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Upcoming meeting - ACCPAC Business Software, Mon Nov 24th, Crawshaw School
by Craig Box 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hi everyone At this coming Monday's meeting (November 24th), Peter Hooker from Globaltech NZ in Christchurch (http://www.globaltechnz.com/) will be presenting ACCPAC (http://www.accpac.com) and their line of business applications for Linux. Globaltech are ACCPAC partners who are looking to partner with Linux consultants for ACCPAC deployments, so if you're in the IT business, you're encouraged to attend this meeting. While I realise that this isn't relevant to everyone, that's the problem with a diverse user base. I've asked that Peter's presentation be broad enough to be of interest to everyone, and not just be a sales pitch. For the non consultant, are people interested in also having a brief look at Red Hat's new "community" release, Fedora Core 1? (If you want a copy of this, Matthias will probably roll you one off for a very nominal donation - reply to the list or email him privately. Thanks Matthias.) If there's anything else that people want to see or hear about at this meeting, please post to this list - this will be our last formal presentation for the year, so if you have any problems with your PC that you would like help with, feel free to bring it along too. Please note that the meeting is at Crawshaw School (http://www.wlug.org.nz/CrawshawSchool has a map) and will start around 7:30pm. Craig

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hardware for free
by David Nicholls 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

hey people, i have sitting in my garage the following: 1x sun server box (sans HDDs) ex uni & old 1x sun - i think - 19" monitor 2x sun sparc stations 1 with optical lan card, 1 without 1x 5x SCSI cd tower 1x 1GB external SCSI HDD (big sucker) 1x hp laserjetII with 8MB RAM (pretty sure it's that... its grunty anyway) 1x panasonic kx-p112something (its a colour or b&w dotmatrix anyway... something line that anyway) all of the sun and SCSI stuff is ex uni, ive had it for a few years and never had a chance to play with it as i had planned. so its going free to the first claimers to email me off list. there may even be an old SGI O2 for someone if i find the box. cheers... David ps. i cant drive, so pickup would be your responsibility.

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Committee meeting upcoming
by Craig Box 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

Hi everyone, There will be a WLUG committee meeting this coming Wednesday night (19 November.) The minutes of the previous meeting are at http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2003-10-22 and I expect most of the meeting will be a continuation on those topics. If anyone has anything they want bought up at the meeting, or wishes to attend, please email me before Wednesday. Thanks Craig

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"Why the @#$% did my rpm break since last night?"
by Matthias Dallmeier 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

"[Update 2003-11-13]: The packages for Red Hat Linux 9 have been updated for compatibility with kernels not provided by Red Hat." -- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-325.html Any Red Hat Linux 9 user who uses a non-Red Hat kernel and installed the glibc update from yesterday evening is likely to find that rpm no longer works for them. To fix the problem, export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 to fix rpm and then install the updated glibc package provided by Red Hat. -- Matthias -- http://matthias.dallmeier.net/

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The Hamilton Computer Club meeting is tonight
by Meeting Reminder Bot 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

The The Hamilton Computer Club meeting is tonight This is an announcement about the Hamilton Computer Club, not the next WLUG meeting. Feel free to ignore it. If you're interested in the Computer Club, they meet about 7:30pm on the second Wednesday of each month at St Peters Cathedral Hall which is up the hill at the South End of Victoria Street. For further details, see http://www.hamiltoncomputerclub.co.nz/

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Encypting backup utility?
by Glyn Webster 09 Nov '03

09 Nov '03

Does anyone know of a Linux backup utility that uses GPG to encypt individual files? I've recovered files from CRDOMs with bad bits recently, and didn't know it until I tried using them. Storing each file with a checksum would be the answer to that. Also, I'd like to be give backups to almost anyone willing to store them. Encrypting the backups would be the answer to that: "Please keep this somewhere cool and dry" is far less of an imposition than "Hide this forever. It has all my personal email on it". I think GPG encrypting individual files would provide both encryption and checksum. Is there anything wrong with that idea? And has anyone seen a tool to do this? (I could write a script to do it if had to, but I'm reinventing other wheels.) -- Glyn Webster ~ Simplicity Himself. ~ http://tiddly-pom.com

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Anyone got Fedora Core 1 ISO's yet?
by Oliver Jones 07 Nov '03

07 Nov '03

Anyone got Fedora Core 1 ISO's yet? Regards -- Oliver Jones » Director » oliver.jones(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 Deeper Design Limited » +64 (7) 377 3328 » www.deeperdesign.com

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Re: Bugger
by Craig Box 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Hi Gun, I've CC'd this back to the WLUG mailing list where everyone else can help too. > I am going well with Linux. I have been learning basic commands and these > past few days how to use the 'info' command. > I have a network problem with my linux box. It is not on the nw. 'route' > shows: > eth0 192.168.2.0 > eth1 192.168.1.0 > subnet 255.255.225.0 for both > eth0 connects to the adsl router with ip add. 192.168.1.1 > eth1 connects to the switch/hub. > The 2 other workstations are Windows XP with ip add. > 192.168.1.4 and 192.168.1.3. > I think the problem is with eth0 being 192.168.2.0 when it should be > 192.168.1.2. If this is the case, how do I change the eth0 address. > Is this clear enough? Any help you can offer would be much appreciated. Assuming you're running Red Hat or Mandrake, try poking around /etc/sysconfig/network. There's a ifcfg-eth0 file in there that will contain all the parameters for your networking, that is loaded at boot time. If you change it, you can reload networking with something like '/etc/init.d/networking restart' or 'service network restart' - have a look in the /etc/init.d dir, poke around, Google, see what you can find. Otherwise, you can 'manually' reconfigure an interface with ifconfig; # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 You probably shouldn't, however, have this setup. If your ADSL router is a router, and connects into your switch, you only need one network card, which connects into the switch as well. After you get this configuration going, you can look at doing trickier stuff. You may want, for ease of configuration, to use two different subnets if you're going to have a "router->linux box" and a "linux box->windows" LAN. If you have any more questions, you might like to start with RUTE's networking section at http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/node28.html.gz. Craig

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pda
by Stephen Pearce 27 Oct '03

27 Oct '03

Hello! Anyone got advice on the best Linux pda? looked at the yoper .. but it has an internal battery and not that much support and looks a bit mechanically delicate ... zaureus looks nice but has many incantations .. iPAQ is another option .. but pricey ... I'm looking for best price performance .. any advice apreciated .. there seems to be endless choises Thanks Stephen

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WLUG meeting is tonight
by Meeting Reminder Bot 27 Oct '03

27 Oct '03

Today is 27/10/2003 The WLUG meeting is tonight CraigBox's Birthday! The topic will be "Giving Craig Gifts and Adoration", by order of the WLUG Secretary! And the subtopic Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam for Linux. Suggested synopsis (please add to me) * Why viruses in Linux (and almost any other non-MS operating system) are not currently an issue, and are unlikely to ever become one. + http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/33226.html * getting your LinuxRouterBox to run Exim, Amavis, SpamAssassin, Razor and ClamAV (CraigBox/GreigMcGill) + MailScanner * BayesianFiltering in Mozilla (DanielLawson/PerryLorier?) * plugging SpamAssassin into Evolution (anyone?) + [link] http://support.real-time.com/open-source/spamassassin/evoluti on.html + [link] http://www.atlantawebhost.com/articles/evolution_spamassassin .php + bogofilter & marking msgs spam/ham: [link] http://www.ime.usp.br/~rsilva/bogo-and-evo/ + .forward/.procmail: [link] http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2003-March/ 028045.html + Ximian's answer + http://krath.dk/linux/evolution_spamfilter/ * plugging SpamAssassin into KMail + [link] http://support.real-time.com/open-source/spamassassin/kmail.h tml + http://kmail.kde.org/tools.html * possible use of DNS to stop spam at the SMTP level - eg http://spf.pobox.com/, Reverse MX, or RR records (see http://www.irtf.org/asrg/survey_of_proposals.htm) * Virus scanning of cached web pages through the use of Squid, DansGuardian, and MailScanner (GerwinVanDeSteeg) _________________________________________________________________

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