Re: [SLUG] Experience with emulators/Open Source Software

2003-08-14 Thread James Gregory
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 18:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't followed this thread so closely, but have you tried win4lin? Yeah. I tried it a few years back now. It worked really well. Ran a *lot* faster than vmware and didn't have massive disk images that filled up my disk. Not as good

Re: [SLUG] Dual head question

2003-08-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Kevin Saenz wrote: I would like to configure my machine so that can have 2 monitors hanging off one machine. Am I correct in assuming that I would need to buy another video card which will send signals to the second monitor? Would I experience some issue with running

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes -- NOT SOLVED (grrrr)

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
The first word that comes to mind is rage. I left my machine alone for a while and when I came back I tried to move the mouse. The pointer would not move. I look at the clock, the clock did not increase count. I look down at the case, the hard disk activity light is permanently on. Oh no, the

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Re: Debian 10th Aniversary Dinner

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Lau
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:23:44AM +1000, Matt Hope wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Matt Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... We are coming up the 10th Anniversary of Debian (Ian Murdock founded Debian on the 16th of August, 1993). We are having a special dinner to celebrate this, next week, on

Re: [SLUG] Whats going on between Linudows and SCO?

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Kraus
Moving this discussion to chat... :) On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 07:57, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Michael Kraus SCO has contract with Linudows to continue support. http://www.lindows.com/lindows_news_pressreleases_archives.php?id=53 Lindows.com Reveals Pre-existing SCO/Caldera

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Re: Debian 10th Aniversary Dinner

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 10:23, Matt Hope wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Matt Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... We are coming up the 10th Anniversary of Debian (Ian Murdock founded Debian on the 16th of August, 1993). We are having a special dinner to celebrate this, next week, on the 20th of

[SLUG] Skirmish Paintball

2003-08-14 Thread greebo
Hi all, as per my last email, I'm running another Paintball day Sunday September 28th. If you are interested call me asap as we need to get the deposits by TOMORROW. If you are interested but can't foot the cash this week (aka - by tomorrow) then still let me know, as I can hold a few places

Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create

2003-08-14 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Gonzalo Servat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 06 Aug 2003 17:50:00 +1000 As you can see, it can't find crt1.o which is part of the glibc-devel RPM. Install it and you should be good to go. Gonzalo, thanks, I've installed every package with 'glibc-*' in the name STILL

Re: [SLUG] PHP and includes: outside/inside of web root ?

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Andrew McNaughton Several approaches come to mind: 1) change the suffixes of all includes (eg to .inc). Arrange for apache to deny access to any .inc files - and while you're at it, deny access to any other extension not in your mime.types file. That helps with things like

[SLUG] Best Buy Award, 2002

2003-08-14 Thread a_stone2
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Re: [SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile?

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Chubb
Chris == Chris Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Hi Peter, Thanks for the help, but unfortunatly its not just Chris Apache which I wish to install, and I dont want to install all Chris my software from packages, I was planning on compiling some of Chris them my self so I can get the

Re: [SLUG] LTSP server

2003-08-14 Thread Matt M
or preferrably 2. Have Mozilla launch when any user logs in and go to the pre-determined web page This may well be the worst solution available, but you could define a mozilla session (i.e. mozilla www.myurl.net.au) in their .xsession file (in the users home directory, or there's a system

Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread Scott_Ragen/Roadtech%ROADTECH
To create ssh protocol 1 keys the correct syntax is `ssh-keygen -t rsa1`The latter creates ssh protocol 2 rsa keys.ScottFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--snip--luke # /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd startluke Generating SSH2 RSA host key: [ OK ]luke Starting sshd:Disabling protocol version 1. Could not

Re: [SLUG] Processing files with spaces

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew McNaughton
use grep's --null option in combination with xargs -0 option: ls | grep -i foobar --null | xargs -0 mv %1 /newdir A few other commands have options for using null separators. eg find -print0 perl -0 Thing is, a lot of the time what you want is to use the input you've already got which is

[SLUG] apt-rpm and some weirdness

2003-08-14 Thread Ramon Buckland
Helping out someone who has Redhat and has apt-rpm running.. just recently and not too sure if it's ever been seen or not, getting errors about pkglist not existsing when doing an 'apt-get update' Here is a dump of the errors im seeing, any help would be appreciated as the system from an

Re: [SLUG] How to set standard settings for all users?

2003-08-14 Thread Simon Bryan
Given that you're using GNOME, I'd recommend Galeon or Epiphany, as you can configure their defaults (or mandatory settings) at the host-global level. You can't do this with Mozilla. OK, I like the look of Galeon, so how do I make it the default browser? Uninstall all the others? :-)

[SLUG] HD Sluggish Problem Again

2003-08-14 Thread Lyle Chapman
I posted a message a couple of weeks ago about sluggish HD performance on a new computer - it is a 3ghz P4, Gigabyte MB, 1gb ram and 2 brand new 80gb Seagate 7200rpm drives. Even with this setup I am still getting sluggish performance, when I do a copy I am getting a burst of 45meg/second then

Re: [SLUG] Re: ADSL Modem Recommendations please.

2003-08-14 Thread David Kempe
If anyone wants to use a Netgear DM602 with TPG in bridged mode, the latest firmware off the website doesn't work real well. I obtained some beta firmware from the ozcableguy ask him, or I can send you a copy. but TPG bridged mode is much more reliable than any other pppoe provider out there -

[SLUG] Re: Experience with emulators/Open Source Software

2003-08-14 Thread mkraus
Adam, Set aside some time to play and experiment, don't leave stuff like this to be done just-in-time. Learning the various techniques and idiosyncricies takes a little bit. Set aside an evening or two to experiment first. Warmest regards Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Network Administrator

[SLUG] Comparing files: odd result.

2003-08-14 Thread Bill Bennett
I finally got around to comparing CD readers to see whether they could produce good copies of audio files. Well, one file, actually. The readers were the inbuilt one in the laptop (IBM 600e) and the burner I bought (Mitsubishi Diamond Data). Puzzling result. ls -l says that the files are the

[SLUG] What *nix related courses have you enjoyed

2003-08-14 Thread Terry Collins
In preparation for budget preparation time, I thought I would look on the bright side of life into that indulgent perk of the training course. So I'm proposing a thread on What *nix related course(s)/subject(s) have you found worthwhile and enjoyable. From the one day to something that is at most

Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:04:15AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: OK, do I need _all_ of them back ? You'll need gcc, glibc-devel and probably gcc-g++. You also need binutils so make sure that's installed. If you're compiling kernels, you'll need dev86 too. I've been developing software on

RE: [SLUG] recursively change file permissions not directories

2003-08-14 Thread Tony Green
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 17:27, Rowling, Jill wrote: The sequence find . -exec seems safe enough though. I suspect it just uses the inode numbers rather than the file name or something (but beware this is on Solaris ;) Very true if you're not working with a large list. Doing it this way,

[SLUG] For those of you who have some time on your hands

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Saenz
Apologies for being a little off topic I thought that some of you who have experienced large out sourcing organisations like I have might find this humorous. http://www.newtechusa.com/PPI/main.asp -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb I.T consultants Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile:

Re: [SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile?

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 8:04 pm, Wednesday, August 6 2003, Matthew Palmer mumbled: If you want official (real, true official) Debian CDs, I'm sure there'd be no shortage of SLUGgers who'd burn them for you. I'd offer, but I'm not exactly in the area... I'm in the area (live in western Sydney, work in inner

Re: [SLUG] basename files and paths with embedded spaces

2003-08-14 Thread Ian Wienand
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:52:04AM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: Bug or feature: I'm wondering why the standard basename and dirname commands in gnu do not handle spaces in file names and paths. They do : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ianw]$ basename /this is/a path/with / spaces spaces are you quoting

Re: [SLUG] PHP and includes: outside/inside of web root ?

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew McNaughton
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: looking at variety of php scripts/apps, these come with an 'includes' directory below the application directory (so, a brower could go there.) I always used to move the 'includes' dir to the outside-of-web-server-root php path (and, modify the

Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create

2003-08-14 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Grant Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:05:56 +1000 (EST) Oooh yes... that would do it. Generally it's not a good idea to change the bytes in an executable file. To fix it if the package was from an RPM do:- rpm -qf /lib/crt1.o (or wherever it is)

RE: [SLUG] ftp/shell descripancy, can not access symlinks from ftp

2003-08-14 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Andrew McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 9 Aug 2003 12:46:30 +1200 (NZST) I'd strongly recommend not using wuftpd based on its security record. For configurability, go for proftpd. Andrew, thanks for suggestion I've d/l, compiled, installed and implemented ProFTPD

RE: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-14 Thread Jon Biddell
-= On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:55:59AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: -= Think sick building syndrome. Basically, new -= office/office works and -= factories produce lots of fumes that can deposit on -= nice new shiny -= pins and provide an insulating layer of gunk that causes -= intermittent

Re: [SLUG] DocBook

2003-08-14 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 12:24, Denis Crowdy wrote: Alan L Tyree wrote: Is anyone using DocBook? I'm looking at converting from LaTeX, but emacs + psgml does not seem to give the author support that I get with emacs + auctex + reftex. Am I missing something? In particular, it would be nice

Re: [SLUG] HD Sluggish Problem Again

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Donohue
Have you got a small HD or try partitioning one 80Gb into say 20Gb for a test and just let other 60gb spin. Maybe for some reason the partition is a bit whacky??? Ben Lyle Chapman wrote: I posted a message a couple of weeks ago about sluggish HD performance on a new computer - it is a 3ghz

[SLUG] Nautilus Toolbar theme

2003-08-14 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
G'day, Is there any way to change the buttons (e.g. back, foward, up, stop, etc) of the Nautilus? Just to make sure we have a common idea about Nautilus, that is 'Window$ Explorer' version of Gnome, right? How can I change its buttons? Thanks, Phillip. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Spamassin hogging disk

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Laurie Savage When I download my mail via fetchmail/procmail spamassassin chokes my system (lose mouse, keyboard input takes over a minute to respond etc). It records lots of PIDs when I run top. Yesterday it did this for 15 minutes. How can I prevent this? Run spamd, the

Re: [SLUG] apt-rpm and some weirdness

2003-08-14 Thread Laurie Savage
I had the same problem. Have you checked /etc/apt/apt.conf for your proxy settings if you are behind a firewall? There is a sample in /usr/share/doc/apt-/examples Laurie On 06 Aug 2003 22:02:18 +1000 Ramon Buckland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helping out someone who has Redhat and has

[SLUG] Evolution contact list issue

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Saenz
I was just wondering if anyone has had a problem with sending a message to a contact list? I have evolution 1.4.3 everytime I try to create a contact list and send an email to the contact list the email addresses in the to contains the name of the list and xml code. is there away to fix this?

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-14 Thread Mary
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003, Gonzalo Servat wrote: I'm experiencing complete (and random) system freezes every day or two. I've not found a pattern yet, it happens at random. System specs as follows: Athlon 1800+ CPU 256MB DDR Matrox G400 Dualhead 2 x HDD 2 x SCSI CDROM 1 x FDD

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:35:15AM +1000, Gonzalo Servat wrote: At the moment it's sitting on -29C (so it says anyway) I don't believe that. I'd expect it to be more like +35C to +45C. Mine (2GHz P4) is normally +40C, rising two or three degrees when under load. Cheers, John -- whois

RE: [SLUG] Benefits of source distro (Gentoo) somewhat elusive :-)

2003-08-14 Thread dazza
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -=Don't you just *love* it how when Jeff does something like -=bagging out someone elses preferred distribution or -=software, it's his usual cheeky prose, but when someone -=else does it it's argumentative and confrontational? That's

[SLUG] wireless bandwidth

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, Unless I am mistaken, I am of the belief that a wireless network with, for example, an access point and four laptops will give each laptop the full 11Mbps connection (depending on signal strength and quality), and *not* divide the 11Mb between all remote connections due to the fact that

[SLUG] Re: postfix performance

2003-08-14 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 19:11:30 +1000, Martin wrote: $author = Dave Kempe ; does the config option initial_destiniation_concurrency solve this? its a bit unclear from the docs. is delivery concurrency what I am trying to acheive? not quite what you spelt out. destination concurrency

Re: [SLUG] Evolution - how does it send the mail?

2003-08-14 Thread Mary
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003, Mary wrote: The first thing to check is to dig around in the settings of Evolution and KMail and make sure they're set to use the same mail relay/SMTP server/mail server (different names for the same thing) to send mail. Sorry, missing solution: set Evolution's mail

Re: [SLUG] Re: mirrorring with scp is it possible?

2003-08-14 Thread David
On 12 Aug 2003, Kirk Reiser wrote: Hi Shaun: You can use scp but it has a tendency to stall with weird network traffic. I suggest you use rsync which works very well, uses ssh and does not stall. A typical command line for rsync looks like this: rsync -au -e ssh from_host:from_dir

Re: [SLUG] basename files and paths with embedded spaces

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Stuart Guthrie Bug or feature: I'm wondering why the standard basename and dirname commands in gnu do not handle spaces in file names and paths. I guess there is a good reason why we need to code around it - ie it would break lots of other stuff to fix it. ... it works for me.

Re: [SLUG] UWS IE5 Policy

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Neal
Makes you wonder because now OSX wont be supporting IE in future Apple will be using a modified version of Konqueror. The problem with IE is its getting old and has some really nasty CSS problems. Ive deployed Mozilla 1.4.1 and Konqueror (in KDE 3.1.1) and I have yet to see a web service thats

RE: [SLUG] ftp/shell descripancy, can not access symlinks from ftp

2003-08-14 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Theo Julienne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 8 Aug 2003 23:07:59 +1000 Is the FTP server configured to mask the pathnames? Some FTP servers by default lock the user inside their home directories, so /home/username ends up being / in FTP. thanks, Theo don't know, it'd

[SLUG] WR Series WZ Series Pressure Gauges PressuretransmittersThermo transmitters

2003-08-14 Thread honghua
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Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:57:06PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're 100% correct. They've each been assigned the other's IP address. :-) Okay, thanks, I will try to prod dhcp to get this sorted. If I'd realised you were using dhcp to assign addresses I'd have suggested that you look

Re: [SLUG] reg packet sniffers

2003-08-14 Thread Stuart Guthrie
awaiting a early reply Aren't we all! Try: tcpdump or ethereal Stu Viswanadha R. Rudraraju wrote: hai, Iam currently doing a project on linux networking. Iam in need of a packet sniffer that analyzes the packets in the network and counts the number os

RE: [SLUG] Re: ADSL Modem Recommendations please.

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Hewitt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Del Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2003 9:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: ADSL Modem Recommendations please. --snip-- Very Linux friendly guys, yes their tech support people aren't brilliant

Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:39:16PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:39:16 +1000 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice? To: John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version:

RE: [SLUG] recursively change file permissions not directories

2003-08-14 Thread Rowling, Jill
The sequence find . -exec seems safe enough though. I suspect it just uses the inode numbers rather than the file name or something (but beware this is on Solaris ;) bash-2.05$ find thingy -type f -exec file {} \; thingy/one/this:empty file thingy/two/; file thingy: empty file

Re: [SLUG] Dual head question

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Jan Schmidt There were some patches on the dri-devel mailing list recently to have 3D work across both desktops on dual-output cards like this. Last time I saw them, they worked, with wrinkles. It may appear in the DRI trunk sometime soon, or not. On G400-and-similar chipsets?

Re: [SLUG] mirrorring with scp is it possible?

2003-08-14 Thread Mary
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003, Andrew Bennetts wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:34:29PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: hi, I wanna mirror the entire contents of my home dir on one shell to another. I have 2 remote hosts both with the same username. how can I accomplish this with scp more to the

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 7/08/2003 10:44 AM +1000, John McQuillen wrote: It's a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1 Your motherboard uses the NForce2 chipset, support for which, I believe, is best gained from the NVIDIA binary drivers available here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html I hope this helps, Thanks John. The

Re: [SLUG] fs benchmarked for 2.6

2003-08-14 Thread Malcolm V
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 09:58, Ben de Luca wrote: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/715 Whats this, reiserfs4 wins? How can that be XFS is clearly superior in my mind at least. Inspired by Mary's recent post I've done some benchmarking of my own. When I have the time I'll put some of the

[SLUG] recursively change file permissions not directories

2003-08-14 Thread Ram Smith
G'day, I'm looking for some pointers on how to do this scripting task. I have a shared directory structure where alot of the files in each directory have permisions of 644 I wanting to change it so that the files are chmod 664 letting all users in the group read and write to the data. without

[SLUG] swiftel?

2003-08-14 Thread Del
Hi, So who here uses swiftel DSL? Their pricing looks pretty good and since my normal providers don't do a reasonably priced 512/512 I'm considering switching a few customer sites over to them that need that sort of plan. $6/GB for excess traffic is fairly cheap. PPPoE easy to set up or not for

Re: [SLUG] UWS IE5 Policy

2003-08-14 Thread Malcolm V
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 17:43, Shaun Oliver wrote: can you not change the user agent information with mozilla as with lynx as in the cat/text only browser Welcome to the murky waters. Yes, the poor end user can start playing silly user agent string games, this only works if the detection is based

Re: [SLUG] HD Sluggish Problem Again

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew McNaughton
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Lyle Chapman wrote: I posted a message a couple of weeks ago about sluggish HD performance on a new computer - it is a 3ghz P4, Gigabyte MB, 1gb ram and 2 brand new 80gb Seagate 7200rpm drives. Even with this setup I am still getting sluggish performance, when I do a

Re: [SLUG] PCMCIA modem cards for linux

2003-08-14 Thread Ramon Buckland
Hey Norm, I have used with much success a 3Com card (sorry can't remember model there) And pretty much all the xircom Modem only cards from 28.8k up to 56k in the Realport range a few years back. (managed a laptop leasing thingo with QUT Uni for a few years so got to test out heaps of them).

Re: [SLUG] mirrorring with scp is it possible?

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:34:29PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: hi, I wanna mirror the entire contents of my home dir on one shell to another. I have 2 remote hosts both with the same username. how can I accomplish this with scp more to the point? can I accomplish this with scp? I need to

Re: [SLUG] PHP and includes: outside/inside of web root ?

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:26:58PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: so, is there a need to have php's inc files outside the web server root ?? It wouldn't be my first choice of security fixes - but, in a poorly written application, it is possible that an exploit could be obtained by (for instance) a

[SLUG] Red Hat, rpm, yum and apt users take note :-)

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
This looks like fun! https://listman.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2003-August/msg00583.html - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity. - George W. Bush (by way of

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Re: [SLUG] fetchmail and Maildir format - oops!!!

2003-08-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A high number of messages were downloaded, and I'm not sure where they've been stored. /var/spool/mail/username seems to be an empty file. Any clues on how to recover the downloaded mail? (If possible?) Is procmail installed? Check

Fw: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create

2003-08-14 Thread scott
Oops, Forgot to send to the slug list. Cheers, Scott Scott Ragen/Roadtech wrote on 06-08-2003 04:17:36 PM: --snip-- log This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by configure,

Re: [SLUG] 'mount --bind' as an equivalent fstab entry

2003-08-14 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Gonzalo Servat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:56:30 +1000 After you do the mount --bind ..., check the line in /etc/mtab. It should give you the correct format to stick in /etc/fstab. thanks, Gonzalo /home/tac /home/raymond/tac none rw,bind 0 0 Voytek

Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create

2003-08-14 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 7 Aug 2003 23:50:58 +1000 If you're going to re-install, I'd be tempted to jump from rh73 to rh9. But re-installing glibc-devel is worth a shot. Matt, thanks re-installing thw whole systems is not an option at this time, the system is

Re: [SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile?

2003-08-14 Thread Crossfire
Chris Barnes was once rumoured to have said: Hi sluggers, I have recently installed Debian 3.0r1. I'm fairly new to debian, but I thought I was going ok until i tried to compile something. When I installed Debian it was a base install, nothing else. So I dont have compilers or linkers

Re: [SLUG] Re: ADSL Modem Recommendations please.

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:43:03PM +1000, Chris Deigan wrote: Anand Kumria wrote: Also try and go for an ISP which uses either bridging or routing rather (Telstra ADSL B or C modes, iirc) than PPPoE. That way, you won't be subject to strange PMTU/MTU problems/clamping. I haven't heard of

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes -- NOT SOLVED (grrrr)

2003-08-14 Thread DE LUCA Ben
Um but back to the orignal problem :) I was just reading some thing and i wonder if it might be a similar problem. Would it be ok if you put a sync in roots cron to run every hour. if itr fixes it i have a link for you! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Problem with network printer

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Deigan
N RamMohan wrote: i have one printer connected to a machine in our network how we can access that printer without logging into the machine to which the printer is attached? What's distro are you running on the computer with the printer on it running? However, briefly -- you will want to use

Re: [SLUG] DocBook

2003-08-14 Thread Angus Lees
At 12 Aug 2003 13:49:53 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: One of the other publishers is using DocBook as their primary system, so I thought I would have a look at changing from LaTeX. But, as I said, I need (or at least want) the good author support (outlining, citation, cross-referencing) that I

[SLUG] open source windows software

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have just had to resign myself to install windows on my work PC for various reasons and I was wondering if anyone knows of a place that contains a list of open source software for windows such as Mozilla? If I have to support MS then I would like to make it a minimal effort. Adam.

[SLUG] Re: mirrorring with scp is it possible?

2003-08-14 Thread Kirk Reiser
Hi Shaun: You can use scp but it has a tendency to stall with weird network traffic. I suggest you use rsync which works very well, uses ssh and does not stall. A typical command line for rsync looks like this: rsync -au -e ssh from_host:from_dir to_host:to_dir The 'au' means archive and

RE: [SLUG] recursively change file permissions not directories

2003-08-14 Thread Rowling, Jill
Hehehe I have yet to find that limit here (E250s and V880). But on a big list like searching the entire SMB-shared systems for the odd mad Windows virus file (I won't go into HOW that happened), I just set it going and do something else. The find seems to sit on one CPU whereas the other CPUs in

Re: [SLUG] Experience with emulators.

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Saenz
I'm amazed noone's mentioned VMWare. Basically, you can actually run windows ITSELF in linux. as well as linux in windows. or OS2 in linux in win95 in Win98 in NT4 in XP, if you so prefer. XD www.vmware.com Vmware is quite good but then you are waiting for the OS to boot up. if you want

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 8/08/2003 9:59 AM +1000, John Clarke wrote: Power supply. I had a system which would randomly fall over with no apparent cause. I replaced the RAM, video and network cards, motherboard and CPU but nothing changed. Then one day, it wouldn't power up so I replaced the power supply and it's

[SLUG] Linux or FreeBSD larger? was: Benefits of source distro (Gentoo)somewhat elusive :-)

2003-08-14 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:12:20 +1000, Andrew McNaughton wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Dave Airlie wrote: Doing a build, or even an install from source is really not difficult if the distribution's build system is good. On a modern machine it takes less than an hour to compile a freebsd

[SLUG] A question of deletion.

2003-08-14 Thread Bill Bennett
In the old days, MS deleted a file by clipping the leading letter and substituting a token that stood for deleted. You can't undelete a file in Linux. Is this because the file has been shredded? I ask not because I want to undelete, but because I have some sensitive data files that I have deleted

Re: [SLUG] mirrorring with scp is it possible?

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 19:50, Mary wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003, Andrew Bennetts wrote: $ cd $ scp -rp . [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That is, change to your home directory and do a recurive (-r) scp that preservers permissions (-p) This will lose hardlink info though - which can be -really- bad.

Re: [SLUG] Experience with emulators/Open Source Software

2003-08-14 Thread mlh
I haven't followed this thread so closely, but have you tried win4lin? Not as good separation as vmware, but works quite well I've heard. everythinglinux.com.au has it for $149 -- half that of vmware. Matt (I have no connection with win4lin or everythinglinux.) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] slogin logs in to wrong machine!

2003-08-14 Thread lukekendall
I just booted up mys system after going away for a few days, and during the boot various duplicate block errors were repaired. I don't know if that's relevant or not. We have 2 machines on a tiny LAN, through a firewall box. On my wife's machine, coo, it complained after it was booted up, that

Re: [SLUG] apt-rpm and some weirdness

2003-08-14 Thread ramon buckland
Hardware strikes! After the email and all the next week trying stuff, apt-get just became worse and worse, to the point that after a dist-upgrade (7.3 to 7.3) :-), it completely stopped booting, lilo gave garbled test before the prompt, and mounting/chrooting to the system via another same

Re: [SLUG] UWS IE5 Policy

2003-08-14 Thread Malcolm V
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 10:16, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: exactly. Why people still think they can use user agent strings to get an accurate indication of the percentage market share for the different browsers out there is beyond me. Unfortunately I think a lot of non IE browsers are calling

Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create

2003-08-14 Thread mlh
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:37:42 Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BUT, what are the criteria for such 'compile and transfer' : if I had another RedHat on different hardware, can I just compile and transfer to another one ? do I need *same* RedHat release ? what else same ? different ?

Re: [SLUG] Experience with emulators.

2003-08-14 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 16:50, Andrew Bennetts wrote: SNIP According to Wine's Application Database, CorelDraw 9 works ok for some people, but not for others: http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=440versionId=1095 Your best bet is try it, and see how it goes, I guess :) I use wine

[SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread lukekendall
Looks like I'll have to re-install ssh on both machines (since slogin logs in to the opposite machine). Is there a good information resource on setting up host keys and user keys? I find the man pages don't quite describe how to do that, and nor do the FAQs I could find via Google or on the

Re: [SLUG] Dual head question

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 12:49 pm, Wednesday, August 13 2003, Dave Airlie mumbled: my Nvidia 3ds away fine, the other card of course doesn't.. I'm not sure you can get a secondary card to do 3d and Xinerama... I might be getting a PCI radeon soon.. not sure.. Radeons completly refuse to do DRI when Xinerama is

[SLUG] Majordom has MAJOR bug - it spams

2003-08-14 Thread Terry Collins
Read this and have a laugh Whoever you are who reported my list message to spamcop, you apparently didn't take time to think that maybe, just maybe, the majordomo listserv at itparade.com barfed -- and it did. I got multiple messages by other people. I didn't flame those people, nor did

[SLUG] September Debian meeting

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I will most likely be in Sydney for a few days at the beginning of September. So perhaps you want to hold your Debian/SLUG meet on the first instead of the second Wednesday in the month. (Please CC me, I'm not subscribed.) -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread lukekendall
On 13 Aug, John Clarke wrote: Now that's ugly, and you can't guarantee it'll work. You can tell dhcpd to serve static addresses based on mac address, e.g.: host posh { hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx; fixed-address 192.168.1.100; option

[SLUG] inter-machine tools

2003-08-14 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Hi, I come from a background of Windows, where things like I'm asking about weren't really part of the design. In Windows, I used NetMeeting to support my Dad when I was Down Under and he was still back in the States. Now we're using GNU/Linux, which apparently (like Unix) inherently networks.

[SLUG] Courier IMAP setup: compiles, runs, but how to use it ?

2003-08-14 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm trying to set up Courier-IMAP on RH7.3 with Postfix. all I need at this time is POP3, and, perhaps later, IMAP I'm somewhat familiar with POP3 process, and, have only a rather vague understanding about IMAP as a 'server stored mail box' Courier-IMAP compiled and installed OK (with the

[SLUG] reg packet sniffers

2003-08-14 Thread Viswanadha R. Rudraraju
hai, Iam currently doing a project on linux networking. Iam in need of a packet sniffer that analyzes the packets in the network and counts the number os packets that are transferring. could anyone there please help me out in this awaiting a early

[SLUG] it worked.

2003-08-14 Thread Shaun Oliver
hi bill, the rsync worked a treat. thanks man -- Shaun Oliver Becareful of the toes u step on today, they maybe connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow! EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO: blindman01_2000 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: captain nemo 200 IRC:

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes -- SOLVED (so far so good)

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All, Thanks very much to everyone who had their input on my problem. The problem was indeed the power supply. It's been running for 1 day and 6 hours so far without a crash so I'm pretty certain (touch wood) that it's fixed. I learnt a few things from this problem: 1. It's not good to be

Re: [SLUG] inter-machine tools

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Hardy
Morning! On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:02:13PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: I mean how do I do these things: There really should be a HOWTO for things like this... 1) Run a program on someone else's machine. Both console and X. ssh. You use it to get a shell on a remote computer. It's

Re: [SLUG] Spamassin hogging disk

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:55:37AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Laurie Savage When I download my mail via fetchmail/procmail spamassassin chokes my system (lose mouse, keyboard input takes over a minute to respond etc). It records lots of PIDs when I run top. Yesterday it did this

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