Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG - Wrap-up

2001-06-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote: Will Angus and/or Steven be making notes on their talks available somewhere? I wouldn't mind taking a look... The 6-line shell script will be interesting. I'm not sure if Gus would have written notes anywhere - it looks like he just stores it all in

[SLUG] FYI: RH7.1 make modules fails ... more info ...

2001-06-14 Thread Richard Sharpe
At 10:57 AM 6/13/01 +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote: Hi, Has anyone seen this. If you do a 'make modules' after doing a 'make bzImage' for a stock standard RH7.1 install with the 2.4.2-2 kernel source, it fails with complaints about lots of module related include files? OK, even more info ...

[SLUG] RE: Anything like pcAnywhere?

2001-06-14 Thread Howard Lowndes
Tks guys for the help. I ended up using the offering from www.tightvnc.com. It's certainly far better than the basic product especially with ssh compression, but still doesn't hold a candle to pcAnywhere; I guess they must be using some real tight algorythms (sp??) -- Howard. LANNet

[SLUG] print to pdf

2001-06-14 Thread chesty
This isn't very amazing, and its been done before, but I think its useful. Basically, the idea is you print to a samba print share, and receive an email with a pdf file attached of your print job. So you can get any application (word, visio, project, cad, etc) to generate pdf files. It

[SLUG] Re: Anything like pcAnywhere?

2001-06-14 Thread Tomasz Ciolek
Howard, what do you want pcanywhere equivalent for? M$ world or Linux world? regards TMC On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:05:17PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Tks guys for the help. I ended up using the offering from www.tightvnc.com. It's certainly far better than the basic product especially

RE: [SLUG] print to pdf

2001-06-14 Thread Jill Rowling
hehehe looks like we're all doing it. The only difference is I have done something similar for various different old CAD formats which don't know how to create proper postscript files. Sometimes I have to stick a 90 rotate something somthing translate in here and there but mostly it works

Re: [SLUG] RE: Anything like pcAnywhere?

2001-06-14 Thread Ron Skeoch
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Howard Lowndes I ended up using the offering from www.tightvnc.com. It's certainly far better than the basic product especially with ssh compression, but still doesn't hold a candle to pcAnywhere; I guess they must be using some real tight algorythms

[SLUG] Problem with logrotate and squid logs

2001-06-14 Thread MacKenzie, Chris J
Title: Problem with logrotate and squid logs Hi All, I can't seem to get logrotate in RH 7.0 to behave properly with my squid logs. I tried to use the prerotate statement to use squids built-in log rotation function, but alas I just can't seem to get it right. What on earth am I

[SLUG] Anything like pcAnywhere - some interesting twists

2001-06-14 Thread Howard Lowndes
I downloaded the Windows binaries and the Linux source from www.tightvnc.com I put the Windows binaries onto a Winbox, overwriting the existing VNC binaries. I compiled and installed the Linux version locally and also did the same remotely. I then fired up the remote server and connected from

Re: [SLUG] Problem with logrotate and squid logs

2001-06-14 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 06:13:46PM +1000, MacKenzie, Chris J wrote: I can't seem to get logrotate in RH 7.0 to behave properly with my squid logs. I tried to use the prerotate statement to use squids built-in log rotation function, but alas I just can't seem to get it right. Looks like you

[SLUG] Re: Anything like pcAnywhere - some interesting twists

2001-06-14 Thread Howard Lowndes
That's a thought. I suppose that would be a compile flag in ssh. The only thing is that the problem appears to be more when the server is sending a screen down; they are still small packets (typically 300-500 bytes), nowhere near the MTU/MRU of the link -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates

[SLUG] Re: Anything like pcAnywhere - some interesting twists

2001-06-14 Thread Tomasz Ciolek
It can also have to do with ciphers. Early versions of ssh used idea. it was fast, moderately secure and patented. Openssh used 3des and blowfish or rhindal (AES). Try setting your ciphers to blowfish for linux to linux work. I know that for scp if gives me up to 3 times improvement on

Re: [SLUG] ML 350's

2001-06-14 Thread Ian Ward
Compaqs now know about linux so the dual processor setup is done correctly. If you are installing the embedded array controller option, the tape drive doesn't seem to work on the left over SCSI channel like it should. Be prepared to install an additional scsi card for the tape drive (there was

[SLUG] Re: Anything like pcAnywhere - some interesting twists

2001-06-14 Thread Howard Lowndes
...Hmmm, tried that, but no difference. Windows with blowfish is still fast, and Linux with blowfish is still as slow. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com _ We needn't, as socialists, get too concerned about

RE: [SLUG] Problem with logrotate and squid logs

2001-06-14 Thread MacKenzie, Chris J
Yup postrotate did the trick - I guess I wasn't thinking to clearly. Not to worry though, I'm on leave in one more day *8-) -Original Message- From: John Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 14 June 2001 6:26 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [SLUG] Problem with

[SLUG] Using fget() with shell line editing

2001-06-14 Thread Andy Eager
Hi all, I've got some code which I want to be able to run from a console without using ncurses. Does anyone know if it's possible to have the up/down arrow keys return previous line entries (like it does in the shell) using fgets() or the like ? At the moment, I can do all the normal line

Re: [SLUG] Using fget() with shell line editing

2001-06-14 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:24:53PM +1000, Andy Eager wrote: Hi all, I've got some code which I want to be able to run from a console without using ncurses. Does anyone know if it's possible to have the up/down arrow keys return previous line entries (like it does in the shell) using

Re: [SLUG] Re: Anything like pcAnywhere - some interesting twists

2001-06-14 Thread getadog
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:04:47PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: ...Hmmm, tried that, but no difference. Windows with blowfish is still fast, and Linux with blowfish is still as slow. Just something to try if you're bored, I have no idea if it will achieve anything. Try something like tcpdump

Re: [SLUG] print to pdf

2001-06-14 Thread Tom Gao
Hi jill, myfile;cat /etc/passwd can be solved easily with perl -e 'print 'myfile;cat /etc/passwd' =~ m!(\w+?)$!' that way file will be saved as 'passwd' at the most no nasty meta characters for execution :) Tom - Original Message - From: Jill Rowling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[SLUG] Re: [squid-users] SARG Help

2001-06-14 Thread Simon Bryan
Don't forget to ask the author on the SARG list. He is very active and very helpful. You will find the link the same place you found SARG. At 15:23 14/06/2001, you wrote: sarg -z gives the out put like this SARG: (util) tbuf=05jun2001 SARG: (util) SARG: (util) SARG: (util) SARG: (util) Date

[SLUG] Re: Debian SIG - Wrap-up

2001-06-14 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Craige McWhirter} Gus did reference this as an appropriate starting place: http://www.debian.org/devel/ and I believe the new maintainers guide as well. everything in the Packaging section on that page is useful. in particular: the debian policy manual. answers all those what is

[SLUG] freeswan

2001-06-14 Thread Ken Foskey
I want to run a debian firewall with freeswan for internet and a VPN tunnel. IPSEC with IKE and a shared secret. This box will be built from scratch on a minimal harddisk, P100 processor. It must redirect my internal network to the internet. It will redirect specific IP addresses through

Re: [SLUG] freeswan

2001-06-14 Thread Jamie Honan
I want to run a debian firewall with freeswan for internet and a VPN tunnel. IPSEC with IKE and a shared secret. This box will be built from scratch on a minimal harddisk, P100 processor. It must redirect my internal network to the internet. It will redirect specific IP addresses through

[SLUG] Re: [UNIX ECI] [Job #675] N:The BAS XML (fwd) TAX office SMOKESCREEN

2001-06-14 Thread Ron Skeoch
re original Tax office fax THE TAX OFFICE IS STRETCHING THE TRUTH They have not denied the fact that the XML is not used for the web transfer, this being an encrypted batch file, requiring you to install their MICROSOFT WINDOWS or Mac software to locally serve the XML further if you read

RE: [SLUG] freeswan

2001-06-14 Thread Adam Armstrong
Title: RE: [SLUG] freeswan I am starting to (after 3 weeks) have some success with the June 11th Snapshot on 2.4.5 kernel. My advice with freeswan is:- (1) Read EVERYTHING first (2) Get yourself a faster processor. You may have to compile your kernel more than once as you get used to how

[SLUG] What format to use for CDROM's for Linux?

2001-06-14 Thread Michael Lake
Hi All, The Cave Radio and Electronics Group is going to be burning a CDROM of all back issues of their Journal and will prob be using PDF and maybe some HTML. I want to make sure that when they make it it will work under my Linux. I know that some CDROMs that I have dont work properly under

Re: [SLUG] What format to use for CDROM's for Linux?

2001-06-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Michael Lake wrote: I know that some CDROMs that I have dont work properly under Linux/UNIX as the links in HTML don't work except under Windows but some do. Are you talking about File.URL, or are you talking about hyperlinks within the HTML files? If the former, then

RE: [SLUG] freeswan

2001-06-14 Thread Howard Lowndes
It works very nicely. I have had a 4 site freeswan VPN running now for about 10 months and have only had to intervene in it on about two occasions when the tunnels mysteriously died. I built it on the 2.2.17 kernel with freeswan 1.5 Right at the moment I am trying to build a machine to add

Re: [SLUG] What format to use for CDROM's for Linux?

2001-06-14 Thread Crossfire
Michael Lake was once rumoured to have said: Hi All, The Cave Radio and Electronics Group is going to be burning a CDROM of all back issues of their Journal and will prob be using PDF and maybe some HTML. I want to make sure that when they make it it will work under my Linux. I know

Re: [SLUG] What format to use for CDROM's for Linux?

2001-06-14 Thread enterfornone
I know that some CDROMs that I have dont work properly under Linux/UNIX as the links in HTML don't work except under Windows but some do. I don't think it's a CD format issue. With the few CDs I've had this problem it has been due to Windows being case insensitive as far as files go. So if

Re: [SLUG] Using fget() with shell line editing

2001-06-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Andy Eager said: Does anyone know if it's possible to have the up/down arrow keys return previous line entries (like it does in the shell) using fgets() or the like ? Use GNU readline. It lets you do the up/downarrow history thing, full history editing, lots of

[SLUG] Dir List

2001-06-14 Thread Secret Squirrel
Hello, I'm trying to recursively look through directories and print filenames it finds with a full path, it seems like an easy task .. eg /test/one.txt /animal/dog/poodle.htm What's the best way to do this ? Perl ? unix commands ? Is there a tool that can be downloaded, a perl solution is

Re: [SLUG] Dir List

2001-06-14 Thread enterfornone
find / - Original Message - From: Secret Squirrel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 11:51 AM Subject: [SLUG] Dir List Hello, I'm trying to recursively look through directories and print filenames it finds with a full path, it seems like an easy

Re: [SLUG] What format to use for CDROM's for Linux?

2001-06-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Palmer said: Pure ISO-9660 is (basically) guaranteed to work on anything. I've never had a problem reading Joliet disks under Linux, but I've got Joliet support in my kernels. You might not. mkisofs lets you create an ISO9660 with both Rock Ridge and Joliet

Re: [SLUG] Dir List

2001-06-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Secret Squirrel said: a perl solution is preferred. Unlucky. find /some/top/directory -type f -print -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg Balial This port may thing it's fortified, butt I seem to be mounting a pretty good

Re: [SLUG] What format to use for CDROM's for Linux?

2001-06-14 Thread Michael Lake
Hi All, Thanks Mathew, Howard, enterfornone Crossfire. Crossfire wrote: Michael Lake was once rumoured to have said: The Cave Radio and Electronics Group is going to be burning a CDROM of all back issues of their Journal and will prob be using PDF and maybe some HTML. I want to make

Re: [SLUG] What format to use for CDROM's for Linux?

2001-06-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Michael Lake said: * If ISO9660 + Joliet they can give long filenames to the files for Windows users eg. Issue 43 January 1999 rather than 43jan99.pdf but Unix what would unix/Linux users see? If you've got Joliet in your kernel, then you'll also see the LFN,

[SLUG] speedmine and speedworm

2001-06-14 Thread Conrad Parker
g'morning, the screensavers I demoed at SLUG a couple of meetings ago (speedmine, and its funky friend speedworm) have made it into XScreenSaver 3.33: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ I've also put up some info about them, including little screenshots, the man pages and source for

Re: [SLUG] freeswan

2001-06-14 Thread Ken Foskey
This is for me to work from home so no time limit and no quotes. They handed me a windows client on a disk, useful as tits on a bull. The other side is Raptor client, I had a look with Google and there were some old mailnotes but nothing very specific. It appears that Freeswan works with

RE: [SLUG] freeswan

2001-06-14 Thread Adam Armstrong
Title: RE: [SLUG] freeswan It's on my home machine. I will send it to you over the weekend. P.S. Still having some trouble with it. Have decided to go back to 2.2.19 as they suggest to see if it's me or the kernel that's causing the problem. As it compiles perfectly, I am suggesting it's

Re: [SLUG] Dir List

2001-06-14 Thread Andre Pang
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:02:16PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: a perl solution is preferred. from the Perl Cookbook: use File::Find; sub process_file { # do whatever; } find(\process_file, @DIRLIST); This simple example demonstrates File::Find. We give find an

Re: [SLUG] apt-get update rpm

2001-06-14 Thread Mike Lake
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:12:11PM +, Herbert Xu wrote: Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah they have an rpm_4.0.2-10_alpha.deb ! Thanks - I'll pull it down tonight when my Alpha connects. This package will not work for you unless you're using testing or unstable. So you need to

Re: [SLUG] WHOIS..server.

2001-06-14 Thread Mike Lake
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:56:38PM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote: dont liek them. I'll try the trick with the -- but i cant promise -- /\ |

Re: [SLUG] Using fget() with shell line editing

2001-06-14 Thread Andy Eager
Andrew, Thanks for your reply. Nothing wrong with ncurses, but want it to be able to run with normal unix i/o redirection (or piping) as well as from stdin. Don't want ncurses sending anything other than boring old text (maybe even the odd line-feed or form-feed). Andrew Bennetts wrote:

[SLUG] quick person hunt..

2001-06-14 Thread Michael
Hi, I believe someone on this list works for optusnet, if so, could you identify yourself to me via private reply.. Might be able to help me with a problem. I need someone internal :) Back to your usual program. Thanks Michael Fox -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Just Another ISP Question

2001-06-14 Thread enterfornone
Dear Folks, Has anyone attempted to use dingoblue internet access with Linux ? Success or failure ? Any advice/suggestions/recommendations on dingoblue and linux is most welcome. Thanks in advance. Works fine, although I doubt they'll give you phone support. They do have some docs

Re: [SLUG] Just Another ISP Question

2001-06-14 Thread Michael
It works fine... check out k9.dingoblue.net.au for support info :) under debian it was a few questions in pppconfig or whatever it is called.. Thanks Michael Ps. Just don't expect them to understand you sometimes.. I am having an issue at the moment, where my local pop has expanded with

Re: [SLUG] Just Another ISP Question

2001-06-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
yes, fine its just normal ppp advice:- set up like any other provider Dean Tiwari, Rajnish wrote: Dear Folks, Has anyone attempted to use dingoblue internet access with Linux ? Success or failure ? Any advice/suggestions/recommendations on dingoblue and linux is most welcome.

RE: [SLUG] Just Another ISP Question

2001-06-14 Thread Tiwari, Rajnish
Thanks to all for the piece of mind. I just hope they don't bite the dust just the way my other ISP did - one.net. The tech support person told me that they don't support linux and don't have any plans to do so in the near future. I was beginning to worry Thanks once again folks. Regards,

Re: [SLUG] Using fget() with shell line editing

2001-06-14 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:59:59PM +1000, Andy Eager wrote: Andrew, Thanks for your reply. Nothing wrong with ncurses, but want it to be able to run with normal unix i/o redirection (or piping) as well as from stdin. Don't want ncurses sending anything other than boring old text

FW: [SLUG] Just Another ISP Question (Resent)

2001-06-14 Thread Tiwari, Rajnish
Sorry ... that should read peace of mind and not piece !!! Apologies. Regards, Rajnish - Thanks to all for the piece of mind. I just hope they don't bite the dust just the way my other ISP did - one.net. The tech support person told me that they don't support linux and don't have any