On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 04:18:49PM +1000, Craige McWhirter uttered:
Steven has said that he would make the slides available but
Voila!
Thanks to Jaq (apt: Jaq++) for hosting the slides, and converting them to
HTML and TeX.
http://spacepants.org/doc/contrib2debian.html
--
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:28:31AM +1000, Adam F. Bogacki uttered:
I don't know if this is relevant to my current troubles with X, but this
advisory appeared at about the time I started having this problem.
Note how it affect the man-db package. Nussink to do with X, really.
--
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:02:25PM +1000, Michael uttered:
execstackoverflow in Unrecoverable error:
Do you have tetex-*, gsfonts, and the fonts for ghostscript installed?
I got this same error when I didn't have the necessary filters for apsfilter
installed.
--
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:58:23PM +1000, Tom Massey uttered:
As I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the net my .debs to keep.
If they should die before I wake,
Then bugger it, back to Mandrake. :-)
Bull. If you're still in Debian, you're missing a line in
/etc/apt/sources.list
slinky:~# grep
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:17:07PM +1000, Jordan uttered:
What USB modem can I buy that will work with Linux?
I gather it must be ACM compliant?
But, how to find one?
The easier it is to setup, the better!
Assume latest kernel, etc.
Errr, why USB? USB under Linux still requires a
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:24:04PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Can anyone tell me if RH 7.1 will install and auto detect a network
card. If so, what cards actually do work.
No experience with RedHat after 7.0, I lost all faith in their releases
then. (Long story)
I have a 3c509 and
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 11:51:03AM +1000, Scott Ragen uttered:
Hi Guys,
Sorry for this off topic question, but what about's in North Rocks is the
computer markets and what time they open till?
I have searched cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au sydney.net and excite.com.au but
can't find any information
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:41:10PM +1000, Peter Hardy uttered:
Heya SLUG.
Thought I'd throw this one out there, because I know it's come up at various
InstallFests.
The current plan is to either hack up a debian install disk with PPP, or use
a rescue disk like tomsrtbt to put the base
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:47:08AM +1000, Scott Ragen uttered:
Hi,
I have a fairly big problem with a Redhat 6.2 box. What has happened is I
upgraded my rpm to version to 4.0.3 from version 3, with also upgrading
db3-3 (unsure of what version it was) and it now comes up with errors!
When I
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:17:56PM +1000, Alister Waller uttered:
does that remain in the routing table after a reboot?
if not how do I make it a permanent change?
No, the routing table is only per boot.
You could put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, like most people tend to do.
Or be slightly more
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:46:35AM +1000, Tom Deckert uttered:
Here's how I interpret (guess) what happens in my 'pppd' command:
You're _almost_ there, but you skipped something at the start:
0) User or script invokes (i love that word! :-) pppd, which knows
which device to use, which speed to
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:45:42AM +1000, Craige McWhirter uttered:
Thanks to those who came for a great night.
And thank you for organising it. :-)
--
Steve
I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest.
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:42:02AM +1000, Phillipus Gunawan uttered:
I know how to do it manually, from command:
smbmount '//winshit/datas' '/mnt/winshitDatas'
But I don't want to type it every-time I'm log-in in my Box. How to auto map it so
that it will mount and umount automatically in my
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:54:22PM +1000, Craige McWhirter uttered:
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/manual.html
four-oh-four. Eeet's not werking, capt'n!
I'll sit down now.
--
Steve
I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:54:22PM +1000, Craige McWhirter uttered:
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/manual.html
Silly me forgot to include the real link :-/
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html
My bad.
--
Steve
I'm a sysadmin because I
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:55:52AM +1000, Michael uttered:
Hi,
Can someone tell me the name of the company who sells reconditioned
laptops at the North Rocks Computer market. They are usually right up near
where all the software is being sold on that long table.
Err, just ask them
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 07:38:42PM +1000, Brett Gardner uttered:
It is a microsoft USB keyboard.
^ ^^^
This is a Hint[tm]. Microsoft may make good keyboards, but I prefer
their mice. If I remember correctly, the default kernel with Debian
isn't going to support a USB
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:15:25PM +1000, Jeff Waugh uttered:
quote who=Terry Collins
I'm thinking that I would like to be able to waltz in with a floppy
Linux and run a linux presentation.
Does it have to be a floppy? The X setup on the most recent version of the
Linuxcare BBC
Try adding this in your /etc/lilo.conf file:
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
Then type lilo and make sure it has added dos as a boot prompt.
You may also have to add (above the kernel sections):
prompt
timeout=50
and comment out the delay=x line and run /sbin/lilo.
If
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:32:13PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Hi,
and handshakes and dies leaving the message:
Peer is not authorised to use remote address 198.142.213.254
How do I fix it?
The dreaded 'auth' problem.
The ppp daemon basically wants something from the peer that
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:48:18PM +1000, Joshua Burvill uttered:
Hi all,
Basically when I run pppd on both machines I dont get an interface,
ie `ifconfig -a' doesnt show any ppp ifaces
According to the PPP howto it is very easy, but alas
pc1 /dev/ttyS0 |===|
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:11:37AM +1000, Howard Lowndes uttered:
Apologies to the rest of the list, but Michael, please check your email
address. This one is bouncing: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Errr, according to my list it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (or something very similar)
[
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:08:04PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble uttered:
Okay RH afficionados, please tell me there is a non-GUI way to
configure ppp under RedHat 7? If there isn't it's the last straw and
I'm gonna install something sane instead.
ls -l /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*ppp*
But
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:29:49AM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson uttered:
Apparently I'm now wacky (thanx Jeff) ;)
Of course you're wacky.
# Hornsby Gangshow mauling list
:0:
Wow, a mauling list! What do people do on that?
# if it's from me, then file it in the outbox; i've probably piped my outbox
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:57:11PM +1000, Peter Hardy uttered:
The developmental versions of the fvwm window manager have had support for
libstroke (http://www.etla.net/libstroke/) for quite a while, letting you
bind gestures to wm events. I had it recognising very simple gestures
(hold down
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:54:20PM +1000, Jeff Waugh uttered:
* Linux for Windows Addicts:
A 12-Step Program for Habitual Windows Users
* Linux Programming, A Beginner's Guide:
Bash, TCSH, Perl, Tcl/Tk, GAWK, GNOME, KDE...
I'll claim this one if I win.
- Your favourite Linux
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:07:05PM +1000, Martin Richards uttered:
Hi all,
I'm looking at getting a UPS for a linux server, basically just for the box
itself to allow a vaguely graceful shutdown with saves and no fsck
nightmares. I'm wondering if anyone has any tips on what would be a
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:43:42PM +1000, David Kempe uttered:
The question is will it be run if the ppp connection drops out but the
demand option is on so ppp is going to try and redial. Or is it only run
just before pppd exits?
Do you mean demand or persist?
Mu. Demand implies
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:48:27AM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach uttered:
how do I split the data stream when using two modems?
Ipchains?
Is there a module which does this kind of thing?
*snort* No.
There is a multilink option to pppd, so just thinking about it, you would have 2
modems, 2
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:07:13PM +1000, Craige McWhirter uttered:
Thus spake Angus Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
what's UTS's pizza policy?
I'd take boiled television entrails in a restaurant over Pizza in the
lecture hall. Lets stick to at least leaving UTS for a meal in a
licensed
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:08:14PM +1000, Michael X Haynes uttered:
Hi there,
Lastly I have a friend who swears by the virtues of Debian over mainstream Linux e.g
RedHat, my current setup. Who will argue his case? I may just change if someone can
convince me. ;)
Do _not_ start the list on
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:39:52AM +1000, Jeffrey Borg uttered:
I need to install a resonable version of OpenSSH on a server running RH5.2.
My problem (beyond the fact that I need to upgrade that system...) I can only
find BSD source files for the OpenSSH, and RPM's for later versions
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 04:18:54PM +1000, Phillip uttered:
3. Comparing between my old RH 7 on kernel 2.3, it running more faster and stable
than RH7.1
Well, then.
Apart from my bog-standard answer of Mandrake sucks bad, use it, if that floats your
boat. You'll probably find Mandrake, being a
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 04:40:45PM +1000, Phillip uttered:
Actually:
2. Still using kernel 2.4.2*, why? where as Mandrake 8 even put the stable version
of kernel 2.4.3.
Because RedHat have other things to package up, as well as the kernel. As long the
supporting utilities are recent
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:28:34AM +1000, Anand Kumria uttered:
I'd much rather we went for Pizza (or had them delivered), or pasta
or even some other Asian restaurant. The price they are now charging
($20) isn't even that cheap anymore.
Would anyone else like to move to another place?
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:51:59AM +1000, Michael Lake uttered:
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
does anybody know which RH rpms contain the files that would
be overwritten by rootkits/crackers/breakins?
eg: ps,ls,netstat,top etc??
rpm -q -f myfile tells you what is the name of the rpm package
is '^]'.
220 slinky.wedontsleep.org (qmail) ESMTP
EHLO broken.wedontsleep.org
250-slinky.wedontsleep.org (qmail)
250-PIPELINING
250 8BITMIME
MAIL From: Steve Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 ok
RCPT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 ok
DATA
354 go ahead
This is a test message.
.
250 ok 988348874 qp 4775
quit
221
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:35:52PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach uttered:
I guess my idea of *just* replacing the binaries goes into
the rubbish bin right now.
Well, yes, crackers do more than just replace binaries.
I've seen syslog turned off, .bash_history pointing to /dev/null, /etc/motd,
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:49:46PM +1000, DaZZa uttered:
Looks like someone was trying to hack, and bumped their head against my
firewall. Good to know it's working. :-)
You forgot to say bumped their _empty_ head against my firewall
:-)
DaZZa
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:55:15PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach uttered:
You must be a very gentle soul, if the cracker gets only more then a pice of
mind .
Modesty forbids me from letting on what _else_ I would do to him.
apt-get install asr-manpages; man lart
for more
;-))
jobst
Howard,
I agree absolutely.
One of my biggest problems is configuring /etc/printcap remotely. As a
config file /etc/printcap is a bloody disaster. So, use printtool I hear
you say; but I don't run X over the Internet for security and performance
reasons.
I also ran into this problem in my
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:58:03AM +1000, Michael Lake uttered:
Andre Pang wrote:
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:49:34 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
personally, i did:
% apt-get install lprng
then
% apt-get install apsfilter
Done
now, make sure lpr can communicate with your
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:42:55PM +1000, Craige McWhirter uttered:
I think this is what CUPS is trying to acheive. (sorry, no URL).
Funnily enough: www.cups.org
apt-get install cupsys
--
Steve
I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:00:39PM +1000, David Kempe uttered:
Funnily enough: www.cups.org
apt-get install cupsys
cups is nice. get it. its works nicely and has way more sexy features than
the others... dead easy to do useful things as well...
No. :-)
Been there, done that. It's
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:15:08AM +1000, Bill uttered:
I got it to run perfectly on the second attempt, booting from my SCSI CDRW,
after realising that the hardware detection was hanging whilst checking my
SCSI Orb drive
(had to insert a disk - not the first time with this problem with Orb).
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 02:41:15PM +1000, Terry Collins uttered:
"Dennis M. Gray" wrote:
Post your question to the list and set your filters to /dev/null for
any message containing qmail. {:-). I'm sure the sendmail guru's will
reply as time allows.
Yeah, yeah, *grumble* *whine*.
Must I
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:58:36PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble uttered:
Are there any test programs/scripts/whatever to go through a range of
possible modes automatically with user feedback when it finds one that
works? Is this the right approach to finding one that works? Is this
safe or could
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 03:41:28AM +1000, Howard Lowndes uttered:
Does any one know of a time server that listens on port 37 TCP
steven@broken:~$ grep time /etc/inetd.conf | tail -2
timestream tcp nowait rootinternal
#time dgram udp waitrootinternal
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 04:51:58PM +1000, Crossfire uttered:
Jenny Rohwer was once rumoured to have said:
just wondering if there is anyone out there that has succesfully set
up bigpond cable on debian server with a internal winblows network
shareing the connection all the best ash :~
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:44:38PM +1000, DaZZa uttered:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, D.V.Rogers wrote:
Both have drawbacks - NFS is particularly dangerous if the machines are
connected to the internet, as it requires ports open which have *huge*
security holes - but Samba also leaves a bit to be
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:41:51PM +1000, Marty Richards uttered:
On Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:51 PM, Jeff Waugh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
There would be at least one more, but the last few Slug meetings I have
attended didn't appear to have anyone calling for member apps or
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:54:32PM +1000, Dean Hamstead uttered:
gnoki or something like that
Close. gnokii.
im pretty sure its on freshmeat
Yeah, that's how i usually find it (and most other software :-)
Dean
--
Steve
"I'm a
just going to www.altavista.com gets me the "global"
version (as does the url suggested above) not the au one.
What do they use to try to determine what country you're
in anyway?
Most probably reverse DNS, or something as silly. It isn't exact, but the moron's up
top still take it as
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:33:44PM +1000, marty uttered:
have readthe book, twice
still having problems uncompressing .tgz files
.tgz is equivalent to .tar.gz
As noted before.
tar -zxvf filename.tgz
pedantic role="bad"
Don't use the 'minus' in front of tar options as most, if not all
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 08:10:53AM +1100, Scott Ragen uttered:
I have a small problem with ipchains, i can create a simple rule, apply
it, but it does not save.
how do I achieve this? I have tried ipchains-save, after a reboot (which
my g/f does a lot because she compares it to windows).
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:29:31AM +1100, Dean Hamstead uttered:
I dont suppose anyone has a nice quick way of
detecting and removing old library versions?
If you are a Certified Debian Weenie[tm] like myself, you can use 'deborphan' to
detect and remove libraries that are no longer used.
If
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:59:08PM +1100, Michael Covi uttered:
Define a sudo for startx ?
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ummm, no.
Look for your Xwrapper.config:
steven@broken:~$ cat /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
allowed_users=console
nice_value=-10
You may have something else in there such as
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:11:41PM +1100, Michael Sztachanski uttered:
Guys,
how do get ppp to "Dail ON DEMAND"?
Read 'man pppd' for the 'demand' and 'persist' options
i.e when someone activates their browser.
Or does a DNS lookup, or a multiple of other things, it's very messy.
cheers
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:47:13AM +1100, James Wilkinson uttered:
This one time, at band camp, Paul Cameron said:
Using Word for documenting is hardly a 'skill', and any professional
documentor will be using tools like DocBook, or TeX, and generating
their documentation in something
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:40:26PM +1100, George Vieira uttered:
Hi all,
I have been offered a job to build 4 Apache web server but it must interface
to a Windows NT SQL server.. I have not done SQL at all and I was hoping
someone could tell me if this is possible and how to do it..
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:04:13PM +1100, Jason Rennie uttered:
Hi again,
Have i missed anything ?
Yes!
man xbill
:-)
Jason
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
--
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:36:16PM +1100, Trevor Gunter uttered:
I keep getting permission denied.
Where am I going wrong
Check the permissions on /home (which should be fine), /home/user and
/home/user/public_html.
man chmod
Permission modes you need are 755 for directories and 644 for
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:39:25AM +1100, Alan Lee uttered:
Hey.. Been forever since ive had to setup PPPD.
MUAH, know the feeling.
Just a quick Q... The ISP my client is going to dialup into gives them a choice ...
"PPP for PPP, SLIP for SLIP etc"
Soo... We need to send "ppp", then a
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:17:19PM +1100, Jon Biddell uttered:
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 17:19, Crossfire wrote:
Michael Sztachanski was once rumoured to have said:
Martin wrote:
[Snip]
You can check out more on Enfuzion at www.turbolinux.com.
It remains a beowulf until you
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:57:31PM +1100, Bill Bennett uttered:
I'm teaching myself QBasic from Schneider's book QBasic with an
Introduction to VisualBasic. Please, forget the sarcasm: I'm
a new convert to Linux and am looking for a QBasic equivalent
even as we speak.
What sarcasm? *evil
From: Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_That_ and the word "greatness" in one e-mail? No, somebody forgot their pills this
morning.
--
Steve
"I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest."
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:10:46PM +1100, David Fisher uttered:
Sorry 'bout the previous empty message, I'm not used to mailx.
Due to a recent death in the family (ie my rusty trusty Matrox Mill G200)
I have had to install a borrowed S3 ViRGE DX. I have rerun xf68config and now
when I try
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:41:30PM +1100, Craige McWhirter uttered:
I fear the time of night and weariness (yeah, better excuses than
nothing) have got me missing something that has to be obvious. The
scenario is that I have an SSH SysV script in /etc/init.d/ and this is
symlinked into
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:26:22AM +1100, Jeff Waugh uttered:
quote who="Andrew Reilly"
I thought that the server daemons were really nice, but all the
IMAP _clients_ sucked...
Heh. They're getting better.
Slowly.
What's the problem? Doesn't it compile without the rest of the
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:02:04AM +1100, Crossfire uttered:
Rev Simon Rumble was once rumoured to have said:
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:26:22AM +1100, Jeff Waugh uttered:
I'm looking for other avenues before using qmail-pop3d, as I'm not fond of
the license, and for various reasons
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:58:43AM +1100, Jeff Waugh uttered:
quote who="Rodos"
... and the results were ...
Closing Wednesday, 6pm. :)
No results for you! Come back, 7 hours!
Oki, it's been 9 hours. *duck*
:-)
- Jeff
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:52:50AM +1100, Alex Salmon uttered:
ahha
socket: Protocol not available - make sure CONFIG_PACKET and
CONFIG_FILTER are defined in your kernel configuration!
Simple error. It's hit me a few times, and I'm sure it's done it again, because 2.4.1
doesn't work on
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:24:45PM +1100, Angus Lees uttered:
\begin{Richard Piper}
It's been hopeless for the last few days, up and down all the time, terrible
speed and latency.
I would have to agree.
i think its time we all had a chat with our friendly ombudsman..
You _can't_
.
LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com
"...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!"
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Steve Kowalik wrote:
i think its time we all had a chat with our friendly ombudsman..
You _c
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:49:39PM +1100, David Kempe uttered:
Just looking up a server i was connecting to i get this from nslookup:
davehome:/home/dave# nslookup 141.213.4.21
Server: washington.apic.net
Address: 203.22.101.1
Answer crypto-validated by server:
Name:
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:40:54PM +1100, Andrew Best uttered:
Anyone able to get to the M$s DNS servers?
I cant get a response from them at all from here.
Same, was trying to help a customer download Outlook Express from there.
Ended up taking them to netscape.com. :-)
;; ANSWER SECTION:
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:17:30PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Hi all,
It seems that no one is interested in having a SLUG meeting on the 22nd, to
which we could invite many of our overseas and local speakers... Could this
be true? I hope not.
Me too.
Most of the SLUG committee have been
, they will have no problems with telnet or whatever
that's trying to resolve their name..
Dynamic DNS, or somesuch? Seems a solution to that problem. Next! :-)
There are other reasons too just can't be bothered saying them all..
thanks,
George Vieira
-Original Message-
From: Steve
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:48:00AM +1100, Ian Ward wrote:
This is the ago old problem of name resolution and DHCP.
Things like dynamic DNS solve this, however support for this is only
really
present in Win2k native and ill bet its very broken at that.
Is there a dynamic DNS client/server
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:20:27PM +1100, David Kempe wrote:
E, linuxconf. There are better ways to do it, and they all don't
involve having a stupid system configurater listen on port 98.
Stupid or not, linuxconf doesnt have to listen on port 98 to work properly.
Just comment it out
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:47:25AM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
\begin{Dave Fitch}
only appears to be available in the "unstable" section.
So far I've only been installing "stable" stuff.
How does installing an "unstable" thing affect the
rest of the system?
Depends, really.
heh.. only
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:39:26PM +1100, George Vieira wrote:
Hi all,
Is there a way to get /etc/host.conf to check WINS servers too? I prefer to
add machines to the WINS server rather than the /etc/hosts file and keep
updating both. I know some of you would probably ask why not use Samba
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:15:35PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
...and then Jeff Waugh said:
Who would other SLUGgers buy beers for? What has impressed or helped you
enough to force a VB into a friendly hackers hand? Doesn't have to be a
linux.conf.au attendee, although you'll have to send
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 04:22:37PM +1100, Richard Blackburn wrote:
Will there be a SLUG meeting this month? The web page is still posting
information about the Nov. 24 meeting.
If I remember correctly (and not even being on the commitie), the meeting is going to
be earlier in the week, because
Sluggers,
This problem has been manifesting itself since i upgraded slinky (NFS server,
amongst other things) to 2.2.18
Sometimes, i get "quota for user: none" when there blantantly is, but this is
just making me more worried:
slinky:~# quota steven
Disk quotas for user steven (uid
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:50:30PM +1100, Dave Fitch wrote:
ok thanks very much Jeff and chesty, apt-cache was the magic
command I was looking for.
I didn't run dselect on purpose, it was part of installing.
I picked the "advanced" installation option first off,
and got presented with
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 09:23:35PM +1100, Jason Rennie wrote:
At 07:11 PM 28/12/00 +1100, Alan Lee wrote:
.. I think I might go.
Can I bring a girl? Or will she be swamped with men who sit behind computers
all day and dont see ladys? heh.. :)
There is no meeting. If you would like
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:09:13PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who="Steve Kowalik"
I don't know about organising an informal one, but i just might go nuts
because there is no meeting. :-)
Any reason why there isn't one?
It's the Last Days of the Twentieth Centur
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:44:40PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
"Adam F. Bogacki" wrote:
Thanks Terry,
I'll give up on that one.
Because you didn't buy a boxed set, you don't have a product number to
enter.
You can upgrade RH6.2 to RH7.0 in a number of ways.
My preferred
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 09:43:02AM +1100, Dave Kempe wrote:
mount /mnt/cdrom
rpm -FUvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/*
reboot
(What the "F" does is "Only upgrade if the package is already
installed")
You also find that rpm will take an __age__ to generate the
dependiences file.
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:22:00PM +1000, Steven Kerr wrote:
I noticed the following entries in my /var/log/messages log file
Dec 23 12:00:01 voyager modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108
Dec 23 12:00:01 voyager modprobe: can't locate module ppp0
Seen it before, can't remember how I
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:03:12AM +1100, Peter wrote:
I want to block ICQ access from any machine on my network between the
hrs of xx00hrs and yy00hrs.
I am masq using a box running kernal 2.2.6
Any ideas how I can best do this ??
I tend to use (as well as rm'ing ip_masq_icq.o)
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:26:14PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
James Wilkinson wrote:
snipski
And to top it off today, I've just received a duplicate of every mail
I've ever received between mid Sept and mid October (so far). This
includes stuff that was deleted from the inbox and trash.
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:17:41AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
snip/snip
I always run fetchmail feeding into the local mailserver (qmail in my
case) rather than delivering to a MDA. It's recommended as more reliable
by the man page because fetchmail gets an ack that the mail has been
received
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:46:22AM -0500, Daniel Hogan wrote:
Hi, I'm sorry to bother you but I need some assistance with NFS in Suse's version of
Linux. I have edited the /etc/exports file, got the corrects daemons running but
when i type (on the client) mount my ip:/dev/hdb6 /newhd
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 01:19:40PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who="Jim Hague"
MS seem to have been comprehensively hacked - check out
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_993000/993826.stm.
What really gets up my inner ear about all this is the way it has been
Jon,
Read the NFS HOWTO (easiest way) and man 5 exports...
Steve
"First, it's done on UNIX, then done on Windows. It's always the way..."
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Jon Biddell wrote:
How do I mount a remote filesystem to appear as part
Guys,
ihug is trialing ADSL as well, so there is a choice coming.
Steve
"First, it's done on UNIX, then done on Windows. It's always the way..."
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Jason Rennie wrote:
By the way, assuming I'll be connecting to
Sluggers,
Nahhhi'm no old foggie :)
I'm only 19, give me a break :)
But, I have an uncanny memory about early computers, and
stuff :)
Steve
"First, it's done on UNIX, then done on Windows. It's always the
Graeme,
Happens to all of us :) (Just ask George) You say, "Bugger it,
i'll mail Slug about it," and exactly 5 seconds later, you find a web page
explaining all about it...
Oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles...
Steve
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