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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '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.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" 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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Linux/Modem problem
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 13 Jan '02

13 Jan '02

My neighbour is running Windows 98 and wants to have a play with Linux. I have set up Debian (Progeny version) on his machine but cannot get the modem to work. He has an external US Robotics 5630 (56k) which works perfectly with windows. After running pppconfig to set up a connection and using pon to dial out I can see the ATZ sent with an OK response from the modem then I see the dial string and immediately the modem returns NO CARRIER. There is a very short burst of noise from the modem before the NO CARRIER message but it won't dial. After this even the initialisation string has no effect until the power to the modem has been turned off and on again. I have never had modem problems with Linux before and I'm stumped. Going back into Windows (now wash your hands), after trying to dial out through Linux, the damn thing works perfectly. Some advice would be heavily appreciated. Barry Samuels

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Re: [Alug] RH 7.2 problem
by Dryden 12 Jan '02

12 Jan '02

>I have recently been trying to compile myself a >kernel as yet without >success. But a side effect seems to be that I can no >longer mount/umount CD >and floppy drives - even by hand as root. mount just >hangs. Looking at it >with Gtop shows it is asleep waiting for an interrupt. >As I have a PIII, I wondered if when I did make >modules and make >modules_install I may have overwritten some >functioning code with now non> functioning code. >Any suggestions? What version of the kernel are you useing? Isnt it the automount fs? Red hat and most other distros have hevily pached up kernels. I think all of the new versions have automount as standard now. What dir are you building in? dont think itll matter but ive herded of it messing up system header files that need to stay the same or somthing. Dennis Dryden ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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ALUG: RedHat 7.2 Updates Anyone?
by James 12 Jan '02

12 Jan '02

Invitation cordially repeated to the good folks at ALUG If you'd like a RedHat 7.2 Update CD compilation, and can't make CB2 this Sunday or thereafter, I can post or even deliver in person at the Chevely ALUG 27th meet maybe. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: clug RedHat 7.2 Updates Anyone? Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:31:40 +0000 From: James <jtl1listmail(a)bigfoot.com> Organization: James - (jtl1-BF) To: clug(a)ebi.ac.uk Folks Work in progress, hopefully ready before CB2 tomorrow... I'm hoping to build at least one "Update" CD of the entire collection of Updates from a number of mirror and "value added" sites later today: For RH7.2 in addition to the RH 6.2 custom variant (Eridani) that I usually work with. With luck, I'll also have a gash RH7.2 running to test all the rpms on the CD, later this evening. Anyone want a copy - for pick-up at CB2 CLUG tomorrow? Same basis as when Tom provided CDs: Cover a CD cost, or bring a replacement 1st quality 700M 80min blank CDR with you... Eventually, I intend to rebuild the Install CD to use the update rpm packages rather than the RedHat October 2001 CD packages. For some reason, OpenSSH has lagged behind the times, but stunnel is recent enough. I will include the v3 OpenSSH rpms, but please bear in mind that these are not "official" RedHat. A considerable number of bug fixes went into 3.0.2p1-1, and I won't have an opportunity to check rpm upgrades before Sunday. The "official" 2.9p2-12 Redhat updates are also there, of course. I don't know what has been back-ported by RedHat into their 2.9 portable OpenSSH rpms. May be able to squeeze the latest KOffice and KDE rpms on an 80min 700M CDR, but no promises. I'll see how much time I have, and how much spare space on the CD is available after the RedHat update directories fill up. My interest in RH7.2 is purely a stepping stone to the fifth generation selinux LSM secure operating system project. Anoyone interested in obtaining a Redhat updates CDR - email me so I know how many to burn before I leave early on Sunday morning. If I run into any snags I'll email to the list again. --James

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Re: [Alug] Debian install woes.
by MJ Ray 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Bill: > 1.5G Root ReiserFS Hrm? Why would you want to do this? / doesn't normally meet your typical ResierFS performance profile and it's not going to be recoverable with most boot disks. That's just asking for trouble, IMO. > [...] I got the Woody boot disks and tried. Hmm. The kernel uses an old, > forward-incompatible, version of ReiserFS. Boot disks are normally what ends up holding up the releases, IIRC. > OK, install on the Win95 partition and worry about Reiser/LVM later. Nope. Why not? (Wave a tasty problem in front of us and then don't explain.) > Can't use my 2.2 CDs. OK go over the modem. I've got a Xircom RealPort > Ethernet/Modem combo, very nice, but Debian insists on using eth0 in > preference to ppp0. [...] Did you answer "yes" to the bit where it asks you if you want to install the rest of the system over a modem? ;-) Sadly, you need the base system somewhere local in 2.2, but that's probably healthy anyway, so you don't end up with a half-installed base system. > Downloading and compiling at work at the mo, but is there a > *better* way??? Probably. I used my /home partition (which lives forever) for the base files, along with a couple of floppy disks and it went on fine here, but I've the positively bland "small ext2 root, large ext3 home, medium ext3 usr and var" configuration. I'm not that adventurous with my data ;-) -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Web site
by MJ Ray 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

> Your options: > - Idly support this move (most people) > - Pledge to help maintain the wiki when it's online > - Mutiny (feel free) The wiki is now online, but I don't want to put the address anywhere public at all until we have populated it with some more things and some of the problems I have with it have been resolved. If anyone who wishes to help doesn't know where it is, please ask me in private. The "cvs commits" list will become "The Daily Diff" of the web site, showing us what has changed, so even if we allow someone malicious to trash the web site, we should be able to put it back very easily indeed. -- MJR

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Work Experience plz help
by Dryden 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

I need help with finding a work experience placement. If any of you could help arrange one or just send me some contact info of possible places. It has to be an IT job and can be anything... programming, web design, network maintenance. As long as its not making people tae or coffee and it involves a computer its good. May be if your making a system that makes tea or coffee and its computer controlled it would be ok ;). oh I'm a BTEC National diploma year 2 student also doing a Cisco CCNA. Its kind of short notice as you can see from below but my last organisation turned round to me and said their department was too full to accommodate me. Which is fine to have left me with out a placement and not much time to find one. Start date: Monday 28 January End date: Thursday 8 February Oh and Kings Lynn, Swafham, Dereham and Norwich kinda way would be good. I cant drive but busses are very helpful(and slow) . Sorry if this seems off topic but I'm running out of places to try with this being so short notice. Would it be more on topic if i asked that it would be good to work with Linux systems. Thanx for your help(i hope!) Dennis Dryden ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Work experience placement plzzz
by Dryden 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

I need help with finding a work experience placement. If any of you could help arrange one or just send me some contact info of possible places. It has to be an IT job and can be anything... programming, web design, network maintenance. As long as its not making people tae or coffee and it involves a computer its good. May be if your making a system that makes tea or coffee and its computer controlled it would be ok ;). Its kind of short notice as you can see from below but my last organisation turned round to me and said their department was too full to accommodate me. Which is fine to have left me with out a placement and not much time to find one. Start date: Monday 28 January End date: Thursday 8 February Oh and Kings Lynn, Swafham, Dereham and Norwich kinda way would be good. I cant drive but busses are very helpful(and slow) . Sorry if this seems off topic but I'm running out of places to try with this being so short notice. Would it be more on topic if i asked that it would be good to work with Linux systems. Thanx for your help(i hope!) ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Work experience placement plzzz
by Dryden 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

I need help with finding a work experience placement. If any of you could help arrange one or just send me some contact info of possible places. It has to be an IT job and can be anything... programming, web design, network maintenance. As long as its not making people tae or coffee and it involves a computer its good. May be if your making a system that makes tea or coffee and its computer controlled it would be ok ;). Its kind of short notice as you can see from below but my last organisation turned round to me and said their department was too full to accommodate me. Which is fine to have left me with out a placement and not much time to find one. Start date: Monday 28 January End date: Thursday 8 February Oh and Kings Lynn, Swafham, Dereham and Norwich kinda way would be good. I cant drive but busses are very helpful(and slow) . Sorry if this seems off topic but I'm running out of places to try with this being so short notice. Would it be more on topic if i asked that it would be good to work with Linux systems. Thanx for your help(i hope!) ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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recompiling something
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

Hi all, I want to recompile php4 to include odbc support....does anyone know if i can recompile the one I have already installed, or do I have to reinstall the whole program from scratch? (oh please, please, let it be easy!) Thanks, jen.

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