Some factors to consider:
1: are you running any non free, binary only software on the boxes? If you
are buying a product to run on linux I would say run it on one of the
supported platforms for the product, which will be one of the commercial
distributions. Otherwise you are not going to get
Hi James
You didnt say which version of vmware you are using, Im guessing 5.0.
See: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/intro_hostreq_ws.html
Your Kubuntu 2.6.12-9-686. is not supported. When you look on this page you
will see the latest 2.6 kernal supported is 2.6.9. You can probably get
You might like to look at the features of a NetApp filer. Particulary the
snapshots and dual partity raid features.
I recently evaluated some NAS systems. An essential requirement was for
users to be able to restore their own files from snapshots. I would not do
file serving to the average user
Hi Jill
We have a few vmware servers but are really we still rampping up.
I think you will want vmware esx which installs straight on your hardware.
It costs a little more than gsx, an lots more than workstation, but is more
efficient. vware's rule of thumb is 4 servers on gsx and 8 on esx.
on Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:35:24AM +1000, QuantumG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
down to Workstation. It's a little known fact that VMWare actually
writes their own kernel, specifically for running virtual machines. I
Hi QuantumG
Can you clarify this for me. is vmware esx it's own kernel or is
Hi all
I got myself a nice new laptop on the weekend. Dying to install linux on it
but cant as the bios cant see the dvd/cdrom and so I cant boot ANY cd from
this device.
The laptop is badged pioneer but it is a mitac 8355 (athlon 64 bit, 1GB
RAM). The bios is Insyde Mobile Pro Bios 4.00.05
Can anyone point me to the source of Xft2. I need at least version 2.1.2
for the new release of WindowMaker :-)
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Well we called stgeorge on the weekend. not supported OS, not supported
browser blah blah. Now we have an email address at stgeorge to send
questions regarding this to and I want to get a good email drafted.
Has anyone done this already? I dont want to waste time if someone else has
a goodn.
Can
What are the permissions on the directory that contains the file?
If the user has write access to the directory, they can remove anything it
contains.
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on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:37:27PM +1000, Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
Im a bit confused. Prob something simple.
Hi all
Im using
FEATURE(dnsbl,`spam.dnsrbl.net')dnl
and also have published an spf record and are rejecting based on spf
records.
I notice Im still recieving mail from domains where the domain does resove
but the MX records for the domain dont. Is there are way to reject these.
Other good
Is anyone using a portable ogg player? Anyone know where they might be
found?
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on Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 12:46:52PM +1000, Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The subject is half the story. Basically I want a application that
allows me to store, index and search email messages. Lets say something
that would handle up to 5gb.
Basically, my netscape messages are now
on Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:32:01AM +1000, Jared Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi -
Got a little problem. =)
We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message
from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an
attached virus.
We get tonnes of
Well, squid is running on linux!
Currently we run squid-2.4 latest stable, but upgrading to 2.5 lastest
stable is an option and from my reading so far this is probably needed.
The current squid was compiled with --enable-auth-modules=SMB and we have
a file on NT domain controller to limit
There is a product ($$$) called ContentKeeper which I think is worth
looking at. They build there databases of what site is what automatically
with all the ContentKeeper devices out their contributing to a central
databases. I think this design makes some sense.
I think it is linux inside. Its
Have you saved the offending attachment to disk and then run the file
command against it? You may find that it is in TNEF - Transport neutral
encapulated format (dont ask why such a thing exists). If so you can find
software on freshmeat to decode it.
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on Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:23:04AM +1100,
on Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:55:47AM +1100, Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As unfortunate as it is, I think the only way to combat spam is to
make it expensive to send by default.
...
Of course, with major email providers beginning to
the /usr/sbin/setclock command was part of the timeconfig rpm for RH8.
There doesnt seem to be a corresponding rpm for RH9. Can anyone tell me
what the RPM is for RH9 or point me to source to compile.
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the convert command from the ImageMagick collection.
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on Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:44:31PM +1100, Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
can anyone advise a command line that will allow me
to duplicate, resize and change the name of the duplicate
image?
I think it would be
if ( $string = /,/ == 0 )
should be
if ( $string =~ /,/ )
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on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:54:25PM +1100, Bernard Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am currently learning Perl. I have a problem that seems to be
related to the scoping of variables. Basically the program
on Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:22:11PM +1100, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GNUPlot is the coolest graphing program around. It will do absolutely
anything. Half my marks at Uni I attribute to being able to drive GNUPlot
to extremes.
GNPplot is certainly excellent. xmgrace is also
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:21:31PM +1100, Visser, Martin (Sydney) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
So a quick survey among Red Hat SLUGgers. I'm a long time RH user
currently with a few RH9 machines. So where are you going to go to?
Ill be going Debian. Ive only ever used RH but but I tend to compile
see the convert utility from the ImageMagick set of programs.
if its installed you could probably just do
for f in *.tif;do
g=`echo $f | sed -e 's/.tif$/.jpg/'`
convert $f $g
done
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on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:46:27PM +1100, Lyle Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does
I dont think it quite does what you want but I have
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
in my bashrc. There are some other HIST* environment variables that you
might like too.
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on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:58:01AM +, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
when I try to look up 'what was that
For typesetting sheet music you can use lilypond - it makes the best
looking sheet music Ive seen from a computer.
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on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:16:40PM +1000, Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
I'm looking for music composition software that runs in linux
any thoughts on this much
When you install just make sure you make new file systems on your
partitions - that will be enough.
However - you need to determine how you got cracked else, unless you change
something, you will get cracked again.
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on Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:44:51PM +1000, Dan Banyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:45:25PM +, Peter Fenelon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm goning to be installing a Linux server on a primary school network so as
to give year six students a bit of a play with something that is not
Windows.
My question is:
Is there a free terminal emulator
Im seeing similar stuff. Some spammer has set the reply-to address to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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on Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:25:01PM +1000, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm concerned that I'm being attacked in some way that I don't understand.
I've checked my logs and found over 400 unknown user
I can tell you it's in chapter 18 of the Advanced Perl Programming
Oreilly book. There is some documentation at perl.com.au, C and Perl -
the first two look like putting perl in C and the next calling C from perl.
It would seem that it's worth while buying the Perl CD bookshelf.
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on Fri, Mar
on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:01:11AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
G'day all
We use Samba here (2.2.6) and Squid. Due to our high internet usage, I've
had to block access for most people.
I've been allowing access on an IP basis, however this isn't ideal (we use
on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:38:33AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Samba server is a PDC (internal machine). Squid runs on the
gateway/firewall (seperate machine). Both are Mandrake 8.2 machines.
Squid is installed via the squid-2.4.STABLE4-2mdk.rpm (from Mandrake). Is
There are sites on the web that detail the best methods to use, one thing
they say is do it all in writting.
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on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:55:42AM +1100, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=Peter Domachuk
My question to the forum is: What degree of sucess has anyone out there
on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:22:03PM +1100, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
why take delivery of a box with the spam os on it? I bought my last two
boxes without any software at all; and expect to continue purchasing
that way
Thats my thought too. If they wont sell you a box without and OS go
Im running RH-8 and vmware 3.2 right now. I didnt seem to have much trouble
getting it going. If anyone needs help getting it going email me - I think
the only issue is the verion of gcc that is supplied (rh-8 moved from the
infamous 2.96 to 3.2)
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on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:58:45AM +1100,
Is it really worth doing? I picked up a PII-350 with 128MB, 3GB HD (no
monitor, keyboard mouse) via this list for $135. (Thanks richard). With a
low resource window manager and browser this sort of system would be quite
usable for only a little outlay. The frustrations the 486 would give the
end
I had similar problems, I could only get root on software raid if I did it
during install time. I havent had a chance to work more on it.
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on Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:18:55AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
G'day all...
I'm trying to mount of a software RAID drive as
Can any ISP admins give me an idea of how much traffic is downloaded for
the major top level groups. Ie how much will be downloading per day or week
if we decide to bring in all of comp. and all of aus.
TIA
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on Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:03:01PM +1100, Andrew Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hay guys,
If anyone can point me in the direction of a working base64 decoder i would
be most appreciative.
Prize : cookie
The best ive found is uudeview. search freshmeat for it.
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We I installed a compaq machine with smart array controller and tape drive,
the scsi adaptor part of the smar array controller wasnt supported by
linux. I did notice that it now is but cant remember which kernel I saw it
in - perhaps a 2.5 series.
on Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:11:35PM +1100, Des
You will find the answer at the seder grab bag
http://spazioinwind.libero.it/seders/
go to the tutorial and then the one liners. I think you want
sed -n '/start/,/end/p'
on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:40:02PM +1100, Andrew Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi guys,
I hopefully have an easy
Im using my compiled rxvt (2.7.8 and 2.6.4) and have also tested with an
rh-7.3 rpm. Where other termial programs (gnome-terminal and xterm) show
color in man pages, rxvt shows control codes. Color for ls listing is
working fine.
Anybody else having this problem. Better still, anybody else solved
on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:49:14AM +1000, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but if you need a donation O2 machine, i will swing the matter by my boss
and see if he still wants it for some strange and obscure reason.
if he doesnt need it, then i'll see what i can do :)
Ill make a bid!
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on Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:36:05AM +1000, Peter Rundle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sluggers,
When I try to compile some 'C' code against the opendwg libraries
using
gcc mycode.c ar2.r -o myexe
you ¨-lm¨ on your command line and #include maths.h in your source.
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I installed xp afer linux and my grub is gone. Ive booted from the floppy,
how do I get grub back on the HD?
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fixed with an xmodmap
on Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:19:01PM +1000, Broun, Bevan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Im running rh-8.0 on a new compaq evo n1000c.
Ive managed to get X up and running ok, gnome work fine - but I dont like
gnome (or kde), Im a WindowMaker man.
WindowMaker and at least one
on Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:40:04PM +1000, Colin Humphreys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tar czvf filename.tar.gz .*
tar czvf filename.tar.gz .??*
that wont get a dot file with only 1 other letter .x
ls -A |grep ^\. is a good way to get all dirs and files that start with .
but not . and ..
so
Im running rh-8.0 on a new compaq evo n1000c.
Ive managed to get X up and running ok, gnome work fine - but I dont like
gnome (or kde), Im a WindowMaker man.
WindowMaker and at least one other app (rxvt) dont recognise my enter key
correctly. Ive tried the WindowMaker I complied and the rpm
on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:43:24PM +1000, Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
** BUT do listen to the weather reports each evening. **
If a thunderstorm is predicted turn em off and disconnect the power
I have heard of pcs being zapped down the telephone line, so modems should
be pulled out
on Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:38:33AM +1000, Wayne Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I might be wrong about this and someone can correct me if I am, but I
believe that redhat make changes to the kernel source hence the -3
after the kernel number.
This is correct. If you are going to use rpm
on Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:33:38AM +1000, Lyle Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hey,
Does anybody know if Red Hat 7.3 supports firewire, I had a look at RH's web
site compatability list but they do not seem to list it.
If anybody does use firewire on RH could they let me know of any mods
Im using RH-7.3. Does anyone know of the RPM that provides the server to
anwser rdate requests? (timed)
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on Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 02:37:43AM +1000, Chris Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
hi people,
this might seem like a really stupid question but i'll ask anyway (coz i'm
stupid).
Is there anyway I could compile something for a sparc platform on an intel
platform??
Yes you should be able to
What version of perl is your script using? It sounds like you have both 5.6
and 5.8 installed with the script using 5.6 but the version used to install
the modules (and probably the first in your PATH) being 5.8, but this is
just a guess.
do type -a perl and then use full pathname with for perl
I used to get this, then I compliled my own xscreensavers and used that
instead of the RH version - problem solved.
Now Im on RH-7.2 (with out my own xscreensavers) and also
dont have the problem.
on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:32:41AM +1000, Graeme Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This morning I
how about make tmp.log or even make tmp.log 21
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on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:27:32AM +1000, Karun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could use the script command
and run something like
script tmp.log
make
exit
Karun
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From: henry
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:03:08AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8 Apr, Broun, Bevan wrote:
Just a note: make sure your dont compile with that RH gcc (2.96).
Why not? It's the default version of gcc on RH7.2, and I did nothing
special for building any of the 2
you would not normaly mount a tape (thought Im sure it can be done). Do you
know the command that was used to do the backup? Assuming it was tar, the
command you want is
tar -xvf /dev/st0
while your current directory is some place with lots of space, perhaps an
freshly made filesystem.
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on
on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:04:28PM +1000, Matt Hyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would not suggest upgrading RH kernels using RPM.
Honestly, I would download the latest kernel source from
mirror.aarnet.edu.au (I am using 2.4.18 at the moment) and build my own -
at least then you know what
I dont think this can be done as vim doesnt have 'vi' command line editing,
it's emacs style only. Ie, you can 'esc' and then $ to end of line or 0 to start of
line ...
on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 04:44:47PM +1100, Nick Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Afternoon,
Can anyone help me with a vim
on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:39:14PM +1030, David Fitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:52:36AM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote:
it also gives an error when i do
named -v
it just gives the options. it's possibly running debian i think.
uname doesn't give any clues
just on
I also use reiserfs for my /home file system. Is anyone able to download or
has reiserfsprogs-3.x.1a.tar.gz. I get (or dont get):
ftp get reiserfsprogs-3.x.1a.tar.gz
502 Command not implemented
If anyone has a reiserfsprogs-3.x.1* can you please send
TIA
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on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:14:04PM +0900, Antony Stace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone please enlighten me on how to yank from mark a to mark b and place
it in
1. the default no name buffer
:'a,'by
I didnt know it myself, :h y and :h range in vim gets the answer.
2. a named
Has anyone used the virtual network interface feature that has been
included in the kernel since 2.4.14? Turning on the feature and compiling
the kernel is easy. Getting the vconfig program compiled is causing me
headaches.
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A freshmeat search turns up ftp-utils, which looks like it will also give
you want you want.
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on Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:32:12AM +1100, Michael Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Michael Still wrote:
I am after a library that implements FTP in a manner which makes it
on Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:47:16PM +1100, Rob B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Somehow, I have managed to wipe out my /etc/fstab file.
I have managed to mount / but I an unable to correct /etc/fstab, since I
either appear unable to login as root, or the volume is mounted read-only.
You probably
on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:17:17PM +1100, Paul Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Well there are now Linux stickers around my classroom and one machine
will be a dual OS machine with Windows 98 and SuSE 7.3. The test will
I think it might be better to have one machine setup as a linux
on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:57:56PM +1100, SH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sluggers,
I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with restricting cpu/memory
usage for users in a Solaris environment.
I dont, but man ulimit might help.
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on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:47:57AM +1100, George Vieira
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Is there a way to subtract the number of days remaining from a date so I can
report back 125 days remaining etc.. under linux/perl?
I want to subtract it from a date which will be a special event
Its been a while since I used cups. I had the some problems with printing =
cups and used printing = lprng instead and then defined all the printing
commands (full path).
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on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:25:02PM +1100, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
So, from reading the
on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:32:55AM +1100, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I put /var/spool/mail on its own partition in order to impose user
quotas on the the bulk of INBOXs, can I override those quotas for selected
power users by symlink'ng their INBOX to somewhere else that is not
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:53:07PM +1100, Jonathan Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all you sed-heads,
I was sure it was possible to get sed to match a line
containing a re and the next n lines by doing something
like
/find text/,+3s/old text/new string/
The seder's grab-bag may help
This is a message from the sunmanagers mail list. Anyone able to help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with linux on sun hardware?
The sun in question is a bit old now, linux may well be a good idea for it
for the same reasons that it's good on older PCs. But I havent any linux on
sparc experiance.
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on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:37:54AM +1100, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I should have RTFM man first.
ls -lab show the file name to be \ \ so I have now answered my own
question.
Note that such file names are often used by crackers as a place to put
stuff.
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on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:35:50PM +1000, James Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have RedHat 7.2, and is it any good? I have been sorely
disappointed with the two previous Red Hats, becuz they shipped with
intermediate versions of GCC, my most important tool. Having an officially
You need to put quotes around your variables. This is from the advanced
bash scripting document that was posted to freshmeat.net a while ago, you
might find that a good download.
20 echo hello# Not a variable reference, just the string hello.
21
22 echo $hello
23 echo ${hello}
Any one seen any music transcription software for Linux - I'm hunting now.
Im not sure what your after. Lilypond (Tex bases) creates great looking
sheet music.
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on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:02:16PM -1000, cpaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi - i have two plaintext files
i want to merge them, discarding duplicate lines
is there an easy way ?
cat file1 file2 | sort | uniq
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