Can;t work this out from the ppp manpage.
I have a script in ip-down.d this would normally be run when the ppp
connection is stopped ie via a poff.
The question is will it be run if the ppp connection drops out but the
demand option is on so ppp is going to try and redial. Or is it only run
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Andy Eager
So I run fetchmail on my server and have clients (netscape and that other one
that I'm not allowed to name) read mail from the server using IMAP also ?
Yep; and fetchmail is nice for collecting multiple accounts and delivering
to specific users,
The question is will it be run if the ppp connection drops out but the
demand option is on so ppp is going to try and redial. Or is it only run
just before pppd exits?
Do you mean demand or persist?
if you mean demand, surely pppd has to remain resident to detect that
interesting traffic is
* This one time, at band camp, Andy Eager said:
When it download a test email, it bombed out after the read saying:
SMPT connect to localhost failed
Does this mean I need to have sendmail running as well ?
Can't it just download the messages on its own and leave them somewhere for me
I am in the process of building a new
machine, my current 300mhz system isn't
too bad I want something that's a little
zippier (Duron 850 or so).
My current system is quite loud due to
a problem with the power supply unit,
this computer will be moved into another
room so I won't hear it but it
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:24:02PM +1000, John Ferlito wrote:
The question is will it be run if the ppp connection drops out but the
demand option is on so ppp is going to try and redial. Or is it only run
just before pppd exits?
From pppd(8):
/etc/ppp/ip-down
A program or
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:35:39 +1000, Andy Eager wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to have Outlook Express Netscape
mail share messages ? (IE: Have a message read from the POP
server by Outlook and readable in both Outlook Netscape,
whithout doing the obvious and forwarding / rereading)
Secret Squirrel wrote:
..snip...
The following components all make noise:
- power supply fan
- video card fan
- second case fan (doesn't apply to me)
- hard drive (idle hum and r/w ticks)
- CPU fan
In all cases, a better quality fan will usually solve the problem. There
is also
http://www.blue.net.au/linux-setup.html
You must change the phone number, password and DNS entries appropriate to
your connection. Other than that it should work.
Bernhard Lüder
This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain
information that is confidential or
On 02-May-2001 Andrew Reilly wrote:
I've been programming for over twenty years myself, and have
been able to avoid the switch from imperative non-window
graphics coding to GUI coding by moving to GUI-free embedded
work.
A Truly Cunning Plan. :-) BTW, I should warn you that I don't do much
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:43:42PM +1000, David Kempe uttered:
The question is will it be run if the ppp connection drops out but the
demand option is on so ppp is going to try and redial. Or is it only run
just before pppd exits?
Do you mean demand or persist?
Mu. Demand implies
OK, I give up- where the hell is SMTP daemon kept ? (ie what rpm
package)
I found imap OK (got RH 6.2) and did a search on Redhat site only to
find 4 matches for smtp (2 of which were fetchmail and two perl script
thingies?
Am I missing something here? All of the other inet daemons were
quote who=Andy Eager
OK, I give up- where the hell is SMTP daemon kept ? (ie what rpm
package)
You have to choose a particular SMTP daemon. One of the following commonly
used daemons will suffice (in order of my preference):
postfix
exim
sendmail
qmail
- Jeff
--
Just because I sit
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:43:42PM +1000, David Kempe wrote:
The question is will it be run if the ppp connection drops out but the
demand option is on so ppp is going to try and redial. Or is it only run
just before pppd exits?
Do you mean demand or persist?
if you mean demand, surely
Thanks Jim,
That discussion has given me a lot of confidence that I _can_ fit
the GUI world into my mental framework.
Also thanks to Matthew, Mike and Jamie, for their suggestions.
On 2 May, Jim Hague wrote:
Handling a situation where you have some big slab of computing to do can be
tricky
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Andy Eager
OK, I give up- where the hell is SMTP daemon kept ? (ie what rpm
package)
You have to choose a particular SMTP daemon. One of the following commonly
used daemons will suffice (in order of my preference):
Unless you are talking about the one
Hi Martin,
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:22:06AM +1000, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Michael X Haynes wrote:
There are some points against Debian as well though, like for example,
the fact that often the only source of a package is the maintainer, and
in some cases, like mozilla, the
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:04:08 +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone has tried to building their own Linux?
as in the site www.byolinux.org.
Or am do I have no life to contemplate something like this :)
it looks suspiciously similar to www.linuxfromscratch.org, but
On 2 May, Andrew Rembrandt wrote:
Bandwidth connection? :)
hehe...
No broadband as yet, but will have soon [ADSL capable, or possibly telstra
cable].
[this is the slug list, broadband is a requirement :) ]
You can get broadband into a unit? I was under the impression telstra
had issues
quote who=Anand Kumria
There are a number of tools, but the only one that seems close to
what you are after in the archive is dbuild.
I'm not finding it in my unstable archive, so I'm assuming it's on its way
out (with debhelper replacing it?)...
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be
hi all
i have been running (very successfully) mandrake 7.2 on a
300mg celeron, mainly to use squid
in a school network.
I wanted to set up a second server with a new 600mHz Celeron
with 256mg ram and a 30 mg hard drive. The reason I mention
all this is so you know the config that is having
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:21:22 +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
I've done a new installation of RH7.0 (2.2.16-22) and it did nothing
about the networking (local cdrom installation). So now I want to add it
in. As I understand it, all I needed to do is insmod ne.o, but there are
unresolved
i was wondering why my cron tasks weren't running, and sure
enough, cron wasn't running at all.
after i fire it up, it now decides to send a gigantic backlog of
messages. ouch. my apologies.
--
#ozone/algorithm [EMAIL PROTECTED] - trust.in.love.to.save
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User
Hi,
(1) when is the next InstallFest due ? I rather liked the Macquarie Uni
location - fairly central and easy to get to by car with plenty of parking
space on a Saturday.
(2) I'm currently having trouble logging in to my RH7 drive. When I try I
get a repeated message suggesting the boot
Little off topic ! :(
Could someone please explain the difference
in laptop screens ? XVGA UXGA TFT etc etc,
What's good and what totally sucks ? (i've
seen some poor looking screens on budget
Gateway 2000s, are these TFTs ?
-- Secret Squirrel
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:17:30AM +1000, Nick Croft wrote:
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote:
A couple of questions have come up regarding CD label creation, and a few
regarding LaTeX (mostly due to Gus' dastardly influence)...
http://sis.fbm.vutbr.cz/~honza/cdl/
Might
You can get broadband into a unit? I was under the impression telstra
had issues with installing it in units... or maybe I'm just delusional
I live in a unit and I have ADSL... no problems there.
I know people who live/work in units and they have telstra cable as
well.
Dave
--
SLUG -
Catie Flick was once rumoured to have said:
On 2 May, Andrew Rembrandt wrote:
Bandwidth connection? :)
hehe...
No broadband as yet, but will have soon [ADSL capable, or possibly telstra
cable].
[this is the slug list, broadband is a requirement :) ]
You can get broadband into a
On Thu, 03 May 2001, Secret Squirrel wrote:
Little off topic ! :(
Could someone please explain the difference
in laptop screens ? XVGA UXGA TFT etc etc,
What's good and what totally sucks ? (i've
seen some poor looking screens on budget
Gateway 2000s, are these TFTs ?
afaik XVGA and
I am sure you mean 300Mhz and 30GB and 256MB etc right?
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Philip Wicks wrote:
hi all
i have been running (very successfully) mandrake 7.2 on a
300mg celeron, mainly to use squid
in a school network.
I wanted to set up a second server with a new 600mHz Celeron
with 256mg
see if you can get the monitor specs, horizontal and vertical refresh
rates, and do a custom monitor install. and select the rates that lie
within the specs.
also do a very generic 640x480 x 256 colours to start with and work your
way up from there.
the bios might need setting to pnp all devices
Andre Pang wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:21:22 +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
I've done a new installation of RH7.0 (2.2.16-22) and it did nothing
about the networking (local cdrom installation). So now I want to add it
in. As I understand it, all I needed to do is insmod ne.o, but
I promise no more Tcl evangalising, unless someone mentions again an
exact thing that is easily done with it.
encouragement
How do I write code that looks like sauerkraut?
/encouragement
From http://www.sauerkraut.com:
Sauerkraut is:
A. Healthy
B. Tasty
Thanks to Andy and Jon and others.
The early testing of this system seems to indicate that the best and
easiest setup is to have the directories on the Linux system, share them
using Samba and then have NT map a drive to them when logging in. As long
as the user exists in both systems they can
It may be a power supply issue. If the 12V+ rail is
poorly regulated.. the pitch will vary due to changes
in FAN speed.
Maybe you should fit a better PSU/FAN to your case to
solve the issue.
Regards
John
Secret Squirrel wrote:
..snip...
The following components all make noise:
- power
It is possible to have your password on one system too:
Use SAMBA as the PDC.
Thus spake Simon Bryan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), on 0:
means two user lists to manage (but only one password list), but we do this
already for AUC and the same data list can be run through scripts on NT and
Linux to
The case itself can have a noticable effect.
Making sure the case is solid (all screws present) and all
devices with moving parts are well secured
so that the noise/vibration of fans and moving
parts is dampened is a good start.
The way the motherboard is mounted is important too,
as vibrations
Found this little gem. Just thought someone might be interested.
FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD
THROUGH
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That E-mail App
Doesn't Like
Atlanta, Ga. (SatireWire.com) - Scientists at the
Centers for Disease
This one time, at band camp, Peter Abbott said:
Found this little gem. Just thought someone might be interested.
Ah, you must have missed Heracles post entitled MS goofs? only 2 weeks
ago, as well as the actual release of this document over a month ago.
No, wait, you couldn't have missed
* This one time, at band camp, Peter Abbott said:
Found this little gem. Just thought someone might be interested.
FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD
THROUGH
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
It was mildly amusing the first time it was posted it's just getting
tedious
snip
There's also one REALLY strange noise
that comes from my machine that someone
may be able to identify.
Whenever I run something that needs heavy
use of the processor (or maybe memory,
I can't tell) a consistant noise in the
computer will change pitch (higher). Why
do you suppose I
Sluggers,
I'm at work and my Gimp Essential reference is at home.
How do you do something really simple in the gimp like
draw a *straight* line or a nice *round* circle.
Is there a pallete tool or somthing? I've looked all over
the menu and I just don't get it.
Thanks
Pete
--
SLUG - Sydney
quote who=Adam F. Bogacki
(1) when is the next InstallFest due ? I rather liked the Macquarie Uni
location - fairly central and easy to get to by car with plenty of parking
space on a Saturday.
We hadn't planned one thus far, but I'm sure we can cook something up. :) I
wonder if this is in
On Thu, 03 May 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Adam F. Bogacki
(1) when is the next InstallFest due ? I rather liked the Macquarie Uni
location - fairly central and easy to get to by car with plenty of parking
space on a Saturday.
We hadn't planned one thus far, but I'm sure we can
We're planning the next years worth of installfests. The goal is to make
them quarterly. There will be a national installfest in August, the
previous being in March. There may be one in between. Keep an eye on the
list as details will be announced here.
Thus spake Adam F. Bogacki ([EMAIL
On Wed, 02 May 2001, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, getadog said:
I you're going the python route, then go the full monty:
www.zope.org.
To list a few good points of zope, revision control, it will
allow multiple people to work on the site at once.
It will allow
On Wed, 02 May 2001, Anand Kumria wrote:
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:21:01AM +1000, Ben Leslie wrote:
Let the flame war begin :
I want comment on others I'll just give you my ideas about my
favourite high level/scripting language.
Python (www.python.org) is a nice object
On Tue, 01 May 2001, Angus Lees wrote:
\begin{Ben Leslie}
Python (www.python.org) is a nice object oriented language which I find
quite good for most of my needs. I'll outline pros and cons below.
Cons:
no closures (proper anonymous functions) (yet)
I thknk that this is fixed in 2.1
No perhaps he really wants a 600 millihertz Celeron with 256
milligrams of ram and a 30 milligram hard drive. It'd be nice
and portable although somewhat slow (you'd be able to fit it
inside an aspirin but with one operation every 10 minutes it
really wouldn't deliver the grunt).
Del
I
I have one mobo with an onboard PS2 connection (the mobo describes itself
as a PCPartner - el cheapo I concede) and despite everything I can think
of to try, I just cannot get a PS2 mouse to work; serial mouse - no
problemo.
I know the mouse itself is OK as it works fine elsewhere.
I have tried
* This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes said:
I have one mobo with an onboard PS2 connection (the mobo describes itself
as a PCPartner - el cheapo I concede) and despite everything I can think
of to try, I just cannot get a PS2 mouse to work; serial mouse - no
problemo.
I know the
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:49:36AM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
Sluggers,
I'm at work and my Gimp Essential reference is at home.
How do you do something really simple in the gimp like
draw a *straight* line or a nice *round* circle.
Is there a pallete tool or somthing? I've looked all
Hi guys,
I am setting up sendmail on a SUSE machine and I want to kill some messages that are
queued. I have looked for the words purge and flush in the sendmail man page but
can't see how to kill messages that are queued. I had several that were going to
slug-admin that I wanted to kill -
Hi,
I'm having trouble logging in to my RH7 drive. When I try I
get a repeated message before the log-in screen should come up, suggesting
the boot program is doing a loop:
According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (1094) but seems to
have been murdered mysteriously
According to
Hi all,
Jeff suggested, over boiled television entrails I think, that snort was a nice program
to monitor others attempts at your machine. I have downloaded and compiled snort, and
have the default snort.conf file and a few questions. OK it needs to be run as root.
Now as I prob wan tot run
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:22:05PM +1000, Adam F. Bogacki wrote:
Hi,
I'm having trouble logging in to my RH7 drive. When I try I
get a repeated message before the log-in screen should come up, suggesting
the boot program is doing a loop:
According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already
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