On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 05:03:24PM +1200, Wayne Rooney wrote:
From: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a string like postfix/smtpd[25532]: I want to cut it off at the
[ so I end up with postfix/smtpd
For a fixed length string try
echo postfix/smtpd[25532] | cut -c 1-13
Actually, cut
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:28:44AM -0400, Barry wrote:
I am having a problem with temporary files required by a new app I am
trying.
Where/how do I set default permissions for root, user please.
You need to look at the umask setting.
The default setting lives within the kernel, but you
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:48:39PM +1200, Simon Hansman wrote:
I get the ntpd daemon running ok, but it doesn't seem to change my date at
all. I'm running it on an IPcop machine (ntpdate version 4.1).
Although not the problem that you're reporting, the next thing that
you'll find is that ntp
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 03:00:51PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
Can i do something at the head of the procmail.global file to change
$CYRUSUSER to all lowercase, like (in pseudocode) CYRUSUSER=lowercase($CYRUSYSER)
Not quite what you asked, but you could lowercase the address in the
email itself,
Hi guys, I'd appreciate some advice from you on how to get a job in IT
in Christchurch ...
I've just moved here from the UK, and although I've talked to Elan and
TMP, there probably is a better way to get a job, if only I knew some
good businesses to approach, or job adverts to read.
I'm not
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:19:07PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:55, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Hi guys, I'd appreciate some advice from you on how to get a job in IT
in Christchurch ...
Anybody know how to find Hiedi Griffiths?
Is she still in the business?
I think
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 09:20:05AM +1300, Vik Olliver wrote:
My new Burmese kitten, Veto, has discovered a fantastic new cat sleeping
mat with independently-sprung sections that even has a built-in
cat-warmer. It's called my crufty laptop. The little sod homes in like a
heat-seeking missile
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:28:33PM +1200, Yuri de Groot wrote:
messages in 14 days, a few of those false positives from (other) mailing
lists, mainly noted as spam cos they come from mail servers listed in
one of the black hole rbl's. I have adjusted the reject mark up from 5
Can you
Talk to your upstream ISP - or both, if you have the lines going to
different places (which would be sensible).
You will be upgrading yourself from a 'normal' internet user to an
Autonomous System, and there is a reasonable tricky set of things you
have to do (like apply for an AS number, and set
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:52:57PM +0100, Martin Baehr wrote:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:13:12AM +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
and the entire GnuSTEP
project [1] is trying to recreate the NeXTSTEP system using GhostScript
as the screen renderer, rather than an official PostScrip
I have no idea whether this counts as bragging rights or not ...
FreeBSD cat.ourshack.com 4.7-RC FreeBSD 4.7-RC #3: Thu Oct 3 11:17:05 BST 2002
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
Darwin iCook-CHCH-ANZ.local. 6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 6.0: Sat Jul 27 13:18:52 PDT
2002;
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:00:35PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:06, Huan Yee Chew wrote:
While we're at the topic. Can anyone shed some light as to POP vs. IMAP?
With pop you download the current contents of you mailbox to your PC thus
emptying it. With IMAP
smbstatus tells you what files are in use, this is a pretty good
approximation to who is logged in, especially with drives in use.
Latest versions may be better :-)
-jim
--On Monday, December 2, 2002 8:58 am +1300 C Falconer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 10:28, Andrew J Sands
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 10:44:40AM +1300, Kevin Wilkinson wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
Simply type make now. It should build the program. then just run it.
No luck it comes up with no rule to make target 'now'
Possibly just a mis-reading of Nick's message :-)
Just the command 'make' on its own,
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 03:36:11PM +1300, Paul wrote:
I am trying to delete files by piping the output from ls to egrep to rm :
ls | egrep '(cd|CD)' | rm
As has already been mentioned, xargs is the utility command you need to
connect an 'argument only' command to a pipeline of data.
However, I
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:14:04AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:01:48PM +, Jim Cheetham wrote:
expensive in cpu terms, and the shell provides great regexp controls
that you can use ...
Not trying to be picky, but lets be clear, that in shell
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:25:41PM +1300, John Carter wrote:
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 16:02, John Carter wrote:
So, I assume you dont use X at all then :-)
Can't say I'm keen on it. Like to plot the odd graph and view the odd
photographic
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Mark Tomlinson wrote:
rang iTEC (Insite) and asked the sales team, who replied due to our
contracts with Microsoft, we can not supply PCs without windows.
After
I know that it is true that microsoft have these sort of contracts. I
was
wondering though - is there anything
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:20:19PM +1300, David Zanetti wrote:
I ran httptunnel for some time, and I found my ssh sessions would
occasionally have issues, stalling and/or just stop working. I also
noticed it generated a large number of requests, which is less than ideal
if you're trying to
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:30:33AM +1300, Hamish McBrearty wrote:
OK, I asked this one on www.justlinux.com but didn't get any takers. I'm
trying to get my many email addresses organised. I've setup Gotmail to
forward all my mail to a pop account, which Fetchmail downloads, as well
as some
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:19:03PM +1300, Phill Coxon wrote:
On this note, is there any filters that can automatically generate a
bounce for spams that SpamAssassin catches?
Nope, not from a procmail recipe.
The problem is that your mailserver has already accepted the message,
and delivered it
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:30:33AM +1300, Hamish McBrearty wrote:
OK, I asked this one on www.justlinux.com but didn't get any takers. I'm
trying to get my many email addresses organised. I've setup Gotmail to
forward all my mail to a pop account, which Fetchmail downloads, as well
as some
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:14:48AM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Jason Greenwood wrote:
I fully understand Peter. I too have been frustrated in the past by
CLUG's CLI leanings and lack of desktop/end user focus. I hope, that
starting with my talk, the CLUG can begin a new era of a more balanced
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 07:20:48PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:30, Hamish McBrearty wrote:
How do I add Spamassassin to the mix to help filter out the crap I get?
I've searched on this and can't seem to find anything simple, or anything
that doesn't involve
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:04:06PM +1300, David Mann wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
cygwin Xfree
Ta. I was looking at that but I couldn't find out how big the install
files are (and hence how long it'll take to download). I'll give it a go
if nothing else comes up.
I don't have the file
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:28:15AM +1200, Liane Williams wrote:
Thanks for the background info - good to know.
I guess standardisation and interoperability is another advantage of
LDAP.
But LDAP is just a directory access protocol isn't it? What service
offers the actual directory? Is it
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:41:27AM +1200, John Blance wrote:
And LDAP is not a fast database - it may seem like one, but it strickly
is just the method of accessing the 'fast database'
Define database :-)
Part of the semantic problem here is that LDAP is just a protocol, and
does not actually
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:52:57PM +1200, Gareth Williams wrote:
On Thursday 20 March 2003 21:57, Mike Beattie wrote:
What do you class as a router? A router is in charge of routing packets
from one network onto another, and vice versa. Therefore, having only 2
sockets is quite acceptable.
On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 11:02 am, Gareth Williams wrote:
On Friday 21 March 2003 09:06, Mike Beattie wrote:
So, Gareth, in effect, a router can be anything that joins two
networks and
controls the traffic between. If you used an 'ethernet bridge', you'd
spill
all your LAN traffic onto
Good starting point is http://www.freenetworks.org/
I know consume.net in the UK are still trying to answer some of these
questions, especially the legal bits (everything else can be cobbled
together from open source software quite easily). For a while it looked
like they would need to have a full
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:33:51PM +1200, Gareth Williams wrote:
One more question, if I may - I thought bridges were switched (at the ethernet
layer). You imply that a bridge is simply a 2 port hub (and can be switched
or unswitched/broadcast, depending on complexity). I got the idea
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:25:07PM +1200, Helmut Walle wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Gareth Williams wrote:
identical, no? So... is then hub just another word for bridge
(ie. they are essentially the same device) ?
No, definitely not!
And I said yes :-)
Well, it's a terminology difference
Well, another example of different names for the same things :-)
Plus, usage changes over the years - but I think everyone's broadly
agreeing with each other :-)
-jim, who pronounces router as rooter, not rout're. And that's
another story ...
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:06:58PM +1200, Tim Wright
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:30:16PM +1200, Vik Olliver wrote:
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 16:00, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Can you share it - yes, enable IP routing on your machine.
Can I track it - yes, especially with ipfw counters
Can I restrict it - yes, with ipfw dummynet
Act as an ISP? - yes
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:38:10PM +1200, Sascha Beaumont wrote:
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 08:34, Jim Cheetham wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
open QUOTE, quotes or die Quote file unreadable!;
while (QUOTE) { print; }
Well if you're going to script it you could always bash it out
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:20:44PM +1200, Yuri de Groot wrote:
How will that help? There's no NIC in the lappie.
The only way that the lappie can communicate with the outside world is through
the winmodem.
You probably have a parallel and serial port ...
I've not done this in years, but you
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:07:23PM +1200, Jason Greenwood wrote:
I have been banging my head against the wall trying to get samba to work
on my work lan - to no avail. I've RTFM and attended the ostc class on
it. It still won't go.
I didn't see any bruises on Jason's head (but there were a
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1200, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Surf elsewhere ? What if there isn't an elsewhere ?
Google knows how many million pages? Sure there's an elsewhere... ;;)
Right! So, as an _example_, let say I am interested in
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:02:56AM +1200, Jason wrote:
Chris, with all due respect, you are wrong IMHO. URPMI works GREAT and I
have yet had it to fail for me...
...
BTW, there are basically 3 ways to install software in Linux, APT, RPM
and from Source. All have their benefits but with
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:34:44AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
I meant Jim's not mine LOL
:-) I think you manage to get things across well, too :-)
I used to be a zealot, but I never had the opportunity to settle into
one single system ... the only time I've only had a single OS was with
my ZX81
This is a good post.
:-)
So, all I have to do is say those words, and they become true?
Anyway, link away :-)
-jim
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:08:23PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
it was jim's post
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Tim Wright wrote:
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Nick Rout wrote:
This is a good post.
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:46:40AM +1200, Dave Lilley wrote:
Hi there folks,
Anyone played or using OpenBSD ??
What's your opinion of it ???
I have an OpenBSD 3.3 boot cd (and floppy) if you wanted to borrow it.
IMHO, the system is well suited to a BSD-aware administrator (I co-admin
a set of
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:07:11AM +0200, Martin Baehr wrote:
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 12:11:19AM +0100, Jim Cheetham wrote:
FreeBSD is almost as flexible as a Linux, and more stable in a
qualitative way.
which linux distribution are you comparing this with?
Mostly RedHat/Mandrake
I believe that there are a few PPC Linux distros out there, Yellow Dog
rings a bell.
There's been a recent /. thread on pretty much the same subvject, try :-
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/2217237
On the other hand, if it's a Unix you are really after, Darwin isn't bad
- just
I'm looking at demo-ing a wireless lan in chch, for a private network
(sorry, not public ... yet?) The network would be about 6 nodes, and
cound be point-to-point (no node further than 2km from any other)
However, there are a large number of trees around, and this is all in NE
chch on both sides
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:11:00AM +1200, C Falconer wrote:
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 17:23, Jim Cheetham wrote:
I'm looking at demo-ing a wireless lan in chch, for a private network
(sorry, not public ... yet?) The network would be about 6 nodes, and
cound be point-to-point (no node further
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:55:05PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
know if there is a tool which can sync between my current CVS module and
the ftp server which is on the web.
(similar to the ws-ftp sync-er)
rsync beats the hell out of ftp.
Very true. Unison also beats the hell out of
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:56:11AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
sorry my point was that he asked for ftp solutions, and people started
bombarding him with rsync/unison suggestions, which are not (AFAIK)
going to support ftp, unless someone with a shell access sets it up for
him on the server.
Very
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:56:47AM +1200, Tim Wright wrote:
Indeed. As a result of the discussion I installed unison today (it seems
to fit my needs slightly better than rsync), and quickly discovered it
must be installed on both machines. sigh. Now I've got to debate whether
to download the
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:03:47PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Building Unison from source may be a mission, unless you already have
Objective Caml installed ... because that's what Unison is written in.
Eh, why don't you just install the package from $FAVOURITEDISTRO?
If that is a
to
be automatically resolved (i.e. declare one side of the transfer to be
the master).
-jim
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:08:10 +0100
Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For my target usage, it was invaluable. I maintained a few static
websites from my pc, and published them with unison to the web server
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:34:00AM +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
Unless you want to run php/sql/apache on windows??? *blech*
blechery indeed.
Now, I'm aware that this is a _Linux_ mailing list :-) but this sort of
solution is a _good_ one for promoting Open Source solutions.
In
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 04:26:21PM +1200, Vik Olliver wrote:
Anyone got ideas for a rewrite rule or somesuch that'll stop Internet
Exploiter users accessing my Apache proxy?
Use mod_rewrite to detect the HTTP_USER_AGENT string ...
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Explorer.*
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:37:14PM +1200, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 09:54, Chris Bayley wrote:
Now that my wifes destop has been comandeered for the IPCop box, I need
to organise a replacement. I am aiming for a silent or fanless option
since it lives in the bedroom
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:26:10PM +1200, Barry wrote:
% qiv myphoto.jpg also displays myphoto
but
% qiv *.jpg fails with the msg 'couldnt execute qiv
*.jpg, no such
file or directory'
Do I need to escape the '*' somehow?
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:15:18AM +0100, Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:26:10PM +1200, Barry wrote:
% qiv myphoto.jpg also displays myphoto
but
% qiv *.jpg fails with the msg 'couldnt execute qiv
*.jpg
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:42:49PM +1200, Dave wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailfilter-0.4.0]# make
...
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/mailfilter-0.4.0/src'
cd . \
byacc -d -oy.tab.c rcfile.yy; \
mv --force ./y.tab.c ./rcparser.cc; \
mv --force ./y.tab.h ./rcparser.h
usage: byacc [-dlrtv] [-b
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 12:39, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
for f in `ls`
do
LC_FILENAME=`echo $f | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'`
mv $f $LC_FILENAME
done
A very minor nitpick would be potential name collision, in case there
already existed a lower-case-named file with the same 'name' as an
uppercase example.
Has anyone used GNU anubis - an outgoing email filter?
I'm trying to replicate mutt's send-hook functionality that allows me to
change the From: address depending on the recipient of a message,
automatically.
In theory, anubis will do this. In practice, I'm not getting it to run
nicely ...
-jim
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:11, Nick Rout wrote:
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:56:08 +1200
Mike Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I think you meant 'bad england' too :)
is that single quotes or back ticks??
Well, it _should_ be left-single-quote (lsquo;) right-single-quote
(rsquo;). Unless it's
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:17, Tim Wright wrote:
rant
/rant
To some observers, this point of this rant might be lost, but this
clarification might help :-
depreciation is a formal process, often found in the evolution of open
standards (including things like Linux, both the kernel and the
I just deleted some old emails from you from a few weeks back, talking
about package management and linux distributions ...
I now admin a bunch of Debian machines, as well as my FreeBSD ones. Plus
the box at home is a Mac using debian tools via Fink ...
So I'm getting into apt-get in a bigger
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 10:36, Derek Smithies wrote:
I want to reduce the chance of this happening to my linux box.
I want to use my linux box to write code, which benefits opensource.
I am not interested in spending days doing sysadmin work.
What packages are there that reliably
, get in touch! :-)
-jim, Captain Finger-Trouble
(I'd actually blame Evolution for not letting me easily reply to Sender:
instead of From: ...)
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:40, Jim Cheetham wrote:
I just deleted some old emails from you from a few weeks back, talking
about package management
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:56, Matthew Gregan wrote:
I believe you're confusing depreciation with deprecation. The technical
term that authors of standards and software use is deprecate, not
depreciate.
I'm not confusing it with anything.
I'm mis-spelling and mis-pronouncing it instead :-)
I
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 13:39, Tim Wright wrote:
doesn't seem to be deprecated by bash ... at least the relevant section
from the Bash manpage doesn't say anything about depreciation (although
the $() form does seem to be better for nesting :)
And not everyone uses/relies on bash ... whereas
Debian people, what's the /debian/pool area on a packages mirror for,
and how do I use it?
Specifically, I was looking for tripwire, which doesn't appear in my
normal package selection (unstablenon-US, main contrib non-free), and I
don't seem to be able to find a reference to in on the (still
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 09:29, Mike Beattie wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:08:46AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
I use tcsh shell.
No freaking way am I going back to tcsh :-)
sick of distro wars, desktop wars, lets do shell wars :-)
ZSH!
ssh - Super Shell, from Dublin in the mid 1980's ...
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 09:55, Tom Munro Glass wrote:
Following on from the distro wars, anyone got any comments about the best
distro for a production server?
Anything that can automatically track at least security updates is
pretty much essential.
There's nothing worse than suddently waking
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 10:23, Tom Munro Glass wrote:
Perhaps my question should have been any hardware/distro combinations
recommended for a server?
Well, generally you either go with whatever hardware is on hand, and
potentially adjust your OS choice to go with the hardware constraints,
or you
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 11:13, Tom Munro Glass wrote:
Hardware support is certainly a major consideration. I've had reasonable
support from Dell in the past, but I've heard that if you play around with
the operating system, their support suddenly vanishes. This is why I'm
thinking about
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 11:24, Tom Munro Glass wrote:
This installation is for a very small network, but if it does everything
that's required I'm likely to get the job of introducing Linux servers into a
medium size company that currently has half a dozen NT4 servers and around 50
desktops.
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 12:13, Tom Munro Glass wrote:
Yes, the larger installation will be very remote - in England!
That shouldn't put you off, I co-admin a bunch of FreeBSD machines in
the UK, only 300ms away over 23 hops ...
I use screen on the remote box, so I can ssh in and restore the
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 12:58, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Nonsense. I run SuSE server(s), the update mechanism is excellent and
free. rpm hell? You must have misunderstood something. It never
happened to me. On my desktop, I can tick automatic, and each time I
log in (or I click a little con in the
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 13:22, Tom Munro Glass wrote:
Many thanks for the tip about screen. I'd never heard of it but it looks
incredibly useful. I've just emerged it on my Gentoo machine, and see it's
already available in RH9 I stuck on a test machine in England.
This gets my vote for Tip
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 13:56, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:22, you wrote:
The server-relevant point here is that this update process must be
completely automatic - i.e. not waiting for a user to log on to a
graphical desktop.
You must be overflowing with trust in your
On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 06:56 pm, Mike Beattie wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:40:12PM +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
For Debian, I generally do half that job, with a
apt-get update apt-get --simulate upgrade
I suppose you could do
apt-get update apt-get --download-only upgrade
Any
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:20, Zane Gilmore wrote:
I use it because that's what I know and as far as I'm concerned I just
can't be bothered setting up and learning another distro (yet). I use my
machine for programming and email. I *don't* enjoy shagging about with
machine setups. Yes I know
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 13:01, Nick Rout wrote:
Is that a plan, or am I missing something? comments welcome. I also
intend to use LVM so I can change partition sizes and add new hard
drives on the fly (although I guess I'll have to power down to
physically add the drive, bummer)
USB-connected
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 22:41, Nick Rout wrote:
Just resolving around 6 or seven machines on a local net, firewalled.
any ideas n which is better/easier to maintain? I have set up bind from
a template before, never touched djbdns.
There's more documentation for BIND, in the form of the O'Reilly
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 13:31, Nick Rout wrote:
Can anyone point me to the idiots guide to wap including the basic
wap-apache howto and a simple explanation for the beginner? I have a
capable mobile phone, but nothing out there interests me.
Now i'd like to be able to access my squirrelmail
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:08, Nick Rout wrote:
Help!! my ipcop box has run out of inodes on the /var partition, which
has an ext3 filesystem?
Sounds like you have an extremely large number of temporary files being
created somewhere.
The only way to increase the total number of inodes is to
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 09:38, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Is there a way that I can restrict logins of these two usernames to the
display manager only (gdm for RH9)? Or, perhaps, not allow ssh logins
unless from localhost? (I hope I haven't got telnetd running). I'm only
on dial-up, and the IP
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:46, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
For a start, (install ) run $ nmap .i.p.address. to see what ports are
actually open, then shut down any dangerous daemons using System
Settings - Server Settings - Services (or a CLI alternative).
netstat -a is the command to list out
How can I re-use all the wonderful .deb files in /var/cache/apt? Can I
make them available as an apt-source to other machines?
Ideally I'd like to make a local mirror, because I now have quite a few
machines to look after ... so if that's a better proposal, how do I go
about doing that?
-jim
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:46, Nick Rout wrote:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/1327248mode=threadtid=126tid=172
other distros, ymmv.
Debian already done.
apt-get update apt-get install ssh
(some would say apt-get upgrade, but there are exim and mysql patches
out there at the
FYI, I see in my DNS today that every possible .com and .net address now
resolves, and goes to Verisign's portal site.
This has an impact on email - rejecting an incoming email message
because the claimed From address does now exist now fails, because all
.com and .net addresses exist.
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 09:22, Nick Rout wrote:
This is a tentative and hopeful announcement because I am still working
on getting hold of the DVD of the main feature (se below) from a DunLUG
member who has lent it to someone else yada yada yada.
If you get your mitts on this that would make for
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 09:58, Carl Cerecke wrote:
My ISP has updated its terms of service. Included is the following
paragraph:
The Customer may be liable for all charges and expenses incurred by
ISP resulting from any security breach or attack or customer error
that involves Customer
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:31, Jaco Swart wrote:
Never been much of a Monday person. Mondays got much worse after I got
my Linux box, because on Monday Mornings, the Tab-key knows nothing
Install cygwin on your windows box, and get real shells (including bash
:-) as well as X windows ...
I get
Does anyone know of an NZ unix server co-operative?
By that, I mean a unix box on the Internet, where a member can have root
access easily available?
I co-admin ourshack.com, which runs in the UK, and there we have about a
dozen sysadmins, all pitching in to different parts of the system. It
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 08:51, CF wrote:
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 16:28, Jim Cheetham wrote:
I co-admin ourshack.com, which runs in the UK, and there we have about a
Who pays for the service?
The members themselves do, divide up the total costs (which remain
broadly static) and collect small
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 03:08, Ben devine wrote:
Has anyone else had past experiences with adding this at the mail-server e.g
sendmail or procmail?
An easy way to add things to email after it has left the MUA is to use
something like GNU Anubis, which is an SMTP proxy.
-jim
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 11:30, Carl Cerecke wrote:
I'd settle for a decent stable long-term email address that I can access
using secure POP/IMAP. Maybe something easy like [EMAIL PROTECTED] That
Independance from an ISP is valuable - and I also like leaving all my
email on an IMAP server, so I
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:00, Andre Renaud wrote:
telehosting your own box (I can't think of any ISPs which offer all those
services), and telehosting is not cheap, even if 50 clug members joined
in, I doubt $50/month would cut it for the bandwidth etc let alone
There are ways to make this
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 00:48, Rik Tindall wrote:
Mine works now, thanks for the suggestions. The on-board clock is not very
good though, so I am upping the number of calls to ntpdate from 1 to 4 (at
3, 9, 15 and 21:10 hours).
Your OS clock should be running independantly of the hardware
Another question for Debian heads ...
I have a somewhat damaged Debian machine - permissions are strangely odd
all over the place. This can be traced back to a sysadmin, not a rootkit
:-) Things like /dev/tty not being go+w oddly breaks many things ...
Anyway, in order to restore machine sanity,
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 12:26, Sascha Beaumont wrote:
Maybe have some milk and cookies for those who dont like caffeine based
products or beer or pizza.
Errm, what about lactose intolerants? And those avoiding preservatives,
colours and flavour enhancers?
Jeez its hard to please everyone ;)
http://fortytwo.ch/time/
Came across this project in reference from Linux Magazine ...
They use DNS to return the address of a time server that you probably
want to use. NZ services come from http://nz.pool.ntp.org/ (which in
theory is itself a pool of web servers)
-jim
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 01:13, Nick Rout wrote:
I get a cannot connect message for http://computerworld.co.nz
Confirmed, my proxy cannot reach it either.
Relax and do some real work instead :-)
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