Re: [SLUG] newbie to writing programs

children and hand them requests on some kind of load-balancing or round-robin basis, then once a child process has done enough work kill it off and fork a new one to tidy up any possible memory leaks. Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription inf

Re: [SLUG] Can banks handle daylight saving?

April. There will be in 2017. That's a hell of an outage though. Del -- 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: [Jobs] Systems Admin - Build Engineer

degree qualified Linux Admin with extensive development experience as well as able to be a MySQL DBA. When I found out the salary on offer my response was "you are joking, right?". -- Del Babel Consulting http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9400 0400 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gro

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 63, Issue 9

can't get 10.10 to work with a second monitor plugged in. -- Del -- 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 for Seniors

e can ask questions and get answers from a knowledgeable pool of experts, who have agreed to give of their own time to answer those questions in some kind of roster arrangement. I'd certainly be happy to contribute to that in some way or form. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User'

Re: [SLUG] linked in - please block

a fake identity to troll the SLUG list. -- Del -- 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] today's scary thought

org calc program can choose to tell zeitgeist "Del opened file X on his system". zeitgeist doesn't interrupt OpenOffice.org calc's system calls to find out what files are being opened (and potentially dumping copies of those files to an IRC channel to be picked up by

[SLUG] today's scary thought

he fact that such an application was possible, and left it at that. -- Del -- 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] new ubuntu 10.4

u/cat/software/ubuntu 8GB sticks with Ubuntu 10.04 pre-loaded. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ -- 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: Ubuntu 10.04

ot of fairly forward-looking changes that were originally slated for PHP 6. The justification for doing that's been argued about quite a bit in the PHP community. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Su

Re: [SLUG] Best API/abstraction? [Was: Time Pedantry] servers?)

after three weeks" means 21 days after I actually got around to doing it (after postponing it several times). -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] cloud / VM storage

dding additional GB is around $2 per GB per month. Does anyone have a recommendation for a VM provider where the storage space is cheap, for such things as off-site backups? Thanx, -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://s

[SLUG] WINMOR -- a win for free protocols

olar activity, number of sunspots, etc, can be anything from 200km to planet-wide, so for global communications to be effective over this type of network there is no significant need for large numbers of stations. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User&#x

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

Hello Del, The BigPond Elite network gateway is of real interest to me. As I'm not knowledgeable with wireless, I was wondering if you, or anyone, could provide a run down on how to get this thing to work on my linux system, which is Fedora 12 ... a desktop box? I have a home network

Re: [SLUG] shopping carts?

ested. Del -- 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] shopping carts?

Dini wrote: Hi, I'm going to run a shopping cart on my web site. Is there an Open Source Shopping Cart that is idoit friendly and is ok for Au banks? thanks. D You want OpenFreeway. http://www.openfreeway.org/ -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux U

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

s with no problems. Some of the different models worked on some kernels and not others, and vice-versa. Your kilometerage may vary a whole lot. In nautical terms that's called cross-track error (XTE). -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gr

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

ater you want the gateway, you have to cancel (and pay out) your old plan and buy a new plan. No other internet provider makes you do this -- e.g. iinet don't make you cancel your plan if you buy a new ADSL modem. (*) -- collective term for a group of bankers. -- Del Babel Com Aus

Re: [SLUG] one serial port multiple readers

kely to need it. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ -- 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] R.I.P. Grant Parnell

joyed very much but was from then confined to the SAN hospital at Wahroonga. He faded very quickly from then. Del -- 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] one serial port multiple readers

USB serial ports are easy and cheap: 1 serial port per consumer Yeah, in this case that wasn't going to work because the object on the end of the serial port is (a) expensive and (b) susceptible to the sort of voltage drops that can be caused by parallelising serial ports. -- Del

Re: [SLUG] one serial port multiple readers

Terry Dawson wrote: Del wrote: Does anyone have a solution to this problem? This might do what you want: http://freshmeat.net/projects/conserver Although it could be overkill for what you want to do. It does the job, though. I found a simple solution for the specific case that I was

Re: [SLUG] one serial port multiple readers

Martin Visser wrote: Del, I just did a simple test, that might help you to a solution 1. Used mkfifo to create 3 pipes "mkfifo /tmp/r1;mkfifo /tmp/r2;mkfifo /tmp/r3;" 2. Used "tee -a" to write a copy of data to each of these - "(while [ 1 ]; do date; sleep 1; done )

[SLUG] one serial port multiple readers

vided by the GPS and not gpsd's output. Thanx, -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9966 9476 fax: 02 9906 2864 -- 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] squid ACL question

access deny all The second http_access line is redundant, isn't it? Yes, it is. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ -- 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] 64-bit Karmic Koala or not?

ricks) then you'll want 64 bit. If you only have 128MB of RAM total or something like that then there's not much point. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: ht

Re: [SLUG] Announcement roundup from October meeting

stick any time from tomorrow. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9966 9476 fax: 02 9906 2864 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: LTS worth anything? (was: Re: [SLUG] Announcement roundup from October meeting)

(which I use on my older desktop) has a Firefox that's a few revisions old. One of the tricks to getting Firefox, flash, skype etc, working well is to use a 32 bit distro rather than a 64 bit one. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9966 9476 fax: 02 9906 2864 -- SLUG

[SLUG] ELX news mailing list

Hi, In my last post here I said we'd be setting up a news & products announcement mailing list. The subscribe page is here: http://www.elx.com.au/lists/?p=subscribe Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://s

Re: [SLUG] Linux course at WEA

Is this course actually running tomorrow? The above URL just goes to a course list page, and a search for the keyword "linux" on the WEA site reveals nothing. Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] CentOS 5.4 release, in stock

m tomorrow and every Tuesday. No need to book, just drop in and we'll see what we can do for you. We have longer 1 hour sessions on Thursdays, they need to be pre-booked. Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: ht

[SLUG] Everything Linux store opening

from Novell, Red Hat, and some old ELX items. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9966 9476 fax: 02 9906 2864 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] ELX store opening Friday 23rd October

details as they emerge will be here: http://www.elx.com.au/ Come along and join in the cheer! -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9966 9476 fax: 02 9906 2864 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.a

[SLUG] ELX on Facebook and Twitter

Everything Linux on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everything-Linux/124821692255 Everything Linux on twitter: http://twitter.com/elxcomau -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9966 9476 fax: 02 9906 2864 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] sendmail falling under its own warning messages

dmail macro file: define(`confDOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS', `null')dnl define(`confDEAD_LETTER_DROP', `null')dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY', `local:null')dnl -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9966 9476 fax: 02 9906 2864 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] web based firewall config tool wanted

s to bring it up to date then that'd be great. We've been meaning to ourselves but jobs that pay money tend to take priority. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9966 9476 fax: 02 9906 2864 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slu

Re: [SLUG] upgrading php to 5.2 or 5.3 latest version so as to use phpmyadmin

This recipe has always worked for me: yum -y erase php-mcrypt php-mhash php-tidy php-pecl-memcache \ php-pecl-xdebug php-mysql wget \ http://rpms.famillecollet.com/el5.i386/remi-release-5-7.el5.remi.noarch.rpm rpm -Uhv remi-release-5-7.el5.remi.noarch.rpm yum --enablerepo=remi -y update php m

[SLUG] ELX on Facebook and Twitter

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everything-Linux/124821692255 http://twitter.com/elxcomau Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

ood and it is cheap but unreliable and their service desk is appalling, and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It took them 9 months to do a landline number port. I wouldn't rate the service desk at bigpond either. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9966 947

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

certain large organisation that will remain nameless) :) Del -- 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] Asus m51s Audio problem

set up correctly by default). I've rolled back to CentOS 5.2 on the systems I need sound working on, and I'm hoping that the Fedora team fix what's going on shortly. Del -- 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] wireless broadband?

via voice channel and drawing lines and circles on my charts to represent the fronts and H/L systems that they mention. Thanks for the info though. Del -- 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] wireless broadband?

ith HF radio offshore and that gives me text email with no attachments. I'm looking for something I can use inshore, at marinas and the such like and mostly in coverage zones, as well as while travelling (e.g. on a train or vehicle, on-shore). Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Grou

Re: [SLUG] wireless broadband?

sort of power adapter does it have? It probably has a 240v plug pack that plugs into a small round power connector on the back of the bridge unit itself. Can you look at that and tell me what voltage output it is and whether it's AC or DC? Thanx for the info so far, Del -- SLUG - Sydney Lin

Re: [SLUG] wireless broadband?

Tony Cosentino wrote: Hi Del, I use mobile broadband with the 3 network. It was by far the best value 18 months ago when I got it. I have been very happy with the speed, availability. Its had about 3 major outages in that period of 1-4 hours. None in the last 6 months though. I got have

[SLUG] wireless broadband?

working on Linux. My contenders at the moment are Virgin, Optus, and Telstra (Bigpond). The limitation is that I need it working on a boat, and I only have one limited 240v supply. So I'd prefer it to be a USB stick type approach. I'm interested in any success/failure stories if anyo

Re: [SLUG] Advice on data transfer over shortwave

htm and a Pactor HF modem: http://www.pca.cc/ -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9966 9476 fax: 02 9906 2864 -- 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] On buying a colour printer.

e. I got the 2840 cheap at Grays online and it hasn't missed a beat, either printing, faxing, scanning, or copying. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9966 9476 fax: 02 9906 2864 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] what to backup on CentOS5 / EHEL5?

running databases). If your machine needs a restore, boot off the DVD, type in the restore command, and come back an hour or so later to a bootable system, just about where you left it. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02 9368 0758 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] SCO delisted from NASDAQ

. So there's still time to rush out and buy me a whole stack of SCO shares! Yay! -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02 9368 0758 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.

Re: [SLUG] Software RAID Questions

some debugging into your /etc/init.d files if required. * If that doesn't work, have a think about what is required to restart your RAID array (mdadm man page will help here), and perhaps run that from somewhere like /etc/rc.d/rc.local -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph:

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

nd is normally found in laptops. You could search ebay for a second-hand Panasonic Toughbook, the previous model (CF-29) sells at a reasonable price. Otherwise this is a good supplier and model for something new: http://www.antares.com.au/products/notebooks/itronix_gobook_xr1/index.php -- Del Babe

Re: [SLUG] Quantum hard disk wanted

Can you wack in a new controller & just use newer disks? Skinny 1U machine with no free slots and the controller on the motherboard. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02 9368 0758 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://sl

[SLUG] Quantum hard disk wanted

;ll take a pair of any brand, 80 pin SE SCSI disks, around 10K / U160 speed, around 18 - 36GB capacity. eBay hasn't turned anything useful up so far. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02 9368 0758 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Bootcamp, this Saturday!

Peter Hardy wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:45 +1000, Del wrote: I thought about participating with some hands-on fedora directory server stuff but since the aim was mostly to play with desktop apps and not server ones I decided against it. I may drop by during the day, though, and perhaps

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Bootcamp, this Saturday!

save the FDS/Samba talk for another time. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02 9368 0758 -- 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] SLUG Boot Camp

Linux on, bring it along. Can someone put some more details on the wiki page please? I have a few people I would like to send along but they aren't going to go if the event notice just says "Details: TBA". -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fa

[SLUG] Re: recommended internet wireless

apparently that should give 200km coverage out to sea. Not that I'll believe it until I see it, mind you, and Telstra's pricing is still extortionate (although not as extortionate as satellite, and faster than seamail over HF). -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 93

Re: [SLUG] AMD based computers.

hips need a fair bit more heat dissipation. How does that relate to home PCs? If you're looking at 64 bit then you can expect your average Intel machine to be hotter and noisier than your average AMD machine in the same price/performance range. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com

[SLUG] cage bolts

I'm after some cage nuts and cage bolts for rackmounting. I need them on Monday, so mail ordering them from Perth isn't really an option. Does anyone know of any shops around Sydney that might have them in stock where they can be bought over the counter? -- Del Babel Com Aust

[SLUG] odd eth1/ipw2200 problem

to show that perhaps everything should be done in simple config files and all of this autodetection rubbish should be taken out and shot). -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02 9368 0758 -- 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] Fedora Core repositories

://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/ /mnt/repo/fedora_core/6/extras Is anyone else having similar probs? Yes, I am, and I'm assuming it's AARNet. I have switched to downloading from the mirror at pacific.net.au, it's much faster and doesn't die on me continuall

Re: [SLUG] OKI 5540

Alex Samad wrote: Hi Del why not HP_LaserJet_3390, I used it to replace my hp3330 I need colour and I need duplex, and the 3390 doesn't do either. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02 9368 0758 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing L

[SLUG] OKI 5540

tive colour MFP with similar specs that runs OK on Linux? -- Del -- 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] bash problem - renaming files with their time stamp

omething_with $file done ... the latter is a smudge less efficient, however. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02 9368 0758 -- 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] LDAP replication with OpenLDAP

your replication password is the least of your problems. Alternatively I'd suggest you have a look at doing replication using Fedora Directory Server instead of OpenLDAP. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02 9368 0758 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Us

Re: [SLUG] Linux UI decision

t app running, and how complex is that (packaged in an install EXE / MSI file, etc, or do I have to create files all over the file system and install a bunch of registry entries by hand)? -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02 9368 0758 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux U

Re: [SLUG] Web based poll/survey software

Simon Wong wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 21:15 +1100, Del wrote: I've used PHPESP in the past and been pretty happy with it. http://www.butterfat.net/wiki/Projects/phpESP/ Thanks, Del. Do you find it's easy for non-technical people to use and setup? Yes, once it's ins

Re: [SLUG] Web based poll/survey software

http://www.butterfat.net/wiki/Projects/phpESP/ -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] print image across multiple pages?

Hi, Does anyone know of a convenient way of printing a large image across multiple pages (on a standard A4 printer)? I've tried the various dialogs in GIMP, etc, and drawn a blank. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and

Re: [SLUG] please help, due in tonight

xpand files head - output the first part of files ... so, perhaps ... uncompress your neighbour's cat, and chop off its head 20 times? Or something else maybe. What does the "m.z" bit mean? -- Del -- 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] Cross Platform FOSS Project Management Software

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, At work we need to get hold of some project mamagement software and would prefer something FOSS and cross platform (ie both *nix and windows clients). http://www.dotproject.net/ -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02

Re: [SLUG] Snakes and Rubies?

lap anyway. - Jeff [1] http://www.osdc.com.au/osdclub/index.html Pity they are already "The" Open Source Developers' Club, so no room for another one by that name. Peh. Melbourne people. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] those netgear modems

I'll see how many we have left, and maybe bring them along to a SLUG meeting for people to collect on a first-come first-served basis. -- Del -- 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] Dialup.

Michael Fox wrote: On 5/15/06, Del <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unrelated comment except by subject. I have a number, 20 or so, Netcomm RM356 modem/routers. They have a dial-up modem in them, and 4 ethernet ports. They mostly work quite well, but they are dial up. I think you mean N

Re: [SLUG] Dialup.

serial routers. They are also free, however they mostly don't work. If you want some or all of them then you are welcome to them. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] arrayprobe

y can install this on and send me the binary (it should just be a single self contained binary) that'd be good too. Not sure what arcane magic the debian maintainers used to get it to compile but it doesn't work for me on any of the systems I've tried. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Hiding LDAP binddn/passwd

bvious answer is to use -y passwdfile, where passwdfile contains the password you want to use. That file should be somewhere where nobody else can find it, and where only you can read it, and even then I wouldn't trust it. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: DEC Storage Works

ght. Generally the storageworks units I played with left a lot to be desired in comparison with the EMC gear. I wouldn't buy one or recommend one to a client, however if one's fallen into your lap it may be a fun toy, and better than a stack of yellow sticky notes from a storage point of

Re: [SLUG] debian vs FC threads

Pub meet? -- Del -- 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] data centers

ce the other topic lists are up and running and successful. -- Del -- 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] debian vs FC threads

You're not the last RH user nor sysadmin on the list :) Glad to hear it. :) -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] data centers

slug.org.au -- keep it vendor neutral and get some of the folks working in the larger data centers involved. A possible new source of SLUG members, and maybe some of the slug regulars might learn a thing or two, even if only off the list archives? I'd be happy to moderate/admin. -- Del -- SL

Re: [SLUG] debian vs FC threads

some kind of "linux-newcomers" list where some of us can hang out and answer the most basic of questions in a non-threatening manner (something that may have to be done on a volunteer or rotation basis). -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] debian vs FC threads

ing? This is the way it's done, end of story. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] debian vs FC threads (was: presidents report)

tements about Ubuntu's market perception vs that of Red Hat, he does at least take the entire conversation aside into a separate Ubuntu thread, and recognises the position of Red Hat in the market place and addresses that directly. Some of the other folks could follow the lead there. -- Del -- 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] MySQL in RHEL3 ?

and then do: up2date -u mysql-server -- Del -- 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] Heads Up - troubles with time zones

an hour out as well. So in addition to making the above copy or its equivalent Oh, and here's the good news: http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/am-and-pm-not-ok-when-pcs-exit-aedt/2006/03/24/1143083999500.html -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.

Re: [SLUG] Heads Up - troubles with time zones

tralia/NSW|grep 2006 Rumour has it that various Solaris zoneinfo patches aren't correct either. (No doubt there will be some gnashing and wailing in the press about this once people begin to care about it this week). -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.

Re: [SLUG] Re: [LINK] Re: Heads Up - troubles with time zones

Craig Sanders wrote: 3. reformat and install debian. you know you want to :-) Can we not start distro flame wars over something as simple as a timezone file? Other than that, that's not a useful response as the problem doesn't appear to be limited to FC4. -- Del -- SLUG - Sy

Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

copies at their stand at LWE as well. -- Del -- 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] Interesting view

about 5 months ago; all of the users had windows experience and it took about 1 hour each for them to get the hang of KDE. That'd be an interesting case study to make available via OSIA or similar. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscriptio

[SLUG] cvs and subversion

binary files, though, although they will both still work. I don't know of anything that's open source that does that well, although there are some expensive high-end CM packages that will. -- Del -- 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] Archiving/searching PDF and PS files.

ernel patches that were slowly being integrated into the main kernel. That might have been done by now, depending on your distro. -- Del -- 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] Project managment software

than proj. mgmt. http://www.dotproject.net/ It works as a back end for Eventum as well which is quite a good issue management / tracking tool. -- Del -- 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 to linux shares

nes. For closed networks that involve Unix systems only, NFS is better. That's not to imply it's better everywhere. -- Del -- 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] SQL Query...

inct email from news)" which is a very odd email address. -- Del -- 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] SQL Query...

Terry Denovan wrote: Hi Sluggers, I am trying to write an SQL Statement and require some help. There is now a MySQL users' group in Sydney: http://mysql.meetup.com/142/ It has a notice board and Arjen is about to set up a mailing list for it so perhaps you can join up there. -- Del --

Re: [SLUG] Fedora vs RH Enterprise - consultants advising to change

need supported distributions, no questions asked. No people-savvy consultant would recommend Debian, or RHEL, or Tao, or White Box, or Fedora, without having a serious look at your needs and requirements first. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Re: pentium M series

of you: "Have you ever kissed a girl?" -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

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