Re: [SLUG] Gateway machine

2001-02-25 Thread Scott Ragen
I am using Redhat 7.0. One network card is a realtek 10 Tbase clone (the one the network doesn't use)and I can't remember what the other is. Jon Biddell wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2001 18:12, you wrote: Sluggers, I am new to Linux networking, I know how to navigate linux as a

Re: [SLUG] Micros~1 adds on bus stops

2001-02-25 Thread Michael
hehe, thats a good idea :) On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, Has anybody noticed all the M$ adds popping up on bus stops here in Sydney? The line they're pushing is "Business runs better with Micorsoft". Wouldn't it be really cool to get some stickers made up

[SLUG] setting Sender in postfix

2001-02-25 Thread Dave Fitch
I'm using postfix and mutt. I have my From address set to the email.com domain but my machine's FQDN is spiral.localnet and I have postfix setting the hostname to spiral and the domain to homeip.net. The problem is the Sender header gets set to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", whereas I would rather it's

Re: [SLUG] Gnome 1.2 Easter Eggs

2001-02-25 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:45:34PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Paul Cameron" I like having all of the screen to myself, and minimising distractions. For me, distractions are fancy window decorations, sound effects whenever I so much as look at my wm, image background. fvwm doesn't

Re: [SLUG] Control vs. Caps Lock

2001-02-25 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:30:25AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote: One of the first things I do with a new Linux setup is swap capslock and ctrl. Some people even go further and map capslock to ctrl, i.e. no capslock left. I'm beginning to think that makes sense too. For the uninitiated, this is most

[SLUG] Debian Logo Font?

2001-02-25 Thread Craige McWhirter
Okay, it's a weird one but I rooly trooly need to know the font that is used in the Debian logo. A fair amount of searching has found for me a creepy amount of information about the logo (how much is there to say about a logo?) except the font. Any clue sticks out there? -- Cheers,

Re: [SLUG] Debian Logo Font?

2001-02-25 Thread Dan Treacy
Ask the person who desinged it?? Was that in the information?? Dan - Original Message - From: "Craige McWhirter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 9:52 PM Subject: [SLUG] Debian Logo Font? Okay, it's a weird one but I rooly trooly need to know

Re: [SLUG] Debian Logo Font?

2001-02-25 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 10:41:01PM +1100, Dan Treacy wrote: Ask the person who desinged it?? Was that in the information?? Good point Dan. I should have really put more info in. All I've found thus far is that the designer was one "Raul". No reference to email or any other 'net service. Even

Re: [SLUG] Debian Logo Font?

2001-02-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Craige McWhirter" Perhaps someone know how to extract font info from PDF/EPS files? I do have these version of the logo. In most vector drawing apps you'll be able to split the paths of the text up from the rest of the logo. Unless you have any really strange needs, this should

[SLUG] Printing problem on small home network

2001-02-25 Thread Ken Caldwell
I have a small home network of three computers. longwing (running SuSE 6.4), adler (running Debian-unstable) and superchook (running Debian 1.3.1). There is a printer on longwing and I can print from this machine ok. If I try to print from adler I get the following: ken@adler:~$ lpr

Re: [SLUG] setting Sender in postfix

2001-02-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Dave Fitch" Should it be set in postfix or mutt? I can't find any useful references in the doco of either of them, and just setting a Sender header in mutt appears to be replaced by one generated by postfix. ~/.muttrc: my_hdr From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Jeff --

[SLUG] The things we do to low-end machines...

2001-02-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Andrew Reilly" Re lwm: I haven't used it, but sawfish doesn't have icons or button bars, or icon docks either. It does have root menus. I can't imagine why you'd want to live without them, and am not sure why you would necessarily want to run _another_ program to get them. Now

Re: [SLUG] setting Sender in postfix

2001-02-25 Thread Paul Cameron
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:16:08PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Dave Fitch" Should it be set in postfix or mutt? I can't find any useful references in the doco of either of them, and just setting a Sender header in mutt appears to be replaced by one generated by postfix.

Re: [SLUG] setting Sender in postfix

2001-02-25 Thread John Ferlito
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:16:08PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Dave Fitch" Should it be set in postfix or mutt? I can't find any useful references in the doco of either of them, and just setting a Sender header in mutt appears to be replaced by one generated by postfix.

[SLUG] XMMS Stuff

2001-02-25 Thread Richard Blackburn
Anyone know about XMMS mp3 Player on RH7? After XMMS use and proper exiting, when I log out the machine hangs for a while then gives a message 'xmms - no response to Save Yourself command etc' and I have to click on 'remove program'. What's wrong? (Anyway I thought we were supposed to save the

Why do the spammers bother [was] Re: [SLUG] GETTING BACK TO YOU

2001-02-25 Thread Howard Lowndes
I sometime wonder what the motive is in spammers using crippled URLs such as this. I assume the purpose of the spam and the URL is to get the mug punter to go to their site, but I tried it in both Netscape and IE5 and it worked in neither. Are these URLs auto created? I also have my doubts

Re: [SLUG] How to deal with difficult Evilware users

2001-02-25 Thread Michael Lake
Jon Biddell wrote: Apart from killing them, have a look at http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pub/mskb/Q209354.asp This link is broken, but I always then wander up the tree to see who lives at the top. There are some nice Linux/M$ jokes if you just type in: http://www.hwnd.net You will

Re: [SLUG] Micros~1 adds on bus stops

2001-02-25 Thread Michael Lake
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Wouldn't it be really cool to get some stickers made up saying "Everything runs faster, cheaper AND better with Linux" and pasting these up over the M$ ones? Actually it's not good at all. There is a Linux advocacy HOWTO which is required reading for a certificate

Re: [SLUG] BPay/St.George with Linux/Netscape 4.75

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Chubb
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Grahame Kelly wrote: Can anyone using Netscape 4.75 at St.George Bank help me out a little. My problem, is when I try to BPAY an amount to a vendor - after filling out all the details and depressing the "next arrow", the browser aborts (every time) i.e. completely kills

Re: [SLUG] cp command - Argument list too long

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Rundle
Bernhard Lder wrote: Hi, What is the solution for this? I am trying to copy files and directories from on place to another for backup purposes I use the following command Try, $ find . -print | cpio -pdmuv /backup -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Gnome 1.2 Easter Eggs

2001-02-25 Thread Craige McWhirter
This explains why my GNOME managed sessions used up all my RAM ;) I switched to E, use the same GNOME apps and never use more than 32M ;) I guess now it was GNOME session management caching all the easter eggs in RAM ;) On 24 Feb 2001 11:59:47 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Okay, time to take the

[SLUG] Woody or Sid?

2001-02-25 Thread Steven downing
I'm planning a dist-uprgrade tonight on my potato box, from mirror.cse.unsw. So I was wondering what the Debianites think about the current non-stable branches? Is anything sufficiently broken in unstable right now to avoid it? It's only a desktop machine, and I'll be getting gnome from the

[SLUG] Disk Full

2001-02-25 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi, I have recently installed AUC on one of our old servers and am now a victim of my own success. I have found this morning that the disk is full and no one can use the email on the system (for obvious reasons!). I have connected to the server (SuSE 7.0) using samba from my W2K machine.

Re: [SLUG] Personal sacrifice and free software

2001-02-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
James Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Ian Tester said: Erm, frei? freisoftware? Don't know too much German... 'Zimmer frei' literally translates as 'free room' -- I think some hackers will take offence at their software being labelled as 'empty' :) And free as in 'no cost'

Re: [SLUG] Debian Logo Font?

2001-02-25 Thread Craige McWhirter
I need to know the font so I can generate matching images/text output. Will the vector programmes give me this? I couldn't get it out of the pdf/eps files via GIMP/gv/xfig. Should I have used another tool or have I missed something? On 25 Feb 2001 23:12:28 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Perhaps

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full

2001-02-25 Thread Howard Lowndes
Do: df -i to see if you have run out of inodes. You might have a runaway process. Do: ps ax and look for something that is using a lot of CPU time. I have found that logrotate sometimes runs away when using compression. -- Howard.

Re: [SLUG] The things we do to low-end machines...

2001-02-25 Thread Ken Caldwell
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Andrew Reilly" Re lwm: I haven't used it, but sawfish doesn't have icons or button bars, or icon docks either. It does have root menus. I can't imagine why you'd want to live without them, and am not sure why you would necessarily want to run _another_

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full

2001-02-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
Simon Bryan wrote: I have deleted a number of old gz, tar and rpm files today but still I have no space available, should have freed up close to 70Mb Why the difference? What is the difference? Is it pre-allocated disk space for them? When ext2 partitions are created, 5% of the space is

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full

2001-02-25 Thread CaT
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:55:28AM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: Simon Bryan wrote: I have deleted a number of old gz, tar and rpm files today but still I have no space available, should have freed up close to 70Mb Why the difference? What is the difference? Is it pre-allocated disk

Re: [SLUG] Printing problem on small home network

2001-02-25 Thread Ben Leslie
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Ken Caldwell wrote: I have a small home network of three computers. longwing (running SuSE 6.4), adler (running Debian-unstable) and superchook (running Debian 1.3.1). There is a printer on longwing and I can print from this machine ok. If I try to print from adler I

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full

2001-02-25 Thread CaT
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:17:47AM +1100, Simon Bryan wrote: If I am reading all this correctly then the best this will get me is 5%?? Don't mean that to sound ungrateful! I've set it down to 0 before. The default's 5. ...and I should unmount the filesystem first? Only if it

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full

2001-02-25 Thread Simon Bryan
If I am reading all this correctly then the best this will get me is 5%?? Don't mean that to sound ungrateful! ...and I should unmount the filesystem first? At 11:01 26/02/2001, CaT wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:55:28AM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: Simon Bryan wrote: I

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full

2001-02-25 Thread Simon Bryan
No only 27% in use and nothing suspicious in terms of processes At 10:32 26/02/2001, you wrote: Do: df -i to see if you have run out of inodes. You might have a runaway process. Do: ps ax and look for something that is using a lot of CPU time. Hi, I have recently

[SLUG] SNMP vs Netsaint

2001-02-25 Thread David Kempe
Hey sluggers, I have a general monitoring assignment and i need to descide between SNMP and netsaint. Now i know they can be used together, however if I can get away with just netsaint that would be nice. What do people think of UCD-SNMP? Is anyone using it? also what are peoples opinions on SNMP

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full

2001-02-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
CaT wrote: tune2fs is your friend. Oooh, cool. Learnt something new today. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] Debian Logo Font?

2001-02-25 Thread Craige McWhirter
Thanks David, I appreciate this. Drop me a line when you've found it. On 26 Feb 2001 11:43:52 +1100, David Kempe wrote: I need to know the font so I can generate matching images/text output. Will the vector programmes give me this? I couldn't get it out of the pdf/eps files via

Re: [SLUG] Debian SPARC Installation Method

2001-02-25 Thread Terry Collins
Jeff Waugh wrote: I decided to write a log. I'll flesh this out into an intelligent guide if needs be (however it seems the Debian documentation is good enough... too easy). 00:40 Sent "Start the clock!" email to SLUG list. 00:53 Powered up Sun machine. Bugger me, this monitor is big.

[SLUG] motorola cable to DOCSIS cable

2001-02-25 Thread Andrew Best
I have a gateway/firewall box that used to be on BPA using the old Motorola cable modem. Ive moved and got BPA reconnected at my new premises and its using the new Nortel DOCSIS modems (this is a good thing). I will be setting up my gateway tonight to use the cable again, is there anyone that

Re: [SLUG] Debian SPARC Installation Method

2001-02-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Terry Collins" Something in between a HOWTO a Dummies guide would be rather helpful, I considered writing one, but there's really no point. It's all explained elsewhere, so I'd be replicating work already done. Download from where? how? - what did you download and what did you do

[SLUG] usb webcams

2001-02-25 Thread Alexander Else
hey, from doing a few searches i can see there's support for quite a few usb webcams, does anyone have any experiences with getting these going under linux? Alexander. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] motorola cable to DOCSIS cable

2001-02-25 Thread Scott Ragen
Andrew, Nothing that I would know of. All I did was setup my network, blah blah blah execute bpalogin and i was off. The best thing I found to do to make sure the network works, just type ftp update-server even before executing bpalogin if that connects your flying -Original Message-

Re: [SLUG] usb webcams

2001-02-25 Thread Crossfire
Alexander Else was once rumoured to have said: hey, from doing a few searches i can see there's support for quite a few usb webcams, does anyone have any experiences with getting these going under linux? Uh. yes. I have a CPIA USB webcam set up in our office. I'm now using RedHat 7, camE

Re: [SLUG] usb webcams

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:51:08PM +1100, Alexander Else wrote: from doing a few searches i can see there's support for quite a few usb webcams, does anyone have any experiences with getting these going under linux? I've been using a Philips Vesta cam for a while now with the 2.4-pre, and now

[SLUG] Disk Full - Follow Up

2001-02-25 Thread Simon Bryan
I was able to use tune2fs to get my system going again, and have spent the best part of today deleting unwanted packages (mozilla, netscape, StarOffice etc.) I would like to unistall KDE as well, (this system is purely a server - no monitor etc). I am using a mixture of Webmin and

RE: [SLUG] cp command - Argument list too long

2001-02-25 Thread Bernhard Lüder
This would not exactly work, as I want to file to be DOZE readable in case the main server goes down. More like a mirror, that is updated once a night, I guess. But do you have any suggestion on total mirroring? Point me in the right direction for RTFM, please. Bernhard Lder This electronic

Re: [SLUG] cp command - Argument list too long

2001-02-25 Thread Shaun Cloherty
Bernhard Lder wrote: This would not exactly work, as I want to file to be DOZE readable in case the main server goes down. More like a mirror, that is updated once a night, I guess. But do you have any suggestion on total mirroring? Point me in the right direction for RTFM, please. For

[SLUG] About the oe2mbx

2001-02-25 Thread Phani Kishore Talluri
Sir , I have followed this archive to get the downloads and install that so that I can see the .pst formated mails in my linux machine... Can I see that using the above mentioned thing. If yes can any one please tell me where can i download those because when i went to micropop.com or so I did

[SLUG] IN-ADDR DNS servers

2001-02-25 Thread Howard Lowndes
Is it possible to run a publically visible IN-ADDR.ARPA DNS server to handle a subnet of a Class C block? If so, how is it done? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com "...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!"

Re: [SLUG] About the oe2mbx

2001-02-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Phani Kishore Talluri" I have followed this archive to get the downloads and install that so that I can see the .pst formated mails in my linux machine... Ah, you must have followed one of my emails in our list archive. oe2mbx doesn't actually convert .pst files, the "oe" stands

Re: [SLUG] usb webcams

2001-02-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
logitech quickcams work in linux... observe at http://bong.com.au/zortcam/ drivers at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12924release_id=18002 buggy, but usable Dean Peter Hardy wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:51:08PM +1100, Alexander Else wrote: from doing a few

Re: [SLUG] setting Sender in postfix

2001-02-25 Thread Dave Fitch
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:11:09AM +1100, Jeffrey Borg wrote: yep I'm doing that already, it's the Sender header that's the problem (and setting it in mutt like you've got above for From doesn't work). If postfix is anything like exim then you are going have to tell postfix that you are

Re: [SLUG] IN-ADDR DNS servers

2001-02-25 Thread John Ferlito
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 04:46:40PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: Is it possible to run a publically visible IN-ADDR.ARPA DNS server to handle a subnet of a Class C block? If so, how is it done? Yes lets say you have 203.78.54.0/24 on your name server you host 54.78.203.in-addr.arpa

Re: [SLUG] usb webcams

2001-02-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Moe" anyone got info on getting 3com homeconnect to work under linux. anyone here know about this model? http://www.linux-usb.org/ Lots of info, and links to kernel modules/patches. - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://linux.conf.au/ --

[SLUG] Setting up local user accounts on an intranet

2001-02-25 Thread Trevor Gunter
At school am running RH 5.1 proxy. Thats no problems. I'd like to have a go at having some users have local pages available on the proxy server as an intranet. Setting up users is not a problem. I'd like it so that when a browser points to the machine's users page eg localmachine/~user their

Re: [SLUG] Debian Logo Font?

2001-02-25 Thread Ian Tester
On 26 Feb 2001, Craige McWhirter wrote: I need to know the font so I can generate matching images/text output. Will the vector programmes give me this? I couldn't get it out of the pdf/eps files via GIMP/gv/xfig. Should I have used another tool or have I missed something? Geez, Postscript