[SLUG] S3 Trio64V2 Turbo

2002-03-18 Thread Dennis Curnow`
GDay Gang, The cd did boot ok but now I can't get the video card configured. I have Linux Version 7.1 and in the card list it says that the card is unsupported. Is there a up to date resource that a driver for this may be available. I've checked the RedHat site and they say there is a driver

Re: [SLUG] Optus Dial-Up Internet

2002-03-18 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:34, Tony Green wrote: I contacted telsra to find out if I could get ADSL. As I don't have a land line (I use orange cdma phones), they gave me the useful response of We can't tell you if you can get ADSL until you have a phoneline. very similar to me. I've got an

Re: [SLUG] S3 Trio64V2 Turbo

2002-03-18 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 18:54, Dennis Curnow` wrote: GDay Gang, The cd did boot ok but now I can't get the video card configured. I have Linux Version 7.1 that's Redhat 7.1 I take it and in the card list it says that the card is unsupported. Is there a up to date resource that a driver

RE: [SLUG] Auto-dial PPP

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Bryan
Great that worked a treat -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Kowalik Sent: Sunday, 17 March 2002 10:13 PM To: SLUG List Subject: Re: [SLUG] Auto-dial PPP At 9:13 pm, Sunday, March 17 2002, root mumbled: Now I need to get

Re: [SLUG] Sparc64 SMP Linux?

2002-03-18 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:53:24PM +1100, Wim Pranata wrote: Hmmm I thought sun4m is a sparc32 instead of sparc64, oh well maybe I'm still on crack. sun4m is 32 bit. We have a sparc64 machine with 20 CPUs, of which one boots. Unfortunately it requires a 3-phase power supply which are

Re: OT datafast? (was Re: [SLUG] Optus Dial-Up Internet)

2002-03-18 Thread Robert Reid
I've used them back home in Western Victoria (where they started), both on a modem and later on a satellite. No fancy setups, so linux worked fine, and I think if you talk to the right person you can get help if you need it. It was a pretty good setup for a country ISP, especially compared

Re: apt-proxy (was Re: [SLUG] size mismatch when apt-getting)

2002-03-18 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, David Fitch wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 08:18:09PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: ObPackagePlug: apt-proxy. does that work properly now? It certainly does, it was picked up by one developer and given a good cleaning, so it actually does what it claims to do.

[SLUG] debian.potato-X

2002-03-18 Thread Bill Taylor
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 (nine times, then:-) Unable to communicate with X server this is looking for something in the box, isn't it? also, how can I read README files? (on the command line?) tia Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] debian.potato-X

2002-03-18 Thread Bill Taylor
I was installing. last thing before this it set VGA16 as default. when it does manage to start x it locks the system up, the only way out is to cut the power. cat didn't work last night, unless I did somthing wrong. the particular readme's are .gz .does that make a difference? Bill -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] debian.potato-X

2002-03-18 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:52:54AM +1100, Bill Taylor wrote: cat didn't work last night, unless I did somthing wrong. the particular readme's are .gz .does that make a difference? Oh, ok. Yeah, .gz files need to be read with either zcat or zless (or you could manually pipe the file through

Re: [SLUG] debian.potato-X

2002-03-18 Thread Bill Taylor
I was installing. last thing before this it set VGA16 as default. when it does manage to start x it locks the system up, the only way out is to cut the power. cat didn't work last night, unless I did somthing wrong. the particular readme's are .gz .does that make a difference? Bill they seem to

Re: [SLUG] Sparc64 SMP Linux?

2002-03-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Scott Howard I'll quite happily boot it multi-CPU for you. Just let me find my Solaris DVD... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | __ )| | | | | | | | | | _ \| | | _ \| _| | _| | _| | _| | _| |

Re: apt-proxy (was Re: [SLUG] size mismatch when apt-getting)

2002-03-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=David Fitch On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 08:18:09PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: ObPackagePlug: apt-proxy. does that work properly now? Yeah, the packages in woody are a lot better. - Jeff -- No match for LINUSWEARSTHEPANTS.ORG. -- SLUG -

[SLUG] Using a Smart Relay except for specific hosts?

2002-03-18 Thread MacFarlane, Jarrod
I'd like to use a Smart Relay on a sendmail box that would send all outbound email via a particular host, with the exception of internal.mydomain.com - an exchange mail server which many users have aliases pointing to. This it would need to talk directly with, not via the smart relay. When

[SLUG] Redhat 7.2 and fsck

2002-03-18 Thread Karl Bowden
I had my redhat machine crash on me last nite. And now when I boot it tells me that fsck.ext3 has exited with and error level of 7. I can run fsck.ext3, fsck.ext2, and e2fsck, and the all give me the message Bus Error. I then popped in the redhat 7.2 cd and booted the rescue image. In the rescue

Re: [SLUG] Using a Smart Relay except for specific hosts?

2002-03-18 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:50:31PM +1100, MacFarlane, Jarrod wrote: I'd like to use a Smart Relay on a sendmail box that would send all outbound email via a particular host, with the exception of internal.mydomain.com - an exchange mail server which many users have aliases pointing to. This

Re: [SLUG] Optus Dial-Up Internet

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Lake
Jim Clark (Compaq) wrote: ADSL runs over standard phone lines (from local exchange to customers house/unit/cave). Ace. As Jill and I are avid cavers (we went to Jenolan Caves last weekend) we shall have to look into that :-) Mike --

[SLUG] Fw: Microsoft Loses Courtroom Battle Over Windows Trademark

2002-03-18 Thread Christopher Booth
FYI Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 04:27:17 +1100 From: Cheryl Schwarzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Microsoft Loses Courtroom Battle Over Windows Trademark Cheryl Schwarzman Public Relations Director Lindows.com, Inc. (858) 410-5934 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] debian.potato-X

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Lake
Bill Taylor wrote: I was installing. last thing before this it set VGA16 as default. when it does manage to start x it locks the system up, the only way out is to cut the power. cat didn't work last night, unless I did somthing wrong. the particular readme's are .gz .does that make a

Re: [SLUG] Fw: Microsoft Loses Courtroom Battle Over WindowsTrademark

2002-03-18 Thread Tony Green
tgreen@cavey:~$ dict slug-chat Main Entry: sl·ug·chat Pronunciation: 'slerg-chat' Function: noun Etymology: Mailing list for all Linux related posts that shouldn't be on the main list. These include rants, flames, microsoft bashing, jokes and shouts of BBEEE111!! HTH Greeno

[SLUG] OT: reliable mail

2002-03-18 Thread David Fitch
sorry not directly linux-related (except that it's my linux box I'm attempting to get permanently attached to the net). What do other people with perm connection who run their own mail server do for secondary/backup? (ie. secondary mx) if you're with telstra I know you can use

RE: [SLUG] debian.potato-X

2002-03-18 Thread Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP
also midnight commander (mc) which comes on (at least) Red Hat and Mandrake distributions. This is a Norton Commander or XTree gold clone. F3 to view a file F4 to edit a file Chris -Original Message- From: Michael Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2002 9:41 AM To:

RE: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 and fsck

2002-03-18 Thread Jill Rowling
Your machine has a hardware fault. Fix that up first then worry about the software afterwards. You'll have to go ferretting with a diagnostic disk to find the problem, or take it to a computer shop. Sounds like a dead MoBo. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System

[SLUG] bind version

2002-03-18 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Slugs, How do you tell which version of BIND is being run? ie. what is the command line instruction? I'm still searching google for it but I may as well ask. TIA Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] bind version

2002-03-18 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:23:15AM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: How do you tell which version of BIND is being run? ie. what is the command line instruction? RTFM: -v Report the version and exit. [johnc@dropbear ~]$ /usr/sbin/named -v named 8.2.3-REL Fri May 18 16:11:10 EST

Re: [SLUG] bind version

2002-03-18 Thread Tony Green
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 11:23, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Slugs, How do you tell which version of BIND is being run? ie. what is the command line instruction? I'm still searching google for it but I may as well ask. tgreen@flute:~$ /usr/sbin/named -v BIND 9.2.0 tgreen@flute:~$ dpkg --list |

Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 and fsck

2002-03-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Karl Bowden She will run XP no probs for days on end though. And all diagnostic tools I have found says she is all ok. Linux will often push your hardware far harder than Windows, though. I'd suggest running memtest86 on it to start with. - Jeff -- World domination is a

RE: [SLUG] bind version

2002-03-18 Thread Low Christopher - clow
I'll help with this one Tony :) For rpm= rpm -qa | grep Bind Chris -Original Message- From: Tony Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2002 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] bind version On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 11:23, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Slugs,

RE: [SLUG] bind version

2002-03-18 Thread Ben Donohue
Thanks Slugs, however I *DID* RTFM and the -v option is not there! it also gives an error when i do named -v it just gives the options. it's possibly running debian i think. uname doesn't give any clues any other ideas? TIA Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] bind version

2002-03-18 Thread Tony Green
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 11:52, Ben Donohue wrote: Thanks Slugs, however I *DID* RTFM and the -v option is not there! it also gives an error when i do named -v it just gives the options. it's possibly running debian i think. uname doesn't give any clues any other ideas? Well, if its

RE: [SLUG] bind version

2002-03-18 Thread Low Christopher - clow
Or you could kill -HUP named Then tail -50 /var/log/messages (if you have daemon msges to log into messages) Should display named version number when it restarts. Chris -Original Message- From: Tony Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2002 11:59 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] bind version

2002-03-18 Thread Jim Clark (Compaq)
Ben Donohue wrote: Thanks Slugs, however I *DID* RTFM and the -v option is not there! Well it is documented in the man page for BIND9 that shipped with Mandrake 8.1. Perhaps you have an older version (both man page and bin). it also gives an error when i do named -v it just gives the

Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 and fsck

2002-03-18 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 06:19, Karl Bowden wrote: I had my redhat machine crash on me last nite. And now when I boot it tells me that fsck.ext3 has exited with and error level of 7. I can run fsck.ext3, fsck.ext2, and e2fsck, and the all give me the message Bus Error. I then brainstorm Maybe

Re: [SLUG] OT: reliable mail

2002-03-18 Thread Frode Egeland
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:11:48AM +1030, David Fitch wrote: sorry not directly linux-related (except that it's my linux box I'm attempting to get permanently attached to the net). That makes it linux related in my book! ;) What do other people with perm connection who run their own mail

Re: [SLUG] OT: reliable mail

2002-03-18 Thread Jim Clark (Logique)
Frode Egeland wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:11:48AM +1030, David Fitch wrote: What do other people with perm connection who run their own mail server do for secondary/backup? (ie. secondary mx) It is good to have friends with static IP's (esp if they run an ISP :) There are two

Re: [SLUG] Squid??

2002-03-18 Thread Dane
Try looking in /usr/local/apache/logs or do a locate on error_log Dane On 0, Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have a /var/log/httpd...I do have a /var/log/apache/ but the dir is empty Check the logfiles (/var/log/apache or /var/log/httpd) and see what they say. They

Re: [SLUG] OT: reliable mail

2002-03-18 Thread Frode Egeland
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:25:38AM +1000, Jim Clark (Logique) wrote: Now I am confused (so what's new? :) I had thought the secondary was just supplying a secondary source for DNS (in this case, the MX records), not actually becomming a secondary destination for the actual email... Is

RE: [SLUG] bind version

2002-03-18 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Slugs and sorry Tony, I missed the other suggestion you put there. I thought it was output from the -v option. I didn't look hard enough! Yes, dpkg -L | egrep bind worked. Now I know it's Debian and what bind version. Thank-you. Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Installing Linux from USB-CDROM

2002-03-18 Thread Andy Eager
Hi all, Has anyone ever installed Linux from a USB CDROM? I have a machine that supports USB CDROM boot which I have duly selected. The machine boots OK from the USB CDROM but then fails to recognise itself (using RedHat 7.2 install disks). It seems to be registering the usb device ok and

Re: [SLUG] OT: reliable mail

2002-03-18 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:32:27PM +1100, Frode Egeland wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:25:38AM +1000, Jim Clark (Logique) wrote: Now I am confused (so what's new? :) I had thought the secondary was just supplying a secondary source for DNS (in this case, the MX records), not actually

Re: [SLUG] bind version

2002-03-18 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:52:36AM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: it also gives an error when i do named -v it just gives the options. it's possibly running debian i think. uname doesn't give any clues just on this, I've found 'cat /etc/issue' to be helpful when you want to find out what distro

Re: [SLUG] bind version

2002-03-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=David Fitch just on this, I've found 'cat /etc/issue' to be helpful when you want to find out what distro or distro version a machine is. Unless it's nulled. :-) cat /etc/*release is pretty good too. - Jeff -- I don't know whose brain child it was, but it was quite an ugly

Re: [SLUG] bind version

2002-03-18 Thread Broun, Bevan
on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:39:14PM +1030, David Fitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:52:36AM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: it also gives an error when i do named -v it just gives the options. it's possibly running debian i think. uname doesn't give any clues just on

[SLUG] [OT] Is my signature coming out okay?

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Wong
Afternoon, Could someone using PGP and not Evolution confirm if my signature is coming through as okay? TIA. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Looking for work!

2002-03-18 Thread Adam Hewitt
Who might this be?? Nah, I think he's just practicing for a possible job with those perth based spammers. ;-) !! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Looking for work!

2002-03-18 Thread Adam Hewitt
hehe...woops :o) At 05:40 PM 19/03/2002 +1100, you wrote: quote who=Adam Hewitt Who might this be?? Nah, I think he's just practicing for a possible job with those perth based spammers. ;-) !! Wrong list, dude. - Jeff -- Mangoes are nature's edible orgasm.

Re: [SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Looking for work!

2002-03-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Adam Hewitt hehe...woops :o) And that was a public reply to a private mail - you actually had to type in the SLUG address to manage that. Always be careful with private replies - they are almost always used for a reason. - Jeff -- It is said that there are only six jokes in

[SLUG] NIS login problems

2002-03-18 Thread Nicholas Reese
Hi all, Using Redhat 7.1 I have checked out what all the posibilies could be but I just can't seem to crack it. NIS works fine. I can ypwhich from the clients and they pick up the server no probs. When I try to login at the GUI login dialog it accepts the login, seems to be logging in (X

Re: [SLUG] NIS login problems

2002-03-18 Thread Karl Bowden
X would apper to log in because it cannot find any files in the home directory, and so it just restarts the X server. If you mount the home directory in the fstab file with something like: 10.0.0.1:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0 Then the directory will be automatically mounted when you