Re: [SLUG] mutt

On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:43:09PM +1100, John Ferlito wrote: Quick mutt question. When I write someone an email I want mutt to fcc a copy to local disk. Now what I've noticed is that it only does this if the folder on the disk already. eg if I email anthony@blah it will put in an

Re: [SLUG] xprob, and su prob??

This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip] xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions [snip] this and the next problem were caused i think after i did a chown -R salmona /ghoti/* /ghoti is not my home dir and it *shouldnt* have anything but programs etc..

Re: [SLUG] banks

Thanks for all the advice about banks! It looks like the National is the only one bank that doesn't have platform independent Internet banking. Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Uninstalling a Perl module.

Hi All, I have installed lots of Perl modules with "perl Makefile.PL, make, make test and make install" but want to remove some of these. A"man perl" refers me to a "man perlmodinstall" which covers installing but not uninstalling. There are perl files put in many places and surely there must be

[SLUG] Voice Modems

Just had an idea but I'm not sure if it's actually doable. Anyone know if it;s possible with a voice modem to record an outgoing phone call. Basically what I want to be able to do is call a voicemail system and get my linux box to dial the appropriate digits to step through the voicemail

Re: [SLUG] Uninstalling a Perl module.

On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Michael Lake wrote: Hi All, I have installed lots of Perl modules with "perl Makefile.PL, make, make test and make install" but want to remove some of these. A"man perl" refers me to a "man perlmodinstall" which covers installing but not uninstalling. There are perl

[SLUG] IPMasq stops HTML?!

Is there anything that identifies traffic as coming from an internal LAN machine via ip masquerade as opposed to direct from an internet-connected machine, apart from the 64nnn source ports used by ipmasq? I have an ip masquerading 486 connecting our LAN to the net. From other LAN machines, http

[SLUG] Re: xprob, and su prob??

\begin{James Wilkinson} What is on this /ghoti directory? Sounds like you've made a typo and chown'd your whole filesystem to be owned by salmona. Hence all your suid programs are now running suid salmona, not suid root. or rather, they are now owned by salmona and no longer suid. chown

[SLUG] Quick bash/ps question

Hey I am in the middle of writing a tiny bash script (so that I can use mpage to make my HP DeskJet500C print double sided and two per page). I was just wondering if anyone knew how to divine the number of pages contained in a postscript file (a script-friendly way, ie without looking at the

[SLUG] MRTG and ADSL

Guys, I'd like to set up snmpd and MRTG on my gateway, so that I can monitor the bandwidth usage on my ADSL link. The problem I have is that the ADSL link's IP address (supposedly) changes. Does anyone know whether MRTG and ucd-snmp can handle a link which changes IP address from time to time,

[SLUG] Apache auth problem

I am trying to set up a virtual server with username:password authentication. The server returns the 401 status (this from the access_log): 203.41.237.74 - - [19/Nov/2000:12:08:09 +1100] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 401 517 "-" "Mozilla/4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.17 i686)" the browser prompts OK but

Re: [SLUG] Re: xprob, and su prob??

hi yep that was the problem.. i had a symlnk in the dir pointing to / probly not a good idea but anyway i seemed to have chowned everything.. so i just wrapped up my home etc onto a partition then reinstalled the rest w/o a problem ;-( btw what is the general procedure w/ this i mean it must

Re: [SLUG] MRTG and ADSL

Rebecca Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set up snmpd and MRTG on my gateway, so that I can monitor the bandwidth usage on my ADSL link. The problem I have is that the ADSL link's IP address (supposedly) changes. Does anyone know whether MRTG and ucd-snmp can handle a link

[SLUG] nfs locking

Hi All, I am trying to get nfs locking working, but it does not seem to want to work for me. THe Situation is - I have 2 linux redhat 6.1 machines connected together, and I want to be able to mount a directory from Machine A on Machine B. So in Machine A, I added to the /etc/exports /u (rw)