hi
Do you have a dhcpd.leases file? If not yhen you should touch one
no.. just tried it still nothing..
What does your /var/log/messages file tell you?
it shows nothing at all well besides the usall and a couple of
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Have you run tcpdump on eth1 to see what packets are happening?
Do a ps aux and grep for bootpd - if you have a bootpd service
running, then you need to disable the bootp server. The bootp
server is usually started in inetd.conf.
np no bootp anything
alex
_
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free
Reading the headers solved the mystery of the location
/var/tmp/vi.recover/
of the saved files and the recovery binaries.
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I have slxt (sparc linux X term) working with some SparcStation SLCs I
have at home. If anyone needs help setting this up, get in touch.
Download from: http://www2.gol.com/users/gaijin/Linux/
I couldn't get XKernel working, but I don't like Solaris anyway. YMMV.
--matt
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Scott
What does your /var/log/messages file tell you?
it shows nothing at all well besides the usall and a couple of
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Try /var/log/daemon.log
that might be more helpful
daves
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More Info:
ahha
socket: Protocol not available - make sure CONFIG_PACKET and
CONFIG_FILTER are defined in your kernel configuration!
now this looks more like it...
which options are these.. i am using 2.2.18..
thanks
alex
On Sunday 04 February 2001 20:42, you wrote:
What does your
Hi all,
This is probably a fairly simple question, but i cant figure it out from
the cups manual.
I have an epson stylus colour 800 inkjet printer.
It wors fine with linux, except i have a small problem with the paralell
port on my computer. It doesn;t seem to work at all. Neither under linux
Terry Collins wrote:
SIGs do not split Slug. They are a method of catering for diverse
interests without forcing everything else onto everyone.
agreed.
snip
The best people to help newbies/beginners are other newbies/beginners
The "visually impaired" leading the blind
Maybe an
Hi all,
I was wondering if anybody has much experience in installing readhat 7.0
or 6.0 onto alphas, specifically on a PC164UX.
I have milo seemingly working fine, and it gets to the point I can pick
the bootimage to load. I give it the image and it reads through it and then
responds
Hi all,
This is probably a fairly simple question, but i cant figure it out from
the cups manual.
I have an epson stylus colour 800 inkjet printer.
It wors fine with linux, except i have a small problem with the paralell
port on my computer. It doesn;t seem to work at all. Neither
\begin{Terry Collins}
Does anyone know what the error that sort of read
error not sun disk label" means.
We have the debian 2.2.2 rescue bin on a floppy using
dd if=rescue.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync; sync
and are getting an error message about the floppy not having a sun disk
label.
\begin{Scott Howard}
Classics, LX and IPX are all similar spec and make slow, but OK machines
for playing with.
hey! my workstation at work is a sparc classic.
the speed is fine (most of our heavy work is done remotely on another
machine). the worst bit is the 8-bit display, but thats no
With sparc problems its seriously worth looking through the linux-sparc
mail archives and even mail archives of openbsd and netbsd.
i believe sparc linux is at www.ultralinux.com (or org or something)
Dean
Angus Lees wrote:
\begin{Terry Collins}
Does anyone know what the error that sort
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:52:50AM +1100, Alex Salmon uttered:
ahha
socket: Protocol not available - make sure CONFIG_PACKET and
CONFIG_FILTER are defined in your kernel configuration!
Simple error. It's hit me a few times, and I'm sure it's done it again, because 2.4.1
doesn't work on
Hi All,
I'm having problems with getting mgetty1.1.20 to connect a ppp connection.
I've done the following
i) Compiled with the line CFLAGS=-02 -Wall -pipe -DAUTO_PPP" in the Makefile
to enable PPP.
ii) Included the line "/AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd auth login +pap -chap
/dev/ttyS1 crtscts
Hi,
I saw ur message, at the message board while searching for the Skywell
MagicTV card Latest Drivers, I've got this card for long, and was
functioning perfectly, (all Image and vidoe captures) when I was using Intel
740 AGP card, but when I cahnged my card to TNT2 M64, its not working well,
This one time, at band camp, Heracles said:
Terry Collins wrote:
The best people to help newbies/beginners are other newbies/beginners
The "visually impaired" leading the blind
Maybe an unfair comment, but as I do not fully understand Linux, I
could be considered one of the "severley
This one time, at band camp, Ken Foskey said:
My hat goes in with Terry.
I think that there is great scope for a newbies list. This list should
have predefined answers to 'which is the best distro' with input from
each camp. We KNOW that archives will not really work with newbies.
Hrm, I
Just to throw another controversial topic onto the new mailing list debate.
Could we get a slug-chat or slug-social list if we do end up creating another
one?
We can move some of the banter off slug and onto slug-chat. I would love to
have a list were I could post general computer or chat type
Angus Lees wrote:
..snip...
sounds like its trying to boot the floppy as a hard drive..
how did you tell it to boot from the floppy?
(i just had to do: "boot floppy" - it was really tricky)
Which is exactly what we tried a number of times with different
floppies. Hmm.
It seems the only
VIJAYENDRA HAJARE wrote:
Hi,
I saw ur message, at the message board while searching for the Skywell
MagicTV card Latest Drivers, I've got this card for long, and was
functioning perfectly, (all Image and vidoe captures) when I was using Intel
740 AGP card, but when I cahnged my card to
quote who="Rodos"
Just to throw another controversial topic onto the new mailing list
debate.
Go on then, complicate the issue! ;)
Could we get a slug-chat or slug-social list if we do end up creating
another one?
This is a funny one - almost every time this has come up, we've kind of
transfer Fidonet packets {if you don't know, don't ask - you're probably
too young anyway!} via the internet/IP.
Eeee;... flashback time
Wasn't there a C version of this (written, as I recall, by a Minister
from Manly) ??
Let me see if I can contact him and ask..
Apolgies, couldn't
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote:
This is a funny one - almost every time this has come up, we've kind of
half agreed not to, because of the list splitting aspect. I certainly agreed
with that for a long time, but... ;)
I have always been reserved about splitting the list. With slug-chat
I agree with this sentiment, but see this as being the precise reason why
SLUG should not be fragmented.
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"...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!"
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Rodos
I have read as much as I could on X, gdm, etc. and still cannot figure out
how to do it, if it can be done.
1) Update /etc/gdm/gdm.conf:
Ensure in [xdmcp] section, Enable=1
2) Restart gdm on host machine
3) Check gdm access
From within X, "gdmchooser"
4) On client machine
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote:
This is a funny one - almost every time this has come up, we've kind of
half agreed not to, because of the list splitting aspect. I
certainly agreed
with that for a long time, but... ;)
I have always been reserved about splitting the list. With
How about a SLUG-NEW-LISTS-DEBATE list...so we don't have to watch this
thread.
alister
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
David Kempe
Sent: Monday, 5 February 2001 8:29 AM
To: Rodos; Syndey Linux Users Group
Subject: RE: [SLUG] On
At 15:13 4/02/01 +1100, KenF wrote:
My hat goes in with Terry.
I think that there is great scope for a newbies list.
As a Newbie I worry that this will leave us playing in the shallow end of the pool for
ever. It's like learning any foreign language - the more you read the more you absorb
quote who="Howard Lowndes"
I agree with this sentiment, but see this as being the precise reason why
SLUG should not be fragmented.
Trouble is, we have a pretty heavy list already, and all the time people are
getting more and more annoyed with the casual fun stuff (the bits they think
are a
Hi all,
What happens when a PC CPU overheats?
(it's a Cyrix/IBM P200)
I'm talking about what effects do you see on the PC?
My main gateway machine refused to boot on Saturday.
No video and although the lights came on on the disks
etc there was no normal startup noises (eg. that ticking
as it
Hi Dave,
You really need to keep the fan going on a PC; without it you can cook
things.
This applies to any PC irrespective of what operating system it's running
on.
On more modern ones, sometimes the BIOS detects the temperature on the mobo
/ CPU and will not allow boot it the temperature is
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Dave Fitch wrote:
Hi all,
What happens when a PC CPU overheats?
(it's a Cyrix/IBM P200)
I'm talking about what effects do you see on the PC?
snip
The only hint I've got is that when I took the lid off,
the CPU fan was hardly spinning at all, and laying the
case on
I work on a listings site for clubs around the world and have put a lot
of work in it. This weekend this referrer showed up in the web logs:
wysiwyg://0/http://www.spraci.co.uk/cgi-bin/listings.cgi
What is wysiwyg://
Is that something Netscape Composer or some other web editor puts in?
I
Hi Jill,
Jill Rowling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You really need to keep the fan going on a PC; without it you can cook
things.
ok, so is that permanently cook things?
so far, in this machine, I must have have replaced the
CPU fan at least 2-3 times (not buying the real el-cheapo
ones either).
Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The symptoms of overheating vary, usually wierd random crashes errors
and lockups. If the fan is not spinning, that would definitely explain
the problem. I've had a cpu fan fail and was getting all sorts of wierd
symptoms, I don't remember exactly what. However, if
Dave said:
ok, so is that permanently cook things?
Yes, if you keep it going. At worst, you can lose smoke...
Also you might want to check how much dust fluff there is. Acts like an
electrically conductive blanket. You might want to vacuum it out if it's
real gross.
Cheers,
Jill.
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I sent something about this last week but I guess it got lost with all the
stuff about meeting formats, ADSL, etc.
I have a Sony SDT-7000 tape drive to be used to back up a Linux server.
Everything was fine until I tried to back up a large amount of data on a
20gb drive. I have tried using both
quote who="Rev Simon Rumble"
What is wysiwyg://
Netscape print preview. Alarming though, isn't it?
I just want to know if someone is ripping off our listings which
wouldn't be nice.
Only if they're handing it out in the clubs, and that would be nice. ;)
- Jeff
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
With all the discussion about SIGs and installfests, I thought I'd throw my
2c worth into the ring.
I have Redhat 7.0 running on a Sony VAIO. I've been able to get everything
working pretty much to my requirements, but haven't had a lot of luck
getting the sound to work (as far as I can
How about we put a voting thingy on the website? :)
yaya voting thingy!
dave
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quote who="David Kempe"
yaya voting thingy!
I doubt Animal (Muppet legend if ever there was one) could have said it
better himself. Thank you, David. ;)
You can now vote *and* comment on the creation of a new list for SLUG
randomness at URL: http://slug.org.au/. You will have to enter your
Hi Guys,
I have installed Magicpoint and gee it's great but need to
get it working with TrueType fonts.
If I configure with just ./configure I get:
checking if --disable-freetype option specified... no
checking for freetype library/header... /usr/lib and no
checking for
Dennis Gray wrote:
.snip...
I have a Sony SDT-7000 tape drive to be used to back up a Linux server.
Everything was fine until I tried to back up a large amount of data on a
20gb drive. I have tried using both dump and tar and with each got a message
at the end of the first volume that it
Well,
After asking my question re laptop-specific installfests, I realised that I
hadn't actually tried configuring the sound since I moved from 6.2 to 7.0,
so I tried it.
I ran sndconfig, it picked what seemed like the right Yamaha chip for my
VAIO and sounded like it made a noise when it
try removing the config.cache or any other config files that might store
wrong things.
dave
What am I missing out on?
Mike
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quote who="Harry Ohlsen"
Is there any way I can tell the boot sequence to ignore the modules.conf
file?
Booting into single user mode may help...
When LILO comes up, type: lilo entry single
Alternatively, where can I download a boot floppy image that will
allow me to mount my hard
Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dave Fitch wrote:
so far, in this machine, I must have have replaced the
CPU fan at least 2-3 times (not buying the real el-cheapo
ones either).
Unless this is an old machine, I'd suggest a new brand of fan.
it is an old machine (old in PC terms, it's
Rodos wrote:
VOTE EARLY AND VOTE OFTEN.
Who trains the people that run polling booths?
We had a by election on Saturday for the state seat of Campbelltown and
the young lass who handed out the voting papers was most emphatic that I
could only have one. I told her I thought it was VE - VO,
Jeff Waugh was once rumoured to have said:
quote who="Howard Lowndes"
I agree with this sentiment, but see this as being the precise reason why
SLUG should not be fragmented.
Trouble is, we have a pretty heavy list already, and all the time people are
getting more and more annoyed with
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:10:52 +1100 Harry Ohlsen wrote:
I have Redhat 7.0 running on a Sony VAIO. I've been able to get
everything
working pretty much to my requirements, but haven't had a lot of luck
getting the sound to work (as far as I can tell, there are two things
that
look like
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Richard Pang wrote:
In the log file I get the error "yS1 can't get group 'modem': No such file
So, do you have a 'modem' group?
iii) Run the command "mgetty -D -a /dev/ttyS1"
Dont use '-a' (autobaud), unless maybe if your modem is a museum piece.
--
Mike Holland
The only downside to this is that the newbie will most likely be unaware
of this protocol.
--
Howard.
LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com
"...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!"
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Crossfire wrote:
Having been a polling place manager for about 20 years now, for both state
and feral elections, I can tell you that you always get some PITA who
wastes your time. The favourites are those who can't decide how the
ballot paper works especially the big one, tears it into shreds and bins
it, and
quote who="Howard Lowndes"
The only downside to this is that the newbie will most likely be unaware
of this protocol.
Dare I say "56K"?
Two lists gives you a choice in that regard too. *shrug*
- Jeff
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Howard Lowndes was once rumoured to have said:
The only downside to this is that the newbie will most likely be unaware
of this protocol.
Document it with along with the "Before you post to this list" notes.
Also, people would probably implicitly pick up on it with sufficent
traffic running
Crossfire wrote:
proposal
If you're posting socially, then make sure you have a [social] in your
subject. etc.
[snip]
/proposal
better proposal
Make a slug-social or slug-chat mail address that shares a common
subscriber's list with [EMAIL PROTECTED], so the same people get sent the
Morning all,
It is with much pain and gnashing of teeth that I install Windows on my
Linux box, and I'm trying to avoid any more. I don't want to go back to the
2.2.x series... :)
Has anyone found or made a patch to 2.4.x for Win4Lin? Netraverse sure don't
have one so far.
- Jeff
-- [EMAIL
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Bill Bennett wrote:
The problem is that, at the moment, the laptop is infested with
Windows 2000. I'd like to go completely over to Linux (ie, no
partitioning.
I assume that I should with a clean slate, ie., an empty hard
disk, but I'm not sure how this can be done.
I'd like to install RH 7.0 on my laptop.
The problem is that, at the moment, the laptop is infested with
Windows 2000. I'd like to go completely over to Linux (ie, no
partitioning.
I assume that I should with a clean slate, ie., an empty hard
disk, but I'm not sure how this can be done. The
Terry Collins wrote:
Umm, I have no idea why changing your video card would affect the
capture card, but obviously something in the TNT2 M64 now interferres
with the capture card.
Ordinarily I would tend to agree, but I upgraded to the nvidia 0.9.6 drivers last
week and it broke... well
Start the RH 7.0 installation CD, using either boot floppies (which can be made using
the CD under Windows, there are instructions there somewhere on the setup CD), or boot
straight off the CD.
Continue with the RH setup and somewhere you will reach the 'Disk Druid' partitioning
part of the
Arunava Sen wrote:
Terry Collins wrote:
Umm, I have no idea why changing your video card would affect the
capture card, but obviously something in the TNT2 M64 now interferres
with the capture card.
Ordinarily I would tend to agree, but I upgraded to the nvidia 0.9.6 drivers last
Huh?
1) Obtain MSdos 6.x floppy boot disk.
2) Place MSDOS fdisk.exe program on MSDos 6.x disk
3) Boot from MSDos 6.x disk
4) Use fdisk.exe to remove all partitions from Winblows infection
5) Reboot from MSDos 6.x floppy
6) issue command "fdisk /mbr" from MSDos 6.x disk
7) Happily install
Good afternoon all
I am afraid I am becoming one of those Debian converts. In the last few
days I have finished setting up a Debian based firewall (welll actually a
firewall is never finished). The simplicity of apt-cache search, apt-get
update, and apt-get upgrade is great.
/flamesuit on
I'm going to post to the list when I sort out a venue. I may have to
change from the venue I originally targeted due to the amount of
interest.
:)
On Sun, 04 Feb 2001 03:32:47 James Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Craige McWhirter said:
At present, the setting of sweeping
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Terry Collins wrote:
So why did I upgrade from CPM then?
CP/M wasn't broke?
Coulda bloody well fooled me!
:-)
DaZZa
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Hi Everyone,
There were a few things I was doing wrong. I was not clearing the
config.cache (tnx Dave), magicpoint was not looking in /usr/local/lib
(thanks Marty) and more importantly libttf.a was in fact in the
FreeType1 distribution not the FreeType2 distribution (thanks Jeff).
I now have
DaZZa wrote:
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Terry Collins wrote:
So why did I upgrade from CPM then?
CP/M wasn't broke?
Coulda bloody well fooled me!
I had a word processor - Spellbinder,
I had a spread sheet - Super Calc
I had a database - Dbase II
I had comms (300 baud)
I had email -
I wrote
Any suggestions about how to stop pcmcia loading? I have not selected it
as a module to load in the initial configuration.
It never fails. You can spend an hour looking for the answer to a problem
and 5 minutes after emailing the list you find the answer. Of course
pcmcia is not
CP/M = rotten non-re-entrant piece of code.
At least Linux runs under Linux!
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:52:50AM +1100, Alex Salmon uttered:
ahha
about an hour after that so did all thoseusers on our network that
now have net acess better then evr.
once again thanks slug.
alex
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