Re: [SLUG] Masquerding not compatible with DHCPD (dynamicipgeneration

2004-03-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:49:22PM +1100, Roger Salisbury wrote: I extended the range to : range 10.0.0.0 10.0.0.253; This probably isn't a good idea. Your gateway should have a static IP address on its local interface - you mentioned 10.0.0.1 earlier, so make sure it's configured with

[SLUG] Forwarding netbios broadcasts

2004-03-25 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I was wondering if any one has been able to get netbios broadcasts to be routed with out installing samba, i know on cisco ios you have an netbios forward broadcast option. Is there some thing similiar under linux ? a deamon that might do this ? Alex signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [SLUG] Masquerding not compatible with DHCPD (dynamicipgeneration

2004-03-25 Thread Roger Salisbury
This probably isn't a good idea. Thanks for the tip, Pete! -- Roger On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:49:22PM +1100, Roger Salisbury wrote: I extended the range to : "range 10.0.0.0 10.0.0.253;" This probably isn't a good idea. Your gateway should have a static IP address on its local

Re: [SLUG] PowerPoint Analogue.

2004-03-25 Thread Richard Neal
Sorry for the slow reply.. Well I like kile because it offers many of the features of emacs without all the keyboard kludge, and gets you started on the project fast with pre-formated forms etc (not saying you cant do the same with emacs its just emacs isn't for me) and kile is very visual the

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Vice President

2004-03-25 Thread Peter Hardy
Mary Gardiner wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004, Craige McWhirter wrote: Peter Hardy The vice has never been so good. Heh, thanks Craige and Ben. I accept. Seeing as there's only one nomination for president, I'd also like to put myself forward for this. If nothing else, Jan should work a little for

Re: [SLUG] Re: problems with Harris Technology and browsers

2004-03-25 Thread Heracles
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone is having problems with accessing Harris Technology's web site please send them feedback. might ask you for the type of browser you are using and the type of problems you are experiencing with their web site. Maybe they might

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Vice President

2004-03-25 Thread Tony Green
This one time, at bandcamp, Peter Hardy said : Heh, thanks Craige and Ben. I accept. Seeing as there's only one nomination for president, I'd also like to put myself forward for this. If nothing else, Jan should work a little for his stripes. :-) Seconded. I vote for a steel cage match.

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Vice President

2004-03-25 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Peter Hardy); Will that do? You forgot to mention how you fixed the horrible, horrible list searching function. ;-) - Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Vice President

2004-03-25 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004, Peter Hardy wrote: Heh, thanks Craige and Ben. I accept. Seeing as there's only one nomination for president, I'd also like to put myself forward for this. Updated http://www.slug.org.au/2004/election.html -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Vice President

2004-03-25 Thread Peter Hardy
Chris Deigan wrote: quote(Peter Hardy); Will that do? You forgot to mention how you fixed the horrible, horrible list searching function. ;-) It shouldn't count if I only did it last week. :-) But yeah. I'll probably be rejigging the indexing jobs, but searching the SLUG mailing lists works

[SLUG] External USB Hard Drive Case + HDD

2004-03-25 Thread Gerard Blacklock
Slug, Anyone had any luck in getting an external USB hard drive to work under linux? I have had the USB keys working fine by mounting as FAT no probs, Any pointers on where to look regarding this issue? not 100% sure where to start! gerard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Committee Nomination

2004-03-25 Thread Chris Deigan
If it's not too late, I'd like to nominate Grant Parnell for Secretary or ordinary committee member. - Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Committee Nomination

2004-03-25 Thread Shaun Oliver
at the risk of being helpful, Chris Deigan delivered up the following on Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:47:36PM +1100, If it's not too late, I'd like to nominate Grant Parnell for Secretary or ordinary committee member. Grant Parnell is anything but ordinary. his signature says so. and yes Grant I

Re: [SLUG] External USB Hard Drive Case + HDD

2004-03-25 Thread David Kempe
Gerard Blacklock wrote: Slug, Anyone had any luck in getting an external USB hard drive to work under linux? I have had the USB keys working fine by mounting as FAT no probs, Any pointers on where to look regarding this issue? not 100% sure where to start! gerard is it usb2? you need a

[SLUG] Evolution Importing Netscape Mail

2004-03-25 Thread Terry Collins
Okay, for the umpteeth time I'me trying to give Evolution a run. The problem is whenever I start it new and it goes to import the old mail from Netscape, the import dies with Too many open files. It there someway I can get around this? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au

[SLUG] Another SGI Indy

2004-03-25 Thread Jose Tavares
I´m writting to this list, specially to Chris MacKenzie and to the guy who got the free SGI Indy.. I found here in Brazil one of this machines for a few bucks and I want to know how debian runs in it.. The purpose of the buy is to hack, play and have a first try on SGI machines :) My questions

Re: [SLUG] Masquerding not compatible with DHCPD (dynamic ip generation)

2004-03-25 Thread Roger Salisbury
SAME BUT with my dhcpd.conf added #/etc/dhcpd.conf ddns-update-style interim; ignore client-updates; subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.10; default-lease-time 86400; max-lease-time 86400; ## --- default gateway option routers 10.0.0.1; # option subnet-mask

Re: [SLUG] Committee Nomination

2004-03-25 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004, Chris Deigan wrote: If it's not too late, I should be very clear about this: IT IS NOT TOO LATE. We will in fact be taking nominations tonight. However, if anyone else nominates here, I'm not sure it will get on the webpage today, make sure you check with me tonight...

Re: [SLUG] Committee nomination: Jaime Hemmett

2004-03-25 Thread Jaime Hemmett
Dear SLUG (and Secretary), Due to growing work committments I'll withdraw myself in the running from the SLUG committee. I'll help out where I can though as a volunteer. I would also like to second Grant Parnell for each position he's nominated for - His volunteering has been a great help and

[SLUG] Problems with .tv?

2004-03-25 Thread Tony Green
I'm kinda cut off at the moment from access at the moment and have found, to my horror this morning, that the .tv domain structure seems to have gone on safari. I have a few .tv's and all of them now resolv to 65.201.175.144. I've checked netsol's whois and I'm still the owner. The auth DNS

Re: [SLUG] Committee nomination: Jaime Hemmett

2004-03-25 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004, Jaime Hemmett wrote: Dear SLUG (and Secretary), Due to growing work committments I'll withdraw myself in the running from the SLUG committee. I'll help out where I can though as a volunteer. I would also like to second Grant Parnell for each position he's nominated

Re: [SLUG] External USB Hard Drive Case + HDD

2004-03-25 Thread Brett Fenton
I've got a Lacie 120GB USB2 external HDD. There wasn't much required to get it going. I already had USB2 working and also USB-storage, basically I just plugged it in, looked in /proc/scsi and it was there as /dev/scd2 from memory (as I already had two ide cd-r's in the box as scd1 and 2). From

Re: [SLUG] External USB Hard Drive Case + HDD

2004-03-25 Thread Michael Fox
I've got a Lacie 120GB USB2 external HDD. There wasn't much required to get it going. I already had USB2 working and also USB-storage, basically I just plugged it in, looked in /proc/scsi and it was there as /dev/scd2 from memory (as I already had two ide cd-r's in the box as scd1 and 2).

Re: [SLUG] External USB Hard Drive Case + HDD

2004-03-25 Thread Dave Kempe
Michael Fox wrote: Is firewire storage devices just as easy? My drive is a combo usb2/firewire400 case, but I don't use the usb2 side of it since usb2 is so slow and uses up endless cpu cycles. I just haven't got around to trying it out on linux machine. Guess I probably should attempt it. yep

Re: [SLUG] Evolution Importing Netscape Mail

2004-03-25 Thread Gottfried Szing
Terry Collins wrote: Okay, for the umpteeth time I'me trying to give Evolution a run. The problem is whenever I start it new and it goes to import the old mail from Netscape, the import dies with Too many open files. It there someway I can get around this? what i have done a long time ago was

[SLUG] WAS: External USB Hard Drive Case NOW firewire :)

2004-03-25 Thread Michael Fox
yep firewire is about as easy. awesome. the rescan-scsi-bus.sh script helps... usb2 sucks cpu way too much and firewire cards aren't expensive. usb2 certainly does suck cpu cycles.. I was getting about 1.3GB/min out of my drive and case. Which is more then enough. Besides it would transfer

Re: [SLUG] Committee Nomination

2004-03-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 08:44, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004, Chris Deigan wrote: If it's not too late, I should be very clear about this: IT IS NOT TOO LATE. We will in fact be taking nominations tonight. However, if anyone else nominates here, I'm not sure it will get on

Re: [SLUG] Web blocking software - anyone know of any good stuff?

2004-03-25 Thread Dave
DaZZa, I use squid and squidGuard for proxy/blocking. I run samba back-end into LDAP, and use my LDAP server as authentication for PROXY use. For LDAP authentication I used the following. I expect that you could do the same for AD integration. In my squid.conf =-=- ## Added for LDAP

Re: [SLUG] Problems with .tv?

2004-03-25 Thread Tony Green
I'm kinda cut off at the moment from access at the moment and have found, to my horror this morning, that the .tv domain structure seems to have gone on safari. Looks like, according to www.tv (verisign), it's a 'technical issue' with no estimated fix time. Ah well, email's for wimps -- Tony

Re: [SLUG] Evolution Importing Netscape Mail

2004-03-25 Thread Stephen Reynolds
Terry Collins wrote: Okay, for the umpteeth time I'me trying to give Evolution a run. The problem is whenever I start it new and it goes to import the old mail from Netscape, the import dies with Too many open files. It there someway I can get around this? A simple way is to open a free IMAP

Re: [SLUG] External USB Hard Drive Case + HDD

2004-03-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 23:18, Gerard Blacklock wrote: Anyone had any luck in getting an external USB hard drive to work under linux? I have had the USB keys working fine by mounting as FAT no probs, If your drive is supported, then getting it going is about as easy as using a USB key. Any

Re: [SLUG] Problems with .tv?

2004-03-25 Thread Grant Parnell
Looks like jkljhlkajhslkjh.tv or anything.tv resolves to the same IP... Hmm... looks like they're trying what they did with .com a few months back only it's really backfired. On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Tony Green wrote: I'm kinda cut off at the moment from access at the moment and have found, to

[SLUG] Decimal places in bash script

2004-03-25 Thread Andrew Wilson
Hello all, Probably an easy one .. but its friday.. i have a headache and a spare copy for the person that provides the answer. I have a script that is returning me number varibles with decimal places in them. e.g 129.384756% 75.12872% What bash command would i use to round this above

RE: [SLUG] Decimal places in bash script

2004-03-25 Thread Andrew Wilson
printf %10.2f 1234567891011 No cookies for any of you :)... Unless you tell me of a better way :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Wilson Sent: Friday, 26 March 2004 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Decimal places in

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 12, Issue 71

2004-03-25 Thread James Ferguson
Quoting James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 17:53, James Ferguson wrote: I agree with your diagnosis -- Kernel modules don't generally play nice between kernel versions. At I guess I would be thinking that what happens is more that Fedora can somehow detect that the module

Re: [SLUG] Decimal places in bash script

2004-03-25 Thread Roger Barnes
I have a script that is returning me number varibles with decimal places in them. e.g 129.384756% 75.12872% What bash command would i use to round this above numbers to 2 decimal Here's a really kludgy, ugly, inelegant (you get the idea) way using bc that worked for me once ...

Re: [SLUG] Re: problems with Harris Technology and browsers

2004-03-25 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:09:40PM +1100, Heracles wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone is having problems with accessing Harris Technology's web site please send them feedback. might ask you for the type of browser you are using and the type of

Re: [SLUG] Forwarding netbios broadcasts

2004-03-25 Thread Simon Wong
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 18:40, Alexander Samad wrote: I was wondering if any one has been able to get netbios broadcasts to be routed with out installing samba, i know on cisco ios you have an netbios forward broadcast option. Is there some thing similiar under linux ? a deamon that might do

[SLUG] displaying decimal places

2004-03-25 Thread Andrew Wilson
Love fun happiness... I was wondering if anyone knew of a command that would display the sum of a mathamatical equation that would be less than 1, eg .6722 etc. I.e expr 100 / 123 would return the result of 0 but i need a way to display the true value of it. I could of sworn expr was

Re: [SLUG] displaying decimal places

2004-03-25 Thread Christopher Vance
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 01:53:39PM +1100, Andrew Wilson wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a command that would display the sum of a mathamatical equation that would be less than 1, eg .6722 etc. bc(1), dc(1). -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] displaying decimal places

2004-03-25 Thread Roger Barnes
bc does that too (it is your uncooperative friend when bash runs out of fingers) ... $ echo 100 / 123 | bc -l .81300813008130081300 or ... $ echo scale=4; 100 / 123 | bc -l .8130 Whaddya know, writing all that map server leeching code came in handy. :p *munch* - Rog Andrew Wilson wrote: I was

[SLUG] Final call for proxies

2004-03-25 Thread Mary Gardiner
Anyone else sending a proxy to the AGM tonight? Please mail committee ASAP (no later than 3pm) to inform us, otherwise send your proxy with written authorisation. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] Committee Nomination

2004-03-25 Thread Dan Treacy
Apologise for the lateness but better late than never Just looking at the election page and things seem a little threadbare in terms of numbers. So in the interests of choice I'm putting my hand up for Ordinary Ctte Member. The Blurb: Been around SLUG since the days of some of the very first

[SLUG] Installing linux on Sun Blade 100 - firmware password ??

2004-03-25 Thread Matt Hyne
Folks, we inherited a Sun Blade 100 which we are going to linux but because it has an existing FW password we cannot get bay further. Does anyone know how to reset the FW password on this box. I don't care about any of the existing settings. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Committee Nomination

2004-03-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Dan Treacy Just looking at the election page and things seem a little threadbare in terms of numbers. So in the interests of choice I'm putting my hand up for Ordinary Ctte Member. Seconded! - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norwayhttp://2004.guadec.org/

Re: [SLUG] displaying decimal places

2004-03-25 Thread James Gray
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:53 pm, Andrew Wilson wrote: Love fun happiness... I was wondering if anyone knew of a command that would display the sum of a mathamatical equation that would be less than 1, eg .6722 etc. I.e expr 100 / 123 would return the result of 0 but i need a way to display

Re: [SLUG] Installing linux on Sun Blade 100 - firmware password ??

2004-03-25 Thread James Gray
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 03:43 pm, Matt Hyne wrote: Folks, we inherited a Sun Blade 100 which we are going to linux but because it has an existing FW password we cannot get bay further. Does anyone know how to reset the FW password on this box. I don't care about any of the existing settings.

Re: [SLUG] Committee Nomination

2004-03-25 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Dan Treacy); Just looking at the election page and things seem a little threadbare in terms of numbers. So in the interests of choice I'm putting my hand up for Ordinary Ctte Member. Seconded! Updated nominations page! - Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] CUPS assumptions

2004-03-25 Thread Nick Croft
* Glen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: CUPS has its own access controls, much like those in Apache. They are in the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and by default they limit access to the administrative interface to the local machine. See the Location /admin clauses in cupsd.conf. Thanks

Re: [SLUG] Decimal places in bash script

2004-03-25 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Andrew Wilson wrote: Hello all, Probably an easy one .. but its friday.. i have a headache and a spare copy for the person that provides the answer. I have a script that is returning me number varibles with decimal places in them. e.g 129.384756% 75.12872% What

Re: [SLUG] displaying decimal places

2004-03-25 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Andrew Wilson wrote: Love fun happiness... I was wondering if anyone knew of a command that would display the sum of a mathamatical equation that would be less than 1, eg .6722 etc. I.e expr 100 / 123 would return the result of 0 but i need a way to display the

[SLUG] bash pptp heartbeat script

2004-03-25 Thread Amanda
Have a pptp connection from SME server to windows 2000 vpn server. I'm looking for a bash script which will periodically (launched from cron) ping a machine on the remote network and restart pptp if it doesn't respond. I wrote a similar thing for dos years ago which captured the output of ping

Re: [SLUG] Forwarding netbios broadcasts

2004-03-25 Thread Glen Turner
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 13:03, Simon Wong wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 18:40, Alexander Samad wrote: I was wondering if any one has been able to get netbios broadcasts to be routed with out installing samba, i know on cisco ios you have an netbios forward broadcast option. Is there some

Re: [SLUG] bash pptp heartbeat script

2004-03-25 Thread James Gregory
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:14, Amanda wrote: Have a pptp connection from SME server to windows 2000 vpn server. I'm looking for a bash script which will periodically (launched from cron) ping a machine on the remote network and restart pptp if it doesn't respond. I wrote a similar thing for

Re: [SLUG] bash pptp heartbeat script

2004-03-25 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:14:51PM +1100, Amanda wrote: I'm looking for a bash script which will periodically (launched from cron) ping a machine on the remote network and restart pptp if it doesn't respond. Just use the exit status of ping, e.g.: ping -nqc 1 $remote_host /dev/null 21