Re: [SLUG] yum

2004-02-17 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Del wrote: > > Does anyone know what's involved in setting up a yum > repository? Yeah, you serve the files out via http or ftp, and run a little script to generate the .hdr files that yum uses. http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO-6.html If yo

[SLUG] yum

2004-02-17 Thread Del
Does anyone know what's involved in setting up a yum repository? I was thinking of creating one behind a firewall for a bunch of machines that are similarly behind the same firewall. Thanx, -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: h

Re: [SLUG] detaching files over ssh from mail: pine ?

2004-02-17 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:00:30PM +1100, James Gregory wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 00:38, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > * you can set the editor to vim > > you can do that with pine as well. Heh, thought flew by at the time about doing my homework :-) > > * you can just make a big .muttrc and

Re: [SLUG] detaching files over ssh from mail: pine ?

2004-02-17 Thread lists
>> > if I recall, pine was suggested as what I could use ? >> >> > can pine use /Maildir ? >> >> No. You should use mutt instead, for lots of reasons. :-) > > Speaking as a dedicated pine user, that sounds like blind prejudice! At ahem, this is getting too hard for what i'm trying to achieve... w

Re: [SLUG] detaching files over ssh from mail: pine ?

2004-02-17 Thread James Gregory
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 00:38, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:38:29PM +1100, Craig Ayliffe wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > the mail is in /Maildir structire > > > > > > if I recall, pine was suggested as what I could use ? > > > > > > I don't se

Re: [SLUG] Press request: Legitimate uses of P2P

2004-02-17 Thread Eddie F
Hmmm sounds like a sting operation. Yes it does, doesn't it? "All P2P is illegal;... Well... Probably close to "all"... but not "all". I have seen (and even skimmed one) articles on the use of P2P to share documents and media files. This is within the organization that owns said documents, media

[SLUG] Reminder: February DebSIG

2004-02-17 Thread Craige McWhirter
See you there! -Forwarded Message- > From: Craige McWhirter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: SLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: February DebSIG > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:31:02 +1100 > > When: > Wednesday, February 18, 7:00pm - 8:00pm > > Where: > James Squire Brewery

Re: [SLUG] st george bank broken

2004-02-17 Thread Chris Deigan
It is said that Benno wrote: >FWIW Commbank works fine for me (using any gecko based browser), and I >don't have a JVM installed. Commbank uses plain HTML and JavaScript. That's the only real requirements I can see. The java applet only shows advertisments (odd to employ Java for showing banner a

[SLUG] ACS OpenSource SIG

2004-02-17 Thread Bruce Badger
The slides for the last ACSOSS meeting on open source and the law are now available here, together with slides from a couple of previous talks (Gus on EmbPerl and Rob on Squid): http://openskills.com/acsoss/ At the next meeting Rob Collins will be telling us about Arch Thursday 26t

Re: [SLUG] st george bank broken

2004-02-17 Thread Phil Scarratt
Benno wrote: On Wed Feb 18, 2004 at 09:55:50 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: Mary Gardiner wrote: If it's not working within a few weeks, I'll probaly switch banks. I'm sure this has been asked before, but are there any who *officially* support Mozilla (or, even better, are committed to general cross-b

Re: [SLUG] st george bank broken

2004-02-17 Thread Benno
On Wed Feb 18, 2004 at 09:55:50 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: >Mary Gardiner wrote: >>If it's not working within a few weeks, I'll probaly switch banks. I'm >>sure this has been asked before, but are there any who *officially* >>support Mozilla (or, even better, are committed to general cross-broswer >

Re: [SLUG] st george bank broken

2004-02-17 Thread Peter Hardy
Mary Gardiner wrote: If it's not working within a few weeks, I'll probaly switch banks. I'm sure this has been asked before, but are there any who *officially* support Mozilla (or, even better, are committed to general cross-broswer compatibility or supporting standards) or is it simply the case th

Re: [SLUG] FOSS in libraries

2004-02-17 Thread Michael Lake
Ken Foskey wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 12:35, Phil Scarratt wrote: >>I have been spending the last six months working to get the first open >>source or free software CDs available in libraries as lending CDs. I >>have now succeeded; 415 public libraries out of a possible 507 have >>accepted

Re: Don't rely on WEP for security (was: Re: [SLUG] Notebook WiFi Recommendations?)

2004-02-17 Thread James Gray
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 03:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > James Gray wrote: > >Last weekend I lashed out and bought myself a new toy: A Netcomm > > 802.11g/b access point (supoprts both standards and 128bit WEP too) :) > > I also > > It's not quite on-topic but since you mention 128bit WEP - you mi

Re: [SLUG] Mutt and GPG

2004-02-17 Thread Alexander Samad
Found it in the doco, what a place to put it in. added to gpg.conf encrypt-to On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 06:54:11PM +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: > Hi > > I have setup mutt to automatically save outboudn messages in a sent item > folder, my last step is if I encrypt a message how do I automaticall

Re: [SLUG] detaching files over ssh from mail: pine ?

2004-02-17 Thread David
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > if I recall, pine was suggested as what I could use ? > > > can pine use /Maildir ? > > No. You should use mutt instead, for lots of reasons. :-) Speaking as a dedicated pine user, that sounds like blind prejudice! At the risk of starting a mail c

Re: [SLUG] st george bank broken

2004-02-17 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004, linley wrote: > For some reason I can't get St george bank java applet to load. Been > working fine for a year. Nobody has confirmed with St George yet that we know of, but it looks like they broke compatibility with Mozilla browsers over the weekend -- although there is app

Don't rely on WEP for security (was: Re: [SLUG] Notebook WiFi Recommendations?)

2004-02-17 Thread slug
James Gray wrote: Last weekend I lashed out and bought myself a new toy: A Netcomm 802.11g/b access point (supoprts both standards and 128bit WEP too) :) I also It's not quite on-topic but since you mention 128bit WEP - you might want to read the following: http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/i

[SLUG] st george bank broken

2004-02-17 Thread linley
For some reason I can't get St george bank java applet to load. Been working fine for a year. cleared cache, cookies , java cahe etc. Java seems running RH8 java 1.4.2, Mozilla/firebird 0.7 or Mozilla 1.5 console log: Java(TM) Plug-in: Version 1.4.2_01 Using JRE version 1.4.2_01 Java HotSpot(TM)

Re: [SLUG] detaching files over ssh from mail: pine ?

2004-02-17 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:38:29PM +1100, Craig Ayliffe wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > the mail is in /Maildir structire > > > > if I recall, pine was suggested as what I could use ? > > > > I don't seem to be able to access the actual /Maildir: > You could try pinq -

Re: [SLUG] FOSS in libraries

2004-02-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 12:35, Phil Scarratt wrote: > I have been spending the last six months working to get the first open > source or free software CDs available in libraries as lending CDs. I > have now succeeded; 415 public libraries out of a possible 507 have > accepted them in Scotland. I

Re: [SLUG] detaching files over ssh from mail: pine ?

2004-02-17 Thread Craig Ayliffe
Voytek, You could try pinq - comes with pine. It basically converts a maildir to mbox, and then loads it into pine. Read the docs on it before using it tho. (I can't comment on whether mutt would be better, having never tried it yet) Cheers, Craig A On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

Re: [SLUG] Press request: Legitimate uses of P2P

2004-02-17 Thread stuartc
> > SLUG committee has had a reporter request the contact details of people > > who are making legitimate (by which I presume he means legal) use of P2P > > technologies. Hmmm sounds like a sting operation. "All P2P is illegal; underground hackers want publicity (that's why they go underground

Re: [SLUG] Notebook WiFi Recommendations?

2004-02-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:34:30AM +1100, doug wrote: > If anyone wants the driver, (it is atmelwlandriver-ss-20040212.tar.gz) I > could email it I guess, or it is probably googleable. The Atmel WLAN is, IIRC, a common chipset for those USB WiFi things. For James, and anyone else who's interes

[SLUG] XMMS no sound problem

2004-02-17 Thread Jeff Ai
my xmms stopped working last nite after i upgraded it from 1.2.8 to 1.2.9 when i tried to play anything, it will freeze. i am running Fedora Core 1 and using Gnome as my default desktop env. then i uninstalled xmms and then reinstalled from the CD ROM xmms 1.2.8 still didn't work. all other soun

Re: [SLUG] detaching files over ssh from mail: pine ?

2004-02-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> if I recall, pine was suggested as what I could use ? > can pine use /Maildir ? No. You should use mutt instead, for lots of reasons. :-) - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norwayhttp://2004.guadec.org/ Snow Crash was a terrible book: Superheroes wear their unde

[SLUG] detaching files over ssh from mail: pine ?

2004-02-17 Thread voytek
I often get emails with attachements that are to be placed on a web server; I'm trying to avoid downloading over dial up to detach and ftp back to the server... the mail is in /Maildir structire if I recall, pine was suggested as what I could use ? I don't seem to be able to access the actual /

Re: [SLUG] Notebook WiFi Recommendations?

2004-02-17 Thread doug
I have a USB wifi from the wholesaler Protac. (available at various retailers for prob around $50) Anyway, I have just received an updated driver from the suppliers. The card is a WLB 1403. (I emailed the manufacturer, they sent the orig driver, then I thanked them: & they sent the new driver...

Re: [SLUG] OSX & Linux

2004-02-17 Thread Stewart
thanks to the many people who replied to my posting for help attaching OSX machines to a linux server... too many to reply to all individually sorry, but much useful information has been gleaned and a lot of google hits saved. :) I'll be writing the whole thing up when it's done and will let yo

[SLUG] Re: [chat] Linux vs St George Internet Banking

2004-02-17 Thread Stewart
I can't speak for Linux desktop but whatever they've done fixed it so it now works 100% in Safari. :-) (it didn't size the initial popup window right before.. but whether it's a fix their end or just the recent Safari 1.2 and java1.4.2 upgrades my end i couldn't say..) ..S. On 17 Feb 2004, at

Re: [SLUG] E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)

2004-02-17 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:33:23PM +1300, Adam Bogacki wrote: > >E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) > >E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > I'm seeing an awful lot of this error message at the moment. > It comes up whenever I try to 'apt-get

[SLUG] E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)

2004-02-17 Thread Adam Bogacki
E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. I'm seeing an awful lot of this error message at the moment. It comes up whenever I try to 'apt-get update', 'apt-get remove', 'dselect'. I have not been able to update or u