Re: [SLUG] question on modems.

2003-08-26 Thread Alexander Samad
Sorry a bit of a side question, how well does this card work with linux want to replace my external 28.8 fax/modem - does this one work fine, with the standard kernel ? Alex On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:57:01PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: I have a netcomm internal PCI modem, I'm trying to configure

Re: [SLUG] shell script, how to pass date to output file name ?

2003-08-26 Thread Alexander Samad
Why not do mysqldump $(date +%b-%-d)-dump.sql alex On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:47:41PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm trying to dump data into a date-named file as in: mysqldump %dd%-%mm%-dump.sql so far I made an alias for today, but, supect I might not be heading in the right

Re: [SLUG] modems,ppp, linux (will I ever get online!)

2003-08-26 Thread Alexander Samad
Something you might want to try is use minicom and type commands that you have in your chatscript. The next step would be, bring it back up with pppd and try to ping across the link, then if it falls over try the ati11 - no on all modems, but give you a diagnosis of the last call, including

[SLUG] GDM configuration on debian woody stable

2003-08-26 Thread Brendan Dacre
Gentlepeople, Although I have found a work around to this problem, I would still like to know why it doesn't work properly, and why my work around works when it prints a message on my terminal saying authentication failed! So: (1) When I click the menu item GDM Configurator, I get an error

Re: [SLUG] mysql ..... issues

2003-08-26 Thread Craig Mead
start mysqld up with the --skip-grant-tables option. Taht will turn off all access restrictions so you can go in and fix the access tables (erm, that's the mysql database, not access... you know what I mean) When you're done, kill mysqld and restart it as normal. It can be a bit of a pain

Re: [SLUG] simple graphic utility ?

2003-08-26 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:46:11AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: what's a good simple graphic tool for basics stuff such as resizing, croping etc ? convert, part of ImagMagick. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Which Laptop?

2003-08-26 Thread Anthony Wood
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 03:24:00PM +1000, Anthony Wood wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:54:26PM +1000, Mike MacCana wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 15:02, Anthony Wood wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:29:46PM +1000, Eddie F wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of convincing the boss

Re: [SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil

2003-08-26 Thread Nicholas Wilcox
Jamie Wilkinson said: Watch out for misconfigured webservers used to send spam. I recieved an alert at work about this a few weeks ago: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/12681 -- Cult - A sociotype of an auto-toxic meme-complex, composed of membots and/or memeoids. Memetic Lexicon :

[SLUG] Spam?

2003-08-26 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
G'day, I'm really sorry if this email out of the usual topic. Recrntly I receiving junk email with titles like Details re: Details etc, which comes from hotmail or yahoo users. This email always contain details.pif or other pif(s) files. Does anybody have this experience? what kind of virus is

Re: [SLUG] simple graphic utility ?

2003-08-26 Thread Anthony Wood
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:08:09AM +1000, John Clarke wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:46:11AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: what's a good simple graphic tool for basics stuff such as resizing, croping etc ? convert, part of ImagMagick. convert with perl or shell scripting e.g. mkdir

Re: [SLUG] Spam?

2003-08-26 Thread Kevin Saenz
It's not spam it's SoBig G'day, I'm really sorry if this email out of the usual topic. Recrntly I receiving junk email with titles like Details re: Details etc, which comes from hotmail or yahoo users. This email always contain details.pif or other pif(s) files. Does anybody have this

[SLUG]

2003-08-26 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, While playing around with spamassassin I managed to have all uncoming mail redirected to a file in mbox format. I now need to attempt to seperate the emails and place them in the appropriate Maildir directories. I know it is faily trivial to convert the file to Maildir format, but does

[SLUG] oops...sorry forgot the subject - Mbox/Maildir problem

2003-08-26 Thread Adam Hewitt
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[SLUG] GDM/X corruption issue

2003-08-26 Thread Laurie Savage
I have been running RedHat 8 on an IBM R31 Laptop most of this year with no problems. I am on a Novell netware LAN. If I am plugged into the network when I start up then eth0 is located and connections made during boot - and I get a corrupted screen at the graphic login. If I plug, start the

[SLUG] X min. h/ware specs, was: simple graphic utility ?

2003-08-26 Thread Voytek Eymont
thanks for both suggestions ! what would be a suggested minimum h/ware required to run Linux as a personal w/station _with_ KDE, and, have 'snappy' responses ? I'd like to run say things like Evolution, Mozilla with say 10 tabs, some WP and SS, GIMP, some fax app, 4 command sessions, httpd,

[SLUG] updating kernel and boot floppy

2003-08-26 Thread Voytek Eymont
after updating the kernel, I should update the boot floppy (made at initial install), yes ? as the machine is physically remote from me, it's not always immediatelly possible for me to so, so: if I update kernel, and, for some reason, need to boot with from a floppy , and, all I have is the

Re: [SLUG] updating kernel and boot floppy

2003-08-26 Thread Alexander Samad
My expereince, I keep a copy of knoppix on cd handy for those tight situations A On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:26:52PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: after updating the kernel, I should update the boot floppy (made at initial install), yes ? as the machine is physically remote from me, it's not

[SLUG] php mkdir on remote filesystem

2003-08-26 Thread Amanda Wynne
I have an SME server with an ibay with lots of php.Under /files in this ibay I have mounted a drive on a Windows 2000 server.Php can read files off this remote drive, but I can't mkdir or write to it.My mount command, (which I run from a script), as options, gives a valid username password

Re: [SLUG] updating kernel and boot floppy

2003-08-26 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Alexander Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:35:50 +1000 My expereince, I keep a copy of knoppix on cd handy for those tight situations Alex, so if I boot off knoppix I'll have a working system, as well as access to the HD, ? sounds like something I should

Re: [SLUG] updating kernel and boot floppy

2003-08-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Voytek Eymont so if I boot off knoppix I'll have a working system, as well as access to the HD, ? sounds like something I should get. If you boot off the Red Hat CD using rescue mode, you will also have access to useful utilities and the hard disk. Knoppix is not such a great choice,

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX and the booklet package.

2003-08-26 Thread Ian Su
I don't know about you, but I've always just typeset as normal and then use psbook and mpage to make a booklet. Ian. On 2003-08-25 09:48pm, Terry Collins wrote: Bill Bennett wrote: I wanted to make a small booklet, so I used the booklet package. This package arranges the pages in

Re: [SLUG] X min. h/ware specs, was: simple graphic utility ?

2003-08-26 Thread Andrew McNaughton
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: what's the minimum RAM and CPU I'd need ? I've tried with PII-400 and 256MB, and, the GUI got very gluey. setting KDE to 'least details' didn't seem to make much difference. is there anything else that can be optimized for w/s use ? What's your

Re: [SLUG] php mkdir on remote filesystem

2003-08-26 Thread Brendan Dacre
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:36, Amanda Wynne wrote: I have an SME server with an ibay with lots of php. Under /files in this ibay I have mounted a drive on a Windows 2000 server. Php can read files off this remote drive, but I can't mkdir or write to it. My mount command, (which I run from a

Re: [SLUG] modems,ppp, linux (will I ever get online!)

2003-08-26 Thread James Gregory
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 09:37, Alexander Samad wrote: Something you might want to try is use minicom and type commands that you have in your chatscript. Yeah, minicom's a great tool for debugging this stuff. The other thing I'd recommend is using mcc (mandrake control center) to set it up. I

Re: [SLUG] php mkdir on remote filesystem

2003-08-26 Thread Amanda Wynne
- Original Message - From: Brendan Dacre [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] php mkdir on remote filesystem On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:36, Amanda Wynne wrote: I have an SME server with an ibay with lots of php. Under

[SLUG] Ping me please!

2003-08-26 Thread David Fisher
Would some kind person please try pinging the addresses 202.12.88.42 or 202.12.88.106 and let me know the results, please? I need to test the ICMP block on my router from external ping traffic. -- David Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Ping me please!

2003-08-26 Thread Adam Hewitt
seems to be working #ping 202.12.88.42 PING 202.12.88.42 (202.12.88.42) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 202.12.88.42 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1999ms [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping 202.12.88.106 PING 202.12.88.106 (202.12.88.106) 56(84) bytes of data.

Re: [SLUG] Ping me please!

2003-08-26 Thread Andrew McNaughton
Note that its probably not a good idea to block ICMP source quench packets. Andrew McNaughton On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Adam Hewitt wrote: Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:30:21 +0800 From: Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: SLUG List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [SLUG] Ping me please!

2003-08-26 Thread Eddie F
Oops... Sorry Adam... Sending things to the wrong places! David, If you are atill able to browse the Web, go to: http://www.network-tools.com/ and ping yourself from there! Edd. ~~~ I’m online, therefore I am! ~~~ Original Message Follows From: Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Ping me please!

2003-08-26 Thread David Fisher
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:33, Anthony Wood wrote: Probably not the results you were looking for... You should probably post a follow-up to say you don't need any more help either. You're right. And that is enough, thanks, folks. -- David Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. -- SLUG

[SLUG] Data Format exploration

2003-08-26 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Hi there, I've used a utility to get a CallLog.dat file from my mobile phone. Naturally I'm curious to parse it but it's all icky hex. Does anyone know what utilities are available in Linux to start pulling it apart? CIA Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] X Window Manager config question

2003-08-26 Thread Amanda
Sorry for the slow response. Should be in the menu. Icewm. Settings. Icepref...keybindings. Amanda Quoting Andrew McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Afterstep and it's derivatives are usually pretty good like this. I think windowmaker comes into that category and is probably a bit more

Re: [SLUG] simple applications programming

2003-08-26 Thread Amanda
You need a lamp (linux, apache, mysql, php). Think SME server. One CD, about 350 Mb download. Runs on any Pentium or better. As a bonus, it'll do file serving, webmail, gateway, even a MP3 jukebox. I'm currently writing a replacement for our company's aging custom windows/paradox db document

Re: [SLUG] shell script, how to pass date to output file name ?

2003-08-26 Thread Amanda
this is a snippet from my backup script. the $6-$2-$3 expands as (for example) 2003-Aug-26 Amanda set $(date) # if test $1 = Sun ; then # weekly a full backup of all data and config. settings: # first, backup Cadwal echo full backup Cadwal tar cfz

Re: [SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil

2003-08-26 Thread Del
Nicholas Wilcox wrote: Jamie Wilkinson said: Watch out for misconfigured webservers used to send spam. I recieved an alert at work about this a few weeks ago: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/12681 Use a handsaw to chop wood. Use a hawk to hunt rabbits. Use apache to serve web pages. Use

Re: [SLUG] GDM configuration on debian woody stable

2003-08-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 09:38, Brendan Dacre wrote: Gentlepeople, Although I have found a work around to this problem, I would still like to know why it doesn't work properly, and why my work around works when it prints a message on my terminal saying authentication failed! X security relies

Re: [SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil

2003-08-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:54, Del wrote: (Seriously, through, does anyone actually ever use mod_proxy in apache?). A surprising number. It's always fun to watch the penny drop as the grok squid :}. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt. signature.asc

Re: [SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil

2003-08-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:54, Del wrote: (Seriously, through, does anyone actually ever use mod_proxy in apache?). If you are running a small home network and want a webserver on your external IP then why run squid and apache. Run 1 thing and get both. Would not run it in a real production

Re: [SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil

2003-08-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 22:05, Ken Foskey wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:54, Del wrote: (Seriously, through, does anyone actually ever use mod_proxy in apache?). If you are running a small home network and want a webserver on your external IP then why run squid and apache. Uhmm,

[SLUG] Debian install fails - cant download libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

2003-08-26 Thread Mike Lake
Hi all Jill and I are installing a Debian 3.0r1 onto a machine at home as it now has a new disk and its undergoing a new brain transplant from SUSE to Debian. We are having one problem. We are installing from CD1; The CD is burnt from an iso image and when I mount it the directory looks fine. I

Re: [SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil

2003-08-26 Thread Andrew McNaughton
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Del wrote: (Seriously, through, does anyone actually ever use mod_proxy in apache?). Of course. It's vastly more versatile than squid, and sometimes that's what you need. In particular it's commonly used in combination with mod_rewrite and mod_perl to make a lightweight

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2003-08-26 Thread ptk
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Re: [SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil

2003-08-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 22:51, Andrew McNaughton wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Del wrote: (Seriously, through, does anyone actually ever use mod_proxy in apache?). Of course. It's vastly more versatile than squid, and sometimes that's what you need. In particular it's commonly used in

[SLUG] SME Query

2003-08-26 Thread Raena Lea-Shannon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I work in a small law office,(4 lawyers 3 support staff). We are in the process of upgrading our network system, getting our own mail server and setting up remote access for full virtual consul. Our current IT has proposed an M$ SME Package. Our IT

[SLUG] Debian apt sources question

2003-08-26 Thread Alex Sutcliffe
Hi people, I'm running woody and installed from a cd set. For some time I have been puzzled by the fact that my /apt/get/sources.list file lists the 3 cds I have as unstable. This has puzzled me for a while since I thought that cds were all stable. So I mounted one of the cds and looked at it.

Re: [SLUG] oops...sorry forgot the subject - Mbox/Maildir problem

2003-08-26 Thread David Kempe
does this script help? http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ It is a Perl script that takes one or more Mbox format mailbox files in a directory and convert them to Maildir format mailboxes. dave - Original Message - From: Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SLUG [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Debian install fails - cant downloadlibstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

2003-08-26 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 22:24, Mike Lake wrote: We went to another tty and can see that that file is on the CD in dir /pool/main/g/gcc2.95/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-11woody1_i386.deb and its size is so 142324 bytes. We can also use cp to copy it to /tmp so its certainly readable. Maybe

Re: [SLUG] Data Format exploration

2003-08-26 Thread James Gregory
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 20:25, Stuart Guthrie wrote: Hi there, I've used a utility to get a CallLog.dat file from my mobile phone. Naturally I'm curious to parse it but it's all icky hex. Does anyone know what utilities are available in Linux to start pulling it apart? So, I've recently

[SLUG] Perl fixed; Apt hangs on unlocked directory

2003-08-26 Thread Adam Bogacki
Thanks. In a nutshell .. Tux:/usr/bin# ./perl5.8.0 -V Can't locate Export.pm in @INC (but it gave me the files making up @INC) I copied Exporter.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 and Tux:/usr/bin# ./perl5.8.0 -V [heaps of stuff] @INC /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0