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lift from St Neots?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 23 Jan '02

23 Jan '02

Hi all, someone from Clug is looking for a lift for this Sunday coming in from St Neots - I said i would ask just in case anyone comes from that way. Thanks, Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] klyx and outputing html
by MJ Ray 23 Jan '02

23 Jan '02

Paul: > Do we have any experts on using klyx - The GUI frontend to lyx. I think you mean the KDE port of LyX, the GUI frontend to latex. > I have been asked to assemble the tools for writing a user manual and we > will need to be able to export html, pdf, and others. Having written a > page or two under klyx, I can find no easy way to export the various > formats. The klyx docs are not particularly helpful in this area. (Other > questions in the pipeline) Export it from LyX to LaTeX. Then you can use pdflatex (requires graphics in PNG IIRC) and htlatex to produce pdf and html respectively. latex and dvips will produce Postscript for your printers. latex and dvi2tty, or htlatex and html2text or dvitty will produce plain text. Any other formats you can't generate from those? > Or should we be looking at an alternative set of tools ? Maybe, but I'm not sure what. I've not seriously looked at the available choices (given the need for a nice GUI front-end) for a while. The other obvious one off the top of my head would be something that produced DocBk XML for processing via Cocoon2. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] pop3 daemon....
by MJ Ray 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

Simon: > I've been swayed towards qpopper.... Anyone anything adverse to say about > it? Yep, I hate the flaming thing. Compile-time configuration and security problems while I was working with it. It is only marginally better than the UW one. You really want to be looking at either solid or courier, I think, depending on your current setup, how much work you're willing to put in and what features you want. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] pop3 daemon....
by MJ Ray 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

James: > I use solid-pop3d mainly for the APOP, its always been good to me, might > want to give that a try. Only thing that I can really say against it is that hitting on the correct config file options can br tricky sometimes. (...and I don't have them to hand... group ID was the problem, IIRC). -- MJR

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c compiler prob
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

Afternoon All, I'm getting the error message "C compiler cannot create executables" when trying to compile something. Don't know if anyone remembers my recent muddle with installing things from the testing in debian in a wild frenzy, ahem, but it all seems to be sort of not working. I tried installing task-c-dev, but that depends on libc-dev, so I tried installing libc6-dev. Again, unhappy, suggested unmet dependency was libc6 (= 2.1.3-19) but 2.2.4-7 is to be installed. "Broken packages" it said. Sniff. I broke my box. Sorry all. I'll bring chocolate biscuits on Sunday, I promise. Jen.

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pop3 daemon....
by Simon 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

OK... gnu-pop3d has proved itself to be a bit on the flaky side under load.... Have tried it using 100 child processes.. still had problems.. Can anyone suggest a good robust daemon for this please... Simon

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Being ordered to do silly things at work/passwords
by tom potts 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

> > I agree... but the power that be have decided!!! I think it's stupid, >> but a mere mortal.... >You do it, the server gets owned and you get >dismissed for incompetence. >You don't do it, you get a warning for disobediance. Which is better? --------------------------------------------------- e-mail boss with reasons for not doing it - keep copy for self. Make sure you get order to do it in some written form (this normally makes tham wake up to their stupidity). Do work as instructed. If the server gets owned and you get fired then a tribunal will be on your side for 'constructive dismissal' and you'll get a few pennies for a nice self-training course. --------------------------------------------------- On the subject of passwords there is almost no safe/achievable way of doing this. If theres money involved I'd ensure one to one communication via snail mail with signatures - get them to agree to your site terms and conditions before you let them use it - if you are providing passwords. Or let them register themselves but again you'll need paper proof of their ID before you match them to any 'account'. Digital Sigs are now legal in the EU but I doubt if anyone uses it yet Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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RE: [Alug] kppp
by Ricardo Campos 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

> On the other hand, on my Red Hat machine, the equivalent to kppp > is 'rp3' (which may be a GNOME thingy, though I suspect that "rp3" > is short for "Red Hat ppp"); and its config program is 'rp3-config'. > Once 'rp3' has been configured for any user, then that user can just > use it. However, configuring 'rp3' means running 'rp3-config' and > this will certainly ask for the root password (and quit if it > doesn't get it). > > All of which makes me wonder whether you're really using 'kppp': > maybe what you're getting is 'rp3'? Well, I'm writing this using my RedHat box.... I had no joy with Kppp. There were no man pages, and the KDE help didn't.;-) I then tried rp3. If I went thru rp3, I had no luck (I had ppp0 and loopback as choices). Going through the configurator through *that* didn't help, even if I added a new account. I then invoked rp3-config directly, set up a new interface and voila... seems that you have to do it directly! (it's the only thing I did different, and that's a bug IMO) So now all I need to do is put my favourite progs on the RH machine. Many thanks for the help! Ricardo _______________________________________________ "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net Check my online diary out: http://www.rscampos.net/blog.html -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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kppp
by Ricardo Campos 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

I'm trying out RedHat 7.2 and stumbled upon 2 problems relating to ppp, specifically kppp. 1) although I can connect using kppp from KDE, there appears to be no data transfer when I attempt to look at a website. (I suspect that I have to manually add my DNS servers' IP addresses, perhaps I accidentally put in my own IP address as the primary DNS server or something during installation-duh) 2) OK, if I do run kppp as someone other than root, it asks for root's password. How could I set it up so that I don't need to run a connection as root? It doesn't do it in Mandrake. I am actually gonna write a little report comparing my experiences with Mandrake and Redhat once I've given RH enough chance- all from the POV of a newbie and "Harry Home-User". (I'll post the URL when it is done). Initial thoughts on RH7.2: bloody hell, that's a bit slick!!! ;) Ricardo _______________________________________________ "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net Check my online diary out: http://www.rscampos.net/blog.html -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Password script?
by MJ Ray 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

Ted Harding: > > $ for user in `cat usernames`; do usermod -p $user $user; done > Not sure this will help, since it looks as though the password > argument to usermod -p has to be already encrypted: Thanks to Adam: for user in $(cat usernames); do usermod -p $(mkpasswd $user aa) $user done -- MJR

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Password script?
by Simon 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

Hi, does anyone know of, or can help me. I need a script/prog to change about 3500 users passwords to their usernames ??? Please!!??? Simon

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Lzip (humour?)
by Ricardo Campos 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

LOL need an alternative to bzip2/ gunzip? Why not try Lzip-the lossy compression program- "On the reassuring side, it is important to note that the compression algorithm used by lzip only discards the unimportant data. And if it was unimportant before, what makes it so important now? Huh?" http://lzip.sourceforge.net/faq.html Ricardo _______________________________________________ "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net Check my online diary out: http://www.rscampos.net/blog.html -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Password script?
by MJ Ray 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

Simon: > I agree... but the power that be have decided!!! I think it's stupid, > but a mere mortal.... You do it, the server gets owned and you get dismissed for incompetence. You don't do it, you get a warning for disobediance. Which is better? ;) -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Password script?
by Lincoln, Michael C 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

NO NO NO NO NO NO.. I don't think you don't want to do that. And you certainly don't want to tell the world! Look at an automated password generator like apg. It will automatically generate passwords for you. You can then send them out the the users by whatever means you like. http://freshmeat.net/projects/apgd/ Mike On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 12:03, Simon wrote: > Hi, > does anyone know of, or can help me. I need a script/prog to change about > 3500 users passwords to their usernames ??? > > Please!!??? > > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

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Re: Re[2]: [Alug] My new machine (If anyone's interested)
by Ricardo Campos 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

> I've not seem them that cheap. Is it possible to get a hardware modem for > that price? I don't think so! I chose to spend more on an external, hardware modem in order to release some CPU. After all, it's only £20, which is translated into beer is only one night out. Besides, it's a groovy green colour. Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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RE: [Alug] AOL buying RedHat rumor
by John Woodard 20 Jan '02

20 Jan '02

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Bell [mailto:ian@ruffrecords.worldonline.co.uk] > Sent: 20 January 2002 16:36 > To: John Woodard > Subject: Re: [Alug] AOL buying RedHat rumor > > > On Sunday 20 Jan 2002 9:57 am, you wrote: > > I just read this on NewsForge > > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/19/1848219&mode=thread > > and I can't see if it's good for the Open Source community and Linux or > > not. > > Sounds like isdle speculation to me. I cannot see what AOL would benefit > from it. > > Ian > > As of yet it's only a rumour and both parties are oficially denying all knowledge. These rumours have a habit of raising their head from time to time, anyone remember the Microsoft to buy out BT rumour a while back? Cheers, BJ

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AOL buying RedHat rumor
by John Woodard 20 Jan '02

20 Jan '02

I just read this on NewsForge http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/19/1848219&mode=thread and I can't see if it's good for the Open Source community and Linux or not. Looks like if it were to happen the web would be a more friendly place for the non-MS browser user, with browser dependant sites having to make themselves readable with (insert your browser of choice here). The worrying thing is that RedHat would, just as someone stated on NewsForge "just wither on the vine". It's an interseting prospect though the possibility of all those AOL cds having a distro on them now that would be a promotion and a half for Linux. Cheers, BJ

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Re: [Alug] My new machine (If anyone's interested)
by Ricardo Campos 20 Jan '02

20 Jan '02

> Does anyone know of a PCI modem that will be guaranteed to work with > Debian Potato? As they are cheap it might do as a short term > solution. Why does it have to be PCI? No serial ports? I bought the cheapest external modem I could- ELSA Microlink 56k Fun, and it works perfectly with Deb potato, mandrake and deadrat. _______________________________________________ "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net Check my online diary out: http://www.rscampos.net/blog.html -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Dozens (Hundreds?) of entries in my logs
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 19 Jan '02

19 Jan '02

Jan 18 22:02:00 XXXXXXXX kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=17 213.122.164.171:1038 255.255.255.255:2710 L=51 S=0x00 I=9892 F=0x0000 T=64 (#33) Can anyone tell me what these are? I'm suddenly (last few days) getting an awful lot of these firewall messages. They are emanating from my ISP (BtInternet). Barry Samuels

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Announce digest, Vol 1 #8 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

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Fw: CRAFT project (Martyn Drake) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:53:21 +0000 From: Martyn Drake <martyn(a)alug.org.uk> To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug Announce] Fw: CRAFT project Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:43:15 -0000 From: e.noble(a)coventry.ac.uk To: <martyn(a)drake.org.uk> Subject: CRAFT project The EPI Centre at Coventry University is participating in a project to help match European companies bidding for funds under the EC's Research and Development budget for SMEs known as CRAFT. CRAFT helps SMEs with limited research capability to develop new products or processes by paying the costs of a research organisation for them. I have recently been sent a profile for a project which has been proposed by an Italian company. They are looking for SME partners in the UK to join the Consortium. As it involves Linux, I wondered whether the following may be of interest to any of the companies in your association? (I can contact companies directly if this is easier). If any company is interested in participating or finding out more about the project, please either let me know or contact the details below as soon as possible. I look forward to hearing from you. With best regards Emma Emma Noble Project Assistant EPI Centre Coventry University TechnoCentre Puma Way Coventry CV1 2TT Tel: 02476 236593 GENERAL An Italian university spin off is looking for companies interested in developing a new system - VAS, a fully open source application to manage maintenance of legacy Microsoft Windows applications on a geographically distributed network. Catalogues are centralised on a Linux server, by means of Wine, and provided to client workstations using VNC. Companies interested in developing the VAS system itself, end users, interested in centralising Windows applications on a single server are being sought. DESCRIPTION The proposed solution is to centralise Windows applications and to distribute them through the Internet, using VNC and WINE. More in detail, the applications will be installed on a Linux server using WINE. Then, access to the applications will be provided using VNC, directly from the workstation of the users. In case of a new release of an application, it will be necessary only to update the installation on the server; on the client workstation the access will be performed again by the same VNC client. The innovation is to use two existing open source packages (WINE and VNC) to run Windows applications on a Linux server, and distribute them to users through the Internet. The Italian Company is looking for: -companies interested in marketing the server for specific Windows applications; -R&D partners interested in improving the existing WINE code, so to incraese the number of working Windows calls; - end users, interested in centralizing one of their Windows applications on a single server. Target Countries: Great Britain and Germany APPLICATION DOMAINS Industry - Transport Information Technology - Information processing, Information Systems CONTACT: Name: Paolo Bizzarri Phone: +39 050 970 207 Fax: +39 050 3136 588 Email address: p.bizzarri(a)icube.it www.icube,it Project Assistant EPI Centre Coventry University TechnoCentre Puma Way Coventry CV1 2TT Tel: 02476 236593 --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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Help please.....
by Simon 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

Hi people..... I need some help if possible, I need a script of some flavour, bash,perl don't mind... I need to create 3500 .forward files in users home directories!!! the mail will be forwarded to the same user but at a different domain... Can anyone please help me with this quite urgently please please please... Simon P.S. I promise to learn scripting in the near future...

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My new machine (If anyone's interested)
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

I remember a while ago that people were posting details of their current computers. I didn't do so because I knew that I would be updating my machine in the near future. So here are the details: =================================================================== Antec SX1240 full tower case. Good quality case with some nifty features such as being able to open the side of the case using a handle. One disadvantage is that there are so many cooling holes and slots the new machine is now more noisy than the old one. Hard drive noise mostly. Tyan Thunder K7 mainboard. 2 x 1.3 GHz athlon processors, 2 x LAN sockets, 512 MB ram, Winbond hardware monitoring, ATI Rage graphics chip. ===================================================================== Into this go my Adaptec 2940AU SCSI adapter, 3 x IBM SCSI hard drives together with the SCSI Tape Streamer, SCSI CD Writer, SoundBlaster and Matrox graphics card all from my old machine (not using the onboard graphics chip - only 4MB memory). Unfortunately I could not include my trusty old ISA 56k modem because the new board is PCI only and I don't like external modems - too untidy. So what does clever clogs do? He buys a PCMCIA to PCI adapter that will take an existing PCMCIA modem after researching that such a combination will work only to find that, although it does work, the maximum data transfer rate is 1.6k!!! The manufacturers of the adapter, Elan Digital Systems in Britain, tell that it won't work properly on my board without a BIOS or kernel modification because the bridge chip on the card is not being assigned a PCI interrupt. I'm just repeating what I've been told as it's way over my head anyway. I have emailed Tyan to ask if such modifications are likely to be made in the near future and am waiting for an answer. Does anyone know of a PCI modem that will be guaranteed to work with Debian Potato? As they are cheap it might do as a short term solution. I also replaced my dead UPS with a new Belkin UPS and Belkin provide Linux monitoring software. Good for them! The new setup has been running only a few days but during installation and testing I've had to reboot several times and occasionally after KDE(1) has started I've noticed that whatever was displayed when it was last closed down is opened twice. So I have two of everything. It does not happen every time and it didn't happen on the old machine. Still using the same hard drives and operating system! Oh! One minor problem. I cannot get any sound from the speaker when dialling. 'cardctl config' tells me that the speaker is enabled and the volume in kppp is set to medium. Any ideas on that? Maybe it's this lack of a PCI interrupt that's causing this. So there it is. A fast machine with what is effectively a 16k modem. Bah Humbug! Barry Samuels

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Re: [Alug] Help please.....
by MJ Ray 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

> I need to create 3500 .forward files in users home directories!!! the mail > will be forwarded to the same user but at a different domain... Can anyone > please help me with this quite urgently please please please... If that is for all users at that domain, you should do it at the MTA level to avoid eating inodes on the disks. If it's only for some, you could try as script containing: cat fileofusernames | ( \ while read user do echo "$user@otherdomain" > ~$user/.forward done ) but I'd check and test that first ;-) -- MJR

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PROBLEMS... with meet this weekend...
by Simon Parkes 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

Everyone... really really sorry about this, but due to health problems, I'm going to have to cencel this weekend at Cheveley... Once again, really sorry... This should be able to go ahead the week after all being well, but this weekeend is definately cancelled for Cheveley.. Simon

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