[SLUG] Need someone to install a gateway

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Kennedy
Hi guys My company is amalgamating two offices into on on Friday June 1st, and part of the move is a networking change. I need to get hold of someone who can install/set up a gateway box for the network. The network is about 30-50 nodes, and it will connect to the net through both an ADSL line

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 7.1 Fonts, Web Browsing Problem

2001-05-24 Thread Joshua Burvill
I think you need to install more and better fonts. You probably only have very minimal fonts installed or configured. So, if you have not already, install 75dpi, speedo, Type1, etc If your installer does not do it, you may have to run mkfontdir or similar in each actual font dir. ( Mine are

[SLUG] Good Editors for C development

2001-05-24 Thread Andy Eager
Hi all, I'm currently using KDE's kwrite as an editor (running on Gnome 1.4 which is pretty schmick). Does anyone know of any good development environments / editors for writting c-apps with multiple source files. kwrite is good (it has various language highlighting) but something with at

[SLUG] Re: EINVAL on socket read (Michael Still)

2001-05-24 Thread james
You use recv() for sockets, not read(), dummy! ;-P (I made that very same mistake while porting UNIX sockets programs to winsock at some ridiculous hour like 4a.m. a couple of days ago took me a few hours to realise what I had done, and I have been programming sockets for years). if

Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development

2001-05-24 Thread Ashley Lynn
Andy Eager wrote: Hi all, I'm currently using KDE's kwrite as an editor (running on Gnome 1.4 which is pretty schmick). Does anyone know of any good development environments / editors for writting c-apps with multiple source files. XWPE not suitable? Stay well and happy Heracles --

Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development

2001-05-24 Thread Mike Holland
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andy Eager wrote: which is pretty schmick). huh? yiddish?? Does anyone know of any good development environments / editors for writting c-apps with multiple source files. Emacs is the original and the best: (try the 'xemacs' variant) http://www.xemacs.org/ GUI,

Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development

2001-05-24 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:42:56PM +1000, Andy Eager wrote: Does anyone know of any good development environments / editors for writting c-apps with multiple source files. Of course. There are two equally valid answers, and they have existed for a _very_ long time. These are: 1) Unix (with

Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development

2001-05-24 Thread Mike Holland
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andrew Reilly wrote: There are two equally valid answers, and they have existed for a _very_ long time. These are: 1) Unix (with vi or some other editor) You mean working at the shell level? Is it possible to integrate vi with compilation debugging? e.g. - click on

[SLUG] mkisofs question.

2001-05-24 Thread DaZZa
OK, so I finally went out and got me a cd-rw. The cd-writing howto gave me what I need to get it recognised by cdrecord, and that part all works fine. mkisofs even works, except for one annoying bloody problem. If I have a directory structure like so /pics/a /b /c /d /e

Re: [SLUG] mkisofs question.

2001-05-24 Thread Andre Pang
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:50:20 +1000, DaZZa wrote: If I have a directory structure like so /pics/a /b /c /d /e etc, and I tell mkisofs to make an image from /pics as the base directory, it puts _all_ the pictures, regardless of originating sub directory, into

RE: [SLUG] Re. Debian birth pangs: mail and Lilo ...

2001-05-24 Thread Adam F. Bogacki
Thanks. When the install of Debian 2.2.r3 crashed twice at exactly the same place (X config) I decided that there must be a bug possibly due to download corruption and reverted to 2.2.r2 which I succeeded with today. I followed your advice re. 'apt-get dist-upgrade -u' and 'apt-get

Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development

2001-05-24 Thread Andrew Reilly
On 24 May, Mike Holland wrote: You mean working at the shell level? Is it possible to integrate vi with compilation debugging? Of course! Everything is integrated into the (multi-window) shell environment :-) - click on compiler error message to jump to that line in editor man 1 error -

[SLUG] my zsh configuration files are online

2001-05-24 Thread Andre Pang
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:49:14 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Hey, with zsh, you can get tab-completed man page information and stuff. Andre said he'd post his configs at some stage (and perhaps I missed it), but I'd be very interested to try this myself. Andre? okay, my zsh configs are

Re: [SLUG] Re: EINVAL on socket read (Michael Still)

2001-05-24 Thread James Buchanan
connectionless use recvfrom/recvmsg. - Original Message - From: Angus Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:04 PM Subject: [SLUG] Re: EINVAL on socket read (Michael Still) \begin{[EMAIL PROTECTED]} You use recv() for sockets, not read(), dummy!

Re: [SLUG] Re: Good Editors for C development

2001-05-24 Thread James Buchanan
vim syntax highlighting feels like Borland Turbo C/C++ if you like that and program for windows. vim is nice and quick, no frills, in console mode. Emacs can be very useful if you put the (lots of) time into learning how to use it fully. - Original Message - From: Angus Lees [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Re: EINVAL on socket read (Michael Still)

2001-05-24 Thread James Morris
On Fri, 25 May 2001, James Buchanan wrote: connectionless use recvfrom/recvmsg. You can use read/write if you call connect() first on your connectionless socket :-) - James -- James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Re: EINVAL on socket read (Michael Still)

2001-05-24 Thread James Buchanan
On Fri, 25 May 2001, James Buchanan wrote: connectionless use recvfrom/recvmsg. You can use read/write if you call connect() first on your connectionless socket :-) - James Cool, thanks :-) I hadn't worked my way to that bit in my UNP book by Stevens yet ;-P, in fact I skipped the

[SLUG] VMware for Linux - a very long shot plea for help

2001-05-24 Thread Howard Lowndes
Does anyone out there have any experience with running Wfwg311 under VMware for Linux, specifically - what network adaptor driver did you select? Off list replies please - this is tending towards being OT. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com

RE: [SLUG] Re. Debian birth pangs: mail and Lilo ...

2001-05-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: I also tried apt-get with StarOffice 5.2 without success. Neither 'soffice' nor 'StarOffice' worked. I know it can be downloaded from http://www.sun.com/staroffice - but surely apt-get does it better - is it part of the 2.2.r2 distribution ?

Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development

2001-05-24 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Mike Holland said: On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andrew Reilly wrote: There are two equally valid answers, and they have existed for a _very_ long time. These are: 1) Unix (with vi or some other editor) You mean working at the shell level? Is it possible to integrate

[SLUG] SSL for pop3 and smtp

2001-05-24 Thread Scott Ragen
Hi, I have a problem using stunnel for pop3 and smtp with the client Outlook 2000 (its my work email client) What the problem is when I send and receive email from outlook on the SSL connection it comes up with a prompt saying: The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that

RE: [SLUG] Re. Debian birth pangs: mail and Lilo ...

2001-05-24 Thread David Kempe
I also tried apt-get with StarOffice 5.2 without success. Neither 'soffice' nor 'StarOffice' worked. I know it can be downloaded from http://www.sun.com/staroffice - but surely apt-get does it better - is it part of the 2.2.r2 distribution ? You also need apt-cache try apt-cache

[SLUG] Copying M$ floppies

2001-05-24 Thread Howard Lowndes
I am trying to copy some M$ Office installation floppies to Linux to burn a LEGAL CDROM security archive. When I mount the floppy then df show them as having 1716224 bytes instead of the normal 1457664 bytes and they won't copy correctly. Can anyone tell me which /dev/fd0* I should be mounting

Re: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies

2001-05-24 Thread John Ferlito
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:05:35AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: I am trying to copy some M$ Office installation floppies to Linux to burn a LEGAL CDROM security archive. When I mount the floppy then df show them as having 1716224 bytes instead of the normal 1457664 bytes and they won't copy

Re: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies

2001-05-24 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:05:35AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: When I mount the floppy then df show them as having 1716224 bytes instead of the normal 1457664 bytes and they won't copy correctly. This was an MS trick to prevent exactly what you're trying to do. They formatted the disks as

RE: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies

2001-05-24 Thread David Kempe
if that doesn;t seemt to work then try a few of the following devices /dev/fd0u1722 /dev/fd0u1743 /dev/fd0u1760 Google show me this: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9608.2/0138.html seems to make sense. Search for DMF floppy linux if you get stuck DMF is the way they are

[SLUG] [OT] GitS

2001-05-24 Thread Craige McWhirter
I was meant to bring a copy of GitS to SLUG tonight but failed to bring it with me. If anyone else has GitS on DVD and can bring it tonight there's a beer in it for you ;) Apologies for the OT mail. -- Cheers, Craige. PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Re. Debian birth pangs: mail and Lilo ...

2001-05-24 Thread Josh
Adam F. Bogacki wrote: Thanks. When the install of Debian 2.2.r3 crashed twice at exactly the same place (X config) I decided that there must be a bug possibly due to download corruption and reverted to 2.2.r2 which I succeeded with today. I followed your advice re. 'apt-get

RE: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies

2001-05-24 Thread Howard Lowndes
Tks, guys. mount /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt/floppy is what works, so file it away for future use. Damned M$ - I really hate it with a passion. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com _ We needn't, as socialists, get

Re: [SLUG] Video card problems - suggested causes?

2001-05-24 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:00:59PM +1000, DaZZa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Folks. I've got a recent problem with my video card which appears in both X and text mode, and is giving me the irrits. What basically happens is that I get shadowing right across the screen of every character -

Re: [SLUG] SSL for pop3 and smtp

2001-05-24 Thread Colin Humphreys
You are going to need to regenerate the stunnel pem certificate... something like openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes \ -config /usr/share/doc/stunnel-3.14/stunnel.cnf \ -out /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem -keyout /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem make sure the common name or your name option

[SLUG] Purchasing stuff at SLUG meetings

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Kennedy
Does anyone normally bring distro CDs etc to SLUG meetings? I want to get hold of Debian 2.2r3, and picking one up at SLUG would be the handiest way. Thanks AdamK -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Purchasing stuff at SLUG meetings

2001-05-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Adam Kennedy Does anyone normally bring distro CDs etc to SLUG meetings? I want to get hold of Debian 2.2r3, and picking one up at SLUG would be the handiest way. Anthony Rumble usually brings a collection of things along, and will probably have some Debian there. I usually have

[SLUG] Killing xdm

2001-05-24 Thread Terry Collins
How do you kill xdm? (apart from kill -9 pid) I have a very fast respawning xdm on a recent RH70 (server) installation. Unfortunately, it just spawns the Xfree login window, gives incorrect password amd asks for it all again. I'm still head scratching as to where it is respawning itself from.

Re: [SLUG] Killing xdm

2001-05-24 Thread Craige McWhirter
If it were Debian I would just say: run /etc/init.d/xdm stop My memory is hazy on RedHat. I *think* you need to switch to run level 3 to get away from it. There's other ways too I don't recall now. Thus spake Terry Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), on 0: How do you kill xdm? (apart from kill -9

Re: [SLUG] Killing xdm

2001-05-24 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:20:14PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: How do you kill xdm? (apart from kill -9 pid) I have a very fast respawning xdm on a recent RH70 (server) installation. Unfortunately, it just spawns the Xfree login window, gives incorrect password amd asks for it all again.

Re: [SLUG] Killing xdm

2001-05-24 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:20:14PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: I'm still head scratching as to where it is respawning itself from. Probably from here: [johnc@dropbear ~]$ grep -1 xdm /etc/inittab # Run xdm in runlevel 5 # xdm is now a separate service x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

[SLUG] Take home a terminal tonight.

2001-05-24 Thread Mark
Hello Everyone, I have been just given another alpha-numeric terminal and keyboard, but I have absolutely no space to store it. So I am looking for someone who is willing to pick-up the terminal at tonight's meeting. So if you have been lusting after a terminal then here is your change to

Re: [SLUG] Purchasing stuff at SLUG meetings

2001-05-24 Thread Conrad Parker
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:49:46PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Adam Kennedy Does anyone normally bring distro CDs etc to SLUG meetings? I want to get hold of Debian 2.2r3, and picking one up at SLUG would be the handiest way. Anthony Rumble usually brings a collection of

Re: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies

2001-05-24 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:11:59AM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: This was an MS trick to prevent exactly what you're trying to do. They formatted the disks as 1.7MB to confound the casual pirater, and generally make life difficult for the rest of the world. Look, I don't much MS either, but...

Re: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies

2001-05-24 Thread Michael
Even in dos days, these DMF disks could be copied without extra utils... it was just a matter of hacking around with the FAT table name.. norton diskedit/secotreditor was good for this :) On Fri, 25 May 2001, Andrew Bennetts wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:11:59AM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Purchasing stuff at SLUG meetings

2001-05-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Conrad Parker I usually have a habit of burning a disk 1 for anyone who needs one (it's the useful one)... If you'd like one, give me some more notice. [/adam winds clock back a couple of days and retransmits] Oh, oh... I didn't mean that. :) I meant, if Adam wants one, he can

Re: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies

2001-05-24 Thread DaZZa
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: I am trying to copy some M$ Office installation floppies to Linux to burn a LEGAL CDROM security archive. When I mount the floppy then df show them as having 1716224 bytes instead of the normal 1457664 bytes and they won't copy correctly. They do