Re: [SLUG] Routing problem (I think)

2002-07-24 Thread Alan L Tyree
Do you have bigdog in your /etc/hosts file on sage? /etc/hosts on sage should look something like this 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 biogdog.my.home bigdog {assuming bigdog's IP address is 192.168.1.1, of course} Yep. On all machines. The only thing that I have

Re: [SLUG] Routing problem (I think)

2002-07-24 Thread John Ferlito
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 04:27:54PM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: Do you have bigdog in your /etc/hosts file on sage? /etc/hosts on sage should look something like this 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1biogdog.my.home bigdog {assuming bigdog's IP address is

Re: [SLUG] Routing problem (I think)

2002-07-24 Thread Tim White
The only thing that I have noticed that is strange is: [alant@sage alant]$ domainname (none) [alant@sage alant]$ hostname sage.my.home The command domainname refers to a NIS domain, not the DNS command. The hostname command is what you want and is given the correct info. What

Re: [SLUG] Routing problem (I think)

2002-07-24 Thread Matthew Wlazlo
Hi, The only thing that I have noticed that is strange is: [alant@sage alant]$ domainname (none) The man page says that this command is used to set the NIS/YP domain name. You might want to check out the dnsdomainname command.. Cheers, Matt. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Routing problem (I think)

2002-07-24 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 04:27:54PM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: Do you have bigdog in your /etc/hosts file on sage? /etc/hosts on sage should look something like this 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 biogdog.my.home bigdog {assuming bigdog's IP

[SLUG] One or two cheap books.

2002-07-24 Thread Bill Bennett
I've just looked over the catalogue for Academic Remainders. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and they have a website. There are several books on Linux (mainly Caldera, of which I know naught; nor does anyone of whom I enquired). Admittedly the obligatory CD included with a lot of them gives the book away

Re: [SLUG] Routing problem (I think)

2002-07-24 Thread Alan L Tyree
Hi, The only thing that I have noticed that is strange is: [alant@sage alant]$ domainname (none) The man page says that this command is used to set the NIS/YP domain name. You might want to check out the dnsdomainname command.. Cheers, Matt. Right. I hadn't noticed that. And

Re: [SLUG] Routing problem (I think)

2002-07-24 Thread Alan L Tyree
The only thing that I have noticed that is strange is: [alant@sage alant]$ domainname (none) [alant@sage alant]$ hostname sage.my.home The command domainname refers to a NIS domain, not the DNS command. The hostname command is what you want and is given the correct

Re: [SLUG] Routing problem (I think)

2002-07-24 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Alan L Tyree wrote: I am pretty new to networking. I have three machines. One, bigdog, is acting as a gateway/firewall. I am working from sage. The routing table is: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref

Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Re: batch procesing *.doc to *.html

2002-07-24 Thread Russell Davie
Hi wonderful helpers... command rpm -U rpm*.* threw up lots more failed dependencies , screen output follows I've downloaded nearly all of these. so what is the best way to upgrade this? which comes first? rpm upgrade? or glibc upgrade? or something else? coz its looks as though lots of

Re: [SLUG] Re: batch procesing *.doc to *.html

2002-07-24 Thread Russell Davie
Hi thanks for ximian red carpet, it rocks! though red-carpet-1.2.1-ximian.2.i586.rpm can't seem to upgrade RPM 3 to 4, or upgrade to more recent Mandrake; maybe coz its built for mdk 7.0. the attempting to use red-carpet-1.3.4-1.ximian.3.i586.rpm for mdk 8.2 will not install, as dependency

[SLUG] Can't install linux on an old 386

2002-07-24 Thread Ken Caldwell
Hi, (not quite sure wether to pos here or on slug-chat :-) ) I have an old computer with a '386 CPU on which I thought I would install linux. The box has 32MB RAM and a NIC. If I try to do a Debian Woody install the process fails when loading the root disk. I have tried using both the compact

Re: [SLUG] UK dictionary in open office

2002-07-24 Thread Richard
Thanyou I followed the instructions downloaded the en.GB.zip file unzipped it in the correct directory edited dictionary.lst ie DICT en GB en_GB went to set myspell and its stuck as US only and it cant see GB at all even though Ive installed the main system Dictionary as en_GB too. Ive tried

Re: Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Re: batch procesing *.doc to *.html

2002-07-24 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 18:59, Russell Davie wrote: Hi wonderful helpers... command rpm -U rpm*.* threw up lots more failed dependencies , yep it sucks big time. I believe you can get 'apt' for redhat now to allow you to do the 'debian thing' and go: apt-get install imagemagick and it all

Re: [SLUG] Re: batch procesing *.doc to *.html

2002-07-24 Thread James Gregory
Russell Davie wrote: Hi thanks for ximian red carpet, it rocks! though red-carpet-1.2.1-ximian.2.i586.rpm can't seem to upgrade RPM 3 to 4, or upgrade to more recent Mandrake; maybe coz its built for mdk 7.0. the attempting to use red-carpet-1.3.4-1.ximian.3.i586.rpm for mdk 8.2 will not

Re: [SLUG] Re: batch procesing *.doc to *.html

2002-07-24 Thread James Gregory
James Gregory wrote: I'm currently asking urpmi to upgrade urpmi. I'll post to the list and let you know how it goes. IIRC urpmi will quite happily upgrade urpmi once it's actually installed. If it does work, urpmi 3.7 has just successfully upgraded itself to urpmi 3.8, along with the

Re: [SLUG] Re: batch procesing *.doc to *.html

2002-07-24 Thread Peter Rundle
Russell, Slug archives disguss deb upgrade from RPM3 to 4 and I couldn't find mention of using RH rpm to upgrade from RPM 3 to 4, or in other linux lists, even mdk lists. If you like I can send you rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm which will allow you to install version 3 or 4 rpms. P. -- SLUG -

RE: [SLUG] Re: batch procesing *.doc to *.html

2002-07-24 Thread Simon Elder
I recently went through this hassle when upgrading a 6.2 box, there is an upgrade RPM in the redhat 6.2 updates directory that will upgrade RPM 3 to 4. You can find it here: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/updates/6.2/en/os/i386/rpm-4.0.2-6x.i 386.rpm -Original Message-

Re: [SLUG] Can't install linux on an old 386

2002-07-24 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 20:28, Ken Caldwell wrote: I have an old computer with a '386 CPU on which I thought I would Probably clutching at straws here, but does it have a math coprocessor? Adding no387 to the lilo boot prompt might help in the case that it does have one which isn't working

[SLUG] help with Linux commands needed

2002-07-24 Thread Joseph Tandl
I am exploring Linux and, because I am a complete greenhorn (with Linux and programming of any kind), I need to find documentation for all simple line commands that are needed to open, unzip, move, compile, save, etc, files in text mode. I am working with Red Hat 7.3, for which I had to

Re: [SLUG] help with Linux commands needed

2002-07-24 Thread Tony Green
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 13:34, Joseph Tandl wrote: I am exploring Linux and, because I am a complete greenhorn (with Linux and programming of any kind), I need to find documentation for all simple line commands that are needed to open, unzip, move, compile, save, etc, files in text mode. I

[SLUG] what is kernel memory doing?

2002-07-24 Thread well
Hi If I use the default kernel of Slackware 8, the boot message shows Free unused kernel memory: 116k freed And if I disable some inneed kernel option(scsi, audio,), the boot message shows Free unused kernel memory: 66k freed With less kernel option, shouldn't be more memory freed? Can

Re: [SLUG] help with Linux commands needed

2002-07-24 Thread Graeme Robinson
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Joseph Tandl wrote: I am exploring Linux and, because I am a complete greenhorn (with Linux and programming of any kind), I need to find documentation for all simple line commands that are needed to open, unzip, move, compile, save, etc, files in text mode. I am

Re: [SLUG] what is kernel memory doing?

2002-07-24 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:13:45AM +0800, well wrote: If I use the default kernel of Slackware 8, the boot message shows Free unused kernel memory: 116k freed And if I disable some inneed kernel option(scsi, audio,), the boot message shows Free unused kernel memory: 66k freed With

Re: [SLUG] what is kernel memory doing?

2002-07-24 Thread Jessica Mayo
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, well wrote: If I use the default kernel of Slackware 8, the boot message shows Free unused kernel memory: 116k freed And if I disable some inneed kernel option(scsi, audio,), the boot message shows Free unused kernel memory: 66k freed With less kernel option,

Re: [SLUG] help with Linux commands needed

2002-07-24 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 13:39, Tony Green wrote: Most of the time, you can use man $command ('man gzip' for example) to get details on how it works. The problem with man, though, is that you need to know the actual command you want to use first. A valuable sidekick to man is apropos, which will

[SLUG] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 26th July, 2002

2002-07-24 Thread Tony Green
Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 28th June, 2002 * When: 6:30pm - about 9:00pm (then dinner, etc) * Where: UTS, Central Sydney URL: http://slug.org.au/slugmeet.shtml The Usual Suspects - Starts 6:30pm * QA - What has Linux done for/to me lately? * SLUG News Discussion * Vote on the

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 26th July, 2002

2002-07-24 Thread Harlan
Hi, Your meeting date seems to be in the past: Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 28th June, 2002 Harlan - Original Message - From: Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 3:55 PM Subject: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 26th July, 2002