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Re: /etc/default files
by Matthew Holland 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

Sagr (>>) and Brett (>) said: >> ?????? Errrr... Does this mean that EVERY SINGLE PERSON who wants to use >> Apache will encounter the same problem as me???? > > No, just debian and ubuntu users. It's all a bit hit and miss. When I first started with Debian it tended to turn things on by default, and even now a lot of packages still seem to. While I can understand (and agree with) the logic of not dumping daemons onto a server and running them without configuring them, it's annoying how many packages seem to come without any configuration help. Even telling me which documentation to read first is better than nothing, but some don't even manage that. I should stop moaning and starting learning to maintain packages ;-) Matthew

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Re: Problem getting Apache/Firefox to display PHP webpages
by Matthew 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

Simon wrote: > It may be because you appear to be trying to run the script from your > server's document root directory. If it works, then probably it's as well to carry on the way it is now, but if memory serves the normal PHP handler shouldn't need any of that. CGI scripts need execute permission to invoke their interpreters, but the PHP interpreter is invoked by Apache so PHP scripts need only be readable. Although there are security advantages to segregating them like CGI scripts, PHP files were intended to live in the document space with the static content. That said, I really don't know what was causing your problem before. As for getting it to start automatically, are you sure it isn't already? Try `netstat -at` after a fresh boot to see if something is listening on 'www'. If not, look for directories called /etc/rc{n}.d, for various {n} being the runlevels your system will do. These contain symlinks to the scripts in /etc/init.d and determine which services are started/killed when entering/leaving different runlevels. Either the installer didn't put the links in, or it made them for the wrong runlevel. You can probably use `who -r` to check your current runlevel (or `runlevel` as root). Use update-rc.d to make the links in the proper formats: check its man-page for options you might want. Hope that helps, Matthew

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[ALUG Announce] 2nd Thursday Norwich Meet : Reindeer, Dereham Road
by Jonathan McDowell 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Second Thursday" ALUG Norwich Pub Meet is this Thursday, 9th August. It's at the Reindeer pub on the Dereham Road, just opposite the City Gate. People will be there from 8pm-ish, though there may be a few people there earlier. Topics for discussion will no doubt be as varied as ever. The Reindeer has a reasonable selection of beer as well as decent coffee (with biscuits, if you're lucky). Directions to the Reindeer can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/reindeer.html Pictures of some of the regulars, and irregulars, and, well, just some pictures of people that might or might not turn up are available from: http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2007-05-ALUG/ http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2006-02-ALUG/ http://the.earth.li/~noodles/stilvoid-alug/mp20050811/ http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2005-01-ALUG-Xmas/ http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2004-08-ALUG/ Which should hopefully aid those of you wondering who to look out for - the most recent images are from the meet a few months back. We now have an area reserved for us, so should be easier to find. As you enter through the main door you'll see a small set of steps ahead of you - the area just up those steps and to the left is where we'll be. J. -- It's deja-vu all over again. ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Weirdo gnome thing
by ted.harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Hi Folks, I just had a weird experience with Gnome. Context: I have 10 "workspaces" with, at present, respectively 3, 1, 0, 0, 5, 2, 1, 2, 5, 1 windows on them for various tasks. One of the 5 windows on workspace 5 is my mailer program, and the window on workspace 10 is my browser (firefox). In workspace 5, in the mailer, I middle-clicked on one of the mail messages in the list. The normal effect of this is to pop up a new window with the message in it. This it duly did -- but I was switched into workspace 10 with the message window on top of the browser window. After I'd dealt with that, I then found that every single window in every workspace had been shifted down by the same amount (about 15 pixels) and right by the same amount (about 2 pixels). This is weird! Anyone ever seen the like? Thanks, and best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 04-Aug-07 Time: 13:18:49 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Video Turtorial at next Ipswich meet
by Wayne Stallwood 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Monday the 20th of August at The Milestone Beer House 8PM http://www.alug.org.uk/wiki/moin.cgi/Meetings As promised I will be hosting a beginners guide/introduction to video editing and production on Linux at the next Ipswich Meeting. The general lesson plan is to go through all the steps necessary to produce a DVD (with front menus) from some raw DV footage taken from a standard digital video camera. Most of the steps will also be relevant to creating video content for online services such as youtube. During the production of this DVD (using very short clips so that the lesson does not mostly comprise of watching progress bars) we will cover clipping and editing of footage, modification and dubbing of soundtracks, applying post-production effects, building DVD menus and producing the DVD itself. In addition to the film clip we will also be producing a slideshow from some digital photos. With additions to the DVD menu to allow the end user to select this from the front screen. If we get time I will also demonstrate a quicker way of making a DVD with just the slideshow, which is a useful way of distributing pictures to friends and family who do not have a computer but may have a DVD player. This as I said will be a beginners introduction, anybody that has spent any time with these tools will probably be at least as well informed as the instructor :) Hope to see some of you there Wayne

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Defrag
by Barrys linux mail 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Hi. Just a quick thank you for your help on the defrag question Barry

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Problem getting Apache/Firefox to display PHP webpages
by sagr 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Following the advice of some ALUGers in a previous thread I am in the process of upgrading our fileserver to Ubuntu 7.04. I have successfully installed Ubutu on it and then apt-get installed the modules "apache" and "php5-mysql". I have created a simple three line "hello world" PHP prog and saved it in /var/www as hello.php : root@wildebeest:/var/www# cat hello.php <?php echo "Hello World"; ?> If I type the URL http://localhost/ into firefox I see the default apache index.html holding page as expected (so I know apache is running). If however I type the URL http://localhost/hello.php a box pops up in Firefox saying: "You have chosen to open: hello.php Which is a: PHP script From: http://localhost What should Firefox do with this file? 1. Open with gedit (default) 2. Save to disc." Why doesn't Firefox simply display hello.php as a webpage? What am I doing wrong? Do I need to configure something in apache and/or Firefox to display php files as webpages? Any help welcome! Sagr.

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Evolution downloads duplicate emails each time it connects to POP server
by sagr 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Hi Folks, I have recently installed Ubuntu 7.04 and am using the Evolution mail client version 2.10.1 to access my POP server hosted by 1&1. I access my emails via two PC's (one running Windows, the other Linux) so have set Evolution (on my Linux PC) to "Leave Message On Server" so they are available to download on my Windows PC (I currently use Windows as my main PC but just want occasional access to email on my Linux PC). The problem is that when I tell Evolution to "Send & Receive" it downloads all the emails on the POP server even though it has already downloaded them earlier. I am therefore downloading a complete duplicate set of emails each time I do a "Send & Receive" filling my Evolution inbox with multiple copies of the same emails. Is this a problem with Evolution, Linux, my ISP's POP server, or just because I have incorrectly configured something? Any suggestions welcome! Sagr.

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Facebook Group Unavailable
by samwise 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Group Unavailable We're sorry, this group isn't available right now. Please try again later. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2352779871 Hmmm ... so what's happened to the ALUG Facebook group, I wonder?! Peter.

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Defragmenting Hard drive
by Barrys linux mail 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hi, Do you have to defragment and clean up a hard drive in Ubuntu Linux like you do with Windoze? As i can't find anything that looks like it at present. Barry

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