On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:55:26AM +1000, O Plameras wrote:
>
> I'm using Fedora, and I use the file /etc/modprobe.conf
> to say, e.g.,
>
> alias eth0 tulip
> alias eth1 e100
> alias eth2 3c59x
That says that eth0 uses the tulip driver,
but I'm not sure it says that the one that
requires tulip i
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:58:45AM +1000, Peter Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 11:22 +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:14:40AM +1000, Peter Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > wrote:
> > > Is there any elegant way to have a laptop DHCP client have its sendmail
> > >
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:38:08PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 12:38:54PM +1000, ashley maher wrote:
> >
> > I'd prefer something working with bind9, database backended, able to
> > handle many hundreds of zone files, and multiple dns
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 12:38:54PM +1000, ashley maher wrote:
> I've come to the conclusion the way I manage bind really isn't the way
> to go.
>
> So I've done some "googling" this morning and found some "interesting
> results".
Care to share?
> But I've learned the hard way what looks good can
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:42:07PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2006, DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As I understand it, you can either enter IP addresses or hosts into
> > hosts.allow to access services {I've got ALL:ALL in hosts.deny}
> >
> > So
> >
> > sshd:203.1.1.1
>
> You ca
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:47:01PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
>
> I read the apache2 working mostly but I am having trouble with ssl:
>
>
> [Mon Jul 24 19:41:28 2006] [error] [client 192.168.2.1] Invalid method
> in request \x80U\x01\x03
Pretty clearly it's getting ssl but not expecting it.
It's
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:25:38PM +1000, Christopher Martin wrote:
> > I don't know if you can present a Linux block device back out a SCSI
> > controller... the closest thing I know of that you can do this with is
> > i-scsi, i.e. present the block device over the network. I
> > haven't actually
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:01:23AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> as far as I recall, it's 'IDE : Two Ultra DMA66 ports'
> what limitations does that pose ?
I think that it should be ok; there's some old
kernels can't handle bigger than 33.something Gb.
The next problem occurs at 137Gb for some co
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 04:21:24PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Saturday 22 July 2006 16:01, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > The problem I'm trying to solve is that I get network access
> > in a couple of different places. Some places I have direct
> > access to the n
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:45:26AM +1000, 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).
>
> The requirements from the person looking is:
>
> "
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:05:25AM +1000, Gavin Carr wrote:
> Hi sluggers,
>
> Quick question - I'm wanting to do some lab-based WAN simulation i.e.
> have an ethernet link set up between two boxes that has wan-like
> latencies on it. I was thinking I could maybe just insert a linux
> router/fo
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 08:03:20AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
>
> On Mon, July 17, 2006 12:27 am, Martin Visser wrote:
> > Looking up on the MIT keyserver with
> > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=dag+wieers&op=index
>
> > Type bits /keyIDDate User ID
> > pub 1024D/6B8D79E6
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:32:43PM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> I try to keep the really dumb questions on chat.
There is no such thing as a dumb question :-)
There are however off-topic questions
Matt
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:53:58AM +1000, david wrote:
> Financial Review now has a new membership system which consistently
> crashes Firefox (Breezy, Firefox 1.08)
>
> Has anyone else run into this? Is this one of those crazy "windows only"
> disasters?
Which url exactly?
Do you have any plugi
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:23:38PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> I'm rsyncing some files from a linux server down to a FAT partition on
> my laptop (FAT because I want to access the files from both Linux and
> Windoze). Unfortunately rsync thinks some of the files are different
> (when they're not
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 03:22:52PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Yes, it has certainly had a dramatic effect on my mail server.
>
> As for Dodo, your comment doesn't surprise me. I had problems with
> Thunderbird trying to send SMTP out thru a Dodo account the other day.
>
> It seems that TB s
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:33:35AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> is there anyplace that sells Linux CDs near Broadway ?
> I'm looking for a Centos server CD.
Which version of Centos? Let me know and I might
be able to burn one off and post it to you.
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On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 06:56:12AM +1000, Gavin Carr wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:44:46PM +1000, Kevin Fitzgerald wrote:
> > Hi All. Hoping someone can help.
> >
> > First the question, then the background
> >
> > Q: Can anyone help me re-mount LVM disks to a new machine
> >
> > Backgroun
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:24:02PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thursday 29 June 2006 20:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi there...i am new to all things linux/gnu/gpl etc etc
> > Can anyone tell me if someone was to use a group of gnu/gpl
> > programs to provide a service for a fee..
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:32:35PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> There's some talk about forcing distribution of the source
> where the binary is used to provide a web service. But
> that's a different kettle of fish.
That's what I was referring to.
Say you took a gpl word processor and modded it
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:51:02PM +0930, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there...i am new to all things linux/gnu/gpl etc etc
> Can anyone tell me if someone was to use a group of gnu/gpl
> programs to provide a service for a feeis this legal
> under the licensing terms?
I am not a lawyer,
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:39:20PM +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote:
> In most cases it doesn't - just that in my case it was and was slowing
> things right down - something was borked. As I don't use locate that
> much, it didn't bother me stopping it.
Bit of random data for y'all: updatedb (almost)
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:07:02AM +1000, Benno wrote:
> On Wed Jun 14, 2006 at 15:56:10 +0100, Alex Sayle wrote:
> >
> >Evening sluggers,
> >In essence I want to change
> >
> >$readelf -d foo.so | head -n 3
> >Dynamic segment at offset 0x36c0 contains 37 entries:
> > TagType
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:01:17PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Matthew Hannigan wrote:
>
> > No need for C, dd should do the job:
> >
> > dd conv=swab < fvs338-test.img > fvs338-test-bigendian.img
>
> >From the man page:
>
>sw
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:05:09PM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> $ file ~/Desktop/fvs338-test.img
> ~/Desktop/fvs338-test.img: Linux Compressed ROM File System data, big endian
> size 7278592 version #2 sorted_dirs CRC 0xd2f82710, edition 0, 3177 blocks,
> 314 files
>
> GREAT! Except my system (Pen
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 04:01:51PM +1000, Martin Visser wrote:
> Just been playing with the V-Gear PocketDTV made by Asiamajor. Works
> very nice, only needed a 8K firmware download, prompted by the the log
> [ .. ]
Is that this one?
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2893
It says no
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:44:41AM +1000, david wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:25 +1000, James Gray wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:01 am, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:57:59AM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:04 pm, david wrote:
> > > > > On my pu
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:18:03PM +1000, Roger Barnes wrote:
> I understand Google are working on a winelib based GoogleEarth
> for Linux, following on from their recent release of Picasa
> in the same vein.
>
> http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/05/google_earth_fo_4.html
That blog h
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:21:43PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> What is the search app on? Tomcat? I've found mod_jk
> pretty easy to get working, but you can also use
> mod_proxy. mod_proxy also has specific support for tomcat's
> protocol (ajp13).
Just a clarificati
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:57:21PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a web-based libray application which I need to stick on some
> different ports.
> The normal web is at :80, I have a library search interface at 8080 and
> that works fine but the library admin interface at 9090 ca
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:24:02PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Although i'm familiar with the past few years of SLUG history, would
> > some of the old timers care to help me out with the following email?
>
> I don't know if anyone responded to this, but "
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 03:05:06PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> I don't have anything constructive to add to the first point, as I'm mostly
> indifferent.
I'm against but not really strongly so.
If put in place, perhaps we could make an
excception for gpg signed mail.
> This one time, at band
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 06:57:16AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> An example of what I am trying to do:
>
> eval echo -e "\\tGetting files from ${MIRROR_URL[$STARTIDX]}" $LOG_FILE
I don't know what you're trying to do with eval and the bare $LOG_FILE
thing here, but I'd use just printf:
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:06:39PM +1000, Steve Lindsay wrote:
> On 5/17/06, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >thanks,
> >so what's the suggested course to try to take advantge of that ?
> >
> I think ideally you want to find an RH7.3 rpm that has the jpeg
> headers etc, something lik
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:11:35AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
>
> I currently have 'perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux' on RH73
>
> what's my best way to bring it up to date ?
I think it's been said before, but why not
just update the entire os? i.e. install fedora5
or whatever.
It's probably
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:46:30PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
>
> in the source and now when it runs we see a different result
>
> $ ./suidexec id
> Executing Command 'id'
> uid=501(prundle) gid=501(prundle) euid=502(matlab) groups=502(matlab)
> context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t
>
> But it d
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:32:08AM +1000, Benno wrote:
> There is no reason I can see, in theory, why you couldn't
>
> 1/ Turn off TPM boot
> 2/ Install linux
> 3/ Turn TPM back on checksum-ing the new bootloader.
>
> But yeah, I have only really had a brief look at the TPM
> documentation, it m
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 07:56:26AM +1000, dave kempe wrote:
> [ .. ]
> utilitys. I was wondering though - is there any tools that can provide
> undelete functionality for fat32 filesystem on linux? anyone got any
> ideas on how to recover the deleted data using the existing tools?
http://www.cgs
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 06:48:42PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> $ uname -a
> Linux [hostname] 2.6.16.1-linode18-bb1 #1 Fri Mar 31 12:39:01 EST 2006 i686
> GNU/Linux
> $ ls -l /dev/null
> crw-rw 1 root root 1, 3 2006-04-30 18:46 /dev/null
>
> :(
FWIW, Fedora4:
$ grep -ir null /etc/udev/
/e
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:48:46PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> I have a weird situation on an RHAS4 server where I am running OpenLDAP
> and netstat shows that it is open to everything:
>
> tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:389 0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN 3578/slapd
>
>
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:39:20AM +1000, Malcolm V wrote:
> Does anyone else get confused by the unclear usage of the term "block"?
Only all the time :-)
> Given that a *nix block is always 512 bytes (or is it?) and a disk block is a
> variety of sizes. Most documentation uses the generic term
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:03:02PM +1000, Leslie Katz wrote:
> The printer manual lists, under "Features", "Interfaces that switch
> automatically". It then continues, "A parallel and USB interface, which
> is automatically switched according to the data source, comes standard."
>
> I take that
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:31:07AM +1000, O Plameras wrote:
> Tony Green wrote:
> > [ .. ]
> >You didn't say "you can't" you said "This is not true that you can".
>
> Right that's what I said. "This is not true that you can" does not
> [ .. ]
'can' and 'cannot' and 'may' and 'may not' are
probl
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:19:15PM +1000, Charles Myers wrote:
> afaik, NTFS mounts as read only. You can only format the things.. (I
> would love to be proven wrong on this :( as I have a couple ntfs drives
> that need some work)
Yeah. You can use the captive ntfs driver (i.e. windows ntfs
d
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:18:34PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 17:11 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> > As I don't think anyone is actually able to decrypt
> > to get root's password, the only way is social engineering.
>
> I am 99.9% s
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 04:49:06PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
> Don't worry Glen, there's absolutely no way that I want ANYONE to be
> able to do this.
>
> That's probably the scariest thing personally, it's a public humiliation
> for myself if someone does it relatively *easily*.
>
> That's why i
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:08:06AM +1000, Charles Myers wrote:
> I have a heap of photos (sorted by iPhoto) and it does it in multiple
> directories of year, month,date etc. I have moved the whole photo
> tree over to my desktop (which runs ubuntu). I was hoping to move all
> the .jpg's into a
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:05:08PM -0400, Bruce Woodward wrote:
> For what it's worth;
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] a]$ i=0
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] a]$ while ((i<1000)); do touch $i; ((i++)); done
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] a]$ time find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
A more realistic test would be to use non-zero fi
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:09:47AM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
> Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> >Yeah, not a bad call - it follows the 'correct first, fast later
> >/ premature optimization is the root of all evil' principle.
>
> Obviously xargs is a "better" s
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:09:18AM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
> [ .. ]
> But congrats on resisting the politically correct push to use xargs, go
> -exec I reckon. I've yet to see any real advantage in using xargs when
> combined with find just the fact that you have to remember to add -0
> beca
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:19:21PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins wrote:
> >Can anyone tell me what is the correct form of
> >
> >find smtpd* -atime 7 -exec ` rm -f {} ` \;
> >on a RH5.2 system?
>
> You can only specify one directory to look in, so smtpd
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:27:14AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> ...is it possible?
Depends on what you want exactly.
> ...what's the best way?
Ultra-Monkey! (probably)
Check out linux-ha.org
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:28:39PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
>
> Alternatively people could learn to read and understand the discussion
> before firing in an off target response. The discussion wasn't about
> being hurt, it was about:
>
> 1. Distribution evangelism isn't helpful to the origina
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 08:49:28AM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
> Del wrote:,
> [snip]
> >OK, since you want names, and dates:
> [snip]
> >thread by suggesting a switch to Ubuntu). 3/4/2006.
>
> Thanks Del,
>
> just a quick e-mail in support of the sentiment of your comments. I
>
> .. ]
Anothe
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:41:07AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I have "Mail version 8.1 6/6/93"
Oh dear. Please, install mutt or something.
> > { echo 'begin-base64 644 x.wav'; cat file; echo ; } | uudecode
>
> get 'iilegal line'
You can use openssl to en,decode base64; google for it.
I
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 08:51:05AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> OCFS2 and GFS are supported in Ubuntu from 5.10 onwards.
Nice!
I believe OCFS2 made it into the standard kernel very
recently; 2.6.16?
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:47:40AM +1000, john hedge wrote:
> It was suggested at the expo that I put this to the think-tank of SLUG so
> here goes.
>
> Does anyone know of a Linux based project/product for converting voice to
> text?
Not sure, but I think
http://cmusphinx.source
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:44:23AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A group of students was split in two. Half were given gimp, half photoshop.
> Halfway through the semester they were swapped to the other app. At the end
> of
> the semester, overwhelmingly (in the 90s%) the studens voted that t
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:28:35PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
> >top posting is the new black
>
> Agreed.
> In spite of the claims by the bottom posters that it's more natural
> because people read things in order that only applies if the reader is
> reading the given e-mail in isolation. Howev
Guys, did you submit bug reports for these?
Do you have the bug numbers handy?
Even better did you attach the patches to the bug report?
Matt
top posting is the new black
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 07:57:45AM +1000, O Plameras wrote:
> Howard Lowndes wrote:
> >Don't worry about it. With FC5, I h
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:55:19PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
> I now try to run vmware-config.pl and when it asks for the kernel header
> source, I point it at said directory and of course being Linux it
> doesn't work, but returns the error;
Oh, for what's it worth, there was no need to change
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:55:19PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
> I've just installed FC5 onto a single processor P4 and it all went
> fairly smoothly, except that it claims to have detected my sound card
> but no sound comes out, (shrugs, par for the course with Linux).
When I run the sound test,
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:12:26AM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote:
> Anyway i'm still researching but has anyone done this?
This was discussed on the this list just recently.
I'd search but the archive search seems to be broken.
Matt
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:28:23AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
>
> # mount cdrom
> mount: can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
# mount /dev/cdrom
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:57:23AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I've just installed RHEL3 with 'everything' option, when I tried:
Er, actually try installing 'mysql-server'
I think you only have the client bits.
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:57:23AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I've just installed RHEL3 with 'everything' option, when I tried:
>
> 'service mysqld' it says: unrecognized service
Try
chkconfig --add mysqld
then/or
chkconfig --list | grep mysql
And let us know what happens
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:29:40AM +1100, Steven Heimann wrote:
> Unfortunately sed seems to be putting the 2 trailing ** at the beginning
> of the replacement line rather than the end of the line and after much
> stuffing around I still can't work out what is going wrong.
Works for me:
echo '**1
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:55:05PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> >
> >what's an easy way to schedule emails to be sent at some future time/date ?
> >at ?
> >like, I'd like to compose some emails but, have them sent at say 9:00 am
> >tommorow
>
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:50:51AM +1100, David Gillies wrote:
> 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 different t
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.
Matt
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:31:33AM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote:
> Err http://mirror.optusnet.com.au breezy/main Packages
> Could not connect to mirror.optusnet.com.au:80 (211.29.132.173). -
> connect (111 Connection refused)
Try mirror.optus.com.au, i.e. optus not optusnet
I came across the same
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:51:14AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > What I would prefer to do is send a flagging email to both myself and my
> > business partner... just a subject line such as: "email waiting in foo
> > acount".
> >
> > Can procmail do that?
>
> So what you'd want to do in proc
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:25:12PM +1000, amanda wynne wrote:
> I'm looking for a starting point for a project. Basically a datalogger, usb
> i/o,
> x interface. Only thing I found on sourceforge was jaws.
>
> Project entails a micro-controller, probably an avr, with numerous adc, dac,
> digital
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:29:06PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> do I need a kernel update,
Nah, I'm pretty sure RHEL3 only does 2.4
> or what do I need to get a kernel 2.6 ?
Get a modern distro release.
Matt
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:24:17PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> what are my options for up-to-dating RHEL3 ?
Buy a contract with Red Hat
> 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 upd
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:39:14PM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote:
>
>
> Matt
> I don't get it. One web site puts it like this
>
> " The umask command is used to set and determine the
> default file creation permissions on the system"
>
> which is what i want but it doesn't seem to happen. H
OK, we have WWF sorted, now we have to deal with
ACS
FOSS
SIG
CMS
(yes, Bruce, I know what they mean but I think
it's worth expanding them -- none of them were!)
And which CMS is it?
Matt
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On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:35:28PM +1000, elliott-brennan wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> I run qemu on my FC3 (Win98 still useful for somethings :))
>
> Can you give me a quick direction as to where to go find info on using
> qemu to make an image for vmplayer?
Er, I would just google for it; if you don
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:00:23PM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote:
> Basically, all i am trying to do is to set the file permissions of any new
> file/sub directory directory created in a shared directory so that the
Wait a minute. By shared do you mean shared with samba?
If so, yes, you can force ce
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:00:23PM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote:
>
> Basically, all i am trying to do is to set the file permissions of any new
> file/sub directory directory created in a shared directory so that the
> owner and group had full read/write access by default and others had no
> access.
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:26:06PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> Howard, do you have the bug number handy? Searching bugzilla
> can be painful and slow.
Never mind, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186742
(and dupe https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:02:46PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> FYI, I have submitted a bug report to the Fedora project
Howard, do you have the bug number handy? Searching bugzilla
can be painful and slow.
Matt
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On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:59:18AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
> But if that's just another way to whip up an image for the Player, then
> I might give it a temporary whirl. Thanks for the heads up.
You can also use qemu to make images for vmplayer.
FWIW, the killer feature for some in vm-workstati
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:14:13AM +1100, Phill O'Flynn wrote:
> On
> my fc4 file server I have a shared folder that has been set
> recursively to 2770. This works ok
>
> But if i set any folder with
> umask 007,
I'm not sure what you mean by 'set any folder'
umask is a property of the process,
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:00:11PM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> I am trying to compile a program that complains about /bin/install
> being missing. Is this a standard program? I'm running Ubuntu Breezy.
It's /usr/bin/install on my machine (fedora)
It's pretty standard. If the system doesn't have
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 10:22:34AM +1100, Philip Greggs wrote:
> I'm sick and exhausted. For one and
> only one reason.
>
> I'm paying thousands of dollars for
> the damn ssl certificates.
>
> Can some one in plain English explain
> to me why should I pay that much
> money and what am I paying fo
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:25:47AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Has anyone any thoughts on this.
>
> Guests first or host first?
Shrug, host first I guess
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 07:45:07AM +1100, O Plameras wrote:
> This debate stems from the proposal by J. Waugh to ban the use of RTFM
> in SLUG list group.
We just want people to be nice.
Let's be nice eh?
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I don't know what you guys are talking about,
but it isn't Fedora Core 5.
Please change the subject.
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:44:56PM +1100, Bai, Junmin wrote:
>
> Thanks Matthew for your reply which gave me more idea about it. Redhat
> is slightly different from Debian. Could you send me compiled zoneinfo
> since it's platform and architecture independent?
My zoneinfo dir is 10Mb; the raw ori
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:22:37PM +1100, Bai, Junmin wrote:
>
> I have a redhat linux 7.3. Because of commonwealth game of 2006, we
> need a patch for redhat 7.3 to solve the timezone problem. Does anyone
> know this patch.
Do you do updates with yum through fedoralegacy.org?
Maybe they patched
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:03:22PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:31:07PM +1100, Philip Greggs wrote:
> > > I'm not subscribed to this list but followed the post on the WEB and I
> > > believe the RTFM retort was appropriate in the context.
> >
> > Then you're an idi
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:31:07PM +1100, Philip Greggs wrote:
>
> I'm not subscribed to this list but followed the post on the WEB and
> I believe the RTFM retort was appropriate in the context.
Then you're an idiot, because the question was rhetorical.
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:41:30PM +1100, O Plameras wrote:
> In the context of the Post, there is RTFM in www.openssl.org. The person
> I addressed the reply
That'd be me
> to in my assessment is matured
You make me sound like a cheese.
> and well-informed SLUG user. I presume he
> knows wh
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:26:39PM +1100, O Plameras wrote:
> Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:14:28PM +1100, O Plameras wrote:
> >
> >>Due to security inadequacy.
> >>
> >
> >Details man! Details!
> >
> >
> &g
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:14:28PM +1100, O Plameras wrote:
>
> Due to security inadequacy.
Details man! Details!
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:59:27PM +1100, O Plameras wrote:
> >Are you saying there's a security fix that is not
> >going to be released in fedora4?!
>
> I don't know.
I'll take that as a NO then.
Which makes the rest of your message a little baffling.
> I tried to install OpenSSL-0.9.8a in FC
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:52:49AM +1100, O Plameras wrote:
> There's one big reason why I'd like to deploy Fedora Core 5. It's got
> OpenSSL-0.9.8a
> containing major security fix.
!?!
Are you saying there's a security fix that is not
going to be released in fedora4?!
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:22:16AM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>
> Your find commands are either redundant or broken :)
Most find commands are broken.
The chance of a someone writing a reasonably complex
but correct find command after reading, say, just the
man page are pretty close to zero.
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:43:35PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Ooop, sorry, you are right. We should do our best to maintain
> standards :-).
I liked your deliberate error, keeps us on our toes:
>
> and for the files:
>
> find -type f -exec chmod 755 {} \;
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