RE: [SLUG] video security systems

Hi On Mon, March 1, 2010 11:42 am, david wrote: Does anyone know of a company that does Linux based video security systems? I'm talking about the installation of camera and network hardware that will talk to Linux software - not just the software itself. Do you mean Linux in an IP camera or

Re: [SLUG] OT: moving from Access to ...?

Hi all Sebastian asked... For a bigger project at work I set up a access database a while ago - it does the job but I would like to get away from access. The database is basically a large list of past job/FEAdesigns for later reference. At some stage I wanted to import/export from and to

Re: [SLUG] Convert Document with ascii Text to Html

Hi How to convert Document of text and Ascii value to convert in to html , is any command is available in linux , i tryied few command in linux as follow , texi2html- a Texinfo to HTML converter , but this is not converting a ascii to html conversion , Document which has html

[SLUG] python-uno open office depends problem

Hi all I have this problem which is stopping me from installing anything new. System is Debian stable on a Dell. $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: chapter style

Hi The chapter style is quite simple but I can't find the way to modify any of the available packages to reproduce it. Are you using the Book class or the Article class in the begindocument? One can define your own command for this \newcommand{\mychap}[1]{% Chapter \thechapter \vspace{-2mm}

[SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

this? Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- 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] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

. This email should appear to come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- 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] Installing a compiled subversion and removing the packaged one - how to fix dependencies.

ended up just doing the symlink and I had the old random saved as random.bak anyhow. /dev# ln -s urandom random /dev# ls -l random lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 16 17:32 random - urandom # # svnadmin create /var/lib/test Thus now svnadmin runs fine and does not hang. Mike -- Mike Lake Caver

Re: [SLUG] Inatlling a compiled subversion and removing the packaged one - how to fix dependencies.

. So it would not compile. Hence I tried the tigris source which was also more recent. Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Inatlling a compiled subversion and removing the packaged one - how to fix dependencies.

back again and create the character device? It would certainly be easier then as the normal subversion package would probably work. Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Question on ownerships and permissions of subversion respositories

-data. What does one do there if one wants users to be able to have file:// access locally and apache to have read access? Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] apt-get update and pgp keys

the debian-keyring package whereas what I needed was the debian-archive-keyring package. I think the problem is now fixed. Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] bash question - how to tell if apache has stopped?

in the script above. -- -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] How do I get nullmailer to start sending from its queue?

it to send as soon as a message gets into the queue when Im online. Mike -- -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- 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] A beginner's server???

://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html I presume you have Linux up and running. If so its likely that a web server is already running on you machine. If so going to http://localhost/ in your browser should show you a HTML page. Whats show? Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested

Re: [SLUG] How to add /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/ to the perl @INC array in Debian

the newest from CPAN and install them to usr/local/lib/site_perl so they are never missed again when perl goes to 5.9 or 6.0 My question is where do folks store your CPAN moduless on machines so that they are not 'orphaned' when perl gets to 5.9? Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast

[SLUG] Can't ssh to another machine as a normal user; su root; then use vi

are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Debian install fails - cant download libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

is where it appears there are many libs that are used during the base install. No luck. Help needed. -- Lord, what fools these mortals be! -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night's Dream Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] what tool to mirror/sync data with ?

- That should also show you how to use rsync :-) -- Executive ability is prominent in your make-up. Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

[SLUG] apt-get build-dep vim fails with '....broken packages were found'

upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # dpkg --configure -a # so all seems fine. Whats the problem that stops me getting a build-dep for vim ? -- No violence, gentlemen -- no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture! -- Sherlock Holmes Mike Lake Caver, Linux

[SLUG] Debian box not accepting print jobs from a remote SGI box

Hi All, Some time ago I upgraded my Deb box and since then remote printing to it from an SGI does not work. I am running testing on the Deb box. The print jobs from the SGI appear in its local queue but it does not apppear in the queue on the Deb box. There is no error message in the lpd log

Re: [SLUG] Debian box not accepting print jobs from a remote SGI box

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:57:53PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: Mike == Mike Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike Hi All, Some time ago I upgraded my Deb box and since then Mike remote printing to it from an SGI does not work. I am running Mike testing on the Deb box. Which lpd are you

Re: [SLUG] Debian box not accepting print jobs from a remote SGI box

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 12:06:33AM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: Mike Hi All, Some time ago I upgraded my Deb box and since then Mike remote printing to it from an SGI does not work. I am running Mike testing on the Deb box. I have created a /etc/lpd.perms and added a DEFAULT ACCEPT

[SLUG] Recovering data from a Windows disk using Linux tools.

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:39:54PM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: I've accidentally stomped all over my data on a few occasions - trashed my partition table, e2fsck'ed /dev/hda instead of /dev/hda2, and most recently destroyed a partition by rebooting half-way through a fsck. Not a pleasant way to

Re: [SLUG] Debian box not accepting print jobs from a remote SGI box

Check /etc/lprng/lpd.perms Ah thanks. I had created one in /etc As distributed in Debian it doesn't allow remote access. There are two lines you need to get rid of in that file to allow remote printing. Find the `REJECT NOT SERVER' line and comment it out, likewise the line REJECT

Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs

Terry wrote ! Undefined control sequence. l.4 \documentclass [a4paper,12pt]{report} ? And it repeats for every latex command What does it do if you try latex ie not pdflatex ? What does it do if you use article class instead of report for latex or

[SLUG] xdm and logging out for newbies

Hi all, Well Debian is dist-upgraded after removing gnome to save space and I have just been trying to put back on the *same* X display manager that I had last time - prob is that I can't seem to find it. I thought it was gdm and installed that but its not the same. The one I was using before

Re: [SLUG] xdm and logging out for newbies

. -Original Message- From: Mike Lake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[SLUG] xdm and logging out for newbies Does anyone know what the display manager is that has that shutdown menu on it. I was sure it was gnome but gdm aint it. -- If you want

Re: [SLUG] Netscape keeps changing permissions on its directory andbookmarks file.

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:09:06PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 12:27:39PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: bookmarks into a nice HTML page with search facility. It works as a CGI script but that means that it need to be able to see your bookmarks file. It works when I have

Re: [SLUG] ftp client - MORE

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:07:20PM +1100, Bernhard L?der wrote: Ok, that works for known files, but what if I have to upload new directories folders with files in them? Is there a recursive feature in ftp? Unfortunately not. I have included a perl script that I wrote last week when suddenly

Re: [SLUG] size mismatch when apt-getting

Thanks Anand and Daniel. Seems like it has sorted it self out. It seems that apt-get keeps a tally of what it didnt get due to a mismatch and when I do the next apt-get it just gets the ones it didnt get last time. I noticed this as each time the total size of the apckages that it needs to

Re: [SLUG] I want to remove gnome but debian wants to add stuff.

Just a followup and a thanks. I got rid of gnome and netscape. Thanks for the help there. I just had to go back to stable to remove them rather than being in testing and trying to remove them. Once my system was in a nice state where an apt-get upgrade showed nothing to upgrade in stable I

[SLUG] size mismatch when apt-getting

I am still getting Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/plotutils/libplot_2.4.1-7_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libu/libungif/libungif3g_3.0-7_i386.deb Size mismatch when doing an 'apt-get --fix-missing

[SLUG] I want to remove gnome but debian wants to add stuff.

Hi all, So Debian is snack eh ? :-) I am trying to do a dist-upgrade from potato to woody but dont have enough space in /var for the deb archives (have 70Meg need 120 Meg). As gnome is big and I dont actually use it I though I would remove that which would free up lots of space and those

[SLUG] news server for use at UTS

Hi all, The news server here at the Uni of Technology, Sydney no longer seems to be operational (news.uts.edu.au). I have not been able to find out why or who looks after it so I am looking for another source of news for comp.text.tex (no not alt.bins). I tried news.unsw.edu.au and it told me

Re: Can't get output from passthru() in PHP. was Re: [SLUG] Can't get PHP4 to run on Debian

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:14:37PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Mike Lake wrote: But the code below just outputs cat myemail | spamfooler end The perl program spamfooler when invoked from the command line does output text but its not showing up in the HTML output from PHP. The output

[SLUG] Can't get PHP4 to run on Debian

Hi all, I have installed php4 on my debian box but the php script does not work as I seem to have a problem with apache not loading the php module. When I have the LoadModule line uncommented apachectl start does not start the httpd daemon. I have to comment out the LoadModule line for the php4

Re: [SLUG] Several questions after an apt-get dist-upgrade

On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:13:26PM +1100, getadog wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:06:24PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: dpkg --purge --force-depends zmailer-ssl apt-get install postfix (or exim, or whatever). apt-get install zmailer-ssl- postfix (or exim, or whatever) But as I mentioned

[SLUG] Several questions after an apt-get dist-upgrade

Hi All, I have just done an apt-get dist-upgrade of an Intel 486 gateway from stable to unstable. I have just a few questions... Question 1 -- dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/usr/doc': Directory not empty All the doc files in here are symlinks to ../share/doc/ I am

Re: [SLUG] Documenting code logic

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:33:38PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Grant Parnell This is a case of the aftermath of hacking together stuff for years but I'm wondering if people have found any decent linux software suited to the task of documenting existing code logic. Ask Mike Lake

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX: a random walk.

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:43:01PM +1100, Bill Bennett wrote: I'm trying to understand some of the classier programmes to be found in The LaTeX Companion. Not easy, although it would help if some of them worked when you ran them. P.144, The random walk in PSTricks is what's the matter. Can

Re: [SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:30:15AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just stumbled over this too, last night. It avoids the need to buy expensive PDF creation software from Adobe. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html Yes it's an ace trick. I have setup a few Windows PC's here to use

Re: [SLUG] www-data unable to write to /tmp when running latex from cgi scrip

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 06:38:33PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Mike Lake wrote: I can't work out why a cgi script which fires off latex to process a file in /tmp does not seem to be able to write the dvi file or its log file. The application creates a file called 192.168.1.4.tex fine

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX problem revisited.

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:43:52PM +1100, Bill Bennett wrote: Thanks to Mike Lake, I can now report that, Page 146 of The LaTeX Graphics Companion notwithstanding, there is no such animal as \PstRegularPolygon. However, if you substitute \PstPolygon all .. Can some kind soul tell me how

[SLUG] dwww: and missing documentation.

Hi Debian gurus :-) Have noticed for a while that the http://localhost/dwww page has great docs but two links have no contents: List of HTML documents pointing to http://martel.speleonics.com.au/dwww/dwww-short-index.html and List of HTML documents, with descriptions pointing to

[SLUG] www-data unable to write to /tmp when running latex from cgi scrip

Hi all, I can't work out why a cgi script which fires off latex to process a file in /tmp does not seem to be able to write the dvi file or its log file. The application creates a file called 192.168.1.4.tex fine. But latex won't run on it from the cgi script. This is the command I am using in

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

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:08:42PM -1000, cpaul wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:44:09 +1000 eurk-dsl wrote: . maybe old news by now, but a bunch of new zealanders think so, and managed to present their case reasonably well: excerpt from http://www.openz.org/ Thats an EXCELLENT letter. [Ron

[SLUG] Free PDF editing tools

Richard Hayes wrote on Fri Oct 12 14:48:02 2001 Dear List, I use ps2pdf to create PDFs. Is there any free /open source tools that allows me to edit a pdf file? I just came across pstoedit accidentlly and remembered you post Richard. pstoedit: Description: PostScript and PDF files to

Re: [SLUG] Re: Tar over SSH

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:37:40PM +, Herbert Xu wrote: Angus Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only echo if bash is in interactive mode (don't know how you check that off the top of my head. in tcsh you see if $prompt is defined) [ ${-#*i} != $- ] Oh geez ! IMHO a little obfuscated I

Re: [SLUG] Tar over SSH

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:33:13AM +1000, Grant Parnell wrote: Hmmm consider writing a little program to insert in the pipe that filters all output until it gets a marker. ssh root@martel 'echo MARKER; tar cvf - /home/mikel/testing' | filter.pl | dd /dev/rmt0 Nice idea but I am backing up

[SLUG] undefined function mysql_pconnect()

Hi all, I have installed a HTML bookmark management app called bookmarker. After a considerable amount of fixing config files I have reduced the number of errors to one. When I try to open it's index.php3 I get: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_pconnect() in

Re: [SLUG] Security Issue

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:05:38PM +1000, Lloyd Bayley wrote: Quick question...for some reason, I can no longer run system commands from a telnet session from my windows box on the RH7.1 box. I log in as me, su to root and things like fdisk and ntsysv now say bash: command not found. Have

Re: [Slug] Strange Harddrive Access In Red Hat 7.0

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:53:59PM +1000, Russell Andrew Willis wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:28:36PM +1000, Russell Andrew Willis wrote: I am running a Pentium 350 II 64 MB RAM 10 GB HDD. RH runs ok under XWindow Gnome but I get get continuous HDD access when logged on as user

Re: [SLUG] shrinking a partition

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:53:54PM +0800, Steven O'Reilly wrote: Hi I currently have a dual boot RedHat 6.2 and Win95 laptop. I wish to try Debian on this machine to see if it works with internal modem etc. The RH partition is the largest and has heaps of space, i wish to shrink this but

Re: [Slug] Strange Harddrive Access In Red Hat 7.0

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:24:45AM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: Mine is running pretty much at 28% on a Pentium 233MHz with 3 Meg RAM/64 Meg Sorry^32Meg -- If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop

Re: [SLUG] Apache: why doesn't allow from localhost work ?

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:10:01PM +1000, getadog wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:56:07PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: So if I was using 'localhost' which is refering to a URL that the request comes from then it would use ServerName:Port ie b4114:80 ? . Im a little confused between

Re: [SLUG] xdvi displays RGB ! - SOLVED

Hi Guys, This is a follow up to my problem with the solution (well workaround) as I don't know WHY) so that if others have the same problem a solution will be findable. On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:21:13PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: Hi, I made a post a while ago on my fonts in xdvi appearing

Re: [SLUG] xdvi displays RGB ! - SOLVED

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:14:23AM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote: Another option, which I've found more practical in my circumstances, is to use pdflatex instead of latex with GV (or gnome-gv) as the viewer. This produces nice PDF files, if the name didn't already hint at that ;) Yes I have

[SLUG] Apache: why doesn't allow from localhost work ?

Hi all, Just setting up Apache conf file and I have the following: DirectoryMatch ^/home/.*/public_html Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AllowOverride None # MRL added next 3 lines order deny,allow deny from all allow from 130.10.11.12 # allow from my own IP addr # allow from localhost

Re: [SLUG] Apache: why doesn't allow from localhost work ?

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:12:59PM +1000, enterfornone wrote: Hi all, Just setting up Apache conf file and I have the following: DirectoryMatch ^/home/.*/public_html Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AllowOverride None # MRL added next 3 lines order deny,allow deny from

Re: [SLUG] Apache: why doesn't allow from localhost work ?

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:21:30PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:12:59PM +1000, enterfornone wrote: Does it do DNS lookups? Perhaps 127.0.0.1 would be better than localhost. To the first part, ? To the second part, no 127.0.0.1 also does not work. Ok. my /etc/hosts

Re: [SLUG] Apache: why doesn't allow from localhost work ?

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:48:48PM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:11:24PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: # allow from localhost # why does this not work? Are you pointing your browser at http://localhost/blah or at: http://mycomputername/blah When I point

Re: [SLUG] Apache: why doesn't allow from localhost work ?

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:48:48PM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: At a guess, the first should work, and the second shouldn't. Your browser is free to bind to any local interface it likes when it creates a socket to connect to somewhere... default behaviour for sockets is to try pick an

Re: [SLUG] Apache: why doesn't allow from localhost work ?

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:25:30PM +1000, getadog wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:16:07PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: When I point it at http://localhost/~mikel I get Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~mikel on this server. AND the URL in the browser changes to: http

Re: [SLUG] Using Locate Under Red Hat 6.2

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:36:47PM +1000, D.V.Rogers wrote: Hello All (Again) When using locate under Red Hat 6.2 i get the following; you need to run the /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron command as root How do I do this? Have a look at that file ie /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron You will prob

Re: [SLUG] Installing Driver Problems Under Red Hat 6.2

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:34:10PM +1000, D.V.Rogers wrote: Hi All Wondering if anyone can help out with why I am having trouble installing a driver under Red Hat 6.2 Kernel 2.2.17-14. Right at teh very start of the build you have... [root@seismic driver]# make depend /bin/cp

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

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:26:42PM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote: Linux, so SLUG is still a technically correct name. However I suggest (audaciously, as a non-member) that SLUG adopt a policy of when referring to the kernel the term Linux is used, otherwise GNU/Linux, particularly in public

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

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:01:58PM +1000, Bevan Broun wrote: But could we as (GNU/)linux users at least ack RMS's contrib with a GNU/Linux button on the slug website pointing to the GNU site and RMS's essays on the topic? We could use GNU/Linux in the sig of the slug mail. I think that is

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

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:47:29PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: I mean, has anyone ever tried explain to a normal person what a self-referential non-descriptive acronym IS? And what it has to do with software. Ah no take the Microsoft way here - users don't need to know that. It's tooo hard :-)

Re: [SLUG] SCP on debian

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:19:53PM +1000, Robert Reid wrote: Hi, scp is in the ssh package, so use apt-get install ssh It is in the non-us branch I think, so make sure there is something to that effect in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. I think the version in potato is quite old, so you

[SLUG] xdvi displays RGB !

Hi, I made a post a while ago on my fonts in xdvi appearing strange. (22 May 2001). I still have not worked out what the prob is. When I run xdvi the fonts appear to be colour separated ie all the letters instead of being black on a white background are alternating, vertical blue/red stripes.

Re: [SLUG] xdvi displays RGB !

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:21:13PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: I made a post a while ago on my fonts in xdvi appearing strange. (22 May 2001). I still have not worked out what the prob is. When I run xdvi the fonts appear to be colour separated ie all the letters instead of being black

Re: [SLUG] slrn - getting down arrow key to show each article.

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:20:37AM +0930, Dave Fitch wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 04:10:19PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: Am using slrn to read comp.text.tex and when you scroll down the headers with the down arrow key you have to hit enter as well to read the articles. I want it to be like

[SLUG] dpkg-source: command not found

OK apt-get men whats gone wrong? How do I fix it? # apt-get source ncpfs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 486kB of source archives. Get:1 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au stable/main ncpfs 2.2.0.17-1 (dsc) [540B] Get:2 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au stable/main

Re: [SLUG] dpkg-source: command not found

Thanks Andrew :-) On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:31:41PM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:25:03PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: sh: dpkg-source: command not found Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x ncpfs_2.2.0.17-1.dsc' failed. E: Child process failed apt-get install dpkg-dev

Re: [SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:00:26PM +1000, Martin wrote: maybe a thought. have you tried: ncpmount -ov -S blah No I had not. I just tried: # /usr/bin/ncpmount -ov -S groucho -U mikelake -A 138.xx.xx.xx.xx /web/http/faculty/ /mnt Unknown option `v', ignoring it Logging into MACHO as

Re: [SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:37:48AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # /usr/bin/ncpmount -ov -S groucho -U mikelake -A 138.xx.xx.xx.xx /web/http/faculty/ /mnt i'm still guessing (not having ncpmount on my system) but have you tried # /usr/bin/ncpmount -v -S groucho -U mikelake -A Yep.

Re: [SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:00:26PM +1000, Martin wrote: maybe a thought. have you tried: ncpmount -ov -S blah # /usr/bin/ncpmount -ov -S etc. Unknown option `v', ignoring it Unhappy Mike :-( -- Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible -- not to

Re: [SLUG] re SMH 19/6

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:31:31PM +, Howard Lowndes wrote: They could always resurrect Xenix Trivia: The Uni of Technology, Sydney is still running some scientific equipment on an IBM PS2 running an early SCO Xenix :-) Mike -- Consultant, n.: Someone who'd rather climb a tree and tell a

Re: [SLUG] Why does my executable [SOLUTION]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:01:38PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Mike Lake but I would like to understand why one can run binaries linked against this library when their executable permissions are removed. I gather that what is running it is the library rather than me? I was going

[SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

Hi All, I am getting an error from ncpmount when trying to mount a Novel Netware server. I used to do this with the previous RedHat but have been unable to get it working lately. # /usr/bin/ncpmount -vo -S macho -U mikelake -A 138.12.34.567 /web/http/faculty/rsnsw /mnt Unknown option

Re: [SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:43:50PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Lake wrote: I am getting an error from ncpmount when trying to mount a Novel Netware server. I used to do this with the previous RedHat but have been unable to get it working lately. # /usr/bin/ncpmount -vo

Re: [SLUG] insmod over modprobe.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:26:20PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, George Vieira wrote: Please reply to email as I'm not on the list. Am I the only one who finds this annoying and rude? .bits eaten away he needs the list badly enough to badger us with his questions, but

Re: [SLUG] Cheap and nasty camera

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:32:38AM +0800, Mike Holland wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Jamie Honan wrote: All will be released under the GPL. But in order to show how to build, what it looks like etc, I want to take some photos. Use a scanner. Even cheap ones I used had a some centimetres

Re: [SLUG] apt-get update rpm

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:12:11PM +, Herbert Xu wrote: Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah they have an rpm_4.0.2-10_alpha.deb ! Thanks - I'll pull it down tonight when my Alpha connects. This package will not work for you unless you're using testing or unstable. So you need to

Re: [SLUG] WHOIS..server.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:56:38PM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote: dont liek them. I'll try the trick with the -- but i cant promise -- /\ |

[SLUG] apt-get update rpm

Hi, I have rpm 3.0.3 on my Debian box and want to update to 4.0 (to alien a RH7 mozilla binary for the Alpha). But apt-get update rpm does not update it as it thinks thats the most recent - pooh. Does anyone know what section rpm might be in? Mike --

Re: [SLUG] Proxy blues

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:51:43PM +1000, Laurie Savage wrote: I cannot get through the Dept of Education Proxy server with Lynx or Konqueror. The general setting given a school's ID is http://pac.xxx.yyy.zzz.au/schools/schoolid-xyzetc.pac Netscape under Linux can do this. Has anybody any

Re: [SLUG] Spend time working around bugs!

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 03:02:27PM +1000, Ian Ward wrote: Now _THAT_ is innovation! Don't worry about fixing the bugs, write a whole new system to work around it. http://www.microsoft.com/office/evaluation/fastfacts.htm Well I had to use Windows and use IE Explorer to read it. Netscape

Re: [SLUG] Linux Instructor

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:41:23PM +1000, Del wrote: Linux Australia (http://www.linux.org.au/) have a recruitment database which is suitable for this purpose. I've seen that, but it's rather out of the mind's eye. If someone needs a Linux person in a hurry then I can't see what's wrong

Re: [SLUG] OT: memory pricing

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:35:33AM +1000, Rob B wrote: Hi all, Anyone know where I can get reasonably priced ECC SDRAM memory ... say 128M or 256M sticks? Doesn't have to be super-fast either .. PC83 will do This isn't a hardware list but... Pelham at Pennant Hills have everything yo need in

[SLUG] xdvi displays RGB !

Hi All, Have an unusual problem. My xdvi display was working quite fine but now the letters are red, green blue. The characters are fuzzy as each one seems a superposition of a few characters. It wa quite fine some months ago. I made sure Netscape is not running as it can hog colours and have

Re: [SLUG] mutt and urls

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:46:09PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i read my mail in mutt in an xterm and i can right click on a URL and select Open in browser which launches a netscape window... Thanks heaps! Yes I use a gnome-terminal but never right clicked while the mouse was over a url so

Re: [SLUG] mutt and urls

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:48:38PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:07:09PM +1000, Mike Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have installed urlview to fire up netscape when using mutt. OK it works but I have to: * hit Ctrl-b to browse and a menu pops up of all

Re: [SLUG] Where to get a 2nd hand laptop

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:00:48PM +1000, Andy Eager wrote: I have a friend who saw a cockroach run into his toshiba. He then placed the said laptop into the freezer in an attempt to kill it. It was probably a Toshiba Bug that he saw returning to the laptop :-) Mike -- Writing is turning

[SLUG] mutt and urls

Hi All, I have installed urlview to fire up netscape when using mutt. OK it works but I have to: * hit Ctrl-b to browse and a menu pops up of all the urls * cursor to the appropriate entry * It then asks for confirmation, hit enter netscape loads it * I then have to type q to quit the menu *

Re: [SLUG] Re. Debian birth pangs: mail and Lilo ...

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:50:12PM +1000, Adam Bogacki wrote: By way of explanation: I have managed to open a connection via my ISP - which only seems .. The other thing is that I have a few important message on my Win 98 drive I wish to access as reasonably soon as possible. I'd

Re: [SLUG] Studying Programming

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:44:16AM +1000, John Ferlito wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:49:28AM +1000, David wrote: the biggest problem with learning on your own is having no one to bounce problems off. You can look at something for a week and not see the answer, . The biggest problem

[SLUG] Strange behaviour of vim within mutt

Hi All, When using mutt I have set the editor to vim but the keymappings are wrong. The up arrow key when pressed opens the line above and inserts an 'A' though sometimes a D or C on that new blank line. if I hit escape before the arrow key then its fine the cursor moves up ie the problem occurs

Re: [SLUG] Anybody home ?

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:03:01PM +1000, Andrew Eager wrote: Hi, PS: Didn't know that postfix used procmail. Does procmail work ok if it has no procmailrc file ? (Ie does it have a nice simple 'send everything' default ?) The man procmail says line arguments are present, it

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