RE: [SLUG] mouse pointer offsets to right

If this is on a laptop, it's most likely the trackpad having a hardware failure. The Dells at work (NT) often do this just before the keyboard dies. - Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Systems Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018

RE: [SLUG] ask wake up by PID

jobs fg %1 (also fg %2, fg %3 for other stopped jobs) Regards, Jill -- Jill Rowling, Systems Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SLUG] bash script function

What's wrong with this? for i in $companies; do process ... done ? PS: I'm sure someone is going to try to make a buck by putting all the SLUG bash questions in an exam that you have to sit for ... (just kidding) - Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Systems Administrator Eng. Systems Dept

RE: [SLUG] Question regarding sysv scripts

time) after which it shuts the FW down. I think HA server configurations do something like this only they use a serial line separately connected to do the server up sensing. The background task could be either a cron job (messy) or a normal program or a daemon. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling

RE: [SLUG] Printing to closest printer

could shed some light on that project? Other than that, your suggestion sounds alright. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Systems Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] Transmeta based systems

booting from flash. 4) Be prepared to pay a lot of money for hardware emulators. Software emulators are a lot cheaper but then you have the pain of having to debug something that you don't know whether it has a hardware or software fault 5) Lotsa luck! Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Systems

RE: [SLUG] How to append a PDF file into another PDF file

though there are some packages already written that do this sort of thing. I think Tower Software has some back-end packages for $$ as it's part of their main line of business. Google is probably the best bet in this case. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Systems Administrator Eng. Systems Dept

RE: [SLUG] hello

Leave the virus-trolls alone! There's another 'doze virus going round that emails rubbish apparently from people in an infected machine's mailbox. In this case neither the apparent sendor nor the receiver necessarily has a virus. Enjoy ;) -- Jill Rowling, Systems Administrator Eng. Systems

[SLUG] Linux on Sun equipment

: In a dramatic departure in February, though, the company embraced Linux as well, with Chief Executive Scott McNealy dressing as Tux Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Systems Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484

RE: [SLUG] Can't change user passwords - NIS

trusting about other hosts!) Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message

RE: [SLUG] Sync of filesystem on multiple SCSI hosts

and, well, NFS is a bit like magic. Both machines would be able to see the mounted partition provided it was mounted as NFS. Warning: some of the NASs run Windoze; avoid if you are using it with an all-Linux system as you are only paying for a license you don't need (blablabla). Cheers, Jill. -- Jill

RE: [SLUG] Help with fdisk please

And of course these limits only apply to x86 architecture, not to DEC Alphas, Suns, other things. They probably won't apply to ia64 either. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave

RE: [SLUG] Help with fdisk please

AFAIK it's a hardware limit with the x86 MoBo designs - Jill -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 and fsck

Your machine has a hardware fault. Fix that up first then worry about the software afterwards. You'll have to go ferretting with a diagnostic disk to find the problem, or take it to a computer shop. Sounds like a dead MoBo. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System

RE: [SLUG] ftp client - MORE

website). Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bernhard Lüder

RE: [SLUG] Strange shutdown -h now behaviour

something). As init will still be running if there is a process running, you will still have interrupts and a scheduler running. If it's X86 architecture you might also have a look at the power management (BIOS) settings and check that it can be shut down that way. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling

RE: [SLUG] Solaris 8 vs Linux

on the Intel. For Web apps it really doesn't matter. And in both cases you can create farms and failover configurations. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02

RE: [SLUG] To kludge or not to kludge

running by anyone (including console) and get rid of any .X* or whatever session files. (hehehe an opportunity to get rid of Netscape rubbish too!) You can always run fuser on them to see if they are still used by anything. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator

RE: [SLUG] Shocking Service

all the other towns have done their thing in it for about 1500 km. You really want bottled water there. OTOH Melbourne tap water is excellent, you could probably top up your car battery with it (comes from Eildon Reservoir amongst others). -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator

RE: [SLUG] cant telnet

After adduser or useradd you need to set the password for the user (unless -p was used). passwd henry This will prompt for henry's password. Until this is set, user henry cannot login. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat

RE: [SLUG] trashing

Just put Netscape on it and give it to a kid! -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message

RE: [SLUG] tar /proc

what you expect. man fuser Regards, Jill -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message

RE: [SLUG] PDF, ghostscript and printing.

Your friend has possibly sent it in Acrobat 5 which is not supported by *ix because Acrobat haven't ported it yet. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone

RE: [SLUG] Suse disk thrashing

in the disk controller which would help to iron out this activity. I'd suggest to go back to EXT2 on older hardware. It's quick and reliable and you just have to put up with the fsck upon startup. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat

RE: [SLUG] Proposed joint trainning between TRIComm CBNSW

. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE

RE: [SLUG] A quota question

My understanding of quotas is that, yes, you can do this, however the better way to do it is just to have 0 in those special users' quota entries. That way you can back them up and so on but they won't be included in the quota calculations. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix

RE: [SLUG] Solaris OS

of UFS to keep two effective journals running at once (or so I'm told), and the snap mount can just be deleted when you are finished with it. Though it apparently makes the system run slower when you are doing things. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng

RE: [SLUG] Solaris OS

-- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Rachel Polanskis [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] Memory upgrade

Looks like the BIOS didn't recognise the memory speed. I'd go into BIOS setup and check that it is reporting what you've put in, and hasn't downgraded it to something slower. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies

RE: [SLUG] command line argument

You might have been thinking of ./a.out file1 file2 Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SLUG] Question for a friend

He might be better off leaving it as a Linux-only system and running his app under Wine? -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email

RE: [SLUG] Shell scripting challenge (or not)

fred=`cat mytextfile` for i in $fred ; do find . -name $i -print -exec rm {} \; done There are probably lots more ways to do it. You need to be aware though that if the file occurs more than once, both will be removed. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems

RE: [SLUG] Big file uploads through a web pages

like (in.ftpd -t timeout) Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message

RE: [SLUG] Big file uploads through a web pages

/write outside of their sandbox. I also have a cron job that clears out the sandbox once a week. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02

RE: [SLUG] /etc/new-passwd creation

You might want to investigate using alternative name services like NIS (internal networks only) or LDAP (see SLUG talk) rather than dink round with the /etc files. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd

RE: [SLUG] cron running some scheduled jobs twice

Flat battery? -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: John Clarke [mailto

RE: [SLUG] cron running some scheduled jobs twice

our old 486 does weird things so that might not always be the case. My Athlon seems to keep the clock stable once powered up. I seem to recall reading somewhere in man hwclock that you can periodically reset it in case of drift. 3) No. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System

FW: [SLUG] RE: openz.org (was: Aussie IT deficit hits $15bn)

Yes it is GPL'd - look at the top of the page on http://www.openz.org/ -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SLUG] XP launch

were pretty crowd-pulling just looking at the displays. As for kernel launches, well certain kernel hackers do tend to pull crowds at places like Atlanta! -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave

RE: [SLUG] FW: Optus@Home running on Linux.

will know any better. /tall tale Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message

RE: [SLUG] Compltetly OT -el Presidente, perfect pitch and boids

} or perfect {ball throwing ability} or perfect {way boat sits on water} And you think computers can be taught to understand english? Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW

RE: [SLUG] Why the different platforms

a Dell laptop. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Minh Van

RE: [SLUG] Document Management Systems

the customer's engineers know better, but the PHBs have the purse strings and the engineers don't! Who do you believe? Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone

RE: [SLUG] Document management systems

. That's why people usually use a license host with high reliability hardware like a sparc rather than a PC. The license codes usually cost more than the hardware, so you don't want to be changing the hostid of the license server anytime soon. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix

RE: [SLUG] redhat 7.1 firewall

to write stuff for! Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From

RE: [SLUG] Hotplug and cached Disk writes

thought - what about using the printer spooler (Er yuk, cancel that thought... NO operating system handles printing nicely!) Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018

RE: [SLUG] redhat 7.1 firewall

pid_of_xinetd eg kill -USR1 676 Then it should work for you. You might want to revise your firewall rules if you are going to connect the machine directly to the internet with the telnet service enabled. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept

RE: [SLUG] redhat 7.1 firewall

1 runlevel.dir 2 sendmail.pid 1 sshd.pid wc: syslogd.pid: Permission denied 1 utmp 1 xfs.pid 0 xinetd.dump 1 xinetd.pid [rowling@rb-01120 run]$ cat sendmail.pid 717 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng

RE: [SLUG] 4x Displays under Linux X?

http://www.sgi.com/visualization/graphics_cluster/index.html -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SLUG] Rescue operation.

, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE

RE: [SLUG] Remote X login on RH 7.1 - followup

OK, that's fixed it now, thanks, TERM=xterm .. and testing on both remote Xterminal, local console, root user and normal user is all OK now. Indeed I was getting confused (as probably anyone who has tried to man X11)! Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System

RE: [SLUG] Remote X login on RH 7.1 - followup

-onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel Now ^h does in fact perform a backspace erase on both. But the backspace key only erases on the Sun and not on the Linux system. By the way, if I telnet to the Linux system, backspace/erase works fine. Any more ideas? Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng

RE: [SLUG] Remote X login on RH 7.1 - followup

, vi or emacs, or running say xclock. I guess that's just an annoyance rather than a showstopper but it is curious. Cheers, Jill. (who has some happier users atm, thanks Ian) -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor

RE: [SLUG] ipchains logging to console

Disk full? -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Howard Lowndes [mailto

RE: [SLUG] to C/H/S, or not to C/H/S?

I wonder if fdisk was just reporting the existing partition arrangements first? Although both drives were the same brand (I hope), possibly one was partitioned by the manufacturer or reseller beforehand. If it now works, I wouldn't worry about it. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng

RE: [SLUG] Samba hooks in Perl?

it like FTP. That is, I just get the files I need (using cron) and work on them with PERL on a local disk rather than through the temperamental SMB interface. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77

RE: [SLUG] hot swap IDE HDD

, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: eurk-dsl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SLUG] FTP transfer

the paths for executables might be different. (/bin/ftp is the path for old Solaris 2.5.1, just put in the correct path for your installation) There are probably lots more ways to do it, but I think the environment is the difference in your case. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng

RE: [SLUG] alternative file systems

had any experience running Reiser and XFS on the same machine (different partitions of course). Oh, FWIW SCSI, SuSE, Athlon. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018

RE: [SLUG] Fw: Side issue about Sydney Linux User Group

As distinct from the GNU/HURD Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message

RE: [SLUG] A weird one with Star Office

I can't remember but I think there is a selection somewhere that reverts everything to as installed. That's probably what you want. Regards Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery

RE: [SLUG] print to pdf

as to avoid things like a filename called: myfile;cat /etc/passwd (or worse) which most well behaved ? M$ programs can't generate but someone else might. Keep in mind many people run smbd / nmbd as root so just be careful with those passed filenames. Fun though. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des

RE: [SLUG] Whats the go with this list ?

hehehe it's PMT. Lists get it every time there's a long weekend coming up. - Jill -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] Task bar under KDE

I thought that was a SuSE strangeness... Try moving the mouse slowly over another window edge to attract its attention, then go to where the task bar should pop out of. Other than that, try the right mouse menu. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng

RE: [SLUG] Crazy Book Review Action!

! And if things don't work? Ah, I can read the source, can't I ! Oh book preference: Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide So maybe I will remember where RH (Linux) puts things as distinct from Sun (Solaris) or SGI (IRIX). Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator

RE: [SLUG] Project Management software

fees, rock solid db backend, runs on various platforms, web front end, who can get you out of a bind if it breaks, bla bla bla. M$ doesn't even cut it. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 D

RE: [SLUG] Is there a bot-abuse list?

There's also the bot-trap where the ignorant bot wanders at its peril into a series of server-side scripts with no way back. It was discussed in "Sys Admin" magazine a couple of months back. ... look on google. It was mainly to stop spambots from gathering emails. Regards, Jill

RE: [SLUG] Faulty PortScan

That does not look good to me at all. I thought Trinoo was similar to Steckeldracht (sp? == Barbed Wire) and all reports, binaries, programs and so on from a Trinoo'd machine should be considered untrustworthy. I'd re-install the os. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System

RE: [SLUG] Multiple graphical logins

was that? Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jeff Waugh

RE: [SLUG] Reiser FS

My understanding is that ReiserFS is no good for the boot partition, but should be OK for everything else under / And probably still does strange things with NFS (I gotta upgrade mine yet) - Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat

RE: [SLUG] why so many nmbd processes?

, try killing the offending procs and hope they don't hang around again! :) Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email

RE: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface for BAS lodgement.

(that will only scare them); instead we should be pushing for a STANDARD html interface for BAS lodgement that does not rely on proprietary extensions that cause browsers to crash etc. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies

RE: [SLUG] Weird CDROM behaviour under Linux only

hehehe maybe that's why M$ CDROM drivers make such great toasters! Ignore all interrupts, they are only there to annoy the programmer! Why on earth would hardware engineers put interrupts in... Oh, full buffer? I never would guess that a computer could get busy... (mumble mutter) - Jill. -- Jill

RE: [SLUG] That somewhat theoretical problem.

'course in assembler, theyre all GOTOs: BRanch, JuMP, and so on. The exceptions are CALL and RETurn... Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02

RE: [SLUG] That somewhat theoretical problem.

for it is identical to the test / jump (== GOTO). - Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

RE: [SLUG] Anna Kournikova email worm - disinfection

I think it was a small BASIC interpreter that ran in a ROM. Which brings us back to the title of the subject, of course... .vbs - Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018

RE: [SLUG] SysV Scripts on Debian not Running

Make sure it's called S20ssh and not s20ssh ? and the services it needs are already running... (this reminds me of Richard Gooch's paper at http://linux.conf.au , "The new joy of init scripts"). - Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept,

RE: [SLUG] weird PC behaviour

parts of the instruction might arrive at the (say) ALU at different times or might be clocked into the wrong internal register because the setup times are violated. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd

RE: [SLUG] weird PC behaviour

Dave said: ok, so is that permanently cook things? Yes, if you keep it going. At worst, you can lose smoke... Also you might want to check how much dust fluff there is. Acts like an electrically conductive blanket. You might want to vacuum it out if it's real gross. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill

RE: [SLUG] Skywell MagicTV video capture card

CP/M = rotten non-re-entrant piece of code. At least Linux runs under Linux! -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] Need help with XSession Colors

Yes, but if you diff the two rgb.txt are they the same? -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

RE: [SLUG] what version

Also, uname -a gives interesting info with various distros and unices. - Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] Segmentation Fault

segfault the second time; it seemed I had to rewrite the RAM a few times before it would stick. 3: It worked fine when it was cold. Memory testing (especially upper memory) may be in order... Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat

RE: [SLUG] Need help with XSession Colors

to view something generated by the AIX box, possibly the application is calling for IBM-specific colours (SGI does this, too) which are not specified in the Linux rgb.txt file. The X server is just approximating the colours. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Elec

RE: [SLUG] Re: Web browsing stupidity

focus (I mean Netscape browser, not just Netscape communicator). Maybe it's the starry icon thing. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02

RE: [SLUG] VMWare and LILO configuration

Sorry - Just couldn't resist the misquote: ...not Our Raster, whose art is EVAS! - JR -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] Changing user id.

Use colon, not '.', ie find /some/starting/directory -group 503 -user 503 \ -exec chown 690:750 {}\; (hehe damn mailer wraparound!) Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery

RE: [SLUG] Changing user id.

chown -R newuser directory man chown Also as soon as you edit /etc/passwd the new user names will appear with a normal ls without you having to do anything else. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd

RE: [SLUG] The origins of vmlinuz and mgetty

et a serial terminal / computer, not a clunky electromechanical teletype. I think if I were designing the interface from scratch, I might have called it /dev/ser rather than /dev/tty, but then I never worked for Bell. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Elec. E

RE: [SLUG] Re: Which Linux disto on a Sun Ultra 10 ?

(to either Linux or Solaris 8, depending on how crazy I felt and what it was networked with). - Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Ema

RE: [SLUG] NFS Quota wierdness

I generally put a value in the grace section (sorry, another Unix, not Linux) but maybe all that's happening is because you don't have a value for the warning quota level (== grace), you are getting warnings for all file creates, not just those over quota. Just a thought. - Jill. -- Jill

RE: [SLUG] Sendmail woes

config file set up for "main", using the sample config files from sendmail.org (please note this is not Linux but I don't think it makes any difference). Regards, Jill (who is not a sendmail expert but is prepared to fiddle with it at times) -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. U

RE: [SLUG] smbmount woes

. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rubbish may follow: -Original Message- From: Bernhard Lüder

RE: [SLUG] Network authentication

LAN. NIS+ (NISplus) is no-where near as broken but can be more tricky to set up. It uses kerberos. Anand gave a nice talk on his setup earlier this year - hey, Anand - is it still operational? Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Te

RE: [SLUG] Linux news on slashdot

l old software we ever wrote will continue to be supported on all operating systems". It was closed source stuff; that means if the company no longer supports it, you can't have it. Try buying a brand new VK Commodore. I think /. gets carried away with itself sometimes... Cheers, Jill.

RE: [SLUG] IE, (Wu|Pro)Ftpd and symlinks

!) -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ho Ming Shun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SLUG] Dinner after meeting...

I really must correct this... Jill ate ALL her pasta but could not eat Mike's 1/2 that he left. If the pizza was better than the pasta though I'd be willing to try the place again. At least we could all fit in. Any other suggestions? -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator

RE: [SLUG] NFS LOCKD

I had a similar problem on another Unix, where machine A was complaining about machine B. The problems were NOT resolved by rebooting machine B, but they all fixed themselves when I rebooted machine A. A case for shooting the messenger? ;) Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix

RE: [SLUG] Problem with cat command

Hi there, You need to be running a kernel with largefile support, and all the file handlers need to be compiled for LARGEFILE. I thought kernels 2.3 and over should be able to handle it... What version Linux are you running? - Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator

RE: [SLUG] scripting help.

-like variables): $ for i in a b c d e ; do for j in "$i""*" ; do echo $j done done a* bin crontabs distfiles e* $ -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone

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