Lilux-help March 2006

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[Lilux-help] Lilux AG is at 19h00, not 20h00 (cf convocation letter)

by Alain Knaff

Paulo ribeiro wrote: > Arf, > > Everything depends on timing: > Artscene 18h00 -> 19h45 > Lilux 20h00-> ? Just FYI, Lilux AG is 19h00 as stated on the written convocation. Alain

18 years, 10 months

strange network interface names

by Yves Glodt

Hi, I have a strange problem... I have a box running ubuntu dapper, and all is fine. Now I cloned the disk, and put it into another box which is 100& the same hardware, and it still works fine, apart of one thing... What was eth0 and eth1 before is now eth2 and eth3 :-/ root@box:~# ifconfig -s -a Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg eth2 1500 0 1071 0 0 0 638 0 0 0 BMRU eth3 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BMU lo 16436 0 66 0 0 0 66 0 0 0 LRU sit0 1480 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O root@box:~# How can I go back to eth1/2 ? Best regards, Yves p.s. The NICs are an e1000 and a via_rhine, and unfortunately I found no way of forcing the interface name on module load, that would be my preferred solution...

18 years, 11 months

Mailserver

by Yves Glodt

Hi, we are in the process of setting up a new web- and mailserver, and consider switching from sendmail to another mail agent... At the risk of launching a flamewar, which one would you recommend from a security and maintainability point of view? Best regards, Yves

18 years, 11 months

FOSS Events in french-speaking regions

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, as the subject says - can you tell me Free Software - related events in french-speaking regions (ok, limit that to european countries) that are of a certain size and level an thus merit visiting or participating in? I'm not talking small install fests here, but rather larger events - I am aware of the FOSDEM and RMLL, are there other such events around? Somehow, I know much more stuff happening in german-speaking regions... TIA, Eric

18 years, 11 months

Trouble with permissions on /dev/parport

by Jean-Jacques Mouris

Hello, I try to operate an old scanner on the parallel port for some small tasks. I need to give rw permissions on /dev/parport0 for everyone, which I achieved by changing the appropriate line in file /etc/udev/static_devices.txt from parport0 c 99 0 660 to parport0 c 99 0 666 After reboot, the device had the permissions as expected: ls -l /dev/parport* crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 99, 0 2006-03-09 15:30 /dev/parport0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 99, 1 2006-03-09 15:30 /dev/parport1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 99, 2 2006-03-09 15:30 /dev/parport2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 99, 3 2006-03-09 15:30 /dev/parport3 However, starting xsane failed (with error-message "No devices detected"). Checking again the permissions on /dev/parport returned: crw-rw---- 1 root root 99, 0 2006-03-09 15:30 /dev/parport0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 99, 1 2006-03-09 15:30 /dev/parport1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 99, 2 2006-03-09 15:30 /dev/parport2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 99, 3 2006-03-09 15:30 /dev/parport3 The rw-permissions on parport0 have disappeared for everyone !! chmod 666 /dev/parport0 brings back the permissions, which allows me this time to start xsane and to operate the scanner. Does anybody have an idea why xsane changes the permissions on /dev/parport0 and , even more important, how to make it permanent? Btw., commands like SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK_PP=128 scanimage -L also change the permissions, so I guess that it's scanimage or sane-find-scanner that affect the permissions when xsane uses them while probing for scanners. Thanks for your input. JJ Mouris

18 years, 11 months

Wanted: success stories of commercial companies migrating to OOo

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, subject says it all: do you know of commercial companies (not administrations or public services) that have successfully migrated to OpenOffice (or possibly StarOffice)? Pointers are welcome... Greetings & TIA, Eric

18 years, 11 months

Notes .nsf to mbox?

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, @work, I have to work with (insert as many expletives as you like) Lotus Notes. Now, I'm wondering how to convert existing .nsf files to something a little bit more standard, like, say, mbox? This of course including such unimportant things like attachments. There's an export function in the Notes client that will generate something close enough to mbox, but without attachments - thus not usable. I'd love to be able to get the task done without going through the server, connecting through IMAP using a decent client etc, and what's more, on a Linux box... I've googled a bit, but the result so far has been very disappointing. Does anyone know any means to get this done? Greetings & TIA, Eric

18 years, 11 months

Course / Certification

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, I was asked about courses giving both a good background (i.e. actual working know-how) with Linux system administration, and which also might lead to a certification (buzzword-sensitive employer compliant). Can anyone recommend something there? Greetings, Eric P.S. Yes, there was a presentation on LPI at the LinuxDays, but I missed it due to "other activities"... btw. the open source beer is bottled by now - only about 8-10 days left to testing ;-)

18 years, 11 months

Interesting Article

by Mike Pressel

There is an interesting article in Frankfurter Allgemein today about the maturity of Linux. It is a rather simplistic view of Linux, written for non-techies, and everyone on this list probably knows the story in more depth than the article goes into. But, the interesting part to me is that a main stream conservative paper like FAZ has picked up on the story and painted a very positive picture of Linux and FOSS. See link below: http://www.faz.net/s/Rub4C34FD0B1A7E46B88B0653D6358499FF/Doc~ECCEE5736A6254… Regards Mike

18 years, 11 months

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