Re: [SLUG] Startup problems

2002-11-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Now I assume that this has something to do with the files in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and /etc/rc.d/rc3.d, I do not know what the various prefixes on the filenames stand for. Is it 'safe' to simply copy all the files from the 5 directory to the 3 directory.

Re: [SLUG] mgetty

2002-11-24 Thread Michael Fox
Quoting mlh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Most modems I thought would only answer if DTR. If not default it's probably a setting. Anyway, ATS0=0 sounds right if that's what mgetty says to set it to. It may have changed in newer version, but I doubt it. Guess I might have a look next time I have some

RE: [SLUG] Startup problems

2002-11-24 Thread John McQuillen
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 18:33, Simon Bryan wrote: OK, to follow up on this. Yes changing to run level 3 did stop the problems at startup, (have had a few blackouts today, hence my interest in fixing this!). However then I could not contact anything on the server, no DHCP requests were being

RE: [SLUG] Startup problems

2002-11-24 Thread Simon Bryan
BTW, the rc files are normally linked or symlinked from the files in init.d, (not copied), so that if you change the script in init.d, that script is changed in all run-levels at the same time. OK so how do you copy a symlink and maintain it as a symlink? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] UTS meeting

2002-11-24 Thread hy speed
i normally park in the UTS car park in cnr ultimo rd + quay street... $15 for parking 'til 0300 seems a good deal to me :) and it is only a short walk to the meet On Sunday 24 November 2002 05:04 pm, Brenton Fletcher wrote: Is there parking at UTS or is this not advisable? Brenton

[SLUG] less word wrapping?

2002-11-24 Thread Ian Hans Su
I've been trying to figure out how to make less word wrap (instead of character wrap). Either this option doesn't exist or I'm missing something majorly in the man page. Does anyone know? Will I have to write a perl script for something like this? I'm not too sure how to figure out the width of

Re: [SLUG] less word wrapping?

2002-11-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Ian Hans Su I've been trying to figure out how to make less word wrap (instead of character wrap). Either this option doesn't exist or I'm missing something majorly in the man page. Does anyone know? Will I have to write a perl script for something like this? I'm not too sure

[SLUG] cdrom module

2002-11-24 Thread Lucas King
hello, i installed Redhat 7.2 on a PC using CDs. i did not install an X server as the PC is to serve as a DNS and DHCP server only. after the installation i found it necessary to install further files. however, my CD drive is no longer mountable. typing /lsmod/ at the prompt shows no

[SLUG] Ping and other Problems

2002-11-24 Thread Richard Luckhurst
Hi list I set up 2 Redhat 7.2 boxes over the weekend and I have them connected with a dial up PPP link. When the link is not up each machine works fine. When the link is up the machine that started the link has problems. If I try to ping it from itself I get a connect error however I can ping the

[SLUG] Help with Webalizer

2002-11-24 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, I am trying toinstall Webalizer on my school system and get the following errors at the make stage: /usr/lib/libgd.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_read_scanlines' /usr/lib/libgd.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_simple_progression' /usr/lib/libgd.so: undefined reference to

Re: [SLUG] Help with Webalizer

2002-11-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
I am trying toinstall Webalizer on my school system and get the following errors at the make stage: /usr/lib/libgd.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_read_scanlines' You need the jpeg devel package, forget what it's called on Red Hat. - Jeff -- So, Jeffrey seems to mean the ineffectual,

[SLUG] problem: iptables logging to console

2002-11-24 Thread Howard Lowndes
Is anyone else having problems with iptables sending LOG messages to the console as well as to /var/log/messages (which is the only place they should be going to). The default setting for target LOG is level 4 which I assume is either warning or err, depending on where the lowest level sits. The

Re: [SLUG] problem: iptables logging to console

2002-11-24 Thread evilbunny
Hello Howard, in debian at least, you add -c 4 to the klogd startup script and all is well... -- Best regards, evilbunnymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally

Re: [SLUG] Startup problems

2002-11-24 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 11:00:54PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Nov, Simon Bryan wrote: OK so how do you copy a symlink and maintain it as a symlink? ntsysv and chkconfig would do it. yeah I see there's a -s option to cp that makes symlinks instead of copying, also. The

Re: [SLUG] Help with Webalizer

2002-11-24 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:26:10AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: I am trying toinstall Webalizer on my school system and get the following errors at the make stage: /usr/lib/libgd.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_read_scanlines' You need the jpeg devel package, forget what it's called on Red

Re: [SLUG] problem: iptables logging to console

2002-11-24 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, evilbunny wrote: Hello Howard, in debian at least, you add -c 4 to the klogd startup script and all is well... I'll give that a go, but the odd thing is: Why is it only iptables that causes the problem? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people

Re: [SLUG] problem: iptables logging to console

2002-11-24 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, evilbunny wrote: Hello Howard, in debian at least, you add -c 4 to the klogd startup script and all is well... This gets even wierder. man klogd says: By default the klogd daemon executes a system call to inhibit all kernel messages (except for panics) from

Re: [SLUG] /dev definitions

2002-11-24 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:56:05 +1100 (EST) Graeme Robinson wrote: Anyone know where I can find a listing/explanation of all the devices listed in /dev? /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt Gives a listing of all the major and minor device number allocations, and should give you a good

Re: [SLUG] /dev definitions

2002-11-24 Thread Graeme Robinson
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Graeme Robinson wrote: Anyone know where I can find a listing/explanation of all the devices listed in /dev? I've been googleing around with no success, even on ldp. A partial answer to my own query: Many of the devices on your system have associated man pages.

[SLUG] offtopic - nntp traffic volume question for ISP admins

2002-11-24 Thread Broun, Bevan
Can any ISP admins give me an idea of how much traffic is downloaded for the major top level groups. Ie how much will be downloading per day or week if we decide to bring in all of comp. and all of aus. TIA BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] cdrom module

2002-11-24 Thread Glen C
At 02:25 AM Monday 25/11/2002, Lucas King wrote: snip after the installation i found it necessary to install further files. however, my CD drive is no longer mountable. /snip Lucas, This is a known problem with DeadRat 7.2 Log in as root and do depmod -ae HTH -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] newbie needs some help please..:-)

2002-11-24 Thread David
I have 3 questions which I hope someone can assist me with?: 1. How do I install a program from a download or CD? I know this seems s simple, but I am very confused atm. For example: I am attempting to install SatOffice 5.? from CD. But don't know how to get it going so it installs.

Re: [SLUG] offtopic - nntp traffic volume question for ISP admins

2002-11-24 Thread Rob B
At 11:25 25/11/2002, Broun, Bevan sent this up the stick: Can any ISP admins give me an idea of how much traffic is downloaded for the major top level groups. Ie how much will be downloading per day or week if we decide to bring in all of comp. and all of aus. When I was setting up feeds for

Re: USB storage (Was: [SLUG] newbie needs some help please..:-))

2002-11-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Peter Hardy Mandrake should already have USB support, so: 3. All going well, it should be recognised as a scsi device. If you don't have any scsi hard drives, then it will be /dev/sda. Try mounting /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 And Mandrake being Mandrake, it should automagically pop up

RE: USB storage (Was: [SLUG] newbie needs some help please..:-))

2002-11-24 Thread Brett Fenton
I've got a couple of these and have been without much difficulty been able to get them up and going under linux (RedHat and Debian). I'll note you need the following compiled into the kernel: SCSI support SCSI disk support SCSI generic support USB mass storage support The units I have all have

Re: [SLUG] VAX..

2002-11-24 Thread John Clarke
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 05:56:25PM +1100, Michael Still wrote: I have a VAX station 3100 sitting in a friend's garage (I used to be interested in this VAX port stuff, but never found the time). Unfortunately I live in Canberra. If we can find some way of getting it to Sydney cheaply, then I

[SLUG] syslog fails to start

2002-11-24 Thread sfg
Hi there, I've got a problemo on a server where the syslog is failing to start. My Q. is what debug tools are there to find out what's going wrong? I've done the obvious, check space for the log, check config of /etc/syslogd.conf, run it with -d (which reveals SFA) Any ideas on how to debug

Re: [SLUG] newbie needs some help please..:-)

2002-11-24 Thread James Gregory
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:47:19PM +1100, David wrote: I have 3 questions which I hope someone can assist me with?: 1. How do I install a program from a download or CD? Ok, the short answer is that it depends what you're installing. Third party software (like staroffice, at least the last

[SLUG] An embronic Linux user

2002-11-24 Thread Rick Davey
Hello SLUG members Mary from the SLUG Committee has referred me to your web page. The Linux Journey is just beginning for me so please excuse my very BASIC question(s).-:) My question to the SLUG Committee was... I am seriously looking at installing LINUX as my operating system. My problem

Re: [SLUG] An embronic Linux user

2002-11-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Rick Davey Also I would appreciate some information on Subscribing to SLUG...thanks http://lists.slug.org.au/ - click on 'slug' and enter your details to subscribe. Note that it's a fairly high volume list, so you might prefer to use the digest mode to begin with (it sends a whole

RE: [SLUG] An embronic Linux user

2002-11-24 Thread Brett Fenton
Hi Rick, The burner will be no problem at all. I've got a HP 9100 here on RedHat and it's been faultless. I've also got a FB630U at home but have never connected it to a Linux machine. I don't imagine there'd be too many problems, I'll plug it in and see what happens though. Brett

Re: [SLUG] An embronic Linux user

2002-11-24 Thread Peter Rundle
I've also got a FB630U at home but have never connected it to a Linux machine. I don't imagine there'd be too many problems, I'll plug it in and see what happens though. Nothing! Canon are absolutely no value when it comes to Linux, I've got a FB310 and it's not supported nor is it ever likely

[SLUG] Available for testing: patchtrack

2002-11-24 Thread Michael Still
Hey all, I was talking to Stephen Rothwell the other day, and he expressed a desire to be able to be notified of when a given file in the kernel source had had a patch for it submitted. I've been thinking about this, and it isn't too bad a problem to solve. The result is patchtrack 0.1: