Re: [SLUG] Problems with upgrading to Postgresql 7

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
Lewis Tay wrote: I am using Redhat 6.2, got the Postgresql 6.5 with the OS, I wanted to upgrade to ver 7.0. I download the RPMsfrom postgresql.org. and enter "rpm -Uvh Postgresql-7*", after that when I enter the command: "/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql restart", I have the error message:

Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin on reiserfs partitions

2000-09-05 Thread chesty
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:03:29PM +1100, Jim Clark wrote: specifically, it is failing in the mkimg stage of the install. trace reveals that it is doing a statfs(). If anyone knows of more relevant lists to post this to (I havn't gone searching yet), could you please let me know, or

Re: [SLUG] Problems with upgrading to Postgresql 7

2000-09-05 Thread Lewis Tay
Thanks for the reply. I do not have any database table on the serve, this is a clean installation/upgrade. I checked the /var/, did not find "postgres". I just read the README, on ver 6.5, the database is stored uder directory /var/lib/pgsql/, but on ver 7.0, the datas are stored under

Re: [SLUG] Problems with upgrading to Postgresql 7

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
Lewis Tay wrote: Thanks for the reply. Is cool. You caught me on a slow day. :) I do not have any database table on the serve, this is a clean installation/upgrade. Oh, good. How about removing all of the installed RPMs, and rm -rf'ing /var/lib/pgsql? Then try installing the version

Re: [SLUG] Authentication Apache

2000-09-05 Thread Terry Collins
Jean Yves Provost wrote: Please loose your card on the end of your posts. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au or [EMAIL PROTECTED] WOA Computer Services lan/wan, linux/unix, novell snail: PO

Re: [SLUG] A4tech serial mouse support in X.

2000-09-05 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi What about using gpm on it with the -R option then using a /dev/gpmdata device for x using the mousesystems protocol for that device May just work Just because I have that brand mouse here and it works without ANY problems - just that it hasn't got a middle button. Jeff On Tue, 5

[SLUG] Forwarding FTP connections to an internal server (continued)

2000-09-05 Thread Stephen Graham
Hey I just thought I would report the (quite unfortunate) results of my attempts so far (on Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, the firewall machine is also ip masquerading (successfully) some internal hosts for web, outbound FTP etc)... I tried simply forwarding port 21 to the internal FTP server, but this

RE: [SLUG] Forwarding FTP connections to an internal server (continued)

2000-09-05 Thread Dave Kempe
Quid won't proxy the ftp connections - it only does ftp over http. It is not a true ftp proxy. What you need is a true ftp proxy. THis means you can tranparently redirect incoming ftp connections to the internal ftp server, or use the proxy options in all good ftp clients for outgoing proxyed ftp

RE: [SLUG] Forwarding FTP connections to an internal server (continued)

2000-09-05 Thread Dave Kempe
hang on I did it muyself.. whadda ya know.. debian even has one... http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/ftp-proxy.html hehhehe dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Graham Sent: Tuesday, 5 September 2000 9:28 PM To:

Re: [SLUG] Alpha binary 2.2rev0a

2000-09-05 Thread Herbert Xu
Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alpha and SPARC CD Issues CDs for Alpha and SPARC for 2.2 initially had some problems not being bootable. Be sure if you buy CDs that you request those labelled ``2.2rev0a'' or better. It's only the CD images, so you won't see any

[SLUG] /dev/pts/ ##

2000-09-05 Thread Minh Van
what goes in /dev/pts ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] crap on the end of email

2000-09-05 Thread Jamie Honan
Terry writes: Please loose your card on the end of your posts. *Sound of cage being rattled* Yeah. And can everyone double check they have html turned off on their mail sending agent. Yeah, and don't quote the whole bloody original lengthy email. Also, (Tower Engineering, Lend Lease

Re: [SLUG] crap on the end of email

2000-09-05 Thread Howard Lowndes
Ouch. Someone really went along the bars with a stick, didn't they Jamie? Biggest waste in the world: A bus load of lawyers going over a cliff with some empty seats -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates http://www.lannet.com.au On Wed,

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice 5.2 vs Microsoft Word

2000-09-05 Thread Nick Croft
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Ken Yap wrote: Off-topic, but I was amused to see one string the software engineers missed in anglicising SO 5.1 or 5.2. When I printed out a web page using SO 5.2, it put: Titel: blah blah blah in the header. :-) I've been using StarSchedule. When I print out a

RE: [SLUG] Removing duplicate entries from a file

2000-09-05 Thread Dave Kempe
I think you are best off with calamaris, the log analyser for squid. it turns out really nice log reports with soem good detail. It a perl script so you could modify it if it wasn't up to scratch, but im sure it is. Search for it on google. dave :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] Removing duplicate entries from a file

2000-09-05 Thread Michael Still
Dave Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think you are best off with calamaris, the log analyser for squid. it turns out really nice log reports with soem good detail. It a perl script so you could modify it if it wasn't up to scratch, but im sure it is. Search for it on google. Or analog --

RE: [SLUG] Removing duplicate entries from a file

2000-09-05 Thread Visser, Martin (SNO)
piping to | sort | uniq might be useful. Given the file "sort.file" with the following 1 5 2 7 3 8 5 1 7 4 9 7 0 4 5 6 7 8 9 3 3 4 then running "sort sort.file | uniq" outputs 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 You could then use this file as a key to find and aggregate data from the input file Martin

RE: [SLUG] Removing duplicate entries from a file

2000-09-05 Thread MacFarlane, Jarrod
Thank you all for your quick responses! " | sort | uniq " did the trick for me this time, but I will definately look in to some of the packages recommended by others. Thanks again. Jarrod. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Harddisk Partition Loss

2000-09-05 Thread Martin Chan
Hi, I don't know if this question has been answered somewhere in the list. I just need a someone out there to tell me how to fix this. Q: How can I fix the partition table in order to see my drive D again? Before I have installed Mandrake 7.1 (helium) on my harddisk, I was running Win98/SE.

Re: [SLUG] Harddisk Partition Loss

2000-09-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Martin Chan wrote: Bad things has happened on my harddisk is that the drive D is gone. I tried to use fdisk from Microsoft to look at the partition setting, and the program told me that there is no more drive D. Then I went back to Linux and I have found that Linux has mounted my drive D

[SLUG] Change seconds to H:M:S

2000-09-05 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, I have PPPD running and sending out via $CONNECT_TIME variable the time the link was up for. The problem is that it's in seconds only and I get rsults like "37646752 seconds". Is there a way to convert this into H:M:S? I am doing this in a bash script.. thanks, George Vieira Network

Re: [SLUG] Change seconds to H:M:S

2000-09-05 Thread Ken Yap
Hi all, I have PPPD running and sending out via $CONNECT_TIME variable the time the link was up for. The problem is that it's in seconds only and I get rsults like "37646752 seconds". Is there a way to convert this into H:M:S? I am doing this in a bash script.. Write a short script to do the

[SLUG] Re: StarOffice 5.2 vs Microsoft Word

2000-09-05 Thread Angus Lees
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:53:16PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Michael Lake wrote: Very different experience here with PDF. I have a colleauge (must get a dict on this Linux box) who sends stuff to me with PDF and he is still trying to get the fonts right. Views fine on is machine but

Re: [SLUG] Change seconds to H:M:S

2000-09-05 Thread Michael
Look on freshmeat for ppptime util/source code :O) On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, George Vieira wrote: Hi all, I have PPPD running and sending out via $CONNECT_TIME variable the time the link was up for. The problem is that it's in seconds only and I get rsults like "37646752 seconds". Is there a

Re: [SLUG] Q: Using SQUID to authenticate internet users ?

2000-09-05 Thread Michael Still
Matt Hyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My question is - can this be done with squid (and transparently) and does anyone have an example config that I can take a look at and try to build my own. Yes it can -- we do it at my work. Unfortunately I don't have access to the config file (I don't

Re: [SLUG] Q: Using SQUID to authenticate internet users ?

2000-09-05 Thread Luke McKee
Matt, According to the squid docs you can not do authentication when you are doing transparent proxying. In transparent proxying - the proxy pretends to be the webserver the user is trying to access. The web browser going through the transparent proxy can't tell that the password came from

[SLUG] Session Times out

2000-09-05 Thread Michael Hosemans
Hello all, I am trying to have a telnet session over the internet to another linux machine, (both Linux Red Hat 6.1) but I have a problem - the session keeps timing out after about 20 minutes of inactivity. (It has nothing to do with telephone hand sets) Does any body have a solution that

Re: [SLUG] Session Times out

2000-09-05 Thread Michael Still
Michael Hosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does any body have a solution that with keep the session up Some shells (for instance tcsh) have inactivity timeouts associated with them. Tcsh is the one I think I have seen it in most recently... This is from

Re: [SLUG] Q: Using SQUID to authenticate internet users ?

2000-09-05 Thread jon
Quoting Matt Hyne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: H... examines sender's email address Surely CISCO have a product to do this ???..:p) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] pppd crashes

2000-09-05 Thread David Kempe
Dougie, tail /var/log/messages it may not be pppd that is dieing, but chap. or chat. You may need a custom chat script. What isp are you dialing? have you tried just dialing them with at commands? atdt93814000 (UDUS i think :/ ) then it should actaully handshake and give you a prompt to play

RE: [SLUG] Q: Using SQUID to authenticate internet users ?

2000-09-05 Thread Stephen Mills
Cisco run their printing system on Samba/Linux - we shouldnt complain, they arent ;) --Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:50 PM To: Matt Hyne Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Q: Using SQUID to

RE: [SLUG] Q: Using SQUID to authenticate internet users ?

2000-09-05 Thread David Kempe
H... examines sender's email address Surely CISCO have a product to do this ???..:p) Surely that would be something like a PIX. With http intercept and authentication. Damn expensive solution really. $5000-$6000. If that linkn i posted earlier works its a damn site cheaper. dave --

[SLUG] Q: Using SQUID to authenticate internet users ?

2000-09-05 Thread bart bunting
Matt Hyne writes: Folks, My father has a small business network with about 12-15 users and a dial-on-demand internet connection running from a Linux box to his local ISP. What he would like to try and do is require PC users wanting to use the web to have to authenticate before

RE: [SLUG] Q: Using SQUID to authenticate internet users ?

2000-09-05 Thread Matt Hyne
We probably do, but why should I buy something when I have a Linux box I can do it on already !!! Matt At Wednesday, 6/09/2000 03:07 PM (+1000), Stephen Mills wrote: Cisco run their printing system on Samba/Linux - we shouldnt complain, they arent ;) --Steve -Original Message-

Re: [SLUG] pppd crashes

2000-09-05 Thread Doug Stalker
David Kempe wrote: Dougie, tail /var/log/messages it may not be pppd that is dieing, but chap. or chat. I did, and it is pppd. (And it's a crash, not a script failure) I'll post the relavent part of the log tomorrow You may need a custom chat script. What isp are you dialing? It's a

RE: [SLUG] Q: Using SQUID to authenticate internet users ?

2000-09-05 Thread Stephen Mills
my point exactly ! --Steve -Original Message- From: Matt Hyne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:28 PM To: Stephen Mills; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SLUG] Q: Using SQUID to authenticate internet users ? We probably do, but

[SLUG] (fwd) Re: hi.

2000-09-05 Thread Angus Lees
anyone? (make sure you cc [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Forwarded message from SkizCorp Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: "SkizCorp Technology" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Angus Lees" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:39:17 +1000 Subject: Re: hi. hi ... I am using RedHat and whan i type

Re: [SLUG] pppd crashes

2000-09-05 Thread Dave Fitch
Doug Stalker [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Kempe wrote: have you tried just dialing them with at commands? Yes. I get a lot of gibberish (mostly brackets) - I'm not sure if that normal for CHAP. sounds like ppp. Ie. using minicom to dial into my ISP, once the username/passwd stuff is done,

Re: [SLUG] pppd crashes

2000-09-05 Thread Tom Massey
Doug Stalker wrote: Install the modem drivers (Netcomm is kind enough to provide them on the driver CD) This is a kernel module called 'ltmodem.o'? Binary only, released by Lucent. 1) Is there a number I can dial with the modem to see if it's working for transfering data? (something like

Re: [SLUG] pppd crashes

2000-09-05 Thread Doug Stalker
Tom Massey wrote: Doug Stalker wrote: Install the modem drivers This is a kernel module called 'ltmodem.o'? Binary only, released by Lucent. Thats the one. (AFAIK, it the only official linux driver for any winmodem) 2) Any ideas on what is causing pppd to crash and how to

[SLUG] Time

2000-09-05 Thread Peter McCarthy
Howdy I'm having a rather strange issue with the introduction of daylight savings, even after setting the clock forward in the bios the time stamp on mail delivery is still an hour behind. when I query the system with the date command it returns the correct time. Any ideas ? I'm Running Linux