Re: [SLUG] mandrake 9.1 cdrom and sound

2003-07-06 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Wayne Crich wrote: This sounds like two dumb questions. After years of using RedHat i have set a machine up with mandrake. Two simple problems: 1) No sound - Yet card is configured correctly and volume is set above 0. Try the various volume control tools in the multi-media menu option. I ha

[SLUG] Win4Lin & MYOB - is it really this bad?

2003-07-06 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Just wondering if anyone else has a major performance issue with running Win4Lin Server edition (within that MYOB Premier Accounts). I'm accessing a samba network drive from within the copy of win4lin so that the MYOB data can be shared across a company. This works OK for Win98 clients accessing th

[SLUG] Re: [Debian-au] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:16:18PM +1000, Matt Hope wrote: > There have been mumbings and some comments made about the current > location for the Debian Interest Group meetings - currently, the > Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel. > > I'm interested if anyone has any comments about the current venue > (good

[SLUG] mandrake 9.1 cdrom and sound

2003-07-06 Thread Wayne Crich
This sounds like two dumb questions. After years of using RedHat i have set a machine up with mandrake.   Two simple problems:   1) No sound - Yet card is configured correctly and volume is set above 0.   2) Cd drives cannot be read fr

Re: [SLUG] Partition resize...

2003-07-06 Thread Douglas Stalker
> > I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a larger hard drive. > The only problem is that although Diskdrake shows the new partitions at > the new sizes, df still reports the old sizes and free space. It appears > that the file systems have not grown to fit the new partitions. Is t

Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 13:06, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > I've heard these critiques elsewhere: > > > > - not overly safe at night > > - under 18s can't attend > > Oh, and parking is not always very safe. To the car. Or belongings inside. > > Hmm. So, capping up: Currently, I believe we need a

Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 13:13, Peter Hardy wrote: > I'm not entirely sure the average parent would really want to know what > goes on at those things, though. ;-) > > But yeah, I think it's much more of a hassle if you need to be > escorted. Perhaps it's time to relegate the beery shenanigans to

[SLUG] Partition resize...

2003-07-06 Thread Peter Chubb
> "John" == John McQuillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Hi everyone, I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a John> larger hard drive. I created partitions on the new drive with John> larger sizes to fill the new drive, then cloned the partitions John> from the old drive one at

Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread mkraus
G'day... Mary's experience isn't unsuprising. Woolloomooloo has a high number of vagrants living in and around the area. The closest train station is Kings Cross. To get from the Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel to the train station, you are forced to walk through this area and the walk is about fifteen

Re: [Debian-au] Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 07 Jul 2003, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ranted... > > - is accessable via public transport > > Short wander from Wynyard. > > > - is in a fairly central location > > Short wander from Wynyard. ;-) I'd disagree here - its not exactly a "short" wander, and its not exactly safe (y

[SLUG] Partition resize...

2003-07-06 Thread John McQuillen
Hi everyone, I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a larger hard drive. I created partitions on the new drive with larger sizes to fill the new drive, then cloned the partitions from the old drive one at a time with Norton Ghost. After recreating the boot loader from the rescue disk, m

Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I've heard these critiques elsewhere: > > - not overly safe at night > - under 18s can't attend Oh, and parking is not always very safe. To the car. Or belongings inside. Hmm. - Jeff -- Get Informed: SCO vs. IBMhttp://sco.iwethey.org/ "Life is short.

Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:43, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:16, Matt Hope wrote: > > > Currently, I believe we need a location that > > > - has food and drink nearby, > > > - is accessable via public transport > > > - is in a fairly central location > > > > - Accessible

Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > I'm interested if anyone has any comments about the current venue > > (good or bad), and any possible alternative suggestions. > > WBH is great, and fulfills all the criteria, IMHO: I've heard these critiques elsewhere: - not overly safe at nigh

Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> - Doesn't cost much to hire (which I believe is one of the problems voiced > with the WBH). Considering the amount of food and drink bought > (especially since there are at least 3 separate-but-associated meetings > held there over the course of the average month) surely they'd be making > the

Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:16, Matt Hope wrote: > > Currently, I believe we need a location that > > - has food and drink nearby, > > - is accessable via public transport > > - is in a fairly central location > > - Accessible to minors? > > Debsig has traditionally been a fairly beery eve

Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Matt Hope wrote: > There have been mumbings and some comments made about the current > location for the Debian Interest Group meetings - currently, the > Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel. Not too bad, but it tends to be a bit noisy. It also fails on your "public transport" requirement

Re: [SLUG] umask and pam_mkhomedir.so

2003-07-06 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:07:19PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: > I also need a simple bash script that creates a directory if it doesn't exist > > if directory/path does not exist > then mkdir directory/path > endif [ -a $dir ] || mkdir -p $dir -a tests that nothing called `$dir' exists (

Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:16, Matt Hope wrote: > Currently, I believe we need a location that > - has food and drink nearby, > - is accessable via public transport > - is in a fairly central location - Accessible to minors? Debsig has traditionally been a fairly beery event (I blame Craige ;

Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I'm interested if anyone has any comments about the current venue (good or > bad), and any possible alternative suggestions. WBH is great, and fulfills all the criteria, IMHO: > Currently, I believe we need a location that > - has food and drink nearby, Good food and drink at the pub, almo

[SLUG] umask and pam_mkhomedir.so

2003-07-06 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, I am trying to get pam_mkhomedir to create the users home directory with rwx--, no matter what I ste the umsak to in the call to pam_mkhomedir in pam.login I get rwxr-xr-x and this is allowing other users to browse into any users directory. Note that this is on a LTSP server/client set

[SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Matt Hope
There have been mumbings and some comments made about the current location for the Debian Interest Group meetings - currently, the Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel. I'm interested if anyone has any comments about the current venue (good or bad), and any possible alternative suggestions. Currently, I belie

Re: [SLUG] urgent request

2003-07-06 Thread PaulWB
Since when has this list been hidden, you can search the slug list on google, I have found a number of my post to slug on google. Paul. On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Shaun Oliver wrote: > hahahahahaha. > these scammers obviously got no brains. and how the hell did they manage > to email to the list

Re: [SLUG] LDAP: perldap

2003-07-06 Thread Anthony Wood
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:50:49AM +1000, Del wrote: > Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > > G'day, > > > > I'm trying to get my hand with LDAP. Does anyone know > > how to set-up ldap for the m$ outlook address book > > database? > > Can't be done. > > MS outlook doesn't use LDAP for its address book da

Re: [SLUG] LDAP: perldap

2003-07-06 Thread Anthony Wood
ldap_ssh.h should be part of the netscape client libraries. Find the file on your system (should be /usr/local/lib or similar) and make sure your Makefiule includes that directory in the library path. But more importantly you need to install some sort of ldap server, e.g. OpenLDAP. This will giv

Re: [SLUG] LDAP: perldap

2003-07-06 Thread Del
Phillipus Gunawan wrote: G'day, I'm trying to get my hand with LDAP. Does anyone know how to set-up ldap for the m$ outlook address book database? Can't be done. MS outlook doesn't use LDAP for its address book database. You may be thinking of MS exchange. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gro

Re: [SLUG] LDAP: perldap

2003-07-06 Thread Andrew McNaughton
This looks like the critical line in the error listing: API.c:53:23: ldap_ssl.h: No such file or directory What's supposed to provide that file? Perhaps there's something you're supposed to have installed first? Andrew On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 16

Re: [SLUG] What talks do you want at SLUG meetings?

2003-07-06 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 20:02, Mary Gardiner wrote: > What talks would you like to see at a SLUG meeting? (If you've never > been to a meeting, answer the question "What talk would lure you to your > first ever meeting?") I enjoy talks about: * Open Source project status / capabilities / politics i

[SLUG] LDAP: perldap

2003-07-06 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
G'day, I'm trying to get my hand with LDAP. Does anyone know how to set-up ldap for the m$ outlook address book database? What fields should be in? Googling only directing me to set up the outlook connection to the LDAP server, nothing more... :( I read that webmin has a 3rd party modeule for LDA

Re: [SLUG] I Need Help Please.

2003-07-06 Thread mkraus
Ken> Another question is the "gateway" would this need to be configured as is Ken> same as machine IP - 192.168.0.1 - even in the example of what can go in Ken> the gateway IP block via help block? Err... no if the machine is the gateway itself leave it blank or put in the address of the gatewa

Re: [SLUG] Newbie here.. a few basic dumb questions.

2003-07-06 Thread mkraus
G'day... Re: 3. Is your current directory set in your path? If not you'll need to supply a path to the executable Ie. Instead of executing `a.out` you will need to execute `./a.out` or `/path/to/a.out` gcc will produce files with the execute bit set. Warmest regards Mike --- Michael S. E. Kr

Re: [SLUG] Squid + Winbind + squirrelmail

2003-07-06 Thread Alexander Samad
Nope but I did try winbind use default domain = yes - whihc gave me an error, not sure where I got it from. Any way will give it a go and see what happens Thanks On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:29:26AM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: > Alexander Samad said: > > Well another 1/2 hour of playing with it fi

Re: [SLUG] Squid + Winbind + squirrelmail

2003-07-06 Thread Simon Bryan
Alexander Samad said: > Well another 1/2 hour of playing with it fixed most of my problems, > seems like there are 2 pwcheck programs, one compiled to check just > /etc/shadow and the other to use the pam modules! > > so a quick reconfigure and bobs your uncle. > > > But I still want to be able to

Re: [SLUG] urgent request

2003-07-06 Thread Tony Green
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 16:50, Shaun Oliver wrote: > hahahahahaha. > these scammers obviously got no brains. and how the hell did they manage > to email to the list seeing how it's a hidden list anyway? > unless of course they subscribed, lol alot of trouble just to gain a few > suckers, It isn't a

Re: [SLUG] urgent request

2003-07-06 Thread Shaun Oliver
hahahahahaha. these scammers obviously got no brains. and how the hell did they manage to email to the list seeing how it's a hidden list anyway? unless of course they subscribed, lol alot of trouble just to gain a few suckers, -- Shaun Oliver "Becareful of the toes u step on today, they maybe co

Re: [SLUG] Squid + Winbind + squirrelmail

2003-07-06 Thread Alexander Samad
Well another 1/2 hour of playing with it fixed most of my problems, seems like there are 2 pwcheck programs, one compiled to check just /etc/shadow and the other to use the pam modules! so a quick reconfigure and bobs your uncle. But I still want to be able to map login ids to mailbox/email addr

Re: [SLUG] What talks do you want at SLUG meetings?

2003-07-06 Thread Nik Belajcic
Mary Gardiner wrote: The committee seeks opinions from SLUG: We're presently trying to aim our selection of talks at as broad a spectrum of users as possible -- our regulars range from newbies to old hands. We don't want to run exclusively "old hand" talks, but we also don't want to cater only to

Re: [SLUG] I Need Help Please.

2003-07-06 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I am debian user not sure if the dial system is the same on mandrake. but if you try pon plog This should tell your system to dial and login (pon) and the plog should give you access to the dial relative log entries. It will tell you if you have connected to the ISP and authenticated, should

[SLUG] Squid + Winbind + squirrelmail

2003-07-06 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi, I have a server with squirrelmail and cyrus (admin, common, imapd) install and samba + winbind. My question has any one gotten cyrus to authenticate users against a NT domain using winbind through pam ? I have been trying this, testing with squirrelmail. I have setup winbind, getent passwd

[SLUG] What talks do you want at SLUG meetings?

2003-07-06 Thread Mary Gardiner
The committee seeks opinions from SLUG: We're presently trying to aim our selection of talks at as broad a spectrum of users as possible -- our regulars range from newbies to old hands. We don't want to run exclusively "old hand" talks, but we also don't want to cater only to newbies. This is a ha