Re: [SLUG] [OT]: Database Design Question

Gavin, Thanks for your input. Much Appreciated. On 8/10/05, Gavin Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:35:11PM +1000, Adam W wrote: E.g The parent table is person and it holds common data amongst all people - it has primary key of personID. There is another table

[SLUG] [OT]: Database Design Question

Hi, Can anyone put a name to the following type of design... I need to be able to modify the amount/names of data fields stored for an entity so instead of representing the data stored for an entity in fields associated with that entity you would relate it to an another entity which would

Re: [SLUG] X not starting on boot

On 6/11/05, Ken Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 10:35 +1000, Adam W wrote: Hi, Got a problem getting my machine to automatically boot into X. I can get it to boot into a console and then use 'startx' to get into X. but everytime i tell it to boot into X it just

Re: [SLUG] X not starting on boot

On 6/11/05, Adam W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/11/05, Ken Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you do /etc/init.d/kdm start or something like that (I'm not sure how Mandrake does things nor which display manager you are running) Will give it a try... currently using GDM

[SLUG] Scheduling a X GUI Application to start

Hi, I simply want to schedule a specific X application to start up at a given time and appear on the screen. How do i do that?? I have tried using cron but it seems to just start it in the background. Cheers Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Scheduling a X GUI Application to start

On 6/10/05, Simon Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your question does seem a bit odd though. If you had mentioned whatwhy you are really trying to achieve, then perhaps there would be a better or more appropriate way... Basically optusnet cable gives you free bandwidth from 2am til 9am. I want

Re: [SLUG] Scheduling a X GUI Application to start

On 6/10/05, Roger Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/10/05, Simon Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your question does seem a bit odd though. If you had mentioned whatwhy you are really trying to achieve, then perhaps there would be a better or more appropriate way... Basically

Re: [SLUG] Local DNS Issue

:57 AM, Adam W wrote: Hi, I used to be able to get access to my linux box (mandrake 10.1) by just calling it by its name. I have always been able to do this without any config on the clients or the box (well except for 'hostname blah') But now i cannot seem to do that. The clients

[SLUG] Local DNS Issue

Hi, I used to be able to get access to my linux box (mandrake 10.1) by just calling it by its name. I have always been able to do this without any config on the clients or the box (well except for 'hostname blah') But now i cannot seem to do that. The clients dont know about the linux box's

RE: [SLUG] Complex Web Form 'stacks'

I'm all ears, unless I hear otherwise, I'll probably write the 'stack' technology. I don't know that it's a stack problem. I can think of two ways to do it: 1. Use the zany xml-rpc stuff in Javascript to do the query. This sounds like a nice idea in theory but I don't know how

RE: [SLUG] Intro and a question

Gary, And so on to the questions: As a relative newbie to Linux, will installing Debian cause me too much sleeplessness? Opinions out there seem to vary. I've been running Knoppix 3.3 off CD to begin to reacclimatise myself with Linux. You left out a vital point: what do you use you're pc

RE: [SLUG] Intro and a question

Gary, Firstly, be sure to hit reply to all when replying to posts on the list. This will ensure the message gets posted back to the list, instead of going directly to the person who posted the reply. It's probably a moot point now, but the primary use of the computer is browsing, email, some

Re: Re: [SLUG] Intro and a question

Peter, A Router (there are many) that will connect to your cable err why wouldn't you just use the Linux box as the router? Because when you dont have any knowledge of networking machines then wouldnt you think its even harder to setup masquerading on a linux box along with figuring out

[SLUG] APXS Missing Mandrake 10.0

Hi All, Trying to install a module to apache2 on my newly installed Mandrake 10.0 (Community) install, but cannot seem to find apxs or apxs2 anywhere! Anyone know why this wouldn't be included? I have installed ALL the apache rpm's. Could it be included in some other RPM? Tried searching on

[SLUG] HTTPS, dyndns, Apache

Hi All, Just experimenting with SSL on Apache. Have set up my own little dyndns domain. But i notice that when i surf from outside my network to https://woja.somedyndns.comdomain then it asks about the cert not being signed etc etc and asks me to login (apache basic login) and then redirects me

[SLUG] Apache 2.0 UserDir

Hi, Trying to use the UserDir option in apache 2.0 I have added this into /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf: UserDir /share/html And I go to the browser and type http://localhost/~adamw And I get a 403 forbidden. And this in the error log: [Wed Apr 07 17:27:16 2004] [error] [client 192.168.1.101]

RE: [SLUG] Apache 2.0 UserDir

Dave, Adam W wrote: What could be causing this? i dunno about apache 1 vs 2, but don't you need a UserDir enabled username directive? and maybe UserDir ~/share/html would be a bit more sensible... Sorry, missed out those details. Apache 2. Mandrake 9.2 default config. After

RE: [SLUG] Apache 2.0 UserDir

Jobst, After creating my public_html file in /home/adamw, Still getting: [Wed Apr 07 19:16:46 2004] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] (13)Permission denied: access to /~adamw denied The Apache Server must have access to that DIR! However you can do something like this:

RE: [SLUG] Apache 2.0 UserDir

I didn't realise apache needs execute permissions! Thanks all, Adam. Jobst, After creating my public_html file in /home/adamw, Still getting: [Wed Apr 07 19:16:46 2004] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] (13)Permission denied: access to /~adamw denied The

RE: [SLUG] samba share and XP

Luke, Does anyone have experience with setting up shares on samba and getting them to work with XP? I have 4 machines running XP (mixed - pro and home) and all can see and get into the shares without any need to run any reg files or modify any settings on the workstations at all. Double

RE: [SLUG] su - Password expired

Matt, On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:22:48 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Teh) wrote: Password expiry on root account bad, unless you're certain to change it before expiry occurs. You should be able to login on the console, even if the root password is expired. That's right. That's what made

[SLUG] Messaging Kicking Users on Console

etc. Similar to when you halt the system. Thanks, Adam W. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] su - Password expired

Hi, Anyone seen this problem before. Cant seem to find an answer on google on how to fix. [EMAIL PROTECTED] adamw]$ su Password: Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator su: incorrect password [EMAIL PROTECTED] adamw]$ chage -l adamw Minimum:-1 Maximum:

RE: [SLUG] OT: wireless security

Grant, protecting themselves against unwanted traffic. The user must agree to the terms of the provider (how that's going to work I don't know ++) which includes not deliberately disrupting other users or doing anything illegal +++. ++ I'd like to know as it's a potential second

RE: [SLUG] Samba Problems

Julian, /mnt/shared is owned by the group shared and all have read write permissions recursively.. where else can their permission be denied ??? it doesnt make sense... Who has access to /mnt ? To have access to a directory in Linux you also need at least the execute (x) bit set

[SLUG] Samba Problems

their permission be denied ??? it doesnt make sense... Thanks for any help.. Adam W. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] allowing/disabling ftp access by user type, how ?

say, once upon a time, when I typed 'google.com' I got google.com; now, I type 'google.com' but, I get 'google.com.au'; who/where does that ? Google does it. They sense you're from AU, so they forward you to google.com.au. It's the same search engine, jus with the added option of searching

RE: [SLUG] Server 'up'; but 'down' from external viewers...

possibly?? What sort of errors are you getting?? Have you checked the logs?? (Look through some of the logs in /var/log) Adam W. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] Server 'up'; but 'down' from external viewers...

Excuse the previous post - I hadnt realised it had been replied to already. AW. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] FW: Blast: New RPC DCOM Vulnerability and Updated Scanners

Title: Message Sorry about the HTML. For those admins that work with MS workstations: -Original Message-From: eEye Digital Security [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2003 7:48 AMTo: eEye Digital Security BlastSubject: Blast: New RPC DCOM Vulnerability and

RE: [SLUG] Help

Title: Message Jubril, I dont want to be harsh, but you should probably think about doing some other business venture if you dont have any clue of how to even start. OR get someone that knows what they are doing... I wouldnt suggest running or setting up such a cafe if u dont know how to

RE: [SLUG] VNC

Simon, HI all, I am experimenting with using VNC to access the desktop on my LTSP server from my Windows laptop. I can connect OK but all I get is a plain grey screen and the mouse curosr, there was an app running when I clicked and dragged, I thnk it was iconmanager or something

RE: [SLUG] constant hard disk access

Ben, Hi Slugs, I have a Mandrake 9 box. Turn it on and after a week or so of running the hard disk access light seems to stay almost constantly on. This will continue for about a week and then stop back to normal ie very low activity. Give it another week or two and then another week or

RE: [SLUG] Duplicating CD's

Matt, Better ways of duplicating CDs are: * Using cdread (input equivalent of cdrecord) to rip the disk, or * Mounting the disk and running mkisofs over it. Only problem with the latter is that if it's a bootable CD, the bootable part wont be ripped in with the ISO... Correct me if I'm

RE: [SLUG] The VPN challenge

Luke, Freeswan seems the obvious solution, but there is little docco to indicate how I configure it for maximum interoperability. Let alone interop with other free software. I also thought isn't IPsec meant to be a standard? Shouldn't I be able to use that? What do people recommend for

RE: [SLUG] Network

the sort of link you should get. Don't ask me about a gigabit uplink :) Cheers, Adam W. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] home server on adsl; advice

This the topology I have in mind for my network. (Maybe minus Firewall 3 and Firwall 4). Is there something wrong with it ? +-+ | I N T E R N E T | +-+ | +--+ |

[SLUG] Partitioning Question

for everything - at what stage does the partitioning of the drive start to matter?? Cheers Adam W. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] home server on adsl; advice

The question in a nutshell is this; Can I host 2 (or more) domains on one static IP address? And if so, can someone point me in the right direction as how to go about this. Yes, its called 'virtual hosts' - basically it senses what domain name you have typed in the URL, and gives

RE: [SLUG] mySQL Control Center - Access Denied Problem

MySQL permissions depend on which box you are coming from. So [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have one set of permissions and [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have different permissions (or none). You can adjust the permissions using the PERMIT statement. I understand that - but I have let my username be

RE: [SLUG] mySQL Control Center - Access Denied Problem

From memory MySQL handles local access differently to remote access. If you connect from the localhost then it will use [EMAIL PROTECTED] while remote access will use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure both accounts exist and use the password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] when using mycc from a

[SLUG] mySQL Control Center - Access Denied Problem

, hosts.deny (don't know if that is relevant - isnt this just xinetd? I'm not running mySQL through xinetd) Of course I have set the users table correctly - user adamw is accepted from all hosts. Can anyone pick the error?? Cheers Adam W. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] 21

What does 21 mean in a shell script?? E.g root preexec = /bin/mount /bigdisk 21 /tmp/bigdisk-mount.log I have seen it around a lot... Thanks.. AW. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] Oh dear

No comment...:-( http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=0Art_ID=11772 Hey I don't mind paying $1 to use linux - They are charging me a good sum, compared to $600 for windows! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] ps2tiff

Hi All, I have had a google and it seems that such thing does exist - but only problem is that I cant find it... I have got the latest version of ghostscript, and ps2tiff is not included in that. Any ideas? Does anyone use this, and know where to find?? Or maybe just know where to find it?

FW: [SLUG] ps2tiff

Didn't send it to the list damnit Ps2pdf is cool, but it would be even nicer to have ps2tiff, as windows users don't need the pdf reader (which most ppl have anyway), they can just use the inbuilt kodak image program. I presume you're aware that ps/pdf is a vector format and tiff is a

RE: [SLUG] Welcome to the Movieglobe Mailing List

quote who=Jon Biddell Which is a prime example of why the list should be changed to subscribers only can post - it would LESSEN the workload on our overworked list admins...:-) I disagree - not only is this a bad example of the point, but changing the list to subscribers-only

[SLUG] IE running on Linux - Suggestions

Hi All, One of the biggest factors of me crossing over to full time linux, at work and at home is the ability to run IE(please no flames). I just get really frustrated going to websites that run perfectly on IE, and seeing them all jumbled up on opera/mozilla or whatever because they don't

RE: [SLUG] Microsoft Tax

on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:22:03PM +1100, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why take delivery of a box with the spam os on it? I bought my last two boxes without any software at all; and expect to continue purchasing that way Thats my thought too. If they wont sell you a box without

RE: [SLUG] Audio out on two machines simultaneously

A hardware fix would be wiring your audio through the two unused pairs of your network cable. That would have nice hack value. Might be a bugger separating the pairs, though... A bigger bugger when you don't have wires to separate. He first mentioned the laptop is using WLAN :-)

RE: [SLUG] Microsoft Tax

Also, I thought Dell were starting to offer no-OS machines? Maybe that's just on their servers. Yeah this is their server models. Its actually the default option - they come with no OS unless otherwise stated. But no hope for the laptops/desktops going this way. Cheers AW -- SLUG -

RE: [SLUG] Win2k - Linux VPN

is 100 times quicker and more convenient (for the laptop user)! Cheers, And TIA for your comments. Adam W. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] How to Use VNC !!

It went in and opened an xterm. I thought that it would show the Linux graphical login screen, and once logged in it would take me to the graphical display I see when I logged in from the Linux machine itself. This seems different to the way cgiwin/XFREE86 works. It should give you X

RE: [SLUG] How to Use VNC !!

I have installed VNC version 3.3 on the master machine running Windows 2000. I have also installed VNC version 2.8 on the slave PC running Linux. I opened VNC on the master PC and entered the IP address for the Linux machine, and I got connect failed after I connect. Is there

RE: [SLUG] Getting to my app

I'm running Debian Woody, and am trying to access an application which is listening on a TCP/IP socket. The app is just a small http server, and I'm using a web browser to access it. I know the app is listening on the expected port, because if I connect using a browser on the same

RE: [SLUG] UTS Bachelor of Information Technology

Hi folks, Does anyone have an opinion on the UTS Bachelor of Information Technology? It is a totally scholarshiped course that you can transfer into from other institutions. It has an industry component. I was wondering if it ties you to specific employers with special conditions or

RE: [SLUG] Hard Drives

The moral of this story is: backup with RAID is better than RAID without backup. ITYM backup *without* RAID is better than RAID without backup. Although, it does protect you from a blown motor in one of the drives - without losing a day/week/months data. Then again - you may find your

RE: [SLUG] ADSL jungle

Question 2: can linux handle the DSL-504? Or are there more suitable devices to use? If it does NAT then linux can handle/use it. I havent heard of any cases (prove me wrong?) that a NAT DSL/Cable router has not worked with linux. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/

RE: [SLUG] NZ proposes GST on downloaded software.[ Here next ?]

Ummm, I don't think you understand how GST works. At least here in Oz, companies get to deduct the GST they have paid from the GST remittance they make to the government. So, the reality is that for companies, things do not cost 10% more, so there is no advantage to using free software.