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Re: [Alug] Log files (/var/log/messages)
by MJ Ray 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

Laurie Brown <laurie(a)brownowl.com> writes: > certainly used to log stuff. Any ideas as to why it should stop logging? Are you sure about those permissions? What is syslogd running as? Has it been restarted since the messages file was zero'd? > Also, how do I force an archive and compression of a log file? Use a log rotate script. There are several out there, including standard ones on many distributions.

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The meeting on Sunday 16th
by Adam Bower 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

Hi all, I see you were all busy talking over the weekend, I must resubscribe to my home email addy. I would like to have the meeting next sunday as I will be in Norfolk that weekend, the following weekend I think I am moving house again, and the weekend after that is the great Zeus office reorganisation where everyone goes home early for the weekend and starts late again Monday (apart from sys admins who work all weekend :-() Adam -- Adam Bower, <abower(a)zeus.com> Tel: +44 1223 525000 System Administrator Fax: +44 1223 525100 Zeus Technology Ltd http://www.zeus.com Newton House, Cambridge Business Park, Cambridge. CB4 OWZ. England

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Log files (/var/log/messages)
by Laurie Brown 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

Folks, I just logged onto our firewall box for my periodic peruse, and I noticed that the /var/log/messages file, created on 28 Jun is 0 bytes long. All the permissions, ownership and so on seem to be ok, and it certainly used to log stuff. Any ideas as to why it should stop logging? I'm a bit concerned about this... -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jun 28 00:00 messages Also, how do I force an archive and compression of a log file? Cheers, Laurie.

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Re: [Alug] X newsreader
by MJ Ray 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

darren(a)darren.winsper.easynet.co.uk writes: > I don't even have Emacs installed I'm afraid, I'm a Vim man myself. Oh, I've got vim installed too. It's OK for quick hacks, but I don't want to try to use it for serious work -- far too often I start typing before getting it in the right mode... > 1) A plain old killfile. It's essential since I frequent c.o.l.a. comp.os.linux.announce doesn't seem that flammable to me ;-) > 2) Scoring up posts that have me in the References. It was the only > way I could find posts which were in reply to me. Beforehand, I'd > miss a lot of posts meant for me. Yeah, I did that. I do find the adaptive scoring in Gnus helps me find topics I'm interested in, as it learns as I go along (scary, huh?).

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X newsreader
by John Woodard 09 Jul '00

09 Jul '00

What's a good basic X news client? KRN is pretty basic Netscape is well Netscape really... It must support multiple nntp servers though! Don't really want to use a console but I will if I have to. Opinions please. BTW its nice to be using Linux for just about everything now. I might even ditch MS soon and just leave it on the kid's box. Cheers, BJ

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Spam traps // was [Fwd: MISSING CHILD PLEASE HELP]
by MJ Ray 09 Jul '00

09 Jul '00

Laurie Brown <laurie(a)brownowl.com> writes: > I haven't had it, but I do get around 10-20 spams a day, and am > constantly updating my spam filters, which is a pain. Really? Even though I'm posted all over mailing lists, websites and newsgroups, I don't get that much spam. When I do, the combination of Gnus's adaptive scoring and the gnus-junk-complain command are quite effective in dealing with it. What do others use to block spam on Linux?

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[OT] [Fwd: MISSING CHILD PLEASE HELP]
by James Green 09 Jul '00

09 Jul '00

Not wanting to take away the seriousness of this subject, but I do wonder a) how they obtained my email address and b) whether they are sending it out to every email address they can find. Any of you people had it? Seems rather unusual.... Subject: MISSING CHILD PLEASE HELP Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:55:47 -0700 From: Admin <alert(a)childlo.st> To: <jg(a)linux.com> Admin wrote: > > Sarah Payne a pretty 8 year old gilr has gone missing from the UK she could have been taken to any > Country Please help us to find her. her picture can be seen at > > http://childlo.st > > We thank you for your time and pray that between us we can find Sarah safely and return her home to her > parents. > > We will not email you again regarding this or any other matter. Our only concern is that we locate Sarah > as quickly as posible. -- James Green Site Manager jg(a)linuxnewbie.com LinuxNewbie.com LNC jg(a)linux.com

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Re: [Alug] Gentus/downloads and update on 'rodney'
by MJ Ray 09 Jul '00

09 Jul '00

"G.H Rowley" <ghrowley(a)red-ridges.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > Nothing to do with your last message, but please can you tell me how I can > unsubscribe from alug? Nothing I tried so far seems to work. [...] > alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list > Email: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug > See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! Visit that URL above, get your list password sent to you if needed, enter it into that page and unsubscribe yourself or flip to digest mode. If that still doesn't work, alug-owner(a)stu.uea.ac.uk is the correct person to email, not the list.

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Re: [Alug] newbie
by MJ Ray 09 Jul '00

09 Jul '00

"Alan Schon" <aschon(a)libertysurf.co.uk> writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please do not send attachments to the list without good reason. Use plain text, 72 character wrap, if at all possible. In fact, MIME attachments are now blocked -- please post files to your webspace and send us the URL, so we don't have to all download them. > charset="Windows-1252" Grrr. > Hi can any body out there recommend a course in the essex area that = > could lead to red hat certification > Alan, Chelmsford Does RedHate certification mean anything? Isn't it a better move to try for the Linux Professional Institute exams rather than tying yourself to one vendor? (Monopoly is what we're trying to get away from, right?) LPI is backed by several distributors, including RH it would seem: 1.8. I am confused about Red Hat's connection to LPI. Don't they have a competing certification? Yes, they do have their own certification program. When Red Hat started to develop their Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) program, there were no other existing Linux certification programs and LPI did not yet exist. Now with LPI's emergence, Red Hat is participating in LPI's Advisory Council and staying in touch with what is happening. They are continuing development of their own program and are watching the evolution of LPI to see if or how the programs may or may not complement each other. You can find more info on LPI at pretty much any major Linux show and online at http://www.lpi.org/ On a related point that I think some people here might be interested in, SuSE have just appointed http://www.computerpark.co.uk/ as their first UK training representative.

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Gentus/downloads and update on 'rodney'
by John Woodard 09 Jul '00

09 Jul '00

Update on my system. I have Gentus Linux 2.6 up and running on 'rodney' at last. The 675Mb download took over my only link to the outside world for about 30 hours but Windows IE5 and Gozilla managed it without any hitches, except I had the download manager set to redial to a 1p per minute number instead of my 0800 access so I've got to stump up for 11 hours of it at 1p/min. :-( Gentus found my ATA66 controller and promptly kernel panicked, bugger. After much jiggling about with drives, my 17Gb ATA66 Maxtor positively will not reside on the same channel as my 40Gb ATA66 Maxtor, strange. Anyway configuration is now as follows you'll see why its a little awkward: UDMA33 channels IDE0 AOpen 10X DVD IDE1 HP 24X4X4 re-writer IDE3 LS120 IDE4 250Mb Zip ATA66 chanels IDE5 Maxtor 17Gb ATA66 (Win 98 boot) IDE6 IBM 37.5Gb ATA66 (MP3s etc.) :-) IDE7 Maxtor 40Gb ATA66 (More MP3's etc.) IDE8 Segate 6Gb UDMA33 (Linux) hdh1 25Mb </boot> hdh2 [Linux extended] hdh5 128Mb <swap> hdh6 5846Mb </> All this dangling of a 250W power supply! We have removed our central heating system because the power supply glowing is plenty to heat the whole neighbourhood. Gentus seems to be RH6.2 optimised for Abit motherboards no extra goodies unlike Mandrake. But it works so now all I need is some SCSI storage to complete my project. :-) Now the problem I have is the dreaded LI at the lilo prompt. Lilo resides in the MBR of the windows boot drive. Apart from the obvious linear option has anyone got any ideas because I'm fed up with booting from a floppy. Cheers, BJ

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