[SLUG] Announce : Secret Rabbit Code (aka libsamplerate)

2002-12-01 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi People, I mentioned this very briefly at the SLUG meeting on Friday night. Here it is: - This is the first announcement of Secret Rabbit Code: http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/ Secret Rabbit Code is a library for doing

Re: [SLUG] debian sid mirror

2002-12-01 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 12:56 pm, Friday, November 29 2002, Michael Fox mumbled: Anyone care to mention to me which mirror they might be using for sid packages. As several I have tried on the debian.org pages always appears to have packages missing and other strange problems. Personally, I use apt-proxy: deb

[SLUG] Ecartis mailing list manager, flawfinder and security

2002-12-01 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, At Firday's nights meeting I said that I had been looking at the Ecartis Mailing List Manager http://www.ecartis.org/ and had found some potentially dangerous uses of the standard C sscanf() function using FlawFinder: http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder/ I have now reviewed

Re: [SLUG] debian sid mirror

2002-12-01 Thread Michael Fox
Quoting Steve Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 12:56 pm, Friday, November 29 2002, Michael Fox mumbled: Anyone care to mention to me which mirror they might be using for sid packages. As several I have tried on the debian.org pages always appears to have packages missing and other strange

[SLUG] char block majors

2002-12-01 Thread Bill Taylor
is there a list of *.majors on Redhat 7.3? doesn't appear to be a /documentation/devices.txt file . thanks bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] OT: SCO Networking

2002-12-01 Thread Des Wass
Hi Sluggers... Really sorry about this post, but I have nowhere else to turn. I have a client who had a fire and all their servers burned. I have rebuilt all their servers and am replacing their SCO Openserver with Linux. They need to get their accounting data from the SCO box. The hard disks

[SLUG] time on a Linux box

2002-12-01 Thread Lucas King
hello, i am looking for information as to how time is maintained on a Linux box. i am currently running Redhat 7.2 (i am not sure if this is relevant) on a box on which i have set up a time server for a network. the time server delivers its time, via NTP, as UTC. i set up the client, being

[SLUG] ADSL Linux driver engine

2002-12-01 Thread Guy Ellis
Hi all, For anyone who is interested I have written a 2.4 Linux driver engine for Pulsar PCI ADSL cards, based on the Globespan Pulsar Atlas chipset. You can use the engine to compile PCI ADSL drivers for any 2.4 Linux kernel. http://adsl4linux.no-ip.org Polite feedback appreciated. Cheers,

Re: [SLUG] time on a Linux box

2002-12-01 Thread Christopher Vance
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:10:55AM +1100, Lucas King wrote: : is it possible to have the network delivered time adjusted depending on : whether it is EST or DST? NTP is always UTC. : the clients run a variety of operating systems. these include Linux, : OS/2, Windows, VMS and DOS. writing a

Re: [SLUG] time on a Linux box

2002-12-01 Thread Glen Turner
Lucas King wrote: i am looking for information as to how time is maintained on a Linux box. i am currently running Redhat 7.2 (i am not sure if this is relevant) on a box on which i have set up a time server for a network. the time server delivers its time, via NTP, as UTC. i set up the

[SLUG] mke3fs under Mandrake 8.2

2002-12-01 Thread mkraus
G'day All, I can't seem to find mkfs.ext3 at all for Mandrake (not even on rpmfind). Does anyone know the name of the tool for formatting ext3 journalling file system under Mandrake? Also, could you please reply to me directly as well as to the list, I'm subscribed to slug at home, and not at

RE: [SLUG] mke3fs under Mandrake 8.2

2002-12-01 Thread Brett Fenton
mke2fs then tune fs to add the journaling. ext3 is essentially journeled ext2. brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Monday, 2 December 2002 2:43 PM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: [SLUG] mke3fs under

Re: [SLUG] mke3fs under Mandrake 8.2

2002-12-01 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:42:58PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to find mkfs.ext3 at all for Mandrake (not even on rpmfind). Does anyone know the name of the tool for formatting ext3 journalling file system under Mandrake? mkfs.ext2 -j Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL

[SLUG] mailing list software

2002-12-01 Thread David Fitch
Hi all, what's the current favourite software for running a mailing list? (debian woody and postfix) I've found tons of them but am after a recommendation on something simple (and preferably small) for small numbers of list members of only a couple of lists. Main requirements are: 1) simple 2)

Re: [SLUG] mailing list software

2002-12-01 Thread Tony Green
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 14:56, David Fitch wrote: Hi all, what's the current favourite software for running a mailing list? (debian woody and postfix) I've found tons of them but am after a recommendation on something simple (and preferably small) for small numbers of list members of only a

Re: [SLUG] mailing list software

2002-12-01 Thread Howard Lowndes
On 2 Dec 2002, Tony Green wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 14:56, David Fitch wrote: Hi all, what's the current favourite software for running a mailing list? (debian woody and postfix) I've found tons of them but am after a recommendation on something simple (and preferably small) for

Re: [SLUG] mailing list software

2002-12-01 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 2/12/2002 3:03 PM +1100 Howard Lowndes wrote: On 2 Dec 2002, Tony Green wrote: Mailman seems to fit most, if not all, of your requirements. Some people have a real problem with it, but I think it does the job very well. Agree. No problems here. Agree. FWIW, from your list of main

Re: [SLUG] mailing list software

2002-12-01 Thread David Fitch
thanks guys, I'll give mailman a go. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] making ekepoint on PPC/Debian

2002-12-01 Thread Conrad Parker
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:16:19AM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Hi all, Am trying to get ekepoint to make. It barfs at the configure stage. I have installed ecore libs from the Enlightenment site ... lib/Makefile.am:22: variable `ECORE_LIBS' not defined lib/Makefile.am:22: variable

[SLUG] HTML indenter/validator recommendations

2002-12-01 Thread Simon Wong
Afternoon! I have been using HTML tidy from W3C but the Debian package is way out of date. I was wondering if people could recommend other HTML tidiers and validators that they use. One tool would be good but two is okay. TIA. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] making ekepoint on PPC/Debian

2002-12-01 Thread Michael Lake
Conrad Parker wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:16:19AM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Hi all, Am trying to get ekepoint to make. It barfs at the configure stage. I have installed ecore libs from the Enlightenment site ... lib/Makefile.am:22: variable `ECORE_LIBS' not defined

Re: [SLUG] HTML indenter/validator recommendations

2002-12-01 Thread mlh
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:58:09PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: I have been using HTML tidy from W3C but the Debian package is way out of date. You could compile from source .. it's a doddle. -Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] making ekepoint on PPC/Debian

2002-12-01 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:01:10AM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: The make ended with an error near the end: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL [..snip..] Whats the GNU linker looking for ? Is it trying to link to Open GL by chance ? ie -lGL or some thing else that I dont ahve? Yep, it's looking for