Re: [SLUG] Two concurrent Gnome Desktops?

-- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet Business Services Provider Trusted by 10,000s of Oz Businesses Since 1997

Re: [SLUG] Copying a CD to disk image

. What give's? Pete P.S I've tried using dd's bs=512, 1024 and 2048 but the result is unchanged. -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007

Re: [SLUG] Re: Slow Wireless Speed (Peter Rundle)

working beatifully, the only down side is that I need to do it 30 times, and the ciso cost $500 EACH. Thanks James -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway

Re: [SLUG] OT: Optus cable problem?

if it's one of the motorola surfboards i had a similar thing happen about 6 months ago. my access speed would crap out. a powercycle would briefly resolve. then i was getting intermittant access before it finally died. On Friday 07 January 2005 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just been

Re: [SLUG] sshd config: tighten access ?

? is it easy to add such IPs to my ipchains ? -- Voytek -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet Business Services

Re: [SLUG] Generating a website map

linklint will do exactly what you want. it's an apt-get for debian, i dont know what the status is for other distros. regards, brett On Monday 22 November 2004 20:46, Ken Foskey wrote: I am currently revising http://udk.openoffice.org website to fix the wording spelling and formatting of the

Re: [SLUG] ext3 to ext2?

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Re: [SLUG] Evolution and sending mail

missed I'm positive. Denis Crowdy -- Department of Contemporary Music Studies Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia, ph: +61 (0)2 9850 6787, fax: 9850 6593 http://www.ccms.mq.edu.au -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake non-usb scanner permissions woes

email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total

Re: [SLUG] Modifying GRUB to remove graphics

i think you are talking about editing menu.lst which is probably going to reside someplace like /boot/grub/menu.lst then you'll want to add a line like: splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz where splash.xpm.gz is the image you want to load, or alternatively comment the line out if you want

Re: [SLUG] Modifying GRUB to remove graphics

no grub is smart enough to handle the changes, just reboot ... regards, brett On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:18, DaZZa wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Brett Fenton wrote: i think you are talking about editing menu.lst which is probably going to reside someplace like /boot/grub/menu.lst

Re: [SLUG] Re: Preventing attacks

a straight brute force or some kind of known-plaintext attack or what? James. -- Now, there are no problems only opportunities. However, this seemed to be an insurmountable opportunity. - http://www.surfare.net/~toolman/temp/diagram.html -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd

Re: [SLUG] ide-scsi on vanilla 2.6.9

it depends on how you've built the kernel but scsi emulation is being depreciated and you should be able to burn directly to the ide device now. for example if you use cdrecord, you no longer have to use the lun's but can call the /dev/hd* directly. regards, brett On Sunday 07 November 2004

Re: [SLUG] How to rename partitions

all you need to change is fstab as long as your are referencing the drive correctly then it should be fine. this is all i did when i cut over and it's no probs, in fact i still have old kernels in grub and to boot off one of them i simply edit fstab and go back. brett On Saturday 06 November

Re: [SLUG] Bootup with 2.6.8 9 sorted out

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 19:10, Heracles wrote: Brett Fenton wrote: I'm pretty sure this is wrong. My understanding is that in earlier kernels sata devices were recognized as IDE devices, post 2.6.7 they were recognized as SCSI devices. so regardless of whether cabling has altered

Re: [SLUG] Bootup with 2.6.8 9 sorted out

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 07:42, O Plameras wrote: 4. Question :- do people need to change all SATA entries from HDA etc. to SDA to use the new libata ? I'd be really greatful if somebody with 2.6.8 or 9 could send me a copy of their fstab file, and tell me whether it was installed

Re: [SLUG] question to mutt users

there might be an easier way to do it, though not that i'm aware of. basically you need a separate mda like fetchmail, i prefer getmail as it's config is easier. pipe that through sortmail and it separates your mail into mailfiles based on whatever rules you define. brett On Saturday 23

Re: [SLUG] Apple 23

anyone have any clue about getting an Apple 23 display running at full res ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on XFree86? Haven't tried it yet, but I'd like to get a heads up. I know it's old but we're using RH 7.3 at the mo. Cheers, -Mal -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd

[SLUG] 2.6.8 and usb mass storage

Hi, I upgraded to 2.6.8 (from 2.6.5) a couple of weeks back and everything was relatively smooth with the exception that my sata disks changed from being recognized as ide devices (hd*) to scsi disks (sd*). I went to use an occasionally used lacie external usb hard drive on the weekend only

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

umm because 99% of portable music players don't support the formats? brett On Wednesday 08 September 2004 15:20, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:14 +1000, Terry Collins wrote: What do people use to encode mp3s on debian? Most programs don't actually exist in the debian

Re: [SLUG] Home LAN IP details

nmap -sP xxx.xxx.xxx.0/24 where the xxx's are your subnet. typically it will be something like 192.168.0.0/24 or 10.1.1.0/24 this is assuming your machines are responding to pings b On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 02:44 pm, bill wrote: I have a home LAN - 3 PC's networked via an ethernet switch and

Re: [SLUG] External USB Hard Drive Case + HDD

this issue? not 100% sure where to start! gerard -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet Business Services

Re: [SLUG] talk proposal request for help with lftp

Try escaping out the spaces. So for example 'pass word here' would become pass\ word\ here M.da Cruz wrote: Hi All, I have recently switched to Linux and now have it running on my Targa Traveller laptop including the winmodem :-) I bought the Openskills/SLUG Debian CD, also tried Fedora on

Re: [SLUG] NetRegistry: December Newsletter

Guys, I'm really sorry this was posted to the list. An error was made in me doing testing on a script. Humble apologies. Brett Fenton -- 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] work apparently available yet no-one seems interested

. LOCATION: Sydney CBD DURATION: 3 months Rolling RATE: Excellent AGENCY: GAP Consulting Group WWW: http://www.gapcg.com.au CONTACT: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EMAIL: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: FAX: OPEN TO: Australia/NZ Residents Working Holiday Visa Applicants SUBMITTED: 13-NOV-03 -- Brett

Re: [SLUG] Real lamo question about scripts

could look so I can develop my script further? -- Brett Fenton General Manager NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet Business

Re: [SLUG] ide cd-writer

install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 and rebooted using that kernel. I am burning a CD using the box (not this box) as I type. I will be out for an hour or so but will be home later this afternoon or this evening. Feel free to 'phone if you have a problem. cheers, Ken -- Brett Fenton General

Re: [SLUG] Recommended .com.au registrar

of deregulation of the space. auDA became the registrar of record for all .net.au domains (about 10,000 or so), registrants had to then transfer the domain to a registrar in order to be able to manage contact details, delegation and the like. Brett Fenton Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Oct 23

Re: [SLUG] A question of deletion.

for deleted. You can't undelete a file in Linux. Is this because the file has been shredded? I ask not because I want to undelete, but because I have some sensitive data files that I have deleted and *don't* want resurrected at any later date. Regards, Bill Bennett. -- Brett Fenton General Manager

Re: [SLUG] Benefits of source distro (Gentoo) somewhat elusive :-)

This is an interesting POV. We currently have about 40 Linux boxes in high load production environments, and racking my brian I can't think of a scenario where a 0.1% increase in performance (for performance alone not considering interoperability or security for example) would be worth more

Re: [SLUG] aunic whois 24 hours blacklist on my web server

, infequently). today was 1st time in days if not weeks that I executed whois I guess it's implying there is some recurrent whois queries running from a web user ?? perplexed. Voytek Eymont -- Brett Fenton General Manager NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http

Re: [SLUG] can't write superblock when unmounting SMB share

umount -l ? On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 20:48, Douglas Stalker wrote: RedHat 9.0, SAMBA 3.0.0beta3 I'm having problems unmounting a remote SMB share, and I'd like to get it unmounted without resorting to rebooting the linux system. The problem I get when trying to unmount it: [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

tr -d '[\200-\377]' infile outfile -d deletes \200-\377 is all non-ascii characters infile is the http.conf you have outfile is the stream output brett On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 07:47, Voytek Eymont wrote: I just edited httpd.conf on a non-*nix machine, and, now have have lots of CtrlMs in the

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 08:54, Angus Lees wrote: vi: :%s/.$// - which is a cop-out, since I can never remember how to put a literal \r in :%s;\r;;g brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] scp syntax

, and, nothing copied what do I need ...? Voytek Eymont -- Brett Fenton General Manager NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet

Re: [SLUG] updating kernel, rebbot after ?

depending on your boot loader you need to specify where the kernel is. in lilo this is /etc/lilo.conf then re-run /sbin/lilo in grub you can either define in /boot/grub/menu.lst or just pass the kernel at the grub boot prompt. brett On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 05:02, Voytek Eymont wrote: ** Reply

Re: [SLUG] Quiet keyboards

, which makes for a lot of fast loud clicks, which gets her heart racing. So I am looking for a very quiet keyboard. Must be compatible with Linux (cannot imagine any problems with that though). Anyone have any suggestions? Regards, Andrew -- Brett Fenton General Manager NetRegistry Pty Ltd

Re: [SLUG] Filesystems

of improvements to ext2/3 all the time, such as Daniel Phillips' htree patch which improves directory indexing performance. Because basically everyone uses these filesystems, you can rely on them as the most heavily tested and most likely to be improved filesystems available for Linux. - Jeff -- Brett

Re: [SLUG] Filesystems

When I click on the link it auto downloads the pdf it works for me. Brett Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:45, Brett Fenton wrote: http://www.vmars.tuwien.ac.at/courses/akti12/journal/02ws/article_02ws_Menedetter.pdf I read this a while back it's about as clear as it's

Re: [SLUG] SMP kernel?

the package that provides it from source. Regards Brett Fenton Lyle Chapman wrote: I have a small question - I purchased a new machine on the weekend, P4 3ghz with HT. Do I need to update my kernel to an SMP one to gain the use of hyper-threading? thanks, Lyle Chapman Pre-Press Supervisor Torch

Re: [SLUG] Disk Access Speed

anyone, thanks? Lyle Chapman Pre-Press Supervisor Torch Publishing Co. www.torchpublishing.com.au 47 Allingham Street, Condell Park 2200, NSW, Australia (02) Ph: 9795 (02) Fax: 9795 0096 -- Brett Fenton General Manager NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http

Re: [SLUG] Disk Access Speed

important. - Matt -- Brett Fenton General Manager NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet Business Services Provider Trusted by 10,000s

Re: [SLUG] Hard disk

who has been hacked on what they did? Thanks in advance. Dan -- Brett Fenton General Manager NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total

[SLUG] intel i875

has anyone been successful in getting linux to run on a board with an i875 chipset? apparently the latest 2.5.x kernels can support it, but i'm not having a great deal of luck. brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] intel i875

of course after 4 hours of frustration, five minutes after posting, it all works. recompile 2.5.75 with hyperthreading support and all systems are go .. brett On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 20:19, Brett Fenton wrote: has anyone been successful in getting linux to run on a board with an i875 chipset

Re: [SLUG] Converting courier-imap Maildir to Cyrus Maildir structure

wouldn't be too hard either using Perl. I'm trying to switch to Cyrus without causing any disruption (eg, I don't want emails to appear as 'new' next time the user logs in) Thanks in advance. Regards, Gonzalo -- Brett Fenton General Manager NetRegistry Pty Ltd

Re: [SLUG] MSWebsite2LinuxWebSite.sh utility?

. Is there a utility that can uncapitalise image file names, directory names and tags or should I write one? Stu -- Brett Fenton General Manager NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box

Re: [SLUG] OS disguise in browser

? Thanks, Alan -- Brett Fenton General Manager NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet Business Services Provider Trusted by 10,000s

Re: [SLUG] IMAP client on Windows

I have a very similar setup here and in the office, except it's getmail sortmail uw impad I also have an issue with finding a decent client to handle imap on windows. I haven't tried some of those you've mentioned, but can give advice on those you ommitted to name. Outlook is terrible and

RE: [SLUG] Mkiso off CD not working

I could be very wrong, but I dont think its that simple. I usually extract the wav files to a temporary directory then pipe the output to mkisofs. In fact a while ago a wrote a shell script that did it all automagically. I'll see if I can retreive it. Brett : -Original Message- : From:

RE: [SLUG] Mounting a second hard drive

The easist way to do it is to: 1. fdisk to make the partitions on the new disk 2. create the filesystem (different tools for diferent fs) 3. mount the disk in some temporary space eg /mnt/home2 4. copy all the data over from /home to /mnt/home2 ensuring that you maintain file permissions 5. edit

RE: [SLUG] apt-get weirdness lately

They are way more elegant. dpkg is what it's all built off. If you get the .deb file you can use dpkg -i package.deb just like you would on an rpm based system. apt is the obtaining of the packages from either a local source say your installation cd's or a remote source like ftp. apt is cutting

RE: [SLUG] Fwd: What are apt-get/dpkg/dselect? [Was: apt-get weirdness lately]

upgrading the kernel is about 10x easier on debian as on other distributions (imho). you simply select your kernel options in config/menuconfig/xconfig build a .deb package, then install the package with dpgk. i think you'll be suprised at how easy it is. brett : -Original Message- :

RE: [SLUG] THE DEPRESSED DEBIAN GUY ....

Because after the pipe it's trying to execute the command. The command should be dpkg -l insert package list here Brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of : Mick Boda : Sent: Monday, 24 March 2003 5:57 PM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

RE: [SLUG] depressed debian guy

apt-cache search 'xfree' will give a lot of output .. in there will be the correct package name ie 'xserver-xfree86' you can either dpkg -l this if you think you may have it installed, or apt-get it: dpkg -l xserver-xfree86 apt-get install xserver-xfree86 brett : -Original Message- :

RE: [SLUG] Steps to install printing (lprng) on new debian system

I don't know what your requirements are but have you considered cups? The packages you'll want are cupsys and foomatic-db there will be some dependencies that apt will solve. Configure via QT-Cups or the web interface. For lpr you'll want lprng then I find printtool useful to configure (if you

RE: [SLUG] Avoiding debian dependancies

get the deb for it. dpkg -i --ignore-depends=package package.deb where package in this instance would be the package you want to ignore xfree86-common for example. brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of : Ben Leslie : Sent: Monday, 24

RE: [SLUG] Removing users from samba.

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

What version of Windows was it? I've recently done a couple of laptops with dual boot Debian and Win2K without any problems, if it's XP maybe it is different? I seem to recall that in the Win2K installer, it asks you what partition you want the OS on and allows you to create/format/reformat only

RE: [SLUG] SMB auto mount

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

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

it may not in and of it's own allow it. for example if you have iptables setup to drop ssh packets having an entry in hosts.allow is pretty useless. however it will stop (hosts.deny) ssh connections on its own from my experience which is admittedly light, there may be ways around it but i found

RE: [SLUG] Still RedHat with KVM

: -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of : Terry Collins : Sent: Tuesday, 31 December 2002 10:03 AM : To: Phillipus Gunawan : Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: Re: [SLUG] Still RedHat with KVM agreed ... mechanical = bad. however i had a

RE: [SLUG] re-partition

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

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

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

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..:-))

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

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..:-))

I've got a couple of these and have been without much difficulty been able to get them up and going under linux (RedHat and Debian). I'll note you need the following compiled into the kernel: SCSI support SCSI disk support SCSI generic support USB mass storage support The units I have all have

RE: [SLUG] An embronic Linux user

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.

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.

: righto, now I have : : /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), : ifdown(8) : .. : iface eth0 inet static : address a-static-ip-that-I-own : netmask 255.255.254.0 : : I have restarted the networking and rebooted even. I can : ping machines : on out network but

RE: [SLUG] Location of servers

theres nothing i'm aware of that will provide that information. your best bet is /usr/sbin/traceroute with a little detactive work. you'll see the gateway routers which more often than not will give you a city location. combine it with some dig queries and or whois queries on the ip's you should

RE: [SLUG] Daylight saving didn't happen

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

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

/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

I think it's exactly the other way around. High demand, home use products tend to become commoditized leading to cheaper and cheaper manufacturing processes as right through the supply chain there is price sensitivity. I've got to say that apart from a few IBM's that I salvaged out of a IDE RAID

RE: [SLUG] Optus Cable

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

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

The modem connects via an RJ45 plug. You can put this into either the uplink on a switch (or one of those firewall/switches made for cable access) directly or into a NIC. My setup is a RedHey 7.3 gateway. eth0 is for the real world ip, eth1 is the internal network which has below it a couple of

RE: [SLUG] WebHosting

A few notes: While the mail/hosting stuff is trivial a transactional server isn't. Getting those argent line(s) direct to the bank, etc etc is a problem as is either the bank issue software or hardware you need. We have links to both NAB and St George, the Quest software for St George is quite

RE: [SLUG] Linux Sysadmin wages.

:13 AM To: Brett Fenton Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux Sysadmin wages. When you are talking about a degree here what type of degree are you talking? IT major in what? because i know numerous 3 years in IT degrees who wouldn't even know what linux was much less what a sysadmin does

RE: [SLUG] Linux Sysadmin wages.

It really depends on a number of things. The amount of responsibility involved / management capacity probably being the biggest factor. Do you have a uni degree, age etc. Also things like are you the sole admin, is it a shared responsibility or sole responsibility etc etc. We are a complete

RE: [SLUG] Can somebody explain this effect?

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]

RE: [SLUG] iso images

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

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?

It shouldn't be too bad. The app downloads the packages then installs them. If the install fails as you've noted, you can remove the perl rpm, then install ximian from local source (/var/cache/redcarpet/packages), including the ximian perl package. There is an option in redcarpet to select local

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

I've got to admit, auctiontrader looks like all your Christmases have arrived at once, but features like if you make a maximum bid greater than the reserve regardless of the current state of bidding, that becomes the highest bid, no correspondance if reserve is not met etc etc all in my

Re: [SLUG] Domain delegation (slightly OT)

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)

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)

Not that this really gives much more info but it does summarize the state of play. http://icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=508mode=threadorder=0 auDA want to open tender for the org.au registry. Elz is standing his ground. Lot's of politics etc etc. Having said that we don't register org.au's

RE: [SLUG] Connecting through a linux box

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

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

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: