August 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Exchange clients for linux

by Brad Noyes

Hi, The people of korganizer are working a plugin to allow interaction with an exchange server for it's calender functionality. I believe it will be added in kde3.1. as already mentioned IMAP compliant mail readers will work with mail. I use kmail, evolution, and mutt with the exchange server at my work place. (i believe mutt needed to be recompiled to allow for imap support though) --brad On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:48:21PM -0400, Haines, Charles Allen wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knew of any exchange clients for linux besides the plugin for evolution. WPI is now offering a student exchange server and I am testing it for the admin's. However I currently have to use the outlook web client to view my mail (which of course doesn't look right in galeon, since M$ designed the outlook web). So any comments, flames, or suggestions are welcome. > > Thanks, > Chuck Haines > WPILA Lab Manager > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Aug. 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] python regular expressions

by Brad Noyes

okay i figured it out, For those intersted ... text = "FreeBSD" reg_obj = re.compile('(.*)BSD') search_res = reg_obj.findall(text) print search_res[0] --brad On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:37:02PM -0400, Brad Noyes wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm starting to learn python. I was looking for a python equivalent to a perl > regular expression such as > > $_ = "FreeBSD"; > /(.*)BSD/; > > where $1 would get what ever is between '(...)', 'Free' in this case. > > Is there a way i can make use of the () regex operator in python? I can't > seem to find an equivalent in python's regex module (re). > > Thanks, > --brad > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Aug. 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Exchange clients for linux

by William Smith

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Josh Huber wrote: JH>> I'm interested in the same information - I'm very interested in JH>> using Linux for both Faculty and students... JH> JH>Well, the Exchange server supports IMAP v4, so any IMAP v4 client JH>should be able to at least read mail, I would think. the "downside" of that is that Exchange is capable of doing a lot more than just mail (like scheduling, for example), so trying to consider "any IMAP" client for the task may be missing out on things. For example, my last employer used Exchange for scheduling, email, and something very much like newsgroups (i forget what it's called, and it being a function of Exchange means that i really couldn't care less what its name really is anyway)... they allowed POP3 mail, so i used Sylpheed with that (Sylpheed, BTW, is also capable of IMAP. if you're interested, you can find it on Freshmeat.) Mail is all well and good, but i didn't have access to the other funtions that my employer used Exchange for, so i had to bite the bullet and do the occasional check via WinDOZE to make sure i didn't miss anything. <shrug> if memory serves, there is a project along the same line in the works under GNOME (not related to the Ximian stuff), but last time i checked, their efforts were exclusive of the Exchange stuff. 8( -- William Smith wsmith(a)chezsmith.com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com

Aug. 27, 2002

An update to all user group leaders...

by Rick Zach

____________________________________ sent via the Boston User Groups Leadership Listserv ____________________________________ ==================================================================== Our annual user group MegaMeeting-III is near! Wed, Sept-25 Sheraton Tara in Framingham, MA Wednesday, September 25 from 6:30 - 9:30 PM http://www.BostonUserGroups.com/MegaMeeting ==================================================================== To all user group leaders: Boston User Groups is now almost one year old (at least as a true non-profit corporate entity) and MegaMeeting-III is just around the corner. Our value proposition TO you and our expectations OF you as a user group leader are quite simple: Boston User Groups' value proposition TO you: * Greatly increase your user group's visibility to the public * Help promote, increase and cross pollinate your user group membership with other groups * Assist to provide speakers via BUG web site awareness * Provide an annual MegaMeeting for face-to-face networking and exposure Boston User Groups expectation OF you as a user group leader * Greatly increase your User Group's visibility to the public by promoting BUG and it's other user groups * Have a link on your home page or other readily visible location on your web site back to BUG (again to increase mutual awareness) * Promote the MegaMeeting to your group to increase our mutual awareness As you can see, even BUG's expectations OF you are solely to help promote all user groups which certainly includes you. I would like to leave you with two thoughts and a "call to action": 1) Like your own user group, Boston User Groups is mostly funded by out-of-pocket personal donations of it's User Group leadership. In the case of MegaMeeting-III, we could not locate a free facility of adequate size and location so certain people fronted about $3,000 for room rental in the expectation of re-covering the costs by renewed BUG/UG leader memberships, door admission and a few corporate sponsorships. We are VERY non-profit. 2) I ask you to please help to aggressively promote the upcoming MegaMeeting and BUG. In the process, you will be promoting your own group! MegaMeeting-III Chairperson Brad Dinerman will be following up with a "call to action" email with specifics on up-front cash costs to you (none) and how to help promote the MegaMeeting and your own group! Please look for Brad's email coming soon. And finally: Please note a recent article by John C. Dvorak on the death of User Groups and the few glimmers of light out there. As a united group of groups, we may be one of those few glimmers. Please help us to help each other! The URL is http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=29639,00.asp ______________________________________ Rick Zach, President Boston User Groups, Inc. cel: 508-395-8730 http://www.bostonusergroups.com/Benefactors/

Aug. 27, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Exchange clients for linux

by Josh Huber

"Stephen C. Daukas" <stephen(a)daukas.com> writes: > I'm interested in the same information - I'm very interested in > using Linux for both Faculty and students... Well, the Exchange server supports IMAP v4, so any IMAP v4 client should be able to at least read mail, I would think. For me, Gnus works quite well with an Exchange server :) I can't recommend Gnus unless you're well versed in Emacs though. If you are, try it out... -- Josh Huber

Aug. 27, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Exchange clients for linux

by Stephen C. Daukas

I'm interested in the same information - I'm very interested in using Linux for both Faculty and students... -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Haines, Charles Allen Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:48 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Exchange clients for linux I was wondering if anyone knew of any exchange clients for linux besides the plugin for evolution. WPI is now offering a student exchange server and I am testing it for the admin's. However I currently have to use the outlook web client to view my mail (which of course doesn't look right in galeon, since M$ designed the outlook web). So any comments, flames, or suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Chuck Haines WPILA Lab Manager _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Aug. 27, 2002

Exchange clients for linux

by Haines, Charles Allen

I was wondering if anyone knew of any exchange clients for linux besides the plugin for evolution. WPI is now offering a student exchange server and I am testing it for the admin's. However I currently have to use the outlook web client to view my mail (which of course doesn't look right in galeon, since M$ designed the outlook web). So any comments, flames, or suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Chuck Haines WPILA Lab Manager

Aug. 27, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Server crash - is recovery possible?

by Keith Wright

> From: Richard Goodman <r.goodman(a)11harvard.com> > > I read the link, and went home and swapped out a bad > SIMM. Everything seems to be up and running. The only > anomoly is that after a shutdown completes, I seem to get > a similar memory segment error (although not Signal 11). > However its been so long since I've done a shutdown that I > don't remember if this is new - I can live with it. I have a RedHat 7.0 machine that always spits out an error message just after printing "Power down" and before turning its power off. It goes by quickly and I have never really tried to fix it because at my school there was no class on how to debug software running on a machine with no power and I have never learned the skill. It seems to be the last words of a process that is not properly killed by shutdown but dies when it finds the Operating System missing. It may be related to the RAID disk. It seems harmless. -- Keith

Aug. 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Server crash - is recovery possible?

by Richard Goodman

Thanks, Theo I read the link, and went home and swapped out a bad SIMM. Everything seems to be up and running. The only anomoly is that after a shutdown completes, I seem to get a similar memory segment error (although not Signal 11). However its been so long since I've done a shutdown that I don't remember if this is new - I can live with it. Dick At 09:40 AM 8/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: >On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:02:20AM -0400, Richard Goodman wrote: > > Yesterday I attempted to ssh login from a workstation and got a message > > "..exited with Signal 11". I attempted to log on from the console and > could > > not - got screen full of messages and numbers. > > > > About 5-10% in, then: "Warning ..fsck.ext2 for device /dev/hda2 exited > with > > signal 11 [FAILED] " > > > > Is there any way to recover from this? Barring that - is there any way to > > recover any config files from various places in /etc on this > partition. If > > not I guess its a complete reload - mainly a problem with mail and DNS > > config files. > >The hard drive is probably ok, but I would look at my hardware first. >Lots of signal 11 (segmentation fault) errors usually indicates bad memory. > >See: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ >

Aug. 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Server crash - is recovery possible?

by Theo Van Dinter

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:02:20AM -0400, Richard Goodman wrote: > Yesterday I attempted to ssh login from a workstation and got a message > "..exited with Signal 11". I attempted to log on from the console and could > not - got screen full of messages and numbers. > > About 5-10% in, then: "Warning ..fsck.ext2 for device /dev/hda2 exited with > signal 11 [FAILED] " > > Is there any way to recover from this? Barring that - is there any way to > recover any config files from various places in /etc on this partition. If > not I guess its a complete reload - mainly a problem with mail and DNS > config files. The hard drive is probably ok, but I would look at my hardware first. Lots of signal 11 (segmentation fault) errors usually indicates bad memory. See: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "As a competitor, we might be better off if they shipped it." - Sun Microsystems's James Gosling on Windows NT 5.0

Aug. 26, 2002