On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:57:31PM +1100, Bill Bennett wrote:
Select a response, if it's wrong(1)/wrong(2)/wrong(3), a flag=1
and the far end of the loop is LOOP UNTIL FLAG=1
All very well, except that this is a contingency occurring early
in the process. Even if the flag =1, the process
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:21:18AM +1100, Simon Bryan wrote:
Hi,
I am working with a package called AUC to setup our intranet on the school
network. All is good at the moment, except I want to be able to give access
to the home directories on an NT share using Samba. I can do this by
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:30:06AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Morning all, simple midnight question:
Is there a top-like equivalent for measuring file I/O?
The best I know of is
vmstat 1
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:12:46PM +0900, Antony Stace wrote:
Hi Folks
Does anyone know if there is an open source client out there which can
access a Visual Source Safe(VSS) repository? I want to access a VSS
repository from Linux and LynxOS.
This isn't exactly what you want, but...
If
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:24:18PM +1000, Phillipus Gunawan wrote:
I'm having problem with iptables 1.2.1a I installed the iptables 1.2.1a, and
everything works fine... until... I try to check it with: 'iptables -L' it
gave me error warning: "moprobe: can't locate module ip_table" and
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 12:21:05PM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
I want to seperate messages stored in different mbox-format files into
distinct files containing one email each, with filenames of the type:
'20010101-1201-random_number.msg' (for a message sent on 12:01 Jan 1, 2001).
I get
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:06:52PM +1000, Matt Hyne wrote:
I'm trying to work out what permissions I have to change on two machines to allow me
to 'rcp' as root from one machine to another.
I have added both machines to /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.equiv but I still get
permission denied
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:32:29AM +1000, David wrote:
and a dumb extension to this question.. where are they stored?
In the memory of the shell process.
If you want them to be persistent, i.e. always set even after
relogins/reboots, etc., you need to put them in your ~/.bash_profile or
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:21:52AM +1000, James Wilkinson wrote:
I am looking for a bandwidth monitor for my
optus@home packet pushing gateway, I would
like it to log the data to a file so that I
can write programs to analyse it.
Search google for MTRG.
I think you mean MRTG.
-Andrew.
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:30:04PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
I'm attempting to compile a kernel under RH 7.0 (2.2.16-22) and for make
bzImage it dies on the following error (abbreviated);
ksyms.c
kernel_stat:47 smp_num_cpus undeclared
ksums.o
error 1, then error 2.
the machine is a
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:13:53AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heya, Linux gurus...a Newbie Question... How can I ascertain
the type of soundcard (if any) I've got and get it doing it's
thing? uname doesn't seem to do tell me about soundcards..When
Try (as root) running the command lspci.
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:38:41AM +1000, David wrote:
Any suggestions what would be causing the following (booting debian spud)
test login: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kupdate...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kupdate...
VM:
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:10:17PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote:
Hi guys
I'm serving CGI off Apache from a mounted Win32 partition.
Now, this means that the files are unchangably in mode 755.
I want a CGI script to be able to change a data file, but apache executes as
www-data
Now, my two
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:59:14PM -0400, Jeremy Kerwin wrote:
I have just recently installed Mandrake 7.1 on my Toshiba Laptop.
I have a quibble with web browsing using Netscape and Konqueror.
Netscape displays that fonts in an almost unreadable fashion, and
Konqueror enlarges the font
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:11:59AM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
This was an MS trick to prevent exactly what you're trying to do. They
formatted the disks as 1.7MB to confound the casual pirater, and generally
make life difficult for the rest of the world.
Look, I don't much MS either, but...
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 11:12:55AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Chris Barnes
// Display the text of each joke in a paragraph
while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result) ) {
echo(P . $row[JokeText] . /P);
}
I would really like the site to display the ID field
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:27:03PM +1000, Luke McKee wrote:
I've been doing a stack trace on the process. It is reading the correct
configuration file when a user exists in NSS.
Nitpick:
By stack trace, I think you mean system call trace, which is what
strace(1) does (Actually, it also does
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:30:33PM +1000, Martin wrote:
results in
strace: exec: Exec format error
i have no idea what that means. not even google helped :(
Try file /usr/bin/X11/xmodmap. Contrast against file /bin/sh.
You may be trying to run an a.out binary on an ELF system... there
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:40:00PM +1000, Julian Pringle wrote:
Warning: I'm new to Linux.
Am trying to install an ESS688 soundcard on RedHat7.1
Settings for w*s were
I/O port: 220
IRQ: 10
DMA: 1
sndconfig doesn't accept these settings and the redhat FAQ's go over my head.
Have
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:37:25PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
[ It is better to save precious bandwidth by designing pages better, using
less images, and gzipping the data if the client supports it. Breaking the
UI is no excuse for ill-conceived design. ]
Or wait for rproxy to become widely
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:24:53PM +1000, Andy Eager wrote:
Hi all,
I've got some code which I want to be able to run from a console without
using ncurses.
Does anyone know if it's possible to have the up/down arrow keys return
previous line entries (like it does in the shell) using
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:59:59PM +1000, Andy Eager wrote:
Andrew,
Thanks for your reply.
Nothing wrong with ncurses, but want it to be able to run with normal
unix i/o redirection (or piping) as well as from stdin. Don't want
ncurses sending anything other than boring old text
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:24:29AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No more like I hit and hold d and I get d. Nothing else unless I hold
the
key again.
Try:
xset r on
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Odd bug in mutt:
When I hit 'g' to group-reply to that message, it sent it to paul,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
But if I hit 'r', it uses [EMAIL PROTECTED].
I notice that his headers are a bit odd, but I don't understand why mutt
should behave differently for 'r' and 'g'.
Ah well...
-Andrew.
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:25:03PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
sh: dpkg-source: command not found
Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x ncpfs_2.2.0.17-1.dsc' failed.
E: Child process failed
apt-get install dpkg-dev
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Very cute. I wonder who sent it. See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/19878.html
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:11:24PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
# allow from localhost # why does this not work?
Are you pointing your browser at
http://localhost/blah
or at:
http://mycomputername/blah
?
At a guess, the first should work, and the second shouldn't. Your
browser is free to
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:10:38PM +1000, Laurie Savage wrote:
I am running a batch update of my users with a small script that includes
useradd -m -p password -u uid login. The users get added with correct
uid and correct login, but the password seems to get garbled.
e.g useradd
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:10:02PM +1000, Bernhard L?der wrote:
Hi,
this might be a silly question, but what is identd used for? Does it need to
run? What for?
Bernhard L?der
Rather than try to explain it myself, I'll just quote part of RFC 1413:
1. INTRODUCTION
The Identification
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:39:40PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:15:05PM +1000, Terry Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
As I can not find anything in the archives, I thought I would ask the
list.
Just need to run though a file and find the maximum number
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:32:27PM +1000, Steven downing wrote:
Andrew Bennetts [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/07/01 23:55:56
It's not a very interesting script, but I thought the list could do with
some variety from the usual perl gunk ;)
On a related note, it appears upcoming Python releases
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:07:03PM +1000, Minh Van Le wrote:
Is it possible to have a directory name '/' ? or the / character in a
directory name ?
No. You already have a directory called / after all -- it's the root
of your filesystem. Allowing / in filenames would cause all sorts of
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 12:08:42AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Slashdot had an article up about what they did to handle the load, one stat
being 40 pageviews per second. CNN's server was undoubtedly getting a
shitload more than that, so you can imagine that before they switched to a
static page,
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 07:30:07PM +1100, Darrell Burkey wrote:
I have a system that I partitioned poorly and now find that I have /home on
a rather large partition and /var on a rather small partition. If I could
easily swap these two mount points life would be good. I've been reading up
on
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:21:10AM +1000, Keiran Sweet wrote:
Hi,
I currently have a 133Mhz Pentium system with 64MB RAM acting as my home
network internet gateway, running RH 7.1 with the stock 2.4.2-2 Kernel
I have recompiled the kernel to disable modules, statically include the
network
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:55:31PM +1000, Scott Howard wrote:
applications where it suits (and it doesnt always suit). The overhead of
a context switch is always going to be greater than that of switching
between threads (which all occur within the same context).
I was under the impression
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:45:28PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
Rubbish, threading is needed in a lot of applications. For example
web servers or even web query utilities so that they can download
concurrent parts of the page.
Rubbish, it's not needed to do that. You can do that in single
Strange headers you've got there.
To: Crazy Beared Old Linux Geeks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What does the adjective Beared mean?
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:02:16PM -1000, cpaul wrote:
hi - i have two plaintext files
i want to merge them, discarding duplicate lines
is there an easy way ?
If you don't mind reordering the lines:
cat file1 file2 | sort | uniq file3
-Andrew.
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:52:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All,
Can someone point me in the right direction to getting EXT3 going on my RH7.1 box.
I'd like to get a journaling filesystem because of my pcmcia lockups, (see other
msg). Anyway I've been won over by the redhat
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:13:15PM +1100, Peter wrote:
Just a quick note. Can anyone point me in the direction of finding
client terminal server software for Linux. I have to connect to the
Windows 2000 terminal server at work, and I was hoping to not have to
boot into windows just so I can
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:53:23AM +1100, Simon Wong wrote:
I just changed over to using xfs-xtt(v1.3) instead of xfs (4.0.3) to
enable true-type fonts so I could try out Abiword.
If you are using XFree 4, you don't need xfs to get TrueType fonts.
I think that all you need to do is add a line
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:14:30AM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote:
I have a file that looks like this
?- 15335 root 44142 0 Nov 7 16:06
yerba01oct01.tgz
I cannot delete the thing
Have you tried fsck? It looks like something that should not be able to
happen, so
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:31:57AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
So,
I'm feeling more deranged than usual tonight, so I'm looking for a module
that will allow for userland programs to provide filesystem data to a kernel
module, which in turn provides access to this via the normal Linux VFS.
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:46:24PM +1100, John Clarke wrote:
Unfortunately, this is something he didn't write, so he can't change the
source code.
Then he's out of luck.
Nearly.
If it's dynamically linked, he could write an LD_PRELOAD wrapper that
sets SO_REUSEADDR when the program
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:01:38AM +1100, John Clarke wrote:
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:11:08PM +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
If it's dynamically linked, he could write an LD_PRELOAD wrapper that
sets SO_REUSEADDR when the program calls socket(2) or bind(2) or
something like
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 04:21:00PM +1100, Jonathan Kelly wrote:
Hi All,
I was wondering what others do in regards to keeping up-to-date with
kernel releases. Doesn't anyone know a good site that gives an overview
of what's happening in the kernel? It's getting harder to know these
days
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:05:07AM +1100, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
However, it would appear that iptables support isn't included in the kernel
that was installed by RH 7.2 (2.4.7). That may simply be because I asked for
no firewall, but I don't know. If that's the case, I think it's kind of
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:33:37AM +1100, Balial wrote:
Anyone know what the exploit actually is?
From looking at the patch for it, it looks like it is a buffer overflow
in parsing addresses in headers. I think I read somewhere that it is
only a 1 byte overflow, but still exploitable despite
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:14:35AM +, Pete Ryland wrote:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:27:14AM +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
From looking at the patch for it, it looks like it is a buffer overflow in
parsing addresses in headers. I think I read somewhere that it is only a
1 byte overflow
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:56:18PM +1100, Gareth Walters wrote:
The problem I am having is that I want it to be saved with a
filename determined by the script and not by the URL of the script.
I tried adding a name= field in the Content-type header but it didn't
make any difference.
Try
Hi, you might find this a useful starting point. It's completely
untested, though.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
def main(lines):
for line in lines:
fields = line.split(',')
if len(fields) == 3:
values = [fields[-1]]
elif len(fields) == 10:
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:10:31PM +1100, Anthony Rumble wrote:
On a system with 4GB of ram or more
What is the maximum amount of ram a process can be allocated?
(Talking 24 kernels here of course)
Hmm on x86 I think it's 3Gb I thought there was a compile option for
it, but I can't find
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
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 01:21:11AM +1100, Christopher Booth wrote:
I did a nmap scan of myself tonight and noticed that I have something call smux open
on port 199
199/tcpopensmux
I have no idea what is using this port at all or why.
I've no idea either, but...
You could try
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:37:56PM +1100, John Clarke wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:29:21PM +1100, Wienand Ian wrote:
You might like to re-read this; no where does it specify such a
limit. It is only by convention.
See section 2.1.1 of RFC 2822, which obsoletes RFC 822:
There
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:54:50PM +0900, ?$B%%s%H%K! ?$B%9%F%$%9 wrote:
Hi Folks
CVS question.
I am working with some code which is contained in a cvs repository and am having a
problem getting a new directory/file which someone else has created and added in
there copy of the code.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:22:25AM +1000, Kennedy, Adam wrote:
Wouldn't the ladies just be talking in the LinuxChix lists?
They don't need to contribute to this thread...
The ladies are welcome to do whatever they like, just like the guys and
the three-legged gerbils.
Over-analysing
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:05:16PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a guys - but would love to meet linux chix.
And comments like that are why LinuxChix exists, I suspect.
Computer groups are anti social enough, without having a seperate groups
for gals.
It's like the
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:25:19PM +1000, Saurabh Shukla wrote:
Hi...
I have a C programme which takes parameters like \t or \b etc.. .
I have to pass these params from the shell prompt.
However when it give \t as a parameter, only the t reaches my program.
if i pass \t\x\r , txr is
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:04:54PM +1000, Graeme Robinson wrote:
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Brock H. wrote:
My main issue is that of wine. Wine seems like a good idea but it
never seems to work. I've seen screen shots of other people getting
it to work but even in our local LUG I never saw any
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:16:52AM +1000, Dane wrote:
I struggle with the notion that so many people who theoretically have such
great intellect fail miserably in understanding the notion of sarcasm or
hyperbole.
Except that it wasn't funny.
Incidentally, if you find something funny that
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:47:48PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
[terryc@owl 2002]$ pdftex 20020417-perm.tex
You're running TeX (well, pdftex)...
(20020417-perm.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]
Babel v3.6Z and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, i
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:51:29PM +1000, Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote:
I'll only be at this company for another 2 weeks, so I don't care about the
OS and stuff. My personal data which I was just about to back up and write
to CD is going to be hard to replace.
If you let the
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:47:25PM +1000, Gareth Walters wrote:
I have been using wxPython (http://www.wxpython.org/)
for some time now on win2k and LINUX and its pretty good.
Heh. I've found it to be otherwise. I've had it segfaulting Python several
times, and also encountered wierd and
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 06:43:33PM +1000, Tony Green wrote:
On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 18:23, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Hi all,
Anyone have recommendations for small, keyboard navigable window managers
suitable for use on PDAs or embedded devices? I've had a peek at Matchbox
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 05:40:13PM +1000, Kennedy, Adam wrote:
Box is Debian Potato.
Note the cvs.tar.gz file ( in case it isn't obvious ).
If I'm not mistaken, I've just taken ownership of the file from root.
Am I correct?
There's no arguing with the output of ls -l.
It looks like
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:34:56PM +1000, Pia smith wrote:
Can I suggest a talk/debate that really highlights differences in distros.
Get us some fanatics from different distros to do lightning
talks/comparisons, and then crack out the WWF boxing ring ;)
Seriously, I think that would be
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:29:50PM +1000, Richard Hayes wrote:
Dear list,
Is there an easy way to copy a .deb on to multiple floppies?
Use split to split it into multiple files, and then use cat to
reassemble it at the other end.
-Andrew.
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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:03:47PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote:
Hi Slugs,
I have a debian mail server.
when I do a df it only shows...
/dev/hda4 whatever space etc
/dev/hda2 whatever again
dmesg shows...
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
It is only showing two
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:30:53PM +1000, Angus Lees wrote:
(warning: small font size. use C-+ in mozilla)
Rather than doing that for every other page you ever browse, try this
instead... open Edit-Preferences-Appearance-Fonts in Mozilla.
Reasonably recent builds will have a small option
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 05:10:19PM +1000, Mark Johnathan Greenaway wrote:
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 03:53:58PM +1000, Angus Lees wrote:
i mostly agree. the big thing holding me back from python is
closures. once python gets proper anonymous, lexically scoped
subroutines things will start
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 07:05:12AM +1000, Dan Treacy wrote:
dan@silentbob:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
[..snip..]
So am I reading this right in saying even though I've only got say 50M
free out of my 380 odd since 145Mb or so is cached that's free in a
way too??
Yes, cached and buffers are just
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:17:34AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 00:00, Intelligent Dynamic wrote:
A man kill will help, as it explains the different kill levels that you pass
as an argument. 9 kills a process without caring what state it is in.
Will have a close read
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 12:29:07PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
Mind you, I'd expect that the command _should_ have errored because you
had a - in the middle of it - it should have accepted the next option as
an argument, not part of a filename.
I think you might be thinking of --, which means the
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 02:18:10PM +1000, Colin Humphreys wrote:
I remember having to write a little perl proggie to remove the -R file, as
rm just wasn't going to have a bar of it.
Try rm -- -R.
-Andrew.
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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 02:35:29PM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
Not really a problem, just something I've been wondering.
So, when Linux runs out of memory (physical RAM and swap exhausted), it
starts killing processes to free up space. How does the kernel decide
what to terminate? Does it
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:06:55AM +1000, Matthew Wlazlo wrote:
How does KDE Konqueror trap the small logo that appears at the start of
the URL line? With some sites it appears to be site specific.
It's an IE feature. You put a file called favicon.ico in the root
directory of your web
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 04:47:27PM +1000, James Gregory wrote:
I don't think any package manager has really solved the uninstallation
problem well (please correct me if I'm wrong, I'd be fascinated to know
about it)
Have a play with deborphan on your token debian box (you'll probably
need
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:41:26PM +1000, Louis Selvon wrote:
string LIKE pattern [ ESCAPE escape-character ]
[...]
I think I need pattern to have the % % in between, but the problem is that
Once I put BadWords in the quotes %BadWords% SQL no longer recognises it
as a column in that table.
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:34:25PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
It look like the recruiter parasite absolutely refuse to handle
PDF documents and I'll have to find a way to convert my beautifully
crafted LaTeX resume into Word.
Maybe render it to a graphic of some sort, then
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:42:49PM +1000, Nick Croft wrote:
But if I try to jump to another tag using Ctrl-] I get an error message (E344
iirc - it's at home) about 'no tag file found' -- and yet the tag file is there
in the doc directory.
And if i just invoke the help-files from the
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 04:33:23PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Microsoft backlash boosts Linux.
So the title makes the article content?
For many people, it effectively does -- people will often choose to read
or not read the rest of an article based on a
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:47:31PM +1000, Nathan McKinlay wrote:
If I am too amatuerish for this mailing list let me know and please accept
my apologies.
We aim to cater to all levels, so no need to apologise! :)
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On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 03:33:22PM +1000, Andy Eager wrote:
Hi all,
Is there an easy way to tell what name resolution scheme was used in
order to resolve a host lookup:
eg:
ping node3.mydomain -- search dns... not found, search files...found
ping www.blah.com.au -- search
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 12:22:37PM +, Ashley Lynn wrote:
I can ping the p-t-p address and all seems well.
The browser has the same proxy settings as before (I never reformat /home) and
the SMTP and POP settings are correct but no matter which browser I try I get
a long timeout period and
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 11:53:42AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Richard Hayes wrote:
I am looking at use both cable and ADSL for redundant links.
I would like to use the cable as the preferred route as it cheap.
Are you using the links for servicing incoming
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:57:37PM +1000, Brad Thomson wrote:
I've got a problem with dpkg on Debian unstable, that's preventing further
package installation (I can remove packages fine).
Here's some output to illlustrate:
[..snip..]
unable to create
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 04:28:16PM +1000, James Gregory wrote:
That said I think the quickest way to find your setting is to do
something like:
find /etc -type f -exec grep -iln lat0-sun16 {} \;
I'd probably just do:
grep -Irl lat0-sun16 /etc
:)
-Andrew.
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 10:56:09AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
According to the HOWTO it says:
To do that, put the following line on /etc/apt/apt.conf:
APT::Default-Release testing;
Do I just create that file and add the line?
I did that, and it worked for me (my
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:56:48PM +1000, knet wrote:
Have you tried doing this as root?
I have the same camera. I received the same message when I ran gphoto as
an ordinary user; the user did not have permission to access
/dev/usb/dc2xx0. Running gphoto as root made it happy.
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:25:03PM +1000, knet wrote:
Andrew Bennetts wrote:
Alternately, you could adjust the permissions or ownership of
/dev/usb/dc2xx0.
I could, but I didn't want to. :-)
Can't argue with that :)
-Andrew.
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SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:24:57PM +1000, Brendan Dacre wrote:
Finally, Linux is not really an in situ upgrade of windows, but there
are versions of Linux which allow you to load Linux without
repartitioning your disk:
Mandrake, which the original poster said he was intending on
See http://gmane.org/ for details. They mirror a huge number of mailing
lists as newsgroups, includign SLUG's:
Web archives:
http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.org.user-groups.slug.general
http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.org.user-groups.slug.chat
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:27:17AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
vi gurus,
I've done some googling but couldn't find something to tell me how...
I want to comment out every line in a file (inetd.conf) but not the ones
that already are.
I tried
:1,$s/^/#
which does every line. Looks
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:37:36PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote:
is there a SMART client app in RedHat/Linus to assess drive's SMART status
?
In Debian, there's a package called ide-smart, and also smart-suite,
which have this functionality. I expect they are also available for Red
Hat.
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:30:04AM +1000, David wrote:
[...]
should I worry? is this a bug? Ive noticed lots of other exim detritus
around the place too (exim cron scripts for instance). Is there a sensible
way of cleaing up orphaned files, scripts and configs?
Not that I know of, unless you
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:27:13AM +1100, Peter Rundle wrote:
Sluggers,
Coding a 'C' routine I need to know at execute time, the
full path that the program is being executed from.
http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/faq_2.html#SEC23
-Andrew.
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SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:55:44AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote:
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 10:23, Stuart Guthrie SLUG wrote:
traceroute www.yahoo.com
Is this what you meant?
This time to the whole list - still getting used to Evolution!
Not exactly - I am looking to find the actual
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:27:38AM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
Latex Question
I'm doing field reports for a species survey, laid out in a tabular
environment and have a number of counts n. The problem is that the
report is printed with the greater than symbol replace by what looks
like an
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