RE: [SLUG] PPP Problem

2001-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Borg
tcpdump shows packets going out the ppp interface, they don't arrive at the other end though. and vise versa! oh well back to using minicom :-) On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote: Could it be a routing problem ? with the connection not getting to be the right route ?

[SLUG] Go Jeff !!

2001-11-12 Thread John Ryland
Anyone else see this? http://foundation.gnome.org/ballot-summary.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00016.html --- Regards John -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] /proc/kcore

2001-11-12 Thread Michael Covi
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:16, Stuart Cooper wrote: Dumping /proc/kcore made a horrible screeching noise that seemed to come from my motherboard, maybe the system speaker. Was it trying to tell me the stuff was coming too quickly for the I/O devices or something like that? It's saying I am

Re: [SLUG] Go Jeff !!

2001-11-12 Thread Adam Kennedy
Hmm... I aw a Jeff Wawugh at one point :) But in all seriousness, go Jeff! You'd have my vote if I had one... unless Natasha Stott Depoja was running against you... she looks way better in a bikini. Adam - Original Message - From: John Ryland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Galeon hangs

2001-11-12 Thread Andre Pang
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:07:23PM +1100, Jonathan David Wheelhouse wrote: A few days ago Galeon stopped working. I normally have it open a local bookmarks file when I start it. Now, when I start Galeon, the spinner spins and the status bar says Loading site...; and nothing else happens.

[SLUG] How to type ^M

2001-11-12 Thread Michael Covi
Does anyone know how to type ^M so it appears as the actual control character? I was stuck trying to convert some scripts from dos to unix format on a very small root filesystem. It did have sed but how the hell do you type in the character to match it and eliminate it? -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] /proc/kcore

2001-11-12 Thread Steven Blunt
but if you do it and it corrupts the screen so you can't read anything anymore then a 'echo ctrl-v ESC c' (no spaces) will do the trick to reset it. I'll have to remember that. I usually more another binary file untul things are back to normal. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] How to type ^M

2001-11-12 Thread Michael Covi
Thanks! Excellent! :) Doing it by hand with vi, as i ended up having to do, went against all good principles! :) On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:37, Andre Pang wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:30:47PM +1100, Michael Covi wrote: Does anyone know how to type ^M so it appears as the actual control

Re: [SLUG] How to type ^M

2001-11-12 Thread Ken Foskey
Michael Covi wrote: Does anyone know how to type ^M so it appears as the actual control character? I was stuck trying to convert some scripts from dos to unix format on a very small root filesystem. It did have sed but how the hell do you type in the character to match it and eliminate it?

Re: [SLUG] /proc/kcore

2001-11-12 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Michael Covi wrote: but if you do it and it corrupts the screen so you can't read anything anymore then a 'echo ctrl-v ESC c' (no spaces) will do the trick to reset it. The characters 016 and 017 are responsible for screwing up terminal character sets in most

Re: [SLUG] Galeon hangs

2001-11-12 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jonathan David Wheelhouse wrote: Software versions, etc included below my name. What package versions are you using? (dpkg -l galeon mozilla) Also, apt-cache show galeon, look for the version of mozilla it's depending on. I had a similar problem a while back

Re: [SLUG] /proc/kcore

2001-11-12 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=truk On 11/12/01 8:32 AM, James Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about the name, but I would guess that /proc is short for process, as it is a method used to track system resource utilization by each process. Under Solaris (and possibly other unixes), /proc

[SLUG] A file with no name

2001-11-12 Thread Howard Lowndes
I seem to have acquired a file with no name. When I do an ls -la then it lists before . and .. What is the best way to address this file? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com We are either doing something, or we are not.

Re: [SLUG] A file with no name (answered)

2001-11-12 Thread Howard Lowndes
OK, I should have RTFM man first. ls -lab show the file name to be \ \ so I have now answered my own question. Sorry for the noise (back into my box) On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: I seem to have acquired a file with no name. When I do an ls -la then it lists before . and ..

Re: [SLUG] Getting Realplayer Plug-in running

2001-11-12 Thread Howard Lowndes
Unfortunately, yes and it works fine otherwise with Cds etc, but in this situation the CD player is not currently running. On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, David Fitch wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:06:58AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: I'm trying to get the Netscape Realplayer plug-in (version

Re: [SLUG] Getting Realplayer Plug-in running - further

2001-11-12 Thread Howard Lowndes
Doing a strings on the various libraries etc comes up with /dev/null, /dev/zero, /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer, all of which are set 666 On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: Unfortunately, yes and it works fine otherwise with Cds etc, but in this situation the CD player is not currently

Re: [SLUG] A file with no name (answered)

2001-11-12 Thread Broun, Bevan
on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:37:54AM +1100, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I should have RTFM man first. ls -lab show the file name to be \ \ so I have now answered my own question. Note that such file names are often used by crackers as a place to put stuff. BB -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] A file with no name (answered)

2001-11-12 Thread Howard Lowndes
Yes I am aware of that, but when I did manage to run: filethen it came back as an RPM that I had been fiddling with at around the time shown in the date stamp, so I am comfortable that it was me who stuffed up, rather than being cracked. On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Broun, Bevan wrote: on Tue, Nov

Re: [SLUG] A file with no name (answered)

2001-11-12 Thread Terry Collins
Howard Lowndes wrote: OK, I should have RTFM man first. You have just experienced the well known SLUG effect where you send a question to the list and the collective prescence of Sluggers answers the question before it reaches the list. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02)

[SLUG] wget error message

2001-11-12 Thread Jeremy Kerwin
Hey again, A collegue of mine is using wget to download our company's Internet site on his local machine, (dont ask why, but he's the webmaster so I dont argue). The only problem is, when he runs wget with out web address of http://www.cardsetc.com, he gets an error message saying.

Re: [SLUG] A file with no name (answered)

2001-11-12 Thread Stuart Cooper
OK, I should have RTFM man first. ls -lab show the file name to be \ \ so I have now answered my own question. Sorry for the noise (back into my box) I didn't know about the -b flag to ls so I found this informative. My traditional way of doing it (which also comes in handy in non-ls

Re: [SLUG] wget error message

2001-11-12 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 05:44:35PM -0500, Jeremy Kerwin wrote: The only problem is, when he runs wget with out web address of http://www.cardsetc.com, he gets an error message saying. index.htm: Unknown/unsupported protocol. Here's what happens when you ask your web server for `/':

[SLUG] 2600 Australia Seminars last weekend

2001-11-12 Thread Grant Bayley
Hi all, Just a quick follow-up on the seminars last weekend - they were great, especially with our two new supporters - UTS and Jolt Cola. The new room was great. As the announcement last week mentioned, we're now in the UTS tower building, in the same room that SLUG has their meetings in -

Re: [SLUG] A file with no name (answered)

2001-11-12 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 12:48, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Another popular way to do it is rm -i * and say y when it asks. At the risk of sounding like too much of a GUI weenie, another nice way to do it is with one of the many GUI file managers out there. Your favourite X or console based

[SLUG] Weird MAC addresses?

2001-11-12 Thread Marty Richards
Hi All, Weird problem... In a new compaq PC with dual netgear 311's (using the fa311 driver from netgear) we see some interesting effects with the MAC addresses. ifconfig shows: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:73:E8:B0 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr

Re: [SLUG] A file with no name (answered)

2001-11-12 Thread Balial
I just go for zsh tab completion... problem solved! Chuck On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 01:03:04PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 12:48, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Another popular way to do it is rm -i * and say y when it asks. At the risk of sounding like too much

[SLUG] Swapping KDE for GNOME?

2001-11-12 Thread Jon Austin
Hi Sluggers, Not wanting to start a religious war here as to why I would do it, but I want to play around with Gnome on a box here. The problem being KDE is currently installed on the box. No problem - just remove all the KDE packages. I think that I have removed all the KDE stuff - but when I

Re: [SLUG] Swapping KDE for GNOME?

2001-11-12 Thread Jon Austin
If I try to install task-ximian-core, it fails because of dependencies on package called 'gmc'. If I try to install that, it fails because of dependencies on packages that start with libdb2. I feel like there is a vital step I am missing here. Clues anyone? Are you trying to install

Re: [SLUG] Swapping KDE for GNOME?

2001-11-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Jon Austin 'tis a Potato box. Oh! Odd. ;) Should I work backwards installing dependencies? Yeah, install libdb2-util, and then try gmc again. gmc is the old GNOME file manager, so you don't really need it. It's pretty sucky. ;) [ Mind you, it's a very big statement that gmc is

[SLUG] Linux Mail Clients + PGP

2001-11-12 Thread Keiran Sweet
Hi Everyone, I am looking for a new email client (for X windows only) to replace Netscape mail here at home, and was wondering if anyone had any good suggestions for a replacement client which has good PGP intergration. (One of the reasons i am moving away from NS Mail is the fact it has no

Re: [SLUG] Swapping KDE for GNOME?

2001-11-12 Thread David Fitch
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:39:31PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jon Austin Should I work backwards installing dependencies? Yeah, install libdb2-util, and then try gmc again. gmc is the old GNOME file manager, so you don't really need it. It's pretty sucky. ;) so what happened to

Re: [SLUG] Linux Mail Clients + PGP

2001-11-12 Thread cpaul
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:53:35 +1100 Keiran Sweet wrote: I am looking for a new email client (for X windows only) to replace /me digs sylpheed http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ netscape mail escapees burst on to the list (very helpful) with excitement daily. rfc compliant openpgp (gpg) support

Re: [SLUG] Linux Mail Clients + PGP

2001-11-12 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 17:53, Keiran Sweet wrote: I have looked around a bit and the most promising one seems to be kmail, although i'd rather not install KDE to run the thing. I am happy with Gnome atm. Have you looked at Evolution? It is quite stable now and has PGP support though I have

Re: [SLUG] Linux Mail Clients + PGP

2001-11-12 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 17:53, Keiran Sweet wrote: Hi Everyone, I am looking for a new email client (for X windows only) to replace Netscape mail here at home, and was wondering if anyone had any good suggestions for a replacement client which has good PGP intergration. (One of the reasons

Re: [SLUG] Swapping KDE for GNOME?

2001-11-12 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 17:47, David Fitch wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:39:31PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jon Austin Should I work backwards installing dependencies? Yeah, install libdb2-util, and then try gmc again. gmc is the old GNOME file manager, so you don't really

[SLUG] Xbox prices (yes, this is a Linux question :-))

2001-11-12 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, Anybody know what the price of the Xbox is here in .au? If M$ is selling them cheap and hoping to get money from selling the games then it is almost our duty to buy these things and run Linux on them instead :-). Erik -- +---+

Re: [SLUG] Swapping KDE for GNOME?

2001-11-12 Thread Mike Holland
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Jon Austin wrote: but I want to play around with Gnome on a box here. The problem being KDE is currently installed on the box. How is that a problem? I have both installed on Mandrake. Is that asking for trouble? I have exec gnome-session at the end of my .xinitrc to