RE: [SLUG] rpm to deal with dependencies !!

2003-03-15 Thread Bernhard Luder
Or alternatively you can run something like: Upgrading packages rpm -Uvh 1.rpm 2.rpm 3.rpm or Installing packages rpm -ivh 1.rpm 2.rpm 3.rpm Regards Bernhard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Waugh Sent: Sunday, 16 March 2003 16:28 To: [

Re: [SLUG] rpm to deal with dependencies !!

2003-03-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
> The patch I am installing for my server has downloaded all the necessary rpms. > However when I ran their installer script the logs are showing rpm dependency > errors. A sample log is shown below: > How do I get this install to go without having to worry about rpm dependencies > ?? Did it d

[SLUG] rpm to deal with dependencies !!

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
Hi Sluggers: Does anyone how do I invoke rpm to install packages and deal with dependencies. The patch I am installing for my server has downloaded all the necessary rpms. However when I ran their installer script the logs are showing rpm dependency errors. A sample log is shown below: #

[SLUG] OpenOffice Australian Dictionary - work in progress

2003-03-15 Thread Ken Foskey
Any volunteers... -Forwarded Message- > From: Kelvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > Subject: [discuss] Australian Dictionary - work in progress > Date: 16 Mar 2003 11:01:08 +1100 > > Hi Everyone, > >

Re: [SLUG] IE running on Linux - Suggestions

2003-03-15 Thread Phil Scarratt
Adam W wrote: Hi All, One of the biggest factors of me crossing over to full time linux, at work and at home is the ability to run IE(please no flames). I just get really frustrated going to websites that run perfectly on IE, and seeing them all jumbled up on opera/mozilla or whatever because they

[Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]]

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
Hi All: I just tried again today, and everything is working. I can download from the site I was having problems. The server is downloading at 1 Mb/s. I wish broadband would get us that kind of speed !!! I have no idea what was going on the past 2 days. It may have something to do with the attack

Re: [SLUG] IE running on Linux - Suggestions

2003-03-15 Thread Chris D
This is what I call MML (Microsoft Markup Language), it is an inexistent term that should practically be existent. I just get really frustrated going to websites that run perfectly on IE, and seeing them all jumbled up on opera/mozilla or whatever because they don't support HALF the amount of fun

Re: [SLUG] IE running on Linux - Suggestions

2003-03-15 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 12:38, Adam W wrote: > Hi All, > > > A contributing factor to wine not working for me I think is the fact > that I run win2k on the other partition I was trying to run IE off - > everyone posting on the wine forums seemed to be running win95/98 > flavours. I haven't tried

[SLUG] IE running on Linux - Suggestions

2003-03-15 Thread Adam W
Hi All, One of the biggest factors of me crossing over to full time linux, at work and at home is the ability to run IE(please no flames). I just get really frustrated going to websites that run perfectly on IE, and seeing them all jumbled up on opera/mozilla or whatever because they don't support

Re: [SLUG] NIS cannot detect root users

2003-03-15 Thread Mike MacCana
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Angus Lees wrote: > At Sat, 15 Mar 2003 13:32:05 -0800 (PST), pesoy misak wrote: > > i have two computers that has debian woody in each of > > them and trying to serving an NIS and NFS server NFS > > is working fine and NIS during the setup is fine but I > > can't log in as "

Re: [SLUG] NIS cannot detect root users

2003-03-15 Thread Rob B
At 08:32 AM 16/03/03, pesoy misak sent this up the stick: i have two computers that has debian woody in each of them and trying to serving an NIS and NFS server NFS is working fine and NIS during the setup is fine but I can't log in as "root" the root account is there but is locally not as NIS us

Re: [SLUG] NIS cannot detect root users

2003-03-15 Thread Angus Lees
At Sat, 15 Mar 2003 13:32:05 -0800 (PST), pesoy misak wrote: > i have two computers that has debian woody in each of > them and trying to serving an NIS and NFS server NFS > is working fine and NIS during the setup is fine but I > can't log in as "root" the root account is there but > is locally n

Re: [SLUG] msttcorefonts

2003-03-15 Thread Angus Lees
At 16 Mar 2003 00:27:34 +1100, Chris Deigan wrote: > I've installed msttcorefonts and the fonts appear in some X-programs but > not others - for example OpenOffice and xfontsel, and others... > > I seem to be able to access them from the Gnome2 fonts prefs window and > Mozilla but nowhere else. >

Re: [SLUG] calling C libs from perl

2003-03-15 Thread Angus Lees
At Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:57:56 +1300 (NZDT), Andrew McNaughton wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, David Fitch wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:14:28PM +1100, Broun, Bevan wrote: > > > It would seem that it's worth while buying the Perl CD bookshelf. > > > > ah thanks, got that book already I found t

[SLUG] Problem compiling kernel on Redhat 8.0

2003-03-15 Thread Wayne Storey
Hi, I've googled this problem yesterday to no avail I hope someone here can help me out. I need to compile a kernel on my Redhat 8.0 laptop but when I do the "make bzImage" I starts compiling but after a few mins it stops with the last few lines of code reading: drivers/char/drm/drm.o: In functio

Re: [SLUG] calling C libs from perl

2003-03-15 Thread Angus Lees
At Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:31:35 +1030, David Fitch wrote: > how exactly do you call functions in a C library from a perl script? The usual way is called "XS". See the perlxstut manpage, which will also mention the perlguts, perlapi and perlxs manpages. I'm happy to answer any of the inevitable ques

[SLUG] NIS cannot detect root users

2003-03-15 Thread pesoy misak
Dear all I am a newbie in the networking so please be patient with me ^_^ i have two computers that has debian woody in each of them and trying to serving an NIS and NFS server NFS is working fine and NIS during the setup is fine but I can't log in as "root" the root account is there but is loca

Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]] http_proxy tried !]]

2003-03-15 Thread Peter Chubb
> "J" == J A Barton writes: J> Hi, J> What options are set in your wgetrc file ( if you have one, usualy in J> /etc or /usr/local/etc ), or .wgetrc ( again you may not have one ). J> If you havent already, try setting things like passive_ftp and changing J> the proxy settings. Yes I stron

[SLUG] msttcorefonts

2003-03-15 Thread Chris D
Hello all, I've installed msttcorefonts and the fonts appear in some X-programs but not others - for example OpenOffice and xfontsel, and others... I seem to be able to access them from the Gnome2 fonts prefs window and Mozilla but nowhere else. During the setup, I was told defoma was probably no

Re: [SLUG] CUPS in Debian

2003-03-15 Thread Chris D
Worked, thanks :) Chris On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 00:06, CaT wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:19:58PM +1100, Chris D wrote: > > G'day All, > > Im trying to set up CUPS to print to a samba shared printer. > > Now, i've been able to set it all up in the web interface, and even > > print a test page.

Re: [SLUG] CUPS in Debian

2003-03-15 Thread CaT
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:19:58PM +1100, Chris D wrote: > G'day All, > Im trying to set up CUPS to print to a samba shared printer. > Now, i've been able to set it all up in the web interface, and even > print a test page. > However, from X applications - It cannot be seen etc. > My /etc/printcap

Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]] http_proxy tried !]]

2003-03-15 Thread J A Barton
Hi, What options are set in your wgetrc file ( if you have one, usualy in /etc or /usr/local/etc ), or .wgetrc ( again you may not have one ). If you havent already, try setting things like passive_ftp and changing the proxy settings. From your remote server, can you actually login to this site?

Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]] http_proxy tried !]]

2003-03-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I am using netaddress as my mail clinet to reply. If I've downloaded the > emails within Microsoft Outlook, then this what I normally use. I thought > I fixed this problem with Microsoft Outlook. Ahr, oh well. Using Outlook will make things easier for us at least. ;-) > Anyway about the serve

[SLUG] CUPS in Debian

2003-03-15 Thread Chris D
G'day All, Im trying to set up CUPS to print to a samba shared printer. Now, i've been able to set it all up in the web interface, and even print a test page. However, from X applications - It cannot be seen etc. My /etc/printcap file generated by cups appears to only be: lp: lp, being the name of

[SLUG] wget Issue]] http_proxy tried !]]

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
I am using netaddress as my mail clinet to reply. If I've downloaded the emails within Microsoft Outlook, then this what I normally use. I thought I fixed this problem with Microsoft Outlook. Anyway about the server. It's not a local thing. It's a live server that's running in the US. From a previ

Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]] http_proxy tried !]

2003-03-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Louis> My dial up connections does not use a proxy. I've just checked the > IE settings and no proxy is loaded. How does this relate to downloading > from a server to the ftp site , and going to the ftp site via my browser ? You'll need to give us a better idea of how your network works, ie. t

Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]] http_proxy tried !]

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
>It was used only as an example in my email. Check your browser proxy settings to see if a) you have a proxy set up at all, b) what the proxy settings are so you can use them. Louis> My dial up connections does not use a proxy. I've just checked the IE settings and no proxy is loaded. How does thi

Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]] http_proxy tried !

2003-03-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Hi Jeff et al: > > Louis> Still failed here is the output. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]# http_proxy=http://proxy:8080/ wget ^ I very strongly doubt that this is your actual proxy. It was used only as an example

[Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]] http_proxy tried !

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
Hi Jeff et al: >If you have to use an http proxy, everything that uses http must be set up to use the proxy. With wget, do this: http_proxy=http://proxy:8080/ wget Louis> Still failed here is the output. [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]# http_proxy=http://proxy:8080/ wget ftp://ftp.ensim.com/downloa

Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]

2003-03-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Louis> Does wget uses proxy as well ? How do I set that up on the server ? > This is my first time at "wget". If you have to use an http proxy, everything that uses http must be set up to use the proxy. With wget, do this: http_proxy=http://proxy:8080/ wget If you need to use a username a

[Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]]]] iptable tried

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
Hi Tony et al: >Show us the output from 'iptables -L' from your gateway and the server that's having the problem (maybe the same machine) I just got this one going. Nothing was returned. Here is the output [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables -L [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]# Am I sup

[Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]] Tried Proxy

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
Hi Sluggers et al: After reading the man page for wget about proxy. Here's another trial which still failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]# wget --proxy=on --proxy-user=guest --proxy-passwd=guest ftp://ftp.ensim.com/download/webppliance/linux/3.1/OSI3.tar.gz --22:15:26-- ftp://ftp.ensim.com/download/

Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
>Presumably your browser is using a proxy that you have not configured wget for. Louis> Does wget uses proxy as well ? How do I set that up on the server ? This is my first time at "wget". Cheers Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.

Re: [SLUG] wget Issue

2003-03-15 Thread mlh
Presumably your browser is using a proxy that you have not configured wget for. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]]]]

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
>Show us the output from 'iptables -L' from your gateway and the server that's having the problem (maybe the same machine) Louis> is the command right ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]# iptables -L bash: iptables: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]# >ICMP is only preventing you from pinging th

Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]]]

2003-03-15 Thread Tony Green
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 19:48, Louis Selvon wrote: > Louis> How do I check it there is a firewall installed ? I know how to check > this via the graphical display. This server does have X installed (which I did > last week), but is not exporting the display remotely to me yet via VNC. I > plan to get

Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]]]

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
>Are you sure that there's no filtering betwixt you and the ftp server? A timeout would be seen if a firewall were dropping your ftp packets. Louis> I'm the dummy here. How do I check this, and more importantly how do I fix this problem so that I can download these patches to my server ? Is this

Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]]]

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
>If you're not using a firewall (or you want to ignore pings from your local network), 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all' will do the trick. Louis> How do I check it there is a firewall installed ? I know how to check this via the graphical display. This server does have X install

Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]]

2003-03-15 Thread Tony Green
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 19:33, Louis Selvon wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]# wget --passive > ftp://ftp.ensim.com/download/webppliance/linu > x/3.1/OSI3.tar.gz > --19:01:46-- ftp://ftp.ensim.com/download/webppliance/linux/3.1/OSI3.tar.gz >=> `OSI3.tar.gz' Works fine for me [EMAIL

Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]]

2003-03-15 Thread Tony Green
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 19:17, Tony Green wrote: > I doubt that this means there is a network problem. If you can reach > the machine via ftp but not ping it, I'd say that they have ICMP > filtering turned on. > If you're not using a firewall (or you want to ignore pings from your local network),

Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]]]

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
>I doubt that this means there is a network problem. If you can reach the machine via ftp but not ping it, I'd say that they have ICMP filtering turned on. Louis> I can ping the site and go to it via ftp from my home based connection. From the server I cannot go to the ftp site or even ping it.

Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]]

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]# wget --passive ftp://ftp.ensim.com/download/webppliance/linu x/3.1/OSI3.tar.gz --19:01:46-- ftp://ftp.ensim.com/download/webppliance/linux/3.1/OSI3.tar.gz => `OSI3.tar.gz' Resolving ftp.ensim.com... done. Connecting to ftp.ensim.com[164.109.154.215]:21... faile

Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]]

2003-03-15 Thread Tony Green
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 19:08, Louis Selvon wrote: > I just tried to ping the ftp site from my PC, and also from the server. > > ping passes from my PC, but the ping test from the server is not returning > anything. > > There must be some network problem from the my server's end then to this site.

Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]

2003-03-15 Thread Tony Green
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 19:03, Louis Selvon wrote: > >Try --passive > > Louis>Still is giving connection timeout. > Can you cut and paste the details from the terminal you're running it from. It's always helpful to 'see' exactly what's going on and what's being reported back. Greeno -- SLUG -

Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]]

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
I just tried to ping the ftp site from my PC, and also from the server. ping passes from my PC, but the ping test from the server is not returning anything. There must be some network problem from the my server's end then to this site. I can't be the ftp site as I can go to it. Right ?? I'm no e

Re: [Re: [SLUG] wget Issue]

2003-03-15 Thread Louis Selvon
>Try --passive Louis>Still is giving connection timeout. Could this then be a network problem from my server's backbone to the site I am trying to access ? The server is in the US. Cheers Louis. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try --passive +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Jeff Allison Network