Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] Cron Weird Problem from a newby]]]]

2002-04-16 Thread Louis Selvon
That sounds a little like /usr/bin/crontab is not executable due to problems in shared libraries or ldconfig version. What happens if you say: ldd /usr/bin/crontab *** Output follows: +++ [root@ensim admin]# ldd

RE: [Re: [SLUG] Cannot See Perl CPAN Modules for Linux]

2002-04-16 Thread LS
Can you reproduce the *exact* error message you get from perl, in its entirety pls. (I've lost the original thread ... what module are you trying to install?) I am trying to install LWP::Simple, and MIME::Base64, on my dedicated server that run red hat Linux 7.1 OS. I installed them as root by

Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] Cron Weird Problem from a newby]]]

2002-04-16 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 7:02 pm, Tuesday, April 16 2002, Ken Foskey mumbled: This combine with your perl question suggests a corrupt harddisk, might be fsck time. Dont ask me have not done this properly in Geoffs LPIC class yet :-) Feh. Reboot into single-user mode ('linux single' at the LILO prompt), and fsck

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] LinuxChix chapter in Sydney

2002-04-16 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 12:07 pm, Sunday, April 14 2002, Dane mumbled: I think its awfully presumptuous to think that the LinuxChix dont want to meet LinuxGuys. Funnily enough, girls have an opinion too. If some girls are anything like me (and I hope to $DEITY there *aren't*, as I think I'm seriously disturbed),

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] LinuxChix chapter in Sydney

2002-04-16 Thread Jon Biddell
I'd turn up but Im pretty sexy so I fear that I would be singled out and ogled and drooled over. Okaay, then. No, not drooled, so much as vomited over !! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Latex - double indent of paragraph

2002-04-16 Thread Terry Collins
A latex question - how do you double indent a paragraph? I'm not having much luck on google. Might be a jargon problem. I'm basically listing a question, then typing a response, but I want to have the sides of the response paragraphs moved inwards. In WP (and others), this was known as double

RE: [SLUG] Newbie

2002-04-16 Thread Chris Barnes
i have had alot of problems getting Wine to work properly too..alot of it comes down to the type of program you use and how complicated it is i think...I could easily get things like Winzip to install and work, i think i once got ICQ2000 to install, but i could never run The Secret of Monkey

[SLUG] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 26th April, 2002

2002-04-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 26th April, 2002 * When: 6:30pm - about 8:30pm (then dinner, etc) * Where: UTS, Central Sydney, http://slug.org.au/slugmeet.shtml * RSVP: Please RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] this month for dinner, as we're going to a new

RE: [SLUG] pdf to text

2002-04-16 Thread Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP
I think Ghostscript has the tool called pdftotext Regards Chris -Original Message- From: David To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16/04/02 20:44 pm Subject: [SLUG] pdf to text Are there any tools for doing this? TIA, David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

RE: [SLUG] pdf to text

2002-04-16 Thread Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP
oops or maybe xpdf comes with the tool according to man pdftotext Chris -Original Message- From: David To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16/04/02 20:44 pm Subject: [SLUG] pdf to text Are there any tools for doing this? TIA, David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] Cron Weird Problem from a newby]]]]

2002-04-16 Thread lukekendall
On 16 Apr, Louis Selvon wrote: That sounds a little like /usr/bin/crontab is not executable due to problems in shared libraries or ldconfig version. What happens if you say: ldd /usr/bin/crontab *** Output follows:

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] LinuxChix chapter in Sydney

2002-04-16 Thread Dane
I struggle with the notion that so many people who theoretically have such great intellect fail miserably in understanding the notion of sarcasm or hyperbole. For a bunch of smart people, you sure are pretty stupid. So keen to twist issues based upon gender or maturity, you seem to lack any

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] LinuxChix chapter in Sydney

2002-04-16 Thread Mary
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:16:52AM +1000, Dane wrote: Perhaps its not comments like mine (which are wholly indicative of exactly what sort of person I am, of course) which necessitate groups like LC. Perhaps its an excessive inferiority complex. Nono, it's simply a desire not to spend time

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] LinuxChix chapter in Sydney

2002-04-16 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:16:52AM +1000, Dane wrote: I struggle with the notion that so many people who theoretically have such great intellect fail miserably in understanding the notion of sarcasm or hyperbole. Except that it wasn't funny. Incidentally, if you find something funny that

Re: [SLUG] pdf to text

2002-04-16 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, David wrote: Are there any tools for doing this? willow% apt-cache search pdf text ... pstotext - Extract text from PostScript and PDF files ... So, on Debian, there's the pstotext package. http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html for the

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] LinuxChix chapter in Sydney

2002-04-16 Thread Tom Massey
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:27:53AM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: Just because you don't feel threatened by male-dominated environments, doesn't mean all women don't feel threatened either. Stupid comments like excessive inferiority complex only serve to reinforce that SLUG is not a welcoming

[SLUG] Debian Seperatists (was: LinuxChix chapter in Sydney)

2002-04-16 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Wed 17 Apr, Andrew Bennetts bloviated thus: This problem people have with LinuxChix seems as silly to me as if people started talking about Seperatist Debians, just because there is a Debian-SIG. Now there's an idea! Ve don't need your steenking lee-nucks. Ve are quite happy vis our

Re: [SLUG] Backup Mail servers (OT)

2002-04-16 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:54:30PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello David, DF well that's what the discussion has been about, search back a few weeks DF for the replies to my thread on the subject of secondary mx's. DF If you have a secondary on the same site as your primary then it

Re: [SLUG] pdf to text

2002-04-16 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP oops or maybe xpdf comes with the tool according to man pdftotext You are correct, sir! J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Software: Free as in Free Speech, not Free Beer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] pdf to text

2002-04-16 Thread Rick Welykochy
David wrote: Are there any tools for doing this? You might start with this PDF to HTML converter http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~gosho/pdftohtml/ Dunno how good it is. -rickw -- _ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited

Re: [Re: [SLUG] Cannot See Perl CPAN Modules for Linux]

2002-04-16 Thread Rick Welykochy
LS wrote: I know this is not how CPAN says to install modules. But I have installed some when I was using a shared server, and was installing them this way on my own web space, and it worked fine. I don't think that the approach I took to install is the cause of my problems, but I am no

[SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems

2002-04-16 Thread OSAMA
I need a software that enables me to penetrate in to systems can any body help me

[SLUG] I need a software that enables me to penetrate in to systems

2002-04-16 Thread OSAMA
I need a software that enables me to penetrate in to systems can any body help me please. my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] Best Distribution (was: [chat] Re: Newbie list)

2002-04-16 Thread Jessica Mayo
On 16 Apr 2002, Ken Foskey wrote: I'm taking a wild punt but I believe that Faq-o-matic or something similar may be what you're thinking. FAQ: What is the best distribution to use. Answer: Dont ever ask this question! There is no answer to this. A nice summary is in the

Re: [SLUG] Latex - double indent of paragraph

2002-04-16 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:34:04PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: A latex question - how do you double indent a paragraph? I'm not having much luck on google. Might be a jargon problem. I'm basically listing a question, then typing a response, but I want to have the sides of the response

Re: [SLUG] Debian Seperatists (was: LinuxChix chapter in Sydney)

2002-04-16 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 00:51, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: On Wed 17 Apr, Andrew Bennetts bloviated thus: This problem people have with LinuxChix seems as silly to me as if people started talking about Seperatist Debians, just because there is a Debian-SIG. Now there's an idea! Ve don't

Re: [SLUG] Debian Seperatists (was: LinuxChix chapter in Sydney)

2002-04-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
That's a very good point. With Debian already running on the Hurd kernel and there is now a Debian/BSD port, Debian really has no favouritism for the Linux kernel. As a Linux PowerPC user, I personally anticipate the completion of the Debian/BSD port with great relish. It can't happen soon

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] LinuxChix chapter in Sydney

2002-04-16 Thread Graeme Robinson
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Dane wrote: I struggle with the notion that so many people who theoretically have such great intellect fail miserably in understanding the notion of sarcasm or hyperbole. For a bunch of smart people, you sure are pretty stupid. So keen to twist issues based upon

[SLUG] Linux Chickens

2002-04-16 Thread Veronica Brandt
I've just been catching up and this LinuxChix thread caught my attention. I was wondering if I am the only full-time Mum with an interest in Linux. This LinuxChix group sounds like something that might have been good for me while I was at Uni, but now my situation has changed. Night outs are

Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems

2002-04-16 Thread slug
I find that SSH is generally helpful - there's a variety of ssh clients available at http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/cryptography/apps/ssh/ Cheers! On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, OSAMA wrote: I need a software that enables me to penetrate in to systems can any body help me -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Linux Chickens

2002-04-16 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 19:42, Veronica Brandt wrote: Also thinking about the ways in which Linux could be deployed in the area of homeschooling: locally caching online books, tutorials and other informative webpages to save on internet time and keep kids on track; teaching programming

Re: [SLUG] Latex - double indent of paragraph

2002-04-16 Thread Michael Lake
Terry Collins wrote: A latex question - how do you double indent a paragraph? I'm not having much luck on google. Might be a jargon problem. I'm basically listing a question, then typing a response, but I want to have the sides of the response paragraphs moved inwards. In WP (and others),

Re: [SLUG] Linux Chickens

2002-04-16 Thread Matthew Dalton
Veronica Brandt wrote: This LinuxChix group sounds like something that might have been good for me while I was at Uni, but now my situation has changed. Night outs are more complicated with a 6 month old baby. Is there any interest in day time meetings? If you can get out that way, the

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] LinuxChix chapter in Sydney

2002-04-16 Thread grove
I struggle with the notion that so many people who theoretically have such great intellect fail miserably in understanding the notion of sarcasm or hyperbole. For a bunch of smart people, you sure are pretty stupid. So keen to twist issues based upon gender or maturity, you seem to lack

[SLUG] Linux Distributions

2002-04-16 Thread Karun
Hello, For peoplein Australia, if you want copies of any of the below Linux/BSD distributions, I can make a copy for $2.50 a cd(Including Postage and Handling within Australia). Debian 2.2r6 i386 - 3 cds Debian 2.2r5 PowerPC - 1 cd E-Smith 5.1.2 i386 - 1 cd Engarde Secure Linux i386 - 1 cd

[SLUG] Re: Backup Mail servers (OT)

2002-04-16 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:16:51 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: The secondary MX only stores the email until the primary is back up. It then fowards the email to the primary. depends entirely on how the secondary is setup. there's no reason you can't have an MX over your fast cheap link, then a

[SLUG] Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: Cron Weird Problem from a newby]]]

2002-04-16 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:58:00 +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: Feh. Reboot into single-user mode ('linux single' at the LILO prompt), and fsck all the hard drives you want. no need to *reboot* to get to single user mode. just telinit s - then you probably want to do a ps listing and gracefully

[SLUG] Re: Newbie

2002-04-16 Thread Angus Lees
At 16 Apr 2002 09:42:50 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: According to the notes recently on slug wine does not support directx so it probably will not support games very well. wine does directx fine (can even use DGA). it does not do direct3d (but i think the

[SLUG] Any recommendations for an on line secondhand computer shop located in Australia?

2002-04-16 Thread Antony Stace
Any recommendations for an on line secondhand computer shop located in Australia? Cheers Antony _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG]

2002-04-16 Thread info
http://www.shou-e.com/product/download4.htm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: [Re: Cannot See Perl CPAN Modules for Linux]

2002-04-16 Thread Louis Selvon
you *really* should be installing your own stuff into /usr/local/ how did you do the install? (simply: perl Makefile.PL; make; make install ?) *** No. It was a quick manual install. As root: 1. cd /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 2. Create MIME directory 3. chmod 755 MIME 4. via ftp uploaded Base64.pm,

Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] Cannot See Perl CPAN Modules for Linux]]

2002-04-16 Thread Louis Selvon
Then I would suggest you install the modules using the suggested technique: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install *** I just tried that using WebMin. Please see my very latest post I sent. It was Cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the user account shell I do not see the directory

[SLUG] CBNSW mailing lists

2002-04-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
OK, apologies to all those I mistakenly pointed to the CBNSW website for mailing list info - it isn't there. However, you can subscribe to the CBNSW public list by sending an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'subscribe' in the body. Perhaps 'subscribe email-address' would also work,

Re: [SLUG] Re: [Re: Cannot See Perl CPAN Modules for Linux]

2002-04-16 Thread Rick Welykochy
Louis Selvon wrote: + ROOT OUTPUT [root@ensim 5.6.0]# cd /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux [root@ensim i386-linux]# [root@ensim i386-linux]# ls -al total 396 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Apr 17 13:01 .