[SLUG] which rpm will give me a daemon to anwser rdate calls

2002-08-13 Thread Broun, Bevan
Im using RH-7.3. Does anyone know of the RPM that provides the server to anwser rdate requests? (timed) BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [RE: [SLUG] MYSql and Pattern matching Simple Question]

2002-08-13 Thread Louis Selvon
Hi Chris: I just tried it, but it did not work. I searched the web and as far as I understand the syntax for LIKE takes this format: string LIKE pattern [ ESCAPE escape-character ] See http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/database/RHDB-7.1-Manual/sql/functions-matching.html I think I need

Re: [RE: [SLUG] MYSql and Pattern matching Simple Question]

2002-08-13 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:41:26PM +1000, Louis Selvon wrote: string LIKE pattern [ ESCAPE escape-character ] [...] I think I need pattern to have the % % in between, but the problem is that Once I put BadWords in the quotes %BadWords% SQL no longer recognises it as a column in that table.

Re: [SLUG] video cards

2002-08-13 Thread Heracles
On Monday 12 August 2002 22:00, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: hlllpp! snip well, here I am .. you guessed it, yep, the old x server won't work on this card problem. I tried using ./xf86config and fed it all the guff under the sun and checked that the output ends up in the config

Re: [SLUG] Detect Busy SCSI tape from Bash

2002-08-13 Thread Terry Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if not (tape busy) --- how to do in Bash? There might be something in the archives from Charlie Brady on scsi tape that meets your needs. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:

[SLUG] SSL vulnerabilities

2002-08-13 Thread Campbell McLeay
Hi, I have a few machines running Debian Potato and I wish to upgrade openssl on them to fix the buffer overflow issue recently discovered. Debian have released an updated package for Woody that resolves this issue but have not (last I checked) done this for Potato. I was considering

Re: [SLUG] MYSql and Pattern matching Simple Question

2002-08-13 Thread James Gregory
Louis Selvon wrote: I have a string for e.g. called this is a test . I would like to search the SQL databases to see if any of the words in that string can be found in the forbidden words sql database. The databases itself just have one column with rows of restricted words. A sample of this DB

RE: [SLUG] MYSql and Pattern matching Simple Question

2002-08-13 Thread Zverina, David
select badwords from wordstable where this is test like concat('%', badwords, '%'); Cheers, Dave. -Original Message- From: Louis Selvon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 August 2002 02:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] MYSql and Pattern matching Simple Question Hi:

Re: [SLUG] SSL vulnerabilities

2002-08-13 Thread Mary
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002, Campbell McLeay wrote: I have a few machines running Debian Potato and I wish to upgrade openssl on them to fix the buffer overflow issue recently discovered. Debian have released an updated package for Woody that resolves this issue but have not (last I checked) done

[SLUG] Tricomm - CBNSW

2002-08-13 Thread Craig Warner
Continued work, Tricomm out at Penrith. The project outline is as follows: - 10 workstations - 1 server - 1 printer The approach to this project is going to be a little different to current, past and most future installations. This is going to use this as an educational exercise for our members

[SLUG] LaTeX - Word?

2002-08-13 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, It look like the recruiter parasite absolutely refuse to handle PDF documents and I'll have to find a way to convert my beautifully crafted LaTeX resume into Word. I tried latex2rtf but that does not seem to support the url or geometry packages. On top of that it spits out a whole

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX - Word?

2002-08-13 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:34:25PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, It look like the recruiter parasite absolutely refuse to handle PDF documents and I'll have to find a way to convert my beautifully crafted LaTeX resume into Word. Maybe render it to a graphic of some sort, then

Re: [SLUG] GCC Problem.

2002-08-13 Thread Richard Neal
Hello Basicaly this means GCC hasnt been installed properly, most common faults I get with GCC /usr/bin/gcc , c++ , g++ is linked to the old version still. You havnt got all the libs updated to match your new version of GCC. yep read the dependencies list and use rpm -qa|grep

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX - Word?

2002-08-13 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:41:12 +1000 Andrew Bennetts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:34:25PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, It look like the recruiter parasite absolutely refuse to handle PDF documents and I'll have to find a way to convert my

Re: [Re: [SLUG] MYSql and Pattern matching Simple Question]

2002-08-13 Thread Louis Selvon
James and David: Thanks a lot for that. 1. select BadWords from WordsTable where locate (Badwords, this is a test); works , and 2. select BadWords from WordsTable where this is test like concat('%', BadWords, '%'); works as well. I can choose either one now. Many thanks again. Louis. I

RE: [SLUG] MYSql and Pattern matching Simple Question

2002-08-13 Thread Brendan Dacre
Louis, Try this: select BadWords FROM WordsTable WHERE 'this is a test' LIKE '%' + BadWords + '%' (assuming you do not have a case sensitive database) Brendan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Louis Selvon Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2002

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX - Word?

2002-08-13 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:57:36 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahh, latex2png :-), then in Abiword import the image files. Nice!!! Bummer! Standard resolution for latex2png looks like crap and increasing the resolution to 300dpi and the converter gets killed by the OOM

RE: [SLUG] Problems setting up a PPP Dial in Server

2002-08-13 Thread ramon buckland
What about /var/log/syslog and /var/log/auth.log ? syslog is same as /var/log/messages -syslog--- Aug 13 22:53:26 ccps-dialin pppd[1350]: pppd 2.4.1 started by a_ppp, uid 0 Aug 13 22:54:03 ccps-dialin pppd[1350]: Terminating on signal 15. Aug 13

RE: [SLUG] Problems setting up a PPP Dial in Server

2002-08-13 Thread ramon buckland
You will want Windows to do a ppp session log. I found that the problem was that windoze was too retarded to realise that pppd was using a dynamic IP so it kept refusing the LCP options that the ppp server was giving it. Get the windows box to force an IP and see what happens. Getting it

RE: [SLUG] MYSql and Pattern matching Simple Question

2002-08-13 Thread Zverina, David
This will not work because 'like' and '+' have the same precedence and are evaluated left to right. Hence your expression will evaluate to 1 + integer_value(BadWords) + 0. Hence your query will return all rows in Badwords with the exceptions of any words that have integer value of -1. Eg: '-1',

RE: [SLUG] Problems setting up a PPP Dial in Server

2002-08-13 Thread ramon buckland
What about /var/log/syslog and /var/log/auth.log ? syslog is same as /var/log/messages -syslog--- Aug 13 22:53:26 ccps-dialin pppd[1350]: pppd 2.4.1 started by a_ppp, uid 0 Aug 13 22:54:03 ccps-dialin pppd[1350]: Terminating on signal 15. Aug 13

RE: [SLUG] Problems setting up a PPP Dial in Server

2002-08-13 Thread ramon buckland
You will want Windows to do a ppp session log. I found that the problem was that windoze was too retarded to realise that pppd was using a dynamic IP so it kept refusing the LCP options that the ppp server was giving it. Get the windows box to force an IP and see what happens. Getting it

Re: [SLUG] MYSql and Pattern matching Simple Question

2002-08-13 Thread Brendan Dacre
David, I have to admit that I am not sure how ANSI my SQL was, but it works on MS SQLServer (which is all I had to test it on when I made my suggestion) using an analogous query on one of my own databases. MS SQL 2000 does not seem to contain the concat function/operator and Microsoft claims

RE: [SLUG] MYSql and Pattern matching Simple Question

2002-08-13 Thread Zverina, David
I have to admit that I am not sure how ANSI my SQL was, but it works on MS SQLServer (which is all I had to test it on when I made my suggestion) using an analogous query on one of my own databases. They are all the same. It's in the standard. Honest! :) I am yet to come across any

[SLUG] pgp/gpg

2002-08-13 Thread Howard Lowndes
I use pgp with the -f option in Pine to filter received signed emails for pgp sig checking prior to displaying them. I can't see that option in gpg, in fact a search on the word filter in the man page produces nothing. Any ideas. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people

[SLUG] Linux Boot error Code

2002-08-13 Thread Andrew Wilson
Hello slugians, I was wondering if anyone has ever encountered a linux boot error code of L 01 01 01 01 01 and if so what they did to overcome this. The background of the computer is that it is a P2 200mhz, with a raid 1 pair of 40 gig hard drives which has been capped to 32gigs due to the bios

RE: [SLUG] Linux Boot error Code

2002-08-13 Thread Wienand Ian
I was wondering if anyone has ever encountered a linux boot error code of L 01 01 01 01 01 and if so what they did to overcome this. The L means the first stage has loaded. The error code means 0x01 : ``Illegal command''. This shouldn't happen, but if it does, it may indicate an attempt to

Re: [SLUG] Linux Boot error Code

2002-08-13 Thread Grant Byers
* Andrew Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was wondering if anyone has ever encountered a linux boot error code of L 01 01 01 01 01 and if so what they did to overcome this. Not sure if it has a specific meaning, but from previous experience it appears the boot sector has been corrupted.

Re: [SLUG] pgp/gpg

2002-08-13 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:53:26AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: I use pgp with the -f option in Pine to filter received signed emails for pgp sig checking prior to displaying them. I can't see that option in gpg, in fact a search on the word filter in the man page produces nothing. In

Re: [SLUG] Linux Boot error Code

2002-08-13 Thread Terry Collins
Andrew Wilson wrote: Hello slugians, I was wondering if anyone has ever encountered a linux boot error code of L 01 01 01 01 01 and if so what they did to overcome this. The background of the computer is that it is a P2 200mhz, with a raid 1 pair of 40 gig hard drives which has been

[SLUG] Reminder - Debian SIG Tonight - Woody Party.

2002-08-13 Thread Craige McWhirter
Shinju Teppanyaki 51 Berry St, North Sydney, 19:00. See you there! -- begin bad haiku -- A clear winters night Food thrown at all those in sight Woody party night -- end bad haiku -- -- Cheers, Craige. GPG Key fingerprint = C206 904F 5231 2F2E 8DAA F094 5879 71B5 0960 CF37 Sydney

[SLUG] more info on broken firewall

2002-08-13 Thread James Gregory
Firstly things have gotten much much worse. Average download speed has dropped to around 400 bytes/second. Sometimes higher. I installed tcpdump to see what was happening, and my current diagnosis is that packets are actually travelling at the full 56kbps, it's just that there aren't enough

[SLUG] buffer become bigger and biger

2002-08-13 Thread well
Hi everyone Everytime I check my RH 7.3 system memory status by "top" or "free" , buffer size increase 8k. Is this a bug of kernel? or why buffer size changes? Any response is appreciate. Will Lin

RE: [SLUG] Linux Boot error Code

2002-08-13 Thread Wienand Ian
I was wondering if anyone has ever encountered a linux boot error code of L 01 01 01 01 01 and if so what they did to overcome this. The L means the first stage has loaded. The error code means 0x01 : ``Illegal command''. This shouldn't happen, but if it does, it may indicate an attempt to

[SLUG] check system changing problem

2002-08-13 Thread well
Hi Everyone I prefer to install program via tar ball, bug I usually don't know what and where the command "make install" put files to. Can you tell me some tip how to check "what's differentin my system"? maybe I should install a system check program or something else...where are they?

[SLUG] What distribution???

2002-08-13 Thread Brendan Dacre
Gentlepeople, This is the beginning of a series of (maybe dumb) questions relating to Linux, its installation, configuration and maintenance. (I hope this is an appropriate place.) I am quite proficient with Windows but for a number of reasons I am not happy with it. So as a first step I

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX - Word?

2002-08-13 Thread Michael Lake
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: It look like the recruiter parasite absolutely refuse to handle PDF documents and I'll have to find a way to convert my beautifully crafted LaTeX resume into Word. If it is beautifully crafted then to put it bluntly Word will not be able to do justice to the layout

Re: [SLUG] What distribution???

2002-08-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Brendan Dacre wrote: What distribution should I use as my base? You're pretty much going to get a survey of people's preferences, and not very much constructive advice. I like Debian, and it sounds like you would too (but that's what everybody says about their

Re: [SLUG] What distribution???

2002-08-13 Thread James Gregory
Brendan Dacre wrote: The main criterion is what I call maximum parsimony. I do not want bloated installs (one of my reasons for being disenchanted with Windows). I only want to install on each machine the minimum needed to serve the purpose of that machine and then to add/remove

Re: [SLUG] check system changing problem

2002-08-13 Thread Matthew Wlazlo
Can you tell me some tip how to check what's different in my system? maybe I should install a system check program or something else...where are they? tripwire (http://www.tripwire.org/) is able to do this.. matt. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] VPN with failover

2002-08-13 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear lists, It easy enough to create VPN using FreesWan. With a connection between Sydney - Melbourne but I would like to use an alternate route if the link fails. My thinking is to create a script 'ppp-vpn' with the usual stuff but then if the link does not respond within 10 mins the box

Re: [SLUG] more info on broken firewall

2002-08-13 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:21:38AM +1000, James Gregory wrote: stty also informs me that the serial port is running at the 57600 baud I asked it to. 115200 won't do any harm Next interesting fact: downloads *on* the firewall run *much* faster (but still far too slow). apt-getting tcpdump

RE: [SLUG] Linux Boot error Code

2002-08-13 Thread Andrew Wilson
Hi guys, thanks for all your replies. I receive the following messages when running lilo -v -l Ignoring entry 'LBA32' Warning : using bios device code 0x81 for raid boot blocks Reading boot sector from /dev/md0 Warning : /dev/md0 is not on the first disk merging with /boot/boot.b Warning :