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Hi folks,
I've moved to Melbourne now, and I'm not able to keep up with SLUG as well as
the other lists I need to, not mentioning the fact that I've been plagued
with dead hardware, dead email (courtesy of the webhosting people) and
various other things, so
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On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 8:03 pm, Stalker, Doug wrote:
The Solaris automounter implements a /net directory which will
automatically mount the entire tree from an NFS server. (i.e.: accessing
/net/hostname automatically mounts hostname:/ on /net/hostname)
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On Monday 03 Mar 2003 12:22 pm, Kevin Saenz wrote:
I am looking for a good antispam application.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I have spamassassin it seems to be letting a lot
of undesirables in.
First of all, if you've not upgraded 2.50 then
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On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 4:02 pm, sfg wrote:
A VNTD* has sent me a document in FXS format which is winfax. Getting
even this is like pulling teeth. Is there anyone out there who knows how
to read it in linux?
Unfortunately not. There is a program called eFax
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On Friday 07 Mar 2003 12:59 am, Bill wrote:
should identd be installed, or is it a security risk?
These days it's really not important.
When I was working at a Unversity back in 92-94 we installed it on our big
Ultrix computing servers so we could have some
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On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 7:26 pm, Louis Selvon wrote:
How do I browse the server via http instead of using the paths.
You need to start the webserver, it appears not to be running at the moment.
Try:
service httpd start
or
service apache start
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On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 8:12 pm, Louis Selvon wrote:
service httpd start
Louis Yeap this solved the problem.
Cool.
Now try doing:
chkconfig --add httpd
chkconfig httpd on
that should make sure the script is properly set up to
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On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 9:01 pm, Angus Lees wrote:
you can do merges, diffs, etc between files, buffers, arbitrary
regions, version-control revisions, etc. ediff/emerge is good.
'Master, does Emacs possess the Buddha nature?'
'I don't see why not, it's got
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On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 10:30 pm, Louis Selvon wrote:
It should produce something like:
httpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off
Louis Done all of that and the output is the same. But what does
it all mean ??
It means it will
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On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 5:37 pm, James Gregory wrote:
And here is where the other problem is. That is *not* an internal (as in
LAN internal) IP address. That is an IP address that is (or should be)
visible on the internet.
Umm, actually that is defined as
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On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 5:55 pm, Christopher Samuel wrote:
Interestingly enough, RFC-3330 doesn't say where it was defined. :-)
Found it here on the ZeroConf Networking IETF working groups pages:
http://files.zeroconf.org/draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4
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On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 2:23 am, Patrick Lesslie wrote:
# ln /tmp /tmp2
ln: `/tmp': hard link not allowed for directory
This is an error generated by the ln command doing its own checks on the
arguments and deciding you're not allowed to do it.
# ln
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On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 10:39 am, Anthony Wood wrote:
You probably should have a firewall :-)
...and most of them have support for IP masquerading, including Shorewall,
which would solve his other problem.
Of course, using Squid as a web proxy would also
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On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 10:09 am, Ben Leslie wrote:
Wouldn't that require manually writing to the directory file? I thought
sane Unices stopped you from doing this years ago.
No, I believe that raw access to the disk device is still available (and
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On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 2:39 am, Crossfire wrote:
Hopefully they took the idiot who added it in the first place out the back
and shot him. It would save the rest of us a lot of pain caused by all the
idiots who used it without realising the consequences.
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On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 3:46 pm, Stalker, Doug wrote:
After reading of the potential problems, I'm now convinced it's a Very Bad
Idea to hardlink directories.
Plus Linux won't let you (at least with the standard filesystems). :-)
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Chris Samuel :
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On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 3:54 pm, Andre Pang wrote:
Forgive me if this question has been answered already, but why not just
create a symbolic link to the directory instead of a hard link?
One possible reason may be backups:
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On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 4:14 pm, Stalker, Doug wrote:
I'm creating an environment to use with chroot.
Hmm, whilst a hard link in that situation will save on disk space, if you're
doing this for security then I would counsel against it. This is because if
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On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 3:46 pm, Stalker, Doug wrote:
As a workaround I'll create the directories
manually and hard-link the files in them - that will fix the problem
without causing massive filesystem corruption.
cp is your friend:
cp -al
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On Sunday 23 Feb 2003 10:18 pm, Heracles wrote:
The 333Mhz is plenty fast enough for X and KDE 3 but you need plenty of RAM
(at least 128MB)
Agreed. Interestingly the KDE news site (http://dot.kde.org/) had a link to
this LinuxPlanet review of KDE 3.1 on
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On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 10:22 am, dan wrote:
Does anyone know how I can track down the reason for the performance
bottleneck?
Ethereal is your friend. :-)
http://www.ethereal.com/
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Chris Samuel : http://csamuel.org/ : Wollongong, NSW
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On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 7:37 pm, Bruce Badger wrote:
Any hints, tips (or complete answers :-)) would be most appreciated.
What does: netstat -ntlp say for port 10045 ?
cheers,
Chris
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Chris Samuel : http://csamuel.org/ : Wollongong, NSW
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On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 1:01 pm, Jon Biddell wrote:
They were going to produce an emacs one, but how many people would buy a
coffee mug the size of a soup bowl ?
Most geeks that I know. :-)
Actually, it's been done:
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On Monday 17 Feb 2003 10:08 am, Edwin Humphries wrote:
We have an Epson Stylus Color 1160 printer that we'd like to make available
from the server (RH7.2 with SAMBA). It's already running a laser printer,
and has no other parallel port available.
So it
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On Monday 17 Feb 2003 10:45 am, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
Nope, CUPS can talk IPP.
Oh, I know CUPS talks IPP, my problem was persuading Windoze to talk IPP to
it. :-)
Many thanks for the information though, at the time we were on a network
without an internet
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On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 6:59 pm, Alex Sayle wrote:
I couldn't be ass-ed remembering vi commands.
This is what you need then:
http://www.geekcheat.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PRODStore_Code=GProduct_Code=vimugCategory_Code=VS
:-)
(not to
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On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 6:59 pm, Alex Sayle wrote:
and what's more I always wanted a new contestant in the holy wars of
editors ;)
http://www.geekcheat.com/images/struggle1.gif
:-)
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Chris Samuel : http://csamuel.org/ : Wollongong, NSW
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On Friday 14 Feb 2003 10:09 am, John Clarke wrote:
ITYM backup *without* RAID is better than RAID without backup.
Agreed. And backup *with* RAID'ed SCSI disks is better still.
Jon, I am *so* thankful for that Netstrada of yours!
cheers,
Chris
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On Friday 14 Feb 2003 11:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been using straight iptables rules for firewalling. I'm educated in
security, and am wondering how firewall rules applied straight to the
kernel via iptables/netfilter compare and contrast with
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On Friday 14 Feb 2003 3:20 pm, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
Use the -p option to tar to preserve stuff.. there's a few more options in
the tar manpage that do all sorts of preserving permissions, owners, types,
etc.
My understanding is that is only for extraction
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Hi folks,
Just read a really good review of the KnoppixKDE variant of Knoppix, basically
it's Knoppix with KDE3.1 and all the .deb'd KDE packages they could find.
The reviewer had never used Linux before (he's an MCP) and does an (IMHO)
excellent job of
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On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 4:29 pm, David Kempe wrote:
We downloaded the full knoppix of 20/2/03 I can burn a copy of that if you
like.
I think that's the the one with KDE3.0 and it was KDE3.1 I was especially
after. Thanks for the kind offer though!
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On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 12:26 pm, Jon Biddell wrote:
May I direct your attention to the following URL;
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?taxid=1284011332id=431700105eid=-50
Has SCO gone over to The Dark Side ?
I think it all depends on what they do.
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On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 12:54 pm, Jon Biddell wrote:
That would be very interesting if, for example, the author is in Russia
- lack of jurisdiction hasn't stopped them in the past, though (the
Lawyers, I mean - look at the ARIA)..
As well as the
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On Monday 10 Feb 2003 7:35 am, Peter Chubb wrote:
I'm still using Linux 2.2 with the TIS firewall toolkit.
Crumbs, are people still using that ? Where I used to work in the UK we used
the FTP proxy from that.
I'm looking to get into IPv6, so want to
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On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 12:18 am, mick wrote:
everytime I log into KDE I get the palm polot sync wizard opening. How to
I stop this or other applications opening when I log in?
Try stopping it, and then logging out - of course remembering to tell KDE to
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On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:47 pm, Jeff Hutchinson wrote:
I have setup an email server which stands behind a firewall. Internally
we are able to sent and receive email. I fact we can send email
anywhere. The problem lies with the incoming email --- none.
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On Monday 03 Feb 2003 7:23 pm, Jeff Hutchinson wrote:
I can't login.
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused.
Can you tell me what this means for my email server? More to the point
why is it sending and receiving internally but not
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On Monday 03 Feb 2003 9:37 pm, Peter Rundle wrote:
Jeff,
Tsk, Tsk, Look what happens when I telnet to port 80 on your
server.
telnet 203.51.63.160 80
Strange, I don't recall seeing him post the IP address of the server, only the
client.
So your
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Quick abstract for Jeff:
1) Your NAT box is not forwarding port 25 connections to the mail server.
That's why you're not getting email.
2) All email for the domain should be being queued on
evnsrv2.computernerds.com.au, your backup mailserver.
Now onto
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On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 12:58 pm, Jeff wrote:
I have done a netstat -an | grep 25 . Attached is the output.
That shows sendmail listening quite happily to anyone who cares to speak to
it. Read my previous email about what I believe is the problem, i.e. the
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On Monday 03 Feb 2003 12:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nothing has happened to the machine recently (that we know about) ... The
machine is a firewall, router, and VPN server. The VPN was restarted last
Thursday, but that is about all.
Prelude was
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On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:33 am, Steve Kowalik wrote:
Umm, I don't know what the ICQ program in the screenshot is, but I keep
hearing Robot101 talking about gaim, which does both ICQ and MSN (I think).
- From http://gaim.sourceforge.net/about.php
Gaim is a
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On Friday 31 Jan 2003 10:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I go about manually checking / setting my TimeZone settings?
FWIW, I'm using Mandrake 8.2
Hi Mike,
Your default timezone is set by the soft-link /etc/localtime - for instance on
my system
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On Friday 31 Jan 2003 10:43 am, Peter Hewett wrote:
Regarding 486 vs Pentium, I've no recent experience to help with that I'm
afraid.
And will red hat 8 personal have everything I need to do the job ?
I tried experimenting with this, and found that if you
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On Friday 17 Jan 2003 10:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to mount of a software RAID drive as root. (Mandrake 8.2,
GNU/Linux 2.4.18-6mdkenterprise) I'm using a custom built initial ramdisk.
What's the contents of the ramdisk ?
The error message I
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On Friday 17 Jan 2003 11:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just tried the same with the default ramdisk provided by Mandrake - same
errors occured.
IIRC the initrd is built on the fly when the kernel is installed. Thus it will
only load the modules it needs
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On Friday 17 Jan 2003 1:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used the `--with=raid1` parameter when creating the ramdisk. Obviously
I've left out other required driver modules (prob. SCSI)
Hmm, I would have thought that:
mkinitrd --with=scsi_mod
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On Friday 17 Jan 2003 1:40 pm, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Rock on, and I will see you there! :-)
I'm not going, but if you bump into Alan Cox, tell him and Telsa I said hi.
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On Friday 17 Jan 2003 4:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hrmm... Just took a look at the code for mkinitrd ...
I'm not much of a shell programmer, and I don't have a great concept of
what the script does... So I haven't the foggiest of the how/what./why
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On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 6:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've been given some floppies which are apparently Amiga/Commodore.
According to one www reference I found, it's easy
to read them. You just
dd if=/dev/fd0a of=myfile.adf
and get 880k bytes of
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On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 10:05 am, Ben de Luca wrote:
Im pretty sure the amiga floppy had a prorpiatry controller,
That would be the Paula chip.
all i rember is that its not pc compatible :(
There is software out there to do it.
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Chris Samuel
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On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 6:11 pm, Peter Hewett wrote:
I understand 2.0.35 is the version - but which distribution of Linux ?
uname won't tell you I'm afraid.
Files you may find some give aways with are:
/etc/issue - contains the banner given by getty for a
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On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 11:44 am, Kevin Fitzgerald wrote:
Can anybody tell me how to fix this so that anyone can use the burner.
Which burner program are you using, and on which distribution ?
The version of xcdroast that comes with Mandrake 9 has a non-root
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On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 1:09 pm, Paul Wickham wrote:
I have just emmigrated to Australia from England and I've just suscribed to
the Slug mailing list, so I figured it would only be polite to introduce
myself.
Welcome from another recently arrived ex-pat.
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On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 4:29 pm, Stalker, Doug wrote:
How can I force the kernel to load the sd_mod and scsi_mod modules when
booting?
Did you create an initrd file (a RAM disk) for the kernel ?
You may hit the bootstrapping problem where the module you need
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