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2003-07-29 Thread Avery Wilcox
Breakthrough in modern medicine! Get rid of your cold/flu overnight, and u will be surprised at what else it is capable of doing. Why treat yourself when u can cure yourself? This is an all natural scientific breakthrough that major drug companies do not

Re: [SLUG] anyone tried 2.6.0-test-beta?

2003-07-29 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 2:28 pm, Tuesday, July 29 2003, Angus Lees mumbled: The Debian ALSA (user-space) packages don't yet cope with modprobe.conf transparently either (/me pokes stevenk) Support for module-init-tools is coming as I find time. Linda 0.3 is being a harsh mistress is demanding lots of attention

Re: [SLUG] Re: imap mail box for me?

2003-07-29 Thread DE LUCA Ben
well i have one of those but I cant recieve mail there (firewall). On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:40, Chris Deigan wrote: DE LUCA Ben wrote: I just looks like pop mail to me, I need IMAP or laptop. And i think IMAP is cheaper. A shell (ssh) account may also be what you are after.. - Chris

[SLUG] OT mergeant and oracle

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Heycock
Has anyone had any joy running mergeant with Oracle? The gnome-db web site says that it supports Oracle but I haven't had much joy. I'm running debian unstable. Thanks rgh -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of

Re: [SLUG] Re: imap mail box for me?

2003-07-29 Thread John McQuillen
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 16:28, DE LUCA Ben wrote: well i have one of those but I cant recieve mail there (firewall). On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:40, Chris Deigan wrote: DE LUCA Ben wrote: I just looks like pop mail to me, I need IMAP or laptop. And i think IMAP is cheaper. A shell

up2date -f kernel did; Re: [SLUG] updating kernel, reboot after ?

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:53:32 +1000 Try up2date -f kernel from the commandline. Jamie, that worked pefectly, thanks. uname -a Linux 2.4.20-19.7 #1 Tue Jul 15 13:44:14 EDT 2003 i686 unknown Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] can't write superblock when unmounting SMB share

2003-07-29 Thread Douglas Stalker
RedHat 9.0, SAMBA 3.0.0beta3 I'm having problems unmounting a remote SMB share, and I'd like to get it unmounted without resorting to rebooting the linux system. The problem I get when trying to unmount it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pristic01]# umount share_images umount: share_images: can't write

[SLUG] httpd.conf performance options suggestions

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
any thoughts on starting values for httpd.conf options like: (defaults) Timeout 300 KeepAlive Off MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 KeepAliveTimeout 15 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 20 StartServers 8 MaxClients 150 MaxRequestsPerChild 1000 (just looking on my OS/2 Apache, for reasons that I no longer

Re: [SLUG] can't write superblock when unmounting SMB share

2003-07-29 Thread Brett Fenton
umount -l ? On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 20:48, Douglas Stalker wrote: RedHat 9.0, SAMBA 3.0.0beta3 I'm having problems unmounting a remote SMB share, and I'd like to get it unmounted without resorting to rebooting the linux system. The problem I get when trying to unmount it: [EMAIL

[SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
I just edited httpd.conf on a non-*nix machine, and, now have have lots of CtrlMs in the file: I uploaded the file back to linux machine, and, it seems OK, it looks OK in an editor, though, mc shows the CtrlM I know there is the issue of CR/LF vs LF vs CR DOS/*nix/Mac, BUT will it cause real

Re: [SLUG] httpd.conf performance options suggestions

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:07:47 any thoughts on starting values for httpd.conf options like: also: this should be enabled, yes ? 'CacheNegotiatedDocs' should I also enable the perl section: #IfModule mod_perl.c #Alias /perl /var/www/perl

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread Mary
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: - what can I use to strip the CR ? The command dos2unix will do this. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Apache: single directive to protect /admin/ on all vhosts ? OptionsInludes ?

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
is there a way (how ?) to put a single directive to password-protect same name directory across all v-hosts I have ? at the moment, I use an individual directive for each vhost, can I use like a wild card char in dir path, like: .. Directory /users/*/web/admin .. instead of .. Directory

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:50:53 +1000 The command dos2unix will do this. thanks, Mary is this part of some utilities ? my RH73 seems devoid of it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# dos2unix bash: dos2unix: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# whereis

Re: [SLUG] Quiet keyboards

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Neal
Hai Its funny Ive got an old IBM keyboard circa 1981 and it makes the average keyboard of today sound absolutely dead quiet. Ok back to your problem Its like this any plastic keyboard or any keyboard using plastic keys will click thanks to the return spring. All is not lost though you can

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread Brett Fenton
tr -d '[\200-\377]' infile outfile -d deletes \200-\377 is all non-ascii characters infile is the http.conf you have outfile is the stream output brett On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 07:47, Voytek Eymont wrote: I just edited httpd.conf on a non-*nix machine, and, now have have lots of CtrlMs in the

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread Mary
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: ** Reply to note from Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:50:53 +1000 The command dos2unix will do this. thanks, Mary is this part of some utilities ? my RH73 seems devoid of it: Google (search phrase dos2unix red hat) gave me this as

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:50:53 +1000, Mary wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: - what can I use to strip the CR ? The command dos2unix will do this. tr -d '\r' dosfile unixfile will also do the trick for simple cases. I usually just load it up in an editor (emacs or vi) and

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread Brett Fenton
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 08:54, Angus Lees wrote: vi: :%s/.$// - which is a cop-out, since I can never remember how to put a literal \r in :%s;\r;;g brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Angus Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:54:54 + Angus, Brett, thanks, one worked, one did not: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voytek]# tr -d '\r' httpd.linux unixfile2 worked OK [EMAIL PROTECTED] voytek]# tr -d '[\200-\377]' httpd.linux unixfile1 didn't work...

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread Greg Hosler
On 30-Jul-2003 Voytek Eymont wrote: ** Reply to note from Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:50:53 +1000 The command dos2unix will do this. thanks, Mary is this part of some utilities ? my RH73 seems devoid of it: it's there. look for the dos2unix package. it's on disc 2.

[SLUG] [OT] mergeant and oracle

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Heycock
Has anyone had any joy running mergeant with Oracle? The gnome-db web site says that it supports Oracle but I haven't had much joy. I'm running debian unstable. Thanks rgh -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of

Re: [SLUG] C - exec fn call env vars

2003-07-29 Thread mlh
The unix programming faq discusses this. It's not really a C question. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] httpd dead but subsys locked

2003-07-29 Thread Garres, Erik
Hello slug I friend help me with that shutdown -Fr now if that doent work, then will have to reinstall apache. Cheer Erik Garres Comspec Communications, Inc. phone: 416.785.3553 x239| [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 416.807.3411 | http://comspec.com image001.jpg--

RE: [SLUG] Quiet keyboards

2003-07-29 Thread Robert Tillsley
I have one of those old IBM ones as well. My wife made me buy her a new one when I tried to hand it down to her... Made me feel like I was using a typewriter. Cheers Rob T -Original Message- From: Richard Neal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2003 10:30 PM To:

[SLUG] tiff - multi-page viewer solution

2003-07-29 Thread Stuart Guthrie
User requirement: Receiving faxes via efax/jfax whatever. All come in as multi-page tif. Which apparently is a bit of a standard in 'document management software' circles. Perfect solution: To provide in the combo box on the evolution email, an option to view all pages (electric eyes only

[SLUG] tripwire, is it practical worthwile ? or, a 'great idea' ?

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
I see the cron on my RH73 is attempting to run tripwire - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To [EMAIL PROTECTED] DateTue, 29 Jul 2003 14:02:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily .. /etc/cron.daily/tripwire-check: Error:

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:30:18 , Voytek Eymont wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voytek]# tr -d '[\200-\377]' httpd.linux unixfile1 didn't work... no it wouldn't since \r is \015, which isn't between \200 and \377. (see man ascii) the above command would strip 8 bit characters (the top half of the

Re: [SLUG] tiff - multi-page viewer solution

2003-07-29 Thread Angus Lees
At Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:32:03 +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: Receiving faxes via efax/jfax whatever. All come in as multi-page tif. Which apparently is a bit of a standard in 'document management software' circles. For what its worth, the best format for scanned (or faxed) documents sounds like

Re: [SLUG] httpd.conf performance options suggestions

2003-07-29 Thread Andrew McNaughton
This stuff tends to be quite dependent on the server. Among other things it depends on the kind of traffic pattern you get, the ammount of memory you have, what's compiled into apache (especially if you use mod_perl). My site (www.scoop.co.nz) got slashdotted 3 weeks back, and the main problem

Re: [SLUG] httpd.conf performance options suggestions

2003-07-29 Thread Andrew McNaughton
Are you using mod_perl, or just perl CGI? I doubt mrtg is running so often as to be a performance bottleneck? Andrew On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: ** Reply to note from Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:07:47 any thoughts on starting values for httpd.conf

Re: [SLUG] tiff - multi-page viewer solution

2003-07-29 Thread Chris Johns
Stuart Guthrie wrote: This will convert a tiff to pdf and view it in xpdf. Interestingly 'convert' did a really bad job of multi-page tif to pdf direct. ps2pdf was much better. Also it's fast, less than a second to do 6 pages to pdf from tif. Probably due to what Gus mentioned about tif just

Re: [SLUG] httpd.conf performance options suggestions

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Andrew McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:43:19 +1200 (NZST) Andrew, we turned KeepAlive on (contrary to stuff I'd heard earlier) and cut the KeepAliveTimeout to 1 second. that similar to what we done few years back, set it 'ON', when we had a busy

Re: [SLUG] httpd.conf performance options suggestions

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Andrew McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:44:32 +1200 (NZST) Are you using mod_perl, or just perl CGI? I doubt mrtg is running so often as to be a performance bottleneck? Andrew, at this time, I think, the only perl we use is in mrtg; a friend of

Re: [SLUG] tiff - multi-page viewer solution

2003-07-29 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Voytek wrote: would you mind emailing me a demo fax page as well it's PDF, just curious what results you get, I tried that a long time ago, using acrobat (or, I should say, some used a crobat to convert my scanned stuff), and, I wsn't impressed in the qulity. Quality was OK. Can't send you a demo

Re: [SLUG] httpd.conf performance options suggestions

2003-07-29 Thread Andrew McNaughton
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: ** Reply to note from Andrew McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:44:32 +1200 (NZST) Are you using mod_perl, or just perl CGI? I doubt mrtg is running so often as to be a performance bottleneck? Andrew, at this time, I think,

[SLUG] rhn system profile: real IP or 127.0.0.1 ?

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
Q for anyone using RHN: does your RHN profile reflect the hosts's proper IP address, or, '127.0.0.1' ? I've set up a RH73 machine, it registered OK on RHN, it gets updates OK from RHN, basically , it works all OK as far as I can tell, but, RHN profile for this has CORRECT hostname, but 'IP

Re: [SLUG] httpd.conf performance options suggestions

2003-07-29 Thread Andrew McNaughton
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: ** Reply to note from Andrew McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:43:19 +1200 (NZST) Andrew, we turned KeepAlive on (contrary to stuff I'd heard earlier) and cut the KeepAliveTimeout to 1 second. that similar to what we done few

[SLUG] Display a block of lines in the middle of a file

2003-07-29 Thread James Gray
Hi All, A bit of a weird one, but I was wondering if anyone knows a simpler way to display a block of lines in the middle of a file. Say lines 10-25 from /var/log/messages? I'm currently doing it like this: head -25 /var/log/messages | tail -15 Any other ideas?? -- James

Re: [SLUG] multi lingual, multi code page web ?

2003-07-29 Thread Christopher Vance
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:23:17PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: : so: is there a way to co-exist say French and Polish chars.. on one : web page ? where both require different char. sets ? utf8? -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread James Gregory
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 23:00, Brett Fenton wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 08:54, Angus Lees wrote: vi: :%s/.$// - which is a cop-out, since I can never remember how to put a literal \r in :%s;\r;;g or ctrl-v ctrl-m to get the character you want in the regex. James. -- SLUG -

RE: [SLUG] can't write superblock when unmounting SMB share

2003-07-29 Thread Rowling, Jill
Possibly share_images is mounted read-only or if it's a share on another machine, it's not allowed to write. Root on one machine is just Joe Hickey on the other. On the machine that has the physical disk, you probably need to set the share rwx for all. If the machine that has the physical disk is

Re: [SLUG] dam mandrake and @localhost

2003-07-29 Thread James Gregory
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 12:00, Simon Males wrote: i have setup my system with various versions of mandrake over time, and i swear by fluke i sometimes stumble upon the 'part' of setting hostname. currently my system is called localhost (not very helpful on a network). Which files should i

RE: [SLUG] can't write superblock when unmounting SMB share

2003-07-29 Thread Douglas Stalker
Possibly share_images is mounted read-only or if it's a share on another machine, it's not allowed to write. I think that's the problem - The share is a Windows read-only share, but I had 'rw' in the /etc/fstab line for it. The lesson here is be careful when you cut and paste. :-) I'll

Re: [SLUG] dam mandrake and @localhost

2003-07-29 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=James Gregory find /etc -type f -exec grep -ln `hostname` {} \; 2 /dev/null Or, more compactly grep -rln `hostname` /etc 2 /dev/null The important part being the -r for recursive grep J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ENOSIG -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] dam mandrake and @localhost

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30 Jul 2003 13:41:48 +1000 find /etc -type f -exec grep -ln `hostname` {} \; 2 /dev/null James, thanks for a handy line ! hmmm, is that correct to have 127.0.0.1 in this, rather than the proper IP address ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat

Re: [SLUG] multi lingual, multi code page web ?

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Christopher Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:21:45 +1000 : so: is there a way to co-exist say French and Polish chars.. on one : web page ? where both require different char. sets ? utf8? Christopher, (that's Unicode, yes ? ) are the common

Re: [SLUG] dam mandrake and @localhost

2003-07-29 Thread Tony Green
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:26, Jan Schmidt wrote: grep -rln `hostname` /etc 2 /dev/null Compact but not always correct. If there are sockets or other random (solarisy) things in /etc the grep will 'hang' until it sees an EOF from the file in question. The find avoids that by giving '-type f'

[SLUG] usefulness of DVD-R/RW drive

2003-07-29 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Hi folks, I've got a chance to get one of these somewhat cheaply. Not cheaply enough not to think about it though. It's a Cendyne and it says it does: DVD+R DVD+RW CD-RW and a list of various CD whatever formats that looks like what my CDRW drive can already do. I've got a Thinkpad and an

Re: [SLUG] dam mandrake and @localhost

2003-07-29 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Simon Males wrote: James Gregory wrote: find can tell you the answer to this. The file you're looking for is /etc/sysconfig/network. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sime]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes Add a line HOSTNAME=foo.bar to that file. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] dam mandrake and @localhost

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30 Jul 2003 14:35:42 +1000 hmmm, is that correct to have 127.0.0.1 in this, rather than the proper IP address ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts whoa, craziness. So, my best guess

Re: [SLUG] dam mandrake and @localhost

2003-07-29 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 10:29, Voytek Eymont wrote: hmmm, is that correct to have 127.0.0.1 in this, rather than the proper IP address ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require

[SLUG] scp syntax

2003-07-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
do I need sshd on my pc to use scp ..? I'm trying to copy some files with scp; I have installed ssh CLIENT stuff only on my OS/2 pc. I did NOT install or configured the sshd stuff I can ssh no probs to the linux box, specify user, it just works BUT, what do I need to scp...? scp says it

Re: [SLUG] scp syntax

2003-07-29 Thread Brett Fenton
you need sshd on the host not the client. syntax is: scp file [EMAIL PROTECTED]: brett Voytek Eymont wrote: do I need sshd on my pc to use scp ..? I'm trying to copy some files with scp; I have installed ssh CLIENT stuff only on my OS/2 pc. I did NOT install or configured the sshd stuff I

Re: [SLUG] scp syntax

2003-07-29 Thread Karl Bowden
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 01:09, Voytek Eymont wrote: do I need sshd on my pc to use scp ..? I'm trying to copy some files with scp; I have installed ssh CLIENT stuff only on my OS/2 pc. I did NOT install or configured the sshd stuff I can ssh no probs to the linux box, specify user, it

Re: [SLUG] scp syntax

2003-07-29 Thread Tony Green
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:29, Tony Green wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:31, Karl Bowden wrote: scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stuff/*.doc theotherbox:~/destdir/ Beware of using a * on an scp, the behaviour greatly depends on the shell you're using. It seems that BASH will work (by fluke) but I

Re: [SLUG] scp syntax

2003-07-29 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Tony Green On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:31, Karl Bowden wrote: scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stuff/*.doc theotherbox:~/destdir/ Beware of using a * on an scp, the behaviour greatly depends on the shell you're using. The problem being that a wildcard is expanded against the current