Re: Playing DVDs on Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > So, I now have a DVD reader in my computer. It does a fine job reading > audio and data CDs, but I had that before. I would like to be able to play > movies, too. What, if anything, do people use to watch DVDs on Linux? > Open Source software? Commercial software? What experiences -- good or bad > -- have people had? Opinions? Gotchas? I use mplayer for DVD playback on my Linux system. Mplayer is GPL'ed, according to freshmeat.net; you can find it at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist." -Anon msg15752/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RealNetworks going Open Source?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Reverse engineering network protocols has, historically, been rather easy > to do. I was, in fact, somewhat surprised to not find an instance of a > "ripper" for RealNetworks's RDT protocol already in existence. I seem to recall something that did this (on Windows) a couple years back; then they dropped the code after Real's lawyers threatened them. Offhand, I don't recall the name of the tool. There was no source code distributed, so nobody else could keep it alive. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist." -Anon msg15693/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Quantum Snap Server - Opinions?
"Hewitt Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone used any of the Quantum Snap Server products to add NAS storage > for small office use? I remember them using Linux as the hidden OS. I was > thinking of recommending one of these for use in a small office. So far the I have an older model at home that I picked up on eBay a couple months ago, after reading an article about upgrading the hard drives. After configuring and testing it, I couldn't find a shutdown command, and when I just flip the power switch it shuts down cleanly and then reboots fine when I turn it on. All I had to do was yank out the tiny drives (I think they were maybe 5 GB each) and drop in a 100 GB drive, and then tell it to reformat the drive through the web interface. I checked out a weblog discussing the upgrade before I bought mine; apparently the older model I went with (a SnapServer 2000) has Linux in flash rom, and the hard drives can just be swapped out with no extra effort. The newer models apparently store the OS on the hard drive, and nobody on the weblog had reported any success in upgrading them. I believe those were the 1000 and 1100 series. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist." -Anon msg15690/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Missing pictures on web site
I sent this reply to Bruce earlier, and got an error bounce back: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host linux.codemeta.com[199.125.76.10] said: 550 Access denied Bruce Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sigh. > > I appear to have accidently deleted the pictures of the March meeting > (the pictures that were on the gallery section of the web site > http://news.gnhlug.org/) > > And we appear to have re-used the floppies they were taken on. > > Does anyone have pictures of that meeting (or a copy of that part of the > web site)? > > --Bruce > PS: There are no backups of the site either. (Its a freebie and isn't > backed up). You might try to find them in Google's cache. I seem to recall a story a while back about a web archive project; offhand I don't remember its name or url, but perhaps it spidered your site in the past and cached your missing photos. I just did a search on images.google.com for "gnhlug", and it turned up four pages of images. None of these were from "news.gnhlug.org", but perhaps a more determined search could turn up something. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist." -Anon msg15644/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dinner
"Andrew W. Gaunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I wonder what would happen if you all brought in > your own pepsi and brown bag dinner. Then ask the > management to warm the dinner in the microwave and > bring out the dinnerware, including cups of ice > to pour your pepsi in. "No soup for you!" :-) -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist." -Anon msg15578/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Open SSH for Red Hat 6.2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ahh, that's a totally different story! No one ever said the piece of > gear in question was "issued". It was simply stated that someone was > "forced to use Windows". Someone else made the comment about a lab > system shared among several others which required Windows. IMO, that > falls under the "special application clause" I mentioned earlier. If you want to nit-pick, I'm the one who initially used the phrase "forced to use Windows": > When I'm forced to use Windows, I like to install cygwin, which includes > OpenSSH and has an XFree86 add-on. In the past, before I tried cygwin, > I would have recommended SecureCRT for Windows users; now I'd be > tempted to offer cygwin first, with SecureCRT as a secondary option. and I later gave an example where I had to share a box in a lab. I was replacing the outgoing Unix admin, with a two-week overlap, and they didn't issue me an office or a new machine when I started because I was to take over the other guy's office and machine when he left. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist." -Anon msg15501/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Open SSH for Red Hat 6.2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > So, why is it people are "forced" to use Windows? I really think > it's gotten to the point that you can use Linux if you want to with > out too much trouble. Barring the requirement of a very specialized > application that must be run under Windows, anyone who says they > *have* to use Windows but really *wants* to use Linux, is, IMO, > someone who's all talk. No, I had a job in the past where I had to use a shared box in a lab. I would have preferred to wipe the drive and install Linux, if I had my own box, but I was sharing a bunch of boxes with about 30 other users, plus any number of marketing guys visiting from other sites. I was able to get permission to install cygwin, but Linux simply was not an option. In that situation, I *wanted* to use Linux but I *had* to use Windows, and it certainly wasn't all talk. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist." -Anon msg15496/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Open SSH for Red Hat 6.2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I was "forced to use Windows" for about 1 day at my current job. I > thought about the cygwin route and got so far as getting it > installed and running X. But then I began to realize I missing > things I needed, like perl, so I'd install perl. Then something else > was missing, so I'd install that. I spent about 6-8 hours installing > "missing" stuff. Finally I gave up, figuring I could partition this > drive and install Linux in about 20 minutes, which is what I did. Sure, cygwin can't replace everything. I hadn't noticed that perl was missing last time I looked at it, but then I didn't spend all that much time in Windows itself. Mostly I was just ssh'ing to a Solaris box and running X applications from there. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist." -Anon msg15495/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Open SSH for Red Hat 6.2
Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One issue with cygwin is setting up a user id. I was not able to change > cygwin's user id on my win2k system at work. It defaults to administrator. That's right, I had forgotten about that (haven't had to touch Windows in ages). It was kind of annoying to have to use "-l" all the time. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist." -Anon msg15464/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Open SSH for Red Hat 6.2
mike ledoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do as well, but I still ran into trouble; when statically linked > with 0.9.5a, PuTTY couldn't connect, when statically linked with 0.9.6 > everything works as expected. Unfortunately, we do have several windows > users here that need to be able to access the servers. When I'm forced to use Windows, I like to install cygwin, which includes OpenSSH and has an XFree86 add-on. In the past, before I tried cygwin, I would have recommended SecureCRT for Windows users; now I'd be tempted to offer cygwin first, with SecureCRT as a secondary option. Of course, cygwin could be difficult for the commandline-phobic to handle. Does anybody know of any Windows gui ssh/scp/sftp front-ends that use cygwin under the hood? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist." -Anon msg15453/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: procmail and IMAP (was: What do people use ...)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This raises a more general question: Does anyone here know of an IMAP > client tool(set) that can be driven from a command line or a shell script? > The more I think about it, the more I think such a thing would be useful. Long ago, in my college days, I remember an assignment where we took "c-client", the IMAP libraries from Pine, and wrote our own basic email clients. It should be feasible to use c-client as the basis for writing a "putmail" tool like you described. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist." -Anon msg15359/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mailman configuration
"Jerry Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bruce, > We have mailman configured at the BLU under several different virtual > domains. We are using postfix as our MTA, which has some nice virtual > features. > I think what you want to do is settable on the admin interface general > information page at the bottom: > "Host name this list prefers" > and > "Base URL for Mailman web interface." Strictly speaking, I didn't set up anything in Mailman wrt virtual domains; the only places I touched on them was in apache and postfix. If those two per-list config options work on the BLU server, then it works right out of the box with no special compile-time options. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." msg15251/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Oracle Linux 'Unbreakable' Event
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > "Linux IS inevitable." Jon Hall, 2002 (or should this be earlier?) > (caps mine) > > This phrase sums up perfectly what is happening/going to happen to > the world of computing platforms(IMHO). At least as long as we don't get > too smug or complacent about it. :-) 2002? No, I'm pretty sure I heard Jon say that at least as far back as 1997, or perhaps early 1998. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." msg15170/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Completely OT
Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 06:40:59PM -0400, Bob Kenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anybody who is/was planning on buying a new digital camera > > or camcorder should wait a little while before buying one, otherwise > > you'll be kicking yourself. New imaging technology on the horizon, > > folks. > > Except that's *always* going to be the case. Meanwhile, your kids > continue to grow up, you take your vacation in the mountains, etc. At the rate digicam technology is improving, you could probably find yourself replacing the camera every two or three months to "keep up". My rule of thumb, before the economy tanked, was to limit these upgrades to once a year. Since finding myself out of work in a lengthy dry spell, I've been holding off on capital purchases like that and making do with what I already own. Once I'm working again, I plan to spend at least the first six months rebuilding my savings before I even think about replacing any equipment. Once I feel ready to spend again, I think my first priority will be a new laptop. I've got my eye on the Fujitsu Lifebook P-2040, it's just a little bit larger than my 4-year-old Sony Picturebook. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." msg15156/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Completely OT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I need to buy a digital camera. I want a good one, that's easily > usable with Linux (USB conn. is fine if it works :) > > I've been thinking about: > > the Nikon CoolPix 995 > the Canon G2 > the Olympus E20 The Olympus E20 runs you about $2000. For the same price, you can get the Canon EOS D60, which I've been drooling over since I first saw it. 6 megapixel (3072x2048), IBM microdrive, uses the same SLR lenses as my film SLR, buffers shots so you can take maybe 10 pictures in a couple seconds without delays between shots, etc. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." msg15066/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
PostgreSQL and pgaccess problems
I've been using pgaccess through an ssh tunnel to maintain a remote postgres database. Since I upgraded to Redhat 7.3, pgaccess no longer works; when I try to connect, it gives the following error: PostgreSQL error message:Connection to database failed ERROR: Conversion between UNICODE and SQL_ASCII is not supported I've had no luck tracking down a fix for this. Has anyone else run into this error before, and if so, how did you fix it? Thanks. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." msg15029/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Request for Software
"Jerry Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is correct, but that would apply also to Red Hat unless they > specifically permit it. As I mentioned, there was a question posed on their > English listserv a month or so ago. I was not able to find the messages > when I made a quck search. AFAIK they do not object. A couple years ago we had a bunch of guys from RedHat at one of our BLU meetings, and Donnie Barnes explained that RedHat's policy is to distribute CDs that you can freely copy without worrying about the licenses on individual packages. I believe this was in response to a question about why they weren't distributing KDE at the time. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." msg14937/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Dealing with spaces in filenames re: scripts...
"Derek D. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally, I wish operating systems would limit the characters that > can be used in filenames to [A-Za-z0-9.:_=+-]+ or something very > similar. There's no good reason why other characters NEED to be > allowed, The only reason I included as much punctuation as I did is > that it is, sometimes, useful to be allowed to have a handful of > characters which are not alphanumeric in your filename. The few I > chose are the most commonly used ones. Another possible approach would be to make the GUI use url-like encoding for "bad" characters. For instance, if the user tries to create a filename with a space, make the actual filename use "%20", and when displaying a directory listing in the gui, translate it back to a space for display. Similarly, a "%" in the gui maps to "%25" underneath, so we don't lose use of the "%" character. Then do the same for the remaining shell metacharacters. Of course, it's kind of an ugly solution. You'd still want to educate users not to use spaces or other metacharacters. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg14829/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Exmh - upgrade fixed it
Turns out upgrading to exmh 2.5 was the key; quotes in messages once again being colorized. Alas, the pgp detached signature function is still broken, so I had to track down the patch again. This time I made sure I saved it; I copied it to http://www.abreau.net/howto/exmh/clearsign-sig-patch.html -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg14823/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Followup on exmh question
Nevermind my previous message; I just checked the exmh web site, and it turns out Redhat is a version behind (2.4, where 2.5 is current). Now that I think about it, I believe I had upgraded to 2.5 while I was trying to figure out why the pgp signature function was broken. The colorizing feature was probably added in 2.5. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg14813/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Exmh colorized replies
Before I upgraded to Redhat 7.3, exmh would colorize quoted text in messages; lines beginning with a single '>' were colored red, and line beginning with ">>" were colored a different shade of red. Since upgrading, exmh no longer does this. Any ideas why this would have broken, and more important, how I'd fix it? Thanks. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg14812/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Dealing with spaces in filenames re: scripts...
Ken Ambrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, all. As previously noted, I just got hitched. I've also got a > bunch of pictures, now (good ones, too!), and I'd like to munge 'em down > small with "convert" or "mogrify" or somesuch. However, I've got spaces > in the filenames. While it would be moderately trivial to s/ /_/g; I > would prefer to do it the "right" way, as much to have it work in this > instance as to have it ready for future reference. But I can't, for love > or money, figure out how. Here's what I want to do (more or less): Here's how I'd do it: mkdir x for i do convert -geometry 30%x30% "$i" "x/$i" done You can then check the results and delete the originals if you like. Personally, I never delete the originals; I treat the converted files as "prints", and the originals as the "negatives". Oh, and congrats on the wedding! -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg14803/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: It's official - HP to purchase Compaq
Bayard Coolidge USG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > AFAIK, and this is subject to change, of course, the merger is > to be consummated on Tuesday, 7 May. > > I do not know if it will immediately affect our mailing list, but > my guess is that it will not. However, I'll work with Mark Gelinas > to get the word out ASAP if necessary. If you end up needing to move the gnhlug lists, I can offer space on the blu.org mail server. We're running Mailman on top of Postfix. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg14578/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Another (simpler) bash scripting question...
"Mansur, Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how to loop through each line instead, so that the output would be > line 1 > line 2 > ? Thanks. > echo -ne 'line 1\nline 2\n' | while read foo ; do echo $foo ; done -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "The Earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer mind their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." (translated from an Assyrian stone tablet, c. 2800 B.C.) msg14340/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: console access through serial port?
Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rrr.. one of my servers is requiring intervention (read: rebooting)
> on an almost daily basis now. This leads to two questions:
>
> 1. Is there any way to get access to the console through the
>serial port? I have another system that does this for VMS
>and T64U systems (anyone remember VCS?), but it's unclear
>to me whether Linux supports it -- and, if so, how I can
>set it up. I basically want to be able to give an irresistable
>three finger salute through the serial port if need be, to
>*force* a crash/reboot.
If the system is hung, rebooting like this won't work. There's another
option I found about a year ago: power strips you can telnet into and
selectively toggle the power to the machine.
A quick google search turned this up:
http://www.dataprobe.com/power/iboot.html
--
John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj
Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9
PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99
"The Earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption abound.
Children no longer mind their parents, every man wants to write a book,
and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."
(translated from an Assyrian stone tablet, c. 2800 B.C.)
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Re: Drawing tools similar to Dia/Visio?
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are any of them any good? I went looking for some once, using Google. > First problem was trying to come up with a search pattern that matched > plugins without matching Dia itself. I did find some things, but they all, > frankly, sucked. > > Here, we ended up buying MS Visio, which tells you just how desperate we > were. It's a shame MS had to eat Visio; it was certainly a nice tool back then. I understand MS stripped out all of the file export functions immediately after they acquired it. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "The Earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer mind their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." (translated from an Assyrian stone tablet, c. 2800 B.C.) msg14116/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Drawing tools similar to Dia/Visio?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In a message dated: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:21:53 EDT > John Abreau said: > > >I understand there are some commercial > >plug-ins to enhance Dia; have you checked those out? > > No, since I didn't know they existed. I know there are some > commercial plugins for Kivio from The Kompany, but I haven't looked > at those either. Now that I look at the Dia website, I can't find them. I must have been misremembering the kivio plugins. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "The Earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer mind their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." (translated from an Assyrian stone tablet, c. 2800 B.C.) msg14111/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Drawing tools similar to Dia/Visio?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi all, > > Anyone know of anything like Visio for Linux. Dia is okay, but it > seems that their progress has been agonizingly slow over the past few > years. It all seems that they're much more interested in advancing > the UML diagraming side of things instead of the other options they > provide for (specifically the network diagramming). > > What alternatives are out there? What are others using? I haven't seen any alternatives (well, other than running Visio under something like vmware or win4lin). I understand there are some commercial plug-ins to enhance Dia; have you checked those out? What are you looking for that Dia doesn't support? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "The Earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer mind their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." (translated from an Assyrian stone tablet, c. 2800 B.C.) msg14109/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Web application
"Kenneth E. Lussier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > something. I am looking to impliment several web-based applications in > my company: Groupware, project management, file management, password > management, leads tracking, etc. I have found several (thousand) > applications that meet our needs from sourceforge, freshmeat, et al. > However, they all suffer from one problem: They all require > authentication. This means users would have to log into each individual Another thought on this; apache uses a string it calls the "realm" to distinguish between separate login domains. If you could configure all the web apps you use with the same realm string and have them all use a common authentication source (the same htpasswd file or mysql/postgresql database or LDAP server or whatever), I suspect you'd have single-sign-on working, at least for the web applications. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "The Earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer mind their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." (translated from an Assyrian stone tablet, c. 2800 B.C.) msg14091/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Web application
"Kenneth E. Lussier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, they all suffer from one problem: They all require > authentication. This means users would have to log into each individual > application seperately. What I would like to do is have a single login > page that then passes the users authentication to each application. Has > anyone out there done this sort of thing? If so, is it a fairly easy This sounds a lot like what I've read about Kerberos; apparently Kerberos is great for this sort of single-sign-on function. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, so I can't speak about it from first-hand experience. However, if I had a problem like that to solve, my first instinct would be to look for a kerberos module for apache, and then build something from that. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "The Earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer mind their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." (translated from an Assyrian stone tablet, c. 2800 B.C.) msg14090/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question
"Derek D. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think you really want an IMAP server here... I think what you > want to do is run fetchmail to fetch it to your workstation, and feed > it through procmail to recvstore or whatever the appropriate mh > command is. But I'm not exactly sure what problem you're trying to > circumvent, so I'm not sure if this is an option for you. No, that's what I'm currently doing; I pull all my mail in with fetchmail over an ssh tunnel. Exmh sits on top of a bunch of other components, including nmh, expect, glimpse, xfaces, gnupg, openldap, etc. I don't even remember all the customizations I've made to it over the years. Moving to a different MUA would be a pain, and running it remotely when I'm on the road is uncomfortably sluggish. It seems to me it would be better if I ran exmh locally on my laptop and had it access my mailbox through an ssh tunnel, without the syncing problems I'd have if I tried to maintain two separate local mailboxes. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg14004/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Sorry, doesn't exist. This dead horse is occasionally dragged out of > storage on exmh-users and summarilly beaten for good measure. From > the looks of the horse, it's not going to be any time soon that this > type of thing is going to be developed :( Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. > Well, one option is run exmh in a VNC session which can then be > connected to. One of the exmh-users members mentioned he does this. > I believe there's a way to run VNC over ssh. VNC? Ugh. Doesn't that just ship around a big pixmap of the desktop? That would chew up bandwidth a lot more than just running exmh remotely. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg14000/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question
"Patrick R. McManus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently built UW's imap-2001a from source.. here's what its faq > says: > > Q: Is there support for mh? > A: Yes, but only as a legacy format. Your mh format INBOX is accessed by > Actually, I wasn't thinking of making the imapd server use the mh mailbox. I was thinking more along the lines of swapping out parts of the back-end that exmh uses and replacing them with components that talk to an imapd server instead of using the mh mailbox. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13996/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Unless you're switching to an mh-based system, which IMO is better ;) Speaking of MH-based systems, has anyone heard of an MH-compatible back end that can talk to an IMAP server? I currently use exmh on top of nmh, which sucks the mail to my local hard drive, but this doesn't work so well for remote access. When I'm on the road with my laptop, it uses too much bandwidth to ssh through my cable modem and then run exmh remotely, and the command-line nmh interface is a real pain in comparison to exmh. I figure it would be tolerable if I ran an imapd on my workstation and configured exmh to access my mailbox there via localhost. Then I could set up a simple ssh tunnel to connect from a laptop. But I don't see any imapd option for nmh. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13994/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dealing with non-ascii characters in perl
Peter Beardsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One thing I noticed was when I had perl print the values, the string I made > in perl printed like so: > > foo213s string > > While the one from the input file looked like this: > > fooÕs string In the first, you're using regular ascii characters, i.e. the 3-digit decimal value of the non-ascii character's ordinal value. In the second you're using the character itself. To match the actual character, you'll have to use perl's pack/unpack functions. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13921/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Membership requirements (was Re: Linux survey request from Rice University)
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think we have ever defined a formal membership requirement. For > that matter, I don't think we have ever formally defined GNHLUG. :-) > > Speaking for myself -- strictly my opinion here -- I have always thought > of being subscribed to this mailing list as being both necessary and > sufficient for being considered a GNHLUG member. That seems to be common among Linux user groups. For my part, when people ask about BLU membership I tell them it's the union of list subscribers and meeting attendees. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13863/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ypxfrd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In a message dated: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:50:35 EST > "Jerry Feldman" said: > > >From Sun's web site: > >1987: Big Business > >Sun and AT&T lay the groundwork for business computing in the next decade > >with an alliance to develop UNIX(R) System V Release 4. > >1991: Setting New Standards > >Sun unveils SolarisTM 2 operating environment, specially tuned for symetric > >multiprocessing. > > So we were both sorta right :) Interesting. I guess the school must have gotten hold of an early beta (or maybe even alpha). -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13853/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ypxfrd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Pedantic nit-picking here. > > Solaris didn't come out until the early-mid 1990s. Prior to that it > was known as SunOS. With the release of Solaris, they retroactively > re-named SunOS to Solaris 1.x and the OS Solaris 2.x. Sun's naming > convention therefore, follows thusly: I helped install an early version of Solaris at UMass/Boston, back when it was brand new. We had a long-running community rant about how "broken" it was -- where "broken" in that context really meant non-BSD. Ah, the innocent, carefree days of youth... :-). In any case, I left the school around 1987. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13842/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ypxfrd
"Derek D. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FWIW, I think Sun's "Deterministic but unspecified" is their way of > saying, "if it breaks, it's not our fault." As I recall seeing in Sun's documentation when they first brought out Solaris back in the mid-1980's, the idea was that for each 2-digit prefix, the order must not matter. Conceptually, you'd start with all scripts at S50 (or K50), and then adjust each one up or down based on dependencies, If order matters, it's supposed to be reflected in the prefix. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13825/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Java Runtime Environment?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hmmm, thought I did that. Yup, dpkg -l jdk1.1 show it's there. > Thought that was just a dev kit though, not the JRE. Aren't they > separate things? > Actually, I'm trying to install OpenOffice, and the screen keeps > telling me there's no JRE installed. Any idea how to tell it there > is? The JRE is included as part of the JDK. I installed 1.4.0 from the /u/honkin/xfer/j2sdk-1_4_0-linux-i386-rpm.bin shell script archive (I think there's also a version with an embedded tarball instead of the embedded rpm). It installed under /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0, and the JRE appears under /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/jre. Before installing OpenOffice, I had to add /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin to my PATH. After that it installed and recognized the JRE. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13781/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RAID Problems
"Rich C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Precisely my point. Although 2 years is a long time for a design flaw to > become evident, that was in fact the reason for the failure. You are not > the only one who has had a Netgear card stop working. That is why I now > use Linksys. While this is an unusual case, it is generally true that > once something has worked well for a while, it will tend to keep > working, _provided you don't stress it by exceeding its specifications_. Funny; I had two Netgear 8-port 10/100 switches I'd been running for years, and they both just suddenly died. One about four or five months ago, and the other just a couple weeks ago. I don't remember exactly when I bought them, and I certainly don't have receipts for them. I was unaware there was a lifetime warranty. Where would I go to ask about getting them replaced? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13772/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RH7.2 install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The interesting thing is that inittab *is* tweaked. Everything seems > to be as it should for booting right into X, yet it's not. > I don't care that it's not, I just want confirmation that if you get > a copy of RH7.2 on CD, install it, ask it to boot to X, that in fact > you will be unable to do so. I didn't respond before because I've had no such problems. If you're just looking for a tally of how common your X11 problem is, I can say that I've installed Redhat 7.2 on about 20 systems, including my own and various people who came to the last BLU Installfest, and they all booted into X with no problems. > I've had one person confirm that they think they remember this > behavior from 7.0, but they weren't completely sure (probably > distracted by everything else that was wrong with that release :) As I recall, the only problem I had with Redhat 7.0 was in trying to compile MPlayer, where its configure script would explicitly check the version of gcc and then loudly announce that that version was Politically Incorrect and immediately exit. Everything else I built on it worked just fine. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13770/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mozilla suddenly died
Rich Cloutier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any idea why Mozilla 0.9.whatever that comes with Mandrake 8.1 would > suddenly stop working? That's funny; I had a problem with it last night (0.9.9, installed from a tarball the day after it was released), the first time I had any problems with mozilla since around 0.9.6. In my case the BLU logo on the BLU web site suddenly stopped loading, but it loaded fine when I tried it with netscape 4.78 and wget. I had left mozilla running overnight before that, which I don't normally do, so I assumed there was a resource consumption problem. I quit and restarted mozilla, and the problem went away. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13745/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Thinking of firewire?
Mark Komarinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I got bored enough to do some testing with external drives. SCSI is > a bit expensive, USB is slow, and Firewire is still in progress. Does it hot-swap properly? Last time I looked this up, I found a bunch of reports that unplugging the firewire drive, even unmounted, would hang the system. I'd really like to know if that's been fixed yet. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13645/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Benefits of owning a domain (was Re: Cross Yahoo off the list of free e-mail services!)
Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Kenneth E. Lussier" said: > > >Domains are cheap these days, so anyone can afford it. Setting up the > >servers really only requires a few old PC's, a Linux distro, and some > >documentation. > > You forgot one important thing: > > Affordable, high speed, always-on internet access. No, that's not strictly necessary. It's still possible to set up a UUCP email connection. It should cost a lot less than a broadband connection, and it doesn't have to be always-on or high speed. I used UUCP for years before I got my first dial-up ppp account, and it always worked reliably. You'd need a couple of DNS servers to serve the MX record for your domain that points to your UUCP neighbor, and that neighbor would have to configure their mailserver to accept mail for your domain and queue it in your UUCP spool area. It takes some effort to set up initially, but after that it Just Works. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13610/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Benefits of owning a domain (was Re: Cross Yahoo off the list of free e-mail services!)
"Kenneth E. Lussier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I decided that very same thing a few years ago. I registered a domain > name (digitalrebel.org), and set up my own firewall, DNS server (using > granitecanyon as a secondary DNS), mail server, and web server. All on > Linux. At the time, I was running it all over a MediaOne cable modem. > When AT&T bought out M1, things became extremely unstable. The > connection would drop every couple of days, and my IP address was > changing 2 or 3 times a week. I switched over to DirecTVDSL, and I have Sure, running your own server is also a good thing to do, though I'd consider that orthogonal to the issue of owning your own domain. You can always host your "real" mailbox anywhere, and find a way to get mail to your "official" address forwarded to that mailbox. Still, it's certainly more straightforward to get all the pieces working if you just run your own server. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13609/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Cross Yahoo off the list of free e-mail services!
Well, that sucks. I guess you really need to own your own domain if you want a stable email address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hi all, > > I received this in my inbox this morning from Yahoo! > > Oh well, guess I'll have to find a different service :( > > Seeya, > Paul > > --- Forwarded Message > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:09:25 PST > From: Yahoo! Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Important Yahoo! Mail Service Announcement > > Hello, > > Important service announcement regarding your POP3 or Mail Forwarding service. >Please read on. > > Effective April 24, 2002, Yahoo! Mail will no longer provide free POP3 Access or >Auto Mail Forwarding to Yahoo! Delivers subscribers. > > If you would like to continue using Mail Forwarding or POP3 Access, please subscribe >to our improved package that allows you to: > > - - Use Outlook, Eudora, or another POP3 client to access and manage your Yahoo! >Mail. > - - Automatically forward your Yahoo! Mail to another email account -- even another >Yahoo! address! > - - Send larger attachments, now up to 5MB instead of the free 1.5MB limit. > - - Send email without the Yahoo! promotional text at the bottom.* > > Subscribe before April 24th and get the first year of service for just $19.99. >That's 33% off the regular service fee of $29.99. Visit the following link to >subscribe: > http://ordering.yahoo.com/or/ypm/splash?855&Pkgs=us:ym:pop&.osig=zQwKT > > Remember, if you do not subscribe by April 24, 2002, you will no longer be able to >access your Yahoo! Mail messages by POP or at another email address. > > > Sincerely, > The Yahoo! Mail Team > > For further information, please read our frequently asked questions. Please note >that your Yahoo! Delivers settings will not be affected. > > *Applies only to email sent through the Yahoo! SMTP servers. > > --- End of Forwarded Message > > > > > * > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > * -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13592/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: MAC at TCP level
Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not real conversant with the various packet formats. > Is there anything at the TCP packet level that might include > the MAC address of either endpoint? If so, I rather guess > it isn't used, but I'm not even sure it exists. In other > words, is the MAC address completely inaccessible in a WAN > environment using TCP, or only by convention? The MAC address is not visible at the TCP level. Ethernet was developed at Xerox as a full networking solution, but its most common uses these days is vestigial, merely acting as a physical transport underneath IP. IP can sit transparently on top of Ethernet, ATM, FDDI, serial line, and many others. There's even an old April Fools gag about running IP over a system of carrier pigeons: Request for Comments: 1149 - 1 Apr 1990 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers Request for Comments: 2549 - 1 Apr 1999 IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13577/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Convert binary .dat to comma delimitted text
Martha Jo McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know of a convenient way of > doing this in Linux? ".dat" is not a standard format; it's more of a generic extension used by probably hundreds of different applications. There's no way to know what the file format is just by the extension. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13498/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Nore on spam
Mark Komarinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a sending account before allowing the communication to continue? I > know a lot of mail systems disable VRFY, since it allows a spammer > to find out who is there, but that's pretty much dead anyway since a VRFY can be abused for more than just spam. For instance, it can provide hints as to what login names exist, to facilitate break-ins. >> deliver something to me, why can't the MTA hit the MX for mail.com > and VRFY that the account is valid? If it's valid, it comes The effect of this would be to deny mail from any system that tries to be secure from break-ins. It's almost like telling your family and friends that you refuse to ring their doorbells unless they post a sign on it that says something like "The key is under the doormat". "After all, a burglar could always pick the lock". -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13477/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Paul Lussier's mail is messed up
Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am logging in as 'pll'. I've tried using both virtusertable and > genericstable and can't seem to figure it out. > > I'm going to try and set this host up as a nullclient with a minimal > config, and failing that, I'm going to move over to Postfix (since > I've been meaning to look at it for sometime anyway :) A few years ago I tried getting this working under sendmail, and I eventually gave up on it; I never got it working. Recently I replaced sendmail with postfix, primarily for the enhanced security (chrooted, non-privileged user), and found that the virtual user table worked well right out of the box. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13465/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2.5 inch hard drive mounting holes
I did some more digging, and discovered that there were indeed two standards for laptop hard drive mounting holes, and in 1998 all the drive manufacturers agreed to one standard, which the Netwinder doesn't support. I also found a place to buy a bracket to adapt the newer drives to the older form. http://www.bixnet.com/gen25nothard1.html So I'm all set now, once I order the bracket. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13302/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2.5 inch hard drive mounting holes
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "About a third of the way in" is rather vague. Your specifications are as > bad as the ones IBM provides. :-) If you post exact measurements of the > original drive, including outside dimensions as well as the relative > position of the screw holes, someone may be able to help you. I have some > stuff I can look through, for example. But without knowing what to look > for... well, it becomes difficult. :-) Measuring from the connector end along the length of the drive, the old one has holes at 1-3/4 inches and 2-7/8 inches. The drive I had hoped to replace it with has holes at 9/16 inches and 3-9/16 inches. The drives are 4 inches by 2-34 inches; the old one is 3/4 inch high and the newer one is 1/2 inch high. >From past experience with desktop hard drives, I had expected that the drives would have a standard layout for the mounting holes. I was surprised to discover what appeared to be two incompatible standards, particularly when the specs on these drives didn't give me any reason to expect multiple standards. Upon further examination, I notice that the bracket from the old laptop had six holes along its sides, which would fit to four screws to the Netwinder drive or two screws to one end of the 6 GB drive. This leads me to suspect there are just the two standard layouts for mounting holes in laptop hard drives. What I need is a drive where the mounting holes on the bottom are spaced 1-1/2 inches apart along the length of the drive. For now, anything that gets the box up and running (i.e., anything that can hold at least 2 GB) would be great. Once I'm employed again, I'd like to pick up something larger, so I'd like some way of finding out how a particular drive model's mounting holes are laid out. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13301/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
2.5 inch hard drive mounting holes
I have in old Netwinder I'm trying to resurrect. The 2 GB drive in it died about two years ago, and last night I pulled it apart with the intent of replacing it with a 6 GB IBM drive from an old laptop that had died long ago. However, I discovered that the mounting holes were spaced differently, and when I poked aroud IBM's web site for specs on their Travelstar drives, I found no mention of the mounting holes. I've managed to get the thing to work with an nfs-mounted root, but I'm hoping to use it as a portable server for the BLU meetings and installfests, so I need to get it working from a hard drive. The disk image I pulled from ftp.netwinder.org is about 1.5 GB when uncompressed, so I need at least a 2 GB drive. The Netwinder mounts the drive onto its motherboard; the posts screw into the bottom of the hard drive using four holes that are roughly a third of the way in along the length of the drive. The holes on the 6 GB drive are all at the outer edges of the drive, with no holes a third of the way in, so I'm unable to install it into the Netwinder. I'd consider ordering a new drive, except i can't figure out how to make sure the mounting holes are spaced correctly. Does anybody know how to determinie this for a particular drive? The pdf files from the IBM site describe their drives' physical dimensions and other details, but they make no mention of where the mounting holes are located. Failing that, does anybody have an old laptop drive they could spare that has the mounting holes spaced the way I need? Thanks. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13299/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GPG and different mailers
Bayard Coolidge USG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > because Paul is running Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 instead of > version 2.5 07/13/2001 like I am (on Tru64 UNIX, BTW...) I pulled the exmh 2.5 rpm off of sourceforge just now (I had to patch "exmhMain.tcl" again to fix the gnupg signatures), and I'm seeing "version 2.5 01/15/2001" at the top of the exmh main window. Aside from the enhanced colorizing of reply text, what else has changed since exmh 2.4? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13167/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GPG and different mailers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've been playing around with Evolution lately and in general I'm > impressed (as far as one can be with an overly graphical, > eye-candy-based Outlook clone :) I tried Evolution a couple months ago, and while it looked nice, it required a ton of Ximian packages that essentially broke the Redhat up2date process. It looked like I would have had to abandon Red Hat and embrace Red Carpet in order to use Evolution. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13152/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Encrypted NFS over SSH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Don't know if anyone here gets SysAdmin magazine, but the most recent
> issue (March 2002) has a fantastic article on how you can set your
> NFS server and clients up to use SSH to NFS mount filesystems and
> force both user/host authentication in the process.
>
> The amusing part is that this will only work with a Linux-based NFS
> server, because of the need to do port-forwarding and the mount/
> umount commands need to support a port option. *BSD and Solaris the
> author points out, don't have this support, but Linux does :)
According to the article, the server part will work fine on Solaris;
it's the client part that only works on Linux, specifically because
NFS over TCP uses two separate ports (for nfsd and mountd), and the
Linux mount command provides options for both ("port" and "mountport").
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Re: [OT] Star Wars: ASCII Edition
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, this is just too flipping amazing not to pass on. Telnet to > > towel.blinkenlights.nl > > using a standard VT100/ANSI terminal, and you can watch the entire "Star > Wars: A New Hope" movie. In ASCII. > > I don't know if I should be impressed or scared. Somebody had a lot of time on their hands... :-P Anyway, after downloading it and cleaning up the typescript file, I found that it's 2.7 MB long and plays through in 22 seconds using "cat". -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13044/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT] Star Wars: ASCII Edition
"Derek D. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OMG... > > Someone should capture this and save it before Lucas finds out about > it and shuts the site down completely for copyright infringement... Of course, it's a bit hard to follow when you cat it from a local file... -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13042/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sorta OT, but I'm stuck...
Does apache have execute permission on your home directory? By default, Redhat sets home directory permissions as 700 (drwx--) which would deny apache any access to "/home/hodgson/www". In that case ypu'd get an access-denied error when trying to browse there in your web browser. If that's the case, then "chmod +x $HOME" will fix that. Also, it's common these days to use a single httpd.conf file for apache's config, and to ignore the access.conf and srm.conf files. Check the AccessConfig and ResourceConfig directives in httpd.conf to verify whether your sysytem is using them. Jack Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's basically what did. I added: > > >Options +ExecCGI > > > to /etc/apache/access.conf > > and I added '.pl' to this directive > >AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl > > in /etc/apache/srm.conf > > I tried many permutations of these, but no joy. > > What have I missed? Or done wrong. > > Thanks. > > -- Jack Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 603-433-7161 > > * > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > * -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg13030/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: linux/windows security
Paul Iadonisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The big thing the frames support. I expect that when links has ssl support > that lynx will go a way. I don't think Red Hat has a problem with lynx, but > the frames support is probably what prompted it to migrate to links. There's also table support: links handles tables reasonably well, and lynx doesn't. For simple tables, links is great; but for sites that use multiple nested tables as formatting, they can be completely unreadable in links while they're perfectly readable in lynx. I'd hate to see lynx disappear, if only for this reason. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg12908/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: unresolvable relay host name
"Derek D. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you own the entire C block? I understand there are tricks you can > do to be responsible for a portion of a C block, and I think BIND 9 > actually has features built into it to allow for that. However, older > versions of BIND were not intended to accomodate networks smaller than > a full class C. You may need to get your upstream provider (or > whoever has been delegated to do reverse DNS for that block) to assign > reverse DNS for you, as I have had to do in the past. No, we don't own the C block; USDC assigned us a few addresses from it. We had gotten USDC to handle it on their end in the past; I can only guess that they lost the information from their servers somehow. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg12817/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: unresolvable relay host name
Rich Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your DNS server should have 2 files, one that does ip->name and one that > does name->ip. For exmaple I take care of monadlug.org and I have > db.monadlug that contains any/all hosts in that domain. Then I have a > db.43.22.207 file that includes reverse mappings, with records like this: > > 150 IN PTR talisman.monadlug.org. > The blu.org DNS server actually does have the zone file for the reverse lookup, and returns the correct reverse record: jabr@asgard:~ $ host blu.org blu.org. has address 216.235.254.231 jabr@asgard:~ $ host asgard asgard.blu.org. has address 216.235.254.231 jabr@asgard:~ $ host 216.235.254.231 231.254.235.216.in-addr.arpa. domain name pointer asgard.blu.org. This works fine locally on the blu.org server, where it refers to its own dns server on localhost. From outside the blu.org server, using some other dns server, the reverse lookup fails: jabr@vishnu:~ $ host 216.235.254.231 Host 231.254.235.216.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) It looks to me like DNS is working correctly on blu.org, but the secondaries are failing to pick up our reverse-lookup zone. I had originally set up blu.org as a cname to asgard.blu.org, but USDataCenters had some sort of problem with that, and insisted that blu.org had to be an address record, otherwise their DNS servers would be unable to do a zone transfer from blu.org at all. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg12805/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Spam via sourceforge???
Jack Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got a spam last night that appeared to be addressed to > > @users.sourceforge.net > > I've only registered at sourceforge recently, so maybe this happens > alot, but two things: > > 1. I didn't know that an email address came with the registration, and, > > 2. Hey! How'd the spammer get that info!!! I notice you didn't give any details about the actual message. Sourceforge uses Mailman to manage their mailing lists, and Mailman by default sends a monthly reminder to list subscribers on the first of every month. Since this happened on the first of February, are you sure it wasn't just the monthly reminder you received? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg12714/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Configuring X
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > it was time to configure X. In fact, that was part of > the reason I chose to leave, since in the past I have > found configuring X to be a giant PITA. I haven't done > an X installation in quite a while so I wonder, what's > the state-of-the-art? Calculating all that refresh-rate > and dot-clock crap just seems so totally irritating that > I can't believe that somebody hasn't created some tool to > ease the pain a bit, but a (very superficial) search of > my newly Debianized machine (primarily using "apt-cache > search") turned up only the usual suspects (like XF86config > and xf86config) that I was hoping to avoid. Any tips? I haven't played with Debian, but I'd be surprised if those tools were the only ones Debian supplies. I've been using Redhat myself, and what you describe sounds like the Linux of five years ago. Redhat's X configuration is incredibly simple these days. It should all GPL'ed, so I'd be surprised if the other distributions didn't use it to improve, augment, or replace their own X configurators. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 msg12715/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Couple of dumb kernel build questions (Mandrake 8.1)
Alex Hewitt USG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, Mandrake as far as I can tell doesn't ship the kernel sources > on any of the CDs. I was easily able to copy them down from rpmfind > but I was running around in circles for a while figuring out exactly > which rpms were needed. The kernel sources rpm depends on a version > ncurses. I downloaded that and then the kernel sources installed ok. > Now it gets more interesting. The kernel that Mandrake put on my > laptop is almost 100% in terms of it's recognizing and using the > system hardware. But the kernel sources don't have the specific > kernel configuration that was used to build the kernel on the distro. > I did notice that there are a bunch of .config files saved in a > directory on the system with names like > "mumble-kernel-enterprsed.config" and so on. It seems possible that > Mandrake actually has the configuration file somewhere on the system > but I'm not sure which one, if any, is the correct one. Last time I upgraded a kernel (on Redhat), I discovered that there was a rule in the makefile for "rpm" (make rpm). This made it possible to install the new kernel without messing up the rpm dependency database. I first ran "make xconfig". I didn't try to guess any of the settings, I just clicked the load-config button, selected the most generic .config file, then did a save-config and exited the xconfig gui. I then did a "make dep" and a "make rpm", and then installed the rpm package which this created under /usr/src/redhat/RPMS. Note that I did an "rpm -i", not an "rpm -U", as the -U would delete the old kernel rpm, which should be deferred until after you've actually tested the system with the new kernel. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: RedHat counter proposal ROCKS..
> http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011120/202744_1.html > > You guys need to read this, this is an awesome proposal that will prolly make > the Microsoft deal look not quite as 'generouse' as they intended.. 8-) Nice! Really calls MS' bluff. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.blu.org msg11642/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Public archives (was: OT-cool email tricks?)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, mike ledoux wrote: > Those are two very different things. I'm talking about people who > don't want their email address posted on the web (since that's where > most spam-bots harvest addresses from), not hermits. It sounds like you're saying the issue isn't really "don't archive the message", but rather, "don't archive the email address". I recently upgraded the blu.org server, and switched from majordomo to mailman to manage the lists, and I discovered that mailman's list archives replace the sender's email address with the list address, which I'd think would be a good solution to the problem. I found mailman to be a huge improvement over majordomo. Which shouldn't be surprising, really; after all, majordomo began as a small tool that automate just the subscribe and unsubscribe requests, and later had additional functions bolted on the side. Mailman, on the other hand, was designed from the outset as a complete list manager. The email address issue aside, I'd have to agree with the view that the archives are an integral part of any public list, and demanding that posts not be archived is damaging to the community the list serves. I hadn't heard of that "don't archive me" before, and if people were to ask for it on my lists (which are public forums), my first instinct would be to set a policy that messages containing the header don't belong on the list, particularly since my list archives are removing the email addresses from the messages. - -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.blu.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iQCVAwUBO+ig9VV9A5rVx7XZAQH+KwP9HbMgUKYOTt1S94uhHUpYEUtOVY81OEbg R+SEGkwDTReDtqXi0zvBkEKiQO7ikV9VRSmCVv3wnBB8qCJqrsoNbjZbdaw0AE5N F7q6Rrx3gqAb9JDSz8G4aEaPyZBTBk/bQLxhFRBI3xUmsPLTuOwaK3J5d8sqC5MG huw4hrE43q0= =T4MR -END PGP SIGNATURE- * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Burner Software
Ken Ambrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> xcdroast = good front-end (as in has much functionality, especially
> current releases), but horrible lack of intuition in design. It's my
> favorite tool, but it still requires you to figure out the bizarre
> thinking of its designer. The current release is better, but still has
> two truly unintuitive things:
I started out with xcdroast myself, but I eventually just tossed cdrecord
into a shell function in my .bashrc:
burn() {
sudo cdrecord -v -eject -speed=8 -dev=0,6,0 -data $1
}
I generate the iso image with "mkisofs -joliet /path/to/dir > file.iso",
then pop a blank cdr into the burner and "burn file.iso".
You'll want to run "cdrecord -scanbus" to find the device id of your
burner;
it's not necessarily going to be "0,6,0".
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Re: Celebrate Unix time hitting 1 billion tomorrow...
"Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> More notice? Sheesh! You had a billion seconds! How much more notice you
> need?
>
I've heard this referred to as "the gigasecond". If we take that as 10^9,
then that's correct, but if instead we use 2^32, then we've got a while yet
to go, until Sat, Jan 10 08:37:04 2004 EST.
Of course, if you stick a bunch of marbles in your mouth first, the
ambiguity
goes away ("giga" with a mouthful of marbles would sound something like
"giba" :-P)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael O'Donnell) writes:
> PDA sculpted from 50lbs of butter. Does not yet run Linux.
On the other hand, I'll bet it runs great on a hot summer day! :-)
("It's very runny today, sir" ... "Oh, I'm sorry sir, the cat ate it!")
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Ecrix VXA tape drives - track record?
I'm trying to budget for a tape drive, and it appears that the Ecrix VXA may be my first choice. I seem to recall a question about them on one of these lists a long time ago, where there were very few replies, all positive, and the consensus at the time was that the VXA was too new to have a track record. Now that some time has passed, how many folks here have tried the VXAs? What do you think of them? For reference, I'd be using the drive in a single server, brand-new, that I'm building and will be deploying at a colocation site. I have no prior legacy tapes to deal with, and no other machines involved. A tape library is way beyond what we can afford, so that's not a consideration either. We'll most likely be reusing the same tape repeatedly for a time, and swapping it out as an archive tape peroidically, either weekly or monthly. So the ability to rewrite each tape many times is important. This is not an ideal backup strategy, I know, but it's probably the best we can do at this point, and I figure it's better than having no backups at all. Thanks. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.blu.org ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)
"Kenneth E. Lussier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally, I never understood PDF. What is so wrong with HTML and > embeded images? I have yet to see any real need for PDF's. There is no > real benefit to it. PDF essentially grew from Postscript. In the Olde Days, every printer had its own proprietary typesetting codes, and every application that needed to print had to implement separate print drivers for each type of printer. It was a major pain. Back when i started in college in the early '80's, I heard of a number of projects trying to develop a standard intermediate format for printing. One of these projects was Postscript, an extended variant of Forth, and the guys who developed it went on to found Adobe to market it. Apple then embraced Postscript and embedded it directly in their LaserWriter printers as the native print format. Other printer manufacturers followed Apple's lead, and Postscript became the standard. As hardware prices dropped, the cost of licensing Postscript from Adobe ($1000 per unit, at the time) became too much of a burden, and others started writing postscript clones. Adobe went after them with their lawyers, claiming that Postscript was Adobe's proprietary technology, but the courts rejected their claim. That's when Adobe decided to create an explicitly proprietary alternative to Postscript, which they called PDF. It was becoming common at that point to distribute documents as Postscript files, but there were variations in the different implementations, and hardware-specific features of each implementation that varied between different printers, which caused a lot of grief and frustration for users. PDF was specifically targetted as a solution to these problems. Since then, Adobe has added bells and whistles to the PDF spec; stuff like searching and hyperlinking, for example. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.blu.org ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: my e-mail is fixed!
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Subject: Re: my e-mail is fixed! Had the naughty bits removed from your Mutt, did ya? :-) -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.blu.org ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: dup entries?
"sort -fu" - f for fold-case, u for uniq Kurth Bemis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to drop dup entries from a text file > > the file contains a listing of first names only and there are some dupes > that need to be dropped...any ideas? Oh BTW theres 22k + names in the > file. case incentive would be nice.but it doesn't matter...i can > convert teh entire thing to lowercase.i just need to get rid of the > dupes... > > ~kurth > > > the format is as follows > > robert > Jenn > Kevin > jim > Jim > James > Jamie > > > ** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the > *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: > unsubscribe gnhlug > ** -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.blu.org ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: OpenSSH, Secure CRT and Public Key authentication
"Chad R. Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, call me slow, but I'm having trouble setting up Public Key > access to OpenSSH on my RH 7.0 machine. > > According to the Secure CRT documentation, I cannot use ssh- > keygen on the server to creat my public key, because it says it can't > understand the format. Following the instructions in the SecureCRT > help only gets my login rejected with a message stating that the > server does not recognize my public key. > > Has anyone else set this up? Can you give me some pointers here? The OpenSSH key format is different from the commercial ssh key format. I'd guess that SecureCRT requires the connercial ssh key format. Also, OpenSSH ssh-keygen creates RSA keys by default, and the commercial ssh uses DSA keys. To create a DSA key for OpenSSH use the -d option: ssh-keygen -d This will save the key in the file id_dsa (and id_dsa.pub) in ~/.ssh. To display this in the commercial key format, use the -x option: ssh-keygen -x -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa Note that you're passing in the private key filename, and it prints the public key in the commercial key format. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Help: Dying machine?
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Brian Chabot wrote: > One of my clients has an old mail server / name server / dhcp server > / gateway that is REALLY acting up. This is a RedHat 6.0 machine > running kernel 2.2.5-15. > > I moved the mail responsibility to a new box, and now the old one is not > responding to much of anything. > > I can not telnet to any port or ssh from the LAN. I managed to talnet > (I know... cleartext passwords. I didn't set this up) from outside and > no matter what command I give it I get: > > bash: fork: Resource temperarily unavailable > Sounds like the process table is full. Try rebooting the machine. Note that you'll likely get the same error when you try to execute the "reboot" command once you manage to login; the workaround is to "exec reboot" so it reuses your shell's process instead of trying to allocate a new process for the reboot command. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: broken structure??
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Tony Lambiris wrote: > struct utsname *host_uname; > > os_version = malloc(strlen(host_uname->release)); > os_version = (host_uname->release); > > it gives me 2.4.1, no problem... but when I try to get the OS name, > > system_os = malloc(strlen(host_uname->sysname)); > system_os = (host_uname->sysname); > > it gives me garbage, more precisely: ðK@ðK@ In both cases, you're malloc'ing one byte too little. You need to malloc enough space to hold the string plus the terminating null byte: os_version = malloc(1 + strlen(host_uname->release)); system_os = malloc(1 + strlen(host_uname->sysname)); You got lucky on the first malloc, in that the memory location where the null byte was written apparently didn't break anything. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Heads up for named?
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Karl J. Runge wrote: > Hi, > > This may be a false alarm, but in the past few days I've had a lot of > people jiggling the port 53 (DNS) doorknob on my firewall. About as many > in the last 4 days as I had in the previous 4 months... > > Makes me think the script kiddies have a exploit toy for the BIND/named > vulnerability discussed at: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-02.html > and http://www.isc.org > > So... if you haven't updated your externally visible named(8) yet, > now might be a good time. Somebody did this to one of our nameservers at work last week. The server hadn't yet been upgraded at the time, so they were able to install a script in /var/named that then pulled over a rootkit into /tmp. Fortunately, I had all our nameserver running named as an unprivileged user, so they were unable to actually install the rootkit, and their script died before deleting itself. The script rcp'ed the rootkit from an IP address and user account, which I passed on to my boss with the suggestion that he track this guy down and sic our lawyers on him. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: BBLISA: Bizarre network/routing problem
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, John Abreau wrote: > I've got a linux box with a web server that I can't access properly since > this morning. It's at a colocation site, behind a PIX firewall with a > static conduit to it on port 80. [rest of message deleted] The problem turned out to be a bad arp entry in the router at the colocation site. The ip address of the problem machine had been used as an ip alias on another server a couple years ago to test something, long before my time here, and whoever set it up neglected to remove its configuration. We were decommissioning that machine last night, and apparently it was rebooted prior to shutting it down and pulling it out of the rack, just long enough to corrupt the router's arp table. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Bizarre network/routing problem
I've got a linux box with a web server that I can't access properly since this morning. It's at a colocation site, behind a PIX firewall with a static conduit to it on port 80. I've got two subnets at the site, with several machines on either side. Of the four web servers on the PIX's inside subnet, I can access three from anywhere (telnet ipaddr 80), but the fourth I can only access from the subnet inside the PIX and the subnet immediately outside the PIX. I checked the routing tables and ifconfig settings, and there's no differences between the machines (aside from the ip and mac addresses, of course). The static conduits for the four machines appear to be configured identically on the PIX (I telnetted to the PIX and did a "write term" to get a dump of its current settings). I'm waiting for a couple of our guys to arrive at the colocation site to reboot the PIX, just in case the settings I'm seeing don't reflect its current behavior. This behavior doesn't make sense to me. I can't think of anything that would break this one server but not affect the other three identical servers. What could I be overlooking? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Hey, Red Hat is learning!
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: > The "server" install seems to be the "workstation" everything plus the stuff > that's needed to be a server. Unlike a workstation though, servers usually > have a very specific purpose; mail, web, file/print, etc. However, they don't > ask what kind of server you want to install, do they (I can't actually > remember if I've ever chosen that option)? So, they just install everything, > plus all server packages. I did a server install of Redhat 7.0 a few weeks ago. When I selected "Server" (in the graphical installer), it then asked me to select from a list of server types. If I recall correctly, the list was "Mail", "DNS", "Web", and "Samba". Multiple selections were possible, and I believe only "Mail" and "Web" were selected by default. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Netscape wedges up - EAGAIN on socket?
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Mark Komarinski wrote: > I just downloaded M17, and it looks great, but I can't get PSM > working. All my SSL connections bomb out. Is there > something I have to do to get PSM working? > > Other than that, yes, it is snappier and better than Netscape 4.x. At this point, M17 is ancient. The The current release is mozilla0.7. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: your mail
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote: > Here's a story on MS's rationale for the outage: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16354.html > > Hm. They're changing the DNS configuration, and they didn't have the old > system on standby, ready to take over ASAP if the first fails? Have these > guys EVER worked in a major data center (and yes, it's a rhetorical question)? It's interesting that this should have happened now. I had exactly the same problem where I worked, that finally turned out to be an error in our DNS configuration that was made over a year ago. It never actually caused a problem until last week, and when I asked about it on the mailing lists, I heard from a bunch of people that they had experienced the same kinds of problems just recently. I suspect what we're really seeing here is fallout from the root nameservers being under stress. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: DNS problems and UUNET?
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 wrote: > Go back a couple of days worth of Slashdot listings and look for an > article about Spam - you'll see a pointer to yet another article > in some e-zine about how UUNET had one of its customers flood its > infrastructure with spam, most of it destined for other customers > of UUNET. Otherwise, if you want a trouble ticket, I have one here > from some spam that came in earlier this week; the article I mentioned > says UUNET transmit more spam than AOL and many other ISPs _combined_. Thanks; that's a start. Now I need to explain how that incident would be causing problems with DNS lookups of our domain from outside. I've speculated that UUNET is probably running some of the root nameservers and first-tier .com servers, and an outage there would result in many strange and unpredictable DNS problems , but my boss wants something substantial to back that up. If the problem is with UUNET, I'd expect that it would be widespread, that lots of domains would be having odd problems with their DNS. So far I've heard only second- or third-hand about two other cases. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
DNS problems and UUNET?
I'm starting to get some heat over some DNS problems at ITworld.com. Many of our people use mindspring to dial in, and mindspring's DNS servers aren't resolving our domain. I've checked our master DNS server, and everything seems fine there. I can't think of anything else to check. A few people suggested that the problem might be related to a recent outage at UUNET, but my boss wants some hard evidence to show his boss, and as far as his boss is concerned, what I've passed on so far is just vague speculation. Who else has been having these problems? Can anyone identify specifically what's been happening, or at least help to prove (or disprove) that the problem is widespread? If I can point my boss to a specific trouble-ticket describing the problem, that would be ideal. Or if nothing else, maybe a sufficiently large set of anecdotes of others having troubles this week would be of some help. For what it's worth, our ISP is CERFnet; I'm not sure how CERFnet relates to UUNET, but maybe it will prove relevant. Thanks. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Backup media costs (was: Salvaging a CD)
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: > Here is a quick chart, based on five minutes of research at PC Connection's > website, of media cost, in dollars per gigabyte: > > Media GB $/GB > -- - -- > > CR-R 0.651.41 > I believe you can the 100-disk spindles of CDR for under $40 now, which brings the cost down to about 65 cents per gigabyte. I've had many bad experiences in the past with tape technology; for my home machines, I'm setting up a backup system using removable IDE hard drives. A 45gb drive for $199 comes to roughly $4 per gigabyte, and doesn't entail a capital cost of thousands like DLT or AIT would. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: procmail help
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Thomas M. Albright wrote: > I made a procmail recipe > :0: > * ^Subject.*[listname] > listname-folder > > But now *everything* gets put in listname-folder!! Help? The square brackets denote a character class. That pattern matches the fixed string "Subject", followed by zero or more characters, followed by one of "l", "i", "s", "t", "n", "a", "m", or "e". Try escaping the brackets with backslashes: * ^Subject.*\[listname\] -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Non-Linux Technical Question.
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Greg Kettmann wrote: > Could someone please clarify resolutions. I have a scanner and a > digital camera (and of course a regular camera). Now 300DPI is pretty > self explanatory. My digital camera is something like 1280x1024. > That's fine but lacking a measurement it's meaningless. What is the > equivalent DPI measurement? If that's for a 1" picture it's great but > if it's for and 8x10 it's not so good. Is it standardized and if so > what is the default picture size (which of course would yield the DPI as > well). The DPI of a digital photo depends on what size you print it at. A 1024x768 image, printed on a photo-quality printer to a 4x5 inch page, looks as good as a standard 4x5 photo. Print that same image at 8x10 inches, and it comes out blurry. A 2048x1536 image, on the other had, comes out great at 8x10 inches. > Now for the really tough question. What is the approximate resolution > of a standard photograph? A $500 HP negative scanner scans at up to 2400 dpi, yielding an image approximately 3000x2000. Polaroid has a higher-end scanner that they claim scans at 4000 dpi. I believe a print from a typical photo lab tends to be less than this. The current crop of 3.3 megapixel cameras give a 2048x1536 image, which I find rivals what I get from film. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Debian comments
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Derek D. Martin wrote: > I have to agree with Ben here actually. Using a software package > manager to manage source code just seems awfully silly to me. I'm > inclined to think the only reason those features exist is for RedHat > to automate rebuilding a package to make it easy for their trained > monkeys, and there are already tools that do that. I had understood that the point of source rpms was to have a simple way to automateically build binary rpms for multiple architectures. For example, I'd imagine a set of Redhat 7.0 source rpms on an nfs server, and a set of clients including x86, sparc, alpha, ppc, etc, running a script that ran "rpm --rebuild" on each package from the nfs server to build the distribution for each architecture. Scripting this using "./configure;make;make install" would be a lot more complicated, and also wouldn't deal with packages that don't use the gnu configure. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
RE: Jargon
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Kyle Masters wrote: > IYKWIM?? IYKWIM -> "If You Know What I Mean" -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: chroot
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote: > i'm looking at making it so that when ppl loginto FTP with thier usernames > and passwords they are put in a "false root" thus deniying them access to > the filesystem.one problem look Oops, it was /etc/ftpaccess: class all real,guest,anonymous * guestgroup fred barney wilma -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: chroot
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote: > i'm looking at making it so that when ppl loginto FTP with thier usernames > and passwords they are put in a "false root" thus deniying them access to > the filesystem.one problem look wu-ftpd has an option for this, I believe in /etc/ftpusers or something to that effect. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Perl CGI (again)
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Derek Martin wrote: > Nope, it's a form. The arguments that are given as a result of the form > are very specific and can not be "bogus" or the program in the back-end > (an add-host utility) will not work. > > Not only that, but the actual program DOES work when he runs it, i.e. the > host is added and our group receives mail that it was added. However, he > gets no output and is asked to save the file. Try it with telnet, and then post the results. For example, to test the url http://webserver/cgi-bin/foo.pl?param1=value1¶m2=value2 Connect to the web server on port 80: telnet webserver 80 The server responds with: Connected to webserver. Escape character is '^]'. Type the path to the url, followed by a blank line: GET /cgi-bin/foo.pl?param1=value1¶m2=value2 HTTP/1.0 The server responds with: ...(server generated headers)... Content-type: text/html Connection closed by foreign host. Check the server-generated headers and verify the presence of the Content-type: header. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: NetScape font stupidity
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > > What is NetScape's !@#%%!! problem that > it so frequently chooses to render WWW > pages using the most uselessly teensy > one-pixel-per-character fonts it can find? > I've diddled the font settings under > Preferences and I've diddled the character > set stuff under View but it seems clear > that the real problem lies elsewhere... A big part of this is the default XFree86 font configuration; I think it's missing a bunch of fonts. I found a fix for this in "Grokking the GIMP", which involved downloading "freefonts.tar.gz" and fixing XF86Config to use these. It was also important to remove a couple of the existing font references, and to arrange them in the right order. I looked up the author's (Carey Bunks) web site, and found the info: http://gimp-savvy.com The fonts can be found at ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/ There are two packages: freefonts and sharefonts. freefonts is a set of free fonts, and sharefonts is a set of shareware fonts. Assuming you untarred them into /usr/local/fonts/freefonts, you can then load them into the current X session with the commands xset fp+ /usr/local/fonts/freefonts ; xset fp rehash After that, quit out of netscape and restart it, then play with the font preferences again. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Possible DoS attack?
Turns out someone at their site was slamming our server, and the identd requests to their site were merely in response to that. Also, our site was down because one of our developers was running an rsync process from the old server to the new. When we made the DNS changes to switch over to the new server, rsync became confused, apparently because both machines claimed the same identity. After I killed off the rsync jobs, the system was accessible once again. Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: open files, super-newbie-question
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Derek Martin wrote: > It's more a philosophy/history thing... maybe 2 factors at work. On older > Unix kernels you don't change parameters of a running system. Linux can > do it quite easily but I think there's still a stigma which says if ya > gotta muck with parameters, do it once at boot time and don't touch it. It's more than just a philosophical thing. Unix systems tend to stay up forever, often through several generations of contractors. If you make changes on a production system, and you don't test the startup script by rebooting after each change, you'll likely have a huge disaster on your hands when you eventually do have to reboot. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: OpenSSH, SFTP, and NT
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> SFTP is, I believe, just FTP tunneled over a forwarded SSH port. Can
> someone who has studied this confirm or deny?
Actually, both variants of sftp start an instance of ssh, and then have
the remote sshd fork off teh remote component ("sftpserv" for the free
one, "sftp-server2" for the F/Secure one). Neither needs an ftp daemon
running.
> There is a free (gratis), Open Source GUI front-end to PSCP (PuTTY's scp(1)
> implementation) available:
>
> http://www.daplay.org/pscopy.htm
>
> It isn't SecureFX by any stretch of the imagination, but it is "better" then
> a command line.
Thanks, I'll take a look at that.
> I have used SecureCRT and SecureFX successfully with OpenSSH in several
> deployments. SecureFX just worked. I had to set a couple options for
> SecureCRT to work with SSH protocol version 2. They were:
>
I thought I read that SecureFX depended on the F/Secure variant of sftp.
I'll have to look at it again.
> (gratis) software available. If your organization wants to spend some money
> to gain some convince, that is their choice. If you have that many NT client
No, we haven't yet; I've been pushing OpenSSH. I'm trying to come up with
acceptable alternatives so we won't have to spend the money.
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OpenSSH, SFTP, and NT
I'm preparing to deploy openssh and sftp on all the Unix systems at work, and I need to ensure that NT users can connect. The whole point of this is so we can shut off ftp and telnet everywhere. I was unable to find an open-source NT client for sftp. The closest I could find for a decent NT client was putty.exe and pscp.exe, although they only support the ssh1 protocol. While putty *might* be acceptable, I doubt the NT users will go along with a command-line scp as their only file transfer option. On the commercial end, I checked out SecureCRT/SecureFX and F/Secure. They both claimed to support sftp, but on closer examination I discovered that they only work with the proprietary sftp2 that's bundled with F/Secure's ssh2 server. To go with this, we're looking at $5,000 in client licenses and $15,000 in server licenses, which I really don't want to recommend. One other option I found was SafeTP, which sets up a secure proxy on the NT machine and silently manages any outgoing ftp sessions over an encrypted tunnel. The problem I have with this solution is that it requires a normal ftp server running on the remote host, and just acts as an encrypted front-end. I'd prefer not to have the normal ftp server running at all. As a last resort, I'm now instaling cygwin on an NT box so I can try to build openssh and sftp as command-line tools. If I can at least get the ftp-like interface working on NT, it may be enough. I believe most of our NT users currently run ftp from a DOS window, anyway. I'm curious how others handle this. Does everyone with NT users go with the commercial ssh2 server? Do you just stick with plain FTP for file transfers? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Is there something week after next?
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > People, > I have the Central NH LUG meeting in Concord, for Wednesday, > Aug 16, @ 7pm. I thought I saw a message about some event, > that people would be gone that week. Is this correct, or was that a different > month? Linuxworld Expo is happening that week, in San Jose. I'm sure I'm not the only east-coaster who's going there. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj Email: (temporarily) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
