[SLUG] Scanner On Linux

2002-06-06 Thread Tiwari, Rajnish
Hi Folks, What is a good (but relatively inexpensive) scanner to use at home ? With a Linux box ? And also, what is the quality of 35mm film scans of some low end scanners that can do them ? Is it a feature worth getting ? Thanks to all.

Re: [SLUG] Different email addys using send-hook

2002-06-06 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: I have been trying to use the following in my .muttrc: send-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] my_hdr From: Rev Simon Rumble simon.gift-openft@ru\ mble.net This successfully sends mail that I send to gift-opentft with the amended email address. However

Re: [SLUG] Different email addys using send-hook

2002-06-06 Thread Mary
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:41:28AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: I have been trying to use the following in my .muttrc: send-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] my_hdr From: Rev Simon Rumble simon.gift-openft@ru\ mble.net This successfully sends mail that I send to gift-opentft with the amended

Re: [SLUG] Scanner On Linux

2002-06-06 Thread Terry Collins
Tiwari, Rajnish wrote: Hi Folks, What is a good (but relatively inexpensive) scanner to use at home ? With a Linux box ? Any HP SCSI scanner ($50 -$100) at www.dsb.com.au + Tekram SCSI Card ($75) And also, what is the quality of 35mm film scans of some

[SLUG] More SpamAssassin wierdness

2002-06-06 Thread Howard Lowndes
If I send a test message to myself from the box that is running the mail service then spamassassin works, but if I try the same thing from another box it doesn't work. The command I am using in both cases is: cat spam.txt | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the first case SA and sendmail logs: Jun 6

[SLUG] Documentation Fest 15th June

2002-06-06 Thread Angus Lees
When: Saturday, 15th June Time: 10am - 6pm Where: UTS Broadway, Room 1.04.06 (http://www.slug.org.au/slugmeet.shtml but note different room) Cost: free Note: university exams will also be on this day, so please keep things quiet. This will be a day of talks on markup

Re: [SLUG] Scanner On Linux

2002-06-06 Thread Peter Chubb
Terry == Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Terry Tiwari, Rajnish wrote: Hi Folks, What is a good (but relatively inexpensive) scanner to use at home ? With a Linux box ? Terry Any HP SCSI scanner ($50 -$100) at www.dsb.com.au + Tekram SCSI Terry Card ($75) And also, what is the

[SLUG] Meeting notice

2002-06-06 Thread info
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[SLUG] [ÁguiaNet] Atenção/Warning -- Virus Encontrado/Virus Found

2002-06-06 Thread sys
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[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group: June Meeting

2002-06-06 Thread Mary
What: The SLUG Python Interest Group When: Monday 17th June 2002, 7:00pm Where: UTS Broadway, room 2.3.16, level 3, building 2. Level 3 is the level below entrance level. This is NOT the same room as last month. As yet, we do not have a speaker for this month. People interested in speaking

[SLUG] a novel problem

2002-06-06 Thread Graeme Robinson
This morning I turned my monitor on and was surprised with my first ever linux crash. That is to say the screensaver was screen-locked and I was unable to kill X or switch to other consoles. Also the disk activity lights for both my HDDs were lit up solid. I've been poking around in my log

Re: [SLUG] a novel problem

2002-06-06 Thread Broun, Bevan
I used to get this, then I compliled my own xscreensavers and used that instead of the RH version - problem solved. Now Im on RH-7.2 (with out my own xscreensavers) and also dont have the problem. on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:32:41AM +1000, Graeme Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning I

RE: [SLUG] minimised apps

2002-06-06 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Yes, I have found often (in the past) that judicious use of rm -rf ~/.kde or rm -rf ~/.gnome seems to fix a myriad of things that my fiddling around with look-and-feel seems to break (as well buggy sawfish code, etc). Thankfully, things along this front though seem to becoming much more

[SLUG] ask gnuc(udelay)

2002-06-06 Thread henry
Dear List: I "make test" for test.c as follows : #includelinux/delay.h int main() { udelay(1000); return 0; } But I got "undefined reference to __const_udelay", Could you show me what library to link ? BestRegards' Henry

[SLUG] Re: ask gnuc(udelay)

2002-06-06 Thread Angus Lees
At Fri, 7 Jun 2002 09:23:16 +0800, henry wrote: I make test for test.c as follows : #includelinux/delay.h int main() { udelay(1000); return 0; } But I got undefined reference to __const_udelay, Could you show me what library to link ? as i believe has been pointed out to you before, you

Re: [SLUG] a novel problem

2002-06-06 Thread Mark Pearson
I was having lockup problems with my home system that I originally put down to my non-standard X setup, but it turned out to be a RAM problem diagnosed by Memtest86. Graeme Robinson wrote: This morning I turned my monitor on and was surprised with my first ever linux crash. That is to say

[SLUG] DVD-RAM

2002-06-06 Thread Melinda Taylor
Hi all, I have just setup a DVD-RAM drive for a user in his redhat 7.3 machine. Installation was easy with kudzu detecting it fine and adding the device name /dev/cdrom1. I then added the line to fstab: /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/dvd ext2 noauto,users,exec,kudzu,rw 0 0 Usage is fairly simple: 1.

[SLUG] Question regarding sysv scripts

2002-06-06 Thread Andy Eager
Hi all, I have an interesting question regarding SysV startup / shutdown scripts. One machine 'the server' has two smaller machines (firewalls) physically installed inside it. They are single board computers that fit into the 5.25 drive bays on the server. I have configured them as choke

RE: [SLUG] Question regarding sysv scripts

2002-06-06 Thread Jill Rowling
How about a background task on the FW machines that checks to see if the server is running. If it is running, the FW program goes back to sleep. If it is not running (ping or something) then the FW program checks again after a set time (in case you have just unplugged the ethernet for a short

RE: [SLUG] Question regarding sysv scripts

2002-06-06 Thread Hartono, Susanto
ssh-keygen should create a set of keys for you. If you don't specify any password when creating these keys, you can use ssh to login to different boxes without a password (by simply copying ~/.ssh/authorised_keys to the destination machine). -Original Message- From: Andy Eager

Re: [SLUG] DVD-RAM

2002-06-06 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 12:31, Melinda Taylor wrote: Usage is fairly simple: 1. mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/cdrom1 2. mount /mnt/dvd 3. Copy files using 'cp' to /mnt/dvd for backup - easy! Nice! :-) However steps 2 and 3 can be done by the user but the first step, creating the file system on the

RE: [SLUG] Question regarding sysv scripts

2002-06-06 Thread Melinda Taylor
::-Original Message- ::From: Andy Eager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] :: ::Can ssh be configured not to ask for a password ? (I know this is unusual). I setup ssh not to ask for a passwd for an astronomy application which accessed a remote tape drive within the astornomy application shell

Re: [SLUG] Question regarding sysv scripts

2002-06-06 Thread Andy Eager
Jill Rowling wrote: How about a background task on the FW machines that checks to see if the server is running. If it is running, the FW program goes back to sleep. If it is not running (ping or something) then the FW program checks again after a set time (in case you have just unplugged the

Re: [SLUG] DVD-RAM

2002-06-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Peter Hardy The user probably doesn't have permission to write to the /dev/cdrom1 device. I usually make my cdrom and burner world-writable, which isn't a good idea on a multi-user system. On Debian, and hopefully Red Hat [1], there's a disk group that you can add users to for

Re: [SLUG] DVD-RAM

2002-06-06 Thread Melinda Taylor
Thanks for your suggestion Pete and Jeff :) Indeed adding the user to the disks group allows him to do the mke2fs and mkudffs commands on the DVD drive. Thanks! Melinda :D On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote: ::quote who=Peter Hardy :: :: The user probably doesn't have permission to write

[SLUG] Printing to closest printer

2002-06-06 Thread steven
Afternoon All. Our users use telnet to connect to a server where they run our main ERP application. (This is Progress RDMS running on RedHat 6.2). I am thinking about a perl script that will direct printed output to the printer closest to the users terminal rather than relying on them to

RE: [SLUG] Printing to closest printer

2002-06-06 Thread Jill Rowling
I have heard of people using LDAP to specify the printer for the person when they log in, although this means one would have to have some sort of topological information stored as well. The LDAP bit would also be used in gaining access to the database. I wonder if anyone from ProgSoc / UNSW

[SLUG] ask debug

2002-06-06 Thread henry
Dear List : I have a user-program makeOS hang. I use to insertmacro (as follows) everywhere in user-program openlog("",LOG_PID,LOG_USER); syslog("LOG_INFO","file: %s line%d\n"__FILE__,__LINE__) ; closelog(); usleep(3);// let file be fflushed before HANG ThenI rebootPC go to /var/logto