On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:00:38AM +1000, Gareth Walters wrote:
dd if=/root/nfs-p3bdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k
lilo -C bdlilo.con -r /mn/floppy
Fatal:/dev/fd0 Permission Denied
[you mean /mnt/floppy?]
just some ideas:
- you're root I take it? (su - not just su?)
- automounter not got the
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:12:40PM +1000, Jill Rowling wrote:
Of course if you have to replace the license server, you have to buy (or
negotiate) new licenses with the vendor. That's why people usually use a
license host with high reliability hardware like a sparc rather than a PC.
The
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:19:17PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
1. Take one board
[etc]
thanks for the description Terry - that might come in handy
for me too! (although I wouldn't have thought of asking on slug!)
Don't know about this uniclic stuff. Is that the
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:40:06AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Thats thinking outside the square ;)
(or cup in this case)
you mustn't have heard the joke before...
a pessimist calls the glass half empty
an optimist calls it half full
and an engineer says it's twice as big as it needs to be!
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:54:54AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
At 2:13 pm, Thursday, October 18 2001, David Fitch mumbled:
so that's an average of 13Gb per month.
no chance, but let me know if you do find one!
have a look at ihug (or a reseller) satellite, at least the
extra per Mb
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 05:04:38PM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote:
IIRC there is a SLUG member involved in some way with the Greens who
said that the open source battle was lost to ignorance / indifference.
and a fair bit of plain old stupidity I'd say too.
Dave.
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 06:00:02PM +1000, eurk-dsl wrote:
Thus spake David Fitch:
it doesn't really matter who owes who how much money, it's all
just imaginery money (what are they going to do? foreclose on
the country?)
I beg to differ:
The world needs trade, but not for products
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:04:08PM +1000, David wrote:
Is this relevant for SLUG? YES.
If we don't advocate a sensible alternative.. who will? OSS is a
commodity, and carries with it a viable industry.. .support, installation,
new software (far easier than under a proprietry model). Tell
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:50:46PM -0600, Bob Hubbard wrote:
Thanks, C. Didn't know about the modem certification and thanks for the
tip re ISP. Not sure what is meant by Data over Voice ISDN but will
certainly check it out.
i wouldn't worry too much about the modem and Austel/ACA
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:52:36AM +1000, Bernhard Lüder wrote:
what does this error message in syslog mean, after which the server crashed:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0020
it's a kernel bug.
the kernel dereferenced a null pointer and hence
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:06:58AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I'm trying to get the Netscape Realplayer plug-in (version 8.0.3.421)
running but it complains Cannot open the audio device. Another
application may be using it
is the right driver/module loaded?
I was getting that error too and
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:39:31PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Jon Austin
Should I work backwards installing dependencies?
Yeah, install libdb2-util, and then try gmc again. gmc is the old GNOME file
manager, so you don't really need it. It's pretty sucky. ;)
so what happened to
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 08:32:45AM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote:
Received:
from server02
(adsl-66-73-1-31.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net [66.73.1.31])
# Now we see here that it orignated from
adsl-66-73-1-31.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net [66.73.1.31])
So, is there a
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 06:10:34PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 17:47, David Fitch wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:39:31PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Jon Austin
Should I work backwards installing dependencies?
Yeah, install libdb2-util
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:49:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt,
Go to UTS, so if are in attendance on the last Friday of the month, you won't have
to travel to get to the SLUG meeting. Pretty good reason if you ask me. :)
sounds like a good reason to me!
These decisions seem
ok obviously I'm doing something wrong cos I've read the
man pages, searched the web etc etc and they all say to do:
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 192.168.1.1 800 -R 192.168.1.2 80
(and have the ip_masq_portfw - which happens automatically
for me, and open the input port in ipchains - which I
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:00:16PM +1030, David Fitch wrote:
ok obviously I'm doing something wrong cos I've read the
man pages, searched the web etc etc and they all say to do:
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 192.168.1.1 800 -R 192.168.1.2 80
(and have the ip_masq_portfw - which happens
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:17:35PM +1100, Martin wrote:
$author = David Fitch ;
but it doesn't work. Telnet to 192.168.1.1 800 just gives
connection refused messages, but 192.168.1.1 reports an
accepted connection on that port, 192.168.1.2 reports nothing.
ok. help me out here
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:14:07PM +1100, Matt - wrote:
I am looking for a brief introduction to Mutt, I
have searched for a few guides on the internet
but am actually still having trouble finding out
how to specify my mail servers.
you don't basically.
It's true you can make mutt retrieve
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 03:24:16PM +1100, David wrote:
You could try changing to Westpac. Either accidentally or deliberately
(?), they have managed to write a web based banking system that is
supported by all recent browsers I have tried
yep me too (of course pathetic customer service is
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 07:27:01PM +1100, Antony Clarke wrote:
Anyone know if you can get Evolution on CD, looked at everythinglinux but no
mention of it. 56k here so downloading is no go.
just the evolution (the email bit) .deb is 10Mb.
I guess all the other gnome libs add up as well but
it's
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:13:29AM +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote:
Would anyone like to express their views as to the relative merits of fetchmail and
getmail?
fetchmail is nothing to write home about but does the job so long
as you don't ask too much of it. I used to run it in daemon mode
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:03:41AM +1100, Stuart Cooper wrote:
What about barbied roo?
Prohibitive food laws prevent Australians from enjoying more of their local
fauna. A few very fancy and expensive restaurants serve kangaroo meat
(it tastes like chicken say most people; and the movie
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 06:33:17AM +1100, Doug Stalker wrote:
And if truely paranoid be aware that a single pass of writing random data
isn't enough - there are still ways to get information out by looking
physically at the disk platter. Give it a few passes to make sure.
the truely paranoid
ok... I've googled and found lots of people with the same
problem but nowhere found the answer...
Trying to install debian (sparc non-us disk one) 2.2r4 on a sparc5,
I can't boot the cd - I get:
bad magic number in disk label
can't open disk label package
it's not the machine or cd drive etc
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:07:07PM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote:
I know that this may be a little off but I have installed Linux on DEC
alpha.
What I had to keep in mind was that I needed to create a 1 meg fat bootable
partition, otherwise Linux or NT would not boot. Hope this tidbit helps.
so
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:10:15AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
I'm not familiar with a sparc5 so I cannot offer any help on the matter
but I would highly recommend searching the debian-sparc archives and
perhaps also fielding your question there.
I've searched there and found similar
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:43:30PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
That, plus the exceptional (albeit strangely structured) Debian installation
manual will get you *everywhere*. I had an existing dhcp server that
answered bootp queries, and tftp was just a matter of installation (having a
Debian
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:59:44AM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote:
Dave,
Sorry I am unable to remember your previous email but did you create
the ISO image or downloaded the ISO image from a debian mirror?
downloaded (from planetmirror or aarnet can't remeber now)
Could you have a look at the
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:02:25PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
January's meeting is in a couple of short weeks and this would make for
much hacking-fun-buggery after Craig Small's talk. I could also bring my
CD's along which I know work with my SS20.
sounds good... and I would... except
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:23:52AM +1100, George Vieira wrote:
I've figured out how to SNAT and DNAT thanks to the help from the previous
post and SLUGGERS who explained it a bit better than the man pages.
My problem now is that I have rules (as below) which allow incoming ports
for TCP, any
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:20:16PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=David Fitch
will rsync/wget just get the diffs? (assuming there is any)
Yep, use rsync. Servers are described on cdimage.debian.org.
doesn't seem to work for a single binary file (iso), ie. I did the
rsync
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:48:43PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and yet when I try to mount a filesystem:
mount server:/remote/dir /local/dir I get:
mount: RPC: Timed out error.
I have tried all the options in the RedHat HOWTOS and still don't have a clue.
so you've got the nfs
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:26:35PM +1100, Scott Howard wrote:
Due to limitations in Openboot PROMs, you can't boot any of the 32bit
SPARCs (sun4c, sun4m, sun4d) from a root partition that has parts lying
beyond the 2GB mark on a SCSI disk.
ok, interesting, but I just had root and swap before
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:56:53AM +1100, Crossfire wrote:
If you don't plan to use voice at all on the line, check to see if you
can get a standard NT1 at lesser cost against the NT1-Plus.
you can't with the ORHH (now called ISDN Home by the way as from
1st Jan, prices are a fraction cheaper
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:24:56AM +1100, Doug Foskey wrote:
I am a country user. I approached Telstra re ISDN, but unfortunately the
service was not available on our (small) exchange. My question for others,
however is: Who in the major providers, will do DOV, as when I spoke to them,
ok it's got me! how do you find/install netscape for sparc (debian
potato but also woody)?
I can see all the java and spelling etc pkgs but not the one with
the actual executable!
Dave.
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info:
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:15:50PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
netscape doesn't exist for sparc-(glibc-version) ?
try mozilla or something instead.
h, so why not?
got mozilla but not really that impressed with it.
Ta,
Dave.
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:49:16AM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
ask netscape.com - its proprietary software, remember?
yeah just wondered if anyone knew why they haven't done one
though, the last sparc linux seems to be for a 2.0 kernel.
I've downloaded the netscape 6.2 (or 6.2.1 or something)
just some ideas for you...
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:44:50PM +1100, Les Stott wrote:
The variable TAPEDEV is /dev/tape. The variable ERRFILE is
/var/log/backup/backup-err.log.3.
so aren't you attempting to backup a changing file? (ie. your
error log at least and possibly others under
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:37:41AM +1100, Steve Kowalik wrote:
Oh, I agree to that. At my last job, I was told to use Windows. So I did
most of my work telnet'd (later, ssh'd, when I'd installed it.) to a Linux
server.
that was one of my requirements when job hunting - I won't work
with a M$
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:19:20PM +1100, David wrote:
My experience of optus has been reasonably good. Don't know about AAPT.
don't know about the AAPT ADSL product but as a company I wouldn't
touch AAPT with a very long barge pole!
Dave.
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:21:11AM +1100, George Vieira wrote:
Home connections don't have fixed IPs.. especially Tel$tra ADSL unless it's
business class.
yeah but that's just a fake differentiation between products.
Fortunately not all ISPs are so blinkered (or trying to fit everyone
into
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:37:52AM +1100, Richard Hayes wrote:
Yes, several Internet centres for youths have turned off their networks
because they can't stop kid from looking at pr0n.
IMO you/they are doing it wrong.
Ignoring the fact I don't think it's bad for kids to see porn, you/they
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:23:13PM +1100, Alan Vink wrote:
IMO you/they are doing it wrong.
Ignoring the fact I don't think it's bad for kids to see porn
It's somewhat difficult to ignore when written down as a statement!
It may be a fact that YOU do not think it's bad for kids to see porn,
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:17:30PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
As for the actual installation and configuration, most recent
distributions have full USB support. Getting a USB modem going should
be just as painless as serial.
one other thing to consider is hardware support, although your
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:38:29PM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
Just found this on another list. Might be of interest to slug. No
guarantees on accuracy.
we'll I've got a Duron (700 I think) and an AGP video card,
been running happily for yonks don't think it's ever locked
up or crashed.
Dave.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:41:01PM -0500, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Hi, I've just installed Deb 2.2r4 and am trying to complete a few configs.
My /etc/X11/XF86Config seems in order but the size of fonts and icons
is larger than normal and the virtual screen is larger than the monitor (good
for
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:24:23PM +1100, Steve Downing wrote:
At Monday, 18 February 2002, you wrote:
How do I disable it in order that the virtual screen fits the monitor ?
In the Screen section of your XF86Config file, comment out any
lines which define a value for Virtual. Then the
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:28:56AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
Do they charge exorbident sp? prices for their drinks, and a $1 for a jug
of tap water?
either:
- take a small plastic bottle with you (like the 500ml orange juice ones)
and fill it from the sink in the dunny, or
- order the
Hi all,
just a small success story... (I'm feeling pleased with myself)
I 'apt-get dist-upgrade'd from potato to woody, no problems.
Fiddled for a while getting the window-manager setup I wanted
(and discovered I was missing gnome-session which once installed
made it all work). Ran gnu parted
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:43:02AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello,
I've been reading the Sound Howto, but I'm still confused as to how to go about
getting my sound card to work. While installing Debian I opted to load the sound
modules, so I thought I wouldn't have to recompile the
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:32:51PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=David Fitch
I have a directory shared/exported by samba and mounted on another (linux)
machine. The problem is when mounted on the second machine all the files
and dirs in there are owned by root:root and rwxr-xr-x
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:52:38PM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote:
Under Redhat 7.1 in /etc/samba/smb.conf there are some examples
one is with mary and fred file share. The command that you need
to add to the share is create mask = 0765. You should be able to
change the mask to what ever you like
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:22:40AM +1000, Ivor Oorloff wrote:
Further Information about ibanking problems. I was able get to the St
George login screen, but still unable to login using Netscape 4.78
(standard with Redhat 7.2). I contacted their ibank support and was
finally able to extract
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:14:21PM +1100, David Kempe wrote:
get anything to connect, Konqueror etc all time out. I have set the
proxy/cache to no proxy, put the Optusnet DNS servers in the Dialer setup
and in the Network configuration...but nothing no web no telnet no ping to
the big bad
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 04:41, Mike Lake wrote:
Failed to fetch
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/pool/main/l/logcheck/logtail_1.1.1-13.1_all.deb
Size mismatch
How does one get around this?
I've had problems before with mirror.aarnet to do with wrong checksums
and this size mismatch error, I
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:22:33AM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Tiwari, Rajnish wrote:
Has anyone has had any experience with using Optus's
dial-up networking with Linux ? Are there any issues with
Yes, no problems. The important thing is that they use normal
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 08:18:09PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
ObPackagePlug: apt-proxy.
does that work properly now?
I tried it a while ago (under potato) and never had much success
either getting the config right or getting it to cache stuff
(ie. would always end up downloading from the
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:34, Tony Green wrote:
I contacted telsra to find out if I could get ADSL. As I don't have a
land line (I use orange cdma phones), they gave me the useful response
of We can't tell you if you can get ADSL until you have a phoneline.
very similar to me. I've got an
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 18:54, Dennis Curnow` wrote:
GDay Gang,
The cd did boot ok but now I can't get the video card configured.
I have Linux Version 7.1
that's Redhat 7.1 I take it
and in the card list it says that the card is unsupported. Is there a
up to date resource that a driver
sorry not directly linux-related (except that it's my linux box
I'm attempting to get permanently attached to the net).
What do other people with perm connection who run their own mail
server do for secondary/backup? (ie. secondary mx)
if you're with telstra I know you can use
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:32:27PM +1100, Frode Egeland wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:25:38AM +1000, Jim Clark (Logique) wrote:
Now I am confused (so what's new? :)
I had thought the secondary was just supplying a secondary source for
DNS (in this case, the MX records), not actually
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:52:36AM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote:
it also gives an error when i do
named -v
it just gives the options. it's possibly running debian i think.
uname doesn't give any clues
just on this, I've found 'cat /etc/issue' to be helpful when
you want to find out what distro
I didn't save the thread about planetmirror/aarnet, but planetmirror
seems to have gone again. It was playing up the night before last, trying
to 'apt-get update' debian woody. Now I've been downloading the mandrake
8.2 isos with wget, it's about 30% through the first iso and is now
getting
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 20:46, Grant Parnell wrote:
If the $11 includes the bandwidth then I can't see a problem with it if
it's a good reliable service. I wouldn't consider that too steep for a
business.
no but it's for me, and I don't have unlimited funds to spend just
on internet access
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 07:22, Peter Hardy wrote:
This means you can mount Windows shares at boot time without storing
passwords in /etc/fstab, which is readable by anyone.
or you can make /etc/fstab rw by root only, which is a lot simpler but
probably not as secure.
Dave.
--
SLUG - Sydney
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:38:14AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 08:24, David Fitch wrote:
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 07:22, Peter Hardy wrote:
This means you can mount Windows shares at boot time without storing
passwords in /etc/fstab, which is readable by anyone
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:28:49AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 09:57, David Fitch wrote:
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:38:14AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 08:24, David Fitch wrote:
or you can make /etc/fstab rw by root only, which is a lot simpler
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:17:45PM +1100, Richard Hayes wrote:
Once I was trying to get a contract as a *nix sys admin. I used a text file
without any extentions and they could not open it.
the suggestion I've seen before is just rename your text (or rtf)
file to have the .doc extension -
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:50:55PM +1000, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Hi, I've had a trouble-free install of Deb 2.2r4 but the net connection
consistently dies after about a minute meaning that I cannot update or
dist-upgrade. I had initially disabled 'demand dialing' and 'persist' in
pppconfig to
Hi all,
I'm trying to get a 64k ISDN DoV link going.
It's under debian potato (2.2.18 kernel). I've apt-got installed
isdnutils, loaded hisax module etc etc but where/how do I tell
it to use DoV??
I don't want to recompile anything as this box has no kernel
source or compiler or make etc and
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 01:47:44PM +1000, Luke McKee wrote:
David,
I only done this under Cisco but I have to do a Linux workstation too that
is Simens HiSaxed based next week.
I'm using an AVM Fritz ISA card (german, well supported - most isdn
linux stuff is german-oriented, very popular
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:53:44PM +1000, Luke McKee wrote:
David,
Yeah you sound very experienced on the matter.
on isdn4linux? no, just guessing/figuring it out.
on isdn in general and telstra onramp, a bit more so.
Standard telephone equipment - I know that line.
ISDN isn't standard
ok got the DoV thing working. You're right Crossfire it's a right pain
in the arse. I'm not running any compression on the link as things like
the ccp option causes a kernel oops (in random processes). A google
search showed lots of other people with the same thing but nothing about
how to fix
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 12:43, David Fitch wrote:
I pinched a copy of your ijolt program too
Crossfire although I ended up not using it, just pinched some ideas and
incorporated them into a script I was already using to do much the
same thing for a modem link.
spoke too soon on that bit, I
have a look for the definition of ap_ctx cos the bit you've included
looks ok. Usually for these sort of errors I've found you need to
look for the #ifdef bits and see if something is not defined that
should be, or vice versa, then tweak the makefile to set or unset it
and recompile.
Dave.
--
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 14:57, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Dave,
I've done a 'find . -name syslog -print' search and could not find a
file by that name.
should be in /var/log.
my debian systems have a syslog file anyway.
maybe messages file instead.
Just go to /var/log then do ls -ltr to see which
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 14:15, Adam Bogacki wrote:
I've had no trouble with primus internet services or the modem before.
I could not find the noccp option in either /etc/ppp/options or in
it's listed in the man page for my pppd ('man pppd')
/etc/ppp/peers (the latter being full of non
On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 21:09, Jon Biddell wrote:
At 20:06 13/04/02 +0100, Kevin Saenz wrote:
Me think there is something wrong with Dane.
like a few to many marbles missing. :)
Yeah - one CD short of an Install !
it could just be the supplementary cd though...
Dave.
(I for one thought
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 16:58, Matt Hyne wrote:
Folks, finally got my old man's business online and everything except the
desktops is running linux (database, gateway, servers).
I'm setting up the mail and DNS. The ISP says they cannot give us a backup
mail server to host a secondary MX.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:16:51PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote:
Hi Slugs,
While on the subject of mail servers...
My understanding of mail secondaries is that it's not like DNS servers where
you can config a client to access a secondary DNS server if the primary is
down. The secondary MX only
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 19:21, Craige McWhirter wrote:
Group writable home directories are considered bad policy - other people
shold not be allowed to write to your home directory.
agreed
Even being able to
read is considered poor by most sysadmins.
nope. I stick all users in the users
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:07:57PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
But seriously, I suggest:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k | nc host here 65535
-- Then this:
Who needs users anyway?
What is it, April Fool-a-Newbie Day or something?
I'd say it's all good advice.
The first thing you
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 11:07, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Well, I disagree since it seems to me that this kind of thing is
absolutely fundamental to Linux advocacy. But you're the boss, so off
it goes.
I'm voicing the complaints of many subscribers who are not interested in
random discussion about
I can soft-shutdown my Win98(ie , I dont need to press power-button to
close power)
But I found that I cant do it on Redhat70 by typing shutdown now.
Could you give some clue ?
in the past I've had to recompile the kernel and enable all
the apm/power management stuff to make shutdown
On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 18:11, David wrote:
# file system mount point type options
dump pass
/dev/hda11 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda10 noneswapsw 0 0
proc/proc procdefaults
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 19:29, Jeff Ford wrote:
Is there some edit setup file or some one could
tell me how of some way (Detailed) to deal with this problem
for some reason I am unaware of, in debian I've always had to create
that /dev/mouse link manually. If it's a serial mouse you've got
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 12:12:58AM +1000, Alan Vink wrote:
We had similar issues with Redhat machines and this NETDEV WATCHDOG: ethX:
transmit timed out errors, you probably shouldn't be running the stock
Kernel off RH 7.2 because it's far from perfect. I know someone with us got
rid of it by
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:41:50AM +0930, David Fitch wrote:
you can just apply the 2.4.9-13 rpms (kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-source)
to upgrade the kernel - easier than recompiling etc.
We run this version at work without those problems.
also, just in case it's not obvious: if you do do
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:55:00AM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
If applying a new kernel rpm doesn't look after
lilo for you as well, I'd call that a bug.
guess it's a bug then. I don't expect very much of rpm
(read: it's a steaming pile of .. anyway) so never thought
about it.
Dave.
--
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 15:42, Adam Bogacki wrote:
I have tried them from 2 to 10 with no difference. I have disabled
'demand' and 'persist' in the Advanced section of 'pppconfig' and have
enabled 'demand' but not 'persist' in /etc/ppp/options.
you have just got 'debug' not 'debug n'?
cos my
is potato -- woody upgrade a big download for those of us on a dialup
connection?
to get back vaguely to the original question, my desktop machine is
woody which I upgraded from potato a few months ago, can't remember
how many Mb that was. But on the weekend I did an apt-get upgrade
to
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 17:50, Adam Bogacki wrote:
tux chat [2323]: ATDT0294230800^M^M
tux chat [2323]: CONNECT
tux chat [2323]: -- got it
tux chat [2323]: send (^M)
tux chat [2323]: expect (login:)
tux chat [2323]: 115200^M
tux kernel:ppp0: returning frame
tux chat [2323]: !@#$%^*()_+
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 19:27, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
I've now been happily married for over
two years, but I still like to get an ocasional Usenet fix. Fortunately
I control it, not the other way around.
it's easy to get sucked in to all the arguing and egos etc, I soon
developed a don't
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:36:07PM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
Special Interest Groups:
- Jeff to draft apology letter on behalf of the committe to
LinuxChix for the behaviour shown on SLUG following the
LinuxChix announcement. Ctte to approve before forwarding to
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 21:26, Timothy Bateman wrote:
Slug,
Has anyone tried to use a standard mbox file as an inbox for both
Ximian Evolution and Pine. I tried this, both could see the messages
fine, except when I marked them as being read in Pine, when I then later
opened Evolution
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 21:39, Angus Lees wrote:
At Wed, 15 May 2002 16:36:15 +1000, Brett Jones wrote:
Most known service ports under 1024 are blocked. This includes inbound tcp
connections to ports 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 6667, etc.
yes. not being able to ssh directly into your box
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 23:30, Terry Collins wrote:
I've just installed inn and no matter what I try, it complains about not
finding its history file.
The problem is that the file (and db version) is there.
Any ideas on this?
yeah but it's one of those annoying 'switch to something else'
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 21:28, Ben Buxton wrote:
Cisco seems to be breaching the GPL by using a Linux distribution
in one of their devices and not mentioning GPL, Linux or source
anywhere:
so if I develop some application on linux and compile with gcc and use
standard header files/libs (eg.
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