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 tcp
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 211.28.4
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. I
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.
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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".
>
Get open office, it has an excellent score on importing and exporting
to word.
http://consultingtimes.com/SOConv
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?
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 UD
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
Matt Hope wrote:
>
>Could be that file isnt provided by the package 'perl'.
>
>Try typing...
>
>dpkg -S /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm
>
>to get the package name.
>
Linux:~# apt-get install defoma --reinstall
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages u
Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
>>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/it.
>
> dp
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
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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"
>
Ste
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
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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
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
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
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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
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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, i
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.
>
Smoo
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 fir
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
no
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
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Rick Welykochy wrote:
>
> Borland C only works in Windows.
>
> Bye bye.
Incorrect, Borlkand provides bcc that will compile a program under Linux.
It is the IDE and VCL componenets that are not available. Real soon now.
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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.
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This affects all Web page writers
There is a plugin that goes into IE that will mark pages with links
based on a set of keywords. for example if they tag 'web hosting' a
magic link will appear over every phrase 'web hosting', love might go
to a porn site, whatever.
There is a script
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
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 Ope
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 Redha
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 [198.144.195.1
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
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
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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
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
Steve Kowalik wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:03:55AM +1000, Ken Foskey uttered:
>
>>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 net
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 i
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 inpu
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.
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 w
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> Is there a ssh for windows NT/2000?
There is all manner of tools in Putty. There is also cygwin which
comes with all this stuff and a bash shell. I have been using putty at
work with solaris and beating up the AIX guys to load an sshd onto the
box as well.
KenF
Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> Galeon is now in sid, so it's commented out.
>
What is sid???
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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 http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu
>
> $ 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
Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
>>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 stab
I have 'apt-cache search scp' and found nothing.
what is the package name?
Any tips on how I find it myself?
This is so I can grab a file off my main box from my Deb FW box because
I cannot grab freeswan directly using Lynx. I am very confused.
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[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
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
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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, 'in
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 it
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 f
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
the
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
Take a look at the program analysis tool mentioned
From Open office lists
Sounds like it will be quite a nice tool. An extension to gcc to check
for common programmer errors, which can be customized via its extension
language for your project. Some details on its findings over the linux
Jeff,
I think we need a pointer to s imple discussion on what a mail client is
and a mail server is with all the anacronyms. A Bunnies guide if you like.
Second I would like a quick sheet listing all of them with a short
description of each and then a comments page association to each one.
My video has died on my main box so I cannot move to Debian. It works
fine as an X server so my trusty 486 is running everything.
The weirdest thing happened, installed second network card (PCI) and my
video totally stopped working, replaced with new card. Not even the
boot up scree
Wilson Fletcher wrote:
> Anyone got any ideas of servers in Australia that will provide access to SMS
> (via snpp ?? tap ??? ... ?).
>
> Also I got these numbers for Optus SMSC. Can anyone verify whether they will
> work ? I haven't tried them yet.
>
> Optus Australia +61-412025989
> Optus Aust
Terry Collins wrote:
> I am looking to retire my Novell 4.11 server but still need to provide
> file and print services to two WFWG clients, which will be naturally off
> a linux server.
>
> Is anyone still doing this and how?
>
> My understanding is that Samba gave up WFWG clients sometime ago
I would like an overview of the mail tools presentation given at the
meeting. I have tried to search the archives but I give up, searching
on MUTT confused the search engine with the user agent rather than the
text content (bug!) I had the flu and missed the actual presentation.
Were there
At $2 per month I consider SLUG excellent value. For those non-members
cough up!
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I have a redhat 6.2 system on a 486 and I want to run this as a pure
xterm on my system for my kids (stay out of the ^&&*(( office kids!)
How do I do this on boot up? It would be nice for it to boot directly
to the gdm sign on screen.
Thanks
KenF
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> Andy
>
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Andy Haigh wrote:
>
> > Could anyone recommend some good Samba books?
>
> If you go to the O'Reilly site at www.oreilly.com then you can
> download a free HTML or PDF version of Using Samba.
>
I have Samba in 24 hours. It certainly explained the set up of a sa
An interesting angle on this argument is the suppression of free trade.
Effectively the ATO is suppressing free trade, they are restricting you
to an interface that you must purchase.
Interesting angle two: They are not allowing minorities access to their
systems. This is basically the same a
Just reading the cdrecord setup for ATAPI it recommends that I add a
line like the last one in my lilo.conf
image = /boot/win4lin
label = cdr
read-only
root = /dev/hda3
hdc = ide-scsi
The last line, but this gives me:
Added cdr
Syntax error near
Jason,
A couple of extra's
How do I create a floppy disk from Unix.
How do I print from Unix, how do I change print settings.
KenF
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There are no real rules like any good open source project :-}
Submissions are typically made by dropping the document on a web site,
emailing the list with a review request and a URL. The problem is to
cut down the response, not the reverse.Typically they use a card
deck analogy to select
There is a group called [EMAIL PROTECTED] that can provide help with
all GNU manuals. If you own a manual and would like it to be checked,
then please submit a request to them (includes me).
This is one of the quietest lists I am on, about 8 messages in 12
months.
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I have a problem with the STLport gcc library. the program that uses is
asks for it's .so file. I tried to change ld.so.conf in /etc but it did
not appear to do anything, (no man page just a guess). I ended up
putting a symbolic link into /usr/lib.
Can someone describe how these work. Is it a
I am having a java problem and I know SFA about java. It is an open
office build.
I have a jar file:
[ken@server common]$ jar -tf db31.jar
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
./db31.jar
./com/sleepycat/examples/TpcbExample.java
./com/sleepycat/examples/LockExample.java
./com/sleepycat/examples/EnvExample.ja
My hat goes in with Terry.
I think that there is great scope for a newbies list. This list should
have predefined answers to 'which is the best distro' with input from
each camp. We KNOW that archives will not really work with newbies.
I am fairly tired of the constant just go debian push and
> Subject: [SLUG] Dial-in network browsing
> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:12:52 +1100
> From: "Alister Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Slug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to have a user dialed in to Linux Server over a PPP conection
> browse using network neighborhood as if they
To clear up matter a little:
I use gvim on windows, it has incredible depth of syntax highlighting.
I use cygnus tools on windows, I use command line a lot. You should
see those Windows boffins trying to figure out how I do du to get the
largest directory so quickly. I work around the SOE b
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Telnet timeout
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:55:53 +1100 (EST)
> From: Alexander Else <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Marty wrote:
>
> > Quick question:
> >
> > How do you increase the timeout value for telnet?
>
> Not too sure what you m
> The tech support was alright there actually. The guy I got gave me
> some vi help as well! :)
>
> Dave
You should get the Vi mug from Everything Linux. It is a great talking
point, I have had a few people trying to photocopy it :-}
It has great depth (of coffee and info).
Ken
Who uses vi
I am trying (still) to compile the open office source for GCC 2.95.2 I
get these messages:
Number 1:
cc1plus: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2'
cc1plus: Invalid option `-fpermissive'
Are these installed in other versions of GCC? Is there something that I
need to do to get these enabl
> Subject: [SLUG] Newbie Question from a Mac user - Dual Booting Win98 and Linux
> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 21:27:23 +1100
> From: Shane Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> Anyway, I have just bought myself a nice new 900MHz Athlon and 2 HDs
> and I wish to run a dual boot
Here is one for people to scratch their head on:
unsigned char ucObject[255];
memset(ucPrtLine,0,sizeof(ucPrtLine));
sfb = fiInp->afpRec.sfbPtr;
memset(ucObject,0,sizeof(ucObject));
strcpy((PCHAR) ucObject,(PCHAR) fiInp->ucOName);
if (ucObject[0] == '\xff') {
str
> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 23:15:28 +1100
> From: Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > The current version of Open Office does not have a spell check and
> > it is an 'interesting beast' to set up. It definitely is not built
> > on the normal pattern of source and configuration is not really
>
The current version of Open Office does not have a spell check and it
is an 'interesting beast' to set up. It definitely is not built on the
normal pattern of source and configuration is not really great.
Ken
PS: sorry about the double posting I keep getting scripting errors
returned to me, th
a) Does anyone have any good pointers on CD burning? Especially
binary copies
of CD's.
b) I have just installed gcc 295 from compiled source on redhat
6.2. RPM 4.0
stopped me installing :-(. Now I have installed it there are funny
things
happpening, what files to I have to tweak to find
Has anyone play with open office yet regards compiling. Any words of
wisdom because the two things I downloaded do not appear to work
together and the instructions are not helpful.
Ken
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> From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 12:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SLUG] Probs dialling to mac ppp server
>
> Hi,
> I am attempting to dial into a mac PPP server from Linux. Using
> minicom, Linux seems to dial in, but a login prompt never a
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] IPChains and DNS
> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:13:44 +1100
> From: Ken Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Sydney Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >I would think it would store ip's, as performing a dns lookup
> > everytime a packet arrives is going to be a _minor_ performa
> Subject: [SLUG] IP accounting software
> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:33:32 +1100
> From: David Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone know of any good linux software to extract traffic stats out of
> a cisco 2500?
>
> Dave
Anand p
Can anyone give me a copy of the Open office source on a CD at the next
meeting. Ten hours on a modem and a timed account is just too much for
me.
I would even be willing to pay a small fee :-}
Ken
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Erich Schulz wrote:
> You probably have an IRQ conflict, or an IO conflict. Before you go much
> farther, check the value in /proc/ioports and /proc/interrupts, to make
> sure that they do not conflict with anything else.
>
> If that is ok, try and install the module by hand first, as root type:
Gday,
I just purchased a new (secondhand) computer and I need to get the
network stuff going on it, new computer is a P350 with 100 MHz bus
RedHat 6.2. Fresh install.
I have two cards:
1. IBM etherjet ISA.This is not directly supported but I looked up
the notes in Don's network site
http
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