Re: [SLUG] Temporary mailbox close?

2001-02-07 Thread Jon Biddell
At 10:19 AM 7/02/01 +1100, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi, I often have staff members going on leave for a term or more. In the meantine their mailboxes continue to fill, is there anyway I can temporairily close the mailbox so that it rejects any new mail and sends a message to the sender? We are

Re: [SLUG] Temporary mailbox close?

2001-02-07 Thread Mike Holland
At 10:19 AM 7/02/01 +1100, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi, I often have staff members going on leave for a term or more. In the meantine their mailboxes continue to fill, is there anyway I can temporairily close the mailbox so that it rejects any new mail and sends a message to the sender? We are

Re: [SLUG] Debian Potato - Sid upgrade.

2001-02-07 Thread David Kempe
apt-get update Then I guess you can do another dist-upgrade, or just a upgrade. Whats the difference between these two commands? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] The Great SLUG Social Vote

2001-02-07 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:58:43AM +1100, Jeff Waugh uttered: quote who="Rodos" ... and the results were ... Closing Wednesday, 6pm. :) No results for you! Come back, 7 hours! Oki, it's been 9 hours. *duck* :-) - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [SLUG] Web pager designing tools?

2001-02-07 Thread Heracles
DaZZa wrote: I know this has been done recently, but... Anyone got a recommendation for a Linux web page design tool - similar to Dreamweaver? I'd prefer free if possible - but shareware won't be frowned at. If you prefer a GUI then Star Office is OK. Not as good as Dreamweaver, but

Re: [SLUG] Debian Potato - Sid upgrade.

2001-02-07 Thread Martin
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Afternoon all I am fiddling with my second Debian install. I thought I would try unstable on my portable. Following various instructions found by searching Debian.org Google I did the following: 1. install stable from cd (base only) 2.

[SLUG] Results of Completely Unscientific New List Vote

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
Results of Completely Unscientific New List Vote Yes: 16 A whopping 29 votes were placed, with the 'yes' vote coming out on No: 13 top. Pretty piss-poor turnout (you won't catch them saying *that* --- on TV this year), and not exactly a

Re: [SLUG] Results of Completely Unscientific New List Vote

2001-02-07 Thread Terry Collins
Jeff Waugh wrote: ..snip "Donkey Vote" - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Now you're a little sheister aren't you ;) I went to test vote after you said it verifies against your email address [ with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ] Came back to vote for real as myself (different email, funnily enough)

Re: [SLUG] Results of Completely Unscientific New List Vote

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Terry Collins" You must have done something to tip it off. Both the Worms and I voted from the same machine. Craige said later that 'there's always one'. He was right - but it wasn't him. - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://linux.conf.au/ --

Re: [SLUG] Results of Completely Unscientific New List Vote

2001-02-07 Thread Dan Treacy
I still think if we'd call it [slug-beer] and made it a dicussion list for where we were drink next it'd have passed unanimously :-) Btw I hearby claim that's the voting was confusing I meant to vote for Gore.. an appeal willbe lodged! :-) Dan. quote who="Terry Collins" You must have

[SLUG] [SLUG-Chat] Should I up my printer memory.

2001-02-07 Thread Rodos
Well I have this LaserJet 6P which is wonderfull. The only issue is that lately it has been giving out of memory errors. It prints some of the page and then dumps a fresh page with a little message saying there was not enough memory, reduce fonts, adjust resolution etc. Only just started doing

Re: [SLUG] Results of Completely Unscientific New List Vote

2001-02-07 Thread David
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Rodos wrote: Now, what are we going to call the thing? ;) KIDDING! [SLUG-CHAT] SLIME SLOG ??? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] [SLUG-Chat] Qantus lounge.

2001-02-07 Thread Rodos
Am flying to Melbourne tomorrow and my friend is a member of the Qantas club. Last time I was in there they had some Internet terminals. Might see if I can pull the network cable on one and see if I can get a DCHP lease and surf the net of my laptop! Of course a smart person would tie the leases

Re: [SLUG] Results of Completely Unscientific New List Vote

2001-02-07 Thread Rodos
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote: Results of Completely Unscientific New List Vote Yes: 16 A whopping 29 votes were placed, with the 'yes' vote coming out on No: 13 top. Pretty piss-poor turnout (you won't catch them saying *that*

[SLUG] Squid problem

2001-02-07 Thread Yukthi
Hello, We have a problem in running squid. The squid dies by itself. The 'squid' status is as follows -- Squid dead but pid file exists Squid ERROR: Could not send signal 0 to process pid(n) no such process -- If we start the 'squid' again, everthing works fine but squid dies again on its

Re: [SLUG] Results of Completely Unscientific New List Vote

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Dan Treacy" I still think if we'd call it [slug-beer] and made it a dicussion list for where we were drink next it'd have passed unanimously :-) I see another SIG in SLUG's future. - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://linux.conf.au/ -- We're

RE: [SLUG] Authentication

2001-02-07 Thread avant
From my experiences, I figure that a well configured samba server should do you well. I think the newest (beta) supports domain logons. Bleh, its late, what would i know? :) avant. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthias Oertli Sent:

[SLUG] It's ALIVE!

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Jeff Waugh" "[slug-chat] A general bezar for the off-topic discussion of the SLUG community." - [EMAIL PROTECTED] slug-chat: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug-chat - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://linux.conf.au/ --

Re: [SLUG] Results of Completely Unscientific New List Vote

2001-02-07 Thread Terry Collins
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Terry Collins" You must have done something to tip it off. Both the Worms and I voted from the same machine. Craige said later that 'there's always one'. He was right - but it wasn't him. Naturally, it has to be tested. I figured it was obvious enough

Re: [SLUG] Kylix arrives

2001-02-07 Thread Terry Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delphi Kylix was released Jan 31. C++ Kylix is real soon now ( oh well ). http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-31-001-27-OP-CY-SW or community.borland.com There are stripped down free versions available. By the sounds of it more complete than

[SLUG] Sendmail - Spamming Problems

2001-02-07 Thread Steven Kerr
Sluggers I have noticed over that last few days that some slime ball is using our sendmail 8.9.3 mail server as a relay. I have checked the anti-relaying configuration of it and it appears, to me anyway, to be ok. If I place the source domain into /etc/access ie: hichina.comREJECT I get

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail - Spamming Problems

2001-02-07 Thread Andreas Mueller
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:12:00AM +1000, Steven Kerr wrote: Question: What other configuration could I use to stop this spamming ? deny his mailhost ( ip ) access-file - mailmx.e-kolay.net 550 Blocked, cause of neverending Spam

Re: [SLUG] It's ALIVE!

2001-02-07 Thread Marty
http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug-chat i gather this list is opt-in ? later marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] It's ALIVE!

2001-02-07 Thread DaZZa
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote: "[slug-chat] A general bezar for the off-topic discussion of the SLUG community." - [EMAIL PROTECTED] slug-chat: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug-chat Does this mean we're going to have the list police chiming in when things stray off

RE: [SLUG] byte to byte info about a connection.

2001-02-07 Thread Visser, Martin (SNO)
Alan, Ntop http://www.ntop.org does a good job of breaking down network traffic it sees by host and protocol (among other things). It will probably see you through. Martin Martin Visser Technology Consultant - Compaq Global Services Compaq Computer Australia 410 Concord Road Rhodes, Sydney

[SLUG] Re: [ANN] Sun Hardware from ComputerBank.

2001-02-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Hi, I am registered under two different email addresses - [EMAIL PROTECTED] and this one [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove this one, ie [EMAIL PROTECTED] to save the redundancy. Thanks heaps Zen _ Get Your Private, Free

Re: [SLUG] Squid problem

2001-02-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
I haven't noticed any on-list replies to this (I could have missed them) so I'll have a stab. - Are you logging Squid? If so, what is being written to your logs? This will give clues as to what is going wrong. - How long have you been using squid for? Days? Weeks? Months? There are some

Re: [SLUG] New Debian Convert

2001-02-07 Thread Marty
couldn't wait to get my hands on Progeny, so i grabbed some 2.2 discs SNIP This is interesting. I was under the impression that one of the things Progeny were about was dumbing down/prettying the installation process. Of the many Debian builds I've done since coming across Debian 6 months

Re: [SLUG] New Debian Convert

2001-02-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 12:12:52 Marty wrote: This is one of the things I liked about Debian, only installing what you want to use, not mountains of apps you don't even know are there. Sounds like Progeny are diverging from that. The Debian "tasks" were good for covering the areas where

[SLUG] Formating a USB Floppy

2001-02-07 Thread Antony Stace
Hi Folks Can someone please tell me how to format a disk in MSDOS format with a USB floppy drive. I am running Kondara MNU/Linux 2000 which has Kernel 2.2.17-10k. My computer recoginses the USB floppy as /dev/sda. I cannot use the fdformat command since it only works on the devices

Re: [SLUG] New Debian Convert

2001-02-07 Thread Marty
Can't really answer that. I've never found out what the "Simple" install does and haven't used it (so I'm well in the dark there) but your assumption sounds right to me. Anyone actually have the answer? from memory there was an option to see "Task Info" for whatever you had highlighted... so

Re: [SLUG] New Debian Convert

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Craige McWhirter" the simple option for package choice is the task oriented one, right?, but i must have picked some that had some wide ranging dependencies or i left something selected that i didn't really want... Can't really answer that. I've never found out what the

Re: [SLUG] Formating a USB Floppy

2001-02-07 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:43:37AM +0900, Antony Stace wrote: Can someone please tell me how to format a disk in MSDOS format with a USB floppy drive. I am running Kondara MNU/Linux 2000 which has Kernel 2.2.17-10k. My computer recoginses the USB floppy as /dev/sda. I cannot use the

[SLUG] problem about installing modem in redhat 6.2

2001-02-07 Thread Huiyong Liu
Dear all: Whenafter installing internal modem( conexant softk56 Data,Fax,RTAM PCI Modem), I employ minicom to test, the procedure is listed followed: 1. # minicom -s 2. selected 'Serial Port Setup', then firstly set my serial device to /dev/ttyS2 ( since the modem is internal, port number

Re: [SLUG] problem about installing modem in redhat 6.2

2001-02-07 Thread Crossfire
Huiyong Liu was once rumoured to have said: When after installing internal modem( conexant softk56 Data,Fax,RTAM PCI Modem), I employ minicom to test, the procedure is listed followed: This is a winmodem. There is no complete support for this device yet. --

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail - Spamming Problems

2001-02-07 Thread Mike Holland
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Steven Kerr wrote: I have noticed over that last few days that some slime ball is using our sendmail 8.9.3 mail server as a relay. Unlikely ... 8.9.3 disables such relaying, unless you specifically enable it. Feb 7 10:15:13 gatekeeper sendmail[16323]: KAA16323:

Re: [SLUG] problem about installing modem in redhat 6.2

2001-02-07 Thread Ken Yap
|When after installing internal modem( conexant softk56 Data,Fax,RTAM = |PCI Modem), I employ minicom to test, the procedure is listed followed: Sounds like a winmodem. Does the box say something like minimum system requirements Pentium 100, Win3.1 or Win95, etc? If so no way. -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail - Spamming Problems

2001-02-07 Thread Marty
QUESTION: How can I do spam-filtering in sendmail when calling it from 'fetchmail' ? Has anyone done this? Normal methods dont seem to work. if your thinking about using maps/orbs/other blacklist it won't work... they rely on denying connections from certain hosts... your connections will be

Re: [SLUG] problem about installing modem in redhat 6.2

2001-02-07 Thread Matthew Dalton
Huiyong Liu wrote: When after installing internal modem( conexant softk56 Data,Fax,RTAM PCI Modem) It's a software modem (aka winmodem). ie. it's not a modem at all - the cpu does all the hard work in software instead. It used to be impossible to use one of these under anything but

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail - Spamming Problems

2001-02-07 Thread Terry Collins
Mike Holland wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Steven Kerr wrote: I have noticed over that last few days that some slime ball is using our sendmail 8.9.3 mail server as a relay. Unlikely ... 8.9.3 disables such relaying, unless you specifically enable it. Feb 7 10:15:13 gatekeeper

Re: [SLUG] Formating a USB Floppy

2001-02-07 Thread DaZZa
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Antony Stace wrote: Can someone please tell me how to format a disk in MSDOS format with a USB floppy drive. I am running Kondara MNU/Linux 2000 which has Kernel 2.2.17-10k. My computer recoginses the USB floppy as /dev/sda. I cannot use the fdformat command since

Re: [SLUG] Formating a USB Floppy

2001-02-07 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:48:08AM +0900, Antony Stace wrote: doesn't want to work No, sorry, my fault. fdformat does a low-level format, which I didn't know (thanks Ken), mkdosfs just creates the filesystem. I thought you were just trying to create the filesystem. fdformat only works

[SLUG] Debian @ LinuxExpo.au 2001

2001-02-07 Thread Crossfire
Righteo! As promised, I have more details. AES are running the LinuxExpo again this year, in conjunction with IT2001 and Network+Interop. I'm organising the Debian Stand for this expo, and I'm currently calling for volunteers to man the stand. The Expo itself will be occuring from the 7th to

Re: [SLUG] Re: New Debian Convert

2001-02-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
Ah, this was my first stumbling block: "I just want to install everything like I did on Redhat!" I promptly gave up in disgust. A month later Gus, Anand and Jeff explained, gently, over a SLUG dinner why installing everything is perhaps not the best approach. I've been using Linux for 5+ years

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail - Spamming Problems

2001-02-07 Thread Mike Holland
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Marty wrote: QUESTION: How can I do spam-filtering in sendmail when calling it from 'fetchmail' ? Has anyone done this? Normal methods dont seem to work. if your thinking about using maps/orbs/other blacklist it won't work... they rely on denying connections from

[SLUG] SuSE Lays Off (Most) U.S. Staff

2001-02-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
Some discussion: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/07/2040225.shtml This link appears to the most complete info: http://www.linuxgram.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=109aid=11712 -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] SuSE Lays Off (Most) U.S. Staff

2001-02-07 Thread Terry Collins
Craige McWhirter wrote: Some discussion: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/07/2040225.shtml As a general request, if you post a slashdot link, how about just posting the article itself. Attempting to read anything on slashdot is an utter waste of time. This link appears to the most