[SLUG] I have a strange idea for a SLUG meeting

2001-11-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, So, I was thinking about more things that SLUG can do to promote the use of Linux and Free Software. Hopefully beneficial to fellow SLUGgers too, so I pondered the concept of a 'Take Your Boss' meeting. Kind of a mind control, hand out the cream-filled biscuits and cheesy crackers,

Re: [SLUG] Shell scripting challenge (or not)

2001-11-02 Thread slug-admin
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:10:54PM +1100, Andrew Foster wrote: thing.mp3 pants.txt yer.rtf others.html These files do exist on my system, except they're scattered throughout a directory tree hierachy, and there's no path info in my text file to say where. To

Re: [SLUG] please help.........

2001-11-02 Thread Tom Massey
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Manny wrote: Sadly Linux could not detect my internal modem and I could not go online using Linux. I am using Lucent Win Modem Driver. is there a possibility to find an alternative driver for my modem to work with Linux OS. The driver you need is at

Re: [SLUG] Shell scripting challenge (not)

2001-11-02 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo said: It really blew my mind when Matthew Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: #!/bin/sh for file in thing.mp3 pants.txt yer.rtf others.html; do find . -name $file | xargs rm -f done Thats no good. You've got a pipe that you don't

Re: [SLUG] Shell scripting challenge (not)

2001-11-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Tony Green tgreen@animal:~$ du -s test/ 21806 test tgreen@animal:~$ du -s test2/ 21806 test2 Happy to hear any alternatives or comments test2 was closer to the outer track of the hard disk platter! YOU CHEATED, MR. GREEN! - Jeff -- I believe in true love. But I

Re: [SLUG] please help.........

2001-11-02 Thread Michael Lake
Manny wrote: Hi my name is Manny, I am from Liverpool Sydney NSW, just finished studying Graphic Design , welcome to SLUG then :-) Win Modem Driver. is there a possibility to find an alternative driver for my modem to work with Linux OS. There was a mail about this just this Wednesday. You

Re: [SLUG] Shell scripting challenge (not)

2001-11-02 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said: quote who=Tony Green tgreen@animal:~$ du -s test/ 21806 test tgreen@animal:~$ du -s test2/ 21806 test2 Happy to hear any alternatives or comments test2 was closer to the outer track of the hard disk platter! YOU

Re: [SLUG] Shell scripting challenge (not)

2001-11-02 Thread Paul Cameron
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:33:53PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Tony Green tgreen@animal:~$ du -s test/ 21806 test tgreen@animal:~$ du -s test2/ 21806 test2 Happy to hear any alternatives or comments test2 was closer to the outer track of the hard disk platter!

[SLUG] Re: [chat] bugsquishing parties

2001-11-02 Thread Jon Biddell
As for bugsquashing, does that apply to people too ? I know of a few bugs that need squashing :-) Well, if we combine the BugSquashing with the Bring The Boss event NO... the results would NOT be pretty:-) Interesting, even fun, but NOT pretty !!! Jon -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] Re: Shell scripting challenge (or not)

2001-11-02 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{[EMAIL PROTECTED]} On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:10:54PM +1100, Andrew Foster wrote: thing.mp3 pants.txt yer.rtf others.html These files do exist on my system, except they're scattered throughout a directory tree hierachy, and there's no path info in my text file

Re: Backups, was Re: [SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

2001-11-02 Thread Gnuthad
On 2 Nov 2001, at 8:05, Stuart Guthrie wrote: BTW, If you know anyone who wants to go promise RAID fast track 100, i've a card and 3 hot swap bays for sale (almost) new and unloved from a cancelled order gathering dust. Does ide raid 0,1, 0+1. Apparently very fast. You need red hat 7.1 to

Re: [SLUG] rp-pppoe problem??

2001-11-02 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Howard Lowndes I get the impression (and it is only an impression at this stage as I haven't yet quantified the detail) that rp-pppoe, or rather the utilities in it, don't always run the /etc/ppp/ip-up* and /etc/ppp/ip-down* scripts when you change the status of the ADSL link.

Re: Backups, was Re: [SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

2001-11-02 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Nah sorry, its a fast track. Stuart Gnuthad wrote: On 2 Nov 2001, at 8:05, Stuart Guthrie wrote: BTW, If you know anyone who wants to go promise RAID fast track 100, i've a card and 3 hot swap bays for sale (almost) new and unloved from a cancelled order gathering dust. Does ide raid 0,1,

[SLUG] problem with striping

2001-11-02 Thread jimd
Hi, I tried to install RH7.2 on a new box with an Intel motherboard and an Adaptec AIC-7899 scsi card. It is configured as follows: hda: CD-ROM hdb: hdc: hdd: hde, hdf and hdg: striped on 3 drives plugged into the scsi card. For some reason, RH put /boot on hdg1. It works fine once booted but

[SLUG] Mysterious busy-ness with Windows Internet + Evolution/Mozilla/Ximian woes

2001-11-02 Thread Laurie Savage
I'm sorry don't flame me! My kids still use Windows on the Net. I notice the line seems incredibly busy even when no obvious user caused transactions are occurring. Any ideas how I can monitor what's happening? This doesn't happen with Linux! Ah me, so you noticed the headers were from Outlook.

Re: [SLUG] Mysterious busy-ness with Windows Internet + Evolution/Mozilla/Ximian woes

2001-11-02 Thread Rick Welykochy
Laurie Savage wrote: I'm sorry don't flame me! My kids still use Windows on the Net. I notice the line seems incredibly busy even when no obvious user caused transactions are occurring. Any ideas how I can monitor what's happening? This doesn't happen with Linux! Beware all Windoze Lusers!

Re: [SLUG] Mysterious busy-ness with Windows Internet + Evolution/Mozilla/Ximian woes

2001-11-02 Thread Matthew Moor
Got good, up to date, virus protection? The only time I've seen this happening was with a PC infected with a trojan horse. A simple netstat -a *should* let you know what's going on. Also, have a look at the running processes, and see what you don't recognise. If you're feeling really paranoid,