At Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:14:34 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> >> what does /etc/nsswitch.conf say?
>
> bigdog:
>
> hosts: files nisplus nis dns
>
> sage:
> hosts: files dns dns
>
(assuming you aren't actually using nis)
try something like this:
hosts: files [SUCCESS=return] dns
(y
At 25 Jul 2002 14:15:16 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
> A valuable sidekick to man is apropos, which will search through the
> manual page names and summaries.
note that "man -k" will search apropos. eg:
~> man -k emacs
etags (1)- generate tag file for Emacs, vi
gnuclient (1)- Se
At Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:37:23 +1000, Gavin Carr wrote:
> print "Username? ";
> $username = ;
> print "Password? ";
> $userpass = ;
> $passwd = (getpwnam($username))[1];
> print (crypt($userpass, $passwd) eq $passwd) ? "okay\n" : "bad\n";
>
> This works with conventional crypt passwords
At Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:36:48 +1000, John Ferlito wrote:
kermit:/usr/src# hostname -s kermit kermit:/usr/src# hostname -d
inodes.org kermit:/usr/src# hostname -f kermit.inodes.org
kermit:/usr/src#
> the domains comes from etc/hosts in etc/hosts you should have
> 192.168.1.x kermit.inodes.org kermi
At Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:07:11 +1000, Matt Hyne wrote:
> I am looking for an LDAP addressbook application that has a web front end,
> and it easy to maintain and configure (linux of course).
>
> I looked at http://ldap-users.sourceforge.net/ but it does not support past
> RH7.0.
>
> I have playe
At Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:52:23 +1000 (EST), Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Simon Bryan wrote:
> > I am looking for a way to pipe the members of a particular group on a RH7.2
> > system to a file. Is there such a command, or at least the list members
> > command?
> Something like this w
At Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:16:33 +1000 (EST), Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, ramon buckland wrote:
> > > (1.3.0) has a dependancy on wget | rsync. It suggests dpkg-dev as well,
> >
> > Is the dependency read as wget ||(or) rsync, because I had wget.
>
> Yeah, that's how it's read. If
At Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:56:12 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
>/var/spool/mail/mymail --> /home/sites/site34/../../spool/mail/mymail
> Does anyone have any idea why the ../../ in the symbolic link.
automounter tricks perhaps?
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--
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Mo
At Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:46:03 +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> What is that command that you use when you want to run a program and see
> what libaries, etc that is calls.
>
> I have a "./lines: error while loading shared libraries:
> libncurses.so.4: cannot load shared object file: No such file or
>
At Sat, 13 Jul 2002 05:17:50 +1000, wm wrote:
> I require to install Number::Format as a pre-requisite for GNULedger
> - install fails as shown below - how to proceed?
> # make && make test && make install
> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib
> -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-li
At Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:55:24 +1000 (EST), David Kempe wrote:
> Some of the tables don't render perfectly in Konqueror (2.2.2)
> Don't know what the exact problem is, and don't know if anyone else cares :)
weird, its extremely straight-forward html..
"in what way don't they render perfectly?"
--
At Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:48:30 +1000, John Ferlito wrote:
> Has anyone come across a DB GUI for linux. What I'm after is one
> of those visulisation type tools where you have all the tables with
> lines joining the relationships etc. I found dbdesigner but it's in
> alpha and doesn't import stu
At 28 Jun 2002 15:17:38 +1000, Tony Green wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 15:04, dan wrote:
> > I am trying to work out how to configure my Linux box to boot up in console
> > mode rather than load up X Windows (KDE). Is this something to do with the
> > runlevels? If so then does anyone know how
At Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:30:28 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > or foomatic, or magicfilter, or apsfilter, or ...
> >
> > (i'm over the whole CUPS thing, mainly because the command line (sysv)
> > interface sucks)
>
> Do you want to do a quick "How Gus Does Printing" at SLUG this month?
if you wis
At Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:27:47 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > I dont know who will will take the responsibility for fooling
> > users.
>
> It sounds like Jamie's explanation was correct. Your browser
> uncompressed the file but didn't rename it when it saved it to your
> disk. I always disliked it
At Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:57:38 +0800, henry wrote:
> Could you list with experience
> promote a C++ IDE (Integrated Development Enviroment) in Linux ?
there are several code-browsing addons available for emacs. i don't
normally use any more than etags and occasionally M-x speedbar.
i was going
At Wed, 19 Jun 2002 18:51:20 +0800, henry wrote:
> I need to tag *.c *.h *.cpp, but it (as follows) fail
> find . -name ( "*.[c|h]" -or "*.cpp" ) | xargs etags
you're confusing regex and shell globbing expressions - and find(1)'s
distributive properties.
> I get a file-list to tag , but I d
At 18 Jun 2002 21:24:34 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
> Libtool is about portability, automake is about 'easy'. Software should
> be portable across platforms without killing the porter, libtool helps
> hide the screwed up Unix environments out there.
imo, libtool tries too hard for most cases.
if y
At 19 Jun 2002 05:39:16 +1000, Tony Green wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] is up and running.
are there any plans to combine this with the linux.org.au/jobs list?
you could try subscribing one to the other (but imo, we should have
just used the linux australia one anyway).
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--
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At Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:28:04 +1000, Andy Eager wrote:
> Anyone know of an alternative to fetchmail?
retchmail, and popread (comes with Mail::Audit) come to mind.
if its only a single mailbox, you could try a decent disconnected imap
client instead (evolution, wanderlust, isync/mutt, etc). the ef
At Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:29:42 +0800, henry wrote:
> Could you tell me what they(*.la , *.lo) are ?
picking a random two such files i happened to find on my disk:
~% head -2 /usr/lib/libwwwzip.la
# libwwwzip.la - a libtool library file
# Generated by ltmain.sh - GNU libtool 1.3.4 (1.385.2.196 1999
At Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:07:55 +0800, henry wrote:
> Every time I look source code ,there is lots of macros (#if define
> #endif, #include *.c etc.).
>
> Is there some way to strip those macros after well-defining those
> #ifdefine ?
use cpp or gcc -E (as a simple search for 'preprocessor' throug
At Fri, 14 Jun 2002 21:43:48 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> Angus Lees wrote:
> > as in: for i in "$@"; do ...; done
> >or: exec cmd "$@"
>
> Yup. But do you know the magic incantation that
> you have to perform when passing on "$@"
At 14 Jun 2002 20:32:40 +1000, Warren wrote:
> is there a ftp client around that can retrieve and open a file into a
> text editor and then save directly back onto server? (or a text editor
> with built in ftp)
emacs' venerable "efs". "C-h C-i efs" from within emacs.
another emacs alternative
if you're swapping heavily, you might want to look at which processes
are sucking so much ram and decide if they're really that important.
(one way to do it:) run "top" and press "M" to sort by memory usage.
I haven't done so here, but its probably also useful to press "f" and
choose to show the
At Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:35:45 +1000, Ian Ward wrote:
> Anyone experienced in which windows printer is the *most* postscriptish?
> The HP LaserJet 5 Postscript looks like goods
How about trying adobe's "universal postscript windows driver"?
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?produc
At Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:05:22 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> Not that it matters in this particular
> case, but often it is more pedantically
> correct to use "$@" rather than "$*".
and thats `"$@"', not just "$@"..
as in: for i in "$@"; do ...; done
or: exec cmd "$@"
compare these:
set
At Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:22:40 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> Bugger this eh. Wanted to use xdvi as its instant replay.
> The pdf viewers dont update and the gv is slow.
xpdf rereads if you press "r". not quite instant, but handy..
--
- Gus
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au
At Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:39:41 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> Angus Lees wrote:
> > > kpathsea: Running mktexmf pncr7t
> > > ! I can't find file `pncr7t'.
> > > <*> ... mag:=magstep(5); nonstopmode; input pncr7t
> >
> > so do you actually ha
At Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:56:41 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> Some more details...
>
> The following is a dialog box error:
> The following command for building a font file has failed:
> mktexpk --mfmode cx --bdpi 300 --mag 'magstep(1) --dpi 360 pncri7t '>&3'
>
> I also get this in the terminal that
At Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:03:45 +0800, henry wrote:
> How do I find a string in a group of files ?
> (It's supposed to list all the places in a buffer).
M-x grep perhaps?
--
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--
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More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
apparently we no longer have a speaker for Docbook (and related
SGML/XML things) on saturday :(
I will give the talk if I have to, but I haven't got the time to
prepare as well as the topic(s) deserve (and i haven't used any of it
for 2 years, so i'm a little rusty).
Anyone able/willing to do
At Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:09:15 +1000, Bill Taylor wrote:
> Last night (about midnight) I wrote an email to ask whether anyone ever
> managed to get 'X windows` to install on debian, but was unable to send
> (Host unknown (name server: mx.inodes. org. : host not found))(isp
> fault) as I had jus
At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 01:24:39 +1000, Minh Van Le wrote:
> The problem with dump is that it can't do incremental backups on regular
> directories. Dump must do a full backup of regular files/directories ie. a
> level 0 dump, which isn't flexible enough for my site. To do incremental
> backups with d
At Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:57:37 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > I have all my users home directories under /home/popusers/
> > it turns out I may need to add a directory and set permissions on it in each
> > users directory (there are over 900 of them).
> > Is there a simple way to do this? Say the d
At 10 Jun 2002 22:39:55 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
> debian woody... I have tried to set up my gateway for forwarding x
> so that I can use one of the firewall builder products.
(you might want to consider "xfwp" too)
> I have editted the ssh_config and sshd_config to include X11forwarding
> optio
At Tue, 11 Jun 2002 04:19:46 +1000, Minh Van Le wrote:
> I'm using GNU Find to create a snapshot of files and their attributes in a
> backup script. What I can't find in the manual is an option to exclude
> specific file systems & directories, or a similar function to
> Tar's --exclude-from option
At 10 Jun 2002 09:56:47 +1000, Timothy Bateman wrote:
> I've just installed Debian Woody for PowerPC and I have some dependency
> problems with apt-get. After the base install, when Debian booted I
> selected a fairly minimal set to just get the machine up and going, such
> as C/C++ so I can rebu
At Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:31:04 +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> gomez wrote:
> > Here is a weirdy: on a fresh RH 7.2 (locale = AU) the output from
> > /bin/ls
> > is sorted case INSENSITIVE, a la Windows.
> >
> > Anyone know how to stop this bizarro and v.annoying behaviour?
>
> Thanks to Gavin for
At Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:59:48 +1000, steven wrote:
> Our users use telnet to connect to a server where they run our main ERP
> application. (This is Progress RDMS running on RedHat 6.2).
> I am thinking about a perl script that will direct printed output to the
> printer closest to the users term
At Fri, 7 Jun 2002 09:23:16 +0800, henry wrote:
> I "make test" for test.c as follows :
> #include
> int main()
> {
> udelay(1000);
> return 0;
> }
> But I got "undefined reference to __const_udelay",
> Could you show me what library to link ?
as i believe has been pointed out to you before, you
When: Saturday, 15th June
Time: 10am - 6pm
Where: UTS Broadway, Room 1.04.06
(http://www.slug.org.au/slugmeet.shtml but note different room)
Cost: free
Note: university exams will also be on this day, so please keep things
quiet.
This will be a day of talks on markup langu
available at:
http://odie.inodes.org/~gus/perl-talk/
i'd prefer it if you all used wherever jdub is going to copy it to on
the slug server instead..
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--
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At Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:53:40 +1000, ramon buckland wrote:
> Got a Postscript that needs to be converted on the fly (ColdFusion
> scripting)
> to PDF and streamed back to the client.
> The Streaming etc is all good.
>
> What we do have working is using Ghostscript in a round about way.
> using gs i
At Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:07:12 +0800, henry wrote:
> 1. open emacs
> 2. open many files in a buffer
> 3. close emacs
> When you come back to work in emacs .You need to repeat step2 (as
> above)again.
> How could I keep the buffer(the previously working-state) ?
personally, i don't automatic
At Mon, 3 Jun 2002 18:01:16 +0800, henry wrote:
> I enter shell in emacs by M-x shell .
> but I found that I cant get the previous command by press ^
> (up-arrow) , or like doskey in DOS
C-h m will list the available keys for the mode you're currently
in. comint (on which shell-
At Sun, 02 Jun 2002 22:47:10 +1000, Bill Taylor wrote:
> >well then, there's your first list of packages to install:
> >
> > apt-get install lynx less mc
> >
> >you currently have a *very* basic install of debian - only the barest
> >essentials are installed during the first phase.
> >
> did this,
At Sat, 01 Jun 2002 16:52:26 +1000, Bill Taylor wrote:
> I managed to get the 8 CDs (May snapshot) tried to load bf 2.4 off the
> 4th cd, but it needed the 1st cd for the base system.
> now i'm stuck in the loop as below
>
> Graeme Robinson wrote on 6/5/02:15:22:
> > so far very smooth. On re
At Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:48:57 +1000, John Ferlito wrote:
> Is there anyway to work out when a debian package was upgraded and what
> the previous version was?
oh yeah. and aptitude (at least) keeps a log of its actions in
/var/log/aptitude. doesn't seem to include package versions though.
--
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At Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:48:57 +1000, John Ferlito wrote:
> Is there anyway to work out when a debian package was upgraded and what
> the previous version was?
>
> Only thing I can think of is the date on the .deb in
> /var/cache/apt/archives
you can look at the debian.changelog for the "theoretic
At Sat, 1 Jun 2002 14:36:29 +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> Also how do I go about changing the hostname of the machine, including the
> domain.
>
> Can I just change the /etc/hostname or should that only be the hostname part
> or do I change /etc/hosts
you only have to change /etc/hostname to change
At Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:07:38 +1000, ramon buckland wrote:
> Is there a way ( and I assume so. ) to browse the list of
> the available packages in Debian (from the /var/lib/dpkg/available)
command line "power users" tool:
apt-cache search REGEX
more user friendly (as in, they actually have an i
At Fri, 31 May 2002 16:11:41 +1000, Scott Ragen wrote:
> if ($ENV{'REQUEST_URI'} = adl ) { print "no Good\n";}
> I want the if statement to say, if REQUEST_URI *CONTAINS* adl then print
> "no good" (it will change but this is testing) else continue.
for "contains", you want to match it against a
At Thu, 30 May 2002 11:06:40 +1000, Mark Johnathan Greenaway wrote:
> #!/bin/sh
> ETAGS_FILE=~/CommSecure/TAGS
> rm $ETAGS_FILE
> find . -name '*.py' | xargs etags -a -f $ETAGS_FILE
note also that automake generated Makefile's have a "make TAGS" target
that is very nice.
it generates a TAGS file
At 28 May 2002 21:51:30 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
> I dont want to use alsa, I just want sound to work.
>
> How do you reliably configure a sound card in Debian?
there's the redhat sndconfig tool available (once you install it) if
you want. i've never used it, so i don't know what its like.
if
At Tue, 28 May 2002 17:05:53 +0800, henry wrote:
> I did (as follows) to open a specific *.info
> >emacs enter -> "Lisp-interactively" appeared in mini_buffer
> >Ctrl-uenter -> "C-u" appeared in mini_buffer
> >h enter -> "" appeared in main-text
>
At 28 May 2002 17:24:58 +1000, Brad Thomson wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 16:16, henry wrote:
> > How do I read *.info under emacs or xemacs ?
>
> C-h i will give you the main info menu, C-u h i will prompt you for a
> specific file.
and then:
space for page down / next page
n for next, p f
At Tue, 28 May 2002 15:03:41 +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> How reliable is ext3 these days? Am I being very brave if I upgrade my
> laptop hard disc?
i've been running it on my laptop since december.
i've had numerous flat batteries and other rebootworthy lockups (my
laptop is pretty dodgy), and
At Tue, 28 May 2002 14:35:43 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> >As per the subject line.
>
> YOu make an ext2 filesystem, then
>
> tune2fs -j /dev/whatever
or from scratch with: mke2fs -j /dev/whatever
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--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's
At Sun, 26 May 2002 14:30:28 +1000, Bill Taylor wrote:
> was the install in woody (May snapshot) fixed? or should it be installed
> as an upgrade over potato? (from CD's)
i installed woody (from scratch) a week ago and had no problems.
if you're using a cd image containing packages before that,
At Sat, 25 May 2002 19:41:46 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> You can also get a minimal net install disk, which is about 40meg.
> Unfortunately, I don't know where. But I'm sure a helpful SLUGger or Google
> will be able to point it out to us. :-)
http://cdimage.debian.org/ knows all.
(aka http://www
At Sat, 25 May 2002 19:21:54 +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> Also I gather that all I need to download is disk 1 and then the rest can be
> downloaded from the net,
assuming your laptop has a network card of some sort: unless you want
to have a cd for some reason, you may as well just download a few
f
At Fri, 24 May 2002 17:10:19 +1000, Mark Johnathan Greenaway wrote:
> > i mostly agree. the big thing holding me back from python is
> > closures. once python gets proper anonymous, lexically scoped
> > subroutines things will start to look up.
> Does
> from __future__ import nested_scopes
> do wh
At Fri, 24 May 2002 13:17:03 +1000, Mark Johnathan Greenaway wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:30:53PM +1000, Angus Lees wrote:
> > http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
> > the later points in the description of "what made lisp different"
> > (about 1/3 of the wa
At Thu, 23 May 2002 16:07:31 +0800, henry wrote:
> 1. I use ct-x ct-f to find file-A ,then ct-x i to insert file-B
> then c-x 2 to list 2 files simultaneously in separate windows
> horizontally
> ,but I get file-A,file-A,how do I get file-A,file-B?
umm.. you just inserted fileB *into*
i don't normally do this, but this is a *great* article:
http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
it should shed a fair amount of light on all those language wars (and
show that really, they all just want to be lisp ;).
the later points in the description of "what made lisp different"
(about 1/3
At Thu, 23 May 2002 15:51:39 +1000 (EST), Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > No1. Squid caching password protected pages.
> >
> > Does anyone know ifI can stop Squid doing this? Or have I diagnosed it
> > wrongly, and it's something other than Squid which might be causing
> > this?
>
> It's mainly a proble
At Thu, 23 May 2002 11:10:27 +0800, henry wrote:
> I started Xemacs under text-mode, there was a red-coloured sentence.
> but the function of syntax- highlight failed ,too.
as i replied in an earlier private mail, it will only work on the
console if the colours you choose are able to be displaye
At Thu, 23 May 2002 11:04:44 +1000 (EST), dazza wrote:
> No1. Squid caching password protected pages.
>
> I have a site using Squid to cache web pages. However, if a user selects a
> password ptotected page, enters a username and password, then goes away
> and comes back half an hour later, Squi
At Wed, 22 May 2002 20:45:48 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> It would be great to have these tools as a plug-in
> to mozilla mail.
> Anyone know of something like this?
that was my point earlier. you can run
spamassassin/procmail/Mail::Audit/whatever on your mail *before* it
gets to mozilla.
ju
At Wed, 22 May 2002 16:27:48 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > other way round. spamassassin is already part of a larger filter
> > system known as Mail::Audit.
>
> Unfortunately [1], Evolution is not written in Perl.
.. so pass your mail through Mail::Audit (or procmail) before
evolution gets to
At Wed, 22 May 2002 15:27:20 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> You can't do this with Evolution yet, but SpamAssassin is the best way of
> handling SPAM... ever.
>
> http://www.spamassassin.org/
>
> I'm sure someone will build a filtering plugin for it at some stage.
other way round. spamassassin is
At Wed, 22 May 2002 11:39:42 +0800, henry wrote:
> There (internet) is package to make Emacs a colorful
> editor. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ColorTheme
i just use xemacs and font-lock-mode
(see the Options -> Syntax highlighting -> Colors menu option)
and go with the default colour
At 22 May 2002 09:14:48 +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
> On FSF Emacs it's given me the mouse-wheel-mode mode which works a
> treat.
>
> I just need to work out how to turn it on by default...?
you could follow andre's suggestion - but i'm guessing that thats
pretty much what mouse-wheel-mode does a
At 21 May 2002 22:35:11 +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
> 1) Is it possible to get the mouse scroll wheel to scroll in Emacs?
a quick hyper-apropos (C-h a) search for "wheel" in xemacs turned up
mwheel.el. this contains the simple (mwheel-install) command, which
should make it Just Work.
judging from t
At Tue, 21 May 2002 22:14:27 +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> Note that I once had a painful experience where it took a friend and I a
> while to realise that if the log file doesn't exist, syslog doesn't create
> it... You need to touch them first.
.. if the filename in /etc/syslog.conf has a leadi
At Tue, 21 May 2002 16:54:39 +1000, Susanto Hartono wrote:
> This sounds great like a great idea. Problem is if say, Appendix A (in
> A.pdf) is stored in page 16 in one document and page 19 in another (ie.
> Appendix A may not necessary be in one particular page), how would I insert
> the content
At Tue, 21 May 2002 13:36:08 +1000, Susanto Hartono wrote:
> Is it possible to append the content of one pdf file into another without
> using the commercial version of Adobe Acrobat? I am trying to insert the
> content of one pdf file into a particular section of another. For example if
> A has m
At Tue, 21 May 2002 12:55:40 +1000, Richard Hayes wrote:
> I have just acquired an old 486 with 200 meg hd. (Versa E 486/50???)
>
> Though I have got the bios set to boot from floppy, it say boot failure. It
> gives an error saying something about Rom bios
the exact error message would probab
At Mon, 20 May 2002 15:29:50 +1000, Richard Hayes wrote:
> Is there an easy way to copy a .deb on to multiple floppies?
use tar's "-M" option.
tar cvMf /dev/fd0 file1 file2 ...
at the other end:
tar xvMf /dev/fd0
in both case, tar will prompt you to insert the next floppy. yes, you
can comb
At Mon, 20 May 2002 01:23:23 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> So, this will be a quick one. :-) Is there a relatively standard utility for
> finding broken links? Or is 'standard' going to be a combination of find and
> a shell script?
depends on what you want to do with symlinks that are ok..
if its
At 17 May 2002 22:58:38 +1000, Dan Treacy wrote:
> I'm running woody with an older kernel - 2.2.20 and I've got a aureal
> vortex (au8810 chipset) PCI soundcard that I'm trying to get working,
> but I see to have hit a snag.
heh. just setup the au8830 on my work machine yesterday (from upstream
s
At 16 May 2002 12:03:16 +1000, Grant Parnell wrote:
> However, evolution is looking good in this respect, I don't know if
> other IMAP emailers keep local copies of the folders but the concept
> seems to have merit in that deleted/updated messages could be
> handled well when working in an offline
At Thu, 16 May 2002 10:12:12 +1000, Triet Hoai Lai wrote:
> Terry Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Can gnus do it, or do you just plonk procmail in front and have
> > gnus read them?
>
> Yes, it can do spliting/filtering mails like procmail. Besides, it
> can also organise mailboxes into
At Wed, 15 May 2002 23:04:44 +1000, Angus Lees wrote:
> wide support of mailbox formats: imap, pop, maildir, mh, nntp and
> some other wierd ones.
i meant to add (faily important):
for some reason it can't read an mbox folder directly (yet)..
--
- Gus
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SLUG - Sydney Linux U
At Wed, 15 May 2002 22:06:48 +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> Angus Lees wrote:
> > which mailers did you find that you *couldn't* specify the mail spool
> > to read from?
>
> It wasn't the reading, it was sorting into multiple inboxes (100+) by
> subject/to/from/e
At Wed, 15 May 2002 15:33:29 +1000, Mark Johnathan Greenaway wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:18:06PM +1000, Angus Lees wrote:
> > \begin{Jeff Waugh}
> > > When Gus gets around to his Emacs talk... :-)
> > > http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/html/howtos/howto-a
At Wed, 15 May 2002 18:52:03 +0800, henry wrote:
> I often see "core dumped" or "gdb -core=/usr/file"
> but there are lots of machine-code when I read the file(core) from editor-Joe
> Could someone share his experience or give some clues?
> What on earth it is for ?
debugging. its a copy of wh
At Wed, 15 May 2002 15:57:46 +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> Jeff Waugh wrote:
> >
> > > Does it do nested mailboxes?
> > >
> > > yep, I'm using Netscape Communicator and I really need mail delivered to
> > > nested mailboxes.
> >
> > Are there any clients that *don't* do nested mailboxes?
>
> Ye
At Wed, 15 May 2002 16:36:15 +1000, Brett Jones wrote:
> Most known service ports under 1024 are blocked. This includes inbound tcp
> connections to ports 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 6667, etc.
yes. not being able to ssh directly into your box is one of the
biggest hassles i have with my pacific
At Wed, 15 May 2002 06:33:08 +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Angus Lees wrote:
> > At Tue, 14 May 2002 22:12:11 +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> > > No, the install stopped when it said it couldn't find libpopt. It
> > > surprised me, because t
When: Saturday, 15th June
Time: 10am - 6pm
Where: UTS Broadway, Room 1.04.06
(http://www.slug.org.au/slugmeet.shtml but note different room)
Cost: free
Note: university exams will also be on this day, so please keep things
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This will be a day of talks on markup langu
At 14 May 2002 23:05:02 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 21:56, Timothy Bateman wrote:
> > I want to find a solution so both Evolution and Pine can access the
> > same mbox file so I can choose to use either interchangeably. Is this
> > possible ?
it should Just Work. thats w
At Tue, 14 May 2002 11:21:54 +1000, Steve Downing wrote:
> At Monday, 13 May 2002, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Mon, 13 May 2002 18:38:23 +1000
> >"Scott Ragen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I have two sound cards running in my machine, and both of them
> work fine,
> >>
At Tue, 14 May 2002 22:12:11 +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Manoj Mathew wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 05:55:47AM +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> > > windows on it. The debian install crashed (something about libpopt), and
> > > killed my partition table (dispite being past
At Mon, 13 May 2002 18:30:10 +1000, Tony wrote:
> I am trying to run a perl program which has in it
>
> use HTML::Entities ();
>
> [tony@ringo FetchYahoo]$ ./fetchyahoo.pl --help
> Can't locate HTML/Entities.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
> /us
At Sun, 12 May 2002 17:19:57 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Now all I need is a decent GUI (yes, I prefer it that way) newsreader
> and I can delete netscrape all together. Any recommendations?
xemacs/GNUS
it is *the best* news reader, and there's plenty of pointing and
clicking if you choo
At Fri, 10 May 2002 23:23:53 +1000 (EST), Jessica Mayo wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2002, peter anderson wrote:
> > I have been told that it can be beneficial to
> > configure two swapfiles. Is this right? What are the
> > benefits? Where would you use this?
>
> I have seen a number of assertions alon
At 12 May 2002 09:35:44 +1000, Ian Nicoll wrote:
> Onto another topic, one of the things I've heard, and agree with, is to
> NEVER log onto the net using superuser. Fair enough, but while I'm
> doing 'stuff' like trying to install a program, I use su, but log into
> terminal and change to su.
>
At Thu, 9 May 2002 17:37:57 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Typography, design, publishing, graphics... Free Software isn't doing very
> well in these fields so far. Lots more work required. :-)
TeX (in particular LaTeX or ConTeXt) can provide a layout and
typography sophistication only rivalled by so
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