[SLUG] Doh - HTML
Sorry for the HTML containing posts all. Using a temp machine here I'm contracting at the mo and didn't realise HTML was turned on. Graeme -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: [SLUG] ICQ File transfer
Have you looked at using the ip-masq module for icq. I will send you a copy via email of the source. Cheers Michael -Original Message- From: Ryan McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, 9 February 2000 6:32 Subject: [SLUG] ICQ File transfer Hi all, Does anyone know how i can setup IPCHAINS so that its possible to receive a icq file transfer. Im running Mandrake 6.1 as a firewall to a dial up modem connection. Ive setup ipchains with the following commands # ipchains -P forward DENY # ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ # echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward I can do everything else over icq, just not file transfer. Thanx Ryan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: [SLUG] MySQL transactions (was MySQL book ToC)
Jeff Waugh wrote: Interbase should be interesting... :) Ha, I hope its better on Linux! Under NT it does real weird things and corupts itself every now and again. It could be a badly coded application (its Delpi) however IMHO nothing the program can do should corrupt the database. Its also quote limited in how you can set it up. The only way to keep it running is to do full backup and restores on a regular basis, sounds a bit like rebooting your server once a week to me grin. If anyone has any experience of Interbase on Linux I would be pleased to hear about it, maybe I can get the site to convert (last I knew the latest versions were not on Linux yet). Although I notice Corel just purchased Inprise, I think. Rodos -- If the box says "Windows 95 or better", it should run on Linux, right? - anon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: [SLUG] PPP0 Autodial
here's another way..., there's always another way. run a cron job to do the following every five minutes or so. on a redhat box... #!/bin/bash cd /etc/ppp ps ax|fgrep pppd|fgrep -v fgrep/dev/null||/etc/ppp/ppp-on exit 0 what this does is check if the process pppd is running. if it is then it does nothing. if it is not then it runs your ppp-on script. this is useful for the pppd coming back up when you are not there, or the machine reboots for some reason, the machine is up but the line drops out, etc. just make damn sure your scripts are correct. if not you may get a phone bill that's rung the number every five minutes, had an error in the script and hung up, redialed, hung up, redialed... still when it's working, it works a treat! sorry, havent played with dial on demand. Ryan McBride wrote: Hi, could anyone recomend a script for making PPP0 autodial/connect on boot. I have tried changing /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 and changing the onboot option to yes but for some reason it doesnt work. It dials and connects but you cant access the internet unless u dial with KPPP through xwindoz. What about dial on demand?? Thanx Ryan -- _|_ | Thanks, iCafe PTY Limited Ben DonohueWeb Hosting Design [EMAIL PROTECTED]Small Business Office Networks Ph. 0011 61 2 9705 7520 http://www.icafe.com.au Mobile: 0417 018 600ACN 080 665 907 Freedom isn't doing what you want... Freedom is knowing what to do -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: [SLUG] PPP0 Autodial
Okay, i know this is going to seem REALLY STUPID, but ill ask it anyway. I have made a file in pico with the commands in it. How do i make the file executable (ive been using linux for about 2 weeks now) Thanx - Original Message - From: Ben Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ryan McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 8:54 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] PPP0 Autodial here's another way..., there's always another way. run a cron job to do the following every five minutes or so. on a redhat box... #!/bin/bash cd /etc/ppp ps ax|fgrep pppd|fgrep -v fgrep/dev/null||/etc/ppp/ppp-on exit 0 what this does is check if the process pppd is running. if it is then it does nothing. if it is not then it runs your ppp-on script. this is useful for the pppd coming back up when you are not there, or the machine reboots for some reason, the machine is up but the line drops out, etc. just make damn sure your scripts are correct. if not you may get a phone bill that's rung the number every five minutes, had an error in the script and hung up, redialed, hung up, redialed... still when it's working, it works a treat! sorry, havent played with dial on demand. Ryan McBride wrote: Hi, could anyone recomend a script for making PPP0 autodial/connect on boot. I have tried changing /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 and changing the onboot option to yes but for some reason it doesnt work. It dials and connects but you cant access the internet unless u dial with KPPP through xwindoz. What about dial on demand?? Thanx Ryan -- _|_ | Thanks, iCafe PTY Limited Ben DonohueWeb Hosting Design [EMAIL PROTECTED]Small Business Office Networks Ph. 0011 61 2 9705 7520 http://www.icafe.com.au Mobile: 0417 018 600ACN 080 665 907 Freedom isn't doing what you want... Freedom is knowing what to do -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: Challenge (Was: Re: [SLUG] What printer companies officially su ppor t Linux?)
Someone's mail server is screwed... I count that as being like 5-7 copies so far.. :( Quoting Dave Fitch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone know of any other mechanisms in common use? Is anyone using a colour printer with Unix/Linux at the moment? yes, an Epson stylus photo 700 Can I correct that to: photo-quality colour printer with Unix/Linux? no. It's a "photo quality" printer but the images printed under lose95 (in photo quality mode) are far better than printing under linux (eg. the same images in xv or gimp etc). The images still look perfectly fine (and come out colour) under linux but are not photo quality. I haven't tweaked anything in linux or ghostscript etc etc though, I just set the printer up in print-tool and it worked so I haven't fiddled with it. On a (slightly) similar subject: the printer is connected to my linux box's parallel port, how can I tell the print spooler on my solaris7 box to send to the linux box? Adding a remote printer via admintool didn't work - I suspect it's expecting a network printer? Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text Email sent via http://webmail.mafnet.com/ ...all we need now is a faster internet connection! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
[SLUG] SCO programs on linux
If you have not installed iBCS2 when you installed RedHat linux, how do you add the iBCS2 module to the linux kernel. Thank You Regards David Abulafia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: [SLUG] MySQL transactions (was MySQL book ToC)
At 05:36 PM 9/02/2000 +1100, Anthony Rumble wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote: I've read about MySQL in linux journal on the MySQL website, and its benchmarks are great, and it sounded better than PostGresSQL, UNTIL I saw "MySQL does not support transactions". IMHO if it does not support transactions, it is NOT a database. Say it loud! Say it proud! I've heard someone say that this lack of transactions "verges on criminal negligence". :) The problem is not MySQL, it is not designed for such things. The problem is the tool you have chosen. There are plenty of good commercial database systems out there that can satisfy your need for Transactions. Yes I know I can get versions of Oracle, Informix, Progress, etc for linux, and some for free like PostgreSQL MySQL, variants. I am not attacking MySQL, just clarifying that I'm not missing something, that it really does not support transactions yet calls itself a database, which IMHO is misleading to say the least. I understand MySQL's design decisions to go for speed instead of transactions, but this rules it out for any serious database processing. Yes it would be fine for lots of catalogue style web sites where its mainly readonly lookups occasional updates, updates mainly by a single user. Missing out on subselects is neither here nor there, but not supporting transactions or record locks is extremely limiting. Table locks are not an alternative if there is to be any serious concurrency. Having worked with Sybase I don't regard it as serious either since it supports only block locks which rapidly escalate to table locks, causing high rate of deadlocks rollback/retries in highly concurrent systems. Oracle Progress for example support true row locking, where only the rows you want locked get locked. Oracle is particularly good in this area. So it seems that MySQL is not a database (on my definition), BUT it's very good very fast at what it was designed to do, which is "a collection of indexed tables supporting (most of) SQL queries, oriented to mainly readonly use with mainly only a single user updating." Sounds great for some things, but PostgresSQL sounds more like what I need. Thanks Anthony others for the info opinions. -- Brian Martin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Future Software Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: [SLUG] MySQL transactions (was MySQL book ToC)
At 05:41 PM 9/02/2000 +1100, Dave Fitch wrote: Brian Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some db's also allow use of dedicated partition for the data, bypassing the filesystem, e.g. Sybase. This is less flexible but can be faster. and more reliable cos Sybase is not dependent on whatever filesystem (or OS) you use and whatever "funnies" it may have (eg. caching, flushing etc) - of which they have little control over. Dave. YMMV it all depends on which version of which product etc etc, but in my experience, Sybase with raw partitions on Solaris was the least reliable most problematic database I've used, closely followed by Sybase on VMS with normal filesystem. Give me Oracle or Progress any day on any box, for better reliability integrity speed. -- Brian Martin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Future Software Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: [SLUG] SCO programs on linux
David Abulafia wrote:
If you have not installed iBCS2 when you installed RedHat linux,
how do you add the iBCS2 module to the linux kernel.
Perhaps it was expressed badly. A module is not added to the kernel,
but is a bit of code loaded (nowadays as needed) when the machine
boots.
Basically, you just need to make sure the kernel knows when to find
this module when needed. How depends on your distro.
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[SLUG] Re: Orbit, CORBA etc
Robert Maldon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 100, Goblin wrote: This is one of the main complaints about MICO. It relies heavily on templates and can be a bitch to compile. It was designed as a teaching aid rather than for efficiency and performance was a bit of a problem too. I have heard that improvements have been made to the performance recently. I believe that MICO has been adopted by KDE for desktop interprocess comms (ala OLE/ActiveX/COM). I remeber seeing on the web that KDE were thinking of abandoning their use of CORBA in KDE 2.x. There were a lot of stability and scalability issues they were having with MICO, not necessarily CORBA. I know that the KDE team were looking at using their own non-standard C/C++ mapping to the ORB. ie still using IIOP for the protocol but with a cut-down interface. I would not be surprised if they had chucked it out altogether at this point. TAO makes me a bit nervous. It is the product of a Washington Uni group who do research into real-time extensions to CORBA. Each release seems to involve lots of internal changes and produces a similiar sized bug list. ACE is pretty good for those who want free C++ classes to do things like threads, collections (maps, bags), strings, etc. omniORB, however, is very solid and fast (but has poor doco) - highly recommended. This brings me to a problem that causes me a great deal of angst. I would really like to contribute to an OpenSourced ORB, but I keep dithering from one to the other, unable to make a decision on technical grounds and unable to see a clear leader emerging on pragmatic grounds. * MICO is widely considered to be a hog to compile and sluggish to run KDE seem to be having a lot of trouble with it, which doesn't bode well * Orbit is written in C (I have written my share of C code, but I much prefer to work in C++) * OmniORB looks good, but it is definitely "Cathedral" rather than "Bazaar". I subscribed to the mailing list for a while and almost all the developers have ATT email addresses * TAO is frighteningly monolithic. Also it has a BSD-style licence rather than GPL, which I regard with some suspicion Meanwhile, I am using ORBacus (http://www.ooc.com) at the moment. If anyone is interested in investigating CORBA I highly recommend this product as being one of the best on the market. Tight code, very stable, excellent conformance to the latest standards, amazing support. Unfortunately not OpenSource (tm) but souce-code-provided and free for non-commercial use. Lots of good demos to give you examples of just about every CORBA feature. ORBacus comes in C++ and Java flavours. Linux support is very good since this is their primary development platform. Alternatively, go with OmniORB. As Robert says, documentation is not great, but there was an intro tutorial in Linux Journal last year (October?) which walked you through a simple hello world. CORBA has been around for about eight years now, but for real-time systems people like myself I still think it lacks some all important enterprise features. These issuses are slowly being addressed. Glueing together disparete languages and systems, however, is very attractive. In the early days the CORBA focus was on pulling legacy systems into the client/server world. The benefits were pretty obvious and there was lots of money for this, so CORBA really took off. The platform/language independence was critical for this and works very well. These days we are looking more at what I would call "distributed" systems - peer-to-peer systems where processes are both client and server and CORBA is an integral aspect of the design process. This is what interests me. The realtime stuff is pretty cutting edge for CORBA. I don't think it was really designed for this, but obviously there is the potential for really interesting work to come out of it. As Robert says, there are some important features missing, but then what are the alternatives? Do it yourself or use some proprietory middleware I guess. - goblin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: Challenge (Was: Re: [SLUG] What printer companies officially su ppor t Linux?)
Does anyone have CUPS installed, alongside a photo-quality bubblejet or inkjet printer? If so, do you get photo quality from Linux (i.e. is the printer driven to it's best advantage)? I have CUPS installed at home. You can't even support a non-PS printer under CUPS without buying a filter from Easy Software, or writing your own filter that uses Ghostscript (I wrote a shell script to do this for my LJ3P). So the issue of extra quality settings is not addressed per se by CUPS. CUPS is really a replacement for lpr, and uses the new HTTP based Internet Printing Protocol. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
[SLUG] IP masq - Win95 sending repeated DNS requests
I have linux RH6.0 with IP masq dialondemand working. From a WFW3.11 workstation all is fine the linux ppp link drops after specified period of inactivity, reconnects as needed. When I add a W95 workstation net access works fine etc, but linux never drops the ppp link, because tcpdump -i ppp0 shows that the W95 box seems to keep on sending DNS requests about every 10 mins or so, even when its doing nothing, browser shutdown, screensaver on. I think someone had this same problem there was a W95 registry fix to stop these repeated DNS requests preventing the idle timeout to work. But I can't find the fix in SLUG mail archives or on search engines. Does anyone recall either the W95 registry fix, or perhaps a way to tell ppp's activity monitoring to ignore these packets, or is this why caching name servers are recommended ? TIA -- Brian Martin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Future Software Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
[SLUG] Senior Sys Admin required
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[SLUG] security
hello friends The default port for telnet is 23. But I am thinking of changing the port for telnet from 23 to 5000. Can anyone tell me how do i do this? can I edit the /etc/services file and change the port number manually? Is this possible. cheers... __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
[SLUG] listing
i want to see a list of all files in my system which are setuid or setgid. is there any command for that? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: [SLUG] IP masq - Win95 sending repeated DNS requests
Brian Martin wrote: Mehmet, I don't use Outlook, and Eudora is shutdown, plus Eudora is collecting mail from the linux box, which collects it from the ISP. I get this problem even with Netscape Eudora shut down, just W95 alone. It appears to be W95 looking up the ISP DNS, which is configured as I'm not using a local DNS, but why would W95 keep issuing DNS requests when its not doing anything?. Brian I had discovered the same problem when I was setting up a bootp server I have an NT machine, and I found that every 10 minutes or so it would do a DNS request (even if it was only connected to the local network, and had no inet/mail programs open). I would be interested to find the cause.. Stephen -- "The Frogurt is also cursed" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: [SLUG] security
Simple answer... YES! Quoting nining hero [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hello friends The default port for telnet is 23. But I am thinking of changing the port for telnet from 23 to 5000. Can anyone tell me how do i do this? can I edit the /etc/services file and change the port number manually? Is this possible. cheers... __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text Email sent via http://webmail.mafnet.com/ ...all we need now is a faster internet connection! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
[SLUG] Domain registrar scam
I recently had an experience where I did a whois through Melbourne IT for a certain domain name, and when I came back to register it a couple of weeks later it had been taken by Network Solutions. My guess is that they sift through whois queries and pinchg any that look promising. Has anyone heard of a scam along these lines? Thanks Peter -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
