Re: [SLUG] Re: Graphics Card/Laptop

On 14/06/07, bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Amos I recently purchased an LG widescreen monitor which runs fine with Kubuntu ( Debian) 6.06 and the nv driver at 1680x1050 My Benq laptop widescreen also runs fine with LinuxMint ( Ubuntu/debian) My other 2 pc's, one with an onboard SIS vid c

[SLUG] troubles installing mediawiki1.7 on Debian Etch

Hello, I've managed to install mediawiki 1.7 on Debian Etch using the debian packages flawlessly before, but now that I try to do the same on another system I keep getting an error as follows when I try to configure it by accessing the /mediawiki/config/index.php page: Warning: mysql_query(): su

Re: [SLUG] troubles installing mediawiki1.7 on Debian Etch

On 17/06/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And it's most likely failing on the very first time the enclosing function (doQuery) is called. Or actually, "is called with that user". After getting your reply I found how to turn on debug messages: 1. Add a call to "$wgDatabase->debug(true

Re: [SLUG] troubles installing mediawiki1.7 on Debian Etch - extensions?

On 18/06/07, Steve Granger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Template:Cite web any pointers? I might then be able to make off an item in the TODO list Have you looked at the documentation at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite/Cite.php (referenced from a comment at the top of Cite.php)? According to

Re: [SLUG] Joining and a Question

On 19/06/07, Marghanita da Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Bowskill wrote: > Dear Slug, > > I am a retired TAFE teacher (and Electronics Engineer) living at > Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains. > > As I am no longer employed, would the annual subscription for me be $15 ? Welcome. I d

Re: [SLUG] MySQL transfer from one host to another over SSH (pull)

On 19/06/07, Michael Chesterton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I am trying to do is... > > $ ssh DBMASTER "mysqldump --opt -u root -p live" | mysql -u dbuser -p live > Enter password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > ERROR 1045 (2

[SLUG] setting debian mirror manually during net install?

Hello, I have two situations with basically the same question: 1. A few weeks ago I tried to install Debian Etch from a net install disk using a repository served through apt-cacher but couldn't find a way to overwrite the sources.list file during the install. I ended up using a full installatio

Re: [SLUG] A file transfer problem

On 22/06/07, Leslie Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to transfer a large file from computer A to computer B using a null modem cable. The file is a compressed file which, when transferred, will allow me to install on computer B the distribution called Delilinux. I have no other way of g

Re: [SLUG] linux dedicated computers in australia?

On 22/06/07, Richard Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know www.pioneercomputers.com.au have an "Ubuntu" option on most of their laptops models, you will have to click on the "Build Your Own" button once you have selected the general model your after. Also: 1. Search the SLUG archives, some li

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail Start-up

On 23/06/07, Malcolm Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but I have noticed two (almost certainly related) problems. One is that, on invoking "dnsdomainname" or the "hostname" equivalent, nothing is printed, although the command returns success. The second problem is that both I don't know

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail Startup

On 24/06/07, Malcolm Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Amos, Thanks for your comments. Do you have the problem with the slow startup as well? No. I don't run sendmail on my home machine. I don't have an SMTP server on my machine since it doesn't expect any incoming mail, all outgoing

[SLUG] Can SAMBA 3.0.24 be a BDC for a Windows 2003 domain controller?

Hello, I kept hearing that Samba 3 can join and do anything as a Windows Domain Controller even better than Windows itself. But now that I need it to replace a Backup Domain Controller (fka Secondary Domain Controller?) to a Windows 2003 Active Directory server I keep bumping into the following

Re: [SLUG] Can SAMBA 3.0.24 be a BDC for a Windows 2003 domain controller?

On 26/06/07, DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You need to get your terminology straight first. I suspected so :). Windows networking is so foreign to me. There's no such thing as a "PDC" or "BDC" in an Active Directory environment - especially a 2003 AD environment. There are PDC and BDC _e

[SLUG] Trojan Horse Loaded Version Of Ubuntu 7.04 Spreading Over Torrent Sites

For the benefit of those who might not follow such news (e.g. Linux newbies who take their first steps in downloading and installing such software), I post this here as a warning - don't download just any copy of a Linux distro unless it's coming from an official distro site and (or?) without veri

Re: [SLUG] Etax 2007

On 03/07/07, Rich Buggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think a better question is why can't the ATO produce a real web application that only requires a web browser? The rest of the planet seems to have managed to do it. That's the right question (the kind that made MS suddenly so scared about N

Re: [SLUG] Etax 2007

On 03/07/07, Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:22 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > Dean Hamstead wrote: > > ran perfectly in wine (whatever is current). > > That should not be used as an excuse for the ATO not to provide a Linux > port. Out of interest, why is a na

Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files

On 03/07/07, Kevin Shackleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a directory tree with a lot of duplicate "leaves". The command "rm -r " does not work, saying: "cannot lstat ''" Does it give any more information in the error message? Usually such errors are followed by the exact system call e

Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files

On 04/07/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: p.s. I know what you mean by the vague concept of "seeding". For many of the GNU shell utilities it would be nice to be able to specify that -r is to work recursively on the file/pattern specified as the argument(s), i.e. ls -R currently

Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files

On 04/07/07, Kevin Shackleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To explain more about my remove duplicate file problem . . # rm -rv returns: rm: cannot lstat `': No such file or directory Is "somefile" the exact file name (e.g. full path name or full path between current working dir and the file

[SLUG] installing Debian Etch on Dell E520 (Intel Core 2 Duo)

Hi, I've finally got my Dell Dimension E520 desktop (don't trust the delivery company they use, stood me up three times in two days) and managed to boot System Rescue CD to shrink the Windows XP partition on it, but sticking the ia64 CD-ROM 1 or ia64 netinst of Debian Etch on memory stick causes

Re: [SLUG] Sound in Ubuntu

On 05/07/07, Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do it from outside the Operating System. Disable it in BIOS. That's basically what I did back when I bought my SoundBlaster. Another possible option if you want to play around with the on-board sound card without having to switch to BIOS m

Re: [SLUG] installing Debian Etch on Dell E520 (Intel Core 2 Duo)

On 05/07/07, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: > I've finally got my Dell Dimension E520 desktop (don't trust the delivery > but sticking the ia64 CD-ROM 1 or ia64 netinst of Debian Etch If its Core 2 Duo then its not ia64. Ia64 if the

Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files

On 08/07/07, Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Zhasper> find . -name "" -print0 | xargs -0 rm Actually lighter weight, less forking less execing, because this version runs two procsses only, rather than a new invocation of rm for each file found. It runs at least three processes if it

Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files

On 09/07/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Zhasper> find . -name "" -print0 | xargs -0 rm >> >> Actually lighter weight, less forking less execing, because this version >> runs two procsses only, rather than a new invocation of rm for each file >> found. > > It runs at least three p

[SLUG] Windows Subversion client?

Hello, I'm trying to convince the windows programmers at my workplace to adopt SubVersion instead of Source(Un)Safe (which they already hate anyway) but the best Windows GUI client I found is TortoiseSVN which the programmer doesn't like because it relays on Windows Exploder which can get stuck f

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop repairs?

On 10/07/07, Martin Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I have had to send my work notebook in for repair, I have always removed the hard disk and just sent in the unit. That way I can either just use it in a spare (which I sometimes have had the luxury of) or at worst case stick it into a US

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

On 13/07/07, Heracles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Compaq S720 screen) and all works OK except when she is on the net with Firefox it stalls from time to time. It never did this to her under XP What exactly do you mean by "stalls"? The Firefox network traffic or the entire X display? --Amos --

[SLUG] [OT/2] Dual layer DVD media?

Hello, I'm looking for a good place to buy Dual-Layer DVD media. I found some places on the net but was wondering: 1. Whether anyone can recommend some place on the North Shore where I can just walk in and buy good media in stead of having to order over the Internet. 2. Are there any points to

Re: [SLUG] [OT/2] Dual layer DVD media?

On 13/07/07, DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Officeworks. Last time I looked, a 5 pack of dual layer {verbatum} media cost about $13 or $15 or so. There's one near Chatswood, from memory, and also one at Brookvale. Thanks. I think I know which one you are talking about - there is one on Paci

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

On 15/07/07, Heracles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Amos, Everything pauses, but if she kills Firefox then there are no further problems. I got her to move to Opera and the problem has gone away so I guess the problem is in Firefox. That's very strange. The only thing that I encountered which

Re: [SLUG] please unsubscribe all wildtecnology.net / wildit.com.au email addresses from SLUG lists

On 18/07/07, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is all getting a tad childish. Indeed. observe the footer >> Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http:/

[SLUG] Not good publicity for Linux, is it?

"Aussie film archives launch … and then crash" - ZDnet mentions how a 2.5years project implementing a home-built content management system based on Janga melted on the first morning it went public. They bother to mention that the servers run Linux. Netcraft doesn't have this web site on its data

Re: [SLUG] Not good publicity for Linux, is it?

On 19/07/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course one never seems to see the following: 'This latest virus/worm attack installs a key logger and result in your bank details being stolen. The virus only affects Windows.' since they'd probably get sued in Australia for saying it

Re: [SLUG] re: Not good publicity for Linux, is it?

On 20/07/07, Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course, a good idea with these sites would be to work out a method to stagger the traffic. If you only anticipate ridiculous load in the first few days after launch, it's silly to build capacity to cope with that one-off demand. Inste

Re: [SLUG] Retrieving Data from formatted drive

On 20/07/07, Kevin Waterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are there any linux tools to recover data from formatted drives? I can do this using windows, but wondered if there was a better way. "testdisk" is the tool included in SysRescCD for this job: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk --Am

Re: [SLUG] Re: linux dedicated computers in australia?

On 22/07/07, Rufi_Dukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so, are you saying that Dell won't actually sell me a machine with ubuntu on it (i know they do in the states, and i think in UK) but that if i were to buy the one you recommend, this would be the same one they are using in the States to load ub

Re: [SLUG] buying new linux dedicated PC, advice sought

On 22/07/07, Rufi_Dukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was wondering if there is anyone here who could help me by looking at the quote below (from pioneer) and telling me if there are any obvious specs that jump out and strike the reader as odd, or as overkill, or under-resourced, or in any other

Re: [SLUG] buying new linux dedicated PC, advice sought

On 23/07/07, Darren Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a few extra notes on this topic... > Some things I learned about this issue in the last few days: > 1. If you want Adobe Flash, Skype, Google Earth or many other proprietary > programs to run then you need a 32-bit environment Any sensi

Re: [SLUG] SSH attack

On 31/07/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > Seems like I am getting attacked from these ip's > 59.124.57.147 > 61.180.85.226 > 155.230.106.163 > 202.107.245.4 > 202.188.161.66 > 210.164.31.91 > 212.210.63.18 > 219.149.182.145 > 219.94.132.52 > > > any one else seeing any new activ

Re: [SLUG] [ot] Using an australian proxy server to access australian sites

On 01/08/07, Richard Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear list, > > I have some employees in China and when they try to use some Australian > sites auction sites > such as eBay, the companies exam the IP address and flag it as a > potential fraud and remove the listings. > > If I setup a Squi

Re: [SLUG] Audio skipping on Ubuntu kernels

On 01/08/07, James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good thinking, but DMA was enabled. I checked the other settings, and > twiddled them, but it's still skipping. Current config is as follows: You keep assuming that it's an IO issue - what about creating a short file which can fit in memor

Re: [SLUG] SSH attack

On 03/08/07, Morgan Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I prefer to use something like denyhosts to simply block the offending > ip's > as moving the port seems somewhat to be security through obscurity. Yes it is. But it keeps your logs much cleaner (so any attempt to hack is noticed much more

Re: [SLUG] Removing a snd module

On 05/08/07, Denis Crowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sure this has worked for me in the past (distant though), but now I > just get a long list of "module is in use" messages, despite trying to > shut down everything that might be using the card. I have tried fuser, > and the entries under

Re: [SLUG] Removing a snd module

On 06/08/07, Denis Crowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > On 05/08/07, Denis Crowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm sure this has worked for me in the past (distant though), but now I > >> just get a long list of "mod

Re: [SLUG] Injecting information into a bind server

On 08/08/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All I want to be able to do is say to my dns server bind9 if you get a > request > for mail.example.com don't go the net give it this address. > > Is this possible ? I think you should lookup "views" in bind9 documentation: http://www.isc.org

Re: [SLUG] Injecting information into a bind server

On 08/08/07, Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Named does have a backends system, where you can do untold evil. This reminds me - maybe Power DNS (pdns, http://wiki.powerdns.com/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi) can help you do that - forward all DNS queries to the original server except for some recor

Re: [SLUG] I've stuffed up my display

On 10/08/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My environment is Fedora 6 with KDE and I went to change the display > resolution using system-config-display. > > The display is set to generic LCD 800x600 but it will only permit 640x480. > > I've tried editting /etc/X11/xorg.conf but tha

[SLUG] Ruby speaker at SLUG (for Ruby project)?

Hello, A few months ago there was an excellent talk about Ruby given on SLUG's monthly meeting. I can't find the details of this talk (and most interesting - the speaker) anywhere on the SLUG web site. Could the speaker, or anyone know her contact details, please contact me? We might have a proj

Re: [SLUG] apache2 documentation - howto read on local server

On 18/08/07, Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone know what the magical google search should be to figure out how > to read the apache2-doc docs on my local webserver? > > Each HTML file has various versions named *. where is two > char language code, and the links point to the fi

Re: [SLUG] Kaffeine and DVD

On 28/08/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2007 10:00:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It's me again! As I cannot only study, I tried to watch some good Aussie > > movie on DVD... but they don't work... > > > > I changed the country region within the xine-engine

Re: [SLUG] Which Distro?

On 29/08/2007, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Quick qn: I need a Linux distribution I can install and get RAID-1 > > (software, PATA drives) out of the box. What are my options? IIRC, > Ubuntu > > was not able to do this the last time I tried. Is that still the case? > > No, Ubunt

Re: [SLUG] Which Distro?

On 29/08/2007, Jeremy Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > If the Debian Etch installer is any indication about Ubuntu's then I'm > > pretty sure it's possible through the GUI installer. > > Debian's installer loo

Re: [SLUG] ftp drops off 'connection closed'

On 30/08/2007, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp> mput yama* > 200 PORT command successful > 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for yamaha.jpg > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp: 25051 bytes sent in 0.00Seconds 25051000.00Kbytes/sec. > 200 PORT command successful > 150 Opening BINAR

Re: [SLUG] Minimal CentOS installation --- How?

(reply to SLUG) On 04/09/07, David Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How can I install the bare minimum --- something like the > > result of debootstrap --- just enough to run yum? As it'll be in a > > chroot I don't need any network utilitie

Re: [SLUG] Minimal RedHat-like chroot

On 04/09/07, Christopher Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This all reminds me to be thankful I can install my preferred OS over > a network using a PXE booted kernel and no physical media. This remind me - I've been forwarding a couple of people (one is a Fedora fan, another is a Windows winy

Re: [SLUG] iptables defualt policy

On 10/09/2007, Mark Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Odd. My recollection was also that REJECT could be used in a policy. > However, it seems clear from the man pages and searching around that > ACCEPT, DROP, QUEUE, and RETURN are the only options. There are extended > targets that include R

Re: [SLUG] iptables defualt policy

On 10/09/2007, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > iptables -P INPUT REJECT > iptables: Bad policy name This complies with what I understand from the man page of iptables 1.3.6(Debian Etch): -P, --policy chain target Set the policy for the chain to the given target. See the section TARGE

Re: [SLUG] Can't access web through Broadband

On 11/09/2007, Murray Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > G'day Heracles, > > This worked, but I'm not sure exactly which address the DNS of my modem > is. There is a WAN address and a LAN address, I used both. You should use "LAN" (stands for LOCAL Area Network), usually has one of " 10.a.b.c

Re: [SLUG] Can't access web through Broadband

On 12/09/2007, Heracles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If they don't then there is a problem in the physical layer. This is > usually a poor connection, an unfiltered phone in the house or a noisy > line. The first two we can usually check for and solve, the third is the Or the modem being conne

[SLUG] aptitude-like program for CentOS

Hello, Is anyone aware of a convenient front-end to yum/rpm which provides similar interface to Debian's aptitude and can be used on CentOS 5? (for those who are not familiar - aptitude is an interactive full-screen curses-based program which provides a unified interface to manage both installed

Re: [SLUG] aptitude-like program for CentOS

On 18/09/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When in Rome ... Certainly. both redhat-package > and the Applications -> software management (or some such) do just what > you're X11 interfaced is not relevant (I access the machine through ssh to the US) and can't find any

Re: [SLUG] aptitude-like program for CentOS

On 18/09/2007, Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > Any more pointers? > > Hi Amos, > > The executable James refers to is system-config-packages (it used to > be called redhat-config-packages). The executable is provided by > the p

Re: [SLUG] aptitude-like program for CentOS

On 18/09/2007, Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > System administrators usually administer a whole scad of machines. They > are much more inclined to centralise authentication, use their own > repository containing meta-packages of software and configure these > using cfengine or puppet.

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Windows interoperabiliy

On 20/09/2007, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > cygwin is like Linux I have never had any problems getting things sorted > out, the community is very strong. We have plenty of Unix experts at my > company so I leveraged those skills as well. What about the licensing? Our coders now use

Re: [SLUG] Networking problem - help pls!

On 20/09/2007, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:04:04AM +1000, bill wrote: > > I have a home LAN of 4 PCs and 1 laptop. > > > > Connected phone-line --> modem/router --> gigabit ethernet switch --> > PCs ( > > via CAT5 cable) I've just noticed that you mention

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

On 20/09/2007, Kevin Shackleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and > adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've > applied a solution without knowing what the problem was. Any clues as > to how to identify t

Re: [SLUG] Networking problem -- partially solved - help still reqd

On 23/09/2007, bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've solved the problem with the LAN - there was no hardware problem, > just a problem with the newly created account for my wife. It has no > network/web access. What do you get when you try to ping? Does the ping program run at all? Same with b

[SLUG] what to backup on CentOS5 / EHEL5?

Hello, We have a production CentOS 5 server which I need to be able to restore from scratch (naturally). I'm currently backing up /etc, our own program's directory and a dump of our databases on a daily basis. I'm considering adding /var/lib/rpm into the list and was wondering what else would pe

Re: [SLUG] Re: News in my inbox?

On 03/10/2007, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3 Oct 2007, Adelle Hartley wrote: > > Are there any well-known packages for transferring posts from an NNTP > server > > into my Inbox & vice-versa, and for that matter checking RSS feeds and > > posting the results to my Inbox (or more sen

Re: [SLUG] removing source installed after rpm install ?

On 30/09/2007, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/27/07, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've installed courier authlib from source, subsequently, I built rpm > and > > installed it (again) from the rpm, > > whats the best way to determine what got installed /remov

Re: [SLUG] treating \n like any other character

On 03/10/2007, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to edit a multi line file as if it were all one line > > In other words, treat \n like any other character, and specifically > doing global find and replace. > > I know there are various hex editors, but they are all pretty clunky as > far

Re: [SLUG] Lock failure on "/var/mail/adam.lock"

On 03/10/2007, Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I've had Mutt working for some time but all of a sudden I get the > following (below). > > Trying to change permissions gives me > > > chmod: changing permissions of `/var/mail/adam.lock': Read-only file > > system > > Can anyone sugges

forcing reinstall of packages on CentOS (was: Re: [SLUG] removing source installed after rpm install ?)

On 03/10/2007, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > or is there a safe to use option to re-install ? That's something I'd like to find about too. A brain-dead script have erased the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory on one of our CentOS 5 and I couldn't find the equivalent to Debian's "apt-get -

Re: [SLUG] unable to delete ftp files after upload?

On 05/10/2007, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having some ftp probs: > > I've logged on to ftp with xp CLI ftp as user '.com.au' > > I've made a dir 've', and, cd to the new dir > I upload some files OK; > they list OK, the won't delete with 'no such file' > > any thoughts ?

[SLUG] How to connect to Xen console?

Hello, I've followed the instructions from: http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_etch_xen_from_debian_repository and http://mediakey.dk/~cc/howto-install-windows-xp-vista-on-xen/ to install Windows XP Pro SP2 under my Debian Etch and it

Re: [SLUG] How to connect to Xen console?

On 06/10/2007, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > > What am I missing? > > The fact that windows doesn't have a console the way Linux has a console? So how can I access the Windows installation process? Or can I somehow boo

Re: [SLUG] Comsec behaving badly, how to talk to a big business

On 05/10/2007, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > looks like they are sending a > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > when it should be a > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Shouldn't the "<>" mean that anything outside it should be ignored? (Haven't looked at the RFC for

Re: [SLUG] MySQL 3 to 4.1 in one go ? utf8 ?

On 06/10/2007, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have MySQL 3.x server and intend to migrate to Centos 4 MySQL 4.1; > > the docs suggests to upgrade 1st to ver.0 before going to ver.1+ > as far as I can tell, I can dump data OK form 3.x to 4.1 > the MySQL data is mainly php web content

Re: [SLUG] Comsec behaving badly, how to talk to a big business

On 07/10/2007, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:35:10AM +, Amos Shapira wrote: > > On 05/10/2007, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > looks like they are sending a > > > > > > [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] How to connect to Xen console?

On 06/10/2007, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > > What am I missing? > > The fact that windows doesn't have a console the way Linux has a console? Here is something else I found in the "How to Install Windows

Re: [SLUG] Comsec behaving badly, how to talk to a big business

On 07/10/2007, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 01:09:50AM +, Amos Shapira wrote: > > Now looked at RFC 2822 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822) and it > appears > > that the text in front of the "angle-addr" can be pretty

Re: [SLUG] How to connect to Xen console?

On 07/10/2007, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06/10/2007, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > > > > What am I missing? > > > > The fact that windows doesn't have a console t

[SLUG] next time you want to install Linux - consider this

Next time you have to install Linux without a media, or want to help a friend to install Linux while starting the process from inside Windows, consider the following link: http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html It looks like an expansion of the Debian-specific goodbye-microsoft.com -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] The Crossword Compiler, again.

On 10/10/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I tried the suggestions that were posted and many thanks for them. > > And again, I append the logfile. > > Could someone comment/suggest, please? > > I gather I have to have all of build-essential installed before I can go > fur

Re: [SLUG] X-client software.

On 10/10/2007, Hasnain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > Its true you can use vnc but i was looking more into putty like you run > xclock in putty another window in your machine will pops off with the > clock > interface. Cygwin/X? http://x.cygwin.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Maili

Re: [SLUG] Perl IO::Socket question

On 11/10/2007, Shane Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I don't believe it's IO buffering as $recv prints out fine if I don't do a > chomp();, but I'll give it a shot. If the socket is in line buffering then maybe the newline at the end of $recv causes the buffer to be flushed. Try:

[SLUG] installing Fedora 7 under Debian Etch

Hello, I'm trying to install Fedora 7 under Debian Etch running on Intel Xeon 3050 (i.e. with hardware virtualization) and x86_64 kernel (2.6.18-4-xen-amd64) with 4Gb RAM (the hardware supports up to 8Gb). I configured it this way: kernel = '/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/boot/hvmloader' builder = 'linux'

Re: [SLUG] automatix

On 15/10/2007, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One comment posted by the original author reads: > > mjg59 2007-08-04 02:16 pm UTC (link) Uninstalling any of the > packages it's installed should leave your system in a safe > state. > http://mjg59.livejournal.com

Re: [SLUG] clam/amavis changing owner on /var/log OK ?

On 22/10/2007, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1] > and, yes, as the logs rolled, they reverted, and, after I stopped , > restarting gives: > > # service clamd start > Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: ERROR: Can't open > /var/log/clamav/clamd.log in append mode (check permissions!). >

Re: [SLUG] Formatting problem.

On 23/10/2007, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is there a common format that can be used, even if it's less than > optimal > > for either system? > > FAT32 is the most widely compatible disk format to use on pretty much any > device. What about having a partition table on the dis

[SLUG] linux in 1911

Try the following: http://www.google.com.au/views?q=linux+view%3Atimeline&ie=UTF-8 (that's "linux view:timeline" in Google Search). --Amos -- 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] Using Perl scripts to send mail

On 26/10/2007, Rick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a friend who uses my server as a host for his volunteer > organisation. Being a coder by profession he has "done his own thing" > with perl to construct his whole web site. We have a query about mail. > > The scenario is that peop

[SLUG] How to provide multiple remote desktops on CentOS 5?

Hello, I've setup a CentOS 5 headless server for our developers. I'd like to provide each one of them with their own desktop. Back in the olden days it would have been done using XDMCP and having an X server on the desktop, but today with Windows desktops, moving between laptops and desktops, and

Re: [SLUG] How to provide multiple remote desktops on CentOS 5?

On 31/10/2007, Ryan Verner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:03:10PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > > Cool! Looks like just what I was after. > > > > Now has anyone got around to make such a thing work with NX? I get the > > impression

Re: [SLUG] How to provide multiple remote desktops on CentOS 5?

On 31/10/2007, Martin Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amos, > > I have used the vnc server and inetd like this in the past with good > success. jdub posted about this as well some time ago. > > http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2001/August/msg00730.html > > it may need some tweaking as i

Re: [SLUG] tidy/lint for Apache httpd.conf?

On 31/10/2007, Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Damn!!! this means I gotta learn emacs. If it makes you feel better (or you feel like learning something else) - there should be a way to pass those commands from the command line, so you don't have to go through Emacs' keyboard bindings

Re: [SLUG] terminal via email

On 15/11/2007, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 08:08:44AM +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: > > It's pretty dangerous unless you've got a secure email (eg PGP signed & > > encrypted) but consider this:- > > There's a package in debian which can do this more or > less

[SLUG] switching debian architecture "in place"?

Hello, Someone I know keeps installing debian i386 on amd64-capable systems. Is there a way to switch over to amd64 system without re-installing the system from scratch? Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slu

Re: [SLUG] switching debian architecture "in place"?

On 15/11/2007, Heracles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As all the packages would be 32 bit you could either reinstall or set up > a dual boot with the 64bit version (as I do). That's what I wanted to avoid. Never mind. It was a "nice to have" curiosity and so far the answer is negative... The 64

Re: [SLUG] replacing rpm app with source app /usr/bin /usr/local/bin

On 16/11/2007, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > however, 'default search path' still keep looking for '/usr/bin/ruby' > > # whereis ruby > ruby: /usr/lib/ruby /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/local/lib/ruby > # ruby --version > bash: /usr/bin/ruby: No such file or directory > # /usr/local/bin/r

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