[SLUG] Mozilla and Blackdown Java

2002-02-10 Thread Steve Downing
Justa quick gotcha for anyone trying to get the Java plugin running with either of these browsers (.. or I guess any based on Mozilla). The Blackdown group mirror at mirror.aarnet.edu.au is out of date, well the debian packages are at least... Make sure you get j2sdk-1.3.1 ( or j2re ), from one

Re: [SLUG] Cant find pstoppm.ps in Ghostscript package.

2002-02-10 Thread getadog
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 02:27:12PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Hi all, I have a Perl script (textogif) which I downloaded which coverts latex equations to gifs by using gs to render ps files. It's failing with: Error: /undefinedfilename in (pstoppm.ps) cause I don't have that file on

[SLUG] How to install about 150 rpms?

2002-02-10 Thread lukekendall
I just had a try at installing the latest Ximian Gnome; about a 250Mb download, via the easy installer. All seemed to work fine, until it tried to install perl 5.0.6, when it failed because the package was already installed. That's apparently an insurmountable obstacle - the easy installer

Re: [SLUG] How to install about 150 rpms?

2002-02-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] So my question is, is there a utility that will work out which rpm files provide which dependencies, and work out the order to install them all? It would be less tedious than compiling from source, to work out by hand what the right install order would be, but

Re: [SLUG] Internet cafe setup

2002-02-10 Thread Terry Collins
Nicholas Reese wrote: I am setting up a small internet café using Smoothwall as the firewall ..snip... Has anyone set something like this up? What have they found to be the best tools? What would be the easiest and simplest approach? Should be covered in Slug archives. -- Terry

Re: [SLUG] How to install about 150 rpms?

2002-02-10 Thread Kevin Waterson
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:49:52 +1100 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I now have a temporary directory with 144 rpm files. if you do rpm -Uvh *.rpm you may find dependacy problems as it will try to install them in order, but if you do rpm -Uvh *.rpm --nodeps --force this will install

Re: [SLUG] Buying a usb connected CD burner

2002-02-10 Thread Andre Pang
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:47:16PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: 1) I *really* don't like the idea of running a CD burner off a USB bus. The burn is very slow, and really pushes the limits of how much data you can fit through USB. Don't even think about plugging the burner into a hub with

Re: [SLUG] How to install about 150 rpms?

2002-02-10 Thread lukekendall
On 10 Feb, Jeff Waugh wrote: So my question is, is there a utility that will work out which rpm files provide which dependencies, and work out the order to install them all? It would be less tedious than compiling from source, to work out by hand what the right install order would

Re: [SLUG] How to install about 150 rpms?

2002-02-10 Thread Tom Massey
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:30:02AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Feb, Jeff Waugh wrote: So my question is, is there a utility that will work out which rpm files provide which dependencies, and work out the order to install them all? It would be less tedious than compiling

RE: [SLUG] Internet cafe setup

2002-02-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Nicholas Reese wrote: So has anyone else done this? Can anyone point me in the direction of what to use for enabling/disabling the internet access of a workstation from the click of a button? How about software for tracking network usage by each workstation?

Re: [SLUG] Buying a usb connected CD burner

2002-02-10 Thread Tony Green
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 00:38, Andre Pang wrote: I was specifically looking for a CD burner for my laptop a few days ago, and I came across the Acer CRW 8824MM a few days ago: http://mall.eyo.com.au/cgi-bin/shop/eyo/showall.tam?pagenumber%2Eptx=1category%2Ectx=Recordable%20%28CDR%29

[SLUG] Have I destroyed my system?

2002-02-10 Thread luke . kendall
Re: [SLUG] How to install about 150 rpms? On 11 Feb, Tom Massey replied to: Well, I feel like taking a gamble and seeing whether this breaks my entire system or not, so I'll try it Um, that may not be a great idea. This assumes that the packages you have in your temporary

[SLUG] Linux.Conf.Au 2002 Pictures

2002-02-10 Thread Anthony Rumble
http://www.linuxhelp.com.au/~smilie/hashslug/ (down the bottom..) I particularly like this one.. What would you call this? A gaggle of hackers? http://www.linuxhelp.com.au/~smilie/hashslug/dscn1590.jpg -- Anthony Rumble - Managing Director EverythingLinux.com.au - The Alternative Operating

Re: [SLUG] Internet cafe setup

2002-02-10 Thread Terry Collins
Nicholas Reese wrote: Should be, but it's not (I did read through the archives before posting). Damm, everything is going downhill these days {:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor

Re: [SLUG] Cant find pstoppm.ps in Ghostscript package.

2002-02-10 Thread Michael Lake
getadog wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 02:27:12PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Hi all, I have a Perl script (textogif) which I downloaded which coverts latex equations to gifs by using gs to render ps files. It's failing with: Error: /undefinedfilename in (pstoppm.ps) cause I don't

Re: [SLUG] backup modem for ADSL

2002-02-10 Thread Ian Ward
- Original Message - From: Peter McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Sydney (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:21 PM Subject: [SLUG] backup modem for ADSL Howdy I would like to configure a modem to be a backup for our rather shaky Telstra ADSL

RE: [SLUG] Internet cafe setup

2002-02-10 Thread Darrell Burkey
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Nicholas Reese wrote: So has anyone else done this? Can anyone point me in the direction of what to use for enabling/disabling the internet access of a workstation from the click of a button? How about software for tracking network usage by each workstation? There's a

Re: [SLUG] Internet cafe setup

2002-02-10 Thread Jamie Honan
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 11:00:04AM +1000, Nicholas Reese wrote: Hi all, I am setting up a small internet café using Smoothwall as the firewall and Redhat for most of the other machines. I am intending to set up Linux as the workstation machines with some Win machines if we can scratch

Re: [SLUG] netboot Multia and install of Debian via nfs

2002-02-10 Thread Gareth Walters
- Original Message - From: Rob B [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:10 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] netboot Multia and install of Debian via nfs From: Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 12:50 AM Yep, that boots fine,

Re: [SLUG] contrib sources???

2002-02-10 Thread Glen Turner
On 2002.02.10 02:37 Myles Byrne wrote: Dude, its been gone for ages (halfway through last year) and it ain't comin back by emailing slug. Mabe you should try emailing plannet mirror. contrib is not adequately maintained by Red Hat. Many updated packages have not been applied. The result is

[SLUG] smoothwall - dial on demand

2002-02-10 Thread Mick Howe
Just installed Smoothwall 0.9.9 se as per the docs and can't get it to dial on demand. If I tick the DoD box in the Dialup | ppp settings I can't dial at all. After clearing the tick, hitting the 'connect' button on the home page will start dialling and can surf away on my two w98se boxes

Re: [SLUG] How to install about 150 rpms?

2002-02-10 Thread Christopher Booth
Hi Luke I just came across this link by chance http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-09-28-008-20-NW-GN For all Ximian loving users out there, a couple of guys (apparently from Mexico) have created ISO images of your favorite linux distro that replace the GNOME packages with

[SLUG] rp_filter issues on Smoothwall

2002-02-10 Thread Rebecca Richards
Guys, I've been performing some work to configure VPN's on a Smoothwall firewall and come up against an interesting issue. The firewall concerned is connected to the Internet via an ADSL link. Whenever the ADSL link dies, and is restarted, some process within Smoothwall does an echo 1

RE: [SLUG] How to install about 150 rpms?

2002-02-10 Thread Brett Fenton
It shouldn't be too bad. The app downloads the packages then installs them. If the install fails as you've noted, you can remove the perl rpm, then install ximian from local source (/var/cache/redcarpet/packages), including the ximian perl package. There is an option in redcarpet to select local

[SLUG] What have I forgotten, steeing up virtual Apache server

2002-02-10 Thread Peter Vogel
Running Linux 6.1 and I have minimal knowledge - I am running Apache with a number of virtual domains. I have just added a new one and when I try to browse it locally I get what looks like my domain's default site (different IP address). I can ping the server okay. I have set up a virtual

[SLUG] Re: smoothwall - dial on demand

2002-02-10 Thread Simon Haddon
Original Message On 11/02/02, 11:07:32 AM, Mick Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding smoothwall - dial on demand: Just installed Smoothwall 0.9.9 se as per the docs and can't get it to dial on demand. If I tick the DoD box in the Dialup | ppp settings I can't dial at all. After

Re: [SLUG] What have I forgotten, steeing up virtual Apache server

2002-02-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
check that your webserver can resolve the hostname for that virtual server to an address that is on your server check that your config is correct (looking for obvious visual errors, checking against prior virtual host entries and by running /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl configtest) if you

Re: [SLUG] What have I forgotten, steeing up virtual Apache server

2002-02-10 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 03:10:17PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: check that your webserver can resolve the hostname for that virtual server to an address that is on your server Try telnetting to port 80 on the server and asking it for a page on the new virtual host, e.g.: [johnc@dropbear

[SLUG] X setup

2002-02-10 Thread Andy Eager
Can anyone remember the name of that damn X utility that allows you to setup the modeline parameters? (Not xf86config). A nice little gui that lets me move the screen up/down, left/right, wider/narrrower, shorter/taller and then prints the video timings? (I hate it when I've used a utility

Re: [SLUG] X setup

2002-02-10 Thread Gonzalo Servat
XF86Setup? I beleive it's non-existant in XFree 4.x though On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 15:44, Andy Eager wrote: Can anyone remember the name of that damn X utility that allows you to setup the modeline parameters? (Not xf86config). A nice little gui that lets me move the screen up/down,

Re: [SLUG] X setup

2002-02-10 Thread Christopher Booth
xvidtune Regards Chris On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:44:55 +1100 Andy Eager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone remember the name of that damn X utility that allows you to setup the modeline parameters? (Not xf86config). A nice little gui that lets me move the screen up/down, left/right,

Re: [SLUG] X setup

2002-02-10 Thread Steve Downing
I think you mean xvidtune. Starts from CLI and you get to puch buttons to move the screen image around?? Steve At Monday, 11 February 2002, you wrote: Can anyone remember the name of that damn X utility that allows you to setup the modeline parameters? (Not xf86config). A nice little gui

Re: [SLUG] What have I forgotten, steeing up virtual Apache server

2002-02-10 Thread Ian Ward
[johnc@dropbear ~]$ telnet www.axisofevil.info 80 Trying 203.41.215.174... telnet: connect to address 203.41.215.174: Connection refused You don't have apache listening on that address. That's your first problem. Look for `Listen' and `BindAddress' directives in your

[SLUG] Splitting up large binary files

2002-02-10 Thread Simon Wong
Somewhere I thought I had seen a command line app for splitting up large binary files into smaller user definable chunks (and then re-join them later). Can anyone tell me what could be used to do this? I want to be able to split up a 1.4Gb file into two parts, burn them on CD for archiving,

RE: [SLUG] Splitting up large binary files

2002-02-10 Thread Hartono, Susanto
man split -Original Message- From: Simon Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Somewhere I thought I had seen a command line app for splitting up large binary files into smaller user definable chunks (and then re-join them later). Can anyone tell me what could be used to do this? -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] How to install about 150 rpms?

2002-02-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Christopher Booth For all Ximian loving users out there, a couple of guys (apparently from Mexico) Ximian staff, in fact. They have an office in Mexico which accounts for a fairly good chunk of their developers. :-) - Jeff -- Linux continues to have almost as much soul as James

Re: [SLUG] How to install about 150 rpms?

2002-02-10 Thread CaT
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:49:52PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I now have a temporary directory with 144 rpm files. So my question is, is there a utility that will work out which rpm files provide which dependencies, and work out the order to install them all? It would be less

RE: [SLUG] Splitting up large binary files

2002-02-10 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 16:28, Hartono, Susanto wrote: man split Thanks - perfect! -Original Message- From: Simon Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Somewhere I thought I had seen a command line app for splitting up large binary files into smaller user definable chunks (and then

Re: [SLUG] X setup

2002-02-10 Thread Simon Wong @ UNSW
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 16:01, Christopher Booth wrote: xvidtune Can this be used on an LCD screen? I was just wondering but I believe that the timing is quite crucial and it may stuff the screen, permanently. Regards Chris On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:44:55 +1100 Andy Eager [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] X setup

2002-02-10 Thread Heracles
On Monday 11 February 2002 16:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 16:01, Christopher Booth wrote: xvidtune Can this be used on an LCD screen? I was just wondering but I believe that the timing is quite crucial and it may stuff the screen, permanently. As long as the

[SLUG] Blanking CD-RWs

2002-02-10 Thread Simon Wong
I'm investigation how to blank CD-RWs at the moment. Using cdrecord I can do cdrecord blank=fast dev=0,0,0 to blank a CD but it starts, ejects the CD after which I have to reinsert the CD and press CR for it to continue. I guess I can live with that but the real problem is that it only works if