Re: [SLUG] Oh Complier ... where out thou?

2003-09-16 Thread Glen Turner
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:37, John Clarke wrote: [nice summary snipped] To add a new directory into $PATH: PATH=$PATH:/new/directory export PATH or: PATH=/new/directory:$PATH export PATH depending upon whether you want it to be searched first or last. I've found it

[SLUG] installing Tcl

2003-09-16 Thread Lucas King
hello, i have RH9 install on my PC. it has been running fine for the last several months. i am now attempting to install Expect. in order for that to happen i need to install Tcl. i have found the Tcl/tk rpm files on the install disks which i have attempted to install using the RPM package

Re: [SLUG] installing Tcl

2003-09-16 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:56:48PM +1000, Lucas King wrote: i have RH9 install on my PC. it has been running fine for the last several months. i am now attempting to install Expect. in order for that to happen i need to install Tcl. i have found the Tcl/tk rpm files on the install

Re: [SLUG] Re: Verisign wildcard DNS hijacks .net and .com for advertising purposes

2003-09-16 Thread Martin
$author = Ian Wienand ; True -- i didn't realise this. For those interested, seems to be a requirement of RFC974. I wonder what prompted the author to give the 'benefit of the doubt' to servers with no MX records? Historical reasons? it's basically a graceful faliure mode in the absence

Re: [SLUG] Re: Verisign wildcard DNS hijacks .net and .com for advertising purposes

2003-09-16 Thread Martin
$author = Ian Wienand ; although there is a dummy SMTP server at that IP, I'd say that is there because if it wasn't, other than getting an error you'd get timeouts. But futher, there is no MX record so mail should never get that far. if there is a typo in your zone file then the following

Re: [SLUG] Re: Verisign wildcard DNS hijacks .net and .com for advertising purposes

2003-09-16 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:17, Martin wrote: it's basically a graceful faliure mode in the absence of MX records. Somewhat more - it means that if you send mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', it will, by default, be delivered to that specific machine. MX records then allow the consolidation of mail

Re: [SLUG] Re: Verisign wildcard DNS hijacks .net and .com for advertising purposes

2003-09-16 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:21, Martin wrote: this also breaks tests used in antispam configurations (ie. postfix's reject_unknown_sender_domain) So, any bets on how much the spammers paid verisign to do this? Rob -- GPG key available at: http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt.

[SLUG] Too early for easy PDA Linux installs?

2003-09-16 Thread mick
Hi All, I have an ACER n20w palm computer and given that I'm running Linux on my laptop, I want to be able to run Linux on my palm. I was hoping there was a cut down Redhat distro or something similar. Also, where would I find sync software and the like. Lastly, will Windows CE and Redhat sync

Re: [SLUG] Too early for easy PDA Linux installs?

2003-09-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=mick I have an ACER n20w palm computer and given that I'm running Linux on my laptop, I want to be able to run Linux on my palm. I was hoping there was a cut down Redhat distro or something similar. Also, where would I find sync software and the like. handhelds.org - you usually

[SLUG] CUPS Printing Garbage

2003-09-16 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All, I'm running CUPS on a RedHat 7.3 box. The printer in question is a HP OfficeJet Pro 1150 Colour (non-postscript printer). I've setup 2 queues. One is a Raw queue (for Windows printing via IPP) and another queue using a PPD file for Linux printing. The Windows printing by IPP works fine,

[SLUG] Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-09-16 Thread Russell Davie
Hi all Linux runs the athlon 1.2GHz in this box to a steamy 46.5C , while in w'doz with CPUCool is a much cooler 32C. Without CPUCool, w'doz runs at ~same temp as linux: 46.4C. This is with kernel compiled for athlon from 2.4.19-16mdk, and with no load. I thought linux put the processor into

[SLUG] Samba PDC with windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread pesoy misak
Dear All I have setup samba that suppose to be a PDC Controller I have setup according to the Manual and the http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/samba which are good tutorials here are all the list of all my smb.conf [global] workgroup = mynetwork netbios name = debianserver

Re: [SLUG] Re: Verisign wildcard DNS hijacks .net and .com for advertising purposes

2003-09-16 Thread Stewart
here's an interesting take on it from the mimedefang mailing list: (this thing is the talk of the town...) On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 10:20 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: For now, I suggest just waiting and seeing. Once a large number of spammers start sending mail from faked domains, the

[SLUG] Re: CUPS Printing Garbage

2003-09-16 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Replying to my own message... :) There are two possible drivers you can use with CUPS for my printer; cdj850 or cdj550. I kept using the 850 one. I just tried the 550 and it worked fine so all is well. Thanks anyway :) Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Font problem

2003-09-16 Thread Nick Croft
* Adam Bogacki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: (Missing character set ISO8859-1) Warning: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* I'd also like to load ISO8859-1 font to give me Polish accents ... Hey Adam, 1) Get more fonts.

Re: [SLUG] Too early for easy PDA Linux installs?

2003-09-16 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:31, Jeff Waugh wrote: Lastly, will Windows CE and Redhat sync if the palm remains on the windows OS and how does one install a cradle under Evolution (the piolt settings didn't seem to work). Well, fortunately you're not using a Palm, it's a Windows CE PDA. Palm

[SLUG] Slug, Brit and Madonna rehearsed it! CJCgRdwY4TNvxEOet0yO0tgYj3RIM7qp

2003-09-16 Thread danw
Title: Britney Spears went nuts.. totally! So you watched the MTV VMA. Yes they frenched, we all saw it. But have you seen the *real* thing? Madonna and Britney rehearsed their kiss half a dozen times, under very tight security. And yes, they planned to show way more skin than MTV

Re: [SLUG] Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-09-16 Thread Brad Kowalczyk
Russell Davie wrote: Linux runs the athlon 1.2GHz in this box to a steamy 46.5C This is hot? My athlon (xp1600+) consistantly runs in the mid to high fifties and creeps into the high sixties and (rarely) low seventies on a hot summers day (on Windows XP also). This is despite having a larger

[SLUG] Emacs custom languages

2003-09-16 Thread Andy Eager
Hi all, Anyone know how to write a syntax checker for a new language under emacs? I want to use emacs to write code in a custom language (called Interactive Audio Scripting - IAS). I have designed the language written an interpreter for it, but would like emacs to do some syntax highlighting

Re: [SLUG] Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-09-16 Thread Oscar Plameras
Russell Davie wrote: Linux runs the athlon 1.2GHz in this box to a steamy 46.5C This is hot? My athlon (xp1600+) consistantly runs in the mid to high fifties and creeps into the high sixties and (rarely) low seventies on a hot summers day (on Windows XP also). This is despite having a

Re: [SLUG] Samba PDC with windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Mike MacCana
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, pesoy misak wrote: login box has been displayed and I type the user and the password said the access denied To add a computer to a domain, you need the permission of a domain admin account - or, on a Linux box, the root user. Add the machine to the domain as root (with the

Re: [SLUG] installing Tcl

2003-09-16 Thread Lucas King
many thanks, it worked. regards, Luke John Clarke wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:56:48PM +1000, Lucas King wrote: i have RH9 install on my PC. it has been running fine for the last several months. i am now attempting to install Expect. in order for that to happen i need to install

[SLUG] Fwd: CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH

2003-09-16 Thread Declan Ingram
FYI: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:44:19 -0400 From: CERT Advisory [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer

Re: [SLUG] Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-09-16 Thread Brad Kowalczyk
Oscar Plameras wrote: Russell Davie wrote: Linux runs the athlon 1.2GHz in this box to a steamy 46.5C This is hot? My athlon (xp1600+) consistantly runs in the mid to high fifties and creeps into the high sixties and (rarely) low seventies on a hot summers day (on Windows XP also).

Re: [SLUG] Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew Walker
Brad Kowalczyk wrote: Oscar Plameras wrote: Russell Davie wrote: Linux runs the athlon 1.2GHz in this box to a steamy 46.5C This is hot? My athlon (xp1600+) consistantly runs in the mid to high fifties and creeps into the high sixties and (rarely) low seventies on a hot summers day

Re: [SLUG] Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew Walker
Andrew Walker wrote: Brad Kowalczyk wrote: Oscar Plameras wrote: Russell Davie wrote: Linux runs the athlon 1.2GHz in this box to a steamy 46.5C This is hot? My athlon (xp1600+) consistantly runs in the mid to high fifties and creeps into the high sixties and (rarely) low seventies

Re: [SLUG] Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-09-16 Thread Tony Green
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 12:10, Andrew Walker wrote: SNIP 50 Lines of reply also try http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/download/FVCool103.tar.gz seemed to work on my new motherboard 50 uncut lines to 2 lines of new posting. PLEASE CUT DOWN YOUR QUOTING QUOTA -- Tony Green [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] two intractable problems

2003-09-16 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
For the benefit of the hair of future generations, moving the cable modem and the power point it plugs into away from the PC in question appears to have fixed the problem. Why it wasn't a problem for the first 18 months of operation remains a mystery to this reporter. Does Debian radiate more

[SLUG] realtek 8169 gigabit nic

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew Walker
Has anyone gotten one of these cards to work properly in linux on a via motherboard? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: Font problems

2003-09-16 Thread Adam Bogacki
Thanks, ... more or less following your instructions ... Tux:# find -name xlsfonts -print ./home/cyberia/X11R6/bin/xlsfonts ./usr/X11R6/bin/xlsfonts Tux:/usr/X11R6/bin# vi xlsfonts [a lot of '@' characters in blue, presumably denoting binaries and ...] xlsfonts [Incomplete last line}

[SLUG] Re: Font problem

2003-09-16 Thread Adam Bogacki
... just to add that apt-get install chfontpath findfont E: Couldn't find package chkfontpath and E: Couldn't find package findfont ... what would be the correct pkg ? Also, Tux:/# find -name ~/.gtkrc -print Tux:/# Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Samba PDC with windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Phil Scarratt
pesoy misak wrote: Dear All I have setup samba that suppose to be a PDC Controller I have setup according to the Manual and the http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/samba which are good tutorials here are all the list of all my smb.conf [global] workgroup = mynetwork netbios name =

Re: [SLUG] Re: Font problems

2003-09-16 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 13:16, Adam Bogacki wrote: Thanks, ... more or less following your instructions ... Tux:# find -name xlsfonts -print ./home/cyberia/X11R6/bin/xlsfonts ./usr/X11R6/bin/xlsfonts Sorry, I should have been a bit clearer; I meant running the command xlsfonts. :-)

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting Friday 26 September 2003

2003-09-16 Thread Peter Hardy
Sydney Linux Users' Group Monthly Meeting: September When: Friday, September 26, 6:30pm - 9:00 pm Where: UTS Broadway - http://www.slug.org.au/events/uts.html SLUG's monthly meeting, featuring general talks, special interest talks and SLUGlets. Open to the public and free of charge. The

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH

2003-09-16 Thread David
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Declan Ingram wrote: CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH Original release date: September 16, 2003 Last revised: -- Source: CERT/CC A complete revision history can be found at the end of this file. Systems Affected

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew McNaughton
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David wrote: 2: how do I figure out the version number of ssh there doesn't seem to be a -v option of anything equally sensible :( Telnet to the ssh port just like everyone else out there will be doing. Andrew -- No added Sugar. Not tested on animals. May contain

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH

2003-09-16 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:30:02PM +1000, David wrote: 2: how do I figure out the version number of ssh there doesn't seem to be a -v option of anything equally sensible :( There is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ssh -V OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f Not being a

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH

2003-09-16 Thread David Kempe
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:30:02PM +1000, David wrote: 1: what is the thinking about running apt-get update, upgrade as a cron in order to make sure that I don't miss any security updates? just make sure your sources.list only has security lines. main lines are ok as well on stable as

Re: [SLUG] Samba PDC with windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread David Kempe
tyhpe net use /delete * at the cmd prompt to do that. You might have hidden connections as well dave On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:42:26PM +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: you need to disconnect any mapped network drives before attempting to do so -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

[SLUG] gnome-core uninstallable --bug?

2003-09-16 Thread Adam Bogacki
... seems to be a bug in the file-roller install. Ideas anyone ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Setting up file-roller (2.4.0.1-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/file-roller.postinst: line 6: 858 Segmentation fault s crollkeeper-update -q dpkg: error processing file-roller (--configure):