thanks very much! Could have said this BEFORE I ordered debian!
Heracles wrote:
Don't do that. It's too east to install ;-)
Make 'em suffer like we had to - give 'em Debian!
Stay well and happy
Heracles
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More Info:
quote who=Peter Rundle
I'd basically like to create a print queue that outputs a PDF file, or
alternatively an e-mail address that converts the attached file to PDF.
(al la doc2pdf)
There are many recipes for this in the SLUG archives, notably ones by Simon
Rumble and myself. :-)
- Jeff
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quote who=Bill Taylor
thanks very much! Could have said this BEFORE I ordered debian!
Heh. Don't worry, Heracles is just a local troll. :-)
Debian is great if that's what you're into (I, for one, am), but other
distros suit new users (especially the new-to-computers kind) a bit better.
quote who=henry
Everytime I install Redhat ,the summary(package name,size, it's use)
of installed programs will flash in front of me .
I wish to know what package I have it's use.
Could someone know any system-file which have such records ?
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 09:59, Vladimir VRA09 Rakic wrote:
hi,
is this the correct e-mail address for linux help, and if not, i'd
appreciate the correct one .
linux help is a company that provides for fee service on linux.
http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/cat/support
If you simply want
This one time, at band camp, Heracles wrote:
On Thursday 07 March 2002 11:58, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Christopher Booth
Probably go with something like Mandrake if you are after eas(ier) setup.
Mandrake 8.2 is about to come out, it is in Beta 4 release at present.
When's about? I'm
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Bill Taylor
thanks very much! Could have said this BEFORE I ordered debian!
Heh. Don't worry, Heracles is just a local troll. :-)
- Jeff
I also ordered RH7.2 (for the network for my 'ms' users who like the
games) hopefully they will also get the functionality
rpm -lpq your.rpm | more will give you a list of all the files in your.rpm
Chris
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 23:30:00 +1100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:42:43PM +0800, henry wrote:
Everytime I install Redhat ,the summary(package name,size, it's use)
of installed programs
DaZZa wrote:
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On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Andy Eager wrote:
Certainly pretty good as far as a basic explanation goes, problem isthat masquerading is not yet up to the level of ipchains and thats whatmost people want. (One IP address, masqueraded to many machines for usewith
quote who=Andy Eager
OK, I'm prepared to be knocked down in flames here (only if your gentle)
You want to be flamed for the consultant's suggestion? :)
but recently I paid a reasonably well known Linux consultant to advise me
on a job I'm doing for a paying customer to install a firewall
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 11:42:00PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
Pfft, installing Debian is childs play. All it requires is a small amount
of literacy and some common sense. Or is that too much to ask?
Well, Mandrake you can install by clicking [OK] a couple of times.
Debian you generally
Andy Eager was once rumoured to have said:
Certainly pretty good as far as a basic explanation goes, problem is
that masquerading is not yet up to the level of ipchains and thats what
most people want. (One IP address, masqueraded to many machines for use
with ftp, realaudio etc). I still
quote who=Tom Massey
Well, Mandrake you can install by clicking [OK] a couple of times. Debian
you generally have to actually use the keyboard a little. Once installed,
you can pretty much configure Mandrake entirely with a mouse, Debian tends
to prefer keyboard here again. Please don't say
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:06:54AM +1100, Andy Eager wrote:
Dazza wrote:
I have a 2.4 kernel running iptables, and it seems to do everything fine -
telnet, ssh, ftp, ICQ, irc, real audio, http, https - I haven't found
anything yet that _doesn't_ work.
Are you masquerading all of these
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:37:25AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Tom Massey
Well, Mandrake you can install by clicking [OK] a couple of times. Debian
you generally have to actually use the keyboard a little. Once installed,
you can pretty much configure Mandrake entirely with a
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Andy Eager
OK, I'm prepared to be knocked down in flames here (only if your gentle)
You want to be flamed for the consultant's suggestion? :)
No, but I backed it up with my own research, therefore it makes it mine
as well!!!
but recently I paid a reasonably well
quote who=Andy Eager
Jeff, I absolutley respect your opinion, after all you pointed me in the
direction of postfix in all its glory and I owe a great many beeers
for that and a great many emails on other things as well. However, I dont
know that H323 (as esoteric as it may be) is what we
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 11:39:16PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
For some reason I was thinking you meant use the same swapfile otherwise I
don't see the relevance of which particular Windows version ... oh wait,
the filesystem.
Yes, Pete was saying you back up the filesystem that the
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Andy Eager wrote:
with ftp, realaudio etc). I still reckon that ipchains with a 2.2
kernel is still the simplest and most generally accepted way to do
firewalling if you want particular services masqueraded.
I'm interested to know your reasoning here.
OK, I'm
This would work for non ntfs partitions, eg. fat and fat32, as (at least
with Mandrake 8.1) the ntfs driver only allows readonly access.
A swap file would need to be on a partition that has read and write access
Chris
-Original Message-
From: Manoj Mathew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Hi I was searching on google for how to do this, but most of the info that I came
across for setting up a pdf printer + sharing with samba doesn't work (from what I can
work out) with cups, as it does things differently (it thinks outside the box)
the /etc/printcap is dynamically generated by
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Vladimir VRA09 Rakic wrote:
hi,
is this the correct e-mail address for linux help, and if not, i'd
appreciate the correct one .
If you're after the company LinuxHelp, that's where I work. In that case
it's probably best to ring 02 8753 0792 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, D. Babbage wrote:
This is REALLY basic but how do I get a DOS prompt? (From KDE desktop)
Don
I'd guess from the K symbol go to the system or utilities menu and look
for 'shell' or 'xterm' or 'term' or something like that.
Once you have a command prompt (aka terminal
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Alister Waller wrote:
Hi,
I have a shell script that I am trying to tidy up a bit by creating
variables and looping around to process things rather than have multiple
lines of the same code.
I have a companies file that contains RR and XX
What I want is for the
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Ryan Verner wrote:
Gidday...
I'm wanting to configure my Toshiba Portege 3110CT to dual boot
debian/win2k. At the moment its running XP (very, very bloddy slowly), and
I have two partitions - a 4.5gig fat32 (c:), and a 1.2gig fat32 (d:).
Basically, I want to install
Ok
I went through the script, which I copied and pasted into a text file.
There was some bad line wrap :|
Now printing is fine, except that the pdf file isn't there
%more /tmp/pdf.log
Executable:
Arguments: |37|root|Testpage|1|||
PDF directory: /mnt/pdfdrop
Output file name:
Yeah Mandrakes install is awesome, but wait until you get them to install a
program - especially one with missing dependencies and wait for them to run
screaming from the room. Debians installation is a pain in the ass
sometimes, but the package management is a dream.
Which one do newbies
This might be old, but pretty true
Chris
The Creation of the PC
1. In the beginning GOD created the Bit and the Byte.
And from those he created the Word.
2. And there were two Bytes in the Word; and nothing else existed.
And God separated the One from the Zero; and he saw it was good.
3.
This one time, at band camp, Tom Massey wrote:
Ah true. I don't think I said that a Debian install required the command
line per se, just that you couldn't click [OK] a few times to complete
the install - you often have to type stuff as well, in my experience.
Yes, you press the Enter key over
Has anyone used the virtual network interface feature that has been
included in the kernel since 2.4.14? Turning on the feature and compiling
the kernel is easy. Getting the vconfig program compiled is causing me
headaches.
BB
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Hi slugs,
Just looking at SME 5 server from Mitel. Looks great and wish I had seen it
six months ago.
Anyway it is supposed to have LDAP support.
Here is the scenario...
The current place where I work has Netware 6 and they are looking for an
email solution to add to it.
The current solutions
Check out
www.bynari.net
not free but the client looks good
Chris
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:47:21 +1100
Ben Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi slugs,
Just looking at SME 5 server from Mitel. Looks great and wish I had seen
it
six months ago.
Anyway it is supposed to have LDAP support.
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:24:08PM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote:
And having given you two fish, let me suggest at this point that it would be well
worth your while learning to fish.
A great place to start is perldoc.com, which should contain just about everything
you could need.
Looking
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:46:58PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Michael Still
Does anyone know of a good SGML editor which can hide the tags (but
continue to insert them for paragraphs etc), and has a spell checker?
Lyx, or, if you're willing to do some hacking, Conglomerate.
emacs
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:51:16PM +0800, henry wrote:
I want to print the first 5 characters in front of a definite word
as follows:
It's supposed that the definite word is AU.
INPUT --aassewrab cdAUwst
OUTPUT(I hope to get ) - -ab cd
($output) = $input =~ /(.{5})AU/;
Hi
I need to get a patch for oracle,
ftp://ftp.oracle.com/pub/www/otn/linux/glibcpatch.tgz
It prompts for a username and password, I signed up and got one. However whenever
I try and
1. ncftp -u myusername ftp.orcale.com
2. Enter this link into a Internet Explorer 6(All other browsers do
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:04:00PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Angus Lees wrote:
if you don't like dselect (and thats understandable), you could try
deity-curses, deity-gtk or aptitude.
Aptitude comes highly recommended by a while bunch of top Debian
Guys, I have number of linux boxes here and I want to only have one place that
username/passwords are stored (for admin reasons). Rather than go the full overkill
and set up NIS, is LDAP (or something else) a better alternative.
Anyone with experience - any interesting links ?
Matt
--
Domino (Notes) although like binari not free is the only one you mentioned
that runs on Linux. -
http://www.lotus.com/products/r5web.nsf/webpi/Domino+for+Linux?opendocument
The Client does too under wine http://www.winecentric.com/notes5.shtml
Jeff Allison
Senior Domino Administrator
Tokata
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 13:52, Antony Stace wrote:
I need to get a patch for oracle,
ftp://ftp.oracle.com/pub/www/otn/linux/glibcpatch.tgz
It prompts for a username and password, I signed up and got one. However whenever
I try and
1. ncftp -u myusername ftp.orcale.com
Maybe try
Grant Parnell wrote:
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Ryan Verner wrote:
Gidday...
I'm wanting to configure my Toshiba Portege 3110CT to dual boot
debian/win2k. At the moment its running XP (very, very bloddy slowly), and
I have two partitions - a 4.5gig fat32 (c:), and a 1.2gig fat32 (d:).
Basically, I
quote who=Angus Lees
since discovering this morning that aptitude now *does* detect new
packages, i hereby publicly declare my switch from dselect to aptitude.
Someone should do a talk on it at DebSIG, I still find it odd and hard to
use.
- Jeff
--
I'm offering you my body, and
quote who=Graeme Robinson
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Someone should do a talk on it at DebSIG, I still find it odd and hard to
wots DebSIG? some kind of user group?
SLUG's Debian Special Interest Group. Basically started by Craige as an
excuse to drink beer, espose Debian
O
Its on this wednesday (13th?) and it'll be a talk on getting debian
running on a Compaq Ipaq handheld.
Followed by
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 15:52, Jeff Waugh wrote:
to drink beer, espose Debian beatnik and elitist ideals, and lose
pool so he can run around the table with his pants
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
SLUG's Debian Special Interest Group. Basically started by Craige as an
excuse to drink beer, espose Debian beatnik and elitist ideals, and lose
pool so he can run around the table with his pants around his ankles.
Mmm - not sure about the elitist ideals
quote who=Graeme Robinson
Mmm - not sure about the elitist ideals (do elitists have ideals?) but
Debian beatnik beer drinking and pool playing sounds like fun. Are
meetings announced somewhere?
The SLUG list, and SLUG announce, although reminders are often late or
forgotten (amongst the
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 04:55:50PM +1100, DaZZa wrote:
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Andy Eager wrote:
Certainly pretty good as far as a basic explanation goes, problem is
that masquerading is not yet up to the level of ipchains and thats what
most people want. (One IP address, masqueraded to many
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:02:53PM +1100, Matt Hyne wrote:
Guys, I have number of linux boxes here and I want to only have one place that
username/passwords are stored (for admin reasons). Rather than go the full overkill
and set up NIS, is LDAP (or something else) a better alternative.
why
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:02:53PM +1100, Matt Hyne wrote:
Guys, I have number of linux boxes here and I want to only have one place that
username/passwords are stored (for admin reasons). Rather than go the full overkill
and set up NIS, is LDAP (or something else) a better alternative.
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Matt Hyne wrote:
Guys, I have number of linux boxes here and I want to only have one place
that username/passwords are stored (for admin reasons). Rather than go
the full overkill and set up NIS, is LDAP (or something else) a better
alternative.
Anyone with experience
This one time, at band camp, Graeme Robinson wrote:
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Someone should do a talk on it at DebSIG, I still find it odd and hard to
wots DebSIG? some kind of user group?
There's been at least 5 posts to this list advertising it...
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- Original Message -
From: Andy Eager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, March 8, 2002 3:25 pm
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Laptop + Debian + no way to install it (help?).
Grant Parnell wrote:
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Ryan Verner wrote:
Gidday...
I'm wanting to configure my Toshiba Portege
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