[SLUG] Running Linux on ASUS laptops.
I'm looking at replacing my failed Toshiba laptop with a ASUS laptop. Just wondering what is the attitude towards Linux/Unix at the ASUS camp? Cheers, Marek Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] OPENVPN help please
Hi I've setup openvpn and almost have it working ... 10.8.0.6==openvpn10.8.0.1 [ME][router] - - - internet - - [SERVER]---[OTHERS] || | 192.168.5.123192.168.17.254 192.168.17.7 ME can ping SERVER: [tethereal -i tun0 at server] 679.332837 10.8.0.6 - 192.168.17.254 ICMP Echo (ping) request 679.333004 192.168.17.254 - 10.8.0.6 ICMP Echo (ping) reply 680.329705 10.8.0.6 - 192.168.17.254 ICMP Echo (ping) request 680.329822 192.168.17.254 - 10.8.0.6 ICMP Echo (ping) reply SERVER can ping OTHERS [server] /home/jam [55]% ping 192.168.17.7 PING 192.168.17.7 (192.168.17.7) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.17.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.388 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.17.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.254 ms SERVER can ping ME [server] /home/jam [56]% ping 10.8.0.6 PING 10.8.0.6 (10.8.0.6) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.8.0.6: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=50.7 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.0.6: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=44.7 ms ME can't get a reply from pinging OTHERS [tethereal on server] 1002.738058 10.8.0.6 - 192.168.17.7 ICMP Echo (ping) request 1007.814130 10.8.0.6 - 192.168.17.7 ICMP Echo (ping) request 1012.816960 10.8.0.6 - 192.168.17.7 ICMP Echo (ping) request SERVERS route table [server] /home/jam [57]% route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 10.8.0.2* 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 tun0 202.7.144.236 * 255.255.255.252 U 0 00 eth0 10.8.0.010.8.0.2255.255.255.0 UG0 00 tun0 192.168.17.0* 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 00 eth0 loopback* 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo default 202.7.144.237 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 What have I done wrong/omitted to do. Going crazy trying to find!! ME end of the tunnel is 10.8.0.2 hence the network route (that works) Thanks James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OPENVPN help please
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What have I done wrong/omitted to do. Going crazy trying to find!! ME end of the tunnel is 10.8.0.2 hence the network route (that works) Thanks James Couple of things to check (having just done this very thing): 1. Is SERVER the gateway for OTHERS? If not, then the gateway for OTHERS will need a route to find 10.8.0.0 and will also need ip_forward set to 1. Any firewall on this gateway will also need to allow packets to be forwarded from internal interface out internal interface. 2. Check that SERVER has ip_forward allowed (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward) 3. Check that any firewalls involved can pass packets from the interface OTHERS is on to tun interface. Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Building nvidia kernel modules on a Debian x86_64 machine
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:00:02AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Alexander Samad What I have done is install debian (2.6.11 base kerneL) I then upgraded the kernel to 2.6.11-amd64-k8-smp which is a x86_64 arch kernel so it does both 32 and 64 bit stuff ( I believe). If you've installed the i386 version of Debian, then you're running entirely in 32 bit mode. The k8 kernel is just an optimised build for your processor, it doesn't do 64 bit. From what I read of the amd65.debain site you need to install 32 bit first and then install the amd64-k8 version which have support for 64 bit in them (just quoting what they say), when I looked at the source of the package it is built with arch amd64 and gcc swith -m64 which says to me its running 64 bit some where in it, but haveing said that when i do an arch it comes back with x86_64. But you have given me a thought maybe I am trying to build the 64 bit version of the nvidia drives against a 32 bit kernel interface ! Your best bet is to install the amd64 version, and (at least in Debian, as it doesn't support bi- or multi-arch) run your 32 bit software in a chroot. - Jeff -- GNOME Summit: October 8th-10th http://live.gnome.org/Boston2005 A 'lame' server is a server that is SUPPOSED to be authoritative, but, when asked, says: 'Me? I know nothing, I'm from Madrid!' - Ralf Hildebrandt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] toshiba laptop disable screensaver
Hi, This is a question that probably has a really obvious answer that I'm just not finding. How do I completely and totally disable the screensaver that kicks in on KDE / Fedora Core 3 on my Toshiba laptop (M2, nVidia chipset if that makes a difference)? I use it to watch movies a lot and despite the fact that I tell mplayer to disable the screensaver, and despite that I have disabled it in the KDE control panel, it still kicks in every few minutes. Any clues as to where I should go looking? -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] postfix
I'm used to setting up qmail. I found some references on setting up postfix from postfix.org. However some references are better than others. Does anybody know a good reference for setting up a decent postfix server for a postfix newbe? (decent Imean spam filter, virus et al) I tried to find Jeffs talk from a few onths ago I'm sure it is on the SLUG site somewhere. Rgards, Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] postfix
ashley maher wrote: I found some references on setting up postfix from postfix.org. However some references are better than others. Does anybody know a good reference for setting up a decent postfix server for a postfix newbe? (decent Imean spam filter, virus et al) there are a few guides around. search for howto postfix spamassasin clamav etc or amavisd-new. depends on your distro choice dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] postfix
quote who=ashley maher I'm used to setting up qmail. I found some references on setting up postfix from postfix.org. However some references are better than others. Does anybody know a good reference for setting up a decent postfix server for a postfix newbe? (decent Imean spam filter, virus et al) I've used the actual postfix docs from postfix.org, then, Jim Seymor's sp? anti UCE how-to, postfixadmin, MySQL, later added amavisd-new, most of the docs are referenced on postfix.org. postfix ml is also invaluable all the docs I've used are referenced on postfix.org even though I didn't understand most of the docs, it didn't stop postfix from working, setting it up turned out simpler than I feared courier-imap, postfixadmin, MySQL, amavisd-new, clamav bdc is what I've used with it -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] toshiba laptop disable screensaver
Don't know about fedora, but is it using Xscreensaver ? Thinking back to the last time I used KDE, I think you should be able to find a preference in kcontrol (Got the same lappy, but it shouldn't make a difference). -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] Del wrote: Hi, This is a question that probably has a really obvious answer that I'm just not finding. How do I completely and totally disable the screensaver that kicks in on KDE / Fedora Core 3 on my Toshiba laptop (M2, nVidia chipset if that makes a difference)? I use it to watch movies a lot and despite the fact that I tell mplayer to disable the screensaver, and despite that I have disabled it in the KDE control panel, it still kicks in every few minutes. Any clues as to where I should go looking? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Lindows experience.
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:34, Steven Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sudo rocks, Ubuntu rocks! Root does exist, if you
want the traditional method of using root, just
activate
root by doing
sudo passwd root
when you create a password then you can log in as
root, if you then disable sudo, you are back to the
traditional set up! I quite like the way Ubuntu has
used sudo, but if you dont like it, it takes seconds
to change!
I think that's what I did on my system. I was unaware that Ubuntu is reliant
upon sudo instead of su, and I thought that my root password was set to be
the same as my user password. To change it, I used 'sudo passwd root', which
of course removed the sudo functionality and reverted my system to a more
traditional su setup.
Is the sudo-type setup employed by Ubuntu the same as that used in Mac OS X?
Also, are there any security implications of this? Doesn't it mean that in a
default setup, any local user can gain root access? Please correct me if I'm
wrong.
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Re: [SLUG] toshiba laptop disable screensaver
Simon Males wrote: Don't know about fedora, but is it using Xscreensaver ? Thinking back to the last time I used KDE, I think you should be able to find a preference in kcontrol If you are using xscreensaver, the GUI application where you can adjust its settings is called xscreensaver-demo, for reasons that I'm sure make perfect sense to someone :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Multimedia machine (Shuttle)
Hi Quick feedbackn onthe box, ended up getting a SN95G5 v3, amd 3800+ 2000 (dual core) nvidia 6600gt Everything is working fine except the sound. I installed debian of a net installed, used raid1 then lvm on top, had some issue with the amd64 kernel and the nvidia drivers, went back to the k7-smp kernel and the nvidia drivers worked well The problem I have with the sounds is a bit strange, its one of the intel8x0 style chipsets, but show up as a nforce. alsaconf find its snd configures it properly, I had even connected the tos optic out to my amplifier, I was able to do ac3 pass through work well, but when I went to play normal sound - nothing. I really want to use the spdif optic out, tried a few things but did not get any where, I place my sounds blaster card in there! When I get a bit of time to have a play and a look on the net I will see if I can find out how to fix up the sounds to play properly On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:57:48PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:38:44PM +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Alexander Samad wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:58:03AM +1000, Rob Sharp wrote: You can probably get a USB sound 'card' breakout box that outputs S/P-DIF, if thats the only thing going against the mini. I know a mac owning friend bought one, but I've no idea what it was... Sounds like I might end up with things dangling of the box, do like it, might wait and see what they are releasing next week. *Fingers crossed*. after a bit of time and a bit more research went for the shuttle sn95g6 v3 with a amd 3800 dual core, will report back my experiences! Lindsay -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Running Linux on ASUS laptops.
G'day, When looking at laptop compatibility, I find that tuxmobil.org is an indespensible resource. They have a page with information on Asus laptops at http://tuxmobil.org/asus.html. The pages linked to give a fair amount of information on how well they work under Linux. HTH, Lindsay Marek Wawrzyczny wrote: I'm looking at replacing my failed Toshiba laptop with a ASUS laptop. Just wondering what is the attitude towards Linux/Unix at the ASUS camp? Cheers, Marek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Lindows experience.
I am a lindows - now linspire - user at home for the family (they also use a Mac Mini with OSX) and gentoo at work and have used Mandrake historically. I have installed and used ubuntu for only a short time on an x86 and a little longer on a PowerBook. Linspire is by far the most user friendly Linux system and this is assisted by its simple install, user interface and the CNR installation software. I would highly recommend it for cross over users from Windows or MAC and non technical users. Also the default is to have a single user as root but this however this can be simply altered by creating a non root user and you get back all the bennefits of linux security etc. My home system just auto logs in and the family have no idea that they are not root. Applications installed by CNR are installed to a share directory for all to use but user data is stored in an appropriate home directory. -- Yours Sincerely,Al Steel. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Multimedia machine (Shuttle)
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:15:09AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote:
Hi
Quick feedbackn onthe box,
ended up getting a
SN95G5 v3, amd 3800+ 2000 (dual core)
nvidia 6600gt
Everything is working fine except the sound.
I installed debian of a net installed, used raid1 then lvm on top, had
some issue with the amd64 kernel and the nvidia drivers, went back to
the k7-smp kernel and the nvidia drivers worked well
The problem I have with the sounds is a bit strange, its one of the
intel8x0 style chipsets, but show up as a nforce.
alsaconf find its snd configures it properly, I had even connected the
tos optic out to my amplifier, I was able to do ac3 pass through work
well, but when I went to play normal sound - nothing. I really
want to use the spdif optic out, tried a few things but did not get any
where, I place my sounds blaster card in there!
When I get a bit of time to have a play and a look on the net I will see
if I can find out how to fix up the sounds to play properly
with some digging around I found that this now works
pcm.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm nforce
}
pcm.nforce {
type dmix
ipc_key 1234
slave {
pcm hw:0,2
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 32768
rate 44100
}
}
so my ac3 pass through works as well as normal sounds through the optic
spdif.
have to admin I have to now work out what the above does!
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:57:48PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:38:44PM +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
Alexander Samad wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:58:03AM +1000, Rob Sharp wrote:
You can probably get a USB sound 'card' breakout box that outputs
S/P-DIF, if thats the only thing going against the mini. I know a mac
owning friend bought one, but I've no idea what it was...
Sounds like I might end up with things dangling of the box, do like it,
might wait and see what they are releasing next week.
*Fingers crossed*.
after a bit of time and a bit more research went for the shuttle sn95g6
v3 with a amd 3800 dual core, will report back my experiences!
Lindsay
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Re: [SLUG] Lindows experience.
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:56:25 +1000
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SNIP
Is the sudo-type setup employed by Ubuntu the same as that used in Mac
OS X? Also, are there any security implications of this? Doesn't it
mean that in a default setup, any local user can gain root access?
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think that it is wrong. The first user created during installation has
sudo privileges. Users created later do not.
In fact, it seems to me
that later users have (by default) too few privileges, at least for use
in a home environment. I'm not saying that is wrong, but in a home
environment you probably want to allow secondary users to use the CD,
connect to the Internet, audio devices, etc. The default new user has
none of these rights. Dead easy to add them through the graphical
user/group controls though.
Alan
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[SLUG] Switching a website to ssl
We have a web application served by apache (2.0.52-9) that we want to switch from normal http to https. I suspect this is relatively simple, but - how do I do it? -- Regards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299 Web: http//www.ironstone.com.au *** This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete the message and notify the sender. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Switching a website to ssl
The whole application to be accessed via SSL? If yes, then the steps are: - create the certificates. - make sure your apache installation was compiled with SSL support, then enable SSL on a given virtualhost (since you're just switching, probably the virtualhost has the same name as the host itself, but uses port 443, if you want to keep the https:// in the address bar). - check if your application uses absolute URLs (like in http://site/page.php; instead of page.php) in the page links. If yes, then change that to https, otherwise you'll be thrown out of the SSL enabled virtualhost when navigating. This answers the question. Detailed instructions can be quite long, so I suggest you google for a few howtos on the subject. On 8/16/05, Edwin Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a web application served by apache (2.0.52-9) that we want to switch from normal http to https. I suspect this is relatively simple, but - how do I do it? -- Regards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299 Web: http//www.ironstone.com.au *** This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete the message and notify the sender. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] turning html mail into text ?
what is the best way to turn html mail into text, preferebaly before it ends in my inbox ? if procmail, is there a ready made recipe for that ? using postfix/courier-imap/amavisd-new -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Dlink Adsl Modem dropping Packets
Ryan Verner wrote: Billion 5402's (ADSL2+ capable) are under $100/each - do yourself a favour and get one of those, or something similar. :-) I'd check that the bug that Billion had which didn't allow TCP window scaling to pass through NAT has been fixed. Otherwise you'll never get the 24Mbps throughput ADSL2 supports. -- Glen Turner Tel: (08) 8303 3936 or +61 8 8303 3936 Australia's Academic Research Network www.aarnet.edu.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Using Xterms in Shell Scripts
I've knocked out a bash script that uses dialog boxes (Xdialog in this case) to pass arguments to a perfectly good command line utility. The idea is that a rodent-fixated $USER can satisfy his fetish by clicking on a Desktop Icon. [Desktop Icons are those tiny graphic thingies that live under xterms and deface your Megan Gale wallpaper.] Having punched out said script I suddenly had a Thought. [A Thought is an explosion in the brain that turns very tired hackers into insomniacs.] What if $USER doesn't have [X|K|G|*]dialog? or has moved or nuked it? [$USER is capable of _anything_.] My first idea -- to add another dialog box into the script -- seemed to cause a loop. So ..., why not use an xterm? But the -e option to xterm seems to have very limited functionality. If I pass a message to an ad hoc xterm it closes immediately because the -e option is explicitly designed to terminate the xterm when the command has been executed. Also, -e won't allow more than one command -- a restricted xterm!? Further, the man page for xterm seems to give just about every option known to mankind, except the one I want. My solution, which follows, is a total kludge: BEGIN SCRIPT SNIPPET #!/bin/bash ... TITLE=My Bash Wrapper Script XDIAL=/path/to/Xdialog ... if [ ! -x $XDIAL ]; then cat - EOF /tmp/emergency_script #!/bin/bash echo $TITLE echo I can't find the bloody Xdialog file? echo It may be a permissions problem. sleep 3 EOF chmod 700 /tmp/emergency_script xterm -ut +l +ls +bc -font 10x20 -geometry 40x4 -title $TITLE \ -mesg -e /tmp/emergency_script rm /tmp/emergency_script exit 1 fi ... END SCRIPT SNIPPET BTW, emergency_script still works if the shebang is absent. Finally, my question: What is the correct way to do this? or a better way? or, even, The Debian Way? TIA, Robert Thorsby -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Using Xterms in Shell Scripts
What if $USER doesn't have [X|K|G|*]dialog? or has moved or nuked it? [$USER is capable of _anything_.] He's likely to have xmessage. The man page illustrates some of the stuff you can do using buttons and some other widgets. Never used these other widgets though... On 8/17/05, Robert Thorsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've knocked out a bash script that uses dialog boxes (Xdialog in this case) to pass arguments to a perfectly good command line utility. The idea is that a rodent-fixated $USER can satisfy his fetish by clicking on a Desktop Icon. [Desktop Icons are those tiny graphic thingies that live under xterms and deface your Megan Gale wallpaper.] Having punched out said script I suddenly had a Thought. [A Thought is an explosion in the brain that turns very tired hackers into insomniacs.] What if $USER doesn't have [X|K|G|*]dialog? or has moved or nuked it? [$USER is capable of _anything_.] My first idea -- to add another dialog box into the script -- seemed to cause a loop. So ..., why not use an xterm? But the -e option to xterm seems to have very limited functionality. If I pass a message to an ad hoc xterm it closes immediately because the -e option is explicitly designed to terminate the xterm when the command has been executed. Also, -e won't allow more than one command -- a restricted xterm!? Further, the man page for xterm seems to give just about every option known to mankind, except the one I want. My solution, which follows, is a total kludge: BEGIN SCRIPT SNIPPET #!/bin/bash ... TITLE=My Bash Wrapper Script XDIAL=/path/to/Xdialog ... if [ ! -x $XDIAL ]; then cat - EOF /tmp/emergency_script #!/bin/bash echo $TITLE echo I can't find the bloody Xdialog file? echo It may be a permissions problem. sleep 3 EOF chmod 700 /tmp/emergency_script xterm -ut +l +ls +bc -font 10x20 -geometry 40x4 -title $TITLE \ -mesg -e /tmp/emergency_script rm /tmp/emergency_script exit 1 fi ... END SCRIPT SNIPPET BTW, emergency_script still works if the shebang is absent. Finally, my question: What is the correct way to do this? or a better way? or, even, The Debian Way? TIA, Robert Thorsby -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Using Xterms in Shell Scripts
On 2005.08.17 10:49 Julio Cesar Ody wrote: What if $USER doesn't have [X|K|G|*]dialog? or has moved or nuked it? [$USER is capable of _anything_.] He's likely to have xmessage. The man page illustrates some of the stuff you can do using buttons and some other widgets. Never used these other widgets though... Ta muchly. That's what I was looking for -- much cleaner. Robert Thorsby -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] NTPD behind a masquerade
Peter Rundle wrote:
Cluesticks?
What do the logs say?
I find that a lot of the syncs time out with my main ntp boxen. I
suspect that the main servers are extremely overloaded now that every
home use has easy to use software to enable them to sysnc with stratum 1
timeservers.
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[SLUG] trustdom
Hi all, Getting confused here...simple question: Can I use net rpc trustdom to establish a trust relationship between Samba3 and W2003? If so what would be the syntax of the command if: SAMBA Domain = DOM1 AdminUser=admin adminpasswd= passwd1 AD Domain = DOM2 Adminuser=admin2 adminpassword=passwd2 Cheers OLMC Simon Bryan IT Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] LMB 14 North Parramatta Direct Number:88381200 SwitchBoard: 96833300 fax: 98901466 mobile: 0414238002 _ ella for Spam Control has removed 148 Spam messages and set aside 229 Later for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! www.ellaforspam.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
