Re: [SLUG] sudoers

2004-06-16 Thread Sebastian Welsh
Hi Simon, might I ask if you have considered adding the "user" mount option in /etc/fstab instead of using sudo? From the mount(8) man page (iii) Normally, only the superuser can mount file systems. However, when fstab contains the user option on a line, then anybody can mount

[SLUG] Gateway box

2004-06-16 Thread Michael Wardlaw
hello,   I'm looking to setup a Linux gateway box with ISP / line redundancy.  This isn't for a big corporate thing, so really only need a simple gateway box that has 3 ethernet connections - 1 for the LAN and 1 for each ISP. So far have done some research on BGP, and see that Quagga is out

Re: [SLUG] sudoers

2004-06-16 Thread Rick Welykochy
Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, Can someone give me the syntax to put in the sudoers file to allow all users to be able to mount (in particular samba homes if that is relevant). I don't seem to be able to get the EBNF right! An untested stab in the dark: ALL ALL=(ALL) /path/to/smbmount blah blah bla

[SLUG] sudoers

2004-06-16 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, Can someone give me the syntax to put in the sudoers file to allow all users to be able to mount (in particular samba homes if that is relevant). I don't seem to be able to get the EBNF right! -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - h

Re: [SLUG] GNOME panel segfaulting

2004-06-16 Thread Matthew Davidson
Jeff Waugh wrote: 'Application "gnome-panel" (process ) has crashed due to a fatal error (segmentation fault)' It should provide a button to report a bug - that will give you a really simple UI to get a gdb backtrace and report it. If you want, I can take a quick look at the backtrace indepe

Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 2 Blues Sound/Mouse

2004-06-16 Thread James Gregory
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 13:14 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried to upgrade to Fedora Core 2 from Redhat 9, as I > needed to upgrade to the latest GTK2. Now *that's* a fun upgrade. Can you tell us how you did it? did you just put the CD in the drive and use the installer, or did you try usin

[SLUG] Fedora Core 2 Blues Sound/Mouse

2004-06-16 Thread woodgrove
I tried to upgrade to Fedora Core 2 from Redhat 9, as I needed to upgrade to the latest GTK2. The result was that the sound card would not work, there was nothing on the desktop (except those items I moved there from the link), X complained about not being able to activate the XKB configurator

[SLUG] Printing with Morphix

2004-06-16 Thread heracles
Hi all, Installed Morphix (a Debian distro) recently on an older machine and can't find the command to set up the printer. It is on a win2003 server network, but the printer hangs off one of the machines. In SuSE I'd just use YAST2, but what is available in Debian? Stay well and happy Heracles PS

[SLUG] Microsoft loses Munich

2004-06-16 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Just hitting lists here and there. After initial successful Linux pilots - MS just lost the final battle for Munich. The first 14,000 user Linux install is up for grabs... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/f

Re: [SLUG] souces.list for packages stored locally

2004-06-16 Thread Richard Hayes
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:22 am, Alexander Samad wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:30:18PM +1000, Roger Barnes wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Roger Barnes wrote: > > > > I think you need to point at a directory, not a particular > package apt-move setups up the right structure > > > The debian-u

Re: [SLUG] Kernel exploit for all kernels > 2.4.18

2004-06-16 Thread Paul Robinson
That's actually the same site as the first url (prob just aliased domain name). :) Damn nasty indeed. Time to build a testing box to see if our production servers are affected (looks like some customised kernels handle it ok (not a blanket 2.4.18 and up problem. just the majority.) Paul - Ori

Re: [SLUG] Kernel exploit for all kernels > 2.4.18

2004-06-16 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 00:16 +1000, Paul Robinson wrote: > Evening Sluggers, > > Saw this on overclockers.com.au tonight : > http://reviewed.homelinux.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/ > > and a lil googling showed : > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/403593 > > Certainly

[SLUG] Kernel exploit for all kernels > 2.4.18

2004-06-16 Thread Paul Robinson
Evening Sluggers,   Saw this on overclockers.com.au tonight :  http://reviewed.homelinux.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/   and a lil googling showed :   http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/403593   Certainly looks nasty. Any one heard more on this?   Cheers, Paul -- SLUG - Syd