Re: [SLUG] Sharing ext3 with Win98 under Samba

2003-02-05 Thread mkraus
Put simply, if Linux can read it, it can export it as a share with Samba. If something is shared from a MS Windows box, Samba can mount it. It's not clear what you are wanting to do though. All the best... Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL

[SLUG] Linux Edu Conf

2003-02-05 Thread James Dumay
Dose anyone have any links to the linux edu conf ? anybody involved in organising? Just wondering, becouse I have been discussing with slug members about using old outdated apple power macs as Linux Graphical Terminal Clients and showing this at the conf Anybody? Feel free to email me if you

Re: [SLUG] How big is an http request?

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Buxton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Peter Vogel wrote: Roughly how many byes of data would I expect to receive for each http request to my server? How long is the path in the URL? The referrers address? I've seen URL's as long as 900 bytes or so.

Re: [SLUG] Little project

2003-02-05 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone is interested in helping out please mail me off the list. I will provide all details off list. I would check freshmeat and hotscripts and sourceforge first, you maybe re-inventing the wheel. Kind regards Kevin --

Re: [SLUG] Little project

2003-02-05 Thread Kevin Saenz
Have searched but there is nothing that suits my requirements. Well lets just say there is nothing that suits my requirements in PHP I have had a searched those sites and basically I have found nothing that fits the functionality of the application that I am working on at the moment. Basically

Re: [SLUG] Little project

2003-02-05 Thread Chris
Gday, Also try cgi.resourceindex.com or php.resourceindex.com --Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 20:53, Kevin Saenz wrote: Have searched but there is nothing that suits my requirements. Well lets just say there is nothing that suits my requirements in PHP I have had a

Re: [SLUG] Little project

2003-02-05 Thread Kevin Saenz
Thanks Chris, Just had a look at php found a booking system called schedule organizer only problem not GPL :( Gday, Also try cgi.resourceindex.com or php.resourceindex.com --Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 20:53, Kevin Saenz wrote: Have searched but there is nothing that

Re: [SLUG] Linux Edu Conf

2003-02-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=James Dumay Dose anyone have any links to the linux edu conf ? anybody involved in organising? Hi James, Haven't announced anything yet, as I'm just trying to sort out the venue and make sure the date is okay. Will probably make proper noise about it early next week. Just

Re: [SLUG] How big is an http request?

2003-02-05 Thread David
someone i was hosting decided that it was cool to use *sentences* for file and directory names on his windows-created web-site. These included untold special characters and spaces. The resulting URL/requests were huge. I've since educated him, but that's not always possible. On Wed, 5 Feb 2003,

[SLUG] Savasa ve Yabanci Askere Hayir - Pasif Direniþ Baþlýyor!

2003-02-05 Thread Turkiye2023

[SLUG] Need assortment of Apple Power PC s

2003-02-05 Thread James Dumay
If anyone has any old power pc macs they could donate to my little project, that would be awsome - different types to show veritility (spell) in my idea to the edu people... So if you have any old macs you do not wish to keep or can give away, email me or give me a ring on 0413259448 Peace, Love

[SLUG] Samba help please

2003-02-05 Thread Howard Lowndes
Visualise 2 subnets. LINDOM domain is 2 Linux boxes each running Samba 2.2.5, call them LINONLY and LINWIN. The domain controller is LINWIN and is also the local master. LINWIN is also a WINS server. Browse list sharing is also enabled from LINONLY to LINWIN, and reverse. WINDOM domain is a

Re: [SLUG] Need assortment of Apple Power PC s

2003-02-05 Thread Terry Collins
James Dumay wrote: If anyone has any old power pc macs they could donate to my little project, that would be awsome - different types to show veritility (spell) in my idea to the edu people... So if you have any old macs you do not wish to keep or can give away, email me or give me a ring

[SLUG] mstation: all aussie issue

2003-02-05 Thread Anand Kumria
URL: http://mstation.org/ Interview with Conrad Parker URL: http://mstation.org/conrad_parker_sweep.php Interview with Erik de Castro Lopo URL: http://mstation.org/erikdecl.php Oh, congratulations are also due to Erik on the birth of his daughter, Helena are also due. Regards, Anand -- ``

Re: [SLUG] Security break? Cron root@mail nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily

2003-02-05 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shutting down prelude: [ OK ] Shutting down prelude report: [ OK ] Starting prelude report: [ OK ] Starting prelude: [ OK ] Are you sure this isn't caused by logrotate restarting prelude? Check in /etc/logrotate.d/prelude -- [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] How to create an ISP

2003-02-05 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: I got an assignment, to create almost full documentation (implementation and pricing) on how to create an ISP in Sydney. Step 1: Get lots of funding -- you're going to lose a lot of money. :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] Linux + PDA

2003-02-05 Thread Paul Robinson
Hi fellow Sluggers, I was wondering if anyone knows how to connect a PocketPC to a Linux PC. I can find plenty of articles for Palm (as you would expect since palms have been the choice of Linux users) but with the advent of Evolution being able to talk to exchange servers etc I see the

Re: [SLUG] Security break? Cron root@mail nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily

2003-02-05 Thread mkraus
Yes... Found the culprit... :) Thanks... Saw something different than the norm, and wanted to check it out. Thanks I've learnt a bit more now. Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 Jamie

Re: [SLUG] How to create an ISP

2003-02-05 Thread Terry Collins
Phillipus Gunawan wrote: Greeting SLUG, I got an assignment, to create almost full documentation (implementation and pricing) on how to create an ISP in Sydney. Is there any available article I can lookup which is a real story? Preferably is a small-medium ISP which using Linux/RedHat

RE: [SLUG] Linux + PDA

2003-02-05 Thread Jon Biddell
Title: Message I am wondering the same thing - currently I don't think you can... Of course, installing linux on the PDA is quite another matter... There are several sites that detail techniques to do this, as well as to recover if/when you fsck it up...:-) My e740 would run Linux VERY

Re: [SLUG] Little project

2003-02-05 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Hmmm If you have seen those functionalities anywhere please tell me then I don't have to code. :) There are gazillions of projects that kinda sorta do that phpgroupware springs to mind. An option might be to download the source, hack it to shape and contrib the changes back in. I'm really into

Re: [SLUG] Little project

2003-02-05 Thread Mary
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003, Stuart Guthrie wrote: RFC2445 iCalendar covers a lot of what you're thinking about except that it uses Calendar clients such as Evolution and MS Outlook (or even web clients). Both these two calendar clients comply with this RFC to some degree. Well Outlook kinda sorta

Re: [SLUG] Little project

2003-02-05 Thread Stuart Guthrie
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 12:06, Mary wrote: Mozilla Calendar and Apple's iCal program also work with iCal files. Apple's iCal is great and has renewed interest in the iCalendar file format. It's better than Evolution's calendar in two main ways. 1) It's prettier and 2) it can combine multiple

Re: [SLUG] Little project

2003-02-05 Thread Mary
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003, Stuart Guthrie wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 12:06, Mary wrote: Mozilla Calendar and Apple's iCal program also work with iCal files. Apple's iCal is great and has renewed interest in the iCalendar file format. It's better than Evolution's calendar in two main

Re: [SLUG] Little project

2003-02-05 Thread Stuart Guthrie
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 12:41, Mary wrote: I'm hoping to make an iCal file for SLUG events in the next few days to go with Gus's RSS feed... jical can create xml from iCalendar files so as well as posting the events .ics to the site, you could: Render the SlugEventsCalendar.ics to HTML via

Re: [SLUG] Little project

2003-02-05 Thread Mary
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003, Stuart Guthrie wrote: jical can create xml from iCalendar files so as well as posting the events .ics to the site, you could: Render the SlugEventsCalendar.ics to HTML via one of jicals the included xsl. It's probably not necessary - as the HTML version of the events

Re: [SLUG] Little project

2003-02-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Mary I'm not sure I like the Moz Calendar interface much - I haven't seen iCal in action at all. It is really rocking. I can do screenshots if anyone would like to see it. Very simple, very straightforward, and remarkably pretty. :-) It would be awesome to see the same

RE: [SLUG] Linux + PDA

2003-02-05 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
i reckon it really depends on the pocket pc itself and which OS you run on it. linux recognize IRDA port properly (at least the one on my laptop is) and support communication. Now, out of the box synchronisation between your application and evolution, i am not sure... JeF On Thu, 2003-02-06 at

[SLUG] Postfix defer_transports

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Leslie
Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me out with a small postfix problem. Currently I have postfix setup to deliver mail to users home directories, which are on an NFS mounted directory. This works fine. I'm upgrading the NFS server, which will require taking the NFS mount offline for a while

[SLUG] Two subnets can't ping each other

2003-02-05 Thread sfg
Got a weird problem setting up a 192.168.0. network next to a 192.168.1. network. From 192.168.1.8 I can ping 192.168.0.1 but cannot ping 192.168.0.10 tcpdump shows the packets hitting 192.168.0.1 but it then does not route it on to the 192.168.0.10 NT machine. From 192.168.0.1 I can ping

Re: [SLUG] Two subnets can't ping each other

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Leslie
Got a weird problem setting up a 192.168.0. network next to a 192.168.1. network. From 192.168.1.8 I can ping 192.168.0.1 but cannot ping 192.168.0.10 tcpdump shows the packets hitting 192.168.0.1 but it then does not route it on to the 192.168.0.10 NT machine. From 192.168.0.1 I

Re: [SLUG] Two subnets can't ping each other

2003-02-05 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:26:50PM +1100, sfg wrote: From: sfg [EMAIL PROTECTED] From 192.168.1.8 I can ping 192.168.0.1 but cannot ping 192.168.0.10 tcpdump shows the packets hitting 192.168.0.1 but it then does not route it on to the 192.168.0.10 NT machine. [snip] Am I missing

Re: [SLUG] Postfix defer_transports

2003-02-05 Thread Dave Airlie
normally I just shut postfix down for things like that .. as long as you aren't offline for too long your backup MX should queue and/or the sender mail server.. Dave. On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Ben Leslie wrote: Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me out with a small postfix problem. Currently I

Re: [SLUG] Two subnets can't ping each other

2003-02-05 Thread Stuart Guthrie
I thought I had. G. Thanks John and Ben. Stu On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:32, John Clarke wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:26:50PM +1100, sfg wrote: From: sfg [EMAIL PROTECTED] From 192.168.1.8 I can ping 192.168.0.1 but cannot ping 192.168.0.10 tcpdump shows the packets hitting

Re: [SLUG] Two subnets can't ping each other

2003-02-05 Thread Stuart Guthrie
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:42, Stuart Guthrie wrote: I thought I had. G. I had. It's just that Mandrake's network service script checks a two config files for the same thing! /etc/sysctl.conf AND /etc/sysconf/network This means that if one contradicts the other, sysctl.conf wins because

[SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-05 Thread Alan L Tyree
I have to put together a presentation and I would like to use a LaTeX based solution. I have had a look at Michael Wiedmann's page that lists a lot of solutions: http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html Has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with any particular solution? Other

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Leslie
I have to put together a presentation and I would like to use a LaTeX based solution. I have had a look at Michael Wiedmann's page that lists a lot of solutions: http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html Has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with any particular

RE: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-05 Thread Rowling, Jill
I have used seminar.sty and converted the output using ps2pdf. The only caveat I would suggest is to make sure you use a common font like times if you are not 100% sure of the presentation computer. After preparing my slides and converting them to PDF, I got them looking nice on Linux and

[SLUG] GNOME 2.2

2003-02-05 Thread Chris
Just for y'all who havent heard -- This message confirms that Gnome 2.2 is officially released. And a month ahead of the originally planned six-month release cycle. Check out the Gnome 2.2 Start Page and use a mirror to download. Chris D -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] GNOME 2.2

2003-02-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Chris This message confirms that Gnome 2.2 is officially released. And a month ahead of the originally planned six-month release cycle. Check out the Gnome 2.2 Start Page and use a mirror to download. Cool, I was just about to post! Definitely check out the links on the 2.2 start

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-05 Thread Michael Lake
Alan L Tyree wrote: I have to put together a presentation and I would like to use a LaTeX based solution. I have had a look at Michael Wiedmann's page that lists a lot of solutions: http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html Has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with any

[SLUG] M$ now seeing OpenSource as a threat

2003-02-05 Thread Chris
Hey Y'all, No im not becoming a news delivery service -- however this sounds like good news. This news is adapted from the IDG site, linuxworld.com.au Chris D Begin News{ Microsoft has confirmed it sees the open-source software movement as a threat to its commercial business model, in a

[SLUG] Allowing ftp out on different ports other then 21

2003-02-05 Thread scott
Hi all, I have a problem I cannot find a solution on, hopefully an iptables guru can help. My brother would like to be able to connect to ftp servers that use ports other then 21, ie 4500. I know that with iptables, there is modules for ftp connection tracking and such, but this only seems to

[SLUG] Linux POS software

2003-02-05 Thread Flash!
Hi everyone, Could any of you help me with finding some opensource Linux software that can be used for order taking at a retail computer store? Thankyou in advance Yours Sincerely Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: