Re: [SLUG] Advice on possible ADSL setup

2003-09-19 Thread Christopher Vance
choice however you like. [Gratuitously tricky stuff removed before transmission.] -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Anyone know where SuSE hide their kernel .config file?

2003-09-21 Thread Christopher Vance
machine. Of course, if you're not building rpms, things are much simpler. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] enabling ntpd through firewall ?

2003-11-12 Thread Christopher Vance
uld I get warned off them, or prosecuted for using them? I'm sure Telstra wouldn't be ecstatic about it, since (to my knowledge) they have never advertised ntp servers to non-business clients, and maybe not even then. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ssh error message

2003-11-18 Thread Christopher Vance
s and your machine doesn't do v6. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-11 Thread Christopher Vance
recently (specifically for Planet CCRMA) reminded me why it's only at work I run on Linux. -- Christopher Vance NOT speaking for anyone but himself (and not always then) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-11 Thread Christopher Vance
SD-specific questions might better be sent to the BUGS list if Sydney location is relevant, or to OS-specific lists if not. http://www.bugs.au.freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Building subversion

2004-01-19 Thread Christopher Vance
The command line I used was # portinstall subversion et voila. -- Christopher Vance -- 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] env variables

2004-02-02 Thread Christopher Vance
sole I get all 3 set like that When I log in via xdm and start a rxvt window with bash It is missing LC_ALL. Not sure where it is being lost ? xdm is not a login shell - did you tell rxvt it was a login shell? -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http:/

Re: [SLUG] env variables

2004-02-02 Thread Christopher Vance
. -- Christopher Vance -- 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] displaying decimal places

2004-03-25 Thread Christopher Vance
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 01:53:39PM +1100, Andrew Wilson wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a command that would display the sum of a mathamatical equation that would be less than 1, eg .6722 etc. bc(1), dc(1). -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Independant IT consultant?

2004-04-20 Thread Christopher Vance
ed will know these things... -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Another anti-spam idea

2006-11-02 Thread Christopher Vance
On 11/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi A customer has told me he has heard of this anti-spam technique. Will I implement it for them? Any body got any pointers for me please. Heck it would be a nice slug solution too: * You send me an email * If your address is in my white-

Re: [SLUG] PDA/phone/linux

2006-11-06 Thread Christopher Vance
On 11/7/06, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, November 6, 2006 8:10 pm, Ryan Verner wrote: > I'll add my 2c - I bought an o2 Atom PDA/Phone about 6 months ago, and > it's a decision I'm quite happy with, despite it being a Windows Mobile > device. I honestly have no idea how I li

Re: [SLUG] comsec

2007-01-28 Thread Christopher Vance
On 1/29/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DATA: malformed address: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n may not follow [EMAIL PROTECTED] : failing address in "To:" header is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] m.au <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Does every line sent by your exim finish with CR and NL? The error above could be t

Re: [SLUG] Silencing ldapadd, ldapmodify and ldapdelete

2007-02-18 Thread Christopher Vance
On 2/19/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is out of the script that I an calling from cron: ldapdelete -x -D uid=admin,dc=$DB -w secret cn=nospam$MONTH_NOW,ou=valias,dc=$DB &1>/dev/null &2>1 and this is the outout I get: ldap_delete: No such object (32) matched DN: ou

Re: [SLUG] Silencing ldapadd, ldapmodify and ldapdelete

2007-02-18 Thread Christopher Vance
Almost correct - the final "2>1" just tries to execute a command called "2" and redirects its stdout to a plain file called "1". You're right. :-( -- Christopher -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglis

Re: [SLUG] [ot] Waterproof case and SBC for hotspot

2007-08-08 Thread Christopher Vance
yawarra.com.au sell waterproof machines. We use one for outdoors wireless using OpenBSD but I'm sure people have the same kit running Linux. -- Christopher -- 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] Minimal RedHat-like chroot

2007-09-03 Thread Christopher Vance
On 9/3/07, Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I usually use Debian, but for a project I need to work in a > Redhat or Centos-like environment. So I decided to create a > CentOS chroot. > > I did this by creating a largeish virtual disk for qemu, and >

Re: [SLUG] ipv6.broadway.aarnet.net.au

2007-10-22 Thread Christopher Vance
On 10/23/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any one know what has happened to ipv6.broadway.aarnet.net.au > (::192.231.212.5) > , I used to use it as a 6to4 gateway. But it doesn't seem to be working any > more. I have an explicit tunnel (2001::/16), rather than 6to4 (2002::/16), with b

Re: [SLUG] ipv6.broadway.aarnet.net.au

2007-10-22 Thread Christopher Vance
On 10/23/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will want to set this on an openwrt box, do you see any problems ? My gateway runs a different free OS, so I can't give explicit step-by-steps, but I would expect Linux on your openwrt to be more than adequate. The ifconfig manual on my Linux

Re: [SLUG] unwired and linux

2007-11-12 Thread Christopher Vance
On Nov 13, 2007 3:20 PM, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does unwired know who you are if it is using dhcp? do they > want your MAC address? Unless things have changed since a friend got rid of his, the Unwired modem is your dhcp server. -- Christopher Vance -- S

Re: [SLUG] Requesting IPv6 address space

2008-10-08 Thread Christopher Vance
s of addresses, but I don't really know where to start looking. > > You could check with the tunnel brokers: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IPv6_tunnel_brokers > > -Mary If you only want internal addresses you could use a random /48 out fd00::5 (see rfc4193). -- Christo

Re: [SLUG] Requesting IPv6 address space

2008-10-08 Thread Christopher Vance
> If you only want internal addresses you could use a random /48 out > fd00::5 (see rfc4193). Oops, its /8. -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Re: Requesting IPv6 address space

2008-10-09 Thread Christopher Vance
You may find one of the other free brokers can handle a moving IP4 at your end. Check out sixxs.net. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] SuSE kernel SRPMS

2002-05-20 Thread Christopher Vance
use a different SRPM for each architecture? I'm after i386, s390(x?), and maybe ia64. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] redhat 7.3 recompile

2002-05-21 Thread Christopher Vance
ext2 file system. Did you check the errata, like RHBA-2002:085? 2.4.18-4 was made for ext3fs problems. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: Zealots beware (was Re: [SLUG] Tsk tsk Cisco...gpl breach..)

2002-06-03 Thread Christopher Vance
t like the GPV can look for stuff with a BSD license. Free speech != free beer. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: Zealots beware (was Re: [SLUG] Tsk tsk Cisco...gpl breach..)

2002-06-04 Thread Christopher Vance
r engineered than some of the competing free-speech stuff. (And I'm sure there are exceptions, okay?) When there's no choice at home, I'll take whichever I can get, even if I have to run it under Linux emulation. And when there's no choice at work, you sometimes just have

Re: [SLUG] On finding a log, if it exists.

2002-07-14 Thread Christopher Vance
stakes. I've looked around, but cdrdao doesn't : > seem to make such a file. : command 2>./err : : That will put all stderr into a file called ./err. : : Check your shell for 'redirection' if this doesn't work. man script -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Latex: How to create a list of photographs

2002-08-08 Thread Christopher Vance
file? Check out \makeatletter. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Latex: How to create a list of photographs

2002-08-09 Thread Christopher Vance
27;d for a number of years. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] chmod

2004-09-06 Thread Christopher Vance
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 03:39:26PM +1000, David Gillies wrote: or just a plain old chmod -R 666 *.php This won't do it. -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Maximum process ID

2004-10-16 Thread Christopher Vance
ou know which number to use, and why things will break if you move your stuff elsewhere. :-) -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Linux Version and Kernel

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Vance
inux out of any GNU/Linux, what's left is a dog's breakfast. -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Remote sound editiong

2004-12-19 Thread Christopher Vance
worked out for myself yet. -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Cups print output disappearing

2005-01-09 Thread Christopher Vance
to fix things, it would be helpful to follow the advice you've already received from the GNOME and CUPS people about using stable (GNOME) and compatible (CUPS) software before asking again. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.

Re: [SLUG] vi: commenting out all lines that aren't already

2002-09-30 Thread Christopher Vance
have slightly different behaviours. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] WTF is Ozemail up to?

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Vance
ikely to travel over UDP, but IANA (almost?) always allocated ports in such TCP/UDP pairs, even if you didn't actually want to use the partner. The DST suggests their packet got natted inbound, and was therefore either a reply to one of your packets, or was explicitly redirected by your firewall bec

Re: [SLUG] Serial Multiplexing

2002-10-14 Thread Christopher Vance
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:35:17AM +1000, Rowling, Jill wrote: : If you want to do it yourself, you can use Stallion cards in a PC (use : Google to find them), but you may have to do your own device driver. FreeBSD has stallion drivers. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Is my IRIX box i386 ? Can I put Linux on it ?

2002-10-23 Thread Christopher Vance
you could try NetBSD - it is free and claims to work on more kinds of hardware than any other OS. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] rsync question

2002-11-04 Thread Christopher Vance
the 'c' option? -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] rsync question

2002-11-04 Thread Christopher Vance
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:17:41PM +1100, Matt Hyne wrote: : At Monday, 04-11-02 20:07 (+1100), Christopher Vance wrote: : >On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:53:34PM +1100, Matt Hyne wrote: : >: rsync -acz -e ssh /usr/local backup:/backup/hostname : >: rsync -acz -e ssh /local backup:/backup

Re: [SLUG] time on a Linux box

2002-12-01 Thread Christopher Vance
) gives you relative time, such that the cooperating machines converge, but not necessarily to the truth. Sort of like public opinion in the presence of the media... :-) -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] smtpd

2002-12-12 Thread Christopher Vance
uffer overruns in smtpd and your local MTA? -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] remove all control characters from a file

2003-01-12 Thread Christopher Vance
accomplish this? Check tr -d. You might also want to use -c. Don't forget that ^J is NL, which you probably want to keep. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

slug@slug.org.au

2003-03-31 Thread Christopher Vance
p;1 | wc is effectively make ls stdout go to wc stdin make ls stderr same as ls stdout so the | is done *before* the >& -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] midi/soundcard cable

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Vance
I'm wanting to use my machine to do a few musicky things with my ancient synthesizer, and have installed Planet CCRMA on Red Hat 9 for that end. Is there anywhere better than a Dick Smith for a MIDI to soundcard DB cable? -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gr

Re: [SLUG] multi lingual, multi code page web ?

2003-07-29 Thread Christopher Vance
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:23:17PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: : so: is there a way to co-exist say French and Polish chars.. on one : web page ? where both require different char. sets ? utf8? -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] multi lingual, multi code page web ?

2003-07-29 Thread Christopher Vance
hey couldn't do Polish. : will be the go _once_ the browsers are capable. Yes. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] recursively change file permissions not directories

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Vance
executable -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Timezone/Daylight savings query.

2005-12-31 Thread Christopher Vance
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:05:25PM +1100, Michael Fox wrote: How do I determine if the zonefile contains what? As its encoded? man zdump Not yet fixed in Ubuntu 5.10. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Sick gnupg keyring

2006-02-27 Thread Christopher Vance
eparate file. Something like that enables most of a keyring to be reassembled, even if your trustdb needs to be redone. -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Special Interest Group: Asterisk

2006-03-08 Thread Christopher Vance
avoid anything to do with yahoo. On the balance of probabilities, I'd guess most of the posters are not in Sydney, which makes a Sydney meeting likely to have few of these people. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] info needed desperately

2006-03-15 Thread Christopher Vance
om HP. No driver, no nuffink. At least they don't make them any more. (Yes I have pnm2ppa, but I find it easier just to do printing-type stuff on something less free.) -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] sip soft phone ? sipura voip ?

2006-03-22 Thread Christopher Vance
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:27:51PM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: any Sipura 3000 users ?: should I be looking at Asterisk ? Asterisk at home ? to run with Sipura ? Mine is on order. I plan to hook it into my Asterisk. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] sip soft phone ? sipura voip ?

2006-03-22 Thread Christopher Vance
should I be looking at Asterisk, or Asterisk-at-home ? I'm using Asterisk now with a couple of SIP phones, and will be adding my 3000 when it arrives. I have no experience with [EMAIL PROTECTED], so can't compare. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing Lis

Re: [SLUG] sip soft phone ? sipura voip ?

2006-03-22 Thread Christopher Vance
ough Asterisk without any problems. -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Sipura 3000 f/ware update: 2 or 3?

2006-04-10 Thread Christopher Vance
: Product Name: SPA-3000 Software Version: 2.0.13(GWg) Hardware Version: 2.0.1(306c) do I install version 3 ? or, version 2 is what I have ? I installed 3.1.10, and it seems to work. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Ma

Re: [SLUG] Question on ownerships and permissions of subversion respositories

2006-04-29 Thread Christopher Vance
+rwX,o+rX. A not so good alternative might be to chown it to the user they all get to read as (say something www-ish) - in which case you might want u+rX,u-w. (My repos are not public, so I haven't tried either of these out.) -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mai

Re: [SLUG] NTP problems

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher Vance
have problems on some motherboards. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Stallion

2006-05-16 Thread Christopher Vance
I have just inherited an old ISA bus EasyIO 8-port card, for the purposes of running a bunch of other machines with serial consoles. Having checked the board against the documentation for IRQ and I/O address information, I added the needed single line to configure the device. -- Christopher

Re: [SLUG] Stallion

2006-05-16 Thread Christopher Vance
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:04:23PM +1000, Christopher Vance wrote: I have just inherited an old ISA bus EasyIO 8-port card, for the purposes of running a bunch of other machines with serial consoles. Having checked the board against the documentation for IRQ and I/O address information, I added

Re: [SLUG] Stallion

2006-05-17 Thread Christopher Vance
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:04:23PM +1000, Christopher Vance wrote: I have just inherited an old ISA bus EasyIO 8-port card, for the purposes of running a bunch of other machines with serial consoles. Having checked the board against the documentation for IRQ and I/O address information, I added

[SLUG] kernel_ulong_t

2006-05-23 Thread Christopher Vance
there's a quick fix available (maybe like adding a #define somewhere?). -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Weird IPv6 message

2006-05-30 Thread Christopher Vance
mails from that mailing list, 116 backscatter spams from UVienna, and 6 other spam attempts from US and China. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] dpkg nfs

2006-06-05 Thread Christopher Vance
or code (2) It looks to me like some of these are warnings, and perhaps innocuous, since packages seem to get installed, but there are errors too, with packages not being configured. Any suggestions how I can make dpkg do (all of) its thing over nfs? -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Lin

Re: [SLUG] dpkg nfs

2006-06-06 Thread Christopher Vance
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 04:04:25PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Are you running lockd/portmap? Looks like "no", and I'd imagine that would make for some scary b0rkage. Actually yes, but an intermediate router had it firewalled out. :-( Ta. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydn

[SLUG] ubuntu default route

2006-07-09 Thread Christopher Vance
do what I say? What is the 'right' way to do this for Ubuntu/Debian. My preferred approach is to make it happen with dhcp, so I don't have to change the machine next time I renumber or rewire. I'm willing to go static if necessary, but it has to persist across upgrades. --

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu default route

2006-07-10 Thread Christopher Vance
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:19:02PM +1000, Michael Chesterton wrote: Sounds like network manager would be ideal. There has been some discussion here about it if you want to search the archives. I'll try it when I next have access to the machine. Ta. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Firewall Device Opinions

2006-07-10 Thread Christopher Vance
Yawarra. -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Firewall Device Opinions

2006-07-12 Thread Christopher Vance
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:27:46PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:27:46 +1000 From: Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Firewall Device Opinions To: SLUG list On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:01, Christopher Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [SLUG] verifying secondary name server

2006-07-19 Thread Christopher Vance
a different TTL when you ask again, it's giving you a cached answer rather than an authoritative one. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] fontconfig q

2006-08-18 Thread Christopher Vance
I seem to be lacking font-fu. I have a bunch of thin linux clients running X. The clients run almost everything locally. However they are diskless and get most of their fonts off a separate machine running the X font server. Prior to fontconfig, I think I understood how things worked. I'm try

Re: [SLUG] fontconfig q

2006-08-20 Thread Christopher Vance
Firstly, thanks for the reply. On 8/20/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prior to fontconfig, I think I understood how things worked. > > I'm trying to get a selfcompiled copy of vlc running on the thin clients, > and I'm trying to work out whether fontconfig needs to run on the xfs

Re: [SLUG] fontconfig q

2006-08-20 Thread Christopher Vance
On 8/21/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I mentioned GTK+ in my explanation, but all modern toolkits do it the same way. None of this is GNOME specific, it's all infrastructure. Not sure why you need to avoid it though, it's perfect for the thin client / application server use case. I

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 7, Issue 50

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Vance
On 8/27/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: to as the 'universal operating system', and is deployed on the tiniest of embedded devices to the largest of clusters, grids and carrier grade (beyond I'd like a trivial way to install a minimal upgradable system -- say everything required to bo

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 7, Issue 50

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Vance
On 8/28/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, remaining options: Tidy up afterward or use kickstart/preseed to specify packages to install through automation. If you want to limit the packages because you're building, say, an appliance server that you're probably going to install many tim

Re: [SLUG] Contracting stuff: wrap it into a company or PAYE through agency?

2006-09-21 Thread Christopher Vance
On 9/22/06, Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've noticed that a lot of the "industry" super schemes seem to be open to anyone anyway, so I'm not sure this is such an issue. You're posting from a .edu.au account though, and I believe they have an industry-only super fund that is quite

Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux

2009-05-25 Thread Christopher Vance
on is that the protocol changes so frequently that you may have difficulty finding precompiled versions for your different operating systems which run compatible protocols. It may be easier to compile from source, but then you'll need to have ocaml compilers on the relevant machines... --

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread Christopher Vance
s: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > I recently saw a study showing that a standard linux install has comparatively little GNU in it, if you count only FSF stuff. Other people using GPL for their code doesn't make it GNU. Without Linux, GNU would still just be something you add to your Sun box. -- Christopher Vance -- 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] hosts bind order?

2013-03-06 Thread Christopher Vance
;t I resolve on this host...? > > is this some ipv4/ipv6 issue ? > > thanks for any pointers and suggestions, thanks for all the help thus far > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Bi-directional rsync?

2013-05-13 Thread Christopher Vance
file will be copied or overwritten. > > > Jiri > -- > Jiří Baum > http://www.baum.com.au/sabik > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Chri

Re: [SLUG] BIND9 zone question

2014-08-13 Thread Christopher Vance
address while leaving > the rest of the domain untouched? > > -- > Kind Regards, > > Christopher Barnes > > e. chris.p.bar...@gmail.com > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/m

Re: [SLUG] BIND9 zone question

2014-08-13 Thread Christopher Vance
y nicely.but Apple TV > doesnt have a hosts that is accessible and thats where I do most my > streaming from. > > Interestingly, I can watch Hulu on my PC with my current setup with zero > problems. Its when I try on the Apple TV that it talks to > a248.e.akamai.net and throws

Re: [SLUG] BIND9 zone question

2014-08-14 Thread Christopher Vance
er) work with IPv6 addresses too. > > #address=/www.thekelleys.org.uk/fe80::20d:60ff:fe36:f83 > > > > # Add the IPs of all queries to yahoo.com, google.com, and their > > # subdomains to the vpn and search ipsets: > > #ipset=/yahoo.com/google.com/vpn,search > > > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html