RE: [SLUG] PDF, ghostscript and printing.

2002-01-30 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Jill Rowling wrote: > Your friend has possibly sent it in Acrobat 5 which is not supported by *ix > because Acrobat haven't ported it yet. That would be PDF version 1.4, which is produced by Adobe. Do a head on the PDF file, the version number is on the first line. The vers

[SLUG] sendmail configuration

2002-01-30 Thread Dennis M. Gray
Dear Sluggers, I want to allow a certain network to be able to use my sendmail server to relay mail to local addresses. I have added the network to the access (access.db) but get a message to the effect that relaying is denied because the IP address lookup failed. Can anyone suggest a remedy? T

Re: [SLUG] sendmail configuration

2002-01-30 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Dennis M. Gray said: > Dear Sluggers, > > I want to allow a certain network to be able to use my sendmail server to > relay mail to local addresses. I have added the network to the access > (access.db) but get a message to the effect that relaying is denied > becaus

Re: [SLUG] File browser

2002-01-30 Thread Grant Parnell
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Wayne Crich wrote: > A little while ago I came across a linux file browser that allowed you to browse >shared files on MS machines. Can anyone supply a program name, I cannot remember it >or > find it in my files. > gnomba is one. Alternately, you could also mount the re

RE: [SLUG] Unclean Unmounting

2002-01-30 Thread Grant Parnell
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Chris Barnes wrote: > do you have an old hard disk? once I had Red Hat 6.0 installed on an old > machine and every now and then when i was booting linux it would tell me > that my hard disk is due for a check. I could never figure out why except > that maybe because the disk

Re: [SLUG] perl quicky

2002-01-30 Thread Grant Parnell
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, > Dean Hamstead < wrote: > does perl have a function to return the length of a string? > > eg > > $length = size($foo); > I noticed James answered but generally speaking I frequently use "man perlfunc" as a quick reference guide. "man perl" gives you the index of the ma

Re: [SLUG] installing via nfs

2002-01-30 Thread Grant Parnell
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, sm wrote: > Hi, could someone help with this? > > I'm trying to install RH 7.1 over nfs. > > I've been trying to copy bootnet.img onto a floppy from the install cd > but the file size is too big at 1.5Mb for a 1.4Mb floppy. > > Is there a way to get this file on a floppy?

Re: [SLUG] IMP Folders not *happening*

2002-01-30 Thread Grant Parnell
On 27 Jan 2002, Craige McWhirter wrote: > Turning on my StevenK interpreter, what he was saying is that IMP needs > to talk to an IMAP server. Unfortunately Apache is not an IMAP server. > If you do not have an IMAP server currently installed you will need one. > > I would recommend courier-imap

Re: [SLUG] Unclean Unmounting

2002-01-30 Thread Grant Parnell
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Paul Copeland wrote: > Hi All, > > I am a little confused at present. Lately everytime I boot into Linux (SuSE > 7.3 Personal), nearly all the time now, my boot messages tell me that hdb3 > (the / partition) was not unmounted cleanly, so it scans the disk. > > Now when i

[SLUG] Wine, postgres and all that..

2002-01-30 Thread Internet User
Subject to proof of intelligence between my ears I will state that I am a Linux schmuck. I can't decipher all these instructions to load up programs like WINE, SQL- Ledger, etc, etc. I could have a very long list of these programs I would dearly like to have running but can't seem to break the k

[SLUG] MS vs. Linux webcast ;-)

2002-01-30 Thread Jon Biddell
This could be good for a laugh -- ATTEND A LINUX COMPETE WEBCAST THIS WEEK If you could use some help on how to sell against Linux, on January 31, 2002, from 8:00-9:30 A.M. Pacific time/11:00 A.M. eastern time, t

Re: [SLUG] MS vs. Linux webcast ;-)

2002-01-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I believe it's probably about 6pm our time... I may be wrong... More like 1am; there's an international time list linked from it. (*cough* slug-chat *cough*) - Jeff -- "I run Linux on pretty much everything except the microwave and washing machine. Those are tempting targets but

Re: [SLUG] MS vs. Linux webcast ;-)

2002-01-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
That might be more like 03:00 (+11:00) US Eastern standard time is UTC-05:00 We are currently UTC+11:00 on the Eastern seaboard Thus 11:00 + 05:00 + 11:00 - 24:00 = 03:00 On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > I believe it's probably about 6pm our time... I may be wrong... > > More li

RE: [SLUG] sendmail configuration

2002-01-30 Thread George Vieira
Correct me if I'm wrong but that'll make that server spammable.. be very careful on how you use that.. If your using 8.12 (that's what I'm using, not sure of older ones), you can probably use the access.db option of: Connect:10.0.0.10 RELAY not sure if it'll work but I thi

RE: [SLUG] File browser

2002-01-30 Thread George Vieira
I remember a long time ago there was a Network Neighborhood for linux.. I probably have the files stil here somewhere.. thanks, George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: Grant Parnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: [SLUG] sendmail configuration

2002-01-30 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, George Vieira said: > Correct me if I'm wrong but that'll make that server spammable.. be very > careful on how you use that.. > > If your using 8.12 (that's what I'm using, not sure of older ones), you can > probably use the access.db option of: > > Connect:10.0.0

RE: [SLUG] sendmail configuration

2002-01-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
This problem sound like a reverse name lookup is failing. Some how you need to set up a reverse DNS to reverse resolve the IP address. On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, George Vieira wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong but that'll make that server spammable.. be very > careful on how you use that.. > > If your

Re: [SLUG] PDF, ghostscript and printing.

2002-01-30 Thread Michael Lake
Michael Still wrote: > Adobe has announced that they wont be porting Acrobat 5 to linux. I tried to find that on the Adobe news site but could not find it. Do you have a reference for that. Several weeks ago I emailed State Parliament about their pending legislation now being produced in Acroba

RE: [SLUG] sendmail configuration

2002-01-30 Thread Dennis M. Gray
I think it would make it spammable, but only from that one network, which is a Telstra network associated with their GPRS/WAP email. I don't imagine a lot of spam coming from WAP enabled phones and it would be very expensive ($0.022/kilobyte for first 200kb then 50% of that for each kb after) I

Gnomba WAS: RE: [SLUG] File browser

2002-01-30 Thread Simon Wong
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 08:08, George Vieira wrote: > gnomba is one. Alternately, you could also mount the remote filesystem. I was looking into SMB and thought I'd try out linneighborhood and Gnomba. linneighborhood is really easy to use and the latest version 0.6.4-1 seems to work no worries.

Re: [SLUG] perl quicky

2002-01-30 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:14:36AM +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: > I noticed James answered but generally speaking I frequently use "man > perlfunc" as a quick reference guide. "man perl" gives you the index of > the man pages. Other ones I tend to use are "man perlre" and "man perlop". > For th

[SLUG] LambdaMOO talk slides

2002-01-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
The slides from my talk last Friday, along with the start of some documentation for my TradeWars-derived LambdaMOO program, is available at: http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16/prog/MOO/ -- --- #include Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTEC

[SLUG] showing mounted (cdrom) drives on nfs

2002-01-30 Thread John August
What do you need to do to make a mounted cdrom visible over nfs from another computer. I seem to recall you needed no_root_squash in the exports file ... was there anything else ? Ta, -- John August -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.

Re: [SLUG] Wine, postgres and all that..

2002-01-30 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear Nicholas, On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:57, Internet User wrote: > Subject to proof of intelligence between my ears I will state that I am > a Linux schmuck. You are NOT a schmuck > I can't decipher all these instructions to load up programs like WINE, > SQL- Ledger, etc, etc. Most of the pro

[SLUG] Which version of Redhat Linux

2002-01-30 Thread Andrew M Lee
Avondale College has been donated the following machines: Several Digital AlphaStation 200 4/100s A Digital Personal Workstation 433a These are alpha machines and we wish to install Redhat linux on them. Which version of RedHat would be most likely to work with minimal fuss? I have rea

Re: Gnomba WAS: RE: [SLUG] File browser

2002-01-30 Thread Christopher Booth
Try komba2 It seems to be the goods. Also XSMbrowser is pretty good Chris On 31 Jan 2002 10:35:18 +1100 "Simon Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 08:08, George Vieira wrote: > > gnomba is one. Alternately, you could also mount the remote filesystem. > > I was looking i

[SLUG] Squidguard and other filtering proxies

2002-01-30 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, Has any one exprience with any of the free filtering proxy servers? regards, -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing - 113-115 Oxford St Darlinghurst Australia Phone: +(61-2) 9360 Fax +(61-2) 9361 0094 0414 618 425 http://www.nada.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Squidguard and other filtering proxies

2002-01-30 Thread Richard Hayes
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:42, you wrote: > what sort of filtering are we talking? Filtering porn site for schools / libraries etc? -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing - 113-115 Oxford St Darlinghurst Australia Phone: +(61-2) 9360 Fax +(61-2) 9361 0094 0414 618 425 http://www.nada.com.au -- SLU

Re: [SLUG] Squidguard and other filtering proxies

2002-01-30 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:19:20PM +1100, Richard Hayes wrote: > Has any one exprience with any of the free filtering proxy servers? You could setup your own squid proxy and use a redirector to block any sites you deem to be unsuitable. See http://www.taz.net.au/block/index.html and http://www.

Re: [SLUG] Which version of Redhat Linux

2002-01-30 Thread Terry Collins
Andrew M Lee wrote: > > Avondale College has been donated the following machines: > Several Digital AlphaStation 200 4/100s > A Digital Personal Workstation 433a > > These are alpha machines and we wish to install Redhat linux on them. I think you are stuck at RH6.2 as the last RH for

Re: [SLUG] Which version of Redhat Linux

2002-01-30 Thread Michael Lake
Andrew M Lee wrote: > Avondale College has been donated the following machines: > Several Digital AlphaStation 200 4/100s > A Digital Personal Workstation 433a > These are alpha machines and we wish to install Redhat linux on them. > > Which version of RedHat would be most likely to wor

Re: Gnomba WAS: RE: [SLUG] File browser

2002-01-30 Thread Simon Wong
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 12:24, Christopher Booth wrote: > Try komba2 Had a look at it. Looks nice but didn't scan the workgroups successfully without enetering IP ranges which is a bit of a nuisance. > Also XSMbrowser is pretty good This looks great! A bit better than linneighborhood so I may u

Re: [SLUG] showing mounted (cdrom) drives on nfs

2002-01-30 Thread John August
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:29:50AM +1100, John August wrote: > What do you need to do to make a mounted cdrom visible over nfs from > another computer. I seem to recall you needed no_root_squash in the > exports file ... was there anything else ? > Well, I got this going ... fiddled with permissi

Re: [SLUG] PDF, ghostscript and printing.

2002-01-30 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Michael Lake wrote: > Michael Still wrote: > > Adobe has announced that they wont be porting Acrobat 5 to linux. > > I tried to find that on the Adobe news site but could not find it. There have been a series of posts on comp.text.pdf about this issue. I base my statement on