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Missing hdd
by John Woodard 11 Jul '00

11 Jul '00

Another poser for the smart ones out there. :-) When I boot from a floppy I can see all my drives but booting from the /boot partition one of my IDE channels is invisible. The bios sees it but Linux does not. It isn't reported in the boot message that flashes past at break neck speed! I presume this is a kernel thing but the kernel image on the floppy should be the same as the image at /boot. They were both created when I installed, I haven't been fiddling, honest guv! Cheers, BJ

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ALUG put back
by MJ Ray 11 Jul '00

11 Jul '00

Heh, typical. When I return to my office having just put the meeting back a week because no-one had objected, I didn't think there was sufficient time to publicise it, let alone organise it properly, then I find that some people have preferred to keep it this weekend. DOH! Well, sorry to those few, but it was remarkably quiet before that, so ALUG 13 is on Sunday 23rd July at 1400 in Union House at UEA. A full announcement will follow just as soon as Martyn can confirm the speaker and any facilities needed to me. Hopefully some posters will be made as soon as possible and people can help put them around local computer shops and community notice boards. MJR, again picking up the torch for an ALUG meet

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Re: [Alug] X newsreader
by MJ Ray 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

darren(a)darren.winsper.easynet.co.uk writes: > Pan is a very nice newsreader for X. See http://www.superpimp.org for > more. The only reason I don't use it is because it doesn't have > scoring as good as slrn's. Gnus+XEmacs is probably as good as newsreading (and email) gets, I think, but that assumes you like Emacs. I've strayed, but come back to it again now that my email has hit preposterous. The reason I don't use slrn is its scoring isn't as good ;-) > You obviously aren't addicted to games :) Mmmm... would people be up for a dumb netgame at the next ALUG or the one after?

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Re: [Alug] Log files (/var/log/messages)
by MJ Ray 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

Laurie Brown <laurie(a)brownowl.com> writes: > certainly used to log stuff. Any ideas as to why it should stop logging? Are you sure about those permissions? What is syslogd running as? Has it been restarted since the messages file was zero'd? > Also, how do I force an archive and compression of a log file? Use a log rotate script. There are several out there, including standard ones on many distributions.

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The meeting on Sunday 16th
by Adam Bower 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

Hi all, I see you were all busy talking over the weekend, I must resubscribe to my home email addy. I would like to have the meeting next sunday as I will be in Norfolk that weekend, the following weekend I think I am moving house again, and the weekend after that is the great Zeus office reorganisation where everyone goes home early for the weekend and starts late again Monday (apart from sys admins who work all weekend :-() Adam -- Adam Bower, <abower(a)zeus.com> Tel: +44 1223 525000 System Administrator Fax: +44 1223 525100 Zeus Technology Ltd http://www.zeus.com Newton House, Cambridge Business Park, Cambridge. CB4 OWZ. England

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Log files (/var/log/messages)
by Laurie Brown 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

Folks, I just logged onto our firewall box for my periodic peruse, and I noticed that the /var/log/messages file, created on 28 Jun is 0 bytes long. All the permissions, ownership and so on seem to be ok, and it certainly used to log stuff. Any ideas as to why it should stop logging? I'm a bit concerned about this... -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jun 28 00:00 messages Also, how do I force an archive and compression of a log file? Cheers, Laurie.

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Re: [Alug] X newsreader
by MJ Ray 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

darren(a)darren.winsper.easynet.co.uk writes: > I don't even have Emacs installed I'm afraid, I'm a Vim man myself. Oh, I've got vim installed too. It's OK for quick hacks, but I don't want to try to use it for serious work -- far too often I start typing before getting it in the right mode... > 1) A plain old killfile. It's essential since I frequent c.o.l.a. comp.os.linux.announce doesn't seem that flammable to me ;-) > 2) Scoring up posts that have me in the References. It was the only > way I could find posts which were in reply to me. Beforehand, I'd > miss a lot of posts meant for me. Yeah, I did that. I do find the adaptive scoring in Gnus helps me find topics I'm interested in, as it learns as I go along (scary, huh?).

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X newsreader
by John Woodard 09 Jul '00

09 Jul '00

What's a good basic X news client? KRN is pretty basic Netscape is well Netscape really... It must support multiple nntp servers though! Don't really want to use a console but I will if I have to. Opinions please. BTW its nice to be using Linux for just about everything now. I might even ditch MS soon and just leave it on the kid's box. Cheers, BJ

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Spam traps // was [Fwd: MISSING CHILD PLEASE HELP]
by MJ Ray 09 Jul '00

09 Jul '00

Laurie Brown <laurie(a)brownowl.com> writes: > I haven't had it, but I do get around 10-20 spams a day, and am > constantly updating my spam filters, which is a pain. Really? Even though I'm posted all over mailing lists, websites and newsgroups, I don't get that much spam. When I do, the combination of Gnus's adaptive scoring and the gnus-junk-complain command are quite effective in dealing with it. What do others use to block spam on Linux?

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[OT] [Fwd: MISSING CHILD PLEASE HELP]
by James Green 09 Jul '00

09 Jul '00

Not wanting to take away the seriousness of this subject, but I do wonder a) how they obtained my email address and b) whether they are sending it out to every email address they can find. Any of you people had it? Seems rather unusual.... Subject: MISSING CHILD PLEASE HELP Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:55:47 -0700 From: Admin <alert(a)childlo.st> To: <jg(a)linux.com> Admin wrote: > > Sarah Payne a pretty 8 year old gilr has gone missing from the UK she could have been taken to any > Country Please help us to find her. her picture can be seen at > > http://childlo.st > > We thank you for your time and pray that between us we can find Sarah safely and return her home to her > parents. > > We will not email you again regarding this or any other matter. Our only concern is that we locate Sarah > as quickly as posible. -- James Green Site Manager jg(a)linuxnewbie.com LinuxNewbie.com LNC jg(a)linux.com

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