Re: [SLUG] linux.conf.au early bird + 10% off tickets

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:05:46AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Going to linux.conf.au? Planning on coughing up before January? Realised that at least 10 SLUG people will be going? Not even offended by Queenslanders? You forgot to add the bonus question: Able to work out what the

Re: [SLUG] Keeping up with Kernel releases?

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 04:21:00PM +1100, Jonathan Kelly wrote: I was wondering what others do in regards to keeping up-to-date with kernel releases. Doesn't anyone know a good site that gives an overview of what's happening in the kernel? It's getting harder to know these days what to go

Re: [SLUG] duplex mode on eth interface

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:30:19PM +1100, Rob B wrote: How can I set the duplex mode on an ethernet card? man ifconfig doesn't seem to mention anything. The reason for this is I am getting a lot of collisions and by setting to 10/half explicitly, I hope to reduce the number. It's usually

Re: [SLUG] I've screwed up sshd

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:23:58PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: ...and all I did was change the IP address of the damned box. Now I cannot log into it; all I get on the client is: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Running both the server and the client in debug

Re: [SLUG] Compile errors with Gnome orbit packages

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 03:43:50PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 14:23, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: So, the short version is: please report the bug to the maintainer (via OK, will do. Sometimes I'm not sure whether to report it to Ximian whose Gnome packages I use

Re: [SLUG] Compile errors with Gnome orbit packages

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 02:07:24PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 10:38, Daniel Stone wrote: Try CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/orbit-1.0 make. Thanks. I thought that ./configure would work that out but apparently it is having trouble in this pack. Over the past couple of months

Re: [SLUG] tags for gcc

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:36:18PM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: Can someone tell me the magic tags for gcc compiler. In open office I want to remove the #pragmas for all gcc compilers. In borlkadc it is __BORANDC__ of rIBM mainframe it is __HOS_MVS__.I have seen it in the docs somewhere

Re: [SLUG] CVS log

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:50:55PM +1100, Ben Leslie wrote: Hi all, I would like to have some program that will extract cvs log messages betwen two dates (or really just for the last week). The cvs log command appears as though it should do what I want but the combination I have tried

Re: [SLUG] Xfig requires transfig, which requires imake

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:42:03PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote: As the subject say, that is my problem. What is now my best option out of locating xmkmf or imake? On my system (a Red Hat one), xmkf and imake are part of the XFree86-devel packages and are installed in /usr/bin/X11/. Cheers,

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

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:10:54PM +1100, Andrew Foster wrote: Hi all, I was interested to hear your thoughts on solving a practical problem I have, while using only shell tools.. that is, not using Perl or Python or what have you. So, I have a list of random filenames in a text file:

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:16:06PM +1100, Steve Kowalik wrote: At 5:49 pm, Wednesday, October 31 2001, Peter Rundle mumbled: It's 2.96 $ rpm -q -a | grep gcc gcc-2.96-98 gcc-objc-2.96-98 gcc-g77-2.96-98 gcc-c++-2.96-98 _Again_? 2.96 was the CVS hacked version they released

Re: [SLUG] Filesystem flame^H^H^H^H^H discussion.

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:27:32PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: There's only so much you can glean from benchmarks, especially when google only seems to know about results that are a couple of months old. So I'd be very interested to hear experiences, both good and bad, from people using

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:35:50PM +1000, James Buchanan wrote: Does anyone have RedHat 7.2, and is it any good? Yes and yes. Of course, my definition of good is different from yours based on the rant that follows. I have been sorely disappointed with the two previous Red Hats, becuz they

Re: [SLUG] GUI file transfer using scp (gSCP)

On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:12:09PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 13:10, Jeff Waugh wrote: Projects like Galeon have an enormous amount of energy at the moment; Nautilus seems to be having a hard time attracting hackers even though it has a fairly clean and easy to grasp

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

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:21:33PM +1000, Jill Rowling wrote: Yes it is GPL'd - look at the top of the page on http://www.openz.org/ Just nitpicking, but it's actually FDL'd. There's a difference, but it's still good news for reusing it. :) Malcolm -- The cost of feathers has risen; even

Re: [SLUG] Gnome and environment variables

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 02:19:53PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: When I log into Gnome (Ximian) my environment variables defined in my ~/.bash_profile are not set. They are set,however, if I use a login terminal. That's because .bash_profile is only executed when you run bash as a login shell.

Re: [SLUG] Remote Booting.

On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:18:25PM +1000, James Newburrie wrote: the question I have is for an experiment I am trying for my own curiosity. I want to setup a server from which a few diskless machines can be connected to and boot from the network into an X-Windows environment. What is

Re: [SLUG] redhat 7.1 firewall

One small tip... On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:48:42PM +1000, Jill Rowling wrote: [...] Find the process ID for xinetd ps -ef | grep xinetd then kill -USR1 pid_of_xinetd eg kill -USR1 676 For services started by Red Hat's start up scripts, there is an easier way than this. The file

Re: [SLUG] Kernel

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:12:37PM +1100, Adam Vaughan wrote: We have our own software that uses TCP/IP communications. Certain parameters in Redhat 7 have had to be set/changed for this software to work. For example? Your question if extremely broad, probably too broad to be answered as

Re: [SLUG] making SSH port forwarding externally available

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:51:45PM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote: To workaround a local network misconfiguration, I am port forwarding a local port to a remote machine using ssh. This works for my local loopback address: 'localhost', but I would like to make the tunnel accessible to another

Re: [SLUG] my next stupid question

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:23:44PM +1000, Alister Waller wrote: another stupid question. No such thing. :-) I am running a script from a cronjob. part of the script is a for loop. see below: for i in `ls *.TXT` do cat $i newfilename mv $i /tmp done Now, if there are no *.TXT

Re: [SLUG] my next stupid question

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:52:33PM +0800, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: A fairly common idiom for this is: fileList=`echo *.TXT` if [ $fileList != '*' ]; then ...(insert other stuff here) fi Doh! I didn't actually run this, obviously. The 'if' clause should be if [ $fileList

Re: [SLUG] Killing xdm

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:20:14PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: How do you kill xdm? (apart from kill -9 pid) I have a very fast respawning xdm on a recent RH70 (server) installation. Unfortunately, it just spawns the Xfree login window, gives incorrect password amd asks for it all again.

Re: [SLUG] sh scripting help

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:19:51AM +1000, Paul Robinson wrote: Got a problem writing a shell script in sh. What it's supposed to do is look at a base path, get a directory listing and for each directory there it needs to concat the base path with the dir name and run a cat * |grep

Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:45:26PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: here's another solution: make a .signature file like this: %QUOTE% put whatever you like here what needs to be STATIC.

Re: [SLUG] What logs to /var/log/sa?

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:04:06PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: All, what logs to /var/log/sa with binary and text logs? eg: 00:01:00 proc/s 00:11:00 0.03 00:21:00 0.03 00:31:01 0.10 00:41:01 0.04 It's really a suite of utilities. On Red

Re: [SLUG] RPMs arhhhhh...

runs under KDE) and gnorpm (for Gnome) try to present a more intuitive interface. Ultimately, all of these programs call rpm, or its underlying libraries, so they can be interchanged at will. Does this help? Or does it just poor soothing oil on the flames of confusion? Malcolm -- Malcolm

Re: [SLUG] SQL Servers

of string? :-) Each databses has some advantages and some disadvantages when compared to the other. What sort of purpose did you have in mind to use the database for? That may help us give more directed advice on the pros and cons of each solution. Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail

Re: [SLUG] Older i386 looking for buff firewall. Must know how to handle bad packets...

not run if they couldn't do so. There may well be other areas that require write access as well. These are the ones I could think of off the top of my head. Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Net Slowness... Telstra Dirty Tricks?

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Re: [SLUG] core dump fun

, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Re: Netscrape 6 is here

on a central machine that I later read using IMAP/SSL. Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Catch 22.rpm

" (or something similar). To solve this problem without needing to upgrade your entire system to rpm4, you can use rpm-3.0.5 or later. This understands version 4 packages and away you go. You can get rpm-3.0.5 (or rpm-3.0.6) from either rpmfind.net or from the source: www.rpm.org. Cheers,

Re: [SLUG] Re: Catch 22.rpm

(for storing installed packages and dependencies and whatnot) has changed between versions 3 and 4, so rpm-3.0.5+ inserts things into a version 3 type of database. Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] ADSL on Linux

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Re: Lilypond, was Re: [SLUG] Music Editor/Notator

://www.cs.ruu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/ to the user manual. Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] image resizing

converts the image to have a maximum width of 640 and a max height of 480 _and_ keeps the aspect ratio. (If you don't want to keep the aspect ratio, you need to add an '!' to the end of the geometry.) Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd -- SLUG

[SLUG] What's wrong with this picture?

Oh dear ... I was just perusing some email from AUUG and I noticed that it has all been sent from a Microsoft Outlook client. So much for practicing what you preach! :-) Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Music Editor/Notator

; it's a great package, but possibly more than you want for the time being). Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Music Editor/Notator

plained his situation and none of my comments have any bearing on that. However, when he comes to publishing his collection of symphonies to the birds these may become issues. :-) Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Debian newbie guide for existing linux users

the flash-bang-smoke effect it had. :-) Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] lynx and submitting a page from a command line.

the data to my.form.com and print the returned page onto stdout. Clear as mud? Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] lynx and submitting a page from a command line.

reference to an HTML file ... the POST data is just a list of parameter=value doohickies. There should be no HTML tags involved at all. Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Removing Dirs in CVS

. :) Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] IP Chains config

boot time. NOTE: Change the comment above the flag when you do this, because otherwise it will be false. The comment, rather than explaining what the flag does, explains what the current state does. Very dangerous! Hope this helps, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Beginners Home Network

card and a cable (or a terminator) into each end. I used this solution for quite a while until I could afford a hub. Just another option. :) I'd like to try to document this setup for others further down the line. Good idea! Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Mailing Lists - Suggestion

istribution specific -- that is, most solutions contain some elements that are applicable in general. To lose this information because it had to gone to the FOO distribution list would be a shame. Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Re: Distro Layout / Config Standards (was Re: Debian)

luminiferous ether. No cables required. :-) Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Basic CVS Usage

wrapping C-libraries for example), which require code from the Python sources, or code that want an embedded Python compiler. Needless to say, the BeOpen labs will get things sorted out for Python 2.0, because it will be very bad if Python turns out not to be GPL compatible. Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm

Re: [SLUG] Re: Basic CVS Usgae

because much is happening in the gnumeric world lately, so lots of files have changed (and for every file that has been updated, a diff must be computed and transferred). Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Re: Basic CVS Usgae

wanted any untagged files to remain, you would also use the -f flag (which means "if no version of this file is tagged with the appropriate tag, give me the latest version.") Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] CVS Server problems

cvs -T /tmp -d $MY_CVS_ROOT checkout foo The argument to -T must be an absolute path. Not sure if this will solve the problem, but it's the other case where I've seen it happen. Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] ssh - Which one?

then it would use an alternative encryption method. What happens when you run in verbose mode (ssh -v)? And which way are you connecting (openssh client - sshd, or ssh client - opensshd)? Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP

Re: [SLUG] Select and kill running process

ep process | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs kill For 4 digit pids, you need to use -f2 in the cut. Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Easy shell scripting question

). This has to have lower overhead than the calls to sed that others have been posting. :-) Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature