Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 7.12 and Yamaha 4260 CDRW (SCSI)

2000-07-30 Thread Jim Clark
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Bill wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > Just installed (on 3rd attempt)Mandrake 7.12 (Linux Central 2 cd set), and > the only real problem I have is that the system keeps trying to access my > CDRW even though there's no CD in it. > > Setup devs and mountpoints exactly the same as Red

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 7.12 and Yamaha 4260 CDRW (SCSI)

2000-07-30 Thread Tom Massey
Bill wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > Just installed (on 3rd attempt)Mandrake 7.12 (Linux Central 2 cd set), and > the only real problem I have is that the system keeps trying to access my > CDRW even though there's no CD in it. Could be that you've got Mandrakes 'Supermount' utility enabled somewhere.

[SLUG] Mandrake 7.12 and Yamaha 4260 CDRW (SCSI)

2000-07-30 Thread Bill
Hi Guys, Just installed (on 3rd attempt)Mandrake 7.12 (Linux Central 2 cd set), and the only real problem I have is that the system keeps trying to access my CDRW even though there's no CD in it. Setup devs and mountpoints exactly the same as RedHat 6.2 (on same system), and have no problems wit

Re: [SLUG] Old SCSI tape drive

2000-07-30 Thread Ken Yap
>I have an old SCSI tape drive (DL6250 tape) with an old SCSI card driving >it (I'm guessing that its a SCSI, it certainly looks like one). The chip >on the card is marked: > >ARCHIVE >20940-001 >NCR0380704 >FP08118 >R9312 > >I cannot find any mention of this chip in the list of supported SCSI >c

[SLUG] Old SCSI tape drive

2000-07-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
I have an old SCSI tape drive (DL6250 tape) with an old SCSI card driving it (I'm guessing that its a SCSI, it certainly looks like one). The chip on the card is marked: ARCHIVE 20940-001 NCR0380704 FP08118 R9312 I cannot find any mention of this chip in the list of supported SCSI chips. It use

Re: [SLUG] To learn, to troll, to participate?

2000-07-30 Thread Michael Lake
Rick Welykochy wrote: > Michael Lake wrote: > > So did I. The mail advertises "LIVE" not "in person". I > > suspect that its a "live" broadcast by Bill to Oz, prob on a > > big video screen. > > What's this Bill thang? Does it really matter whether Bill is here > in person or live via video? A c

Re: [SLUG] TNT, Free86-4.0.1

2000-07-30 Thread Graeme Merrall
John Wiltshire wrote: > > The guys down in Melbourne have written a nice HOWTO on this subject: > > Check out http://games.luv.asn.au/lsd/nvidia-mini-howto.html. Hey thanks for pointing out that URL. I'll give it a go when I get home tonight. I just didn't know whether it was a kernel,X or har

Re: [SLUG] TNT, Free86-4.0.1

2000-07-30 Thread craig
Hi Yesterday i did the same thing with a Nvidia TNT 2 32 Meg all installed ok , but havent tryed any games in linux as yet i had to write my own XF86Config file to get the card to fire up seems to be very snappy though , you may be missing a module - Craig Oceania Computer Services { [EMAIL PROTE

RE: [SLUG] TNT, Free86-4.0.1

2000-07-30 Thread John Wiltshire
The guys down in Melbourne have written a nice HOWTO on this subject: Check out http://games.luv.asn.au/lsd/nvidia-mini-howto.html. John Wiltshire -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] SSH working with PAM

2000-07-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
Well according to my logs ssh-1.2.26 and ssh-1.2.27 do, well PAM gets involved when the session closes, but there is not specific mention of PAM when the session opens, so maybe I'm not too sure after all. Jul 31 12:40:29 keep sshd[18467]: log: Connection from 203.41.237.74 port 1023 Jul 31 12:40

[SLUG] TNT, Free86-4.0.1

2000-07-30 Thread Graeme Merrall
Hey sluggers. I'm not sure if anyone can help with this problem but if someone can point me to a good place to ask I'd sure appreciate it. I'm just don't know whrere to point the question. Running Debian woody and I've got a Riva TNT2 card. So I grabbed The Nvidia kernel and GLX drivers and instal

Re: [SLUG] Grepping a variable and spaces.

2000-07-30 Thread Russell Davies
; You can eliminate all forking by learning some sed, although admittedly this I hasten to add 'except for the initial fork for sed' there. ;) r. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Grepping a variable and spaces.

2000-07-30 Thread Russell Davies
; Try the -w (grep for word) option. ; ; Also you could reduce the pipeline to: ; ; grep -w $TMP < /tmp/modemlist$$.tmp 2>/dev/null | tail -1 ; You can eliminate all forking by learning some sed, although admittedly this is slighly less readable to novices than the grep -w|tail solution.

[SLUG] Re:Install problems

2000-07-30 Thread Mehmet Yousouf
He had free space - 10gig not partitioned - 1 primary dos 5gig, 1 extended 5 gig with a dos logical within of 5 gig taking up the entire extended partition. After he installed, linux could see the logical dos partition, windows couldn't. He wants a separate partition for his data under dos. ca

Re: [SLUG] Grepping a variable and spaces.

2000-07-30 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:22:11AM +1000, George Vieira wrote: > $TMP contains a PID number which I need to grep out of the modemlist$$.tmp > file but need to check with spaces eg.. " $TMP " to prevent numbers like > 43512 popping up when searching for 435 etc.. Try 'grep -w' to restrict the mat

Re: [SLUG] Grepping a variable and spaces.

2000-07-30 Thread Damien Gardner Jnr
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:22:11AM +1000, George Vieira said: --> but when I change the grep line to`grep -e " $TMP "` or to `grep -e --> \" $TMP \"`I get nothing.. --> --> can anybody help? Hi George, How about `grep -e \ $TMP\ ` ? :) (those are \(space), btw) Regards, Damien Ga

Re: [SLUG] Grepping a variable and spaces.

2000-07-30 Thread Ken Yap
>LINE=`cat /tmp/modemlist$$.tmp | grep -e $TMP 2>/dev/null | tail -1` > >$TMP contains a PID number which I need to grep out of the modemlist$$.tmp >file but need to check with spaces eg.. " $TMP " to prevent numbers like >43512 popping up when searching for 435 etc.. > >but when I change

Re: [SLUG] Grepping a variable and spaces.

2000-07-30 Thread Russell Davies
; grep is giving me a hard time in a script with the following line which need ; modifying: ; LINE=`cat /tmp/modemlist$$.tmp | grep -e $TMP 2>/dev/null | tail -1` ; ; $TMP contains a PID number which I need to grep out of the modemlist$$.tmp ; file but need to check with spaces eg.. " $TM

Re: [SLUG] SSH working with PAM

2000-07-30 Thread chesty
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:43:10AM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: > Sluggers, > Does anyone know of any versions of SSH that work with PAM authentication? openssh. Comes setup to use pam by default on my system, debian potato, and I would imagine all other good distributions as well. -- che

[SLUG] IBM will invest more than US$200 million in a series of Linux*

2000-07-30 Thread Grahame M. Kelly
Hi Sluggers. For those interested - An offical IBM announcement received via their e-Business and Software email subscription service. IBM will invest more than US$200 million in a series of Linux** initiatives in Europe over the next four years. IBM will create Linux

[SLUG] Grepping a variable and spaces.

2000-07-30 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, grep is giving me a hard time in a script with the following line which need modifying: LINE=`cat /tmp/modemlist$$.tmp | grep -e $TMP 2>/dev/null | tail -1` $TMP contains a PID number which I need to grep out of the modemlist$$.tmp file but need to check with spaces eg.. " $TMP "

Re: [SLUG] Install problems ...

2000-07-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
For a start it would have to have had 3 partitions, primary, extended and on the extended, at least one logical. The install would have changed the partition flags from DOS to Linux native and would also have installed the ext2 file system on whatever partition it was installed on. This is as a

[SLUG] SSH working with PAM

2000-07-30 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Does anyone know of any versions of SSH that work with PAM authentication? Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Install problems ...

2000-07-30 Thread James Wilkinson
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Mehmet Yousouf generated: >I suggested he install linux on his system (win 95) which was split into >2 partitions, primary dos and extended dos. After he installed linux >(Mandrake 7.1), windows can't access his second (data) partition >-attempt to access beyond superblock ke

Re: [SLUG] Apache/SQL type question.

2000-07-30 Thread Erich Schulz
The web server is not responsible for replying to SQL queries, it does not know how. However, if your web server running on an operating system,( there are some that don't, eg Java based web server running on Dallas Semiconductors Java chip) then it should be able to pass packets backwards and fo

Re: [SLUG] User Authorisation (username,password) for webservers

2000-07-30 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 11:29:35AM +1000, Rick Welykochy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > > I'd like to get some pointers/URL's/booknames for > > > > * Web site administration > > * Web site authorisation (URL/scripts) > > There is an excellent O'Reilly book on Apa

RE: [SLUG] IBM Linux advert

2000-07-30 Thread Aravind Naidu
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/is/mp/linux/ Click on the image on the right of the screen. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Dave Kempe > Sent: Sunday, 30 July 2000 07:28 > To: Graeme Merrall; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SLU

Re: [SLUG] Apache/SQL type question.

2000-07-30 Thread Graeme Merrall
> > My question is thus - is it possible for a client to SQL query a web > server running on the Linux box {Apache}, then have that Linux box pass > the SQL query to the second web server, whereby that web server queries > the SQL database server? > > There's good reasons for not having the Linu

[SLUG] Install problems ...

2000-07-30 Thread Mehmet Yousouf
Hi, I have just been abused by a (former?) friend for getting him to try linux. I suggested he install linux on his system (win 95) which was split into 2 partitions, primary dos and extended dos. After he installed linux (Mandrake 7.1), windows can't access his second (data) partition -attempt t

Re: [SLUG] Apache/SQL type question.

2000-07-30 Thread chesty
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 08:08:53AM +1000, DaZZa wrote: > My question is thus - is it possible for a client to SQL query a web > server running on the Linux box {Apache}, No, generally web servers don't understand SQL queries :) > Any pointers or help appreciated. Is the CGI program running o

[SLUG] Re: Apache/SQL type question.

2000-07-30 Thread Angus Lees
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 08:08:53AM +1000, DaZZa wrote: > My question is thus - is it possible for a client to SQL query a web > server running on the Linux box {Apache}, then have that Linux box pass > the SQL query to the second web server, whereby that web server queries > the SQL database serve

[SLUG] Apache/SQL type question.

2000-07-30 Thread DaZZa
Folks. I have a situation which is somewhat weird to deal with, and I need to know if it's possible to make work. The diagram of what is happening looks roughly like this. SQL Database Server | | | | Web Server

Re: [SLUG] Scsi problem

2000-07-30 Thread DaZZa
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Jeffrey Borg wrote: > It's a Gateway server - 7210 > It's basically a dual cpu capable machine > it's based on the 440 GX + chipset > it only has 1 cpu in it currently a PIII 600 > It has onboard everything but the main problem is the scsi > It is a Adaptec 7896 dual channel

Re: [SLUG] X crash/freeze

2000-07-30 Thread DaZZa
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, David wrote: > A netscape window locked up, and when I tried to kill netscape off, the > whole of my windowmaker/Xsession locked up. I killed windowmaker, but when > I tried to reconnect to X again (startx) I get the messages below. I'm > tempted to do a windows style re-boot

Re: [SLUG] Potato --> Woody

2000-07-30 Thread Nick Croft
> > Now I want to go up to woody, via ftp. I'm having no luck though. > > > > I've put the lines > > > > deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > > deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian-non-us potato/non-us main contrib > > non-free > > > > It has been a while since I'v

[SLUG] Scsi problem

2000-07-30 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi there I will describe the machine in detail first. It's a Gateway server - 7210 It's basically a dual cpu capable machine it's based on the 440 GX + chipset it only has 1 cpu in it currently a PIII 600 It has onboard everything but the main problem is the scsi It is a Adaptec 7896 dual c

Re: [SLUG] Potato --> Woody

2000-07-30 Thread Herbert Xu
Nick Croft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian-non-us potato/non-us main contrib > non-free The second line should be deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free As is

[SLUG] unsubscribe tarl@ideal.net.au

2000-07-30 Thread Robert Smith
please remove me from your mailing list as my e-mail address hase changed -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Using disk images

2000-07-30 Thread Chris Joyce
Its not the CD's that have been burn that I have trouble with , I'm trying to read/mount 'disk images' that are not on cd's As best I can tell ther are a joilet format , if I could burn then top cd it would probaly be an easy way , but this has its set of problams :-( I'm using the commant line

[SLUG] Are You A Leader? / $1000 A Day!!

2000-07-30 Thread new_program
EVERYONE WHO'S ANYONE IS JUMPING ON THIS ONE GUYS!!! NEWEST ONLINE LINEAR THAT PAYS $1000.00 for Every Cycle!!! With unlimited Cycles!! THIS IS DEFINATELY WORTH LOOKING INTO!!! WE HAVE BROUGHT IN ALL THE TOP LEADERS!! If You Consider Yourself To Be A Team Leader, Or You Wish To Soon Be, Then Y

[SLUG] Speaking of Bubblemon...

2000-07-30 Thread Graeme Merrall
Have fans of that seen this? http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/LAVAPS/index.html Similar but based on a lavalamp. Debian users can apt-get this of course :) Cheers, Graeme -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Potato --> Woody

2000-07-30 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 06:55:11PM +1000, Nick Croft wrote: > Sluggers, > > Now I want to go up to woody, via ftp. I'm having no luck though. > > I've put the lines > > deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian-non-us potato/non-us main

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug mail bouncing

2000-07-30 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 10:09:02PM +1000, Scott Howard wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 09:43:34PM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: > > At 07:29 PM 7/29/00, Morrissey wrote: > > >Are we getting a lot of bounces these days? > > > > I've had a few, but only when the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the second item in

Re: [SLUG] X crash/freeze

2000-07-30 Thread Graeme Merrall
David wrote: > > A netscape window locked up, and when I tried to kill netscape off, the > whole of my windowmaker/Xsession locked up. I killed windowmaker, but when > I tried to reconnect to X again (startx) I get the messages below. I'm > tempted to do a windows style re-boot.. but... does anyo

Re: [SLUG] X crash/freeze

2000-07-30 Thread Tom Massey
David wrote: > > A netscape window locked up, and when I tried to kill netscape off, the > whole of my windowmaker/Xsession locked up. I killed windowmaker, but when > I tried to reconnect to X again (startx) I get the messages below. I'm > tempted to do a windows style re-boot.. but... does anyo

[SLUG] X crash/freeze

2000-07-30 Thread David
A netscape window locked up, and when I tried to kill netscape off, the whole of my windowmaker/Xsession locked up. I killed windowmaker, but when I tried to reconnect to X again (startx) I get the messages below. I'm tempted to do a windows style re-boot.. but... does anyone have a better sugges

[SLUG] Potato --> Woody

2000-07-30 Thread Nick Croft
Sluggers, I went from slink to potato without drama, using a 3-CD set. The command apt-cdrom add added the appropriate lines to /etc/apt/sources.list . >From there it was simply a matter of using apt-get, as in apt-get update apt-get -f -u --simulate dist-upgrade and th

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug mail bouncing

2000-07-30 Thread John Ferlito
My fault I expected relay by MX to just work. Fixing now . On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 10:09:02PM +1000, Scott Howard wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 09:43:34PM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: > > At 07:29 PM 7/29/00, Morrissey wrote: > > >Are we getting a lot of bounces these days? > > > > I've

Re: [SLUG] Using disk images

2000-07-30 Thread Terry Collins
Chris Joyce wrote: > > After using 'Adaptec Easy CD Creator' in my windoze box for some time , I've > moved my cd burner to my linix box and have hit a snag , > > I have a large collection of CD Imges made with the windoze box ( back-up's > and photoshop mages ) that I'd like to get to , I have