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[ALUG-DIGEST] Sun Mar 5 23:59:02 2000
by alug-digest＠stu.uea.ac.uk 05 Mar '00

05 Mar '00

This is a digest of the list alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily those of UEA or UUEAS. 3 messages in this digest: Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... [alug] Dial up dilema... === MESSAGE 1 === Subject: Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... From: jg(a)cyberstorm.demon.co.uk Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 01:17:08 +0000 (GMT) On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Dermot Musgrove wrote: > Stu wrote: > > > > Got this from a friend can any one suggest a good place to look....??? > > Cheers Stu > > > > hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried > > millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the > > same error is coming up:- > > > > "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" > AFAIR this happens because you have a line in /etc/ppp/options with 'lock' > > kppp does its own locking, it used to be OK to have an empty options file. chmod uog+rwx /dev/modem does the trick here. -- James Green Site Manager james(a)linuxnewbie.com LinuxNewbie.com LNC === MESSAGE 2 === Subject: Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... From: Darrell Scott <scottie(a)linux.ca> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 00:46:55 -0400 On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Stu wrote: > hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried > millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the > same error is coming up:- > > "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" > > The debug file reports the folowing:- > > "localhost pppd[625] The remote system is required to authenticate itself > but localhost pppd [625] counldnt find any secret (password) which would let > it use an IP address." Sounds like an authentication problem to me... maybe you're using the wrong userid/password combination? Capitalization? Maybe you're using PAP instead of CHAP, or vice-versa. It might be a good idea to try connecting to another account you have the username and password for - both on the same ISP and another ISP, if possible. That way you can isolate the problem. I've had trouble connecting to NT servers in the past; I had to recompile pppd for MS-CHAP authentication (all the instructions are with the source code). I don't think this is the error message that I got though. > I have tried a manual login script as well and the same error occurs. I This would remain consistent with an authentication problem. If you're manually editing stuff, edit /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and/or /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. Check out ISP-Hookup-HOWTO and PPP-HOWTO for more info. Good Luck! Darrell (A former East-Anglian living in Canada!) -- scottie(a)linux.ca === MESSAGE 3 === Subject: [alug] Dial up dilema... From: bsamuels(a)datamansys.co.uk Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 15:20:37 GMT ** Reply to note from "Stu" <stu(a)mgstu.co.uk> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 01:44:20 -0000 Stu > > Got this from a friend can any one suggest a good place to look....??? > Cheers Stu > > hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried > millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the > same error is coming up:- > > "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" > > The debug file reports the folowing:- > > "localhost pppd[625] The remote system is required to authenticate itself > but localhost pppd [625] counldnt find any secret (password) which would let > it use an IP address." I believe that the remote host should not be required to authenticate itself! from ppp options: # Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network # packets to be sent or received. auth If you have the above in your ppp options file try kppp after changing the 'auth' line to 'noauth'. > I have tried a manual login script as well and the same error occurs. I > also used the terminal button in the modem device setup and called the > speaking clock so I know the modem works. > > [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] > [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] > [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] > [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] Best wishes Barry Samuels

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Dial up dilema...
by bsamuels＠datamansys.co.uk 05 Mar '00

05 Mar '00

** Reply to note from "Stu" <stu(a)mgstu.co.uk> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 01:44:20 -0000 Stu > > Got this from a friend can any one suggest a good place to look....??? > Cheers Stu > > hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried > millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the > same error is coming up:- > > "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" > > The debug file reports the folowing:- > > "localhost pppd[625] The remote system is required to authenticate itself > but localhost pppd [625] counldnt find any secret (password) which would let > it use an IP address." I believe that the remote host should not be required to authenticate itself! from ppp options: # Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network # packets to be sent or received. auth If you have the above in your ppp options file try kppp after changing the 'auth' line to 'noauth'. > I have tried a manual login script as well and the same error occurs. I > also used the terminal button in the modem device setup and called the > speaking clock so I know the modem works. > > [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] > [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] > [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] > [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] Best wishes Barry Samuels [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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[ALUG-DIGEST] Sat Mar 4 23:59:03 2000
by alug-digest＠stu.uea.ac.uk 04 Mar '00

04 Mar '00

This is a digest of the list alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily those of UEA or UUEAS. 3 messages in this digest: Dial up dilema... Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... Re: [alug] PHP complile probs === MESSAGE 1 === Subject: Dial up dilema... From: "Stu" <stu(a)mgstu.co.uk> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 01:44:20 -0000 Got this from a friend can any one suggest a good place to look....??? Cheers Stu hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the same error is coming up:- "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" The debug file reports the folowing:- "localhost pppd[625] The remote system is required to authenticate itself but localhost pppd [625] counldnt find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP address." I have tried a manual login script as well and the same error occurs. I also used the terminal button in the modem device setup and called the speaking clock so I know the modem works. === MESSAGE 2 === Subject: Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... From: Dermot Musgrove <dermot(a)glade.perl.connectfree.co.uk> Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 01:52:30 +0000 Stu wrote: > > Got this from a friend can any one suggest a good place to look....??? > Cheers Stu > > hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried > millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the > same error is coming up:- > > "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" AFAIR this happens because you have a line in /etc/ppp/options with 'lock' kppp does its own locking, it used to be OK to have an empty options file. Regards, Dermot === MESSAGE 3 === Subject: Re: [alug] PHP complile probs From: "Dr. Ashley T. Howes PhD" <ashley_t_howes(a)dial.pipex.com> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:28:44 +0000 At 10:28 03/03/00 +0000, you wrote: > >I've just seen this: >http://www.PenguinMagazine.com/Magazine/This_Issue/0010 >which takes you through the Apache/PHP/MySQL install process. Good timing >that :-) > >James. > Thank-you, using the above it now works and I can now start to learn php/mysql. I'm still playing around with compiling php from source and found the argument to compile it as an apache module to be (on my Redhat 6.0 machine): ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs ... And i've just now got the php source code to compile correctly (with mysql, dbase, etc) database support and it's working with Apache. Yippee! Thanks again for your help. Ashley Dr. Ashley T. Howes PhD Email: ashley_t_howes(a)dial.pipex.com Web: http://www.ydu09.dial.pipex.com "When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"

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OT: BT, ADSL, Cable Modems
by Green J M K 03 Mar '00

03 Mar '00

Refs: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000303-000009.html http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/8/ns-13811.html Number one BT has decided yet again to delay ADSL citing lack of demand causing insufficient testing. That's tech-speak for "we're gonna lose revenue here". Number two both Telewest and NTL are rolling our Cable modems over the next few months. Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to the differences between cable and adsl (other than the tv and telephony services cable also provides)? I might add that I signed up to BTInternet Wednesday upon their announcement of the free evening calls. Other than their dialup boxes going dead early Wed evening, I've not seen any problems yet. Sure, it's slower than Demon, but still acceptable (4k/sec web, 4-7/8k/sec news). I've not set mail up yet. I have had one or two disconnections, but nothing appalling. If only BT would allow full unmetered access *sigh*. s/BT: It's Good to Talk/BT: Taking the Piss/g James. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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lightwave
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

Don't drink more than 3 litres in one evening and break your laptop with you PhD on it!! (Sorry, Mike!!!) A friend of mine runs Office '97 under the latest stable version - it seems to be quite solid. Most apps I used to occasionally use under Wine, I now use native versions... sorry! Andi p.s. Sorry about the pseudo-indent-reply Notes is pretty useless!! ------------------------------------- does anybody have any advice on wine ? is it stable enough for 24/7 use ? I am considering using a linux box to render in lightwave under wine - does wine affect the fpu performace ? J ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * ********************************************************************* [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Wrox Press - Linux Books
by Rob Miller 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

Hi Does ALUG have a LUG library? Would you like to start one?:-) Wrox Press is a UK publisher (based in Birmingham)- We publish books on Linux and related technologies for professional programmers. I can send out free review copies of our books and it seems only right to me that some of these should got to the UK LUGs :-) I'd like to send you a copy of, "Beginning Linux Programming 2nd Edition" (with a foreword by Alan Cox)ISBN: 1861002971. If someone at ALUG could review the book and put a review up on your web site then that would be fair exchange :-) If you like the sound of my plan then send me your postal address and I'll send you a copy of the book. Cheers Rob Rob Miller Wrox Press Ltd GNU/Linux Marketing & Communications www.wrox.com Bang!Linux Conference and Expo - Bangalore 25-27 Feb 2000 www.linux-conferences.com [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Machine Lockups
by jg＠cyberstorm.demon.co.uk 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

Hi guys, I'm feeling a little out of my depth here on this one. This box was built two Autumns ago (1998) and has only had a monitor change since. Using RH6.0. Tonight, on two seperate occassions, between 30 seconds and one minute into my dialup Internet connection, my machine has totally locked up. The only commonality has been the dialup and corresponding disk activity (sendmail and fetchnews kicking in). I have had an in-between dialup connection that stayed up fine. The screen freezes. No mouse, no keyboard. The four consoles do not respond. No beeps occur on keyboard buffer overflow as you'd normally expect. The modem stays on-line, but Rx/Tx lights go dead. The hard disk stops rattling completely (I can normally hear it all the time). I have 64MB RAM, 128MB swap. gkrellm shows swap to be at or less than 1/4 used, RAM between half and 3/4 used. I run GNOME 1.0.53 and E 0.16 and on both occassions had two Eterms up. Absolutely nothing out of the normal, bar having 'daytime' uncommented in /etc/services (I was trying out a networking code sample from a book). I have now commented it back out. I was not accessing audio/cdrom devices, nor floppy (LS-120). I am using kernel 2.2.12, and have been for smoe time. The only thing that comes to mind is possibly swapfile corruption, but I don't even know if it's possible with Linux/ext2 or whatever. Unless the problem is an apparently random hardware fault. I must admit since using GNOME again this past few days memory has been a little lacking. Ideas? [jg@cyberstorm jg]$ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 2915904 2033150 731959 74% / /dev/hda6 2028098 770226 1153050 40% /home /dev/hda5 2096160 1995712 100448 95% /mnt/data /dev/hda1 2096160 1902592 193568 91% /mnt/windows [jg@cyberstorm jg]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 63320 61892 1428 52792 1960 31316 -/+ buffers/cache: 28616 34704 Swap: 128988 20 128968 [jg@cyberstorm jg]$ quota Disk quotas for user jg (uid 500): none -- James Green jg(a)cyberstorm.demon.co.uk Site Manager jg(a)linuxnewbie.com LinuxNewbie.com LNC http://www.cyberstorm.demon.co.uk/ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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New users distribution
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

SuSE is a solid distro. SuSE never seems to be mentioned in some circles, but its pretty damn good and worth at look at. It seems to be on par with Slackware in that lots of people use it for their server operating systems. Oh well... my two pence worth!! Andi -------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 09:46:23PM +0000, Aquarius wrote: > Which should I recommend? One that comes with a good book on it. (or equivalent online docs) Mandrake is based on RH, so uses RH's packaging system. Storm and Corel are based on Debian, but Storm seems to leave you abruptly post-install in my opinion and Corel has that root exploit. Stampede is too early in its life. Slackware is OK, but you really need a book. SuSE I've never given a fair trial. ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * ********************************************************************* [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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SuSE wms
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

Hey, I remember those Sun 3-60 machines. Classic!! Then we upgrade them to be Xterm's when the Sparc ELC's arrived!!! Eee, by heck! Those were the days! A> On 21-Feb-00 Green J M K wrote: > Hey all, > > Okay, I am stuck in this uni machine. It uses gdm to login, and presents > only KDE as the possible environment. But hark! /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker is > present! I tried killall -9 kwm && wmaker (as per a suggestion) but it > simply logged me out. > > Anyone got any bright ideas? You don't know a good think when you see it..... When I was an UG at essex we were using some crap in house 68000 box with no virtual memory or dma and a crap prot of SYS-V I think.... Then we moved to a network of Sun 3-60s :-) Peter. ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * ********************************************************************* [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Trouble with gimp
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 24 Feb '00

24 Feb '00

Is this your home directories and CVS repository? I can recommend StorageTec tape silos!! We back up 15PetaBytes of data on these!!! :-) Seriously, DAT's are fine. At home I back up (using BRU I must admit) across multiple DAT's. If you get a DAT drive with an Autochange it'll do this automagically for you during the night. Any half decent backup software will support the autochanger. Some of my FTP Server's here at work I backup to DLT's. These are fine for smallish file servers - well 40GB on one tape. Have fun... Andi eee bye eck, when I wer't lad ;)... I guess I better get this back on a linux related theme ;).. does anybody have any suggestions for a reasonable backup devices other than dat under linux ?? we need to back up about 15 gig, dosen't have to be than fast, (well overnight will do!).. it seems that dat's are now becomming a little small ;).. please, no suggestions of 15 jazz drives ;).. Sz ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * ********************************************************************* [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Mandrake 7
by John Woodard 24 Feb '00

24 Feb '00

All you RedHatters out there check out Mandrake 7.0 very slick! Cheers, BJ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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SuSE wms
by Green J M K 22 Feb '00

22 Feb '00

Hey all, Okay, I am stuck in this uni machine. It uses gdm to login, and presents only KDE as the possible environment. But hark! /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker is present! I tried killall -9 kwm && wmaker (as per a suggestion) but it simply logged me out. Anyone got any bright ideas? (I have a related question for those who answer correctly.) James. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Redhat user login prob!
by Simon Jude 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Hi, I have a slight problem in that when a user tries to login to my redhat 6.1 system they get kicked straight back to the login screen. Only the root user can login! How can I fix this? Thanks Simon School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, University Plain, Norwich, NR4 7TJ Telephone (01603) 593124 Fax (01603) 507719 [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Apache: Is this a bad trick?
by MJ Ray 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Any apache gurus on the list, I've been doing some site development, and rather than have to tweak all the addresses, I added 127.0.0.2 sitename to the /etc/hosts file and defined 127.0.0.2 as a virtual host. I don't know why, but I feel that's a bad thing to do: is it? MJR [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Staroffice CD
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Hiya! I can recommend Star Office. Sun sent me a CD last year - the installation ran perfectly. You could certainly put it on any 'users' desktop running on SuSE and fool them into thinking it was something from the Redmond (un)stable. A> "Simon Jude" <s.jude(a)uea.ac.uk> on 21/02/2000 16:27:00 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: [alug] Staroffice CD Hi, I don't know if anybody is interested but Sun are giving away free Star Office CDs at: http://www.sun.co.uk/promotions/software/staroffice/form.html Simon School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, University Plain, Norwich, NR4 7TJ Telephone (01603) 593124 Fax (01603) 507719 [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * ********************************************************************* [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Staroffice CD
by Simon Jude 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Hi, I don't know if anybody is interested but Sun are giving away free Star Office CDs at: http://www.sun.co.uk/promotions/software/staroffice/form.html Simon School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, University Plain, Norwich, NR4 7TJ Telephone (01603) 593124 Fax (01603) 507719 [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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SuSE wms
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Knowing Essex University, you'll be lucky they haven't deleted the kernel because it was taking up disk space!!! A> Green J M K <jmkgre(a)essex.ac.uk> on 21/02/2000 14:03:14 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: [alug] SuSE wms On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, MJ Ray wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 01:57:29PM +0000, Green J M K wrote: > > maybe it wasn't gdm ???? > > What did it look like? Textured background, space for username and password, drop down list of available environments, Go and Shutdown buttons. Only KDE listed in menu. Essex Uni logo in top right of the dialog. Small dialog. James. ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * ********************************************************************* [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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.htaccess
by jg＠cyberstorm.demon.co.uk 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Hi guys, Anyone know how, via .htaccess in htdocs/, to make *all* web requests return a specified document instead? I'm thinking of the occassions when I take a website (LNC) down to play with it and I want everyone to see a message in a file elsewhere, like htdocs/placeholder.html instead. Cheers, -- James Green jg(a)cyberstorm.demon.co.uk Site Manager jg(a)linuxnewbie.com LinuxNewbie.com LNC http://www.cyberstorm.demon.co.uk/ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Stupid X question
by Simon Jude 17 Feb '00

17 Feb '00

Hi, How do I configure X so that I can run software on a remote machine (eg cpca7) and view it on my linux machine? I realise that this is probably easy to fix, but I can't remember how to do it! Thanks Simon School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, University Plain, Norwich, NR4 7TJ Telephone (01603) 593124 Fax (01603) 507719 [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Help Requested
by Quantrill, Simon 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

MMmmm wierd but on the other hand I dont look after the mail server only the network! 8-) -----Original Message----- From: Neill Newman [mailto:njnewm@essex.ac.uk] Sent: 16 February 2000 12:51 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: [alug] Help Requested looks like another that needs help !!! "Quantrill, Simon" wrote: > > ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META > content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META > content='"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV> class=436174812-16022000>Iam in > Kessingland </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV > class=OutlookMessageHeader>-----Original > Message----- From: sKinn~Y J > [mailto:jg@j-net.org.uk] Sent: 08 January 1997 17:03 To: > alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: [alug] Help > Requested </DIV>permil;Transitional//EN"> > anybody in beccles wonto hookup with a new user, ? > </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> > > ____________________________________________________________________ > "This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. This communication may contain material protected by > attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or > the person responsible for delivering the email to the intended > recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and > that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this > email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error > please notify the IT Call Centre by telephone on 44 (0) 1953 608000." > > postmaster(a)lotuscars.co.uk > http://www.lotuscars.co.uk > http://www.lotuseng.com > > [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] > [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] > [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] > [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neill Newman Tel: Mobile 07970 673722 Department of Electronics Systems Engineering Work 01206 873708 University of Essex Fax: Work 01206 872900 http://wearables.essex.ac.uk/index.html email: njnewm(a)essex.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Help Requested
by Quantrill, Simon 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Iam in Kessingland </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader>-----Original Message----- From: sKinn~Y J [mailto:jg@j-net.org.uk] Sent: 08 January 1997 17:03 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: [alug] Help Requested </DIV>permil;Transitional//EN"> anybody in beccles wonto hookup with a new user, ? </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ____________________________________________________________________ "This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering the email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the IT Call Centre by telephone on 44 (0) 1953 608000." postmaster(a)lotuscars.co.uk http://www.lotuscars.co.uk http://www.lotuseng.com [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Help Requested
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

I thought Beccles was in a different timezone!!! Neill Newman <njnewm(a)essex.ac.uk> on 16/02/2000 11:54:14 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: [alug] Help Requested > sKinn~Y J wrote: > > ÿþ > anybody in beccles wonto hookup with a new user, ? anybody in beccles wonto set their clock ;)... Sz ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * ********************************************************************* [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Help Requested
by Justin Jonas 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

Anyone know any useful online guides to setting up a linux box to run on an NT network and act as a mail server? The more idiot proof the better Justin

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Surftime
by Green J M K 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

Looks like BT may finally be getting the message: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/6/ns-13373.html Question is, if BT could lower the Surftime price from 35GBP/month to compete with SurfUnlimited's 9.99GBP/month server (conditions apply), just how much profit did BT think they could make? Anyone know when Often are due to make their announcement about Surftime? Debian upgrades just become a little more realistic :-) James. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Classic!
by Laurie Brown 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

ArfArf!!!! http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2436920,00.html?chkpt=zdnnsto Cheers, Laurie. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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