[SLUG] System boot hanging at "Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local)

2006-11-17 Thread John
Hi list, As the subject says my system hangs at this point. /etc/rc.local only has "exit 0" in it. I can ssh into the machine, thankfully, but what can I do to stop it hanging at this point, please? TIA John -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription in

[SLUG] Fedora virtualization under Debian

2006-11-17 Thread T Murray
G'day all, I've just installed QEMU virtualised XP Professional under Debian - works great. My question is it possible to virtualize fedora in QEMU. Im currently running Debian etch and studying for my LPI-102 exams so having Fedora avalible at a click (without logging out of my Debian distro)

Re: [SLUG] Backing up to dvd

2006-11-17 Thread Ken Wilson
I have found a couple of GUI backup programs; grsync which is a graphical front end to rsync http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/ sbackup which is a graphical front end to cron and tar http://sbackup.sourceforge.net/HomePage which are both available from the ubuntu repositories. Both are simple to set u

Re: [SLUG] Making samba DWIM

2006-11-17 Thread Tony Lissner
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:49 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Hi gang > > I've been having some trouble with Samba I can't seem to work out > myself, and I was hoping someone can help. > > The setup I have for web work is a Windows 2000 desktop (for > Dreamweaver, Ultraedit, Firefox+IE+Opera, and so

Re: [SLUG] Linux UI decision

2006-11-17 Thread jam
On Monday 13 November 2006 05:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've never done any winders programming, but needed to do a GUI winders > > project. I spent 90% of my time doing it on my linux box, 10% porting it > > to winders. Now I can build either, mod either, support either (heh heh > > vmware)

Re: [SLUG] Making samba DWIM

2006-11-17 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:49 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: > For some reason, saving from the Windows box seems to reset the > permissions of the files. And in this particular case, that also means > 644 (and thus not world-readable so nobody can do the CGI). > > Now, I assume that Windows is doing