Re: [SLUG] LinuxWorld Minibook review, anyone?

This is about the CDs, not the accompanying book. I just had the unfortunate experience of trying on first an upgrade and then later (because the first hung up my system) a full installation of the Red Hat 7.0 from the LinuxWorld set. This was on a fully working partition that previously

Re: [SLUG] Password protecting specific web folders

Apache with .htaccess would prolly be the best way just read up on apache... it is commonly talked about Daniel Finn a.k.a Finny Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ - 4886934 Mobile - +61 (403) 364 302 Nepean Micro Computers - http://www.nmc.com.au/ - Original Message - From: "James

Re: [SLUG] LILO hanging at LIL-

Andrew, I recently tried to compile a new kernel on my RedHat7 system and all went okay except LILO hangs at LIL-. If you can boot from a floppy (and I assume you mean your new kernel) then all is well with your file systems, you just need to re-install your MBR by first checking

RE: [SLUG] gdm displays

If I understand this correctly, you want to view gdm through a linux box? If so, try ORL VNC, do a search on altavista with those words and access the .uk site only. the reason i say that is the others could be security risks, im not sure but never visited them. Scott -Original

RE: [SLUG] Meeting Suggestion.

Yes, I believe Alister was offering a venue. I work with him, and it would be a great venue for a meeting, depending on what the usual turnout of them are. Anyone have an estimate on how many people attend the meetings? Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Password protecting specific web folders

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_auth.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_access.html The second isnt exactly what your after for but might come in handy Dean Daniel Finn wrote: Apache with .htaccess would prolly be the best way just read up on apache... it is commonly talked

Re: [SLUG] gdm displays

quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I have two RH 6.2 boxes, both running gdm linked together on a private network. I would like to be able to log into either box from a single workstation. Okay, GDM is a bit of a mess at the moment. :) Red Hat shipped a beta2 version of it, whilst Ximian has a

[SLUG] ppp not writing utmp

Hi, How do you get ppp (on redhat 6.3) to maintain /run/utmp correctly? The supplied ppp and kernel don't write ppp logons to that file. Regards, Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] gdm displays

Nope...I want to use X to view the display from the other box, not VNC. Thanks Scott Ragen wrote: If I understand this correctly, you want to view gdm through a linux box? If so, try ORL VNC, do a search on altavista with those words and access the .uk site only. the reason i say that is

[SLUG] Sparc Hardware Update

Sent to Slug and Computerbank NSW due to interest from both lists. I've started a WWW page at http://www.woa.com.au/terryc/hardware/sparc/ to provide a convenient list of URLs for people wanting further information/ideas/how-tos, etc. Thanks to Rachael and Crossfire for their information and

[SLUG] I vote one for a newbies list

My hat goes in with Terry. I think that there is great scope for a newbies list. This list should have predefined answers to 'which is the best distro' with input from each camp. We KNOW that archives will not really work with newbies. I am fairly tired of the constant just go debian push

[SLUG] SLUG Talks and Meeting Format

quote who="Ken Foskey" Why can't we find two rooms and have the combined meeting then split into SIGs, this was the formula for one of the User Groups I attended. Whilst I disagree with your comments about the mailing list, the above comment is something we discussed a while ago. I was

Re: [SLUG] I vote one for a newbies list

Ken Foskey wrote: My hat goes in with Terry. I think that there is great scope for a newbies list. Oh, oh - Did I say that. I think I didn't, but if newbies want a newbies list, then I would agree with that. If calling a list "newbies" encourages people to ask questions, receive answers

Re: [SLUG] Sparc Hardware Update

Terry Collins was once rumoured to have said: Sent to Slug and Computerbank NSW due to interest from both lists. I've started a WWW page at http://www.woa.com.au/terryc/hardware/sparc/ to provide a convenient list of URLs for people wanting further information/ideas/how-tos, etc. Thanks to

Re: [SLUG] Sparc Hardware Update

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:27:18PM +1100, Crossfire wrote: Can anyone tell me how the Sparc 10 knows about its boot hard disk? i.e. does it just boot off a scsi at id0 or do you have to do something like enter hard disk parameters into the nvram. However, due to Sun weirdness the default

[SLUG] dhcpd..

hi i am compleatly stumped.. I am trying to set up my debian woody box to collect the internet on eth0 via dhcp then forward it to anyone connected to my hub on eth1 also via dhcp.. I have read every doc /howto/minihowto i can find and followed every list of instructions.. and basicly i can