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

2003-07-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Malcolm V Note that trying to re-use your home directories can break things, particular where inappropriate config settings are stored in files like .bashrc To be fair on a distribution If reusing home directories breaks things, and the user hasn't made significant modifications

Re: [SLUG] e-donkey and overnet

2003-07-19 Thread Malcolm V
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 14:44, David Fitch wrote: snipped but it's no good if there's multiple machines behind the one firewall. Surely the edonkey people have thought of that... (I would've thought it could just use the http proxy like other things such as realaudio et al) The only thing the

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

2003-07-19 Thread Malcolm V
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 15:44, Jeff Waugh wrote: If reusing home directories breaks things, and the user hasn't made significant modifications to things like .profile, .bashrc, etc., then it is the distribution's fault, and 100% a bug. If ... If all distributions were identical, you'd never be

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

2003-07-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Malcolm V On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 15:44, Jeff Waugh wrote: If reusing home directories breaks things, and the user hasn't made significant modifications to things like .profile, .bashrc, etc., then it is the distribution's fault, and 100% a bug. If ... If all distributions were

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

2003-07-19 Thread Malcolm V
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 17:57, Jeff Waugh wrote: That's not the point. Assuming the same user database (LDAP, yp, whatever), *nothing* should stop you from logging in to the same home directory from multiple machines. Anything that does is a bug (and yes, there are a few still around in GNOME,

[SLUG] intel i875

2003-07-19 Thread Brett Fenton
has anyone been successful in getting linux to run on a board with an i875 chipset? apparently the latest 2.5.x kernels can support it, but i'm not having a great deal of luck. brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] intel i875

2003-07-19 Thread Brett Fenton
of course after 4 hours of frustration, five minutes after posting, it all works. recompile 2.5.75 with hyperthreading support and all systems are go .. brett On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 20:19, Brett Fenton wrote: has anyone been successful in getting linux to run on a board with an i875 chipset?

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

2003-07-19 Thread Laurie Savage
I agree with Jeff - Shouldn't you be able to log into a /home partition from another machine/distro and read your files? It seems there needs to be a standardisation of uids/gids across distros. The aim is to be mainstream isn't it? Because if it isn't then Gawd help us 5-10-20 years downstream

Re: [SLUG] IPsec AES module

2003-07-19 Thread Alexander Samad
If your quikc you can grab the sources of ftp.aarnet.edu.au They are still there, that is what I had to do! Alex On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:32:42AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From memeory you need kernel-patch-freeswan-ext module instead of kernel-patch-freeswan From what I can find

Re: [SLUG] intel i875

2003-07-19 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 06:57, Brett Fenton wrote: of course after 4 hours of frustration, five minutes after posting, it all works. You're welcome. We live to serve. Cheers, Bret recompile 2.5.75 with hyperthreading support and all systems are go .. brett On Sat, 2003-07-19 at

[SLUG] hardware time, local time in NSW, overriding daylightsavingstart/end ?

2003-07-19 Thread Voytek Eymont
am I correct that I should set Linux hardware time to UTC, and, system to local time ? at 23:57 local time I got this, am I correctly set for NSW ?: does take care for daylight saving changes automagically ? and, If wanted to overide daylight saving 'when to start' (like we did for Olympics),

[SLUG] reloading deamons after altering conf: sighup ?

2003-07-19 Thread Voytek Eymont
what the correct way to reload say httpd or bind or some other deamon after editing it's conf ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] reloading deamons after altering conf: sighup ?

2003-07-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Voytek Eymont what the correct way to reload say httpd or bind or some other deamon after editing it's conf ? Depending on your distro and version, something like: /etc/init.d/apache reload reload, if available, is better than restart in most cases. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au

Re: [SLUG] reloading deamons after altering conf: sighup ?

2003-07-19 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:31:56 +1000 Depending on your distro and version, something like: /etc/init.d/apache reload reload, if available, is better than restart in most cases. thanks, Jeff in RH7.3 i have: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] reloading deamons after altering conf: sighup ?

2003-07-19 Thread Chris Deigan
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Voytek Eymont what the correct way to reload say httpd or bind or some other deamon after editing it's conf ? Depending on your distro and version, something like: /etc/init.d/apache reload reload, if available, is better than restart in most cases. And in

Re: [SLUG] reloading deamons after altering conf: sighup ?

2003-07-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Voytek Eymont do I need to _remember_ this path, or, is there a way of working it out from something ? See Chris's suggestion about the 'service' binary. /etc/init.d/ is burned into my muscle memory, and if you're using Linux regularly, it won't take you very long either. :-) - Jeff

[SLUG] Apache SSL

2003-07-19 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have this Apache on RH73 [Sun Jul 20 04:02:04 2003] [notice] Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_py thon/2.7.8 Python/1.5.2 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_pe rl/1.26 mod_throttle/3.1.2 the 'mod_ssl', 'OpenSSL' part: does that mean I can have https/SSL with this ?

[SLUG] httpd dead but subsys locked ?

2003-07-19 Thread Voytek Eymont
what does one do with this ?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]# /sbin/service httpd status httpd dead but subsys locked [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]# /sbin/service httpd reload Reloading httpd: [FAILED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]# /sbin/service httpd stop Stopping

Re: [SLUG] httpd dead but subsys locked ?

2003-07-19 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 20/07/2003 1:43 AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: what does one do with this ?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]# /sbin/service httpd status httpd dead but subsys locked [..snip..] Try: # killall httpd # rm -f /var/lock/subsys/httpd .. then: # service httpd start [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]#

Re: [SLUG] Apache SSL

2003-07-19 Thread mlh
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:38:00 Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this Apache on RH73 [Sun Jul 20 04:02:04 2003] [notice] Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_py thon/2.7.8 Python/1.5.2 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_pe rl/1.26 mod_throttle/3.1.2

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

2003-07-19 Thread Stuart Guthrie
I guess that if you are sure that Microsoft are not going to use a patent, copyright, christ knows what other legal thingo to bite you in the you know where sometime in the future. It is this sort of thing that wards me off AOP even though a lot of the concepts and implementations look

Re: [SLUG] reloading deamons after altering conf: sighup ?

2003-07-19 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:03:38 +1000 if you're using Linux regularly, it won't take you very long either. :-) well, I was kinda hoping, once I set it up, I won't need to touch it for the next few years.. ;) Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney