Re: [SLUG] ppp

2002-06-10 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:12:40AM +1000, Adam Hewitt wrote: Jun 11 15:31:54 superbox chat[5266]: expect (OK) Jun 11 15:31:54 superbox chat[5266]: ATZ^M^M Jun 11 15:31:54 superbox chat[5266]: OK Jun 11 15:31:54 superbox chat[5266]: -- got it Jun 11 15:31:54 superbox chat[5266]: send

Re: [SLUG] mail blocking

2002-06-11 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 20:48, Mary wrote: Since you say your Red Hat machine is connecting directly, it is likely that Optus's dialup IPs (all of them) are listed on the Realtime Blackhole List (or on the Dialup Users List http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul/). It is not uncommon for this to happen.

Re: [SLUG] mouse pointer offsets to right

2002-06-13 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 10:49, Michael Still wrote: I have seen this on both of my laptops (a Toshiba Tecra, and an IBM Thinkpad). It happens in both the W thing and Linux... I've never been concerned. yes! so it's not just me! my (toshiba tecra) laptop does that slowly scrolling to the top of

Re: [SLUG] Brand name boxen

2002-07-08 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 10:32, Howard Lowndes wrote: rant Is it my imagination, or do others have problems installing Linux on legacy brand name boxen. installed various versions of redhat from 6.2 to 7.3 on various compaq and hp boxes at work without any problems (including SMP support). I'll

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] Firewalls ident service

2002-07-27 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 20:33, Andy Eager wrote: I know this question is open to debate, but is it wise or desireable to offer auth services through a firewall? I gather it is only used when sending mail by the remote smtpd to identify the sender. At the moment I reject incomming packets

Re: [SLUG] Firewalls ident service

2002-07-28 Thread David Fitch
On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 16:42, Peter Rundle wrote: The fact that you didn't actually reply to the ident but just rejected it seems to be enough for the server to go ahead with the smtp. so is there any problems at all with rejecting ident requests? (not just smtp, anything else as well?) if

[SLUG] default font in gnome woody

2002-07-29 Thread David Fitch
Hi all, I've installed the r0 of debian woody on my machine at work, works great so far. One question though: how do I change the default font in gnome (1.4.0 I think it is)? I can change the font in the gnome-terminals etc but that's not it, I want the font used in the title bars, the panel

Re: [SLUG] default font in gnome woody

2002-07-30 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 09:45:55AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=David Fitch I've installed the r0 of debian woody on my machine at work, works great so far. One question though: how do I change the default font in gnome (1.4.0 I think it is)? In gnomecc, under the GTK+ theme

Re: [SLUG] default font in gnome woody

2002-07-30 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 19:49, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=David Fitch In gnomecc, under the GTK+ theme section. that's set the title bars of windows but not the menus and other bits. Er... The only way to change that in sawfish (assuming you're using it) is under the sawfish section

Re: [SLUG] Simple Zipslack/StarOffice Install

2002-07-30 Thread David Fitch
On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 09:15, Graeme Robinson wrote: I was advised by a peter on the Yahoo.groups.com Slackwarelinux list to try this site. I have appealed and even visited SLUG before and raised my interested in Slackware but, was met with a loud giggling. Well, Slackware isn't what I'd

Re: [SLUG] default font in gnome woody

2002-07-30 Thread David Fitch
ok I moved my .gnome* stuff out the way in my home dir and logged in and started again (as far as gnome is concerned) and still got the extra large font but now I am able to change it by doing this: Okay, run 'gnomecc' and go into the Desktop Theme Selector capplet. There's a frame in there

Re: [SLUG] kde dcopserver problem

2002-08-03 Thread David Fitch
On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 14:27, Matthew Davidson wrote: Hi, Trying to get KDE running on woody. Can't get beyond an error message saying: Could not read network connection list /root/.DCOPserver_hostname_0 Please check the 'dcopserver' program is running.' Seen a lot of usenet

Re: [SLUG] rdate

2002-08-11 Thread David Fitch
On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 21:14, Simon Bryan wrote: Is there a time server in Oz that I can simply run rdate -s against? I keep getting connection refused on the ones I find on Google, yet it worked on one in the States :-( I use ntp against ntp.csiro.au Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] more info on broken firewall

2002-08-13 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:21:38AM +1000, James Gregory wrote: stty also informs me that the serial port is running at the 57600 baud I asked it to. 115200 won't do any harm Next interesting fact: downloads *on* the firewall run *much* faster (but still far too slow). apt-getting tcpdump

[SLUG] when is 2.4.20 due?

2002-08-15 Thread David Fitch
so anyone up with all the kernel goss and know roughly when the 2.4.20 kernel is due out? I've checked kernel.org but all there seems to be is the 2.4.19 release and a patch to 2.4.20preXX. I can't see any news or future plans etc. Normally I'd prefer to be a couple of releases behind but

Re: [SLUG] top level kernel source directory

2002-08-19 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 03:40:43PM +1000, Bill Taylor wrote: hi all, I'm trying to change my kernel. (woody - 2.4.19) I have tried to run make-kpkg in a number of directories which I thought _may_ have been appropriate. Could someone define top level kernel source directory please? as

Re: [SLUG] download speeds

2002-08-28 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 07:12:08PM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: Which is why 64K ISDN is much better even though it only looks a tad faster. (though ISDN's old hat now) yes I was somewhat surprised, I get 7KB/sec and the symmetrical (and synch) is good for ssh. You can still get it if you

Re: [SLUG] download speeds

2002-08-28 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:25:11AM +1000, Michael Fox wrote: I'd love to go DoV isdn, if only I could find a ISP in my area that would support it, and not try and charge you double the standard ISP charges for the use of it. most charge the same as 56k modem access. I don't know what your

[SLUG] apache and apache-ssl

2002-09-02 Thread David Fitch
what's the deal with apache and apache-ssl in debian woody? are you supposed to install and run both versions of apache? seems a bit odd to mewhy not one listening on both ports and if it's port 443 do the ssl stuff?? I want ssl for squirrelmail/webmail so the passwds are not plain text so

Re: [SLUG] apache and apache-ssl

2002-09-02 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 21:19, Jan Schmidt wrote: quote who=David Fitch what's the deal with apache and apache-ssl in debian woody? are you supposed to install and run both versions of apache? seems a bit odd to mewhy not one listening on both ports and if it's port 443 do the ssl

Re: [SLUG] apache and apache-ssl

2002-09-02 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 23:22, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=David Fitch what's the deal with apache and apache-ssl in debian woody? are you supposed to install and run both versions of apache? seems a bit odd to mewhy not one listening on both ports and if it's port 443 do the ssl

Re: [SLUG] apache and apache-ssl

2002-09-02 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 07:35, David Kempe wrote: If you are using the debian package of squirrelmail, It asks you which version of Apache you are using IIRC. if it didnt, perhaps you can run dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low squirrelmail. yes I was sure it did but I can't find anything in the

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 8.1 and the internet

2002-09-03 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:27:06AM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: DNS is in resolv.conf It just seems to ignore them. Have you checked /etc/nsswitch.conf ? hosts: files dns and once ppp starts you have a default route out ppp0? (ie. 'defaultroute' option to pppd or else just manually

Re: [SLUG] BASH: Redirecting Appending stdout stderr

2002-09-05 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:24:49PM +1000, Daniel Harper wrote: I am trying to redirect and append stdout and stderr to a file. I gave a try put that doesn't work. HELP! the usual way is: echo fred /tmp/log 21 (there's plenty of other variations though) Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] dpkg: too many open files

2002-09-05 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:14:51PM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: 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:

Re: [SLUG] .rc.local

2002-09-10 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 17:07, Peter Hardy wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 19:47, mick wrote: My server 24/7 ... the system does hang, painfully during the boot process, I think using fstab without passwd's is causing the problem, but I'll be buggered if I'm going to put palin text passwds

large IDE disks (was Re: [SLUG] IDE Raid Controllers)

2002-09-11 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, [iso-8859-1] Bernhard L?der wrote: I am running a very inexpensive (A$35) ata100 ide card and run it with Linux in RAID5 software mode with 3x 80GB IDE sitting one on each channel of the IDE card and the third on the second channel of the motherboard with a 10GB disk

Re: large IDE disks (was Re: [SLUG] IDE Raid Controllers)

2002-09-12 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:23:21PM +1000, Bernhard Luder wrote: This is correct, but Linux will see them correctly even if the BIOS doesn't. The only problem I can see is, that you cannot boot from the HDD (because the BIOS does not see it or not the correct size) and you might have to boot

Re: [SLUG] Cheap network cards?

2002-09-17 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 22:47, Crossfire wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said: The Skymaster cards are quite good. I've never had a problem with them, they use the rlt8139 chipset. Err... RTL8139s suck ass. badly. They work, but thats about it. I'm sure your

Re: [SLUG] Cheap network cards?

2002-09-18 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 22:09, Jon Biddell wrote: Do you know if this e100 driver will allow the card into full duplex mode ? My server has been running at 100/half for so long, I've forgotten what speed it like yes it has lots of options and when the module is loaded it displays a summary

Re: [SLUG] postinstall of a binary rpm

2002-09-19 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:22:10AM +1000, Mike MacCana wrote: RPMs are supposed to be non interactive. This allows you to, say, install a couple of hundred packages in an automated fashion from a scheduler like cron. If your application needs some inital setup, you should put the script

Re: [SLUG] postinstall of a binary rpm

2002-09-20 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 20:59, Matthew Hannigan wrote: David Fitch wrote: So the non-interactive rule can't be turned off somewhere? I can see the benefits of non-interactive installs but this rpm is going to be a fairly limited release. Sounds like another limitation of the rpm format

Re: [SLUG] postinstall of a binary rpm

2002-09-22 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 09:01, Mike MacCana wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 20:59, Matthew Hannigan wrote: hmm well won't work in this case, looks like I'll have to provide an install script and pack the lot up as a tarball. Hardly worth making an rpm really. This is no more effort than

Re: [SLUG] postinstall of a binary rpm

2002-09-22 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 10:08, Mike MacCana wrote: No, I meant Linux, which to me means the LSB (www.linuxbase.org). Which I think in a few years time will be most people's definition of Linux. fine but that doesn't say anything about rpms, or any packaging system (and if it did I doubt it

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 8.0 has been release on RHN

2002-10-01 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 23:48, Bernhard Lüder wrote: Just got an E-mail from Redhat, that states: Red Hat Linux 8.0 is now available. and if you've got internode adsl then it's available as a free (unmetered) download from ftp.netcraft.com.au or redhat.internode.on.net (same box). I gather it's

Re: [SLUG] LG Studioworks 700s

2002-10-03 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:58:41AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Trevor Rhodes wrote: Just purchased an LG Studioworks 700s 17 monitor. Does anyone else have this monitor and if so, which monitor have you chosen in your setup? as I'm unable to get full use of my graphics card and monitor.

Re: [SLUG] Newbie Samba mounts

2002-10-07 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 06:07:22PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like the smbfs to mount seemlessly during teh boot process. How do I include log on details in /etc/fstab without making them 'human readable ? I have in my /etc/fstab: //flanders/server /flanders/server smbfs

[SLUG] changing postfix reject codes?

2002-10-09 Thread David Fitch
Hey all, I've currently got this wanker trying to deliver some spam to me which my postfix is rejecting with code 450. Problem is this idiot's mail program doesn't seem to get the message and keeps trying to deliver it. How can I change the 450 into a 550 bugger off type message? Oct 9

Re: [SLUG] Debain Woody Info

2002-10-09 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:28:41AM +1000, Mick Boda wrote: Does the new Debian support the Realtec rtl8139 NIC? (2.2r did not) yes (8139too module), and mine worked in 2.2 as well (different driver can't remember the name) Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: mkisofs pruning directory structure Re: [SLUG] mkisofs - which switch is missing

2002-10-10 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:14:35AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: After burning a CD, the problem seems that mkisofs is almost entirely removing the directory structure (which would account for the Rock Ridge errors). So I'm now after clues on why it is doing that (or what I need to specify for

Re: [SLUG] St Geo (java) Mozilla

2002-10-14 Thread David Fitch
somebody (lost in the quoting) wrote: You need to get the java plugin running. I've no idea how to do that in Mandrake... I usually install the java vm off java.sun.com by hand and follow the instructions on integrating it with the browser, myself. which I never have much success with. So

Re: [SLUG] St Geo (the wank) Mozilla

2002-10-15 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 19:13, DaZZa wrote: Seems they write their app to do a browser type query - and if it returns anything but IE or Netscape, forget it. If you find out how, I'd like to know. Especially for Opera. :-) you know you can set what browser opera will report itself as? so set it

Re: [SLUG] Advocacy Getting What You Want [Was:St.George Browser Based Banking Feedback]

2002-10-18 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:49:27PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Issues are interesting, name calling less so - could you imagine a Labour supporter on election day discouraging you from voting for Howard the Duck? It may be funny, perhaps even accurate, but it's not convincing. isn't that what the

Re: [SLUG] Apache

2002-10-17 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 20:32, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I found the folowing in my logs for Apache, it rings a bell but I can't quite place it: [Thu Oct 17 09:26:00 2002] [error] [client 203.234.114.118] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/scripts/..%5c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe

Re: [SLUG] whois in .au namespace

2002-11-03 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 00:25, James Gregory wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 00:06, David wrote: can anyone give me the command to give registration details in the .au namespace. The command that used to work seems to no longer do so. I use whois -h whois.aunic.net host I was under

Re: (forw) Re: [SLUG] netra x1

2002-11-13 Thread David Fitch
An X1 only has internal IDE, and no SCSI, but as Jill says you may be able to use a standard CDROM, and get it to boot, if you can figure out the full device name, as the cdrom devalias will probably be wrong. and it's a cdrom drive that has a 512 byte block size not the more common 2048 byte

Re: [SLUG] Motherboard replacement = no sound

2002-11-25 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:14:03PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any advice on sensible next steps? If I disable the AC97 codec via the BIOS, and re-run sndconfig, are things likely to suddenly just start working? maybe, or remove the sb and use the onboard one. my machine at work has one

Re: [SLUG] What is the smallest footprint distro with a browser

2002-11-26 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:17:56AM +1100, Holroyd Engineering Services wrote: small footprint linux distro that have a browser (I think it need to support java) so I can bind the adsl modem to the mac address of the box I used as a firewall/router. the QNX demo floppy includes a gui and web

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla 1.2 : https cactus?

2002-11-27 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 09:03:38AM +1100, David Fisher wrote: Is it just me or is https connection stuffed in the new lizard? Worked poifectly in 1.1. Anyone else tried it yet? it's you, I've got 1.2b and it works connecting to westpac with https. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

[SLUG] can tinyproxy log bytes?

2002-11-27 Thread David Fitch
anyone used tinyproxy? seems to work well, only question is can I log bytes received? (it logs connections etc fine) (and what's the statshost thing all about?) The doco is a bit sparse and googling hasn't turned up anything. I don't want to use squid in this case. Ta, Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney

[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 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] mailing list software

2002-12-02 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 21:47, David wrote: mailman/woody is fine, and I have it running nicely and it is very reliable etc... and I highly recommend it. However if you do a simple apt-get install mailman from woody you will run into a permissions problem when you try to access your new

Re: [SLUG] mailing list software

2002-12-02 Thread David Fitch
[just replying to myself...] On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:42, David Fitch wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 21:47, David wrote: However if you do a simple apt-get install mailman from woody you will run into a permissions problem when you try to access your new list. Somebody stuffed up! yeah

Re: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ?

2002-12-04 Thread David Fitch
Hi Michael, I'm another vote for proftpd. Been using it for yonks, permanently connected to the the net, it gets many probes/ connections per day (none legitimate) and has stood up to it all so far (with the apt-get updates of course). (although the vsftp (or whatever it was) sounds interesting

Re: [SLUG] sendmail banning no reverse dns

2002-12-04 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:18:27PM +1100, Crossfire wrote: Kevin Waterson was once rumoured to have said: How is it possible to ban all mail from addresses that do not reverse lookup? This is not always a good idea - not every legimate mail server has a valid reverse lookup address.

Re: [SLUG] sendmail banning no reverse dns

2002-12-04 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:26:47PM +1100, Tony Green wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:21, David Fitch wrote: you could argue that it's not a legimate mail server if it doesn't reverse resolve. Are there valid reasons why they wouldn't reverse resolve? What if you house your machines

Re: [SLUG] PPP Multilink 2002

2002-12-05 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 16:31, Steven Evans wrote: I call the isp, get the same ip for both modems, but send traffic through one modem or send from one and receive from the other. imho, that isnt multilink. sure your ISP is doing it right? they have to have their end configured to bond the

Re: Re[2]: [SLUG] sendmail banning no reverse dns

2002-12-05 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:17, evilbunny wrote: Hello David, DF you might not be able to control the reverse mapping but it DF should still map to something - which is good enough. DF Are there co-lo places where the IP doesn't reverse map to DF anything? and if so, why? (apart from

Re: [SLUG] ADSL iPrimus

2002-12-05 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 08:01:24AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best deal I've been able to find is here http://adsl.datafast.net.au/ I considered them for perm modem ($55pm) or an extra $5.50pm with static IP. I ended up going with another mob (Adam) with ISDN DoV instead. Dave. -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Setting Up a Website

2002-12-11 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 08:35, Michael Fox wrote: Now for hosting the domain, I recommend you just go to your local isp dialup provider, who gives you an account with say 10mb or more webspace with any dialup plan. Not to mention probably ~ 5 pop accounts too. Jump back onto zoneedit, logon

Re: [SLUG] Kernel Messages

2002-12-20 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 11:13, Terry Collins wrote: Howdy Folks Where do I go to investigate kernel messages like this below? it's a kernel oops (ie. crash). The README file distributed with the kernel source (ie. in /usr/src/linux/README) tells you roughly how to debug it. Also see

Re: [SLUG] *limiting* bandwidth?

2003-01-13 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:46, savanna wrote: What I'd like to do is limit each workstation connection speed to say modem speed, but not have that affect other users. And of course do it via open source, not using Cisco, etc. a google search for linux traffic shaping turns up a few links that

Re: [SLUG] CD R/RW

2003-01-13 Thread David Fitch
for RH 8.0, if it's xcdroast you're using, it uses cdrecord to do the burning, so for me: # l /usr/bin/cdrecord 308 -rws--x---1 root xcdwrite 308809 Nov 26 22:01 /usr/bin/cdrecord so find the group called xcdwrite is /etc/group and add whatever users you want, eg. # grep xcdwrite

Re: [SLUG] Trouble getting SCSI to work

2003-01-13 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 15:59, Stalker, Doug wrote: How can I force the kernel to load the sd_mod and scsi_mod modules when booting? I've tried compiling support for the BusLogic controller directly into the kernel, but that failed with the same error. in debian, add them to /etc/modules by

[SLUG] scsi and LVD disks

2003-01-16 Thread David Fitch
just a quick one: can a normal adaptec 2940UW scsi card handle LVD disks? or do they require a special card? ta, Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Help! - Configuring Smoothwall for Internode's ADSL

2003-01-16 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 09:07, andrew fries wrote: 07:32:41 pppd Remote message: Request Denied 07:32:41 pppd CHAP authentication failed something wrong with your login/passwd it seems. You'll get the quickest (and probably most accurate) answer by ringing internode support and asking them to

Re: Fwd: Re: [SLUG] scsi and LVD disks

2003-01-17 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 18:12, Matt M wrote: Err, appears that link is wrong (scsifaq.org is right), and the site's down, anyway. Try here: http://scsifaq.paralan.com/ thanks everyone who replied, this faq is the type of thing I've been trying to find! ta, Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] mysterious Linux kernel crashes

2003-01-17 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 16:35, Danny Yee wrote: Both machines had EE Pro 100 onboard ethernet controllers, I've also tried using a 3com ethernet card without any improvement. up until this bit I thought I may have had a suggestion for you, it was: the eepro100 is crap, download the e100 driver

Re: [SLUG] Canon LBP 1120 Compatibility?

2003-01-17 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 21:45, Harry Ohlsen wrote: Does anyone know whether the 1120 works OK with Linux? the talk of GDI on here makes it sound not very likely: http://www.canon.com.au/products/printers/laser_printers_low_medium_volume/lbp1120_specs.html (and as a general rule steer clear of

Re: [SLUG] Debian + Mozilla

2003-01-18 Thread David Fitch
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 08:46, Mary wrote: I found that installing that the plugin from the Blackdown Java Runtime Environment works. You can apt-get install it if you add the following line to your sources.list: deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian testing main non-free

Re: [SLUG] Re: Properly fixed mkinitrd script

2003-01-21 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 10:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, you can't `umount /boot` on a live system. you can, I've done it, whether you should or not might be a different matter. Have you tried to umount it? Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Re: Power

2003-01-27 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 07:44, Stuart Guthrie wrote: Or, if your landlady wants you to pay for running a computer, you owe her for 6kilowattHours per day, or $4.65/week/computer (up to 250Watts). Interesting cost-justification for a VIA Eden? They are supposed to be able to run off a car

Re: [SLUG] Email not reaching slug

2003-01-28 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 07:42, mick wrote: I've sent about three emails in the last three days and none of them appear to have reached slug, despite no being returned sas undeliverable. The only email that makde it was the test message I sent. How do I find out what's going on? the slug

Re: [SLUG] addusers from text file

2003-02-02 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 13:01, Simon Bryan wrote: Any clues appreciated the 'newusers' command appears to be what you want (from the shadow password utilities pkg) PS. I couldn't remember the name of the command, so typed adding multiple users into google/linux and found it. Dave. -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Sharing ext3 with Win98 under Samba

2003-02-06 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 18:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put simply, if Linux can read it, it can export it as a share with Samba. If something is shared from a MS Windows box, Samba can mount it. It's not clear what you are wanting to do though. and don't forget: ext3 is just ext2 with

Re: [SLUG] Knoppix 3.1 and Browser Problem

2003-02-06 Thread David Fitch
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 03:04, Bill wrote: I have installed Knoppix 3.1 onto HDD and can connect to my ISP without problem, however neither Mozilla or Konqueror browsers can resovle a web address. I have the browser preferences setup properly (direct connection to Net) and my ISP has auto

[SLUG] running a readonly list with mailman?

2003-02-15 Thread David Fitch
can you do a readonly list with mailman? I know you can have a moderated list - which is almost the same thing but not quite. For a read-only list the welcome message wouldn't talk about the posting address etc - since members can't post. Like the debian-announce list does. Is the best

Re: [SLUG] running a readonly list with mailman?

2003-02-16 Thread David Fitch
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 21:57, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=David Fitch can you do a readonly list with mailman? Is the best mailman can do setting the combination of: 1) must posts be approved by admin - yes 2) restrict posting priviledge to list members - no 3) addresses

Re: [SLUG] running a readonly list with mailman?

2003-02-16 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 11:35, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 05:07:38PM +1030, David Fitch wrote: can you do a readonly list with mailman? I know you can have a moderated list - which is almost the same thing but not quite. For a read-only list the welcome message

Re: [SLUG] Sed and ^M

2003-02-17 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 20:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never been able to figure out a portable way to mangle control chars with sed. if it's cos you're trying to use a dos file then just run 'dos2unix' over the file (and vice versa use 'unix2dos'). Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Sed and ^M

2003-02-17 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 23:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but I never really trusted those programs, since (on Solaris at least) they always whinge about character sets or locales or something. never had any such problems (linux and solaris) And it seems my suspicion is not unwarranted:

Re: [SLUG] difficult recruiters.

2003-02-19 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 12:14, Brad Thomson wrote: Nope, PDF files generally go in the too hard basket due to lack of ability to easily edit them. A couple of the agencies have databases that not only accept Word files for input natively, but only work with specific versions of Word, which is

exif/jpg files (was Re: [SLUG] USB CF card readers on Linux)

2003-02-19 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 08:55, John Clarke wrote: although I did manage to recover most of the 100 or so photos I lost, it wasn't easy. I now know far more about the Exif file format than I ever wanted to know yes it's a strange one. I found out about it's existance when I couldn't work out why

Re: exif/jpg files (was Re: [SLUG] USB CF card readers on Linux)

2003-02-19 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 15:40, John Clarke wrote: I wonder whether the image would still be viewable without the thumbnail. It's easy enough to identify the start and end of the thumbnail within the file, so removing it would be simple (you'd have to adjust the APP1 data size accordingly).

Re: [SLUG] To Debian or not to Debian, that is the ......

2003-02-21 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 22:30, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Mick Boda wrote: I also have a Realtek Rtl8139 100 base network card that Debian potato=20 would not recognise. Which makes it hard to log into the server to acces= s=20 the internet. The kernel module you

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 8.0 Which process to kill?

2003-02-28 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 19:24, Mick Boda wrote: I posted a while back regarding difficulty with sound under RedHat 8.0. I have an intergrated AC97 sound card. XMMS gives me following error Which one do I kill? I had to kill esd for xmms/mpg123 and so on to work. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] X forwarding over ssh

2003-03-04 Thread David Fitch
Hi all, can I have X forwarding over ssh such that it works from desktop to desktop machines with 2 firewalls in between? ie. desktop1 -- fw1 --internet-- fw2 -- desktop2 and desktop 1 and 2 have private IP addresses (on different subnets etc as well). fw 1 and 2 have real IP addresses. So

Re: [SLUG] X forwarding over ssh

2003-03-04 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what am I doing wrong? Nothing unless you're the admin of fw2. fw2 probably has X11Forwarding off in it's /etc/ssh/sshd_config no it's set to yes. the bit I don't get is how does it end up back on my desktop1 box? (ie. back

Re: [SLUG] X forwarding over ssh

2003-03-04 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:22, Colin Humphreys wrote: Does the remote box have xauth. X11Forwarding needs that. Try running your ssh client with a bit more -v -v verbosness. yes xauth is in the path on all boxes. here's the verbose output (private bits XXX'd out) note in this case lisa is the

Re: [SLUG] X forwarding over ssh

2003-03-04 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 12:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like your ssh is not requesting X forwarding, regardless of the -X flag. sorry, it appears I chopped off the end of the debug output in my previous email. After I enter my password I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: debug1:

Re: [SLUG] X forwarding over ssh

2003-03-04 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 14:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:18:15PM +1030, David Fitch wrote: h maybe something funny is happening with xauth?? I noticed doing ssh -v -v -X lisa it's displaying: debug2: x11_get_proto /usr/bin/X11/xauth list spiral:0 2/dev/null

Re: [SLUG] Microsoft Tax

2003-03-11 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:04:38PM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:39:35AM +1100, Peter Domachuk wrote: I have recently purchased a Dell laptop which is happily running RH8.0, which is all good. I wish to get my money back on the OEM copy of XP Home that came with

[SLUG] calling C libs from perl

2003-03-13 Thread David Fitch
ok so slightly OT perhaps (it's on linux is my defence!) and no doubt obvious, but how exactly do you call functions in a C library from a perl script? (note: not system calls or standard C library calls but functions from my own C library) I can find plenty of examples the other way around but

Re: [SLUG] calling C libs from perl

2003-03-13 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:14:28PM +1100, Broun, Bevan wrote: I can tell you it's in chapter 18 of the Advanced Perl Programming Oreilly book. There is some documentation at perl.com.au, C and Perl - the first two look like putting perl in C and the next calling C from perl. It would seem

Re: [SLUG] IE running on Linux - Suggestions

2003-03-16 Thread David Fitch
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 12:08, Adam W wrote: I have had a peep at crossover office/plugin - how well does this work?? I am really only looking to get IE running nicely. I don't want to spend my US$60 to find that it works for most, but not for me. It's a real pitty they don't have a demo

Re: [SLUG] Debian: Potato to Woody

2003-03-17 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:45:34AM +1100, Terry Collins wrote: My understanding is that Potato (Deb 2.2) is the old stabel version of Debian and that Woody is the new stabel version of Debian. If so, what is the best way to upgrade from Spud to Woody? (and err how?) edit

Re: [SLUG] installing java for Mozilla

2003-03-18 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:49:09AM +1000, Perry, David J wrote: Does anyone have a simple explanation for installing the java plugins? I have searched Google and am rather overwhelmed by the instructions I have seen so far. I've had a great lack of success with java plugins and web

Re: [SLUG] installing java for Mozilla

2003-03-18 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:03:43PM +1100, Andrewd wrote: If you go to the netscape site you can download the netscape java plugin and (for me) it installed perfectly and worked from the word go on mozilla. yeah got the plugins, but it crashes mozilla whenever I go to a java website. I've had

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