Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
... and the CD-RW is easier to replace! thanks Andrew -- Andrew McRobert B.Sc.(Comp. Sci.) LL.B LL.M Info. Tech. Liaison Officer School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: + 61 8 9360 6479 Fax: + 61 8 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making a bootable LILO floppy

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
... I always just use 'mkboot [image]' on my main kernel image, which gives me the same lilo config on the floppy as for the HDD. Andrew -- Andrew McRobert B.Sc.(Comp. Sci.) LL.B LL.M Info. Tech. Liaison Officer School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: + 61 8 9360 6479

Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA (cont...)

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
-- Andrew McRobert B.Sc.(Comp. Sci.) LL.B LL.M Info. Tech. Liaison Officer School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: + 61 8 9360 6479 Fax: + 61 8 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA (cont...)

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
Inabnit ke6sls [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrew McRobert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA (cont...) Andrew, Have you ever had this writer working under linux? It almost sounds like a problem I had following a kernel upgrade

Adding UFS support

2000-12-22 Thread Andrew McRobert
to run a UFS module with 'insmod' or something along those lines? cheers Andrew McRobert

Installing new SCSI driver in Dell Poweredge - a challenge?

2000-11-26 Thread Andrew McRobert
- Andrew McRobert LL.B B.Sc (Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer School of Law Murdoch University Ph: +61 8 9360 6479 Fax: +61 8 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Installing new SCSI driver in Dell Poweredge - a challenge?

2000-11-26 Thread Andrew McRobert
- a challenge? On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 03:51:18PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: the Seagate HDD at id 0, and the config file tells LILO to look for the kernel and root partition on /dev/sda1. this is simple, just get a lilo boot: prompt and type: linux root=/dev/sdc1 which will override the root

mkboot

2000-11-25 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all Can anyone tell me a reliable way to make a boot disk? I've tried the mkboot util, and I have to say it's pretty average - it hasn't successfully booted a disk, only get's to: LILO boot: Loading linux and dies ... I'm pretty sure there's a way to make a boot disk with dd, but can't

HELP! - LILO (SCSI)

2000-11-24 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all I tried adding a ULTRA SCSI hard disk to the server (on the separate ULTRA SCSI channel on the controller), and while the system correctly identifies all of the attached SCSI devices (including the two other HDDs), it gives me this message when I connect the ULTRA SCSI drive: can't locate

RE: crontab control?

2000-09-04 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi it is controlled by /etc/crontab, one possibility why it's not running may be the execute permissions on either the /etc/cron.daily directory or the specific scripts ... Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School

RE: ssh from nt? - Port forwarding

2000-09-04 Thread Andrew McRobert
of application tried to connect to forwarded port, and then it terminates. Does anyone have any experience with this? cheers Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61

RE: How to change machine+machine name and ip-address in Debian?

2000-08-20 Thread Andrew McRobert
though), so you'll probably need to manually edit /etc/resolv.conf to change those (if necessary). cheers Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479

Resetting dselect

2000-08-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all Does anyone know a quick way to unselect (hold I guess) all the packages in dselect (as opposed to going through the whole list and hitting =)??? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law

RE: Resetting dselect

2000-08-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks, but that doesn't seem to be working ... (I'm still getting about 2 ga-zillion packages to install) Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360

fyi: Winux??

2000-08-17 Thread Andrew McRobert
of UNIX. It's apparently a complicated business to get Windows applications to run normally in Linux, and so far results are disappointing. See http://www.wininformant.com/display.asp?ID=2874 - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer

Console display - font line sizes

2000-08-15 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all Does anyone know how to set the number of characters per line number of lines per screen for the console?? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph

RE: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-15 Thread Andrew McRobert
- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation -Original Message- From: Christoph Gaitzsch

RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
yep, it's an onboard adapter, I downloaded the X server from the mainboard manufacturer's site ... Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax

Port No. 1032 - iad3

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all Does anyone know what port 1032 is used for on a Windows machine (or any machine for that matter)? Running a port scan on my computer shows this port open and labelled as supporting iad3?? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci

RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
sounds like a possibility ... what are those ferrite beads you're talking about? cheers Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8

RE: vi won't work with any TERM setting

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
... when you log into the potato box, what's the value of the TERM environment value (get this by typing env). tks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8

RE: vi won't work with any TERM setting

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
PROTECTED] export TERM // export as env. variable then try 'telnettting' ... tks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479

RE: Port No. 1032 - iad3

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
rl alerted me to this mail thread on that port (yep, I noticed it's not in /etc/services): http://www.securityportal.com/list-archive/firewalls/1999/Feb/0303.html tks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law

RE: Port No. 1032 - iad3

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
... it's listed as supporting BBN IAD on this list: http://members.toast.net/kmfahey/ports.html A - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8

LILO Kernel Image too big

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
). Anyone have any ideas how to solve this? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux

RE: LILO Kernel Image too big

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
bzImage :) Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation

RE: LILO Kernel Image too big -- Make error

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
'/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 I'm guessing that the second line there is the problem, and that the rest of the problems flow from there. Does anyone know what would cause this error? thanks Andrew - Andrew

SOLVED: RE: LILO Kernel Image too big -- Make error

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:40 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LILO Kernel Image too big -- Make error Andrew McRobert wrote: hi again I just ran bzImage again, and the last few lines of output show this error: make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386

RE: crontab

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
run a backup tape reminder through something like: crontab remindme.txt Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail

fyi: Linux Office Suite Consortium - NY Times

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
. The foundation plans to announce a set of initiatives, including a unified desktop user interface and a set of productivity programs intended to compete as a free alternative to Microsoft Office. - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison

RE: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
site, but the box did not boot the rescue disk. Thanks for all your sharing. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western

Re: HP OpenMail

2000-08-13 Thread Andrew McRobert
: On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:40:44PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: I downloaded the files the other day, and have just begun the process of trying to install this on our Debian server. I've only had time to get to the stage of converting the rpm's to .tgz files and extracting the files

Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-13 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Does anyone have a good Modeline for this monitor? I can get X running @ 1024x768 with 16bpp, but there's a bit of shadowing around eterm windows etc thanks! Andrew

RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-13 Thread Andrew McRobert
yeah, and it lets me widen the image on the screen, but not stretch it vertically, and doesn't really help with the shadowing (which isn't so bad, I'd just prefer it wasn't there). thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison

Location of /etc/rc.d directory Debian v RHAT

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
(ie. no rc.d). Is there any danger in creating the /etc/rc.d directory and storing the relevant files from the RPM there? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western

RE: Location of /etc/rc.d directory Debian v RHAT

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
many thanks mate. Excuse my ignorance, but what are the rcN.d directories for? (I know about init.d, no so much about rc0.d etc.) cheers Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth

RE: Location of /etc/rc.d directory Debian v RHAT

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
thank you sir :) Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation

[off topic] Microsoft advertises for Linux team product manger

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
Microsoft advertises for Linux team product manger Computer giant Microsoft has advertised for a product manger to drive its corporate Linux strategy. http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/2811/A63247-2000Aug11.html - Andrew McRobert

Re: HP OpenMail

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi I downloaded the files the other day, and have just begun the process of trying to install this on our Debian server. I've only had time to get to the stage of converting the rpm's to .tgz files and extracting the files to a temporary directory. It looks like it could take a fair bit of

Re: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks for that ... On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 06:40:51AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote Hi all! I'm trying to restrict my FTP users in own directories using ProFTP. I used the configuration examples found in ProFTP's

Resizing /var ie. /dev/sda6

2000-08-10 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Does anyone know of a tool that will let you resize an ext2 partition (I need to give more space to the /var filesystem) ... I guess I could use Partition Magic ... any other suggestions? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert IT Liaison Officer

RE: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP

2000-08-10 Thread Andrew McRobert
sorry, I don't have an answer to this myself, but I'm also interested in knowing how to do this ... thanks Andrew -Original Message- From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 9:41 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:

Proftpd - intial directories

2000-08-09 Thread Andrew McRobert
- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math

HP OpenMail on Debian (M$ Exchange alternative)

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in getting HP's OpenMail working on a Debian box? One of the features of OpenMail is that it can serve as an alternative to M$oft's Exchange Server software, and allows calendar sharing etc. between employees in an enterprise. The evaluation

Printer Setup - Netscape etc. SMB

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
the Print button in Netscape it prints automatically to a Windows printer (hanging off the PDC). thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e

Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest thing listed is alien -t [file] which produces [file].tgz ... tks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB

RE: Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
cheers - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math

RE: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-07 Thread Andrew McRobert
- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math -Original Message- From: Charles

RE: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-07 Thread Andrew McRobert
- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: noise from monitor, HELP!

2000-08-02 Thread Andrew McRobert
I usually just hit mine :) - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The lottery: a tax on people who are bad

Re: filesystem-hierarchy

2000-08-02 Thread Andrew McRobert
I don't know of one @ the Debian WWW site, but there's one in the O'Reilly Learning GNU/Linux book ... which may be at least partly on the Web ... Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth

RE: Ethernet cards on network

2000-07-25 Thread Andrew McRobert
55.0 eth0 #$ route add default gw X.X.X.1 eth0 ... and a similar thing for the eth1 interface. Perhaps if you could post the results of a "netstat -r" command and a "netstat -a" command. cheers Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc

fsck for UFS?? (fwd)

2000-07-25 Thread Andrew McRobert
I sent this to the debian-sparc list ... but thought it might be worth copying to here too ... tks -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:51:54 +0800 (WST) From: Andrew McRobert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: fsck for UFS?? hi all One

RE: Tape backup software?

2000-07-24 Thread Andrew McRobert
I have to say that i find that tar covers all bases pretty well ... depends what you're used to I guess. tks Andrew -Original Message- From: Olaf Meeuwissen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:47 AM To: Krzys Majewski Cc: Kelly Corbin; Debian Userslist Subject: Re:

vmlinuz-2.2.12scsimod

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia ...). My root partition does have all the correct drivers (including PCMCIA), for 2.2.12 version kernels. thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph

RE: I need help please

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
://www.probo.com/timr/savagemx.html Which may fix the problem(s). If you've got any specific questions, feel free to e-mail me. cheers Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8

Boot floppy - quick qstn

2000-07-16 Thread Andrew McRobert
virtual terminal and executing mount /dev/fd0 /floppy, but that doesn't seem to help either. any ideas? many thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479

RE: Samba Headache

2000-07-07 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Jay First of all, I'd recommend subscribing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a general mailing list for SAMBA-related issues, and the people on it r very helpful (generally :) ). Ok, when you ran sambaconfig, did you specify the INETD option or to 'run as daemon' option. In your case, if you're

RE: debian cron: How do I change when /etc/cron.daily/standard is scheduled?

2000-07-04 Thread Andrew McRobert
(/etc/crontab) tks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The lottery: a tax on people who are bad

Majordomo Approvals

2000-07-02 Thread Andrew McRobert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] approve: invalid list or password. Help for [EMAIL PROTECTED] : thanks for any help Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479

Quick netsat qstn

2000-06-21 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all i was wondering what it means when netstat shows a connection at: [my.computer.dom]:smtp [foreign address] ... does it simply mean that someone is sending mail to my.computer.dom? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci

RE: Quick netsat qstn

2000-06-21 Thread Andrew McRobert
mean by verifying the address? thanks Andrew -Original Message- From: C. Falconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 1:19 PM To: 'Andrew McRobert' Subject: RE: Quick netsat qstn Basically yes. It means there is a connection to the SMTP port of my.computer.dom from

help! ... doin' the samba

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew McRobert
:01, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(408) Closing connections thanks a lot for any help!! Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e

RE: help! ... doin' the samba

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew McRobert
the NT and Samba box ... tks ANdrew ps. I'm on the samba mailing list, but no-one seems to have an answer to this there ... -Original Message- From: James Sasitorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 10:30 PM To: Andrew McRobert; Debian-Users (E-mail) Subject: RE: help

RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew McRobert
... is your BIOS set to auto-detect your HDDs ... and do they show up at startup? tks A -Original Message- From: Cody Cutrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:07 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive I can get all the

RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew McRobert
line I made out LBA before it disappeared. I can't remember what was below. Just so you know, Windows 98 does boot up and detects the hard drive just fine. I don't know. - Original Message - From: Andrew McRobert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users (E-mail) debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent

RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew McRobert
Enabled That is the third screen, character-for-character, space-for-space. Now maybe you can help me some more. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Andrew McRobert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Cody Cutrer' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian-Users (E-mail) debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, June 19

samba error

2000-06-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math

umask

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew McRobert
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very quick question :)

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi does anyone know the syntax of the 'grep' command to check all files on a machine for a pattern e.g. lawpc34, I've been trying: grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H lawpc34.log but that doesn't seem to work thanks a lot Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB

RE: very quick question :)

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks -Original Message- From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 5:37 PM To: Debian-Users (E-mail) Subject: Re: very quick question :) On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:12:03AM +0200, Antonio Moragues Ramón wrote: grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H lawpc34.log but

samba passwords

2000-06-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math

Samba passwords - Session setup error

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew McRobert
. Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: fetchmail with ssh

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew McRobert
... if it is a mail server name problem, you can get the server's name through a whois query .. Andrew -Original Message- From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 12:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: fetchmail with ssh On Sun, Jun

RE: Would this be applicable to the API issue?

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew McRobert
... I didn't notice any earlier mailings on this, so I'm coming in cold a little. Trade dress in the US is like passing off in Australia. It doesn't give you any more extensive protection than trade mark registration *e.g. for the debian swirl* and is harder to prove, because with TM protection,

Aeromail

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew McRobert
specified in config.inc seems to be ok ... tks - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math

Port 139

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi output from netstat | more shows a connection from a remote machine to: [my server].139 I was wondering what port 139 is used for ... thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360

RE: Port 139

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew McRobert
-mail) Subject: Re: Port 139 On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:46:55PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: hi output from netstat | more shows a connection from a remote machine to: [my server].139 I was wondering what port 139 is used for ... $ cat /etc/services | grep 139 netbios-ssn 139/tcp

RE: Win 2000 smbmount problems

2000-06-04 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi ... can you remember how to configure Samba to support shadow passwords? tks Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 9:06 PM To: Paulo Henrique Baptista; Debian User Subject: Re: Win 2000 smbmount problems Hi I had

quick sendmail question

2000-06-02 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all ... the output from ps -eax | grep sendmail shows that sendmail is rejecting all connections requested on its port (no. 25). Does anyone know how I can quickly change it so that it will accept connections? thanks - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc

PHP3 cgi/apache

2000-06-01 Thread Andrew McRobert
- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: internet connection

2000-05-31 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Scott ... all you should need to do is run pppconfig (to set up the connection properties for your ISP), and then run pon name of connection configured in pppconfig. You must have also set the IP addresses of your ISP's nameservers, in /etc/resolv.conf A -Original Message- From: T

No high memory space

2000-05-31 Thread Andrew McRobert
... is there some issue there? My laptop has slightly more than 128 ... thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: RFC 1878 documents for subnet

2000-05-31 Thread Andrew McRobert
they should be on the IETF site ... I'm guessing www.ietf.org A -Original Message- From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: RFC 1878 documents for subnet On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:41:21PM +0800,

REPOST: No high memory space

2000-05-31 Thread Andrew McRobert
[Andrew McRobert] , hi, I thought I'd repost this in case someone with the answer to my question missed this thanks I've had a number of problems getting X to run on my Toshiba ... I know think it may have something to do with a message I receive @ startup. THe message is no high memory

RE: is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi ... given the absolutely beautiful simplicity of pon and poff ... who wld want a clunky GUI? :) A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Taupter Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:21 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: is there a gui

XFCOnfiggin'

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi again Can someone tell me why an XF86Config file from an identical laptop will not work on mine (ie. identical model, CPU, RAM, HDD, Video Card, Sound Card etc.) BUT ... mine's Debian as opposed to Red Hat ... ? tks A - Andrew McRobert

RE: XFCOnfiggin'

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:42 PM To: Debian-Users (E-mail) Subject: Re: XFCOnfiggin' On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:02:01PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: hi again Can someone tell me why an XF86Config file from an identical laptop will not work on mine (ie. identical

RE: XFCOnfiggin'

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
nope :) A -Original Message- From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:15 PM To: Andrew McRobert Cc: 'Eric G . Miller'; 'Debian-Users (E-mail)' Subject: RE: XFCOnfiggin' Are you out of quota or out of diskspace ? Ron Rademaker On Tue, 30 May 2000

RE: XFCOnfiggin'

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks guys, but I've run xf86config XF86Setup about 300,000 times (almost no embellishment there!!) ... I've also got a server flag for don't die if the mouse fails ... oh well Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vitux Sent: Wednesday,

RE: help!!!!!!

2000-05-29 Thread Andrew McRobert
hehe, spot the Microsoft user ... sorry, must be constructive ... what is the exact problem you're having? Andrew -Original Message- From: John Archuleta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 1:13 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: help!! To Whom It May

FW: Dumb X Windows Question

2000-05-23 Thread Andrew McRobert
-Original Message- From: Andrew McRobert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 12:04 PM To: 'Jay Kelly' Subject: RE: Dumb X Windows Question ... try these .debs at least xfree86-common xlib6g xf86setup ... just apt-get update then apt-get install package-name

X Weirdness

2000-05-23 Thread Andrew McRobert
). - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Webmail

2000-05-23 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi while I'm waiting in hope re: my X Win qstn, does anyone know of a good Web mail package (ie. let's you download mail from another POP server look @ it through WWW. ta A - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH

libX11.a?

2000-05-22 Thread Andrew McRobert
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FW: Tape Backup Problem

2000-05-17 Thread Andrew McRobert
... i'm using tar smbtar on a Dell Poweredge (with SONY DDS3 tape drive) running Debian 2.2.14 (potato) ... works very nicely ... tar's a great little program very useful for your shell scripts ... backing up several gig with no problems, I'd stay away from GUI tape drive managers, there's

RE: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server

2000-05-15 Thread Andrew McRobert
, 2000 3:50 PM To: Bret Comstock Waldow Cc: Heather; Andrew McRobert; Debian-Users (E-mail); Debian-Laptop (E-mail) Subject: Re: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server On that basis, it seems the XF86_SVGA server is the right one for the Savage chips, and it looks as though the XF86_S3V server

RE: Laptop Screen Size Problems (cont...)

2000-05-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi I've installed xfree ver 3.3.6-6, still having problems though. Have included the output from running 'startx' (thorough startx startxout). Would be grateful for any assistance ... XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date:

RE: root tries to automatically log in

2000-05-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
do you have any other system users created in /etc/passwd? Andrew -Original Message- From: Mark Crotts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 12:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: root tries to automatically log in I reinstalled my 2.1 debian base last

_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-05-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi when I run XF86Setup and then test my settings I get the following error: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 etc. etc. any ideas? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH

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