Re: [SLUG] escaping variables in bash

2004-09-14 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:54:42AM +1000, Robert Thorsby wrote: On 2004.09.14 10:39 Alexander Samad wrote: What about in a here doc so some thing like #!/bin/bash TEST='here' cat EOF awk '/$TEST/ {print}' /somefile EOF do the ' still keep there meaning in a here doc ? Wouldn't

Re: [SLUG] Another LaTeX question

2004-09-14 Thread Michael Lake
James Gregory wrote: Once again I'm fighting the good fight trying to keep our documentation available as PDF and HTML. I have the problem at the moment that I need to include a huge table of error codes. One column of this table is a wordy description of the error (a short paragraph or so). I

[SLUG] SunRay on Linux

2004-09-14 Thread Matthew Lambie
Hi, Does anyone have any experience Sun's SunRay devices (like what was in the dorms at LCA 2004, if you stayed at the college) connecting to a Linux box? Apparently with v3 (which is in Beta - http://wwws.sun.com/software/sunray/beta/index.html) of SunRay Server Software support for Red Hat

Re: [SLUG] escaping variables in bash

2004-09-14 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 2004.09.14 16:05 Alexander Samad wrote: Wouldn't it be a lot easier to use awk's -v option (that's the reason it's there): #!/bin/bash TEST=Here echo is a test | /usr/bin/awk -v i=$TEST '{print (\ i, $0 .\)}' Cool learn something new, but does it work in the // regex part ? I don't

[SLUG] whitepages.com.au freezes mozilla

2004-09-14 Thread Simon Males
This is absolutely killing me. Everytime I visit whitepages.com.au I see Applet v51 starting and I cannot type anything in the whole browser for like 30 seconds. Both Firefox and Mozilla nightlies. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] whitepages.com.au freezes mozilla

2004-09-14 Thread David Kempe
Simon Males wrote: This is absolutely killing me. Everytime I visit whitepages.com.au I see Applet v51 starting and I cannot type anything in the whole browser for like 30 seconds. Both Firefox and Mozilla nightlies. its java I think. you could disable it - there was a text based whitepages,

Re: [SLUG] escaping variables in bash

2004-09-14 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:03:41PM +1000, Robert Thorsby wrote: On 2004.09.14 16:05 Alexander Samad wrote: Wouldn't it be a lot easier to use awk's -v option (that's the reason it's there): #!/bin/bash TEST=Here echo is a test | /usr/bin/awk -v i=$TEST '{print (\ i, $0 .\)}' Cool

Re: [SLUG] x509 certificate and openssl

2004-09-14 Thread Alexander Samad
Worked it out, revoke the initial cert and then re sign it ! Alex On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:26:03AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: Hi I manage my own ca and associated x509 certificates, now it is comming up that they are expiring, I have kept the original req, how do I re sign them, I

Re: [SLUG] SunRay on Linux

2004-09-14 Thread Matthew Lambie
Matthew Lambie wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any experience Sun's SunRay devices (like what was in the dorms at LCA 2004, if you stayed at the college) connecting to a Linux box? Apparently with v3 (which is in Beta - http://wwws.sun.com/software/sunray/beta/index.html) of SunRay Server Software

Re: [SLUG] Another LaTeX question

2004-09-14 Thread James Gregory
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 16:57 +1000, Michael Lake wrote: James Gregory wrote: Once again I'm fighting the good fight trying to keep our documentation available as PDF and HTML. I have the problem at the moment that I need to include a huge table of error codes. One column of this table is a

Re: [SLUG] whitepages.com.au freezes mozilla

2004-09-14 Thread Simon Males
David Kempe wrote: Simon Males wrote: This is absolutely killing me. Everytime I visit whitepages.com.au I see Applet v51 starting and I cannot type anything in the whole browser for like 30 seconds. Both Firefox and Mozilla nightlies. its java I think. you could disable it - there was a text

Re: [SLUG] whitepages.com.au freezes mozilla

2004-09-14 Thread Voytek
quote who=David Kempe Simon Males wrote: This is absolutely killing me. Everytime I visit whitepages.com.au I see Applet v51 starting and I cannot type anything in the whole browser for like 30 seconds. Both Firefox and Mozilla nightlies. its java I think. you could disable it - there

Re: [SLUG] OCR

2004-09-14 Thread Nick Croft
* Michael Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have not found anything that is anywhere near the ability of the commercial ocr packages that come with scanner software on Windows :-( This is the only reason why I run an emulator -- for TextBridge. Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] Video glitches with i740 card

2004-09-14 Thread Heracles
Thanks Ken, Changing the mouse cursor to a software cursor fixed the problem. Many thanks, Morphix is now working perfectly with all the latest upgrades from Debian. Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] 2.6.8 release info ?

2004-09-14 Thread amos
I've just found about the Linux Weekly News (LWN) kernel articles index (at http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/) and one of the articles there is a short one titled 2.6.8 and CD recording: http://lwn.net/Articles/98379/ Maybe it'll help explain some of the troubles with SCSI in 2.6.8(.1). To sum the

Re: [SLUG] OCR

2004-09-14 Thread Richard Neal
Hai Ive been using ocrad http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.htm for ocr stuff with a script. Originally I had to convert some pdf's to text files I ended up writing a batch script (bash). I haven't got a copy of the script on hand (took me a while to perfect too) its been lost in the

Re: [SLUG] Elementary symlink question

2004-09-14 Thread amos
Peter Hardy wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:34, Jan Schmidt wrote: quote who=Matthew Davidson However, I maintain that's the way it _should_ work! That's the way hard links work, but they can only link within the same file system. But you shouldn't add hard links to

Re: [SLUG] whitepages.com.au freezes mozilla

2004-09-14 Thread amos
Voytek wrote: I had a similar problem recently, on both, 'normal' as well as text version I think... it was releated to a local Java version mish-mash, in my case Do you mean that you managed to make it work once you fixed java on your machine? Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] 2.6.8 release info ?

2004-09-14 Thread Rod Butcher
Thanks Amos others who provided feedback.. I'll stick with 2.6.7 (which works great for me) until the uberbrains decide where they're going on this. My failure to get bash to work on 2.6.8 under x11 remains a puzzle though.. all the components people told me it needed to run appeared to be

Re: [SLUG] whitepages.com.au freezes mozilla

2004-09-14 Thread Voytek
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Voytek wrote: I had a similar problem recently, on both, 'normal' as well as text version I think... it was releated to a local Java version mish-mash, in my case Do you mean that you managed to make it work once you fixed java on your machine? yes this is *not*

[SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Edwin Humphries
I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for flat-file databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple Win databases (eg, Access) and it isn't Microsoft! Can anyone suggest a Linux alternative? My

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 08:03, Edwin Humphries wrote: I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for flat-file databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple Win databases (eg, Access) and it

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Edwin Humphries
Andrew, I now know two things about OpenOffice: it can do databases quite neatly, and it can't do databases with bitmaps as fields. At 08:25 AM 15/09/2004, you wrote: I know you can do flatfile databases within Open Office not to sure about adding images though Heres a website explaining it on

[SLUG] echo not echoing anymore

2004-09-14 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, I have the following two files in the root directory of all my users on an LTSP4 setup. The purpose is to map their home drives from another server into the user space on the LTSP server. Works fine. However since a recent 'yum upgrade' (this is running on FC2) none of the text appears in

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Edwin Humphries wrote: I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for flat-file databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple Win databases (eg, Access) and it isn't Microsoft! Can anyone suggest

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 08:54, Phil Scarratt wrote: Edwin Humphries wrote: I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for flat-file databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple Win

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
try running filemaker in wine Dean Phil Scarratt wrote: Edwin Humphries wrote: I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for flat-file databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple Win databases

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Howard Lowndes wrote: There is a product called Rekall http://www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/ which provides a front end to a number of backend dbs, inc MySQL and PostgreSQL This looks quite good and complete, and it's been GPL'ed. Just took a quick look around their site and noticed that of

Re: [SLUG] Another LaTeX question

2004-09-14 Thread Michael Lake
James Gregory wrote: I tried those but they didn't wrap the text inside the long column (or at least I couldn't figure out how). I eventually found xtab which wraps nicely *and* splits pages. I'm using it for the pdf generation now. If you want to wrap the text 'inside' a column you have to give a

[SLUG] Hard disk spin down, and GNOME.

2004-09-14 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi all. I have managed to set up my laptop to allow my hard disk to be shut off after a period of time while on battery. However, for the times I need to go into GNOME, if the laptop is left idle for a while, the hard disk doesn't spin down. Listening to the hard disk, it sounds like that it is

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Howard Lowndes wrote: There is a product called Rekall http://www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/ which provides a front end to a number of backend dbs, inc MySQL and PostgreSQL Sorry, should've posted the non-commercial version link http://www.rekallrevealed.org/index.shtml The source is

[SLUG] bind: rndc setup, where the keygen files go ?

2004-09-14 Thread Voytek
Hi all, I'm trying to config bind on RH73, the rndc setup the docs tell me to generate some key with something like: # dnssec-keygen -a hmac-md5 -b 256 -n HOST my_dns Kmy_dns.+157+23903 that makes a couple of files like so # ls Kmy_dns.+157+23903.key Kmy_dns.+157+23903.private is there any

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread David
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Phil Scarratt wrote: Filemaker Pro is originally a Mac program - is there an OSX version? There may be a Linux version if so. May be worth sreaching. Yes, there is an OS X version - it's still very much a Mac program. I rang Filemaker out of curiosity, and the

Re: [SLUG] bind: rndc setup, where the keygen files go ?

2004-09-14 Thread O Plameras
Have you read, http://ops.ietf.org/dns/dynupd/secure-ddns-howto.html ??? Voytek wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to config bind on RH73, the rndc setup the docs tell me to generate some key with something like: # dnssec-keygen -a hmac-md5 -b 256 -n HOST my_dns Kmy_dns.+157+23903 that makes a couple of

[SLUG] Scanner probs

2004-09-14 Thread Elliott-Brennan
Hi, (I tried to send a previous group mail, but it doesn't appear to have 'appeared') - sorry if this turns out to be a multiple post - some probs have been resolved thanks to previous assistance. Problems with a Diamond View scanner: (my aim is to run all my periphs in Mandrake, so I can change

[SLUG] SSL certificates portable ?

2004-09-14 Thread Hilton De Meillon
Hi All, Are SSL certificates portable ?. I want to generate a CSR on a IIS machine and use it to produce a certificate that will be used on an Linux/Apache 1.3.12-12 box (obviously with the correct fqdn ,etc) Is that possible ? Regards, Hilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] SSL certificates portable ?

2004-09-14 Thread Kevin Saenz
I am pretty sure that SSL certificates are dependant upon the IP address of the machine. Are SSL certificates portable ?. I want to generate a CSR on a IIS machine and use it to produce a certificate that will be used on an Linux/Apache 1.3.12-12 box (obviously with the correct fqdn ,etc)

Re: [SLUG] SSL certificates portable ?

2004-09-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Hilton De Meillon wrote: Are SSL certificates portable ?. I want to generate a CSR on a IIS machine and use it to produce a certificate that will be used on an Linux/Apache 1.3.12-12 box (obviously with the correct fqdn ,etc) The SSL cert vendor takes the CSR in text

[SLUG] X11R6.8 in mandrake

2004-09-14 Thread Kevin Saenz
Has anyone install X11R6.8 on mandrake 10? Just wondering what I would need to concern myself if I was going to replace Xfree86 -- 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] Wins netbios name resolution in /etc/nsswitch.conf

2004-09-14 Thread Ryan Tsai
hi Peter, yes, nmblookup works fine with no problems resolving any names. Ryan - Original Message - From: "Peter Hardy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Wins netbios name resolution

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Craig Mitchell
I've just purchased a program called Servoy, it's commercial, but has a 90 day developer trial available. Not expensive. Will run on windoze, osx and linux (written in Java). Has it's own build in db, or will connect to almost any sql (I'm using it for a snail mail management package with mysql).

RE: [SLUG] SSL certificates portable ?

2004-09-14 Thread hilton de meillon
Hi all, I just spoke to a support at instantssl.com and they reckon you can create a csr on a win/iis box and Install the resultant certificate on an linux/apache box. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamie Wilkinson Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [SLUG] X11R6.8 in mandrake

2004-09-14 Thread James Gregory
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:40 +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: Has anyone install X11R6.8 on mandrake 10? Just wondering what I would need to concern myself if I was going to replace Xfree86 You mean the Xorg server? I've been running that out of cooker for a number of months now. I've seen no