Morning!
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:02:13PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
I mean how do I do these things:
There really should be a HOWTO for things like this...
1) Run a program on someone else's machine. Both console and X.
ssh. You use it to get a shell on a remote computer. It's
Hi!
We're currently looking for suggestions on possible topics for sluglets
this month.
Following mailing list discussions from a week or so ago, we've been
planning on spending sluglets this month talking about kernels -
configuring, building, patching, installing. I'd be interested to hear
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 15:26, Bill Bennett wrote:
In the old days, MS deleted a file by clipping the leading
letter and substituting a token that stood for deleted.
You can't undelete a file in Linux. Is this because the file
has been shredded? I ask not because I want to undelete, but
From humble beginnings as a way to fill in time after an AGM, the SLUG
Flame War is back!
Flame War 1.0 was released in March (See
http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2003/03/msg00783.html for
details). This new version overs many improvements over its
predecessor:
* Multiplayer!
Hey.
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 13:27, James Gray wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - ~
#apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
nfs-common nfs-kernel-server php4 php4-dev php4-imap
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 14:56, James Gray wrote:
Mr Hardy! You are a life saver!!
*blush*
OK, you got me on the right track - so just incase anyone else has a similar
problem in the future here's how I fixed it:
1. get another machine with the same sources.list file (I'm actually running
So Libranet 2.8 has recently been released, and the SMH have reviewed
it.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/02/1056825439033.html
Fairly glowing review, but I get the impression that somebody new to
Linux would be slightly confounded by all of the names the reviewer
seems to toss out constantly
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:16, Matt Hope wrote:
Currently, I believe we need a location that
- has food and drink nearby,
- is accessable via public transport
- is in a fairly central location
- Accessible to minors?
Debsig has traditionally been a fairly beery event (I blame Craige ;-),
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:43, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:16, Matt Hope wrote:
Currently, I believe we need a location that
- has food and drink nearby,
- is accessable via public transport
- is in a fairly central location
Hi Will.
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:12:16AM +1000, Will Munkara-Kerr wrote:
I run apache and samba on a particular server - when I am
logged into this machine and tail -f [the apache] error_log,
I am auto disconencted every 10-15 minutes with no error.
There is a firewall between myself
Hey Brendan.
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:48:03 +1000 Brendan Pike wrote:
please, I feel down enough already). I have tried to get help on the
#Debian IRC but only get told to RTFM, which is fare enough if your
competent enough to understand the manuals.
I'm looking for a hand to get me over the
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:10:42 +1000 Michael Lake wrote:
hey someone has to bite at that .
Peter Hardy wrote:
If you're still stuck, you might like to try #slug. I hear they're
a much nicer bunch of people. :-)
^^
nice bunch of people :-)
They're nice, but nobody said
Hey.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:39:14 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible to non-destructively upgrade a Debian potato install
to a Debian woody install non-destructively? (Ie. Not loose data?)
In my experience, the upgrade is fairly painless. Make sure you've got
a backup of /etc, and
Hey.
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:53:14 +1000 Bill Bennett wrote:
I connected the CD burner to the USB bus.
I put in a data disk and typed
mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0/ /mnt/usbcd
and was told
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write protected, mounting read-only
I understand
On 17 Jun 2003 15:51:53 +0800 El 4Love wrote:
Thanks for everyone contributed to my query. My Apache server is
lightning fast now.
Just out of curiosity, what was the problem?
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 19:31:22 +1000, Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. I want to use procmail to filter my mail into the mailboxes
2. I want to use IMAP to read mail in those mailboxes
This is how I read all of my mail. :-)
however, I can't figure out a way to get my IMAP client to notice
On 03 Jun 2003 08:20:52 +1000, Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have mananged to get tinydns working perfectly for local domains
however it isn't resolving any external domains. I was wondering if
there were any people out there with knowledge of tinydns and could
through me a tip as to
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:02:11 +1000 Gareth Walters wrote:
G'day all,
Now I have the ntlm authentication working I need a squid logfile
parser/analyser that will
handle the usernames.
I am not having much luck, I have been using pwebstats but it doesn't
handle usernames at all.
I've been
On 04 Apr 2003 11:33:41 +1000 Mick Boda wrote:
I'm using Ximian as my mail client. To post to the list do I hit
reply? Or will this use the private email.
If you hit the reply button on the toolbar, that will reply privately.
Check the Actions menu, and it should have a Reply to List entry,
Hi!
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:37:43 +1100, Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone recommend something that will resize all the images in a
directory in one go? It has to be from the command line. Also I would
like something that can make thumbnails, and a simple HTML page which
shows the
Hi.
On 19 Mar 2003 21:57:46 +1100 Tony Green wrote:
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 21:55, Ben Leslie wrote:
I'd like to nominate Peter Hardy for president.
Seconded
Thanks a lot guys. I'll accept.
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(wondering what this is all about?
http://slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=55 )
(I heard a rumour that there'd be bonus points for being suitably
marketing-focused and buzzword-compliant. ie: blame greeno :-)
TRIVIA EXPERTS URGENTLY REQUIRED
Are you:
* Switched-on, team-oriented,
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:00:07 +1100 Brett Fenton wrote:
Because after the pipe it's trying to execute the command.
The command should be dpkg -l insert package list here
Brett
: -Original Message-
*snip*
: dpkg -|xserver xfree86 returns the following error
:
: xserver
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:33:43 +1100 Mick Boda wrote:
I tried the redhat command
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop
to halt my network, but it appears that debian uses a different
command any suggestions?
Debian puts its init scripts in /etc/init.d
I think you want /etc/init.d/networking
Hi!
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 03:33:21 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have been added to the list.
Wow, neat trick.
I've unsubbed the list, and added a couple of mailman filters. That's
another list manager we're silently ignoring mail from.
The amusing and entertaining character(s) who
On 13 Mar 2003 15:39:49 +1100 Dave Kempe wrote:
What happens if no one else is nominated?
dave
Then Jan shall have full power over SLUG, and we shall become his evil
minions with which he shall conquer the world and bend it to his
terrible will.
Please, we *need* more nominations. Stop the
On 13 Mar 2003 16:09:52 +1100 Dave Kempe wrote:
So the joke gets a serious answer and the serious questions gets a
joke?
:(
I was getting there, honest.
If there aren't enough nominations to fill all the vacancies, then
further nominations are taken at the AGM. If there still aren't
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 09:21:29 +1100 Terry Collins wrote:
AIUI - apt-get remove package uninstalls and deletes package from
system.
No. remove will uninstall the package, but configuration files stay
installed, as well as debconf config, and the package file will stay in
apt's cache
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 11:45:40 +1100 Terry Collins wrote:
Peter Hardy wrote:
No. remove will uninstall the package, but configuration files stay
installed, as well as debconf config, and the package file will stay
in apt's cache (/var/cache/apt/archives/)
Is there a command to clean out
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:25:46 +1100 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 5 Mar, John Ferlito wrote:
I liked the way it silently wiped out my modified
/etc/mail/Makefile.
File a bug report.
No, no, I meant rpm wiped it out. This is on a RH system. I was
agreeing with your
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:03:20 +1100 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 5 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Damn, now to patch those Redhat sendmail boxes... I only get time
at 1am to do this crap. dpkg's apt is much easier then rpms, damn
dependancies!
That really is an unfair comparison.
On 03 Mar 2003 21:27:30 +1100, Felix Sheldon wrote:
Is it possible to configure the MTU for an ethernet interface in
/etc/network/interfaces? Or is there some other way?
You want the mtu option in the interfaces file, like so:
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.17.3
netmask
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 08:42:39 +1030, Steve Sloan wrote:
Had the same problem with a RH8.0 box. Ended up copying the
libstdc++.so.2.8 file from an older ver of RH and worked fine. Not
sure if this was a good move or not but it worked.
Probably best to install an appropriate package rather than
Good morning!
Did I mention that I really, *really* detest top-posting? :-)
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 21:12:45 +1100 Jon Biddell wrote:
So why offer the discount at all for one distro ???
Basically because that's the only one anybody's bothered to brand with a
SLUG logo and distribute. The last time
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:06:48 +1100 John Ferlito wrote:
Is anyone using ext3 on 2.2? The most recent patch I can find is
ext3-0.0.7a
which seems pretty old and I'm wondering how safe it is.
According to http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html
there's been no work on ext3
On 23 Feb 2003 10:45:37 +1100, Karl Bowden wrote:
makes my system really sluggish. I have lots of HDD space but do not
want to make seperate partitions to boot into, just one system to boot
into, and the others to run in vm's under that system.
User mode linux is quite good. It's basically a
On 16 Feb 2003 10:46:02 +1100, Xun Wang wrote:
Why is that battery absent? My battery charge monitor keeps showing 0%
while the battery is fully charged. Does anyone know how to fix this??
About the only suggestion I can offer is to try updating your kernel
with the latest ACPI patch from
On 16 Feb 2003 11:16:11 +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote:
I haven't looked at my logs but I have been playing with apci and
2.4.20 kernel so far most the acpi apps ask for /proc/acpi/battery0
which doesn't exist.
I haven't dug into it much more than that.
The /proc filesystem layout, and the API
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:30:08 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote:
I can suspend the machine with X running, and everything is fine when
I resume ... except for the keyboard autorepeat which no longer works,
and the mouse becomes prone to take a single click as a double click.
Simply exiting X and
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:42:27 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Using `free` I encounter the same problems as when examining
/proc/meminfo
However, I searched the archives as you suggested and found that
examining dmesg should show physical memory. dmesg had scrolled way
past that point (and
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:42:43 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the process from calculating physical memory from `cat
/proc/meminfo` ?
free(1) parses the output of meminfo into something a little more
readable.
In the memtotal line is that including swap memory?
Comparing the output
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 06:25:52 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list has 1 request(s) waiting for your
consideration at:
Spam, plus a bonus help request that was directed to the web interface.
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On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:10:41 +1100 Peter Hardy wrote:
Spam, plus a bonus help request that was directed to the web
interface.
Boy, is my face red. :-)
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On 22 Jan 2003 18:12:10 +1100, Andrew Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: EagleTec Model: External Hard Di Rev: 0002
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
This looks like the device described at
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1303
,
On 22 Jan 2003 20:40:48 +1100, Andrew Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Jan 22 20:32:55 senator kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data
integrity not assured
That's fairly normal. I've seen the same message on my zip drive, and
USB floppy and memorystick drives. Haven't lost any data since the
On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 15:17:07 +1100 Bruce Badger wrote:
files into one big presentation, but $include is a one-shot thing for
establishing defaults :-( So, it seems that there is no built-in way
of doing this in mgp. How, then, can I do what I want?
Sounds like a job for m4! Well, it
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:40:23 +1100 Bernhard Lüder wrote:
Why would logrotate create something like this?
./mgetty.log.ttyS0.4.4.4.1.1.1.1.1.1.1
Because you've got weird rules governing what files logrotate rotates?
Looks like it rotates mgetty.log.ttyS0 to mgetty.log.ttyS0.1, then
rotates
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:17:52 +1100 Michael Lake wrote:
/etc/fstab says...
/dev/hda12 /mnt/dosmsdos defaults (note
I have alos tried user instead of defaults above)
user just means the user has permission to mount/unmount the filesystem.
It doesn't actually
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:57:56 +1100 Michael Lake wrote:
Peter Hardy wrote:
You probably at least need the rw option, as there's uid, gid and
umask options to set the permissions.
(oh, and you'd probably be better off mounting it as a vfat volume
instead of msdos. Long file names are good
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:54:44 +1100 Nick Croft wrote:
Any ideas on what is needed to make /dev/usbscanner permanent? After
a reboot, it seems I need to do
sudo mknod /dev/usbscanner c 180 48
sudo chmod 666 /dev/usbscanner
each time.
Sounds like you're running with devfs.
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:17:56 +1100 Holroyd Engineering Services wrote:
I have a delema with my adsl. It was supplied with the dsl-300+ which
bind to a mac address of the pc connected to it. Fine for Windows
stuff because I can fire up a browser and re bind to another nic but
my small floppy
Wa-hey.
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:20:20 +1100 Richard Luckhurst wrote:
I set up 2 Redhat 7.2 boxes over the weekend and I have them connected
with a dial up PPP link. When the link is not up each machine works
fine. When the link is up the machine that started the link has
problems. If I try to
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:56:05 +1100 (EST) Graeme Robinson wrote:
Anyone know where I can find a listing/explanation of all the devices
listed in /dev?
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
Gives a listing of all the major and minor device number allocations,
and should give you a good
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:05:20 +1100 Simon Bryan wrote:
However can anyone tell me how to access the OptusCable Home page
http:/www/? I am running through Squid as a proxy server at the moment
and the server is on RH7.2. This works fine if your system is
connected directly to the modem.
When
...and then Simon Bryan said:
, and copy that line into the resolv.conf on your client machines. Then
you should be able to browse the homepage.
Hmmm, does Windows have one of these? Can't seem to find anything relevant.
Oh, you need it to work for Windows clients too?
If you're
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 03:20:48 +1100 Adam Hewitt wrote:
I have just installed the ALSA packages, modprobed the ALSA modules
and the module for my soundcard (snd-card-intel8x0), added myself to
the audio group, logged out and back in, installed the appropriate
sound libraries, and I can now play
...and then Steve Kowalik said:
At 10:26 am, Thursday, November 7 2002, Peter Hardy mumbled:
I usually turn off the debugging output in pppd unless there's a need to
see it. Debian and its siblings set ppp options in /etc/ppp/options.
Bad! Leave /etc/ppp/options alone. Your best bet
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 10:12, Matthew Palmer wrote:
[keep it on the list, for posterity's sake]
On 7 Nov 2002, Alan L Tyree wrote:
OK, Thanks. The system is a firewall running Bering which claims to be a
debian type system. Where would I reset logging rules, assuming, of
course, that it
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 23:49, Craig O'Shannessy wrote:
I have tried VNC for Linux, but it gives you sloppy feeling X
performance on the local machine. Does anyone know of anything that
works like VNC for windows (e.g. only has a performance hit for remote
users, rather than local and remote
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 14:51, CaT wrote:
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:44:43PM +1100, Richard Hayes wrote:
Dear list,
I want to move a website from one hosting company to another.
Is there a Linux tool similar to webwacker?
ie copies of the whole site
wget. but forget about copying
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 15:27, Rob B wrote:
I am about to set up a web-based photo album for my family, and I wonder if
y'all have any experience with them.
My favourite is album (http://MarginalHacks.com/Hacks/album).
There are a few must-haves:
- no database, images should be stored as
...and then James Gregory said:
The GNOME battery monitor whatsit isn't working for me at the moment (I
assume it's linking against a library not built against this kernel or
something), but I wrote a simple little perl script that is giving me
battery information which I am willing to believe
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 23:29, Wayne Storey wrote:
Does anyone know of some good video editing software for linux. I have about
an hours worth of footage from a video camera I want to cut and slice and
add effects to.
If you can make it to our monthly meeting this Friday night, you'll be
able to
, or to provide it.
This month, we will have Tony Green talking Optimising your spammee
experience. Tony will be talking about some of his experiences, and
conversations with spammers.
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, or to provide it.
This month, we will have Tony Green talking Optimising your spammee
experience. Tony will be talking about some of his experiences, and
conversations with spammers.
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On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 02:21, Voytek Eymont wrote:
where does one start looking for Linux stuff, is there an ftp site you can
suggest as a good repository to start with ?
Linux Newbies:
http://linuxnewbie.org/
The Linux Documentation Project:
http://www.linux.org.au/LDP
Google's Linux search:
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:49:06AM +1000, John Nicholls wrote:
I have a second-hand computer with a recently-installed CD-ROM drive
that I have given little or no use. I can mount it using a full mount
command, namely mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom, and ls works.
However just entering
the leftover stuff.
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:25:47PM +1000, David wrote:
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Peter Hardy wrote:
dpkg --purge exim will remove all the leftover stuff.
the moral of this story is that if you are going to install postfix,
remove exim first. apt-get removes exim but leaves the config/scrip
Meeting opened 7:30
Present:
Craige McWhirter
Jamie Wilkinson
Peter Hardy
Mary Gardiner
Tony Green
Jan Schmidt
Jeff Waugh (about 10 minutes late)
Previous minutes - accepted.
Todo:
* Tony to finish meeting signs. Use the same design we had for
the Workshop.
* Mary
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 23:17, Crossfire wrote:
If you want a good, cheap card, steer towards the Netgear FA-310TX
(which are available again last I heard). They're based on the LiteOn
PNIC chipset which is one of the many Tulip clones. Expected price is
around the $40 mark.
I've got a few
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 19:47, mick wrote:
My server 24/7 ... the system does hang, painfully during the boot process, I
think using fstab without passwd's is causing the problem, but I'll be
buggered if I'm going to put palin text passwds into fstab!!
New versions of samba support the
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 15:14, Ken Foskey wrote:
Interesting. I unmounted it and remounted it and it worked fine both
ways.
I then rmmod vfat and fat and it did not work.
Moral is that file type auto only works on filetypes active in your
kernel at the time.
The man page for mount says
On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 08:19, David Fitch wrote:
this sounds like the go. I almost had is working (thanks Jan)
but prefer this method so removed apache-ssl and installed
libapache-mod-ssl but now how do I get it to listen on two
ports? (80 and 443)
Easiest way to get it running under Debian
On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 23:27, Michael Kraus wrote:
I've a Palm V with a third-party USB cable. Under MSWin, the cable has a
software function that redirects an available com port to the USB cable.
Would this stand as an impedement to using under Linux?
It all depends on whether your USB
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 00:20, Intelligent Dynamic wrote:
It all depends on whether your USB adaptor is supported under Linux.
What make/model is it?
It's a Targus brand cable - PA260.
Hopefully it'll be well known enough... Any pointers on where I should
further my search for
A couple of people asked about the Doom guy up in the corner of the
screen during Jeff's forum demo, so I thought I may as well post links
here.
The application is called GKrellM (1), and is basically a bunch of
system monitors. It's themable, and uses plugins to monitor pretty much
anything
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 21:25, Mark A. Bell wrote:
I can run X as root, but not as regular user:
X: Unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
X: User not authorized to run X server, aborting, giving up.
Is there something I can run to configure this for me?
Try (as
On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 20:43, Angus Lees wrote:
At Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:15:47 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
I received the following in my email from one of my servers and have no idea
what it means or if it is of concern. AFAIK there are no cron jobs or
anything happening at the time that it
On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 17:07, Paul Copeland wrote:
I am a little excited at present. The other day a Year 11 student came up
to me asking about Linux. We had a 10 minute chat about why I believe it
is a good option. So today I gave him a copy of Lycoris Desktop/LX to try
at home. Some
On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 18:28, Jon Biddell wrote:
Are you saying that the amount of work to impliment a subscribers-only
posting rule would be onerous ?
I agree with the thread you quoted in part - about the list being ... a
great resource ..., so lets keep it that way by denyingn posting
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 16:24, David wrote:
I've just done a new install of Woody, but 3 button emulation doesn't seem
to work. I've checked the config on my RH7.2 box which uses the same mouse
(through a switch), and as far as I can see they are the same.
GPM works fine on the Woody consoles
.
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On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 21:46, Tony Green wrote:
tgreen@cavey:~$ dict slug-chat
*snip*
$ dict slug-chat
No definitions found for slug-chat
Ber. Care to clag your .dictrc? :-)
Hrmn. Now I'm entertaining thoughts of throwing a dictionary server
onto slug.org.au...
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that might be yours. :-)
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On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 17:04, Adam Hewitt wrote:
I have looked at the ALSA site and my card doesn't seem to be listed as
an ALSA compatible card. Has someone here actually got this card working
with ALSA and if so which module did you end up using??
The sound card matrix at
Meeting opened: 6:10pm
Present: Jeff Waugh
Craige McWhirter
Jamie Wilkinson
Peter Hardy
Tony Green
Jan Schmidt
Apologies: Mary Gardiner
Actions
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Meetings
- Tony and Peter to arrange signage to indicate
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 21:27, Andy Eager wrote:
My question is: Is there any way of telling which /dev file is assigned
to the new device? I had a poke around /proc for some kind of clue but
couldn't see anything.
I don't think there's an easy way to tell, at any given point in time,
which
On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 21:07, Angus Lees wrote:
At 25 Jul 2002 14:15:16 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
A valuable sidekick to man is apropos, which will search through the
manual page names and summaries.
note that man -k will search apropos. eg:
... which becomes obvious when you read the man
members can be removed after 3 months or 3 missed
committee meetings (rather than 6 months).
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On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 20:28, Ken Caldwell wrote:
I have an old computer with a '386 CPU on which I thought I would
Probably clutching at straws here, but does it have a math coprocessor?
Adding no387 to the lilo boot prompt might help in the case that it
does have one which isn't working
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 13:39, Tony Green wrote:
Most of the time, you can use man $command ('man gzip' for example) to
get details on how it works.
The problem with man, though, is that you need to know the actual
command you want to use first. A valuable sidekick to man is apropos,
which will
is personally known to me, for
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On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 16:38, Bill Bennett wrote:
Has anyone any experience of Epson printers that they'd care to
share? Failing that, could anyone point me in the direction of a
website that lists printers fair and foul, please?
You needed to be at last month's SLUG meeting! :-)
Gus gave a
Not really a problem, just something I've been wondering.
So, when Linux runs out of memory (physical RAM and swap exhausted), it
starts killing processes to free up space. How does the kernel decide
what to terminate? Does it start with the ones taking the most space?
The least space? Is
On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 12:29, DaZZa wrote:
Mind you, I'd expect that the command _should_ have errored because you
had a - in the middle of it - it should have accepted the next option as
an argument, not part of a filename.
Except I just tested it, and it went back to my home directory and
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On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 21:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering how you would change from a static IP address *i.e *
eth0 192.16.1.30
but you want to change to using DHCP from the command line.
Which distribution?
In Debian, you edit the /etc/network/interfaces file, and change
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On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 08:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I put the HD back in the target machine I get an error concerning
that modules.dep is older than conf.modules. The datestamps are ...
Running depmod -a will update the modules.dep file. Distributions
usually do this on startup, to
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