[SLUG] Source IP with multihomed box

Hi all, I have a question regarding a multihomed box. Does anyone know how the kernel decides what source IP address to use on a multihomed box? For example, I have a box with: eth0 inet addr:192.168.1.244 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 eth1 inet

[SLUG] SCSI termination and 80 pin devices

Hi all, I've got an interesting question regarding SCSI bus termination and newer 80 pin devices. I have: 1 x Adaptec 2100S RAID controller 2 x 36 GB 80 pin SCSI drives hot-plug boxes. I have done a lot with SCSI over the years, and it was my understanding that the SCSI bus must be terminated

Re: [SLUG] Linux Certification

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[SLUG] Emacs custom languages

Hi all, Anyone know how to write a syntax checker for a new language under emacs? I want to use emacs to write code in a custom language (called Interactive Audio Scripting - IAS). I have designed the language written an interpreter for it, but would like emacs to do some syntax highlighting

[SLUG] C - exec fn call env vars

Hi all, Got a bit of a C code using execle() to call a shell script with a specific environment. I've got no trouble seeing the environment vars in bash. Is there any way of setting an environment variable in the shell script so that it modifies the environment of the *parent* process? I

[SLUG] ncurses key scan codes

Hi all, I am writing some code using ncurses and would like to be able to distinguish between: Tab-Key Shift Tab-Key I have tried using getch in both keypad and normal mode but all I seem to get back is 0x09 (normal tab) So far only tried it with TERM=linux and TERM=xterm, but you'd

Re: [SLUG] ncurses key scan codes

Graham Smith wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:18, Andy Eager wrote: Hi all, I am writing some code using ncurses and would like to be able to distinguish between: Tab-Key Shift Tab-Key I have tried using getch in both keypad and normal mode but all I seem to get back is 0x09 (normal tab) So

Re: [SLUG] wvdial

DNS has nothing to do with wvdial. Normally it would be set up when ppp negotiates the link. (Normally in 'stupid' mode) To set DNS manually, enter the nameservers of your ISP into /etc/resolv.conf: /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver DNS-IP-ADDR1 nameserver DNS-IP-ADDR2 Hope this helps,

[SLUG] Testing for a SEGV before it happens

Hi all, I've got a GNU-C question: Is it possible to test the accessability (rw or ro) of a memory region before writing to it? (I want to be able to test whether or not a string is in the code or data segment) Thanks, Andy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Testing for a SEGV before it happens

Dave Airlie wrote: Is it possible to test the accessability (rw or ro) of a memory region before writing to it? (I want to be able to test whether or not a string is in the code or data segment) uggh.. do you not know? did you not put it there? No. I didnt put it there. I am writing a library

[SLUG] Code information

Hi all, Anyone know of a program that will tell me the code static data segment sizes of an executable ? (without running it and using ps) Thanks, Andy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Code Information

Thanks to everyone for this. Nice summary for search: objdump readelf size Andy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Serial Tunneling

Richard Luckhurst wrote: Hi list I am trying to sort out a problem with a set up for a client. I have 2 PC's with 8 port serial cards in them and they work fine under redhat 7.2. At present I have the 8 ports connected to ports in /etc/services and I can telnet to these ports OK. The idea is I

[SLUG] KDE sound server dies

Hi all, I have noticed that when KDE starts up the sound system works just fine (When I switch desktops, my machine makes a cute little 'quack' sound). After some (long) time, it stops and the following messages are sent to .xession-errors: Unable to open file

Re: [SLUG] KDE sound server dies

Andy Eager wrote: Hi all, I have noticed that when KDE starts up the sound system works just fine (When I switch desktops, my machine makes a cute little 'quack' sound). After some (long) time, it stops and the following messages are sent to .xession-errors: Unable to open file /usr/share

Re: [SLUG] xdmcp

Gareth Walters wrote: - Original Message - From: Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mail List - SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:18 AM Subject: [SLUG] xdmcp on a RH system running kdm, I have put the following into the /etc/kderc file: [Xdmcp] Enable=true

Re: [SLUG] iptables ip-address format question...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all... When creating my iptables firewall rules, if I specify an address as 192.168.0.0 will that match all 192.168.*.* addresses? No, you'd want 192.168.0.0/16 for that Andy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Encrypted send/recv on a socket

port:host:hostport). Just wondering if anyone knows of a library function similar to send / receive that handles encryption so I dont have to use ssh. (Similar to SSL as used by https) Thanks, Andy Eager. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Open Office crashes X

Ken Foskey wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 11:17, Andy Eager wrote: Hi all,I recently installed open office (in network mode) and haven't been able to have it run without crashing X.I have Star Office 5.2 running on the same system(s), installed in the same way and they seem to work

[SLUG] Open Office crashes X

Hi all, I recently installed open office (in network mode) and haven't been able to have it run without crashing X. I have Star Office 5.2 running on the same system(s), installed in the same way and they seem to work fine. After installing on my server on an nfs drive (/nfs/usr) using setup

Re: [SLUG] Redhat Logo

Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Richard Luckhurst" I am setting up a Redhat 7.2 box for a client and they have just asked mehow I can kill the Redhat Logo page that sits behind the graphical loginand replace it with an image of their own. I've never even consideredthis before. Does

[SLUG] name resolution

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 dns... found That is, tracing the paths/actions defined in nsswitch.conf

Re: [SLUG] Why won't a time server synch

Howard Lowndes wrote: I have an ntpd daemon running on one of my boxes and it is synch'ng with external clocks just fine: ntpdc peers remote local st poll reach delay offsetdisp === =LOCAL(0)

Re: [SLUG] usb 32MB memory stick

david_perry wrote: I have an IBM 32MB memory stick which I can't get to work on my Redhat 7.2 box. I've followed Stuart's advice (slug posting 8 Aug 02, IBM Linux Roadshow -USB Mem Key works on Linux). I ran lsmod and confirmed that usbcore, usb-hhci, usb_storage, scsi_mod and sd_mod were

Re: [SLUG] device driver entries in /dev

Jessica Mayo wrote: On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Andy Eager wrote: Peter Hardy wrote: I don't think there's an easy way to tell, at any given point in time, which USB device is which. About the best you can do is say that devices are enumerated in the order they're plugged in, and know in what order

Re: [SLUG] device driver entries in /dev

Peter Hardy wrote: On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 21:27, Andy Eager wrote: My question is: Is there any way of telling which /dev file is assigned to the new device? I had a poke around /proc for some kind of clue but couldn't see anything. I don't think there's an easy way to tell, at any given

[SLUG] device driver entries in /dev

Hi all, A general question regarding kernel drivers (modules) and how they attach a device into the /dev filesystem. I have a USB CD-ROM which when plugged in is recognised and enumerated by the USB sub system as expected. My question is: Is there any way of telling which /dev file is

[SLUG] Firewalls ident service

Hi all, 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 bound for port 113 with a tcp-reset. On

[SLUG] alternative to fetchmail

Hi all, Anyone know of an alternative to fetchmail? I've been having problems with fetchmail and the attglobal pop server (pop4.attglobal.net) I can get fetchmail to work with other ISP's and have never had any trouble with it before. When I try to receive mail greater than a certain size

[SLUG] Question regarding sysv scripts

Hi all, I have an interesting question regarding SysV startup / shutdown scripts. One machine 'the server' has two smaller machines (firewalls) physically installed inside it. They are single board computers that fit into the 5.25 drive bays on the server. I have configured them as choke

Re: [SLUG] Question regarding sysv scripts

Jill Rowling wrote: How about a background task on the FW machines that checks to see if the server is running. If it is running, the FW program goes back to sleep. If it is not running (ping or something) then the FW program checks again after a set time (in case you have just unplugged the

Re: [SLUG] tulip driver RedHat 7.3

Triet Hoai Lai wrote: Anyone out there using the tulip.o module with a DEC-21143 (CNET 100/10) NIC ? Have you tried de4x5.o module? It is an alternative driver for DEC-21x4x and works perfectly with my SMC DEC-21041. Cheers, TL Thanks very much for that. I didnt know that this driver

[SLUG] tulip driver RedHat 7.3

Hi all, Anyone out there using the tulip.o module with a DEC-21143 (CNET 100/10) NIC ? I found back when I upgraded to RH7.2 that their tulip.o driver was broken. Further investigation pointed me to Donald Becker's driver on www.scyld.com, which I was able to compile and worked OK on kernel

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla mail IMAP

Matthew Hannigan wrote: I found at least one new imap bug on mozilla's bugzilla: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90494 Apparently depends on the imap server you're using. Do you know which it is? Thanks for that. I am using courier imap and that bug seems to be it. Guess I

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla mail IMAP

Peter Rundle wrote: Anyone know anything about a broken imap in mozilla-mail-0.9.9? Dunno but I'm using Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 2 http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0/ Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 and imap works fine.

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla mail IMAP

Tony Green wrote: 1022470275.1138.77.camel@cavey"> On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 12:59, Andy wrote: Hi all,Anyone know anything about a broken imap in mozilla-mail-0.9.9?I just upgraded from RH7.2 to 7.3 and now my mozilla-mail doesnt work with imap. It certainly used to!!I use courier-imap

Re: [SLUG] Re: ask core

Angus Lees wrote: At Wed, 15 May 2002 18:52:03 +0800, henry wrote: I often see core dumped or gdb -core=/usr/file but there are lots of machine-code when I read the file(core) from editor-Joe Could someone share his experience or give some clues? What on earth it is for ? debugging. its a

[SLUG] Netscape font problems

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[SLUG] xcdroast

Hi all, Got a strange thing happening with x-cdroast. A system with both a USB cd-writer and IDE reader does the following: When Reading from the usb device, the sector size reported is 2048 When reading from the IDE device the sector size reported is 2352 (audio cd??) (Though it sees the

Re: [SLUG] Deleting folders

Didn't know about the -d option to rm! I'd be using rmdir to remove directories though. Andy Marko wrote: Hi Guys, I'm trying to delete a folder in a GNU bash shell, it's goes like this # rm -d filename.d rm: remove directory 'filename.d'? y rm: cannot unlink 'filename.d': Is a directory

Re: [SLUG] Help with fdisk please

Dont have your character set, so cant reply to you I am running out of space on one of my machines, I *think* I have more room on this hard drive, but I havent used fdisk much and I don't want to lose any data. Can someone please tell me if I have any room left that I can make another

[SLUG] HELP: local filesystems not mounting

Hi all, I've just tried to upgrade a system from RH6.2 to 7.2. Done it before from 7.1 -- 7.2 without any probs but this time its been a real bugger. First I had to move my /usr to another partition to make room for 7.2. (running out of space on / ). I did this OK and checked with a reboot

Re: [SLUG] HELP: local filesystems not mounting

Andy Eager wrote: Hi all, Just worked it out... Writing the post actually made me go back and reread (again) my fstab. I loaded another system with /usr on another partition just to see what it does. It works fine and the fstab entries are the same on both machines. (the mount/check

[SLUG] stopping a module from autoloading

Hi all, Is there any way to stop a module from autoloading ? I am trying to get xcdroast to use my ide cd drive as the reader. When I put a cd into the IDE drive, it wants to mount the drive. (and it does!). When I try to rmmod ide-cd, it just goes and puts it back again. Got so sick of

[SLUG] Installing Linux from USB-CDROM

Hi all, Has anyone ever installed Linux from a USB CDROM? I have a machine that supports USB CDROM boot which I have duly selected. The machine boots OK from the USB CDROM but then fails to recognise itself (using RedHat 7.2 install disks). It seems to be registering the usb device ok and

Re: [SLUG] How this for a simple recommendation for IP-Tables firewalling and ICS

DaZZa wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Andy Eager wrote: Certainly pretty good as far as a basic explanation goes, problem isthat masquerading is not yet up to the level of ipchains and thats whatmost people want. (One IP address, masqueraded to many machines for

Re: [SLUG] How this for a simple recommendation for IP-Tables firewalling and ICS

Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Andy Eager OK, I'm prepared to be knocked down in flames here (only if your gentle) You want to be flamed for the consultant's suggestion? :) No, but I backed it up with my own research, therefore it makes it mine as well!!! but recently I paid a reasonably well

Re: [SLUG] Laptop + Debian + no way to install it (help?).

Grant Parnell wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Ryan Verner wrote: Gidday... I'm wanting to configure my Toshiba Portege 3110CT to dual boot debian/win2k. At the moment its running XP (very, very bloddy slowly), and I have two partitions - a 4.5gig fat32 (c:), and a 1.2gig fat32 (d:). Basically, I

[SLUG] Omni ghostscript

Hi all, I've just upgraded a few of my boxes to RH72 and applied the updates provided on EverythingLinux's errata CD's I found that the rpm freshen wanted Omni as a required rpm in order to upgrade ghostscript Omni wasnt on the errata CD or on the RH72 install CD's, so I downloaded it and

Re: [SLUG] How this for a simple recommendation for IP-Tables firewalling and ICS

Certainly pretty good as far as a basic explanation goes, problem is that masquerading is not yet up to the level of ipchains and thats what most people want (One IP address, masqueraded to many machines for use with ftp, realaudio etc) I still reckon that ipchains with a 22 kernel is still

Re: [SLUG] mime types with gnome

Indeed I do But do I have to use nautilus? It should work with gmc to! (where does gmc get its mime types from:- its so much quicker) Andy Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Andy Eager When I double click a pdf file (I use gmc) I get an error message: ^ you

[SLUG] Toshiba laptop X

Hi all, I have been tearing my hair out trying to get X working correctly on my Toshiba 2520 laptop. I have tried a multitude of different video timings and have come to the conclusion that the problem does not lie within video timings. The generic laptop (800 x 600) setting behaves in

Re: [SLUG] Toshiba laptop X

no difference. Andy Eager wrote: Hi all, I have been tearing my hair out trying to get X working correctly on my Toshiba 2520 laptop. I have tried a multitude of different video timings and have come to the conclusion that the problem does not lie within video timings. The generic laptop

[SLUG] X setup

Can anyone remember the name of that damn X utility that allows you to setup the modeline parameters? (Not xf86config). A nice little gui that lets me move the screen up/down, left/right, wider/narrrower, shorter/taller and then prints the video timings? (I hate it when I've used a utility

Re: [SLUG] help for script

Bernhard Lüder wrote: Hi, I need to convert 2 lines of data to one. This is the data I can extract from the data base: FIXEDdata1,Flexibledata1,Neededdata1 FIXEDdata1,Flexibledata2,Flexibledata3,Flexibledata4,Flexibledata5,Flexibled ata6,Flexibledata7,Neededdata2,Neededdata3,Flexibledata8

Re: [SLUG] help for script

Bernhard Lüder wrote: Hi, I need to convert 2 lines of data to one. This is the data I can extract from the data base: FIXEDdata1,Flexibledata1,Neededdata1 FIXEDdata1,Flexibledata2,Flexibledata3,Flexibledata4,Flexibledata5,Flexibled ata6,Flexibledata7,Neededdata2,Neededdata3,Flexibledata8

[SLUG] insmod a module permanently

Hi all, Anyone know how to insmod a module without the 'autoclean'. (I just want to load it permanently) I had a look at insmod, but the only option I see a -k option which turns on autoclean but not one to disable it. Regards, Andrew E. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Terminal emulation

Hi all, Does anyone know of any terminal emulation packages (other than xterm) ? I've got a QNX 2 network and can only use telnet to get into it. Naturally enough, when I log into QNX, xterm will run OK in VT102 mode but I have to tell qnx to talk to me in VT102 mode and in doing that I

[SLUG] Tracing a shutdown

Hi all, Is it possible to trace a shutdown ? I'm finding that when shutting down (or rebooting) my system hangs for about 20-30 seconds while doing each of the following: shutting down interface eth0 shutting down kernel logger shutting down system logger I tried putting a set -v in

Re: [SLUG] Thanks triple boot question

Adam Vaughan wrote: Redhat 7.1 is on a partition when I installed it I gave it it's own /boot and /swap. the /boot and /swap I made big enough to support 4 linux version. Redhat 7.0 is on it's own partition, sharing the /swap /boot . I didn't think it would do this but because there was

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Someone trying to hack me

DJ! wrote: - Original Message - From: Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 7:59 am Subject: Re: [SLUG] [OT] Someone trying to hack me Anybody who connects a windows box directly to the net is asking for trouble, even if its just on a dial up modem.

Re: [SLUG] Samba...

Phillipus Gunawan wrote: I'm really sorry because was late to read these email(s) Without harming everyone else, yes, most of the time, for us -newbies- is a bit difficult to find a good doc, even sometime can't think the proper question to post it here (I did it a few times...)

[SLUG] Help I got hacked!!

Hi all, Help... I've just managed to get myself back online after a few days of repairing damage caused by my first hack attack. I got hit by 'luckroot' which basically changes a whole heap of stuff in /etc, /bin and all the usuals. It seems to be an address / port scanner which

Re: [SLUG] Help I got hacked!!

Thanks for that lovely piece of information. I guess the key to the whole thing is to have a reasonably quick and easy way of installing from scratch without having to go through all the headaches associated with a 'clean install'. Fortunately I keep all data backed up, so thats not a

[SLUG] Gnome 1.4 - Mozilla / Abiword bugs

Has anyone downloaded the new version of Gnome 1.4 (the new 1.4 not the old 1.4 released a while back). I thought the first release was pretty good, Mozilla not too slow (though slower than ye old Netscape 4.7x), and Abiword only crashed every now then. I got the latest release from the

[SLUG] [OT] Webmail as an ISP

Hi all, As yet another casualty of one.net, I was wondering if anyone had any experience with webmail as both an ISP and site hoster. I joined up with optus just to get connected, but couldn't get the site redelegated without paying a bomb. It seems to me that one.net were reasonably unique

[SLUG] Using fget() with shell line editing

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 fgets() or the like ? At the moment, I can do all the normal line

Re: [SLUG] Using fget() with shell line editing

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 (maybe even the odd line-feed or form-feed). Andrew Bennetts wrote:

[SLUG] Dumping a file in hex

Hi all, Does anybody know how to dump/edit a file in raw (hex) mode ? - From within X ? - From the command shell ? I thought there was something like 'hexedit' in Gnome 1.0 but since upgrading to 1.4 my 'development' folder seems to have mysteriously emptied itself. Hope this isn't one

Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development

So does this mean that there is a linux version of Visual Studio ? As the man says... Where do ya get it ?? Andrew E. MD wrote: Yep... Visual Studio is a start... MRD -Original Message- Hi all, I'm currently using KDE's kwrite as an editor (running on Gnome 1.4

[SLUG] Good Editors for C development

Hi all, I'm currently using KDE's kwrite as an editor (running on Gnome 1.4 which is pretty schmick). Does anyone know of any good development environments / editors for writting c-apps with multiple source files. kwrite is good (it has various language highlighting) but something with at

[SLUG] Where to get a 2nd hand laptop

Hi all, I saw someone mention a weekend computer market at North Ryde (North Rocks ??) Where abouts is it and when is it on. I have a friend who saw a cockroach run into his toshiba. He then placed the said laptop into the freezer in an attempt to kill it. He killed the wrong animal -

[SLUG] FTP / Masquerading

Hi all, I've been using ipchains both as a firewall and masquerader for other machines on my network. It all works fine except for FTP, which I must run in passive mode (pftp) so that the client is doing all port opens. Are there any problems using a normal active ftp over a masquerading

[SLUG] Linux viruses

Hi all, I've been looking around for any information on virus scanners for Linux. Apart from McAfee, I couldn't see much. While I was doing this it occurred to me that it might be possible to scan for viruses by doing the following: a) Periodically, examine all running tasks. b)

[SLUG] Re: Linux viruses

Marc Lawrence wrote Cheers Marc (yes I *know* I'm sending this from Outlook - get off my case, okay? grin I'm trying, that's why I'm on SLUG) Thanks for the info, I was also using Outlook until a couple of weeks ago. Set yourself up postfix and imap then you can use pretty much any

Re: [SLUG] Linux viruses

Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Andy Eager said: a) Periodically, examine all running tasks. b) For each task, do an 'rpm --verify' for the package that this process belongs to. How about a virus that renames itself to 'ls', you check the process list

[SLUG] IMAP Question

Given imap's apparent lack of configuration (for anything), how does it know which directory to get my mail from [ //var/spool/mail//user]. Is this one of those programs that needs to be configured in the source code ? Regards, Andrew E. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Netscape - Profile managers

Hi all,, First, Thanks to Jeff and others for info on setting up imap / postfix fetchmail. After an interesting couple of days setting it all up I now have the following questions regarding multiple users: a) Does anyone know if there is a Linux profile manager for Netscape similar to the

Re: [SLUG] Fetchmail setup

Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Andy Eager So I run fetchmail on my server and have clients (netscape and that other one that I'm not allowed to name) read mail from the server using IMAP also ? Yep; and fetchmail is nice for collecting multiple accounts and delivering to specific users

[SLUG] What pkg contains smtpd

OK, I give up- where the hell is SMTP daemon kept ? (ie what rpm package) I found imap OK (got RH 6.2) and did a search on Redhat site only to find 4 matches for smtp (2 of which were fetchmail and two perl script thingies? Am I missing something here? All of the other inet daemons were

Re: [SLUG] Silly ISP type question [ OT ]

Jim Boing wrote: Hi all, Yes it's another one of those annoying What's the best ISP for a Linux user type questions. Let me start by stating that I'm just off the boat so to speak and hence have little/no knowledge of the ISP situation here. As I'm a cheap b*d I want to sign up with

[SLUG] Common mail storage Outlook/Netscape

Hi all, Since its so quiet, I thought I'd ask... Does anyone know of a way to have Outlook Express Netscape mail share messages ? (IE: Have a message read from the POP server by Outlook and readable in both Outlook Netscape, whithout doing the obvious and forwarding / rereading) Also is

[SLUG] SRR message passing for Linux / Linux limitations

For anyone interested, S/R/R message passing has been implemented in the kernel and seems to run nearlly as fast under Linux as it does under QNX. In fact the only limitation is summarised below by the author and is exactly the question I was asking in last Friday's SLUG QA session (re:

[SLUG] Linux Windows Integration

Simon Bryan wrote:Now the problem: I want to put all our user directories onto the new 'NetDrive' I need to share them for use by Windows I want to make them the same home directories as appear in AUC - currently '/home/popusers//username, where is the year they started in Year 7

Re: [SLUG] Common mail storage Outlook/Netscape

Jeff Waugh wrote: Does anyone know of a way to have Outlook Express Netscape mail share messages ? (IE: Have a message read from the POP server by Outlook and readable in both Outlook Netscape, whithout doing the obvious and forwarding / rereading) To solve this problem on a *nix

Re: [SLUG] Copying memory in kernel

Dear Harry, Thanks for your ideas, I am an old hand at QNX which used Send/Receive/Reply message passing. For anyone familiar with QNX they will need no convincing that this is a very simple and extremely robust means of IPC that will: a) Force you to write code in a highly modular fashion.

Re: [SLUG] startup without login

Mike Brooks wrote: Hi, We're installing some SBCs with a stripped Linux installation to operate as a realtime monitor. This is interfacedinto an embedded system mounted on some industrial machinery. What can be done to avoid the login? I'vescratched through some FAQs but they seem to focus

[SLUG] Next SLUG meeting

Hi all, Can anyone confirm whether there is a SLUG meeting tonight at UTS ? ( I'd like to go but I have an insistant wife who wants to know what we're doing tonight!!! Andrew E -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Copying memory in kernel

I know its a bit of a pain and some would say this old dog should learn new IPC tricks (and I have) but after 10 years of code writing using the SRR (send/receive/reply) paradigm, and having never been able to write an application that has brought the system down I need a lot of