FYI
This link is excellent for anyone interested in the new GNU/Linux 2.6
Kernel which is at 'testing' stage.
http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html
I have to say, if 1/2 this stuff is there working I'd be very happy.
My favourites bites:
Linux's I/O subsystems has also undergone major changes
For the uninitiated. This project replaces MICROSOFT EXCHANGE (in
collaboration with your favourite mail server/imap server/ldap server
that is). Something a lot of sluggers and others have been after for a
long time (me included). It has definately been a stumbling block on the
way to moving
be GLOW which is the OOGW GUI Client written
in Java.
BTW This news also made /. With the usual bunch of interesting opinions
expressed.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/1240242mode=threadtid=185
Stu
-Karl
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 10:19, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
For the uninitiated
, its probably
what's happening. (Ie. you access locally and it locks other users out
as they don't have the priveleges to read/modify the lockfile.)
Warmest regards
Mike
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*Stuart Guthrie
Just wondering if anyone else has a major performance issue with running
Win4Lin Server edition (within that MYOB Premier Accounts).
I'm accessing a samba network drive from within the copy of win4lin so
that the MYOB data can be shared across a company. This works OK for
Win98 clients accessing
Wayne Crich wrote:
This sounds like two dumb questions. After years of using RedHat i
have set a machine up with mandrake.
Two simple problems:
1) No sound - Yet card is configured correctly and volume is set above 0.
Try the various volume control tools in the multi-media menu option. I
Hi John,
You also need to add yourself to the audio and cdrom groups. Mandrake
doesn't do tnis automatically.
I did not have to do this..
groups sfg
sfg : sfg
Yet I can still do the audio thing. Maybe this was an older Version
requirement? I'm using Mdk 9.1.
Stu
John Nicholls wrote:
You
Phillipus Gunawan wrote:
G'day SLUGers,
I have 2 question I would like to ask:
Q1. Can linux perform the same behaviour as windows
when we browsing other intranet network files?
For example, in windows, once we delete some files in
compB, the user in compB can see that his files are
being
Sounds like the wrong forum but I know a number of slugsters run OS X as
well as Linux so here goes.
I have a friend with an iBook running OSX which he loves. His office is
moving to Linux on the desktop thin-client with win4lin for the old
legacy apps. This config for a small office BTW is
Hmm..
Sounds like creative Journalism but perhaps some email aliases are
needed so that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is sent to the VP as well so that
emails can always be responded to in case Jeff is too busy/out of touch
to answer his emails?
Stu
Mary Gardiner wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003, Sam
The world is a weird place. This is exactly what I've been doing this AM.
Its your ACLs (access control lists) in slapd.conf.
To test it and be most insecure try this:
access to *
by * read
by * write
Then
service ldap restart
It is a tad insecure but its a start.
Also in Evo,
FWIW This might help someone trying go where I've just been.
I've just worked out how to get my contacts data from Mozilla's address
book to my LDAP respository without running cryptic slapadd/ldapadd type
tools. It's all possible with Evolution.
First export to LDIF from Moz/Netscape.
Then
I just downloaded TuxPaint for our son. It is a really great piece of
software for kids. If you've got them, download it , especially the
tux-stamps. (the Lunar Lander stamp does the 'one small step' speech).
Great piece of software.
Stu
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You could get Mandrake 9.1 it has a great resize tool for NTFS as well
as most others called diskdrake. I think there is a way to do it from
command line as they have just GUI'ed command line tools. Someone?
Stu
LS wrote:
Hi Carl:
I am trying to install Red Hat Linux
on Sony's PCG-Z1P
Thanks to Kevin, Colin, Brett and Tony for their help doing the MS2Linux
Website stuff. Kevin´s script was particularly useful.
Stu
Kevin Waterson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Stuart Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept
GNU/Linux does
From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept
I´ve a friend who has a Linux server and they have got a MS web site
loaded. Problem is that MS doesn´t care about upper/lower case and
GNU/Linux does. Is there a utility that can uncapitalise image file
names, directory names and tags or should I write
Hi there
For those of you who prefer Mandrake Linux, I just bumped into this:
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php
It´s purpose is to make all of the additional software application
mirrors available to your installer under Mandrake including lots of
stuff like Java and un-exportable
Thanks Gus - excellent suggestion which worked on a simple example but
failed on my example as it also contained CDATA. ie CDATA within CDATA
blows up the parser!
I´ll stick to lt; gt; for the mo.
Stu
Angus Lees wrote:
At Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:04:54 +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
Does anyone
Thanks Carl.
Unfortunately that doesn´t do it so I did a global substitute of the XML
example changing to lt; and to gt; I marked the block as
programlisting role=¨xml¨ which worked a treat in the html render.
Stu
Carl G Lewis wrote:
On Thursday 05 June 2003 10:04, Stuart Guthrie wrote
Does anyone know how to strip \n characters using XSL ie stylesheets?
I´m trying to get some newline characters out of some iCalendar data to
represent the data in PDF format.
Cheers big ears
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Does anyone know how to embed an example of XML in a DocBook formatted
XML document. CDATA?
Stu
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it actually possible to download ringtones
and java apps from Linux to a nokia phone?
Using usb or bluetooth? Has anyone actually
done this?
Im in the process of trying to do this using BlueZ (Bluetooth). It´s
ugly but getting there. Once it works I´ll post to
Right mouse on the email in the top email listing and choose 'reply to
list'
HTH
Stu
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 11:33, Mick Boda wrote:
Hi All,
Just a point of clarification. I appear to be sending replies off the
mark (ie, not to the list).
I'm using Ximian as my mail client. To post to
Hi Dan,
try:
http://www.zim.net.au
ADSL, all IPs static. Good plans, can do for as little as 50 something a
month. Like most others, they resell Telstra.
Stu
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 13:33, dan wrote:
Hi,
I have my own Linux server which a company is hosting for me currently in
Sydney. I
I'm looking at excluding files from a directory to be copied to another
disk.
I cannot work out how to pipe the list of files into a cp command.
eg
find / -name 'fred*.xml' | cp - /home/fred/fredbackup
bad example but the gist is the the - is a placeholder for the piped
list of file names. Is
Just a followup to any who missed the first message a couple of weeks
ago from Bruce Badger. See you Thursday. THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS!
Stuart Guthrie
Original Post from Bruce:
There has been some talk about having an open source expo of some kind
in Sydney in the October time-frame
I'm looking for a great traffic OS monitoring package that is easy to
setup and goes down as far as the subnet IPs accessing the net.
Probably needs to show now plus hourly/daily/weekly/monthly stats.
Q: What tools are people using?
Stu
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On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 07:13, Anthony O'Hara wrote:
I'm happy to say I've discovered all but one field in the
address book..
Hope this helps someone .. :)
Definitely helps me.
Thanks Anthony.
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OK I've put up with this for a while but I need some help.
I can't get the character in terminal windows. It's obviously some
sort of keybinding or locale issue. I've searched alot and can't find a
solution. What could be wrong.
Laptop config:
Mandrake 9.0
Gnome Desktop 2.0
The same issue is
Hi Howard,
How are your XSL skills? Both of these suggestions take XML and render
to graphics/PDF. This would mean you would create an XML file of the
data, then apply a XSL to transform it to the requested graphic.
SVG - XML language for scalable vectors. I've used it for minimal gantt
chart
Heres how:
Load ethereal on your PC. (Very kool packet sniffer)
Run your query in Outlook (Ctrl+K ?).
Look at the traffic. You should see an LDAP search request and the names
of all fields being requested. Then you should see the returned fields.
I would do this for you but using Evo, not much
I was wondering if anyone knew how to extract information from jpegs
such as when the image was created? I have been told that the info is
there and some doze s/w can extract it.My photos now have various file
creation dates so I would prefer to get the original shot date/time if
it is available.
:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:35:14AM +1100, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
I was wondering if anyone knew how to extract information from jpegs
such as when the image was created? I have been told that the info is
If it's EXIF (e.g. from a digital camera) there are two tools I know of:
exifdump
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:42, Jon Biddell wrote:
Hmmm... I seem to remember reading a laptop review (PC Authority or APC)
that said that Pioneer's build quality was quastionable for the price.
Umm, I've got one. You get what you pay for (plus some in my judgement).
The PIII is NOT a mobile PIII
I'm personally looking forward to jash, jksh, jerl joap and jhp. The
world needs them.
Stu
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 10:46, Rowling, Jill wrote:
http://click.unixreview.email-publisher.com/maaaUNDaaWzQQa46tLbb/
It's not April 1 yet but Unix Review sent me this reference to a new book on
jython.
I've read that IBM and Dell only pay between 10 and 20 US for each copy
of windows so good luck.
If you really want to try, make it formal, give them a chance to reply
and inform them that you will, if unsatisfied, take them to some
consumer body such as the Dept. of Consumer Affairs in NSW.
If you know Python already, Jython can be good for quick scripting. If
you know java and don't need more new language syntax in the brain but
want quick scripting, try beanshell and/or jedit . From a scripting POV
you can get a long way and tie into the gazillons (technical term) of
existing java
A solution I have implemented elsewhere:
Postfix mail server
Amavis perl-based or even daemon-based unparceller/scanner caller
Sophos sweep works well on Linux servers. I'd check out kaspersky too,
their AV is much cheaper for a big install. Also their support seems
great (based on a result
eurekaitfile *.fxs
9247001.FXS_stuart_neridah.fxs: data
ImageMagick I haven't tried.
I got him to post it!
Stu
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 18:48, Christopher Samuel wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 4:02 pm, sfg wrote:
A VNTD* has sent me a document in FXS
Check out outport at sourceforge. It runs in windows and creates
iCalendar compatible format files. These are perfect for evolution.
I ran it last week on a client's outlook 2000 enabled PC. Worked well
except for repeating events.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/outport
Stu
On Wed, 2003-03-05
Hi Gerald,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] can help you. He runs an ISP with national
coverage. He uses SUSE himself so setup/support should not be an issue.
I'd use his ISP but I'm on ADSL so no need for dial-up.
Not sure of his personal company email address so use his personal one
above. If he's on-list
http://www.slashdot.org today.
TarProxy Creates Tar Pit... For Spammers
Well worth a read. Anyone with a mailserver should consider setting this
up as a service to the internet community. Essentially it reads incoming
emails and if they score high on the suspect spam scale, it slows the
SMTP to
2003 11:08:26 +1100, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
Just got a nasty with Open office and am wondering the best way to
debug.
The only change to my laptop setup is to alter the network from
192.168.2.201 to 192.168.1.201.
Now oocalc hangs after inital CPU flurry for 2 secs. The processes
Just got a nasty with Open office and am wondering the best way to
debug.
The only change to my laptop setup is to alter the network from
192.168.2.201 to 192.168.1.201.
Now oocalc hangs after inital CPU flurry for 2 secs. The processes are
there in background but the splash screen seems to be
I think tripwire spots and blocks lots of these sorts of abuses. Problem
is you need to leave the port open for reasonable souls who want to send
you emails. Google tripwire and have a geezer.
Stu
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Are you proposing Windows clients?
If you've got a few months there will hopefully be an open source
calendar server using CAP (see http://www.calsch.org) that plugs into
evolution.
http://www.sourceforge/projects/jical
Stu
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 09:10, Brad Thomson wrote:
Does anyone
Mozilla for Windows?
Does IMAP. Used to use it until Evolution came along.
Stu
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 14:22, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
On 18/02/2003 2:04 PM +1100 Marty Richards wrote:
If it simply email why not an imap server (Hope I have this right).
The IMAP server side is great. The
Hmmm
If you have seen those functionalities anywhere please
tell me then I don't have to code. :)
There are gazillions of projects that kinda sorta do that phpgroupware
springs to mind. An option might be to download the source, hack it to
shape and contrib the changes back in. I'm really into
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 12:06, Mary wrote:
Mozilla Calendar and Apple's iCal program also work with iCal files.
Apple's iCal is great and has renewed interest in the iCalendar file
format. It's better than Evolution's calendar in two main ways. 1) It's
prettier and 2) it can combine multiple
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 12:41, Mary wrote:
I'm hoping to make an
iCal file for SLUG events in the next few days to go with Gus's RSS
feed...
jical can create xml from iCalendar files so as well as posting the
events .ics to the site, you could:
Render the SlugEventsCalendar.ics to HTML via
I thought I had. G.
Thanks John and Ben.
Stu
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:32, John Clarke wrote:
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:26:50PM +1100, sfg wrote:
From: sfg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From 192.168.1.8 I can ping 192.168.0.1 but cannot ping 192.168.0.10
tcpdump shows the packets hitting
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:42, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
I thought I had. G.
I had. It's just that Mandrake's network service script checks a two config files for
the same thing!
/etc/sysctl.conf AND /etc/sysconf/network
This means that if one contradicts the other, sysctl.conf wins because
What about Exim?
http://www.exim.org/
I've heard it's better than both postfix and qmail.
I use postfix currently but will look at exim based on a chat with Paul
Wickham. Apparently it's used at an ISP in the UK with several million
mailboxes Energis Squared also use exim for their mail
Hi there,
FWIW my ADSL has been down for 5 hours with a similar error to those reported today.
I've noticed a bunch of posts about ADSL lately and so I've put together a few
observations about ADSL debugging. I thought they
might help those of you having troubles with your link. Comments
This is a bit odd as Ximian are just finishing another connector, this
time for the Sun One Calender server which means that you can have a
J2EE Groupware solution running on Linux. Client: Evolution, Server:
Linux. Hmmm.. sounds like a political decision ie no sense to it.
Stu
On Tue,
the computers contribute
to the power bills)
Dave.
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:10, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
Dave Fitch wrote:
where did these figures come from?
6 KWhr/day sounds very high to me.
Dave.
My post was in response to a CHAT post so unfortunately its out
I guess this can be done with a script wrapper around vi, but does
anyone know of an option to automagically store the current version of a
text file prior to saving changes. This used to be a feature on DEC
editors and I miss it.
eg
vi /etc/freeswan/ipsec.conf
make changes
:wq
ls
I've had similar history with ADSL. Its weird science I think. After
fiddling and even upgrading pppoe, it just worked after I re-configured
the link (ie using Mandrake command centre)
I'd check your ISP first the line might be out. That was the most common
prob.
Stu
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at
Or, if your landlady wants you to pay for running a computer, you owe
her for 6kilowattHours per day, or $4.65/week/computer (up to 250Watts).
Interesting cost-justification for a VIA Eden? They are supposed to
be able to run off a car battery, so I assume they require much less
power and
, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
Or, if your landlady wants you to pay for running a computer, you owe
her for 6kilowattHours per day, or $4.65/week/computer (up to 250Watts).
Interesting cost-justification for a VIA Eden? They are supposed to
be able to run off a car battery, so I assume
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 04:27, James Gregory wrote:
If you're using GNOME, right clicking on the folder in question, going
to properties and then the sharing tab may or may not let you do what
you want. I don't know, I alway configure samba with vim :)
This works, creates this entry in smb.conf
For really granular: tcpdump eth0 filename
You can then examine at will.
Subs your interface for eth0. Find the ones running with
ifconfig
HTH, MXMAS,
Stu
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 15:37, Mick wrote:
Hi All,
I have found a program called Etheral(?) which seems to monitor traffic, is
I usually rpm -e the one that's installed by default as it's often waaay
out of date.
Depending on your distro, YMMV, I've found the latest Sun Java JDK (1.4)
for Mandrake on the CD set (boxed). Otherwise if there is no rpm for red
hat, erase your current java with rpm -e packagename, then get
-11-14 at 09:55, Stuart Guthrie SLUG wrote:
I agree with Luke for a different reason.
The other problem with centralising X is network bandwidth. All of the
graphics have to pass to and fro which means you need both high
bandwidth low latency and no network problems.
This makes
Matthew wrote:
Yeah it can be a problem that X needs the network ALL the time.
An alternative is to use local X and use network shares which
don't need to be connected continuously.
I use your approach Matthew with Samba or NFS depending on client.
Its less prone to complete downtime.
Jeff
This sounds similar to what SUN was touted a couple of years ago as
jini. Plugable autonomous devices and code.
http://wwws.sun.com/software/jini/
Stu
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:49, Richard Neal wrote:
To be honest my personally thoughts are in the long run the Desktop is a
dead man walking
I agree with Luke for a different reason.
The other problem with centralising X is network bandwidth. All of the
graphics have to pass to and fro which means you need both high
bandwidth low latency and no network problems.
This makes the network a choke point to be watched and will put off some
traceroute www.yahoo.com
Is this what you meant?
Stu
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 10:05, Alan L Tyree wrote:
Is there some easy way (or even a hard way) to find the location of an
http server? If it is relevant, I am using Galeon and RH8
Thanks,
Alan
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So the Australian IT has a gaggle of ads for the new tablet devices.
They look pretty sexy. Anyone know of projects to get them over to
Linux. I'd love to run a Linux desktop on one of these babys (well, when
they 1/2 in price anyway - hey, maybe the two events will coincide). The
hardwork done by
Before the days of ADSL, I did a lot of research on this, the product
you are probably after is EQL:
http://home.indyramp.net/eql/eql-1.html
HTH
Stuart
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 14:35, Bernhard Lüder wrote:
Hi,
can someone point me in the right direction for
So you got a clevo as well. I like mine esp the price ($2K) cool extras
(1.2Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 20Gb disk) and no Windows O/S to pay for...
Mine installs with the 'trident-snd' drivers. Its a 7019 PCI Audio card
according to the Mandrake Control Centre Hardware gui option (this is a
great place to
Mandrake 8.2 has Gnome 1.4 which is slower (esp Nautilus) and more buggy
than Gnome 2.0. For this reason alone I'd upgrade (if you use Gnome)
Gnome 2 is a much better/faster desktop.
Evo goes from 1.0.2 to 1.0.8.
9.0 also has KDE 3.0 another good reason.
If you just use console then not so many
as three years
ago.
In answer to your original question. Yes - open source could do what you
are after via a LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) implementation or even via
other means. http://www.jboss.org which is a J2EE App Server without the
license costs.
HTH
Stuart Guthrie
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How are they keeping track of user data if the hostname is no longer
required to obtain a DHCP lease?
Unless they can snarf some sort of data from the DOCSIS modem...
The MAC address of the NIC.
Does this mean for a $30 investment for an extra NIC you can 2x your
bandwidth limit?
What good are src.rpm files? How can I use them, and why would I want
to? I don't understand their purpose when they are accompanied by
Hi Alan,
Source rpms are useful when you need to compile stuff.
An example for me was recently the installation of sweep from
sweep.sourceforge.net.
Of course, you might also notice something new in those screenshots,
namely support for Ogg Vorbis files. This was introduced in Sweep 0.5.7,
which was released about half an hour ago ;-)
This is great news as my HDD is full of WAVs and .ogg is so much
smaller. Now I can delete all the WAVs
If I run two different Linux distros on the one hard disc are there any
problems if I use the same swap partition for each?
Nope. Unless you're running vmware(?)
Stu
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Asside from test-piloting distributions like Paul does, why would
someone want to run two different Linux distros on the one hard disc?
Support? Testing? Boredom? Too many free hours? Too much disk space?
Stu
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I just requested the cancellation of my ADSL service after I was billed
almost $700 for one month for downloading 7Gb of Data.
Does anyone know of a 512K service with approx 10gb of monthly data for
under $90?
Urm there is a 256K ADSL deal at www.tpg.com.au that cuts out around $90
then
FWIW
Normally these emails come from Nigeria and involve a public servant.
This as you are probably are aware is a common scam. There was a thing on
this format on the radio last month, since then I've noticed several on
different lists. I'd bet out of the 1,00* that received it, a couple fund
C60 Epson (Epson are linux friendly). Colour - no problem. Ran a 20 page
glossy for a customer two weeks ago.
Works like a charm. Mandrake 8.2.
Stu
- Original Message -
From: Trevor Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 12 June 2002 16:04
Subject: Re: [SLUG]
Wondering if I could get a handle on average wages for a Linux Sysadmin. Of
course this is a 'how long is a piece of string' type question but if you've
any idea if would help:
1 year experience
3 years experience
5 years experience.
Its for a Total Cost of Ownership vs Microsoft study (see
If you're running webmin on that there is a good overview package called
systats. Visit the webmin home page.
Otherwise ntop is good from the command line (you'll need to acquire it).
ifconfig also gives you the poop. systats is pretty, gives cute little by
the minute graphs including eth
FYI: Another big win for GNU/Linux.
For those of your out there promoting Linux, the German Government just
decided to go Linux on their 150 internal servers.
Bad luck Microsoft!
Wonder if our government is conducting similiar evaluations?
Next time maybe they'll move the desktop too.
Go
You want to be VERY careful with X. I've fried a Tosh 2060 with bad X
settings.
I still see the screen but it's very faint. I had the same symptons but
wrongly wrote it off to being problems with X per se instead of X config as
I should have.
Stuart
- Original Message -
From: Henry T
I can't make it, is Anthony providing documentation on his kool talk? I'd
love to see it.
Stuart Guthrie
Linux is kool. Absolute zero is kool to.
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are also v. reliable based on a sample set of one. Of course YKMV (Your
kilometers may vary).
HTH
Stuart Guthrie
Daniel Harper wrote:
Hello SLUG,
I am new to Australia and this is my first post to SLUG.
I am setting up a Linux firewall for our small network (10 Hosts). We
currently have
Thought this might help. It'll certainly help me! I'm currently
marketing to government and business in Sydney
so this sort of paper is proof positive that other interested parties
(ie UK Govt - Ministry of Defence) are predicting that the future is
OSS! OSS btw means Open Source Software.
Have you configured it as a WINS server? This often helps.
Is it a Primary Domain Controller?
Is smb and nmb process run or as part of inetd/xinetd?
Network cards OK?
My clients are getting about 5-10 sec PDC logon responses so your seems
abnormal.
HTH
Stu
Ben Donohue wrote:
Hi slugs,
Hi Matt,
I had a major problemo with rpms 6 months ago after an abort during an
install. You may need to rebuild the rpm database.
Do 'man rpm' for details.
FWIW
Stuart
Matt - wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am having quite a deal of problems installing Redhat
on a Duron system. Half way through
We've just moved an Access DB to a samba share.
It only allows single user access in a similar way as say wp documents do.
Is there a samba setting I don't know about? Or is it a bug?
Access 97. Samba 2.2.1
I've RTFM'd on google and samba archives to no avail - except a bug
record in 1998
'.
Make sure you tweak the smb_auth.sh carefully. It does come with a good
debug utility to tell you what's going wrong though.
Well done Gareth and thanks again.
Stuart
Gareth Walters wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Stuart Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: slug [EMAIL PROTECTED
Bill wrote:
Has anybody had any success in using externally cased HDD's with
firewire or USB connections?
Bill
Repeat of message:
OK, I thought this issue was dead but /. got me going again.
Hotswapping IDE drives is, IMHO a grail to be quested for low-end IDE
servers something of
Here's a curly1,
Just wondering if anyone has experienced this scenario:
Squid running on linux. Used by a win2000 network for cache. Win2K users
use DHCP to allocate IP address.
I switch on log_fqdn in squid. (Fully Qualed Domain Name)
Will it resolve the users name somehow or just dump an
$90K over that time
assuming a NT 3.51 install and one subsequent upgrade to Win 2000.
Runs on Solaris and its faast.
Open source is kool. Just like absolute zero - that's kool too. Time for
sleep I think.
Stuart Guthrie.
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SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au
Anyone know a way of faxing your linux system from a normal fax machine
without giving Telstra 22c per shot.
Got a client who wants to scan multiple page documents into emails for a
digital backup of the hard copy..
Currently they fax them to their jfax account which emails them the
scanned
Thanks for that, I'll try ssh /X too, free X.
When are you writing a book?
Stuart
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Jeff Waugh
VNC is good, and more easily cross-platform than X. ie, you can use VNC
across X, Windows, MacOS, etc.
... whilst still using Free Software, and not dealing with the
OK, I thought this issue was dead but /. got me going again.
Hotswapping IDE drives is, IMHO a grail to be quested for low-end IDE
servers something of interest to many small businesses in Australia.
Firewire may be the answer.
The reasons for me are basically cost related. I can buy three
Hi Kevin,
The chances are that this message was bounced off a server that was not
properly protected to deny relays. I get up to 6 attempts daily to use
my server for such:
Nov 12 08:56:38 x postfix/smtpd[16766]: reject: RCPT from
user24.net023.fl.sprint-hsd.net[207.30.161.24]: 554
release updates. It's bloody hard to update
across the country if you're running windows as a server regionally.
Lots of pc/anywhere sessions that take hours of wasted time. My solaris
clients do it via a script across the country in minutes with no hassle.
HTH
Stuart Guthrie
Open Source
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