[SLUG] hardware for Asterisk server - Digium TDM400P, X100P FXO??

2008-02-01 Thread Sonia Hamilton
connecting an analog handset for emergencies - I think it's going to be a process of showing them what Asterisk can do, then getting money for a proper server/addins/cards/etc. -- Sonia Hamilton blog: http://SoniaHamilton.wordpress.com -- 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] hardware for Asterisk server - Digium TDM400P, X100P FXO??

2008-02-04 Thread Sonia Hamilton
ion - a normal modem (onboard or external) *can't* be used with Asterisk - right? My understanding is you need a device that offers XFO capabilities, but I just want to be 100% sure before giving the NGO a definite 'no' to using normal modems and having to buy a new device.

Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird question

2008-02-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
ils, then connect using Thunderbird & drag & drop messages again. -- Sonia Hamilton blog: http://SoniaHamilton.wordpress.com -- 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] headless servers

2008-02-06 Thread Sonia Hamilton
ot; (Compaq Presario desktop P3) box, > it doesn't seem to work. > > This is a typical Compaq ATX board (and by that I dont mean typical). Anyone > got any good ideas? If what you're trying to achieve is booting a machine without an attached keyboard, many BIOS's allow

[SLUG] how to change first day of week in Gnome?

2008-02-06 Thread Sonia Hamilton
y close setting ('week_start_day') applies to Evolution. -- Sonia Hamilton blog: http://SoniaHamilton.wordpress.com -- 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] how to change first day of week in Gnome?

2008-02-06 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 10:02 +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: > * > http://tinyurl.com/2frbtn > Thanks Nigel! > > -- Sonia Hamilton blog: http://SoniaHamilton.wordpress.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: ht

Re: [SLUG] how to change first day of week in Gnome?

2008-02-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 09:56 +, Jan Schmidt wrote: > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > (Ubuntu 7.10) > > > > The calendar that comes with Gnome (when you click the date) lists the > > first day of the week as Sunday - how would I change it to Monday? > > > >

Re: [SLUG] Asus Eee 4G 7" Micro Laptop

2008-02-25 Thread Sonia Hamilton
len from my (windowless) van :-( They even cut through the Kensington cable that locked it to the chassis of the van. To protect my next laptop I've now installed one of those shiny silver lock boxes that carpenters use... Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's G

[SLUG] totally off topic - contacting Pia

2008-03-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
e details? My mobile is 0409 984 867. Apologies to all for the waste of brain-time, Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton -- 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] totally off topic - contacting Pia

2008-03-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
:-) Thanks! On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 14:03 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > (totally off topic) > > > > Pia's asked me to a Hackfest today (http://au.linuxchix.org/node/116), > > but hasn't included a time/location and I

[SLUG] wireless card that just works?

2008-03-11 Thread Sonia Hamilton
playing with ndiswrapper... Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton -- 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 card that just works?

2008-03-12 Thread Sonia Hamilton
's amazing what *they* get up to, isn't it..? Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] committee membership

2008-03-26 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Instructor and System Administrator, and been a member of the SLUG email list. Thank you, Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] CPAN modules documentation

2008-03-26 Thread Sonia Hamilton
browsing locally? I know about wget; I'm thinking maybe there's an easier way... -- Sonia Hamilton blog: http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com -- 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] committee membership

2008-03-27 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Thank you! Sonia. On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:22:06 +1100, "Erik de Castro Lopo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > I would like to propose myself as a member of the SLUG committee. > > I'm happy to second that. Sonia has been lon

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] Fedora 7 Ethernet Issues FIX

2008-03-27 Thread Sonia Hamilton
-On-Lan, and this NIC will remain disabled until the > next time Windows turns it on. The r8169 driver in the kernel does not Thanks Dave for posting that solution - one of those corner cases it's good to file away in the 'toolbox'... -- Sonia Hamilton blog: http://soniaha

[SLUG] ssh - localhost, mysql

2008-03-29 Thread Sonia Hamilton
, mysql will use the local socket rather than connecting via tcp. This obviously fubar's when one has got localhost connected to an ssh tunnel. Anyway around this? There's a mysql option 'protocol=tcp', but it doesn't appear to work. There's an angst filled bug post ab

Re: [SLUG] DST in debain

2008-03-29 Thread Sonia Hamilton
es will change incorrectly todat (eg my mobile phone), others are correct. Thank $deity I haven't got a large server/blackberry/phone infrastructure to manage at the moment. Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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] Fixing Palm devices (no patching required)

2008-03-29 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Sydney times correctly, and keep jiggling with the custom ones until I got a correct local time. In country areas the correct time was a political hot potato - there was the government tz and the local's tz... Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing Li

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu repository components and what they mean

2008-03-31 Thread Sonia Hamilton
t a bit? :-) Thanks for a great post. Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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 on Iphone

2008-04-01 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Diary/Memos well, and sync's with Linux easily. I had a Linux based Zaurus for a while a few years ago and didn't think much of it - went back to Palm. [1] http://www.openmoko.org/ [2] http://code.google.com/android/ [3] http://www.imcosys.com/html/english.html Thanks, -- Sonia Hami

Re: [SLUG] Grub Error

2008-04-01 Thread Sonia Hamilton
tition, and run grub-install - check man grub-install for options Google for more examples - I've probably missed something... Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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] http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ for Ubuntu?

2008-04-01 Thread Sonia Hamilton
just click on a > link from Windows and it'll take care of everything from there. If no one posts in with an Ubuntu version, I wouldn't mind building one this weekend at Barcamp with some other people. Chat me off list - I would especially need a Winblows box (or VM - even better) to

[SLUG] kernel code for client ephemeral port allocation?

2008-04-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
n the direction of the directory (or even file) I should look at? I'm not very familiar with the layout of the kernel code. -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - htt

Re: [SLUG] kernel code for client ephemeral port allocation?

2008-04-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Thanks! S. On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:13 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > When a tcp (or udp) connection is setup, the client is allocated a > > source port - a so-called ephemeral port (this can be seen in the Local > > Address column of n

[SLUG] managing .bashrc in subversion?

2008-04-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
ould check in all of /home/sonia, but I'd have to setup heaps of exclusions - nasty. I could put .bashrc in /home/sonia/bin (for example) and link to it "cd; ln -s bin/.bashrc .bashrc) - a hack. Any other suggestions? -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www

Re: [SLUG] managing .bashrc in subversion?

2008-04-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 16:06 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > A "process" rather than "technical" question about subversion. > > > > My personal subversion repo is setup, works ok, etc. But I notice that > > subvers

[SLUG] working wvdial.conf file for Vodafone Huawei E220?

2008-04-14 Thread Sonia Hamilton
he dip group: $ ls -al /dev/ttyUSB* crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 0 2008-04-15 16:34 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 1 2008-04-15 16:22 /dev/ttyUSB1 -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User&#

Re: [SLUG] Bi-directional ssh

2008-04-17 Thread Sonia Hamilton
stuff like ppp-over-ssh. > > Or sensible stuff like OpenVPN. For what you're trying to do, autossh would be useful - keeps a -L/-R tunnel alive permanently. I've used it with success to solve *cough* various firewall issues at POE's. $ sudo aptitude install autossh $ dpkg

Re: [SLUG] Manipulating DNS

2008-04-17 Thread Sonia Hamilton
nd the "right way" to do things, or should another name be used? -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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: Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

2008-04-20 Thread Sonia Hamilton
ostconf -e "transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport" postfix reload postfix flush exit 0 fi # otherwise, just defer transport (until I implement ssh tunnel) # including 10.172.x.y addresses (when on classroom net) - can't relay via sydmta postconf -e "defer_transports = smtp

Re: [SLUG] Re: Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

2008-04-21 Thread Sonia Hamilton
NE in /etc/rc.local (Ubuntu), or elsewhere? -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] installing moodle - .deb or from cvs?

2008-04-21 Thread Sonia Hamilton
rupal site, where I eventually found it easier to keep up with security patches by using cvs (I even wrote a howto on this [3]). [1] http://moodle.org/ [2] http://docs.moodle.org/en/CVS_for_Administrators [3] http://howtoforge.com/multisite_drupal_installation_ubuntu -- Thanks, . Sonia Ham

[SLUG] uptime and multicore/multithreaded cpu's

2008-04-23 Thread Sonia Hamilton
CPU's? -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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] uptime and multicore/multithreaded cpu's

2008-04-23 Thread Sonia Hamilton
in the cpu. > > a load average of 2.0 on a dual cpu (or dual core) system is a > 100% load average. accroding to man. > > > Dean > > > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > A questio

[SLUG] perl equivalent for cd $(dirname $0)?

2008-04-23 Thread Sonia Hamilton
In my bash scripts I often use this (to change to the directory where the script is): cd $(dirname $0) Is there an equivalent in perl? -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . I want to share something with you -- the three

Re: [SLUG] perl equivalent for cd $(dirname $0)?

2008-04-28 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 22:05 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my bash scripts I often use this (to change to the directory where > > the script is): > > > > cd $(dirname $0) > &

Re: [SLUG] Deleting a mailman list

2008-04-28 Thread Sonia Hamilton
ves the archives; but they've disappeared from > the website too. >From memory, an easier way is to delete the mailserver archive that forwards to mailman, rather than deleting the list within mailman. -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfro

Re: [SLUG] Multiple Domains - Apache

2008-04-28 Thread Sonia Hamilton
n in httpd.conf to achieve this. Setting up aliases in your dns is probably the way to do this: ie domaina.com is an alias for www.domaina.com. -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . Your manuscript is both good

Re: [SLUG] Deleting a mailman list

2008-04-28 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 10:02 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:21 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > > Hi, > > How do I delete a mailman list (as far as being able to send > > new messages to it goes) but leave the archive website up? > > >

Re: [SLUG] Deleting a mailman list

2008-04-28 Thread Sonia Hamilton
a qmail machine (doubleplus horror), where multiple .qmail files under /var/qmail/something were used for each mailman list eg .qmail-foo-join .qmail-foo-admin etc. Ergo remove them to stop the list working. -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://

Re: [SLUG] Outputing progress counters with PHP/HTML

2008-04-29 Thread Sonia Hamilton
t; around it I am just not sure. > > You do a select before every insert?! Is the table indexed? > If not that might explain the slowdown; a select WILL take > longer the bigger the table. Perhaps better to put a unique index on the appropriate column(s), then just do an insert and th

Re: [SLUG] OT Open Source CRM Package

2008-04-30 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Sridar posting about a package a few days ago. -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not go

Re: [SLUG] Linux "clustering" - what are the options?

2008-05-04 Thread Sonia Hamilton
linux-ha.org/ - Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good - Samuel Johnson. -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Telephone Call Logger?

2008-05-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
> Hi All > > I'm looking for a simple telephone cal logging system (or anything that > can be simply modded to suit). Maybe a simple implementation of a crm system, like Sugar CRM? -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://ww

Re: [SLUG] The deadly authentication.

2008-05-12 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 10:55 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I'm connected to the net and I log in, I'm told there are updates. > All well and good. > > Just lately, I was told that a certain update (a CUPS job) was not > authenticated and to install it would render my laptop liable to > pen

Re: [SLUG] Anyone else having problems with Ubuntu's latest openvpn?

2008-05-14 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 07:39 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > I haven't tried OpenVPN yet, but a new security advisory came out this > morning saying "A regression was introduced in OpenVPN when using TLS Out of interest, what source are you using for your security advisories? -- SLUG - Sydney Linu

Re: [SLUG] help! resetting nm-applet on Hardy Herron to make wireless work again

2008-05-14 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 22:39 +1000, Jeremy Visser wrote: > If it still doesn't work, go edit /etc/network/interfaces (I hope your > distro has its config there), and delete every single line _except_ for > the ones containing "auto lo" and "iface lo inet loopback". Log out and > log in to see if it

Re: [SLUG] Further to the deadly authentication.

2008-05-18 Thread Sonia Hamilton
rors caused by aptitude looking for localised package sources. This may be the "right way" to do things, or maybe the error messages are spurious and I should eat my laptop. Can any .deb gods comment? -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.c

[SLUG] deletion and IMAP in Evolution

2008-05-25 Thread Sonia Hamilton
so that when I delete a message it get's moved to the Trash? A setting I'm missing, or some sort of plugin, script, etc? Yes I know email client foo can do it, but the Exchange integration of Evol is useful... -- Sonia Hamilton. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sig

partitions (was Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 28, Issue 27)

2008-05-26 Thread Sonia Hamilton
drom etc initrd lib media opt root srv > > tmp var > > boot devhome initrd.img lost+found mntproc sbin sys > > usr vmlinuz The 'mount' command will show you/us. E.g. on my machine: % mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro

Re: [SLUG] deletion and IMAP in Evolution

2008-05-27 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Ian Wienand wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I notice that when I delete email with IMAP accounts, the email gets marked as deleted rather than being moved to the Trash. That's the IMAP way, you have to explicitly "expunge&quo

Re: [SLUG] Partitions

2008-05-27 Thread Sonia Hamilton
eason is that you can have different settings for different partitions eg one partition optimised for small files (eg emails), another partition optimised for large files (eg movies), etc. Read more: http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_01.html#sect_03_01_02 http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/filesy

Re: [SLUG] Partitions

2008-05-27 Thread Sonia Hamilton
optsrv var david initrd lost+found proc sys vmlinuz That does rather look like somehow things that should be in / have been copied to or installed in /home. Yes, looks like someone has made a mistake installing/migrating a system. -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] simple text formatting language

2008-05-28 Thread Sonia Hamilton
- bullet points, bold/italic, tables, etc. I'd like output in pdf, so it's easily printable cross-platform. I've briefly thought about things like LaTeX, postscript and Docbook, but they all seem overkill for what I want to do, and will take too much time to learn. Thank

Re: [SLUG] Partitions

2008-05-28 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Linux" which is in HTML format? At present using Firefox I only get a small part of a page printed in the middle. I would really like to read some of this excellent documentation. If you want to print stuff from TLDP, probably easier to download the pdf versions - look here http://tldp.org

Re: [SLUG] simple text formatting language

2008-05-29 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-29 10:27:39 +1000]: > Can anyone recommend a simple text formatting language/package? Thanks everyone for your suggestions - a lot to experiment with :-) Sonia. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Use

Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs

2008-06-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
jam wrote: First thanks to everyone who contributed to this interesting thread :-) Isn't it about time this boring thread went onto slug-chat? :-) -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.

Re: [SLUG] Re: turning off blog comments

2008-06-04 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-04 10:12:00 +1000]: > > A blog without comments is like posting to a list and not reading the > > followups. > > Who says I want your comments? I have a link to my contact form on my > blog posts. If people want to talk to me, they can. > > Your

[SLUG] easiest way to check if a .deb is installed?

2008-06-06 Thread Sonia Hamilton
What's the easiest accurate way to check if a .deb has been installed on a system, from a script? At the moment I'm using `dpkg -l | grep ...`, which is messy. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] easiest way to check if a .deb is installed?

2008-06-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* Michael Chesterton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-07 18:01:05 +1000]: >> What's the easiest accurate way to check if a .deb has been installed >> on a system, from a script? >> >> At the moment I'm using `dpkg -l | grep ...`, which is messy. >> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -s bash >/dev/null 2>&1

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

2008-06-08 Thread Sonia Hamilton
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 to use VLC. Two quest

[SLUG] SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday 27 June and Call for Speakers

2008-06-15 Thread Sonia Hamilton
rance. A map of the area and directions can be found here[1]. = Talks = General Talk: TBA In-Depth Talk: TBA SLUG-Lets: Sonia Hamilton - hard disks, partitioning and mounts We will release another announcement after we confirm our speakers. = Meeting Schedule = See here[2] for an explanation o

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-17 Thread Sonia Hamilton
you tonnes of additional features that may help you here. -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] postfix - moving queue to another server?

2008-08-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
% cat '* smtp:[mta1.example.com]' > /etc/postfix/transport # rebuild map % postmap dbm:/etc/postfix/transport % postfix reload # flush queue % postqueue -f # watch contents of queue until empty % postqueue -p # start playing % la-la-la... -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Debian: How do I remove a package and all it's dependencies?

2008-08-09 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Michael Lake wrote: Hi all I have a Debian server and I wish to remove several dozen packages. How do I remove a package and it's dependencies? Perhaps use a tool like aptitude - it will find/display dependencies for you. -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Ma

Re: [SLUG] Steve Ballmer live rally Sydney November 6

2008-11-11 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Cibby Pulikkaseril wrote: I only hope that it's as high energy as this notorious performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc Ahhh, the "monkey dance video" - always good for a laugh. Makes you wonder what his white powder of choice is -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mai

Re: [SLUG] en-AU Translation problem with Synaptic

2008-11-11 Thread Sonia Hamilton
http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/apt-translation-en_au/ (though my explanation deals with apt rather than synaptic) Murray Waldron wrote: G'day all, Each time I reload my package lists with Synaptic I keep getting the same error repeated and packages fail. The error I get is (fro

Re: [SLUG] OT: moving from Access to ...?

2008-11-11 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Others have raved about Django and mentioned Rails - I'll rave about Rails :-) I confess that in the mid 90's I was an Access programmer; I find programming in Rails to be almost as easy as Access programming, but giving you a web frontend on an open-source stack. When I was researching fram

[SLUG] how to find user's original id?

2004-09-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
(root) When I run the 'id' command it returns uid=1002. But after sudo'ing to root, the id command returns uid=0(root). How would I find the user's original id before they sudo'd to root? Thanks for any help, -- Sonia Hamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Ma

[SLUG] StGeorge online banking & Linux

2005-01-09 Thread Sonia Hamilton
few lobbying emails to StGeorge wouldn't go astray :-) (yes, I read SlashDot [2] too...). [1] http://secunia.com/advisories/12889/ [2] http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/01/09/0737248.shtml?tid=172&tid=113&tid=218 -- Sonia Hamilton . "Everything has been globalized except our conse

[SLUG] St George banking (again...)

2005-03-18 Thread Sonia Hamilton
prefbar [2], tried every agent string. I'm running Ubuntu Warty, I've got SunJava 1.5 installed. I've written to STG, I get the usual response... blah, blah supported browsers, blah IE blah :-) [1] http://puzzling.org/computing/help/banking [2] http://prefbar.mozdev.org/ -- Sonia Hami

Re: [SLUG] St George banking (again...)

2005-03-18 Thread Sonia Hamilton
your replies! Tony replied to me offlist, and his solution worked - disable popup blocking altogethor. I'll email the maintainer of [1] so she can add it to her page (is this the same Mary?). Thanks again for all your help. [1] http://puzzling.org/computing/help/banking -- Sonia Hamilton .

[SLUG] Linux Conferences

2005-03-20 Thread Sonia Hamilton
ly at [1]. [1] http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Conferences/ Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Linux; a re-GNU-able resource. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] first day of week in Ubuntu Hoary?

2005-04-09 Thread Sonia Hamilton
(Palm Pilot app). I've trawled thru the Configuration Editor (Applications, System Tools), couldn't find anything. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . It's all GNU to me. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] problems compiling a module

2005-04-16 Thread Sonia Hamilton
vers KERNEL_DIR=$(KERNEL_DIR) > uninstall-drivers: > $(MAKE) uninstall -C drivers KERNEL_DIR=$(KERNEL_DIR) > > # misc rules > sub-dirs:= modem drivers > .PHONY: $(sub-dirs) all old clean dep install > clean dep: %: %-sub-dirs > %-sub-dirs: > $(foreach dir,$(sub-dirs),$(MAKE) -C $(dir) $(patsubst > %-sub-dirs,%,$@) && ) echo "done." -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] Buying a Printer

2005-04-24 Thread Sonia Hamilton
a proper feed tray at the bottom, so you can fill it with almost a whole ream of paper. I bought it after researching in Linux magazine reviews (it was reviewed in a German magazine - can't remember which one). -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Despite its refusal to sign the Kyoto tre

[SLUG] gpg getting slower and slower - maintenance?

2005-04-24 Thread Sonia Hamilton
rustdb" > gpg --check-trustdb > > echo -e "\n--send-key to pgpkeys.mit.edu" > gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --send-key A8B77238 > > echo -e "\n--refresh-keys" > gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --refresh-keys Environment: $ mutt -v Mutt 1.5.6+2004090

Re: [SLUG] gpg getting slower and slower - maintenance?

2005-04-26 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 06:11:35PM +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Sun, 2005-24-04 at 19:31 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > I've noticed that as I get more signatures on my key, gpg is getting > > slower and slower decrypting or authenticating emails. > > A partial

Re: [SLUG] postfix with TLS/SASL on debian woody

2005-05-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 07:26:15AM +0930, David Fitch wrote: > has anyone got this combination working? (postfix with TLS/SASL > on debian woody) No, haven't got it going, but it's on my todo list... The tutorial at [1] may help. [1] http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-

Re: [SLUG] PDAs

2005-05-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
alm - I use JPilot to synch with my Palm Pilot, and have installed the keyring plugin as a replacement for the 'secret' app I used to use on Palm. Of course, other Palm apps may be a problem. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Only the autonomous can plan autonomy, organize f

Re: [SLUG] Script Help

2005-05-10 Thread Sonia Hamilton
t; next line deletes everything. > rm -fvr * > cd .. > rmdir $name > done < studentlist -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Type cat vmlinuz > /dev/audio to hear the voice of $DEITY. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] script dying after ssh..?

2005-05-16 Thread Sonia Hamilton
udent. /home/student" > done < ips.txt The scp works fine; copies all the stuff thru to all machines (I'm using an ssh key for root). But when I uncomment the ssh line, only the first machine is done, suggesting that ssh is dying somehow. Any ideas on what I could try? -- Sonia Ha

Re: [SLUG] script dying after ssh..?

2005-05-17 Thread Sonia Hamilton
. > > > > Any ideas on what I could try? > Try "ssh -vvv ..." to get more information from SSH about what's happening > > try running the script with "sh -x" to see if this gives any useful info Great, thanks for that. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B7

[SLUG] auto update squidguard/chastity

2005-07-04 Thread Sonia Hamilton
IÂve installed squidguard/chastity on a firewall, to block p0rn. Does anyone know of a website that provides a dynamically updated list I could regularyl grab using cron. IÂve googled, but nothing came up. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Veni Vidi Linux! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User&#

Re: [SLUG] Radius Authentication

2005-07-04 Thread Sonia Hamilton
/libs/pam/ -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Veni Vidi Linux! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] sending email from a laptop

2005-08-17 Thread Sonia Hamilton
ut for various reasons I don't want to do that. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Veni Vidi Linux! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] how to block relayers on postfix?

2003-02-17 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'm running a postfix mail server, which is set up to prevent spam & relaying using some of the hints on the spews and various rbl websites. However, I still get some spammers who have a go at my server to attempt relaying - is there some easy way in postfix to block an ip as soon as someone tries

[SLUG] mySQL command summary

2003-03-19 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Has anyone seen a command summary for mySQL on the web? (ie just a categorised list of all the commands - not a tutorial, etc.) I've had a look on mysql.com & googled, haven't found anything apart from the commercial ssc reference card http://www.ssc.com/ssc/productlist.html -- Sonia

Re: [SLUG] mySQL command summary

2003-03-21 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone seen a command summary for mySQL on the web? (ie just a categorised > list of all the commands - not a tutorial, etc.) > > I've had a look on mysql.com & googled, haven't found anything apart from the >

[SLUG] Knoppix love/hate...

2003-05-30 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Any of you Knoppix users out there done an apt-get install of anything, and had it totally get in a knot? I like having all the latest debian features in Knoppix, but being able to install *anything* at all would be really nice. Any hints? I'm currently learning more about apt than I ever wanted

Re: [SLUG] Knoppix love/hate...

2003-06-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
it has > been removed from recent builds. > > dave > * David Kempe wrote: > also, > this might be useful > > HOWTO upgrade to debian unstable > > http://knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2251 > > dave > * "Chris D." wrote: > This one time,

[SLUG] exchange migration pointers?

2003-06-19 Thread Sonia Hamilton
My work is going through a painful multi-site MS Exchange migration at the moment, and me being the Linux person, I said 'why don't you use Linux - less $$ on hardware, more reliable, easier to manage, etc'. But then I realised I wouldn't know how to do the stuff on Linux that can be done on Exchan

[SLUG] transparent bridging?

2003-07-13 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Is it possible to setup a linux box as a transparent bridge? The reason is that I'm routing an ip range, and I want to stick a Linux box in the middle, just for ip accounting purposses. I know I can use proxy-arp to do this; seems a bit messy. -- Sonia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - htt

[SLUG] SGML pretty printers/formatters

2003-07-25 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'm starting to write my documention in DocBook SGML. Are there any tools that format/layout my SGML? I don't mean tools that convert SGML to HTML etc (for that I obviously use Jade). I'm looking for something similar to the C code pretty printers that layout my messy SGML so it's easier to work w

[SLUG] Debian/Ubuntu question

2005-09-15 Thread Sonia Hamilton
A Debian/Ubuntu question: On Redhat boxes, network drivers are aliased using /etc/modprobe.conf eg there will be lines like: alias eth0 tulip Where's the equivalent on Debian/Ubuntu? It's not in /etc/modules or /etc/modprobe.d/* -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Veni

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Debsig, late, but on.

2005-11-16 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Robert Collins wrote: > Hiyall... > sorry for the late notice, I'm still finding my feet again after UBZ. Thanks Robert. Location, time? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Veni Vidi Linux! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux U

Re: [SLUG] hald error on boot (Ubuntu Dapper)

2006-06-12 Thread Sonia Hamilton
t is to use the automounter (vi /etc/auto*). Of course, this might just postphone the hang till when you try to access smbfs :-) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . "Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and co

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

2006-06-12 Thread Sonia Hamilton
eable but take a fair bit of work. If you've got different partions (eg /home, /var) it can be easier to reinstall and keep your existing data on these separate partions. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . "Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ...

[SLUG] mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] slow - 'unverified address'

2006-06-13 Thread Sonia Hamilton
rified address: Address verification in progress (in reply to RCPT TO command) This 'unverified address' problem - how do I resolve it? What's causing it to be unverified? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . "Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like .

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