Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Firefox as IE

2006-07-10 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:32:43PM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: I try to keep the really dumb questions on chat. There is no such thing as a dumb question :-) There are however off-topic questions Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Financial Review crashes Firefox.

2006-07-05 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:53:58AM +1000, david wrote: Financial Review now has a new membership system which consistently crashes Firefox (Breezy, Firefox 1.08) Has anyone else run into this? Is this one of those crazy windows only disasters? Which url exactly? Do you have any plugins

Re: Bloody stupid Dodo [was] Re: [SLUG] Greylisting on Postfix

2006-07-04 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 03:22:52PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Yes, it has certainly had a dramatic effect on my mail server. As for Dodo, your comment doesn't surprise me. I had problems with Thunderbird trying to send SMTP out thru a Dodo account the other day. It seems that TB send a

Re: [SLUG] rync problem

2006-07-04 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:23:38PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm rsyncing some files from a linux server down to a FAT partition on my laptop (FAT because I want to access the files from both Linux and Windoze). Unfortunately rsync thinks some of the files are different (when they're not)

Re: [SLUG] LVM Re-mounting Hell

2006-07-03 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 06:56:12AM +1000, Gavin Carr wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:44:46PM +1000, Kevin Fitzgerald wrote: Hi All. Hoping someone can help. First the question, then the background Q: Can anyone help me re-mount LVM disks to a new machine Background Machine 1,

Re: [SLUG] CDs on Broadway?

2006-07-03 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:33:35AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: is there anyplace that sells Linux CDs near Broadway ? I'm looking for a Centos server CD. Which version of Centos? Let me know and I might be able to burn one off and post it to you. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Mega confused

2006-06-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:32:35PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote: There's some talk about forcing distribution of the source where the binary is used to provide a web service. But that's a different kettle of fish. That's what I was referring to. Say you took a gpl word processor and modded it to

Re: [SLUG] Mega confused

2006-06-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:24:02PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 June 2006 20:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there...i am new to all things linux/gnu/gpl etc etc Can anyone tell me if someone was to use a group of gnu/gpl programs to provide a service for a feeis

Re: [SLUG] Mega confused

2006-06-28 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:51:02PM +0930, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there...i am new to all things linux/gnu/gpl etc etc Can anyone tell me if someone was to use a group of gnu/gpl programs to provide a service for a feeis this legal under the licensing terms? I am not a lawyer, but

Re: [SLUG] Dapper : slow disk access?

2006-06-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:39:20PM +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: In most cases it doesn't - just that in my case it was and was slowing things right down - something was borked. As I don't use locate that much, it didn't bother me stopping it. Bit of random data for y'all: updatedb (almost)

Re: [SLUG] pimp my elf

2006-06-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:07:02AM +1000, Benno wrote: On Wed Jun 14, 2006 at 15:56:10 +0100, Alex Sayle wrote: Evening sluggers, In essence I want to change $readelf -d foo.so | head -n 3 Dynamic segment at offset 0x36c0 contains 37 entries: TagType

Re: [SLUG] CRAMFS little vs big endian...

2006-06-13 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:05:09PM +1000, James Gray wrote: $ file ~/Desktop/fvs338-test.img ~/Desktop/fvs338-test.img: Linux Compressed ROM File System data, big endian size 7278592 version #2 sorted_dirs CRC 0xd2f82710, edition 0, 3177 blocks, 314 files GREAT! Except my system

Re: [SLUG] CRAMFS little vs big endian...

2006-06-13 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:01:17PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Matthew Hannigan wrote: No need for C, dd should do the job: dd conv=swab fvs338-test.img fvs338-test-bigendian.img From the man page: swab swap every pair of input bytes This is almost

Re: [SLUG] USB TV Systems

2006-06-10 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 04:01:51PM +1000, Martin Visser wrote: Just been playing with the V-Gear PocketDTV made by Asiamajor. Works very nice, only needed a 8K firmware download, prompted by the the log [ .. ] Is that this one? http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2893 It says no

Re: [SLUG] Re: Ubuntu verses Debian (pure)

2006-06-04 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:44:41AM +1000, david wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:25 +1000, James Gray wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:01 am, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:57:59AM +1000, James Gray wrote: On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:04 pm, david wrote: On my pure server

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:18:03PM +1000, Roger Barnes wrote: I understand Google are working on a winelib based GoogleEarth for Linux, following on from their recent release of Picasa in the same vein. http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/05/google_earth_fo_4.html That blog has a

Re: [SLUG] How to find out what ports I can use for an apache service.

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:21:43PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: What is the search app on? Tomcat? I've found mod_jk pretty easy to get working, but you can also use mod_proxy. mod_proxy also has specific support for tomcat's protocol (ajp13). Just a clarification on that last bit

Re: [SLUG] Time to re-visit a curly one

2006-05-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 03:05:06PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I don't have anything constructive to add to the first point, as I'm mostly indifferent. I'm against but not really strongly so. If put in place, perhaps we could make an excception for gpg signed mail. This one time, at band

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Club history

2006-05-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:24:02PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Hi all, Although i'm familiar with the past few years of SLUG history, would some of the old timers care to help me out with the following email? I don't know if anyone responded to this, but names

Re: [SLUG] How to find out what ports I can use for an apache service.

2006-05-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:57:21PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: Hi all I have a web-based libray application which I need to stick on some different ports. The normal web is at :80, I have a library search interface at 8080 and that works fine but the library admin interface at 9090 can't

Re: [SLUG] Getting eval to work properly

2006-05-20 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 06:57:16AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: An example of what I am trying to do: eval echo -e \\tGetting files from ${MIRROR_URL[$STARTIDX]} $LOG_FILE I don't know what you're trying to do with eval and the bare $LOG_FILE thing here, but I'd use just printf:

Re: [SLUG] Apache execute a CGI as another user

2006-05-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:46:30PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: in the source and now when it runs we see a different result $ ./suidexec id Executing Command 'id' uid=501(prundle) gid=501(prundle) euid=502(matlab) groups=502(matlab) context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t But it doesn't

Re: [SLUG] Perl upgrading

2006-05-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:11:35AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: I currently have 'perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux' on RH73 what's my best way to bring it up to date ? I think it's been said before, but why not just update the entire os? i.e. install fedora5 or whatever. It's probably

Re: [SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick

2006-05-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:06:39PM +1000, Steve Lindsay wrote: On 5/17/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks, so what's the suggested course to try to take advantge of that ? I think ideally you want to find an RH7.3 rpm that has the jpeg headers etc, something like

Re: [SLUG] Vista .. anti-Linux ?

2006-05-01 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:32:08AM +1000, Benno wrote: There is no reason I can see, in theory, why you couldn't 1/ Turn off TPM boot 2/ Install linux 3/ Turn TPM back on checksum-ing the new bootloader. But yeah, I have only really had a brief look at the TPM documentation, it might

Re: [SLUG] Permission problems on linode (Ubuntu 5.10)

2006-04-30 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 06:48:42PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: $ uname -a Linux [hostname] 2.6.16.1-linode18-bb1 #1 Fri Mar 31 12:39:01 EST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux $ ls -l /dev/null crw-rw 1 root root 1, 3 2006-04-30 18:46 /dev/null :( FWIW, Fedora4: $ grep -ir null /etc/udev/

Re: [SLUG] undelete fat32 files from linux

2006-04-30 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 07:56:26AM +1000, dave kempe wrote: [ .. ] utilitys. I was wondering though - is there any tools that can provide undelete functionality for fat32 filesystem on linux? anyone got any ideas on how to recover the deleted data using the existing tools?

Re: [SLUG] TCP localhost access being denied

2006-04-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:48:46PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: I have a weird situation on an RHAS4 server where I am running OpenLDAP and netstat shows that it is open to everything: tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:389 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3578/slapd I

Re: [SLUG] Problem with Okipage 8z printer, CUPS and .ppd file

2006-04-25 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:03:02PM +1000, Leslie Katz wrote: The printer manual lists, under Features, Interfaces that switch automatically. It then continues, A parallel and USB interface, which is automatically switched according to the data source, comes standard. I take that to mean

blocks! (Re: [SLUG] Ext3 block usage wierdness)

2006-04-25 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:39:20AM +1000, Malcolm V wrote: Does anyone else get confused by the unclear usage of the term block? Only all the time :-) Given that a *nix block is always 512 bytes (or is it?) and a disk block is a variety of sizes. Most documentation uses the generic term

Re: WAS: RE: [SLUG] Invalid credentials error code 49

2006-04-23 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:31:07AM +1000, O Plameras wrote: Tony Green wrote: [ .. ] You didn't say you can't you said This is not true that you can. Right that's what I said. This is not true that you can does not [ .. ] 'can' and 'cannot' and 'may' and 'may not' are problematical. If

Re: [SLUG] File deletion problem.

2006-04-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:19:15PM +1000, Charles Myers wrote: afaik, NTFS mounts as read only. You can only format the things.. (I would love to be proven wrong on this :( as I have a couple ntfs drives that need some work) Yeah. You can use the captive ntfs driver (i.e. windows ntfs

Re: [SLUG] A Sys Admin's worst nightmare

2006-04-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 04:49:06PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: Don't worry Glen, there's absolutely no way that I want ANYONE to be able to do this. That's probably the scariest thing personally, it's a public humiliation for myself if someone does it relatively *easily*. That's why i

Re: [SLUG] A Sys Admin's worst nightmare

2006-04-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:18:34PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 17:11 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: As I don't think anyone is actually able to decrypt to get root's password, the only way is social engineering. I am 99.9% sure but I'm still very cautious. And when

Re: [SLUG] Moving multiple files....

2006-04-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:08:06AM +1000, Charles Myers wrote: I have a heap of photos (sorted by iPhoto) and it does it in multiple directories of year, month,date etc. I have moved the whole photo tree over to my desktop (which runs ubuntu). I was hoping to move all the .jpg's into a

Re: [SLUG] correct form of find - exec rm on RH5.2?

2006-04-12 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:19:21PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins wrote: Can anyone tell me what is the correct form of find smtpd* -atime 7 -exec ` rm -f {} ` \; on a RH5.2 system? You can only specify one directory to look in, so smtpd* isn't

Re: [SLUG] correct form of find - exec rm on RH5.2?

2006-04-12 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:09:18AM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: [ .. ] But congrats on resisting the politically correct push to use xargs, go -exec I reckon. I've yet to see any real advantage in using xargs when combined with find just the fact that you have to remember to add -0 because

Re: [SLUG] correct form of find - exec rm on RH5.2?

2006-04-12 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:09:47AM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: Matthew Hannigan wrote: Yeah, not a bad call - it follows the 'correct first, fast later / premature optimization is the root of all evil' principle. Obviously xargs is a better solution based on the unix concept of only doing

Re: [SLUG] correct form of find - exec rm on RH5.2?

2006-04-12 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:05:08PM -0400, Bruce Woodward wrote: For what it's worth; [EMAIL PROTECTED] a]$ i=0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] a]$ while ((i1000)); do touch $i; ((i++)); done [EMAIL PROTECTED] a]$ time find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; A more realistic test would be to use non-zero files

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

2006-04-11 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:27:14AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: ...is it possible? Depends on what you want exactly. ...what's the best way? Ultra-Monkey! (probably) Check out linux-ha.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] debian vs FC threads

2006-04-09 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 08:49:28AM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: Del wrote:, [snip] OK, since you want names, and dates: [snip] thread by suggesting a switch to Ubuntu). 3/4/2006. Thanks Del, just a quick e-mail in support of the sentiment of your comments. I .. ] Another data

Re: [SLUG] debian vs FC threads

2006-04-09 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:28:39PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: Alternatively people could learn to read and understand the discussion before firing in an off target response. The discussion wasn't about being hurt, it was about: 1. Distribution evangelism isn't helpful to the original

Re: [SLUG] Re: DEC Storage Works

2006-04-05 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 08:51:05AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: OCFS2 and GFS are supported in Ubuntu from 5.10 onwards. Nice! I believe OCFS2 made it into the standard kernel very recently; 2.6.16? Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and

Re: [SLUG] decodeing base64 ?

2006-04-05 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:41:07AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: I have Mail version 8.1 6/6/93 Oh dear. Please, install mutt or something. { echo 'begin-base64 644 x.wav'; cat file; echo ; } | uudecode get 'iilegal line' You can use openssl to en,decode base64; google for it. I know

Re: [SLUG] FC5 Kernel headers

2006-04-03 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:55:19PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: I've just installed FC5 onto a single processor P4 and it all went fairly smoothly, except that it claims to have detected my sound card but no sound comes out, (shrugs, par for the course with Linux). When I run the sound test, I

Re: [SLUG] FC5 Kernel headers

2006-04-03 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:55:19PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: I now try to run vmware-config.pl and when it asks for the kernel header source, I point it at said directory and of course being Linux it doesn't work, but returns the error; Oh, for what's it worth, there was no need to change

Re: [SLUG] WAS FC5 Kernel headers

2006-04-03 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Guys, did you submit bug reports for these? Do you have the bug numbers handy? Even better did you attach the patches to the bug report? Matt top posting is the new black On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 07:57:45AM +1000, O Plameras wrote: Howard Lowndes wrote: Don't worry about it. With FC5, I had

top posting (Re: [SLUG] WAS FC5 Kernel headers)

2006-04-03 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:28:35PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: top posting is the new black Agreed. In spite of the claims by the bottom posters that it's more natural because people read things in order that only applies if the reader is reading the given e-mail in isolation. However, if

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 3, Issue 11

2006-04-03 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:44:23AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A group of students was split in two. Half were given gimp, half photoshop. Halfway through the semester they were swapped to the other app. At the end of the semester, overwhelmingly (in the 90s%) the studens voted that

Re: [SLUG] Voice to text

2006-04-03 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:47:40AM +1000, john hedge wrote: It was suggested at the expo that I put this to the think-tank of SLUG so here goes. Does anyone know of a Linux based project/product for converting voice to text? Not sure, but I think

Re: [SLUG] MySQL in RHEL3 ?

2006-04-02 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:57:23AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: I've just installed RHEL3 with 'everything' option, when I tried: 'service mysqld' it says: unrecognized service Try chkconfig --add mysqld then/or chkconfig --list | grep mysql And let us know what happens --

Re: [SLUG] MySQL in RHEL3 ?

2006-04-02 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:57:23AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: I've just installed RHEL3 with 'everything' option, when I tried: Er, actually try installing 'mysql-server' I think you only have the client bits. matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] MySQL in RHEL3 ?

2006-04-02 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:28:23AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: # mount cdrom mount: can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab # mount /dev/cdrom -- 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] 1ADSL, 1firewall, 2webservers

2006-04-02 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:12:26AM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: Anyway i'm still researching but has anyone done this? This was discussed on the this list just recently. I'd search but the archive search seems to be broken. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] scheduling emails ?

2006-03-30 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:55:05PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: what's an easy way to schedule emails to be sent at some future time/date ? at ? like, I'd like to compose some emails but, have them sent at say 9:00 am tommorow turn off

Re: [SLUG] sed question

2006-03-30 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:29:40AM +1100, Steven Heimann wrote: Unfortunately sed seems to be putting the 2 trailing ** at the beginning of the replacement line rather than the end of the line and after much stuffing around I still can't work out what is going wrong. Works for me: echo

Re: [SLUG] Faulty Ubuntu mirror?

2006-03-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:31:33AM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: Err http://mirror.optusnet.com.au breezy/main Packages Could not connect to mirror.optusnet.com.au:80 (211.29.132.173). - connect (111 Connection refused) Try mirror.optus.com.au, i.e. optus not optusnet I came across the same

Re: [SLUG] Faulty Ubuntu mirror?

2006-03-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:26:35AM +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: Try mirror.optus.com.au, i.e. optus not optusnet Also known as mirror.aarnet.edu.au apparently. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Faulty Ubuntu mirror?

2006-03-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:50:51AM +1100, David Gillies wrote: Matthew Hannigan wrote: Try mirror.optus.com.au, i.e. optus not optusnet Also known as mirror.aarnet.edu.au apparently. I was previously using mirror.optus.net, which was/is different to mirror.optus.com.au Looks like

Re: [SLUG] datalogger project or similar?

2006-03-28 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:25:12PM +1000, amanda wynne wrote: I'm looking for a starting point for a project. Basically a datalogger, usb i/o, x interface. Only thing I found on sourceforge was jaws. Project entails a micro-controller, probably an avr, with numerous adc, dac, digital i/o,

Re: [SLUG] procmail?

2006-03-28 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:51:14AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=David What I would prefer to do is send a flagging email to both myself and my business partner... just a subject line such as: email waiting in foo acount. Can procmail do that? So what you'd want to do in

Re: [SLUG] Virtual machine recommendations?

2006-03-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:35:28PM +1000, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi Matt, I run qemu on my FC3 (Win98 still useful for somethings :)) Can you give me a quick direction as to where to go find info on using qemu to make an image for vmplayer? Er, I would just google for it; if you don't

[SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] ACS FOSS SIG

2006-03-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
OK, we have WWF sorted, now we have to deal with ACS FOSS SIG CMS (yes, Bruce, I know what they mean but I think it's worth expanding them -- none of them were!) And which CMS is it? Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] file permissions]]

2006-03-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:39:14PM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote: Matt I don't get it. One web site puts it like this      The umask command is used to set and determine the default file creation permissions   on the system which is what i want but it doesn't seem to happen. Have i

Re: [SLUG] updates for RHEL3 ?

2006-03-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:24:17PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: what are my options for up-to-dating RHEL3 ? Buy a contract with Red Hat I have a CD set of RHEL3, which obviously is quite old and out of date; I've just installed it on a 'test system' and would like if possible to apply

Re: [SLUG] kernel versions 2.6/Asterisk Q

2006-03-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:29:06PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: do I need a kernel update, Nah, I'm pretty sure RHEL3 only does 2.4 or what do I need to get a kernel 2.6 ? Get a modern distro release. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] file permissions

2006-03-26 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:14:13AM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote: On my fc4 file server I have a shared folder that has been set  recursively to 2770. This works ok But if i set any folder with umask 007, I'm not sure what you mean by 'set any folder' umask is a property of the process, not a

Re: [SLUG] Virtual machine recommendations?

2006-03-26 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:59:18AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: But if that's just another way to whip up an image for the Player, then I might give it a temporary whirl. Thanks for the heads up. You can also use qemu to make images for vmplayer. FWIW, the killer feature for some in

Re: [SLUG] Re: Heads Up - troubles with time zones

2006-03-26 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:02:46PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: FYI, I have submitted a bug report to the Fedora project Howard, do you have the bug number handy? Searching bugzilla can be painful and slow. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Re: Heads Up - troubles with time zones

2006-03-26 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:26:06PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: Howard, do you have the bug number handy? Searching bugzilla can be painful and slow. Never mind, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186742 (and dupe https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186743

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] file permissions]

2006-03-26 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:00:23PM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote: Basically, all i am trying to do is to set the file permissions of any new file/sub directory directory created in a shared directory so that the owner and group had full read/write access by default and others had no access. I

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] file permissions]

2006-03-26 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:00:23PM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote: Basically, all i am trying to do is to set the file permissions of any new file/sub directory directory created in a shared directory so that the Wait a minute. By shared do you mean shared with samba? If so, yes, you can force

Re: [SLUG] Upgrading Xen Fedora Core 5

2006-03-24 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:25:47AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: Has anyone any thoughts on this. Guests first or host first? Shrug, host first I guess -- 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] SSL Certificates - A Scum ?

2006-03-24 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 10:22:34AM +1100, Philip Greggs wrote: I'm sick and exhausted. For one and only one reason. I'm paying thousands of dollars for the damn ssl certificates. Can some one in plain English explain to me why should I pay that much money and what am I paying for

Re: [SLUG] /bin/install

2006-03-24 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:00:11PM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: I am trying to compile a program that complains about /bin/install being missing. Is this a standard program? I'm running Ubuntu Breezy. It's /usr/bin/install on my machine (fedora) It's pretty standard. If the system doesn't have

Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-23 Thread Matthew Hannigan
I don't know what you guys are talking about, but it isn't Fedora Core 5. Please change the subject. -- 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] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-23 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 07:45:07AM +1100, O Plameras wrote: This debate stems from the proposal by J. Waugh to ban the use of RTFM in SLUG list group. We just want people to be nice. Let's be nice eh? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:31:07PM +1100, Philip Greggs wrote: I'm not subscribed to this list but followed the post on the WEB and I believe the RTFM retort was appropriate in the context. Then you're an idiot, because the question was rhetorical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:03:22PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Matthew Hannigan On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:31:07PM +1100, Philip Greggs wrote: I'm not subscribed to this list but followed the post on the WEB and I believe the RTFM retort was appropriate in the context

Re: [SLUG] daylight saving patch for redhat 7.3

2006-03-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:22:37PM +1100, Bai, Junmin wrote: I have a redhat linux 7.3. Because of commonwealth game of 2006, we need a patch for redhat 7.3 to solve the timezone problem. Does anyone know this patch. Do you do updates with yum through fedoralegacy.org? Maybe they patched it

Re: [SLUG] daylight saving patch for redhat 7.3

2006-03-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:44:56PM +1100, Bai, Junmin wrote: Thanks Matthew for your reply which gave me more idea about it. Redhat is slightly different from Debian. Could you send me compiled zoneinfo since it's platform and architecture independent? My zoneinfo dir is 10Mb; the raw

Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:45:48PM +1100, O Plameras wrote: Hi Sluggers, Just letting any interested sluggers to know that Fedora Core 5 has been released today (our time), about 8 hours ago. Yeah, looking forward to it, especially xen3, mono, gfs ... Release notes here:

Re: [SLUG] recursively chmod directories ONLY

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:43:35PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Ooop, sorry, you are right. We should do our best to maintain standards :-). I liked your deliberate error, keeps us on our toes: and for the files: find top level dir -type f -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Re: [SLUG] recursively chmod directories ONLY

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:22:16AM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Your find commands are either redundant or broken :) Most find commands are broken. The chance of a someone writing a reasonably complex but correct find command after reading, say, just the man page are pretty close to zero.

Re: FW: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:52:49AM +1100, O Plameras wrote: There's one big reason why I'd like to deploy Fedora Core 5. It's got OpenSSL-0.9.8a containing major security fix. !?! Are you saying there's a security fix that is not going to be released in fedora4?! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: FW: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:59:27PM +1100, O Plameras wrote: Are you saying there's a security fix that is not going to be released in fedora4?! I don't know. I'll take that as a NO then. Which makes the rest of your message a little baffling. I tried to install OpenSSL-0.9.8a in FC 4.

Re: FW: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:14:28PM +1100, O Plameras wrote: Due to security inadequacy. Details man! Details! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: FW: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:26:39PM +1100, O Plameras wrote: Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:14:28PM +1100, O Plameras wrote: Due to security inadequacy. Details man! Details! The details are in www.openssl.org. You know what to do. RTFM. Once I

Re: FW: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:41:30PM +1100, O Plameras wrote: In the context of the Post, there is RTFM in www.openssl.org. The person I addressed the reply That'd be me to in my assessment is matured You make me sound like a cheese. and well-informed SLUG user. I presume he knows what

Re: [SLUG] Linux Installation Problems - Please Help

2006-03-19 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 10:00:15AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 March 2006 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone reccomends ubuntu, maybe I don't remember the sys-admin, I strongly reccomend SuSE, get 9.3 not 10. Recommending a previous

Re: [SLUG] Unwanted ads

2006-03-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:05:02AM +1100, john gibbons wrote: Some swine marketing viagra and associated products sends me several advts each day.It is the only advertiser to get to me via Firefox being run in Fedora 4. His advts vary at times and claim to come from different sources and

Re: [SLUG] Unwanted ads

2006-03-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 10:59:44AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think he means spam like this (i get them alot also)... Well yeah, I get hundreds per day. But firefox? Webmail? Or Thunderbird perhaps? Not trying to be pedantic; trying to make sure he hasn't got some sort of malware

Re: [SLUG] Maintained 2.4 kernel

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
It'd be nice to find the real problem. It's unusual for the kernel to lose support of a particular device, and they'd probably want to know about it. Also, perhaps it was some special patch that Suse used for that kernel, and going back to some generic 2.4.x kernel won't fix the problem.

Re: [SLUG] Re: bittorrent clients

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:04:48PM +1100, nornagon wrote: As it so happens, I've just recently been hunting for a decent bittorrent client written in curses... and here it is: apt-get install rtorrent For fedora fans, it's also in fedora4 extras; yum install rtorrent. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: FW: FW: [SLUG] hylafax

2006-03-13 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:14:24AM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote: Fedora 4 I am not sure where and how to make changes to make the settings permanent /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: FW: [SLUG] hylafax

2006-03-13 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:04:46PM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote: I have had a look at /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config but not sure what to put in it. The first comments in that file are a little short, but they summarise what's required pretty well: # Load additional iptables modules

Re: FW: FW: [SLUG] hylafax

2006-03-13 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:36:05PM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote: Loading additional iptables modules: ip_contrack ip_nat_ftp[FAILED] You've mispelled ip_conntrack -- there are two n's. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: FW: [SLUG] hylafax

2006-03-13 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:50:41PM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote: DOH!!! I didn't see that but I am still getting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /sbin/service iptables restart Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ] Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter

Re: FW: FW: [SLUG] hylafax

2006-03-13 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:42:35PM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote: Ok. I had a bit of a fiddle with the options It appears that: options ip_conntrack ports=21,4559 is incorrect and should be options ip_conntrack_ftp ports=21,4559 ...well it works anyway Excellent! -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] any one to help with Linux install

2006-03-11 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 06:32:53PM +1100, Andrew Fleisher wrote: I have no error messages as I successfully installed Fedora Core 4. The questions are regarding installing apps: - the yum repository has Firefox version 1.0.7 but the present version at the Firefox website is 1.5.01 and 1.5

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