April 2002 - main

Not sure what the subject should be!!!
by Simon 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

Hi chaps and chappesses.. It's probably possible and really easy, but I don't know how... I want to dump a file in a directory and as soon as it appears to be executed then removed... i.e ftp a file onto a server in a particular directory, once uploaded, the file gets executed immediately... Possible yes/no? I'm sure I've heard that this can be done, just can't remember.. TIA Simon

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Re: [Alug] Venue.
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

MJRay wrote: > Shall we have a topic or theme for the meeting? email setup? Good plan! I can hold forth for an hour on how not to do it..... >Yeah, maildrop is waaay easier to configure. I was looking at "multidrop" by mistake. Are we set on Sun 21st April for a meeting date, then, possibly still at King's Lynn but most likely at Elmswell? Re. poster for install day...I did a pretty crappy one last year, we could get it out and dust it a bit and re-use it, but a slightly more inspired one might be better? http://www.linuxinstallday.org/joinin.php Maybe if we sign up we'll be sent stuff like that? Jen.

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training thing
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

They want to set up a stall at Glastonbury :-) http://www.fraw.org.uk/archive/rangers/cltc/cltc_proposal.html

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Re: [Alug] Venue.
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

Rob wrote: >I wrote a message about 4:30pm but it hasn't appeared yet, I must have just clicked replay and not reply all. >Anyway gist of it was you can always use Elmswell if you want. >Regards, Rob. Sounds brilliant to me - Sun 21st April, 2-6? We ought to check most people can make that so you have a nice roomful of geek-types this time. I can bring all my computers and everyone can laugh at my fetchmail config files. Last night I decided that I needed to tell fetchmail that it had to use procmail to deliver mail locally, and I then wrote what I considered to be a basic procmail file. I then expectantly fetched my mail, and sat back in joy and delight as the mail plopped into the right boxes. Two minutes later, after wondering why the computer was still scrunching , I did a ps aux, and realised exim was undergoing a new process every second or so, then on opening a groaning heaving mutt I realised I had unwittingly set up a mail loop and my mail was replicating and sending itself back to me, so i now have four copies of every message in my mailbox, great. About 4,000 mails. Back to the drawing board on that one, eh! (Mark is now going to post a message asking why on earth I was tryng to use procmail in the first place....;-) ) Jenny.

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Lynn meeting?
by Dryden 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

Well when and where will it be in kings lynn? sorry i dont know if any of this has been decided yet and was just wondering what was happening(if anything)? Also just a note for the install days i think that games are a big selling point about any operating system. If your going to try and convert people then maybe you should show the average user that its posible to play games on linux. Have quake 1, 2 or 3 playing would be nice and maybe an emulator or two(xmame runing metal slug is quite nice). Dennis Dryden (sorry about the bellow bloat :( but i cant sort it out) ********************************************************************** 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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Re: [Alug] Venue.
by Ricardo Campos 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

> Anyway gist of it was you can always use Elmswell if you want. Sounds great- thanks. I'm up for it! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Venue.
by rob＠vetsystems.com 10 Apr '02

10 Apr '02

I wrote a message about 4:30pm but it hasn't appeared yet, I must have just clicked replay and not reply all. Anyway gist of it was you can always use Elmswell if you want. Regards, Rob.

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Re: Venues // Re: [Alug] exim conf request
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 10 Apr '02

10 Apr '02

MJR wrote: >Probably will do if I don't find one today... or would someone else like to >ask? Sudden silence on-list, eh? I've been racking my brains. Darkest Kent is probably further than I would travel. There may be halls etc in Burwell, if anyone would be willing to travel my way, but they won't be free, so we'd need to know folk were definitely turning up to cover costs. Then again, if you come to Burwell, we may as well set up at my building site/ house, as long as allowances are made for the loud GP racing on telly in the corner of the living room. It's not palacial like Simon's cinema, but I have a kettle :-) The offer is there if we are completely venue-less, anyway, although I wouldn't have deemed it ideal. Jen.

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Re: [Alug] exim conf request
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 10 Apr '02

10 Apr '02

MJRay wrote: >Look for such magic words in the fetchmail man page as "multidrop". It's >probably your fetchmailrc which is incorrect. I did have a look at this last night and made some tweaks and fiddles to my fetchmailrc . But: I'm not sure whether or not I need to set up a dns server to make multidrop work? Seems a bit OTT for my humble home mail. ps. How about a meeting somewhere on the 21st April? Thanks, Jen.

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Venues // Re: [Alug] exim conf request
by MJ Ray 10 Apr '02

10 Apr '02

BJ: > How about putting out a request on uk.local.east-anglia to see if there are > any available? Or try a few local pubs they often have back rooms that could > be used and would welcome the trade on a Sunday afternoon. Probably will do if I don't find one today... or would someone else like to ask? -- MJR

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