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Webcams
by Ricardo Campos 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

heh, broadband soon, and with it I want to set up a webcam. Has anyone got any tips on which of the programs to use in order to achieve this? I would probably want to host the webcam locally, i.e. set up apache so ppl can just browse to a dyndns hostname. TIA Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Linux wins!
by Kelly Ash 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Once again (can't count the times in the past 6 months alone) Bills creation has taken a dive and I'm done. What I'd like to know now is how differently an install is if it's going to be a Linux only machine? I didn't do any partitioning for the current installation (dual with Win98se - each having their own hd) and let Linux go about it's business. I want to wipe both hd's and start again from scratch with NO Win anything on here. Due to Malcolms kind offer, I'll be installing the ProSuite edition of Mandrake 8.2 and was curious as to how Linux will see/use 2 empty hd's. As always, any pointers and tips thankfully accepted!!

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Kword and ISpell
by Martyn Drake 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Any Kword fans out there? If so, what do you do when Kword complains that "ISpell cannot be started - check that it is configured correctly and is in your PATH", and having checked all of that, still doesn't work (same error). This is on a RedHat 7.1 box with Kword 2.1.1.. Regards, Martyn

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Announce digest, Vol 1 #24 - 2 msgs
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

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: [Lugmaster] Senior Linux role (MJ Ray) 2. Re: lug.org.uk server security (was Re: [lugmaster] Mailman Security) (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:13:36 +0100 Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: [Lugmaster] Senior Linux role From: "Mark Lewis" <mark(a)lug.org.uk> Subject: [Lugmaster] Senior Linux role Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:29:02 +0100 Gentlemen, I would not normally post 'jobs' to the list, however this chappie has the courtesy to telephone me and ask how best to approach our members. It appears it's a pretty decent Server Admin job in New York, responsible for running some 100+ Redhat boxes for a bank. Jason tells me it's a high calibre job with high a salary ticket, so thought someone may be interested? Perhaps if you are also happy, you may like to forward to your lists? Regards, Mark *********** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** On 22/08/2002 at 15:50 Jason Yank <jyank(a)astoncarter.co.uk> wrote: >Linux SA (NY) >EAT, BREATH, SLEEP AND DRINK LINUX? >I want to talk to you. >New York based role - relocation necessary if applicable. >New senior Linux SA role is live! in NY for our Investment banking client. >Linux Computer Farm SA >Approx 100 Redhat 6 machines and +200 new Redhat machines supporting custom >software. >Serious hard-core linux guru, +5 of linux development, building and support >in large commercial environment. >Strong NFS, good automounter, >Source code/kernel level tuning, unix internals/fundamentals. >Role is NY based and will require relocation. >Very strong communication skills, presentable, well educated and >articulate! >URGENT..... > >Regards, > >Jason Yank >Senior Consultant >Aston Carter Ltd. >+44 (0)20-7739-5500 >+44 (0)7957-583-526 >jyank(a)astoncarter.co.uk >www.astoncarter.co.uk > > --__--__-- Message: 2 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:39:14 +0100 From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: [Alug Announce] Re: lug.org.uk server security (was Re: [lugmaster] Mailman Security) [This message has also been posted.] Tim Williams <T.M.Williams(a)cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > I've got sPOP3 configured on my home system if you need help setting this > up. Fetchmail works fine with sPOP3, not sure about other retreival > clients though. Haven't needed to explicitly use the stunnel command to > get it to work, although this may be happening transparently. Retchmail also supports spop (and is much simpler and faster, but doesn't do multidrop or other things fetchmail gets wrong itself). APOP should be in the snapshots now. There is interest in someone updating fastforward to support SSLing a port forward. There's already SSL support in its stream library, so shouldn't be too hard. It's just that it's not been needed yet, so no-one's written it. Fastforward is a fast port forwarder that tries not to waste more CPU or memory than absolutely necessary. It's with retchmail at http://open.nit.ca/ Maybe if you're not interested, someone in your LUG might be? Feel free to forward this request onwards. Thanks. --__--__-- _______________________________________________ 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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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

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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MySQL Installation
by David Crease 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

I installed the binary of MySQL 3.23.51 according to the recipe, I believe. However, when I attempted to start the mysql daemon it gives the message that the daemon is starting immediately followed by a timed message "mysqld ended". Checking that the daemon is not, in fact, running with mysqladmin -p ping gives error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists! ls shows the socket is there. Another look for the daemon with ps -aux |grep mysql did not show mysqld to be running. Suggestions, please. Memories of Religious Instruction lessons many decades ago seem to indicate that some people were trouble with plagues of daemons. I do not recall anyone being bothered by the absence of daemons. Perhaps this is a rich vein for theological research. With suitable funding from the Vatican, Canterbury, etc there might be a career opportunity for someone. Dave Crease

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FAO John Atkinson VMware 3.0
by John Seago 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

I have a cover disk trial version of VMware if you still want to try it out contact me at the above Email address and I post it to you. -- John Seago

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normal user access to pppd
by Ricardo Campos 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

At the moment I have to su and then run the pon script to go online. That's fine for me, but my machine will soon be multi-user, and I don't want the others to have root's password! What permissions would I need to do to so that normal users could simply type pon to connect? On a similar note, my digital camera downloads pics via the serial port /dev/ttyS0. Unfortunately I have to be root to do this. I have changed the permissions on that device before, but it keeps changing it back???? Weird! What's my best option to solve these probs? permissions on the port/pppd/pon? or set up something with sudo? TIA Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] September 1st Stalham Cancelled
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:31:22PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote: > Hangon, does this mean there is a meeting on the 1st or not? > > /me is very confused now I think Rob was offering to host a meeting at Elmswell, since the previously arranged one by Keith at Stalham had to be cancelled. However, as no one responded I doubt Rob arranged it. I'm not sure we even have another meeting arranged yet, unless there was a UEA in October. Website says: Stalham on 1st September(cancelled) BBQ in mid Sept? (didn't happen in July) Nelson Court, UEA, Norwich in October? Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] September 1st Stalham Cancelled
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

Keith Watson wrote: >Apologies to all but I'll have to cancel the meeting this Sunday. > >The management here at Stalham have asked me to pass on their apologies >also. > >Apparently there's a problem with our public liability insurance, or to be >more accurate the terms of it have changed since we last used the site for >something like this a couple of years back. > >Very sorry about the late notice. > >Keith No worries - can't be helped. Does that leave the next meeting to be at the uni in Norwich, Octoberish? We'll have to pine till then. Jenny.

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