[SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile?

2003-08-07 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Chris" == Chris Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> Hi sluggers, I have recently installed Debian 3.0r1. I'm Chris> fairly new to debian, but I thought I was going ok until i Chris> tried to compile something. Get apt to install all the build prerequsistes for something simple. apt

[SLUG] Videolan server

2003-08-07 Thread Vlad
HI all, Is there anyone who is a guru with the videolan server (v 0.5.3 on RH9)? pls reply off list. Thanks, Vlad p.s - very desperate and in need of help urgently for a project. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] postfix performance

2003-08-07 Thread Dave Kempe
Hey sluggers, I have a client that is mailing out to a fairly large list of people (subscribers of course :) and they are using postfix on debian woody. Does anyone know if the emails that are sent to 1 single MX record say for bigpond.com are received by postfix within a reasonable time period, do

Re: [SLUG] open source windows software

2003-08-07 Thread Mary
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003, Adam Hewitt wrote: > I have just had to resign myself to install windows on my work PC for > various reasons and I was wondering if anyone knows of a place that > contains a list of open source software for windows such as Mozilla? It's a long list to the point of being unusa

Re: [SLUG] basename & files and paths with embedded spaces

2003-08-07 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Yes it was a quoting issue. Tired and sick (in that order). FWIW here is a script that if you use gnome nautilus will create a pdf of a multi page tiff into the same dir. ie place script in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts : #!/bin/sh BASENAME=`basename "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS"` DIR=`d

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-07 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Gonzalo, Try removing everything that is *not* absolutely needed in the computer. Ie all the cards that are not needed. Could be one of those causing the problem. Remove *one* of the memory chips if possible and leave the other in. then change it over. some systems will allow this. remove CD

RE: [SLUG] ADSL Modem Recommendations please.

2003-08-07 Thread Jon Biddell
-=> I'm shortly to move house, and I'll be able to gain -=> access to ADSL (once -=> I get Telstra to lay the 'phone cables - 7 + weeks to date), so I'm -=> interested in info re suitable recommended modems. Gee, 7 weeks It's taken me 4.5 YEARS so far...:-( -=> -=> I won't be going with

Re: [SLUG] open source windows software

2003-08-07 Thread mlh
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:47:12 +1000 Mary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ .. ] I didn't look very hard, but I > don't see a way to specify "windows AND osi approved licence" in their > search engine. I think you can do stuff like this, but you have to login. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Re: ADSL Modem Recommendations please.

2003-08-07 Thread Chris Deigan
Anand Kumria wrote: >Also try and go for an ISP which uses either bridging or routing rather >(Telstra ADSL B or C modes, iirc) than PPPoE. That way, you won't be >subject to strange PMTU/MTU problems/clamping. I haven't heard of any issues with PPPoE, and it is the fairly standard way in Austra

RE: [SLUG] open source windows software

2003-08-07 Thread Jon Biddell
There is a CD available called The Open CD, which contains Open Source equivalents of commercial Windows programs... Have a look at the AARNET mirror... Jon -=>-Original Message- -=>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Hewitt -=>Sent: Thursday, 7 August

Re: [SLUG] apt-rpm and some weirdness

2003-08-07 Thread Ramon Buckland
> > > > So I'm probably stating the obvious, but I'd start by checking that the > > machine has a working copy of bzip2. Yeah, he is there and working. Tested downloding the files using wget and then 'bzip2 -d'd them. > Those files are on freshrpms, I can > > see them from here anyway. Yp I can

Re: [SLUG] Segmentation fault on passwd

2003-08-07 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 08:42:26 +1000 > Run passwd as root under strace and ltrace, and see where it bombs. It Matthew, I hope it tells you more than it tells me... read(5, "", 4096) = 0 getuid32()

Re: [SLUG] Benefits of source distro (Gentoo) somewhat elusive :-)

2003-08-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
> And we always build the kernel from scratch. ... > Is it that difficult to manage ? Not at all. Big difference between the kernel (which a lot of people build from source for various incredibly valid reasons) and the entire system. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia

Re: [SLUG] Re: ADSL Modem Recommendations please.

2003-08-07 Thread Del
I'll back up Matthew Palmer and David Kempe on this. Go the bridged mode. TPG is the easiest ISP to connect to with just about any kind of ethernet device supported. Give yourself the IP address, netmask, gateway, and DNS servers they specify, plug into your bridged mode ADSL router and Robert's

Re: Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-07 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 7/08/2003 11:14 AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you run a complete memory test over the system. Quite often these sort of things are a dud memory chip. Yeah, I ran memtest for 8 hours overnight with no problems. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org

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Re: [SLUG] open source windows software

2003-08-07 Thread James Gray
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 04:57 pm, Adam Hewitt wrote: > Hi All, > > I have just had to resign myself to install windows on my work PC for > various reasons and I was wondering if anyone knows of a place that > contains a list of open source software for windows such as Mozilla? > > If I have to support M

Re: [SLUG] Re: ADSL Modem Recommendations please.

2003-08-07 Thread Adam Hewitt
Just cross your fingers that you dont ever have a problem, because the TPG Network Engineers are morons. Adam. On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 05:51, David Kempe wrote: > If anyone wants to use a Netgear DM602 with TPG in bridged mode, the latest > firmware off the website doesn't work real well. > I obta

Re: [SLUG] Segmentation fault on passwd

2003-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:57:48PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: > I've created a new user, and, tried to assign him a password, but I get 'seg > fault' > > tried both as root, and, as the user himself, same fault > > Changing password for user ray. > New password: > (data fseek failed): Invalid ar

Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create

2003-08-07 Thread mlh
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:04:15AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: > # rpm -e glibc-devel Don't erase, 'upgrade' or freshen to the same or later version: rpm -U glibc-devel rpm -F glibc-devel I haven't ever tried this, so you may need an additional --force option. BTW, it's a bit of a concern that

[SLUG] ltsp font problem

2003-08-07 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, Few a few deft moves I managed to delete my lts.conf file and the backup (takes talent). I have re-built everything -almost. The fonts in the menus etc look like bar-codes! I assumed this was a font-server problem. I have the font server running on the ltsp server. When I enable USE_XFS in