Re: [SLUG] Linux and the future?
Dan Banyard said: > I have been using SuSE Linux for over 3 years now for my business. I am > currently configuring a new server on which I will host my web server, > email and other vital components. I am happy with SuSE (I currently use > v7.2) and have been looking into the latest version. I am now confused > as to what SuSE (and RedHat) are offering as they both seem to have > moved to either a desktop version for home use (pricing in at around > $120 for the box set) or an Enterprise version for business use (pricing > in at around $4500). I have been reading through the marketing type > blurb on their websites and from what I can tell if you have a business > critical system the only choice is to purchase the Enterprise grade > system. RedHat enterprise has a longer support cycle than their desktop edition. Two years versus six months if I recall correctly. Certain hardware may only support the enterprise edition. The drivers are released as binary kernel modules compiled against the RedHat enterprise kernels. Third party apps may also support enterpise edition only. These could probably be made to run on RedHat 7.x but you'd be stuffed trying to get support from the company for this. RedHat enterprise also has a proprietery IP load balancing service as well as HA clustering. -- Cult - A sociotype of an auto-toxic meme-complex, composed of membots and/or memeoids. Memetic Lexicon : http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMLEX.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil
Jamie Wilkinson said: > Watch out for misconfigured webservers used to send spam. I recieved an alert at work about this a few weeks ago: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/12681 -- Cult - A sociotype of an auto-toxic meme-complex, composed of membots and/or memeoids. Memetic Lexicon : http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMLEX.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Debian Kernel
Steve Kowalik said: >> >> This reads like "back off unless you know what you are doing!". But >> is it really saying "do remember to update lilo.conf, old bean"? Or >> is it saying something else altogether? >> > It's saying "do remember to update lilo.conf, or Bad Things Will > Happen." Like having an unbootable shiny new kernel. It's actually saying to make sure you have the initrd= line in the kernel definition in your lilo.conf. Sometimes you can update the image parameter but forget to change the initrd parameter. -- Cult - A sociotype of an auto-toxic meme-complex, composed of membots and/or memeoids. Memetic Lexicon : http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMLEX.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] HTTP_REFERER not found [Repost]
> Q1. If I click on a link to go to another HTML page say name.html, I > lose the "hop=some_data" part. How do I make the "hop=some_data" go with > the "name.html" with the tag from an HTML document ? Is this > possible or a script can do this only ? This is not how a relative link works. Everything after the last '/' is lost. However with enough creativity anything can be made possible in Javascript. > > Q2. The order page calls a Perl script say "orderpage.pl", I want the > script to capture the "hop=some_data". I got the script to print the > whole %ENV, and I see no "HTTP_REFERER". I thought "HTTP_REFERER" would > show the url that called "orderpage.pl" with the "hop=some_data" . But > if I cannot see "HTTP_REFERER", then how do I get the script to capture > the > "hop=some_data" ? You should be seeing the previouse URL in the environment variable HTTP_REFERER. Contrary to what someone else said it will contain the query data. It might not exists because the browser is not sending it. Look at the HTTP traffic with a sniffer to verify the browser is sending it. Some more information about what web server you're using will help fix the problem too. -- Cult - A sociotype of an auto-toxic meme-complex, composed of membots and/or memeoids. Memetic Lexicon : http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMLEX.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] configure parent cache for squid
> I'm trying to setup a personal squid proxy at work. The parent cache > is a MS proxy server that requires authentication. Check the MS server isn't using NTLM authentication. -- Cult - A sociotype of an auto-toxic meme-complex, composed of membots and/or memeoids. Memetic Lexicon : http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMLEX.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] DBD::mysql install probs
Voytek Eymont said: > where am I going rwong, do I need mysql.h and errmsg.h ? Yes. They are part of the mysql-devel package in redhat. -- Cult - A sociotype of an auto-toxic meme-complex, composed of membots and/or memeoids. Memetic Lexicon : http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMLEX.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Discussion on LUGs
I've never attended one of our meetings (tonight will be my first) so I can't comment directly but there is a discussion on kuro5hin about the success (or lack thereof) of LUG meetings. http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2000/10/26/143829/12 -- +-- Nicholas Wilcox ---+ | It was Thanksgiving in New York, and about the only thing I was | | thankfull for was that I didn't live in New Jersey. | + Kinky Friedman --+ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux news on slashdot
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Rick Welykochy wrote: > I cannot get over the mass impression that people are somehow > born with built-in knowledge of using a WIMP interface like > Window or Mac. Nothing could be farther from the truth. This impression > has arisen simply from over-exposure to that one medium. Put > a boy raised in the jungle in front of a PC as see what happens. > (He'll probably do the right thing and use it as a footstool > or a projectile!) > > Anyone can be trained to use WIMP. Anybody can be taught to > use a shell. Anyone can type in a command. They just have to be > taught. A GUI better supports the idea of user exploration, a user can scroll through all the menus in an application to look for the item or command they are after. GUI application also tend to be more forgiving with yes/no ok/cancel boxes and undo feature that give the users the confidence to try things without having to read the manual to find out the full effect of a command. The idea of learning an application still applies to both GUI and CLI apps but GUI apps can use the full power of visual recongnition (size, shape ,colour and position) to allow the user to quickly learn how to perform tasks and recongise status and event indicators. -- +-- Nicholas Wilcox ---+ | It was Thanksgiving in New York, and about the only thing I was | | thankful for was that I didn't live in New Jersey. | + Kinky Friedman --+ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Help needed with html form and perl script
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Simon Bryan wrote: > When the submit buttonis pressed on the form the data is sent in the new > URL but instead of the perl script running it loads into the browser window as > text. It is called guestbook.plx (have tried cgi as an extension as well) and it > has 755 as it's permissions. What else do I have to do? Or how do I test the > perl script without the html page? > Because it has a plx extension I will guess it was written under windows for perl ISAPI. Check for #!/bin/perl at the start of the script (this may seem obvious but is often forgotten when moving script from windoze to *nix). -- +-- Nicholas Wilcox ---+ | It was Thanksgiving in New York, and about the only thing I was | | thankful for was that I didn't live in New Jersey. | + Kinky Friedman --+ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mozilla 0.7 Bug or works as designed.
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Peter Rundle wrote: > Using Mozilla 0.7, > > When I fill in a text box on a form with a '.' in the string the '.' gets > submitted to the cgi as '%A9'. With Netscape 4.76 it remains as a '.' > Does anyone know what is going on here? Is there something that I can > change in the browser an option or setting or something? Or is this a bug? > Don't know if I would class it as a bug but MZ0.7 on winblows doesn't exhibit that behaviour. -- Nick Wilcox. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
