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Welcome to Linux sessions
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Nov '02

16 Nov '02

MJRay wrote: >The next meeting is pencilled in for King's Lynn on 1 December, if that's OK >for people? After Christmas, I'd like to try to run "Welcome to Linux" >sessions, but there's no replies to the thread on the main list yet... 1 Dec is fine for me. Will it be in the same venue as last time? Is it okay to bring kit? Re. the Welcome to Linux sessions: http://linuxclub.il.eu.org/newcomers/timetable.html I wonder how many would turn up to the lectures? - it would be quite a lot of work and preparation if no-one were to show up. Wouldn't it basically mean just making the meetings more organised - we already have the meeting, the website advertising them, and informal talks. Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] Synergy?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Nov '02

16 Nov '02

Keith Watson wrote: >Anyone on the list ever used Synergy < http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/doc-user.html> ? I've just read a short >write up <URL tba - >sorry> on it and it looks interesting. I've just installed this and am impressing people with the mouse moving from one screen to the other. I'm not entirely sure of its usefulness in daily life, I'll let you know if I have a "eureka, how did I live without this!" moment. My brother uses x2vnc, which is a similar project, and says it is the cat's bollocks; one keyboard, one mouse, and copy & paste between computers. Jenny.

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psDoom - kill processes via Doom
by Ashley T. Howes PhD 16 Nov '02

16 Nov '02

Just read about using Doom as a user interface to killing processes on your Linux box, and thought I would share this cool app with the group. Check it out at: http://psdoom.sourceforge.net Note: * wounding a process monster is equivalent to renicing it * keep shooting and you will kill the process Hmm, I wonder what the affect of the BFG as root would have ;) -- Ashley T. Howes Ph.D. http://www.ashleyhowes.com "When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"

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Saving /var/log/dmesg
by Paul 16 Nov '02

16 Nov '02

Hi Folks Having fun and games here trying to track down a bug that is causing my kernel to crash and do a cold boot. Much of the information I need is in the /var/log/dmesg (oops reports, etc), but this is overwritten on the next boot - Question: Is there any way of saving an old dmesg log at the next boot ? I've tried adding a "mv -f /var/log/dmesg /var/log/old-dmesg" to the end of rc.sysinit, but it copies the current dmesg log. Regards, Paul.

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LF January 2002
by John Sherman 15 Nov '02

15 Nov '02

Thanks to Ian,Syd and Adam for your replies will contact you soon with details or to let you know if I have obtained a copy Kind Regards John

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Samba 2.2.3a-6 not showing files
by N3tw0rkAng31B0y 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

I have a local guest account called winguest. winguest has a password via linux passwd and smbpasswd. I wish to share a directory called /home/ricardo/mp3 , and all the files and directories below it. At first, the directories and files were owned by ricardo, group ricardo and chmod'd 700. So... I created a group called winguest, added my normal linux user to it, and also the winguest account. I: chgrp -R winguest mp3/ chmod -R 770 mp3/ I can "see" the shares using gnomba on the local machine, but they are empty (i.e. reports as 0 files). The appropriate lines in my smb.conf are: [mp3] comment = mp3 files writable = yes path = /home/ricardo/mp3/ public = yes I suspect I have done something silly with file permissions, because in the /var/log/samba/log.pixiedust file (pixiedust being the samba server) I have: [2002/11/14 17:13:35, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(589) pixiedust (192.168.0.2) Can't change directory to /home/ricardo/mp3 (Permission denied) Using gnomba on my laptop, I get a different problem. When trying to access these files I get the following error: mounted on:>/tmp/PIXIEDUST_mp3< Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 There is no mention of the laptop being denied access in log.pixiedust. Any ideas?

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Linux Format January 2002 DVD
by John Sherman 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Hi Has anyone an original copy of this DVD for sale as it is no longer available as a back issue. Thanks in hope John

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cuckoo's egg book loan
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Hi list, I lent my copy of Cuckoo's Egg to someone at an alug meeting a while back, but can't remember who. Could you mail me off-list if you have it gathering dust on your shelf? Thanks, Jenny.

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Fwd: 88Mhz an' still chuggin via Syleham
by MJ Ray 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Sent to wrong address. Please use main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 07:46:06 GMT From: fluff <fluff(a)zetnet.co.uk> Subject: 88Mhz an' still chuggin via Syleham Dear Egg Spurts - herewith the Debian3 installation saga, Episode 97. Despite successful restrarts with lilo/linux s/dselect/install, the process seems to fail when it gets to the request to acces the web to get the ibm.jdk files. I respond "no+return" but get the same loop. I have d/l the tgz files and burned to CD but can't get install process to look at cd-rom and since system doesn't seem to look at cd-rom, can't copy tgz file to /tmp! Have I invented perpetual emotion? Or as Chef Fourwalls says, "If we 'ad some eggs, we could have eggs and bacon, if we had some bacon." All help gratefully received -- David White in Norfolk, UK surrounding the Suffolk peninsula ô¿ô Zippily created with Zimacs 2.14

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New to linux
by D & C Cooper 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Why I'm getting involved in linux: It looks fun. It looks like it works better than WinXX whatever. It looks like WinXX whatever is only going to get worse! Dave Cooper

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