[SLUG] yet another ppp question ....

Hi, I've been asked to get diald working, as mentioned last week. It needs to dial an ISP who starts ppp spontaneously about 2 seconds after your password goes in (please don't debate that point, as I've gone in with minicom and that's what happens). I've been able to get in with wvdial, which

[SLUG] RE: Sendmail on a non DNS aware linux box to forward outgoing emails to an internet aware machine.

PS: I couldn't email you directly so I sent it to the list.. got a relay denied with freeshell.org... You legend.. the first 2 options worked.. will try the /etc/hosts file now. thanks, George Vieira -Original Message- From: Andrzej Filip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: [SLUG] [OT] 3 wire fans

hi i have one of those 3 wire fans on my cpu. My question is how do i measure the rpm of my fan from it. not through software like lm_sensors but in real life ie so it dosent even have to be in a pc. Is there some kind of eq i can use so i can measure the voltage across the 3rd wire and

Re: [SLUG] yet another ppp question ....

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:32:13PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hi, and handshakes and dies leaving the message: Peer is not authorised to use remote address 198.142.213.254 How do I fix it? The dreaded 'auth' problem. The ppp daemon basically wants something from the peer that

Re: [SLUG] yet another ppp question ....

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:32:13PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I've been asked to get diald working, as mentioned last week. It needs to dial an ISP who starts ppp spontaneously about 2 seconds after your password goes in (please don't debate that point, as I've

[SLUG] IMAP Question

Given imap's apparent lack of configuration (for anything), how does it know which directory to get my mail from [ //var/spool/mail//user]. Is this one of those programs that needs to be configured in the source code ? Regards, Andrew E. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] [OT] 3 wire fans

hiya.. thanks for that.. i like the idea or feeding it into my parallel port as i have a few unused so ill start coding a lil prog to make it all pretty ;-) thanks alot alex snip Black and Red are the 12V power for the fan. Yellow is an open collector output that changes state 4 times

Re: [SLUG] Mail/exim? error: unknown local-part mike.lake in domain uts.edu.au

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:52:39PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: I get the following error when I send mail internally either to others or to myself as in the headers below. The mail bounces with: unknown local-part mike.lake in domain uts.edu.au It just so happens that I had a similar

[SLUG] Task bar under KDE

Umm, does anyone know how to get the taskbar in KDE back? Rather, is their a keyboard way to invoke it? I'm not actually sure it has gone, just not answering the mouse-near-edge for it to pop up. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:

[SLUG] Samba

Thanks to all who replied. All versions of Windoze on the network can now access and run the programs in all six CDs on the Linux Red Hat server. I had forgotten to create an smbuser account - and I wasn't even tipsy! Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

RE: [SLUG] Task bar under KDE

I thought that was a SuSE strangeness... Try moving the mouse slowly over another window edge to attract its attention, then go to where the task bar should pop out of. Other than that, try the right mouse menu. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng.

[SLUG] Email, internet gateway.

Hi, I am having a small problem which should be easy to sort out by someone with the know how. I have three linux machines and a windows PC or two. Each of the Linux machines run Redhat 6.2 and the windows PC is 98. 1. is a Linux machine and is a server for a software product that we

Re: [SLUG] rEDHAT 7.2 cd's

On Wednesday 18 April 2001 15:25, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:22:18AM +1000, Jon Biddell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just wait until you try to install the sucker - that'll change your state of mind !!! Elaborate please so I can make sure that I wont fall into a

Re: [SLUG] Linux Electronic Voting Software

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:09:25PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Terry Collins Does anyone know of any electronic voting software that is open source? Anand mentioned something about this a while back, a new piece of the GNU Project. GNU Free Referenda Elections Electronically

Re: [SLUG] Linux Electronic Voting Software

Anand Kumria wrote: GNU Free Referenda Elections Electronically (FREE) URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/free/ URL: http://www.free-project.org/ I'd be interested in hearing how/if this works for you. Thanks. The first use is not a positive use as I want to stop them paying for

[SLUG] Re: Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)

\begin{Jobst Schmalenbach} #!/usr/bin/perl if($#ARGV lt 0 or $#ARGV gt 2) { print Usage: $^X sigfile [quotefile]\n; exit 1; } # determine the quote if ($#ARGV eq 1) { open (FI, $ARGV[1]) or die Can't open $ARGV[1]; # count the quotes $sig[0] = 0; while(FI) {

[SLUG] Re: outlook calender contacts substitute

\begin{Alister Waller} Is there a substitute for using outlooks email, calender and contacts etc that would run on a windows PC but use a central linux server to hold the shared data? In other words a nice (windows) client and linux server email/calender and contacts solution. We cannot

Re: [SLUG] Video

Thanks to Paul and Terry for useful stuff on the new videocam and my (somewhat naive) questions. The camera does have a i.link connector so I am off and running! Thanks again, Alan -- -- Alan L Tyree[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Re: Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:17:53AM +1000, Angus Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: \begin{Jobst Schmalenbach} [snip] ouch. you must right C code, right? ;) ouch. and you speak English? ;-) As I said in a previous email this was written with people in mind who do not have real perl qualities

[SLUG] which (non-nvidia) graphics card?

This is probably a FAQ here -- but can anyone recommend a non-NVIDIA graphics card that has 2d _and_ 3d dri capabilities in XFree 4.0.3? Bonus points for suggesting a cheap place online to purchase one. :) cheers, r. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] different from address for different lists?

Okay, I'll answer all these bits separately... quote who=Dave Fitch ok thanks, folder-hook is the one, but... I've had to stop postfix setting the From/Sender header (was set in the canonical file) but mutt doesn't seem to set those fields. Indeed it does. :) My .muttrc has (ignoring the

Re: [SLUG] which (non-nvidia) graphics card?

quote who=Russell Davies This is probably a FAQ here -- but can anyone recommend a non-NVIDIA graphics card that has 2d _and_ 3d dri capabilities in XFree 4.0.3? Matrox G400 (my G450 isn't going yet, so I can't recommend that). If you have an awesome monitor, you should have a card worthy of

[SLUG] pppd over null modem cable?

Hi all, Basically when I run pppd on both machines I dont get an interface, ie `ifconfig -a' doesnt show any ppp ifaces According to the PPP howto it is very easy, but alas pc1 /dev/ttyS0 |===| /dev/ttyS0 pc2 null-modem cable Test connectivity:

Re: [SLUG] IMAP Question

quote who=Andy Eager Given imap's apparent lack of configuration (for anything), how does it know which directory to get my mail from [ //var/spool/mail//user]. I'm assuming you're using 'imapd', which is the horrible, disgusting, evil creation that makes a mockery of mail users and admins

[SLUG] One floppy Linux Presentation System

Hello Folks I need to do a 20 minute presentation and I've been graciously offered Powerpoint - nuff said! I'm thinking that I would like to be able to waltz in with a floppy Linux and run a linux presentation. So I'm wondering if anyone has already done this and would share what they used and

Re: [SLUG] which (non-nvidia) graphics card?

ati radeon Dean Russell Davies wrote: This is probably a FAQ here -- but can anyone recommend a non-NVIDIA graphics card that has 2d _and_ 3d dri capabilities in XFree 4.0.3? Bonus points for suggesting a cheap place online to purchase one. :) cheers, r. -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] which (non-nvidia) graphics card?

Bonus points for suggesting a cheap place online to purchase one. :) try http://www.cetustech.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] One floppy Linux Presentation System

quote who=Terry Collins I'm thinking that I would like to be able to waltz in with a floppy Linux and run a linux presentation. Does it have to be a floppy? The X setup on the most recent version of the Linuxcare BBC (1.5something on their website last I looked) is great. Run ekepoint on

Re: [SLUG] different from address for different lists?

This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said: If you do that, all of your mail will be sent out with the envelope set to your isp's hostname, and with postfix, it means that everything will be rewritten thus. Think... root@spiral - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not good. Thinking laterally; exim has an

Re: [SLUG] which (non-nvidia) graphics card?

This one time, at band camp, Russell Davies said: This is probably a FAQ here -- but can anyone recommend a non-NVIDIA graphics card that has 2d _and_ 3d dri capabilities in XFree 4.0.3? matrox g400max, online at eyo.com.au. or auspcmarket.com.au Bonus points for suggesting a cheap place

Re: [SLUG] different from address for different lists?

quote who=Jamie Wilkinson And for some reason, my reply-to address broke in that last mail; good ol' finagles law. Haha. Willow. That's one of my machine's names. (I think we've been through this before.) Only, now it's a Windows machine. It too is poopie. Anyway, yes, I was going to mention

Re: [SLUG] different from address for different lists?

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:34:23PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Okay, I'll answer all these bits separately... quote who=Dave Fitch ok thanks, folder-hook is the one, but... I've had to stop postfix setting the From/Sender header (was set in the canonical file) but mutt doesn't seem to set

Re: [SLUG] pppd over null modem cable?

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:48:18PM +1000, Joshua Burvill uttered: Hi all, Basically when I run pppd on both machines I dont get an interface, ie `ifconfig -a' doesnt show any ppp ifaces According to the PPP howto it is very easy, but alas pc1 /dev/ttyS0 |===|

[SLUG] Debian SIG Initial Meeting Details

-- Resent Due to Issues with the UTS Network -- Okay, I finally got around to it. I've found a venue that suited my idea of a good venue, the SIG can pass judgement on it after the first meeting ;) Here are the gritty details: Where: Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel - boardroom (upstairs) When:

[SLUG] RE: More Video

Alan wrote; Hi, I have recently acquired a digital videocam and want to do some capture/editing. I have the VCR-HOWTO that seems to give basic capture info, but it seems to me that that must be analogue signals. Anything special I need to know to do some basic editing, etc? What connections and