Hi all,
Something seems to have gone wrong with 'su' when I try and use it in an
xterm. Gives me a 'File size limit exceeded'. Google shows me that this is
quite a common problem, except that this is also happening when I startx
as root which I can't seem to find mentioned anywhere. Just before
Tom Massey wrote:
...snip
started happening, I noticed a 'Bus error' on exiting from an su session,
and any new user I create I can su to once, then have a normal session,
then get 'Bus error' on exit and then get stuck with the 'File size limit
exceeded'. Any thoughts?
A thought - if
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:24:24PM +1000, Ben Leslie wrote:
To list a few bad points of Zope: It's huge, it requires a lot of
machine resources, and having getting Zope to play nice with Apache is
non-trivial (it likes to ignore the options its own documentation says
to use to turn off
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:10:18PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am setting up sendmail on a SUSE machine and I want to kill some messages
that are queued. I have looked for the words purge and flush in the sendmail
man page but can't see how to kill messages that are queued. I had
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff suggested, over boiled television entrails I think, that snort was a
nice program to monitor others attempts at your machine. I have downloaded
and compiled snort, and have the default snort.conf file and a few
questions. OK it needs to be run as root. Now as
If I set two screen sizes, say 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768, the smaller 800
x 600 always is the default and I have to toggle to get the larger.
Anyway to set the default to the larger size in RH7?
Thanks
Richard
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If I set two screen sizes, say 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768, the smaller 800
x 600 always is the default and I have to toggle to get the larger.
Anyway to set the default to the larger size in RH7?
Thanks
Richard
Ctrl Alt and Plus should
Richard Blackburn wrote:
If I set two screen sizes, say 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768, the smaller 800
x 600 always is the default and I have to toggle to get the larger.
Anyway to set the default to the larger size in RH7?
For each monitor? (or whatever) it will list modes.
Yours are 800x600
This one time, at band camp, Del said:
No perhaps he really wants a 600 millihertz Celeron with 256
Millihertz?
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Philip Wicks wrote:
300mg celeron
I think you're right with the fit inside a pill though. I need 300mg
of Celeron, STAT!
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Jaq what's wrong with
quote who=Ben Leslie
I thknk that this is fixed in 2.1 where nested scopes are implemented.
One of the more amusing things about Python:
from __future__ import nested_scopes
Unfortunately, for everyone out there with code relying on this not being
implemented, Python 2.2 will not have a
Yep, the kernel reports the presence of a PS2 mouse at it boots.
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On Thu, 3 May 2001, Tony Green wrote:
* This one time, at band
Hello.
I have a RedHat 7.0 box on a clients site handling
their mail. The site uses outside DNS servers for resolving and while the
network is connected to the Internet everything is fine. However, when the
connection drops, we obviously can't send outside mail but we also cannot send
Hi,
I've recently installed mandrake 8 and am using the mozilla 8.1 that came
with it however, I noticed that it has started a process that is in
uninterruptable sleep mode and I don't know how to kill it. logging out
of X (kde right now) doesn't even do it (kill -9 either). Short of
Who has made the biggest corporate contribution to the development of Free
Software? A bit of a mini-poll... The sarcastic can call it Putting Your
Source Code Where Your Money Was.
There are two categories, and I've started off with a few nominees:
Corporate Development of Free Software
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Terry Collins wrote:
Tom Massey wrote:
...snip
started happening, I noticed a 'Bus error' on exiting from an su session,
and any new user I create I can su to once, then have a normal session,
then get 'Bus error' on exit and then get stuck with the 'File size
IBM: Postfix and plenty more
Sun: Staroffice (not quite free though)
Netscape/AOL: Mozilla (loses big points for AOL instant messenger
though)
UC Berkeley: BSD et al
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If you don't do
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:36:09PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
2) Released Proprietary Software (contributions by this company in the form
of released proprietary software code).
- SGI: XFS and more.
- SAP: SAPdb.
- Trolltech: Qt.
Ones mentioned to Jeff later on #slug:
*
quote who=Mary Gardiner
* Netscape (Mozilla)
I reckon that gets to be in both categories. (I can't believe I forgot
Mozzy!)
* iD (Quake)
Yes, yes! John Carmack also donated many thousands of dollars (American
ones) to the FSF after GAMBLING. He's gets my vote for Best Use Of Evil
Money to
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Jeff Waugh
Sent: 03 May, 2001 11:59 AM
To: Slug@Slug. Org. Au
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Next IntallFest ?
snip
According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (1094) but seems
to
have been murdered
Where does sourceforge/va come into it? I mean geez, i call that
a contribution ;)
Redhat are probably right up there... suse puts money into alsa
and others i believe, and im not sure about turbo =\
transmeta let linus work linux on the job, i mean geez ;)
Dean
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Who has
quote who=Rev Simon Rumble
IBM: Postfix and plenty more
Oh, good call! Sash (bad example maybe), JFS, the S/390 port (that has to
count for something), OMNI (very cool).
UC Berkeley: BSD et al
Hell yeah. I guess we can class American educational institutions as
corporates. ;)
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This one time, at band camp, getadog said:
To list a few good points of zope, revision control, it will
allow multiple people to work on the site at once.
It will allow you to undo mistakes.
cvs allows multiple people to work on the site, provides revision
\begin{Terry Collins}
Jeff Waugh wrote:
into the Windows glove just like VBScript, ECMAScript, PerlScript and
at least I didn't use fowl language {:-).
Nor did I point out the obvious *nix language LISP!
Which leads to emacs.
if you use W3 as your browser ((x)emacs' web browser), you
\begin{Matt Hyne}
Has anyone had any success connecting a Windows client machine to a Linux VPN server
using PPTP or a IPSec. I am also looking for a FREE Windows IPSec client.
if you really care, PPTP has security issues. its still fairly
difficult to break (not quite script kiddy
Nope - I tried Ctrl-Alt-F2 with no result.
An alphanumeric login screen appears briefly - too briefly to fill out
username and password - then it goes to black, then to blue, then some
flashes of colour, then back to the start of the cycle with the messages
below appearing and increasing in
Thanks. I managed to download 75% of tomsrtbt-1.7.279.dos.zip from the
aarnet mirror site before the connection went and I could not reconnect due
to 'busy server'. I sucessfully booted using the RH7 boot disk - until the
localhost login screen appeared briefly before starting the now-familiar
I'm having problem with iptables...
I just upgrade my kernel from 2.2.16 to
2.4.3
I also upgrade the iptables with:
iptables-1.2.1a-1.i386.rpm
After the installation finished, I try to test it
with: iptables -L
Here's what I've seen on my screen:
modprobe: Can't locate module
ip_tables
Have you tried logging in single user? Type linux single at the lilo
prompt and will definitly avoid starting X which seams to be your
problem.
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:12:49PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:22:05PM +1000, Adam F. Bogacki wrote:
Hi,
I'm
Phillip was once rumoured to have said:
I'm having problem with iptables...
I just upgrade my kernel from 2.2.16 to 2.4.3
[misc stuff and blatently poor kernel build procedure snipped]
For sure I've choose all option regarding iptables (in the kernel
configuration I choose 'Y' not 'M')
Adam, I think something needs to be cleared up.
Tomsrtbt is a samll Linux distribution which will run off a floppy.
If you get this you can start linux on the floppy, then mount your RedHat partition,
but you will be running TOMSRTBT, not Redhat.
From the sounds off things after that I would
Adam F. Bogacki was once rumoured to have said:
Hi,
I'm having trouble logging in to my RH7 drive. When I try I
get a repeated message before the log-in screen should come up, suggesting
the boot program is doing a loop:
Boot single user.
d'uh.
C.
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OK - the power of #slug couldn't answer this - lets see if the mailing
list can do any better.
I'm looking for a CL tool that reads STDIN and places it into the paste
buffer..
Any ideas?
Cheers
Greeno
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on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:07:26AM +1000, Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK - the power of #slug couldn't answer this - lets see if the mailing
list can do any better.
I'm looking for a CL tool that reads STDIN and places it into the paste
buffer..
It does exist.
NAME
xcut
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Question 2: does any one have a simple rules file suitable for a home
network where I am connected via ppp0.
Knowing that you've got Debian on at least one of your machines, I'd
recommend installing the package and pillaging the configuration files. I
do the same for
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Who has made the biggest corporate contribution to the development of Free
Software? A bit of a mini-poll... The sarcastic can call it Putting Your
Source Code Where Your Money Was.
Corporate Development of Free Software
--
What about
Michael Lake was once rumoured to have said:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Who has made the biggest corporate contribution to the development of Free
Software? A bit of a mini-poll... The sarcastic can call it Putting Your
Source Code Where Your Money Was.
Corporate Development of Free Software
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:09:19PM +1000, The Mystical Ninja
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hello.
I have a RedHat 7.0 box on a clients site handling their mail. The site uses outside
DNS servers for resolving and while the network is connected to the Internet
everything is fine. However, when
all,
is there a way to find out what is part of the kernel, ie which modules
have been compiled into the kernel, meaning which modules I do not have
to start by including them into the mosules.conf file?
Reson for this is that I am having trouble with my IPCHAINS stuff.
RH6.2 used to come by
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:52:24AM +1000, Michael Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
[snip]
What about Adobe with PostScript. It's an open standard. The fact that
printer
manufacturers have to pay a royalty does not detract from the
ubiquitious and
usefullness of ps to the
Hi Folks
Does anyone know where I can find some c source code which
can generate the passwords used by cvs.
Cheers
Tony
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Does anybody know if I can make 3C975-F (3Com NIC)
to operate in Linux RedHat 6.2?
I know that Linux recognize the PCI card, but what
is next?
Thanks,
Fernando.
Hi Folks
Is it possible to change a setting somewhere so I can drag an
application between Desktops in KDE2?
Cheers
Tony
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On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:51:50PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
UC Berkeley: BSD et al
In the same vein: MIT for X, and whoever the corporate sponsors
of XFree86.org are...
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Hi all,
Anyone know of any web-based sendmail administration applications?
cheers,
Richard Pang
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Greetings, sluggy types,
I'm currently playing with fetchmail (curse, boo, hiss etc) and I have a
couple of email addresses that are just mine (so 'fetchall' is fine), but
one that the development team looks at (so it needs to stay on the
server). I can use 'keep' (-k), but it means that each
Antony Stace was once rumoured to have said:
Hi Folks
Does anyone know where I can find some c source code which
can generate the passwords used by cvs.
Since it uses the Unix crypt() call, Its a trivial C program.
---BEGIN SOURCE---
#include stdio.h
#include unistd.h
#include stdlib.h
* This one time, at band camp, Richard Pang said:
Hi all,
Anyone know of any web-based sendmail administration applications?
webmin can do that
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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:52:54PM +0900, Antony Stace wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find some c source code which
can generate the passwords used by cvs.
cvs passwords are enctrypted using the standard Unix crypt function,
and are stored as username:password, just like Apache's
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:33:35PM +1000, Catie Flick wrote:
I'm currently playing with fetchmail (curse, boo, hiss etc) and I have a
couple of email addresses that are just mine (so 'fetchall' is fine), but
one that the development team looks at (so it needs to stay on the
server). I can
OK so maybe one of the perl experts on this list can give me an answer to
this.
I frequently have to write perl scripts of various sorts and get them over
to customer machines. Sometimes they need to access various modules from
CPAN like DBI::DBD and DBD::mysql. What I'm finding recently is
On Fri, 4 May 2001, John Clarke wrote:
`fetchall' and `keep' are per-user options, so you could put something
like this in your .fetchmailrc:
poll server1 protocol pop3 username user1 password password1
fetchall nokeep
poll server2 protocol pop3 username user2 password password2
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Subject: Re: [SLUG] Looking for c source code which can generate
passwords for cvs
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:52:54PM +0900, Antony Stace wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find some c source code which
can generate the passwords used by cvs.
Here is what I
quote who=Catie Flick
Thanks a lot for your help!
Super-solution?
Use Courier-IMAP and shared folders, or use an internal mailing list. :)
- Jeff
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sound and thought of them.
quote who=Bevan Broun
xcut - Manipulate X cut buffers from command line
Wow. Groovy.
Also, for people interested in what their X buffer can do for them; try Alan
Cox's Googlizer. Designed by Telsa because she wanted to select text from
anywhere and click on a button to get a Google
Matthew Dalton wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Question 2: does any one have a simple rules file suitable for a home
network where I am connected via ppp0.
Knowing that you've got Debian on at least one of your machines, I'd
recommend installing the package and pillaging the configuration
All,
How come that the resolv.conf et re-written all the time?
search barrett.com.au
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 192.189.54.17
nameserver 203.8.183.1
but everytime the ppp conection dies the first line is missing
and ALL of my queries go to the next nameserver (which I dont want).
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:53:32PM +1000, John Clarke wrote:
`fetchall' and `keep' are per-user options, so you could put something
like this in your .fetchmailrc:
poll server1 protocol pop3 username user1 password password1
fetchall nokeep
poll server2 protocol pop3 username
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:05:03PM +1000, John Clarke wrote:
Catie has discovered that I got this wrong. It should be:
And of course I discovered that Catie had sent her message to the list
about three seconds after I sent mine ...
I was having a good day until a couple of hours ago ...
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote regarding [SLUG] Biggest Corporate
Contributions to
Free Software:
Every Adobe based designer package uses it (for obvious reasons) and
so do most of the others and what do they run on? And if you
a (graphic) designer you couldnt do without a postscript printer,
quote who=Michael Lake
whats the connection with a set of rules for snort ?
now confused :-)
Matthew was giving an example of how to explode a deb package. You can do
the same for the snort package, too.
- Jeff
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Hi all,
I'm quite comfortable with Amavis and its other mail exploder friends, but
have been kicked in the pants with yet another proprietary software product
implosion... (AVP no longer being sold in .au)
What's the happiest scanning product that runs under Linux? Must be able to
handle file
Hi,
I have a small script to automate some data import and export from our
software. All it does is create a couple of environment variables and then
run a cobol program.
I can run this script manually without any problems whatsoever but it does
not want to run from a cron job.
any idea what
Michael Lake wrote:
apt-cache show cflow
[snip]
whats the connection with a set of rules for snort ?
Nothing. I was merely demonstrating the extraction of a debian package
on a non debian system. cflow happened to be the package I had on hand
at the time.
un-
now confused :-)
^
Title: RE: [SLUG] Virus Scanner
Trend:
This was about 2 months ago:
Runs on Redhat 6.0 - 6.2. You need a special version from Trend to run on 7.0 which is hidden on their ftp site. Contact them and they will tell you how to get it.
Had all sorts of problems configuring it for no open
* This one time, at band camp, Alister Waller said:
Hi,
I have a small script to automate some data import and export from our
software. All it does is create a couple of environment variables and then
run a cobol program.
I can run this script manually without any problems whatsoever but
on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:45:51PM +1000, Alister Waller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RUNPATH=/usr/rr/test/rrcob
export RUNPATH
DATAPATH=/usr/rr/test/data
export DATAPATH
runcobol RRLOGED4 -c terminfo.cfg -k -a A 132 9 y 1
Crontab is:
5,15,25,35,45,55 8-19 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/ediexp
Any
Alister Waller wrote:
I have a small script to automate some data import and export from our
software. All it does is create a couple of environment variables and then
run a cobol program.
I can run this script manually without any problems whatsoever but it does
not want to run from a cron
Matthew Dalton wrote:
Nothing. I was merely demonstrating the extraction of a debian package
on a non debian system. cflow happened to be the package I had on hand
at the time.
un-
now confused :-)
^
Yes, thanks. Brain is prob still a bit segfaulted.
Fell over Wed at work and I
seems it is an internal program error in the cobol.
I forgot I had turned off the option to receive email from that server so
had a pile of error messages there when I checked.
Thanks for the pointers...boils down to stupidity I am afraid.
regards
Alister
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I was wondering if anyone might be able
to give me a pointer with this.
When I boot the vm from a windows/dos
boot up floppy with the dos cd driver,
most of the time it says that no cdrom
drive can be found. There are no kernel
messages associated with this.
On two occasions the dos cd driver
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