[SLUG] Need someone to install a gateway
Hi guys My company is amalgamating two offices into on on Friday June 1st, and part of the move is a networking change. I need to get hold of someone who can install/set up a gateway box for the network. The network is about 30-50 nodes, and it will connect to the net through both an ADSL line and an ISDN line. I would normally do it myself, but I'm cramped for time as it is implementing the rest of the network, I haven't had a chance to do routing / firewalling on the 2.4 kernel yet, and above all it's a rush move ( we are swapping offices with another company on the same day ). So if you've done this before, and can do the set up quickly and reliably ( time is scheduled for the move, but we may lose productivity for the office if it takes too long )... Job will be for a couple of hours on the morning of Friday the 1st. Paid, of course, rates would be good, and you are not expected to provide support. We can run and modify the thing once it's up, just need someone to do a rapid setup. The box will be brand new, and already have the OS ( preferably debian... ) installed on it. We can have the general stuff installed and ready. Please contact me directly for more information if you are interested. Adam K -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 7.1 Fonts, Web Browsing Problem
I think you need to install more and better fonts. You probably only have very minimal fonts installed or configured. So, if you have not already, install 75dpi, speedo, Type1, etc If your installer does not do it, you may have to run mkfontdir or similar in each actual font dir. ( Mine are under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts) and then edit your XF86Config file to include them in the fontpath. (unless you are using xfs, which is better, but I can't remember how to set it up ;)...) Basically if you get just 75dpi fonts on and working properly I think the situation will be improved. Sorry I can't be more specific, but hope this helps and is accurate ( ? ) -Josh -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[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 least multiple windows would be good and perhaps with some other features found in 'other' development environments. Regards, Andrew E. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: EINVAL on socket read (Michael Still)
You use recv() for sockets, not read(), dummy! ;-P (I made that very same mistake while porting UNIX sockets programs to winsock at some ridiculous hour like 4a.m. a couple of days ago took me a few hours to realise what I had done, and I have been programming sockets for years). if (recv(socketfd, readBuffer, howBigIsReadBuffer, YourFlags) == -1) James Buchanan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development
Andy Eager wrote: 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. XWPE not suitable? Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andy Eager wrote: which is pretty schmick). huh? yiddish?? Does anyone know of any good development environments / editors for writting c-apps with multiple source files. Emacs is the original and the best: (try the 'xemacs' variant) http://www.xemacs.org/ GUI, syntax highlighting, integrated compilation debugging, version control, etc etc. What more could you ask for? ... It has it. Makes visual C++ look like dosedit. (or vi :) -- Mike Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:42:56PM +1000, Andy Eager wrote: Does anyone know of any good development environments / editors for writting c-apps with multiple source files. Of course. There are two equally valid answers, and they have existed for a _very_ long time. These are: 1) Unix (with vi or some other editor) or 2) Emacs (perhaps xemacs: it's prettier.) Both can do anything that you need for software development, quickly and easily. It's what they're for. Some people try to use emacs as the editor for 1), but that doesn't work as well as (2), because it loses some of the multi-buffer bennefits of emacs, and because emacs tends to be fairly slow to start up. You can use gnu-client to start up emacs _sessions_ fairly quickly. -- Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andrew Reilly wrote: There are two equally valid answers, and they have existed for a _very_ long time. These are: 1) Unix (with vi or some other editor) You mean working at the shell level? Is it possible to integrate vi with compilation debugging? e.g. - click on compiler error message to jump to that line in editor - single-stepping though source in the editor. Some people try to use emacs as the editor for 1), but that doesn't work as well as (2), because it loses some of the multi-buffer bennefits of emacs, and because emacs tends to be fairly slow to start up. In ye olde terminal days, emacs would just suspend (^Z) when not in use. -- Mike Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] mkisofs question.
OK, so I finally went out and got me a cd-rw.
The cd-writing howto gave me what I need to get it recognised by cdrecord,
and that part all works fine.
mkisofs even works, except for one annoying bloody problem.
If I have a directory structure like so
/pics/a
/b
/c
/d
/e
etc, and I tell mkisofs to make an image from /pics as the base directory,
it puts _all_ the pictures, regardless of originating sub directory, into
the / of the image {tested by mounting to a loop device and checking with
ls}.
Anyone know which of the multitude of switches in mkisofs I have to use to
tell the damn thing that I want it to make the image _with_ the sub
directories?
Thanks.
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] mkisofs question.
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:50:20 +1000, DaZZa wrote:
If I have a directory structure like so
/pics/a
/b
/c
/d
/e
etc, and I tell mkisofs to make an image from /pics as the base directory,
it puts _all_ the pictures, regardless of originating sub directory, into
the / of the image {tested by mounting to a loop device and checking with
ls}.
are you doing 'cd /pics; mkisofs .'? (as opposed to mkisofs *)
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RE: [SLUG] Re. Debian birth pangs: mail and Lilo ...
Thanks. When the install of Debian 2.2.r3 crashed twice at exactly the same place (X config) I decided that there must be a bug possibly due to download corruption and reverted to 2.2.r2 which I succeeded with today. I followed your advice re. 'apt-get dist-upgrade -u' and 'apt-get install mutt' . according to the messages there was no need to upgrade and the mutt install was to good to be true. I did the same with mozilla (M18) but found that it sat in the top leftrner in an area the size of the Gnome terminal without maximising - nor did the terminal. I hope it gets better. I also tried apt-get with StarOffice 5.2 without success. Neither 'soffice' nor 'StarOffice' worked. I know it can be downloaded from http://www.sun.com/staroffice - but surely apt-get does it better - is it part of the 2.2.r2 distribution ? Re. you have only just begun - I'm always keen to learn something new. Cheers, Adam Bogacki. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: David Kempe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 May, 2001 08:49 AM To: Adam F. Bogacki; Craige McWhirter Cc: Slug@Slug. Org. Au Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re. Debian birth pangs: mail and Lilo ... I've edited Lilo so that (I think) it works - a few minutes ago - but when installing 2.2.r3, X Windows refused to load which is ironic because I had it (and Gnome) running under 2.2.r2. I'll try setting it up with 'xf86config' when I have time, otherwise I'll re-run the install process. Have you got X installed? you seem to be forgetting apt-get. apt-get and apt-cache are your friends. None of this downloading mutt from the mutt website! just apt-get install mutt if you have added the cdroms to your /etc/apt/sources.list then it will get it off the cd. if you have commented out the http and ftp lines in your sources.list then it will get it off the net. apt-cache will search the list of available packages for the search string you specify. - it gives you the package name to install. My mail system is OK. PPP and exim were configured during installation but I was sad there was no Mutt included with the base installation or the network software package. I'll check the CD's, otherwise I'll download from www.mutt.org. One thing which worries me is that a number of device drivers did not install, specifically lp (printer) and none of the CD-ROM ones. This happened under both 2.2r2 and 2.2r3 I am not sure if this is a bug or if there is something I am missing. You are missing apt-get !!! :) There were no parameters involved with 'lp' so it could be a software problem, fixable (I hope) by downloading the appropriate driver from the Epson website. Similarly, a number of software packages did not install in the final part due to dependency and other problems which the program suggested could be fixed by running the install process - again (!). These, however, did not seem critical ... apt-get install mutt will install mutt but also will re-run any packages that are not fully installed. this generally cleans up any mess left behind. you also may want apt-get dist-upgrade -u which will download any packages that are dependencies also. I have to admit that the more I see of Debian, the more I appreciate it. You have only just begun! dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development
On 24 May, Mike Holland wrote: You mean working at the shell level? Is it possible to integrate vi with compilation debugging? Of course! Everything is integrated into the (multi-window) shell environment :-) - click on compiler error message to jump to that line in editor man 1 error - single-stepping though source in the editor. If you're single stepping through the source, you don't want to be editing... well, maybe in another window... Of course modern emacs does both of these things with everything in one window, if you like that sort of thing. In ye olde terminal days, emacs would just suspend (^Z) when not in use. Either that, or just treat it as the lisp-machine that it is, and do everyhthing in internal shell windows. -- Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] my zsh configuration files are online
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:49:14 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Hey, with zsh, you can get tab-completed man page information and stuff. Andre said he'd post his configs at some stage (and perhaps I missed it), but I'd be very interested to try this myself. Andre? okay, my zsh configs are finally posted :) see http://www.algorithm.com.au/talks/zsh/zsh-talk.html for a minorly updated webpage about the talk, or go directly to http://www.algorithm.com.au/talks/zsh/config/ to not collect $200. hope i don't have any incriminating stuff there. la di da -- #ozone/algorithm [EMAIL PROTECTED] - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: EINVAL on socket read (Michael Still)
connectionless use recvfrom/recvmsg.
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From: Angus Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:04 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Re: EINVAL on socket read (Michael Still)
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You use recv() for sockets, not read(), dummy! ;-P (I made that very
same
mistake while porting UNIX sockets programs to winsock at some
ridiculous
hour like 4a.m. a couple of days ago took me a few hours to realise
what
I had done, and I have been programming sockets for years).
if (recv(socketfd, readBuffer, howBigIsReadBuffer, YourFlags) == -1)
read(2) should work fine on sockets, too. depends on exactly what type
of information/control you want and read(2) tends to feel wierd on
connection-less protocols.
its not my fault winsock/windows decided *not* to make everything look
like a file.
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Good Editors for C development
vim syntax highlighting feels like Borland Turbo C/C++ if you like that and
program for windows. vim is nice and quick, no frills, in console mode.
Emacs can be very useful if you put the (lots of) time into learning how to
use it fully.
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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:10 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Re: Good Editors for C development
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On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andy Eager wrote:
Emacs is the original and the best: (try the 'xemacs' variant)
http://www.xemacs.org/
GUI, syntax highlighting, integrated compilation debugging, version
control, etc etc.
xemacs 21.4 just made it into debian unstable. its got some scary
extra widgets (like progress bars, and little buffer tabs along the
top), and it feels *much* snappier to use.
xemacs/GTK+ is now integrated with the main code tree, and the
MSWindows port should be much better too (installing it on the boss's
computer overnight, i'll have a look tomorrow. nice windows installer)
yay
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Re: [SLUG] Re: EINVAL on socket read (Michael Still)
On Fri, 25 May 2001, James Buchanan wrote: connectionless use recvfrom/recvmsg. You can use read/write if you call connect() first on your connectionless socket :-) - James -- James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: EINVAL on socket read (Michael Still)
On Fri, 25 May 2001, James Buchanan wrote: connectionless use recvfrom/recvmsg. You can use read/write if you call connect() first on your connectionless socket :-) - James Cool, thanks :-) I hadn't worked my way to that bit in my UNP book by Stevens yet ;-P, in fact I skipped the UDP parts altogther and went on to vol. 2 IPC. And to think all this time I had been so tightarse with my money that I simply read other people's code and the crappy windows docs, as you know Stevens is the master of all swordsmen, like someone on this list said it is a great loss that we no longer have him. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] VMware for Linux - a very long shot plea for help
Does anyone out there have any experience with running Wfwg311 under VMware for Linux, specifically - what network adaptor driver did you select? Off list replies please - this is tending towards being OT. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com _ We needn't, as socialists, get too concerned about privacy; it's a bourgeois right, closely allied to the right to private property. - Former Federal Health Minister Neal Blewett, addressing the Fabian Society in 1988 in relation to the Australia Card issue. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Re. Debian birth pangs: mail and Lilo ...
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: I also tried apt-get with StarOffice 5.2 without success. Neither 'soffice' nor 'StarOffice' worked. I know it can be downloaded from http://www.sun.com/staroffice - but surely apt-get does it better - is it part of the 2.2.r2 distribution ? Nope. StarOffice isn't DFSG free (maybe OpenOffice 6.0 is, but it's a dog) so it's not in the distro. I don't think anyone's packaged it because the license (IIRC) doesn't allow that sort of thing. You'll have to download and install it separately - them's the breaks. Re. you have only just begun - I'm always keen to learn something new. Well, you're on the right track for that. One thing which worries me is that a number of device drivers did not install, specifically lp (printer) and none of the CD-ROM ones. This happened under both 2.2r2 and 2.2r3 I am not sure if this is a bug or if there is something I am missing. This sounds like you didn't add the devices in the setup. For the printer: echo lp /etc/modules; modprobe lp should sort you out now and for the future. The CD-ROM drivers, well, for that you'll have to give details as to what sort it is - unless it's ATAPI (IDE), in which case the support is compiled in (I think - I roll my own kernels 99% of the time). There were no parameters involved with 'lp' so it could be a software problem, fixable (I hope) by downloading the appropriate driver from the Epson website. 'lp' is a kernel module to provide access to the parallel port. Supporting specific printers in the job of a userspace printing system - I recommend magicfilter, for all your printing needs. It uses GhostScript as it's print system, and it's pretty damn magic (IMO). -- --- #include disclaimer.h Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Good Editors for C development
This one time, at band camp, Mike Holland said: On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andrew Reilly wrote: There are two equally valid answers, and they have existed for a _very_ long time. These are: 1) Unix (with vi or some other editor) You mean working at the shell level? Is it possible to integrate vi with compilation debugging? e.g. - click on compiler error message to jump to that line in editor - single-stepping though source in the editor. Personally, I use vim, and use :make to build the code. Vim knows about gcc errors, so it takes you to the line that the error was reported on. You can run your compiled program from inside vim, too. As for singlestepping source, use the cursor keys :) Seriously, ddd is an awesome debugger, it's based arouns gdb, but has a clicky interface :) -- jamesw Jaq what's wrong with the default? :) jdub It is poopie. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] SSL for pop3 and smtp
Hi, I have a problem using stunnel for pop3 and smtp with the client Outlook 2000 (its my work email client) What the problem is when I send and receive email from outlook on the SSL connection it comes up with a prompt saying: The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that does not match its Internet address, do you want to continue using this server? I know what this error means, as the hostname doesn't match the email server. I had my hostname as eg: foo (why is this name so used?) and my domain is foo.bar so I changed my /etc/hostname to foo.bar (the domain is dyndns.org so I only started using it) generated a new key and used it in stunnel. However, it is still coming up with this error. I have checked the man pages and google, although I am positive I am missing something, but I don't know where else to look. Does anyone have any idea? Regards, Scott Ragen Technical Support - Roadtech Systems Ltd Phone: 02 98073516 Fax: 02 98085294 www.roadtechsystems.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Re. Debian birth pangs: mail and Lilo ...
I also tried apt-get with StarOffice 5.2 without success. Neither 'soffice' nor 'StarOffice' worked. I know it can be downloaded from http://www.sun.com/staroffice - but surely apt-get does it better - is it part of the 2.2.r2 distribution ? You also need apt-cache try apt-cache search staroffice or whatever package you are after. apt-cache show packagename also shows you more detail about the package you have found. Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Copying M$ floppies
I am trying to copy some M$ Office installation floppies to Linux to burn a LEGAL CDROM security archive. When I mount the floppy then df show them as having 1716224 bytes instead of the normal 1457664 bytes and they won't copy correctly. Can anyone tell me which /dev/fd0* I should be mounting these as. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com _ We needn't, as socialists, get too concerned about privacy; it's a bourgeois right, closely allied to the right to private property. - Former Federal Health Minister Neal Blewett, addressing the Fabian Society in 1988 in relation to the Australia Card issue. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:05:35AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: I am trying to copy some M$ Office installation floppies to Linux to burn a LEGAL CDROM security archive. When I mount the floppy then df show them as having 1716224 bytes instead of the normal 1457664 bytes and they won't copy correctly. Can anyone tell me which /dev/fd0* I should be mounting these as. First see if this works dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/fdimage and then write it to a new floppy with dd if=/tmp/fdimage of=/dev/fd0 if that doesn;t seemt to work then try a few of the following devices /dev/fd0u1722 /dev/fd0u1743 /dev/fd0u1760 -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com _ We needn't, as socialists, get too concerned about privacy; it's a bourgeois right, closely allied to the right to private property. - Former Federal Health Minister Neal Blewett, addressing the Fabian Society in 1988 in relation to the Australia Card issue. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- John Ferlito Senior Engineer - Bulletproof Networks ph: +61 (0) 410 519 382 http://www.bulletproof.net.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:05:35AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: When I mount the floppy then df show them as having 1716224 bytes instead of the normal 1457664 bytes and they won't copy correctly. This was an MS trick to prevent exactly what you're trying to do. They formatted the disks as 1.7MB to confound the casual pirater, and generally make life difficult for the rest of the world. Try one of: brw-rw1 root floppy 2, 60 Jul 6 2000 /dev/fd0u1722 brw-rw1 root floppy 2, 76 Jul 6 2000 /dev/fd0u1743 brw-rw1 root floppy 2, 96 Jul 6 2000 /dev/fd0u1760 Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired (probably at the first pawn) - but that's not the start. -- (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies
if that doesn;t seemt to work then try a few of the following devices /dev/fd0u1722 /dev/fd0u1743 /dev/fd0u1760 Google show me this: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9608.2/0138.html seems to make sense. Search for DMF floppy linux if you get stuck DMF is the way they are formatted Stands for Dodgy Microsoft Format i think :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] [OT] GitS
I was meant to bring a copy of GitS to SLUG tonight but failed to bring it with me. If anyone else has GitS on DVD and can bring it tonight there's a beer in it for you ;) Apologies for the OT mail. -- Cheers, Craige. PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] Re. Debian birth pangs: mail and Lilo ...
Adam F. Bogacki wrote: Thanks. When the install of Debian 2.2.r3 crashed twice at exactly the same place (X config) I decided that there must be a bug possibly due to download corruption and reverted to 2.2.r2 which I succeeded with today. I followed your advice re. 'apt-get dist-upgrade -u' and 'apt-get install mutt' . according to the messages there was no need to upgrade and the mutt install was to good to be true. I did the same with mozilla (M18) but found that it sat in the top leftrner in an area the size of the Gnome terminal without maximising - nor did the terminal. I hope it gets better. This sounds like you don't have a window manager installed. You might want to install kde or gnome, or something like blackbox if you want to save system resources. I also tried apt-get with StarOffice 5.2 without success. Neither 'soffice' nor 'StarOffice' worked. I know it can be downloaded from http://www.sun.com/staroffice - but surely apt-get does it better - is it part of the 2.2.r2 distribution ? If you don't know the package name you can usually find by doing apt-cache search office if you want to find packages whose name or description contains `office' See man apt-cache, but yeah Im not sure if soffice is in the distribution. - Josh -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies
Tks, guys. mount /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt/floppy is what works, so file it away for future use. Damned M$ - I really hate it with a passion. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com _ We needn't, as socialists, get too concerned about privacy; it's a bourgeois right, closely allied to the right to private property. - Former Federal Health Minister Neal Blewett, addressing the Fabian Society in 1988 in relation to the Australia Card issue. On Fri, 25 May 2001, David Kempe wrote: Google show me this: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9608.2/0138.html seems to make sense. Search for DMF floppy linux if you get stuck DMF is the way they are formatted Stands for Dodgy Microsoft Format i think :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Video card problems - suggested causes?
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:00:59PM +1000, DaZZa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Folks. I've got a recent problem with my video card which appears in both X and text mode, and is giving me the irrits. What basically happens is that I get shadowing right across the screen of every character - so in text mode it looks like I have dark lines across the screen at the levels of the text, and in X I get a complete shadowed image which spreads right across the screen. Anyone got any clues as to what may be causing it? This is only good guess, but the smallest magnetic interference will cause this (its called ghosting); the image is basically twice on the screen (or more). * do you have two monitors near each other? * make sure that the video cable (from pc to screen) is not close to the power cable or other high voltage cables. * swap the ends of the cable * swap the video cable * move the monitor * move the card NEXT to it into a different slot * keep the PCI slot next to it free The same effect you can see with high metal based buildings which reflect the TV signal and you get two signal (time delayed). If you cant fix it change the frequency until the effect disappears. jobst -- Read my lips: I'm Lying. |__, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director| | _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L | |-(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] SSL for pop3 and smtp
You are going to need to regenerate the stunnel pem certificate... something like openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes \ -config /usr/share/doc/stunnel-3.14/stunnel.cnf \ -out /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem -keyout /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem make sure the common name or your name option exactly matches the new server name... -Colin On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:41:53AM +1000, Scott Ragen wrote: Hi, I have a problem using stunnel for pop3 and smtp with the client Outlook 2000 (its my work email client) What the problem is when I send and receive email from outlook on the SSL connection it comes up with a prompt saying: The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that does not match its Internet address, do you want to continue using this server? I know what this error means, as the hostname doesn't match the email server. I had my hostname as eg: foo (why is this name so used?) and my domain is foo.bar so I changed my /etc/hostname to foo.bar (the domain is dyndns.org so I only started using it) generated a new key and used it in stunnel. However, it is still coming up with this error. I have checked the man pages and google, although I am positive I am missing something, but I don't know where else to look. Does anyone have any idea? Regards, Scott Ragen Technical Support - Roadtech Systems Ltd Phone: 02 98073516 Fax: 02 98085294 www.roadtechsystems.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Your excuse is: /dev/clue was linked to /dev/null PGP signature
[SLUG] Purchasing stuff at SLUG meetings
Does anyone normally bring distro CDs etc to SLUG meetings? I want to get hold of Debian 2.2r3, and picking one up at SLUG would be the handiest way. Thanks AdamK -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Purchasing stuff at SLUG meetings
quote who=Adam Kennedy Does anyone normally bring distro CDs etc to SLUG meetings? I want to get hold of Debian 2.2r3, and picking one up at SLUG would be the handiest way. Anthony Rumble usually brings a collection of things along, and will probably have some Debian there. I usually have a habit of burning a disk 1 for anyone who needs one (it's the useful one)... If you'd like one, give me some more notice. - Jeff -- It's not a disease, it's an occupation! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Killing xdm
How do you kill xdm?
(apart from kill -9 pid)
I have a very fast respawning xdm on a recent RH70 (server)
installation. Unfortunately, it just spawns the Xfree login window,
gives incorrect password amd asks for it all again. I'm still head
scratching as to where it is respawning itself from.
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Re: [SLUG] Killing xdm
If it were Debian I would just say: run /etc/init.d/xdm stop My memory is hazy on RedHat. I *think* you need to switch to run level 3 to get away from it. There's other ways too I don't recall now. Thus spake Terry Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), on 0: How do you kill xdm? (apart from kill -9 pid) I have a very fast respawning xdm on a recent RH70 (server) installation. Unfortunately, it just spawns the Xfree login window, gives incorrect password amd asks for it all again. I'm still head scratching as to where it is respawning itself from. -- Cheers, Craige. PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] Killing xdm
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:20:14PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: How do you kill xdm? (apart from kill -9 pid) I have a very fast respawning xdm on a recent RH70 (server) installation. Unfortunately, it just spawns the Xfree login window, gives incorrect password amd asks for it all again. I'm still head scratching as to where it is respawning itself from. The respawning is probably from /etc/inittab. Stopping a runaway xdm process initially can be done by changing to a text terminal and then 'telinit 3' to get a more appropriate runlevel for debugging (but I'm not sure if this is what you're asking, Terry). Malcolm -- No one is listening until you make a mistake. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Killing xdm
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:20:14PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: I'm still head scratching as to where it is respawning itself from. Probably from here: [johnc@dropbear ~]$ grep -1 xdm /etc/inittab # Run xdm in runlevel 5 # xdm is now a separate service x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon Comment out this line, run `telinit q' and it shoud go away. Alternatively, switch to run level 3. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Take home a terminal tonight.
Hello Everyone, I have been just given another alpha-numeric terminal and keyboard, but I have absolutely no space to store it. So I am looking for someone who is willing to pick-up the terminal at tonight's meeting. So if you have been lusting after a terminal then here is your change to add to you computing family. Regards Mark 1 x C.itoh CIT 224 w/ keyboard Screen Col: amber on black Comm ports: 2 x DB25 Keyboard: uses custom c.itoh keyboard RJ11 (6P4C) clear and clean screen no visible burn in Emulates: VT52, VT100, VT220-7, VT220-8 DEC VT220 clone (identical menus) in a Modern style case but still solidly build ... like army tanks! -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Purchasing stuff at SLUG meetings
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:49:46PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Adam Kennedy Does anyone normally bring distro CDs etc to SLUG meetings? I want to get hold of Debian 2.2r3, and picking one up at SLUG would be the handiest way. Anthony Rumble usually brings a collection of things along, and will probably have some Debian there. I usually have a habit of burning a disk 1 for anyone who needs one (it's the useful one)... If you'd like one, give me some more notice. [/adam winds clock back a couple of days and retransmits] also, isn't every newsagent in the country selling Debian 2.2r3 on the advanced linux pocketbook at the moment? Conrad. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:11:59AM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: This was an MS trick to prevent exactly what you're trying to do. They formatted the disks as 1.7MB to confound the casual pirater, and generally make life difficult for the rest of the world. Look, I don't much MS either, but... Back in the bad old days before every desktop machine had a CD-ROM drive, and most people were installing from floppies, MS squeezing an extra few hundred K onto the floppies can only be a good thing. Win 3.11 came on 7 floppies. If they had been using 1.44Mb, they would have had to have used 9 floppies instead. I'd say that is good thing. Less swapping of disks, less media to pay for, less media to store, less media that could get corrupted with errors. I'm sorry, I just don't see how they make life difficult for anyone. Except inept pirates, who I couldn't give a stuff about. -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies
Even in dos days, these DMF disks could be copied without extra utils... it was just a matter of hacking around with the FAT table name.. norton diskedit/secotreditor was good for this :) On Fri, 25 May 2001, Andrew Bennetts wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:11:59AM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: This was an MS trick to prevent exactly what you're trying to do. They formatted the disks as 1.7MB to confound the casual pirater, and generally make life difficult for the rest of the world. Look, I don't much MS either, but... Back in the bad old days before every desktop machine had a CD-ROM drive, and most people were installing from floppies, MS squeezing an extra few hundred K onto the floppies can only be a good thing. Win 3.11 came on 7 floppies. If they had been using 1.44Mb, they would have had to have used 9 floppies instead. I'd say that is good thing. Less swapping of disks, less media to pay for, less media to store, less media that could get corrupted with errors. I'm sorry, I just don't see how they make life difficult for anyone. Except inept pirates, who I couldn't give a stuff about. -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Purchasing stuff at SLUG meetings
quote who=Conrad Parker I usually have a habit of burning a disk 1 for anyone who needs one (it's the useful one)... If you'd like one, give me some more notice. [/adam winds clock back a couple of days and retransmits] Oh, oh... I didn't mean that. :) I meant, if Adam wants one, he can give me some more notice for tonight. I can do one now if you want just the first disk... - Jeff -- Can we have a special TELSABUG category, and everything gets dropped to fix them first? - Telsa Gwynne -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Copying M$ floppies
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: I am trying to copy some M$ Office installation floppies to Linux to burn a LEGAL CDROM security archive. When I mount the floppy then df show them as having 1716224 bytes instead of the normal 1457664 bytes and they won't copy correctly. They do this by cheating, and modifying the number of directory entries allowed in the root of the disk - which frees up more space to put the image on. Can anyone tell me which /dev/fd0* I should be mounting these as. No, but you should be able to use dd to copy them, vis-a-vis dd if=/dev/fd0 of=ms_disk_1 bs=512 Repeat as necessary, changing the name of the file specified in the of= option. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
