Re: [SLUG] Document conversion

2003-06-21 Thread Geoffrey Robertson
I've kicked of apt... 150 Mb download to convert a crummy 1 page document to a pdf. sheesh. I'm still wondering about this foo.php document that's supposed to be a Publisher2000 document. Anybody ever seen a foo.php that isn't PHP? Geoffrey On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:24:26PM +1000, Ken

Re: [SLUG] Document conversion

2003-06-21 Thread James Gregory
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 16:16, Geoffrey Robertson wrote: I've kicked of apt... 150 Mb download to convert a crummy 1 page document to a pdf. sheesh. I'm still wondering about this foo.php document that's supposed to be a Publisher2000 document. Anybody ever seen a foo.php that isn't PHP?

[SLUG] autoconf gtk test

2003-06-21 Thread Ken Foskey
OpenOffice.org has a new requirement for gtk for their crash reporter and I am trying to implement a warning for the absence of gtk-2.0. I had a hunt on google and came up with: if test $test_gtk = yes; then pkg_modules=gtk+-2.0 = 1.3.13 PKG_CHECK_MODULES( GTK, [$pkg_modules] ) fi

Re: [SLUG] autoconf gtk test

2003-06-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:22, Ken Foskey wrote: Problem is that the PKG_CHECK_MODULES does not resolve in autoconf, it passes through to configure untouched. Can someone give me a clue stick of a much easier solution. You'll need to add the pkgconfig build foo to OpenOffice...

[SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 PPC: Bootloader

2003-06-21 Thread Beej Bassman
Hi all. I just managed to install Mandrake 9.1 PPC on my iMac, but the bootloader menu does not appear upon booting. I have been able to successfully boot into both OS 9.2 and OS 10.2, and they both seem to be working fine. However, neither of them recognise the Linux partitions, and as

Re: [SLUG] autoconf gtk test

2003-06-21 Thread Nick Wilcox
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 20:22, Ken Foskey wrote: OpenOffice.org has a new requirement for gtk for their crash reporter and I am trying to implement a warning for the absence of gtk-2.0. I had a hunt on google and came up with: if test $test_gtk = yes; then pkg_modules=gtk+-2.0 = 1.3.13

[SLUG] xpdf crashes when trying to view fontinstallationguide.pdf

2003-06-21 Thread Michael Lake
Hi all, Has anyone used xpdf to view the LaTeX font installation guide at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf ? My xpdf with Debian stable on Alpha just exits. No message or error at all. File fontinstallationguide.pdf says its a PDF document, version 1.3

[SLUG] SLUGAMuSIG Meeting Report

2003-06-21 Thread Chris Deigan
A report from the last meeting (Saturday, 14th) is available at: http://www.slug.org.au/~ctd/slugamusig/pages/prevmeetings.php?pageid=0306month=Juneyr=2003 As can be seen above, slugamusig also now has a website -- currently at: http://www.slug.org.au/~ctd/slugamusig/ There is also a list for

[SLUG] apt-get is very good, but ...

2003-06-21 Thread lukekendall
I seem to have gotten myself into an rpm dependency loop on my RH 7.2 system. Last weekend I forcibly installed a bunch of packages I shouldn't have, and broke X. :-( Via careful rpm -e use, and switching over to use the RPM port of apt-get, I managed to get X working again. But I really wanted

[SLUG] Alleged Linux attacking Trojan

2003-06-21 Thread Raena Lea-Shannon
This is an article about some alleged Linux attackingTrojan. Is this a load of trojan horse do or has anyone come across it? http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=0Art_ID=12242 -- George V. Hulme, InformationWeek Friday, 20 June 2003 There's a new security threat out on the Internet,

[SLUG] Linux mail server + Windows authentication (winbind?)

2003-06-21 Thread Piers Wren
Hi, I'm trying to come up with a nice way to intigrate a linux mail server into an existing win2k LAN. Basically what i want is for mail to be hosted on a nice reliable linux box, but for users to be able to use their existing win2k usernames and passwords to access their mail (imap/pop). I've

Re: [SLUG] Linux mail server + Windows authentication (winbind?)

2003-06-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 17:34, Piers Wren wrote: I'm trying to come up with a nice way to intigrate a linux mail server into an existing win2k LAN. Basically what i want is for mail to be hosted on a nice reliable linux box, but for users to be able to use their existing win2k usernames and

Re: [SLUG] Linux mail server + Windows authentication (winbind?)

2003-06-21 Thread Dave Airlie
i'd recommend a passwd file generated from the windows box with the user names in it, and using pam_smb (plug plug.. :-) to do the authentication, if you have a good windows network with good backup ad servers etc .. you could use LDAP or winbind, but if your 2k network dies your mail server

[SLUG] UPS woes.

2003-06-21 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi everyone, The other day my boss bought a UPS which was on special at Dick Smith Electronics for $100 (400Va, 9pin Serial-to-pc, 6 minutes @ half-load), an ok price i guess. The DSE web site notes that the UPS has Linux software, which is true, I was able to download an RPM. But the rpm wont

Re: [SLUG] xpdf crashes when trying to viewfontinstallationguide.pdf

2003-06-21 Thread Adam Hewitt
Michael, I just opened it without problems with xpdf version 2.02pl1-1 Adam. On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 20:59, Michael Lake wrote: Hi all, Has anyone used xpdf to view the LaTeX font installation guide at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf ? My xpdf

Re: [SLUG] xpdf crashes when trying to viewfontinstallationguide.pdf

2003-06-21 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 20:59, Michael Lake wrote: Hi all, Has anyone used xpdf to view the LaTeX font installation guide at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf ? SNIP Michael, I had no trouble with it using xpdf on RH8 on a standard Intel machine. Alan

Re: [SLUG] Alleged Linux attacking Trojan

2003-06-21 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 01:04:35 +1000 Raena Lea-Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an article about some alleged Linux attackingTrojan. Is this a load of trojan horse do or has anyone come across it? http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=0Art_ID=12242 -- George V. Hulme,

Re: [SLUG] booting 2.5 kernel (can't find fsck.ext2) = Part 2

2003-06-21 Thread Ramon Buckland
Hi peoples, Thanks Oscar for the tip. I found that I had chosen devfs to be compiled in but I didn't have devfsd installed (and thus /dev had no devices (mounted but nothing) and of course then there was no /dev/hda5. Now I have the next problem. Because Im using devfs, the module for my

Re: [SLUG] Linux mail server + Windows authentication (winbind?)

2003-06-21 Thread Alexander Samad
You could try cryus mail server/system, it uses its own userid space, then just link authentication into the ldapDB, this way you don't need to sync linux userids and windows userid. Or use winbind to do the authentication and don;t worry about the ldap sync/replicate On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at

[SLUG] Update: SLUGAMuSIG Report / Web stuff

2003-06-21 Thread Chris Deigan
The web address is now: amusig.slug.org.au The report can be found at: amusig.slug.org.au/prevmeetings.php?pageid=0306month=Juneyr=2003 And the list address is now amusig[at]slug.org.au Thanks to Jeff Waugh for setting up the subdomain and the slug-hosted list. - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] Debian

2003-06-21 Thread Robert Tillsley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Guys I just installed debian (well the bits that seemed to work). I've been able to log into the console, but I wouldn't mind seeing if the GUI is up. All I can remember about how to get into a gui is xstart, but that doesn't work. Anyone know what command I need? Regards Rob T -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Debian

2003-06-21 Thread James Gray
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:30 am, Robert Tillsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys I just installed debian (well the bits that seemed to work). I've been able to log into the console, but I wouldn't mind seeing if the GUI is up. All I can remember about how to get into a gui is xstart, but that

Re: [SLUG] Debian

2003-06-21 Thread Chris Deigan
Robert Tillsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed debian (well the bits that seemed to work). I've been able to log into the console, but I wouldn't mind seeing if the GUI is up. All I can remember about how to get into a gui is xstart, but that doesn't work. Anyone know what command I

Re: [SLUG] Debian

2003-06-21 Thread Robert Tillsley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks guys. I'm tried a little apt-getting, but its having a fit over the java development kit. so I'm going to download that on another system and try to copy it across and set it up. Thanks again. Rob T On Sunday 22 June 2003 10:01, Chris Deigan wrote: Robert Tillsley [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Debian

2003-06-21 Thread Robert Tillsley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been trying to download the 1.1.8 jdk from ibm, but their server is timing out, does anyone know where else I could get it from? I can't seem to find it on the sun site. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/cgi-bin/click.cgi?url=http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/118/linux/index.htmlorigin=j

RE: [SLUG] UPS woes.

2003-06-21 Thread Jon Biddell
Having a look at the case, which is probably not a good indication !!), it looks like an APC UPS, Or maybe even a SOLA BASIC - they both have similar cases on their low-end models, plus there is a lighter area on the front where a brand sticker may have been which looks about the right size for an

Re: [SLUG] apt-get is very good, but ...

2003-06-21 Thread James Gregory
-On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 22:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have gotten myself into an rpm dependency loop on my RH 7.2 system. Last weekend I forcibly installed a bunch of packages I shouldn't have, and broke X. :-( Via careful rpm -e use, and switching over to use the RPM port of

Re: [SLUG] apt-get is very good, but ...

2003-06-21 Thread lukekendall
On 22 Jun, James Gregory wrote: wait a moment. Apt won't grock dependencies that aren't packaged AFAIK. So, installing libttf from source won't help it. apt should have found that dependency if you just asked it to install ghostscript. No, for the same reason I'm having a trouble now:

Re: [SLUG] Debian

2003-06-21 Thread Chris Deigan
Robert Tillsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to download the 1.1.8 jdk from ibm, but their server is timing out, does anyone know where else I could get it from? I can't seem to find it on the sun site. Blackdown Java Linux. Find an apt source at http://apt-get.org/ -- add it to

Re: [SLUG] UPS woes.

2003-06-21 Thread Ian Wienand
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 07:54:28AM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi everyone, The other day my boss bought a UPS which was on special at Dick Smith Electronics for $100 (400Va, 9pin Serial-to-pc, 6 minutes @ half-load), an ok price i guess. yep, a good little buy. I'm not sure why they even

Re: [SLUG] TuxPaint

2003-06-21 Thread Angus Lees
At Fri, 20 Jun 2003 19:10:36 +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: I just downloaded TuxPaint for our son. It is a really great piece of software for kids. If you've got them, download it , especially the tux-stamps. (the Lunar Lander stamp does the 'one small step' speech). Great piece of software.

Re: [SLUG] apt-get is very good, but ...

2003-06-21 Thread James Gregory
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 12:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Jun, James Gregory wrote: wait a moment. Apt won't grock dependencies that aren't packaged AFAIK. So, installing libttf from source won't help it. apt should have found that dependency if you just asked it to install

Re: [SLUG] UPS woes.

2003-06-21 Thread Chris Barnes
Ahh nice work! I've actually been up all night looking for more information this thing. I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like its a copy of UPS made by Microtek Italia called the MICROedge MEG501. I wasn't able to find ANY information about the protocol they used. The company which seems to have

[SLUG] SLUG and LinMagAu

2003-06-21 Thread Kimberly Shelt
Hi SLUG list members , As you know we are running an online Linux/Oss Mazagine (http://www.linmagau.org) and I am looking to find a way for more members of various LUGS around the country to contribute :) We would like to start a Tips and Tricks section in each edition. We have run some