Re: [SLUG] RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
> :0: > * ^List-Id:\ Linux\ and\ Free\ Software\ Discussion\ > $MAILDIR/slug/ If you're delivering to maildir, you don't need to lock; plus you should remove all human mess from your rule in case things like this happen. Thus: :0 * ^List-Id: .*slug.slug.org.au $MAILDIR/slug/ Presto. Robust.

Re: [SLUG] RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 04:12:57PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Hi all, > > Given that the last couple of weeks have probably been the mailing list's > messiest on record [1], I thought it might be wise to update the FAQ and be > a bit noisier about it. Ignore the SSI errors at the top and bottom,

[SLUG] LILO: Kernel too big

2002-04-19 Thread Michael Still
Hey all. I'm trying to compile 2.4.18, and am having troubles with lilo (I have v24 installed). I am compiling everything I can as modules, and don't have any fancy options turned on. I am going the make bzImage route. Anyway, lilo gives me an error message "Kernel too big". I have also tried

[SLUG] One solution for "lpr: connection refused"

2002-04-19 Thread lukekendall
My wife has a PC, which she mostly uses under Windows. However it is also multiboot RH 6.2 (and Lycoris, but that's irrelevant). My system is running RH 7.2 and has the printer attached. It's accessed via Samba for her Windows system, and that works fine. I just straightened out some long-sta

[SLUG] RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, Given that the last couple of weeks have probably been the mailing list's messiest on record [1], I thought it might be wise to update the FAQ and be a bit noisier about it. Ignore the SSI errors at the top and bottom, once it's on the main site they'll work. :-) http://slug.org.au/~jd

Re: [SLUG] ISDN Connection Between 2 office sites

2002-04-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
> How does ISDN work between 2 offices ? How is it setup and what is > required on either end ? (Is it just like a smart external modem ?) Given that this is not Linux-specific, you may find better answers on our slug-chat mailing list. Thanks, - Jeff -- "She sped into the parking lot, t

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning & Filesystem recommendations

2002-04-19 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Stable enough for a single 160gb filesystem. Also benchmarks much faster than ext3 as well. At the moment I am trying again using a different stripe on the array. On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Ben de Luca wrote: > > > > > xfs - don't know about tools for it > > > > > > Extensive tool suite - SGI provid

Re: Leading newbies astray... (was Re: [SLUG] Why)

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Booth
Hi I was stupid in running the command, I had used the dd command before to create bootsector to start with NT/2000 dual boot. I should have known better to read the man page before. I agree that Osama's post was ridiculous, and it seemed to be a troll given the name Osama. I only tried the c

Re: Leading newbies astray... (was Re: [SLUG] Why)

2002-04-19 Thread Karl Clements
I think if the user read the entire email they would realise it was a joke. In addition to that as previously stated if you dont know what a command does you shouldn't do it, you should read the man file or seek more info before doing it. Failure to do so means their only victims of their own fool

Re: Leading newbies astray... (was Re: [SLUG] Why)

2002-04-19 Thread Matthew Hannigan
I think it's bloody mean and stupid. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning & Filesystem recommendations

2002-04-19 Thread Ben de Luca
> > > xfs - don't know about tools for it > > > > Extensive tool suite - SGI provided all their standard tools which > > have been shipping on Irix systems for quite a while. hmm, who stable is xfs now, and how strong is the will at sgi to support it? Id uses rfs to help support some thing new

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning & Filesystem recommendations

2002-04-19 Thread Jeffrey Borg
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Crossfire wrote: > Jeffrey Borg was once rumoured to have said: > > Hi everyone. > > > > Well I finally got 4 x 80gb hdd's to use with a 3ware 6400 controller > > which I have had for months. Now I am going to have ~160gb in a system. > > > > Any idea's on partitioning sche

Re: [SLUG] Recovering data from a Windows disk using Linux tools

2002-04-19 Thread Jim Hague
On 19-Apr-2002 Mike Lake wrote: > I have a friend who has just formatted his IBM format Windows floppy > with important info on it. There are $ packages he could use but he is a > uni student. Under Linux I could mount the fd ro but is there another > FAT table on Windows floppies can I tell the m

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

2002-04-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:14:06AM +1000, Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote: > Ay Caramba > [i trashed my hd, aargh] Chris, My apologies for all this mess; next time I'll try to make the tags more clear. I'm sorry that all this happened - it always sucks arse to lose data. Sorry is, d -- D

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: [Lias] Latest Microsoft Stupidity]

2002-04-19 Thread Jon Biddell
> >According to a Slashdot story, Microsoft has published a page which >implies that replacing a copy of Windows on a computer donated to a >school is illegal. See the Slashdot story at >http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/18/1623240.shtml?tid=109 and the >Microsoft page at http://www.microsoft.co

[SLUG] Backing up to multiple CDs

2002-04-19 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 16:48, Jim Clark (Compaq) wrote: > > (and then there's keeping backups/multiple copies of important > > data etc etc) > > > > > and since we all do this regularly , does anyone > know of a way of backing up large amounts of data (>700MB) > across multiple CD-Rs? > The equi

Re: Leading newbies astray... (was Re: [SLUG] Why)

2002-04-19 Thread Jim Clark (Compaq)
David Fitch wrote: > > Second thing is never run anything at all > as root unless you're really sure you know what > (a) you're doing, and > (b) what the command will do. > and (c) You really have to! // Note: (c) should not just be for 'newbies' > (and then there's keeping backups/

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Re: [SLUG] ISDN Connection Between 2 office sites

2002-04-19 Thread Kevin Saenz
First your ISDN connection is that going to be closed from internet traffic? or is it open to all traffic? The thing is you would have a security problem with the latter. Then I would suggest that you use IPSec between the 2 sites. Ideally IPSec would be a good solution between the 2 sites reguard

Re: [SLUG] C++ Development

2002-04-19 Thread Kevin Saenz
Gnome has a tool called Glade UI developer I haven't used it. I think it helps with developing GUI software. > Does anyone know of a good VISUAL C++ development tool like Microsoft Visual > C++ for Linux - commercial or free. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.or

Re: Leading newbies astray... (was Re: [SLUG] Why)

2002-04-19 Thread Kevin Saenz
[snip] > > But seriously, I suggest: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k | nc 65535 > > > > This is a zero-byte overflow attack - hosts on port 65535 are vulnerable > > because that's near an overflow region! > With your first example the twit was asking for software that would help them pene

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning & Filesystem recommendations

2002-04-19 Thread Crossfire
Jeffrey Borg was once rumoured to have said: > Hi everyone. > > Well I finally got 4 x 80gb hdd's to use with a 3ware 6400 controller > which I have had for months. Now I am going to have ~160gb in a system. > > Any idea's on partitioning schemes/filesystems. > > So far I am only speed testing

Fw: [SLUG] ISDN Connection Between 2 office sites

2002-04-19 Thread Karun
- Original Message - From: "Tiwari, Rajnish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 4:41 PM Subject: [SLUG] ISDN Connection Between 2 office sites > Hi All, > > I am completely ignorant about ISDN and I have been > assigned the job to investigate the

[SLUG] Partitioning & Filesystem recommendations

2002-04-19 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi everyone. Well I finally got 4 x 80gb hdd's to use with a 3ware 6400 controller which I have had for months. Now I am going to have ~160gb in a system. Any idea's on partitioning schemes/filesystems. So far I am only speed testing it to try and find the right stripe size for raid0+1. Raid 5