[SLUG] Debian X

2002-06-11 Thread Bill Taylor
Hi all, Last night (about midnight) I wrote an email to ask whether anyone ever managed to get 'X windows` to install on debian, but was unable to send (Host unknown (name server: mx.inodes. org. : host not found))(isp fault) as I had just spent 5 hours trying to get it to work on woody. I

Re: [SLUG] mail blocking

2002-06-11 Thread Mary
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:59:35PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: Can anyone explain why I am suddenly getting these messages whenever I try to send to a bigpond user? (reason: 500 access denied; your IP is listed by rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org.) Since you say your Red Hat machine is connecting

Re: [SLUG] Gateway/firewall on 150P

2002-06-11 Thread Bill Taylor
Jeff Waugh wrote: You can turn most of SME's features off, from memory, so it wouldn't be overkill. Plus, if you're not a fan of sysadmin, it's easier to set up and administer. - Jeff spot on Jeff, thanks when I finally get all this set up, I want to run the 150 p without monitor,

[SLUG] How to add directories - in all home directories

2002-06-11 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, I have all my users home directories under /home/popusers/ it turns out I may need to add a directory and set permissions on it in each users directory (there are over 900 of them). Is there a simple way to do this? Say the directory needs to be called 'attach' in an existing 'dot'

Re: [SLUG] How to add directories - in all home directories

2002-06-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Simon Bryan I have all my users home directories under /home/popusers/ it turns out I may need to add a directory and set permissions on it in each users directory (there are over 900 of them). Is there a simple way to do this? Say the directory needs to be called 'attach' in an

Re: [SLUG] Gateway/firewall on 150P

2002-06-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Bill Taylor presumably the Halt on : All Errors in the bios needs to change to : No Errors anything else? Probably not. - Jeff -- It's not sufficient to 'use simple words to explain things'. Things must actually *be* simple, which is much harder. - Martin

Re: [SLUG] How to add directories - in all home directories

2002-06-11 Thread DaZZa
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Simon Bryan wrote: I have all my users home directories under /home/popusers/ it turns out I may need to add a directory and set permissions on it in each users directory (there are over 900 of them). Is there a simple way to do this? Say the directory needs to be called

Re: [SLUG] How to add directories - in all home directories

2002-06-11 Thread DaZZa
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote: I have all my users home directories under /home/popusers/ it turns out I may need to add a directory and set permissions on it in each users directory (there are over 900 of them). Is there a simple way to do this? Say the directory needs to be

RE: [SLUG] mail blocking

2002-06-11 Thread Simon Bryan
Thanks for that, it seems to have fixed the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mary Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2002 9:18 PM To: Slug Subject: Re: [SLUG] mail blocking On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:59:35PM +1000, Simon Bryan

Re: [SLUG] mail blocking

2002-06-11 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 20:48, Mary wrote: Since you say your Red Hat machine is connecting directly, it is likely that Optus's dialup IPs (all of them) are listed on the Realtime Blackhole List (or on the Dialup Users List http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul/). It is not uncommon for this to happen.

Re: [SLUG] Gateway/firewall on 150P

2002-06-11 Thread Dan Treacy
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 21:49, Bill Taylor wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: You can turn most of SME's features off, from memory, so it wouldn't be overkill. Plus, if you're not a fan of sysadmin, it's easier to set up and administer. - Jeff spot on Jeff, thanks when I finally get

Re: [SLUG] Re: ssh forwarding x

2002-06-11 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 09:11, Angus Lees wrote: do an ssh -v ... and check that redirection is actually attempted (one of the last messages before starting your shell). in what way doesn't it work? ssh -v -X root@gateway firestarter ...snippage... debug1: ssh_session2_setup: id 0 debug1:

Re: [SLUG] mail blocking

2002-06-11 Thread John McQuillen
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 22:18, David Fitch wrote: more than that: most places (especially ISPs) will block mail sent directly from dialup dynamic IPs. It's a pain when you want to try running your own mailserver (as I did, and found out). As Mary says, you have to relay via your own ISP's

Re: [SLUG] mail blocking

2002-06-11 Thread Graeme Robinson
On 11 Jun 2002, John McQuillen wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 22:18, David Fitch wrote: more than that: most places (especially ISPs) will block mail sent directly from dialup dynamic IPs. It's a pain when you want to try running your own mailserver (as I did, and found out). As Mary

Re: [SLUG] Gateway/firewall on 150P

2002-06-11 Thread Graeme Robinson
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Bill Taylor wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: You can turn most of SME's features off, from memory, so it wouldn't be overkill. Plus, if you're not a fan of sysadmin, it's easier to set up and administer. - Jeff spot on Jeff, thanks when I finally get all this

[SLUG] RE: How to exclude a list of directories using GNU Find

2002-06-11 Thread Minh Van Le
Thanks Gus. Still trying to get my head around the obscurities of ``find'' - will continue reading the doco(s). At this stage, it looks like I'll end up with something like find /path -path /path1 -prune -o -path /path2 -prune ... -o print and writing a script for it, while

RE: [SLUG] How to exclude a list of directories using GNU Find

2002-06-11 Thread Minh Van Le
The problem with dump is that it can't do incremental backups on regular directories. Dump must do a full backup of regular files/directories ie. a level 0 dump, which isn't flexible enough for my site. To do incremental backups with dump, the dump must be performed on an entire filesystem, the

Re: [SLUG] mail blocking

2002-06-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Tue 11 Jun, David Fitch made the following spurious claims: more than that: most places (especially ISPs) will block mail sent directly from dialup dynamic IPs. It's a pain when you want to try running your own mailserver (as I did, and found out). As Mary says, you have to relay via

[SLUG] USB Printers

2002-06-11 Thread Harry Ohlsen
Hi, My faithful old HP Laserjet 4MP has finally kicked the bucket :-(. So, I'm looking to replace it with something reasonably good, but as cheap as possible. A number of the cheaper printers I've seen on the market seem to only have USB connectors. I know there's USB support in Linux for

[SLUG] Re: How to add directories - in all home directories

2002-06-11 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:57:37 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Simon Bryan I have all my users home directories under /home/popusers/ it turns out I may need to add a directory and set permissions on it in each users directory (there are over 900 of them). Is there a simple way to do

[SLUG] Re: How to exclude a list of directories using GNU Find

2002-06-11 Thread Angus Lees
At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 01:24:39 +1000, Minh Van Le wrote: The problem with dump is that it can't do incremental backups on regular directories. Dump must do a full backup of regular files/directories ie. a level 0 dump, which isn't flexible enough for my site. To do incremental backups with

[SLUG] Re: Debian X

2002-06-11 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:09:15 +1000, Bill Taylor wrote: Last night (about midnight) I wrote an email to ask whether anyone ever managed to get 'X windows` to install on debian, but was unable to send (Host unknown (name server: mx.inodes. org. : host not found))(isp fault) as I had just

Re: [SLUG] USB Printers

2002-06-11 Thread Michael Lake
Harry Ohlsen wrote: My faithful old HP Laserjet 4MP has finally kicked the bucket :-(. So, I'm looking to replace it with something reasonably good, but as cheap as A number of the cheaper printers I've seen on the market seem to only have USB connectors. I know there's USB support in

RE: [SLUG] How to add directories - in all home directories

2002-06-11 Thread Simon Bryan
Thanks to all who replied, I did need to add the directory and change permissions and ownership, have had a play with the script(s) and got them to do exactly what I wanted, I now understand a little more -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

Re: [SLUG] USB Printers

2002-06-11 Thread Matthew Dalton
Michael Lake wrote: Have a look at the printer-HOWTO, is it supported?; if no; exit 1; else; continue; search SLUG archives for users experiences with this model; Another excellent source of Linux/printer compatibility information is the linux

[SLUG] Latex - how to leave a blank page on a duplex printer?

2002-06-11 Thread Terry Collins
As the subject says; how do you tell latex to leave a blank page on a duplex printer. /newpage /newpage is ignored. I suppose if nothing else, I could always use that line from manuals -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:

Re: [SLUG] USB Printers

2002-06-11 Thread Steve Downing
At Wednesday, 12 June 2002, Harry Ohlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My faithful old HP Laserjet 4MP has finally kicked the bucket :- (. So, I'm looking to replace it with something reasonably good, but as cheap as possible. A number of the cheaper printers I've seen on the market seem to

[SLUG] ask emacs(ediff)

2002-06-11 Thread henry
Dear List: I use ediff to compare files by "M-x ediff". It'sOK when these 2 filesare under the same directory. But it' unconvenient to pick up 2 files underdifferent directories. I list buffer by "Ctrl-x Ctrl-b" But I cant pick up 2 files from buffer for input-files of ediff . Is there a

Re: [SLUG] ask emacs(ediff)

2002-06-11 Thread Matthew Dalton
henry wrote: I use ediff to compare files by M-x ediff. It's OK when these 2 files are under the same directory. But it' unconvenient to pick up 2 files under different directories. I list buffer by Ctrl-x Ctrl-b But I cant pick up 2 files from buffer for input-files of ediff . Is there

Re: [SLUG] Latex - how to leave a blank page on a duplex printer?

2002-06-11 Thread Michael Lake
Terry Collins wrote: As the subject says; how do you tell latex to leave a blank page on a duplex printer. /newpage /newpage is ignored. Yes its ignored just like multiple spaces etc try this: \newpage \mbox{} \newpage The mbox command puts its contents into a box but here there is

Re: [SLUG] Latex - how to leave a blank page on a duplex printer?

2002-06-11 Thread Terry Collins
Michael Lake wrote: \newpage \mbox{} \newpage The mbox command puts its contents into a box but here there is nothing in the box. Neverthe less its a box and still must be printed so the printer should chuff out a blank page. Thanks Mike I will get those slashes sorted out one day {:-).

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2002-06-11 Thread
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Re: [SLUG] USB Printers

2002-06-11 Thread Trevor Rhodes
I got my HP Deskjet 930C running using CUPS pretty easily. Modprobe usbprinter (WARNING:Module name from memory there!) and then find your way to the nearest CUPS admin interface (http or commandline). Mine is a HP Deskjet 948C running CUPS. It was detected, setup and runs beautifully ever