
   see the raw message when viewing with full headers (H key):
[X]  enable-full-header-cmd
[X]  enable-full-header-and-text
   I believe this feature was added in v4.50.

2) I wrote a procmail rule that fixes broken messages so that you get
   the actual message properly encoded. There may be strange bits where it
   flukes being valid (e.g. =12345 in a URL), but in sf.net cases, you're
   at least seeing the actual message properly encoded, as opposed to
   option (1):

-

# fix broken quoted-printable
# (particularly sf.net inserting a tagline advertisement with
# unencoded ='s, which makes pine particularly unhappy)
# =3D is the = encoding
# Note that a correct encoding is an =HH (H = hexadecimal digit)
# So a bad encoding is an = followed by zero characters (end of line)
# or 1 character, or 2 chars where one isn't hex

:0 fb
* Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
| sed 's/=\([^0-9a-fA-F]\|.\([^0-9a-fA-F]\|$\)\|$\)/=3D\1/g'

-

Hope that helps :-)

Cheers,

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Re: [SLUG] A valid analogy.

2004-03-13 Thread ksaenz
 4: Windows viruses are mostly Outlook viruses
 
 True. I always tell any Windows user to start by throwing away Outlook.
 That solves most of the problems. Eudora seems to work ok, although of
 course you can still get viruses if you do the wrong thing.

My general rule could be quarranteen windows executable files on the 
mail server. If a client says they are waiting for the file you
shoot it across to them after a probation.
  
 
 7: Are you SURE you don't get viruses?
 
 When you've been chronically sick for 10 years, it's hard to remember what
 it was like to be healthy. I just tell them no, I never get viruses.

I have said that a number of times and ppl look at you in disbelief. Usually
their question is So what is anti-virus do you use? I tell them Linux ;-)
 


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RE: [SLUG] Mandrake10

2004-03-13 Thread Michael F.
Yeah I didn't see the 4th cd on the mirror I was on, so downloaded the 3
only. I am guessing the 4th cd is useless, otherwise they would of
mirrored it.

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 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Sunday, 14 March 2004 12:12 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [SLUG] Mandrake10
 
 
 Appologies if this has been address, my webmail won't show me 
 my slug folder :(
 
 I have just found that Mandrake 10 is 4 CDs. So far I have 
 only seen 3CDs on most Mandrake mirrors. If anyone is 
 downloading Mandrake and has seen the 4th iso please let me know.
 
 Thanks
 
 Kevin
 
 
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Re: [SLUG] Pine: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding

2004-03-13 Thread Dave Airlie

you can get patches for 4.58 for this at
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

I've rebuilt pine with this and UTF8 support..

Dave.

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Simon Bowden wrote:

 On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, David wrote:

  I've been exchanging email with a guy and have twice got the following
  message half way through a sentence in his email:
 
  snip
  .. This way I know exactly where the
 [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding]
 
  after which pine doesn't display the rest of his email.
 
  I can read the rest of his email from mbox with less or vi. I can't find
  any sign of a dodgey character.
 
  I've never seen this problem before... anyone got any suggestions? This
  guy seems to be sending email from a web mailer thus:
 
  This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC
  GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from
  any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free!
  https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl

 Hi David,

 [wonder how this rates for longest delay before initial reply]

 You've actually pasted the dodgy character here :-)

 I recently became similarly annoyed with this message and took a closer
 look. It arises from sourceforge adding taglines like the one you've
 pasted above without taking notice of the message encoding. If a message
 is encoded in quoted-printable, then 8-bit characters are encoded in a
 little hex string, prefixed by '=', meaning that '=' is also encoded. SF
 adds adverts that have non-encoded '='s, thus breaking it. sf.net
 has a master bug report here:

 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=652897group_id=1atid=21

 Anyway, I figured I'd reply since I couldn't find any decent references or
 fixes for this problem with a google search. There are two workarounds
 that I've got:

 1) Turn on enable-full-header-and-text in the pine config. Then you can
see the raw message when viewing with full headers (H key):
 [X]  enable-full-header-cmd
 [X]  enable-full-header-and-text
I believe this feature was added in v4.50.

 2) I wrote a procmail rule that fixes broken messages so that you get
the actual message properly encoded. There may be strange bits where it
flukes being valid (e.g. =12345 in a URL), but in sf.net cases, you're
at least seeing the actual message properly encoded, as opposed to
option (1):

 -

 # fix broken quoted-printable
 # (particularly sf.net inserting a tagline advertisement with
 # unencoded ='s, which makes pine particularly unhappy)
 # =3D is the = encoding
 # Note that a correct encoding is an =HH (H = hexadecimal digit)
 # So a bad encoding is an = followed by zero characters (end of line)
 # or 1 character, or 2 chars where one isn't hex

 :0 fb
 * Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 | sed 's/=\([^0-9a-fA-F]\|.\([^0-9a-fA-F]\|$\)\|$\)/=3D\1/g'

 -

 Hope that helps :-)

 Cheers,

  - Simon


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Re: [SLUG] Mandrake10

2004-03-13 Thread Sean Cohen
Mandrake 10 - Community is 3 cd's.  The edition that was released to 
Mandrake Club members was 4 cd's, as it included some extra stuff 
(acrobat reader, real player, etc.) that can't be freely redistributed 
on the download (community) edition.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Appologies if this has been address, my webmail won't show me my slug folder :(

I have just found that Mandrake 10 is 4 CDs. So far I have only seen 3CDs on
most Mandrake mirrors. If anyone is downloading Mandrake and has seen the 4th
iso please let me know.
Thanks

Kevin

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Re: [SLUG] Copies of MDK 10?

2004-03-13 Thread Richard Neal
OK Mandrake Community and Mandrake Official are different.

The old release cycle was

cooker - beta releases - GPL mandrake release - 2-4 weeks later
Official.

now we have after allot of prodding by people who want to get a version
that been broken in, and debugged, before they install it on the company
desktop, a new release cycle

cooker - beta releases - community - Official (2/3 months later).

Also note GPL Free Official will be also be released to the public but
only after Official has been released to paying Mandrake Club members.

Mandrake Power Pack etc boxed versions will be based on Mandrake
Official not community

And yes from what I can glean from the info $$$ version won't be the
same as the FREE GPL version on the FTP server but as anyone knows you
can hunt these packages down anyway. Personally I just go buy a boxed
version saves me having to look all over the place for the missing
commercial packages ie Nvidia ATi Java etc etc.

Disclaimer:

I don't work for Mandrake-soft, nor do I gain in any way by the above
information from Mandrake-Soft other than the warm fuzzy feeling. All
the above information is a personal view and has in no way any
association to Mandrake-Soft's company policies.


So Mandrake Official wont be released till April/May.

More info here

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/pr-releaseprocess.php3


On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Michael,
 
 No their no the ones.  We are after the official release iso's.
 
 
 
 
  Anyone have a copy of Mandrake 10?  I'm in the east (Surry Hills /
  Redfern) and I'd be happy to drop by and pick it up.
 
 MandrakeLinux-10.0-rc1-CD1.i586.iso
 MandrakeLinux-10.0-rc1-CD2.i586.iso
 MandrakeLinux-10.0-rc1-CD3.i586.iso
 
 Is that it?
 
 I am guessing it's a pre-release but not the offical release, however I've
 never used mandrake, and no fimilar with it naming of iso releases.
 
 
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Re: [SLUG] A valid analogy.

2004-03-13 Thread Richard Neal
To be honest for a while I was looking for a similar answer until
I stumbled across some well written articles on this exact question.

The answer is in two parts.

1. Unix/Linux community doesn't promote bad social computer engineering
so as to sell more software, ie a user would just click on anything like
in windows and infect their whole machine and have the default user
running in such an open environment, that he/she can trash the whole
system install and/or lay waste to the INTERNET with spam.

2. Windows promotes heavily a mono-culture when it comes to software,
so a virus writer often just needs to create a virus for one application
they are pretty much guaranteed to infect 90% of Windows users ( can
anyone say outlook). Where with Unix/Linux they promote lots of
different variations of applications with varying degree's of features
for the same job.. Just ask what MTA you use when a group of Linux users
get together and chances are you will get a plethora of answers, some
using a plethora of MTA's too, you know who you are. :-)

The nearest single analogy I can come across that explains Linux
security is Linux is based on an evolutionary development platform
were the fittest and most diverse survive. Were windows has a forced
evolutionary development based on what sells software. As anyone who has
studied evolutionary science can attest the more diverse and random your
genetic makeup, the higher the probability of survival in the natural
ever on going virus arms race.

Hope this helps

 
GPLG
  GPLGPLGP
 GPLGPLGPLGP
GPLGP
GPL MICROSOFT
GPLGP
 GPLGPLGPLGP
  GPLGPLGPL
GPLGPL


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On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 17:24, Bill Bennett wrote:
 It's a peculiar request, so please bear with me.
 
 I had been asked why Linux was immune to the wave of viruses
 that have been pillaging Microsoft-oriented machines. To be
 honest, I didn't have a ready reply. The best I could do was
 Well, Linux is differently organised. Feeble, I know, but the
 enquirer was not a nurd and, if it comes to that, neither am I.
 
 So I thought about the matter. I wanted a good analogy.
 
 This was the best that came to mind:
 
 Assume someone has put something in your petrol that rots
 piston heads and only piston heads. Eventually the engine
 will fail.
 
 *However* it's not going to affect me if my engine is a Wenkel.
 
 As I say, the best I could do.
 
 Can anyone do better? The issue *must* have surfaced in the past
 and valid analogies must have been drawn for the non-technical.
 My reason for wanting this is that, occasionally I'm asked why I
 will not even look at, or consider going back to MS. Blinding
 people with technicalia generally gets you nowhere.
 
 Bill Bennett.


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Re: [SLUG] NFS mount on Debian Woody not working

2004-03-13 Thread Angus Lees
At Sat, 13 Mar 2004 19:55:26 +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
 Jeff Waugh wrote:
  Do you have nfs-common installed?
 
 Yes. That version has
   nfs-common
   nfs-kernel-server
   nfs-user-server running.
 
 All three were restarted with no difference and the machine was rebooted
 with no difference, aka same error.

This is on the non-working *client* right?

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[SLUG] Thanks for the BugSquash

2004-03-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
Just wanted to say a big thanks to Craige (the Mighty Tongmaster) for
organising the BSP/CodeFest, Dave for sorting out the room, Benno for a fun
couple of talks, Rob for a very motivating arch talk, and Jeff, Pia, and
Craige for letting the maurauding hordes invade their place and fill it with
beer and meat.

A truly entertaining SLUG/DebSIG event.

- Matt
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Re: [SLUG] New Money-Management Software Option

2004-03-13 Thread Michael Still
Jeff Waugh wrote:

Controversially, it's based on Mono. Hmm. :-)
I was reading an article the other day (from somewhere on the OnLamp 
site) that implied pretty strongly that Mono / C# would be the preferred 
development platform for Gnome 3.0. Is that correct?

Mikal

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[SLUG] Mono and GNOME [Was: New Money-Management Software Option]

2004-03-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Michael Still

  Controversially, it's based on Mono. Hmm. :-)
 
 I was reading an article the other day (from somewhere on the OnLamp site)
 that implied pretty strongly that Mono / C# would be the preferred
 development platform for Gnome 3.0. Is that correct?

Though Edd (Dumbill, the author) is certainly a GNOME developer, he nor
anyone else in The GNOME Project knows what 3.0 will be at all. There are
no plans whatsoever at this stage - the only thing we have general agreement
on is that 3.0 will mark the API/ABI compatibility break point, which will
probably just mean that we fully remove everything we deprecated during the
2.x releases. :-)

Beyond the current crop off applications built on Mono, I don't know what
its future will hold in GNOME. At some stage, we will definitely want to
start using managed code (Python, Java, Mono, whatever) in GNOME official
software releases...

Well, if nothing else is certain, I know for sure that there be a lot of
debate. :-)

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Re: [SLUG] A valid analogy.

2004-03-13 Thread Ben Donohue
Sorry Richard but I disagree with this analogy.

Evolution theory is based on getting better from NON intelligence. 
Intelligence is NOT in the equation.

Linux and other free software is based on the collective intelligence of 
a whole lot of very smart people. If I was a programmer I would be a bit 
insulted if someone said my work, hard thought and know-how was in fact 
based on random input. I'd object and say that I don't just type in 
random characters into the keyboard along with a zillion other 
programmers and there happens to be the odd one that makes a good 
program. AND then some other RANDOM process figures out which is the 
best working program and includes that in the Linux kernel without any 
testing or whatever. NO.

Linux changes and gets better and better over time as bit like modern 
car design or jet aircraft from biplane over time. It's refinement over 
time but it's NEVER random. How can something get better without 
intelligence behind it? Linux is MADE to be virus resistant by design. 
And design means a designer. And a designer means intelligence. Linux 
people are intelligent people. THAT'S why we don't get viruses. We use 
our intelligence.

Ben.

Richard Neal wrote:

The nearest single analogy I can come across that explains Linux
security is Linux is based on an evolutionary development platform
were the fittest and most diverse survive. Were windows has a forced
evolutionary development based on what sells software. As anyone who has
studied evolutionary science can attest the more diverse and random your
genetic makeup, the higher the probability of survival in the natural
ever on going virus arms race.
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