Re: mgetty faxspool

2002-09-24 Thread Nick Rout
I have been trying to link mgetty faxspool to the lpr print cue on a redhat 6.2 machine, in an attempt to provide network fax ability using a postscript printer driver... without any joy. Is this posible? or does someone know of an easier way to do network faxing without having to setup

Re: Destop variety

2002-09-24 Thread Vik Olliver
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 11:10, Michael JasonSmith wrote: Just wait until you get your hands on Nautilus 2 (it is in Redhat 8.0). I hardly ever used Nautilus until version 2, but now I find myself using it quite a bit. The UI is not much different from the original, but it is smaller, faster,

Re: List behaviour

2002-09-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Let's all read the article on munging that Martin posted and the rebuttal that Nick posted, and weigh these two articles up before voting. I think it's a waste of time. We're all going to be subscribe to many lists, some set this way, some the other. That means for replying we'll all have to

2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop?

2002-09-24 Thread Matt Agnew
There was talk at the last meeting of a troubleshooting session for the next meeting - is this still on, and is there a signup sheet? I've installed Mandrake alongside Win2k and Win98 and can't get into the Linux partition. Alternatively, is someone willing to come to my house and help me in

Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop?

2002-09-24 Thread Trev
Matt Agnew wrote: There was talk at the last meeting of a troubleshooting session for the next meeting - is this still on, and is there a signup sheet? I've installed Mandrake alongside Win2k and Win98 and can't get into the Linux partition. Alternatively, is someone willing to come to

Re: Not Booting with Reiserfs

2002-09-24 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:28, Tim Wright wrote: Unfortunately i can't, it won't boot CDs. SuSE has now also given up!, see my SuSE can't find keymap post. looking more and more like a hardware problem...however, it's probably not a disk problem, more a controller or bus problem. Do you know

RE: List behaviour

2002-09-24 Thread David A. Mann
John Stephens wrote: My Vote is Reply to the list. Anybody that sets up an auto reply should be deleted. They can always rejoin. Russ, the administrator at NT Bugtrack normally deletes 350 people over the Christmas period. Interesting. Another mailing list I'm on doesn't auto-replies

Re: Newbie NIC question

2002-09-24 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hurro... I'll add my 2c to the answers so far... Rh 7.3 (any 2.4.x kernel for that matter) does not reliably detect ISA plugpray cards. ie: Linux may or may not reliably detect it using kudzu. However, kernel 2.4.x has good drivers for the 3c509 inbuilt.. So... kudzu is the thing that does

RH7.3 on SMP - Kernel Panics

2002-09-24 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Hi All, anyone whose thinking of running RH7.3 or 2.4.18-3 on an smp box, make sure you upgrade the kernel to at least -5 there appears to be a bit of a problem, I had my smp box crash heaps with this configuration. jeremyb.

CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October (Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop?)

2002-09-24 Thread Nick Elder CLUG
Matt and members, The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 2nd October in the Sydenham hall. ( http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/ ) The idea is to have a problems workshop. I suggest that anyone with a machine that needs looking at, should email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we can make a list

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October (Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop?)

2002-09-24 Thread Yuri de Groot
I can bring a spare monitor for the american dude whose monitor wasn't going to fit in his car. Yuri

Modem troubles and ISPs

2002-09-24 Thread Carl Cerecke
I'm having a problem connecting to my ISP, maxnet. They don't know what the problem is. Linux is officialy unsupported by them (incidentally, they only told me that *after* I had problems, even though I was very upfront about using Linux all the time and it all seemed OK. Actually the modem

Re: Modem troubles and ISPs

2002-09-24 Thread Yuri de Groot
My employer runs two ISPs, CLEARnet and Paradise. Neither of them officially support linux, although both have customers that use linux and I have used linux with both, without problems. At one time, my wife's win 98 couldn't connect to clearnet but my linux box could. Same dial-up number, same

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October (Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop?)

2002-09-24 Thread xhen
Hi all, This is my first post to the list. I'm hoping to be able to make it along to this upcoming meeting so I thought I might chime in here. I've played around with Linux for a few years, though never seriously. Now I'm looking to blow away my win2k machine and replace it with Slackware. I've

Re: Modem troubles and ISPs

2002-09-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Re modem: very odd. It seems a bit unlikely that the maxnet modem wouldn't want to talk to either of your modems properly. If it worked before, they probably changed something, but my experience with anyone is that they never own up to having changed anything. suggestions about the problem or

Re: Modem troubles and ISPs

2002-09-24 Thread Stuart Johnsen
Try looking up the Consumers Institute web site. http://www.consumer.org.nz/ They have a web page that will allow you to compare prices/services on different ISPs. Stuart At 10:08 25/09/02, Yuri de Groot wrote: My employer runs two ISPs, CLEARnet and Paradise. Neither of them officially

Re: Modem troubles and ISPs

2002-09-24 Thread Nick Rout
sounds to me like your isp may be using pap or chap, despite putting up a login prompt?? Just a guess as I haven't used an analogue modem for a while now. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modem troubles and ISPs

2002-09-24 Thread Vik Olliver
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 09:41, Carl Cerecke wrote: I'm considering another ISP. I only need about 10hrs a week dial-up and a few mailboxes. I collect my CLUG email from here at work. Any suggestions about the problem or an alternative ISP? Try letting PPP handle all authentication sing

Re: Bruce's LaTeX Handout System

2002-09-24 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Many thanks for this stuff, it looks like the answer to my needs. However, the perl script 'concatallslides' appears to be missing from the file archive. I hope, pray, and trust that a request that you might be able to allocate a micro-moment

mount r/w In Rescue

2002-09-24 Thread Trev
What is the complete mount r/w command for mounting when in rescue mode with making a tmp mount point. I've tried but can't remember, no mans in rescue. Thanks Trevor

Re: mount r/w In Rescue

2002-09-24 Thread C Falconer
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 12:16, Trev wrote: What is the complete mount r/w command for mounting when in rescue mode with making a tmp mount point. I've tried but can't remember, no mans in rescue. mount / -o remount,rw that would remount the root partition read/write mkdir /hda1

Re: mount r/w In Rescue

2002-09-24 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:16:40PM +1200, Trev wrote: What is the complete mount r/w command for mounting when in rescue mode with making a tmp mount point. I've tried but can't remember, no mans in rescue. ``mount /mount-point -o remount,rw'' -- Matthew Gregan |/

Re: List behaviour

2002-09-24 Thread Nick Rout
Personally I also find the cc: annoying, it's half way to spamming. I haven't seen a useful procmail recipe yet which deals with it. But it's not too difficult to look at to: and cc: of a msg and if it has both list and private simply delete it. I can read the list copy when I'm on private

RE: Newbie NIC Question

2002-09-24 Thread Matthew Carr
Thanks for all the help. NIC is now recognised, and loading the driver mod on boot. Nice one. Matthew -- Matthew J. Carr Desktop Support Consultant University of Canterbury Christchurch New Zealand -- Ph: +64 3 364 2987 Ext: 7729

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October (Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop

2002-09-24 Thread Benjamin Devine
Hi all, I'm not sure but I might be bringing a laptop to the clug meetin ghaving problems installing pcmcia onto a laptop. You know that laptop at the installfest that was still installing at quarter past 5. P.S depends on if my mum is going to let me go... (DONT LAUGH :( ) Thanks, Ben [EMAIL

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October (Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop

2002-09-24 Thread Yuri de Groot
P.S depends on if my mum is going to let me go... (DONT LAUGH :( ) Hey Ben, I know the feeling. For me it depends on if my wife has planned anything involving both of us :( Actually, I just remembered she has :C So apologies to the guy to whom I promised I'd bring a spare monitor :[ I'll mark

Re: Reminder/peeve - change the list back!!

2002-09-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
there is also the Mail-FollowUp-To: header. it tells you clearly who wants a cc and who doesn't. It's not a standard. D. J. Bernstein has a small FAQ[1]. [1] http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html Aha. Well I don't care about the controversy around DJB, but find it interesting that he

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October (Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop

2002-09-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Hey Ben, I know the feeling. For me it depends on if my wife has planned anything involving both of us :( You mean you've been married for a few months now and haven't put the law down yet??? (ducks for cover and runs for his life) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly

Re: mount r/w In Rescue

2002-09-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
``mount /mount-point -o remount,rw'' This will certainly fail on a rescue system as it requires a corresponding entry in /etc/fstab which won't exist. Always specify both filesystem device and mountpoint. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in

Re: List behaviour

2002-09-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Personally I also find the cc: annoying, it's half way to spamming. I haven't seen a useful procmail recipe yet which deals with it. But it's not too difficult to look at to: and cc: of a msg and if it has both list and private simply delete it. I can read the list copy when I'm on

Re: mount r/w In Rescue

2002-09-24 Thread C Falconer
No - because root is already mounted and hence already known. Thats what remount deals with. Try it and see. On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:23, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: ``mount /mount-point -o remount,rw'' This will certainly fail on a rescue system as it requires a corresponding entry in

RE: Dell GX1 psu

2002-09-24 Thread Steve Bell
to all the people who purchased one of Steve's Dells. Here's the bad news. I purchased another PSU, and carefully burnt my fingers resoldering it all to match the Dell pinout. Took the PSU home, plugged it in, and wallah, it worked!!! For 5-7 minutes(ish). Then it powered itself down, never

Re: mount r/w In Rescue

2002-09-24 Thread C Falconer
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:38, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: ``mount /mount-point -o remount,rw'' This will certainly fail on a rescue system as it requires a corresponding entry in /etc/fstab which won't exist. Always specify both filesystem device and mountpoint. Sorry, yes it will work if

List Reply behaviour

2002-09-24 Thread Zane Gilmore
Well. I have had a bit of a count up of the votes on those two threads (list behaviour and that peeve one) This was quite difficult because of the likes of Jeremy and Martin et. al. saying why they disagreed :-/ drum roll Anyway the upshot appears to be that most of those who actually care

Re: List Reply behaviour

2002-09-24 Thread Gareth Williams
Thank you Zane :-) ps. I would like to quickly advocate public flogging of those with badly behaved auto repliers ;) Cheers, Gareth Zane Gilmore wrote: Well. I have had a bit of a count up of the votes on those two threads (list behaviour and that peeve one) This was quite difficult

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October (Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop

2002-09-24 Thread Yuri de Groot
Hey Ben, I know the feeling. For me it depends on if my wife has planned anything involving both of us :( You mean you've been married for a few months now and haven't put the law down yet??? I could go to CLUG meetings and other stuff if I wanted to, but the rewards of keeping the missus

Re: List Reply behaviour

2002-09-24 Thread Yuri de Groot
ps. I would like to quickly advocate public flogging of those with badly behaved auto repliers ;) I would suggest using only personal email accounts, as work accounts are usually the culprits of broken auto-repliers. Yuri

Re: List Reply behaviour

2002-09-24 Thread Zane Gilmore
Testing the reply to: Please delete -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch New Zealand phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895 Fax 364

Re: mount r/w In Rescue

2002-09-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Whats the lists feelings about having a backup root partition? a small 100 Mb partition with minimal etc and bin and so on... ? I don't think there's much point. It would be useless in case of disk failure, and otherwise a standard rescue system offers the same in case you monkey your boot

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October (Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop

2002-09-24 Thread Chris Hellyar
Is this the Toshiba 440CDX? What type of PCMCIA card is it you've having problems with? Cheer, me... - Original Message - From: Benjamin Devine Hi all, I'm not sure but I might be bringing a laptop to the clug meetin ghaving problems installing pcmcia onto a laptop. You know

Re: List Reply behaviour

2002-09-24 Thread Chris Hellyar
Does this mean we can start one of those annoying 'yes it worked' threads? Oh, you said to delete it.. Oh well. It worked anyway... A triumph for democracy I feel, although I still think reply to list will lead to pain when Yuri or Volker take a pot-shot at their significant others on the