Re: [SLUG] Screen Capture

2003-08-18 Thread Adam Hewitt
dude...you might want to set your date...unless of course your an avid hippy!! On Fri, 1970-01-02 at 12:22, Lyle Chapman wrote: -- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1/278 Stirling Highway, Claremont WA 6010

[SLUG] radius python script

2003-08-18 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, Being the crap programmer that I am I recently enlisted the help of StevenK to write a radius web frontend in python, and although I am much appreciative to Steven for his efforts I am still having a problem and dont particularly want to bother Steven with my inferior programming and troub

[SLUG] Screen Capture

2003-08-18 Thread Lyle Chapman
Does anybody know of a good motion screen capture utility. I am creating a demo of something on screen in KDE an need to create a video file of what I am doing to show others. Any help is always gladly appreciated. Lyle Chapman Pre-Press Supervisor Torch Publishing Co. www.torchpublishing.com

Re: [SLUG] what tool to mirror/sync data with ?

2003-08-18 Thread Michael Sztachanski
Voytek, use rsync. Excellent package.Let me know how you do. cheers Michael -- Michael Sztachanski Consulting Engineer m: +61 410 547593 DATAPAC On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:18, Voytek Eymont wrote: > what should I use to mirror user data to another Linux machine ? > > I need to initially copy

[SLUG] Samba moving files

2003-08-18 Thread Scott Ragen
Hi All, I would google search on this problem if I could, but I don't where I would start... so any pointers, or the answer would be appreciated. My problem is: A client ftp's files to our customer for processing, the connection goes as such: ftp client> win2k-->through samba to Linux (S:\) (

[SLUG] backing up MySQL data ? InfoZIP OK for *nix ?

2003-08-18 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have a several small databases for dynamic web contents using ISAM and InnoDB formats, on my current MySQL server it runs a daily procedure that: 1.shuts down MySQLd; 2.runs isamcheck; 3.back up data dir tree; 4.restarts MySQLd; 5.dumps all data (so I have 'double' backup: 3.-data files and 5.-

Re: [SLUG] what tool to mirror/sync data with ?

2003-08-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:18, Voytek Eymont wrote: > what should I use to mirror user data to another Linux machine ? > > I need to initially copy the whole dir, and then, once in a while, check > for updated docs, and, copy any updated or new files look up rsync -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org de

Re: [SLUG] what tool to mirror/sync data with ?

2003-08-18 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:18:55AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: > what should I use to mirror user data to another Linux machine ? rsync. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

Re: [SLUG] PCMCIA modem cards for linux

2003-08-18 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Crossfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 02:44:28 +1000 > I personally never liked the realport cards - they took up too much space. YES > (Whatever happened to being able to plug in a wireless card and a modem at > the same time? Or a modem and CF adapter? etc.

[SLUG] what tool to mirror/sync data with ?

2003-08-18 Thread Voytek Eymont
what should I use to mirror user data to another Linux machine ? I need to initially copy the whole dir, and then, once in a while, check for updated docs, and, copy any updated or new files Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.or

RE: [SLUG] Linux and the future?

2003-08-18 Thread Rowling, Jill
Yes, that may well be the case. Different distro manufacturers do deals with various non-free suppliers so you may find some extra goodies in the more expensive distros that you might otherwise not get. For example, they may sometimes bundle any of the following extra items in with it: Oracle dev

Re: [SLUG] Netgear Wireless

2003-08-18 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Crossfire wrote: If what you're realling intending to do is set up the linux box as a AP (which is what I've done - and in fact, if SLUG would like a talk on it, and home 802.11b wireless networks and security, start booking now. :) This would make an excellent talk. Combines a bit of networkin

Re: [SLUG] configuring Postfix for Maildir

2003-08-18 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Not sure if this is relevant but I followed this path and decided that I would use procmail for the maildir and mail filtering bit not postfix. I think this was because I wanted to slip an anti-virus scanner in betwixt the two. Procmail will give you a few nice added benefits (filtering mail in

Re: [SLUG] using .htaccess to enable dir access ?

2003-08-18 Thread Rick Welykochy
Voytek Eymont wrote: > > Rick, > > it didn't like this part > > > > > > > [Mon Aug 18 22:01:54 2003] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart > Syntax error on line 214 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: > Invalid command '', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module

[SLUG] Slug Logo Comp [Last Days]

2003-08-18 Thread Jaime Hemmett
SLUG, We've already had a few entries for the competition but there's still a few days to go. To see existing entries head to: http://www.slug.org.au/gallery/sluglogocomp/ For your chance to win $100 and to have your logo design used for SLUGs website (and future tshirts or caps) get creative the

Re: [SLUG] configuring Postfix for Maildir

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin Saenz
Have a look at the original Maildir privilages you will see each mail dirs have -rw-rw uidmail uid dunno if I am looking in the right area. > I'm trying to configure Postfix for Maildir, > > (Maildir is the wau to go, no ?) > > I've edited /etc/postfix/main.cf > > .. > home_mai

Re: [SLUG] Netgear Wireless

2003-08-18 Thread Crossfire
mick was once rumoured to have said: > Hi All, > > A friend of mine (who owns a pub and will pay me in BEER! to fix > this)has asked me to set up a wireless LAN for him. > > I suggested a Linux Box for the server, because I always recommended > Linux. > > He has given me an IBM Aptiva for th

Re: [SLUG] PCMCIA modem cards for linux

2003-08-18 Thread Crossfire
Ramon Buckland was once rumoured to have said: > The 56k Realports were great > (and very reliable .. no breakage on the dongle of course). > > Not too sure if you can still get them in modem only form, > and xircom were always more expensive. I believe Xircom now makes the "Realport2" family -

[SLUG] configuring Postfix for Maildir

2003-08-18 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm trying to configure Postfix for Maildir, (Maildir is the wau to go, no ?) I've edited /etc/postfix/main.cf .. home_mailbox = Maildir/ .. no other dirs were specified I then sent an email to 'voytek@(thishost) that worked OK, and, Postfix created a dir structure below # ls -l /home/voytek

Re: [SLUG] using .htaccess to enable dir access ?

2003-08-18 Thread Voytek Eymont
Rick, it didn't like this part [Mon Aug 18 22:01:54 2003] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart Syntax error on line 214 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Invalid command '', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration Voyt

[SLUG] Netgear Wireless

2003-08-18 Thread mick
Addo expounded Not that this is going to help much, (You said it)but Netgear access points are actually a wireless pcmcia card inside a small (tiny) linux server running 2.4.16 if I recall correctly...StevenK can correct me if I am wrong... Trivia points 10/10 ... Practical application ... hard t

Re: [SLUG] Help with Pattern matching with perl!!

2003-08-18 Thread Angus Lees
At Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:45:21 +1000, Louis Selvon wrote: > I am trying to extract all the data from the table under the "Team", > "Manager", "TP" stuff. HTML::TableExtract makes tasks like that trivial. I strongly recommend you check it out (you can find it on CPAN if it isn't already packaged for

[SLUG] Apache; apache vs nobody user

2003-08-18 Thread Voytek Eymont
RH73 A1.3x looking at my Apache installation, i have User/Group apache(48)/48> in the httpd.conf looking at another RH machine, it has User/Group nobody(99)/-1 what is the difference in having either ? (the owner of the other machine told me: my fried set it up, I don;t know what's wh

[SLUG] Webmin : LDAP User and Group

2003-08-18 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
G'day, Does anybody using Webmin: LDAP User and Group under Debian box? Since web author og the module and webmin didnt provide HowTo_setup_the_right_things, so I assume if I can manage to provide the User and Group organization unit in the LDAP, webmin just able to use it. I read a HowTo from ht

Re: [SLUG] Linux and the future?

2003-08-18 Thread Dan Banyard
Thanks for the replies. I understand the larger costs are associated with the support contracts. I have done further investigation and the latest versions of SuSE Professional are shipped without any server applications (8.2). So it would seem that it is not possible to get the SLES OS without

Re: [SLUG] Netgear Wireless

2003-08-18 Thread Adam Hewitt
Not that this is going to help much, but Netgear access points are actually a wireless pcmcia card inside a small (tiny) linux server running 2.4.16 if I recall correctly...StevenK can correct me if I am wrong... Adam. On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 15:59 Australia/Perth, mick wrote: Hi All, A

Re: [SLUG] Linux and the future?

2003-08-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Firstly SuSE has a much longer product life cycle when compared to Red > Hat. On the standard products SuSE has a two year life cycle whereas Red > Hat is only six months. This is only true for Red Hat's "community" releases (ie. not AS, ES or WS). - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Au

[SLUG] Netgear Wireless

2003-08-18 Thread mick
Hi All, A friend of mine (who owns a pub and will pay me in BEER! to fix this)has asked me to set up a wireless LAN for him. I suggested a Linux Box for the server, because I always recommended Linux. He has given me an IBM Aptiva for the server hardware (perfect), a netgear wireless Hub and

Re: [SLUG] Linux and the future?

2003-08-18 Thread Graham Smith
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:44, Dan Banyard wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to try and get some opinion on the future of Linux. > > I have been using SuSE Linux for over 3 years now for my business. I am > currently configuring a new server on which I will host my web server, > email and other vital comp