RE: [SLUG] How to Use VNC !!
I have installed VNC version 3.3 on the master machine running Windows 2000. I have also installed VNC version 2.8 on the slave PC running Linux. I opened VNC on the master PC and entered the IP address for the Linux machine, and I got connect failed after I connect. Is there anything I have to do on the Linux machine, like start a client ? You have to start a VNC server on your linux box. It should ask for the screen ID - usually set to 0 And a password. It should then connect itself to X windows. Also how do I do these fancy X forwarding stuff with VNC ? I didn't have to do much fiddling with it to get it working... Hardest thing was finding where it was on the HD! No help manual was installed from the software I installed. Checked the vnc sites?? There are different sites also... www.tightvnc.com www.realvnc.com Not sure about the realvnc.com?? But tight is great! Cheers AW. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Nortel and Cisco VPN
And just remember us where linux is in the picture ? Honestly, to troubleshoot that, we'd need to see a packet dump and eventually the config of the contivty and the vpn3k, A hint, ipsec dont like to be nated, for your problem, this is the wrong solution for the problem, you can define: traffic selection can be specified up to port level if you need (like traffic going from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.2.1 , tcp, src port 10, dst port 20), so i reckon nat should be excluded from the picture. Have a look at www.cisco.com/tac for sample configs involving nat and ipsec. Finally, i am sure you have a support contract with both organisations (cisco and nortel). JeF On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 12:37, Dinesh Birlasekaran wrote: Hi all, I am trying to do a network printing from one to another site via the static nat option. But so far not any luck. Can anyone help on this issue? The problem = Printer --- Cisco 6000 -- Cisco VPN 2005 -internet-ipsec-tunnel- Nortel Connectity -- Cisco 4000 --- Server Office 1 Local IP -- Cisco 6500 -- Real world ip -- ipsec/NAT on the clients side-- Real world ip-- Cisco 4000 -- Office 2 local ip Now I want to print from the server on the right hand side to the printer on the left hand side? I am able to access the web, ssh..etc. The left hand side (i.e my other office), has given me 2 ip address, one for the users static nat for all and one for printer. I have natted the printer ip on the cisco vpn 3005 as to the local ip of the printer(this is the only way I can go about it, the other office doesn't want to do a network to network). Now if I do a print job on the server, to the given natted ip for the printer, I am not able to get a response. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance. Dinesh. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] (M\$) new symbol?
Am I the first to think of this one? (M\$) means 'no MS' with a bit of poetic licence? regards Doug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Setting Up Debbie
Okay Terry, Basicly - as for the network, during the setup (before you reboot), you need to load the module for your network card. On an old system you're most likely to have a generic ne2000 or 8139too. If you get the right module installed and Debian can make an eth0 of it, you will get network config after the hostname config. Apt-get sources in aust, there are a few. But unfortunatly I think all the apt mirrors will have woody on them by now. However, run apt-setup, and it will set up the sources, otherwise theres: au.debian.org ftp.iinet.net.au (Perth -- use this if you have iiNet Bliink ADSL, as it doesnt count to your d/l limit!) mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au (Sydney) mirror.monash.edu.au (victoria) mirror.aarnet.edu.au planetmirror.com.au (brisbane) ^^there are a few, but you'll want to probably use http for most of them - as with ftp sometimes you'll get Too many users for the more popular servers. Anyway - if you are new to installing Debian - take a look at www.aboutdebian.com which has some good guides, etc. Good luck going to Deb! Chris On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 10:21, Wendy Davies wrote: Hi Folks (Its Terry) I've got Debian 2.2 onto hardware (lol RH8.0 barfed horribly). Some requests (please reply to this email as I'm not recieving list here) 1) I can not actually see individual packages to install. All I get under dselect is generic title like all, uninstalled, etc. What am I doing wrong? 2) What do I read to figure out how to set up the ethernet card (I have a basic 3 CD binary set) and networking. I thought there was a network configuration program. This might be solved by getting one to work. 3) Assuming 2 is successful, can someone send me the australian apt-get sources (stable). I've tried the archives, but too many results. I would have thought asking for debian networking setup would have produced something useful, but it has everything but. Taah -- Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: SLUG CD distributions (Was: Re: [SLUG] Where Can I get Red HatLinux 8.0 ?)
Arg, forgot the mailing list :) On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 14:55, Chris Deigan wrote: Sorry to everyone - I meant in the way which if every distro gave $5 off SLUG membership regardless of who makes the profit or who makes the CDs. If somebody buys a $35 redhat book set, or one of those minibooks from a newsagent, how can slug cover its cost of handing out $5 :D Hope that clears that up On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 11:52, Peter Hardy wrote: Good morning! Did I mention that I really, *really* detest top-posting? :-) On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 21:12:45 +1100 Jon Biddell wrote: So why offer the discount at all for one distro ??? Basically because that's the only one anybody's bothered to brand with a SLUG logo and distribute. The last time the committee spoke about it, we were all for packaging other distributions in a similar way. Anybody setting out to do so will get at least as much support from SLUG as Bruce did (which admittedly wasn't a great deal - but that's because he was so damn good at doing it on his own). So yeah. Now we've done it once, it should be much easier to do it again. If you want to see $favourite_distro in the shops as well, talk to Bruce, and mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are one or two fairly minor reasons why I personally would choose Debian for something like this, but that's drifting off-topic, and dangerously close to yet another distro flamewar. =Thats like saying, by burning your own cd-set you've saved $5 =off slug membership. Not at all. Putting these CDs in bookshops is a great way to get Linux out to people who might not see it otherwise. The membership discount lets them know about SLUG, and what we can offer. It also, incidentally, hopefully gets us more members. :-) Is anybody reading this after buying the CD? -- Pete -- Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Which Red Hat Book Sluggers Recommend !!
I would recomend the Linuxworld.com.au Linux Minibook. I bought the 2nd edition (this newer one being the 3rd), and it was great. It covers a fair bit about Linux - Plus it also has Mandrake and another CD with it (6 cds for $19.95 + book more useful than a redhat x86 install guide, bargain!) You can buy it on the web or at most news agents. Also note that in the long run it would be handier to have three cds that work in all cd-drives rather than one dvd that only works in dvd drives :) Cheers, Chris On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:01, Louis Selvon wrote: Sluggers: I am thinking of getting either one of these two books: 1. Red Hat Linux 8 Bible, or; 2. Red hat Linux 8 The first one comes with 3 CDs to install the Software, and the other has a DVD. I'm not sure if the DVD package includes the Software install as well. If anyone has bought either, please let me know the recommended one. I am thinking of leaning towards the Bible one though unless someone else thinks the other book is much better. Cheers Louis. -- Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Emacs mail
At 03 Mar 2003 08:38:40 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: What do emacs users use for mail other than Rmail. I find that I am spending more and more time in emacs. VM? MH? any other? Rmail sucks. its basically emacs' mail(1). VM is good, but uses its own format to store mail. It was important to me that my mail client didn't do that (since I like to be able to change mail clients easily). If that doesn't bother you, I recommend you give VM a try. GNUS is good. I haven't used it for a long time, but I see many people who use it. Since its heritage is as a news reader, it deals with mailing lists extremely well (scoring, filtering, etc). I believe it does IMAP, etc (it supports many backends). Apparently it can even view an RSS feed as a mailbox, which is quite cool. Emacs' MH is supposed to be good if you use MH already for mail, I don't (and never have). Wanderlust is really good, particularly with disconnected (offline) IMAP. Its on a par with evolution feature-wise, except that for some reason it can't read mbox files directly (need to bounce through an IMAP server or use Maildir or something). Seems to combine many of the good bits of GNUS, with a reasonably easy to use gui interface. The only downside (other than the mbox thing) is that its from the Japanese Free Software Alternate Dimension and so its a little hard to find english documentation (basic user docs are fine; advanced customisation examples are scarce). It took me a bit of customising before I had it up to the standard of my previous mutt configuration, but now I'm very happy with it. Another Japanese Free Software Alternate Dimension product is Mew. Wanderlust borrows many of its keybindings, etc from Mew which is why it feels a little unfamiliar to mutt-trained fingers. I don't know much about it, but I don't know why you would use it when wanderlust was available. Otherwise, you can use mutt with your editor set to gnuclient -nw -f post-mode or something (post-el.deb for debian users). One of the main advantages to using emacs for mail reading (I found), is the easy customisation and heavy integration. For example, It was a few lines of simple elisp to have the appropriate bug numbers become hyperlinks to the Debian BTS, or to our company RT web pages. I have the BBDB address book automatically tracking names, companies, x-face images, last subject line, whether I've seen the person on a Debian or SLUG mailing list, etc - which is much better than a manual address book. Adding support for the new Face header (base64 encoded PNG) was a simple matter of cutting-and-pasting half a page of elisp code - no recompile necessary. Wanderlust/XEmacs configuration files availble on request, if anyone decides to try wanderlust, I strongly recommend they grab my ~/.wl, rather than grope through automatically translated Japanese web pages as I did.. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Change MTU for eth0 on debian woody?
Hi all, Is it possible to configure the MTU for an ethernet interface in /etc/network/interfaces? Or is there some other way? TIA, Felix -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Change MTU for eth0 on debian woody?
don't you do that in /proc/.blah :) Hi all, Is it possible to configure the MTU for an ethernet interface in /etc/network/interfaces? Or is there some other way? TIA, Felix -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] gpm/debian
I have three debian woody boxes running though the one KVM-switched monitor/mouse/keyboard. On one of them, gpm works fine. On the second it is obviously misconfigured, and on the third it conflicts with X-windows.. or at least I think it does. The first two boxes don't have X installed. Can anyone suggest why the same mouse would work on one box but not on another with the same version of gpm and Debian? In both cases, /etc/gpm.conf looks like: device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type= type=ps2 append= sample_rate= Thanks, David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Change MTU for eth0 on debian woody?
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 21:29, Kevin Saenz wrote: don't you do that in /proc/.blah :) I dunno, wouldn't have thought so :P ifconfig can do it, so I suppose I'll put a call to that in a startup script somewhere. Hi all, Is it possible to configure the MTU for an ethernet interface in /etc/network/interfaces? Or is there some other way? TIA, Felix -- 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] php4.2.2 for RH7.3
Hi, does anyone know where I can locate a stable php4.2.2 rpm for RedHat 7.3. Barry Steele -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Change MTU for eth0 on debian woody?
On 03 Mar 2003 21:27:30 +1100, Felix Sheldon wrote: Is it possible to configure the MTU for an ethernet interface in /etc/network/interfaces? Or is there some other way? You want the mtu option in the interfaces file, like so: iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.17.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 mtu 1490 I'm not sure if you can use mtu with dynamically configured interfaces. If not, then use the up option to run ifconfig when the interface is configured, like: iface eth0 inet dhcp up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 1490 or something. There's lots of other funky stuff you can do in the interfaces file. I highly recommend browsing the man page some time. :-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Change MTU for eth0 on debian woody?
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 22:18, Peter Hardy wrote: On 03 Mar 2003 21:27:30 +1100, Felix Sheldon wrote: Is it possible to configure the MTU for an ethernet interface in /etc/network/interfaces? Or is there some other way? You want the mtu option in the interfaces file, like so: iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.17.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 mtu 1490 Tried that, but it didn't seem to work. I'll test it again. The man page didn't mention an mtu option though. I'm not sure if you can use mtu with dynamically configured interfaces. If not, then use the up option to run ifconfig when the interface is configured, like: iface eth0 inet dhcp up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 1490 Yay, that sounds good. I swear I did RTFM, but didn't see the up option as being relevant at the time. =) or something. There's lots of other funky stuff you can do in the interfaces file. I highly recommend browsing the man page some time. :-) Will do. Thanks, Felix -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] How to Use VNC !!
Louis is my reply. You have to start a VNC server on your linux box. It should ask for the screen ID - usually set to 0 And a password. It should then connect itself to X windows. Louis I just did that and it did not ask for a screen Id. It only asked for a password. I can't paste the output From the cgiwin/XFREE86 Linux machine. But I saw this New 'X' Desktop is : linuxhost.linux:1 I then went to my Windows master 2000 and started VNC there. For the VNC Server I entered : linuxhost.linux:1 It started thinking and then I get an error message Failed to get server address. Did you type the host name correctly? . I then tried the following: IP_address_of_Linux:1 And this one actually worked. It asked me for a password for session. I entered what I entered from the Linux machine. It went in and opened an xterm. I thought that it would show the Linux graphical login screen, and once logged in it would take me to the graphical display I see when I logged in from the Linux machine itself. This seems different to the way cgiwin/XFREE86 works. But I'm sure it has it's advantages. Now how do I kill this session. Does just getting out from Windows kill this session, or I have to do something at the Linux machine. Anyway I still need some feedback how to get Tetraterm working with between Windows 2000 master and the Linux slave. That way I can decide what I want for my live server. Also how do I do these fancy X forwarding stuff with VNC ? I didn't have to do much fiddling with it to get it working... Hardest thing was finding where it was on the HD! No help manual was installed from the software I installed. Checked the vnc sites?? There are different sites also... www.tightvnc.com www.realvnc.com Not sure about the realvnc.com?? But tight is great! Louis Ok I'll check out the sites. Cheers Louis -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Which Red Hat Book Sluggers Recommend !!
I have taken you advice and bought the Linux minibook instead from the quoted web site. Cheers Louis. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Deigan Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 03:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Which Red Hat Book Sluggers Recommend !! I would recomend the Linuxworld.com.au Linux Minibook. I bought the 2nd edition (this newer one being the 3rd), and it was great. It covers a fair bit about Linux - Plus it also has Mandrake and another CD with it (6 cds for $19.95 + book more useful than a redhat x86 install guide, bargain!) You can buy it on the web or at most news agents. Also note that in the long run it would be handier to have three cds that work in all cd-drives rather than one dvd that only works in dvd drives :) Cheers, Chris On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:01, Louis Selvon wrote: Sluggers: I am thinking of getting either one of these two books: 1. Red Hat Linux 8 Bible, or; 2. Red hat Linux 8 The first one comes with 3 CDs to install the Software, and the other has a DVD. I'm not sure if the DVD package includes the Software install as well. If anyone has bought either, please let me know the recommended one. I am thinking of leaning towards the Bible one though unless someone else thinks the other book is much better. Cheers Louis. -- Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] gpm/debian
On the box with X, put in gpm.conf repeat_type=raw and point X to /dev/gpmdata (no need to change the driver in X config). Try running gpmconfig on the 2nd box. Also if you disconnect the mouse while gpm is running - if its anything like my MS Optical (laser) mouse you'll have to restart gpm for it to initialize. Cheers, Chris On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 21:45, David wrote: I have three debian woody boxes running though the one KVM-switched monitor/mouse/keyboard. On one of them, gpm works fine. On the second it is obviously misconfigured, and on the third it conflicts with X-windows.. or at least I think it does. The first two boxes don't have X installed. Can anyone suggest why the same mouse would work on one box but not on another with the same version of gpm and Debian? In both cases, /etc/gpm.conf looks like: device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type= type=ps2 append= sample_rate= Thanks, David. -- Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Audio Mastering Tools/Suites
You wrote: Subject: [SLUG] Audio Mastering Tools/Suites From: Craig Mead [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:03:03 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] About to set up a new Audio Editing machine (bootleg mastering), considering the OS options, would like to go for a flavour of *nix with a GUI but am not really up to speed on the quality and/or usefulness of any of the nix based Editing Suites. (as it's only bootleg mastering, it doesn't need to be multitrack, and only requires stuff like filters, EQ, compression etc etc) Alot depends on how audiophillic you are. I run SuSE 7.3 on a celeron 600 with el cheapo no names soundcard (media electronics?)and 20 gig HD. (One day I would like to afford an Audigy Soundblaster card and run a AMD MP 2*** but for now...)The SuSE Gui is very nice imho. SuSE seems to cater for audio stuff. There are several apps for this kind of mastering. I use Broadcast2000 to record vinyl to wav.I use about 2% of its functionality. Bcast2000 is based upon a sound studio edit suite. I use XCDRoast to Burn. And I use oggenc to compress files. I believe the latest apps in 8.1 are a step up.I am about to upgrade to find out for myself. There is an app called gramofile that is clunky looking but geared to filtering noise scartch etc from vinyl and other analog media. Not sure if SuSE still bundles with that. Check out their web site. XCD Roast is a very simple to use GUI for Burning. Again in 8.1 this is supposed to be better again. You can burn to TAO, DAO. For CD rip/burn and cleaning up uncompressed mp3 downloaded files the command line cd paranoia is very good for the perfectionist. XCD Roast GUI app is fine for me. To uncompress mp3s there is no GUI but mpg123 is very easy to use. If you want to compress files the Linux open source way there is the ogg vorbis Project (open source version of mp3). If you know nothing about that then check out http://www.xiph.org. Suse 7.3 has no mp3 compression software due to the Fraunhofer Inst LAME licence fees. But there are plenty of Mp3 compression apps in RPMFind or look at Freshmeat. But ogg is really where it's at. [...] Also, if there was tools to create ISO's from the WAV's direct on the *nix machine if you could let me know. There is a command line app mkisofs. XCD Roast enables you to select all Win and Unix iso formats Rock Ridge, Joliet when you burn. [...] Linux developers seem pretty enthusiastic about all things audio (gdam *Geoff and Dave's audio mixer* is a celebrated DJ music industry example). Hope that is of some use. Raena :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [Re: [SLUG] Red Hat 7.1 gdm.conf file for XDMCP Enabling !!]
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 11:35, Louis Selvon wrote: Where is it for RH 7.1 ? I suspect it's somewhere obscure in /usr/X11R6/lib/something. locate gdm.conf or find / -name gdm.conf will find it for you. Louis Thanks for that. But after browsing the forums and emailing the support staff for my server, I found out that they do not install the X Window system on the servers they give. So looks like I've got to install it first. What's the easiest way for me to do this remotely ? Can I use up2date to get the files, and what are all the rpm files I need to install either Gnome and/or KDE ? you can use up2date. I prefer to use apt-rpm. Google around for it, I think freshrpms have a good page somewhere. They also have a repository for various redhat versions. You could upgrade your server to redhat 8.0 over the wire if you like then - but I'm told that doesn't work so well, so read up before you try it. Here's what I suggest as an alternative: Get teraterm and ttssh (only because I know for a fact that it can do X forwarding). Start your X server. Run ttssh and connect to your server in the US - set ttssh to forward X connections. Start whatever program you need to use accross the internet. Crank up the compression settings on teraterm and you'll find this is generally a less painful experience. Louis Where can I get teraterm ? You say start the X server. Once I install Gnome or KDE isn't the X server always up and running across a live server ? google for teraterm. and no. The X server is the piece of software you run on your local machine to display stuff on the screen. I have a vague memory of having explained this in a previous email. There's probably some additional gotchas, but that's the basic principle - forward X over your SSH tunnel. Louis I have Putty that I use to connect remotely. I can do both Telnet and SSH. But I think I will permanently disabled Telnet on the server. For that I just set disabled to YES from the /etc/xinetd.d/wp_telnet file on this server, and that should do it right ? Do I need to restart Apache for the new changes to take effect ? That's right, but you need to restart xinetd for changes to take effect, not apache. If you're doing remote administration you *need* ssh. The ssh that ships with cygwin will do this as well IIRC. Louis How do I run ssh with cgiwin ? ummm. Type ssh :) I initially tried VNC for this but never got it working. So I gave up. But I am feeling confident with cgiwin/XFREE86. there are two really nice things about vnc - first is that you have a persistent session, second is that you can tunnel it over ssh. Might be worth persisting with, depending on what you really need. Getting ssh to forward X is probably the easiest. Louis Well if I get some help on this one I will definetely give it a go again. There are some exellent documents out there which explain the process. It's fairly straightforward. Probably moreso if you use the linux stuff rather than windows. So which is better then using teraterm or VNC or have both setup and then I see which best suits me ? I just bought a Networking guide for homebased setups, and it has a copy of VNC on there. VNC 3.3 for Windows, and VNC 2.8 for Linux. Don't bother installing the linux one. There are rpms for it. Actually it might be a good idea for me to try both VNC and teraterm for my local network to see how it's setup, and then I can progress with the live server. But I want to at least install an X Window on the live server at this very moment. I am on holidays now so have time to do this right now. good plan. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [RE: [SLUG] Telnet Issues Between Home Networks]
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 11:46, Louis Selvon wrote: Louis For me it's for experimenting before I try anything on a live server. well then, I suppose the answer to your question is yes, you do need sendmail, apache etc I actually already have rsync installed on the live server. How do I run rsync to ftp files over ssh from remote to a live server ? rsync -e ssh refer to the man page for the rest of the options. There's lots of them. Will install rsync on the home based network as well. I will also setup the ISP stuff on the remote Linux machine so that I can talk from remote Linux to the live server one. This is sure going to be fun. barrels thereof. BTW: On a side note where can I get MySql as freeware or shareware ? I don't think RH provides this. My live server came with it. I need this as all my Perl/PHP development uses MySql as a backend DB. install apt-get. Then type apt-get install mysql-server or something. Mysql will be on your installation CDs. Just use rpm to install it. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: How to Use VNC !!
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:59, Louis Selvon wrote: Hi James et al: Hi Louis. I have installed VNC version 3.3 on the master machine running Windows 2000. I have also installed VNC version 2.8 on the slave PC running Linux. I opened VNC on the master PC and entered the IP address for the Linux machine, and I got connect failed after I connect. Is there anything I have to do on the Linux machine, like start a client ? yes, you need to start a vnc server on the linux machine. Probably best to read the docs it ships with. It's pretty easy to get running. Also how do I do these fancy X forwarding stuff with VNC ? You don't. X forwarding is an alternative to vnc. Actually, maybe that should go the other way around. No help manual was installed from the software I installed. ok, well you're running an ancient version. I suggest you just get the rpms and install them - on my machine there is a separate docs package for vnc with its docs. Alternatively, there are heaps of docs on the internet, but IIRC you can just start the server, set a password and connect directly with the client. The only gotcha is that if you setup an initscript for it, you must run it manually first time. Otherwise it will hang on boot waiting for you to enter a password. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: Got TeraTerm + TTSSH
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:11, Louis Selvon wrote: Anyway I'll ask for feedback about how to use it after I have installed X Window on the live server. probably just this from Cygwin X export DISPLAY=:0 xhost + ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] xterm etc etc. If anyone can tell me how to find out and get all the rpms I need to install Gnome or KDE for Red Hat 7.1 remotely that would be great. http://freshrpms.net/ google loves you, there are heaps of places to get that stuff - redhat.com being one of them. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] anti spam question
On Mon 03 Mar, Kevin Saenz bloviated thus: I am looking for a good antispam application. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have spamassassin it seems to be letting a lot of undesirables in. Bogofilter rocks! bogofilter.sf.net I use it in combination with a bunch of procmail rules and Spamassassin (set to a relatively high 8 threshold). The only piece of the puzzle that gets false positives these days is the procmail rules (which look for things like opt-out phrases, sometimes used in legitimate mass mailings). It took a while but I now get very few spams through to my inbox. It helps that my bogofilter is fed by an obsolete email account which seems to be on every spam list going, so the spams get to it before they get to my real account. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Send email with subject send key pub for public key. Given the choice between two evils, I pick the one I haven't tried before. - Mae West pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] gpm/debian
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, David wrote: I have three debian woody boxes running though the one KVM-switched monitor/mouse/keyboard. On one of them, gpm works fine. On the second it is obviously misconfigured, and on the third it conflicts with X-windows.. or at least I think it does. The first two boxes don't have X installed. Can anyone suggest why the same mouse would work on one box but not on another with the same version of gpm and Debian? In both cases, /etc/gpm.conf looks like: device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type= type=ps2 append= sample_rate= Did you start up the box with the KVM actually set to it? PS/2 meece don't tend to work unless they're detected at poweron, I've noticed. Try killing GPM and reloading, perhaps? DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Audio Mastering Tools/Suites
Sweep is great and definitely worth a look at, but beware of the addicitve scrubby... http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ There are certainly lots of filters and other processing plug-ins (ladspa - http://www.ladspa.org/). Denis Crowdy On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:03:03PM +1100, Craig Mead wrote: About to set up a new Audio Editing machine (bootleg mastering), considering the OS options, would like to go for a flavour of *nix with a GUI but am not really up to speed on the quality and/or usefulness of any of the nix based Editing Suites. (as it's only bootleg mastering, it doesn't need to be multitrack, and only requires stuff like filters, EQ, compression etc etc) If anyone has any information/feedback about any of the options out there it would be appreciated. Otherwise, Win2K might have to do. If specs are going to matter, it will be Athlon 900 (shall go XP 1.8 or above when the funds allow) 512MB PC133 (to be expanded if required) 22GB of UW SCSI in a Raid 0 over 5 discs SB Live Platinum Also, if there was tools to create ISO's from the WAV's direct on the *nix machine if you could let me know. (ps. yes I know I can google for this info, but I'm asking for personal opinions on whats good) TIA, Craig -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Department of Contemporary Music Studies Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia, ph: +61 (0)2 9850 6787, fax: 9850 6593 http://www.ccms.mq.edu.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Emacs mail
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 20:26, Angus Lees wrote: SNIP Wanderlust/XEmacs configuration files availble on request, if anyone decides to try wanderlust, I strongly recommend they grab my ~/.wl, rather than grope through automatically translated Japanese web pages as I did.. Thanks for all that Gus. I gave up Rmail for the reasons you mentioned (it sux), but I spend most of my time in emacs so miss the convenience of getting mail directly. I would very much appreciate a copy of you .wl file. Cheers, Alan -- - Gus -- -- Alan L Tyree[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] libstdc++
Hi all, I have a problem with MCafee uvscan, on my Debian woody box. When trying to execute it, it says can't find shared object libstdc++.so.2.8 I can't find that .deb package for woody. I have tried linking libstdc++.so.3 to the above mentions, but it had unresolved symbols. Does anyone know how to fix this? Would I need to compile from source (Undesirable method). I would contact Mcafee about updating their software but I need it resolved quickly. Cheers, Scott -- Scott Ragen Support Manager/IT Administrator Roadtech Systems www.roadtechsystems.com.au PH: +61 2 9807 3516 FAX: +61 2 9808 5294 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] libstdc++
Scott, Had the same problem with a RH8.0 box. Ended up copying the libstdc++.so.2.8 file from an older ver of RH and worked fine. Not sure if this was a good move or not but it worked. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with MCafee uvscan, on my Debian woody box. When trying to execute it, it says can't find shared object libstdc++.so.2.8 I can't find that .deb package for woody. I have tried linking libstdc++.so.3 to the above mentions, but it had unresolved symbols. Does anyone know how to fix this? Would I need to compile from source (Undesirable method). I would contact Mcafee about updating their software but I need it resolved quickly. Cheers, Scott -- _ LanSol Computers 283 Sir Donald Bradman Drv. Brooklyn Park SA 5032 Ph 618 8238 3406 Fax 618 83538479 Mobile0414 398166 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL www.lansol.com.au _ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] php question
Hi all, I have had a number of php scripts written for me by a person on work placement, however they have now gone. One of the scripts reads the users download total from the Squidalyser database, however it does not do any authentication so anyone can view anyone elses download total. Users authenticate against the NT server. Is it possible in php to automatically detect the logged in username by reading it from the environment? I can do this with windows scripts. _ 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
Re: [SLUG] php question
PHP automatically parses the environment into either $_ENV array (or $HTTP_ENV_VARS if PHP version is pre 4.1.0). I think the environment should show who is logged in. Fil Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I have had a number of php scripts written for me by a person on work placement, however they have now gone. One of the scripts reads the users download total from the Squidalyser database, however it does not do any authentication so anyone can view anyone elses download total. Users authenticate against the NT server. Is it possible in php to automatically detect the logged in username by reading it from the environment? I can do this with windows scripts. _ Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramata ICQ#: 137562751 _ -- Phil Scarratt Draxsen Technologies IT Contractor/Consultant 0403 53 12 71 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] libstdc++
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 08:42:39 +1030, Steve Sloan wrote: Had the same problem with a RH8.0 box. Ended up copying the libstdc++.so.2.8 file from an older ver of RH and worked fine. Not sure if this was a good move or not but it worked. Probably best to install an appropriate package rather than just copy one file across. The short-term solution would be to grab the package (libstdc++2.8) from a potato repository. That should work, but it's possible you'll have problems. Longer term would be grabbing the source packages and compiling a binary package suitable for woody. That's a lot easier than it sounds, and should work better than just installing an old .deb. Longer term than that would be bugging McAfee for a newer build. :-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] re: php question
its $_SERVER iirc scince 4.2.2 now if you make a quick page ?php phpinfo(); ? and scroll down to the buttom their is a list of all the server vars. php also has some win32 api calling functions but they probably wont be much help as its server side jared
[SLUG] Redirects in Apache
I want to set up a permanent redirect in Apache so that: www.mydomain.com brings up: www.mydomain.com/with/a/long/path/index.html but when I do a straight redirect of / to www.mydomain.com/with/a/long/path/index.html it just keeps the extension the the root URL and promptly bombs. What is the correct method for doing this where the base domain name and the root of the extended domain name are the same. www.mydomain.com is a virtual host BTW. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://www.lannetlinux.com -- Flatter government, not fatter government - Get rid of the Australian states. -- There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] MD security checks.
G'day all... Attached to --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd p: (02) 9955 8000 Security Warning: World Writeable files found : - /lib/dev-state/log - /var/apache-mm - /var/prelude/socket Security Warning: These files belonging to packages are modified on the system : - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/3rdparty/3c990/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/3rdparty/3c990fx/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/3rdparty/acecad/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/3rdparty/audigy/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/3rdparty/dc395x_trm/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/3rdparty/e100/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/3rdparty/e1000/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/3rdparty/mod_quickcam/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acorn/scsi/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/events/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/executer/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/hardware/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/namespace/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/ospm/ac_adapter/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/ospm/battery/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/ospm/busmgr/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/ospm/button/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/ospm/ec/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/ospm/processor/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/ospm/system/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/ospm/thermal/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/parser/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/resources/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/tables/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/acpi/utilities/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/atm/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/block/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/block/paride/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/bluetooth/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/cdrom/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/char/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/char/agp/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/char/drm-4.0/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/char/drm/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/char/ftape/compressor/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/char/ftape/zftape/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/char/joystick/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/char/mwave/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/char/pcmcia/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/char/rio/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/crypto/bcm/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/dio/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/fc4/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/hotplug/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/i2c/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/ide/.depend - /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/ieee1394/.depend -
Re: [SLUG] MD security checks.
Erps... didn't mean to send that... Apologies. Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd p: (02) 9955 8000 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] winbind and samba
Title: Message Hi All, I'm experiencing problems with getting winbind to resolve groups from our windows 2000 domain controllers, and was hoping that some one here might be able to shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. I'm running samba v2.2.7 on red hat v8.0 and I have so far only managed to get user accounts to resolve but when I attempt to resolve groups, all I get is the gid number. eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]# wbinfo -r TESTDOMAIN+cmackenzie100011000210003100041000511000610007 I've included extracts of the relevant config files below. any help would be appreciated as well as reducing my panadol intake :-) /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] workgroup = TESTDOMAIN security = domain password server = * encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd pam password change = yes username map = /etc/samba/smbusers obey pam restrictions = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 local master = no domain master = no preferred master = no wins server = 172.25.240.13 153.107.14.99 dns proxy = no ## WINBIND CONFIGURATION HEREwinbind separator = +winbind uid = 1-2winbind gid = 1-2winbind enum users = yeswinbind enum groups = yestemplate shell = /bin/false # Share Definitions == [stuff]comment = Docspath=/mnt/data/stuffguest ok = nopublic = novalid users = TESTDOMAIN+cmackenzie writable = yescreate mode = 0664directory mode = 0775 [test]comment = Permission Testpath=/mnt/data/testguest ok = nopublic = yeswrite list = @'TESTDOMAIN+Domain Users'writable = yescreate mode = 0664directory mode = 0775 # /etc/pam.d/samba #%PAM-1.0auth requiredpam_nologin.soauth requiredpam_stack.so service=system-authauth sufficentpam_winbind.so account requiredpam_stack.so service=system-authaccount requiredpam_winbind.so service=system-auth session requiredpam_stack.so service=system-authpassword requiredpam_stack.so service=system-auth # /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: files nisplus winbind shadow: files nisplus winbindgroup: files nisplus winbind --- Rgds, Chris MacKenzie **This message is intended for the addressee named and may containprivileged information or confidential information or both. If youare not the intended recipient please delete it and notify the sender.**
Re: [SLUG] Redirects in Apache
you could try RedirectMatch /* http://www.mydomain.com/with/a/long/path/index.html Being in a VirtualServer shouldn't matter. It works for me. I'm not sure what difference there is between RedirectMatch and RedirectPermanent though. Some erudite person might tell us ;-) BTW, I have an idea that you might need the full URL.. .including the http:// part. But then I could be wrong. That's the way I did it. Once I get something working I'm inclined not to mess around any further. David. On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Howard Lowndes wrote: I want to set up a permanent redirect in Apache so that: www.mydomain.com brings up: www.mydomain.com/with/a/long/path/index.html but when I do a straight redirect of / to www.mydomain.com/with/a/long/path/index.html it just keeps the extension the the root URL and promptly bombs. What is the correct method for doing this where the base domain name and the root of the extended domain name are the same. www.mydomain.com is a virtual host BTW. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://www.lannetlinux.com -- Flatter government, not fatter government - Get rid of the Australian states. -- There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- 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] Redirects in Apache
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:27:41AM +1100, David wrote: I'm not sure what difference there is between RedirectMatch and RedirectPermanent though. Some erudite person might tell us ;-) RedirectMatch is similar to Redirect in that it's a temporary redirection by default. That can be changed by putting permanent between RedirectMatch and the regex. See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch for more detail. 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] Follow-up to: Problem accessing User directories in /home
Hi Luke, Thanks for the reply. Info as requested hereunder:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/fstab none /proc proc defaults0 0 none /dev/ptsdevpts mode=0622 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/auto/floppy auto user,noauto,exec,umask=0000 0 # /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0 # Knoppix partition # /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 # Mdk 9.0 boot partition # /dev/hda6 none swap defaults 0 0# Swap for both Mdk 9.0 and Knoppix # /dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 ext3 auto,users,exec 0 0 #Mdk 9.0 Home partition # /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 vfat noauto,users,exec 0 0 # XP partition # /dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 ntfs noauto,users,exec 0 0 # XP data # /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1 ntfs noauto,users,exec 0 0 #XP data [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -ld /home drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Feb 26 16:04 /home/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -ld /home/bill ls: /home/bill: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# (Appears that problem is with Symlink???) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mount /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622) /dev/hda7 on /mnt/hda7 type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev) /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/hdb1 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# Thanks Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: 9 Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 23:12:13 +1100 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Problem accessing User directories in /home To: Sydney Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 28 Feb, Bill wrote: Recently I corrupted my fstab file in Mandrake 9.0, and had to recreate it. Since then I cant log into my /home/bill directory from kdm or gdm. I get the message No write access to $HOME directory (/). KDE is unable to start. I think that's reporting that it thinks that your HOME directory = /, not /home/bill. My installation is on hda5 and my /bil account is on hda7 with a symlink from hda5's /home. I can access the directories through a file manager. /home and /home/bill show privileges as rwx r-x r-x. They're not directories? If I create a new account it is created in hda5 /home, not hda7. I tried copying the hda7/bill directory to hda5/home/bill but I still got the above error. Can you cat /etc/fstab, and also do an ls -ld /home /home/bill and post that output? Also show us the output of the mount command, in case for some reason /dev/hda7 is being mounted read-only. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Errors Running VNC on Live Server
Hi: I have installed VNC on my live server. I ran the following command and got this error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# /usr/local/bin/vncserver vncserver: couldn't find xauth on your PATH. Can anyone help on this ? Also for X window manager a member from the forum where my server resides recommended AfterStep (http://www.afterstep.org/) . I have installed it and can't work out how to use this after reading the help manual. Do I start VNC first, which is not even working, and then use this AfterStep tool ? It seems to me I am still missing X ? How do I check if X is installed. I thought installing this AfterStep would take care of that. Anyone!!! Cheers Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] php question
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Simon Bryan wrote: Users authenticate against the NT server. Is it possible in php to automatically detect the logged in username by reading it from the environment? I can do this with windows scripts. $HTTP_SERVER_VARS[external_user] I think. It's in the docs, anyway. -- --- #include disclaimer.h Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Evolution Can't Start: (Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase, not upgrading configuration.)
I have 3 boxes, all debian woody (how apt;punny) 1. (cyclops) P3 600 i810 256Mb RAM 2. (wolverine) Celeron 300A 192 Mb RAM 3. (storm) P166 128Mb RAM All have same packages installed, give or take autoconf, netscape, vnc. All have been installed in the last month. (1) and (3) run evolution (2) ran debian woody evolution 1.0.5 and now runs everything else, galeon, openoffice etc, but evolution (1.2.2) now dies with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ evolution Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library (Killing old version of Wombat...) (Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase, not upgrading configuration.) IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0 evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0) Killed You have mail in /home/woody/.inbox [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ and an X window pops up with: (-) Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: Configuration Database not found. [OK] I have searched and tried everything: A) killev;oaf-slay;rm -r /tmp/orbit-woody ~/.gconf ~/.gconfd B) purged all packages down to oafd B2) and removed all the directories which weren't removed by apt because they weren't empty C) both the debian evolution packages (evolution 1.0.5) and the ximian evolution packages (1.2.2 apt-got from http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/ ximian/debian/) D) checking /etc/ld.so.conf and re-running ldconfig E) running evolution on cyclops (always works) as the same user Any ideas? -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] new kid on the block: College Linux
I thought I'd bring this new distro to Sluggers attention! It's developed by a small team at a college in Switzerland, and it's based on Slackware 8.1. Their goal was to create something easier to install than the real Slack, great for learning about Linux, yet still useable on the desktop. And that's exactly what it is. They have a custom installer that more or less takes care of setting up the video, sound, etc. There are a couple of bugs here and there, but the thing is useable. There are some nice touches like preconfigured flash and java plugins ready to go out of the box, latest version of Open Office, and LinNeighborhood. It feels fast and perfectly stable, but since they wanted to be 100% compatible with stable Slackware, most of the software is not up to the latest versions. KDE on 3.0.1, Mozilla on 1.0, and kernel 2.4.18. As it stands, it's already a good, useable system that does exactly what it aimed to do. It allows even someone with only moderate experience to install their very own Slackware system. And because it's free it could be quite handy for small non-profit organisations that need to do office work, web browsing and email jobs without worrying too much about setting it all up. In fact, it could be useful for anyone who'd rather have stability and modest hardware requirements rather than latest toys. Perhaps Computerbank would be interested? They also have lots of plans for the next release, due in a couple of weeks, including the current kernel and more up-to-date desktop environment. I hope I'm not revealing any secrets when I say they are considering going with Gnome2.2 instead of KDE, and if that goes ahead, they might become the only distro out there I can think of that would be solely Gnome based. I thought Jeff would be interested! Anyhow, if you'd like to check them out, they are at http://www.college.ch/linux - I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it. -- Gustave Flaubert -- 12:58:20 up 16:25, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.05-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] FXS format in Linux
A VNTD* has sent me a document in FXS format which is winfax. Getting even this is like pulling teeth. Is there anyone out there who knows how to read it in linux? The gimp fails. file XXX returns: XXX: data Help appreciated. Stu VNTD - very non technical dude. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Searching the slug archives
Is there any way to search the slug archives. A search tool, that is, rather than just poking thought the archive? Thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Searching the slug archives
http://slug.org.au/archives.html Andrew On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Bruce Badger wrote: Date: 04 Mar 2003 16:26:31 +1100 From: Bruce Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Searching the slug archives Is there any way to search the slug archives. A search tool, that is, rather than just poking thought the archive? Thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Andrew McNaughton In Sydney and looking for work [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://staff.scoop.co.nz/andrew/cv.doc Mobile: +61 422 753 792 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Searching the slug archives
G'day... This may be a little off-topic, but I've also noticed that the search tools for the archives don't really work. May I ask how the archive is stored? Is it in an RDMS or flat file(s)? I'd be interested in programming a more reliable search engine if it uses an RDMS. If not, I'd still be interested in looking into it. (FWIW, I've commercially programmed a small job search web site which was searchable.) All the best... Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd p: (02) 9955 8000 Bruce Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/03/2003 04:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:[SLUG] Searching the slug archives Is there any way to search the slug archives. A search tool, that is, rather than just poking thought the archive? Thanks -- 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] Searching the slug archives
Erps... searching seems to be ok now... blush I have been frustrated in the past by the search engine though - was there problems noted with it previously that have now been fixed? Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd p: (02) 9955 8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/03/2003 04:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: [SLUG] Searching the slug archives G'day... This may be a little off-topic, but I've also noticed that the search tools for the archives don't really work. May I ask how the archive is stored? Is it in an RDMS or flat file(s)? I'd be interested in programming a more reliable search engine if it uses an RDMS. If not, I'd still be interested in looking into it. (FWIW, I've commercially programmed a small job search web site which was searchable.) All the best... Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd p: (02) 9955 8000 Bruce Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/03/2003 04:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:[SLUG] Searching the slug archives Is there any way to search the slug archives. A search tool, that is, rather than just poking thought the archive? Thanks -- 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 - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Searching the slug archives
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:26:31PM +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: Is there any way to search the slug archives. A search tool, that is, rather than just poking thought the archive? http://www.mail-archive.com/slug%40slug.org.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Searching the slug archives
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] This may be a little off-topic, but I've also noticed that the search tools for the archives don't really work. May I ask how the archive is stored? Is it in an RDMS or flat file(s)? It's a mhonarc mail archive (html, but with useful comment bits in it to denote context) with a namazu search backend (namazu comes with a mhonarc plugin that understands the archive format and contextual hints). It generally works pretty well, but there are some funny, non-obvious things that namazu does from a searcher's perspective. - Jeff -- Laughter is a force for democracy. - John Cleese -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Which Process to Kill?
Dave replied I had to kill esd for xmms/mpg123 and so on to work. Here are the running process no esd unfortunately (and still no sound) 1 1198 1296 194 652 868 apm interrupts modules sys 1050 1199 1302 195 68 877 bus iomem mounts sysvipc 1051 121303 27950 cmdline ioports mtrrtty 1075 1201 1304 3733 959 cpuinfo irq net uptime 1124 1203 1306 4771 968 devices kcore partitions version 1167 1205 1324 5785 993 dma kmsgpci 1170 1212 1335 515 8994 driver ksyms scsi 1173 1213 1350 567 809 995 execdomains loadavg self 1175 1215 1352 6829 996 fb locks slabinfo 1193 1216 1387 612 839 997 filesystems mdstat speakup 1195 1219 1390 616 849 998 fs meminfo stat 1196 1222 1439 633 858 999 ide miscswaps Thanks Mick I posted a while back regarding difficulty with sound under RedHat 8.0. I have an intergrated AC97 sound card. XMMS gives me following error Which one do I kill? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Overclocking under LINUX
Hi all, I wanted to get back into overclocking, but it crashes linux redhat. Is there anyway to hack the kernel so that it thinks it's running on a faster processor? Alternatively there is an Epox motherboard (8K9A+) with locakable PCI slots, that can unlock athlon XP processors without physically cutting and joining bridges, would this scenario then allow Linux to be overclocked (assuming the motherboard has some sort of CPU blocking technology) Regards Mick. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] gpm/debian
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Anthony O'Hara wrote: Afternoon, I've noticed similar behaviour with the two kvm switches we have at work (connected to a variety of Windows and Linux boxen). I've had some success with resetting the switch itself to get the mouse functioning... On ours, pressing both console buttons at the same time does it. You may need to look up how to do it for your model. Goodluck! :) That Worked! Was it a fluke? Was it just the incantation that I uttered will facing East? Should I burn incense and offer up a prayer? Mine is a Belkin KVM btw. Four port, not sure what model. (PS: hope you don't mind me posting that private email back to the list. I thought you deserved credit) Anthony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 21:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] gpm/debian I have three debian woody boxes running though the one KVM-switched monitor/mouse/keyboard. On one of them, gpm works fine. On the second it is obviously misconfigured, and on the third it conflicts with X-windows.. or at least I think it does. The first two boxes don't have X installed. Can anyone suggest why the same mouse would work on one box but not on another with the same version of gpm and Debian? In both cases, /etc/gpm.conf looks like: device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type= type=ps2 append= sample_rate= Thanks, David. -- 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] Which Process to Kill?
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:33:49PM +1100, Mick Boda wrote: Dave replied I had to kill esd for xmms/mpg123 and so on to work. Here are the running process no esd unfortunately (and still no sound) snip Those were not the names of running processes; they were the contents of the /proc filesystem, including (among other things) the process ids of the running processes. One of the numbers in that list may have represented a running esd. You can get useful information about the running processes, including their names, using the ps command. Type man ps for more information, or ps ax | grep esd to look for a running esd (ignore any lines with grep in them). Cheers Philip -- Philip Derrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
