Re: [SLUG] LaTeX - Word?
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: ::Hi all, :: ::It look like the recruiter parasite absolutely refuse to handle ::PDF documents and I'll have to find a way to convert my beautifully ::crafted LaTeX resume into Word. :: ::Does anybody have another solution? I hate to bring up microsoft but there is a windows based application called tex2word (http://www.word2tex.com) which people in my dept have been using successfully. So if you have access to windows it may be worth a try. Thanks, melinda -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Multiple X displays
Hello all, I have come across this problem when using multiple X displays in redhat 7.3. If my inittab file is set to '3' (ie starting up without X) I can login and then start up X using the 'startx' command. I can then CTRL_ALT-F1 and command line login again, and logon to my other server using the command: X :1 -indirect server vt8 I can then logon to my chosen broadcasting server and the use CTRL-ALT-F7 and CTRL-ALT-F8 to change between my local X session and the session where I have logged on to another host respectively. However, if I set the boottime run level to 5 (ie X starts up at boot) when I try to do the same thing (CNTRL-ALT-F1) it just brings up a grey screen when I execute X :1 -indirect server vt8 and doesn't ever present a chooser screen. The X error log /varr/log/Xfree:1.log doesn't tell me anything either, no error messages Can someone else try this out on their machine and see. Note that when booting up in runtime 5 and executing 'startx -- :1 vt8' to start another X session - does work, but startx can't be used to connect to a remote server that is broadcasting (am I correct?) Thanks, Melinda -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Multiple X displays
quote who=Melinda Taylor However, if I set the boottime run level to 5 (ie X starts up at boot) when I try to do the same thing (CNTRL-ALT-F1) it just brings up a grey screen when I execute X :1 -indirect server vt8 and doesn't ever present a chooser screen. The X error log /varr/log/Xfree:1.log doesn't tell me anything either, no error messages Can someone else try this out on their machine and see. Note that when booting up in runtime 5 and executing 'startx -- :1 vt8' to start another X session - does work, but startx can't be used to connect to a remote server that is broadcasting (am I correct?) *boggle* Strangely enough, I was trying to do this the other night at Granville TAFE, to give my Debian talk. My iBook doesn't have VGA output, so I often use GDM and someone else's notebook and X server to do talks. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it going, with exactly the same problems you've described. I did not try getting out of runlevel 5. (This is a good example why using inittab for X is a bad idea - I couldn't simply stop kdm and do my own thing.) I reckon you should take this up on one of the Red Hat lists if you don't get an answer here. - Jeff -- I think hot Chinese girls who kick ass are the wave of the future, as far as films go. - Cody Russell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Multiple X displays
Melinda Taylor wrote: Can someone else try this out on their machine and see. Note that when booting up in runtime 5 and executing 'startx -- :1 vt8' to start another X session - does work, but startx can't be used to connect to a remote server that is broadcasting (am I correct?) you can do startx -- -broadcast IIRC. however, what is X? is it a symlink to something else? does running XFree86 -broadcast :1 work? We have a rehdat 6.2 box on the network here that quite happily does this from my mandrake system. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] VPN with failover
Richard, a lot depends on what your basic config is. Somehow you need to be able to determine that your primary link has failed and whether that failure is just the VPN tunnel or the link itself and hence also the VPN, and if so which end is at fault. I use BP ADSL together with VPNs for a lot of my clients so I see ppp interfaces which means that I can do ipsec, dyn dns and firewall things in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and /etc/ppp/ip-down.local scripts. If you don't have a ppp interface then you need to think how else you can determine the health of the links. On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Richard Hayes wrote: Dear lists, It easy enough to create VPN using FreesWan. With a connection between Sydney - Melbourne but I would like to use an alternate route if the link fails. My thinking is to create a script 'ppp-vpn' with the usual stuff but then if the link does not respond within 10 mins the box runs a scripts 'vpn-alternate' using a modem and changes the routing table. Are there any problems doing this? Are there any pre-written scripts that I could modify? Any other ideas or suggestions regards, Richard Hayes -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com Flatter government, not fatter government. - me Get rid of the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Yamaha YMF-724F Soundcard
Hi Everyone, I did manage to get my soundcard working sweetly with the standard kernel drivers, however some people on the list told me that certain games wouldn't work because of some features not implimented with the kernel module and suggested to try ALSA. I have looked at the ALSA site and my card doesn't seem to be listed as an ALSA compatible card. Has someone here actually got this card working with ALSA and if so which module did you end up using?? Cheers, Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Majordomo to Mailman
Has anyone done a switch from Majordomo to Mailman without losing archives etc.? Care to give any pointers? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com Flatter government, not fatter government. - me Get rid of the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Yamaha YMF-724F Soundcard
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 17:04, Adam Hewitt wrote: I have looked at the ALSA site and my card doesn't seem to be listed as an ALSA compatible card. Has someone here actually got this card working with ALSA and if so which module did you end up using?? The sound card matrix at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ lists a couple of entries for YMF-724 cards, and link to a pdf of technical documentation for the YMF-724F chipset. According to http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=Yamahacard=chip=YMF724module=ymfpci the driver you want is snd-ymfpci. That page also covers installing ALSA fairly well. -- Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being that the words got in the way. -- Nanny Ogg (Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Yamaha YMF-724F Soundcard
Please disregard this email...it appears I was looking at the wrong list... On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 17:04, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi Everyone, I did manage to get my soundcard working sweetly with the standard kernel drivers, however some people on the list told me that certain games wouldn't work because of some features not implimented with the kernel module and suggested to try ALSA. I have looked at the ALSA site and my card doesn't seem to be listed as an ALSA compatible card. Has someone here actually got this card working with ALSA and if so which module did you end up using?? Cheers, Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] MailMan no work no mo
Evenin'
I am running a Debian woody server which runs several MailMan lists which
have been running sweetly until just recently. The only thing I can think of
that has changed is that, like you do, I installed the recent MailMan
security fix for woody that came out a cuppla days ago.
Now, no messages are getting through. If I do a test subscribe from the web
interface, I get the acknowledgement email asking for a reply but nothing
comes back.
A check in the logs reveals this suspicious tid-bit:
Aug 14 18:48:03 2002 qrunner(1300): File /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailComma
ndHandler.py, line 123, in ParseMailCommands
Aug 14 18:48:03 2002 qrunner(1300): precedence = msg.get('precedence',
'').lower()
Aug 14 18:48:03 2002 qrunner(1300): AttributeError : 'string' object has no
attribute 'lower'
Is anyone else having trouble since the new version was released? Possibly
one of our Pythons might see the problem?
--
David
--
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Re: [SLUG] LaTeX - Word?
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:34:25 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It look like the recruiter parasite absolutely refuse to handle PDF documents Well it looks like the recruiter parasite has agreed to live with my PDF document :-). I rang the guy (more than a week after he requested the Word version), insisted that I had not found a good way to convert my document to Word and it looks like he bought it. I also offerred to create a version of the document with all my personal details removed if he needs it. I'm now going to stand my ground on this and NEVER again supply any of these parasites a Word document. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ He who writes the code gets to choose his license, and nobody else gets to complain -- Linus Torvalds -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX - Word?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik de Castro L opo writes: On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:34:25 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm now going to stand my ground on this and NEVER again supply any of these parasites a Word document. Good. Give the turd Postscript next time. -- David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] strange mounting/filesystem behaviour
Hey Sluggers, I am setting up a server here that is SMP, with an onboard SCSI controller that has 1 36Gb disk and an Adaptec 3210s RAID controller with 3 more 18Gb disks, 2 in a RAID1 array and 1 just by itself. So the disks are /dev/sda for the onboard, the single on the RAID controller is /dev/sdb and the RAID1 aray is /dev/sdc. The drivers for the SCSI controller and the RAID controller seem to be working great. I am using Debian Woody - the official release ISO with kernel 2.4.18-smp kernel image (standard debian download). In trying to get the disks working, I have partioned them like so: NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) sda1Primary Linux swap 1019.94 sda2BootPrimary Linux ext3 3997.49 sda3Primary Linux ext3 31395.90 sdb1Primary Linux ext3 18194.32 sdc1Primary Linux ext3 18194.32 /dev/sda is the problem disk as when i I mount /dev/sda3 # mount /dev/sda3 /dump/ it works but, # df -mh FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 3.7G 166M 3.3G 5% / /dev/sdb1 17G 33M 15G 1% /home /dev/sdc1 17G 71M 15G 1% /var /dev/sda3 14G 33M 13G 1% /dump So why does cfdisk report 33Gb (reality) when df reports 13G? any suggestions? thanks, dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] What distribution???
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, James Gregory wrote: Brendan Dacre wrote: production and I want them to always work, be stable and easily maintainable (upgradeable and patchable). The standard answer at this point is debian. I suspect I will be considered odd for saying so, but I've not had good experiences with debian and upgrading software. My gut feeling at this point is Debian, But I am only just about to start using it myself. I'm normally a Slackware user, but Slackware is targeted at production environments where the intention is not to upgrade anything that works, and it all works out of the box. i.e. upgrades not automated. If you really do want to start from scratch (and IMHO it's much more work than it's worth), try linuxfromscratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/) I will pass on advice from someone I know who's done it: It's far easier to customise (and strip down) slackware than to build from scratch. :) In the other two cases, again, any packaged distribution will do that. You just need to add the packages to your CD and add those packages to the relevant list of packages. Agreed. They all have methods of setting up a custom 'Standard' installation set, and all have the option of installing or not installing development packages and X. Ok, I recommend the following: use Debian on your servers. If you don't ask it to do extraordinary stuff (and I know I'm going to be rebutted there) it will work, it will be stable and secure and it will give you an easy way to upgrade your software. For your workstation machines, Mandrake is great. It's a really nice desktop OS. It also has a easy way to install and upgrade new software, On the whole, good advice. It's up to you whether you want the variety of using two distributions rather than one. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX - Word?
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:48:45 +1000 David Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good. Give the turd Postscript next time. Postscript is too hard to display on windows. I'll send them PDF. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. -- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Fw: help!
- Original Message - From: Sammy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 10:39 PM Subject: help! Hi there, I came along to the Linux workshop the other week, learned lots of things and had some new software installed onto my poota - specifically Mandrake 8.2 and OpenOffice: thank you! I was talking to Richard and Bradley I think. When I set up the poota back home and plugged in the external modem I forgot to bring leads for to the workshop, all was well. However, when I tried to open Evolution, it crashed. I couldn't even open a terminal screen. I reset it, and since thenMandrake hasn't been able to boot up. Do you have any ideas about (a) why it's not booting up and (b) what can be done so that Mandrake is happy again... Thanks, Sam
Re: [SLUG] strange mounting/filesystem behaviour
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, David Kempe wrote: NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) sda1Primary Linux swap 1019.94 sda2BootPrimary Linux ext3 3997.49 sda3Primary Linux ext3 31395.90 # df -mh FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 3.7G 166M 3.3G 5% / /dev/sdb1 17G 33M 15G 1% /home /dev/sdc1 17G 71M 15G 1% /var /dev/sda3 14G 33M 13G 1% /dump So why does cfdisk report 33Gb (reality) when df reports 13G? any suggestions? The filesystem is smaller than the partition? This could happen if mkfs wrongly detected the partition size. I've not seen this happen except when I've had cause to do raw copies of partitions, but you can check this by doing: dumpe2fs /dev/sda3 | grep 'Block.*:' (the last part so it doesn't fill your screen) Multiply 'Block count' by 'Block size' and compare this with your figures above. If it's the same as what df is reporting, then your filesystem isn't using the whole partition, and you should probably back up and recreate it, probably giving the real size to mkfs. If it's the same as what cfdisk reports, I don't have a clue what's going on. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fw: help!
Hi Sam, If you could tell us what the screen says as it's trying to boot up that would help. So far it could be: a) hardware b) disk check required c) something else We'd love to help if we can. Stu On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 21:20, Sammy wrote: - Original Message - From: Sammy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 10:39 PM Subject: help! Hi there, I came along to the Linux workshop the other week, learned lots of things and had some new software installed onto my poota - specifically Mandrake 8.2 and OpenOffice: thank you! I was talking to Richard and Bradley I think. When I set up the poota back home and plugged in the external modem I forgot to bring leads for to the workshop, all was well. However, when I tried to open Evolution, it crashed. I couldn't even open a terminal screen. I reset it, and since then Mandrake hasn't been able to boot up. Do you have any ideas about (a) why it's not booting up and (b) what can be done so that Mandrake is happy again... Thanks, Sam -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] video4linux
Hi, I have a tv tuner card (pv-bt878p+ w/FM) going ok with xawtv. It can save avi files, at the rate of about 160 meg per minute. Xanim plays it back. I'm having a bit of trouble finding my way round the the rest of it though. I have been looking at the debian/woody vstream package, mjpegtools, and fame et al, and getting problems such as: - lavrec fails in an ioctl call - stream trys to open ludicrous device files, and attempts to open read/write - mjpegtools fails to compile. - The linux howto suggests a completely unknown package, called vcr. - fame fails to compile, and a third utility with it wouldnt even unpack. What I want to know is, whats the secret here? How do you make compressed videos? Has anybody able to string complete sentences together documented it? Something out there has to work. Especially with a debian system. If anyone knows, please post me a few links. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] LDAP and mail aliases
Boomshanka! I've just started playing with LDAP in my dev environment, I want it to do the following : * UNIX authentication * Samba authentication * Apache authentication * POP/IMAP authentication * Mail routing * Contact list stuff Most of this is working OK (openldap/sendmail/courier all running on debian). The one thing I'm having trouble with is setting up LDAP to support mail aliases. To clarify, I want to be able to set up mailing lists and contact groups in ldap and then add existing LDAP users into those groups. I've looked at a couple of other MTA's (postfix and courier) in case it was a sendmail issue, no difference really. Has anyone done this (I do it with Netscape at the moment) with any standard linux software? Comments, suggestions? TIA Greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [SLUG] video4linux
quote who=Peter Garrone I'm having a bit of trouble finding my way round the the rest of it though. I have been looking at the debian/woody vstream package, mjpegtools, and fame et al, and getting problems such as: - lavrec fails in an ioctl call - stream trys to open ludicrous device files, and attempts to open read/write - mjpegtools fails to compile. - The linux howto suggests a completely unknown package, called vcr. - fame fails to compile, and a third utility with it wouldnt even unpack. What I want to know is, whats the secret here? How do you make compressed videos? Has anybody able to string complete sentences together documented it? Something out there has to work. Especially with a debian system. If anyone knows, please post me a few links. I've used vcr successfully to record avi movies in divx format... The good news? It is in woody! apt-cache show vcr Package: vcr Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 212 Maintainer: David LaBissoniere [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.09-4 Depends: libavifile0.6 (= 0.6.0.20011220-1.1), libc6 (= 2.2.4-4), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (= 1:2.95.4-0.010810) Description: v4l video capture program allows capturing and compressing segments of video from any device supported by video4linux. It doesn't require a graphical environment, and you can use all popular windows codecs (like DivX, Indeo Video 5, etc) because VCR is built around the avifile library. It's a command line tool for recording... I use xine to play the movies back. About 4 days about, also, there was the 1.0 release of a package called cinelerra... which provides video editing facilities in a GPL package. I spent a few minutes the other night trying to get it to compile on woody without luck, but I plan to get that going, and I'll let SLUG know what my experience is with it. Anyone else looked at cinelerra? Cheers, J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: No TV and No Beer make Homer something something Marge: Go Crazy? Homer: Don't mind if I do! rrrarrgghar! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LDAP and mail aliases
Tony, A quick google search found this: http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/cf/m4/ldap.html there were a lot of other hits including a patch from Sun to use LDAP for aliases. Have no experience with it myself... Regards Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LDAP and mail aliases
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 09:16, Matthew Hannigan wrote: Tony, A quick google search found this: http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/cf/m4/ldap.html there were a lot of other hits including a patch from Sun to use LDAP for aliases. Have no experience with it myself... That is what I already have (should have said, sorry). It allows you to set up a number of email addresses to be in a group, but not users. I want a 'pointer' to user FRED in the LDAP entry for the mailing list, not [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is what that does). Sorry - wasn't verbose enough before, but thanks for the info. Greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: [SLUG] Linux Boot error Code
Warning : linear may generate cylinder # above 1023 at boot Fatal : sector address 40122944 to large for linear ( try LBA 32 instead ) I'd say here is your problem. It sounds like your BIOS is a bit old and can't handle LBA32 mode, and the partition you are trying to boot from is too far into your disk. You can google around for information on trying to boot above the 1023 limit; the long and the short of it is that IDE disks were originally designed that each sector is addressed by a Cylinder,Head,Track (C,H,T) tuple, and the old bios's have only 24 bits assigned for this. You end up with 10 bits for your cylinder address (cylinder 0 is special hence 1023) and this limit. LBA32 mode is an extension that allows you to get around this, but it's no good if your bios doesn't support it. You have a number of options * update your bios (maybe not an option) * put your boot partition at the FRONT of your disk (probably best solution) * get any old (small) drive and put that in and boot from that * use a boot disk all the time Good luck, -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wienand.org ** CAUTION: This message may contain confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any use or disclosure of this message is prohibited. If you received this message in error please notify Mail Administrators immediately. You must obtain all necessary intellectual property clearances before doing anything other than displaying this message on your monitor. There is no intellectual property licence. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Woolworths Ltd. ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Mailsweeper or mailmarshall
Does anyone know of a Linux product that performs similar functions to Mailsweeper or Mailmarshall. I know about Sanitizer and Spam Assassin and various RBLs. I also know about AMAVIS, but I don't use it so I don't know how it compares. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com Flatter government, not fatter government. - me Get rid of the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mailsweeper or mailmarshall
MailScanner from www.mailscanner.info is good to tie all the pieces (RBL, spamassassin, virus scanning,sendmail/exim) together. I don't think it will scan for 'bad words', but it's in perl and open source... Tim White - Original Message - From: Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mail List - SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mail List - Oz-ISP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:00 AM Subject: [SLUG] Mailsweeper or mailmarshall Does anyone know of a Linux product that performs similar functions to Mailsweeper or Mailmarshall. I know about Sanitizer and Spam Assassin and various RBLs. I also know about AMAVIS, but I don't use it so I don't know how it compares. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com Flatter government, not fatter government. - me Get rid of the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Problems setting up a PPP Dial in Server
It looks like your Layer 1's SNR is too low. In short, your telephone connection is very bad, you may want to get your provider to do a line noise check on it. Try borrowing a nullmodem to test the ppp connection first. Pete de Zwart. Around about 2320h 13/08/2002, ramon buckland emitted the following wisdom: 08-01-2002 12:26:46.73 - Recv: CONNECT 9600/ARQ 08-01-2002 12:26:46.73 - Interpreted response: Connect 08-01-2002 12:26:46.73 - Connection established at 9600bps. 08-01-2002 12:26:46.73 - Error-control on. 08-01-2002 12:26:46.73 - Data compression off or unknown. 08-01-2002 12:26:46.74 - 9600,N,8,1 08-01-2002 12:27:20.59 - Hanging up the modem. 08-01-2002 12:27:20.59 - Hardware hangup by lowering DTR. 08-01-2002 12:27:21.32 - Recv: crlfNO CARRIERcrlf -- The real reason your computer crashed, thanx to the BOFH: NOTICE: alloc: /dev/null: filesystem full msg25465/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] LDAP and mail aliases
quote who=Tony Green That is what I already have (should have said, sorry). It allows you to set up a number of email addresses to be in a group, but not users. I want a 'pointer' to user FRED in the LDAP entry for the mailing list, not [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is what that does). Why the distinction? - Jeff -- Free software never simply picks up its marbles and goes home. - Jonathan Corbet, LWN -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] 'lookup of host Primus failed in smarthost router'
Hi, when trying to send mail in Mutt I keep getting the message 'message x has been frozen the sender is adam@Tux The following adress(es) have yet to be delivered: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lookup of host Primus failed in smarthost router [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lookup of host Primus failed in smarthost router' I've solved the other problems but this is not familiar. Why is 'Primus' not being recognised ? Adam Bogacki [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LDAP and mail aliases
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 11:55, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Tony Green That is what I already have (should have said, sorry). It allows you to set up a number of email addresses to be in a group, but not users. I want a 'pointer' to user FRED in the LDAP entry for the mailing list, not [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is what that does). Why the distinction? So I don't have to worry about writing something that'll keep things in sync. If user FRED changes his email address etc, it should be automatically updated in all mailing groups he's in. It will also make the 'front end' look nicer. I won't have to reverse lookup each email address to find out who it belongs to. I can write something to do it, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[SLUG] Vim help-file tags not found
Goodday all! I'm a bit bamboozled by the behaviour of Vim (6.1 Debian) on my machine at home. The F1 key doesn't produce the vim help-files. I can read the help files in vim by specifically opening any of the files in /usr/share/vim/vim61/doc. But if I try to jump to another tag using Ctrl-] I get an error message (E344 iirc - it's at home) about 'no tag file found' -- and yet the tag file is there in the doc directory. Strangely enough Ctrl-O will take me back to whatever help file I might have previously looked at. The prehistory is that I had my own compiled version (not a deb-src debuild one) of vim, where the $VIMRUNTIME path was through /usr/local/share rather than /usr/share. For wiw I've got exuberant-ctags, but I can't see why I should need to generate tags for vim. This machine at work has a more-or-less parallel history, but works OK in this regard. Any help would be much appreciated, Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LDAP and mail aliases
quote who=Tony Green So I don't have to worry about writing something that'll keep things in sync. If user FRED changes his email address etc, it should be automatically updated in all mailing groups he's in. It will also make the 'front end' look nicer. I won't have to reverse lookup each email address to find out who it belongs to. I can write something to do it, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. Hmm, my perspective on this was that changing an email address is done so rarely that it wasn't worth the abstraction - however, that also means that writing code to handle that particular case is not quite worth it too. :-) I'll have a look around, it's a good point. - Jeff -- NASCAR is not race per se. It's just a contest about who can turn left the best. - Unknown -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Mailsweeper or mailmarshall
Thus spake Howard Lowndes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Does anyone know of a Linux product that performs similar functions to
Mailsweeper or Mailmarshall.
I know about Sanitizer and Spam Assassin and various RBLs. I also know
about AMAVIS, but I don't use it so I don't know how it compares.
The cool thing about mail{sweeper|marshal} is their MIME decoding
abilities, so you'll want to be checking out MIMEDefang,
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/
It's written in perl so performance at large sites may be suboptimal,
but in any case can't be worse than mailsweeper or mailmarshal.
Nick
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Re: [SLUG] Mailsweeper or mailmarshall
http://www.messagewall.org/ ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Konsole 'flashing' behaviour with Mutt
Hi, when I use Mutt in Konsole the image appears and disappears in a 'flashing' mode, with perhaps a 0.5 second interval. How do I stop this ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (current ISP, not for much longer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (forwarding). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] RH7.2 Networking
Hi all, I am installing a new system IPEX P4 1.6Ghz - same as an existing machine I have as a server. When I run the install (from the CD). It does not detect the Network card on install and so does not set it up. Once it is installed I have tried netconf, and although this writes the details to ifcfg-eth0 the network does not start. How do I get networking installed? This is a server only with no X windows interface. _ Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramata ICQ#: 137562751 _ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Directory removal
Hi all, A directory has been created of which we can't remove it. The reason being is we can't see it! I have found out how to list it in octal, which is: \033[C\033 But, how do I delete it? Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Directory removal
Scott wrote: A directory has been created of which we can't remove it. The reason being is we can't see it! I have found out how to list it in octal, which is: \033[C\033 But, how do I delete it? Try 'rm -ri *' in the directory above, and answer yes when it askes you if you want to delete it. disclaimer I'm not responsible if you accidently remove the wrong thing though. /disclamer Matthew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Directory removal
Tried, but there is over 3000 files in there Cheers, Scott -Original Message- From: Matthew Dalton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2002 3:25 PM To: Scott Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Directory removal Scott wrote: A directory has been created of which we can't remove it. The reason being is we can't see it! I have found out how to list it in octal, which is: \033[C\033 But, how do I delete it? Try 'rm -ri *' in the directory above, and answer yes when it askes you if you want to delete it. disclaimer I'm not responsible if you accidently remove the wrong thing though. /disclamer Matthew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Directory removal
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:31:34PM +1000, Scott wrote: I have found out how to list it in octal, which is: \033[C\033 But, how do I delete it? Octal 33 is escape. You can type special characters using control-v. Try `ls control-v escape [C control-v escape'. If this shows the right file, repeat with `rm' instead of `ls'. It looks like some sort of terminal escape sequence. `Escape [C' moves the cursor right one column. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Directory removal
scott == scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: scott Hi all, A directory has been created of which we can't remove scott it. The reason being is we can't see it! I have found out how scott to list it in octal, which is: \033[C\033 But, how do I delete scott it? rmdir '^VESC[C^VESC' (that's control-V escape left-bracket C control-V escape) The control-V lets the escape get through the shell, assuming you're using bash and you haven't remapped the keyboard in weird ways. Petr C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Vim help-file tags not found
But if I try to jump to another tag using Ctrl-] I get an error message (E344 iirc - it's at home) about 'no tag file found' -- and yet the tag file is there in the doc directory. And if i just invoke the help-files from the F1 key, I get: E433: No tags file E426: tag not found: help.txt No Vim experts here? Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Directory removal
Cheers, It worked perfectly! Regards, Scott -Original Message- From: Andrew Bennetts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2002 3:38 PM To: Scott Subject: Re: [SLUG] Directory removal On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:31:34PM +1000, Scott wrote: Tried, but there is over 3000 files in there Maybe try: rm -i *[C* or even: rm -i `echo -e \003[C\003` -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Vim help-file tags not found
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:42:49PM +1000, Nick Croft wrote: But if I try to jump to another tag using Ctrl-] I get an error message (E344 iirc - it's at home) about 'no tag file found' -- and yet the tag file is there in the doc directory. And if i just invoke the help-files from the F1 key, I get: E433: No tags file E426: tag not found: help.txt No Vim experts here? I'm not a Vim expert, but I guess that maybe you have $VIM or $VIMRUNTIME or something like that still set and pointing to the wrong place (/usr/local ?)... maybe see if they are set, unset them, and try it that way? Otherwise I've got no idea :( -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Directory removal
I'm sure there would be a more intelligent way but would it be practical to move all the other directories/files within that directory to a temporary location, wipe out the parent directory (rm -r parent, which I assume would kill off the mystery directory as well), recreate the parent, then copy the other directories back? Not very elegant but might do the the trick? Cheers.Steve. From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]@slug.org.au on 15/08/2002 15:19 Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:[SLUG] Directory removal Hi all, A directory has been created of which we can't remove it. The reason being is we can't see it! I have found out how to list it in octal, which is: \033[C\033 But, how do I delete it? Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug ***Confidentiality and Privilege Notice*** This email is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone, and you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Confidentiality and legal privilege are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery to you. Qantas Airways Limited ABN 16 009 661 901 Visit Qantas online at http://www.qantas.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Vim help-file tags not found
What does :help do. If that doesn't bring up the help text either, I suspect you have a path/ environment issue. BTW Most vim experts probably never see such errors, I certainly haven't and have been using vi / vim for over 10 years. Dump out :set and :version that might help us -Original Message- From: Nick Croft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2002 3:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Vim help-file tags not found But if I try to jump to another tag using Ctrl-] I get an error message (E344 iirc - it's at home) about 'no tag file found' -- and yet the tag file is there in the doc directory. And if i just invoke the help-files from the F1 key, I get: E433: No tags file E426: tag not found: help.txt No Vim experts here? Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
