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dhclient and nameservers
by Dan Hatton 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Dear All, Sometimes, I bring my computer out of suspend-to-disk in a different network environment than the one where it was originally suspended. It automatically runs /etc/init.d/network restart (this being Fedora 8), and dhclient happily gets an IP address for itself and one for a nameserver, putting the latter in /etc/resolv.conf. I can connect to network resources by name, and all is well. Until a couple of minutes later, when something automatically edits resolv.conf, changing the nameserver address back to the one that's appropriate for the old network environment. Any ideas what's going on, please? -- Thanks Dan Hatton

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info
by chestep 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hi Alug I'm interested in computers in general, ie Apps, maintenance, networks, programming; I'm fairly aware of the main arears. I've seen Linux demonstrated, but not used it yet, though I intend to. My main concern at the moment is with something different, ie. the Thunderbird email app. *I need to post this query*, can you tell me the best link to use? Query I store my emails in folders I create within Thunderbird, then hope to export those I need to keep longer to my main drive outside of Thunderbird. This is fine for just one/individual email, as I can do a SaveAs to file. This is not fine if I want to export/save a whole folderfull of emails, as the 'File or Template' option of File/SaveAs/File or Template is greyed out. I seen discussions on Mozilla and elswhere about saving profiles outside of Mozilla, but this doesn't seem to address the problem I have, maybe I'm wrong. Also maybe it's not possible to Save/Export the emails in bulk. Thanks very much AC

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Fwd: info
by member jessejazza 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: member jessejazza <jessejazza(a)opensuse.us> Date: 19 Mar 2008 10:00 Subject: Re: [ALUG] info To: Wayne Stallwood <ALUGlist(a)digimatic.co.uk> On 19/03/2008, Wayne Stallwood <ALUGlist(a)digimatic.co.uk> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:01 +0000, chestep wrote: > > Hi Alug > > > Hi there > > > > Query > > I store my emails in folders I create within Thunderbird, then hope to > > export those I need to keep longer to my main drive outside of Thunderbird. > > This is fine for just one/individual email, as I can do a SaveAs to file. > > This is not fine if I want to export/save a whole folderfull of emails, > > as the 'File or Template' option of File/SaveAs/File or Template is > > greyed out. > > > I am not a thunderbird user but can't you select multiple messages by > holding down the control key ? or a block of messages by clicking on the > first one and then holding down alt when you click on the last one ? > What happens to the SaveAs option then ? > > Alternatively if there is an export function can it not select specific > folders to export from or can it only do the whole of your mail store ? > If you only get an option for Inbox, Drafts, Sent etc then can you > create a new folder called archive at that level rather than a sublevel > of the Inbox and then just export that ? > > Sorry mostly guesswork there > > > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! > I have used Thunderbird for several years now. It is the only email client i know that has an Import/Export addon which is ideal for archiving a years emails to another folder [several options html, eml] which you can then read from Thunderbird or Firefox. Just looked it up again it's called ImportExportTools. I don't know what other folk do but this is the only email client i'm aware of offering such a useful function and the reason why i've stayed with Thunderbird. I've actually gone back to using webmail as i use several machines but still use Thunderbird for archiving. james

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usb ethernet adaptor
by Jenny Hopkins 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hullo there, Can anyone recommend a usb-ethernet adaptor easy to configure for ubuntu? Are they generally pretty reliable devices? It is required because of a wobbly ethernet connection on a motherboard. Thanks, Jenny

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : The Milestone, Woodbridge Road
by samwise 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting is back next week (Monday 17th December) at 20:00: The Milestone Beer House 5 Woodbridge Road IPSWICH IP4 2EA Tel: 01473 252425 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP4+2EA At 20:30, however, many of us will be going to Mr. Wing's for a Christmas buffet: Mr. Wing 7 St Helens Street IPSWICH Suffolk IP4 1HE Tel: 01473 212884 or 212885 Google Maps: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP4+1HE We'll return to The Milestone after we've eaten - probably at about half nine, but to be sure where we are, feel free to call one of our attendees. If you need a mobile no. for one of them, request it on the main mailing list. Both The Milestone pub and Mr. Wing's are in the centre of Ipswich, near the now-defunct Odeon cinema and not far from The Regent Theatre. There is more information on the venue, including car parking info, on the ALUG wiki: http://www.alug.org.uk/wiki/moin.cgi/Meetings All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Hopefully, it shouldn't be too hard to find the pack, look for those huddled around a laptop! Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. This month's meeting is the Xmas celebration. On top of that, I have some more games working under Linux, including both Simon the Sorcerer's in ScummVM, and American McGee's Alice and Road Rash in WINE. Finally, we've invited along a guest who we hope will be bringing along his OpenMoko phone - the Linux geek's equivalent to the iPhone (albeit it doesn't quite make calls yet!). Hope to see you there, Peter. ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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RTC Alarm Wakeup
by Barry Samuels 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

kernel 2.6.23 I want to be able to start one of my machines with RTC Wakeup Alarm but it isn't working and I've just found out why. If I cd into /sys/class/rtc/rtc0 and set the wakeup time as follows: echo $(( $(cat since_epoch) + 300 )) > wakealarm and then look to see what is there: cat wakealarm I get something like 2059580189 (which converts to a time in April) whereas from 'cat since_epoch' I get someting like 1204369402 (which converts to the current date/time. Any ideas as to what may be happening here? -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Any problem/issue with running apache as a different user?
by Chris G 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

Would running apache as myself cause any serious security or other issues? (apache 2.2 on Fedora 8 if it's of any significance) It's on my home system where I am really the only user and apache is used mainly for 'local' browsing though there is one directory which I have opened up the apache permissions on so it's visible from the outside world. The only major issue I can see is that someone else browsing using apache *might* be able to see some of 'my' files that they wouldn't be able to see if apache was running as apache. Alternatively can anyone suggest a scriptable way of allowing myself to become user apache so that I can create files, do fuse mounts, etc. as apache? -- Chris Green

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A question about the newgrp command
by Chris G 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

I need to change gid so that I can successfully execute a fusermount command (it's indirectly via encfs). If I don't do "newgroup fuse" then the mount fails with a permission denied error. However I want to wrap this up in a script and, as I have discovered when trying to do it, when you execute newgrp you get a new shell so the script that is running newgrp only continues when you exit from the newly created shell. While it may be inherently necessary for newgrp to execute a new shell I wish the man page had told me as it was rather confusing initially. So, how do I automate changing GID? All I actually want to do is:- newgrp fuse encfs /<encrypted directory> /<unencrypted mount> -- Chris Green

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Converting to PDF
by Barrys linux mail 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Hi I wonder if anyone knows of Linux software that works like Visage eXpert PDF converter. This works like a virtual printer as is puts the PDF printer in you printers folder and when selected will convert the file to PDF format. This is very handy when wanting to save Emails as you just print them to PDF eXpert and you have a saved PDF file. I could do with something like this for Ubuntu as i do not have a printer connected to my laptop. But would then be able to print out files saved from a Flash Drive on my Windows Desktop. Any Idea's? Barry

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rsync and ssh
by Barry Samuels 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Is it possible for me using a combination of rsync and ssh, on my computer, to copy files from a remote server which does have ssh access but doesn't have rsync or is it necessary to have rsync on both ends? -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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