Re: [SLUG] Logout problem - BINGO!

2004-08-01 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:22:11 +0200 Johnny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan L Tyree wrote: This is still driving me crazy and I would be grateful for any help. System: dead standard Debian woody with 2.4.18-bf2.4 + security updates+ Login.app + sylpheed 0.9.12 backport. Alan, I'm still

Re: [SLUG] Can anyone recommend a gigabit NIC?

2004-08-01 Thread Glen Turner
On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 12:16, Michael Knight wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a new network card and was wondering about getting a mid/lower-end gigabit one. Can anyone recommend one with good Linux support? Summary of 1Gbps network cards for Linux is at

Re: [SLUG] Logout problem - BINGO!

2004-08-01 Thread Johnny
Alan L Tyree wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:22:11 +0200 Johnny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan L Tyree wrote: This is still driving me crazy and I would be grateful for any help. System: dead standard Debian woody with 2.4.18-bf2.4 + security updates+ Login.app + sylpheed 0.9.12 backport.

[SLUG] Cable or ADSL?

2004-08-01 Thread Indelible
The subject asks the question: What's preferable, cable or ADSL? Given cable, Telstra or Optus? Thanks. M. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] WRT54G + ADSL

2004-08-01 Thread Indelible
I'm wondering how people with the Linksys WRT54G and ADSL use it? With a separate ADSL modem? Which one? Thanks. M. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] WRT54G + ADSL

2004-08-01 Thread Keith Hopkins
Indelible wrote: I'm wondering how people with the Linksys WRT54G and ADSL use it? With a separate ADSL modem? Which one? I have a WRT54G and a Billion BIPAC-7402 ADSL modem. I'm thinking of buying a 2nd WRT54G to hack on. How do I use it? With either of my laptops, now I just need Broadcast

Re: [SLUG] WRT54G + ADSL

2004-08-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Indelible I'm wondering how people with the Linksys WRT54G and ADSL use it? With a separate ADSL modem? Which one? There is a model very similar to the WRT54G that has an ADSL modem built in, called the WAG54G [1]. If you're aiming to replace a conventional computer with a tiny,

Re: [SLUG] WRT54G + ADSL

2004-08-01 Thread Chris Deigan
On 01/08/2004, at 6:22 PM, Indelible wrote: I'm wondering how people with the Linksys WRT54G and ADSL use it? With a separate ADSL modem? Which one? Thanks. M. I have mine uplinked into my wired network. So for wireless it goes something like this, ADSL -- DSL Modem -- Linux Server -- WRT54G --

Re: [SLUG] Which flavour of Linux

2004-08-01 Thread Johnny
Phill wrote: I have been playing around with linux for a little while now and want to setup a web server that incorporates webdav and jsp largely for uni I currently use mandrake 10 because of the simplicity to setup. What is the general feeling about mandrake amongst SLUG and is there a

Re: [SLUG] Cable or ADSL?

2004-08-01 Thread Kevin Saenz
I dunno it the problem has been fixed cable is great if you are the only one in your street using cable. Once people start using it from what I have read it slows down. My preference is ADSL. The subject asks the question: What's preferable, cable or ADSL? Given cable, Telstra or Optus? Thanks.

Re: [SLUG] Cable or ADSL?

2004-08-01 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 07:56:57PM EST, Kevin Saenz wrote: I dunno it the problem has been fixed cable is great if you are the only one in your street using cable. Once people start using it from what I have read it slows down. My preference is ADSL. With ADSL, you can also find better value

Re: [SLUG] Which flavour of Linux

2004-08-01 Thread James Gregory
On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 09:10 +1000, Phill wrote: I have been playing around with linux for a little while now and want to setup a web server that incorporates webdav and jsp largely for uni I currently use mandrake 10 because of the simplicity to setup. What is the general feeling about

[SLUG] Build options of PHP under RH-9

2004-08-01 Thread Michael S. E. Kraus
G'day all, I have PHP 4.2.2 installed on my RedHat-9 box. (Stock standard php from rpm.) How do I know what compile time options were used when building it? (In particular the --with-mysql, --with-apache and --enable-track-vars parameters.) TIA! Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Build options of PHP under RH-9

2004-08-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Michael S. E. Kraus I have PHP 4.2.2 installed on my RedHat-9 box. (Stock standard php from rpm.) How do I know what compile time options were used when building it? (In particular the --with-mysql, --with-apache and --enable-track-vars parameters.) a) Download the src.rpm and

Re: [SLUG] Cable or ADSL?

2004-08-01 Thread Del
Indelible wrote: The subject asks the question: What's preferable, cable or ADSL? Given cable, Telstra or Optus? Cable is faster if you are in the area for it. I would definitely use Optus Cable, you get 12G of downloads before you get traffic shaped on the standard plan, and it's very very fast.

Re: [SLUG] Which flavour of Linux

2004-08-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
personally i would never consider mandrake ever. its major bloatware (so flame me *shrug*) debian is really really good. I havent used fedora but redhat was seriously becoming bloatware and i just left it. mandrake took redhat and just bloated it more. if debian is a little raw for you (no offence

Re: [SLUG] Which flavour of Linux

2004-08-01 Thread Del
Phill wrote: I have been playing around with linux for a little while now and want to setup a web server that incorporates webdav and jsp largely for uni If you're looking at using JSP and friends then you absolutely want a distro supported by JPackage (already mentioned here by one other

[SLUG] Bloat [Was: Which flavour of Linux]

2004-08-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Dean Hamstead personally i would never consider mandrake ever. its major bloatware (so flame me *shrug*) debian is really really good. I havent used fedora but redhat was seriously becoming bloatware and i just left it. mandrake took redhat and just bloated it more. if

[SLUG] padding digits on counting loops, how ?

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek
I'm trying to catch-up process web logs for awstats how can I allow for leading zero for days 1-9 in below example: n=32 let i=1 while [ $i -lt $n ]; do ./awstats.pl -config=aname.tld -logfile=/home/aname.tld/logs/2004-07-$i-access.rog -update let i=i+1 done -- Voytek -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] padding digits on counting loops, how ?

2004-08-01 Thread Peter Hardy
On 08/02/04 01:26, Voytek wrote: how can I allow for leading zero for days 1-9 in below example: n=32 let i=1 while [ $i -lt $n ]; do *snip stuff* Replace the while loop with a for loop using seq(1) to generate the sequence. Use the -w option to pad: for $i in `seq -w 1 32`; do *re-add stuff* --

[SLUG] RE: Cable or ADSL?

2004-08-01 Thread Rodney Sommerville
A mate was after ADSL connection, so had a bit of look for plans for him, eXeTel have an ADSL plan thus:- $42.50 (512K) per month (with STD phone calls) $47.50 without, benefits are, static IP, 10gig download, free download between 12.00am to 8.00am. Have no idea what they are like from an

Re: [SLUG] Build options of PHP under RH-9

2004-08-01 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Michael S. E. Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all, I have PHP 4.2.2 installed on my RedHat-9 box. (Stock standard php from rpm.) How do I know what compile time options were used when building it? (In particular the --with-mysql, --with-apache and

Re: [SLUG] Rebuild hda

2004-08-01 Thread The Salisburys
Most systems these days disabling the bios doesn't work. The OS will see the harddrive and you may have confusion rain on you if you are not aware! I wish it did work! I ve had the frustration many times. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: [SLUG] RE: Cable or ADSL?

2004-08-01 Thread Adam Kent
Rodney Sommerville wrote: A mate was after ADSL connection, so had a bit of look for plans for him, eXeTel have an ADSL plan thus:- [...] Have no idea what they are like from an operation perspective, as mate has just connected with them and is in search of a router at the moment. Although

Re: [SLUG] padding digits on counting loops, how ?

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek
Peter Hardy said: On 08/02/04 01:26, Voytek wrote: how can I allow for leading zero for days 1-9 in below example: n=32 let i=1 while [ $i -lt $n ]; do *snip stuff* Replace the while loop with a for loop using seq(1) to generate the sequence. Use the -w option to pad: for $i in `seq -w

[SLUG] looping around directory name, yesterdays' date

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek
how can I loop on an intermediate dir name, I have dir tree structure as: /home/adomain.tld/logs /home/b_domain.tld/logs ... I'd like to run loop for all domains in that tree to run logresolve like logresolve /home/$domain/logs/YYY-MM-DD.access.log /home/$domain/logs/YYY-MM-DD.access.rog and,

Re: [SLUG] Rebuild hda

2004-08-01 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:43:09AM EST, The Salisburys wrote: Most systems these days disabling the bios doesn't work. The OS will see the harddrive and you may have confusion rain on you if you are not aware! I wish it did work! I ve had the frustration many times. I have seen this on a

[SLUG] allowing web users change their ftp password remotely, how ?

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have several web users, all they have is an ftp access to their webpages, no shell access. what would be the simplest way to setup so they can alter their own password ? I guess it can be done with webmin/usermin... though, all I need is the password edit, I suspect they may be some web script

Re: [SLUG] padding digits on counting loops, how ?

2004-08-01 Thread Peter Hardy
On 08/02/04 08:17, Voytek wrote: Peter Hardy said: On 08/02/04 01:26, Voytek wrote: how can I allow for leading zero for days 1-9 in below example: n=32 let i=1 while [ $i -lt $n ]; do *snip stuff* Replace the while loop with a for loop using seq(1) to generate the sequence. Use the -w option to

Re: [SLUG] RE: Cable or ADSL?

2004-08-01 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004, Adam Kent wrote: Although I don't want SLUG to turn into Broadband Choice, Which is yet to be linked from this thread... http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/ Comparisons of Australian broadband deals, price and features. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] padding digits on counting loops, how ?

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek
Peter Hardy said: Oh, dang, that was supposed to be i not $i. I guess it was a little past my bedtime. :-( thanks again ! I noticed some error mssg scrolling by, so I tried to screen scrape on rerun: - Update for config /etc/awstats/awstats.conf With data in log file

Re: [SLUG] allowing web users change their ftp password remotely, how ?

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek
Voytek Eymont said: I have several web users, all they have is an ftp access to their webpages, no shell access. what would be the simplest way to setup so they can alter their own password ? I guess it can be done with webmin/usermin... though, all I need is the password edit, I suspect

Re: [SLUG] Can anyone recommend a gigabit NIC?

2004-08-01 Thread Simon Males
Summary of 1Gbps network cards for Linux is at http://www.aarnet.edu.au/engineering/networkdesign/mtu/nic.html Updates appreciated. Currently recommended 1Gbps card for Linux is Intel Pro/1000 MT Server. My latop (Toshiba Tecra M2) has gigabit, not that I have ever pluged it into a gigabit

[SLUG] Re: [activities] Wireless fest - 14 Aug 2004

2004-08-01 Thread Chris Deigan
On 29/07/2004, at 10:43 PM, Chris Deigan wrote: Funny that, I happen to be organizing an Installfest at UTS Broadway on that same day. :-/ Okay, seriously - is this Wireless Fest still on? Perhaps we could run something together, or I can just move the InstallFest a week forward. Cheers, Chris.

[SLUG] Hang up during boot process 'failed to activate dodo0 with error 2 failed'

2004-08-01 Thread Rlievre
To the SLUG, My dial up modem doesn't connect to the internet. During the boot up process of Fedora 1 (on an IBM ThinkPad T21)I get the following message 'bring up interface dodo0: failed to activate dodo0 with error 2 failed'. The issue may be that Linux cannot find the modem on the serial

Re: [SLUG] Build options of PHP under RH-9

2004-08-01 Thread O Plameras
Hi, Create a page as follows: 'test.php' containing: ?php phpinfo(); ? Then: http://your.webservr.au/test.php It will tell you lots of things including compile options. To include '--with-mysql' in PHP install you have to install 'php-mysql-4.2.2-11.rpm' for example. Michael S. E. Kraus wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Cable or ADSL?

2004-08-01 Thread DaZZa
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Indelible wrote: The subject asks the question: What's preferable, cable or ADSL? Given cable, Telstra or Optus? Cable is faster, but generally has more limits {download caps}, and is more expensive, and not always available. ADSL is cheaper, there's more options, and you

Re: [SLUG] looping around directory name, yesterdays' date

2004-08-01 Thread scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2004 08:26:17 AM: how can I loop on an intermediate dir name, I have dir tree structure as: /home/adomain.tld/logs /home/b_domain.tld/logs ... I'd like to run loop for all domains in that tree to run logresolve like logresolve

[SLUG] FTA-SMH good article

2004-08-01 Thread ashley
G'day, By Ross Gittins the Herald's Economics Editor. quote One reason the free trade agreement with the United States is getting such an easy ride from Australia's business people and economists is that they know so little about intellectual property rights. /quote Major press a very good

[SLUG] FTA

2004-08-01 Thread Ashley Maher
G'day, By Ross Gittins the Herald's Economics Editor. quote One reason the free trade agreement with the United States is getting such an easy ride from Australia's business people and economists is that they know so little about intellectual property rights. /quote Major press a very good

Re: [SLUG] FTA

2004-08-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Ashley Maher quote One reason the free trade agreement with the United States is getting such an easy ride from Australia's business people and economists is that they know so little about intellectual property rights. /quote Major press a very good article. It is *really*

Re: [SLUG] Build options of PHP under RH-9

2004-08-01 Thread DaZZa
On 2 Aug 2004, Michael S. E. Kraus wrote: I have PHP 4.2.2 installed on my RedHat-9 box. (Stock standard php from rpm.) How do I know what compile time options were used when building it? (In particular the --with-mysql, --with-apache and --enable-track-vars parameters.) php -i | less

[SLUG] Wireless 101

2004-08-01 Thread Terry Collins
Does anyone have a wireless 101+ URL? Inherited a non-functioning wireless AP and I'm going balder {:-( Found the doco online for the boxen, but that is really nothing more than options for the config. I need a bit more understanding. e.g. I thought putting it as a bridge meant it just forwarded

[SLUG] Postgres and PHP

2004-08-01 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, As a php and postgres newbie, I'm trying to get php to connect to a postgres database on the local machine (FC1). The error from php's db_connect statement is that postgres isn't listening on tcp port 5432. # netstat -an | grep 543 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAMLISTENING 4697223

Re: [SLUG] Postgres and PHP

2004-08-01 Thread Howard Lowndes
In /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf set tcpip_socket = true It's false by default On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 10:41, Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, As a php and postgres newbie, I'm trying to get php to connect to a postgres database on the local machine (FC1). The error from php's

[SLUG] dumb latex2html question

2004-08-01 Thread James Gregory
Dear SLUG, I have been trying desperately to persuade latex2html to render its navigation links in the order Previous Up Next rather than the current Next Up Previous. I can't find a way to do this and it seems that searching google is almost entirely fruitless because every page it finds are

[SLUG] Bigpond cable and WRT054G

2004-08-01 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Has anyone setup these two to play together nicely. I've just recommended the WRT054G to a friend and bigpond are not being helpful as to how to connect. ie pppoe, ppptp dhcp. I'm sure it can be done, but what incantation? His setup is (hopefully) PC . wifi card ~~ WRT054G -- CableModem

[SLUG] Help - Samba Printing problems

2004-08-01 Thread Ron Daniel
-Original Message- From: Ron Daniel Sent: Monday, 2 August 2004 11:36 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Samba Printing problems I sent the following on Friday : I have 3 samba printers. They are configured in smb.conf identically except for name of course. Two printers print from

Re: [SLUG] looping around directory name, yesterdays' date

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm not exactly sure what you mean but is this what you want: #Script Start cd /home export DATE=`date -d yesterday +%Y-%m-%d` for i in `ls` ; do logresolve /home/$i/logs/$DATE.access.log /home/$i/logs/$DATE.access.rog done #Finished Scott, many thanks,

Re: [SLUG] dumb latex2html question

2004-08-01 Thread Stuart Cooper
I have been trying desperately to persuade latex2html to render its navigation links in the order Previous Up Next rather than the current Next Up Previous. I can't find a way to do this latex2html is just a giant Perl script and you can hack it to produce the behaviour that you want. In

[SLUG] adding to cron: do I just symlink to /etc/cron.daily ?

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek
what is the 'proper' way to add stuff to cron; can I simply symlink ? copy ? a '/usr/local/bin/ascript' to /etc/cron.daily ? or is there more to it ? where do tell it what time I want it to run ? do I put a crontab entry as the first line in the script ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Postgres and PHP

2004-08-01 Thread Peter Rundle
Howard Lowndes wrote: In /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf set tcpip_socket = true Thanks, that's solved it :-) P. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] adding to cron: do I just symlink to /etc/cron.daily ?

2004-08-01 Thread Peter Chubb
Voytek == Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Voytek what is the 'proper' way to add stuff to cron; can I simply Voytek symlink ? copy ? a '/usr/local/bin/ascript' to /etc/cron.daily Voytek ? or is there more to it ? where do tell it what time I want Voytek it to run ? do I put a crontab entry

Re: [SLUG] Help - Samba Printing problems

2004-08-01 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 12:05, Ron Daniel wrote: -Original Message- From: Ron Daniel Sent: Monday, 2 August 2004 11:36 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Samba Printing problems I sent the following on Friday : I have 3 samba printers. They are configured in smb.conf identically

Re: [SLUG] adding to cron: do I just symlink to /etc/cron.daily ?

2004-08-01 Thread scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2004 12:37:43 PM: what is the 'proper' way to add stuff to cron; can I simply symlink ? copy ? a '/usr/local/bin/ascript' to /etc/cron.daily ? or is there more to it ? where do tell it what time I want it to run ? do I put a crontab entry as the first

Re: [SLUG] looping around directory name, yesterdays' date

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek
Voytek said: how can I refine target to be more specific, and, avoid mishits, not all dirs below '/home' are web roots; ideally, I'd like to run the loop only if 'logs' dir exists, I'm getting ... ./logsproc: /home/voytek/logs/2004-08-01-access.log: No such file or directory I think I

Re: [SLUG] looping around directory name, yesterdays' date

2004-08-01 Thread scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2004 01:16:09 PM: Voytek said: how can I refine target to be more specific, and, avoid mishits, not all dirs below '/home' are web roots; ideally, I'd like to run the loop only if 'logs' dir exists, I'm getting ... ./logsproc:

Re: [SLUG] adding to cron: do I just symlink to /etc/cron.daily ?

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Personally, I would create a script that executes it, that is, if it needs to be somewhere else, ie in the $PATH, else just move it there. In that directory, you don't tell it what time to executes, it executes all files in /etc/cron.daily/ once a day. cat

Re: [SLUG] adding to cron: do I just symlink to /etc/cron.daily ?

2004-08-01 Thread Michael Chesterton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what is the 'proper' way to add stuff to cron; My policy (which I wouldn't call proper) is to put local cron stuff in a file in /etc/cron.d using an uncommon name to avoid possble name collisions. Means I only have one place to look for local cron jobs. I leave

Re: [SLUG] looping around directory name, yesterdays' date

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That will do it. it doesn't actually check if it exists, it checks if its greater then 0 bytes (which is probably a better check then -e). thanks, yes, no more errors, *and* the logs still gets done. just thinking, I might as well delete logs older than 1 year whilst

Re: [SLUG] adding to cron: do I just symlink to /etc/cron.daily ?

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek
Michael Chesterton said: My policy (which I wouldn't call proper) is to put local cron stuff in a file in /etc/cron.d using an uncommon name to avoid possble name collisions. Means I only have one place to look for local cron jobs. I leave /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.daily, etc, for the OS. I

Re: [SLUG] looping around directory name, yesterdays' date

2004-08-01 Thread scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2004 01:59:54 PM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That will do it. it doesn't actually check if it exists, it checks if its greater then 0 bytes (which is probably a better check then -e). thanks, yes, no more errors, *and* the logs still gets done. just

[SLUG] Php, Postgres and jpGraph

2004-08-01 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, bouyed with my success at getting php connected to postgres (thanks again Howard) I'm now trying to generate plots out of the database. The issue that I'm having is that the X-axis is date/time data, and I want to be able to plot and label the axis for data from the last five days.

Re: [SLUG] FTA

2004-08-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:25:18AM +1000, Ashley Maher wrote: G'day, By Ross Gittins the Herald's Economics Editor. Haha, stick it to the man, Roscoe. I saw an editorial in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph about how opposing the FTA was some sort of isolationist clap-trap. Apparently rolling

Re: [SLUG] Php, Postgres and jpGraph

2004-08-01 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 14:33, Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, bouyed with my success at getting php connected to postgres (thanks again Howard) I'm now trying to generate plots out of the database. The issue that I'm having is that the X-axis is date/time data, and I want to be able to plot

Re: [SLUG] Bigpond cable and WRT054G

2004-08-01 Thread Del
Stuart Guthrie wrote: Has anyone setup these two to play together nicely. I've just recommended the WRT054G to a friend and bigpond are not being helpful as to how to connect. ie pppoe, ppptp dhcp. I'm sure it can be done, but what incantation? His setup is (hopefully) PC . wifi card ~~