DaZZa wrote:
I'm told both ANZ and Westpac don't sneer when you say you're using
something other than WindoZe.
Westpac is the lesser of many evilbanques.
Back in the year 2000, Westpac was working fine on Linux. Then I was
on evilWare doing some accounting, and Westpac didn't work. How's
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010220/tc/microsoft_clarifies_exec_s_open-source_concerns_1.html
Seems it's not open source per se he thinks is against the American way
etc, but is more concerned about the GPL - the 'infectious' bit,
paragraph 2B "You must cause any work that you distribute or
quote who="Tom Massey"
He (or at least the MS spindoctors) likes the BSD license better.
Of course they do...
"Hey dude, this sucks. Everyone's bitching about feature x, so we're
just going to have to fix it."
"Man, you can't write feature x before the next release, that would be
Assume we have two machines, A and B, running the same version of Linux.
A is a workstation, B is a server (with Samba share for the Mrs)
On A, user 1 has a UID of 500, user 2 has a UID of 501
On B, user 1 has a UID of 501, user 2 has a UID of 500
When user 1 goes to B:/home/user1, all files
I installed that package, but i get same error...
Any other clues?
Thanks
Michael
- Original Message -
From: "Thom May" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 19 February 2001 10:47
Subject: Re: [SLUG] compiling vmailmgr... errors
aptget install libg++2.8.1.3
this
Assume we have two machines, A and B, running the same version of Linux.
A is a workstation, B is a server (with Samba share for the Mrs)
On A, user 1 has a UID of 500, user 2 has a UID of 501
On B, user 1 has a UID of 501, user 2 has a UID of 500
When user 1 goes to B:/home/user1, all files
I am attempting to get two hosts to talk with each other using Open-SSH.
The server is configured to not accept passwords, only key exchange, and
root login is permitted.
When I run the client in verbose mode the dialog indicates that both
publickey and password authentication is available.
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:13:22AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
...
When I run the server in debug mode all looks well until the client
attempts to authenticate. At this point I get the following error
messages. It appears that my problem might lie in the first 3 lines:
[...]
debug:
More like:
find new job
cd /
rm -rf *
get even newer job breaking rocks for 10 years
--
Howard.
LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com
"...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!"
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Peter Worboys wrote:
On 22 Feb, Terry Collins wrote:
Which means your backup devices is SCSI, so you might as well buy scsi
stuff anyway {:-)
Good point! :-)
But aren't EIDE drives considerably cheaper than scsi, still? So, you
could make yourself a nice RAID system, which would help.
Then, just back it up
hehehe maybe that's why M$ CDROM drivers make such great toasters!
Ignore all interrupts, they are only there to annoy the programmer!
Why on earth would hardware engineers put interrupts in...
Oh, full buffer? I never would guess that a computer could get busy...
(mumble mutter)
- Jill.
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Jill
Actually its other way around
find new job
cd /
rm -rf *
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Simon Bryan wrote:
Thanks everyone got that! Now let me see,
cd /
rm -rf *
find new job :-)
Actually had a friend that on his first day in tech support, did do a
deltree in the root directory of the bosses
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I didn't know that the new driver supported up to 6 IDE interfaces!
So that'd be up to 12 discs; at say 60Gb per disc, you could easily
have 0.7 terabytes on your desktop.)
Which means your backup devices is SCSI, so you might as well buy scsi
stuff anyway {:-)
As usual, the slug mailing list is an amazing source of
information.
Thanks everyone for your response.
The comments from Ken effectively summarise why I am intending to
use the onboard nic (no fan etc). I have an existing firewall box
which is performing quite nicely (P166, DFE-530, 3Com
On 22 Feb, Terry Collins wrote:
I have had problems with various no-name CDroms being recognised by
Linux over the years, particularly with older HW (486 Pentium mobo's).
so you are not mad. The only solution I've found is to try another
brand.
But wouldn't that be more
quote who="Howard Lowndes"
Failed password for ROOT from 203.41.237.83 port 1022 ssh2
Connection closed by 203.41.237.83
Cluestick anyone?
Is the server allowing root logins? I always disallow that on my machines,
and many OpenSSH setups do by default.
Same thing for a normal user?
-
Guys,
I'm having a great deal of trouble installing mod_auth_mysql. I've tried 2
versions of Apache, 3 versions of MySQL, and numerous other sacrifies, and nothing is
working.
./bin/apachectl configtest
Syntax error on line 228 of /pub/web/bin/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
Cannot load
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 08:44:32AM +1100, DaZZa wrote:
It'll delete every file until you hit the rm executable - and once it
deletes that, the process will stop
Oh no it won't. `rm' will happily delete itself and keep going.
Cheers,
John
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|Who upgrades on a mass basis? And the littleness
|gives peope more desk space. ;)
|
|They also shouldnt be bad linux boxes.
|
|I have no gripes with inbuilt stuff when you
|get such a size difference. Certainly home
|machines benefit from upgradability though.
|
|I wouldnt buy such a thing. But
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:13:00AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
debug: userauth-request for user root service ssh-connection method none
debug: Starting up PAM with username "root"
Does /etc/pam.d/sshd exist?
Cheers,
John
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Mboards have just about everything on board now.
Our latest roll out is an i810 and soundMAX (?)
onboard with a 530tx card.
These machines are about the size of 2 laptops.
(not inc 17" obviously)
have 1 x lil fdd and 2 x big fdd
Who upgrades on a mass basis? And the littleness
gives peope more
Yes, but your cable modem is only 10Mbits/Sec, well atleast my CM100 is.
Original Message:
-
From: Marty Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:51:56 +1100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation
Also, 486's sometimes have trouble keeping
|Onboard? Run away, run away!
|
|I highly recommend having as much off the motherboard as you can - they
|always come back to bite later anyway. A network interface is less of a
|problem than a sound card or whatever, but it's always good to be able to
|pull out a problem. :)
Nah, they're fine.
that's exactly what I've been wanting for ages, a nice stable,
lean, gui browser. I thought (originally) mozilla was going
to be that when now all it seems to be is a rehash of netscape.
You can install mozilla without all of that you know.
Also have you ever looked at opera ?
You could
I've read through the CDROM howto, burt there's no mention of a problem
like I had recently.
A friend and I put together a PC for a friend of ours, from spare
parts - *except* for the CDROM, which is a new 48x unit. It's a 1996
motherboard I'd say, judging by the BIOS date. It's a 150MHz
Netgear 310 10/100 cards are well supported with the tulip driver.
However up until 2.2.18 (and possibly still) you need to reload
the kernel module if the cable is pulled out or something.
So be sure to have a really solid connection as short inteferences
you normally wouldnt notice will cause
|1. Is anyone having problems with 1 or 2 8139 cards in the same
|machine?
|2. The Intel seems to be a very popular choice - would it be worth
|investing in (I know worth is relative but the difference is 128meg
|of ram g).
For the use you envisage RTL8139 is fine, just make sure to get the
Here's me fire wall config:
Intel 486 DX 2 66, (over powered btw)
32 MB (once again overkill)
2 Intel Ether Express isa Cards
1 Floppy Router, there are many option in this area eg: LRP, FloppFW,
FreeSco etc etc.
I had a firewall like this for years, it worked well (2.0.33 I think).
"deltree -y c:\*.* nul" is a real joy in Windoze ;) It gets doubly
entertaining when you use ANSI to remotely reprogram their keyboard
assignments... map enter to this little beauty and they're completely
hosed... not so difficult to do when one runs an ANSI based BBS ;) I
haven't tried it for
We are a shop front, and have technical guys.
We have had technical guys format systems, totaly kill customers hardware
etc. They always seem to be part timers who do is..
Ive been in this company almost 2 years, and have never really had a need to
format a customers HDD, unless it was totaly
quote who="Nicholas Lawrence"
1. An Asus board with an onboard Realtek 8139.
2. An Aopen board with an onboard Intel 82559.
Onboard? Run away, run away!
I highly recommend having as much off the motherboard as you can - they
always come back to bite later anyway. A network interface is less
Thanks everyone got that! Now let me see,
cd /
rm -rf *
find new job :-)
Actually had a friend that on his first day in tech support, did do a
deltree in the root directory of the bosses computer! Fortunately they did
have data backups. I think he did it at about 2pm and went home about 3am
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:29:22AM +1100, James Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Now, if I could get the MAILER without all the browser-
crap overhead, I'd be interested
You pretty much need a browser these days, though, so that you
can read the
Yep, equivalent is:
cd /
rm -rf *
Oh S***T!
//umar.
Hi,
Is there an equivalent in Linux to the DOS deltree, that will remove
folders, files and .files without confirmation? Such a fun command on a
Windows system, generally goes like:
cd /
deltree *
Oh S***T!
--
SLUG -
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 08:28:52AM +1100, Simon Bryan wrote:
Is there an equivalent in Linux to the DOS deltree, that will remove
folders, files and .files without confirmation? Such a fun command on a
Windows system, generally goes like:
cd /
deltree *
Oh S***T!
rm -rf whatever
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:24:42PM +1100, Jon Biddell wrote:
Assume we have two machines, A and B, running the same version of Linux.
A is a workstation, B is a server (with Samba share for the Mrs)
On A, user 1 has a UID of 500, user 2 has a UID of 501
On B, user 1 has a UID of 501, user
On Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:39 AM, Dave Fitch
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:15:25PM -0800, Nicholas Lawrence wrote:
Apologies for the long-winded post - I guess my question boils down
to:
1. Is anyone having problems with 1 or 2 8139 cards in the same
Hi,
Firstly is this box to be used only as a firewall, or will it be doing other duties.
If It's only going to be you connection to cable and ip masq etc I would even bother
spending big bucks on new PIII/Athlon boards, PCI cards, 128 MB ram.
Here's me fire wall config:
Intel 486 DX 2 66,
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Simon Bryan wrote:
Is there an equivalent in Linux to the DOS deltree, that will remove
folders, files and .files without confirmation? Such a fun command on a
Windows system, generally goes like:
cd /
deltree *
Oh S***T!
Warning - use the following command at
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:15:25PM -0800, Nicholas Lawrence wrote:
Apologies for the long-winded post - I guess my question boils down
to:
1. Is anyone having problems with 1 or 2 8139 cards in the same
machine?
2. The Intel seems to be a very popular choice - would it be worth
investing in
Hi,
Is there an equivalent in Linux to the DOS deltree, that will remove
folders, files and .files without confirmation? Such a fun command on a
Windows system, generally goes like:
cd /
deltree *
Oh S***T!
Simon Bryan
IT Manager
OLMC Parramatta
Does anybody else have problems with the supplied Mozilla binaries?
Could my problems be due to Mozilla being compiled on (I guess) a RedHat
box and the little incompatibilities between distros?
When will the Debian package be updated?
Grrr... I'm not happy with Mozilla.
I have just
Hi all,
/de-lurk
I'm putting together a new Linux firewall box for bigpond cable and
am having fun trying to decide between two motherboards.
Doing the relevant googling and archive searches, I have ended up
with two choices:
1. An Asus board with an onboard Realtek 8139.
2. An Aopen board
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Try to get hold of one of the Linux Pocket Books put out by APC
Magazine. The subject is covered reasonably well therein.
Richard
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Does anybody else have problems with the supplied Mozilla binaries?
Could my problems be due to Mozilla being compiled on (I guess) a RedHat
box and the little incompatibilities between distros?
When will the Debian package be updated?
Well, I have 0.7 mozilla packages from Ximian, and it
On 21 Feb 2001, Alen Stanisic wrote:
I have been using Mozilla 0.7
but it was just too slow for me as my machine is quite old. So now I am
looking for a new mail client and a web browser. (Planning to give
Konquerer a go but not sure if it would be a problem running it on
Gnome. As I
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jon Biddell wrote:
On A, user 1 has a UID of 500, user 2 has a UID of 501
On B, user 1 has a UID of 501, user 2 has a UID of 500
I didn't think UID's mattered across NFS mounts ?
Well, they do! From what I understand, only UID's are passed around
with NFS. The
I'm guessing that what you have done is create several primary
partitions, and that the vfat partition is not the first primary
partition. Windows is only going to want to live comfortably on the
first primary partition or on an extended partition.
Rather than worry about this most people just
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Now, if I could get the MAILER without all the browser-
crap overhead, I'd be interested
Damn, and all I want is BROWSER without all the mailer/newsreader/irc
crap overhead ;)
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,653432a1982,FF.html
Hope this is true on this side of the Tasman too.
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0.8 doesn't crash when trying to access http://www.smh.com.au
which 0.7 did (well at least for me).
same here.
Still not liking to having download the Java thingy
Yeah I've tried to install the java thingy but have never succeeded.
It is better than 0.7 and far superior to Netscape 6.
anyone know of a good client that will allow access to that damn thing
called exchange and its schedules etc?? i doubt there will be but if
anyone knows some alternatives would be much appreciated.
thanks!!
Wylie Edwards
Senior Technician
Central Gippsland Health Service
Guthridge Pde
SALE
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:57:42PM +1100, Wylie Edwards wrote:
anyone know of a good client that will allow access to that damn thing
called exchange and its schedules etc?? i doubt there will be but if
anyone knows some alternatives would be much appreciated.
Can't help with the schedules
This one time, at band camp, Ian Tester said:
When will the Debian package be updated?
Don't know, but this method worked for me (a bit messy, but it worked):
point old browser at
http://archives.progeny.com
follow the links to the mozilla debs
dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/web/ iirc
get
This one time, at band camp, Andrew Reilly said:
Galeon and Konquerer seem to be shaping up to be that. Haven't
used Konq myself, but do keep an eye on Galeon.
I've been using galeon, I like it, but the dependency on (at least in
debian) having mozilla installed is a pain (in my fantasy utopia,
This may be a dumb idea
I have an internal (192.168.0..) network and an external on a 128k ISDN
Firewalled with ipchains on RH7. I have just been connected with an ADSL
line. I would like this to be used for outgoing port 80 browsing etc only
and use the 128k ISDN for incoming port forwards
Title: Re: [SLUG] dlink card doesn't work
Maybe this should be a FAQ? :-)
http://slug.org.au/lists/archives/slug/2000/October/msg00359.html and http://slug.org.au/lists/archives/slug/2000/October/msg00388.html
In a nutshell, grab new drivers from www.scyld.com. Last I checked, they were
quote who="Jeff Waugh"
Extract:
I managed to leave out the fact that this was from the section on the LDP
Document Review.
- Jeff
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://linux.conf.au/ --
I must be getting old... Buying toothpaste with gel in it is no
LDP Weekly News:
http://lwn.net/daily/ldp-20010221.php3
Extract:
"This is obviously a very big job, and it will require expertise in many
different disciplines. If you've ever complained that Linux documentation
isn't up to the same quality standards as commercial pro
G'day all,
I'm trying to write a script that will be executed
by crontab every 5 mins... Here is what I have so far...
[ -f /var/run/nologin ]
exit #This checks to see if a Shutdown is in
progress[ -f /usr/berger/berger.tar.gz ] exitrm
/usr/berger/isdirempty.filemv /usr/berger/tmp/*
quote who="Andrew Reilly"
Can't help with the schedules issue (but very interested if anyone else
knows of such a thing.)
No, this is a black hole in Free Software land. But you can replace Exchange
on NT with HP OpenMail on Linux. :) It's not Free Software though.
Reefknot is an
Exchange can also talk pop and smtp.
Im using it now with moz ;)
Dean
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:57:42PM +1100, Wylie Edwards wrote:
anyone know of a good client that will allow access to that damn thing
called exchange and its schedules etc?? i doubt there will be
Search for a copy of source-address-routing howto or mini-howto.. you'll
need to use iproute2 for the stuff you want to do.
At home I have 2 ppp links, and the machines behind NAT, use the cheaper
unlimited ppp link, while my subnet based machines use the perm expensive
modem :P
Good luck :P
Its not unreasonable on telstras behalf.
I dont think its possible for them to support every OS
And windows (mr defacto standard) comes in a million forms
is bad enough. Messing with windows networking is 'fine' 90%
of the time. But some times it really does end in tears.
They dont support
[From long-time lurker, infrequent poster:]
A posting on kuro5hin has triggered various fevered imaginings in my unstable
mind:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystorysid=2001/2/21/19441/2905
It's a followup story on Spindl3top, the GNU co-operative in Cambridge, Mass.
A comment I posted
http://lwn.net/bigpage.php3
Summary: M$ goal is not to try to outlaw free software but to try head
off government support for free software. Fix: do "a better job of
talking to policymakers". Something badly needed here too. Note,
communication not raw advocacy. Or speculation.
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SLUG -
Ugh, this thread... ;)
quote who="Stuart Cooper"
1+2+3 = Microsoft Linux(TM): a non-GPL non-free proprietary derived
work featuring embrace and extend specials for the Intel platform. The
education campaign can mention that MacOS X did it with BSD software.
"Do not attribute to malice..."
Seems it's not open source per se he thinks is against the American way
etc, but is more concerned about the GPL - the 'infectious' bit,
paragraph 2B "You must cause any work that you distribute or publish,
that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
part
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