...and then Adam Vaughan said:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-7.0
optional
label=RH7
-ran /sbin/lilo
-did a reboot and got the error message;
request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:41
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:41
In
...and then Michael Lake said:
So what I want is a unix command to tell me the current
user of that script ie who invoked it.
An apropos uid showed there were functions like getuid but
they arent suitable for calling up in a sh script.
To which I declare that the most obfuscated solution
...and then Laurie Savage said:
I want Netscape 4.7x to load for my users with my default settings for
the proxy, homepage, fonts, colurs etc. I tried a copy and paste from my
~/.netscape/preferences.js to /usr/lib/netscape/preferences.js but the
settings didn't transfer themselves to a test
...and then Andy Eager said:
Has anyone downloaded the new version of Gnome 1.4 (the new 1.4 not the
old 1.4 released a while back).
I'm assuming you mean Ximian Gnome. I updated this morning.
I thought the first release was pretty good, Mozilla not too slow
(though slower than ye old
...and then Raoul Golan said:
Andre Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
report: win4lin 3.0 + kernel 2.4.4 + reiserfs works perfectly. i even
munged it to work properly on a Debian system :).
i'll put up a webpage about it sometime soon if i get enough replies to
this message asking about
...and then Matthew Dalton said:
Peter Rundle wrote:
ldd xsnow should give you the answer to that
On Rh7.1
$ ldd `which xsnow`
/usr/bin/ldd: /usr/X11R6/bin/xsnow: No such file or directory
This output is strange. Usually ldd will report all of the libraries
required,
...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I am quite new to this group but I am committed to operating in a Microsoft free
environment. I just have a few problems.
An admirable goal, indeed.
beefy system spec snipped
Can I some how use my USB devices through Linux (Red Hat 7.1?) I really need my
...and then Steve Kowalik said:
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:17:07PM +1000, Jordan uttered:
What USB modem can I buy that will work with Linux?
I gather it must be ACM compliant?
But, how to find one?
The easier it is to setup, the better!
Assume latest kernel, etc.
Best place to
...and then Jobst Schmalenbach said:
To backspacew or not to backspace, that is the question ...
^
The answer here is yes.
:-)
Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Things just happen. What the hell.
-- Didactylos the philosopher
(Terry Pratchett,
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:05:35AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
When I mount the floppy then df show them as having 1716224 bytes instead
of the normal 1457664 bytes and they won't copy correctly.
This was an MS trick to prevent exactly what you're trying to do. They
formatted the disks as
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:45:41PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
Only way I could see to do this with any degree of ease would be to use
toms or something similar to make a PPP connection over a null modem cable
to another Linux boxen with a CD drive, then copy the relavent packages to
the hard disk,
Heya SLUG.
Thought I'd throw this one out there, because I know it's come up at various
InstallFests.
Basically, we've come across a 486 laptop that we'd like to get linux onto,
and use as a terminal. The machine has no CD-ROM, and won't have any
ethernet until I can afford a PCMCIA network
response type=opinion flamage=NULL
...and then Luke McKee said:
1) I accept there was source available of pam_stack.so but it was in a
redhat.src.rpm. I like getting my updates from the source so to speak.
This is where I tentatively suggest not using RedHat.
Packaging systems (RPM, Deb,
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:32:54PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
snip!
In .muttrc I have:
folder-hook slug set signature=/home/mikel/bin/fortune.sig|
the script fortune.sig is:
#!/bin/bash
# Create a short fortune to go before my email sig
echo `fortune -s`
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:38:55PM +1000, Tony Green wrote:
* This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said:
Is it just easier to have something to detect virus infected email and
pass it over to a perl script or something.?
It would be if Trend supported this... However its only
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:16:11PM +1000, Conrad Parker wrote:
I recall a thread about this a while ago (or was it chatter at dinner?);
this may have already been mentioned, but there is a project called
wayV for doing gesture based input. Check it out at:
Only because it's Friday :-)
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:58:59PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
0:00:34 fred kernel: martian source 59c56840 for 59c56840, dev eth0
0:00:34 fred kernel: ll header: ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 86 48 87 8f 08 06
What do I have running that I shouldn't?
Nobody believed me, but
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:59:52PM +1000, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
I have a file that's in windoze HTML Help format, but which I'd like to
have access to on my Linux laptop.
I tried searching using google to search for an HTML help browser for
Linux, but to no avail.
Does anyone know
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:24:36AM +1000, Tony Green wrote:
* This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy said:
I want to replace every instance of 'gzip' occuring in a source tree with
bzip2. This is how I did it:
*bash hack snipped*
perl -i -pe 's/gzip/bzip2/g' *
Halfway there, but I need
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:49:34PM +1000, D.V.Rogers wrote:
the solution fix used was follwowing
tar zxvf (filename) --for .tgz files
tar xvf (filename)-- for .tar files
thanks again and hope to get to some REAL problems late
Remember that some browsers (mozilla) automatically
Did I get in first? :-)
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:16:35PM +1100, Bernhard L?der wrote:
I have to copy a file to all user directories.
cp file.file /home/*
will only copy file.file to the first user not all users. How would I do
this without listing the individual directories
for user
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 02:10:06PM +1100, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
Hello!
Yo!
Here's one message my 2.2.16 kernel outputs at boot time:
-
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 1115.568 MB/sec
p5_mmx: 1171.575 MB/sec
8regs :
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:11:53PM +1100, Ralph Lett wrote:
*snip*
# Debian au
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US stable main contrib
non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:51:08PM +1100, Alexander Else wrote:
from doing a few searches i can see there's support for quite a few usb
webcams, does anyone have any experiences with getting these going under
linux?
I've been using a Philips Vesta cam for a while now with the 2.4-pre, and
now
Title: Re: [SLUG] dlink card doesn't work
Maybe this should be a FAQ? :-)
http://slug.org.au/lists/archives/slug/2000/October/msg00359.html and http://slug.org.au/lists/archives/slug/2000/October/msg00388.html
In a nutshell, grab new drivers from www.scyld.com. Last I checked, they were
Yes, I'm bored.
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:14:48AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
- Forwarded message from Holly Lindsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
*snip*
are sometimes the most hard core devoted programmers out there. We are
looking for the best and brightest to join our team to produce the next
...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Would anyone please direct me to some good websites that will teach me,
help me find answers to my questions.
linux.com rocks! http://linux.com, and http://linux.com/firststep has some
pretty good articles on installation, and where to go for help..
And
...and then Angus Lees said:
\begin{[EMAIL PROTECTED]}
I am looking at the ipmasq package. So far it looks like taking a simple
system and abstracting it so far from reality that it becomes more rather
than less difficult than writing a script file and calling it from rc.local
I've
...and then Rodos said:
*snip*
Well, I'm not going to make any excues (like a certaing somebody tried on me
a couple for days ago..)
I'm very drunk, and having made a complete fool of myself to various VIPs,
my diary has not been updated as often as it should have been. It'll have
to wait until
...and then Jeff Waugh said:
ipmasq needs to have ipchains or ipfwadm installed on the system, as they
are the tools for setting up rules. The ipchains will be on the mirror -
what happens when you apt-get for it?
Which is kind of strange. I did an apt-get remove ipchains first, then
...and then Jeff Waugh said:
Who would other SLUGgers buy beers for? What has impressed or helped you
enough to force a VB into a friendly hackers hand? Doesn't have to be a
linux.conf.au attendee, although you'll have to send one by air freight
otherwise. ;)
cat /usr/src/linux/CREDITS
...and then Rev Simon Rumble said:
My first thought was to run the new 2.4.0 kernel, but then ppp doesn't
work on my Debian system. Is there somewhere I can set it to be
backwards compatible in the same way the you can with NAT (make it
ipchains or ipfwadm compatible).
Upgrade to the newest
...and then Bruce Prince said:
I've recently severed my umbilical cord from Windows, and have loaded
Mandrake 7.2 from Pocketbook 3.
All is going well so far, however, I'm trying to get Win4Lin to present me
with the dialog box where I can select "System-Wide Win4Lin Administration".
I guess I'll reply again, seeing as the list is so quiet tonight.
...and then Bruce Prince said:
Secondly, I reside in the Blue Mountains, so I'm probably a fair way from
where you hold your regular meetings. However, it would be good to meet with
fellow-Linux users, so if you could give me
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:23:58PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was thinking to create a ftp script to transfer them but I don't know how
to supply the passord for basic ftp ? I can do it for ncftp using
the ftp://username:password@host syntax but I would prefer to use basic
ftp on
Title: Anyone driving near Maroubra after dinner tonight?
And would be willing to give me a lift home? The last bus leaves Central at 11, and I missed it last month. Alternatively, if anybody else is going that way, I could split a cab fare.
Replies off-list please, I'm not subscribed at my
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:20:42PM +1100, Crossfire wrote:
try: rm -- -z
The double dash tells most GNU programs to stop processing options.
Hmmm. Am I the only one who tried a "touch -- -z" to see if this'd work?
Yes, I am actively searching for a life.
Cheers,
Peter
--
SLUG - Sydney
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 07:46:33PM +1100, John Ferlito wrote:
Anyone know of a sound app that will let me record something and
play it back at the same time so that I can monitor it?
You should keep in mind that most of the standard Linux drivers cannot do
full duplex. Esound and esd
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:28:48PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
all primes end in either 1 3 7 or 9 except 2 and 5
so it is pointless to test it if it dosent ie ends in a 5, so how can i
test to see if the last number is 1 3 7 9 before i start the curnum % x
!=0
9 = 3*3. It isn't
Going back to this thread for a minute. Searching for "lilypond" on
freshmeat turns up Denemo, a gtk+ frontend to lilypond.
http://denemo.sourceforge.net/
Cheers,
Peter
PGP signature
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:15:43AM +1100, Michael wrote:
I'd really like to get pine to work, is it possible? Has someone done it?
If not, can someone recommend a good reader for shell prompt.
You'll probably find most sluggers recommending mutt, for lots of good
reasons. Me, I'm in love with
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:33:34PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Ken Yap wrote:
Try the latest driver from Donald Becker maybe? Unknown IDs means
they've modified the chip again. Maybe it's not Via-Rhine anymore.
Thats what i suspect, most annoying considering the machine
is for a dlink
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:57:36PM +1100, Daron Barndon wrote:
Does anyone remember a thread some time ago about a internet capable
video camera (web cam) that ran linux? A dedicated PC in a camera box
but really small. I'm after something along those lines for a security
application. I've
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:32:16PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
\begin{Peter Rundle}
I've been asked by my um...friend whether they could run Linux with
a graphical web browser on an old Toshiba laptop (Pentium 90 with
20meg of ram).
X will run fine. no need to skimp, just keep it simple.
I've compiled a custom kernel for my gateway machine, using the make-kpkg
utility with --revision=hostname.1, as described in the make-kpkg docs.
My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this:
# Stable distribution
deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:18:41PM +1000, Dave Kempe wrote:
The school where SHMBO teaches has decided to replace WordPerfect with
Office 2000 so I am trying to install it under Win4Lin.
CDROM problems aside, i'm pretty sure office2k requires IE5 or at least most
of it. Can win4lin handle
Also a good Book on Linux in generaladmin etc .I use Redhat.
how much prompting do you need ??
if you just want a reference - linux in a nutshell
if you want something more narrative - running redhat linux
if you want something general unix - essential system administration
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:42:53PM +1000, RunTimeError wrote:
Unfortunatly i cant seem to get it to work on my linux system. I installed Dosemu
for linux. I run /usr/bin/dos but I cant seem to find monkey island installed on the
linux system, i then tried /usr/bin/dosexec monkey.exe but it
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:58:05PM +1100, Adrian van den Dries wrote:
Wrote John:
The 100M versions of the card need the newer driver which only
ships with 2.4. It may ship with some distributions if the distro has
specifically compiled the right version in.
Perhaps that
I have a D-Link DFE-530TX NIC, which is supported by the newer versions of
the via-rhine driver. The driver included with the 2.2.17 kernel does not
recognise the card. Right now I'm running 2.4.0-pre9, but would prefer 2.2,
at least until 2.4 becomes stable. Looking at the webpage, I need
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:44:38AM +1000, Aaron Binns wrote:
1) Firewalls
How to set them up
Why you need them
What methods you can use
What ports should be open for what services and what games?
Masq and other fun things to do with a firewall
Having just setup a
Well, if EVERYONE wrote just ONE HOW-I-DID-IT PAGE, SLUG would have a
very good resource that we could point the newbies to.
I am not suggesting that they write a formal HOW-TO, just a rambling
page of text describing how they did something under Linux. It would
give some clues and encourage
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:46:42PM +1000, John Telek wrote:
This is what happens when you use a cpu that is NOT Intel compliant.
Huh?
Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough. The Athlon _works_. It works
great. Right now, it's running a kernel optimised for a 386, but I have no
doubts
Maybe a co-ordinated "attack" on insert Windows sycophant-retailer of
choice here, where their screensavers are replaced with a Linux one
(volunteers to design this ??), or all their ss passwords changed to TUX ?
Just a thought - an evil one, admittedly, but a thought...:-)
Is this where
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