Re: [SLUG] UPS woes. - SOLVED

2003-06-22 Thread Chris Barnes
Well after hours and hours of non stop research and testing I have found out that my seemingly unidentifiable UPS, which was purchased so cheaply, is still unidentifiable, BUT I have worked out it makes use of the Fenton UPS Protocol, or Megatec/RUPS2 Protocol...or some sort of clone of that

Re: [SLUG] TV cards and software

2003-06-22 Thread AndrewD
How about a TV Excel card ($70), what have been the experiences with those been like with Linux. Thanx Andrew D On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 23:47, Andrewd wrote: Any recommendations on TV cards and software for recording TV shows for my PC. I am running Mandrake 9 on a P4 with 256 ram. The two

Re: [SLUG] TV cards and software

2003-06-22 Thread Tom Massey
* AndrewD [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-06-22 18:11]: How about a TV Excel card ($70), what have been the experiences with those been like with Linux. I've got one and it works well, easy to setup and so on. Never got the remote to work with Linux, but other than that no problems. -- SLUG - Sydney

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

2003-06-22 Thread lukekendall
On 22 Jun, James Gregory wrote: Yeah, the cl is probably an indication of it having come from connectiva or somewhere, and that's probably the problem - connectiva will have packaged freetype{,2} differently -- they'll include some files they shouldn't have (IMHO). So, grab the

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

2003-06-22 Thread James Gregory
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 19:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Jun, James Gregory wrote: Yeah, the cl is probably an indication of it having come from connectiva or somewhere, and that's probably the problem - connectiva will have packaged freetype{,2} differently -- they'll include some

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

2003-06-22 Thread lukekendall
On 22 Jun, James Gregory wrote: Hrmm. So I suppose you have 3 choices: * Upgrade to newer redhat * Find some src.rpms from somewhere and rebuild them (the mandrake ones would probably work fine in this regard) If I'm unlucky, that will lead me to have to upgrade the whole

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

2003-06-22 Thread Michael Lake
Adam Hewitt wrote: I just opened it without problems with xpdf version 2.02pl1-1 ah my version here is xpdf 1.00-3 perhaps that is the problem - Debian is just so far behind. On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 20:59, Michael Lake wrote: . My xpdf with Debian stable on Alpha just exits. No message or error

[SLUG] Just for laughs

2003-06-22 Thread mick
Hi All http://www.webopedia.com , has listed blue screen of death, defined as Abbreviated BSOD, an error that can appear on computers running in a Windows environment. This includes even the earliest versions of Windows, such as Windows 3.0 and 3.1, and still occurs in later versions such as

[SLUG] AC Plug Socket Outlets Cable Reel Cord Extension Set

2003-06-22 Thread aalaal
Dear Sir As an exporter in China, We Ali trade Inc. can supply :AC Plug Socket Outlets Cable Reel Cord Extension Set products. With the safe attestation by German, French, Czech, Swede, Norway, Italy, South Africa, America, The Netherlands organizations, the products have obtained

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

2003-06-22 Thread James Gregory
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 19:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Jun, James Gregory wrote: Hrmm. So I suppose you have 3 choices: * Upgrade to newer redhat * Find some src.rpms from somewhere and rebuild them (the mandrake ones would probably work fine in this regard) If

Re: [SLUG] xpdf crashes when trying toview fontinstallationguide.pdf

2003-06-22 Thread Adam Hewitt
That is on Debian ;) Unstable of course..hehe Adam. On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 20:31, Michael Lake wrote: Adam Hewitt wrote: I just opened it without problems with xpdf version 2.02pl1-1 ah my version here is xpdf 1.00-3 perhaps that is the problem - Debian is just so far behind. On Sat,

[SLUG] Debian upgrade question.

2003-06-22 Thread mkraus
G'day all... Is it possible to non-destructively upgrade a Debian potato install to a Debian woody install non-destructively? (Ie. Not loose data?) Warmest regards Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Network Administrator Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd p: (02) 9955 8000-- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Debian upgrade question.

2003-06-22 Thread Tony Green
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 10:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all... Is it possible to non-destructively upgrade a Debian potato install to a Debian woody install non-destructively? (Ie. Not loose data?) edit /etc/apt/sources.list, change potato entries to read woody (:%s/potato/woody/g in

[SLUG] Samba / Linux User administration and Authenticationand desktops.

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Daniel
We have a Samba server sharing drives and printers to my PC users in a network. The difficulty we currently face is the (soon to be) burgeoning number of users that move from PC to PC and need to have their own desktop's with their own network drives and printer shares, at each of the PC's to

Re: [SLUG] Samba / Linux User administration andAuthenticationand desktops.

2003-06-22 Thread Tony Green
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 11:06, Ron Daniel wrote: Holy missing domains Batman, this sounds like a job for Samba! You need a Samba PDC with support for roaming profiles. 1) Authenticate the users and force them to change their passwords according to an expiry period, no matter which PC they log

[SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail

2003-06-22 Thread James Gray
Hi All, Just spec'ing out some stuff with our corporate gateway mail relay. It is currently running FreeBSD 4.6, sendmail, inflex, spamassassin - the usual mail-gateway stuff. It's a Compaq Proliant box with a P3-866 and 256Mb RAM, with a RAID 0/1 (Compaq Smart Array2 IIRC). We are running into

[SLUG] SSH2 hostbased authentications issues...

2003-06-22 Thread Low Christopher - clow
Guys, I'm trying to set up hostbased authentication from one box to another. I don't want it to be system wide and thus have set up for individual users. My problem arises when the client user is trying to ssh to server user using another user eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh -l different server user

Re: [SLUG] Samba / Linux User administration and Authenticationanddesktops.

2003-06-22 Thread Stewart
Hi Ron.. You need to read up on windows 'roaming profiles' - that'll do all you need and runs well off samba. I've used roaming profiles with win98 and samba2.2 successfully... samba 3 and winXP are a whole different kettle of sometimes very smelly fish but it's all quite workable, i'm told.

[SLUG] Mutt Key ID dead end.

2003-06-22 Thread Nick C
Morning, Sometimes in Mutt I press a wrong key, possible 'k', and get a dialog in the command area at the bottom: Please enter the key ID and nothing will get out of this dialog bar killing the process. Is there a better way round this? Nick Croft -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail

2003-06-22 Thread Tony Green
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 11:19, James Gray wrote: 1. Mail relay for approx 12 domains 2. Content detection (magic number etc) for DOS/Win32 binaries etc. 3. Virus scanning (we use NAI VirusScan Enterprise) 4. Spam filtering (currently SpamAssassin) I do all of this on a small box running

Re: [SLUG] Debian upgrade question.

2003-06-22 Thread Peter Hardy
Hey. On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:39:14 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to non-destructively upgrade a Debian potato install to a Debian woody install non-destructively? (Ie. Not loose data?) In my experience, the upgrade is fairly painless. Make sure you've got a backup of /etc, and

Re: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail

2003-06-22 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:19:25AM +1000, James Gray wrote: We are running into problems when we get a flood of messages (50/minute) as the whole mail filtering/scanning thing quickly chews up all CPU time Are you running SpamAssassin as a daemon (spamd)? I had this problem when I first setup

Re: [SLUG] TuxPaint

2003-06-22 Thread Ewing Jeff
Tuxpaint and (the latest) GCompris are my childrens' favourites (son 5, daughter 3). Each had their own Debian GNU/Linux systems since 2 y.o. Just upgraded both boxes to Gnome 2.2. They can happily use their systems unaided. Only drawback the boxes can be a little slow (P90+64M, P100+64M)(below

RE: [SLUG] Samba / Linux User administration and Authenticationand desktops.

2003-06-22 Thread Rowling, Jill
Hi Ron, Some suggestions, assuming they're gonna be stuck with Windows: 1) Login password ageing can be set on the Windows administrative side. I don't know how this is done but for the end user it has the same effect as the Unix password ageing. You can set minimum number of characters, etc. If

Re: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail

2003-06-22 Thread Tony Green
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 11:43, Bruce Badger wrote: Could you expand a bit on why postfix over exim? I've heard a LOT of support for postfix and have seen some diehard sendmail guys switch over. I've not heard of many exim installs in production, I know a number of people use it for 'small' (home)

RE: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail

2003-06-22 Thread James_Gray
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Clarke Sent: Monday, 23 June 2003 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:19:25AM +1000, James Gray wrote: We are

[SLUG] Upcoming distro forum

2003-06-22 Thread Tony Green
This month, SLUG will be holding a distribution forum. We are looking for garrulous, loquacious and eloquent representatives from the SLUG community to help. If you think you're capable of representing your distribution in a thoughtful and intelligent way, please email me. You'll have approx 10