[SLUG] Exhibitors at Education Expo

2005-04-11 Thread Sara from ABD Computer Installations
Greetings All, With just 5 weeks to go to the big event on 14 and 15 May at Rosehill Racecourse, Sydney, things are shaping up beautifully. LA is on the the List of Exhibitors (200+ to date) on the expo website at www.edexpo.info To date: * We have our awesome LA banner so we're sure to be seen,

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Wireless

2005-04-11 Thread Terry Collins
Howard Lowndes wrote: Much the same effect as the colorbond fence between myself and my neighbours place - say Faraday cage. If this is their WAP, then the next time they have problem, suggest putting it on a shelf high in the room {:-) I actually have a w1nd0ws hack, spit, cough splutter boxen

Re: [SLUG] Exhibitors at Education Expo

2005-04-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Sara from ABD Computer Installations wrote: We are still in need of: * Suggestions for the student/teacher niche, what else do we need to inform them about? I know you and others have probably thought a lot about this, and you want more concrete suggestions, but here's my 2c worth of what sort

RE: [SLUG] Exhibitors at Education Expo

2005-04-11 Thread Simon
Just some comments as I work as an IT Manager in a school, see inline -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Scarratt Sent: Mon, 11. April 2005 4:48 PM To: Sara from ABD Computer Installations Cc: slug@slug.org.au; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] libcrypto, libssl needed for ProFTPd

2005-04-11 Thread Voytek
I'm trying to install ProFTPd from an rpm, but getting failed dependencies: what do I need to do ? # rpm -i proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libcrypto.so.1 is needed by proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x libssl.so.1 is needed by proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x # openssl version

Re: [SLUG] libcrypto, libssl needed for ProFTPd

2005-04-11 Thread O Plameras
Voytek wrote: I'm trying to install ProFTPd from an rpm, but getting failed dependencies: what do I need to do ? # rpm -i proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libcrypto.so.1 is needed by proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x libssl.so.1 is needed by proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x # openssl

Re: [SLUG] libcrypto, libssl needed for ProFTPd

2005-04-11 Thread James Gregory
Quoting Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: quote who=O Plameras Edit your /etc/ld.so.conf and insert the the directory path excluding the filename. RPM doesn't inspect ld.so.conf in walking dependencies. This will have no effect on the installation. (hhhm, perhaps Eric was right telling me to give

[SLUG] Using software raid0 on 2 sata disks installing gentoo

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Portman
Hi everyone... im trying to install gentoo on a software raid0 array across 2 sata disks. the boot partion is just a normal partition though on /dev/sda1. Ive read all the howtos i can find... they all go through the same steps and the install procedure runs through fine however when i get

Re: [SLUG] libcrypto, libssl needed for ProFTPd

2005-04-11 Thread O Plameras
So, what is the mechanism for it to know if there is or not. And if there is, how will the program loader find where to load the libraries required ? James Gregory wrote: Quoting Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: quote who=O Plameras Edit your /etc/ld.so.conf and insert the the directory path

Re: [SLUG] libcrypto, libssl needed for ProFTPd

2005-04-11 Thread Voytek
quote who=James Gregory Quoting Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: quote who=O Plameras Edit your /etc/ld.so.conf and insert the the directory path excluding the filename. RPM doesn't inspect ld.so.conf in walking dependencies. This will have no effect on the installation. (hhhm, perhaps Eric

Re: [SLUG] libcrypto, libssl needed for ProFTPd

2005-04-11 Thread James Gregory
Quoting O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, what is the mechanism for it to know if there is or not. RPM keeps a database that records what files are provided by each package. Along with that information are details such as MD5s of the files, permissions, modification dates etc. If a package has

Re: [SLUG] libcrypto, libssl needed for ProFTPd

2005-04-11 Thread James Gregory
Quoting Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps you can tell us about the system and we can help you get it upgraded? What do you use this box for? James, thanks. apache/php/mysql/mail on P2 320MB Hrmm. The PHP element there makes that sound like a mildly difficult upgrade. Which MTA are

[SLUG] mono on debian

2005-04-11 Thread Gottfried Szing
hi, does anyone know if there is a deb-repository that contains packages for mono? i have tried some of the repositories listed in apt-get.org, but there is always a problem with some depencies (eg gtk-sharp is missing, missing reference to /usr/share/dotnet/monodoc/browser.exe, ...). and

Re: [SLUG] libcrypto, libssl needed for ProFTPd

2005-04-11 Thread telford
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:23:48PM +1000, Voytek wrote: I'm trying to install ProFTPd from an rpm, but getting failed dependencies: what do I need to do ? # rpm -i proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libcrypto.so.1 is needed by proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x

Re: [SLUG] libcrypto, libssl needed for ProFTPd

2005-04-11 Thread O Plameras
Ah hah. The procedure is: 1. rpm -ql --whatprovides | grep libcrypto.so.1 etc. 2. If #1 is TRUE, then fixed /etc/ld.so.conf If you think about it,#2 will never ever be done if #1 procedure is not TRUE. This is not a 'must be done' but sys-admin 'good practice' policy. In other

Re: [SLUG] libcrypto, libssl needed for ProFTPd

2005-04-11 Thread telford
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 08:20:58AM +1000, O Plameras wrote: Ah hah. The procedure is: 1. rpm -ql --whatprovides | grep libcrypto.so.1 etc. 2. If #1 is TRUE, then fixed /etc/ld.so.conf But if your system is missing the critical package you won't get an answer. It only works if

Re: [SLUG] Using software raid0 on 2 sata disks installing gentoo

2005-04-11 Thread telford
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:01:55PM +1000, Chris Portman wrote: Hi everyone... im trying to install gentoo on a software raid0 array across 2 sata disks. the boot partion is just a normal partition though on /dev/sda1. Ive read all the howtos i can find... they all go through the same

Re: [SLUG] Exhibitors at Education Expo

2005-04-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Simon wrote: SNIP This is on the Select Agreement, these are non-upgradeable licences, if you have MS Office 2000 and want to go to 2003 then buy all the licences again. And this is where FOSS has the advantage - the individual cost of MS is not necessarily excessive for Schools - but the

Re: [SLUG] Linux looks to ############# for exposure

2005-04-11 Thread Terry Collins
Terry Collins wrote: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/03/31/862521987.html So, was it just these two lame April Fools Day jokes this year, or did anyone find another one and not share it. P.S. to those who messaged, I do realise that it was White Rabbits day. And my that be the only

RE: [SLUG] Virtual hosting with VMWare

2005-04-11 Thread Daron Barndon
IIRC, GSX is Linux with custom kernel modules but ESX is it's own kernel. I think it was based on FreeBSD way back when they founded VMWare.. no idea if they pull things from the FreeBSD of today. GSX can run on Windows 2K+ or Linux AFAIK. ESX runs a cutdown version of what appears to be Redhat

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu launches into command line only

2005-04-11 Thread Ashley
linley caetan wrote: running Ubuntu warty in i386 after some recent updates using apt (for alsa related items) Ubuntu reboots in CLI mode , no graphic login screen. Launching X from CLI gives a grey screen with X cursor and nothing else. There is no way to proceed except restarting the machine.

Re: Re: [SLUG] what is 's' in 'ls'

2005-04-11 Thread rami rosen
Hello, Eric said: what is 's' in 'ls' listing, socket ? srwx--1 root nobody 0 Oct 10 2003 .fam_socket I think its a unix domain socket. Yes it is; You can compile and run the simple following program: #include sys/un.h #include sys/socket.h #include sys/types.h int main()

[SLUG] Connecting to an L2TP/IPSEC windows vpn server

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Portman
Hi all, Does anyone have any solutions for connecting to an L2TP/IPSEC windows VPN server? I cant seem to find a great deal on google. And if I solve that, any terminal services clients that will also work with windows terminal services server? Thanks Chris Portman -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to an L2TP/IPSEC windows vpn server

2005-04-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Chris Portman wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have any solutions for connecting to an L2TP/IPSEC windows VPN server? I cant seem to find a great deal on google. And if I solve that, any terminal services clients that will also work with windows terminal services server? Not sure on the VPN

Re: [SLUG] Exhibitors at Education Expo

2005-04-11 Thread Terry Collins
Phil Scarratt wrote: In any case, as you say, students are far more adaptable than staff (generally of course). In support of staff (experiences relate to NSW Dept Ed); 1) staff are now required to do more administrative work, hence less time and energy to try out something. 2) whomever is the

Re: [SLUG] Exhibitors at Education Expo

2005-04-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Terry Collins wrote: Phil Scarratt wrote: In any case, as you say, students are far more adaptable than staff (generally of course). In support of staff (experiences relate to NSW Dept Ed); I guess most of my experience is with private schools, with limited public. 1) staff are now required to

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: run levels in debian/ubuntu

2005-04-11 Thread James
On Apr 8, 2005 6:06 PM, Geoff Reidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: For what it's worth... the program ntsysv provides an interactive text mode interface which might be a bit easier to work with than renaming links. It's standard on RedHat... I'd be stunned if it wasn't

Re: [SLUG] Exhibitors at Education Expo

2005-04-11 Thread telford
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:53:56AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: 4) The MS Tax is charged on EVERY computer in the school, hence there is no money saving incentive to replace MS with FOSS/Linux. I thought that was illegal... ...how do they attempt to enforce this? As my wife was a teacher in

Re: [SLUG] Exhibitors at Education Expo

2005-04-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:53:56AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: 4) The MS Tax is charged on EVERY computer in the school, hence there is no money saving incentive to replace MS with FOSS/Linux. I thought that was illegal... ..how do they attempt to enforce this? I'm

Re: [SLUG] Exhibitors at Education Expo

2005-04-11 Thread Terry Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:53:56AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: 4) The MS Tax is charged on EVERY computer in the school, hence there is no money saving incentive to replace MS with FOSS/Linux. I thought that was illegal... ...how do they attempt to enforce this? It was

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to an L2TP/IPSEC windows vpn server

2005-04-11 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 17:35 +1000, Chris Portman wrote: Does anyone have any solutions for connecting to an L2TP/IPSEC windows VPN server? I cant seem to find a great deal on google. For the IPSEC side of things, your best bet is openswan (http://www.openswan.org/). For l2tp, you need l2tpd,

[SLUG] Re: Connecting to an L2TP/IPSEC windows vpn server

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:35:50PM +1000, Chris Portman wrote: Does anyone have any solutions for connecting to an L2TP/IPSEC windows VPN Blergh, Microsoft and their myriad useless VPN systems. If L2TP is also known as PPTP (I can't remember if they are or not), then you need a PPTP client --

Re: [SLUG] Exhibitors at Education Expo

2005-04-11 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:21:15 +1000 Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Aaah, UTS Engineering. A wonderful place, where scoring in an academic bun fight is more important that providing student education. I also remember the Introductory C class where everyone who handed in a copy

[SLUG] PHP load error

2005-04-11 Thread Edwin Humphries
We were having some errors in execution of a cron-initiated php script. We ran it from the console, and got some errors. We then tried running php without passing it any options or script names, and got the same error (below):

Re: [SLUG] Exhibitors at Education Expo

2005-04-11 Thread Terry Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to offer certificates, consider setting up a Registered Training Organisation. Then you can offer Cert I, Cert II, etc course, but you do need Cert IV qualified trainers. You got any links to explanation of how this process works? How does the first Cert IV