Re: [SLUG] Netatalk...

2003-11-05 Thread Martin
$quoted_author = Terry Denovan ; I am trying to get Netatalk running on one of my Red Hat 9.0 Machines, and it just doesn't seem to work, does anyone know for sure that it works on Red Hat 9.0 or am I better off running it on another distro? i've had it working so i'd stick with what you

RE: [SLUG] No more Red Hat Linux support after April 30 2004 -Quick Survey

2003-11-05 Thread Julian Melville
I have found that testing is the worst of both worlds (i.e. of stable unstable). It does not have the latest things, and it's not very stable. Interesting - I run several Debian boxes in a large-ish corporate environment and most of them have ended up being 'stable with a few critical

RE: [SLUG] No more Red Hat Linux support after April 30 2004 -Quick Survey

2003-11-05 Thread Robert Collins
aptitude is really quite nice. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Linux IBM Movie - Really Cool (better than the apple movies)

2003-11-05 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:45:46PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:35:26PM +1100, Lyle Chapman wrote: http://www-3.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/lp/prodigy.html

Re: [SLUG] Linux IBM Movie - Really Cool (better than the apple movies)

2003-11-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:03:32PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Well, I tried the URL from the noscript part of the high quality MPEG link, and it wanted to send me quicktime. No, no, no. The first bit of crud you'll get is a streaming redirect - it contains the real URL that contains the

Re: [SLUG] Jabber

2003-11-05 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I can send you a src.rpm and a working configuration file if you like. Here's the jabber.xml we use at work. There's nothing sekrit in here. The important parts are the name of the jabber server (jabber.engineroom.anchor.net.au here) and the

Re: [SLUG] Linux IBM Movie - Really Cool (better than the apple movies)

2003-11-05 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:03:32PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Well, I tried the URL from the noscript part of the high quality MPEG link, and it wanted to send me quicktime. No, no, no. The first bit of crud you'll get is a streaming

Re: [SLUG] cron entry troubleshooting: missing libpath ?

2003-11-05 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Oscar Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:21:44 -0800 /etc/ld.so.conf, includes /usr/local/lib If not add that line and do a, #ldconfig Oscar thanks, oops, seems someone might have given wrong info to you... now, after I deleted the

[SLUG] Dell Gateway Celeron 400

2003-11-05 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
G'day I had a Dell Gateway Celeron 400. Im trouble get the manual for it, I need to know what kind of video card chipset in it, so my debian can work properly. I try googling and nothing come out :( Can somebody guide me here? Thanks, Phillip. __ Do you Yahoo!?

Re: [SLUG] cron entry troubleshooting: missing libpath ?

2003-11-05 Thread Oscar Plameras
From: Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Reply to note from Oscar Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:21:44 -0800 /etc/ld.so.conf, includes /usr/local/lib If not add that line and do a, #ldconfig Oscar thanks, oops, seems someone might have given wrong info to you...

Re: [SLUG] Dell Gateway Celeron 400

2003-11-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Phillipus Gunawan I had a Dell Gateway Celeron 400. Im trouble get the manual for it, I need to know what kind of video card chipset in it, so my debian can work properly. Run lspci to see what kind of card you have. - Jeff -- GNOME Summit 2003: New York, USA

[SLUG] Alan Cox on Fedora / Debian

2003-11-05 Thread Richard Ames
In http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=84839cid=7401399 Alan says Believe me do we just join Debian was a seriously asked question in planning Fedora. But Fedora is about somewhat slightly different things like regular and rapid releases and so the idea of merging into Debian didnt look

Re: [SLUG] Alan Cox on Fedora / Debian

2003-11-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Richard Ames Alan says Believe me do we just join Debian was a seriously asked question in planning Fedora. But Fedora is about somewhat slightly different things like regular and rapid releases and so the idea of merging into Debian didnt look like it would work out. [

[SLUG] Dollar Rent A Car Newsletter

2003-11-05 Thread Dollar Rent A Car
Title: Dollar Template Sweaters and hot chocolate are becoming a familiar part of the daily routine, just as swimsuits and lemonade used to be. (How did that happen so fast?) With chillier weather settling in for the

[SLUG] Fedora v/s RH 9

2003-11-05 Thread Edwin Humphries
I've been following the discussions on this (and related) issues, but can't find anywhere any information about how Fedora compares to RH9 in terms of core component versions: In other words, is Fedora an update to RH9, a straight replacement, or a backdate. How does it compare in core

Re: [SLUG] Fedora v/s RH 9

2003-11-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Edwin Humphries I've been following the discussions on this (and related) issues, but can't find anywhere any information about how Fedora compares to RH9 in terms of core component versions: In other words, is Fedora an update to RH9, a straight replacement, or a backdate. How

[SLUG] php text recommendations

2003-11-05 Thread Brad Kowalczyk
Hi all, have been looking about for a good php programming text (possibly including some SQL stuff), but there a just so many out there! If anyone can recommend something I would appreciate it. I dont really need it to cover introductory/basic stuff more focus on intermediate to advanced

[SLUG] Codefest!

2003-11-05 Thread Benno
Hi all, Last reminder about codefest, which is on this Saturday from 9am-10pm at the University of NSW. The codefest will take place in the CSE seminar room, 1st floor of the K17 building. Come along and enjoy a day of hacking with others. For those coming, please bring any networking equipment

Re: [SLUG] php text recommendations

2003-11-05 Thread Bernard Doyle
One good book is : PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson It's currently in a 2nd Edition. It gets a rating of 4 on Amazon. It's really good if you are looking for PHP project design guidelines. For what it's worth, the authors are Australian as well. Bernard Doyle

[SLUG] RedHat 9.0 kernel installation part two

2003-11-05 Thread woodgrove
Hi, When booting a newly built kernel, it stops with the following message: Cannot open root device LABEL=/ or 00:00 I built the kernel from source, following these stages: make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install cp .config

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 9.0 kernel installation part two

2003-11-05 Thread Darren Williams
Hi woodgrove You need to explicitly tell the boot manager where the root partition is, I know it's stupid but I have had to do from day one on RedHat. So if you are using grub edit /etc/grub.conf and change the boot paramater root=LABEL=/ to root=your root part your root part could look

Re: [SLUG] php text recommendations

2003-11-05 Thread Brad Kowalczyk
Bernard Doyle wrote: One good book is : PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson It's currently in a 2nd Edition. It gets a rating of 4 on Amazon. It's really good if you are looking for PHP project design guidelines. For what it's worth, the authors are Australian as

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 9.0 kernel installation part two

2003-11-05 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:46:45 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi greg, When booting a newly built kernel, it stops with the following message: Cannot open root device LABEL=/ or 00:00 [snip] kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 9.0 kernel installation part two

2003-11-05 Thread Mike MacCana
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When booting a newly built kernel, it stops with the following message: Cannot open root device LABEL=/ or 00:00 e2label can show and change these labels. The reason the label is used is for hot pluggable drives - where sdc may

Re: [SLUG] php text recommendations

2003-11-05 Thread Darren Williams
Hi Bernard Doyle I used this book to set up a dynamic web page and database and it had all the info that I needed. Darren On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: Bernard Doyle wrote: One good book is : PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson It's currently

[SLUG] sendmail/procmail question

2003-11-05 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
all, I want to create mail aliases for my users so we can send SMS messages to their mobile phones. I was thinking something in the line of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this possbile to do with rules in sendmail? Can I do this with procmail? jobst -- Computers

Re: [SLUG] sendmail/procmail question

2003-11-05 Thread Tony Green
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:31, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: all, I want to create mail aliases for my users so we can send SMS messages to their mobile phones. I was thinking something in the line of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this possbile to do with rules in

Re: [SLUG] sendmail/procmail question

2003-11-05 Thread Mike MacCana
I'm spending a bit of time doing exactly that now. What SMS software are you using? smssend is working fine here, but email2smssend (which is designed to be stuck in a .forward file or aliases) seems to be having issues... Mike On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:31, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: all, I

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 9.0 kernel installation part two

2003-11-05 Thread Malik Jayawardena
Change the kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/ line to represent the hard disk/partition your booting from i.e. instead of root=LABEL=/ try somethinglike root=/dev/hda1 (I'm guessing you are using this because you already have root (hd0,0) stated in grub) [EMAIL

[SLUG] syslog.conf

2003-11-05 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi everyone, Simple question, how would I get syslog to write all messages starting with IPTABLES to a specific file, instead of /var/log/messages. I've read the syslog.conf man page but I just don't understand the syntax. Thanks heaps Chris Barnes -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

RE: [SLUG] php text recommendations

2003-11-05 Thread Chris Barnes
I also use this book and Its really handy. It does cover the basics of PHP and MySQL but it also gets into the thick areas too. I don't think I'd call it advanced though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard Doyle Sent: Thursday, 6

Re: [SLUG] syslog.conf

2003-11-05 Thread Shane Machon
Chris, You can get syslogd to use a specific file for all the kernel related messages (at the log priority you specify), this can include the firewall logs. If you JUST want iptables output, you might want to look into ULOGD, this is an alternate log format that is supported by IPTABLES. Havent