Re: [SLUG] ADSL Swiftel

2003-06-15 Thread Terry Collins
Alexander Samad wrote: > > Okay, but what about the service, any problems on that end ? So far, so good, but I've only been on just under the week so far. They were a tad annoyed with my comments {:-), but I think they were valid as Netscape 4.77 has been standard on Debian Woody and RH8. Appare

Re: [SLUG] The VPN challenge

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander Samad
If your not adverse to running some more commercial programs try SSH Sentinal for windows, nice ipsec client works really well with freeswan. I have setup freeswan <-> freeswan W2K <-> freeswan XP <-> freeswan plus with the NAT travesal patch. The M$ solution is not a nice one especially if y

Re: [Re: [SLUG] Linux in a Laptop.]

2003-06-15 Thread Louis Selvon
Hi: I'm trying to install Linux on Sony's PCG-Z1P. I'll try the same ul for reference. If there are other useful urls let me know. Another one I've found is at: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Cheers Louis. Myles Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 06:17, Enrique Vila wrote: >

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Swiftel

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander Samad
Okay, but what about the service, any problems on that end ? It seems to me that they have a pretty good prices service, apart from the setup worries, and I believe you can provide your own adsl modem. So its down to stability and cost Alex On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:06:17PM +1000, Terry Collin

Re: [SLUG] Distros & Versions for Sun Hardware

2003-06-15 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins wrote: >I have a Sun Sparcstation 10 (Solaris 8) and a Sun Sparcclassic (RH6.2) >that I want to move into a new DMZ. > >So I'm looking for recommendations for distros & versions of Linux that >are best for their new role. Are any sparc linux suitable? T

Re: [SLUG] Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts--report /etc/cron.daily

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander Samad
i Have you tried inside /etc/logrotate.d/ On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:05:18AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > G'day all... > > Cron is sending me this error message (see attached email below), however /etc/ > cron.daily has no line 1420. > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate is: > > #!/bin/sh > >

[SLUG] Grub and /dev/md0 (root)

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander Samad
Is any one using grub and a raid / (in particular raid1) I have setiup to had drives /dev/hda & /dev/hdc hdx1 = dell partion (40M) hdx2 = 80G partiotion type FD hda3 = swap hdb3 = swap I have grub booting of hd (0,1) (/dev/hda2) root=/dev/md0 My problem is that when the system boot and it seems

Re: [SLUG] Linux in a Laptop.

2003-06-15 Thread Myles Byrne
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 06:17, Enrique Vila wrote: > Hi all, > > Is any one running linux in a thinkpad T30 with reasonable success? > > I just got mine with Windows XP but want to dual boot it with Linux. > > Which distribution would be more appropiate? > > Thanks in advance for any advice..

[SLUG] pGina solves samba/windows grief?

2003-06-15 Thread Stewart
This just came across my desk as a possible solution to samba + win problems. in short, make windows talk unix rather than trying to get unix to talk windows. certainly seems like a good idea - plugins exist to auth your windows box against ldap, sam and mysql, among others. http://pgina.xpasys

Re: [SLUG] Popular Distros in Australia.

2003-06-15 Thread Kevin Saenz
> I fail to see why the ACS may be considered a bit of a joke in some > circles. (My opinion is that maybe its a case of sour grapes as in the > Aesop fable - ie. the people don't qualify to be ACS members so > therefore ACS sucks. I'm happy to be wrong on that one though.) > I have been out of t

[SLUG] Python Special Interest Group: Becoming bi-monthly

2003-06-15 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi everyone, Just a quick announcement re the Sydney Python Interest Group. In the future meetings will be held every second month. The next will be in July and will be announced as usual. -Mary Also: The linux.conf.au organisers have agreed to Andrew Bennetts' Python mini-conf proposal. The mi

Re: [SLUG] Popular Distros in Australia.

2003-06-15 Thread mkraus
G'day... I don't agree with you regarding ACS. Student membership is available and plenty of SLUGgers would qualify. It is a professional body, so a level of professional qualifications is required. I've previously been a student member, and am planning on becoming a full member shortly. I fail

[SLUG] Re: Problem (external firewire drive)

2003-06-15 Thread Ross Mitchell
I have an external firewire case with an 80gb 7200rpm drive - my prob is I can run 20, 40 and 60gig 5400rpm drives no problem, but when I stick a 40, 60 or 80gb 7200rpm drive in the damn thing works sometimes if at all, I have tried numerous cables, other drives, operating systems, platforms etc b

Re: [SLUG] Granville TAFE Linux courses

2003-06-15 Thread moise lim
as someone who is about to complete the linux introductory course .. i can highly recommend it :) using info i have gleaned from the course .. i m doing stuff which i have *never* even considered doing in "other operating systems".. this knowledge would have taken me a long time to figure out o

Re: [SLUG] Meaning of Nonsense in s p a m

2003-06-15 Thread mlh
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:27:01PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > Talking of which, does anyone know any good or interesting approaches to > identifying these junk strings? > > A checksum algorithm based spam system (eg vipul's razor) could be > modified to work with checksums of only the re

[SLUG] Segmentation Fault

2003-06-15 Thread Lyle Chapman
I'm having a problem un-installing rpms and building from source. I have RH 8.0 installed and a few weeks ago did a force install and now I think I have screwed my rpm db, I have tried rebuilding it but I still get errors on building source and removing rpms. Anyone got an idea on how to fix it

[SLUG] Re: Building kernels with GCC 3.3

2003-06-15 Thread Simon Wong
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 16:12, Chris D. wrote: > gcc-3.3 can't build 2.4 kernels up to 2.4.21. Bum! I'm trying to build 2.4.20. > Change your toplevel (of the kernel source) Makefile so that CC = > gcc-3.2 or gcc-2.95 and install the appropriate version (e.g. apt-get install > gcc-3.2) I have cha

Re: [SLUG] Please Help

2003-06-15 Thread Andrew McNaughton
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:38:07 +1000 > Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 01:34:18 +0800 > > "Edward Maloney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I am desperately seeking the ability to record my modem data > >

Re: [SLUG] SAMBA and trust relationships

2003-06-15 Thread mkraus
G'day Err... Isn't it the role of the PDC to hold all those passwords anyway? (Ie. if it doesn't its not... ?) Warmest regards Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Network Administrator Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd p: (02) 9955 8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/06/2

[SLUG] Granville TAFE Linux courses

2003-06-15 Thread Geoffrey Robertson
Details of next Linux courses for next semester are at http://slug.org.au/training.html I'm taking enquiries by email now. Plenty of space in the introductory courses. LPI Certification pretty much full unless I open a new class. Enrolments are 1st, 2nd and 3rd July. Classes start 2 weeks late

Re: [SLUG] Meaning of Nonsense in s p a m

2003-06-15 Thread Andrew McNaughton
Talking of which, does anyone know any good or interesting approaches to identifying these junk strings? A checksum algorithm based spam system (eg vipul's razor) could be modified to work with checksums of only the recognized words in an email. All unrecognized stuff (based on a standard wordlis

Re: [SLUG] Evolution & IMAP

2003-06-15 Thread Gareth Walters
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 5:51 PM Subject: [SLUG] Evolution & IMAP > Has anyone else found this to be a problem? I don't know if IMAP supports > it but it would be nice to be able to send mail via IMAP and hus

Re: [SLUG] Please Help

2003-06-15 Thread James Gregory
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 03:34, Edward Maloney wrote: > I am desperately seeking the ability to record my modem data transmissions ^ If it's your own modem we're talking about, why not use one of those serial sniffer things that I know nothi

Re: [SLUG] Please Help

2003-06-15 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:38:07 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 01:34:18 +0800 > "Edward Maloney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am desperately seeking the ability to record my modem data > > transmissions (from phone line recording made w/sound board)

Re: [SLUG] Popular Distros in Australia.

2003-06-15 Thread moise lim
On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:30 pm, Jon Teh wrote: > Hrm, did I get my windows mixed up? Am I on IRC instead of a mailing > list? total time on IRC since 1996 approx 6 hrs :) but the scars remain :) m -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/list

[SLUG] Blackmagic RIP software and firewire printing

2003-06-15 Thread Mehmet Yousouf
A couple of questions. Has anyone used Blackmagic RIP server software with Linux? I have just installed it (has a redhat rpm) and was surprised to see it created a user with no password and set up with a /bin/bash shell. Also, how is linux with firewire printers (epson1c)? Regards, Mehm

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Swiftel

2003-06-15 Thread Terry Collins
Alexander Samad wrote: > > Hi > > I have been looking for an ADSL provider that is also sort of Linux > friendly. Has anyone had any experience with swiftel I totally withdraw my previous recommendation of Swiftel. Basically, any ISP that forces me to use Internet Explorer is a total arsehole.

[SLUG] Openoffice Templates

2003-06-15 Thread Kevin Saenz
Hi all just wondering where can I find some openoffice templates to create presentations and pamphlets (preferred pamphlets that can/allow a4 to be folded into 3) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Help I just destroyed my Root filesystem... cont

2003-06-15 Thread Richard Heycock
Thanks to all for the advice but I decided to cut my loses and re-install. Not to say I'm not a little distressed about this -- it's the first time I've never been able to recover . Best I take a mondo image :-) Just to let you know what finally led to my decision: I posted a message to the reise

Re: [SLUG] LILO problems

2003-06-15 Thread Richard Heycock
I've found the best way is use a separate partition for the kernel and grub (I'd steer clear of lilo if I were you, grub is so much better -- if you've ever used openboot on a sun box, grub is more like this than lilo). You can then boot from which ever partition you like without having to worry ab

Re: [SLUG] Distros & Versions for Sun Hardware

2003-06-15 Thread Richard Heycock
Debain it's the only way... If your after reliability I would strongly recommen ddebian, it may be slightly more difficult to install (though I have to say I don't think its any harder to install than say redhat a few years ago, which was the last time I installed a redhat box) but it's definitely

[SLUG] Performance Issues on an older machine

2003-06-15 Thread Beej Bassman
Hi all. I've got an old machine that used to have Linux Red Hat 7.1 on it as a stand-alone machine. I had to return to the World of Windows for work purposes, but have finally lost patience with it after IE6 crashed 6 times in 1.5hrs while trying to redesign a web site. I have since reinstalled