Re: [SLUG] Meeting

2000-12-28 Thread Alan Lee
.. I think I might go. Can I bring a girl? Or will she be swamped with men who sit behind computers all day and dont see ladys? heh.. :) Regards, Alan Lee - Original Message - From: Edward Murphy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 6:10 PM Subject: [SLUG] Meeting

[SLUG] nsa developes secure version of linux

2000-12-28 Thread Dave Fitch
Security Enhanced Linux, see http://www.nsa.gov/selinux They've released it under the GPL, including source code. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Meeting

2000-12-28 Thread Jon Biddell
At 07:11 PM 28/12/00 +1100, Alan Lee wrote: .. I think I might go. Can I bring a girl? Or will she be swamped with men who sit behind computers all day and dont see ladys? heh.. :) Depends - what kind of interface does she have ?...:-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Meeting

2000-12-28 Thread Jason Rennie
At 07:11 PM 28/12/00 +1100, Alan Lee wrote: .. I think I might go. Can I bring a girl? Or will she be swamped with men who sit behind computers all day and dont see ladys? heh.. :) There is no meeting. If you would like to organise an informal one go nuts. Jason -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Meeting

2000-12-28 Thread Alan Lee
Ha, If she did go, it would'nt be our first date. Infact, I aint even dateing her. She's a younger girl, who would like to know more about computers. Shes already got a great interest in computers, but just dosn't know what area she would like to get into. So, it would be to show her, what

Re: [SLUG] Meeting

2000-12-28 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 09:23:35PM +1100, Jason Rennie wrote: At 07:11 PM 28/12/00 +1100, Alan Lee wrote: .. I think I might go. Can I bring a girl? Or will she be swamped with men who sit behind computers all day and dont see ladys? heh.. :) There is no meeting. If you would like

Re: [SLUG] Qmail Anyone?

2000-12-28 Thread Ken Yap
| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox I can/have changed it back, but, any after any changes to qmail's domain = info (ie, using qmailadmin web based thing) will reset it back to its = former self, the "/home/vpopmail/bin/alanlee". I am using the latest = version fo qmail

Re: [SLUG] help pls - Building RPMs from source

2000-12-28 Thread Ken Yap
1)copied src.rpm to /usr/src/RPM/SRPMS/ 2)in term cd'd to that directory 3)rpm -rebuild foo.src.rpm and I get the error message " rpm: arguments to --root (-r) must begin with a /" Well for one thing, you probably need --rebuild (two -'s), otherwise it's treated as -r. See how that goes. --

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla 0.6

2000-12-28 Thread Peter Rundle
This message is sent from Mozilla 0.6. It is certainly not completely stable yet, but has improved quite a lot since M18. Anyone else using it? I've tried it on RH6.2 and it is a lot more stable and generally better but has a couple of nasty bugs. Any dialog/form that you enter a "." into

Re: [SLUG] Meeting

2000-12-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Steve Kowalik" I don't know about organising an informal one, but i just might go nuts because there is no meeting. :-) Any reason why there isn't one? It's the Last Days of the Twentieth Century, and you wanna have a SLUG meeting?! We hadn't planned one, thinking that

Re: [SLUG] Sending SMS Messages...

2000-12-28 Thread Peter Rundle
Telstra and Vodafone have a mobile number that you can dial which provides a terminal interface that you can send your message via. The telco's make their money off the mobile phone charge. Vodafone will send to any mobile, Telstras only sends to Telstra mobiles. Can't remember if the number

Re: [SLUG] Sending SMS Messages...

2000-12-28 Thread Howard Lowndes
I don't think you will find the Vodafone number actually sends the message. It receives the message for a Mobilenet phone OK, but fails to deliver the message to a Mobilenet phone. I tried on a couple of occasions with the same result. That phone number looks like the Mobilenet number, but I

Re: [SLUG] Meeting

2000-12-28 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:09:13PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Steve Kowalik" I don't know about organising an informal one, but i just might go nuts because there is no meeting. :-) Any reason why there isn't one? It's the Last Days of the Twentieth Century, and you

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla 0.6

2000-12-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
I've tried it on RH6.2 and it is a lot more stable and generally better but has a couple of nasty bugs. Any dialog/form that you enter a "." into gets converted into "%A9" which makes it really really hard to put your e-mail address into a form. Java Script still doesn't work for quite a

Re: [SLUG] Meeting

2000-12-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Steve Kowalik" You forgot the "/gratitious promotion" ;-D No, I hadn't said anything about linux.conf.au URL: http://linux.conf.au, and all the interesting people URL: http://linux.conf.au/attendees/ coming out to talk about interesting things URL: http://linux.conf.au/papers/,

[SLUG] Slug meeting December 2000 / January 2001

2000-12-28 Thread Anand Kumria
Just to be clear: There is no meeting scheduled for December. We decided (but obviously neglected to communicate) that a meeting on the 22nd was too close to Christmas and that one on the 29th was too close to the end of the millennium. We had asked if there was any interest in having a BBQ or

[SLUG] Which NIC driver for VMware

2000-12-28 Thread Howard Lowndes
What is the best NIC driver to use under VMware? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com "...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Which NIC driver for VMware

2000-12-28 Thread DaZZa
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Howard Lowndes wrote: What is the best NIC driver to use under VMware? The virtual one which comes with it. The VMWare installation process provides a virtual interface for use by the "guest" operating system. In the case of WindoZe, it detects the virtual nic on install

[SLUG] outputting .pdf format from servlets, and authentication of users in apache

2000-12-28 Thread Matthew Taylor
I've been mucking around wiht this for some time and hitting head on brickwall at moment.I have developed a system that produces various reports thru a htmlinterface. Printing html isn't really that greatsince control of the output to produce page breaks etc isnt thereI can produce .xls

[SLUG] Email Server

2000-12-28 Thread Alan Lee
Hey; Im looking for an email server, which is easy to install, easy to config, and keeps working. Its required to be able to support multipical domains, and would be nice to have a web interface to it.. .. What do other people use? Regards, Alan Lee

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

2000-12-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
sendmail is installed on most systems by default. It works, and its not too bad when all is said and done im a fan of qmail and exim. i think exim maybe a little easier to set up but possibly qmail has more available software. www.qmail.org www.exim.org smail is supposed to be good have a

Re: [SLUG] outputting .pdf format from servlets, and authenticationof users in apache

2000-12-28 Thread Howard Lowndes
Would Cascading Style Sheets help here? I think you will find mention of realms in the Apache docs. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com "...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!" On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Matthew

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

2000-12-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Alan Lee" Im looking for an email server, which is easy to install, easy to config, and keeps working. Its required to be able to support multipical domains Gosh! You must be talking about Postfix! :) I've tried almost everything else (if you cite an esoteric MTA on Freshmeat

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

2000-12-28 Thread Alan Lee
Qmail is what im using at the moment, I have 2 installs of it. One is working perfectly, but the other is haveing nothing but problems. The machine which dosn't have any problems whatso ever, is sitting on 64k ISDN, which we are going to terminate shortly in the new year. I have another

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

2000-12-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
Qmail has always been straight forward for me. Just follow the install docs and when its working start changing stuff =) (thats my policy when installing something new and/or unknown) Dean Alan Lee wrote: Qmail is what im using at the moment, I have 2 installs of it. One is working

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

2000-12-28 Thread Colin Humphreys
If you are at all concerned about security, then you really only have two choices qmail or postfix. I am told that the setup and operation of postfix is quite similar to that of sendmail... Qmail is very different, but I like it. The licence it is under, makes binary distribution basically

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

2000-12-28 Thread Alan Lee
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/06/msg00193.html That is the problem I am getting; As soon as qmailadmin is used, this file will be restored to what it used to be, the unworking used to be that is. I have tryed everything I can think of, and there dosn't seem to be

[SLUG] Mozilla

2000-12-28 Thread Adam F. Bogacki
Thanks Jeff. I was impressed with the speed of the download and all seemed to go well until I reached roughly the same point at which I experienced problems with the Netscape 6 download. As a Linux newbie I may be missing something which is obvious to many SLUG readers. I followed the Mozilla

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla

2000-12-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
get the mozilla installer i like it =) move the file into /tmp mv mozilla*gz /tmp cd /tmp tar zxvf mozilla*gz cd created directory ./mozilla-install saves time... works for me and the installer package is smaller than the other *boggle* Dean "Adam F. Bogacki" wrote: Thanks Jeff. I was

[SLUG] Re: Mozilla

2000-12-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Adam F. Bogacki" I followed the Mozilla Install Instructions, creating a directory called 'mozilla' and moving the tar.gz file into it. mkdir mozilla mv mozilla*.tar.gz mozilla Was this in your home

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

2000-12-28 Thread Crossfire
- Original Message - From: Alan Lee To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 10:44 AM Subject: [SLUG] Email Server Im looking for an email server, which is easy to install, easy to config, and keeps working. Its required to be able to support multipical domains, and

Re: [SLUG] Re: Mozilla

2000-12-28 Thread Thom May
* Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : yet another excellent explanation! Extra credit for the person who explains why '.' isn't in everyone's $PATH by default. Short Answer: security! (what else ;) ) Longer Answer: OK. so your path is ".:/usr/local/bin/:/bin/:/usr/bin/", and you're

Re: [SLUG] Re: Mozilla

2000-12-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Thom May" -Thom, wanting credit ;) And you're probably wanting that in northern funny-money, right? ;) Thanks, Thom. :) - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://linux.conf.au/ -- o/~ In spite of all those keystrokes, you're addicted to vim.

[SLUG] From ZDNet

2000-12-28 Thread Howard Lowndes
Bush: no Microsoft white knight US president-elect George W. Bush says he opposes a forced breakup of Microsoft, but that doesn't mean he'll intervene. To begin with, Bush has bigger problems. http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?72932 hfl He may not intervene because he doesn't need to, but what you will

[SLUG] [Fwd: FC: Poland may require ISPs to install monitoring devices]

2000-12-28 Thread Rick Welykochy
A bit of a worry. More nonsense from Poland. Perhaps someone on SLUG who is a member of Aussie-ISP could forward this to the latter list. -- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:00:52 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3_Krawczyk?= [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Re: Mozilla

2000-12-28 Thread DaZZa
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Extra credit for the person who explains why '.' isn't in everyone's $PATH by default. Security, of course. The simpliest way to plant a trojan is to write one which creates another version of a commonly used file - such as ls - and place it in a

Re: [SLUG] nsa developes secure version of linux

2000-12-28 Thread Mike Holland
nsa developes secure version of linux Thats a bit misleading. Its more of a demo of certain security features, rather than a secure OS. On Thu, 28 Dec 100, Dave Fitch wrote: Security Enhanced Linux, see http://www.nsa.gov/selinux -- Mike Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

2000-12-28 Thread Crossfire
- Original Message - From: "Colin Humphreys" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Alan Lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Email Server If you are at all concerned about security, then you really only have two

Re: [SLUG] True Type Fonts

2000-12-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Jason Rennie" I have got a couple of True Type fonts, for windows that I was hoping to install under linux. The system is connevtiva linux 6.0 and it is running xfree4.01 Funny, I was just explaining this on IRC. :) 1. Make sure you have the 'freetype' module loaded in your

Re: [SLUG] Re: Mozilla

2000-12-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="DaZZa" How'd I do, teach? :-) A clearer explanation, which I can say safely, 'cos Thom's part of the world is fast asleep now. :) But if you're going to call me 'teach', you're going to have to stomach some spelling fascism: It's "privilege"! :D - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] nsa developes secure version of linux

2000-12-28 Thread David_Fitch
Mike Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nsa developes secure version of linux Thats a bit misleading. Its more of a demo of certain security features, rather than a secure OS. well it's not a full blown linux distribution, and I haven't tried it, but it appears to be a set of patches you

Re: [SLUG] nsa developes secure version of linux

2000-12-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
OpenBSD people =) Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nsa developes secure version of linux Thats a bit misleading. Its more of a demo of certain security features, rather than a secure OS. well it's not a full blown linux distribution, and I

[SLUG] Re: Which NIC driver for VMware

2000-12-28 Thread Simon Haddon
Original Message On 29/12/00, 7:18:57 AM, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Which NIC driver for VMware: What is the best NIC driver to use under Vmware? I've just managed to get the network drivers working under Vmware. The AMD Ethernet Family drivers (look at

[SLUG] When do you need more bandwidth

2000-12-28 Thread Howard Lowndes
What triggers do folks use to decide that they need more bandwidth? I'm thinking in terms of what %age saturation over a period would cause you to write out the order? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com

[SLUG] Want to replace WinNT gateway with Linux gateway

2000-12-28 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi, Here is the situation. I currently use a WinNT server as a gateway on my home network, running Wingate software. I want to replace that with a Linux server. I have RH7.0 and SuSe7.0 available. I do not have large HDD available (between 500Mb and 1Gb). I have setup SuSe7.0 on a 500MB HDD and

Re: [SLUG] outputting .pdf format from servlets, and authentication of users in apache

2000-12-28 Thread Richard PIper
Harry Ohlsen wrote: Has anyone used a report writer tool in a web development environment? I've heard of crystal reports but not having used it I'm a bit dubious of it being the answer to everything. Depending on what your report writing tool can generate, you might be