Re: [SLUG] Gnumeric on RH7

2001-05-06 Thread Alan L Tyree
Hmm. Thanks to both Terry and Jeff, but still no luck. Trouble is, I'm not sure if it _ever_ worked on the RH7 installation. I did disable some services after reading a security thingy, but I can't really remember what (I know, I know!) - and, as I say, everything else seems to be working well.

Re: [SLUG] Postfix - Sending mail

2001-05-06 Thread Dave Fitch
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:53:23PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Andrew Eager a) Why do I see different SMTP servers used when sending mail (smtp-01.myisp, smtp-06.myisp ) ? A round robin system for the SMTP servers at your ISP. b) Is it possible to tell postfix to

[SLUG] Avoiding the Big Incompetencies [Was: Postfix - Sending mail]

2001-05-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Dave Fitch Maybe you could put that specific server (eg. smtp-04.myisp...) as your relayhost but I'm not sure that's a particularly good idea even if it does work. One reason to choose a specific member of the SMTP pool is that both Telstra and Optus have half of their machines

Re: [SLUG] Little Brother Database and Mutt

2001-05-06 Thread Michael Lake
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Joshua Burvill said: the solution, don't know, maybe a script to feed it one message at a time from your mbox till all the msgs have been processed. formail -s lbdb-fetchaddr slug and Jeff suggested: formail -I'From ' -s

[SLUG] (was: snooping / detective work.)

2001-05-06 Thread Paul Robinson
Yeah I guess it would be a waste of resources. It would still prove to be a worthwhile setup to detect any future attempts though wouldn't it? I seem to recall reading on the snort site that the optimum setup is to have 1 snort running outside the firewall and one inside the firewall.. that

Re: [SLUG] Why RedHat sucks

2001-05-06 Thread Van Ly
On 6 May 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Van Ly In this information age, we ordinary people have everything to lose to the few powerful people who would prefer us to be ignorant. Those powerful people come in all shades of blue (capitalists) and red (commies). Which begs the

[SLUG] Question on mail and procmail and sendmail etc............

2001-05-06 Thread Michael Lake
Hi guys, Still a few more probs with my mail. Gee changing from Netscape aint so easy. I have the following procmail recipe: # SLUG Newsgroup # -- :0: * ^TOslug In.SLUG :0: * ^Subject:.*SLUG In.SLUG # a few more recipes here etc... # Everything else goes straight to INBOX as

Re: [SLUG] Paste Buffer

2001-05-06 Thread Jamie Honan
xcut - Manipulate X cut buffers from command line Wow. Groovy. Be careful. X has both cut buffers and selection buffers. I don't know the exact meaning, but this has caught me before. You won't always see your selections with xcut. Jamie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Question on mail and procmail and sendmail etc............

2001-05-06 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:41:14PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: Hi guys, Still a few more probs with my mail. Gee changing from Netscape aint so easy. I have the following procmail recipe: # SLUG Newsgroup # -- :0: * ^TOslug In.SLUG :0: * ^Subject:.*SLUG In.SLUG #

[SLUG] Re: Looking for c source code which can generate passwords for cvs

2001-05-06 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Gareth Walters} Here is what I use to add users, its not pretty but it works. and outputs it in the cvs passwd form ie cvsusername:cryptpasswd:systemusername #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Getopt::Std; our($opt_f,$opt_c,$opt_u,$opt_p); getopt('fcup'); #check command line

[SLUG] Re: 1722k syslinux boot disk

2001-05-06 Thread Ken Caldwell
Ken Caldwell wrote: Hi, Does anyone on the list know how to make one? I can follow the syslinux doco and make a 1440k bootdisk. (format the disk under DOS with the /s switch first) I can also make a dos formatted 1722k disk using superformat under linux. Unfortunately I can't format

[SLUG] helpProject Manager Intwerview/help

2001-05-06 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Dear sir/madam, I'm Charles Sturt University writing this letter in regard to research the software development lifecycle that you are taken on your project. The purpose of this research is to generate a report that represents implementation of project development in the workplace. In this

Re: [SLUG] Paste Buffer

2001-05-06 Thread Michael (Micksa) Slade
Jamie Honan wrote: xcut - Manipulate X cut buffers from command line Wow. Groovy. Be careful. X has both cut buffers and selection buffers. I don't know the exact meaning, but this has caught me before. You won't always see your selections with xcut. I tried this program

[SLUG] Killing a mount

2001-05-06 Thread Howard Lowndes
How do you kill an NFS mount that won't mount; kill -9 won't touch it. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com ...well, it worked before _you_ touched it! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] minutes from SLUG exec meeting (2001-04-10)

2001-05-06 Thread Angus Lees
In the interests of involving the SLUG community a little more in SLUG committee decisions, we've decided to publicy post the minutes for committee meetings. They will be archived on the SLUG website and mailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] An initial announcement will be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] once

Re: [SLUG] gesture based input

2001-05-06 Thread Peter Chubb
Steve == Steve Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:57:11PM +1000, Peter Hardy uttered: The developmental versions of the fvwm window manager have had support for libstroke (http://www.etla.net/libstroke/) for quite a while, letting you bind gestures to wm

RE: [SLUG] minutes from SLUG exec meeting (2001-04-10)

2001-05-06 Thread David Kempe
Good idea. I reckon this will have what I hope was the desired effect - to encourage people to be more closely involved with SLUG as an organisation not just as a mailing list :) Not that there is anything wrong with the list. Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Re: Snooping/Detective Work

2001-05-06 Thread Rebecca Richards
Paul, Paul Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: They also have each individual workstation / server / printer given a internet ip address (This is also going to change once said firewall is set up) which was just asking for trouble. When you reassign your IP addresses, I would suggest that you

[SLUG] SLOW

2001-05-06 Thread Howard Lowndes
If anyone knows of an ADSL mob called SLOW, or something like that, could they give me some pointers please. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com ...well, it worked before _you_ touched it! -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Re: Looking for c source code which can generate passwords for cvs

2001-05-06 Thread Gareth Walters
- Original Message - gus chokes and strongly recommends the following patch: (especially for passwords of 2 characters or less..) - my $outp = crypt($opt_p,substr($opt_p,0,2)); + my $salt = join '', ('.','/',0..9,'A'..'Z','a'..'z')[rand 64, rand 64]; + my $outp = crypt($opt_p,

[SLUG] RE: [Oz-ISP] SLOW

2001-05-06 Thread Lachlan Fletcher
Oh, have Telstra ADSL changed their name? Lachlan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Howard Lowndes Sent: Monday, 7 May 2001 11:55 AM To: Mail List - SLUG; Mail List - Oz-ISP Subject: [Oz-ISP] SLOW If anyone knows of an ADSL mob

[SLUG] Kernel development information

2001-05-06 Thread Andrew Eager
Hi all, I'm doing some work on a kernel module. Being new to linux, does anyone have information on the following: a) Any (local) user groups that specialise in kernel work (no offence to sluggers) b) Any good books that would aid in kernel development work. Regards, Andrew E. --

[SLUG] Kylix/Linux Desktop Articles

2001-05-06 Thread Bill
The April, 2001 issueof Delphi Informant Magazine has a 4 page first look at Kylix. There is also a 5 page article (first in a series) explaining the make-up of the Linux desktop from a programmer's point of view. From my point of view as a linux newbie and a novice would-be programmer, both

[SLUG] What logs to /var/log/sa?

2001-05-06 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
All, what logs to /var/log/sa with binary and text logs? eg: 00:01:00 proc/s 00:11:00 0.03 00:21:00 0.03 00:31:01 0.10 00:41:01 0.04 ? jobst -- The future isn't what it used to be (it never was). |__, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] What logs to /var/log/sa?

2001-05-06 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:04:06PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: All, what logs to /var/log/sa with binary and text logs? eg: 00:01:00 proc/s 00:11:00 0.03 00:21:00 0.03 00:31:01 0.10 00:41:01 0.04 It's really a suite of utilities. On Red

Re: [SLUG] What logs to /var/log/sa?

2001-05-06 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:23:19PM +0800, Malcolm Tredinnick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:04:06PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: [snip] Have a look at the man page for sar(1). There are a regular truckload of options you can pass to it to get periodically sampled

RE: [SLUG] What logs to /var/log/sa?

2001-05-06 Thread Visser, Martin (SNO)
From a quick squizz at http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=safe=offq=%2Fvar%2Flog%2Fsa , it looks like you have sar the system activity reporter running. Martin Visser Network Consultant - Compaq Global Services Compaq Computer Australia 410 Concord Road Rhodes, Sydney NSW 2138 Australia

Re: [SLUG] What logs to /var/log/sa?

2001-05-06 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Jobst Schmalenbach said: All, what logs to /var/log/sa with binary and text logs? Its sar (system activity reporter) -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine

Re: [SLUG] Laptop screens

2001-05-06 Thread Dave Fitch
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:38:29AM +1000, Ben Leslie wrote: On Thu, 03 May 2001, Secret Squirrel wrote: Could someone please explain the difference in laptop screens ? XVGA UXGA TFT etc etc, What's good and what totally sucks ? (i've seen some poor looking screens on budget Gateway