Re: [SLUG] DVD Burners

2003-07-17 Thread Piers Wren
I use some of the Pioneer drives to burn DVD's under linux without any problems, however the Pioneer drives are DVD-RW. Have a look at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ as it has lots of useful info on DVD+RW under linux. The summary is that you should be able to use the drive under linu

[SLUG] DVD Burners

2003-07-17 Thread Gerald Catling
Hello to one & all, I Have just aquired a Richo DVD+RW Burner drive and i am wondering if anyone has done any burning of dvd's under Linux? It works moderately well under Win98 but since a really only run Linux i would like to find out how to do burn in same & NOT uner WIn98 TIA Gerald -- SLU

Re: [SLUG] Apache vhost logs managemt

2003-07-17 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:25:25PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > I said to do the job well. Depends upon your definition of doing the job well. Voytek's likely to already have it, it does what he needs, and it's fast enough for what he wants to do. I'm all for efficiency, but sometimes it j

Re: [SLUG] Apache vhost logs managemt

2003-07-17 Thread Andrew McNaughton
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, John Clarke wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:05:27PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > > The perl script jdresolve might > > do you for the name resolution, but if it was me I'd modify it so that it > > only concerns itself with th

Re: [SLUG] IPsec AES module

2003-07-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >To get ipsec I've compiled 2.4.20 with kernel-patch-freeswan (debian >package) set ipsec and set all the extras as modules. This was all done >using make-kpkg --config=menuconfig --revision=blah --initrd kernel_image. >Post compile the .conf

Re: [SLUG] Apache vhost logs managemt

2003-07-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: >I'm setting up Apache 1.3x with name vhost and I need to set up log >handling for all vhosts; basically, I'd like to is: > >process yesterday's logs to resolve IP addresses; >gzip yesterday's logs (is bzip2 what should be used instead of gzip ?); >

Re: [SLUG] RE: Ron's Mandrake install probs.

2003-07-17 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 20:36, Laurie Savage wrote: > > But I should have mentioned that > even if you keep user names the same, different distros presumably > allocate different UIDs to the users and so the ownership of home > directories becomes confused. Redhat always made me uid=500, and De

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 downgrade

2003-07-17 Thread James Gregory
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 20:38, Ron Daniel wrote: > Great. Here I sit, stuck in the world of M$ writing this email cause I > just upgraded to 9.1 Somebody should have told me about the descent > (downgrade) on the other side. > > How in the world is this FOSS stuff going to make critical mass in the

Re: [SLUG] terminal emulator

2003-07-17 Thread mlh
teraterm also does telnet and ssh, and I find it easier to live with. (puttys configuration screen is infuriating) But teraterm's ssh support is an external add-on, and it only does ssh version 1 if I recall correctly. Still telnet should be good enough for you, and it puts less of a load on t

Re: [SLUG] anti-nida apache conf mods ?

2003-07-17 Thread Andrew McNaughton
That approach requires mod_perl though which makes for a heavy-weight server if you don't already have it. Try this for the same effect: SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI root\.exe|cmd\.exe|default\.ida worm_request Deny from env=worm_request CustomLog logs/access_log common env=!worm_request Note t

Re: [SLUG] Apache vhost logs managemt

2003-07-17 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:05:27PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > The perl script jdresolve might > do you for the name resolution, but if it was me I'd modify it so that it > only concerns itself with the first field in the http logs. There must be > s

Re: [SLUG] anti-nida apache conf mods ?

2003-07-17 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:35:41PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: > are there any worthwile httpd.conf mods to minimize impact or ? This rejects the request without logging it: http://www.torkington.com/vermicide.txt Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirr

Re: [SLUG] IPsec AES module

2003-07-17 Thread pauld
From memeory you need kernel-patch-freeswan-ext module instead of kernel-patch-freeswan From what I can find the -ext package no longer exists. I can't seem to find out if that means they rolled the extra functions in to kernel-patch-freeswan. There are a bunch of files that suggest this might be

Re: [SLUG] terminal emulator

2003-07-17 Thread Chris Deigan
Peter Fenelon wrote: >Is there a free terminal emulator available so as to allow the students >access to the Linux server from Windows workstations? PuTTY for ssh access (mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/putty/) VNC for X (realvnc.com) - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Re: [SLUG] RE: Ron's Mandrake install probs.

2003-07-17 Thread Laurie Savage
I shouldn't reply to my own note, I know. But I should have mentioned that even if you keep user names the same, different distros presumably allocate different UIDs to the users and so the ownership of home directories becomes confused. Maybe you could circumvent this by creating the users in t

Re: [SLUG] IPsec AES module

2003-07-17 Thread Alexander Samad
>From memeory you need kernel-patch-freeswan-ext module instead of kernel-patch-freeswan the ext has the extra encrpytion modules. But good luck I have just noticed that version 2 is eliminating the 1.99-x series. On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:23:59PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > >

Re: [SLUG] Apache vhost logs managemt

2003-07-17 Thread Tony Green
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 09:57, Voytek Eymont wrote: > I'm setting up Apache 1.3x with name vhost and I need to set up log > handling for all vhosts; basically, I'd like to is: > > process yesterday's logs to resolve IP addresses; > gzip yesterday's logs (is bzip2 what should be used instead of gzip

Re: [SLUG] RE: Ron's Mandrake install probs.

2003-07-17 Thread Laurie Savage
Its a great idea and should be your standard for any installation. But be aware that different distros dont necessarily recognise home directories created by others. You will possibly need to do some chown -R here and there. I discovered this because I played around with various Mandrake and Re

Re: [SLUG] Apache vhost logs managemt

2003-07-17 Thread Andrew McNaughton
I like httplog It doesn't resolve DNS names for you, but it does handle rolling over files, with suitable naming and gzip compression. Presumably you could put another program in the output chain to do the DNS resolution on the fly. That would mean

Re: [SLUG] terminal emulator

2003-07-17 Thread Broun, Bevan
on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:45:25PM +, Peter Fenelon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm goning to be installing a Linux server on a primary school network so as > to give year six students a bit of a play with something that is not > Windows. > My question is: > Is there a free terminal em

Re: [SLUG] terminal emulator

2003-07-17 Thread Anth Courtney
Peter, > Is there a free terminal emulator available so as to allow the students > access to the Linux server from Windows workstations? putty. supports both telnet and ssh. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty -- anth "sanchez" courtney - sysadmin - pnc - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

[SLUG] terminal emulator

2003-07-17 Thread Peter Fenelon
Hi, I'm goning to be installing a Linux server on a primary school network so as to give year six students a bit of a play with something that is not Windows. My question is: Is there a free terminal emulator available so as to allow the students access to the Linux server from Windows workstati

[SLUG] (?) X, ipx confilcts IBM R31 Thinkpad

2003-07-17 Thread Laurie Savage
Dear Sluggers, When my laptop is connected to our Novell network my display and keyboard freeze 9 out of 10 times when I log out of Windowmaker or Gnome. If I halt the system from a terminal window in either of these I get a kernel panic message after the system starts to close down. If I issu

[SLUG] RE: Ron's Mandrake install probs.

2003-07-17 Thread mick
Hi all, I just reads Ron's Mandrake 9.1 upgrade woes and thought I might throw this into the ring. I have made a habit of creating a partition called Home During my linux installs. This way my data is always intact even if an install goes horribly wrong, or if I have reinstall the OS (Like re

[SLUG] Simple Error with CLISP

2003-07-17 Thread Malcolm Johnston
Dear SLUGGERS, I have just downloaded and compiled the version of CLISP that Bruno Haible, Michael Stoll, Marcus Daniels, Pierpaolo Bernadini and Sam Steingold have put together. The version in question is copyrighted 2002 by B.H. and Sam Steingold. While (load "tests") and (run-all-tests) work

Re: [SLUG] ASP web pages on Apache/Linux

2003-07-17 Thread James Dumay
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 09:14, Bernhard Lüder wrote: Heh. Asp 3 or .NET? google the mono project for .net and goodluck use IIS for asp ffs :) > Hi, > > I was wondering, if anyone has any experience with running ASP (Active > Server Pages) on an Apache web server on a RedHat OS? > > Regards > Ber

[SLUG] Apache vhost logs managemt

2003-07-17 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm setting up Apache 1.3x with name vhost and I need to set up log handling for all vhosts; basically, I'd like to is: process yesterday's logs to resolve IP addresses; gzip yesterday's logs (is bzip2 what should be used instead of gzip ?); have logs saved with some sort of dd-mm-yy suggestions

[SLUG] anti-nida apache conf mods ?

2003-07-17 Thread Voytek Eymont
my yes to be used Apache is already coping hits from nida and the like: -- 203.207.183.100 - - [15/Jul/2003:12:14:58 +1000] "GET /default.ida?X X

Re: [SLUG] Writing GUI apps for "Linux" (FOSS platforms)

2003-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> As far as anything to do with .NET bindings to FOSS, that will probably > end up a bigger can of worms than SCO. I can almost here big Bill in > Seattle in the background "Mwah, hwa, hwa" (little finger on side of > cheek) Only if people use/rewrite non-ECMA bits, which may be encumbered. .NE

[SLUG] IPsec AES module

2003-07-17 Thread pauld
Hi all, I've been working on some freeswan ipsec stuff of late. I've got just about everything as I want it. But I'd like to ditch 3DES for AES. Doesn't appear too difficult, load the module and config ipsec.conf. Okay but where did my module go? To get ipsec I've compiled 2.4.20 with kernel

Re: [SLUG] This slipped through the SLUG mail

2003-07-17 Thread Laurie Savage
Sorry, I wasn't sure about the correct procedure here. You should not have received any binary stuff though, I sent a text copy of the raw email and deleted the pif file. Laurie On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > This nasty little piece slipped through the mailing list. I assume

RE: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 downgrade

2003-07-17 Thread Jon Biddell
-=> Great. Here I sit, stuck in the world of M$ writing this -=> email cause I just upgraded to 9.1 Somebody should have -=> told me about the descent -=> (downgrade) on the other side. Did you specify an UPGRADE rather than an INSTALL when you started (silly question, I know, but) ? -=>

[SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 downgrade

2003-07-17 Thread Ron Daniel
Great. Here I sit, stuck in the world of M$ writing this email cause I just upgraded to 9.1 Somebody should have told me about the descent (downgrade) on the other side. How in the world is this FOSS stuff going to make critical mass in the desktop arena if, when at release 9.1 in 2003 I find mys

Re: [SLUG] Writing GUI apps for "Linux" (FOSS platforms)

2003-07-17 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Being a business app developer from wy back I've pondered this for a while. I really want to keep my current customer base in Windows happy whilst slowly converting them over to Linux on the desktop. There are bucket loads of options for you to think about. If you're looking for a solution

Re: [SLUG] debian kernel 2.4.21 with freeswan 2.00 and herberts patch

2003-07-17 Thread Alexander Samad
Damned western australians you need the freeswan-module-source packages, the patch is applied agains this module. On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:56:53PM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to get freeswan working with the 2.4.21 debian kernel > (which Herbert backported the 2.5

Re: [SLUG] Music management software for 'embedded' jukeboxes

2003-07-17 Thread Amanda
Jeff, I'm using SME server 5.6 (was e-smith) with the apacheMP3 addon. Other people use the NetJuke addon. I've got no idea what icecast is, but it streams to XMMS or WinAmp on that other OS. I mount the thing to my Linux box using smbfs to copy files across. Don't think it will do audio out loca