[SLUG] Who would you shout a beer for?

2001-01-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> So, I upgraded from 2.4.0-test12 to 2.4.0, and now Apache dies like this: > > [emerg] (28)No space left on device: could not call shmget > > Great, huh? Problem resolved, and it seems the only person on the planet who was able to help me was... Alan Cox. Here's proof that Alan is a lege

Re: [SLUG] Which Linux disto on a Sun Ultra 10 ?

2001-01-08 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:32:08AM +, Ricky C wrote: > hi All, > > I am interested in finding out which Linux disto are poeple using for their > Sun box, say an Ultra 10 Personally, Solaris 8. Out of interest (and I'm not trying to start a flame war here), why do you choose to run Linux on

[SLUG] re: printer

2001-01-08 Thread Michael
I got it working using apsfilter, now I am a little stuck how to reference it from within samba (smb.conf) Hints welcome... pointers to info... Thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] shmget and 2.4.0

2001-01-08 Thread Heracles
Jeff Waugh wrote: > In a similar fashion, hdparm -T /dev/hda dies thusly: > > /dev/hda: > could not allocate sharedmem buf: No space left on device > > Odd, no? Anyone have any pointers? Is there _writeable_ space left on the device it wants to use? Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG

RE: [SLUG] ICQ file transfers under Redhat 7.0 IPCHAINS

2001-01-08 Thread Ryan McBride
Hmm, everytime i tried to do that it would say to me that i had to recompile the kernal with support for this that & the other but when u read the readme it say u dont have to. end result was no success :-( Any ideas?? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] ICQ file transfers under Redhat 7.0 IPCHAINS

2001-01-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> If someone could tell me how i might do this under redhat 7.0 i would be > greatfull. Also if anyone knows where i might find the RPM for IP_MASQ_ICQ > could you please tell me as well. Not sure about the RPM, but it's simple enough to build from source. Install that and you should be fine.

[SLUG] ICQ file transfers under Redhat 7.0 IPCHAINS

2001-01-08 Thread Ryan McBride
Hey All, Wondering if you could tell me how to get icq to accept file transfers on a windows machine through a Redhat 7.0 firewall/ip router. I know this ipmasq statment but its not supported under redhat 7.0 so i need to find a way to do it with redhat 7.0. ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 32001 32

Re: [SLUG] re: printer

2001-01-08 Thread Michael
Ignore this question, I just got it working myself :P Thanks Michael PS. Oh this rocks :) -Original Message- From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, 8 January 2001 9:39 Subject: [SLUG] re: printer >I got it working using apsfilter, now

Re: [SLUG] shmget and 2.4.0

2001-01-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Is there _writeable_ space left on the device it wants to use? See the "Who would you shout a beer for?" - essentially, Powertweak set the shared memory size to zero with an old config file. Once removed, works perfectly. (/dev/shm is the location for shared memory under 2.4.0 kernels.) -

[SLUG] Sun Server

2001-01-08 Thread John Francis
This is probably way OT but I thought some of you guys might be interested. I can get may hands on a Sun Enterprise R220 pretty cheap. I've looked up the details on the Sun website at http://store.sun.com/webconfig/BuildConfig.jhtml;$sessionid$5OAQBWIAAJB5HAMTA1ES PJT5CJ1K it's the second

Re: [SLUG] ICQ file transfers under Redhat 7.0 IPCHAINS

2001-01-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Hmm, everytime i tried to do that it would say to me that i had to recompile > the kernal with support for this that & the other but when u read the readme > it say u dont have to. end result was no success :-( Go for it. Recompile your kernel so it supports extra ip_masq modules, then when

RE: [SLUG] ICQ file transfers under Redhat 7.0 IPCHAINS

2001-01-08 Thread Ryan McBride
If i dont have my linux source files on the hdd how do i copy them over so that i can compile the kernal??? whats the quickest way, im a novice at the most extreme level here Thanx all Ryza -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Waugh

[SLUG] Re: debian apt - what's available?

2001-01-08 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Jeff Waugh} > > > > so I went back and picked "simple". > > The result was too simple! > > I was missing most of what I consider to be a complete > > system. > > > For example? > > My usual advice is to install very little initially, and apt-get as > required. It's easy, straight-forwa

Re: [SLUG] ICQ file transfers under Redhat 7.0 IPCHAINS

2001-01-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> If i dont have my linux source files on the hdd how do i copy them over so > that i can compile the kernal??? > > whats the quickest way, im a novice at the most extreme level here Either download from your favourite local mirror (mirror.aarnet.edu.au comes to mind), or probably quicker

Re: [SLUG] Who would you shout a beer for?

2001-01-08 Thread Peter Hardy
...and then Jeff Waugh said: > Who would other SLUGgers buy beers for? What has impressed or helped you > enough to force a VB into a friendly hackers hand? Doesn't have to be a > linux.conf.au attendee, although you'll have to send one by air freight > otherwise. ;) cat /usr/src/linux/CREDITS >

[SLUG] New ListServ for Apple's MacOS X

2001-01-08 Thread Shane Anderson
Note to List Mod: If this post is not appropriate, my apologies, just let me know so I know for the future, and remove this comment if you do post this. Some of you may know that Apple is very likely to announce a new version of Apple MacOS X the Mach based OS originally derived from Jobs' NeXT/O

Re: [SLUG] New ListServ for Apple's MacOS X

2001-01-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> And yes, just in case you didn't know, I run the world's largest Mac email > list from right here in Sydney. :) and... > User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 > X-RBL-Warning: (relays.orbs.org) Open relay - see > http://www.orbs.org/verify.php3?address=61.12.0.161 No beer for you! Co

Re: [SLUG] Meeting?

2001-01-08 Thread Jon Biddell
>However, I should have some excellent stories when I return :)) NY >should be interesting, and glitzy (http://linuxworldexpo.com/). We're >also heading over to a mouthful of a conference called the "Open Source >and Free Software Developers European Meeting" -- http://osdem.org/ -- >in Brussels,

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-08 Thread Jon Biddell
> > To tell if it is a Trinitron: Setup a nice white background and look for > > the two fine black horizontal lines 1/3 and 2/3 of the way down the > > screen. Hallmark of the Trinitron Clan. > >If you value your sanity - DON'T do this. They will haunt you! You >will forever see the lines in you

[SLUG] COMPAQ running Linux

2001-01-08 Thread Jon Biddell
Has anyone any experience of running Linux (specifically, SuSE, but any distro) on a Compaq Deskpro 4000 (P233mmx, 64Mb, 2.1gb H/D) ?? I can't seem to get X to run without locking up using the SVGA server. Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: h

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-08 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:27:16PM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote: > > > > To tell if it is a Trinitron: Setup a nice white background and look for > > > the two fine black horizontal lines 1/3 and 2/3 of the way down the > > > screen. Hallmark of the Trinitron Clan. > > It's the hallmark of any slot

Re: [SLUG] COMPAQ running Linux

2001-01-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I can't seem to get X to run without locking up using the SVGA server. Video chipset? - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://linux.conf.au/ -- She said she loved my mind, though by most accounts I had already lost i

Re: [SLUG] Which Linux disto on a Sun Ultra 10 ?

2001-01-08 Thread Crossfire`
Scott Howard wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:32:08AM +, Ricky C wrote: > > hi All, > > > > I am interested in finding out which Linux disto are poeple using for their > > Sun box, say an Ultra 10 > > Personally, Solaris 8. > > Out of interest (and I'm not trying to start a flame war h

Re: [SLUG] COMPAQ running Linux

2001-01-08 Thread Jon Biddell
At 11:12 PM 8/01/01 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > I can't seem to get X to run without locking up using the SVGA server. > > >Video chipset? Cirrus Logic I believe - whenever I configure X and it starts, on trying to return to command mode I get parallel lines and the box hangs... -- SLUG

[SLUG] Re: Which Linux disto on a Sun Ultra 10 ?

2001-01-08 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Scott Howard} > Out of interest (and I'm not trying to start a flame war here), why do you > choose to run Linux on the Ultra, rather than Solaris? because its much easier to administer when all your other machines are debian boxen too why would you run solaris 8 ? (on an E250+, perhaps.

Re: [SLUG] COMPAQ running Linux

2001-01-08 Thread Heracles
Jon Biddell wrote: > >Video chipset? > > Cirrus Logic I believe - whenever I configure X and it starts, on trying to > return to command mode I get parallel lines and the box hangs... Just an aside but: Most Cirrus Logic chipsets have gaps in the frequencies they support. This can be a bit of a

Re: [SLUG] Which Linux disto on a Sun Ultra 10 ?

2001-01-08 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:22:49PM +1100, Crossfire` wrote: > > Out of interest (and I'm not trying to start a flame war here), why do you > > choose to run Linux on the Ultra, rather than Solaris? > > Because Solaris earn't its nickname "Slowaris" for a reason. On a > single processor machine,

Re: [SLUG] Who would you shout a beer for?

2001-01-08 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:15:35PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > ...and then Jeff Waugh said: > > Who would other SLUGgers buy beers for? What has impressed or helped you > > enough to force a VB into a friendly hackers hand? Doesn't have to be a > > linux.conf.au attendee, although you'll have to s

[SLUG] Re: Making Fonts

2001-01-08 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Jason Rennie} > I was wondering, does anybody have any pointers on how to go about making > fonts ? Preferably linux tools to help in the endevour. learn the METAFONT language ;) (its what TeX fonts are done in. basically its a full language, with variables, functions, loops, control flo

Re: [SLUG] Who would you shout a beer for?

2001-01-08 Thread Jon Biddell
> > Not quite Linux related, but I'd also buy a beer for Dave Baum, the creator > > of NQC, a nice C-like language and tools for programming the LEGO > MindStorms > > RCX. It's much more powerful than the braindead Drag'n'Drop software that > > LEGO provides, and means I don't dual-boot at all

Re: [SLUG] Which Linux disto on a Sun Ultra 10 ?

2001-01-08 Thread Crossfire`
Rachel Polanskis wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Crossfire` wrote: > > Certainly, Solaris' UFS implementation is slow compared to Linux's > > implementation of ext2. (compare the time it takes to build a zmailer > > hash2 directory on Solaris vs Linux. Linux takes seconds. Solaris > > takes minut

Re: [SLUG] Re: Making Fonts

2001-01-08 Thread Jason Rennie
> > more simply I need to modify the letters that are assigned to a koine > > greek font, so that I find it easier to type up. > > i don't understand what you are trying to do .. > > "so that i find it easier to type up" implies there's another way to > solve your problem tho There are a numbe

[SLUG] Back and USB

2001-01-08 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Hi folks. Well I'm back on the list. The London LUG list is friendly and somewhat helpful but doesn't have the volume and depth of knowledge of SLUG. So now onto my question. I want to get USB working to get my brand new, shiny Epson Perfection 610U scanner running. I'm having some trouble.

Re: [SLUG] Who would you shout a beer for?

2001-01-08 Thread DaZZa
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Who would other SLUGgers buy beers for? What has impressed or helped you > enough to force a VB into a friendly hackers hand? Doesn't have to be a > linux.conf.au attendee, although you'll have to send one by air freight > otherwise. ;) Hmmm. Raster - 'ca

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-08 Thread Michael Sztachanski
Scott Howard wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:27:16PM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote: > > > > > > To tell if it is a Trinitron: Setup a nice white background and look for > > > > the two fine black horizontal lines 1/3 and 2/3 of the way down the > > > > screen. Hallmark of the Trinitron Clan. > >

Re: [SLUG] Back and USB

2001-01-08 Thread DaZZa
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > The other option is to use the 2.2.x backport of the USB code. Only > thing is, I can't seem to work out how to turn on the options in make > menuconfig/xconfig. There's USB stuff in the source tree in drivers/usb > but no option to compile it in.

Re: [SLUG] Back and USB

2001-01-08 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:06:38AM +1100, DaZZa uttered: > You may need to select the "Prompt for incomplete/experimental code" > option at the first sub menu from make menuconfig to enable it, however. > Not sure on this one. Done that, still can't see a USB option anywhere. 2.4.0 has it as a

Re: [SLUG] Back and USB

2001-01-08 Thread Crossfire
- Original Message - From: Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 9:15 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Back and USB > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:06:38AM +1100, DaZZa uttered: > > > You may need to select the "Prom

Re: [SLUG] Meeting?

2001-01-08 Thread Craige McWhirter
Any news at all about the Yopy would be great. On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 22:45:14 Jon Biddell wrote: > > >However, I should have some excellent stories when I return :)) NY > >should be interesting, and glitzy (http://linuxworldexpo.com/). We're > >also heading over to a mouthful of a conference calle

Re: [SLUG] Back and USB

2001-01-08 Thread DaZZa
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > > You may need to select the "Prompt for incomplete/experimental code" > > option at the first sub menu from make menuconfig to enable it, however. > > Not sure on this one. > > Done that, still can't see a USB option anywhere. 2.4.0 has it as a > s

[SLUG] IPROUTE

2001-01-08 Thread Bernhard Lüder
Hi, a couple of days there was a mention about IP route, but I didn't see many answers. I was especially interested in, if IPROUTE can do the following: Server with IP address on gateway Translate another live IP address to an internal 192.168.x.x IP address. Can I then serve say http from 192.1

Re: [SLUG] IPROUTE

2001-01-08 Thread DaZZa
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Bernhard Lüder wrote: > Server with IP address on gateway > Translate another live IP address to an internal 192.168.x.x IP address. > Can I then serve say http from 192.168.x.x? > > And another question: > Can you just NAT a particular port (eg. 80) to the same

Re: [SLUG] Back and USB

2001-01-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
USB Backport is in kernel 2.2.18 if not just wack on a 2.2.19 prepatch from ac and it will be in USB has its sub menu, under character devices and above Filesystems =) Turn on support for USB then configure your usb controller (if in doubt, put in both) Youll want preliminary usb devfs if you d

Re: [SLUG] IPROUTE

2001-01-08 Thread Marty
> Yes to both questions - it's called "proxying", and it's available. search for "port forwarding" on linuxdoc.org later marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Back and USB

2001-01-08 Thread Peter Hardy
...and then Rev Simon Rumble said: > My first thought was to run the new 2.4.0 kernel, but then ppp doesn't > work on my Debian system. Is there somewhere I can set it to be > backwards compatible in the same way the you can with NAT (make it > ipchains or ipfwadm compatible). Upgrade to the new

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-08 Thread tom burkart
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Michael Lake wrote: > > Also, it's time to purchase a new monitor. Anyone know if flat screens > > are common yet ... and cheap? Are they worth it? > Well I have seen some and they look very good but they are very pricy. > If you are really short on desk space (esp depth) or y

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-08 Thread Michael
Well my 2 cents worth is, buy whatever it is you like. Personally, I'd sooner spend the more money and get something that I am happy with. I have a CPD-200ES Sony 17" which I paid a bit for at the time. But to this day I am still happy with it. The new models have improved, so who knows when it

RE: [SLUG] Re: Which Linux disto on a Sun Ultra 10 ?

2001-01-08 Thread Jill Rowling
Let's face it: Anything unfamiliar is a PITA to administer. Doesn't matter how well it's designed, if you don't know where things are you get frustrated. My main prob is going to work and using ESC for command line completion, then coming home and using TAB. Anyway, on a Sun server I prefer to us

Re: [SLUG] COMPAQ running Linux

2001-01-08 Thread Martin
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Jon Biddell wrote: > Has anyone any experience of running Linux (specifically, SuSE, but any > distro) on a Compaq Deskpro 4000 (P233mmx, 64Mb, 2.1gb H/D) ?? > > I can't seem to get X to run without locking up using the SVGA server. > > Jon First, it's always worth checkin

[SLUG] Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au dinner registrations closing

2001-01-08 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Caitlin Fegan wrote: > If you are planning on coming to linux.conf.au, but haven't already > registered, you'd better get in quick. > > Although we will continue taking new registrations for the conference > itself, we have to close bookings for the dinner by 4pm Tuesday

[SLUG] Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au dinner registrations closing

2001-01-08 Thread Tony Nugent
On Tue Jan 09 2001 at 11:59, Allan Rae wrote: > What about if you have registered but didn't buy a dinner ticket and > now suddenly decided you should have? Online purchase of a dinner > ticket isn't an option in the registration process and I can't find a > fax number to send you a fax! > > Aa

Re: [SLUG] COMPAQ running Linux

2001-01-08 Thread jon
Quoting Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Last, it's always worth a quick web search. According to > http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~moniot/linux- compaq/Xwindows.html: Thanks for that info Martin - I will look at that site this evening... > Moral of the story: stay away from integrated hardware OEM

[SLUG] Re: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au dinner registrations closing

2001-01-08 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Tony Nugent wrote: > On Tue Jan 09 2001 at 11:59, Allan Rae wrote: > > > What about if you have registered but didn't buy a dinner ticket and > > now suddenly decided you should have? Online purchase of a dinner > > ticket isn't an option in the registration process and I ca

RE: [SLUG] COMPAQ running Linux

2001-01-08 Thread Visser, Martin (SNO)
> -Original Message- > From: Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 9 January 2001 11:32 AM > To: Jon Biddell > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] COMPAQ running Linux *snip* > > Moral of the story: stay away from integrated hardware OEMs > > cheers, > > Martin >

RE: [SLUG] COMPAQ running Linux

2001-01-08 Thread Martin
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Visser, Martin (SNO) wrote: > I am grievously offended. > > We're getting better!! While Compaq et.al. still like integrated mainboards > and the like, I think they are getting better with bog standard floppy > drives, hard drives and so forth. Even the business \-oriented

[SLUG] Problems with 2.4 kernel and Pix Firewalls

2001-01-08 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Bit of a heads up for those thinking about the 2.4 kernel, maybe someone can shed some light on this. One of the guys here has just upgraded his rh6.1 box to the new 2.4 kernel. Networking to hosts on the same leg of the Lan works fine, udp, icmp and tcp. However only udp and icmp work

[SLUG] SCSI HD Problems

2001-01-08 Thread Earnshaw, Mike
Sluggers, Sit down, get a coffee its Jackanory time On a RH6.2 system with an Adaptec 29160 card and a Fuji 20GB SCSI HD I have been getting the following errors fairly consistently with original kernel: Info fld=0x165c5ba Current sd08:06 sense key medium error Additional sense indicates r

Re: [SLUG] Problems with 2.4 kernel and Pix Firewalls

2001-01-08 Thread Morton, Andrew [WOLL:4009-M:EXCH]
Peter Rundle wrote: > > Sluggers, > > Bit of a heads up for those thinking about the 2.4 kernel, > maybe someone can shed some light on this. > > One of the guys here has just upgraded his rh6.1 box to the new > 2.4 kernel. Networking to hosts on the same leg of the Lan works > fine, udp, icmp

Re: [SLUG] Problems with 2.4 kernel and Pix Firewalls

2001-01-08 Thread James Morris
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Peter Rundle wrote: > > Anyone have any ideas?, anyone having the same problem? > Try disabling ECN (explicit congestion notification): echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn - James -- James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Problems with 2.4 kernel and Pix Firewalls

2001-01-08 Thread Peter Rundle
"Morton, Andrew [WOLL:4009-M:EXCH]" wrote: > CISCO bug. A patch is available. See > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.1/0485.html > > A workaround is > > echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Yet another fine example of open source support at work. Thanks muchly, (

[SLUG] Meeting, 22nd January

2001-01-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, I've put forward Monday 22nd January as a meeting date close enough to the conference to attract some of our "star" speakers. Given that most of the SLUG committee (Anand, Conrad, Gus and myself) are working their butts off to make the conference rock, I hope we can get some assistance fr

Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns

2001-01-08 Thread Dustin
Having just bought a new monitor (a Videocom from Grace Bros of all places), Michael's point is pretty much right on. You can tie yourself up worrying about aperture grills, dot pitches and screen coatings or just ask the salesperson to give you a live demo. The setup at GB was running through one

Re: [SLUG] Meeting, 22nd January

2001-01-08 Thread Craige McWhirter
At grave risk of being a tad selfish, if I can move the meeting and the dinner to the Newport Arms, I'm your man. On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 16:48:08 Jeff Waugh wrote: > Hi all, > > I've put forward Monday 22nd January as a meeting date close enough to > the > conference to attract some of our "star" s

[SLUG] Re: Re: Making Fonts

2001-01-08 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Jason Rennie} > There are a number of koine greek fonts. Koine greek has a slightly > different alphabet to english, with among other things 2 different letters > for (the english equivalent of) s, depending on where it is in a word. Not > to mention breathingmarks on letters and otehr thin