Re: [SLUG] Macs/Linux comaptibility

Chris Allen wrote: I notice when when I look at boxes for new hardware ( some software) it often says it will run a PC or MAC with rarely a mention of Linux. I presume that means under M$ systems for the PC. For the MAC, I understand the standard operating system is bases on Unix (or Linux).

Re: [SLUG] batch rename

Kevin Shackleton wrote: suggestions to rename multiple files in a single directory to individual shorter names? eg proj1file1 proj1file2 . . . to file1 file2 . . . all you need is http://packages.debian.org/etch/mmv br, goofy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Vista preview on Seven Sunrise

hi So, get to Hardly Normal at midnight and shell out your $199 for the upgrade - what version upgrade is that? ...and keep a spare grand or so handy when you find it won't run on your current hardware. what version? thats easy :) http://joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/915.html cu --

Re: [SLUG] subversion

Peter Miller wrote: I'm trying to get a svn commit --non-interactive command to work automatically in the background from a script. But svn barfs, saying svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Can't get password It doesn't fail when I run the script in the foreground. What

[SLUG] shared internet folders

hi, i hope someone has an solution. i am traveling a lot and i also have many workplaces, because usually i have more than one contract a time. this means, that i have * a desktop at home (linux) * a laptop (ie powerbook) for meetings and journeys * a desktop (linux or win xp) at each

Re: [SLUG] shared internet folders

Have you considered sshfs? http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html yep, i took a look at it and this would work for linux-only, but there are no precompiled packages for mac (fink) or win (cygwin). i assume that compiling the package on make would work, but on win? and since sshfs

Re: [SLUG] shared internet folders

O Plameras wrote: David Kempe wrote: O Plameras wrote: http://www.openafs.org O Plameras ROFL! dave What's ROFL about OpenAFS ? thats a good question because at the first glance it looks almost perfect. support for linux, mac, and windows. and this does not seem to be a

Re: [SLUG] Splitting MySQL dump

Rob Sharp wrote: Sluggers, I've got a large (2.6G) MySQL dump containing extended SQL inserts which I need to import onto a server. Normally, I'd import using something like: sudo nice mysql itm_integ sqldump.sql but in this case it grinds the server into the ground, presumably

Re: [SLUG] File format...

Peter Chubb wrote: I have some old files, that are either encrypted or compressed or both... But I can't remember what command I used to create them (it was more than five years ago). file just says they're data; but all have the first eight bytes as: 0x37 0xe4 0x53 0x96 0xc9 0xdb

Re: [SLUG] File format...

Peter Chubb wrote: Gottfried == Gottfried Szing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gottfried Peter Chubb wrote: I have some old files, that are either encrypted or compressed or both... But I can't remember what command I used to create them (it was more than five years ago). file just says

Re: [SLUG] SSH/Bash journal

Bruce Badger wrote: In the days of teletypes you had a hard-copy record of everything that happend in a shell session - the paper teletype roll. Is there a way to get a journal (electronic is fine, no need for the roll :-)) produced for SSH/Bash sessions? take a look at

Re: [SLUG] how to clear sockets in httpd dead but subsys locked ?

hi I just tried to restart Apache, but get: # service httpd status [...] but, every time I tried to start it, it would go back to 'httpd dead but subsys locked' if the service-command is a bash-script, use the x option to debug it. $ bash -x `which service` httpd start ps -ax |grep

Re: [SLUG] Public Holiday Calendars

Howard Lowndes wrote: Does anyone know of a source for public holiday calendar dates for Australia (all states) that looks forward, say 2 years. I know that some states don't gazette their holiday dates until the last minute, but I need to be able to regularly refresh a listing I will be

Re: [SLUG] Unzip and install

john gibbons wrote: I have installed Fedora 4 and have an application vym-1.7.0.tar.gz on my desktop. Would appreciate advice on what I type into the terminal to unzip it and then get it running. to unpack (not to unzip because thats a geziiped tar-ball) use $ tar xvzf vym-1.7.0.tar.gz or

Re: [SLUG] FireFox 'open with' csv excel

hi For example, if your application is a cgi, eg http://somehost.com/sendsomecsv.php?param1=value1, try adding a csv filename after the script name, eg http://somehost.com/sendsomecsv.php/export.csv?param1=value1 instead of hardcoding the filename in the url you can also try to use the

Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird

hi This morning I have tried to open Thunderbird only to find it won't open. I click on Thunderbird, and my desktop thinks about it, but somehow won't load up my default profile. I have important e-mails that I can't afford to lose. Anyone please? maybe one of there answers helps: 1. check

Re: [SLUG] Install

john gibbons wrote: I downloaded Java Runtime and have it sitting on my desktop. Now I do not know how to get it up and running. Would kind person email the command line entry needed? I am running Ubuntu. The file is home/john/Desktop/j2re-1_3_1_16-linux-i586.bin usually this is an

Re: [SLUG] Install

john gibbons wrote: I downloaded Java Runtime and have it sitting on my desktop. Now I do not know how to get it up and running. Would kind person email the command line entry needed? I am running Ubuntu. The file is home/john/Desktop/j2re-1_3_1_16-linux-i586.bin i have found some nice

[SLUG] triple j audiostream

hi guys, has someone ever tried to use the triple-j life-stream available at http://www.abc.com.au/triplej/ ? i have a problem with the quality of the stream. under win2k i have a downloadrate of about 80kb/sec. no matter if i use the realplayer or the WMP. under linux and also with mac os x i

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

hi F-Spot rocks when it comes to photo management. Almost as good as Google's picasa. :-) does someone can suggest a good and fast(!) image browser for linux? sth like acdsee for windows? i cannot try f-spot because my debian box cannot resolve some depencies. br, gottfried -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] usb audio device for kernel 2.4

Peter Hardy wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:41 +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: i have checked the support for external storage of linux and this works fine, but i havent seen a list of supported usb-audio-devices. on the web are hosts of pages that describe sometimes that usb-audio

[SLUG] usb audio device for kernel 2.4

hi slugs, today my asus wifi router has arrived and i am going to play around with it this weekend. so i will try to install openwrt. because it has 2x usb ports, having a standalone mp3-player with an external harddisk seems to be possible. i have checked the support for external storage

Re: [SLUG] wifi router

Julio Cesar Ody wrote: WRT54G+OpenWRT is probably not the best solution if all you want is a router+dhcp server, dns and firewall. The out-of-the-box solution will do it. Unless of course you want to do it yourself... this is not my intention right now, because having wifi up and running

Re: [SLUG] wifi router

Hi again The good thing about OpenWRT is that you can install it and use the hardware for something else than the factory programmed functionalities. I recently installed Asterisk PBX on it. It's a quite sweet device. For good or bad, it could run Apache as well (lacks persistant memory space

Re: [SLUG] Debian 3.1

Paul Maloney wrote: Hi all, Well I have waited a long time to get my hands on a copy of Debian 3.1 and finally got it. Now my problem is that it gets as far as loading the installer and it has trouble reading the data. Does anyone have any ideas as I have emailed Debian and as yet got no

[SLUG] wifi router

hi, i am currently looking for a wifi router that will replace current linux box (it died this week after a long life full of work - RIP). but i dont want to replace the box with a new linux box because the new hardware i will get in shops will be an absolute overkill. i am looking for router

Re: [SLUG] network restart drops eth0 connection :(

David wrote: I'm just building a brand new Ubuntu server box. Unfortunately I put in the wrong address for the nameserver so I changed it manually (edited /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network/interfaces) and now if I restart networking I lose the eth0 connection completely! ie, ifconfig only

Re: [SLUG] Konqueror Browser identification

hi I've installed Konqueror and it's being blocked by a Squid rule acl ie_browser browser ^Mozilla/4\.0 .compatible; MSIE http_access deny ie_browser Does anyone know if: a) there is a difference between Konqueror and MSIE so that the squid pattern can be refined. what do you mean

Re: [SLUG] Cheap wireless card for Ubuntu

hi Is there wireless card that works automagically with Ubuntu? Cheap would be nice but if not which cards work well using the ndiswrapper? Any recommendations / thoughts would be good. my experience with kubuntu (based on hoary 5.04 AFAIR), which is the same as ubuntu, but instead of

Re: [SLUG] Manageable Linux Bittorrent Client?

Terry Collins wrote: Is there a Linux bittorrent client that provides a) download queueing? b) download capping? c) upload capping? I've rolled out the Debian bittorrent bittorrent-gui debs and whilst I'm prepared to devote a whole machine to this purpose I am not prepared to allow it

Re: [SLUG] linux

hi sam My name is Sam Mclean, I live in NSW and I’m in the process of customizing Linux on my computer. As you can imagine, I run into quite a few problems doing this and it’s annoying waiting 72 hours for a reply on a forum. Can you recommend someone(s) I can email for support with Linux

Re: [SLUG] Is Linux for losers?

Carlo Sogono wrote: Interesting article here. http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html Your thoughts? despite the fact that linux-kernel's drivers are sometimes buggy, especially during the first stages of development (i can remember that i had

[SLUG] converting .ics calendar files

hi, does someone of you now a way to convert a ics-calendar-file (published by firefox/thunderbird) to an HTML-file (or php, ...)? the idea is to make my personal calendar available to others via apache without allowing them to access the ics-file directly. thanks, gottfried -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] converting .ics calendar files

Roger Barnes wrote: I tried phpicalendar on my site, it looks nice, works well for what it is and sounds like a good fit for your needs. Unfortunately, the project may now be defunct, but the latest release can be obtained from http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpicalendar/ oh, this one

Re: [SLUG] Perl script

Kazik Malenczak wrote: i have a big hard drive on my debian box where i store mainly software and a few tunes. what i would like to do is create an index.html file for each directory and subdirectory. What I dont have is the scripting skills to do this. I reckon theres probably a Perl script

[SLUG] bugtracking tool

hi guys, does somebody know a nive OS-bugtracking tool for linux with an webinterface that is not so bloated like bugzilla but more powerfull than a spreadsheet? a spreadsheet cannot handle a history for a bug and bugzilla is to powerful. it would be enough to submit a bug, to maintain a

Re: [SLUG] bugtracking tool

Chris Collins wrote: I'd have to recommend Mantis Bug Tracker (http://www.mantisbt.org/). It's a web based bug tracking tool based on MySQL and PHP. It's most prominent features include ease of use, email notifications, audit trails etc. More details and a demo server are available at the

Re: [SLUG] setting system binaries to 0700 ?

If you did 'yum update ' regularly (every day, at the very least)) you most likely would not have been hit by this exploit. That is the best way/ path of least pain. Is it? In a production environment? another question: is it really necessary to have executables like wget/curl/lwp

Re: [SLUG] Compilation of driver

hi Would anyone be willing to glance at the written instructions and then answer questions I have about them via either email or telephone (I'm in Sydney) ? If so, I'd be very grateful. if his first language is german i could be able to help you with the translation and with questions. br --

Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application

I was just looking into this a bit more, and discovered that this is based on an OSS project called Open X-Change (http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/product/) The community version can be seen here (http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/) Could be a less costly alternative,

Re: [SLUG] ssh scan and iptables

does somebody of you have a better idea for this? maybe calling an script which adds an iptables rule with an expiration? I have done something on the simplier side, scan the syslog on the hour and find these attempts and then find their ip address (using awk grep - you could probably

[SLUG] ssh scan and iptables

hi guys, last week was a discussion on this list about ssh scans and almost everyone (including me) is ignoring the script kiddies. but i was thinking about this problem and came up with the (not new, i know) idea to block IPs from which subsequent failed login attempts came for about an hour or

Re: [SLUG] GCC question

hi guys while( *strptr) { char foo=*strptr; printf(%c, ++foo); ++strptr; } isn't the ++ before the foo-var wrong? AFAIR this increments the value before it is supplied tot the printf-function, isnt it? shouldnt be just the unmodified foo supplied?

Re: [SLUG] finding a file

# cd /proc ^^^ # ls -l kc* -r1 root root 948887552 Apr 15 18:41 kcore what is it and do I need it ..? It's a core dump of memory. Do: size core and it will tell you what program dumped it, and then think back to what you were doing with that proggy at

Re: [SLUG] Someone's bruteforcing my debian box...should I worry?

hi Has anyone else experienced this? now and time, but i am not really concerned about it. Also, are they likely to try more cunning techniques (ie. exploits) if this yeilds no results for them? Is there a way I can find the person behind this? i dont think that you can track the user back

[SLUG] mono on debian

hi, does anyone know if there is a deb-repository that contains packages for mono? i have tried some of the repositories listed in apt-get.org, but there is always a problem with some depencies (eg gtk-sharp is missing, missing reference to /usr/share/dotnet/monodoc/browser.exe, ...). and

Re: [SLUG] How to use wget when username contains a @

Michael Kraus wrote: G'day... I'm wanting to retrieve some files of a web server using wget. Unfortunately though the username contains a @ symbol, and the man for wget indicates that the way to do what I want would be to: wget -r ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/dir/file However, the

Re: FW: [SLUG] Possible hacker Attempt

Phill wrote: What is AFAIR AFAIK this means As Far As I Remember ;) cu, gottfried -- 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: Speaking of wireless...

Yep I will vouch for that. Last night I was on a 1/2hr train ride with my lappy open, and came across hundreds of APs, over half of them open. It's quite fun to just sit and watch them roll by the screen as the train goes past. i was for one year travelling through parts of asia, australia,

Re: [SLUG] Possible hacker Attempt

hi GET /default.ida?X...(lots of X's)...X %u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u 9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u%u00=a HTTP/1.0 404 300 - - isn't that the code red worm? still in the wild? SEARCH /\x90\x02\xb1\.. (x02\xb1\

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

clamav i am using exim4 + clamavd (virus) + spam assassin in combination and this works really create. no problems with this configuration for more than one year. (note: on a debian system and not on fedora). cu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

hi we turn away more mail than we recieve. and plenty of spam still gets through. but no virii. i am really curious, but is someone using SPF or similiar techniques to reduce the amount of spam? there are lot of rumors about the success of SPF-like methods, but the rumors range from yeah,

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

This one time, at band camp, Gottfried Szing wrote: i am really curious, but is someone using SPF or similiar techniques to reduce the amount of spam? there are lot of rumors about the success of SPF-like methods, but the rumors range from yeah, great success to hm, not really useful

Re: [SLUG] wiki choice

hi I am a big fan of moin, and it does all of these. It is simple, easy to hack on, has a good security record, and generally rocks. MediaWiki is also a good choice. I just install moin and the README has a task that says to warn when upgrading because the wiki does not always work properly when

Re: [SLUG] wiki choice

hi I am a big fan of moin, and it does all of these. It is simple, easy to hack on, has a good security record, and generally rocks. MediaWiki is also a good choice. I just install moin and the README has a task that says to warn when upgrading because the wiki does not always work properly when

Re: [SLUG] wiki choice

hi I want to set up a really simple wiki for internal use and I looked at the debian archives and there are a huge number of wiki's. The thing is which should I use? Requirements are: beside the list of requirements of ken, maybe someone can point me to a wiki which is fast. most of the

Re: [SLUG] wiki choice

beside the list of requirements of ken, maybe someone can point me to a wiki which is fast. most of the wikis i have tried so far are incredible slow. and with slow i mean really user-get-bored slow during browsing the wiki and in the end noone uses it. I suppose this begs the questions:

Re: [SLUG] diffstat, Ctrl-R, pushd/popd

1/ Ctrl-R history searching When using the shell you pretty quickly work out that pressing up will search backwards through you history, however it tooks me ages to find out that you could search backs through the history by typing Ctrl-R and a search string. One of my favourite is M-.

Re: [chat] Re: Gmail invites off-topic on SLUG (Re: [SLUG] Gmail)

hi guys I still have 2 more Gmail invites, if anyone is interested Can Gmail invites go either to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or better yet, to the Gmail Invite Spooler at http://isnoop.net/gmailomatic.php please? It's off-topic and it frustrates people a little because many technical mailing

Re: [SLUG] perl script execution without 'perl script'

# ./pflogmail bash: ./pflogmail: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Text file busy # perl pflogmail can you make sure that the file is not a file in dos-mode (additional control-M as line break). its a good idea to check this. HTH -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Evolution Importing Netscape Mail

Terry Collins wrote: Okay, for the umpteeth time I'me trying to give Evolution a run. The problem is whenever I start it new and it goes to import the old mail from Netscape, the import dies with Too many open files. It there someway I can get around this? what i have done a long time ago was

[SLUG] security problems and next steps

hi guys, if someone finds a security hole in a web application and wants to notifiy the admin of the page, what do you suggest are the next steps wo be taken to ensure that the admin takes the report seriously? i mean, just sending the report without description about further steps

Re: [SLUG] security problems and next steps

hi slugs if someone finds a security hole in a web application and wants to notifiy the admin of the page, what do you suggest are the next steps wo be taken to ensure that the admin takes the report seriously? Make a phone call if you can. For a start, it's more personable, and the admin on

Re: [SLUG] security problems and next steps

Mary Gardiner wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the bug is in an opensource web app post it to the app's bugzilla list to resolve it. ;-) Is this good etiquette in the case of serious security breaches? It potentially alerts the entire web-using world to the existence of

[SLUG] temporary email addresses

or: email addresses with an expiry date. hi slugs, is there a way to generate email addresses, which have an expiry date. what i want to achieve is to use these email addresses for posting in news groups and for site registration. typical usecase: 1. want to register at a specific page, post

Re: [SLUG] temporary email addresses

hi is there a way to generate email addresses, which have an expiry date. what i want to achieve is to use these email addresses for posting in news groups and for site registration. I know of a couple of qmail solutions that should be generalisable to other environments + toolchains:

[SLUG] imap sync

hi slugs i am using mozilla with imap, but the support of imap is not really usable if there is a slow dial up connection. mozilla first downloads the headers, afterwards the message body and when i move the message into a local folder, it downloads the message body again. and this is really

[SLUG] exim4 and amavisd

hi slugs, i have tried to setup amavisd-new + exim4 + clamavd. so, this seems to work to a certain degree :(( clamavd is running and is working. also exim4 as a stand-alone mail server (no amavisd integration). but the problem is, that when i try to follow the instructions posted on

[SLUG] anti virus tool

hi, i am sure that there is someone who is using debian. has someone a suggestion for an antivirus package, which is free (for personal use only), comes as a debian package (for automatic update of the virus database), and cooperates with amavisd (nice to have as long as it could be used in a

Re: [SLUG] powerbook and linux

hi craige yes and no. i guess, i am currently in the situation that most windows users are. i want to see if everything of the hardware is working. i know that the powerpook is supported well, but can i connect my canon ixus to the system and does it work? can i connect the mem-card-reader

[SLUG] powerbook and linux

hi slugs, today at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] i have seen a couple of powerbooks and at least one ibook with linux on it. so i am sure that someone could help me. i am also a proud powerbook user, but i dont want to change the configuration of it. no, repartitioning of the hd is not possible. need

Re: [SLUG] powerbook and linux

hi first the answer to chris' mail: i cannot access the mirror 'cause using a prepaid telpaficic dialup. today at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] i have seen a couple of powerbooks and at least one ibook with linux on it. The iBook might have been me. It runs Linux 99.9% of the time because I find OSX

Re: [SLUG] Shell test for pure existence of file?

Harry Ohlsen wrote: Is there a way in sh or bash to check purely whether a file exists? All of the tests I can find do things like does it exist *and* is it a normal file or ... *and* is it a directory or ... *and* is it a character special file etc. What I'm looking for is the equivalent

Re: [SLUG] Java debugger

andrew wrote: I'm trying to run the java debugger on my Mandrake 9.0 machine, and for some reason, when I try to use the java debugger, either using ddd or the command (for example) % jdb Look locsS.txt and then [snipp] /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/bin/java -Xdebug -Xnoagent

Re: [SLUG] Java debugger

andrew wrote: I'm trying to run the java debugger on my Mandrake 9.0 machine, and for some reason, when I try to use the java debugger, either using ddd or the command (for example) i forgot to ask in the last mail: besides the troubles with JDB, why dont you use a fullpowered IDE like

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] ot: win98 firewall, what to use ?

hi [reformatted mail because of time travel - answer was before question in the mail :)) ] I need to setup a win98 on a cable modem, what's a good firewall to use with win98 ? Knoppix? ;-) dont be so restrictive: use any *nix. ok, preferred any linux, but bsd is also quiet fine. i think the

Re: [SLUG] file transfer with speed limit

Alexander Samad wrote: Why not use tc and traffic shape the modem connection ? the problem in my case is, that the client is a powerbook with the original mac os x and not a debian or other linux on it. cya -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

[SLUG] file transfer with speed limit

hi, maybe to pick up the discussion about the favorite tool in use, which has appeared two weeks ago on this list. does someone know a tool for file transfer which offers a way to limit the traffic speed? the problem is that i am using a dial up connection and during the download everything

Re: [SLUG] ssh with packet loss

hi does any of your gurus here have an idea to make the recovery of the ssh-session faster? nfi about how to make ssh recover faster, if it's at all possible, but have you looked at using mtr to show you if it's packetloss and/or latency? mtr rocks for network probs :) yep, but it only confirms

Re: [SLUG] ssh with packet loss

hi if it's definitely packet loss then there's nothing ssh can do about it.. maybe get a wireless sniffer to examine the signal strength - check you have good reception.. also, i had a wireless AP that the signal strength continually dropped to 0, causing dropouts of various connections for

[SLUG] ssh with packet loss

hi slugs, to reach non-public services (eg imap and pop) on my server, i am using ssh for forwarding ports over a secure connection to this server. i think this is a common procedure, nothing new to you. but my problem is that i sometimes use wlan to connect to the network and under some

Re: [SLUG] ssh over ADSL weeirdness

hi, Also... what if there's a multi-path route and the packets are going both ways, one might be delayed sufficiently to not be picked up as a duplicate... but then again the TCP protocols should take care of this ... that's what sequence numbers are for. and thats also confusing me. but if

Re: [SLUG] Copy Controlled CDs

Richard Neal wrote: What I do is ask the shopkeeper Is this a AUDIO CD, if they say yes and its one of those broken copy protected heaps of shite CD's, then complain to everyone you can think of because its ILLEGAL to sell copy protected CD's as AUDIO CD'S because Philips have defined the format

Re: [SLUG] Apache Q

hi Directory /usr/share/doc/libhtml-embperl-perl/ [schnipp] But this did not work I had to use this Location /doc/libhtml-embperl-perl/ [schnapp] I can understand why the second works, my question is why did the first one not work it could be a problem with the way apache reads the

Re: [SLUG] Programming Book, for Open Source.

hi edd what language? From what I can gather, most projects are either C or Python (correct me if I'm wrong), so these 2. i think most of the code has been written in C/C++. python? hm, i think this is just for some install/setup tools. applications written in python is very rare. i havent

Re: [SLUG] Programming Book, for Open Source.

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Sketch? Zope? Mailman? woops i have no idea what language is used most of the time, but my guess is (as noted above) C/C++. Please, there is no such language as C/C++; there are two languages C and C++. C++ and Java have more in common than C and C++ and you don't

Re: [SLUG] web-script

Kevin Saenz wrote: Trevor, Sorry for responding late how are you going to start a network connection from a web page when you need network connection to access the web port? Wouldn't you prefer /etc/init.d/network restart? under debian the restart does nothing else than a ifdown followed by an

Re: [SLUG] Programming Book, for Open Source.

hi Which lang' is used most in open source Linux application projects, is it C or C++? I'm not sure why it matters, it's probably best to find a project you're interested in, and go from there, but this might help: http://freshmeat.net/browse/160/?topic_id=160 sourceforge might be another place

[SLUG] linux firewalls doc

hi sluggers, not a question, but something to read if the weather is not fine. brr, hope its hot on wednesday. first xmas in summer and i hope it will have 35 degrees and more. :) Securing Linux Systems With Host-Based Firewalls: Implemented With Linux iptables -by Ge' Weijers This article

Re: [SLUG] web-script

hi all what i would like is a start / stop link on a web page to run sat the following eg../etc/rc.d/init.d/network start Look at the shell_exec() function in php. There is probably a similar function like this in perl (Gus!) or you could use CGI with an interpreter like /bin/sh. i think it

Re: [SLUG] Programming Book, for Open Source.

I'd like to get back into programming, to read (and possibly modify) open source code for Linux. Any book suggestions? hm, many open queastions. what language? what kind of programming? kernel or application development? what experience do you have? i think it would be helpful to give more

Re: [SLUG] off topic: transferring W2K to a new system

Simon Males wrote: Eddie F wrote: If the hardware isn't too different there may not be a problem, and it maybe just find all the hardware... I've found it's usually only a problem when moving between single and multi proccessor systems... ghost the disk first though, just in case. In my

Re: [SLUG] off topic: transferring W2K to a new system

hi slugs the time i checked this (12 month ago) the problem was an official unresolvable bug. its just a matter of loading the target chipset driver first. sysprep with its pnpscan might help too, but you might loose something you didn't want. I believe that if the HAL is ok (ACPI or noACPI)

Re: [SLUG] Mac + Win Sharing via Linux

hi tom Then I spent several hours trying to get WinXP Pro to see Samba shares. WinXP now has the distinction of being the only OS that has ever caused me to seriously consider physical violence towards a computer. that is something that every win-version is causing me. it is not only a feature

Re: [SLUG] ftp timeout, where ?

Voytek wrote: where do I alter FTPd (ProFTPd) timeout logout ? I wen through all /etc/proftpd.conf settings, and, webmin's ProFTPd settings, but, can't find it, and, 15min just seems too short maybe this helps. i am using proftpd, but i have never changed the setting.