June 2002 - main - earth.li

Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 24 Jun '02

24 Jun '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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Perl Arrays....
by Simon 21 Jun '02

21 Jun '02

Hi Everyone... I want to change multiple occurances of a char (! to \n) in a large array, can someone point me in the right direction please.... I'm using Net:Telnet:Cisco and it loads the config into an array, I want to show the running config but the line feeds arn't there, just the "!" indicating a new line.. TIA Simon

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problems with the Alug website and email lists
by Adam Bower 20 Jun '02

20 Jun '02

Hi all, As of the other day Martyn who has so graciously provided alug with space for hosting on his dedicated server had to close it down at very short notice. As such the mailing list and website were rather dead for a while. We now have something sorted out in the interim, the alug webpage is being hosted by Martyn currently on space that he has again donated to us, and the mailing lists are being looked after by Jonathan or Black Cat networks. Anyhow normal service should resume soon...... Adam PS many thanks to the people who are providing (and have provided) the resources for Alug to make these things happen. -- Adam Bower "a funny thing about regret is, that it's better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven't done"

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Unable to lock password file...
by Simon 18 Jun '02

18 Jun '02

Hi Everyone.... I'm trying to add users from a perl script, the script writes out lines of users to add to the system. Then a system call is made using : system("/bin/bash","/tmp/Seabed_Users"); In the file Seabed_Users is the following... adduser -g 45 -s /bin/false -p FtItmgt8G8RJY -d <directory>/username username When the file is run from the command line as root it works fine, however from the setuid script it doesn't work I get "adduser: unable to lock password file" in the error log.. Any ideas Thanks Simon

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RE: [Alug] Xplanet (a bit off topic)
by Ricardo Campos 18 Jun '02

18 Jun '02

> Any atlas will give you that information in its index. Or is looking in a book > too simple (and old fashioned) a solution? "Books"? There thoes things they have in "librairees", arent they? That's SO twentieth century. lol Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Xplanet (a bit off topic)
by Ricardo Campos 17 Jun '02

17 Jun '02

At the install day someone (sorry we never actually introduced ourselves) showed off Xplanet with debian developers listed on it... He also showed us a website that gave out long and lats of any town... could he please send me the url? Sorry to bother the list.... -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Looking for software...
by Simon 17 Jun '02

17 Jun '02

Hi everyone, I've been trying to think of a project that I could do, and I've come up with an idea but want to make sure that I'm not reinventing the wheel. I race model RC Nitro powered cars and the software for timing purposes is very expensive and only run's on Windows. Ah-ha, there's a good project in there should it not have already been done.. So, any of you chaps heard or know of such a project ? Simon

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 17 Jun '02

17 Jun '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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Re: [Alug] Xplanet (a bit off topic)
by Ricardo Campos 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

> > http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/ > > You might also like to try http:///www.heavens-above.com Many thanks to all... now if anyone knows how to turn the lattitude 52.628 to the 52.(direction).628 notation, please e-mail me off-list ;)... -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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So, what died?
by Richard George 13 Jun '02

13 Jun '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My PC is currently a very sick penguin; I think that the HDD has died, but I also have my suspicions that it could be the IDE interface. Short of swapping drives (as I don't have a spare), can anyone hazard a guess as to how I work this out, or if it could be something else entirely? Errors include (from memory) {hdb: drive not ready error} Typing 'ls' returns a set of io errors, one naming each file in the directory. Typing 'clear' (or mount, etc) returns 'command not found' Shutting down gives me a console that repeats 'ext3 journal aborting' ad infinitum. Eventually I just powered it off. TIA for any help, Richard - -- http://www.fromtheshadows.com/ Fingerprint: 542C ADA9 47CE 7AA8 2274 PGP Key http://www.fromtheshadows.com/gpg 496A FC43 312C 3D94 2CC8 The less you know about something, the easier it is to hate and fear it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9CGCM/EMxLD2ULMgRAvQOAJ0dz7Xtvn3b+VPSWB2Bt3s3dPOcvQCeJpj7 azvEsglkX1pzn6CP2228avE= =MR+A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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