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Exim Install on Ubuntu
by Ivan Potgieter 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Thanks for all the suggestions, I've tried apt-get install resulting in: ivan@silver:~$ sudo apt-get install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. My understanging of the above is that my system is clean. (FYI: I'm running Ubuntu 5.04) I have installed exim4, exim4-config, exim4-doc and found that anacron, at, lsb, mailx & mutt were still installed, but postfix, postfix-lts, ubuntu-base had been removed (as expected). So all seems fine. Thanks for all the feedback - it looks like it was just a storm in a teacup. Ivan. Matt Brown wrote: > What version of Ubuntu are you running Ivan? > Do you know if the package system was clean before you tried to install > Exim? > My suggestion on how to fix this would be to drop to the command line, > run apt-get install (no arguments). This will handle any packages that > are not in a clean state. Once you can run apt-get install (no > arguments) and have it return without doing anything, then try apt-get > install exim4 exim4-config (or use synaptic if you prefer).

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looking for python guru
by David Nicholls 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

hey guys, a friend of mine (runs a web development business) is currently searching for someone local - tauranga/hamilton kinda area - with good python skills. let me know if you think you fit the bill & i'll pass your details on. cheers... David Nicholls Computer Support Consultant d.nicholls at waikato.ac.nz School of Science & Engineering / Dept of Chemistry The University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand

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Sidebar issues
by Justin Hyde 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Sidebar issues With the sidebar enabled, I get it 2 times. http://www.geocities.com/justinhyde/withsidebar.jpg [220kB] Without the sidebar enabled, I get a see through sidebar. http://www.geocities.com/justinhyde/withoutsidebar.jpg [202kB] Using browser as below Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6 Haven't had a chance to view under Ubuntu yet. Any ideas Justin

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Re: [wlug] Sidebar issues
by Justin Hyde 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

>Hit F5 or Ctrl-R to refresh your screen and it comes right. Some sort >of caching issue by the look of it.... seems to do the trick, thanks

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Microsoft and JBoss working together
by Ian McDonald 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Quite an interesting article here: http://beta.news.com.com/Microsoft,+JBoss+link+server+software/2100-7344_3-… It goes further than I would have expected from Microsoft as it includes working together on Active Directory integration and allowing SQL Server to be a back end. Only question I have is how much will actually be open-source as the article says "most" JBoss software is LPGL.

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Exim Install on Ubuntu
by Ivan Potgieter 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hello all, I've decided to install exim using Ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager. When selecting some of the packages, some unexpected packages are marked for removal (see below). Marked for installation: exim4, exim4-config ==> automatically marked for removal: postfix, postfix-lts, ubuntu-base, anacron, at, lsb, mailx, mutt Can anyone explain why these are marked to be removed? Thanks, Ivan

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Re: [wlug] grub problem
by stephen pearce 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Further to my post yesterday ... I pulled out the flash rom chip ... and removed the cmos battery ... left things for a few hours .. then reinstalled .. and it booted .. fine .. then reset it and the same problem recurred .. then reinstalled flash rom but left cmos battery bu out and left overnight .. .. it rebooted ok .. I wonder whether some of the memory in the flash rom has "gone stale" i.e. is returning equivocal logic values ... if so is this due to flash failure or the expected degradation of memory in a flash device after 4 years? Alternative is static damage at a gate level which is intermittantly casuing failure .. hdd seems to be reliable ... I plan to re flash the rom when I get home Stephen

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Re: [wlug] grub prob
by stephen pearce 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Hi Same error, same conditions, Fedora core 4. Then lost control of keyboard ... .. could this be a virus using the recently identified hole in Firefox to download code to reprogram the flash rom? The alternative is a static spike which fried a whole lot of disparate systems .. would a hdd failure be consistant with being able to read to grub stage 2.? hopefully just corrupted the flash rom.. which might also be consistant with a wide range of disparate symptoms. I have a hdd partitioned for windows 98 and linux .. I could not get past the grub stage 2 phase .. and the keyboard would not respond to trying to "del" during boot to access the cmos ... so I reset the cmos on the motherboard (perhaps in retrospect ill advisedly ... it now gives a keyboard read error ..) if it is a fried motherboard .. does anyone have a k7s6a elite surplus/sale? It was thepccompany .. which of course is no longer! I'll have to pull it apart to see what processor and memory type it is .. unless someone knows. I have downloaded the firmware upgrade and plan to extract the flash rom and reprogram it in an eprom burner (if I can find one which suits the flash device en29f002t/5v challanging .. and frustrating symptoms! (I suppose it reflects crappy component tolerances .. maybe we should all buy pentioned servers as the engineering in these is a bit better) any new info appreciated Thanks Stephen

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Waikato Linux Users Group Incorporated Committee for 2006
by Craig Box 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Congratulations to the following people, who were last night voted in as the Executive Committee for the WLUG for 2006: President: Lindsay Druett Vice-President: David Hallett Treasurer: Ian McDonald Secretary: Craig Box General Committee: Matthias Dallmeier Perry Lorier Gian Perrone Minutes are now available at http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2005-09-26. Thanks to everyone who came. Craig

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grub prob
by David Nicholls 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

hey guys, i have an interesting one. the other day my computer at home started for no aparent reason (i had'nt been fiddling or doing anything stupid on it... last time i used it i logged off & shut down normally) to display the following message when it starts up: GRUB loading stage 2 then it just sits theere doing nothing. i'm running suse 9.3. anyone got any clues? is more info needed? cheers... David Nicholls Computer Support Consultant d.nicholls at waikato.ac.nz School of Science & Engineering / Dept of Chemistry The University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand

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