Re: [SLUG] Mounting a zip file?

2002-02-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 10:48, Steve Downing wrote: crazy crack idea Is it possible to mount a zip/gzip/bzip file as part of the filesystem, so it gets decompressed on the fly and only when needed? Similar to mounting an iso from a file I guess. I have a 20Meg docs folder which I don't

RE: [SLUG] Shocking Service

2002-02-23 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 11:01, Nicholas Reese wrote: I agree with Paul, those guys were really pathetic and arrogant - I put forward that we should put it to all the restaurants in the area that they can put in a bid for our custom - see who is willing to give us the best deal for our money (

[SLUG] Toshiba laptop

2002-02-22 Thread Ken Foskey
My kernel now boots. I did not have ext3 compiled into the kernel I had it as a module. slap forehead (Jeff from archives) I can load the network module insmod xircom_cb and it appears to load however there is no eth0. It was defined to tulip (2.2 kernel) originally however I cannot figure

[SLUG] [Fwd: [Syd-Wireless] Wyong Amateur Radio Field Day]

2002-02-22 Thread Ken Foskey
There might be a few not on the sydney wireless list, so thought I would pass this along. KenF http://sydneywireless.com (for registering for the map) http://sydney.air.net.au(for the mailing list) -Forwarded Message- From: Jon Teh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] tap0 network device

2002-02-21 Thread Ken Foskey
I am having problems connecting my laptop up. I have a tap0 interface on ifconfig with the wrong IP address and I cannot figure out how to get rid of it to bring up my proper network settings. Of course ifdown tap0 says huh??? in computer speak. Any suggestions?? /dev/tap0 is crw not a

Re: [SLUG] tap0 network device

2002-02-21 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 23:40, Crossfire wrote: Ken Foskey was once rumoured to have said: I am having problems connecting my laptop up. I have a tap0 interface on ifconfig with the wrong IP address and I cannot figure out how to get rid of it to bring up my proper network settings

Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] *NEWS!!!* Only slightly off topic! RMS comesto Aus!!!

2002-02-16 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 21:25, Kevin Waterson wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 23:01:04 +1100 James Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Expressions of interest please, only firm 'yes I will turn up responses' are wanted at this stage so I can give rms the numbers of firm responses. Yes I

[SLUG] Patrick Mougin for treasurer

2002-02-16 Thread Ken Foskey
I wish to nominate Patrick for Treasurer. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Potato Win XP compatibility

2002-02-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 16:11, Steve Downing wrote: At Wednesday, 13 February 2002, you wrote: AFAIK the secret is to choose a Bootloader which can understand NTFS partitions and boot them. The LILO that comes with Potato can't (from memory). Niether could CHOS ( I haven't updated it in a

[SLUG] Que... LInux locks up...

2002-02-14 Thread Ken Foskey
Just found this on another list. Might be of interest to slug. No guarantees on accuracy. -Forwarded Message- From: Scott Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [discuss] linux vs win32 Date: 12 Feb 2002 16:13:57 -0600 Recently there was a thing about the

Re: [SLUG] President nomination

2002-02-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 16:00, Crossfire wrote: I would like to nominate Craige McWhirter for the position of SLUG President. seconded... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] (fwd) Inquiry

2002-02-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 14:03, David Kempe wrote: however I have struck a problem that I haven't been able to solve. I want to install WordPerfect and Star Office in the Linux partition, and for the last couple of months (off and on) have been trying unsuccessfully to do so from a disk that

Re: [SLUG] swat redhat 7.1

2002-02-13 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 11:51, Christopher Booth wrote: If I remember rightly, it's either swat or webmin that uses https instead of http try https://localhost:901 also try using linuxconf to configure Thanks for the suggestion. swat on deb runs without the https, in fact it just sits

[SLUG] swat redhat 7.1

2002-02-12 Thread Ken Foskey
We finally have a Linux server at work. WoooHooo... We have installed swat rpm in the box, checked xinetd settings it appears to open 901 to comms and services is set to 901 as per the man page. kill -1 xinetd to make sure it refreshs. mozilla localhost:901 fails. telnet localhost 901

[SLUG] cups colour and a vimrc trick

2002-02-09 Thread Ken Foskey
First the trick, Jeff might like this for his .vimrc. I have been reading manuals again. set printexpr=PrintFile(v:fname_in) function PrintFile(fname) call system(qtcups . a:fname) call delete(a:fname) return v:shell_error endfunc Calls

RE: [SLUG] lesstiff mozilla

2002-01-29 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 13:16, Chris Barnes wrote: Sorry, my missunderstanding. Its a Mozilla/Netscape bug, not Xfree. -Original Message- From: Chris Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] does that apply to Xfree v4 or only the older versions? This applies to Xfree4, there is a

[SLUG] lesstiff mozilla

2002-01-28 Thread Ken Foskey
I was reading xfree86 for linux ($20 from DFO homebush) and it said that there was a bug in netscape that sometimes it would stop accepting input and you simply switch to another program and back again and it would start working again. I have noticed this bug in Mozilla (latest release) and

[SLUG] Filesystem update

2002-01-27 Thread Ken Foskey
*Advanced filesystem implementor's guide, Part 9: Introducing XFS With the 2.4 release of Linux come many new filesystem possibilities, including Reiserfs, XFS, GFS, and others. These filesystems sound cool, but what exactly can they do, what are they good at, and exactly how do you go

[SLUG] 2.4.19 bootup over 2.2.18pre ext2

2002-01-27 Thread Ken Foskey
My laptop has debian from ages past 2.2.18pre1 and I have just upgraded to woody. I want to put in the new kernel however when I boot the new kernel 2.4.19 it says my harddisk superblock is corrupt. I have compiled in ext2 directly into the kernel (not a module). I have put in ext3 to

Re: [SLUG] Phoenix BASIC

2002-01-21 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 23:53, Heracles wrote: Thought I'd have a play with this. It's supposed to be similar to Visual BASIC but the copy I installed with my distribution (SuSE 7.1) starts and then disappears without trace - no log nothing. I downloaded the newer version and compiled and

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice vs OpenOffice

2002-01-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 00:39, Stephan Borg wrote: B. Differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org * The source code available at OpenOffice.org does not consist of all of the StarOffice code. Usually, the reason for this is that Sun pays to license third party code to include

Re: [SLUG] bison gurus

2002-01-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 00:43, Pete Ryland wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:02:36AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: Bison is used in open office, my clue factor is zero on this. Debian Woody recently upgraded bison to 1.31 and it appears to have broken the bison command line parameters

Re: [SLUG] bison gurus

2002-01-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 16:21, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Ken Foskey wrote: bison -d -o ../../unxlngi3.pro/inc/../../unxlngi3.pro/inc/rscyacc.yxx rscyacc.y messages are: rscyacc.y contains 2 shift/reduce conflicts. This means there is some ambiguity

[SLUG] bison gurus

2002-01-19 Thread Ken Foskey
Bison is used in open office, my clue factor is zero on this. Debian Woody recently upgraded bison to 1.31 and it appears to have broken the bison command line parameters. this is what happens: bison -d -o output input THe old system would create output.h (header file for most programs)

Re: [SLUG] Word processing files

2002-01-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 11:52, Alan L Tyree wrote: I am using StarOffice 5.2 which shows amendments made in revision mode. I have just discovered that when there are layers of amendments, SO doesn't show them properly. Word shows amendments in different colours depending on the source of the

Re: [SLUG] any tool like debug.exe under dos

2002-01-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 19:19, henry wrote: Dears: Who know any tool under linux like debug.exe under dos? gdb? If you are using X try ddd. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] An impossible X11 dream?

2002-01-15 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 23:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Heh. I remember that FrameMaker under X won't even let you paste into the file open text field by *any* means. StarOffice 5.2 and 6.0 beta suffer the same deficiency.) The middle button paste was resolved in Open Office 641. Gnome

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Someone subscribe me to linux-kernel

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 08:56, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: subscribe linux-kernel [EMAIL PROTECTED] That won't work. It will still test the address and reject it. Buy an email address from someone like spamcop.net and subscribe from there. Has the added bonus of filtering the crap out as

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla Spell Check

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 14:46, Paul Copeland wrote: Hi All, The other night I downloaded Mozilla 0.9.7. I went for the typical install with just Navigator, Mail and News. I have found, however, that there does not seem to be a spell checker for out going e-mails. Is this the case for the

Re: [SLUG] An impossible X11 dream?

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 22:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the many things I have on my list of `Things To Have A Go At One Day', is to read carefully through the X manuals and see if there's a way to provide keyboard shortcuts (like Alt-X, Alt-C, Alt-V) as keyboard shortcuts for Cut, Copy,

Re: [SLUG] Linux Small Business

2002-01-08 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 22:38, Michael Lake wrote: I get lots of M$ Word files for the Royal Society of NSW Journal that I edit and typeset. I use SO5.2 but find that some tables don't get converted properly and often smart quotes will become ^W. I have to be particularly careful in

Re: RE: [SLUG] Linux Small Business

2002-01-06 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 00:02, Howard Lowndes wrote: I have a friend who is a Sydney QC and would like to get his practice off M$, but his main arguement is that all his business associates who deal with him want to transfer material in M$ Office. Yes, I know that SO with do M$ Office, but

Re: [SLUG] Slackware anybody?

2002-01-05 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 19:55, Penguin wrote: Yeah I will be having ISDN 128K installed next week, and this is the reason I'm getting more paranoid. Several people I trust who know a lot about Linux and stuff have suggested exactly what you do, to use an old 486 as a firewall. What's NAT?

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Internet --- 486 firewall NAT --- Workstation

2002-01-05 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 20:27, James wrote: If it was too long for the subject line: Internet --- 486 firewall NAT --- Workstation On your side of the firewall you have a private network. There is an RFC defining this but it is either 10.?.?.? or 192.168.0.? (172 as well from memory).

[SLUG] [OT] Internet --- 486 firewall NAT --- Workstation

2002-01-05 Thread Doug Foskey
I am a country user. I approached Telstra re ISDN, but unfortunately the service was not available on our (small) exchange. My question for others, however is: Who in the major providers, will do DOV, as when I spoke to them, no-one knew anything about it. (The small providers are too

[SLUG] evolution and optushome

2002-01-04 Thread Ken Foskey
I still cannot deliver mail from evolution. Evolution has two options SMTP or sendmail Mozilla is set up as pop3 delivery not SMTP. (I am using Mozilla to put out stuff and receiving on evolution). SMTP has two ways of setting up, with and without password. Without password does not

[SLUG] evolution and optushome

2002-01-04 Thread Ken Foskey
name: foskey Remember password: yes NOte that the message does not change with or without password required, KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] evolution and optushome

2002-01-04 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 12:28, Andre Pang wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:25:14AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: SMTP server does not support requested authentication type PLAIN. Ken, I have a feeling you're using the wrong SMTP server. Try using mail-optushome.optusnet.com.au. Do not use

[SLUG] Evolution - outgoing to pop server

2002-01-03 Thread Ken Foskey
Ok I imported my mozilla files individually to evolution. I had to create a file as a link to the messages .mozilla folder and then spent about two hours importing my complex mail set up. How do I do outgoing mail I cannot set up outgoing directly to mail.optushome.com.au, it will not

[SLUG] Evolution - HOw do I import Mozilla mails

2002-01-02 Thread Ken Foskey
OK Mozilla is crashing when I reply twice.I installed evolution and it now works but it will not import Mozilla mail. ANy work arounds? I read the FAQ there did not appear to be anything. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Re: [OT] Hard disk wipe / file shredders etc

2001-12-26 Thread Ken Foskey
Ross Mitchell wrote: I hope this helps Before those of you go into great hysterics. What Ross is talking about is theoretically possible, practically impossible. A harddisk that has been in use for a while has so many jumps about it is difficult to simply string a file

[SLUG] : Accounting software

2001-12-22 Thread Doug Foskey
I am also wishing to remove my accounting from the dreaded M$ area. I am currently using Quicken (which does the job adequately) I have looked at the 'Ledger' project, but it is a bit beyond my limited accounting abilities. (However there are some Aussie businesses using this

Re: [SLUG] SLUG: Accounting software

2001-12-21 Thread Ken Foskey
Internet User wrote: Your suggestions and help if you would please. First try is run myob under wine. You could try running MYOB under win4lin. You need a windows 95 license / cd in order to install then you would be running the windows stuff. There are a couple of accounting packages

[SLUG] [Fwd: Installing Debian]

2001-12-20 Thread Ken Foskey
Volunteers. Original Message Subject: Installing Debian Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:29:55 -0500 (EST) From: Guylhem Aznar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Lisa M. Opus Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] An upcoming book called Installing Debian needs proofreaders. You

Re: [SLUG] Keeping up with Kernel releases?

2001-12-10 Thread Ken Foskey
Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: My opinion here is that it's important to really know what level of risk you are comfortable with what level of risk you are comfortable with. Watch the relase announcements carefully. When the maintainer or the person supplying the patches says be careful, this is a

[SLUG] help my kernel does not have sound, I have tried and I get this....

2001-12-05 Thread Ken Foskey
Do I sound like a newbie yet... KenF gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DUTS_MACHINE='i386' -c -o init/version.o

[SLUG] Debian open office port available plus interesting comment

2001-12-04 Thread Ken Foskey
Original Message Subject: Re: [discuss] Are we freeing MS Windows? Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:46:53 +0100 From: Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Ken Foskey [011203 12:33]: apt-get install mutt Redcarpet is pretty good

Re: [SLUG] OT: Budget AMD System / Cheap Motherboards !

2001-11-28 Thread Ken Foskey
James Newburrie wrote: Well - I think that I prefer Gigabyte with AMD - in my experience (admitidly mostly with Microsoft based networks) they are more stable. I freely admit that I have only been using linux solidly for the past couple of months - and I am using a simple distribution,

Re: [SLUG] Dummy phone line for installfests?

2001-11-26 Thread Ken Foskey
Ken Caldwell wrote: Perhaps the SLUG committee could consider the purchase of a RingMaster PRO for use at installfests. That way a dummy ISP could be simulated and Newbies could set up ppp. Later they would probably have only to change their username, password and the ISP's phone number to get

Re: [SLUG] Executing M$ / Macs Apps remotely

2001-11-26 Thread Ken Foskey
Richard Hayes wrote: 2. Has anyone used VNC to control a remote desktop / apps under Xwindows. I use vnc across a VPN to work onto my Windoze box. I have to use it because it runs ccmail which is an ancient mail client windows only. Sometimes looses refresh but there is a refresh

Re: [SLUG] MOzzila wont let me type into google

2001-11-25 Thread Ken Foskey
I just downloaded Mozilla 0.9.6 and when I type an F in google it open up a bookmark management screen. Anyone tried it, or any hints. This sounds like: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103197 I have added my vote. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Advice on coding in VI ?

2001-11-23 Thread Ken Foskey
Matt - wrote: I have recently spent some time in learning the VI editor for unix and would be interested in hearing from some developers on some intermediate to advanced key combinations for increasing speed ? Perhaps you have seen a common feature missed by VI newbies. I bought the

Re: [SLUG] MOzzila wont let me type into google

2001-11-23 Thread Ken Foskey
David Kempe wrote: Perhaps your Atl or Ctrl key is stuck Works fine on some pages like banking (https ???), not on others. No cigar. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] MOzzila wont let me type into google

2001-11-22 Thread Ken Foskey
I just downloaded Mozilla 0.9.6 and when I type an F in google it open up a bookmark management screen. Anyone tried it, or any hints. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: slug digest, Vol 1 #1422 (Bios Upgrade...)

2001-11-21 Thread Doug Foskey
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:26, you wrote: Send slug mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If U want to use 40G HDD with old bios, you can get a Diskmanager 2000 driver. This loads into the boot area, and translates the drive. I am not sure what capacity the O/S sees from

Re: [SLUG] debian hacked

2001-11-19 Thread Ken Foskey
Matthew Clark wrote: I would be blocking arp requests from outside my network. Try this and if you are still getting crap then maybe you have problems, but I think it is just a chatty windows box (on the optus network) looking to resolve an ip address. I also get tonnes of them when I run

[SLUG] debian hacked

2001-11-16 Thread Ken Foskey
My gateway is sending stuff to the cable modem even when the eth0 is shut down. When I shut the whole thing down it stops. tcpdump tells me I am currently walking the dns for optus, somehow. Is there a fast way to check the whole box from the mirror server without starting from scratch.

Re: [SLUG] debian hacked

2001-11-16 Thread Ken Foskey
Matthew Clark wrote: How much stuff? Could it be ntp/dhcp/other stuff? My only suggestion is to look at exactly what the traffic is. I am not a debian user so I can't help you with that side of it. Maybe post some of the tcpdump stuff? arp who-has 211.28.46.140.optus.net.au tell

[SLUG] tags for gcc

2001-11-15 Thread Ken Foskey
Can someone tell me the magic tags for gcc compiler. In open office I want to remove the #pragmas for all gcc compilers. In borlkadc it is __BORANDC__ of rIBM mainframe it is __HOS_MVS__.I have seen it in the docs somewhere but I cannot find it again. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Opening DOCs with WP8 on RH7.1

2001-11-13 Thread Ken Foskey
Terry Collins wrote: Since going to WP8 on RH7.1, I've not been able to open MS Word docs. Does anyone know what is the cause. I get something like filtrix can not open it. ADV Get open office, it has an excellent score on importing and exporting to word.

Re: [SLUG] How to type ^M

2001-11-12 Thread Ken Foskey
Michael Covi wrote: Does anyone know how to type ^M so it appears as the actual control character? I was stuck trying to convert some scripts from dos to unix format on a very small root filesystem. It did have sed but how the hell do you type in the character to match it and eliminate it?

Re: [SLUG] strip email addresses

2001-10-31 Thread Ken Foskey
Kevin Waterson wrote: Rick Welykochy wrote: Kevin Waterson wrote: I have a bunch of xls files I need to get the email addresses from anyone have a quick one liner? Use open office, save it as a csv, then do what you will. You can script OO.If think the key phrase is UDK... KenF

[SLUG] Thanks for the meeting

2001-10-27 Thread Ken Foskey
I would like to thank the speakers at this months meeting. To summarise: We had a report of a Linux install in a school. Now for those not in the know there are some 'issues' with getting a school over, they get delivered free M$ software because of a contract by the Dept of Education and

Re: [SLUG] Corrupt deb system.

2001-10-23 Thread Ken Foskey
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Ken Foskey My system died and perl libraries have been corrupted. /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm has too many errors. Debian, how do I force a reinstall on these libraries? Well, I'm not Debian, but I think I can answer your question for him/her

[SLUG] Corrupt deb system.

2001-10-22 Thread Ken Foskey
My system died and perl libraries have been corrupted. /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm has too many errors. Debian, how do I force a reinstall on these libraries? Ta KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Print Screen to clipboard in Linux

2001-10-19 Thread Ken Foskey
Jeff Waugh wrote: You can't do it from the clipboard directly as yet, though I'm sure it would just be a matter of OpenOffice support for sucking in the image data were it put on the clipboard in the first place. Sounds like an issue with Open Office. PLease raise one, KenF -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] CodeFest Not On This Weekend

2001-10-19 Thread Ken Foskey
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Steve C McConnell, Code Complete : A Practical Handbook of Software Construction Steve Maguire, Writing Solid Code : Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs Steve C McConnell, Rapid Development : Taming Wild Software Schedules Steve

Re: [SLUG] Multithreading vs. Forks

2001-09-30 Thread Ken Foskey
Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote: 1) If you think your program requires multithreading, 99% of the time, you're wrong. 2) If you /still/ think your program requires multithreading, see point 1. Rubbish, threading is needed in a lot of applications. For example web servers or even web query

Re: [SLUG] Multithreading vs. Forks

2001-09-30 Thread Ken Foskey
Andrew Bennetts wrote: I was under the impression that a different thread *is* a different context... it has its own stack, its own registers, and probably can have its own memory address space too. They're basically like processes, except they tend to share an awful lot of their memory with

Re: [SLUG] Re: Login problem help!

2001-09-27 Thread Ken Foskey
Tom Massey wrote: And it may have changed in Mandrake 8.1 which has apparently just hit the ftp servers. Downloaded ready for the install fest. We will cut a Mandrake 8.1 CD on the day. Cue: Craige... KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Smoothwall

2001-09-26 Thread Ken Foskey
Bob Hubbard wrote: A few days ago someone mentioned smoothwall so I followed it up. A link goes to forceforge.net but I can't seem to download after selecting the compressed tarball. Is there another site I can use. I am presently running Bastille...is there a big difference.

Re: [SLUG] Samba on a subnet Unable to find network

2001-09-26 Thread Ken Foskey
Minh Van Le wrote: Has anybody had Unable to find network on a windows box when trying to connect to a Samba share on a subnet ? It's a funny problem because the netbios name of the Samba server registers on the network neighbourhood browse list. When I click on the machine name, it

Re: [SLUG] Hang on FTP connections

2001-09-26 Thread Ken Foskey
Minh Van Le wrote: Are there other ways to debug these sorts of problems ? Should I use tcpdump ? Given the previous message I would try ping first KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Router/firewall

2001-09-25 Thread Ken Foskey
Jon Biddell wrote: Don't know about the SMC unit, `but I'm sure there are a number of SLUGgers who would be only too glad to dispose of a 486 for this purpose... Some might even PAY you to take them away...:-) I have one with a stuffed battery, if you never switch it off this is not a

Re: [SLUG] a pop keep on server mail client

2001-09-25 Thread Ken Foskey
Peter Rundle wrote: I'll have a look at Open Office. Last time I tried it it printing didn't work which is a bit of a show stopper, but as said before does anyone have any inside info on Abiword, the site hasn't been updated for weeks, and prior to that it was going like a house on fire.

Re: [SLUG] Install Fest Reminder

2001-09-24 Thread Ken Foskey
Craige McWhirter wrote: Wanted: * Installees * Installers * Helpers * Observers * The curious * You * Power leads * Power boards * Anything I've left out See you there! Hubs swtiches and network cables. Count me in -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] CCNA

2001-09-19 Thread Ken Foskey
Minh Van Le wrote: Is CCNA worth doing these days ? I hear it's hard and expensive (?). I did a google on +ccna +sydney site:.au and turned up some broken links and seemingly dodgy sites. Is there an authoritative CCNA site ? Even a FAQ for Australian residents or something. I weigh

Re: [SLUG] Could someone check this website for me

2001-09-19 Thread Ken Foskey
Jim Hague wrote: Could someone check this website for me www.jub.com.au/books Works fine for me in Konqueror 2.1.1. Moz 0.9.4 looks OK, dont know what it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Linux format converters

2001-09-18 Thread Ken Foskey
Edwin Humphries wrote: StarOffice output is OK, but I don't want to do this manually or from a GUI - it needs to be able to called up from a command-line script. You can script OpenOffice (staroffice). I have not got that involved yet, done it for word so it should not be hard for

Re: [SLUG] Kernel

2001-09-17 Thread Ken Foskey
Adam Vaughan wrote: Hi, We have our own software that uses TCP/IP communications. Certain parameters in Redhat 7 have had to be set/changed for this software to work. Now Redhat 7.1 does not work. What are the differences in the TCP/IP implelentation between Redhat 7 and Redhat 7.1?

Re: [SLUG] identifying open relays

2001-09-15 Thread Ken Foskey
Gnuthad wrote: On 15 Sep 2001, at 15:04, Ken Foskey wrote: Rick Moen wrote: 220 uncle-enzo ESMTP Exim 3.31 #1 Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:44:17 -0700 HELO linuxmafia.com 250 uncle-enzo Hello rick at uncle-enzo [198.144.195.186] MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What happens if you use [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] identifying open relays

2001-09-14 Thread Ken Foskey
Question in situte. Rick Moen wrote: ~ $ telnet linuxmafia.com smtp Trying 198.144.195.186... Connected to uncle-enzo. Escape character is '^]'. 220 uncle-enzo ESMTP Exim 3.31 #1 Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:44:17 -0700 HELO linuxmafia.com 250 uncle-enzo Hello rick at uncle-enzo

Re: [SLUG] XFree86 badness

2001-09-12 Thread Ken Foskey
Crossfire wrote: XF86Config is still supported by XFree4 but if XF86Config-4 is found first, then that is used in prefernce to XF86Config. Of course, if you want to have both v3 and v4 installed and workable at once, you need to use the -4 suffix so you can build a valid configuration for

[SLUG] Open Office build On Debian Woody.

2001-09-12 Thread Ken Foskey
Successful build and install on Debian woody from scratch from source from CVS OO638B. Installed with warning about some missing files. It also gave me replacement warnings for a number of libraries. Nothing exceptional. Did crash on the load of Mozilla address book however. KenF --

Re: [SLUG] Samba hooks in Perl?

2001-09-11 Thread Ken Foskey
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: So the way I'm thinking of doing it is to store everything in a database with appropriate metadata attached to each file. The files can be explored through a web interface or through a heirarchical file system structure. To do this I need to be able to export it

[SLUG] freeswan and kernal config

2001-07-07 Thread Ken Foskey
I am getting an error from freeswan saying that rp_filter is set incorrectly. I cannot for the life of me figure out how this is set in the config. I can find it in the network source but I cannot see it in make menuconfig. Any tips of transparent proxy, I assume this is proxy_arp as it

Re: [SLUG] script request

2001-07-03 Thread Ken Foskey
Alister Waller wrote: Hi again, I have another script that I need, to remove some unwanted entries from a file. Is there anyone willing to assist, as it might be better to take it off the list? grep -v deletethis inputfile outputfile mv inputfile inputfile.bak mv outputfile inputfile

Re: [SLUG] Is there a SSH for Win-nt/2000?

2001-06-29 Thread Ken Foskey
Greg Wright wrote: There is a SSHD as well, not sure what use it would be at all except for the possibility of tunneling VNC which would be a good idea. I looked at the site a few weeks back, sorry do not have the URL at hand. www.freeswan.org has a page of various ipsec product for

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla Rampant

2001-06-29 Thread Ken Foskey
root wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone has ever had the same problem. I was tinkering with the Edit-Preferences in a rather frustrated effort to work out why Mozilla was not connecting to the server when it suddenly reformatted itself into thick blue vertical and red horizontal bands.Four

Re: [SLUG] Re: jdub's apt-get/sources.list

2001-06-28 Thread Ken Foskey
Jeff Waugh wrote: Galeon is now in sid, so it's commented out. What is sid??? KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Debian kernel source

2001-06-27 Thread Ken Foskey
$ dpkg -S /usr/include/linux/version.h libc6-dev: /usr/include/linux/version.h So on my Debian system that suggests that you need the development library sources for libc6. One thing that irked me a little was that I installed the kernel source for DEB and it did not require GCC and

Re: [SLUG] SCP on debian

2001-06-27 Thread Ken Foskey
Matt Hope wrote: matth@rtfm:~% apt-cache show ssh | grep Filename Filename: dists/potato/non-US/main/binary-sparc/ssh_1.2.3-9.3.deb 'ssh' is in the non-US tree, make sure you add some non-US sources to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Personally, I use deb

Re: [SLUG] Stallion epipe

2001-06-26 Thread Ken Foskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Has anyone had any experience with Stallion's epipe? I've used two to connect via ADSL and set up a VPN between the two sites but I'm hitting a brick wall with the NAT to the net. Hey, I have been reading up on FreeSwan and this I might be able to

Re: [SLUG] SCP on debian

2001-06-26 Thread Ken Foskey
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Ken Foskey I have 'apt-cache search scp' and found nothing. what is the package name? apt-get install ssh :) - Jeff First attempt was exactly that. I get 'no available version' with lots of other words. Broken set up? I only have ftp.au.debian.org

Re: [SLUG] eth0 card problem

2001-06-17 Thread Ken Foskey
Joshua Burvill wrote: Then back in linux as root, modprobe ne irq=10 io=0x340 (or whatever it is) just run modprobe ne This might locate the card for you, it did for me. irq=3 io=0x300 Thanks KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

[SLUG] debian setup

2001-06-16 Thread Ken Foskey
OK I have a debian system going, I have created a file /etc/modutils/network with: alias eth0 ne options ne io=0x300 irq=3 update-modules, reboot. (is this right??) This is the same /etc/network/interfaces as laptop and laptop works on same ethernet cable. The desktop does not work,

[SLUG] freeswan

2001-06-14 Thread Ken Foskey
I want to run a debian firewall with freeswan for internet and a VPN tunnel. IPSEC with IKE and a shared secret. This box will be built from scratch on a minimal harddisk, P100 processor. It must redirect my internal network to the internet. It will redirect specific IP addresses through

Re: [SLUG] freeswan

2001-06-14 Thread Ken Foskey
This is for me to work from home so no time limit and no quotes. They handed me a windows client on a disk, useful as tits on a bull. The other side is Raptor client, I had a look with Google and there were some old mailnotes but nothing very specific. It appears that Freeswan works with

Re: [SLUG] software audit by the dumb side

2001-06-10 Thread Ken Foskey
I do not know what you are worried about, back up the box before they arrive, let them put in their autocheckup diskette and verify all your licenses. I can guarantee that they will be very confused very quickly. Offer to help them out by giving them a complete printed GNU license for

Re: [SLUG] optus-cable debian install

2001-06-08 Thread Ken Foskey
David Kempe wrote: Hey sluggers, I have dug on google and search the archives and i can't find any answer to this specific problem. I am trying to set up a another debian box here to use as a gateway. I wanted to install directly off the web as I have a optus@home connection and no cds

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