[SLUG] Tape Drive Question

There are some people selling cheap noname tape backup units at North Rocks on Sundays for about $120. Anyone know if they can be made to work with Linux? Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] No fonts in Gnome printing

Hi all! I have upgraded to Woody/unstable and all is pretty good :-) One problem I do have is that my Gnome printing has *no* fonts in it. The preview shows no fonts and the ps file created is text less! Has anyone got this problem with gnome-print 0.32? Do I need to reset some fonts

[SLUG] Stopping system beeps

How can I stop a system from beeping on things like hitting tab when there are multiple matches, scrolling too far in less/vi etc? Is there a way to disable it for all apps (other than removing teh speaker)? The system I'd like to do this for is a Redhat 7.1 box. - Doug -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] No fonts in Gnome printing

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:01:47PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: One problem I do have is that my Gnome printing has *no* fonts in it. The preview shows no fonts and the ps file created is text less! I had a similar problem, I think it was because psfonts wasn't installed. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Tape Drive Question

quote who=richard There are some people selling cheap noname tape backup units at North Rocks on Sundays for about $120. Anyone know if they can be made to work with Linux? What kind of tape drives? (format, interface, etc.) - Jeff -- She said she loved my mind, though by most accounts

Re: [SLUG] Stopping system beeps

It really blew my mind when Doug Stalker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How can I stop a system from beeping on things like hitting tab when there are multiple matches, scrolling too far in less/vi etc? Is there a way to disable it for all apps (other than removing teh speaker)? The system

[SLUG] MCP Certifications Employability

Hi All, Thanks to everybody that responded regarding Solaris, some interesting views information exchanged. I have today found out that I have not obtained an interview for a trainee technician position in my town Dubbo NSw. I have been advised that a Microsoft Certified Professional

Re: [SLUG] MCP Certifications Employability

Thanks to everybody that responded regarding Solaris, some interesting views information exchanged. I have today found out that I have not obtained an interview for a trainee technician position in my town Dubbo NSw. I have been advised that a Microsoft Certified Professional qualification

RE: [SLUG] Stopping system beeps

How can I stop a system from beeping on things like hitting tab when there are multiple matches, scrolling too far in less/vi etc? Is there a way to disable it for all apps (other than removing teh speaker)? The system I'd like to do this for is a Redhat 7.1 box. When you're in

Re: [SLUG] MCP Certifications Employability

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 20:21, Russell Andrew Willis wrote: I have been advised that the MCE is held in stronger regard by employers the like. I realize this is a Linux forum but am interested in what various professionals think of this advice. At this stage I just want to get into the

Re: [SLUG] MCP Certifications Employability

It's not the lack of the MCP, it's your age. You're over the hill! (Says he who is considerably older) (8-) On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Russell Andrew Willis wrote: views information exchanged. I have today found out that I have not obtained an interview for a trainee technician position in my

Re: [SLUG] No fonts in Gnome printing

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 20:12, getadog wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:01:47PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: One problem I do have is that my Gnome printing has *no* fonts in it. The preview shows no fonts and the ps file created is text less! I had a similar problem, I think it was because

Re: [SLUG] No fonts in Gnome printing

quote who=Simon Wong # apt-get --reinstall install gsfonts gsfonts-other gsfonts-x11 xfonts-100dpi Still no fonts. Any other ideas? try reinstalling defoma, libgnomeprint-data and libgnomeprint15 - Jeff -- The ability to procrastinate is what separates us from the machines.

[SLUG] [No Subject]

anybody knows what solutions the now-defunct elinux (elinux.com.sg) provides ___ Visit http://www.visto.com. Find out how companies are linking mobile users to the enterprise with Visto. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

Re: [SLUG] MCP Certifications Employability

Dear All Thanks for the thoughts, I was a bit sceptical of their intentions given the local MCE trainer is part of this local computer organization. I know I'm pushing it out here but I suppose all I can do is try (or transfer to accounting Yuk!!). Thanks Russell Howard Lowndes wrote:

Re: [SLUG] No fonts in Gnome printing

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:43:56PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Simon Wong # apt-get --reinstall install gsfonts gsfonts-other gsfonts-x11 xfonts-100dpi Still no fonts. Any other ideas? try reinstalling defoma, libgnomeprint-data and libgnomeprint15 Your forgot gs

Re: [SLUG] [No Subject]

- Original Message - From: Doctor Zhivago [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anybody knows what solutions the now-defunct elinux (elinux.com.sg) provides If they are defunct ... most likely none Rob Sorry, couldn't resist :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] MCP Certifications Employability

Russell Andrew Willis wrote: Dear All Thanks for the thoughts, I was a bit sceptical of their intentions given the local MCE trainer is part of this local computer organization. Ah bing - yep - self serving crap. Never do training with the company that tells you you need training. Try

Re: [SLUG] [No Subject]

- Original Message - From: Doctor Zhivago [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anybody knows what solutions the now-defunct elinux (elinux.com.sg) provides If they are defunct ... most likely none Rob Sorry, couldn't resist :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Data Harvesting mit Perl

Hi Group ! I am wondering if someone could tell me the best way to do a little data harvesting with Perl. I am trying to connect to a list of urls and simply download the html content and store them in perl variables (for regular expression processing). I heard a library is available for this,

Re: [SLUG] Data Harvesting mit Perl

I am wondering if someone could tell me the best way to do a little data harvesting with Perl. I am trying to connect to a list of urls and simply download the html content and store them in perl variables (for regular expression processing). I heard a library is available for this, if

Re: [SLUG] Stopping system beeps

Andrew Bennetts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:33:34PM +1100, Doug Stalker wrote: How can I stop a system from beeping on things like hitting tab when there are multiple matches, scrolling too far in less/vi etc? Is there a way to disable it for all apps

RE: [SLUG] Bandwith Shaping/Throttling

Never used rshaper but I have used the Linux Traffic Shapper which uses a Serial Link (not sure if this is the same thing as rshaper just renamed..??) It worked for me but was years ago.. thanks, George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L -Original Message- From: Shaun

[SLUG] Virus attacks on Linux

Of course we will see more and more attacks on Windows, but Linux will be a target because its use is becoming more widespread, said Raimond Genes, European president for antivirus at Trend Micro. It is a stable OS, but it's not a secure OS. Jack Clarke, European product manager at McAfee, said:

Re: [SLUG] MCP Certifications Employability

My personal rule of thumb is that I don't want to work for an employer who requires company sponsored awards as a measure of competence. My current workplace will not consider applicants with MCP's / MCSE et al for any role, including roles administering MS systems. There are other employers

Re: [SLUG] Virus attacks on Linux

this is really a slug-chat sort of post im sure jeff can clarify Dean Internet User wrote: Of course we will see more and more attacks on Windows, but Linux will be a target because its use is becoming more widespread, said Raimond Genes, European president for antivirus at Trend Micro.

[SLUG] Sendmail rejecting mail

Hi, I have a sendmail problem. I am getting in the log: sendmail: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 25 However when I do: ps aux | grep send I get only 1 entry. When I try to restart sendmail it restarts normally, but again immediately goes: sendmail: rejecting

Re: [SLUG] MCP Certifications Employability

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:32:34PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: It's not the lack of the MCP, it's your age. You're over the hill! (Says he who is considerably older) (8-) Over the hill and far away! (dubbo) (I'm older too) I'm a 41 years male with extensive banking, finance sales

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail rejecting mail

* This one time, at band camp, Bernhard L?der said: Hi, I have a sendmail problem. I am getting in the log: sendmail: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 25 Well, not meaning to state the obvious but... Is the load average on your machine high? Sendmail has a

RE: [SLUG] Sendmail rejecting mail

This is your PC running flat out doing something else... see what's making it busy and stop it if it's nothing important.. sendmail will then run OK again as it won't run if the server is really busy.. othewise make adjustments to the sendmail.cf for the average load to be higher if needed...

RE: [SLUG] Sendmail rejecting mail

No, I have only one process running when I do top. Bernhard Luder This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system immediately and notify

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail rejecting mail

* This one time, at band camp, George Vieira said: This is your PC running flat out doing something else... see what's making it busy and stop it if it's nothing important.. sendmail will then run OK again as it won't run if the server is really busy.. othewise make adjustments to the

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail rejecting mail

* This one time, at band camp, Bernhard Luder said: No, I have only one process running when I do top. Only one process in total or only one sendmail process? What you are looking for is the very first line in top : 09:55:41 up 17:38, 8 users, load average: 0.40, 0.29, 0.52 which shows

RE: [SLUG] Sendmail rejecting mail

Something is very, very, wrong in that case That one process would logically have to be the top process, because, well, you are using top, so you konw damn well it's running The only way that proccess can be the only procecss running is if it was the 'init' process... you'd have to have

Re: [SLUG] Stopping system beeps

RTFHOWTO. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Visual-Bell.html especially http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Visual-Bell-4.html and from the archives http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2001/August/msg00897. html set visualbell in your .vimrc Ahh, the sounds of ... HTH Steve

[SLUG] converting deb file to rpm

Could any deb heads convert a deb file (dictionary) to a rpm file for me, I'm getting errors doing from Mandrake. email me off list and I will attach the file ~300kbs TIA Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] No fonts in Gnome printing

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 23:10, getadog wrote: Still no fonts. Any other ideas? try reinstalling defoma, libgnomeprint-data and libgnomeprint15 Done. Same problem. Your forgot gs gs-common and psfontmgr :) I reinstalled gs and psfontmgr. gs-common is not compatible with the gs I

Re: [SLUG] Bandwith Shaping/Throttling

snip I know there is hardware that can do this but I wondered if a linux box could be used instead (and show to certain management types that Linux is wonderful). Hell yes! I've found rshaper which may do what I want it do. I have a Linux box doing nothing with two NICs installed. My

[SLUG] Problems with ppp connect to Redhat 7.2

Hi all, I am having problems after upgrading to RH 7.2 I have configured a few modems for dialin. Following is the error I get in the logs when attempting a ppp connect to my system. The box has been upgraded to RH 7.2. All was well before (DOH!) Fault is on Stallion ports as well as com ports.

Re: [SLUG] No fonts in Gnome printing

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:00:58AM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: I did try defoma from unstable but it didn't make any difference so I downgraded again. First, try running defoma-app update gs and see if you get an error message. You might need to upgrade defoma from unstable, then try running

Re: [SLUG] Problems with ppp connect to Redhat 7.2

Sorry all, bit quick to post, found this on RedHat from some other PoorB. Gr. ppp-2.4.1 that comes with Redhat-7.2 is broken. Get the 2.4.0 from the 7.1 distro and install it instead. Everything works now. At least this can go in the archives. Ian - Original Message -

[SLUG] Reminder - Christmas Party this weekend!

See you all there :) http://www.slug.org.au/xmas/ -- Cheers, Craige. http://mcwhirter.com.au/ Would the last person to leave please turn out the enlightenment msg18418/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[SLUG] Reminder - Debian Christmas Dinner this Tuesday!

The December Debian SIG is moving from the second Wednesday to the second Tuesday to accomodate a special guest from NZ - Michael Beattie (Omnic). The other major change is that we are not going to the usual venue, we are having a Christmas Party at a Teppanyaki restaurant in North Sydney.

Re: [SLUG] converting deb file to rpm

Any takers ? Chris On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:19:31 +1100 Christopher Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could any deb heads convert a deb file (dictionary) to a rpm file for me, I'm getting errors doing from Mandrake. email me off list and I will attach the file ~300kbs TIA Chris --

Re: [SLUG] converting deb file to rpm

quote who=Christopher Booth Any takers ? A deb file is a standard shar archive, with tar bits inside. You can either pull it apart manually, or use alien (although I'm assuming that's the process that isn't working for you). - Jeff -- Orphaned farm-boy hero helps save world against

Re: [SLUG] vnunet.com Linux lined up as virus target

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Grant Parnell wrote: Jack Clarke, European product manager at McAfee, said: In fact it's probably easier to write a virus for Linux because it's open source and the code is available. So we will be seeing more Linux viruses as the OS becomes more common and

Re: [SLUG] Data Harvesting mit Perl

On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 11:15:13 +1100 Matt - wrote: Oh btw, running install commands returns the following error - Can't locate object method install via package LWP at -e line 1. hmm.. odd. i'm sure that used to work. well in that case you'll want to go the long way: $ su $ perl -MCPAN

Re: [SLUG] converting deb file to rpm

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote: A deb file is a standard shar archive, with tar bits inside. You can either Eh? It's an 'ar' archive, which is different to a shar archive (shar == 'shell archive'). But yes, it has a couple of compressed tarballs inside which contain the metadata and

Re: [SLUG] converting deb file to rpm

quote who=Matthew Palmer Eh? It's an 'ar' archive Brainfart! - Jeff -- It makes perfect sense. If you're a narcissistic arsehole spawned from a curdled gene pool. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] No fonts in Gnome printing

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 11:59, getadog wrote: First, try running defoma-app update gs and see if you get an error message. Didn't do anything helpful. You might need to upgrade defoma from unstable, then try running defoma-app update gs, or reinstall gs, etc, with the new defoma installed.

Re: [SLUG] converting deb file to rpm

Cheers Jeff That's twice this week !!, Thanks mate Chris On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:11:40 +1100 Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Christopher Booth gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file sh: ar: command not found You need to install ar, which is in binutils. Would you test

Re: [SLUG] M$ Round table meeting

quote who=Richard Hayes 1. The first thing they did at ths start of the meeting is to ask people sign non disclosure agreements. The meeting revolted at that. So, no one signed. :) 5. How many machines could be in the program They though 5,000 a yr but meeting suggested +50,000

[SLUG] Hotkey ISP

Has anyone managed to get a linux box to dial into Hotkey in Sydney? I'm having trouble authenticating and I'm afraid it's never going to happen. TIA -- |Lanrex Computer Systems Pty Ltd Desmond Wass |http://www.lanrex.com.au 0411 056 027 |Phone: +61 2 9416 1100 |Fax:

Re: [SLUG] Stopping system beeps

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Doug Stalker wrote: How can I stop a system from beeping on things like hitting tab when there are multiple matches, scrolling too far in less/vi etc? Is there a way to disable it for all apps (other than removing teh speaker)? The system I'd like to do this for is a

Re: [SLUG] MCP Certifications Employability

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Russell Andrew Willis wrote: views information exchanged. I have today found out that I have not obtained an interview for a trainee technician position in my town Dubbo This could have something to do with it. Dubbo 'aint exactly the technical hub of the universe. :-)