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Re: [Alug] configuring PHP
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

M J Ray wrote: >Right, you've only got the one CD enabled. Here's my working stable >system's sources.list... see what it does for you: This had me in awe of apt-get. Many thanks for that. gcc now installed, all those devel tools that were kind of stuck (it was a bit like a dose of syrup of figs actually). php then successfully unpackaged, as did rpm....it was great! Of course, being me, nthing works still, but I thought Adam was being a bit optimistic on IRC last night telling me it would. I need to read up more on apache now, thanks for the pointers all. Re. the comments on the use of php...I was planning on using it for small intranet type reports that, eg, suck info out of a database into an html file, then learn java for more fully blown web stuff. Each to their own! Thanks! Jenny.

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Re: Appologies
by Joss Winn 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:26:43AM +0100, alug-admin(a)stu.uea.ac.uk wrote: > > Message: 12 > Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 13:28:27 -0700 (PDT) > From: David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> > Reply-To: David_freeman(a)rocketmail.com > To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > Subject: [Alug] Appologies > > All, > > I would just like to apologize for approving Joss wins post with the > attachment attached, I shouldn't have done so and it will FUBAR the > digest. Sorry. > > I wont do it again. > > Thanks > > D > ack! I'm sorry, too. I should have known better! Thanks again for all your help. Joss -- http://www.josswinn.org

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Compiler Error Messages
by David Freeman 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

I am trying to compile GCC 3.0 and I get the following error, all I can find on a google search are a load of me to's but no solution Heres the tail of the output make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/freemadi/downloads/gcc/objdir/zlib' Bootstrapping the compiler make[1]: Entering directory `/home/freemadi/downloads/gcc/objdir/gcc' make CC="gcc" libdir=/usr/bin/lib LANGUAGES="c " \ CFLAGS="-g " MAKEINFO="makeinfo " \ MAKEINFOFLAGS="" make[2]: Entering directory `/home/freemadi/downloads/gcc/objdir/gcc' (cd intl && make all) make[3]: Entering directory `/home/freemadi/downloads/gcc/objdir/gcc/intl' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/freemadi/downloads/gcc/objdir/gcc/intl' (cd po && make all) make[3]: Entering directory `/home/freemadi/downloads/gcc/objdir/gcc/po' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/freemadi/downloads/gcc/objdir/gcc/po' ./genattrtab ../../gcc-3.0/gcc/config/i386/i386.md > tmp-attrtab.c make[2]: *** [s-attrtab] Error 137 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/freemadi/downloads/gcc/objdir/gcc' make[1]: *** [stage1_build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/freemadi/downloads/gcc/objdir/gcc' make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2 Any suggestions on what an error 137 is? Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Alug] New Member
by MJ Ray 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

"John Seago" <john.seago(a)btinternet.com> writes: > My level of expertise extends to being able to work the keyboard and the > various on/off switches, but I am prepared to learn. > > It appears to me that I would make an ideal test-bed for the use of the > various forms of Linux as if you can get me to be able to use it with some > facility then it should be suitable for more general use. I have already > managed to convince my prospective son-in-law of its value and he has it > installed on his computer, we look forward to learning together. First suggestion: don't expect it to work in the same way as Windows. You have many many more options of what software to use, some of which will effect the basic appearance and behaviour of the system. So, what Linux would people suggest? Is Mandrake still the general recommendation for people starting off? Or is Debian now ready for the beginner, either on its own or via Progeny? -- MJR

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Linux Expo, Wednesday, Where and when are we meeting?
by Steve Fosdick 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

There was apparently an agreement reached on IRC tonight as to a place and time within the exhibition where alug members would meet to compare freebies etc. M J Ray asked if someone would post the details to the alug-announce mailing list, but I think by then anyone who had been party to the discussion has left IRC. If you were party to the discussion and rememeber what time and place was agreed could you please post a message to the alug-announce mailing list with the place and time concerned. Steve.

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Appologies
by David Freeman 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

All, I would just like to apologize for approving Joss wins post with the attachment attached, I shouldn't have done so and it will FUBAR the digest. Sorry. I wont do it again. Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Alug] configuring PHP
by MJ Ray 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > Perl is a write only language. I looked into it and it made no sense > what so ever. I wouldn't quite go that far. It's easier to follow than APL, but it's not exactly a nice thing to try to unravel uncommented year-old code in. > If you want a weird language like this use LISP. OI! FREEMAN! Lay off the Lisp! It was about 30 years ahead of its time... even Common Lisp was about 10 years before the rest of the world started to catch up. Sadly, Common Lisp is rather big now, because it tries to be compatible with original lisp code. > /* might just work with perl */ I see an ASCII art image of Jesus... -- MJR

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firewall messages
by Joss Winn 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Hello, Recently, I have upgraded my SuSE firewall and have been noticing these messages (below) in my xconsole. I am on a 56k dial-up offering no services and all ports are closed (except for one which is open to localhost), so I feel pretty secure and all 'on-line applications' I use seem to be working fine, so I am curious as to what this means. I use a 2.4.2 kernel and iptables firewall. Any ideas? The src IP changes sometimes, but often is the same or similar. Jul 3 00:27:04 linux kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULTIN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=66.9.192.39 DST=211.2.96.188 LEN=60 TO Jul 3 00:27:07 linux kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULTIN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=66.9.192.39 DST=211.2.96.188 LEN=60 TO Jul 3 00:30:41 linux kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULTIN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=203.239.87.52 DST=211.2.96.188 LEN=60 Jul 3 00:38:07 linux kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULTIN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=211.104.247.142 DST=211.2.96.188 LEN=6 Jul 3 00:38:11 linux kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULTIN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=211.104.247.142 DST=211.2.96.188 LEN=6 Jul 3 00:38:17 linux kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULTIN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=211.104.247.142 DST=211.2.96.188 LEN=6 (the messages extended wider than this but my screen space limited the amount I could copy and paste) thanks for any advice, Joss p.s. anyone need a tenant in Norwich starting sometime in September? :-) -- http://www.josswinn.org

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re: ALUG PHP mutterings
by Alexis Lee 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

If you d/l the PHP manual, in 'install.apache.html' there seem to be some quite good instructions. You're trying to make mod_php, then load it using /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Alternatively, Mandrake 8 comes with PHP precompiled and ready to run (inc. GD and PgSQL support, if/when you want them). Highly recommended, and if someone has been tempting you to Debian with apt-get, I suggest you have a look for rpm-get. It has plenty of rough edges, but I got it working well enough. The 'no acceptable cc path found in $PATH' bit sounds quite dire, to me. CC is short for C compiler, which is usually fulfilled by GCC (GNU CC). Try 'which gcc' and if it comes up blank, use 'find /usr -name gcc' to find it then add appropriate directory to your PATH (IE in /etc/bashrc or .bashrc). If you can't find gcc at all, you're either on a proprietary UNIX (ie AIX) in which case you should 'find' for cc or you need to get it. Of course, it may mean something completely different by 'cc', but I remember being thrown by 'cc' meaning 'gcc' before. If you do get PHP working and need questions answered, do mail me. Alexis -- Alas my .sig, Mozilla ate it.

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Re: [Alug] firewall messages
by MJ Ray 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> writes: > I just took a look at the output of your dmesg, it appears that you are > being portscanned from various hosts. [...] I'll fetch me coat... why aren't src and dest more different? ;-) -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] configuring PHP
by MJ Ray 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

xsprite(a)bigfoot.com writes: > to get perl working with apache, you only need execcgi and > #!/usr/bin/perl afaik. although you can speed up with mod_perl. This is true of many scripting languages. All of them are quite well-suited to web-based development. > additionally, perl syntax is a mix of sh/c/awk/sed/etc. s/mix/nightmare/ I know Tcl has 5 basic syntax rules (but is very simple). I believe that scheme has a similar number, definitely below 10 I think. Anyone know how many perl has? -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] configuring PHP
by MJ Ray 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com writes: > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 > (20001207)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main Right, you've only got the one CD enabled. Here's my working stable system's sources.list... see what it does for you: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib deb ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/debian/non-US stable/non-US main contrib deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main Add those (or maybe unstable or testing instead of stable, depending how adventurous you feel) and then do apt-get clean apt-get update apt-get upgrade and it should bring your system up to date. You can leave the "cdrom" line in there if you want and it'll only download off the net where newer versions are found. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] configuring PHP
by MJ Ray 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > This is why I stopped using package managers, they never worked, and > compiling it was easier. Is your nickname on IRC this evening going to be "flamebait"? ;-) Debian's package manager does work and it's actually quite easy to build your own packages using deb-make, debuild and cursory glances at the manual. Since discovering apt-get source and debuild binary, I've not missed anything from the "build it yourself" side of things. > I still think taking a copy of K&R and reading it cover to cover would > be a good move. Sussman and Steele! > Most languages are very similiar, they all have > sequence selection and interation, and C is quite easy to learn. Functions, recursion, closures, continuations. Why do you need iteration anyway? > What would people consider as an alternative to PHP? PHP's actually quite good at what it's good at. It is not a good tool for building large web-based applications, though. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] configuring PHP
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Mark R said: >You need gcc. Installing task-c-dev should get you everything you >need in that line. Did this - more failed dependencies, it all seems to be boiling down to binutils. I'll try downloading and installing this one tomorrow. A bit fried now, I'll do something silly as root soon if i don't go home. Jen's sources.list file (commented out bits and all) #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20001207)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main #deb-src http://packages.debian.org/stable/ Missing dependencies for apt-get install task-debian-devel task devel-common task-c-dev task-c-dev: Depends: gcc but it is not going to be installed or c-compiler task-debian-devel: Depends: build-essential but it is not going to be installed Depends: cvs-buildpackage but it is not going to be installed Depends: lintian but it is not going to be installed Depends: debhelper but it is not going to be installed Depends: dh-make but it is not going to be installed Depends: debian-policy but it is not going to be installed Depends: debmake but it is not going to be installed Depends: developers-reference but it is not going to be installed Depends: devscripts but it is not going to be installed Depends: dupload but it is not going to be installed Depends: fakeroot but it is not going to be installed Depends: packaging-manual but it is not going to be installed Depends: maint-guide but it is not going to be installed task-devel-common: Depends: binutils but it is not going to be installed or binutils-multiarch but it is not going to be installed Cheers, help much appreciated. Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] Linux Expo - Which Day/Travelling From Ipswich
by MJ Ray 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

fozzy(a)pelvoux.demon.co.uk writes: > Both the Great Eastern services have the option of inclusive tube > travel for an extra pound though I don't know if this includes where > we want to go to. I think Olympia is zone 1, so surely it's included. Zone 2 at worst. I'm thinking that I'll travel down from KL on first train after 0830 as it's the first one I can get a travel card on. If anyone is travelling down from KL, Cambridge or stations in between, drop me a line or catch me on IRC this evening (nickname slef). Which day are we aiming for? I need to decide before tomorrow, too. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] configuring PHP
by MJ Ray 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com writes: > reply - package php4-pgsql has no installation candidate Please post any uncommented bits of your sources.list file. It sounds like something's not quite set up to let you get this installed. > >apt-get install task-debian-devel task-devel-common task-c-dev > reply - 8 million dependencies that aren't going to be installed. Care to post the exact list? It sounds like you might not have any development tools installed, so you've no choice but to get them if you want to build your own software. > Not sure where i go wrong, but every time I try installing anything this > happens, and I finally give up in a temper. The truth is out there... http://www.uk.debian.org/ -> documentation > I can see a bcc package on the debain site, no cc. You need gcc. Installing task-c-dev should get you everything you need in that line. > reply - firstly, it was mentioned in a casual kind of a manner on irc that > in order to build web pages one had to learn php (i thought it was by you, > actually!). No, to build web pages, you need (x)html. Nothing more. > secondly, it has now been recommended by my bro' as a neat > simple solution to manipualting info in a web page. It's actually a fairly poor solution for anything other than toy manipulations. > Thirdly, i don't speak > c and can't write shell scripts, PHP is rather too c-like for me. Then again, I like my scripts to look like single function calls at the top level ;-) > and were I to learn i'd probably have an > even worse job trying to compile the c compiler! Why would you want to compile it? Just install it. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] configuring PHP
by David Howe 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Well there's a lot of easier ways for those a little nervous of installing things to get PHP up and running..... Although I appreciate that you're talking Debian here I thought I might just throw in my two penneth and let you know that RPM based stuff is most easily customised by visiting http://rpms.arvin.dk/php/ Mr Troels Arvin has built his own set of rpms which (rather than Zend's idea of one big beasty of an rpm) allow you to only include the functionality that you want..... Cheers, Dave

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Linux Expo - Which Day/Travelling From Ipswich
by fozzy＠pelvoux.demon.co.uk 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

I have finally got around to clearing some leave to go to Linux Expo this year. I don't mind which day at the moment, but I will need to decide tomorrow. I think there was a plan to discuss this on IRC tonight but unfortunately I can't make the IRC chat until quite late so I may miss many of you. Even so I would be glad to hear which day most people are planning on going (or if there is an even split). For people travelling from or near Ipswich there's the train... Dep Ipswich Arrive Liverpool St Cost Operator 09:02 10:14 #19.90 Great Eastern 09:12 10:20 #24.00 Anglian 09:30 10:40 #19.90 Great Eastern Both the Great Eastern services have the option of inclusive tube travel for an extra pound though I don't know if this includes where we want to go to. Or there's the car... Probably about #20 petrol, plus parking to be split between the occupants. If it's just me then the train looks like the better option, but if a party of us go in a car together then that may be cheaper. If you are interested in sharing a car from Ipswich or there abouts then drop me a note and let me know if you are intending to drive and are looking for passengers, want to be a passenger and for someone else to drive, or don't care. Steve.

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to 3 or not to 3
by David Freeman 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Can anyone recommend any reasons for or against upgrading GCC from 2.95.2 to GCC 3? Also How easy is it to compile a compiler? I know its convoluted in that you compile it with the old one, then compile the new one with its self then, recompile with that output or something like that. Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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configuring PHP
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

'lo All. I'm on my least favoured subject - installing stuff. I've installed PHP-4.0.6 and am trying to run ./configure. Two Q's: 1. error: no acceptable cc path found in $PATH Can anyone tell me what I am missing? 2. I want to include support for postgresql, using - -with-pqsql [=DIR] ..................default dir is /usr/local/pgsql but on debian it is - well, I'm not sure what it is actually! could it be /var/lib/postgres or /usr/lib/postgres or even /etc/postgresql? Can anyone tell me, erm, well, which path to include in the option? 3[apology section] Thanks! jen.

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Re: [Alug] configuring PHP
by MJ Ray 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com writes: > ..................default dir is /usr/local/pgsql but on debian it is - Hang on, hang on, hang on... this is Debian? They do the hard part of figuring out these options for you. Isn't the version got by "apt-get install php4 php4-pgsql" good enough for you? Oh well. If you want the absolute latest versions, make sure you have something like deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main in your /etc/apt/sources.list and then make sure you have all the debian build tools around by doing apt-get install task-debian-devel task-devel-common task-c-dev Now, if you're using unstable as your base system, I believe apt-get build-dep php4-pgsql should work. Otherwise, you can try: apt-get source php4 cd <directory it unpacked to> grep Depend debian/control apt-get install <any bits it needs that you haven't got> debuild binary dpkg -i <package it just made that you want> or some slight variation on the above. -- MJR

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alug-announce digest, Vol 1 #2 - 3 msgs
by alug-announce-admin＠stu.uea.ac.uk 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

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We need *YOU*! (MJ Ray) 2. ALUG Notes -- two weeks to 20 June (MJ Ray) 3. ALUG Notes -- 10 days to 1 July (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 To: alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Organization: Cat-killingly bad Date: 01 Jul 2001 12:58:17 +0100 Subject: [ALUG-announce] We need *YOU*! ALUG needs people to do the following tasks: - Write for our web site and this newsletter (email me) - Organise the next few meetings (email alug@stu) - Help organise the IRC meetings on Mondays at 8pm (ask online this week) - Be witty and inspiring people (email alug@stu) - Come meet up if you're at LinuxExpo this week (more details in next edition) If you want to do any of the above, please get in touch as listed above. Thanks. -- MJR --__--__-- Message: 2 To: alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Organization: Cat-killingly bad Date: 20 Jun 2001 11:00:34 +0100 Subject: [ALUG-announce] ALUG Notes -- two weeks to 20 June Hi, here's a short summary of what's been on the ALUG mailing list in the last 2 weeks. Hopefully, in future, these will be done weekly. Any volunteers for a rota? All that you need is some saved ALUG messages... Where I know IRC nicknames they're included in the write-up somewhere. I hope this is useful for the Monday evening IRC meetings, but if I've fluffed one, please let me know and I'll try not to do it again. [Alug] online services in Norwich question 36 messages Joss Winn will be coming to UEA later this year and asked Norwich members to "advise me on a couple of things regarding networking and accomodation in the area. [...] can anybody tell me about the availability of cable or DSL in the area?" Andrew Savory (ajs) confirmed that the old-fashioned modems are still common in the city: "It isn't available. According to NTL, it will be available in 'early 2001', 'Easter', 'May', 'June', and now 'later this year'. Don't hold your breath." He recommended an unlimited dial-up deal instead until the situation changes, while Jo Mitchell suggested ISDN. Adam Bower took this forwards by asking about using 128k ISDN on these deals, although no-one answered. With ADSL supposed to be coming early next year, Martyn Drake helpfully pointed out that "I'll just bet whoever is offering ADSL services in the area will be using the USB Speedtouch modems. Mandrake 8.0 pretty much supports these straight out of the box" Once again, the "MJR and David Freeman fireworks show" got into action. This time it was about BT's slow roll-out of ADSL with David's initial claim that "BT has the technologie and ability to role out ADSL to everyone, except it costs so much to do. OFTEL wont let us loss lead" getting the intolerant response from MJR that "BT is solely interested in screwing as much money as possible out of the current technologies (eg ISDN) before having to discount them when they introduce the superior DSL systems." From there it became an argument about whether it's the government or corporation's fault and whether the will of the people makes any difference in modern society. Other network technology was explored, including ham radio ("you don't want to go there. [...] 9600 baud is considered fast. [...] Welcome to the twilight zone where valves are the vogue and your circuit looks like it's a particularly tricky plumbing problem." -- Bill Hill (wbh) ) and 802.11b wireless networking ("A group in ipswich considered building the SWAN, Suffok Wireless area network, we just need more people to make it worth while." -- David Freeman). [Alug] basic routing/config prob for mail 26 messages Jen spent a while on the list getting help in trying to figure out how to persuade her Linux box to play nicely with work's network. Once we'd helped her to get the right Debian packages installed (and pointed people at http://www.uk.debian.org/ for future searches), we made some progress in correcting some errors but Jen reported back 'No, I get "a record cannot be found"' before it mysteriously started working. Further investigation suggested that "problem was ignorance about how WINS and DNS work, probably. Did a crash course yesterday. I'll try and do a write-up." The thread continued for a while after this success with points about firewalls and discussion of a newbie list again. John Woodard (BigJohn) summarised past discussions with "I don't think there is too much trafic on the main list to warrant a newbie list quite yet." [Alug] ALUG Librarian stuff 16 messages, +3 in another thread This thread continued with MJR (slef) casting aspersions on UML, while being enlightened by Neill Newman with the confirmation that "in some respects, UML, booch and the like are biased towards OO". UML was still seen as the right way forwards for the library design, as "it is impossible to design a system that is exactly righ the first time round", but to date, no design has been posted. [Alug] ANNOUNCE: ALUG 2001.4 (End Of The Academic Year!) 7 messages, +8 in other threads The final meeting announcement was posted, finally provoking protest that it was on Father's Day and would cause BJ to miss his first meeting ever. Sadly, it was too late to change. Also, more details of the demonstrations planned for the event were given in responses from David Freeman (akula) and others. [Alug] Usage Stats for anglian.lug.org.uk 6 messages http://usage.alug.org.uk/ was announced by Martyn Drake, which was quickly followed by Ashley T Howes spotting "In June 2001 3.3% of visitors were using a BBC Micro" and Steve Fosdick (fozzy) correctly spotting that "The other possibility, of course, is that someone has a browser that lets the user configure the agent header (doesn't opera let you do that?), or a proxy server that can be made to falsify it." Some OT discussion of the feasibility of a BBC Micro web browser followed. [Alug] MS Exchange Server 5 messages Govind Chandra asked "if it is possible to query Exchange Server like POP3 or IMAP servers. Email is the only thing that I have to boot into windows for and use outlook." In general, even though this is possible, Bill Hill confirmed that it was likely to be a local sysadmin's decision not to allow it: "POP/IMAP/anything-useful is disabled by default as being a security risk. I just set it up to have all mail forwarded to somewhere with a more sane server!" -- MJR --__--__-- Message: 3 To: alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Organization: Cat-killingly bad Date: 01 Jul 2001 13:34:53 +0100 Subject: [ALUG-announce] ALUG Notes -- 10 days to 1 July OK, so I didn't get this done weekly. Probably something to do with travelling back from Belfast on the day I wanted to do it. Anyone want to do the next one? Well, here we go for our irregular summary of the ALUG list activity... Topics: [Alug] Microsoft FUD [Alug] pppd problem [Alug] Virus on Linux? [Alug] Disappearing messages [Alug] Problems with Mandrake, silly questions and the result. [Alug] linux and USB! Can it be achieved with SuperMicro P6SBA, AmiBios R1.5b? [Alug] Linux Expo... [Alug] A complete beginners view [Alug] Van Eck X config [Alug] Secure FTP Subject: [Alug] Microsoft FUD Adam Bower posted a link to "the document with the worst use of grammer (not that mine is great but then hey I'm not an advertising exec) and the greatest FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) from Microsoft ever." and noted that the document's comments (don't you love Word giving the game away?) described it as "Our latest anti-linux paper.." Steve Fosdick reasoned "why does Microsoft write a document about operating systems to target the end user? For the same reason that Intel advertise the Pentium Processor on the TV - because they want to convince the end users who don't have the technical understanding to specifically ask for the advertised product when that decision is better left with someone who understands the technology." There were also numerous specific rebuttals. Suffice to say, the group wasn't impressed with the tactics used. George Waring posted a link to "Microsoft: We Use FreeBSD at: http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=992921150 ... These guys sure know how to make themselves easy to hate." And Jen implored us to "Just remember, all, - Linux is NOT FREE, your system can be hacked into by ANYONE due to the open source software, and there are NO DRIVERS for ANY of it so it WON'T WORK. The trouble is, of course, that there are a lot of people out there who will read that and believe it." Subject: [Alug] pppd problem New list contributor Andrew Glover complained about "disconnecting straight away with pppd." He answered his own question shortly after "I found out it's a compatibility problem with debian potato and 2.4.x". Welcome to the list Andrew. May we solve all your problems so easily ;-) Subject: [Alug] Virus on Linux? Vanisa Surapipith asked: "Can virus attact a linux system? People with MSWindows are constantly affected and need to update their Norton or McAfee virus scanner. Is there a similar thing in linux world? Neill Newman replied that "installing a virus on a linux box is much more dificult than under windows..." and pointed out that "for Redhat, ther are a fre options for updates.. if you are new to this, and want things to just work smoothly, I suggest looking at the up2date and up2date-gnome programs." Meanwhile, xsprite gave the short answer that "Yes. <http://www.big.net.au/~silvio/> However initial infection can be harder because of the multiuser nature of gnu/linux (and peer review). Worms are far more common. <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5080656,00.html> <http://www.computeruser.com/news/01/01/23/news13.html>" and Steve (brodders) offered a link to http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue65/lg_toc65.html Subject: [Alug] Disappearing messages Adam Bower and numerous others complained of strange happenings with the list. The short answer was some network and electrical maintenance which occurred near the list servers at UEA. Hopefully we're back to normal now. Subject: [Alug] Problems with Mandrake, silly questions and the result. John Seago reported more success with Red Hat than Mandrake, but there were some lingering problems. Owen offered condolences saying that "I still feel a begginer much the time, I think its the nature of linux. Some times I feel like its a "Civalisation" like stratagy game, in that as soon as you master one aspect of the system you find there is another level of technology to explore. Unless this is a hobby or profession I should target your efforts to what you want to do. Sound cards are a little tricky to install. Each sound card is installed slightly differently." John posted a later message: "Having now got over the initial euphoria of actually having a working (?), (see later), set of "Linux", Chris, my daughters fiancee, and I have now come up against several problems, In my case numbers of applications just don't work,and trying them delivers a bug report window> I can't believe that a complete system was sent out with a non working spreadsheet, time manager, and other bits that just don't work. I am of the opinion that I haven't installed or set up the system properly or may have installed something that needs other, installed items to work." Once again, Adam's message summarised many: "Yeah, Linux at the beginning is/can be frustrating. I remember the initial learning curve of How-to X would recommend reading Y that would recommend Z that would recommend X again. Made me say arghhhh more than once, although when you find you have 'got it' on one thing (in my case how init worked and the rc.d directorys) you suddenly find that nothing is a real problem and you can fix things yourself. What distro are you using though as it does sound a little buggy! I found that I had the same experience (installed apps not working etc.) as you until I found Debian, although Debian was more stressful to install and the prior knowledge of other distros was very helpful. Take the time to read and you will find yourself never going back to windows, it can take some dedication but it is really worth it." Subject: [Alug] linux and USB! Can it be achieved with SuperMicro P6SBA, AmiBios R1.5b? Tim Gowing announced: "I am having trouble making USB work under Linux (stand alone Linux only system, SuSE 6.3). ... Does anyone have any suggestions for a remedy?" Adam was swift with his reply: "I just had a look here http://www.supermicro.com/TECHSUPPORT/BIOS/bios.htm and it looks as though your Bios is now at version 3.1 so I would also suggest upgrading this and the kernel." Of course, how do you run these upgrades with a Linux-only system? This is a problem the seasoned Linux hackers have hit before. John Woodard answered: "Use a dos boot floppy you can use freedos if you really don't want to run Redmond code. Plenty of boot floppy images on the net if you look. My Epox mobo has the award awflash utility accessible in the bios!" Sounds like manufacturers are getting Clue. Subject: [Alug] Linux Expo... Many messages flew about, trying to arrange an ALUG meet at this event. So far, it sounds like Earl, Owen and David are there on Wednesday, while Jo, Adam and myself appear to be going on Thursday (Adam: "(damn less freebies!)"). Probably it's time to take up Adam's suggestion of "a big organising session on who is going on which day on Mondays IRC?" Subject: [Alug] Van Eck X config David Freeman "was reading cryptonomicon for the second time and I was wondering how I would go about do what Randy does with X windows. For those who don't know, Randy configures X so that there are no window titles, and the background is a script generating windows which open and close at random. Also I wondered if it was possible to output morse code on the scroll lock LED." The answers (from many): "The window titles bit would be the work of your window manager" ... "I did once have a program that would find a random .jpg from the net and display it in the root window as a background, although I would not reccomend using this program as it could be more than a little embarassing considering some of the content of the net" http://www.sudac.org/~napolium/linux/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ditdah/ A discussion of Sun 3s broke out. http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/sunref1.html Subject: [Alug] Secure FTP Ashley Howes asked "I was wondering if anyone knows of a secure FTP server. By secure I mean the difference between telnet and SSH (so all traffic is encrypted in transmit). I briefly saw references to scp (part of SSH) on a google search. As anyone used this or could comment on alternatives?" Andrew Savory answered "Yes, I use scp all the time. It's usually available as part of the standard ssh package on linux (debheads do 'apt-get install ssh') and works quite nicely. If you're a windows user, search for putty and grab a copy of pscp." Adam (Ubiquitous?) Bower: "sftp is an interactive file transfer program, similar to ftp(1), which performs all operations over an encrypted ssh(1) transport." Andi Chandler offered http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1 "This has the man page for sftp client" and http://www.xbill.org/sftp/ "This package contains sftpserv. I haven't tried it yet - when I do I'll email the list." -- MJR --__--__-- _______________________________________________ alug-announce mailing list alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug-announce End of alug-announce Digest

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RE: alug digest, Vol 1 #278 - 21 msgs
by Earl Brannigan 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

> Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:09:31 -0700 (PDT) > From: David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> > Reply-To: David_freeman(a)rocketmail.com > Subject: Re: [Alug] RE: Linux Expo... > To: "'alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk'" <alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> > > Earl, > > FANTASTIC, I am on a C course here in london ATM and I have shown this > to the people on the course, we all agree that its bloody funny. Glad you liked it.... Started out to be a simple thing, then I thought of using templates, then the whole thing grew.... > > Thank you. Can we get this put on the web site do you think? > Sure, ... > Thanks > > D

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Weekly IRC meeting reminder
by Adam Bower 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

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. Popular irc clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and ircII on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.bitchx.com http://www.xchat.org http://freshmeat.net http://www.epicsol.org/ (for Brett!) Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Writting structures
by David Freeman 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

C wizards, If I write a structure to disk using fwrite(), what happens about pointers to structers? does the pointer or what its pointing at get saved? Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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