[SLUG] Linux laptops
Hi all, I'm thinking of buying a laptop. Of course, it has to be able to run linux. Does anyone have any recommendations of what to get, what to avoid, etc... ? What experiences have SLUGgers had with getting linux to run on laptops? Thanks, Ka-shu Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl $t="RKo-6v8mW21uR_wzzwr27A_wzzwr27.1s7RR#!l865lpw1l3s5zRD7=Qt22po5QaDp=D7 aDp=~75#o-_b-kmlan#ab-klmno-_#aDpR=~75lBcddBcbfBcdcBcbdBcbcB1lB1BDQBcefBA lraDp=~6lt22po5lD7la35w17QDpB1Qa";$b=$t;$b=~tr#a-z0-9 /;_#;0-9/ _a-z#;$b =~tr/\122\104\121\102\101\n/\n\$"\134\@/d;$b=~s/foobar/$t/;print"$b\n"; -- 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] CGI script and Apache
Thanx for your help Adam, the location for perl was wrong, but now I get Can't locate cgi-lib.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00404 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /www/cgi-bin/mailfeedback.cgi line 77. [Fri May 19 15:45:28 2000] access to /www/cgi-bin/mailfeedback.cgi failed for seldon, reason: Premature end of script headers on doing a locate cgi-lib.pl i get no result so I can only assume I do not have this file on my system, is this a Perl lib file ? if so what RH rpm is it in ? Thanx PMc -Original Message- From: Adam Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 3:53 PM To: Peter McCarthy Cc: Linux Sydney (E-mail) Subject: RE: [SLUG] CGI script and Apache I have the additional line that I forgot before exec of /www/cgi-bin/mailfeedback.cgi failed, errno is 2 I take it that is the perl compile error 2 is no such file or directory isn't? If it's a cgi you've downloaded, check the #! line at the start of the script. This should be the path to perl on your system, if it's #!/usr/bin/perl and perl is somewhere else (#!/usr/local/bin/perl on some silly retarded dists), that would cause such an error. Otherwise check the script actually exists in that path, etc, etc. How do I check if i am printing content headers ? Run it from a shell. First line of output should be 'Content-Type: text/html', next line should be blank. -- adm -- 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] CGI script and Apache
Thanx for your help Adam, the location for perl was wrong, but now I get i get no result so I can only assume I do not have this file on my system, is this a Perl lib file ? if so what RH rpm is it in ? Umf, old school! ymmv, but I dumped a copy from one of my old slackware boxen at http://sweet.as/cgi-lib.pl. Dump it in your cgi-bin directory (and change the require line (near the top) in your perl script to have the right path). Best bet would be to find a cgi that uses CGI.pm (more likely to exist in a recent perl install than cgi-lib is) instead, there's plenty of mailthis.cgi's and mailthat.pl's out there. :) -- adm -- 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] Sendmail problem
Hi Today my sendmail server broke, out of the blue. It runs on a dialup connection, so it just queues mail coming from the internal network destined to an outside address (run like this: sendmail -bd -om). When the link is up I force a queue run by doing 'sendmail -q'. This has worked for months without a problem, but as of this morning it doesn't anymore. Sendmail deferres all mail with a hostname lookup failure: Deferred: Name server: smarthost.domain.com.au: host name lookup failure The hostname it apparently can't resolve is that of the smart relay defined in sendmail.cf like this DSsmtp:smarthost.domain.com.au However, that host resolves fine, I can ping it, etc. Not only does it resolve through DNS, there is also an entry for it in /etc/hosts just in case (and the ip's match :). So it resolves regardless of the ppp0 interface being up or down. If I change the smart relay host entry in sendmail.cf to null (e.g. DS ), Sendmail delivers mail fine by connecting directly to the destination mail host. DNS appears to work there. I'm at a total loss what the problem could be, so if anyone could give me a clue I'd be grateful. Regards, Matthias -- -- Matthias Oertli [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] CPIO failing
1. Buy cleaning tape. 2. Clean the tape drive. That's what fixed up my problem which had the exact symptoms you describe. It too started intermittent and then ended up being all the time. I was tearing my hair out before I found out the answer in deja news. (www.deja.com) Good luck! Dave. -- David Zverina Alt Key Pty. Ltd. http://www.altkey.com PO Box 3121, Parramatta, 2124, Australia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of George Vieira Sent: Friday, 19 May 2000 15:42 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [SLUG] CPIO failing Hi all, I'm getting weird problems with our Sony 9000 tape drive on linux. We do a : find DIR1 DIR2 -print | cpio -ocvB -O /dev/st0 and we get: Found end of tape. Load next tape and press RETURN. cpio: write error: No medium found all we find is it starts up the tape and then ejects it. happening on all tapes all the time. This was happening before on my old backup scipts on when I used the nst0 device but now it's all the time.. Any suggestions? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -- 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 - 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] Linux laptops
Ka-shu Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm thinking of buying a laptop. Of course, it has to be able to run linux. Does anyone have any recommendations of what to get, what to avoid, etc... ? What experiences have SLUGgers had with getting linux to run on laptops? new or second-hand? I've got a Toshiba Tecra 530 CDT and all the hardware seems to be supported, although I haven't tried the infra-red port. Check out: http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ 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
Re: [SLUG] Linux laptops
Toshiba's got a good image as a Linux laptop. Read http://www.shreve.net/~signal/linux/2130/ , http://www.concretecow.com/linux/laptop/ , http://www.pdcl.eng.wayne.edu/~sumit/linux/linux.html Anecdotally there seem to be a lot of Linux/Toshiba users (and webpages) out there. I've started installing Linux got a secondhand Toshiba Satelliate 21xx laptop. Though I haven't got pcmcia network support yet... Does anyone have know if the LiveWireII n/w card is Linux supported? Sonam Does anyone have any recommendations of what to get, what to avoid, etc... ? What experiences have SLUGgers had with getting linux to run on laptops? new or second-hand? I've got a Toshiba Tecra 530 CDT and all the hardware seems to be supported, although I haven't tried the infra-red port. Check out: http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ 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 -- 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] runnning batch files on linux
there is probably a tutorial somewhere, here's a starter in a text file type: #!/bin/bash under that you can put anything you would normally put at the command prompt type chmod a+x text_file at the command prompt to make your new text file executable a search for "shell scripts" (as these are known in the unix world) may give you some more advice. = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Is it possible to create the equivalent of batch files like those used in dos systems for running a series of commands ? Can any one help thanks -- 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] runnning batch files on linux
Yes. A 'batch file' on M$DOS systems is read and acted on (interpreted) by the command shell (command.com). In linux the normal command interpretor you see is bash, which stands for Bourne-Again Shell. You can write batch files (called scripts in linux) with any text editor and bash will act on it. Get a introductory bash book. A quick (and probably too high level) introduction is available by typing 'man bash'. See http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.02/html_mono/bashref.html for the whole story. Regards, Richard. Richard Ames linsup.com, Sydney, Australia Tel: +61 2 9144-6131 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linsup.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Hunter Sent: Saturday, 20 May 2000 3:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] runnning batch files on linux Is it possible to create the equivalent of batch files like those used in dos systems for running a series of commands ? Can any one help thanks Kevin Hutner Kevin Hunter Research Physicist ETP Electron Multipliers Tel: 61 (2) 9874-1155 Fax: 61 (2) 9874-2900 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.etpsci.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 - 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] runnning batch files on linux
Absolutely not! No linux shell would ever stoop such disgraceful scripting as COMMAND.COM! Seriously now ... In unix we usually "call" batch files shell scripts. To make one simply create a text file. A contrived example follows: --- #!/bin/sh ls /tmp/dir_content grep fish /tmp/dir_content --- Now give the people who are going to execute read AND execute permission. Eg: chmod u+x myscript The first line of Unix shell scripts is special ... it is in the format of #!shell interpreter [optional paramters] Thus file with first line of: #!/usr/bin/perl is a perl script. Hope that helps, Dave. -- David Zverina Alt Key Pty. Ltd. http://www.altkey.com PO Box 3121, Parramatta, 2124, Australia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Hunter Sent: Saturday, 20 May 2000 3:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] runnning batch files on linux Is it possible to create the equivalent of batch files like those used in dos systems for running a series of commands ? Can any one help thanks Kevin Hutner Kevin Hunter Research Physicist ETP Electron Multipliers Tel: 61 (2) 9874-1155 Fax: 61 (2) 9874-2900 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.etpsci.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 - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
[SLUG] Redhat 6.0 Weaknesses
Where can I find out the security weaknesses of Redhat 6.0? Are they digested anywhere? -- 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] Redhat 6.0 Security
What would be the most common way for someone to gain root access to a system running Redhat 6.0 and what can be done to prevent it, short from installing a later version? -- 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] Redhat 6.0 Weaknesses
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:46:02PM +1000, Dennis Gray wrote: Where can I find out the security weaknesses of Redhat 6.0? Are they digested anywhere? http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh60-errata-general.html Cheers, John -- whois [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] CPIO failing
Yeah sounds like a good idea for an old PC but this thing was 2 days old when the tape started doing this (also after linux was installed) and only happens on cpio.. I use tapeware (www.tapeware.com free download) for backups now (perfect porting from windows to linux I must add) and works like a charm.. Problem is either cpio causes problems with the dat/scsi drivers or something or God knows what. -Original Message- From: David Zverina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 5:09 PM To: George Vieira; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] CPIO failing 1. Buy cleaning tape. 2. Clean the tape drive. That's what fixed up my problem which had the exact symptoms you describe. It too started intermittent and then ended up being all the time. I was tearing my hair out before I found out the answer in deja news. (www.deja.com) Good luck! Dave. -- David Zverina Alt Key Pty. Ltd. http://www.altkey.com PO Box 3121, Parramatta, 2124, Australia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of George Vieira Sent: Friday, 19 May 2000 15:42 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [SLUG] CPIO failing Hi all, I'm getting weird problems with our Sony 9000 tape drive on linux. We do a : find DIR1 DIR2 -print | cpio -ocvB -O /dev/st0 and we get: Found end of tape. Load next tape and press RETURN. cpio: write error: No medium found all we find is it starts up the tape and then ejects it. happening on all tapes all the time. This was happening before on my old backup scipts on when I used the nst0 device but now it's all the time.. Any suggestions? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -- 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 - 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] runnning batch files on linux
yeah you mean just scripts? just vi a filename and when finished chmod 777 and your done.. -Original Message- From: Kevin Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 3:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] runnning batch files on linux Is it possible to create the equivalent of batch files like those used in dos systems for running a series of commands ? Can any one help thanks Kevin Hutner Kevin Hunter Research Physicist ETP Electron Multipliers Tel: 61 (2) 9874-1155 Fax: 61 (2) 9874-2900 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.etpsci.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 - 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] Redhat 6.0 Security
Dennis Gray wrote: What would be the most common way for someone to gain root access to a system running Redhat 6.0 and what can be done to prevent it, short from installing a later version? The one that I've seen most often is through wu-ftpd. You can prevent it by installing the updated version on the web site just mentioned. ++-- Del | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Christchurch, New Zealand ++-- -- 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] PPP authorization problem
Hi Sluggers, I'm getting an error in /var/log/messages with my pppd deamon when I use diald. (pppd works fine from command line). Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/modem Peer is not authorized to use remote address 203.x.x.x Is this something to do with the pap-secrets / chap-secrets? Where do I look to fix it? Thanks. Pete -- 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] running XFree86 4.0 on boot up
Hi all, I have RH6.1 and have install XFree86-4.0 on top of XFree86-3.3.6. I would like XFree86-4 to start on bootup. Also I have a riva tnt card and I am also trying to get quake II running in GL mode has anyone got it running successfully undex XFree86-4, using Riva TNT Thanks Kevin -- 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] netatalk make problem
Hi, I am trying to setup a Linux file and print server for DTP on a Mac (AppleTalk) based network. I downloaded the latest netatalk source, but I cannot get it to compile, here is the last few lines of output from make: /usr/lib/libwrap.a(hosts_access.o): In function `host_match': hosts_access.o(.text+0x400): undefined reference to `yp_get_default_domain' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [afpd] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: *** [afpd] Error 2 make[1]: *** [../../etc] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 I have followed the instructions step-by-step at Anders' webpage (eg. copied tcpd.h to the includes, commented out DES support in the main Makefile). Does anyone know what's wrong here? Thanks for your time, Alex Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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] runnning batch files on linux
At 12:10 AM 5/20/00 +1000, Ken Yap wrote: yeah you mean just scripts? just vi a filename and when finished chmod 777 and your done.. Mode 777? Are you trying to start a Unix virus? :-) 777 means group and world writable. A no-no. 755 is more usual. I think what he meant was 666...:-) -- 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] Programming a 486
Hi: I am taking a big step, and programming a 486 board, with an embedded application (i.e., no OS). Where I want to start is by testing out the start up code and some very simple code. What I am looking for, is a some rom monitor code which would work on a 486 PC board, in place of the BIOS. Anybody have any ideas ? Yes, make an extension BIOS. Replacing the main BIOS is generally not feasible because you don't know what hardware specific initialisations are required by the CPU support chipset. Go to members.xoom.com/ken_yap and search down the page for the article I was invited to submit to TCJ (but TCJ seemed to have stopped publishing just after I submitted) on a ROMable terminal emulator. The technique works with anything from an XT upwards. -- 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] runnning batch files on linux
yeah you mean just scripts? just vi a filename and when finished chmod 777 and your done.. Mode 777? Are you trying to start a Unix virus? :-) 777 means group and world writable. A no-no. 755 is more usual. -- 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] OT: Joke
Yeah, I know... But this is worth it...:-) - When the Software industry had badly gone down, three software giants Sun, SCO(UNIX) ,and Microsoft started producing condoms and named them Java-condom, CondomiX, and MS-Condoms 98 respectively. A customer using Java-condom complained to Sun that the condom didn't fit correctly. Sun replied: "Wait till we get the ISO standard". They boasted that it would fit any size irrespective of the underlying structure. Well, the customer switched to CondomiX and found that by the time he would finish reading the instructions given along with it, his wife would fall asleep, and he himself would forget why he was using CondomiX. Finally, he switched to MS-Condoms 98. To his surprise it was so good.and comfortable! He used it happily. Six months later, he found that his wife was pregnant. He got angry and complained to Microsoft. He got the following reply from Microsoft: A PATCH IS COMING SOON...!!! -- 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] Linux laptops
Sonam Chauhan wrote: Toshiba's got a good image as a Linux laptop. IDE support for Toshibas in 2.3.99 is rather screwed at this time, and it's not obvious that anything is going to happen to fix this. Somewhere between 2.3.48 and 2.3.53 the driver started writing 4k lumps of 0xff to random addresses once every few hundred megabytes. Nice. So if you plan to run development kernels, give Toshibas a miss. I found a 4100XDVD quite unusable. Also, support for the Toshiba Topic95/97 cardbus bridges isn't as good as it might be because they forgot to publish suitable specs. -- -akpm- -- 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] .exe download
I was in the unfortunate position of having to download a win .exe I did the 7MB download via netscape/linux thence dos ftp to winnt. It wouldn't execute, so I did it again from the winnt box and it worked :-( I noticed that the file I downloaded via my linux box was slightly LARGER than the other one. Any suggestions why the .exe wouldnt execute? PS: After installing a simple sound editing application, winNT demanded that I reboot the system! They call this a server? what a joke. David -- 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] runnning batch files on linux
Kevin Hunter wrote: Is it possible to create the equivalent of batch files like those used in dos systems for running a series of commands ? Can any one help sure simply list the commands you wish to run in a file and then chmod u+x batch.file eg. the following will list the files in a dir and show disk space ---8--- # batch.file ls df ---8--- this of course could be extended to command 1 command 2 etc etc etc Kevin -- 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] .exe download
i've noticed that at times netscape downloads in default ascii mode rather than binary mode. hence the file has lots of carriage returns/line feeds inserted where just cf should be. cr/lf instead of cr. something like this. hence the file is bigger and unusable. you need to download the file via ftp with the "bin" mode set. David wrote: I was in the unfortunate position of having to download a win .exe I did the 7MB download via netscape/linux thence dos ftp to winnt. It wouldn't execute, so I did it again from the winnt box and it worked :-( I noticed that the file I downloaded via my linux box was slightly LARGER than the other one. Any suggestions why the .exe wouldnt execute? PS: After installing a simple sound editing application, winNT demanded that I reboot the system! They call this a server? what a joke. David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text -- _|_ | 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] PPP authorization problem
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Peter Rundle wrote: I'm getting an error in /var/log/messages with my pppd deamon when I use diald. (pppd works fine from command line). Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/modem Peer is not authorized to use remote address 203.x.x.x Is this something to do with the pap-secrets / chap-secrets? Quite possibly. Where do I look to fix it? /etc/ppp pap-secrets should look something like this # Secrets for authentication using PAP # clientserver secret IP addresses remoteuser zip password* The important bit is the * - means that account is authorised to connect on any IP address - important when calling an ISP which uses dynamic IP address allocation. DaZZa -- 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] Redhat 6.0 Security
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
What would be the most common way for someone to gain root access to a
system running Redhat 6.0 and what can be done to prevent it, short from
installing a later version?
The one that I've seen most often is through wu-ftpd. You can prevent
it by installing the updated version on the web site just mentioned.
You could always ask Adam Todd.
{snarfle}
He's an expert you know.
A has-been drip under pressure? We all know that.
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] Linux laptops
Quoting DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ka-shu Wong wrote: I'm thinking of buying a laptop. Of course, it has to be able to run linux. Does anyone have any recommendations of what to get, what to avoid, etc... ? What experiences have SLUGgers had with getting linux to run on laptops? Works great on my Thinkpad 600E - Redhat, TurboLinux and SuSE have all I'm just about to be given a 600E myself, and need to have it dual-boot with EvilWare/95 - apart from the modem problem (and who cares - like you, I have a Xircom 10/100 + modem card), did you have any other problems, like getting it to dual-boot, etc ? Jon -- 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] Linux laptops
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ka-shu Wong wrote:
I'm thinking of buying a laptop. Of course, it has to be able to run
linux.
Does anyone have any recommendations of what to get, what to avoid,
etc... ? What experiences have SLUGgers had with getting linux to run on
laptops?
Works great on my Thinkpad 600E - Redhat, TurboLinux and SuSE have all
installed without problems - even to running X at 1024x768 in 16bpp mode.
It even co-installed with Evilware.
Couple of caveats - the inbuilt modem and sound card won't work {well,
SuSE claims to identify it, all I have to do is figure out how to
configure the sound card}, but it didn't worry me because my network
PCMCIA card has a modem and 10/100 LAN in it.
APM is somewhat dicky in its shutdown sometimes. Don't know why, and
frankly since I run on mains most of the time, I don't care.
Other than that, Linux works fine.
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] runnning batch files on linux
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Kevin Hunter wrote: Is it possible to create the equivalent of batch files like those used in dos systems for running a series of commands ? Can any one help Yes - they're called "scripts". And if you were impressed by what DOS could do with batch files, wait until you see what *nix can do with scripts! man bash will get you started. DaZZa -- 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] Redhat 6.0 Security
snip
The one that I've seen most often is through wu-ftpd. You can prevent
it by installing the updated version on the web site just mentioned.
You could always ask Adam Todd.
{snarfle}
He's an expert you know.
A has-been drip under pressure? We all know that.
Can anyone post a follow up on the story on the "so called" RH security
scare story on the Australian, the challenge that was issued and the results
?
I do not follow the AUSCERT lists and would like to know if this person was
put in his place...
-- Aravind
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RE: [SLUG] Redhat 6.0 Security
On Sat, 20 May 2000, Aravind Naidu wrote:
You could always ask Adam Todd.
{snarfle}
He's an expert you know.
A has-been drip under pressure? We all know that.
Can anyone post a follow up on the story on the "so called" RH security
scare story on the Australian, the challenge that was issued and the results
?
I do not follow the AUSCERT lists and would like to know if this person was
put in his place...
Nope - he's still bleating about being "too busy" to get around to
demonstrating it - despite being all-but begged by someone from redhat to
do so.
He's piss and wind, and should be regarded as such until he extracts the
proverbial finger, and demonstrates his bizzare claims.
DaZZa
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RE: [SLUG] Linux laptops
My combination is a Digital VP 745 with a Xircom card.
Have installed Mandrake and RedHat. Works like a charm. Currently with
Mandrake.
The crystal sound device is recognised, display is at 1024x768 with NeoMagic
and the Xircom 56 CEM card works straight out of the box.
In fact the Mandrake install is so straightforward, that it gets downright
boring. (Won't get the opportunity to dick around with configuration files
etc.. as everything gets pretty much recognised) Insert the CD and
answer a few questions and away it goes.
-- Aravind
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Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux laptops
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ka-shu Wong wrote:
I'm thinking of buying a laptop. Of course, it has to be able to run
linux.
Does anyone have any recommendations of what to get, what to avoid,
etc... ? What experiences have SLUGgers had with getting linux
to run on
laptops?
Works great on my Thinkpad 600E - Redhat, TurboLinux and SuSE have all
installed without problems - even to running X at 1024x768 in 16bpp mode.
It even co-installed with Evilware.
Couple of caveats - the inbuilt modem and sound card won't work {well,
SuSE claims to identify it, all I have to do is figure out how to
configure the sound card}, but it didn't worry me because my network
PCMCIA card has a modem and 10/100 LAN in it.
APM is somewhat dicky in its shutdown sometimes. Don't know why, and
frankly since I run on mains most of the time, I don't care.
Other than that, Linux works fine.
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] Linux laptops
On Sat, 20 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Works great on my Thinkpad 600E - Redhat, TurboLinux
and SuSE have all
I'm just about to be given a 600E myself, and need to
have it dual-boot with EvilWare/95 - apart from the
modem problem (and who cares - like you, I have a
Xircom 10/100 + modem card), did you have any other
problems, like getting it to dual-boot, etc ?
I had problems with RH 6.1 {for some reason, it didn't like the extended
partition I had RH 6.0 instellad in}, but other than that no. And I've
actually got a 3Com Megahertz modem/LAN card, not the Xircom. It was way
cheaper. :-)
I used the old "make a copy of the boot sector into a file" method because
I was running NT, and I've never yet been able to make LILO kick into NT's
boot loader successfully, but apart from that - no problems. I've got a
DOS partition {with DOS installed}, NT and now SuSE 6.4 installed on it,
all living happily. SuSE 6.4 even reads the NT partition properly and
mounts it - colour me impressed! I'll have to buy a copy of it instead of
just borrowing one. :-)
DaZZa
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[SLUG] tv tuners
Im looking to make a real server to stream the main tv channels across the network at lans (mainly for 3 day lans) (channels 2,7,9,10) Im looking for good quality capture cards. cards which are more than one capture card in one are good. I saw a 4 in one capture card, on allthings(?) but it only has svideo are there multisession cards? Is their better alt. to real streams? Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
