RE: [SLUG] Removing users from samba.

2003-01-23 Thread Brett Fenton
smbpasswd -d disables the user smbpasswd -x deletes the user : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Friday, 24 January 2003 11:02 AM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: [SLUG] Removing users from samba. : : :

RE: [SLUG] XP dual boot debacle

2003-01-21 Thread Brett Fenton
this helps. Brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : Danny Yee : Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2003 8:47 AM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: [SLUG] XP dual boot debacle : : : My girlfriend recently bought a computer, a Compaq Presario

RE: [SLUG] SMB auto mount

2002-12-30 Thread Brett Fenton
you've got to specify the type of mount. the line should look like: //ipaddress/share /mnt/share smbfs username=xyz,password=123 0 0 if the username doesn't require a password then leave the password bit out. : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

RE: [SLUG] Still RedHat with KVM

2002-12-30 Thread Brett Fenton
ctrl-alt-backspace will kill the x session. brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : Phillipus Gunawan : Sent: Tuesday, 31 December 2002 4:13 AM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: [SLUG] Still RedHat with KVM : : : my previous

RE: [SLUG] INET

2002-12-30 Thread Brett Fenton
trying to connect through a denied host just saw the connection break immediately. ymmv. brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : Kevin Saenz : Sent: Saturday, 28 December 2002 7:52 PM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SLUG] Still RedHat with KVM

2002-12-30 Thread Brett Fenton
a blackbox 4 port kvm which had this same issue. in fact i think every one of the 4 kvm's i've ever owned has experienced it, so spending a chunk of money on a blackbox solution (while they are nice switches and have good resolution) won't necessarily help your problem. brett : Cheap means a mechanical

RE: [SLUG] re-partition

2002-12-15 Thread Brett Fenton
you can copy all the contents of /var to /usr and then symlink it brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : Simon Bryan : Sent: Monday, 16 December 2002 1:47 PM : To: Slug : Subject: [SLUG] re-partition : : : HI all : I am

RE: [SLUG] Setting Up a Website

2002-12-11 Thread Brett Fenton
on the questions above. You'll find some places like GoDaddy (and in fact NetRegistry) will offer hosting services at time of registration. This is a factor to consider for those who enjoy billing consolidation etc. If you've got more questions, I'm happy to answer them. Regards Brett Fenton

RE: [SLUG] html-php editor

2002-12-05 Thread Brett Fenton
code commander is good, i think that these days screem also may handle php. brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : Robert Maurency : Sent: Friday, 6 December 2002 9:56 AM : To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' : Subject: [SLUG] html-php editor

RE: [SLUG] Num lock key on startup

2002-12-05 Thread Brett Fenton
I think you'll find it's a little distro dependent. In RH you can edit /etc/sysconfig/keyboard You can also edit .bashrc for individual login preferences case `tty` in /dev/tty[0-9]) setleds -D +num -caps ;; esac Should work, at least it does on my Debian desktop. Brett

RE: USB storage (Was: [SLUG] newbie needs some help please..:-))

2002-12-02 Thread Brett Fenton
Windows and Linux machines. If Linux only, and the device is storage only sure use whatever you like. Brett Fenton : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] : Sent: Monday, 2 December 2002 11:12 PM : To: Brett Fenton; Brett Fenton; Peter Hardy : Cc: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] mke3fs under Mandrake 8.2

2002-12-01 Thread Brett Fenton
mke2fs then tune fs to add the journaling. ext3 is essentially journeled ext2. brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Monday, 2 December 2002 2:43 PM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: [SLUG] mke3fs under

RE: USB storage (Was: [SLUG] newbie needs some help please..:-))

2002-11-24 Thread Brett Fenton
ommissions such as USB support needs to be compiled etc. The mount is something like: mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/usb_dev Brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : Peter Hardy : Sent: Monday, 25 November 2002 2:10 PM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SLUG] An embronic Linux user

2002-11-24 Thread Brett Fenton
Hi Rick, The burner will be no problem at all. I've got a HP 9100 here on RedHat and it's been faultless. I've also got a FB630U at home but have never connected it to a Linux machine. I don't imagine there'd be too many problems, I'll plug it in and see what happens though. Brett

RE: [SLUG] Setting up Debian at a new network location.

2002-11-17 Thread Brett Fenton
by setting up for the network i assume you're just referring to giving it an allocated ip address (or dchp) informing it of the gateway etc? just edit (in vi or pico etc) the config file /etc/network/interfaces give it the ip you want etc etc. below is the configs for a machine of mine that has a

RE: [SLUG] Setting up Debian at a new network location.

2002-11-17 Thread Brett Fenton
line in the config for the box presumably that handles your NAT etc quite typically this will be *.*.*.1 but it's hardly a convention brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] Location of servers

2002-11-11 Thread Brett Fenton
be able to deduce something ballpark. brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:slug-admin;slug.org.au]On Behalf Of : Alan L Tyree : Sent: Tuesday, 12 November 2002 10:56 AM : To: Stuart Guthrie @ SLUG : Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: Re: [SLUG] Location of servers

RE: [SLUG] Daylight saving didn't happen

2002-11-05 Thread Brett Fenton
I'm not sure what the problem you've had is, but why not just run ntpd and let someone else worry about maintaining the correct time?? Regards Brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:slug-admin;slug.org.au]On Behalf Of : Jonathan Wheelhouse : Sent: Tuesday, 5

RE: [SLUG] whois in .au namespace

2002-11-03 Thread Brett Fenton
either whois.ausregistry.net or whois1.ausregistry.net, will work fine. aunic is still going but i'm not sure whether new data is being synched with it. brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:slug-admin;slug.org.au]On Behalf Of : David Fitch : Sent: Monday, 4

RE: [SLUG] How to restart networking

2002-10-28 Thread Brett Fenton
/etc/init.d/network restart or replace restart with start/stop also some systems have the script as networking instead of network. i can't remember what RedHat is. Regards Brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:slug-admin;slug.org.au]On Behalf Of : Simon Bryan

RE: [SLUG] hard drive choices

2002-10-27 Thread Brett Fenton
as when they started. I have found that IDE disks that get very heavy read/write tend to die much faster than SCSI. As an example the h/w IDE RAID in the office which used 6 disks in RAID 5 and was getting hit very hard 24 hrs / day would chew a disk about once a month. YMMV. Brett : -Original

[SLUG] UT2003 available now

2002-10-18 Thread Brett Olsen
Title: UT2003 available now Hi Guys, Just a note to let you know UT2003 is now available is AUS. Q: What does this have to do with SLUG ? A: Well CD 3 comes with the Linux Installer, that's right guys and gals you get the Windoze and Linux version Thanks Brett

RE: [SLUG] Optus Cable

2002-10-15 Thread Brett Fenton
I could be wrong but I think that it's based on the MAC of the modem, not the NIC. Regards Brett Fenton : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : Stuart Guthrie @ SLUG : Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 8:14 AM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SLUG] Optus Cable

2002-10-15 Thread Brett Fenton
I could be wrong but I think that it's based on the MAC of the modem, not the NIC. Regards Brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : Stuart Guthrie @ SLUG : Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 8:14 AM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject

RE: [SLUG] Optus Cable

2002-10-15 Thread Brett Fenton
script to those interested though it's not especially elegant it does the job. Brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : Simon Bryan : Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 9:31 AM : To: Ken Foskey; slug : Subject: RE: [SLUG] Optus Cable

RE: [SLUG] Repair shop?

2002-10-15 Thread Brett Olsen
commands and disconnect from the devices and uses other things such as tag queuing to limit any possible performance hit. You will have this problem, however if use a LVD SE device on the same channel, but this is a different scenario. Thank You Brett Olsen -Original Message- From

[SLUG] New WineX 2.2 release available

2002-10-14 Thread Brett Olsen
Title: New WineX 2.2 release available Hi Guys, I noticed that a new interim release of WineX is available, details are as follows: --- WineX 2.2 --- Release Notes, October 7, 2002. TransGaming is pleased to announce the release of WineX 2.2. TransGamers can now

[SLUG] Linux, New Hardware Me

2002-10-08 Thread Brett Olsen
some nice LM monitoring software, tweak my video card (I think its registry.c ?), load my windows games using wineX, work out how to make grub look pretty (graphical) and install my LCD I ordered from CrystalFontz Thanks Brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

RE: [SLUG] Redhat 7.3, 8.0 P4 2.5 gig, any ideas ? - Solution

2002-10-07 Thread Brett Olsen
and help Brett Hi Guys, Thanks for all the suggestions, Erik van Pienbroek got back to me with this suggestion, I will post the results of my testing tomorrow, his symptoms match exactly those that I am having now. --- Hi

[SLUG] Redhat 7.3, 8.0 P4 2.5 gig, any ideas ?

2002-10-02 Thread Brett Olsen
, but I don't really think this is related ? I can't wait to get Linux running on this beast... Thank Guys Brett

RE: [SLUG] Redhat 7.3, 8.0 P4 2.5 gig, any ideas ?

2002-10-02 Thread Brett Olsen
- From: Ben de Luca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:44 PM To: Brett Olsen Subject: Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.3, 8.0 P4 2.5 gig, any ideas ? insert the boot disk you made when you installed redhat. You did make a boot disk didnt you. there is a rescue mode on the cdrom check

RE: [SLUG] Redhat 7.3, 8.0 P4 2.5 gig, any ideas ?

2002-10-02 Thread Brett Olsen
To: Brett Olsen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.3, 8.0 P4 2.5 gig, any ideas ? On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:37:46PM +1000, Brett Olsen wrote: Hi Guys, I have just upgraded to a P4 2.5 and I do not seem to be able to install/run Linux anymore :-( [ .. ] Epox 4g4a Intel P4 2.5 2 x

RE: [SLUG] WebHosting

2002-07-16 Thread Brett Fenton
about half what it's going to cost to co-lo without taking into account the hardware costs required etc. Brett -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of DaZZa Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:53 PM To: Saurabh Shukla Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG

RE: [SLUG] Linux Sysadmin wages.

2002-06-13 Thread Brett Fenton
, a degree becomes sundry. But I still hold that in juniorish roles the maturity and problem solving abilities of graduates is *in general* worth the little extra. Brett -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Karl Clements Sent: Friday, 14 June 2002 8

RE: [SLUG] Linux Sysadmin wages.

2002-06-12 Thread Brett Fenton
and the remuneration increases accordingly with responsibility. Brett -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stuart Guthrie Sent: Wednesday, 12 June 2002 10:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Linux Sysadmin wages. Wondering if I could get

Re: [SLUG] Pacific Internet ADSL

2002-05-15 Thread Brett Jones
up James - Pacific Internet Brett Jones Management Computer Services Pty Ltd Phone: 07 4125 5503 Mobile: 0417 602 971 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matt Hyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:14

RE: [SLUG] Can somebody explain this effect?

2002-04-30 Thread Brett Fenton
by default as you've moved it into ~adam, adam will own the file and the file will be in group adam. this is because you've copied it in as user adam. if you'd copied it in as root it would have maintained file permissions. brett -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

[SLUG] Re: Which is first - chicken or egg?

2002-04-14 Thread Brett Worth
at their interface. I'm using FreeS/WAN at home with a dynamic IP address given to me by WebOne. I then do rsasig authentication to the server and vice-versa so I dont need a consistent IP address. -- Brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

RE: [SLUG] iso images

2002-03-04 Thread Brett Fenton
cdrecord --scanbus cdrecord dev=(insert bus here eg 0,0,0) speed=6 /directory/file.iso -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon Wong Sent: Tuesday, 05 March 2002 11:59 AM To: Slug List Subject: Re: [SLUG] iso images On Tue,

RE: [SLUG] (fwd) Inquiry

2002-02-14 Thread Brett Fenton
WordPerfect has been released and withdrawn by Corel for the Linux platform, thus not requiring the use of Wine. Installation on any Debian based system is a breeze, Debian, Corel, Progeny etc. Instalation on RedHat or SuSE good luck. Brett -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] How to install about 150 rpms?

2002-02-10 Thread Brett Fenton
packages, just highlight the packages in the gui and install. brett On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:49:52 +1100 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had a try at installing the latest Ximian Gnome; about a 250Mb download, via the easy installer. All seemed to work fine, until it tried to install

Re: [SLUG] [OT] burned on a deal

2002-01-11 Thread Brett Fenton
to be as advertised. Also from memory the final bid on auctiontrader isn't final you can reject the bid and the sale if you want either by email or by not replying to the confirmation emails they send for 3 days or something similar. Brett On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:37, you wrote: I apologise for being largely

Re: [SLUG] Domain delegation (slightly OT)

2002-01-09 Thread Brett Fenton
Depends what king of domain it is. com/net/org's are simple, com.au's through inww, net.au's through connect, org.au's are a pain. brett On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:15, you wrote: Hi Slugs, well it's been so long since i've been in the business of setup/delegating domains that i've forgotton! I

Re: [SLUG] Domain delegation (slightly OT)

2002-01-09 Thread Brett Fenton
http://aunic.net/dd.html Then just hope Robert Elz is kind to you. On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:37, you wrote: Hi Brett, Oh dear... it's an org.au any clues? Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] Domain delegation (slightly OT)

2002-01-09 Thread Brett Fenton
anymore, it's just in the too hard basket, but delegations have seemed to imporoved of late. Brett -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adam Kennedy Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] Connecting through a linux box

2002-01-08 Thread Brett Fenton
I've set this up on SuSE 7.2 and RH7.1/7.2 and there is no difference from memory from either so long as your using IPTables. Brett -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Palmer Sent: Wednesday, 09 January 2002 11:23 AM To: Dan

RE: [SLUG] Helpdesk

2001-12-20 Thread Brett Fenton
webrt: http://fsck.com/projects/rt/ We use it to manage about 15 lists doing combined around 2000 emails per week. Works flawlessly IMHO Regards Brett Fenton -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, 21

RE: [SLUG] Poorman's Sun Ray X windows terminals

2001-12-19 Thread Brett Fenton
It may be way past the price you want to pay but it seems a RAQ Cube would fit that bill. Maybe you could get a used one from one of the many dot.com's going to the wall? Brett -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Hayes Sent

[SLUG] Setting up debian

2001-05-12 Thread Brett Gardner
I am trying to setup the latest version of debian potato off my windows partition. I have put the files in c:\dists\potato\main\disks-i386\current And the install proggie says that it cannot find them. Now, i had to resort to doing this off floppies and when i did actually compile the new

[SLUG] Faulty PortScan

2001-04-04 Thread Brett Esra
appreciated. Thanks in advance Brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] CRLF to LF conversion

2001-01-02 Thread Brett Esra
zip/unzip utilities. Zip the files up with the MSDOS conversion flags (-l and -ll see man page) and then unzip them again with the conversion flags. Usually works pretty well for me :) Regards Brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/list

Re: [SLUG] Linux news on slashdot

2000-11-29 Thread Brett Esra
:) Regards Brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] DHCP and DNS

2000-11-22 Thread Brett Esra
Hey SLUG buddies, My question is: To those of you using DHCP and DNS, besides the Perl scripts and Cron stuff I found, how are you keeping the DNS A records in sync with the IP leases that change every so often. Any thoughts appreciated. Regards Brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

[SLUG] ircd

2000-09-24 Thread Brett Esra
Slug Buddies, Hope the weekend was good! OK quick quiz: ? is to IRC Daemons as Apache is to Web Daemons for 10 points. Sourceforge and Freshmeat bring up a lot of options and I would like to know which is the definitive server. Many thanks in advance Brett PS One with an RPM would

Re: [SLUG] LILO

2000-09-14 Thread Brett Esra
marty wrote: a friend just rang me up, his system boots but stops at 'LI' i have heard about this before but i couldn't remember what it means... please remind me how painfully sad my memory is... later marty "I can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what they want

Re: [SLUG] questions... squid...

2000-08-21 Thread Brett Esra
Michael Fox wrote: Afternoon everybody, Just want to put a few questions to those who have a little more experience with some advance squid questions I may have. We have 50/50 spread of users who are using locked down browsers while another lot of users don't. The issue we are having

<    1   2