[SLUG] firewall allergic to kernel 2.4.18.

2002-08-18 Thread James Gregory
A little while ago I posted about my poor firewall that was running at half speed after a fairly major upgrade. I was reasonably convinced it wasn't hardware, so today I decided I'd try un-upgrading bits and pieces to see what was wrong. I firstly un-upgraded pppd back to the version I had on

[SLUG] Loss Of Email Account details In Netscape.

2002-08-18 Thread Russell Andrew Willis
Hi All, I'm using RH7.2 versions of Netscape 6.2..7.0 Mozilla (latest downloaded). My problem is after setup I am prompted to set up new mail account etc inc pop smtp addresses (which I do). All mail etc dowloads ok but when I shut down system restart next day I am prompted to set up

Re: [SLUG] Loss Of Email Account details In Netscape.

2002-08-18 Thread Terry Collins
Russell Andrew Willis wrote: Hi All, I'm using RH7.2 versions of Netscape 6.2..7.0 Mozilla (latest Netscape stores its mail in a visible sub-dir of the user directory (nsmail) and its config stuff in the invisible .netscape. Are you exiting the app properly? -- Terry Collins

Re: [SLUG] Loss Of Email Account details In Netscape.

2002-08-18 Thread Terry Collins
Russell Andrew Willis wrote: Hi All, I'm using RH7.2 versions of Netscape 6.2..7.0 Mozilla (latest Check the setup, there is a setting on whether to save on exit. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] repeat emails

2002-08-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 10:04, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi, I seem to be getting two of every email that I receive from SLUG. Is anyone getting this or is it just me?? if if you you are are seeing seeing everything everything twice twice... If you are using evolution and you are using filters to

Re: [SLUG] firewall allergic to kernel 2.4.18.

2002-08-18 Thread Jon Teh
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 06:31:17PM +1000, James Gregory wrote: A little while ago I posted about my poor firewall that was running at half speed after a fairly major upgrade. I was reasonably convinced it wasn't hardware, so today I decided I'd try un-upgrading bits and pieces to see what

Re: [SLUG] Use Microsoft Office in Linux? You can now! (fwd)

2002-08-18 Thread Amanda Wynne
Hate to point this out, but two things. OpenOffice.org can already handle Word Excel. CxOffice doesn't (yet) handle Access. The fact that nobody else does either is beside the point. Problem for me is all my personal financing budgeting is done in Access. Amanda - Original Message -

Re: [SLUG] repeat emails

2002-08-18 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 10:04, Adam Hewitt wrote: I seem to be getting two of every email that I receive from SLUG. Is anyone getting this or is it just me?? Are you subscribed twice from different addresses? Check the headers of duplicate mail to see where they're being delivered to. (Sorry,

Re: [SLUG] upgrading mandrake

2002-08-18 Thread Russell Davie
The latest urpmi depends on a perl module which depends on perl 5.8mdk. perl 5.8mdk may or may not depend on gcc 3.1 stuff - I upgraded to gcc 3.1 before upgrading urpmi. I read this too late... and have now downloaded urpmi-3.9-8mdk.noarch.rpm and will do gcc 3.1 later, could only find

Re: [SLUG] Freezing too frequently

2002-08-18 Thread John Clarke
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 08:32:44AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: I would suspect the RAM. I had the same problem (intermittent freezing becoming more frequent) and was beginning to suspect an application. I'd also check the power supply. I had a similar problem recently and my first thought

[SLUG] Nautilus

2002-08-18 Thread Alan L Tyree
Running RH7.3 Can anyone tell me what Nautilus does except eat resources? It seems to be running in the background even though I never use the browser. Thanks, Alan -- -- Alan L Tyree[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant

Re: [SLUG] Nautilus

2002-08-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 13:21, Alan L Tyree wrote: Running RH7.3 Can anyone tell me what Nautilus does except eat resources? It seems to be running in the background even though I never use the browser. Nautilus can also be used to draw your desktop and probably does other stuff too. Start

[SLUG] UNIX sockets

2002-08-18 Thread Howard Lowndes
Is there any equivalent to tcpdump for looking at traffic on UNIX sockets? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com Flatter government, not fatter government. - me Get rid of the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] top level kernel source directory

2002-08-18 Thread Bill Taylor
hi all, I'm trying to change my kernel. (woody - 2.4.19) I have tried to run make-kpkg in a number of directories which I thought _may_ have been appropriate. Could someone define top level kernel source directory please? tia Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] top level kernel source directory

2002-08-18 Thread Tony Green
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 15:40, Bill Taylor wrote: hi all, I'm trying to change my kernel. (woody - 2.4.19) I have tried to run make-kpkg in a number of directories which I thought _may_ have been appropriate. Could someone define top level kernel source directory please? tia Bill