[SLUG] USB Wireless Inet under Linux.
Hello All I'm currently looking for the most economically efficient way to connect to the Internet via wireless using Linux. A few years ago I purchased an iBurst modem, but that technology is now obsolete. The best bet appears to be a USB stick modem, a device somewhat bigger than a USB memory stick (about 70 x 25 x 10mm) – essentially a mobile phone without screen, keyboard, mic or speaker. I've purchased a Virgin Mobile device for A$80 that includes 1mth/5GB usage. Virgin have a 365day/12GB recharge for A$150 that would be fine for me - my typical usage is less than 1GB/month. Unfortunately, as one might expect, this device has no Lx support, but it seems that the Lx community is addressing the problem. There's a very good site at www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ with full technical explanations, software to download, and a help forum that I'm currently posting to. No success as yet, and I've a feeling that there are more problems yet to come. The thread I'm posting to is here for those interested: http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/bb/viewtopic.php?t=483 I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who has either a good, inexpensive wireless Inet connection, or experience with these modems. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Quechep - SPAM
PLEASE DO NOT JOIN QUECHUP. IT IS A SPAMMING NETWORK. -- Carl Woodward 0412218979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Quechep - SPAM
PLEASE DO NOT JOING QUECHEP. IT IS A SPAM WEBSITE. -- Carl Woodward 0412218979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Robert Collins' Notebook
Hi everyone, I know this isn't the right forum for this question but I was wondering if anyone could tell me what notebook Robert Collins is using? I saw it tonight at SLUG and can't seem to find it on the web. Thanks for your help, Carl. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Writing char drivers in Redhat 9
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 23:00, Richard wrote: > I’m trying to recompile a character driver for RH7 under RH9 (2.4.20-8). > > I’m getting errors because /usr/include/linux/fs.h no longer has > definitions for > > struct file_operations > struct, inode > struct file My understanding is that all the headers in /usr/include are user-space headers. They are NOT used for compiling kernel drivers. For this reason they do not contain declarations of structs used only within the kernel (like inodes). You should compile the driver against the kernel headers, which if you have installed the kernel source RPM should be in /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux Carl. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] BSD Sockets
The BSD sockets API has become part of the IEEE Posix standards. The specific part is IEEE Std 1003.1g, "Protocol Independent Interfaces." See http://www.pasc.org/. All this info from page 25 of W Richard Steven's "Unix Network Programming", which is IMHO "the definitive source of information on BSD sockets". Carl. On Friday 12 March 2004 08:17, Bruce Badger wrote: > Is there a definitive source of information on BSD sockets? e.g. is > there an RFC? > > Many thanks, > Bruce -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux in a Laptop.
On Sunday 15 June 2003 06:17, Enrique Vila wrote: > Which distribution would be more appropiate? What are your trying to do, start a flamewar ? :-) I have run Redhat 9 on several different Dell laptops quite successfully, but never on an IBM. If you are new to GNU/Linux, choose from Redhat, Mandrake or Suse. Any of these really should be fine. I use Redhat, but that's only 'cause it's what I am used to. You may be interested in reading: http://www.msu.edu/~pfaffben/t30.html http://www.jeo.net/T30/ I found these links at: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Carl. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG]
On Sunday 08 June 2003 03:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi There, > > relay=c68.115.75.246.euc.wi.charter.com [68.115.75.246], reject=553 5.1.8 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] > does not exist > My sendmail admin skills are pretty much non-existent, but I have had a similiar problem before. The mail relay is doing a DNS lookup on the domain of the sender address, and rejects it if the address cannot be found. This is presumably a spam prevention measure. In my case, I registered a domain + hostname for the box and everything worked fine after that. Note that it's not normal to use an IP address as part of a mail addy, I don't know whether the relay would do a reverse DNS lookup in this case. Carl. PS: Please use a proper subject line in future when posting. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Please Help
Like Erik, I'm not really sure what you want to do. If you want the best chance of getting help on this list (and others), check out this howto: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and especially: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#bespecific Have you already produced the .wav file and just want to convert it, or do you need assistance with making the .wav file also? Carl. On Sunday 15 June 2003 03:34, Edward Maloney wrote: > I am desperately seeking the ability to record my modem data transmissions > (from phone line recording made w/sound board) and would like to decode > both originating/answer sides of data transmissions after call has been > made. I have no way of converting this .wav file to ASCII data. > > Any help would greatly be appreciated. > > Thank You, > Edward Maloney > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LILO problems
On Saturday 14 June 2003 15:58, Geoff Howell wrote: > 6. Reinstalled Win2k > 7. No LILO! > I haven't been able to get LILO installed and working since - at the moment > I don't get a LILO prompt, my computer boots straight into windows unless I > boot from a floppy, but this is a pain as I need to eject it every time I > want to boot into Windows. Since reinstalling W2K, what have you tried to do to get lilo working? It's been a while since I used lilo, as Redhat has used the vastly superior GRUB bootloader for ages. Anyway, I thought the preferred method for setting up dual boot machines these days was to use the W2K bootloader, and I have had success doing it this way in the past, eg see this page: http://classes.csumb.edu/CST/CST434-01/world/DualBoot.html good luck. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Docbook with XML examples
On Thursday 05 June 2003 10:04, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > Does anyone know how to embed an example of XML in a DocBook formatted > XML document. CDATA? > This may be what you are looking for: http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/markup.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] pid timeout
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 04:17 pm, Amanda Wynne wrote: timeout 25442 return 0 > > When it stops, it looks like this: > pid reading 0 return 0 > pid timeout 25444 return -1 > Well the pid value is clearly incorrect, (no such pid as zero) suggesting that the call to pthread_create failed. You may want to check the return value from both calls to pthread_create, although since Mbm_get_data() and Mbm_sleep() both print to stderr when Mb_verbose is true, that may not be necessary. (This should be checked anyway, so maybe the library maintainer would like a patch?) The man page says that pthread_create will fail if more than PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX threads are active, you could check what this value is defined to by grepping in /usr/include or wherever the system headers are if you are cross-compiling. The failure of pthread_create seems related to the fact that the function uses pthread_cancel, which (I think) will not release the resources from the created threads, instead pthread_join should be used (maybe in addition to pthread_cancel). From the pthread_join manpage: "When a joinable thread terminates, its memory resources (thread descriptor and stack) are not deallocated until another thread performs pthread_join on it. Therefore, pthread_join must be called once for each joinable thread created to avoid memory leaks." The two threads in this case are definitely "joinable". You know life has taken a strange turn when you're debugging someone *else's* code on a Saturday night :-P -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] make menuconfig & ncurses
See: http://info.ccone.at/INFO/Mail-Archives/redhat/Dec-2002/msg00514.html Actually my /etc/sysconfig/i18n now looks like: LANG="en_US" SUPPORTED="en_US:en:pt_BR:pt" SYSFONT="iso01.16" #LANG="en_AU.UTF-8" #SUPPORTED="en_AU.UTF-8:en_AU:en:en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" #SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" HTH On Friday 14 February 2003 09:18, Daniel Harper wrote: > I have just installed Redhat 8.0 professional on a Dell PowerServer, > however I am having problems with make menuconfig. > > Now make menuconfig works, however what is displayed is a jumbled mess, and > the selection displays (The thing in the <*>) aren't being displayed > properly. > > Any ideas? A ncurses problem or perhaps some colour or display settings??? > > Any help would be appreciated as redhat technical support won't help as it > is not classified as a 'installation support' problem. > > Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Hard Drives
On Thursday 13 February 2003 16:54, David wrote: > yes.. but what about reliability? is there a difference? I need two new > drives, but I much prefer reliability to size (I'm told that size isn't > everything ;-) Every time I go see the friendly chinese guy down at my local pc shop for a new drive, he sells me a different brand. I asked him about this and he said that the quality of a given brand can vary greatly, because manufacturer A's drives can be made in different places at different times. He sells whatever he thinks is best this week (up to you whether you believe that!). Actually I believe him because there have been long discussions on /. about hard drives, and in the same thread you'll find slashbot A arguing that he swears by brand Foo, whereas slashbot B lost his job, car and girlfriend due to a crashed drive of the same brand. Moral of the story: ASSUME ALL DRIVES ARE CRAP. This is OK, because Linux gives us fantabulous software RAID. If you care about data integrity, get two drives, do mirroring, and the chance of data loss is very, very small. Better yet, get 3, so that you have one on hand when one dies. You should still do backups, of course. Personally I use RH, the installer makes setting up RAID pretty easy, other distros are probably not that hard either. RAID costs more, but I reckon the peace of mind is worth it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Installing APT for RPM issues
Hi there, Any one had any experience installing APT for RPM under Red Hat 8.0? I've been reading up about it at: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/192/ and am following a tutorial at: http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~godoy/apt-howto/ but when I attempted to install the latest version RPM informs me that I need librpm-4.0.3.so I can only find librpm-4.0.2.so at http://www.rpmfind.net/ and not 4.03. Doing a search under http://www.google.com/linux doesn't help me locate the file either. Does any one have an idea as to where I can download this libary so I can continue to install APT for RPM on my system. Regards, Carl -- Carl Osterly | Support| Connect Infobahn Australia | Ph: 1300 555 900 (W) | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Can't open /dev/video0 error with Xawtv error
Hi there, Having some issue getting Xawtv to run with my Creative Labs USB Web Cam. Here's what I done so far. 1. I do a chmod 777 /dev/video0 to allow all users access to the video device. 2. Do a lsmod with the following output ov511 83576 0 videodev8288 1 [ov511] mousedev5524 1 keybdev 2976 0 (unused) hid22244 0 (unused) input 5888 0 [mousedev keybdev hid] usb-uhci 26188 0 (unused) usbcore77024 1 [ov511 hid usb-uhci] ext3 70368 2 jbd52212 2 [ext3] >From what I can tell the ov511 USB device driver has been loaded correctly. 3. Do a modinfo -p ov511 with the following output: autobright int, description "Sensor automatically changes brightness" autogain int, description "Sensor automatically changes gain" autoexp int, description "Sensor automatically changes exposure" (plus a whole heap more) 4. I then run xawtv as a normal user and get the following error: This is xawtv-3.74, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.18-14) can't open /dev/video0: No such device or address v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device or address v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device or address no video grabber device available 5. Do a ls -l on /dev/video0 and get the following: crwxrwxrwx1 carl root 81, 0 Aug 31 09:31 /dev/video0 Any ideas on why I can't open the device with xawtv? I've found other documents that match my steps and according to them it should be working by now: http://linux-sxs.org/usb511.html Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Carl -- Carl Osterly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CIA Group Pty Ltd -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Num lock key on startup
OK, this is probably a really dumb question but I've tried searching under Google Linux without much success. I notice that under Red Hat 8.0 the num lock key is not turned on by default. It is in my BIOS, but it turns off after Red Hat 8.0 finishes booting. Is there a configuration file for X or in the rc.d startup scripts that can re-enable the num lock key? Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Carl -- Carl Osterly | Support| Connect Infobahn Australia | Ph: 1300 555 900 (W) | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] html-php editor
Robert Maurency wrote: I know there are plenty of text editors around, but I'm after one with the pretty (and essential if you do as many typos as I do!) colour coding. Any suggestions? Much appreciated. Take a look at: http://quanta.sourceforge.net/ Probably one of the best GUI HTML editors going around for Linux at the moment. Regards, Carl -- Carl Osterly | Support| Connect Infobahn Australia | Ph: 1300 555 900 (W) | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] HTML indenter/validator recommendations
Yeah but I'm interested in what people are using etc... Take a look at: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/offline/ Regards, Carl -- Carl Osterly | Support| Connect Infobahn Australia | Ph: 1300 555 900 (W) | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Mozilla 1.2 / PSM problem when updating with Redhat 8 RPM's
Hi folks, I've run into a problem visiting https enabled web sites using Mozilla 1.2. It's a different issue to the cookies setting discussed earlier today on the list. When I browse a https enabled site I get the an error message informing me that: "This document cannot be displayed unlesss you install the Personal Security Manager (PSM). Download and install PSM and try again, or contact your system administrator" I've got the relevant PSM rpm file called: mozilla-psm-1.2-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm and I installed it along with the other relevant Red Hat 8 RPM's for Mozilla 1.2 from: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2/Red_Hat_8x_RPMS/xft/RPMS/i386/ I downloaded all the files and then as root issued the following command: rpm -U --nodeps *.rpm The Mozilla browser and email client work perfectly in every other respect, so I'm not sure what I've done wrong. When I attempt to install the PSM rpm file by itself rpm tells me that I've already got the latest version installed. Any ideas on why Mozilla won't recognize that PSM is actually installed? Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Carl -- Carl Osterly | Support| Connect Infobahn Australia | Ph: 1300 555 900 (W) | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Which Firewall to use?
Faiyaaz H wrote: What is a good firewall to use? The October 2002 edition of Linux Format (UK mag) found in most newsagents has a very good roundup of free/commercial firewall distributions. It's quite a comprehensive review covering six different products. Smoothwall - http://www.smoothwall.org/ get's a very good review, along with Astaro - http://www.astaro.com/ Regards, Carl -- Carl Osterly | Support| Connect Infobahn Australia | Ph: 1300 555 900 (W) | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Truetype font support in Mozilla 1.01
Hi there, Any one had any luck in getting true type font support working with Mozilla 1.01 under Red Hat 8.0? I've followed some instructions found at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fonts/unix/enabling_truetype.html but still no joy. I can get KDE 3.x to see the typefaces, but not Mozilla. Regards, Carl -- Carl Osterly | Support| Connect Infobahn Australia | Ph: 1300 555 900 (W) | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] DSL modem
Vlad VRA09 Rakic wrote: I'm considering getting Red Hat Linux 8.0, but will it recognise my DSL modem ? I'm using an Alcatel Speedtouch modem supplied by Telstra Bigpond ADSL. Works perfectly under Red Hat 8.0 The network connection wizard, that is provided in Red Hat 8.0, setup the connection in a matter of minutes. Regards, Carl -- Carl Osterly | Support| Connect Infobahn Australia | Ph: 1300 555 900 (W) | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] [OT] Internet2 speed record
Slightly off topic but its got a Linux angle to it: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/23/1022038451171.html Regards, Carl -- Liquid Web Pty Ltd - corporate internet services ABN 35 091 994 080 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.liquidweb.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Laserjet 1100 & RedHat 6.2 printing problems
Hello sluggers, Recently decided to connect a HP Laserjet 1100 to an old Pentium 100 Rehat 6.2 box that I've got lying around. For now I'd just like to get Linux to print to it, then share it across the network with Samba. I'm pretty familiar with Samba for file sharing, but this is the first time I've connected a printer to a Linux box, so please bear with me :-) I've tried to read as much of the Linux Printing HOWTO as possible, but I find the range of options confusing. So far I've done the following: 1. Attached the printer, executed LPD daemon and then run "printtool" under Red Hat 6.2 2. Created an entry under Printtool with the following properties: Name: LP Spool directory:/var/spool/lpd/lp File limit: 0 Printer device: /dev/lp0 Input filter: *auto* Laser Jet 4/5/6 - No postscript support Suppress headers: On 3. Attempt to test the entry by selecting Tests --> Print ASCII Test Page Printtool confirms that a job was spooled. And that's about it, no lights blink on the printer and no further messages appear. If I investigate the spool directory I get quite a number of files: cfA000elvis cfA004elvis cfA008elvis dfA001elvis dfA005elvis dfA010elvis lock cfA001elvis cfA005elvis cfA010elvis dfA002elvis dfA006elvis dfA011elvis postscript.cfg cfA002elvis cfA006elvis cfA011elvis dfA003elvis dfA007elvis filter status cfA003elvis cfA007elvis dfA000elvis dfA004elvis dfA008elvis general.cfg textonly.cf Not sure if I've selected the right filter under the Printtool, I went with a suggestion from another HP user on a Linux printing related Web site. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Carl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Newbie problem with m68k on Mac SE30
Hello all, I am new to Linux and 'slug'. Is anyone out there using Debian on 68k Macs? I am having problems with the install and would appreciate any help I can get. I am trying to install Debian on a Mac SE30. According to the many sites I have visited this can be done. I have the Debian Potato 2.2 m68k 3-CD set. Briefly, I have a 1.2gb internal hdd, 64mb ram. I have partitioned the hard drive with 150mb MacOS with System 7.5.5, 150mb Unix Swap and about 1.7gb Unix Root. I can run Penguin 18 no problem and have configured as specified in the documentation:- comand line: root=/dev/ram kernal file: linux ram disk: root.bin Everything boots up OK and asks me to configure keyboard - no problem But here is where I have problems. It asks me to partition the hard drive with a message 'There are no 'Linux Swap' partitions present on this system'. Which I know for a fact do exist. If I select the' Partition a Hard Disk' option, it asks me to select a disk drive. I select /dev/sda and it takes me to a command prompt which looks like mac-fdisk. I can and have deleted and created the partitions. Even when I do this, I still can't seem to get any further than this step. Any ideas? Cheers, Carl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Getting an internal PCI modem to run under Linux
Hello sluggers, I was given a Netcomm PCI modem the other day by a friend and was keen to try it out under Linux. Needless to say I haven't had much luck and it seems that from what I can read up about PCI modems at the modem HowTo found at: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Modem-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.5 that things don't look that rosy for me either. Has any one on this list had any experience in getting an internal PCI modem to work under the 2.3 or 2.4 kernels? Damn shame really.. I wish my friend had given me a Winmodem now :-) Regards, Carl -- Liquid Web Pty Ltd - corporate internet services ABN 35 091 994 080 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.liquidweb.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: [LINK] Senator Alston, The Copyright Act, DVD...
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Danny Yee wrote: > The amazing thing is the way they stick their noses into everything, > if only to claim credit. From all the press releases they put out and > the media coverage, the entity in the street probably thinks they're > doing a wonderful job. Puh! I think this is the key statement. How does all this appear to joe sixpack. None of this makes sense unless you see it how the politicians see it. They have personal and ideological agendas to persue and a tractable media to present the right spin. We, on the other hand, are easily categorised as fringe dwellers and dismissed. Joe Sixpack believes what he sees on the tv and that is what will be influencing his vote come the next election. In a world driven by advertising, appearance is everything. :) Carl. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] It'll Be an Open-Source World (Wired Technology Tuesday)
It'll Be an Open-Source World (Technology Tuesday) A new report from Forrester Research says open-source standards will dominate the software industry within four years. More predictions? IBM and Dell will win; Oracle and Microsoft will struggle. By Michelle Delio. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38240,00.html?tw=wn2816 Regards, Carl -- Liquid Web Pty Ltd - corporate internet services ACN 091 994 080 - ABN 35 091 994 080 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.liquidweb.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Problems in configuring httpd document root as a Samba shared drive
Hi there, I've got myself into a little problem using Samba & Apache. Here's the scenario: I have a Linux Web server called "liquid" that has two users, carl & julia. Both Carl & Julia are part of a group called "staff". Both carl & julia have a need to edit HTML files that are stored on the Linux Web server from their Windows workstations. Rather than work directly on the default root directory that Apache uses of "/home/httpd/html" I've opted to setup a folder called "/work" The folder has been created by root and is owned by the "staff group" as seen below: 4 drwxrwxr-x3 root staff4096 Jul 21 13:34 work Next I've defined a Samba share with the following properties: [web] path = /work public = no force group = staff create mask = 775 directory mask = 775 writable = yes printable = no My idea behind this is to allow any member of the staff group read/write control over every file/directory created within the "/work" folder. Perhaps there is a better approach to this, but my main goal was to avoid another member of the staff group finding a file left as "read only" by another staff members last edit to that file. Both Carl & Julia's Windows machines can see the share and read/write each others files perfectly. Next my idea was to set the document root from "/home/httpd/html" tp "/work" in the apache.conf file and then be able to browse Web pages created by staff members in the "/work" folder. When I point my Web browser to http://liquid/ I get the following error from Apache: "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server." When I set the default document root back to "/home/httpd/html" I can see the test Apache index.html document as supplied in a standard RedHat 6.2 install. The settings for this folder are: 4 drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Jul 21 12:25 html Obviously this problem stems from the permissions that I've setup for the "/work" folder, but I'm not sure what to do next. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Carl -- Liquid Web Pty Ltd - corporate internet services ACN 091 994 080 - ABN 35 091 994 080 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.liquidweb.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Use of Open Source to be law in France?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Columnists/2000-07/eva100700.shtml Regards, Carl -- Liquid Web Pty Ltd - corporate internet services ACN 091 994 080 - ABN 35 091 994 080 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.liquidweb.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
