Re: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface for BAS lodgement.
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:37:01PM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: Andrew Reilly wrote: (Hell, strings|par|less usually does a fine job!) 'par' not found. Quoting the doco: Par is similar but superiour to the fmt(1) command included in the base system. Par is a filter that copies its input to its output, changing all white characters (except newlines) to spaces, and reformatting each paragraph. Paragraphs are separated by protected, blank, and bodiless lines (see the Terminology section for definitions), and optionally delimited by indentation (see the d option in the Options section). Each output paragraph is generated from the corresponding input paragraph as follows: 1) An optional prefix and/or suffix is removed from each input line. 2) The remainder is divided into words (separated by spaces). 3) The words are joined into lines to make an eye-pleasing paragraph. 4) The prefixes and suffixes are reattached. If there are suffixes, spaces are inserted before them so that they all end in the same column. WWW: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ -- Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Potato
Has anyone else bought the Potato CDs from Anthony at the show ? I thought I'd see what all this "apt-get" stuff was about, but I get errors as soon as I start trying to install on a virgin h/d (/lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep cannot be found.) apparently this is the UNSTABLE release ? I would have thought that a warning of such on the CDs would be appropriate, as I assumed I was buying the STABLE version. Anyone offer any suggestions re: installing this, or have I just bougt a set of coasters ?? Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Potato
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:57:33PM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote: apparently this is the UNSTABLE release ? I would have thought that a can't help with the errors sorry, but potato (2.2 I saw at the show) is the last stable release. I'm running it here (2.2r2). Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Setting up PPPd for dial in.
Hi all, I'm trying to create a dial in account to my RH6.0 box for a win98 laptop. I'd like the computer to appear as a 205.199.2.14 on an existing local subnet 205.199.2.0/24 run by eth0. So far I have mgetty and pppd running, the win98 laptop uses ppp to determine the ip and mask, but doesn't get a gateway. Do I need a ifcfg-ppp0? If so how? Do I need to set routing? Please help, my brain hurts... regards Rich -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] dhcpcd dhcpd problems on RedHat 7.
Hey guys gals. I've searched through the list archive like a good little munchkin, but unfortunately haven't had much luck. As in the topic, I'm having problems with both of the above. The simpler one is probably to do with dhcpd. It's not loading on startup. I have no idea where to tell it to do so. Secondly, I'm on BPA. When my linux box boots, it claims it brings up eth0, eth1 then bpalogin without a problem, but I cannot access the internet. What I have to do is "ifdown eth0", "ifup eth0", then stop and restart bpalogin. I've mentioned this on the bigpond linux newsgroups but haven't had much luck from them getting help either. RedHat installed pump by default, I then uninstalled this, installed dhcpcd and modified the ifdown and ifup scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ to use dhcpcd only. If you want me to post the parts of those scripts I modified, just let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Potato
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:57:33PM +1100, Jon Biddell uttered: Has anyone else bought the Potato CDs from Anthony at the show ? Anthony: are these the "Offical" CDs burnt from the official ISO images? I thought I'd see what all this "apt-get" stuff was about, but I get errors as soon as I start trying to install on a virgin h/d (/lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep cannot be found.) This should not happen and doesn't from my Potato CDs. I did a fresh install (admittedly under VMWare) from them a couple of weeks ago and it worked flawlessly. At what stage do you get this error? What boot process are you using? (ie, are you booting from CD and just pressing [enter]?) apparently this is the UNSTABLE release ? I would have thought that a warning of such on the CDs would be appropriate, as I assumed I was buying the STABLE version. Potato is the latest stable release. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net This dungeon is owned and operated by Frobozz Magic Co., Ltd. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Setting up PPPd for dial in.
I'd like the computer to appear as a 205.199.2.14 on an existing local subnet 205.199.2.0/24 run by eth0. So far I have mgetty and pppd running, the win98 laptop uses ppp to determine the ip and mask, but doesn't get a gateway. Do I need a ifcfg-ppp0? If so how? Do I need to set routing? Please help, my brain hurts... a couple of things, but it would be helpful to know more about the symptoms: can you see the linux box? can you see any of the rest of the subnet? you set the IP, mask etc.etc. in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS? make sure you specify "proxyarp" in /etc/ppp/options make sure "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" returns 1 later marty "I can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what they want because I'm me." - Corduroy, Pearl Jam -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Potato
On Thursday 08 March 2001 22:34, Dave Fitch wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:57:33PM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote: apparently this is the UNSTABLE release ? I would have thought that a can't help with the errors sorry, but potato (2.2 I saw at the show) is the last stable release. I'm running it here (2.2r2). The 3 cds ? When I boot them I get a "Debian Floppy Emergency Disk" or some such screen. I followed all the right menu choices, but that error started almost as soon as the install did. Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] dhcpcd dhcpd problems on RedHat 7.
What do you want dhcpd (not dhcpcd) for? Do you have other boxes (Windoze) you need to assign addresses to? Secondly, I'm on BPA. When my linux box boots, it claims it brings up eth0, eth1 then bpalogin without a problem, but I cannot access the internet. What I have to do is "ifdown eth0", "ifup eth0", then stop and restart bpalogin. I've mentioned this on the bigpond linux newsgroups but haven't had much luck from them getting help either. bpalogin writes via syslog into /var/log/messages so have a look there to see what it didn't like the first time. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Old LIbraries
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:29:31AM +1100, Dean Hamstead uttered: I dont suppose anyone has a nice quick way of detecting and removing old library versions? If you are a Certified Debian Weenie[tm] like myself, you can use 'deborphan' to detect and remove libraries that are no longer used. If you don't use Debian, then foo. some fancy regex's or something? -- Steve "I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest." --Me -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Potato
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:52:53PM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2001 22:34, Dave Fitch wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:57:33PM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote: apparently this is the UNSTABLE release ? I would have thought that a can't help with the errors sorry, but potato (2.2 I saw at the show) is the last stable release. I'm running it here (2.2r2). The 3 cds ? When I boot them I get a "Debian Floppy Emergency Disk" or some such screen. I downloaded the iso straight after 2.2r2 came out (Dec 2000), it's just 1 cd. If it's called "pototo" or the kernel is 2.2.18 (mine's 2.2.18pre21) or earlier it's stable not unstable. It starts with a rescue type option or an install option as I recall. I didn't get any module type errors. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Xfree User Problems
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:59:08PM +1100, Michael Covi uttered: Define a sudo for startx ? MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ummm, no. Look for your Xwrapper.config: steven@broken:~$ cat /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config allowed_users=console nice_value=-10 You may have something else in there such as 'allowed_users=root' or something. On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Scott Ragen wrote: Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:42:04 +1100 From: Scott Ragen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Xfree User Problems I try to login as a normal user into xfree, by typing either startx or X and I get an error message of: Authentication failed - cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have console ownership? Only root can start XFree. How do I assign Console Ownership/permissions to other users? Oh I run Red hat 7.0 with XFree86 version 4.0.1a Regards, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- Steve "I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest." --Me -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Demand Dialing
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:11:41PM +1100, Michael Sztachanski uttered: Guys, how do get ppp to "Dail ON DEMAND"? Read 'man pppd' for the 'demand' and 'persist' options i.e when someone activates their browser. Or does a DNS lookup, or a multiple of other things, it's very messy. cheers M -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- Steve "I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest." --Me -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Setting up PPPd for dial in.
a couple of things, but it would be helpful to know more about the symptoms: can you see the linux box? can you see any of the rest of the subnet? Laptop connects establishes, but can't see anything. I've tried pinging 205.199.2.* ad infinitum. the only one that works is 205.199.2.14, but that's the local machine. you set the IP, mask etc.etc. in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS? options.ttyS1 has the following 205.199.2.14:205.199.2.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 make sure you specify "proxyarp" in /etc/ppp/options yep make sure "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" returns 1 yep -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] DOS end of lines w/- tomsrtbt
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:36:08AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote: |/fl# echo foo | sed 's/$/^M/' | sed: garbled command s/$/ |/fl# I think the ash you have does a bad job of parsing, not quoting things inside 's. You could try something like echo foo | sed 's/$/|/' | tr '|' '\015' assuming | doesn't appear in the text. Or maybe some control character that doesn't confuse ash. Works for me with ^A. alas, no tr on tomsrtbt...deeply depressing there is however, mawk which claims to be 100% 1988 awk complient. As yet I am awk illiterate, but I've got the book open and I'm about to become an awker/awkoligist/awkeneer whatever. Unless somebody can save me. g -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] DOS end of lines w/- tomsrtbt
echo foo | sed 's/$/|/' | tr '|' '\015' assuming | doesn't appear in the text. Or maybe some control character that doesn't confuse ash. Works for me with ^A. alas, no tr on tomsrtbt...deeply depressing What version of tomsbtrt is this? I seem to remember he adopted busybox and tr should be a trivial function to implement. Yes, I'm quite sure tr is in busybox, at least the version in floppyfw. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface for BAS lodgement.
This one time, at band camp, enterfornone said: I think some of you zealots need to get out of this dreamworld. Linux is not yet a significant player on the desktop. Most people do need Work skills to be employable. Besides, countering every anti-linux arguement with "troll" is very childish, I think Godwin's law needs to be updated to include troll along with nazi. regardless of your opinion, posting pro-MS propaganda to a *linux* list is going to be classed as a troll. Why? because this is a *linux* list. Let me repeat, just in case you didn't get it. the 'L' in SLUG stands for Linux. And as far as 'Linux is not yet a significant player on the desktop' - that's hardly relevant when talking about documentation. I use TeX on non-linux machines as well, and many of these are servers. And yes, I am creating professional documentation, for the record. I still disagree that there exist 'Word Skills'. You have a paperclip to do the thinking for you, what skills will you possibly learn? :) -- jamesw Balial so you have a dodgey OS connected to a proxy with a dodgey network card connecting to a dodgey ISP and chatting on dodgey IRC servers - all you need now is some alcohol night swimming you have a winning combination! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Xfree User Problems
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:11:08PM +1100, Steve Kowalik wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:59:08PM +1100, Michael Covi uttered: Define a sudo for startx ? MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ummm, no. Look for your Xwrapper.config: steven@broken:~$ cat /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config allowed_users=console nice_value=-10 You may have something else in there such as 'allowed_users=root' or something. Of course, the right answer is "xdm". startx was never the way X was "meant" to be run, a bunch of X-authority security measures are disabled when you do that. -- Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] DOS end of lines w/- tomsrtbt
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:54:05PM +1100, Ken Yap wrote: echo foo | sed 's/$/|/' | tr '|' '\015' assuming | doesn't appear in the text. Or maybe some control character that doesn't confuse ash. Works for me with ^A. alas, no tr on tomsrtbt...deeply depressing What version of tomsbtrt is this? I seem to remember he adopted busybox and tr should be a trivial function to implement. Yes, I'm quite sure tr is in busybox, at least the version in floppyfw. I'm using a reasonably receint one. But to be sure I just tried the latest on aarnet. It has busybox but not tr. btw, thanks for the help on this Ken; why it's important to me: I'm now teaching 6 Linux classes a week, and about 1/3 of the students (30 or 40) do not have access to a Linux box to practice on or do there homework on. So this week's lesson was making and using a tomsrtbt. The idea being that they could practice using the commands and utilities wherever they and also mount a DOS floppy to practice using an editor. If they can add the \015's they will be able to print their work in the library or where ever they can find a box running one of those legacy commercial OSs. If I carn't work aroun this I might have to make a custom tomsrtbt with a tr. g -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] DOS end of lines w/- tomsrtbt
I'm using a reasonably receint one. But to be sure I just tried the latest on aarnet. It has busybox but not tr. busybox has multiple personalities. Try ln busybox tr and see if tr will work. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Setting up PPPd for dial in.
quote who="Richard Pang" options.ttyS1 has the following 205.199.2.14:205.199.2.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 Look in man pppd for ms-dns and ms-wins. They're cute and perky and helpful. (Yes, I have had a number of drinks.) Also, look up issue 36 (I think) of Linux Gazette, it has a step-by-step. LG is one of the most looked-over, brilliant pieces of Linux-helpy literature on the net. - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://lwn.net/daily/ -- If Perl is gaffer, and Python Magic Tape, then Ruby is self-adhesive plate gold. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] DOS end of lines w/- tomsrtbt
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:49:05AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote: I'm using a reasonably receint one. But to be sure I just tried the latest on aarnet. It has busybox but not tr. busybox has multiple personalities. Try ln busybox tr and see if tr will work. nobody home: # ln busybox tr # echo foo | tr [a-z] [A-Z] error: called as tr # bum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] DOS end of lines w/- tomsrtbt
So this week's lesson was making and using a tomsrtbt. The idea being that they could practice using the commands and utilities wherever they and also mount a DOS floppy to practice using an editor. Also you should look into whether the editor already has a DOS mode where things are written out with CR NL line ends. vim does: set ff=dos. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] DOS EOL in tomsbtrt
Hector, BTW, to do it in awk:
$ echo foo | awk '{printf "%s\r\n", $0}' | od -bc
000 146 157 157 015 012
f o o \r \n
005
There's more than one way to do it (in Unix).
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[SLUG] Dell Laptop with Potato
Hi there, I am thinking of buying a laptop for work/uni, etc. I came across the Dell Latitude C600 series. With some modification such as 256MB RAM, PIII850, 20GB IDE HDD, etc. I was just wandering if anyone has bought a Dell laptop similar to the spec above. If so, how smooth does debian potato run on these machines? Your reply would be much appreciated. cheers. Bill -- Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. -- Dick Brandon - Bill Shui Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bioinformatics Programmer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: Dell Laptop with Potato
Hi Bill On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:40:21AM +1100, Bill Shui wrote: Hi there, I am thinking of buying a laptop for work/uni, etc. I came across the Dell Latitude C600 series. With some modification such as 256MB RAM, PIII850, 20GB IDE HDD, etc. I was just wandering if anyone has bought a Dell laptop similar to the spec above. If so, how smooth does debian potato run on these machines? Your reply would be much appreciated. I have two Dells running Debian - no real bother. If you chek out the archeives you might see answers to any C600 issues. Steve -- _ _ _ __| | ___ | |__ | |__ ___ / _ |/ _ \| _ \| _ \ / _ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (_| | (_) | |_) | (_) | (_) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \|\___/|/ \___/ \___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Setting up PPPd for dial in.
Do you have ip_forwarding enabled? Sounds like you don't as you say you can only ping the machine your dialed in to... also, do you have proxyarp in the options.ttyS[0-1] file for the port your modem is sitting on. On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Richard Pang wrote: a couple of things, but it would be helpful to know more about the symptoms: can you see the linux box? can you see any of the rest of the subnet? Laptop connects establishes, but can't see anything. I've tried pinging 205.199.2.* ad infinitum. the only one that works is 205.199.2.14, but that's the local machine. you set the IP, mask etc.etc. in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS? options.ttyS1 has the following 205.199.2.14:205.199.2.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 make sure you specify "proxyarp" in /etc/ppp/options yep make sure "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" returns 1 yep -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Potato
I am running 2.2r2 also, not game to run the unstable tree for fear of breaking machine whom I cant just walk upto and reset :) On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Dave Fitch wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:57:33PM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote: apparently this is the UNSTABLE release ? I would have thought that a can't help with the errors sorry, but potato (2.2 I saw at the show) is the last stable release. I'm running it here (2.2r2). Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Perl Help - reply..
Oops.. I deleted the email before I got to reply to it.. but I think it was a Bronwyn that asked the question about cookies + perl... :) Anyway, something along these lines: ncftpget \ ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/CPAN/modules/by-module/CGI/CGI.pm-2.752.tar.gz tar -zxvf CGI.pm-2.752.tar.gz cd CGI.pm-2.752 perl Makefile.PL make make install perldoc CGI /cookie /cookie /cookie (until you get to the bits about cookies) - #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI; :) //umar. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Linux Expo
Dear All Dear fellow Linux user's. I'd like to introduce myself. I'm the local organiser for a LUG in northern England. Yes, it does rain a lot and yes the cricket is ! Rumour has it that the Linux Expo is on in Sydney just now. Anyone know the URL for it ? I'm afraid that I have to admit that I'm partial to the SuSE distribution. Do they have a stand at the expo ? Thanks Richard Sheffield Linux User's Group http://www.sheflug.co.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux Expo
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 07:45:23PM +, Richard wrote: Rumour has it that the Linux Expo is on in Sydney just now. Anyone know the URL for it ? www.linuxexpo.com.au is the only one I know of. I'm afraid that I have to admit that I'm partial to the SuSE distribution. Do they have a stand at the expo ? didn't see one (but then I didn't see everything). Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] dhcpcd dhcpd problems on RedHat 7.
What do you want dhcpd (not dhcpcd) for? Do you have other boxes (Windoze) you need to assign addresses to? So that when people bring their computers over, they just need to plug it into the network and they're automatically on the internet ... don't have to worry about settings. Secondly, I'm on BPA. When my linux box boots, it claims it brings up eth0, eth1 then bpalogin without a problem, but I cannot access the internet. What I have to do is "ifdown eth0", "ifup eth0", then stop and restart bpalogin. I've mentioned this on the bigpond linux newsgroups but haven't had much luck from them getting help either. bpalogin writes via syslog into /var/log/messages so have a look there to see what it didn't like the first time. Mar 7 15:45:01 diddums network: Setting network parameters: succeeded Mar 7 15:45:02 diddums ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable Mar 7 15:45:03 diddums network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded Mar 7 15:45:03 diddums ifup: Determining IP information for eth0... Mar 7 15:45:10 diddums ifup: done. Mar 7 15:45:10 diddums network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded Mar 7 15:45:12 diddums network: Bringing up interface eth1: succeeded As you can see, there doesn't appear to be anything it didn't like other than that second message which I don't understand ... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: Linux Expo
Dave www.linuxexpo.com.au is the only one I know of. Ah.. thanks very much :) Looks like they aren't bothering this year. A friend of mine who runs the SuSE Ltd in England is in Oz just now for a holiday. Just wondered if he was in Sydney. Looks like it's a good trade show. Wish I was there instead of suffering the pouring rain here in England. Thank you Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] dhcpcd dhcpd problems on RedHat 7.
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 08:23:31AM +1100, Jim Crawley wrote: Mar 7 15:45:02 diddums ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable I had this problem just after I built my first 2.2.x kernel a couple of years ago. It's caused by the network card driver module not being loaded before trying to bring up the network. Rebuild your kernel with kmod (kernel module loader) enabled. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] dhcpcd dhcpd problems on RedHat 7.
- Original Message - From: "Jim Crawley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 8:23 AM Subject: RE: [SLUG] dhcpcd dhcpd problems on RedHat 7. What do you want dhcpd (not dhcpcd) for? Do you have other boxes (Windoze) you need to assign addresses to? So that when people bring their computers over, they just need to plug it into the network and they're automatically on the internet ... don't have to worry about settings. snip Try checking your kernel configuration, I believe you need to have CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER enabled for dhcpd to work. ---Gareth Walters -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface for BAS lodgement.
Back to the topic: We should not be pushing for a special Linux interface for BAS lodgement (that will only scare them); instead we should be pushing for a STANDARD html interface for BAS lodgement that does not rely on proprietary extensions that cause browsers to crash etc. Agreed! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Potato
B In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:55:13AM +1100 X-Url: http://www.suburbia.com.au/~davidf X-Message-Flag: OutLook: a virus spreader On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:55:13AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: Bring that machine to the install fest ;) actually if you are going Jon, I can burn another copy of the iso I've got (that I know works) and bring it along (I was thinking of dropping in for a sticky-beak). Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Dell Laptop with Potato
One of the benefits of this will be having many able hands around. I brought my partly functional C600 to the Debian stand at Linux Expo last night and while I was evangelising Debian to hapless passer-by's a few people jumped on my laptop and finished tweaking XFree 4 and other various things I hadn't got around to making work properly. Ta guys! but poor old jan almost tore his hair out to get it there... :) the moral of the story... missing symbolic links are bad mmmkay! later marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Dell Laptop with Potato
Thus spake Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): One of the benefits of this will be having many able hands around. I brought my partly functional C600 to the Debian stand at Linux Expo last night and while I was evangelising Debian to hapless passer-by's a few people jumped on my laptop and finished tweaking XFree 4 and other various things I hadn't got around to making work properly. Ta guys! but poor old jan almost tore his hair out to get it there... :) the moral of the story... missing symbolic links are bad mmmkay! That was a little doozie when Jan told me about it. XFree doesn't use the /etc/X11/X symlink to the appropriate server any more but GDM still wants it. That's why they call it "unstable" though ;) -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] VPN/L2TP?
I need to allow Win2k notebooks to VPN into the network via the Internet through a RH7 gateway. Remote users will have dynamic IP addresses and connect from all over the world. What is best to use? Has anyone had any experience with L2TP? I have freeswan running between sites, but can't get Win2k to work in a client-to-subnet arrangement - so I guess I need to use something else. If you dig around the freeswan site there is some links to documentation that describes how to do this. Other than that you could run poptop and have the win2k clients connect in PPTP mode to your RH7 server dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Install Fest Reminder
Response to the install fest has been quite good at the Expo and as a result we're expecting a good roll up. Due to the response, we're going to need quite a few installers, lurkers, BBQ assistants etc. If you can make it and help out, we'd love to see you there :) If anyone wants a lift and can make it to the CBD on Saturday morning, drop me a line. -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Dell Laptop with Potato
Bill, I got one these for work yesterday and now have a happy Debian system. The only issue I know of and haven't tried to get working yet is that Potato does not have support for the audio chipset - Maestro 3 - and a few months ago on a previous model I could not get sound working. I'm kinda hoping this has changed, I'll find out soon enough. As you've emailed both debian-laptop and SLUG I'm assuming you're in Sydney. On Saturday, 10th March (ie: tomorrow) we're holding an install fest, I'd recommend coming along - details are at http://www.slug.org.au/ . One of the benefits of this will be having many able hands around. I brought my partly functional C600 to the Debian stand at Linux Expo last night and while I was evangelising Debian to hapless passer-by's a few people jumped on my laptop and finished tweaking XFree 4 and other various things I hadn't got around to making work properly. Ta guys! Thus spake Bill Shui ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi there, I am thinking of buying a laptop for work/uni, etc. I came across the Dell Latitude C600 series. With some modification such as 256MB RAM, PIII850, 20GB IDE HDD, etc. I was just wandering if anyone has bought a Dell laptop similar to the spec above. If so, how smooth does debian potato run on these machines? Your reply would be much appreciated. cheers. Bill -- Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. -- Dick Brandon - Bill Shui Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bioinformatics Programmer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] DOS EOL in tomsbtrt
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:15:07AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
Hector, BTW, to do it in awk:
$ echo foo | awk '{printf "%s\r\n", $0}' | od -bc
000 146 157 157 015 012
f o o \r \n
005
There's more than one way to do it (in Unix).
problem solved
thanks Ken
geoffrey aka hector
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[SLUG] Debian anXiety
Installed Debian, and for some reason (probably my mistake) X server failed. At the command line I tried to run anXious (as root), but I got no output at all. It simply returned to prompt. So did anXious --test I've now configured X using xf86config and it's running, but why did anXious not do anything at all? Is it not supposed to be a configuration tool? TIA, David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: Re: [SLUG] Dell Laptop with Potato
The latest ALSA drivers work just fine with my Latitude CPxJ650, also using Maestro-3 chipset. I think I was using v 0.5X Regards Mehmet Ozdemir Original Message: - From: Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:46:22 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Dell Laptop with Potato Bill, I got one these for work yesterday and now have a happy Debian system. The only issue I know of and haven't tried to get working yet is that Potato does not have support for the audio chipset - Maestro 3 - and a few months ago on a previous model I could not get sound working. I'm kinda hoping this has changed, I'll find out soon enough. Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] dhcpcd dhcpd problems on RedHat 7.
Mar 7 15:45:02 diddums ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable I had this problem just after I built my first 2.2.x kernel a couple of years ago. It's caused by the network card driver module not being loaded before trying to bring up the network. Rebuild your kernel with kmod (kernel module loader) enabled. I've upgraded my kernel to 2.2.17-14, but at the time (and even now) the kernel-sources and kernel-headers packages aren't available for it for i586 (and I can't find kernel-headers.2.2.17-14.*.rpm at all). Should I get the i386 version of kernel-sources, previous kernel version (which I have on my redhat 7 CD), or try something else altogether? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] dhcpcd dhcpd problems on RedHat 7.
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 03:45:43PM +1100, Jim Crawley wrote: I've upgraded my kernel to 2.2.17-14, but at the time (and even now) the kernel-sources and kernel-headers packages aren't available for it for i586 There are no special i586 source packages. The i586 binary packages have merely compiled with `-mcpu=i586'. (Should I get the i386 version of kernel-sources, Yes, or just grab the latest kernel source (2.2.18) from mirror.aarnet.edu.au and build that. Cheers, John -- `Working "with" Telstra is somewhat worse than selling your soul to the devil, at least once you've sold your soul the devil is likely to cooperate.' -- David Luyer on aussie-isp -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
