Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:56:19 +1100 Benno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was wondering what peoples current experiences with online banking is. I'm currently successfully using commonwealth netbank, and ingdirect however for various reasons I am currently looking at other alternatives.

Re: [SLUG] MYOB on SAMBA share

2003-11-25 Thread Del
How can I speed this up? (shoot the users is not an option :) Start with reading the SAMBA manuals (swat pages, on line doco, etc) about oplocks. Turning them off to get better MYOB performance might be your answer. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] MYOB on SAMBA share

2003-11-25 Thread Del
All clients are windoze. 98se,2kpro, XPpro home. Oh, and get rid of the XP home users NOW. Even windows 3.11 has better network handling than XP home. Migrate them to XP pro or 2K pro. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] MYOB on SAMBA share

2003-11-25 Thread Russell Ashdown
A caution here. If as you say you have multiple users and those users are simultaneously accessing the MYOB DB, be very careful about disabling oplocks. Corruption may well follow. If you want to test, you should backup the affected folder FIRST before disabling oplocks. Then test with the

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-25 Thread Grant Parnell
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Benno wrote: Hi all, I was wondering what peoples current experiences with online banking is. I'm currently successfully using commonwealth netbank, and ingdirect however for various reasons I am currently looking at other alternatives. So what other banks have

[SLUG] compiler warnings

2003-11-25 Thread Ken Foskey
I am getting this error: process.c:1018: warning: passing arg 1 of `putenv' discards qualifiers from pointer target type It turns out that I am sending a const string to putenv which is defined: ./stdlib.h:extern int putenv (char *__string) __THROW; This discards the constness of the string.

Re: [SLUG] compiler warnings

2003-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 23:45, Ken Foskey wrote: I am getting this error: process.c:1018: warning: passing arg 1 of `putenv' discards qualifiers from pointer target type It turns out that I am sending a const string to putenv which is defined: I'd ask on the relevant libc list :] Rob --

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:16:27 +1100 (EST) Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Benno wrote: I was wondering what peoples current experiences with online banking is. I'm currently successfully using commonwealth netbank, and ingdirect however for various reasons I

Re: [SLUG] compiler warnings

2003-11-25 Thread Brett Nash
It turns out that I am sending a const string to putenv which is defined: ./stdlib.h:extern int putenv (char *__string) __THROW; snip Should I raise this as a bug? It isn't actually a bug. putenv puts the supplied string into the environment (not a copy, the supplied string). This means a

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-25 Thread James Gray
Benno wrote: Hi all, I was wondering what peoples current experiences with online banking is. I'm currently successfully using commonwealth netbank, and ingdirect however for various reasons I am currently looking at other alternatives. So what other banks have netbanking that works with linux

Re: [SLUG] compiler warnings

2003-11-25 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:45:48 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: I am getting this error: process.c:1018: warning: passing arg 1 of `putenv' discards qualifiers from pointer target type It turns out that I am sending a const string to putenv which is defined: ./stdlib.h:extern int putenv (char

[SLUG] Good IT Research Tool. www.library.jivalti.com

2003-11-25 Thread Tim Noltes
Folks: I am not trying to promote these guys, but I really liked the detailed info they have on very complex IT products. Check them out at www.library.jivalti.com. Pretty cheap as well. Main site www.jivalti.com They don't accept Yahoo/Hotmail/Excite/Aol etc email ID's in 'New User', needs to

Re: [SLUG] Good IT Research Tool. www.library.jivalti.com

2003-11-25 Thread Malcolm V
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 11:51, Tim Noltes wrote: Folks: I am not trying to promote these guys, but I really ... ... am a bottom of the barrel spammer?? From the original email; Received: from [198.123.20.131] by web20712.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:51:45 PST Some interesting

Re: [SLUG] MYOB on SAMBA share

2003-11-25 Thread Stewart
On 25/11/2003, at 5:21 PM, Four Star Computing Services wrote: I have a network that has just put in a SAMBA server. Debian woody, stable distro installed They are now complaining of the system running slower than before. Previous set-up was Win2kPro workstation sharing the PRM file with 6 users

[SLUG] Status of Debian servers?

2003-11-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi People, Can someone in the know please update us on the current status of the Debian servers? In particular, I would like to know the status of 0) the mailing list subscription service 1) the bug tracking system 2) packages.debian.org Thanks, Erik --

[SLUG] Working more productively with bash 2.x

2003-11-25 Thread Andrew Bennetts
http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml (I found this link on http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/) It looks like a nice summary of some of the handy things bash can do these days -- and undoubtedly a useful link to throw at any person claiming that zsh is a superior shell ;) -Andrew. -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] sudoers syntax - why wont PASSWD ask for a password

2003-11-25 Thread mlh
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:32:17PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I found /etc/sudoers on there when I was seeing how this strange new OS worked and noticed my user had been added to the wheel group and that wheel had full sudo access. I began wondering why linux distros didn't do that :-)

[SLUG] Running SpamAssassin as user nobody

2003-11-25 Thread Howard Lowndes
When I fire up SA in the default mode it fires up as root and when ir gets passed an email by spamc it switches to user nobody. Thus I decided to start it as user nobody anyway and gave that use a home directory in /tmp and a subdir /tmp/.spamassassin with owner and group of nobody. Even

Re: [SLUG] Running SpamAssassin as user nobody

2003-11-25 Thread Chris Deigan
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 15:51, Howard Lowndes wrote: When I fire up SA in the default mode it fires up as root and when ir gets passed an email by spamc it switches to user nobody. Thus I decided to start it as user nobody anyway and gave that use a home directory in /tmp and a subdir

Re: [SLUG] Running SpamAssassin as user nobody

2003-11-25 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Chris Deigan wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 15:51, Howard Lowndes wrote: When I fire up SA in the default mode it fires up as root and when ir gets passed an email by spamc it switches to user nobody. Thus I decided to start it as user nobody anyway and gave that use