RE: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread mjm159
That's just it, this is a Red Hat 9 box so why are we talking about Windoze machines? I've never seen a Linux box come up with this route before and that's why I emailed the list. I'm well aware of how Windoze machines work, if this was a Windoze question I'd email MS. Hmm, I'm coming across

Re: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:22:11AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > howeverI have never seen a non windows box come up with a > 169.254.x.x IP address on dhcp failure. On all the implementations I > have seen, once dhcp times out the interface does not come up, nor > does it make an entry in the routi

NZOSS hires 'big dog' to fight SCO - Bout Freaking time!

2003-08-24 Thread Jason Greenwood
Monday, 25 August, 2003 http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/NL/5F97DC00E6E93AD9CC256D89007A08C2 NZOSS hires 'big dog' to fight SCO NZOSS calls Linux users together to discuss legal options Anthony Doesburg, Auckland The New Zealand Open Source Society is hiring “a big dog” — in the form of a QC

Re: Rights to windows shares

2003-08-24 Thread Nick Rout
passwords set up correctly? how are you mounting the windows boxes? as what user? On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 09:30:46 +1200 "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last time I asked this question I got no replies but I am not giving up. > > We have, at home, several Windows boxes wit

Rights to windows shares

2003-08-24 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Last time I asked this question I got no replies but I am not giving up. We have, at home, several Windows boxes with shared folders which we can read and write to from other Windows boxes. I can also read and write to my Samba shares on my Linux boxes from the Windows boxes. My problem is that

Re: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread Nick Rout
howeverI have never seen a non windows box come up with a 169.254.x.x IP address on dhcp failure. On all the implementations I have seen, once dhcp times out the interface does not come up, nor does it make an entry in the routing table. on greping my redhat box I find some entries in this fil

Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-24 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 09:13, Nick Rout wrote: > What about giving each user their own space in ~user/public_html (which > will appear on the net as http://server/~user/ ) and then share each > user's home dir with samba, they can play with their own pages, but > no-one elses? Yeah - I'm gonna do s

Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-24 Thread Nick Rout
What about giving each user their own space in ~user/public_html (which will appear on the net as http://server/~user/ ) and then share each user's home dir with samba, they can play with their own pages, but no-one elses? or am i barking up the wrong perennial woody plant having a main trunk and

Re: gnome panel/ickle difficulties

2003-08-24 Thread Carl Cerecke
Andrew Tarr wrote: I got sick of the KDE desktop that Knoppix installed on my laptop by default (slow, and the control bar or whatever they call it used up too much screen real estate) I have it set up so that it only appears when I move my mouse to the very bottom of the screen. Cheers, Carl.

Re: uploading web pages

2003-08-24 Thread CF
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 00:36, Chris Hellyar wrote: > If the client machines are running windows, put samba on the box and let > users mount /var/www/html (or /www ,whatever takes your fancy) directly > and edit the pages using frontpage without having the hassle of > upload/download. > > This'll

Re: Contact list in K-mail help please

2003-08-24 Thread Shane Hollis
In K Mail bring up the address book. THe short cut key is B. you must do this from the main mail window not a mail composition window. otherwise try File AddressBook menus. under the address book is the ability to make a distribution list which is your mailing list that you want. HTH, shane O

Re: OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-24 Thread Shane Hollis
some of us cant because te Fendalton'ites said no to cables being laid so now we are the lst place inChch that Telstra-Saturn is going to lay cables. Believe me, i tried getting Cable, satellite and microwave connection and unfortunately am still stuck using Telecoms cables on a Paradise Jetstar

RE: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread Andy George
Sure did boss, 169.254.x.x is the default range for a machine wanting a DHCP server... Windows *by default* wants a dhcp server, so if it's thrown on a network, and perhaps (as we all have done) you leave the IP stage till later... it will INITIALLY try to seek out a dhcp server... The router wi

Re: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 10:31:36PM +1200, Michael wrote: > Nobody read my post properly... Not true. > There is no dynamic configurations going on here. I said that > 169.254.0.0 keeps appearing in my ROUTE table even though NONE of the > interfaces are configured to receive an IP address via DH

gnome panel/ickle difficulties

2003-08-24 Thread Andrew Tarr
I got sick of the KDE desktop that Knoppix installed on my laptop by default (slow, and the control bar or whatever they call it used up too much screen real estate), so I've gone back to windowmaker. For ICQ I use ickle, and it used to be on my desktop that ickle had a little applet that sat in t

Re: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread Nick Rout
I did read your post, I was hoping that an explanation of what the 169.254 network was used for might help you figure out what was going on. its coming up that way because its configured that way for some reason. try grepping the /etc/ tree for 169.254, or even just 169 On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 22

Re: MythTV

2003-08-24 Thread Col
Col wrote: Have had another play with it and had the tv tuner, fm radio and composite input working under gentoo. The remote supplied with it will require some googling. Tv recption isn't the best on some channels and I couldn't find channel 4 at all. Anyone know what frequency it is on? I als

Re: newbie knows nothing...

2003-08-24 Thread Nick Rout
I don't have mandrake installed so i cannot help you with the mandrake tools for finding or installing the right package. urpmi is probably your friend. whether it can tell you which uninstalled package contains the file gtk-config is anyones guess. try doing rpm -qa|grep libgtk this will tell

RE: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread Michael
Nobody read my post properly... There is no dynamic configurations going on here. I said that 169.254.0.0 keeps appearing in my ROUTE table even though NONE of the interfaces are configured to receive an IP address via DHCP. In other words, only one interface is initialised at boot and that ha

Re: MythTV

2003-08-24 Thread Col
Have had another play with it and had the tv tuner, fm radio and composite input working under gentoo. The remote supplied with it will require some googling. Tv recption isn't the best on some channels and I couldn't find channel 4 at all. Anyone know what frequency it is on? I also tried the

Re: OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-24 Thread adam
Paradise offers unlimited ADSL to businesses (in christchurch, maybe others), with minimum 256k up/down for $99 a month. Yes unlimited... no caps! Quoting Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey Mahesh, you're in Christchurch! Get cable, it's great! > > Andy > > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:27,

Re: newbie knows nothing...

2003-08-24 Thread antonovich
> if gtk-config is not there then you probably need to install the package > that contains it, which looks like libgtk-devel Sorry! there seems to be 53 different names for this, and i'm still getting my head around the fact that without the devels the headers and cs aren't there... cheers anto

Re: newbie knows nothing...

2003-08-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:12:50 +0100 antonovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > I know I should already know what this means but I don't! I get this > when trying to install GOPchop-0.9.1 > > *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found > *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, mak

Re: OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-24 Thread Andrew Errington
Hey Mahesh, you're in Christchurch! Get cable, it's great! Andy On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:27, Mahesh De Silva wrote: > Dam it.. i was at least hoping for better national > traffic!!! > > http://www.telecom-media.co.nz/releases_detail.asp?id=2915&page=index > > http://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2003/n0822

Re: wma is not playing

2003-08-24 Thread Julian Visch
On Monday 25 August 2003 07:38, you wrote: > Hey > does anyone know what i might have to do to get wm9 files to work with > xmms? I was pretty sure I had the win32 codecs all installed - maybe not? > They just don't seem to work with any players. Ideas? crossover

Re: newbie knows nothing...

2003-08-24 Thread Julian Visch
On Monday 25 August 2003 08:12, you wrote: > Hey, > I know I should already know what this means but I don't! I get this when > trying to install GOPchop-0.9.1 > > *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found > *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in > *** yo

Re: su root before setup -net Open Office

2003-08-24 Thread Julian Visch
On Sunday 24 August 2003 21:30, you wrote: > I have OOo1.1, thanks to helpful advice from the group re. wget. (4 > hours 30 minutes and 7 interruptions). > > I have "setup." > I have "setup -net" for a good reason (which I forget) dating from last > years installation of OOo1.0. > > I am told by

su root before setup -net Open Office

2003-08-24 Thread Ken McAllister
I have OOo1.1, thanks to helpful advice from the group re. wget. (4 hours 30 minutes and 7 interruptions). I have "setup." I have "setup -net" for a good reason (which I forget) dating from last years installation of OOo1.0. I am told by setup -net that I need root privileges. My fingers hove

OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-24 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Dam it.. i was at least hoping for better national traffic!!! http://www.telecom-media.co.nz/releases_detail.asp?id=2915&page=index http://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2003/n082201.shtml = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for

newbie knows nothing...

2003-08-24 Thread antonovich
Hey, I know I should already know what this means but I don't! I get this when trying to install GOPchop-0.9.1 *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to

wma is not playing

2003-08-24 Thread antonovich
Hey does anyone know what i might have to do to get wm9 files to work with xmms? I was pretty sure I had the win32 codecs all installed - maybe not? They just don't seem to work with any players. Ideas? cheers anton

OT Spotted today

2003-08-24 Thread Andrew Errington
At the Super Shed - a working PC system for not much money running Mandrake. A notice attached pointed out the (relatively) low spec. of the machine, but that it was perfectly usable and did not have any Microsoft software on it. Andy

Re: OT: made my day :-)

2003-08-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I saw that as well. LOL. Whats next? A link to mdk disc 1 and a tutorial on how to use diskdrake? Seeing this on an MS site is also quite amusing. DeviceBoot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 *1500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 1) /dev/sda2 501 522

Re: Contact list in K-mail help please

2003-08-24 Thread Gareth Williams
Mine has an address book via the Tools -> Address Book menu item. Maybe this is what you are looking for? Cheers, Gareth On Sunday 24 August 2003 17:30, Warwick & Ian wrote: > I recently set-up a machine for a Green party researcher running > Mandrake 9.1 and thought that k-mail would be easier

Contact list in K-mail help please

2003-08-24 Thread Warwick & Ian
I recently set-up a machine for a Green party researcher running Mandrake 9.1 and thought that k-mail would be easier for her to use. I personally use Evolution. How do you set-up an address contact list in K-mail? I must be thick because it is not immediately obvious to me. She is currently vi

RE: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread Andy George
169.254.x.x is the private range for windows machines that have automatically assigned themselves an address in the event that the dhcp server they were SPOSED to get an address fromis no longer there... I'll leave that said, and perhaps that may explain enough... Andy On Sun, 2003-08-24 at

Re: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:01:11PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > I _think_ the 169.254 network is a default one given when an interface > cannot get its address via dhcp. 169.254/16 is a link-local IPv4 address range set aside for automatic, DHCP-less, network adapter configuration. See 'Dynamic Con

Re: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:01, you wrote: > I _think_ the 169.254 network is a default one given when an interface > cannot get its address via dhcp. A whois enquiry on that address block refers one to RFC 3330 which says, amongst other things:- 169.254.0.0/16 - This is the "link local" block. It is

Re: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread Nick Rout
I _think_ the 169.254 network is a default one given when an interface cannot get its address via dhcp. On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 12:09:20+1200 mjm159<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On an aside, I also can't understand why 169.254.0.0 keeps appearing > in my route table. None of the interfaces are confi

Re: Pdf file on KDE applications (was Linux for Schools)

2003-08-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Version numbers don't show by themselves whether the copy/paste problem was some kind of bug or intended behaviour, and if it was a bug, whether it has been fixed. Instead of going to the effort of putting up screenshots (which don't have any extra value beyond giving a version number), you could h

Re: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread Lee Begg
I suspect that it has been set up for dhcp, which you (apparently) are not using (or have a dhcpd server running). In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 you should have something like the following. DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=x.x.x.x NETMASK=y.y.y.y ONBOOT=yes Currently you mig

RE: interface not coming up

2003-08-24 Thread mjm159
Okay, so I got it going mostly. I logically changed eth0 (which is never plugged in to anything) with eth1. I just changed the modules.conf and swapped the ifcfg scripts as well. Now eth0 (formerly eth1) comes up with its IP and network info. However, I can't understand why that made a diffe