[SLUG] (no subject)

2002-07-10 Thread Melinda Taylor
This is probably a sily question but I keep getting X11 and pgplot errors when compiling things like: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [sm] Error 1 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpgplot The X libraries are installed as is pgplot with PGPLOT

[SLUG] Rebuilding Perl

2002-07-10 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear List, I am using Mandrake 8.2 and want to install the CTime.pm perl module. After downloading it and gunzipping the file I tried to use the Makefile.pl and I was told that I did not have the /core/perl.h installed. It suggest to rebuild build clean again. Is there a quick or easy way to

Re: [SLUG] OT if you stretch the point somewhat.

2002-07-10 Thread pop.iprimus.com.au
Hey Yeah its just a carbon pad you can either try and remove a carbon pad from some other not so used piece of electronics and replace it (yes you can remove it often its just stuck on with cheap glue) or you CAN buy RFI coating paint (I think you can get some at Dick Smith)that does the trick.

Re: [SLUG] Rebuilding Perl

2002-07-10 Thread pop.iprimus.com.au
Hey Yeah I had the same problem I just installed the CTime rpm for mandrake found on www.rpmfind.net worked fine. Also I found the standard install of mdk 8.2 doesnt have many of the more geeky things like slocate and some perl and c libs are missing same thing go to www.rpmfind.net and

[SLUG] Sendmail Question

2002-07-10 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I've been asked to look at an unreliable sendmail system. One thing that I have seen is that the mailboxes in /var/spool/mail are replaced by symbolic links to another directory on a different partition. Ok so a bit different but nothing really weird, maybe they need the space, but

[SLUG] Cheap Computer Parts Sale

2002-07-10 Thread Screw Tape
I have a couple of boxes to sell of, the specs are below: Comes with a Intel PII 350MHz cpu, and 128MB RAM. * Takes Slot1 Pentium II/III * 3 Dimm slots * Integrated Network Card 3Com Parallel Taking II 100TX RJ45 Connector * Integrated PCI Sound Card Crystal CS4235 * Integrated AGP video card

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2002-07-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Melinda Taylor wrote: This is probably a sily question but I keep getting X11 and pgplot errors when compiling things like: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [sm] Error 1 -L/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/bin/ld: cannot find

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail Question

2002-07-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Peter Rundle wrote: I've been asked to look at an unreliable sendmail system. Sendmail is normally reliable - it's GUARANTEED to be infinitely configurable, you can rely on that! One thing that I have seen is that the mailboxes in /var/spool/mail are replaced by

[SLUG] list group members

2002-07-10 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, I am looking for a way to pipe the members of a particular group on a RH7.2 system to a file. Is there such a command, or at least the list members command? _ Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramata ICQ#: 137562751

Re: [SLUG] list group members

2002-07-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Simon Bryan wrote: I am looking for a way to pipe the members of a particular group on a RH7.2 system to a file. Is there such a command, or at least the list members command? Something like this will work: grep groupname /etc/group | cut -d : -f 4 | sed s/,/ / That'll

Re: [SLUG] list group members

2002-07-10 Thread Gavin Carr
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:52:23AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Simon Bryan wrote: I am looking for a way to pipe the members of a particular group on a RH7.2 system to a file. Is there such a command, or at least the list members command? Something like this will

Re: [SLUG] list group members

2002-07-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Gavin Carr wrote: I am looking for a way to pipe the members of a particular group on a RH7.2 system to a file. Is there such a command, or at least the list members command? Something like this will work: grep groupname /etc/group | cut -d : -f 4 | sed

[SLUG] Reminder: Special General Meeting - 26th July

2002-07-10 Thread Peter Hardy
Note: This is the second announcement. The first announcement was made on the 3rd of July, and is archived at http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/announce/2002/07/msg3.html IMPORTANT: Financial members attenting the General Meeting are asked to please bring their SLUG membership cards, so we

Re: [SLUG] list group members

2002-07-10 Thread Peter Rundle
Got one for AWK? g awk '/groupname/ { printf(%s ,$3); }' /etc/group G -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: list group members

2002-07-10 Thread Peter Rundle
Doesn't work for me. Don't know awk so I can't tell what's wrong. Sorry didn't realise you were serious, thought you were just casting for a script language war, just wrote off the top of me head. Try this instead awk -F: '/groupname/ { gsub(,, ); printf(%s\n,$4); }' /etc/group Cheers

[SLUG] PHP GDlib

2002-07-10 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, How you check if php has built with GDlib support? Can is be loaded it as a module? regards, -- Richard Hayes Talent Internet http://www.talent.com.au Tel: (02) 9439 8300 Fax: (02) 9439 8327 Mob: 0414 618 425 ABN 94 002 775 215 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] PHP GDlib

2002-07-10 Thread Conrad Parker
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:32:07PM +1000, Richard Hayes wrote: Dear list, How you check if php has built with GDlib support? put ?php phpinfo(); ? in a php file, take a step back and watch the result. It gives you a huge dump of whats compiled in, modules, and lots else. Can is be

RE: [SLUG] list group members

2002-07-10 Thread Simon Bryan
OK, thanks all, wish I had the time to learn to do some of the coding. Seems my forte latley is in starting coding wars :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon Bryan Sent: Thursday, 11 July 2002 11:45 AM To: Slug Subject: [SLUG]

[SLUG] Build a local Network Debian Packages cache AFTER installing

2002-07-10 Thread ramon buckland
Hi, I have been installing a few Debin apackages of late on my little home network and time after time I have needed to install some package which gets pulled down off the web. Now, my proxy server is quite happily caching these requests, thus the 2nd and so on installs don't actually pull

RE: [SLUG] list group members

2002-07-10 Thread Tony . Young
erm this doesn't work as $3 is empty as you haven't specified the : separater, or taken into account the password field in the group file awk 'BEGIN{FS=:}/irudev/ { printf(%s \n,$4); }' /etc/group or awk -F':' '/irudev/ { printf(%s \n,$4); }' /etc/group is better, although it still doesn't

[SLUG] [OT] PCMCIA card woes

2002-07-10 Thread Howard Lowndes
Has anyone ever come across a problem where a PCMCIA type 2 card will not seat down onto the connectors because of a problem with the different heights of the side guidance slots. Basically my 3Com PCMCIA NIC has died (I suspect the dongle but it is not replaceable), and the Surecom replacement

Re: [SLUG] Build a local Network Debian Packages cache AFTERinstalling

2002-07-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, ramon buckland wrote: Now, my proxy server is quite happily caching these requests, thus the 2nd and so on installs don't actually pull it down .. good. (until the cache expires of course.) But,. has anyone built there own local repository from packages that they

[SLUG] Calling regex champions

2002-07-10 Thread Peter Chubb
Steve == Steve Downing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve I have a large number of BASIC source-code files I want to scan Steve and replace certain parts of text. To complicate things, there Steve are three strings I need to match, and I'm really only Steve interested in the numbers (1 to 63)