Re: [SLUG] enable command....

2003-11-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:02:01AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said Hi All, I have debian Woody installed, and noticed something a little odd There is two enable commands, one appears to be a bash builtin, and the other for enabling printers in cups. lotus-server:~# enable kyocera bash:

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Davidson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:56:19PM +1100, 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 am currently looking at other alternatives. So what other banks

[SLUG] Whats sets log rotation /etc/logrotate.d/apache-perl or etc/cron.daily entries?

2003-11-30 Thread Michael Lake
Hi all I am a bit confused about log rotation. I have /etc/logrotate.d/apache-perl config file. That sets log rotation to be: weekly rotate 7 But there is also in /etc/cron.daily an apache-perl script. There is no apache-perl script in cron.weekly 1. Whats sets the log rotate

[SLUG] rndc: connect failed: connection refused

2003-11-30 Thread David
I'm trying to reload BIND9 when I began getting this message. I've read /usr/share/docs/bind9/README.Debian and followed the instructions but to no avail. This service was last started when I did a security upgrade (woody) 48 days ago and there didn't appear to be a problem. I've done other

[SLUG] CAD programmes

2003-11-30 Thread doug
Hi all, has anyone any recommendations as to a CAD program that I can draw up a house in 3D if possible? (I would like something with not too steep a learning curve, but with good Autocad file compatability so I dont want much!) regards Doug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Hardware

2003-11-30 Thread Phil Scarratt
Michael Lake wrote: Got it!! www.linuxprinting.org is the answer and for scanners see http://www.sane-project.org/ It will list scanners and how much they are supored and links to the drivers. Mike Knew there was one around for scanners but couldn't remember it either and forgot to go

[SLUG] unable to spellcheck in 00 adn Mozilla

2003-11-30 Thread Russell Davie
Hi all I'm having probs getting the spell checking to work in Open Office 1.1.0-2 and in Mozilla mail 1.5-2. aparently these two packages use the same spellchecker this box is running debian thanks in advance Russell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Re:more smoothwall questions.

2003-11-30 Thread Jasper streit
Hi Shaun, If you get Optus broadband, its very easy to setup a router machine with two network cards (if you have an ethernet modem) or if you have a usb modem- skip the second network card. for verification you simply need to name your router as your Optus account name- i believe that they

Re: [SLUG] keys for digital signature

2003-11-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003, Robert Collins wrote: If you don't want to sign it, then you can choose to trust one of the people that have signed it. Or you can choose not to trust them at all. (Mwahahaha!) The word trust in this context means I trust that this person, before signing a key, would be

[SLUG] wacom digitizers and linux

2003-11-30 Thread Alex Sutcliffe
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has a wacom graphire2 digitizer working under linux. I know there are drivers provided by the linux wacom project. I was thinking of buying myself one for christmas but wondered how well it might work, especially with the gimp. Alex -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] Favourite virtual host

2003-11-30 Thread Viveka
Good hello everyone, I'm new. Nice place you have here. I wondered whether some of you Sluggers might have some words of advice for a young fellow seeking a new Linux or BSD-based virtual hosting company. I currently use pair.net in the US, due to the absurd price of bandwidth in Oz. My

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-30 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:20:07AM +1100, Benno wrote: On Mon Dec 01, 2003 at 09:18:42 +1100, Matthew Davidson wrote: [...] Can't pass up an opportunity to plug Mozilla/Firebird. Can't pass up the opportunity to bitch about web browsers. First Galeon, and now Mozilla/Firebird have to go

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-30 Thread Benno
On Mon Dec 01, 2003 at 09:18:42 +1100, Matthew Davidson wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:56:19PM +1100, 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 am

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-30 Thread Ian Wienand
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:20:07AM +1100, Benno wrote: Points will go to the first person to make a light weight interface to the gecko engine, get it into a debian package, and most importantly, doesn't then go on to make it totally bloated. epiphany? -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-30 Thread Conrad Parker
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:13:21PM +1100, Richard Neal wrote: This might help its a list of banks versus browser compatibility, note its not just for Australia but the world, Also if anyone uses web banking check to make sure the results that are listed are correct.

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-30 Thread Benno
On Mon Dec 01, 2003 at 11:24:59 +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:20:07AM +1100, Benno wrote: On Mon Dec 01, 2003 at 09:18:42 +1100, Matthew Davidson wrote: [...] Can't pass up an opportunity to plug Mozilla/Firebird. Can't pass up the opportunity to bitch about web

Re: [SLUG] wacom digitizers and linux

2003-11-30 Thread DE LUCA Ben
I have had the serial based ones (NOT USB) working a year or two ago. The USB ones were sort of supported at that time. The guy who writes the driver was quite helpful. From: Alex Sutcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:19:36 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] wacom

Re: [SLUG] Favourite virtual host

2003-11-30 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Viveka wrote: I wondered whether some of you Sluggers might have some words of advice for a young fellow seeking a new Linux or BSD-based virtual hosting company. My favourite Linux-based hosting company is Anchor, www.anchor.com.au. They run their front page using

Re: [SLUG] Whats sets log rotation /etc/logrotate.d/apache-perl or etc/cron.daily entries?

2003-11-30 Thread Michael Lake
Michael Lake wrote: and now I have also seen /etc/apache/cron.conf taht sets daily rotation things and is mentioned in httpd.conf Three places to set rotation ? I am a bit confused about log rotation. I have /etc/logrotate.d/apache-perl config file. That sets log rotation to be:

Re: [SLUG] SLUG End of Year Picnic

2003-11-30 Thread Grant Parnell
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ken Foskey wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 16:09, Mary Gardiner wrote: Bicentennial Park is part of Sydney Olympic Park, and so is accessible by car, train and bus. This is the one with the good kids bike track isn't it? Yeah I checked it out Saturday afternoon. See

Re: [SLUG] Scanning 35mm slides

2003-11-30 Thread Alexander Samad
What is the sort of cost involved in these beasties, are they scsi or do they come is USB falvour as well. Which would be better under unix On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:08:41PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: Terry == Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Terry Alan L Tyree wrote: Has anyone

Re: [SLUG] Whats sets log rotation /etc/logrotate.d/apache-perl or etc/cron.daily entries?

2003-11-30 Thread umug
Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and now I have also seen /etc/apache/cron.conf taht sets daily rotation things and is mentioned in httpd.conf Three places to set rotation ? don't forget savelog -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Whats sets log rotation /etc/logrotate.d/apache-perl or etc/cron.daily entries?

2003-11-30 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Michael Lake wrote: Michael Lake wrote: and now I have also seen /etc/apache/cron.conf taht sets daily rotation things and is mentioned in httpd.conf Three places to set rotation ? Sounds messy. What's in each of the files? Perhaps the logrotate script takes

Re: [SLUG] Scanning 35mm slides

2003-11-30 Thread Michael Lake
Alexander Samad wrote: What is the sort of cost involved in these beasties, are they scsi or do they come is USB falvour as well. Which would be better under unix The Epson Perfection 2400 Photo is USB. Works fine. -- Michael Lake Chemistry, Materials Forensic Science, UTS Ph: 9514 1724

Re: iis vs apache - Re: [SLUG] win2003 vs samba

2003-11-30 Thread Simon Bryan
Malcolm V said: On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 22:12, David Kempe wrote: snipped miniplug Over here at Solutions First, we have put together a cd with apps just like this that we consider useful. You can get the contents here: http://cd.sol1.net/ I am uploading the iso of the CD to here:

[SLUG] good Oz-based mail host

2003-11-30 Thread Viveka
Good hello all, I keep most of my stuff hosted in the the US, but I route all my mail through to an account that I keep going here in Oz. This is at Webcentral, because there wasn't a lot of choice back when I first set this up. I have Bigpond cable (got it prior to ADSL and haven't switched

Re: [SLUG] keys for digital signature

2003-11-30 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 09:02, Mary Gardiner wrote: which is why you shouldn't be trusting of many of the keys in your key ring. Of course, this is the whole reason for key signing events. If you show me a copy of your key [fingerprint], and a copy of some photo identification, and assert that

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-30 Thread mlh
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:24:59AM +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:20:07AM +1100, Benno wrote: You can disable that in Firebird, thankfully. Go to Tools - Options - Advanced - Browsing, and disable Use autoscrolling. While you're at it, make the middle-button load a

Re: [SLUG] keys for digital signature

2003-11-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 09:02, Mary Gardiner wrote: which is why you shouldn't be trusting of many of the keys in your key ring. Of course, this is the whole reason for key signing events. If you show me a copy of your key [fingerprint], and a

Re: [SLUG] good Oz-based mail host

2003-11-30 Thread Grant Parnell
Read both your posts sounds like you could go with a Linux virtual machine, I did some research on this a while back. About US$25/month with some included bandwidth buys you a User Mode Linux virtual machine. If the websites aren't hit too much you could do it. I think the catch was the

Re: [SLUG] rndc: connect failed: connection refused

2003-11-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=David I'm trying to reload BIND9 when I began getting this message. If anyone could tell me what i've stuffed up I would be eternally grateful. I did all of these same things, then thought screw it, a fresh install won't hurt. apt-get remove --purge bind9, apt-get install bind9.

Re: [SLUG] rndc: connect failed: connection refused

2003-11-30 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, David wrote: If anyone could tell me what i've stuffed up I would be eternally grateful. Was bind listening on 127.0.0.1:953 ? Did you have anything about rndc.key in your named.conf? rndc talks to named over a socket, and sometimes that control socket is restricted

Virtual Machines (Re: [SLUG] good Oz-based mail host)

2003-11-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003, Grant Parnell wrote: Read both your posts sounds like you could go with a Linux virtual machine, I did some research on this a while back. About US$25/month with some included bandwidth buys you a User Mode Linux virtual machine. If the websites aren't hit too much

Re: Virtual Machines (Re: [SLUG] good Oz-based mail host)

2003-11-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Mary Gardiner Full disclosure: I run a Bytemark virtual server purchased through http://jvds.com/ -- but as far as I'm aware I don't get referral discounts :) But maintainers or significantly contributors to FOSS projects receive a discount from Bytemark (and their US partners).