Re: [SLUG] startups how ?, deamon restarter loops ?

2002-10-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Voytek Eymont where does one start looking for Linux stuff, is there an ftp site you can suggest as a good repository to start with ? http://www.tldp.org/ - Jeff -- I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating

RE: [SLUG] startups how ?, deamon restarter loops ?

2002-10-10 Thread Hartono, Susanto
-Original Message- From: Voytek Eymont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] where does one start looking for Linux stuff If you are after Redhat specific information, then the link below may help. http://www.redhat.com/docs There are heaps of good sites for linux documentation but I have

Re: [SLUG] startups how ?, deamon restarter loops ?

2002-10-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Hartono, Susanto http://www.google.com ^ best Free Software documentation site _EVER_ - Jeff -- GIMP is the primary tool in my graphics work. It is my gcc and Emacs. - Tuomas Kuosmanen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] continuous power up query

2002-10-10 Thread Michael Lake
Peter Chubb wrote: Peter == Peter Garrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter I wonder what the pros and cons are of leaving ones domestic Peter grade home computer powered up continually. I have one of Peter lionels dual cpu celeron smp motherboards. I've found that most of my machines

Re: [SLUG] continuous power up query

2002-10-10 Thread Broun, Bevan
on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:43:24PM +1000, Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** BUT do listen to the weather reports each evening. ** If a thunderstorm is predicted turn em off and disconnect the power I have heard of pcs being zapped down the telephone line, so modems should be pulled out

Re: [SLUG] continuous power up query

2002-10-10 Thread Michael Lake
Broun, Bevan wrote: on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:43:24PM +1000, Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** BUT do listen to the weather reports each evening. ** If a thunderstorm is predicted turn em off and disconnect the power I have heard of pcs being zapped down the telephone line, so

Re: [SLUG] Debain Woody Info

2002-10-10 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:15:14AM +0930, David Fitch wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:28:41AM +1000, Mick Boda wrote: Does the new Debian support the Realtec rtl8139 NIC? (2.2r did not) yes (8139too module), and mine worked in 2.2 as well (different driver can't remember the name)

[SLUG] Linux docs

2002-10-10 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 02:21, Voytek Eymont wrote: where does one start looking for Linux stuff, is there an ftp site you can suggest as a good repository to start with ? Linux Newbies: http://linuxnewbie.org/ The Linux Documentation Project: http://www.linux.org.au/LDP Google's Linux search:

[SLUG] RedHat/Mandrake install on LCD monitor

2002-10-10 Thread Seung H. Lee
Hi all, Has anyone successfully installed either RedHat/Mandrake (or any other distributions) on Mitsubishi DV171 LCD monitor? http://www.mitsubishi-electric.com.au/PRODUCTS/COMPP/tft/dv171.htm It's meant to be native at 1280x1024 (and happily using it at that resolution on Windows), but

Re: [SLUG] Syncing with Win2k Server

2002-10-10 Thread Wayne Storey
Looks like its exactly what I'm after. I can mount the remote directory then sync the mounted directory with a local directory in my home so I don't need to install anything on the server. Cheers. On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 19:24, David Kempe wrote: Try unison. google will know dave -

Re: [SLUG] continuous power up query

2002-10-10 Thread Ben Buxton
Peter Garrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: I wonder what the pros and cons are of leaving ones domestic grade home computer powered up continually. I have one of lionels dual cpu celeron smp motherboards. Is it better to power up and down only when using it, or leave

Re: [SLUG] killing a runaway console; mouseless mc [^] command line history

2002-10-10 Thread Heracles
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 7:57 pm, Voytek Eymont wrote: 1. if I get a 'problem' on a console, such as: I can't get out of an editor... and, after a while, I've tried every possible sequence I can think off, and, I'm still inside an editor how do I kill whatever on say console 2 ?

[SLUG] (L)ICQ and iptables

2002-10-10 Thread Michael Kraus
G'day all... At work, I've a 2.4.x box running as a firewall with iptables providing masquearading. On my side of the network I have ICQ running (*erk*! I hear you scream!) - well, licq... Which requires specific ports forwarded to work behind a firewall... (Sorry, not ready to set up a SOCKS

Re: [SLUG] creating a RPM package as a user (topdir in rpmrc)

2002-10-10 Thread Wim Pranata
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Gareth Walters wrote: G'day all, using RedHat 7.3 I am trying to package some some stuff as an RPM, I have the specfile as part of the CVS source tree so that any user who can check out the code and build it can make an RPM without too much trouble.(that is the

[SLUG] Billion ADSL Modem/Router

2002-10-10 Thread Peter Faulks
G'day Looking at going down the adsl road Does anyone have good/bad experience with the Billion modem? http://maitec.statustech.com.au/main.php?s=productspid=1000497 Seems a bit cheaper than the D-link equivalent (DSL-300???) Regards -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

[SLUG] mkisofs - which switch is missing

2002-10-10 Thread Terry Collins
Hello Folks I'm attempting to burn a CD (backup) of my www site across an nfs link and having trouble with mkisofs. Basically it is telling me that same named files in different sub-directories have the same Rock Ridge name, e.g. mkisofs: Error: html/policy/index.html and

Re: [SLUG] mkisofs - which switch is missing

2002-10-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Terry Collins mkisofs: Error: html/macwire/index.html and html/maclug/index.html have the same Rock Ridge name mkisofs: Error: html/tux.xbm and html/linux/tux.xbm have the same Rock Ridge name Surely there is a switch/method to tell it that this isn't a problem Or tell me which

[SLUG] backup script, WinME, networked, HELP

2002-10-10 Thread Amanda Wynne
Hi all, I have a bash script which I run nightly(via cron) on my MDK machine. It backs up itself, the Windows partitions on the same machine, and another Windows machine on the network. The backups are written (as tgz)to a third machine, also running MDK. It does weekly a full backup, and

[SLUG] Configuring nullmailer.

2002-10-10 Thread Mary
Hi, I use nullmailer as my local MTA, which just ferries outgoing mail to a Postfix server on our gateway. My machine is named titus, and you see from the Received headers of this mail that it identifies itself as titus.(none) I would like it to identify itself as titus.example.com - some MTAs

mkisofs pruning directory structure Re: [SLUG] mkisofs - which switch is missing

2002-10-10 Thread Terry Collins
Jeff Waugh wrote: mkisofs -R -J -o woa-www.iso -path-list cdrom-files Probably -r instead of -R. Unfortunately it didn't fix it. I've even tried -U with no luck. After burning a CD, the problem seems that mkisofs is almost entirely removing the directory structure (which would account

Re: [SLUG] Configuring nullmailer.

2002-10-10 Thread Tony Green
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 09:31, Mary wrote: Hi, I use nullmailer as my local MTA, which just ferries outgoing mail to a Postfix server on our gateway. My machine is named titus, and you see from the Received headers of this mail that it identifies itself as titus.(none) I would like it

Re: [SLUG] Configuring nullmailer.

2002-10-10 Thread Tony Green
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 09:40, Tony Green wrote: Change the entry #kernel.domainname = example.com to be kernel.domainname = example.com and run 'sysctl -p' Or just run : sysctl -w kernel.domainname=example.com -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996

Re: mkisofs pruning directory structure Re: [SLUG] mkisofs - which switch is missing

2002-10-10 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:14:35AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: After burning a CD, the problem seems that mkisofs is almost entirely removing the directory structure (which would account for the Rock Ridge errors). So I'm now after clues on why it is doing that (or what I need to specify for

Re: [SLUG] Billion ADSL Modem/Router

2002-10-10 Thread Patrick Kelso
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 07:10, Peter Faulks wrote: G'day Looking at going down the adsl road Does anyone have good/bad experience with the Billion modem? http://maitec.statustech.com.au/main.php?s=productspid=1000497 Seems a bit cheaper than the D-link equivalent (DSL-300???)

Re: [SLUG] creating a RPM package as a user (topdir in rpmrc)

2002-10-10 Thread Gareth Walters
- Original Message - From: Wim Pranata [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gareth Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:38 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] creating a RPM package as a user (topdir in rpmrc) Yes, try to use ~/.rpmmacros instead, for example: $

Re: [SLUG] Billion ADSL Modem/Router

2002-10-10 Thread Matt Hyne
At Friday, 11-10-02 11:55 (+1000), Patrick Kelso wrote: On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 07:10, Peter Faulks wrote: G'day Looking at going down the adsl road Does anyone have good/bad experience with the Billion modem? http://maitec.statustech.com.au/main.php?s=productspid=1000497 Seems

[SLUG] xfce installation problem

2002-10-10 Thread Ken Caldwell
I've been trying to set up xfce as the desktop for one user on a woody box. The trouble seems to be that the panel or whatever its called is mostly off screen in the bottom right hand corner. Infact only the bit that lets you log out is visible at all. xfce works satasfactorily on this