Re: [SLUG] RE: VMware 5 Workstation + Linux = kernel panic?

2005-11-10 Thread Christopher JS Vance
I run vmware 5.0 on breezy/amd64. I have definitely run two vms at once on this system. I was running a team of up to about 6 vms with the same vmware, but can't remember if it was hoary or breezy. I use bridged networking. The team also had internal networks. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - S

Re: [SLUG] drivers

2005-11-08 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:06:16PM +1100, Christopher JS Vance wrote: I've been asked to get a particular touchscreen (eGalax usb) going before Tuesday next week on Breezy. Thanks all. Somebody moved the goalposts, and the target is now FC3, which is covered by the supplied dr

[SLUG] drivers

2005-11-06 Thread Christopher JS Vance
I've been asked to get a particular touchscreen (eGalax usb) going before Tuesday next week on Breezy. The manufacturer has actually provided some Linux software in the way of binary bits plus some sources for a number of old rpm-based distributions (RH<=9, FC<=3, Mdk<=10), all for XFree86 and a

Re: [SLUG] Keeping passwords safe

2005-10-04 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:03:44AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anything obvious from the man page? Not on an OS where the people don't care about documentation. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http:/

Re: [SLUG] Your top-ten linux desktop apps

2005-10-04 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 10:30:36PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not everyone codes so that time_t is equivalent to int so there's nothing wrong with time_t being a long (and fix the code that can't handle it). Of course not. The synopsis for time(2) on v7 Unix says | long time(0) | | long

Re: [SLUG] Re: package installation initial state

2005-09-28 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:58:07PM +1000, Matt Palmer wrote: What you want is debootstrap. Does everything you're looking for, but in a single command. I note with some interest that somebody has recently written rpmstrap (name might be slightly different) to provide an equivalent to debootstra

[SLUG] package installation initial state

2005-09-28 Thread Christopher JS Vance
Let's say I have a running Linux kernel with working user space, and I want to construct a minimal chroot environment from a bunch of .deb files (I have the Breezy preview ISO). No optional or recommended, just the bits I say, with their prerequisites. The chroot doesn't need to be bootable, but

Re: [SLUG] BSD packages on Linux installation ????

2005-09-26 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:26:46PM -0700, pesoy misak wrote: I am wondering about FreeBSD tgz binary packages is compatible with linux distros such as debian or fedora. and also can i just unpack the bsd package and run them on any of these two linux distros No. Explanation follows. BSD *.tgz

Re: [SLUG] distro footprints

2005-09-20 Thread Christopher JS Vance
At the moment we're using Thinstation as a diskless Linux distribution for running Tcl/Tk applications with Firefox, but I'm finding it quite person-hostile for reconfiguration, etc. I wonder what kind of diskspace or memory footprint I'd need if I wanted to replace it with a working subset of

Re: [SLUG] distro footprints

2005-09-19 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:57:32PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: You could try out the deeply integrated LTSP functionality in Ubuntu 5.10 (which will be released in mid-October, but available as a Preview release right now, and well worth testing). It'll work with whatever X session you choose to set

[SLUG] distro footprints

2005-09-18 Thread Christopher JS Vance
At the moment we're using Thinstation as a diskless Linux distribution for running Tcl/Tk applications with Firefox, but I'm finding it quite person-hostile for reconfiguration, etc. I wonder what kind of diskspace or memory footprint I'd need if I wanted to replace it with a working subset of a

Re: [SLUG] Aptitude command to TOTALLY remove KDE

2005-08-30 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:47:29AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Now all I need to do is remember the pager proggy for twm and I'm set. I'm happy with ctwm. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] DNS Issue

2005-08-17 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 05:19:23PM +1000, Kevin Fitzgerald wrote: This is probably an Obvious Question but I'm not sure where to look next. Running Fedora Core 4, set up a DNS server and DNS record for my machine. If I do #host kevnote I receive the correct IP Address. I'm trying to install Scali

Re: [SLUG] NTPD behind a masquerade

2005-08-17 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:50:51PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: I find that a lot of the syncs time out with my main ntp boxen. I suspect that the main servers are extremely overloaded now that every home use has easy to use software to enable them to sysnc with stratum 1 timeservers. Trying t

Re: [SLUG] recursive tree log grep ?

2005-05-21 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 11:12:22PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: I have tree like: /home/domain.tld/logs/ /home/domain2.tld/logs/ ... how do i run a grep across all logs, as in 'grep a-string /home/*/logs/*' If the logs are all immediately in the relevant logs directory, what you've typed in yo

Re: [SLUG] Re: Weird login behaviour

2005-02-27 Thread Christopher JS Vance
CONFIG_*=y means 'put this functionality into the kernel at compile time, so that it's always there' If your kernel boots, you've got this stuff. CONFIG_*=m means 'make a separate file which *might* be loaded into the kernel after the kernel has already started' This loading can only be done if the

Re: [SLUG] Timezone and Daylight Savings Time

2005-01-31 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:58:29PM +1100, Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/crd.nsf/pages/time2 That page doesn't mention "daylight time" anywhere. It talks everywhere of "daylight saving", and doesn't give a name to the timezone. OK ... I finally see what your original state

Re: [SLUG] Timezone and Daylight Savings Time

2005-01-31 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:36:23PM +1100, Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote: S for Summer. We don't do Daylight Time here. Huh ? What do you mean "we don't do daylight time" here in NSW ? http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/crd.nsf/pages/time2 That page doesn't mention "daylight time" anywhere. It talks everywh

Re: [SLUG] Timezone and Daylight Savings Time

2005-01-31 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:43:11PM +1100, Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote: When I run the 'date' command while we are in daylight savings time, it says: Tue Feb 1 13:35:07 EST 2005 1) Why is it "EST" ? Shouldn't it be "EDT" or "AEDT" ? S for Summer. We don't do Daylight Time here. There are no "legal"