Re: [SLUG] Changing user id.

2001-01-15 Thread Rick Welykochy
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:47:01PM +1100, Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > > anyone know of a utility that will alter the userid of files if i change > > > the userid of their owner or group... > > whats wrong with the "-R" option??? Won't work as

Re: [SLUG] Re: Bigpond Direct ADSL pricing

2001-01-15 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:12:23PM +1100, DaZZa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Maybe for business use, but definitely not for personal use. And even for > > > business use - you'd have to be in the region of downloading 3 or 4 gig a > > > month t

[SLUG] Fixed: Apache 1.3.9 compilation problem under Redhat 7

2001-01-15 Thread Sonam Chauhan
Hi David: Thanks... you're right - Apache 1.3.9 does not build because it can't find . Using the extra include got it working. (set "EXTRA_INCLUDES=-I/usr/include/db1" in apache_1.3.9/src/Configuration.tmpl) Note: Apache 1.3.14 builds fine on Redhat 7 (apply RPM update below) > Why is it a com

Re: [SLUG] Changing user id.

2001-01-15 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:47:01PM +1100, Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > anyone know of a utility that will alter the userid of files if i change > > the userid of their owner or group... > > > chown is pretty good. :) > > Team it up with find and xargs if you want to do it acr

Re: [SLUG] TV out for TightWads

2001-01-15 Thread John Ferlito
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:50:25PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: > I'm hoping someone can cut short my research with some insights from > their own experience. I'm looking a video card, the cheapest I can get > that works under Linux that has a port for TV out. 3D is not necessary > (but if that'

Re: Subba Rao, was Re: [SLUG] Large HD and VMWare's raw partitions

2001-01-15 Thread Alan Lee
Lets sign up for the same groups, and everyone here post a reply very similar, which will kill his system! :) Regards, Alan Lee (Im only on this list, and DHS.ORG (which is a general all around hardware/software list)) PS, only jokein about killin his system! We only kill his wife instede? --

Re: [SLUG] Changing user id.

2001-01-15 Thread Craige McWhirter
I've got some scripts I used to move my entire companys' UID/GID's recently if you want them. On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:47:05 Marty wrote: > > chown is pretty good. :) > > > > > Team it up with find and xargs if you want to do it across every > file, or > > just a select few in a directory. Poss

Re: [SLUG] Changing user id.

2001-01-15 Thread Marty
> chown is pretty good. :) > Team it up with find and xargs if you want to do it across every file, or > just a select few in a directory. Possibilities are endless. :) actually there are some pretty sweet switches to chown that check what the UID/GID is on a file and use that to determine wh

[SLUG] TV out for TightWads

2001-01-15 Thread Craige McWhirter
I'm hoping someone can cut short my research with some insights from their own experience. I'm looking a video card, the cheapest I can get that works under Linux that has a port for TV out. 3D is not necessary (but if that's all I can get, so be it) as it's going into a 486DX4/133. Needless to sa

RE: [SLUG] Changing user id.

2001-01-15 Thread Jill Rowling
chown -R newuser directory man chown Also as soon as you edit /etc/passwd the new user names will appear with a normal ls without you having to do anything else. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. & Unix System Administrator Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floo

Subba Rao, was Re: [SLUG] Large HD and VMWare's raw partitions

2001-01-15 Thread Mike Holland
There goes Subba again, posting the same question to SLUG, PLUG, Canberra, and who knows how many other lists. Do you just do this to Australia (he is in the US), or are you spamming lists all over the world? Google shows you in Canada and UK _local_ groups. Even if its only the above three, t

Re: [SLUG] Re: Bigpond Direct ADSL pricing

2001-01-15 Thread DaZZa
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > you, the user, are solely responsible for > > monitoring your useage, and ensuring you stay within the floating limit at > > all times. > > s/floating limit/(downward) floating limit/ > > ... because as the high-bandwidth users are removed from the

Re: [SLUG] Changing user id.

2001-01-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
> anyone know of a utility that will alter the userid of files if i change > the userid of their owner or group... chown is pretty good. :) Team it up with find and xargs if you want to do it across every file, or just a select few in a directory. Possibilities are endless. :) - Jeff -- [E

Re: [SLUG] Re: Bigpond Direct ADSL pricing

2001-01-15 Thread Arunava Sen
Mehmet Ozdemir wrote: > Just a quick point on this, I believe that telstra also has a traffic light > system on their "unlimited" broadband services. AND a cap on their downlink. > I personally download on > average 5-6 iso's a month, napster, plus other heavy downloads, I'm yet to > get above

Re: [SLUG] Re: Bigpond Direct ADSL pricing

2001-01-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
DaZZa wrote: > you, the user, are solely responsible for > monitoring your useage, and ensuring you stay within the floating limit at > all times. s/floating limit/(downward) floating limit/ ... because as the high-bandwidth users are removed from the system, the average load decreases. > Which

[SLUG] Changing user id.

2001-01-15 Thread Marty
hi guys anyone know of a utility that will alter the userid of files if i change the userid of their owner or group... later marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Re: Bigpond Direct ADSL pricing

2001-01-15 Thread Terry Collins
Alister Waller wrote: > > Pacific were quick and helpful in our setup. > Its like anything there will always be people for and against. Just because > you don't like soemthing doesn't mean it is no good for someone else. I suspect area/location/suburb might have something to do with this. If the

Re: [SLUG] Re: Bigpond Direct ADSL pricing

2001-01-15 Thread DaZZa
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Mehmet Ozdemir wrote: > > I did too, once upon a time, but I'd rather have a guraanteed 512k > > than 2 > > meg which could be shared between up to 20 other people - and true > > unlimited downloads, rather than Optus' "10 times the average use" > > crap. > > > > Just a qui

Re: [SLUG] Re: Bigpond Direct ADSL pricing

2001-01-15 Thread Mehmet Ozdemir
> > I did too, once upon a time, but I'd rather have a guraanteed 512k > than 2 > meg which could be shared between up to 20 other people - and true > unlimited downloads, rather than Optus' "10 times the average use" > crap. > Just a quick point on this, I believe that telstra also has a traff

Re: [SLUG] Re: Bigpond Direct ADSL pricing

2001-01-15 Thread DaZZa
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Maybe for business use, but definitely not for personal use. And even for > > business use - you'd have to be in the region of downloading 3 or 4 gig a > > month to get to the point that you start coming out ahead of Telstra's > > equivalent plan -

Re: [SLUG] Re: Bigpond Direct ADSL pricing

2001-01-15 Thread David_Fitch
DaZZa wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Angus Lees wrote: > > (if you can get them to pull their fingers out, their adsl pricing > > policy is much more reasonable/practical than anyone else i've seen) > > Maybe for business use, but definitely not for personal use. And even for > business use - you'

RE: [SLUG] Re: Bigpond Direct ADSL pricing

2001-01-15 Thread Alister Waller
Pacific were quick and helpful in our setup. Its like anything there will always be people for and against. Just because you don't like soemthing doesn't mean it is no good for someone else. I am sure on the contract they said that it would take up to 5 weeks to connect you. I know they either to

Re: [SLUG] Re: Bigpond Direct ADSL pricing

2001-01-15 Thread DaZZa
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Angus Lees wrote: > zip was good. despite me always giving them the benefit of the doubt > (because of zip), pacific sucks. I can't argue with that - so much so that I'm going to ditch my long standing Zip account {my UID on the unix box is 656 - and they only started giving

[SLUG] Re: Bigpond Direct ADSL pricing

2001-01-15 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Jeff Waugh} > > http://corporate.pacific.net.au/ > > ADSL with static IPs, good prices, and they don't suck. On top of that (and > getting closer to the topic), they don't fear the penguin. don't get too enthusiastic.. i've been waiting for them to connect me (business account) for a

[SLUG] Large HD and VMWare's raw partitions

2001-01-15 Thread Subba Rao
One of my Linux system has a slave disk which is 20GB. (0)root@myhost:/~# fdisk /dev/hdc The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2646. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g

[SLUG] Unix on windows

2001-01-15 Thread Ken Foskey
To clear up matter a little: I use gvim on windows, it has incredible depth of syntax highlighting. I use cygnus tools on windows, I use command line a lot. You should see those Windows boffins trying to figure out how I do du to get the largest directory so quickly. I work around the SOE b

Re: [SLUG] Apache compilation problem under Redhat 7

2001-01-15 Thread David Sainty
Sonam, Why is it a compiler / gcc issue? In apache_1.3.9/src/modules/standard/mod_auth_dbm.c: #if defined(__GLIBC__) && defined(__GLIBC_MINOR__) \ && __GLIBC__ >= 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ >= 1 #include #else #include #endif ... This finds /usr/include/db1/ndbm.h but , in ndbm.h we have: #

Re: [SLUG] XFree 4 on a Toshiba laptop

2001-01-15 Thread Sonam Chauhan
Howard Lowndes wrote: > > Has anyone got XFree 4 running on a Toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro 430 CDS - yes > an old one but a good one now that I have beefed it up a bit). Mine has the C&T > 65550 chip > (I think) but it complains that it cannot find the v4l module. It isn't in the > RH7.0 dist

Re: [SLUG] large fonts with kde

2001-01-15 Thread Sonam Chauhan
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > Have you tried adding a new user to your box , login and see what > happens If the new user has normal fonts it's a local user problem Try setting it within that's users KDE environment -- Login as him, right click on his desktop... Choose 'Display properties.'

Re: web proxy & filtering, was [SLUG] Re: Telstra

2001-01-15 Thread Dave Fitch
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:29:54AM +0800, Mike Holland wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Squid. > > That would explain trhe delay - swapping. I think squid designed more for > using lots of memory, and many users. But check the manual - you can > probably change the config to

Re: [SLUG] The origins of vmlinuz and mgetty

2001-01-15 Thread Jim Hague
On 15-Jan-2001 Ken Yap wrote: >|i came to think that peraps m stands for MIT, or alt. someones name >|like Michael etc. > > Not MIT, the author was a German, Gert Doering. His name, possibly, but > it would have to be a middle initial or his mother's name or maybe even > his site muc.de. As othe

Re: [SLUG] large fonts with kde

2001-01-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Owen wrote: > I installed Mandrake 7.2 at the weekend, everything was working fine. > However now for some reason whenever I log on as a user (using KDE) > my title bars and fonts are really large. > If I log in as root they are normal sized. > > I tried using Gnome which comes up fine but if I u

[SLUG] large fonts with kde

2001-01-15 Thread Owen
I installed Mandrake 7.2 at the weekend, everything was working fine. However now for some reason whenever I log on as a user (using KDE) my title bars and fonts are really large. If I log in as root they are normal sized. I tried using Gnome which comes up fine but if I use any KDE applications

Re: [SLUG] PAM and SAMBA

2001-01-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I'm trying to set up a network here using LDAP as an authentication > suppository. ^^^ I can't believe no one else noticed this... "Authentication can be such a pain in the arse!" "For when you're not log checking as regularly as you used to!" James: Seriously though, it's

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail store?B

2001-01-15 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:26:24AM +1100, Rodos wrote: > My problem is that my local machine will be on a cable modem with a > dynamic address. So what do I put as my lower cost MX records IP address? Considered using UUCP? Presuming you are able to get it setup on the remote hot, UUCP is a grea

Re: [SLUG] The origins of vmlinuz and mgetty

2001-01-15 Thread Nick Croft
> |Are there any books or docs on the boot process? Yes, Ken's excellent epistle. Thanks also to Marty for the link. Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug