Re: [SLUG] script to analyse syslog in realtime

On 14/02/13 11:48, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi everyone, my firewall logs everything to a syslog server - new connections, terminated connections, etc basically what im trying to do is analyse the syslog in realtime looking for a specific string which indicates a new connection has been

Re: [SLUG] Bar Code scanners

On 16/04/12 11:45, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote: Hi all, I've got to scan a whole collection of books (a couple of hundred at least) and was wondering if anyone has any experience with those that do/don't work with Linux or know of another way I can scan the books? If you've got a smart phone

Re: [SLUG] advice for new laptop...

working well? (and if you are familiar with a macbook pro, is it comparable to a mac). The internet reviews are not being too kind to the two finger scroll capabilities of the U36SD. simran. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:01 PM, David Gillies da...@dorja.com mailto:da...@dorja.com wrote

Re: [SLUG] advice for new laptop...

On 03/12/11 10:44, simran wrote: wanted to ask you for some advice... i need a new laptop, and here's my needs: must have's: * SSD hard drive (or at least a quick HD) * at least 8 Gig's RAM (12-16 Gig's would be ideal) * two finger scroll on the touchpad (like macbook pro's etc have as a

Re: [SLUG] The 'nanny state' and freedom of choice

The reality is more boring than your theory. I can't speak for years gone by but recently in the last couple of years there was an upgrade of the sleepers from wood to concrete with has caused all sorts of problems and as such the trains can't go as fast as they previously could. It was

Re: [SLUG] Which bank doesn't use Linux servers?

Jake Anderson wrote: Odds are its more to do with their internal applications which are probably written on cobalt running on CP/M machines or something equally modern. It'll more likely be an old IBM system Z (aka z series aka s390) mainframe. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] editdns opinions?

david wrote: I'm thinking of using editdns.net for dns secondaries Does anyone have an opinion? I'm using editdns as primary dns for my domains. I'm happy with, have recommended them to plenty of other people and they've been equally happy. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?

Kyle wrote: Hi Slug, I know we did this a while back, but that was July last year already. So, as I'm now in the market for a new netbook, I wanted to follow up and ask those of you who have bought in the last 6 months; 1. What you bought An Asus EeePC S101:

Re: [SLUG] nzb program

Lee Isaacson wrote: Hi there, I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and I am looking for a program to download nzb files similar to grab it for windows. I have tried to install hellanzb but the file stays at 0. Do I need to look at another distro or is there another application that works better? I hope that

Re: [SLUG] Free DNS services ?

Kyle wrote: Hi Slug, whom can you recommend pls as reputable, reliable (as it gets for free) free full-control dns services along the lines of what dnsmadeeasy does please? I'm very happy with http://www.editdns.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Clipboard app for Ubuntu?

Mark Walkom wrote: Rather than having to install a hundred odd meg of KDE binaries to get klipper to run, does anyone have some replacement suggestions? Hi Mark, I'm using a clipboard app called parcellite which isn't too bad: http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Network Traffic Visualisation - any gui prgs/interfaces?

bill wrote: In the old days when I used Win XP I had a gui tool that showed all incoming/outgoing network/web activity by port and IP address, and it was useful for determining off-site activity etc when browsing the Web. I use a tool called iftop: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/ I

Re: [SLUG] DNS Appliances/Web Frontends

UnspecifiedId wrote: Greetings, a) can anyone recommend a good virtual DNS appliance with a decent Web GUI frontend I haven't worked with them personally but an ex-colleague of mine had some pretty good things to say about Infoblox: http://www.infoblox.com/ I did a bit of googling and

Re: [SLUG] 40 Years of Unix

Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: I beg to differ. Let me see. GUI stands for graphic user interface which does not mean pictures and it doesn NOT mean slow and cumbersome ... and when I used my first X windows (late 80's DEC station) I moved away from the shell only thing FAST ... especially if you

Re: [SLUG] exclude commented lines from output ?

Voytek Eymont wrote: how can I output a config file with only the valid directives, but not all the '#' commented lines ? # cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config # Load additional iptables modules (nat helpers) # Default: -none- # Space separated list of nat helpers (e.g. 'ip_nat_ftp

Re: [SLUG] USB ports

Ken Foskey wrote: I bought a huge backup drive and went to plug it in today and it kept mounting and unmounting it spawning windows along the way. Strange thing is I plugged the same drive into the rear of the computer and it now works correctly. Is it possible that they are two different

Re: [SLUG] Linux-powered things

Amos Shapira wrote: 2009/6/4 Leslie Katz lesl...@ozemail.com.au I took the linked-to photo today. The thing gave me a giggle. Maybe it was already familiar to others. http://www.flickr.com/photos/23623...@n03/3594383552/ I've seen a few times some Mercedes four wheel drive (I think,

Re: [SLUG] Sound in Flash

Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I've done everything I can think of, including googling, and still can't get sound in my Flash. They work perfectly through totem if I download them and then play them, but the one site that matters uses flash to set up the

Re: [SLUG] Re: Mythbuntu SD tuners connecting to digital set top box

Jake Anderson wrote: What I would really like is a (decently supported) dual digital low profile tuner card. divco was releasing one, http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/ENG/products/DVBTDualExpress.aspx but driver support still seem dodgy I've got one of those cards at the moment which I'm attempting

Re: [SLUG] Recovering photos from an XD card

Hi James, James Sadler wrote: I stupidly removed an XD card from my card reader under Linux without unmounting it first. When I put the card back in the machine, most of the pictures were missing. I'm guessing the filesystem is corrupt. In theory the photos themselves are still there. Does

Re: [SLUG] Latest or recommended ways to display Gnome Desktop from Windows boxes.

Michael Lake wrote: I basically want a free/open source server for Linux and a free client for Windows for several users to display a Gnome desktop. Plain ssh -X is not sufficient. I've done it one of two ways: 1. Using a Windows X-Server like Xming (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming)

Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

jam wrote: I'd never go without myth either HOWEVER the actual graphics performance is aweful. Even on high end nvidea cards the display jitters, movies are 'OK' footy or Motor Racing etc is terrid. Even modest hardware is distinctly better and high end hardware eg sony bravia is much

Re: [SLUG] network manager over writes resolv.conf

Hi David, Not sure if this is still valid for 8.10, but on my 8.04 machines, I added this to /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf: supersede domain-name example.com; david wrote: Hi Jeff... From my original post: System/Preferences/Network Configuration GUI tool fails with the following message:

Re: [SLUG] VmWare configure error

Daryl Thompson wrote: Hi Sulgers I am having trouble running perl /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl on my Fedora 9 it stops with error make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems,

Re: [SLUG] Whence d1.com.au ?

Howard Lowndes wrote: I'm interested to know what other sources folks are using for EPG. Shepherd should be your overlord and master for all your mythtv EPG needs in Australia: http://svn.whuffy.com/index.cgi/wiki As from the website: Shepherd provides reliable, high-quality Australian TV

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Hardy - Removeable Media - gconf-editor section?

Sonia Hamilton wrote: I notice that in Ubuntu Hardy the configuration area for removeable media actions has moved from System - Preferences - Removeable Drives and Media to Nautilus - Edit - Preferences - Media. For DVD Video the dialog box gives me a choice of Movie Player or GXine; I want

Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs

Daniel Pittman wrote: SNIP It is also helpful to try and avoid building your own custom packages as much as possible. In many cases alternatives exist, or waiting for an upgrade has a longer cost. SNIP Yes: checkinstall is a good tool for doing this, although the various 'dh-make-*'

Re: [SLUG] Take 2 MythTV = Media Centre ++

jam wrote: Has anybody got reasonable results with the ad-detection ? I find Channel 7 keeps breaking the system so badly that 50% is unusable. [eg black screen in mid movie triggers ad detection] I've got near perfect reception of channel 7 and I've found that ad detection is near useless

[SLUG] SATA DVD Burners

Hi All, Has anyone got a SATA DVD burner working under linux yet? From the brief googling around it is supposed to be supported but I'm having no luck with one I bought recently. Is there anything special I should be setting or should it just work? I'm finding when I attempt to burn (I've tried

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 issues - are there any?

david wrote: I got this comment from another list (Cinepaint): After the CinePaint problems I found several other difficulties that would not resolve on my system and I have now abandoned this latest Ubuntu release. ... much more comfortable! Has anyone else had

Re: [SLUG] DST Changes (Debian/PHP?)

Hi Greg, Greg Cockburn wrote: Main applications that seem to have problems: mythweb (mythtv) nagiosQL I got this from the mythtv-users list and it worked for me (with mythweb atleast) -- dave. Original Message Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Aussies.. [Fwd: Fedora Update:

Re: [SLUG] which process holding port

Hasnain wrote: Is there anyway how to find which process is holding a tcp port in linux? Say for instance, i checked netstat -a |grep ###. but i dont know which process has opened or hold that port currently. Is there anyway to find out this? Hasnain, You'll be wanting the -p switch and

Re: [SLUG] mplayer full screen

Deepan Chakravarthy wrote: When I play movies in my Fedora 8 system using mplayer, the movie is rendered only in a small portion of the screen. Even with full screen option, it does not render in full screen. How do I fix it ? in ~/.mplayer/config, you'll want to add the following line:

Re: [SLUG] mplayer full screen

Deepan wrote: Hi All, I am running Fedora core 7. When I play movies with mplayer, it does not play in full screen. Even if I press f for full screen, it plays the movie only in the center portion of the screen. I also tried mplayer -vo xv movie.avi .. It plays in full screen, but dies after

Re: [SLUG] file list for owner/group

Voytek Eymont wrote: I once again have a compromised server, courtesy of a user installed cms; how do I get a recursive list of files owned by 'xxx' group 'xxx' ? ls -R just lists directories find /path/to/directory -user xxx -group xxx -- dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu: how to enable and start remote desktop via shell?

Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm troubleshooting a computer remotely, and I'm trying to work out how to enable and start the Gnome built-in remote desktop. I presume it's using some variant of vnc, but /etc/vnc.conf doesn't seem relevant... /usr/lib/vino/vino-server -- dave. -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Optus dial-up with Linux?

Leslie Katz wrote: Is anyone reading this by chance using Optus dial-up? Is a person with pretty rudimentary knowledge of these things (me) likely to be able to get her connecting to Optus with wvdial? My father who had zero linux experience managed to configure his laptop to dial into Optus

Re: [SLUG] Instant Messaging Howto

Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, I find myself working with a couple of people who are in love with MSN messaging and use it to collaborate. I've never used any sort of instant messaging and know nothing about it. Of course all the links that I get sent are to Microsoft only, just download and

Re: [SLUG] Instant Messaging Howto

David Gillies wrote: 2. configure a MSN gaim/pidgin (CTRL+A). You'll only need the .NET Passport login and password to configure it and that's it. Sorry, that's should've read: 2. Configure the MSN account in gaim/pidgin, etc, etc. -- dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Question on pixels.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a command that tells you the dimensions of your monitor in pixels. Yup. xdpyinfo is your friend. It gives out heaps more info, but here's the resolution info from my screen screen #0: dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (360x256 millimeters) resolution:

Re: [SLUG] Let the UMPC wars start :)

elliott-brennan wrote: Hi all, Check out this site: http://ubuntu-watch.com/ A very interesting machine and a supposed competitor to the eeepc. What about the price? Sure, the fact that the eeepc generated alot of interest was due to it running linux but surely it was the price tag that

Re: [SLUG] Seeking fxlinuxprint.ppd

Howard, Here's the link to the file with the ppd in it (which I just successfully wget'ed): http://download.fujixerox.co.jp/pub/exe/printserver/5.0U_PPD_E.sit.hqx I think 'accepting' their license is merely reading it. dave. Howard Lowndes wrote: ...which would be great if the page worked.

Re: [SLUG] Important about Novell Certifications

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Novell Certifications http://educational-world.blogspot.com/2007/09/novell-certifications.html What's so important about that information besides the fact that its just a rehash of the information on Novell's own site? -- dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] News in my inbox?

Adelle Hartley wrote: Are there any well-known packages for transferring posts from an NNTP server into my Inbox vice-versa I've used mailman rather successfully in the past to do this kind of thing. I think you're looking for the Mail-News and News-Mail Gateway feature in mailman. -- dave.

Re: [SLUG] Compiling vmmon in Etch

Hi Kevin, Kevin Shackleton wrote: I wonder if anyone has successfully compiled vmmon (for vmware workstation) for the standard Etch kernel. I am having all sorts of problems with the kernel version and kernel headers - 2.6.18-5 or 2.6.18-5-686. (uname says ..-686) There are several kernel

Re: [SLUG] USB camera not showing debian unstable

Hi Ken, Ken Foskey wrote: Next questions is how do I get this to automount? Not sure what desktop environment your using so it may depend. I'm using fluxbox and in my startup script I start gnome-volume-manager to handle all the automounting of devices (even though I'm not using a full gnome

Re: [SLUG] Minimal CentOS installation --- How?

Hi Peter, Peter Chubb wrote: How can I install the bare minimum --- something like the result of debootstrap --- just enough to run yum? As it'll be in a chroot I don't need any network utilities, etc, Using a kickstart file, you could install a system just using the base package

Re: [SLUG] I've stuffed up my display

Howard Lowndes wrote: My environment is Fedora 6 with KDE and I went to change the display resolution using system-config-display. The display is set to generic LCD 800x600 but it will only permit 640x480. I've tried editting /etc/X11/xorg.conf but that does appear to get me anywhere.

Re: [SLUG] ripping a window$ media stream?

Hi Sonia, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm trying to rip a window$ media stream, looking for some hints... The stream is http://www.2ser.com/stream. Playing the stream using mplayer works: $ mplayer http://138.25.162.211:8080 I use mplayer this way to rip 2SER to a wave file. Then afterwards

Re: [SLUG] Laptop 2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Black wrote: And I forgot to mention this laptop has to have USB 2.? Unless you're going to buy a laptop that's more than 5 years old, I'm pretty sure usb 2 isn't going to be an issue. - -- dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [SLUG] identify keyboard

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ashley maher wrote: I have a brand new Compaq presario multimedia computer. I set up X11 and used the standard keyboard during the set-up. Of course it is a multimedia keyboard, so the arrow keys do not work. I'm told there is a web site

Re: [SLUG] Video card that is actually a terminal server?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Hi folks. Is there such a device as a video card that is actually a terminal server? I.e., I can telnet/ssh into the console remotely and independently of the actual computer? I have a server in the corner that I

Re: [SLUG] Video card that is actually a terminal server?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, David Gillies wrote: Do you have a particular brand of server Simon? IBM, HP and Dell all have their own cards which provide this service (RSA for IBM, rILO for HP, can't remember what its

Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Hi folks. I'm building a simple web site for a mate of mine who's made a film that's just hitting the festival circuit. I want it to be pretty basic, with just a few pages and a blog that he can update. I use

Re: [SLUG] portable MP3 player recomendations? (iIpod, iriver, ...)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sonia Hamilton wrote: My noname mp3 player is on the blink, I'm looking at buying a new one. What are ppls's recomendations? (iPod, iriver, etc). I want something that will plug into Ubuntu and Just Work (TM). I play music, but also want an

Re: [SLUG] Tweaking VMware

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howard Lowndes wrote: I have a small problem with running Ubuntu and Kubuntu under VMware. By default, both of these start up during boot with a 1024x768 resolution window, which doesn't fit well on a 1024x768 screen (my lappy). When Ubuntu

Re: [SLUG] Firefox sux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dean Hamstead wrote: I'm using Iceweasel 2.0.0.2 on Debian testing (32 bit). No problems at all, at all. I have the flash plugin. on debian run iceweasel, not the rot that the mozilla foundation tries to pedal. but honestly, firefox isnt as

Re: [SLUG] wenwe

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate to play (wenwe were in Zimbawbe ...) but rpm has *never* left me up the creek without a paddle: snip I guess if that if everyone believes the wonderful toy is truly wonderful then the cracks never get to be

Re: [SLUG] dns lookup with host works, other apps doesn't.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Anybody have any explanation for this weird behaviour? perhaps you've got the http_proxy environment variable set to something invalid? - -- dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [SLUG] yum, Centos, rpms etc

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Voytek Eymont wrote: so, is this the general idea: I should add 'dag.wieers.com' to my yum setup, then, insted of 'wget/rpm' dynamic duo I just 'yum install somefile', is this what I should be doing ? and, is it like 'yum install clamav', with

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sonia Hamilton wrote: Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to Linux). When he ssh's to you: ssh -R :localhost:22 your server Then once he's logged

Re: [SLUG] Determining PCI version

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howard Lowndes wrote: I need to be able to determine whether a mobo I have can handle PCI v2.2 What is the best way of doing this? dmidecode may give you some extra info. I'm looking now, it doesn't specifically state the PCI version, but it

Re: Why DHCP ? (WAS: Re: [SLUG] My father wants an inexpensive computer)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howard Lowndes wrote: O Plameras wrote: If not, how do you handle Server Services ? Use FQDN or ip addresses to access services ? No, they use a recursive network DNS service in the normal way, which DNS service could be combined with the

Re: [SLUG] DNS and resolv.conf

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ashley wrote: I have changed the resolv.conf to show the main DNSs of my provider in every place I can find but still I have to manually edit it each time I start up and several times whilst I am on line as it changes back to the address of my

Re: [SLUG] xorg xkb weirdness on rhel4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Gillies wrote: I've got a weird issue with xorg xkb (I think) on a rhel4 box. When X starts up (inside a VNC session) and starts the gnome-desktop environment, I get this error: SNIP! Just answering my own question. To resolve the issue, I

[SLUG] xorg xkb weirdness on rhel4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got a weird issue with xorg xkb (I think) on a rhel4 box. When X starts up (inside a VNC session) and starts the gnome-desktop environment, I get this error: - -- Error activating XKB configuration. Probably internal X

Re: [SLUG] Setting the date format in Thunderbird

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Knight wrote: David Gillies wrote: For the life of me I can't find (and I swear I've googled this before to no avail) where to set the time/date format in Thunberbird. Does anyone know how to do this? It seems to completely ignore

Re: [SLUG] Has anyone had the idea of making an RSS feed out of email?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howard Lowndes wrote: ...as per the subject Yes http://www.google.com.au/search?q=rss+email - -- dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFUSh8hPPdWeHRgaoRAsdcAJ0RQT+P1swp/DcAMe9dnAB8DfPLywCg8iXX

Re: [SLUG] Has anyone had the idea of making an RSS feed out of email?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howard Lowndes wrote: Peter Hardy wrote: Howard Lowndes wrote: ...as per the subject Depends. If you're talking about an RSS feed representing the contents of a mailbox, gmail does this. From memory, you can get RSS feeds of arbitrary

Re: [SLUG] similar to Yakuake for Gnome?

Ben wrote: On 11/7/06, James Dumay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides, if your using Ubuntu, you have all the dependencies you need. 150MB needed to be installed (I'm just following the readme) and now nand is spitting out an error because I don't have vte-sharp-2.0.pc What's so god aweful

Re: [SLUG] MBR, GRUB .. a Capital C with a Cedilla

Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, I've recovered a partition to the point where GRUB recognises its fs (FAT), restored the MBR, and written GRUB to it. However, trying to boot it via LILO or GRUB ends up with what AbiWord describes as U+00C7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA - something I can't Google

Re: [SLUG] Creating a really really simple .deb package

Jeremy Visser wrote: This technique works with what I'm doing to the point of the version numbers. I have managed to get dpkg-repack to build into a folder, where I can modify the version number in ./DEBIAN/control, but can't seem to build any further from there afterwards. I tried sudo

Re: [SLUG] Creating a really really simple .deb package

Steve Kowalik wrote: On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:29:21 +1100, David Gillies uttered This will only build the binary packages, no source stuff will be spat out before you run this, make sure that package-name/debian/control is executable I suspect you mean package-name/debian/rules here

[SLUG] Setting the date format in Thunderbird

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For the life of me I can't find (and I swear I've googled this before to no avail) where to set the time/date format in Thunberbird. Does anyone know how to do this? It seems to completely ignore the locale settings of my system (en_AU) and go for

Re: [SLUG] VMware question

Howard Lowndes wrote: I'm trying to install VMware workstation on a lappy with 2 interfaces, eth0 and ra0. It appears, as far as I can make out, that the vmware-config.pl script only identifies interfaces of type eth? and knows nothing about any other interface type, and hence does not

Re: [SLUG] Installing fonts on Linux

Peter Miller wrote: Can anyone tell me how to install a TrueType font on Linux (well, Ubuntu, actually) so that firefox can see them? I have managed to get OpenOffice to see them, but not X11 and not Firefox. For truetype fonts, I usually just put them in ~/.fonts. The application will

Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5 crashes on logon

Christopher Martin wrote: Anywhere I should be looking to find what's causing the lock? I haven't used a Linux with X in about 7 years now so I am pretty much a newb in that respect, to the point I don't even know how to get a text shell instead of X. CTRL+ALT+F1 It's a dual Xeon 2.2 GHz

Re: [SLUG] PCI Wireless Card

Scott Waller (Lots of Watts) wrote: Hi everyone, I am embarking on a project that requires the use of WiFi. My question is: What PCI WiFi cards work in linux? or what cards have people used successfully? Will most likely be using it with FC5.. I'm using a RALink RT2500-based

Re: [SLUG] Problem in using scp

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gavin Carr wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 04:42:13PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: Hi all I am trying to do this: cat file | sed s/this/that/g | scp - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/someplace/ As I want to replace some strings in file and copy it to

Re: [SLUG] BGP Protocol

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Fox wrote: On 7/27/06, PHILLIPS Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have any experience with Border Gateway Protocols? I know I don't, I had to Google it! What information do you (they) exactly want and in how does it relate to

[SLUG] gnome-volume-manager not starting on Ubuntu dapper

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Has anybody had any problems with gnome-volume-manager just not starting at all on ubuntu dapper? It was previously working for me on breezy, but since I upgraded, it no longer works. I attempted to start it from a shell, but it silently dies,

Re: [SLUG] Gnome / Ubuntu

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Because of the work I do, I need to have an objective opinion. I still find the paradigsm hard, but I'm really trying ... can anybody point the way please ... Using gnome, I want to set my desktop decoration to an image in ~/.images. I can find no way off

Re: [SLUG] Is there a truly upgradable Linux distro?

Luke Kendall wrote: AFAIK, no Linux distro is considered quite safe to upgrade from one release to the next (e.g. from SuSE 9.2 to SuSE 10.0, or FC 4 to FC 5). Wise people still routinely advise Install the new system on a spare partition, and switch over when it's properly installed and

Re: [SLUG] Podcasting software sugestions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glen Turner wrote: Use bashpodder to grab the podcasts and mt-daapd to make them available to listeners. Then you get playlists, not just a list of filenames. If you were going to go to those lengths, you could just use the latest releases of

Re: [SLUG] PCI Wireless cards

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Gregory wrote: I need to buy a PCI wireless network card. I need it to work with Ubuntu (dapper) with the least amount of effort possible. Speed isn't so important, but I'll get the fastest one that meets my zero-effort criterion. What

Re: [SLUG] Tricky text processing question..

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How about sort(1)? Michael Fox wrote: I am guessing sed might help me out with the following or maybe another util. Any suggestions welcome as the manual processing of the files is crazy. I have a file like so.. 'blah10' 'blah09' 'blah08'

Re: [SLUG] mplayer install probs..

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So I'm not sure if I should do a reinstall, or .. I'm about to compile it myself see what results i get.. :/ Can you send your full /etc/apt/sources.list. It sounds like you don't have all the repositories enabled. - -- dave. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [SLUG] mplayer install probs..

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Myers wrote: Thanks guys.. here it is deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main Take out the line above. The packages in that repository (esp. mplayer) are for debian and have different dependancies. - -- dave. -BEGIN

Re: [SLUG] Where's Sydney's Akihabara?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Sargent wrote: Hi All, just wondering where most SLUGers shop for PC parts etc. I miss my Akihabara ;-(. I ventured to a few of the small PC shops in Sydney CBD, but was bitterly, in a fun kinda way, disappointed(did I mention that I miss

Re: [SLUG] AMD64

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the typo! (84) The 32bit editions do not speedstep, which was the point of the exercise. I've I'm running Ubuntu in 32bit mode on my AMD64 3000+ with a gigabyte motherboard and it happily speedsteps. - --

Re: [SLUG] RHEL4 sudo problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Gray wrote: Seems my shiny new RHEL4 (update 3)[1] wont allow any of my configured sudoers to actually use sudo. What I have is everyone in the wheel group configured to complete access to sudo with their user password. However, when

Re: [SLUG] Eterm/xterm and setting PROMPT_COMMAND

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Gillies wrote: Everything is nice and dandy except for one thing that really annoys me. When I use xterm or gnome-term, PROMPT_COMMAND happily sets the title to the hostname of whatever I'm connected to, my localhost, servers, ssh'ing

[SLUG] Eterm/xterm and setting PROMPT_COMMAND

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So I've ditched gnome-terminal in favour of Eterm since Eterm is considerably faster than gnome-term (and ditched metacity and gone back to fluxbox, but that's another story). Everything is nice and dandy except for one thing that really annoys me.

ubuntu xen (was Re: [SLUG] FC5 Kernel headers)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howard Lowndes wrote: - Ubuntu has fixed this maginficently). ...got to agree there, but Ubuntu doesn't do Xen, which I need. I haven't had a change to try them out, but I came across this ubuntu repo for xen a while back: deb

Re: SCSI CDROM, was Re: [SLUG] MySQL in RHEL3 ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Voytek Eymont wrote: is it 'sda4' ? # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device try mount /dev/sda /mnt/cdrom You don't need to specify a partition number. - -- dave. -

Re: [SLUG] MySQL in RHEL3 ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Voytek Eymont wrote: but, one of the commands worked... not sure which one, though... I briefly saw dir listing of the CD... before I unmounted it... (finger quicker than eye thing) I guess I might need to repeat last 150 'mount' commands save

Re: [SLUG] Faulty Ubuntu mirror?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Caldwell wrote: Have any other list members been using the Optusnet mirror for updating a Ubuntu Breezy installation? sudo aptitude update has been producing error messages containing lines like Err http://mirror.optusnet.com.au

Re: [SLUG] Faulty Ubuntu mirror?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:26:35AM +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: Try mirror.optus.com.au, i.e. optus not optusnet Also known as mirror.aarnet.edu.au apparently. I was previously using mirror.optus.net, which was/is

Re: [SLUG] updates for RHEL3 ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Voytek Eymont wrote: what are my options for up-to-dating RHEL3 ? I have a CD set of RHEL3, which obviously is quite old and out of date; I've just installed it on a 'test system' and would like if possible to apply updates/fixes etc, but, don't

Re: [SLUG] kernel versions 2.6/Asterisk Q

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Voytek Eymont wrote: as far as I recall, Asterisk docs state that a kernel 2.6 is needed for Asterisk, I've just installed RHEL3 thinking that will be adequate for Asterisk, but it seems RHEL3 is kernel 2.4x; do I need a kernel update, or what

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