[SLUG] Apache redirects

2005-03-31 Thread Edwin Humphries
G'day all, I'm trying to redirect a domain (e-quality.com.au) to a sub-directory of another domain (ironstone.com.au/equality/). This is to prevent pages that have nothing to do with our eQuality product from appearing under the e-quality domain. I've added the line Redirect 301

[SLUG] New SLUG Sponsor

2005-03-31 Thread Chris Deigan
Dear SLUG Members and Subscribers, Recently, SLUG held a talk from Martin Gregory, Platform developer at Microsoft. Following the success of this talk, and after some lengthy negotiations, the Sydney Linux Users Group is proud to announce a new sponsorship deal with Microsoft. The deal covers

Re: [SLUG] New SLUG Sponsor

2005-03-31 Thread James Gray
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:35 am, Chris Deigan wrote: Dear SLUG Members and Subscribers, Recently, SLUG held a talk from Martin Gregory, Platform developer at Microsoft. Following the success of this talk, and after some lengthy negotiations, the Sydney Linux Users Group is proud to announce a new

Re: [SLUG] New SLUG Sponsor

2005-03-31 Thread Shaun Butler
Yes...I sense a litle April Tomfoolery afoot... :) James Gray wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:35 am, Chris Deigan wrote: Dear SLUG Members and Subscribers, Recently, SLUG held a talk from Martin Gregory, Platform developer at Microsoft. Following the success of this talk, and after some lengthy

Re: [SLUG] New SLUG Sponsor

2005-03-31 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:35:43 +1000 Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear SLUG Members and Subscribers, Recently, SLUG held a talk from Martin Gregory, Platform developer at Microsoft. Following the success of this talk, and after some lengthy negotiations, the Sydney Linux Users Group

Re: [SLUG] front page on Apache ?

2005-03-31 Thread David Fisher
quote(Voytek); is there any problem hosting Front Page generated web sites on a Linux Apache 1.3x server ? Only if you try to use frontpage extensions. -Chris Don't get too used to using the FP server extensions for linux - they're being deprecated.

[SLUG] Fedora Core 3, Perl, Mason, Apache::Request

2005-03-31 Thread Michael Kraus
G'day all... I'm wanting to run Mason (a Perl module / website development tool). However, it requires another Perl module Apache::Request, which refuses to install with mod_perl 1.99 (requires v1.98 or less). FC2 and FC3 come standard with mod_perl 1.99 - has anyone successfully installed

[SLUG] Linux looks to Hilton for exposure

2005-03-31 Thread Terry Collins
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/03/31/862521987.html Linux looks to Hilton for exposure By Sam Varghese April 1, 2005 A new group set up to advance the cause of free and open source software has decided to recruit socialite Paris Hilton into its ranks as a means to gain more exposure.

Re: [SLUG] Linux looks to Hilton for exposure

2005-03-31 Thread Howard Lowndes
Always look for the dateline. :) On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 10:33 +1000, Terry Collins wrote: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/03/31/862521987.html Linux looks to Hilton for exposure By Sam Varghese April 1, 2005 A new group set up to advance the cause of free and open source

Re: [SLUG] New SLUG Sponsor

2005-03-31 Thread Howard Lowndes
Good one. On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 08:35 +1000, Chris Deigan wrote: Dear SLUG Members and Subscribers, Recently, SLUG held a talk from Martin Gregory, Platform developer at Microsoft. Following the success of this talk, and after some lengthy negotiations, the Sydney Linux Users Group is

RE: [SLUG] Fedora Core 3, Perl, Mason, Apache::Request

2005-03-31 Thread Michael Kraus
G'day all... I'm wanting to run Mason (a Perl module / website development tool). However, it requires another Perl module Apache::Request, which refuses to install with mod_perl 1.99 (requires v1.98 or less). FC2 and FC3 come standard with mod_perl 1.99 - has anyone successfully

[SLUG] Gnome default audio device

2005-03-31 Thread Phil Scarratt
Hi all Is there any way of changing the default audio device (/dev/dsp) that gnome uses? Specifically I am using Ubuntu, but I'm either googling the wrong term or there is no way of doing it. Everything I've tried is coming up dead end. I've tried adding options to /etc/esound/esd.conf to no

[SLUG] Evolution - a PITA?

2005-03-31 Thread Howard Lowndes
Is anyone else finding Evolution to be a real PITA? I thought v1.4 was bad enough with its regular crashes, but I think v2 is worse with its cycle hogging, and the compose window stalling for up to a minute. If anyone can suggest an easy way to export the address book then I would like to look

Re: [SLUG] Evolution - a PITA?

2005-03-31 Thread Simon Wong
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 15:44 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Is anyone else finding Evolution to be a real PITA? No! I thought v1.4 was bad enough with its regular crashes, but I think v2 is worse with its cycle hogging, and the compose window stalling for up to a minute. I am using 2.0.1-1.2

Re: [SLUG] Evolution - a PITA?

2005-03-31 Thread James Gregory
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 15:44 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Is anyone else finding Evolution to be a real PITA? No, I think it's a great piece of software. I thought v1.4 was bad enough with its regular crashes, but I think v2 is worse with its cycle hogging, and the compose window stalling for

Re: [SLUG] Evolution - a PITA?

2005-03-31 Thread Phil Scarratt
Howard Lowndes wrote: Is anyone else finding Evolution to be a real PITA? I did when I first tried it when I moved to Ubuntu. Didn't like it and found some of the features I was used to in Thunderbird were missing (more likely I didn't spend enough time looking for them and giving evolution a

[SLUG] SMS Gateway

2005-03-31 Thread Edwin Humphries
We're looking for a way to provide users on an apache/php-based Intranet service with the ability to send an SMS message from a web browser. Does anyone know of a Linux solution? We're running RH7.2. I presume there would need to be some kind of compatible account with a telco? Regards, Edwin

Re: [SLUG] Samba ADS help (plain text email - sorry)

2005-03-31 Thread Simon Wong
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 11:49 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote: I've recently set up a samba server that is on a windows ADS domain. Good start ;-) I'm wanting to have it so that windows users can automatically use the samba shares. Currently I have to add users using smbpasswd, and then from the

RE: [SLUG] SMS Gateway

2005-03-31 Thread Roger Barnes
We're looking for a way to provide users on an apache/php-based Intranet service with the ability to send an SMS message from a web browser. Does anyone know of a Linux solution? We're running RH7.2. I presume there would need to be some kind of compatible account with a telco? I've

Re: [SLUG] Evolution - a PITA?

2005-03-31 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 17:00 +1000, James Gregory wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 15:44 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Is anyone else finding Evolution to be a real PITA? No, I think it's a great piece of software. I thought v1.4 was bad enough with its regular crashes, but I think v2 is

[SLUG] Tonight's AGM

2005-03-31 Thread Craige McWhirter
Regrettably I can't make tonight's AGM so I'd like to wish everyone a great night, good luck to people who are standing and welcome to the new committee. Take care :) -- I promise to maintain the current level of real expenditure on Austudy. -- John Howard The Truth: Austudy was cut by $527

Re: [SLUG] Samba ADS help (plain text email - sorry)

2005-03-31 Thread Michael Kraus
Hi Simon (and all), Thanks for your reply. :) I appreciate any pointers I can get here. I've recently set up a samba server that is on a windows ADS domain. Good start ;-) Actually, I've done this before - but with limit success regarding ADS... I've gotten stuck at this point before,

Re: [SLUG] Samba ADS help (plain text email - sorry)

2005-03-31 Thread Michael Kraus
Also, here is my /etc/pam.d/samba - if it helps. ---snip--- #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required /lib/security/pam_winbind.so accountrequired /lib/security/pam_winbind.so accountrequired

Re: [SLUG] SMS Gateway

2005-03-31 Thread Edwin Humphries
Shaun, Checked them out - they make it very easy to deal with them, and the gy I spoke to understood why I wouldn't want a .NET solution! I'm impressed! Thanks. On 1 Apr 2005 at 16:44, Shaun Butler wrote: Edwin [a] Provider - A provider that I have seen used is MessageNet

Re: [SLUG] SMS Gateway

2005-03-31 Thread Shaun Butler
No worries Edwin. Glad I could help Edwin Humphries wrote: Shaun, Checked them out - they make it very easy to deal with them, and the gy I spoke to understood why I wouldn't want a .NET solution! I'm impressed! Thanks. On 1 Apr 2005 at 16:44, Shaun Butler wrote: Edwin [a] Provider - A provider

Re: [SLUG] Samba ADS help (plain text email - sorry)

2005-03-31 Thread Simon Wong
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:53 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote: You need to look into winbind as it will mirror the Windows accounts onto your machine. I have been. I've set up /etc/samba/smb.conf, /etc/krb5.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf and have a username map file set up. ---snip from

Re: [SLUG] Tonight's AGM

2005-03-31 Thread Taryn East
* Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Regrettably I can't make tonight's AGM so I'd like to wish everyone a great night, good luck to people who are standing and welcome to the new committee. another regrettably, myself - I've been looking over my free time recently and decided that

Re: [SLUG] Evolution - a PITA?

2005-03-31 Thread Howard Lowndes
James Gregory wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 15:44 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Is anyone else finding Evolution to be a real PITA? No, I think it's a great piece of software. I thought v1.4 was bad enough with its regular crashes, but I think v2 is worse with its cycle hogging, and the compose

RE: [SLUG] Samba ADS help (plain text email - sorry)

2005-03-31 Thread Michael Kraus
Here's the output of the command: # net join -w MYDOMAIN -U Administrator Administrator's password: [2005/04/01 17:22:46, 0] libads/ldap.c:ads_add_machine_acct(1297) ads_add_machine_acct: Host account for my-linux-server already exists - modifying old account Using short domain name -- MYDOMAIN