Re: NFS

2000-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 00:36:55 EST Derek Martin said: That's the kicker, isn't it? Samba and SMB actually seem pretty good, as network file systems go (despite the fact that the protocol is rather poorly documented and the Microsoft implementations suck (as usual)), but it

Re: RealPlayer and RH6.1 revisited

2000-02-16 Thread Ron Peterson
Derek Atkins wrote: If you allow any real-time protocol through your firewall, someone can tunnel through it. It's a fact of life. If you allow telnet, ssh, http, even nntp or smtp, it can be used to tunnel another protocol. If you want to disable tunneling, unplug yourself from the 'net.

Re: RealPlayer and RH6.1 revisited

2000-02-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Do you allow SecureHTTP (HTTP+SSL, usually port 433) through your firewall? If so, you wont be able to inspect it. Do you do stateful inspections of all your emails? All your Usenet posts? Do you monitor all your telnet sessions character by character? -derek Ron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: collective LUG regex

2000-02-16 Thread Greg Taylor
Or.. Program Free or Die Hacking At 01:51 PM 02/16/2000 -0500, you wrote: At 12:50 PM 2/16/2000 , you wrote: whatta bout "Use linux..or BSOD"? ~kurth Well, mine, Tux in the pose of the revolutionary, "Live free (with Linux) or Die (the Blue screen of death) on his flag Paul Lussier

Re: RealPlayer and RH6.1 revisited

2000-02-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Ron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What concerns me is bandwidth. I don't have much, and can't afford much. I don't want to simply ignore the problem, and I don't want to become the office gestapo. I just want to block realaudio. If bandwidth is your concern, why not look into the

Re: Any old computers ??

2000-02-16 Thread Jeffry Smith
I think there's something in the tax regs that causes them to do this. I've seen companies that will literally throw stuff away before they will give or sell it to employees (so you go back that night dumpster dive - why not save the wear tear on clothing give it away? PHBs Taxes) jeff

Re: NFS

2000-02-16 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: But I *don't* expect a loss of connectivity to result in the widespread destruction of the filesystem on the server! That's ridiculous! (However, as a long-time computer user, I have learned that "ridiculous" and "reality" are far from mutually

FW: [announce-html] We're Doing It Again: Linux for 99 Cents!

2000-02-16 Thread Rick Petree
Title: We're Doing It Again: Linux for 99 Cents! You cannot beat the price! Rick :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of LinuxMall.com Information Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 10:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Apache web server standings

2000-02-16 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Benjamin Scott wrote: Apache rose to nearly 60% total web server market share, at 58.08%. It's worth pointing out that those figures are for servers that haven't customised the ident string. In actual fact, Apache + derivatives is above 60%, closer to 65% I think. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar

Re: Apache web server standings

2000-02-16 Thread Jeffry_Smith
Rats, another talk on a subject I really want to learn that I had to miss. Were any slides / charts / papers used in the presentation? If so, any chance of them getting posted for those of us who have to miss talks (maybe to a GNHLUG/SLUG/presentations directory on gnhlug.org, or under a

Re: Apache web server standings

2000-02-16 Thread Jerry Kubeck
We usually post the presentations done by Monadluugers to our web site Jeff. If Dave doesn't have the new version up yet, he will soon I am sure. http://www.monadlug.org A central site for presentations isn't a bad idea. Jerry Rats, another talk on a subject I really want to learn that I had

Re: MySQL dilemma

2000-02-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Charles Farinella writes: I'm trying to import thousands of dated records from a comma delimited file into a MySQL table. ... 2: Write some kind of script to rearrange the date format in my .csv file. Just a suggestion in addition to the good sed solutions already offered:

Re: NFS

2000-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:44:00 EST Benjamin Scott said: On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Derek Martin wrote: Ben, PHILISOPHICALLY I agree with you, but PRACTICALLY speaking the problem is that NFS doesn't guarantee that there will be no FS corruption if you use the soft option. This is a

Re: NFS

2000-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 03:22:57 EST Derek Martin said: On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: Ugh. I was hoping that NFS didn't go that low-level, but given the fact that NFS has been moved into the kernel with Linux 2.2 ... blech. I don't know that it does; WRT that

Re: Apache web server standings

2000-02-16 Thread Dave Seidel
Rats, another talk on a subject I really want to learn that I had to miss. Were any slides / charts / papers used in the presentation? If so, any chance of them getting posted for those of us who have to miss talks (maybe to a GNHLUG/SLUG/presentations directory on gnhlug.org, or under a

2.3.45 / pcmcia

2000-02-16 Thread Joseph L. Hill
With the 2.2.14 kernel I installed pcmcia and then installed wavelan into that dir, I notice that with the 2.3.45 kernel pcmcia is built in, so there is no pcmcia directory to install wavelan into, has anyone built the wavelan modules for 2.3.45? -joe

Re: Apache web server standings

2000-02-16 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Dave, I really opened my mouth this morning as I told Jeff that we had the presentations up already. Sorry. Don't mean to add to your work load. Also, please remove Brian Sullivan's name from contacts on the Contact page. Also, can we add the SLUG site to the links page. www.slug.org., and

collective LUG regex

2000-02-16 Thread Dave Seidel
Hey fellow nerds, I think we should start referring to ourselves collectively as /(GNH|M|S|NNH)LUG/, except I'm not sure how to pronounce it. :-) Have a nice day. -- Dave --- Dave Seidel [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.superluminal.com/dave/ **

anyone know a good listserver?

2000-02-16 Thread cdowns
does anyone know a good stable listserver for RH6.1 running apache webserver? if you have a link or any info would be great, thanks chris ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the

Another Apache config question

2000-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, Thanks for the help setting up the htpasswd thing yesterday. I now have another authentication question, this one probably more difficult :) I have, in the protected directory, created a symlink to another directory, which is NFS automounted. This directory, since it is accessible

Re: collective LUG regex

2000-02-16 Thread Bob Knowles
If we had a Bedford chapter, /(GNH|B|M|S|NNH)LUG/ It would be: "Gonna be missin a LUG". Bob - Original Message - From: "Dave Seidel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "GNHLUG" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 11:30 AM Subject: collective LUG regex Hey fellow nerds, I

Re: collective LUG regex

2000-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:30:01 EST "Dave Seidel" said: Hey fellow nerds, I think we should start referring to ourselves collectively as /(GNH|M|S|NNH)LUG/, except I'm not sure how to pronounce it. :-) I was speaking to someone yesterday (who shall remain nameless :) who

Re: anyone know a good listserver?

2000-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:42:11 EST cdowns said: does anyone know a good stable listserver for RH6.1 running apache webserver? if you have a link or any info would be great, thanks chris You mean something like majordomo? -- Seeya, Paul Doing something stupid

Re: collective LUG regex

2000-02-16 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20
Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It does lend itself to all sorts of amusing slogan and graphics ideas :) How about Tux in Revolutionary War regalia :) Hmmm - John Stark's famous war cry comes to mind: Live Free Or Die brc

Re: repartitioning software

2000-02-16 Thread Jerry Eckert
Will parted allow the partition table to be rebuilt without formatting the data area? I have a disk with a hosed partition table, but I believe most of the data is intact. I have a copy of the original partition table information from Partition Magic. However, I don't know of a way to have PM

Re: anyone know a good listserver?

2000-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:03:35 EST cdowns said: ya i guess? ive never set one up so .. basically i know zero about listservers, i'll admit it. :) Majordomo is the most often used. I don't know too much about it other than it's quite robust and configurable. There's a

Re: collective LUG regex

2000-02-16 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Well, mine, Tux in the pose of the revolutionary, "Live free (with Linux) or Die (the Blue screen of death) on his flag Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It does lend itself to all sorts of amusing slogan and graphics ideas :) How about Tux in Revolutionary War regalia :) Hmmm - John

Re: anyone know a good listserver?

2000-02-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
The Boston Linux and Unix group (http://www.blu.org) has been running both Apache and majordomo for years. We host several mostly former Boston Computer Society groups on the server. We have virtually no downtime. The last time we were down was last April when we blew the power supply. We are

Re: repartitioning software

2000-02-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
I know for a fact that Partition Magic will allow you to rebuild the partition table without affecting the contents.I believe that formatting is turned on by default. Neither Linux fdisk nor DOS fdisk touch the contents. On 16 Feb 00, at 12:10, Jerry Eckert wrote: Will parted allow the

RE: collective LUG regex

2000-02-16 Thread Lussier, Kenneth
I dunno. Since it IS New Hampshire, I think something more appropriate would be " Compute Free, or use Windows" ;-) Kenny Kenneth E. Lussier FISC-RMS "The best things (software) in life are FREE" In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:30:01 EST "Dave Seidel" said: Hey fellow nerds,

Re: repartitioning software

2000-02-16 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Jerry Eckert wrote: However, I don't know of a way to have PM manipulate the partition table without formatting the partition. Simply choose "Unformatted" when you create the partition table. Alternatively, download PTEDIT.EXE from their FTP server. It is a free

RE: Another Apache config question

2000-02-16 Thread Lussier, Kenneth
I would also like to add that this may not be correct, depending on how you edited your config file. If you didn't create a DIRECTORY section for this particular directory, and you did it in the server-wide config, then you need to do a server-wide FollowSymLinks. Ken Coar should be able to

Re: collective LUG regex

2000-02-16 Thread Larry Keber
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:30:01 EST "Dave Seidel" said: Hey fellow nerds, I think we should start referring to ourselves collectively as /(GNH|M|S|NNH)LUG/, except I'm not sure how to pronounce it. :-) Maybe *NHLUG, pronounced the way it looks... Larry

Re: collective LUG regex

2000-02-16 Thread Kurth Bemis
At 12:50 PM 2/16/2000 , you wrote: whatta bout "Use linux..or BSOD"? ~kurth Well, mine, Tux in the pose of the revolutionary, "Live free (with Linux) or Die (the Blue screen of death) on his flag Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It does lend itself to all sorts of amusing slogan

Re: MySQL dilemma

2000-02-16 Thread Charles Farinella
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote: Oooops - that last / character shouldn't be there. And I now realize I'm not sure what you wanted to do; that sed command will rewrite instances of xx/yy/zz to be zz/yy/xx, so mm/dd/yy would become yy/dd/mm. If you instead wanted mm/dd/yy to

Re: RealPlayer and RH6.1 revisited

2000-02-16 Thread Ron Peterson
Derek Martin wrote: What I had to do was go into preferences and set my transport to "always use HTTP" and then it worked fine. Speaking of realaudio on port 80, does anyone know of any stateful inspection tools that run on Linux that would be able to block this? I have half a T1 for my

JPL work $$$

2000-02-16 Thread Ray Bowles
I just received this email from someone I work with. If someone can help please let me know and reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Ray, I have a customer who is looking for some consulting using PJL.(Printer Job Language) They would like to send commands to an HP 4050 in front of a UNIX job. I

Re: Another Apache config question

2000-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:18:27 EST "Lussier, Kenneth" said: You already have the answer! You used htaccess/htpasswd to protect the directory, so the symlinks are also protected (inherited rights and all that). Now, in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (under RH) in the

RE: RealPlayer and RH6.1 revisited

2000-02-16 Thread Lussier, Kenneth
I believe that this is the reason for IPTables. It is the packet filter that is going to be replacing IPChains. http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/iptables-HOWTO.html Kenny Kenneth E. Lussier FISC-RMS "The best things (software) in life are FREE" -Original Message- From: Ron Peterson

Re: Any old computers ??

2000-02-16 Thread bryan
Paul, I'd take one of those Sparc2's if they're just going to be junked otherwise... Bob, I have a 486dx4/100 kicking around doing nothing that you can have, it doesn't have a floppy in it though... I'd need a couple days to make sure it still works, and clean the disk... Bryan... Paul

Re: Any old computers ??

2000-02-16 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Paul, Are these big? When you mean useless, exactly what do you mean? Could they be a home server? Don't know anything about Sun's, but what the heck, thought I would ask. Jerry In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:08:34 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Correctional Industries, inside the

RE: Another Apache config question

2000-02-16 Thread Lussier, Kenneth
OK, I see what you're saying. Unfortunately, I don't think that Apache, by itself, can do UNIX file permission checking (again, I could be wrong here). You might have to either set up a second protected directory. However, there might be something of interest/help to you in the AuthGroupConfig

Re: MySQL dilemma

2000-02-16 Thread Charles Farinella
This is caused becuase the regular expression is searching for a 2 digit month (and all other fields for that matter). Here is much safer perl solution: perl -pe 's#(\d{1,2})/(\d{1,2})/(\d{1,4})#$3/$2/$1#g' infile outfile -Matt That's perfect! Thank you very much. :-) -- Charles

Re: Any old computers ??

2000-02-16 Thread Thomas Charron
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: People, Are any of the companies you work for, with, or know about, throwing out any old computers? Whether for Y2K upgrades, faster desktops, or any other reasons? We are putting together a plan for old 386s, 486s, or even Pentiums. We will pick up the computers,

Re: Any old computers ??

2000-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:50:50 EST Jerry Kubeck said: Paul, Are these big? When you mean useless, exactly what do you mean? Could they be a home server? Don't know anything about Sun's, but what the heck, thought I would ask. No, they're lunchbox sized, unfortunately I can't

Re: NFS

2000-02-16 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:44:00 EST Benjamin Scott said: comes back. In theory this is a good thing, though, as Derek pointed out, in reality it too can cause problems. What if you're trying to move a filesystem from one server to

Re: Any old computers ??

2000-02-16 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Chuckling, I know that.but I am so much more...why I am the Chairman of GNHLUG, and the sole purpose is to expose oneself to the tecnhology available. Did you buy that? Actually, I was thinking it would make a good piece, if it was small, to show another flavor of Linux at meetings and such.

Re: Another Apache config question

2000-02-16 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:18:27 EST "Lussier, Kenneth" said: No, that's not what I'm talking about. The 'Options FollowSymLinks' does allow me to follow the symlink, but only of the directory permissions are at least r-x for

Re: Any old computers ??

2000-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:38:24 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Paul, I'd take one of those Sparc2's if they're just going to be junked otherwise... Sorry, I can't "just give them away", unfortunately. Giving them to a charitable cause may not even work, but it's more likely to

Re: MySQL dilemma

2000-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:59:35 EST Charles Farinella said: I am happy to have whatever help I can get. Thanks. This kind of works. I didn't explain well. The file I have is set up as such: id,mm/dd/yy/,text,$00.00 Charlie, if this data format is accurate, then here's a

Re: anyone know a good listserver?

2000-02-16 Thread Marc Nozell
Paul Lussier wrote: Majordomo is the most often used. I don't know too much about it other than it's quite robust and configurable. There's a bunch out there, but I don't know anything about them either. Being written in perl, majordomo is also fairly heavy weight and can get painful if

Re: GNHLUG - Feb 29th meeting

2000-02-16 Thread Thomas Charron
Quoting Jerry Kubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The First Quarter GNHLUG meeting has been solidified. February 29th, 7 Pm (dinner and drinks before) Stark Mill Brewery 500 Commercial St Manchester, NH 3rd Floor - Skyview Room This will

RE: GNHLUG - Feb 29th meeting

2000-02-16 Thread Jamie Blondin
Can you think of a better place to spend the end of the world than in a brewery with a bunch of Linux users? -Jamie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas Charron Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 5:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNHLUG - Feb 29th meeting

2000-02-16 Thread Jeffry Smith
If you can send to my work email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) the GNHLUG logos (large, not the web tiny ones), I've started a flyer for this that I can send back, as well as posting around Brookline. jeff smith Jerry Kubeck wrote: The First Quarter GNHLUG meeting has been solidified. February

Re: RealPlayer and RH6.1 revisited

2000-02-16 Thread Derek Martin
On 16 Feb 2000, Derek Atkins wrote: If bandwidth is your concern, why not look into the Linux 2.2 bandwidth shaping code. You can basically rate-limit your bandwidth Please take me off the CC list for this thread! I'm now getting 3 copies of each and every one of these messages! Since I

Re: Any old computers ??

2000-02-16 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: No, they're lunchbox sized, unfortunately I can't just give them away to all my friends. How about just me then? ;-) (Sorry, had to ask...) -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To

Re: NFS

2000-02-16 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Derek Martin wrote: IMAP does present some interesting possibilities though, since it's easy to use and requires very little configuration. I've setup IMAP on office networks before, with very good results. Almost any mail client worth its salt these days supports IMAP.

Re: Any old computers ??

2000-02-16 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: No, they're lunchbox sized, unfortunately I can't just give them away to all my friends. In the absence of friends, there is always family ;-) (oh, like I could resist that one??) Kenny ** To

RE: GNHLUG - Feb 29th meeting

2000-02-16 Thread Suzanne Hillman
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Jamie Blondin wrote: Can you think of a better place to spend the end of the world than in a brewery with a bunch of Linux users? Yah, in a brewery with a bunch of supermodels. (Sorry, I couldn't resist. :-) Why not

More questions.

2000-02-16 Thread Kurth Bemis
how do i add pop only users? i have the shell as /bin/false. and that does the trick. any ideas on how to do it in a nice neat way? without adding a homedir and all that stuff... ~kurth ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to

RE: GNHLUG - Feb 29th meeting

2000-02-16 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Suzanne Hillman wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Jamie Blondin wrote: Can you think of a better place to spend the end of the world than in a brewery with a bunch of Linux users? Yah, in a brewery with a bunch of