Re: [SLUG] St George Internet Banking

2004-06-28 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That is so clever! (changing the user-agent) The idea comes from Damian Ivereigh at http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/02/msg00523.html originally. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: About LPI exams (was Re: [SLUG] Semester 2 Linux Courses)

2004-06-28 Thread Martin
$quoted_author = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ; > > one of my favourite ls discoveries is the -Q switch... > it makes life so SO much easier sometimes - if you are doing scripting for > example... because it puts the entire file name in quotes... > > It mightn't seem obvious immediately why this is usef

Re: [SLUG] St George Internet Banking

2004-06-28 Thread jponza
Thank you so *so* much :) thank you as well John - I tried to follow your suggestion but had lots of probs and although I was solving them it was taking way too long (in relative terms - I had a 3rd year pharmacology exam today at 1:50pm) Mary your method worked a treat first time :) (well, aft

Re: [SLUG] ssh command

2004-06-28 Thread Phil Scarratt
Simon Bryan wrote: I am trying to get SOPHOS to update automatically on my linux servers as well as all the MS servers and workstations, in fact the MS ones all work nicely - updated every four hours. The instructions for doing this in Linux are given below, can anyone tell me what they mean by a '

Re: [SLUG] Help with Samba on Webmin

2004-06-28 Thread Edwin Humphries
Matthew We do this, but we set up the directories for the customers in advance from the console. They can create sub-directories from their Windows clients if your have create mask and directory mask set to 0777, and the sub- directories will be world readable. If when they create users from W

RE: [SLUG] Flooded mail queue

2004-06-28 Thread Edwin Humphries
Thanks for all the suggestions. I've learned something. But I used James Gray's early suggestion: rename the mqueue directory, create another with the same ownership and permissions, and restart sendmail. Everything seems to be working OK. May not have been quite as cool a solution as some of t

[SLUG] ssh command

2004-06-28 Thread Simon Bryan
I am trying to get SOPHOS to update automatically on my linux servers as well as all the MS servers and workstations, in fact the MS ones all work nicely - updated every four hours. The instructions for doing this in Linux are given below, can anyone tell me what they mean by a 'shared area' and h

RE: [SLUG] Flooded mail queue

2004-06-28 Thread Ben Lisle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Edwin Humphries > Sent: Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] Flooded mail queue > > WE have a sendmail installation that is trying to process a queue of > some 1.8 m

Re: [SLUG] Flooded mail queue

2004-06-28 Thread Terry Collins
Peter Hardy wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:03, Terry Collins wrote: > > Peter Hardy wrote: > > > > > cd /var/spool/mqueue; ls | xargs rm > > > > Doesn't it barf on the ls with the same message? > > You had me worried for a minute. :-) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mkdir tmp > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~

Re: [SLUG] tax office dummy spit

2004-06-28 Thread ksaenz
install firebird and install the ie extentions. that would be a quick way to get through that. ;-) > > I've just gone to the ATO site to download the latest tax scale (search > for form NAT 1005 from the ATO home page) and what I get is a file called > , which is obviously some M$ crap. > > Since

Re: [SLUG] Flooded mail queue

2004-06-28 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:03, Terry Collins wrote: > Peter Hardy wrote: > > > cd /var/spool/mqueue; ls | xargs rm > > Doesn't it barf on the ls with the same message? You had me worried for a minute. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mkdir tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ for file

Re: [SLUG] Flooded mail queue

2004-06-28 Thread Terry Collins
Edwin Humphries wrote: ...snip.. > But i tried to delete the queue with "rm *" in > /var/spool/mqueue, but got "Argument list too long". try for o in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f g h i .X Y Z do echo $o something like rm $o* done I use if for tossing my spam into monthly folders

Re: [SLUG] Flooded mail queue

2004-06-28 Thread Terry Collins
Peter Hardy wrote: > cd /var/spool/mqueue; ls | xargs rm Doesn't it barf on the ls with the same message? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Syd

[SLUG] Help with Samba on Webmin

2004-06-28 Thread Matthew Tse
Hi all, I'm having a hard time using Webmin to administer a box running Samba. The idea is for the client to use Webmin to fully administer the fileserver; from creating users to setting up share permissions, etc. The problem I'm currently having is, using Webmin to create a share for Samba e

Re: [SLUG] Flooded mail queue

2004-06-28 Thread Glen Turner
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 10:45, Edwin Humphries wrote: > WE have a sendmail installation that is trying to process a queue of > some 1.8 million emails - mostly, as far as I can tell, double > bounce, virus laden stuff. > > Of course, sendmail is going into overload, and slowing the machine > down

Re: [SLUG] Flooded mail queue

2004-06-28 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:15, Edwin Humphries wrote: > Of course, sendmail is going into overload, and slowing the machine > down enormously, and given that the emails are double-bounce, to no > avail. But i tried to delete the queue with "rm *" in > /var/spool/mqueue, but got "Argument list too

Re: [SLUG] Flooded mail queue

2004-06-28 Thread James Gray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:15 am, Edwin Humphries wrote: > WE have a sendmail installation that is trying to process a queue of > some 1.8 million emails - mostly, as far as I can tell, double > bounce, virus laden stuff. > > Of course, sendmail is going i

[SLUG] Flooded mail queue

2004-06-28 Thread Edwin Humphries
WE have a sendmail installation that is trying to process a queue of some 1.8 million emails - mostly, as far as I can tell, double bounce, virus laden stuff. Of course, sendmail is going into overload, and slowing the machine down enormously, and given that the emails are double-bounce, to no

Re: [SLUG] tax office dummy spit

2004-06-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:35:55AM +1000, David wrote: > It is in fact a PDF file masquerading with .asp, and opens fine on my OSX > box simply by asking it to open the file with acrobat. Now I have to pull > it apart to get the information I REALLY need. Yeah -- finding out it's a PDF doesn't rea

Re: [SLUG] Anyone have any experience with Kiosks?

2004-06-28 Thread Mike MacCana
Don't know, check bugzilla. Mike -- __ Mike MacCana ConsultantRHCX, MCSE, MCP+I 0419 394 504 On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Paul Robinson wrote: > Is the bug purely on RH9? If not, which

Re: [SLUG] tax office dummy spit

2004-06-28 Thread David
thanks to those who replied.. it's true that I jumped to conclusions, assuming that ATO assumed that I'm using windows (something they have done in the past!). It is in fact a PDF file masquerading with .asp, and opens fine on my OSX box simply by asking it to open the file with acrobat. Now I ha

Re: [SLUG] tax office dummy spit

2004-06-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:04:46AM +1000, David wrote: > Since I steadfastly refuse to run a windows box on principle, what can I > do with it to turn it into useful information? Is there any GOOD reason > why the ATO should not provide the information as something like a > tab-delimited spreadshee

Re: [SLUG] tax office dummy spit

2004-06-28 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004, David wrote: > I've just gone to the ATO site to download the latest tax scale (search > for form NAT 1005 from the ATO home page) and what I get is a file called > , which is obviously some M$ crap. It sounds like an error actually, unless .asp has a different, additional,

Re: [SLUG] tax office dummy spit

2004-06-28 Thread Michael Lake
David wrote: I've just gone to the ATO site to download the latest tax scale (search for form NAT 1005 from the ATO home page) and what I get is a file called , which is obviously some M$ crap. Since I steadfastly refuse to run a windows box on principle, what can I do with it to turn it into usefu

[SLUG] tax office dummy spit

2004-06-28 Thread David
I've just gone to the ATO site to download the latest tax scale (search for form NAT 1005 from the ATO home page) and what I get is a file called , which is obviously some M$ crap. Since I steadfastly refuse to run a windows box on principle, what can I do with it to turn it into useful informati

Re: [SLUG] St George Internet Banking

2004-06-28 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has *anyone* had any success in accessing St George Internet Banking, > using linux - with any combination of java virtual machine and > browser... I am accessing it successfully with: Mozilla Firefox 0.8 (Debian build 0.8-9) Sun's JRE JVM 1.4.2 (1

Re: [SLUG] St George Internet Banking

2004-06-28 Thread John Nicholls
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has *anyone* had any success in accessing St George Internet Banking, using linux - with any combination of java virtual machine and browser... Mozilla 1.4 Java Blackdown-1.4.1-01 PrefBar 1.2.1 set to Moz 1.0 Win98 John -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - ht

Re: About LPI exams (was Re: [SLUG] Semester 2 Linux Courses)

2004-06-28 Thread jponza
I agree :) one of my favourite ls discoveries is the -Q switch... it makes life so SO much easier sometimes - if you are doing scripting for example... because it puts the entire file name in quotes... It mightn't seem obvious immediately why this is useful but when you need it you'll know :)

[SLUG] St George Internet Banking

2004-06-28 Thread jponza
Hi there, I think there might have been some discussion on this once before, (before I had joined the list) because I seem to remember finding some threads on an online archive from this group. Has *anyone* had any success in accessing St George Internet Banking, using linux - with any combina

Re: [SLUG] statically linked versions of samba and cups

2004-06-28 Thread Peter Hardy
On 06/28/04 22:56, Shaun Oliver wrote: does anyone know where I can get some static binaries of smbd, nmbd, and cupsd, Pete's 10 second guide to building static binaries: Download and extract source tarball. $ export CFLAGS=-static $ export LDFLAGS=-static Follow the package directions for compili

Re: [SLUG] statically linked versions of samba and cups

2004-06-28 Thread Shaun Oliver
might have a look at that -- Shaun Oliver "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ IRC: irc.awesomechat.net: IRCNICK: blindman -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Su

Re: [SLUG] statically linked versions of samba and cups

2004-06-28 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:56:41PM EST, Shaun Oliver wrote: > hi all, > does anyone know where I can get some static binaries of smbd, nmbd, and > cupsd, > I want to incorperate these into a smoothwall installation because the > person I'm giving the installation too needs specifically a print >

[SLUG] statically linked versions of samba and cups

2004-06-28 Thread Shaun Oliver
hi all, does anyone know where I can get some static binaries of smbd, nmbd, and cupsd, I want to incorperate these into a smoothwall installation because the person I'm giving the installation too needs specifically a print server/router and smoothwall is the easiest way I can think of giving

Re: [SLUG] Anyone have any experience with Kiosks?

2004-06-28 Thread Paul Robinson
Is the bug purely on RH9? If not, which common distro's aren't affected? Fedora? (assuming they might have fixed it when it branched) or Debian perhaps? Cheers, Paul - Original Message - From: "Mike MacCana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [SLUG] Dell notebook. Any experiences

2004-06-28 Thread Mike MacCana
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, James Gray wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:28 am, Ben Donohue wrote: > > Hi Slugs, > > > > I'm just about to purchase a Dell Inspiron notebook. (Taxtime) > > It comes with XP but Linux will definitely be loaded on as well. I have a Dell Inspiron 8500, and run FC2. You might b

Re: [SLUG] Anyone have any experience with Kiosks?

2004-06-28 Thread Mike MacCana
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Paul Robinson wrote: > Hi Sluggers, > > Trying to lock down a RH9 box so that it automatically logs in as a kiosk user and > then starts up a FireFox browser window only (no window manager). I've achieved this > to an extent - The only thing that doesn't work is the keyboard