Re: [SLUG] PCMCIA network cards killing linux..

On Mon, 06 Nov 2000, Alan Lee wrote: > > Im not sure how to find the hardware address... I would recommend that you look at the irq that your pcmcia card is using. On my laptop I had similar problems on pcmcia - admittedly with other function cards. Look at /proc/interrupts and /proc/devices to

Re: [SLUG] Was network card - now sounds in X windows

Ken Foskey wrote: > > Another question, is there a trick to getting the X-windows sounds going. > I can play a sound 'play phone.wav' and I change the plugin in XMMS to the > OSS driver and I can play a sound there but I cannot hear the sounds from > the windows actions. > > Ken Depends on

Re: [SLUG] Network card problems Intel Etherexpress

>2. Intel etherexpress ISA.I have done 'softset' and it chose irq5 >and dma 300. It was working fine in a win 95 (previously dual Linux). >The test function on the card works fine. The problem is that the >eexpress module just wont start and does not give me a meaningful >message. Try eep

Re: [SLUG] IPchains IP accounting question - Help! :)

Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not strictly true. It is the case if you have a -j clause, otherwise it > will continue down the chain. Or if the -j clause refers to a user-defined chain that returns. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{Pm

Re: [SLUG] Nagle

>Alternatively, does anyone know how to disable Nagle in telnet? man setsockopt man tcp /TCP_NODELAY -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] "idled" daemon

This one time, at band camp, Rachel Polanskis said: >Now we are moving to all numeric logins (not my idea, comments?) Er, I think this is illegal in unix-land. You need at least one alpha character first. I think the syntax of usernames follows that of C variable names. >where it bombs, excep

Re: [SLUG] Music Editor/Notator

Going back to this thread for a minute. Searching for "lilypond" on freshmeat turns up Denemo, a gtk+ frontend to lilypond. http://denemo.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, Peter PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] "idled" daemon

James Wilkinson wrote: > Er, I think this is illegal in unix-land. You need at least one alpha > character first. I think the syntax of usernames follows that of C > variable names. Which will probably result in a prefix system like; s for staff e for engineers (always handy to know who they

[SLUG] Maildir clients

Hi everyone,   I have since changed my qmail setup to delivery messages to $HOME/Maildir   Only issue I have is I can't seem to find a nice client that I can use when I have ssh connection to machine.   I still like pine, but it doesn't support the Maildir format. I have seen patches around

Re: [SLUG] Maildir clients

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:15:43AM +1100, Michael wrote: > I'd really like to get pine to work, is it possible? Has someone done it? > If not, can someone recommend a good reader for shell prompt. You'll probably find most sluggers recommending mutt, for lots of good reasons. Me, I'm in love with

Re: [SLUG] Maildir clients

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:15:43AM +1100, Michael wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have since changed my qmail setup to delivery messages to $HOME/Maildir Your delivering into an NFS based mail-spool? > Only issue I have is I can't seem to find a nice client that I can use when I have >ssh connecti

Re: [SLUG] Maildir clients

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:07:54AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:15:43AM +1100, Michael wrote: > > I'd really like to get pine to work, is it possible? Has someone done it? > > If not, can someone recommend a good reader for shell prompt. > You'll probably find most slugge

Re: [SLUG] "idled" daemon

> This one time, at band camp, Rachel Polanskis said: I think this deserves special mention. Laughed until I worried other members of the household. James, if you're at the next SLUG meeting, remind me to buy you a BEER. - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://li

[SLUG] Printing woes

Hey all. I have a printing bug that I think will be dead obvious to someone else, I just can not see what it is. I am trying to print to a HP DeskJet 500C attached to a WinNT box (which is SMBed). When I print, all I get is: GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>

[SLUG] Thanks

Thanks for all the advice on monitors. It goes. Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] "idled" daemon

James Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yacc uses regexes, iirc. Wild guess, but I think it'd be as easy as > finding the regex for a username (hoping it's commented) and modify > that. It's not yacc's job to find tokens. That's either done using lex or manually in C. Have a look at tha

[SLUG] telnet tarballs

Where should I be looking for the telnet source tarball? -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/

Re: [SLUG] "idled" daemon

The debian maintainer is John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. He may be able to offer some help. -- Mark Pearson -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Printing woes

What you have is gostscript bombing out. Try printing to file first and checking the file with gv. If ghostscipt can't process the file, you'll know about it without shoving half the rainforest through your printer. cheers erich Erich Schulz PO Box 9170 Wyee, NSW 2259 Ph: (+612) 43593411, Fax:

Re: [SLUG] Nagle

I even looked at man telnet and there is an option ( -S ) to set the ToS for the session, and RFC1700 suggests that a ToS of 1000 should be used for interactive sessions in order to minimise delay. I thought "beaut" and tried it, only to be confronted with: # telnet -S 8 cwsvr 4104 telnet: Warnin

[SLUG] Dual boot Linux & Dos/wfwg

The boss's (SWMBO) pentium has finally spat the dummy and needs a complete rebuild, so it is an opportunity to put in a bigger hard disk and convert it to dual boot. The dual boot will be Suse6.4 & DOS(WFWG). Does anyone know of any gotcha's with this? Yep, I haven't done dual boots to now, but

[SLUG] [OT] ADSL

I know a couple of people here have got ADSL. Anyway I got my connection during the trial while everything was still based out of victoria. But I still seem to be coming out of victoria eg I get alocated an IP something like CPE-61-9-178-208.vic.bigpond.net.au Anyone who has gotte

RE: [SLUG] [OT] ADSL

No, still in Victoria as of last weekend. I can't seem to visit their web site properly as they have links to http://www/blah/blah etc... I think it's the domain suffix search order that suppose to kick in there... dumb Tel$tra. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelc

Re: [SLUG] Nagle

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:54:24AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > I even looked at man telnet and there is an option ( -S ) to set the ToS > for the session, and RFC1700 suggests that a ToS of 1000 should be used > for interactive sessions in order to minimise delay. I thought > "beaut" and tried

Re: [SLUG] [OT] ADSL

Im getting the same kinda thing, I wonder what the speed would be like between 2 ADSL users on the same ISP? Regards, Alan Lee - Original Message - From: "John Ferlito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Slug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 10:58 AM Subject: [SLUG] [OT] ADSL

[SLUG] Wickard eth0 errors

eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x81d79 length 0 status 0600!eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame cfddd490 vs cfddd490.eth0: Something Wicked happened! 2008.eth0: Something Wicked happened! 2008.eth0: Something Wicked happened! 2008.eth0: Something Wicked happened! 2

Re: [SLUG] "idled" daemon

This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said: >James Wilkinson wrote: > >> Er, I think this is illegal in unix-land. You need at least one alpha >> character first. I think the syntax of usernames follows that of C >> variable names. > >Keep trying. >Numbers make it really handy to track peo

RE: [SLUG] Wickard eth0 errors

Heh, cool error message. www.google.com is your friend for most of these sort of errors. Mailing list archives are useful. google seems to point to hardware failure. btw, use plain text dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Lee Sent

[SLUG] THEY want to bring it back.

You thought it could never happen. You thought they'd never even try. You thought the world had changed by now. You thought only diehards and masochists could love the dreaded... http://lpr.sourceforge.net

Re: [SLUG] Dual boot Linux & Dos/wfwg

Terry Collins wrote: > > The boss's (SWMBO) pentium has finally spat the dummy and needs a > complete rebuild, so it is an opportunity to put in a bigger hard disk > and convert it to dual boot. The dual boot will be Suse6.4 & DOS(WFWG). > > Does anyone know of any gotcha's with this? SUSE 6.4

Re: [SLUG] "idled" daemon

> "Rachel" == Rachel Polanskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rachel> Hi sluggers, Rachel> We have been using a daemin called "idled" for some time Rachel> to logout users who we don't want left logged in forever or Rachel> to exempt userssuch as myself from being logged out. Rachel> I then

[SLUG] Re: telnet tarballs

\begin{Howard Lowndes} > Where should I be looking for the telnet source tarball? roach:~> grep tp: /usr/doc/telnet/copyright It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit/. i've found the debian copyright files (accessible from packages.debian.org if they aren't loc

Re: [SLUG] Maildir clients

Thanks to those who emailed me a response... I looked at patches and then looked at latest debian kernel source debs/diffs for pine and it appears they had been patched after all. So I am once more using Pine :P Thanks again On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Anand Kumria wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11

Re: [SLUG] Dual boot Linux & Dos/wfwg

Michael Lake wrote: > > Terry Collins wrote: > > > > The boss's (SWMBO) pentium has finally spat the dummy and needs a > > complete rebuild, so it is an opportunity to put in a bigger hard disk > > and convert it to dual boot. The dual boot will be Suse6.4 & DOS(WFWG). > > > > Does anyone know of

Re: [SLUG] "idled" daemon

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:23:21AM +1100, James Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said: > >James Wilkinson wrote: > > > >> Er, I think this is illegal in unix-land. You need at least one alpha > >> character first. I think the syntax of usernames follows that of C > >

[SLUG] md5 passwords

anyone remember how to switch debian over to md5 passwords after you've finished the install? -- John The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of cause - William James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.or

[SLUG] libxml.so.2

Hi, Anyone know where I can get this from? libxml.so.2 for Redhat 6.1 if that matters. Cheers, -- Simon Bryan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

RE: [SLUG] libxml.so.2

Google knows all.. http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/gnome/contrib/redhat/i386/Base/libxml2-2.2.7-1. i386.html Andrew. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon Bryan Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 2:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [SLUG] libxml.so.2

When I have a missing library and don't know where it's from I usually go to RPMFIND and search it. It usually pops up as part of a package of some other software.. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1

[SLUG] Re: [lias] libxml.so.2

Simon Bryan wrote: > > Hi, > Anyone know where I can get this from? > > libxml.so.2 > > for Redhat 6.1 if that matters. > > Cheers, darin% rpm -qf /usr/lib/libxml.so libxml-devel-1.0.0-2 That is, you need a newer version of libxml-devel... First place to look is http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au

Re: [SLUG] libxml.so.2

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Simon Bryan wrote: > Anyone know where I can get this from? > > libxml.so.2 > > for Redhat 6.1 if that matters. I haven't checked it out thoroughly, but google.com reports this as the first-up link: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml.so.2.html and the web page looks fine

[SLUG] Re: md5 passwords

\begin{John Ferlito} > anyone remember how to switch debian over to md5 passwords after > you've finished the install? add the "md5" option to your pam setup converting the passwds over (ie: cracking DES and then re-encrypting with MD5) is left as an exercise for the reader.. (you could t

[SLUG] Re: libxml.so.2

\begin{Simon Bryan} > Anyone know where I can get this from? > libxml.so.2 roach:~> grep ftp /usr/doc/libxml?/copyright /usr/doc/libxml1/copyright:It was downloaded from ftp.gnome.org. /usr/doc/libxml2/copyright:It was downloaded from ftp.gnome.org. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Gro

[SLUG] Perl Quicky

I would like to strip special characters eg. anything not A..Z a..z 0..9 Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More In

Re: [SLUG] Perl Quicky

>I would like to strip special characters >eg. anything not A..Z a..z 0..9 >From what? A string, a line, a whole file? Anyway have a look at the translit operator (y or tr) under man perlop, with the c and d options. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Inf

Re: [SLUG] Re: md5 passwords

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:34:38PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote: > \begin{John Ferlito} > > anyone remember how to switch debian over to md5 passwords after > > you've finished the install? > > add the "md5" option to your pam setup Yeah I thought there was a script somewhere. Found it by

[SLUG] Re: Perl Quicky

\begin{Dean Hamstead} > I would like to strip special characters > eg. anything not A..Z a..z 0..9 s/[^A-Za-z0-9]//g; if you want to include "_" too, you can use: s/\W//g; -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/li

[SLUG] That Nagle thing again

Well, I have managed to find the source code for telnet and am trying to make some sense out of it, never having studied C in depth, or even in the shallows. In the meantime I am looking at alternatives using a redirected ssh session and I am trying to get the following script to work: #!/bin/sh

Re: [SLUG] That Nagle thing again

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:42:22PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Well, I have managed to find the source code for telnet and am trying to > make some sense out of it, never having studied C in depth, or even in the > shallows. > > In the meantime I am looking at alternatives using a redirected s

Re: [SLUG] That Nagle thing again

No, you're missing the point. I want the xterm running on the local machine, not the remote machine, so that it can use the tunnel set up by the redirection; IOW on the same machine that starts the redirection. -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing A

Re: [SLUG] Dual boot Linux & Dos/wfwg

Ken Caldwell wrote: Terry Collins wrote: > > The boss's (SWMBO) pentium has finally spat the dummy and needs a > complete rebuild, so it is an opportunity to put in a bigger hard disk > and convert it to dual boot. The dual boot will be Suse6.4 & DOS(WFWG). > > Does anyone know of any go

[SLUG] Re: That Nagle thing again

\begin{Howard Lowndes} > No, you're missing the point. I want the xterm running on the local > machine, not the remote machine, so that it can use the tunnel set up by > the redirection; IOW on the same machine that starts the redirection. in that case, try: xterm -e ssh -x cwsvr -- - Gus