[SLUG] Anyone got SuSE 7.1 CDs?

Had a guy ring up needing this specific version as the box set he has was in an unfortunate accident. The closest we'd have here is a 7.0 CDR. I suggested he contact SuSE in Germany to see if they'd have it. -- ---GRiP--- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the

Re: [SLUG] spam filters not working

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:52:30AM +1000, James Gregory wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 23:36 +1000, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: How can we get a spam filter to check for misspelt words and reject the mail on that basis? I thought about this a while ago. It would be relatively easy to implement

Re: [SLUG] spam filters not working

On Fri, May 07, 2004, James Gregory wrote: 2. For any significant misspellings of words, bogofilter will already look for them. The Language Log says there are 1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 possible creative mispellings of Viagra alone.

[SLUG] permissions/ownership problem

Recently I posted a help request re Windows stuffing up my hard drive and leaving me unable to boot/access my Fedora partition. I managed to copy my data from the Fedora partition to DVD+RW, but could not save the installation, so I installed again. This time i created a partition for data

Re: [SLUG] permissions/ownership problem

On Fri, May 07, 2004, bill wrote: I again ran the above chown command to no apparent effect. chown only changes ownership, not read and write permissions. You want chmod for that. I've got some examples at http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~gardiner/unix/files.html How do I change these? Do I need to

Re: [SLUG] permissions/ownership problem

I'm not sure I follow your question exactly, but chown'ing doesn't necessarily give you write permission. You need to chmod: chmod -R u+wrX,go-rwx /data Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

RE: [SLUG] Triple Boot: XP, Fedora RH7.2

Edwin, In summary I would try this. 1. Install your new hd where you want to be (say for example the 2nd drive on your 2nd IDE cable - this makes it /dev/hdd) 2. Boot off the RH 7.2 CD 3. Choose a new install and use the disk partition menus to install on suitable /dev/hdd paritions 4. When

[SLUG] Question about PGP

Hi, I would like to know the benefit of using PGP? I have notice some of the SLUG member uses PGP key on their message, is there any advantage??? __ Steven Chang-Lin Yu MEngSc of Telecommunications ICQ#:66369374

[SLUG] Re: permissions/ownership problem - Thanks

THanks Mary and Matt, I think that I've got it now. Just shows that you shouldn't believe everything that you find on the 'Net - or perhaps, rather, that what you do find is defined clearly. Thanks again Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

[SLUG] Next meeting of Audio/Music SIG

When: Saturday, May 22, 10:30am - 4:00pm Where: Macquarie University, building W6A, room 608 (6th floor) SLUGAMuSIG - Audio/Music Group All interested in music/ audio and Linux are invited for the next gathering of the group. The general plan is a demonstration/ discussion in the morning,

[SLUG] Off Topic - My Appologies

Dear list, It has just been pointed out to me that my previous posting on Slug contravenes the guidelines for the list. I appologise for this oversight, as I am on a few lists and they all have different rules. However I should have double checked before posting. Regards, - Guy.

Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox

haha yes, that would be correct. being the powerpc-linux bigot that i am, im suprised i blasphemed such things as saying an xbox has a ppc Dean -Original Message- From: Shane Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 06, 2004 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG]

Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox

actually a lot closer than you think.. xbox2 is according to prelim reports PPC/ATI based .. again that is hersay rumour and conjecture :-) Dave. On Thu, 6 May 2004, Dean Hamstead wrote: haha yes, that would be correct. being the powerpc-linux bigot that i am, im suprised i blasphemed such

[SLUG] spam filters not working

Hell sluggers, I´ve noticed the amount of mail bypassing the filters seems to be increasing and would like to venture an idea... Most of the mails that get through are misspelt to put the filter off the track. eg, Some that got through: { Ur Diicky Is So Smaall horsemeat digenesis Darlin how

Re: [SLUG] clean room disk recovery in Australia?

Thanks to all who replied. I'm surprised that both payam and forensicdata are actually in Sydney. I'll pass the details to my friend and report his experience if he bother to call them. Thanks guys, Lester -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] seg fault on df

Thanks Felix, I actually run that the other day, but I couldn't see anything obvious, here's the output. cheers -- sebago:~# strace df execve(/bin/df, [df], [/* 14 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys=Linux, node=sebago, ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x805

Re: [SLUG] spam filters not working

Since changing to bogofilter (plus stringent training), my spam filtering is near on perfect. I've had one only slip through this week. I've written a crude script to make training easier. You didn't tell us which spam filter, but spamassassin was catching less than 50% spams when I stopped

Re: [SLUG] seg fault on df

Move off the 2.5.X kernel on to the stable branch/tree/leaf (whatever it is in kernel world). apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686 (replace 686 with 386,k7 or whichever kernel flavour you want.) good luck, Greg. On Fri, 7 May 2004 05:52 am, Ramon Buckland wrote: Thanks Felix, I actually

Re: [SLUG] spam filters not working

David wrote: ...snip.. You didn't tell us which spam filter, but spamassassin was catching less than 50% spams when I stopped using it. Is it worthwhile to retrain your spam filters when the nature of spam changes? Just wondering. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] spam filters not working

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:43:06AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Is it worthwhile to retrain your spam filters when the nature of spam changes? Yes. A month or so ago spamassassin's success rate suddenly plummeted. After retraining, it's back to normal -- missing only one or two or the

Re: [SLUG] spam filters not working

On Fri, May 07, 2004, David wrote: You didn't tell us which spam filter, but spamassassin was catching less than 50% spams when I stopped using it. SpamAssassin has Bayesian filtering too these days. People who are already using it should probably try its sa-learn utility before jumping spam

Re: [SLUG] seg fault on df

Quoting Ramon Buckland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Learn more why this is so by using commands 'ldd' and 'strace' like this: #ldd /bin/df #strace /bin/df Hi, sometime in the past month, I performed an upgrade to my unstable debian. (apt-get update/upgrade) and possibly (i can't remember, a dist-upgrade.

Re: [SLUG] spam filters not working

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 23:36 +1000, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: Hell sluggers, I´ve noticed the amount of mail bypassing the filters seems to be increasing and would like to venture an idea... Most of the mails that get through are misspelt to put the filter off the track. eg, Some that

Re: [SLUG] spam filters not working

quote who=James Gregory How can we get a spam filter to check for misspelt words and reject the mail on that basis? I thought about this a while ago. It would be relatively easy to implement -- just hook aspell into a procmail rule. I eventually came to two conclusions: 1. I would

Re: [SLUG] spam filters not working

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Waugh wrote: | quote who=James Gregory | |How can we get a spam filter to check for misspelt words and reject the |mail on that basis? | |I thought about this a while ago. It would be relatively easy to implement |-- just hook aspell into a

[SLUG] Triple Boot: XP, Fedora RH7.2

I currently have a dual boot machine with WinXP and fedora - works fine with GRUB as the bootloader. I need to add a second hard disk with a RedHat 7.2-based application, and add this to the Grub menu. How do I do that? I can't remember what the kernel version was with the drive: do I need to

Re: [SLUG] spam filters not working

quote who=Dean Hamstead but restricting spam based on english spelling would be terrible There are lots of spelling modules and dictionaries out there - who said anything about English? Spelling fascists come in EVERY LANGUAGE (that you can write, at least). - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: