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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '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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ODBC on RH8
by Tony Dietrich 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

I've just started try to do some programming on a Linux based system, after years of working in WinDoze. One of the first hurdles I'm facing is that the current project requires accessing a remote MySql server (remote, but on the same LAN). I'm assuming its possible to set up some sort of ODBC service, but for the life of me I can't find out the right way to do this. Has anyone got any hints please? I'm using NetBeans or KDevelop, as my programming environment, it that affects anything :P -- Tony Dietrich Transoft Computer Consultants 07769710115

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modem driver
by Kamel Saadi 15 Mar '03

15 Mar '03

Hi , I have an intel 536ep modem and a red hat linux 7.0(kernel 2.2.x) on my machine, the only driver I could find is for the 2.4.x kernel, can anyone help? Cheers.

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Announce digest, Vol 2 #3 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 15 Mar '03

15 Mar '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. Fwd: [Alug] UEA meeting (16th March) (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:45:24 +0000 (GMT) From: mjr(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk (MJ Ray) Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: [Alug] UEA meeting (16th March) From: James Edward John Taylor <J.E.Taylor(a)uea.ac.uk> Subject: [Alug] UEA meeting (16th March) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:42:27 +0000 Hello ya'll. I havee been informed that there was a provisinal date for the UEA meeting of ALUG this weekend (Sunday 16th March). As opposed to the previous UEA meeting, this one will be ... semi organised!!!. I have booked a room in Union House for it, and will try to get there early enough to put up relevent penguin pictures pointing to room 1.33 which is the bigg room at the end of the corridor... the only problem with this room is that if we have more then sixty people turn up, then we will be forced to turn some away... Anyone else comming or will it be me on my tod? Is anyone bringing anything cool or semi-cool, or not cool at all but wants to make it cool? Anyone wanting to do a demonstration/presentation/speach at all? Anyways, tis all from me for now J _______________________________________________ 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! --__--__-- _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [SLL] "Unix Text Processing"
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

On 14-Mar-03 Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > This book is on my shelf and it says "Hayden Books" (of Howard Sams). > > It includes easy-to-understand chapters on unix fundamentals, using vi, > nroff, some macros, and drawing images (which I have not done yet). > > It has been quite useful even to this day. > > Jeremy C. Reed > http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ Thanks! You are right, and apologies for the error. Tim O'Reilly, none the less, went on to publish the "O'Reilly" books, and great tribute is in order for this most useful series. Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 14-Mar-03 Time: 22:47:14 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Gnome 1.4 Startup Program Problem
by Keith Watson 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Any ideas on this one? My system is based on Debian Woody, I'm using Gnome 1.4 with Enlightenment 0.16.5 with Nautilus as my desktop manager (so I can drop icons on the desktop - works a treat! :o) ). I'm using 'chbg' to randomly change my desktop background and that works fine too Problem is I've set chbg as an application to startup with Gnome when I log in, trouble with that is that each time I log out and then back in another copy of chbg starts up. How do I prevent multiple copies of chbg starting up? Keith ____________ Courage does not always roar, sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying; 'Sod it! Let's go down the pub!!'

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UEA meeting (16th March)
by James Edward John Taylor 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Hello ya'll. I havee been informed that there was a provisinal date for the UEA meeting of ALUG this weekend (Sunday 16th March). As opposed to the previous UEA meeting, this one will be ... semi organised!!!. I have booked a room in Union House for it, and will try to get there early enough to put up relevent penguin pictures pointing to room 1.33 which is the bigg room at the end of the corridor... the only problem with this room is that if we have more then sixty people turn up, then we will be forced to turn some away... Anyone else comming or will it be me on my tod? Is anyone bringing anything cool or semi-cool, or not cool at all but wants to make it cool? Anyone wanting to do a demonstration/presentation/speach at all? Anyways, tis all from me for now J

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Re: [Alug] Changing file owners
by Edenyard 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Many thanks to everyone who sent me help on fixing my file ownership problems. Chown -R worked perfectly. Another one for the notebook! Thanks again, Gerald.

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Changing file owners
by Edenyard 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

Dear All, I'd be grateful for some guidance on this. As a Linux novice, I set up my system and used it with gay abandon as root (I know, I know...), gathering all sorts of useful data on the disk. Now I know better (!), I have different user accounts, but the problem is that I have entire directories with subdirectories under them and files in all those, all of which belong to root/root. WHen I want to move them as an ordinary user, of course I'm denied access. My question is: is there a command that I can issue (as root, presumably) that will go through an entire directory (including all the subs and files in each), changing the ownership of everything to what I specify (e.g., root/users or gerald/users, perhaps)? Any clues most welcome! Gerald.

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wvstreams
by BenEBoy 12 Mar '03

12 Mar '03

Could anyone help please? I'm trying to compile wvstreams under linux 2.4.20 & gcc 3.2 (on my LFS system) but it keeps moaning about assigning a char** to a const char ** in wvcrypto.cc. I've tried patching it to sort out the problems it has with gcc 3.2 but it still doesn't work. Could someone shine some light for me please? please? cheers, BenE

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