Re: [SLUG] Debian Apt-get without internet [beginner]

2002-04-24 Thread Mark A. Bell
Hi Thanks to Anand and the other people who've given advice. Personally if I had to do this, I'd be thinking about downloading dia source and compiling. If you are on dialup it'd be much faster than downloading all the dependancies I'd imagine. Yes, I think I'll try compiling next.

[SLUG] ask 2 common question

2002-04-24 Thread henry
Dear List : It's seem2 common questions, but I just cant find answers . 1 .How could I get source file from *.src.rpm ? 2.After "rpm --recompile *.src.rpm" ,thereare always *.i386.rpm *.devel.rpm under /usr/src/redhat/arch/i386/rpms , could you tell me what is *.devel.rpm ?

[SLUG] Suse 7.3

2002-04-24 Thread Gerald Catling
Is there any body that would like to sell or give a copy of Suse 7.3. I would be prepared to pay a resonable amount for either including carriage. I live near Noosa so an e-mail sent will get a response of my address. Or if you like to talk, my phone No. is 07 54710284 Thank you Greald Catling

[SLUG] How to soft-shutdown my computer ?

2002-04-24 Thread henry
Dear List: I can soft-shutdown my Win98(ie , I dont need to press power-button to close power) But I found that I cant do it on Redhat70 by typing "shutdown now". Could you give some clue ? Thanks in advance! Henry

RE: [SLUG] Suse 7.3

2002-04-24 Thread ramon buckland
Suse 8.0 came out just recently :-) Are you wanting that instead ? (not that I have it but I think you can purchase it direct from suse) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerald Catling Sent: Wednesday, 24 April 2002 6:08 PM To:

Re: [SLUG] How to soft-shutdown my computer ?

2002-04-24 Thread Christopher Booth
shutdown -h now shuts down the pc from the command prompt also halt and telinit 6 I believe Regards Christopher Booth shutdown now work on Solaris from memory On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:16:01 +1000 henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List: I can soft-shutdown my Win98(ie , I dont

Re: [SLUG] How to soft-shutdown my computer ?

2002-04-24 Thread David Fitch
I can soft-shutdown my Win98(ie , I dont need to press power-button to close power) But I found that I cant do it on Redhat70 by typing shutdown now. Could you give some clue ? in the past I've had to recompile the kernel and enable all the apm/power management stuff to make shutdown

Re: [SLUG] How to soft-shutdown my computer ?

2002-04-24 Thread Tony Green
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 18:42, David Fitch wrote: I can soft-shutdown my Win98(ie , I dont need to press power-button to close power) But I found that I cant do it on Redhat70 by typing shutdown now. Could you give some clue ? in the past I've had to recompile the kernel and enable

Re: [SLUG] Configuring a satellite (iHug service)

2002-04-24 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Yep the old rp_filter trap! Had me stumped for about 10 mins as well. You only need to disable it on the sm200d interface though. On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ramon, due to spoof prevention... have a look in you boot scripts for rp_filter and change... for f in

Re: [SLUG] How to soft-shutdown my computer ?

2002-04-24 Thread Robert Reid
If the power management isn't compiled in, maybe RedHat have made it a module. If they have, it will be called apm, so you can load it with modprobe apm. Then try the shutdown -h now. Rob DaZZa wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, henry wrote: I can soft-shutdown my Win98(ie , I dont need to press

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[SLUG] Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-24 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:01:16 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Anand Kumria - you mention removing PGP/GPG signatures. Why? I see many complaints about HTML formatted email but I've never seen any about signed email. They barf up quite a few mail programs, make things harder to read,

[SLUG] Re: Debian Apt-get without internet [beginner]

2002-04-24 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:51:43 -0700 (PDT), Mark A. Bell wrote: The problem is, my Linux machine is not connected to the net so I can't just use 'apt-get upgrade' to install the 'testing' version. My (now much neglected) windows laptop has a net connection. So my question is, in general terms

[SLUG] ADSL modem drivers

2002-04-24 Thread Edwin Humphries
We're building a system which serves, amongst other things, as an ADSL router. For cost and simplicity reasons, we want to use an internal ADSL modem; both the internal ADSL modems available to us (Dynalink and D-Link) use, as far as we can tell, a Rockwell chipset. The only drivers

RE: [SLUG] weird samba problem thanks

2002-04-24 Thread Wayne Crich
Thanks for the helpful hints. None unfortunately seemed to work, but I appreciate the help. Wayne -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Angus Lees don't punish those who do the right thing. (aka don't optimize for the failure case) It's only a recommendation. It's also a pity that we encourage the thoroughly unmodern approach of No HTML Mail, but there's a fair amount of agreement that it's not wanted. One can

[SLUG] Re: Debian Apt-get without internet [beginner]

2002-04-24 Thread Mark A. Bell
Hi Angus, Thanks for taking the time to send such detailed help. :-) cd /some/directory/wot/i/copied/those/files/to dpkg-source -x dia_0.88.1-3.dsc cd dia-0.88.1 (or whatever the directory ends up being called) dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc (compile, compile) sudo dpkg -i

Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem drivers

2002-04-24 Thread John Ferlito
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:49:51AM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: We're building a system which serves, amongst other things, as an ADSL router. For cost and simplicity reasons, we want to use an internal ADSL modem; both the internal ADSL modems available to us (Dynalink and D-Link) use,

[SLUG] Re: ask a common question

2002-04-24 Thread Angus Lees
At Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:22:15 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, henry wrote: Sometimes I make Makefile ,I get lots of error messages so that I cant look them in time. I try to make tmp.log , but it fail (I cant dump those error message into tmp.log). Could someone

[SLUG] Re: run levels

2002-04-24 Thread Angus Lees
At Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:11:02 +1000, Mick Howe wrote: I need to change the default run level in redhat 7.1 for a while. if you don't want to make it permanent, then: from lilo (or other bootloader), add the runlevel as a kernel command line argument: eg: lilo: linux 5 will boot into run

[SLUG] Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-24 Thread Angus Lees
At Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:45:04 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Angus Lees don't punish those who do the right thing. (aka don't optimize for the failure case) It's only a recommendation. [...] One can always choose to ignore the recommendation. but my point is that SLUG should be

[SLUG] LinuxJournal in Penshurst

2002-04-24 Thread Simon Males
You can get the Linux Journal at the 'The Strand Newsagency' Penshurst. Opposite the station. Pie shop side. Out of the station you turn left. Its a good read...first time I have ever read it. -- { Simon Males } [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] - [ http://sime.cjb.net/ ] ( Let them hate, so long as they

[SLUG] Re: Louis Selvon's problems

2002-04-24 Thread Angus Lees
louis, your mailer (USANET web-mailer (CM.1201.3.01A)) has a very confusing quoting style. At Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:40:10 +1000, Louis Selvon wrote: Angus Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:17:46 +1000, Louis Selvon wrote: When I create a domain called domain.com with

[SLUG] Turning off auto checking PGP signatures in mutt.

2002-04-24 Thread Mary
Hi all, Since I do occasionally receive signed messages to mailing lists I'm on, and am not really interested in authenticating the identity of the sender, or in waiting some seconds for the message to display while the key is downloaded from the keyservers, is there an option in mutt to turn

[SLUG] how to do graphic-programming through telnet ?

2002-04-24 Thread henry
Dear List : VGA programming lib is flourish in Linux world . I am a poor guy just released from Dos Win98. Linux is a multi-threaded strong-net-functional OS. I am curioushow to do graphic-program on one monitor to get graphic-results of execution from another monitor ? (through