...and then Lindsay Holmwood said:
ap's are configured to bridge out of the box. The Linksys WRT54* ap's
are good examples of Linux ethernet bridging at work.
For what it's worth, pretty much the first thing I did with my WRT54G
after reflashing it was to disable the wireless-wired bridge..
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 18:34 +1000, elliott-brennan wrote:
Thanks Pete,
Probably another stupid question, but is the root user able to read
files off the CD?
Urm, no, not a stupid question :)
I can access the CD images if I open a root-user Konqueror. I've added a
group with the ID
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:00 +1000, elliott-brennan wrote:
Now the CD says the images are owned by group 501 - but there isn't a
group id of 501
Just because a group id isn't listed in your groups file doesn't mean it
doesn't exist. It just means it doesn't have a name or any members. :-)
...and then elliott-brennan said:
This is a bit of a project. I've an old P120, 32Mb RAM.
I can set it to boot from CD-ROM (and I've pulled a working drive from
another machine for this, so I know it works).
When it boots, I get the usual info about RAM and primary and secondary
drives
...and then Jeff Grima said:
My XDA2 (PocketPC smartphone) plays nice with Ubuntu using synce and
multisync.
I sync to evolution.
Although the calendar has time syncing issues, I just disable that and
use it for the contacts and tasks.
Time syncing issues? Is it just a matter of
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 21:00 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I need to do this for a customer:
[NT workstation 1]
.
[NT workstation 2]---192.168.1.x[SuSE9.3]=bridge==[adsl]..internet
.
[NT workstation 3]
and
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 00:30 +1000, James Fleming wrote:
I wanted to suggest OpenVPN ( http://openvpn.net/ ), but checking the
site briefly suggests it only runs on Windows NT.
Very definitely not the case; I'm using it right now to secure the
wireless connection from my Fedora-powered
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:15:49PM +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote:
The lines in /etc/inittab that would normally start a getty are in this
distribution replaced by, for example,
1:12345:respawn:/bin/bash -login /dev/tty1 21 /dev/tty1
*snip*
In /home/dsl there exist, among others, the following
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 15:29 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
I've just had a graphics card die on me and I'm looing for a
replacement. Here's what I'm after:
- Easily/currently available
- Less that $150
- Must have open source drivers (I dislike binary only
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 11:03, David wrote:
thanks Tony but the bit that is mostly tricking me is going through
the directory recursively to get to each file. I didn't mention the
recursive thing in my original post - there are several hundred files in
a directory tree ( a web site).
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 09:39 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
directory without being able to trash each others account? Is there an
elegant way to become another user but retain your group privledge?
Perhaps something like login as peter then su - matlab ; newgrp
peter? When I do this it
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 11:53, Adam W wrote:
On 6/10/05, Simon Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your question does seem a bit odd though. If you had mentioned whatwhy
you are really trying to achieve, then perhaps there would be a better or
more appropriate way...
Basically optusnet cable
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 10:50, Jeff Waugh wrote:
I'd recommend dovecot or courier-pop3 (not the whole courier mta). :-)
I'll second courier-pop3. I've had nothing but good times with both it
and its imap cousin.
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On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:48 +1000, Carlo Sogono wrote:
Debian 3.1 released
http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050606
So, who won the local Debian Release Pool?
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On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 17:06 +1000, linley caetan wrote:
It looks like there is no way that I can make windows play nice with EXT3.
So Am I better off wiping the linux partition, making an extra vfat or
ntfs partition for data and smaller partition for my ubuntu installation?
Are there better
Pretty basic shell question, but it's Monday morning and my brain hasn't
warmed up yet.
I have the following bit of shell script to accept messages piped from
evolution filters and pop up a notice on screen:
message=Message received
`egrep (^From:|^Subject:)`
xmessage -nearmouse
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 12:30, James Gregory wrote:
Can someone point me at a tool that will do what I want? Will MagicPoint
display video files? Easily? What other options do I have?
Magicpoint can embed random X applications in a foil with the %xsystem
command. I haven't tried it with a media
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 00:02, David Kempe wrote:
Kevin Saenz wrote:
I wouldn't suggest a port scan. It is illegal to port scan another
server without permission.
really? where does it say that?
what about if i telnet to each port in succession?
It only becomes illegal if you telnet in
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 08:59, Kevin Saenz wrote:
Well, the ns1 would make me think that they are running some sort of
DNS service on it.
Have you tried an nmap scan to see what ports are open?
I wouldn't suggest a port scan. It is illegal to port scan another
server without
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 18:53 +1000, Richard Neal wrote:
Also while Im here whats a good three in one printer that people have
had experience buying and using with Linux lately.
HP anything.
Not sure about the cost, but HP have open sourced their drivers.
Originally on the provision that the
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:58:24PM +1000, Bill Bennett wrote:
There's a Linux game called Same on my laptop. Similar
pattern marbles disappear: try to achieve a score of
zero.
What's the Microsoft name for it please? I *think* it was
called Multiclick or some such that could be ftp'd from
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:44:49PM +1000, Del wrote:
A question from a friend -- since I don't really use or know much about
PDAs but have been thinking about getting one, and thought I'd throw it
to the list:
Does anyone have any advice they want to offer? I run Windows XP on
my
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 00:23 +1000, Voytek wrote:
I'm trying to find a specific file withing a web tree, what the way to do it:
I tried this with no luck
# locate /home/domain.org.au localconf.php
only to get
find: localconf.php: No such file or directory
Locate uses a database of file
Anybody interested in having a SLUG dinner one night during LCA?
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On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 14:30 -0400, David Kempe wrote:
Peter Hardy wrote:
Anybody interested in having a SLUG dinner one night during LCA?
yeah. might be up for it. of course we could just meet up somewhere for
a beer
I hope you don't think I would seriously suggest dining
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 17:35 +1000, Chris Portman wrote:
Does anyone have any solutions for connecting to an L2TP/IPSEC windows
VPN server? I cant seem to find a great deal on google.
For the IPSEC side of things, your best bet is openswan
(http://www.openswan.org/). For l2tp, you need l2tpd,
Perhaps SLUG would like to provide refreshments?
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:15, Phoebe Goh wrote:
Sadly no. I'll try to organise something though, since you guys ARE
volunteering :)
Phoebe
On Apr 6, 2005 10:07 PM, Simon Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6 Apr 2005, at 21:28, Phoebe Goh
First, a little bit of context:
I have a Linksys WRT54G running OpenWRT as my home gateway. Among other
things, my init scripts are launching syslogd, using the neat busybox
trick of logging to a circular buffer, giving you local logs without
writing to your flash all the time. There's a small
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 10:11 +1100, Benno wrote:
On Fri Mar 18, 2005 at 07:17:43 +1100, Voytek wrote:
presumedly, if it runs out of the memory, that causes a reboot ?
Linux isn't quite that broken. If you run out of memory the infamous
out-of-memory (OOM) killer kicks in. This will go and
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:51 +1100, Terry Denovan wrote:
smoothly again... Im just wondering, when I run top it shows the
memory used at 476232k, is that right, or is something using the memory
that shouldn't be...
Linux likes to use unused memory for caching, which is most likely what
you're
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 10:14, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:03:11AM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote:
One last question before I give up. ls -l on the webserver directory
shows :-
drwxr--r-- 10 root root 8192 Mar 2 15:35 Webserver/ and all its
contents.
I undestand
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 10:37, Luke Skywalker wrote:
I tried to send a post, but I got a message saying I have suspicious
headers.
Please don't send administrative requests to the list address. Of the
700 or so subscribers, there's about 6 in a position to do anything
about it. And, for the
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:40, David Fisher wrote:
A whole act of parliment forever defeated by ssh port forwarding !!!
Fer gawd's sake, what are you trying to do? They'll prohibit ssh next.
Then we'll start encapsulating our ssh sessions in UDP.
...actually, no, we won't. Most definitely
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 15:30 +1100, Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
I'm creating a browser based follow me feature for a system, which
allows a user (higher privileges, let's call it master) to navigate on
the web, and the remaining users in the same session (less privileges,
slaves) are dragged to the
Hey hey.
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 23:20 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is real, not a test to see who gets the right answer:
Does that mean there's no prize? :-(
Ideally I'd like to tar blah - | scp another-box where it was undone.
Alas scp won't take stdin.
If you've got tar
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:56 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24 Jan, Matthew Palmer wrote:
When the system handles one of these conflicts, a new file will be
created
-- either conffile.dpkg-new (if you chose to keep your version) or
conffile.dpkg-old (if you chose to replace your
I call shenanigans on this thread.
Cut it out, or I'll get my broom.
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 11:02 +1100, Ben de Luca wrote:
yes, being rude and arrogant expected if your an open source developer,
at least on slug.
On 21/01/2005, at 10:50 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jan
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 13:36, Rob Sharp wrote:
There are other firmwares available (quit possibly for free, too), but
I have a friend running the sveasoft one, and he rates it very highly.
The Linksys boxes are a whole lotta fun. Good and cheap firewalls even
if you decide to disable the
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:09 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote:
I'm having a problem unzipping a large file.
Are you talking one very large file that's been compressed, or a very
large archive with a lot of files?
I get: ... write error (disk full?).
Which is, you would think, a hint that the disk
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 22:31, Mary Gardiner wrote:
If the install process really is building only current modules into the
initrd, then that may explain the problem. If so though, I'm absolutely
stuck for solving it, short of building an initrd by hand. At the moment
I'm reasonably sure that it
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 11:27, Edwin Humphries wrote:
I remember there is a setting for BIND that tells it to refer DNS requests
for addresses it does not have cached to a specific name-server, rather
than doing a top-down DNS resolution.
Now I can't find it. Does anyone know where it is?
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 11:44, Peter Hardy wrote:
In your options section, add:
forwarders { xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx };
Er...
forwarders { xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; };
Lousy semicolons.
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SLUG's last installfest for the year will be held at the University of
Western Sydney this Saturday. Anybody interested in trying Linux out, or
with questions and problems with installing Linux is welcome to attend.
Where: UWS Parramatta, room EDG-75. Refer to
So, the last installfest for the year is coming up this weekend. This
time we've booked a room at the University of Western Sydney's
Parramatta campus. Details at
http://slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=162
Volunteers needed for the following:
- Room setup and teardown
- Greeting people at the
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 16:46 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
The advertised start time is 9:30. We need as many helpers as possible
to be there from 8:30 to get ready. Coffee will be provided for the
hard
of waking (I know I'll be needing it).
Sorry, those times should be 10am and 9am respectively
Hey hey.
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 11:03 +1100, Brian Goddard wrote:
-when is next SLUG meet? is the installfest in parramatta on 4/12 a
place i can get some of these questions answered?
Regular meetings are held on the last Friday of every month. You just
missed the last one, and there won't
I have a machine hosted in the US that's in need of a reinstall.
Upgrading isn't really an option- the current OS can't be trusted after
a recent breakin, besides which the version of Red Hat it's running now
is far too crusty to attempt an upgrade to Fedora.
The only likely result I've seen
On 11/19/04 11:12, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote:
I have a machine hosted in the US that's in need of a reinstall.
Upgrading isn't really an option- the current OS can't be trusted after
a recent breakin, besides which the version of Red Hat it's running
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 13:12, Ken Guest wrote:
I've been very bad and let my ~/mbox get ridiculously huge.
There are some 5601 or so mails in it from various mailing lists and
friends. Because I ssh to read my emails I use mutt (what else!) - what is the
best way for me to separate these mails
Hi there.
On 11/15/04 10:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I noticed on your web site that you have an Installfest planed for
this coming Saturday, the venue listed as TBA.
Is this still going ahead? If so, could you please tell me where? (I
REALLY need some help!)
A combination of factors
On 11/04/04 23:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:58:06 +1100
Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ( wday -q || wday -q `/bin/date -d yesterday +%Y%m%d` ) echo
Hello
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
at a tangent to the main question, did you actually check this in cron
Thought I might share my new favourite utility, wday.
So I've got a script that's launched by cron every Monday. It emails
reminders to all users who haven't sent a progress report for the
previous week. Simple.
Amongst other changes to be done, I was asked if this system could be
modified so,
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 18:15, Peter Hardy wrote:
# Progress report annoyances.
# Only send on Monday if it isn't a public holiday
30 10 * * 1 benno /usr/bin/wday -q || python /home/disy/progress_annoy.py
# Only send on Tuesday if Monday was a public holiday
30 10 * * 2 benno /usr
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 18:39, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote:
I know this could be condensed to one line like
30 10* * * ( wday -q || wday -q `/bin/date -d yesterday +%Y%m%d` )
/path/to/script
, I just thought splitting across two lines
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 14:15, Rod Butcher wrote:
Sluggers, can you tell me how I can step thru the messages when I boot
up.. i.e. thru Lilo and then the initial kernel startup...
- You should be able to hit scroll lock during bootup to... well... stop
scrolling.
- As mentioned by others, dmesg
On 10/06/04 19:12, Elliott-Brennan wrote:
Hi,
I've been replying to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address - mail is going
through, but I'm also getting this:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 6 October 2004 6:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
On 09/30/04 17:58, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:05:44PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
Bring an AP and we can quake at 200mph.
1) Ad-hoc mode
You're no fun! Peter's AP runs a deathmatch server!
Note to self; port Quake 2 to
Hello SLUG.
Would anybody going along to the meeting tomorrow night be able to bring
along their copies of Fedora core 2? I'd like to grab a copy; will bring
blanks. :-)
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Hey hey.
On 09/18/04 13:24, Joshua Burvill wrote:
I am running sarge, and I have compiled a new kernel
(2.6.8).
First of all, it may be worthwhile looking in to the kernel-package
package. It's a neat way to automate the kernel compilation, giving you
a debian package containing your new kernel
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:34, Jan Schmidt wrote:
quote who=Matthew Davidson
However, I maintain that's the way it _should_ work!
That's the way hard links work, but they can only link within the same file
system.
But you shouldn't add hard links to directories. The ln utility will
only let
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 01:31, Ryan Tsai wrote:
I'll recompile some Samba related packages tomorrow and see how it goes,
though I still think its my glibc.
I'd hate to classify this one as yet another unsolved tech mystery :-(
Have you tried using the nmblookup utility to see if your samba is
On 09/08/04 20:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ Okay, first version get held for moderation by Mailman, with a
'Message has a suspicious header' warning - I'll try adding a
Message-ID ]
For what it's worth, mailman is indeed set up to hold anything for
moderation if it doesn't have a valid
On 08/19/04 18:32, Richard Hayes wrote:
Dear list,
I just acquired a no name 802.11b card and I do not know which chipset it is.
How do I find out?
a) Google for the make and model on the card. Chances are good somebody
else has already tried using it in Linux.
2) Plug it in. :-) Check the system
On 08/19/04 12:51, Peter Hardy wrote:
The advertised start time is 9:30. We need as many helpers as possible
to be there from 8:30 to get ready. Coffee will be provided for the hard
of waking (I know I'll be needing it).
Turns out we don't have access until 9. So... come then instead
Volunteers needed for the following:
- Room setup and teardown
- Greeting people at the door, helping move equipment around
- Wandering around looking (and being!) helpful. We usually get a
significant number of people just turning up to see what this whole
linux thing is about. Having advocates
On 08/17/04 22:43, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins wrote:
Curiosity question.
everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity.
what do people do when they need to test a service?
telnet IP PORT?
or netcat,
or if you're monitoring hosts and
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 06:55, Alan L Tyree wrote:
The problem is that I have a 95yo neighbour who I have set up with an
old box currently running Redhat 8 and Gnome. But the full Gnome desktop
is really too much for the box, and I would like to replace with a
lightweight desktop. I don't think
On 08/12/04 22:48, Voytek wrote:
to test whether it's my own ipchains blocking it, can I just do this over
ssh:
service ipchains stop
[try accessing]
service ipchains start
as the machine is remote to me, and, I'd rather not upset it,
is issueing 'service ipchains stop / service ipchains start'
OK
On 08/13/04 00:43, Voytek wrote:
Peter Hardy said:
The at(1) program is your best friend when doing remote firewall admin.
Peter, another dumb question:
what is the significance of the (1) ?
It's a reference to the man system of manual pages. (1) means it's in
section 1 of the manual
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 14:11, Taryn East wrote:
Ok, so at work we're running red hat (shrike), and I have a fairly
standard, cheapo mouse - which is probably half my trouble...
but the thing keeps dieing!
*snip*
Mouse driver being used:
generic PS/2 wheel mouse
Green Mile script:
su -c
On 08/06/04 14:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is ePerl for about 10 years now. I'm not sure it's still the
leading embedded perl in HTML implementation. Maybe something a little
newer called embperl, which mentions other implementations in its
intro
On 08/02/04 16:30, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
Hi Del,
Just a followup. The dhcp client worked! The problem seemed to be that
he had all sorts of other bits of attempted configuration in there. Once
he reset and tried dhcp it worked OK. I guess this means that Bigpond
has altered their setup to be more
On 08/02/04 01:26, Voytek wrote:
how can I allow for leading zero for days 1-9 in below example:
n=32
let i=1
while [ $i -lt $n ]; do
*snip stuff*
Replace the while loop with a for loop using seq(1) to generate the
sequence. Use the -w option to pad:
for $i in `seq -w 1 32`; do
*re-add stuff*
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On 08/02/04 08:17, Voytek wrote:
Peter Hardy said:
On 08/02/04 01:26, Voytek wrote:
how can I allow for leading zero for days 1-9 in below example:
n=32
let i=1
while [ $i -lt $n ]; do
*snip stuff*
Replace the while loop with a for loop using seq(1) to generate the
sequence. Use the -w option
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 16:01, Michael S. E. Kraus wrote:
I'm a member of SourceForge and I'm wanting to be able to send mail
using my SourceForge mail alias, however I don't want to have to set up
an account for this (ie. as their are no servers for me to download from
it is just a mail
On 07/29/04 09:03, Jan Schmidt wrote:
quote who=Dean Hamstead
doesnt it fall under slugs PLI?
If it's a SLUG event, it sure does. I have no problem with making it an
event run by Richard, head of the SLUG wireless SIG.
Seconded. :-)
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On 07/22/04 10:18, Mary Gardiner wrote:
b) set up a second server on a different IP address and update the
nameservers. (Not all clients will notice immediately because DNS can
be cached.)
It's probably worth pointing out that it's not uncommon for DNS servers
to have fairly long caching
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 10:48, Trevor Tregoweth wrote:
after my last post, which i think wasn't quite to the point, i would like
to find out how to have a web-backup server, and how to configure them, so
that when one goes down the other takes affect.
I'm in the midst of deploying a
On 07/15/04 09:43, Terry Collins wrote:
Does anyon know how to change the google search panle in Firebird/fire
fox to search Australian web pages first? I fscked if I want to wade
through piles of US tripe.
I've been wanting to know how to add other engines there too (I miss my
imdb searches!).
On 07/15/04 11:05, Michael Lake wrote:
Peter Hardy wrote:
You can install a firefox search plugin:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/google.html , grep for Australia,
click the linky thing. You need to be root to install plugins. And
yes, the
I just installed Firefox yesterday on my PowerBook
On 07/15/04 11:17, Peter Hardy wrote:
On 07/15/04 11:05, Michael Lake wrote:
I could not find any option in the preferences to tell it to install
plugins into its own directory .firefix/plugins. I do not intend to
login as root and install plugins.
A lot of extensions have the option
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 12:08, Terry Collins wrote:
Ankur Kotwal wrote:
Type about:config in the Url. Have a look at the value for
browser.search.defaulturl. You can edit the url to enforce a site:au
on every search.
Thanks
Hmm, must be something else affecting as well.
I've edited
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 13:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have an unusual problem with files that are invisible (sort of) to 'ls' and
other programs. This shows up when using the standard versions of these
programs that are shipped with Debian 'Woody' (up to date via
security.debian.org).
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 18:29, Shaun Oliver wrote:
that is. and for good reason. it's shared on a samba network with other
windows machines because I want to be able to transfer files between all
these machines.
The point of jaq's question is that:
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 18:10, Shaun Oliver
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 18:43, Peter Hardy wrote:
Basically, your fetchmail has been configured to refuse to write to
group-writable directories. Seems the only solution is to twiddle the
config and build yourself a new package from source.
Or, and I think I like this version better, only allow
On 07/01/04 20:56, Sean Murphy wrote:
I have managed to score a Ultra 2 Space machine. It is currently running Debian stable. The Kernel is only using one of the processors. I am trying to track down an Kernel image that would use 2.6.x and fully support both 168 mhz processes.
A good
On 06/28/04 22:56, Shaun Oliver wrote:
does anyone know where I can get some static binaries of smbd, nmbd, and
cupsd,
Pete's 10 second guide to building static binaries:
Download and extract source tarball.
$ export CFLAGS=-static
$ export LDFLAGS=-static
Follow the package directions for
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:15, Edwin Humphries wrote:
Of course, sendmail is going into overload, and slowing the machine
down enormously, and given that the emails are double-bounce, to no
avail. But i tried to delete the queue with rm * in
/var/spool/mqueue, but got Argument list too long.
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:03, Terry Collins wrote:
Peter Hardy wrote:
cd /var/spool/mqueue; ls | xargs rm
Doesn't it barf on the ls with the same message?
You had me worried for a minute. :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mkdir tmp
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd tmp
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ for filename
(moving to activities..)
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 22:46, Richard Hayes wrote:
I am having trouble getting a site to run the wireless fest.
Not too sure what you're looking for. But, venues that have worked out
well for SLUG in the past:
- Granville town hall. Large, fairly central (it's equally
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:19:21PM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote:
The Telstra DSL guru (yes folks, there is one, and he speaks Linux!)
has suggested changing the MTU size in the pppoe client.
Where do we go from here? The ifcfg-ppp0 file on the new router has a
MTU= line: do we set this to
Hey hey.
At Wed, 05 May 2004 22:28:24 +1000, The Salisbury's wrote:
Previously opened links that do not change colour when you click the
browser back button.
I could before browse the slug archives with ease, BUT now find myself
repeatly clicking the same link twice, by mistake.
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 12:10, Howard Lowndes wrote:
My $HOME/.ssh2/authorization files looks like:
Key id_rsa1.pub
Key id_rsa2.pub
Key id_dsa.pub
Check the permissions on your key files. ssh will quiely refuse to use
them if anybody other than you has read permission. The default umask in
On 04/28/04 11:47, Simon Wong wrote:
console
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0
VFS: Cannot open root device 305 or 03:05
Please append correct root= boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
/console
It seems to be trying to use devfs which I do not
On 04/28/04 12:50, Simon Wong wrote:
Once booted I was able to run lilo and it fixed the problem ?!
Boh! I'm not sure why it didn't work first time 'round either.
I guess I'm still wondering how to update lilo if you boot with a
different root fs? Ay clues?
I think you're looking for the -r
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 13:59, David wrote:
While configuring bogofilter 0.17.5 I got the following:
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking how to link with libdb... -ldb
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 09:03, Simon wrote:
I ran /apt-get upgrade/ to which it left me a nice depency.
Now with a reboot in hand, modprobe cannot find my ethernet
driver: rtl8139. Which could of been due to apt-get not being able to
finish.
Did the upgrade upgrade your kernel version? The
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:05:24AM +1000, Grant Parnell wrote:
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If squirrelmail doesen't have one itself, fetchmail will do the job.
- can SM be used to retrive email from hotmail account ?
I did have a client that apparently had a web screen
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 09:03, Rajnish Tiwari wrote:
As I look at the editor everyday, I wonder if there is a more
'pleasant' looking fixed width font on both linux solaris ?
(I aim to keep my NEdit preferences similar).
When I asked this on the #slug IRC channel a few years ago I was pointed
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 07:23, Peter Rundle wrote:
Just need confirmation of my understanding of the limitations of VPN (pptp) and
Nat'd
networks.
Welcome to my 30 second guide to PPTP. :-)
A PPTP connection has two parts. First there's a TCP connection from the
client to port 1723 on the
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