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[Alug]Meeting pm 26-9-03
by David Crease 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

Syd wrote asking if anyone is going to this afternoon's meeting. I intend to be there, my second meeting after a period of about 3 years! I was under the impression from the mailings that it was fairly well susported. I hope to see lots of people there. David Crease

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[Alug]Postfix To Hotmail Problems
by Matt Parker 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

Hi all, Curious problem I've got here. Hotmail disconnects me from their mail server whenever I try an send an e-mail from my box. Anyone seen this problem or know of a solution. I've e-mail Hotmail but I guess it'll be a cold day in hell when I receive a reply... In the "info" log I get this:- Sep 26 18:15:45 ben postfix/smtpd[11085]: connect from fred.mpcontracting.co.uk[192.168.1.100] Sep 26 18:15:46 ben postfix/smtpd[11085]: 01CF23B4DE: client=fred.mpcontracting.co.uk[192.168.1.100] Sep 26 18:15:46 ben postfix/cleanup[11086]: 01CF23B4DE: message-id=<1064596424.2590.0.camel(a)fred.mpcontracting.co.uk> Sep 26 18:15:46 ben postfix/smtpd[11085]: disconnect from fred.mpcontracting.co.uk[192.168.1.100] Sep 26 18:15:46 ben postfix/nqmgr[2044]: 01CF23B4DE: from=<matt(a)mpcontracting.co.uk>, size=565, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 26 18:16:27 ben postfix/smtp[11088]: 01CF23B4DE: to=<cowboy_bob500(a)hotmail.com>, relay=mx1.hotmail.com[65.54.252.99], delay=41, status=deferred (lost connection with mx1.hotmail.com[65.54.252.99] while sending MAIL FROM) Nothing in "errors" or "warnings". As you can see from the post to the list, my mail server is working just fine for everything else. Thanks, Matt

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[Alug]ALUG meeting in Norwich on sunday
by Syd Hancock 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

ALUG SUNDAY MEETING Next meeting in Norwich this coming weekend on sunday 28th September. 2pm onwards in the Nelson Room at The Billy Blue Light pub, Hall Road, Norwich. The Billy is at the city end of Hall road and is not far from the bus station, just off the inner ring road. I have not put detailed directions on the website but IMNSHO anyone with a bit of gumption should not have too much difficulty using a streetfinder map of Norwich (or online equivalent)! Bring extension leads etc if power is required as I don't yet know what sockets etc are available. Room hire is £15 so please bring a bit of spare change towards the costs. OTHER PLANNED MEETINGS Next Norwich sunday meeting is currently planned for the end of January 2004 - unless anyone fancies a get-together before xmas, perhaps in a pub or for a meal (or both combined). I'm just dropping this idea in for people to think about. Norwich monthly meetings continue on the second thursday of the month at the Forum coffee bar, 8pm. Regards Syd

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[Alug]Silly Question
by Tarquin Mills 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hi, I want to mount a DVD video in Linux but the disc is not recognised as UDF or ISO format. A DVD-ROM from PC Format mounts in ISO format but the Hitch Hiker DVD will not mount on the video side or the ROM side. Thanks in advance. -- Tarquin Mills Reboot Movement (An Anti-Wintel Campaign) http://www.planet14.sonow4u.co.uk/comp/reboot/

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[Alug]Apropos of absolutely nothing!
by Keith Watson 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

http://www.jotajota.org/ficheros/answer%5b1%5d.gif Regards, Keith ____________ 'If there is a better solution...find it.' - Thomas Edison --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 01/09/2003

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[Alug]Announce digest, Vol 2 #16 - 2 msgs
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." --------------.--------------------------------------------.------------ alug-announce | Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group | Weekly(ish) --------------'--------------------------------------------'------------ ** Please send articles for this letter to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk ** *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Topics: 1. Call for Nominations for the 2004 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software (fwd) (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:27:25 +0100 From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> To: fsfe-uk(a)gnu.org, lugmaster(a)lug.org.uk, announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Organization: My own Subject: [Alug Announce]Call for Nominations for the 2004 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2003-09-21 23:34:20 +0100 From: Richard Stallman <rms(a)gnu.org> Subject: Call for Nominations for the 2004 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software [Please redistribute widely where appropriate] The GNU project is asking for nominations for the 2003 Free Software Award. We want to give this award to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software (free as in freedom; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html for the definition), through activities that accord with the spirit of free software. Any kind of activity could be eligible--writing software, writing documentation, publishing CDs, even journalism--but whatever the activity, we want to recognize long-term central contributions to the development of the world of free software. "Accord with the spirit" means, for example, that software, manuals or collections of them (on tape or CD) must be entirely Free. (Once again, that's free as in freedom; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html.) Work done commercially is eligible, but we want to give awards to individuals, not companies. People such as Miguel de Icaza, Donald Knuth, Larry Lessig, Brian Paul, Guido van Rossum, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Larry Wall who have already received this or other awards for their contributions, are not eligible for the Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Please send your nominations to award-nominations(a)gnu.org on or before Friday 31 October 2003. Please submit nominations in the following format: * Put the name of the person you are nominating in the email message subject line. * Please include, in the body of your message, an explanation (40 lines or less) of the work the person has done and why you think it is especially important to software freedom. Please state, in the body of your message, where to find the materials (e.g., software, manuals, or writing) which your nomination is based on. Information about the previous awards can be found in http://www.gnu.org/award/. _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu(a)gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ --__--__-- _______________________________________________ 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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[Alug]Confusing MSEC E-mails
by Matt Parker 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi All, I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on my web server/e-mail server/firewall and MSEC is sending me reports every night telling me what's going on. The thing I find confusing is that I keep getting reports like this:- Security Warning: These files belonging to packages have changed of status on the system : - No longer modified : /usr/include/c++/3.2/bits/istream.tcc The thing is, this file has never been modified and it hasn't been modified back. What does it mean by "no longer modified"? It'll tell me one night that a file has been modified and then the next night it'll tell me that it is no longer modified. With all this "crying wolf" how do I, as a sysadmin, tell when something has really been modified? Matt

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[Alug]networking problems
by Ben Francis 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I've got an unusual network problem with some Linux boxes at school. Mozilla Browser can view web pages fine via the proxy on port 80 and ftp works OK. I can ping the router but if I try pinging any web sites it just times out - it does seem to find the IP of the web site I'm pinging, but no data pongs back. So I can use google in a web browser, but ping google.co.uk just times out - I didn't know that was possible! I'm also having trouble allocating static IPs to the boxes. I've made "reservations" on the Windows NT DHCP server of the IP addresses I want in the range 10.25.20.101 - 10.25.20.108 but I'm having trouble getting /etc/network/interfaces set up correctly to connect to the network using them. This is the current contents of /etc/network/interfaces: =================================== auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.25.20.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.25.16.1 #network 10.25.16.0 #broadcast 10.25.16.255 =================================== After I make changes I do ifdown eth0 and then ifup eth0, which usually results in a "network unreachable" message. Is there a way of being able to address a computer by its name as opposed to it's IP if a dynamic IP is being used, allocated by the DHCP server? I'd like to be able to do ssh user@hostname instead of ssh user(a)000.000.000.000 for example which is my reason for wanting static IPs in the first place. One other simple question, how can I find out the IP of the computer I'm working on? I thought it was hostname -i but this just returns 127.0.0.1 instead of the computer's IP on the network. One other unrelated problem. I've been having trouble changing the keyboard language setting for X from the default US to UK. I've changed the relevent values in /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and restarted X, but for some reason it keeps reverting to US. The KDE keyboard setting is fine, but in fluxbox it uses a US layout. The funny thing is I've been able to change the language on my home PC using fluxbox, perhaps I'm missing something obvious. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm not very experienced with any of these problems! -- Ben "tola" Francis http://www.bourne-grammar.lincs.sch.uk/bgstux

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[Alug]Linux powered DVD player
by Jonathan McDowell 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

I mentioned this at the Forum on Thursday and people asked for more info. The new crop of EM8500 DVD players (the ones that are fairly cheap and support DivX) seem to be powered by Linux. You can get these for aruond £120, for example at: http://www.blankdiscshop.co.uk/acatalog/Hardware_Section__.html (the LiteOn LVD-2001 about half way down). LiteOn's page for the player: http://www.liteonit.com/DC/english/lvd_2001.htm Sigma's development kit is Linux based: http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/em8500.htm Some info about other EM8500 players: http://www.duke.edu/~java32/bravo/bravohacking.html If I didn't have a DVD player already I think I'd be buying one of these to play with. J. -- I'm an a**h**e, I'm an a**h**e, | .''`. Debian GNU/Linux Developer I'm a real f**king a**h**e. | : :' : Happy to accept PGP signed | `. `' or encrypted mail - RSA + | `- DSA keys on the keyservers.

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[Alug]Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

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.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" 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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