Re: "Relaying" video streams
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:38:05 -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote: > VirginSnow wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:06:35 -0500 > >> From: Bruce Dawson > > >> We'd like to upload the video streams to a single server that > >> multiple people can connect to and view them. This way, we're only > >> sending one video stream up to the server, and the server can > >> rebroadcast it to all the connected clients. > > > > No matter where the server is, sending a fresh unicast copy to every > > client will consume (ie, waste) bandwidth. > > True, but the idea is to stream to multiple clients from an ISP that > supports a high outgoing bandwidth, and to provide that stream from an > ISP connection that doesn't (like DSL/broadband/...) The "high output" > ISP would, in effect, become a "repeater". Perhaps VLC is the right tool for the job? http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo >From a quick glance, it looks as if running VLC on said server would allow you to have it connect from there to your source streams, and then make those streams available to clients connecting to it from the WAN. HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Booting NOT-Windows
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:45:33 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:09 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Peg Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Since this machine has the ability to boot off a USB device or a > > > CD, I wonder if I can boot up something else that will see all of > > > my other disks ... > > > > Yup. As others have suggested, one of the numerous Linux "live > > CDs" works well for this. In addition to Knoppix, I believe the > > Ubuntu and SuSE live CDs include at least read-only NTFS support. > > Not sure about Fedora. > > Fedora 9 gives you full read/write for NTFS, can't remember if that > was a new thing or even if any NTFS support was present at all prior > to 9. The same goes for the current Mandriva One LiveCD (2008.1 Spring), full read/write support for NTFS filesystems using ntfs-3g. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Network/Phone/Coax supply store
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:21:55 -0400, Dan Miller wrote: > Is there one store were I could get about a 6U swinging rack, cat6 > patch panel, cat6 spools, cat6 plugs, and then coax plugs and patch > panel or pluggable patch panel? Check out LightYear Cable in Manchester, (603) 647-5920. http://www.lightyearcable.com They have a slew of products beyond what the website shows, so it's probably best to just give them a call; ask for Bill Tickler. HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Favorite distros (was: Re: HP releases AdvFS under GPL-2)
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:59:32 -0400,
David Hardy wrote:
> Serious question: favorite new Linux distro? Which will do media
> and amaze and stun the otherwise Winders crowd at various sites of
> various sizes? Anything from desktop to enterprise level.
Mandriva 2008.1 Spring PowerPack. Includes non-free (AIS & AIB) bits
such as ATI & NVidia drivers, Cedega, and Fluendo multimedia codecs.
Provides KDE *and* Gnome *and* XFCE (as well as IceWM, Fluxbox and
several other WMs), so if you prefer one DE over the others, chances
are that it's in there. While Mandr{ake,iva}'s default orientation has
always been KDE, unlike some other distros I've seen they do not IMHO
give short shrift to the other DEs in their implementations of them.
The 2008.1 Free edition contains only free (AIS&B) packages on the
install media, so no proprietary drivers "out of the box", but the
non-free (AIS, not AIB) bits can be easily added post-install from the
distro's official "non-free" repositories. A good single-page rundown
on all of the 2008.1 versions, the repos, and on what distinguishes
Mandriva from most other distros is the 2008.1 Reviewers Guide:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Reviewers_Guide
The various Mandriva One 2008.1 live CDs - of which there are several,
because each contains one DE and a subset of the supported languages
available - also provide the ATI & NVidia proprietary drivers, as well
as OOo, Firefox, the GIMP, Java and Flash plugins, and a selection of
apps that is appropriate for that DE (i.e. Kontact on the KDE ones, but
Evolution & Pidgin on the Gnome ones). The main shortcoming of the One
CDs, IMHO, is an almost complete lack of games in the live environment;
this may or may not matter to you, depending on your audience(s).
Just my $0.02USD ...
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Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:21:34 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: > Basically, the nvidia kernel module for the binary driver is an > 'adapter' to the binary library. As a kernel is updated, the nvidia > wrapper needs to be recompiled to provide a module for that new kernel > version. If you're using a distro that provides the nvidia binary > driver, and you never make a new kernel yourself, then you're more > then likely golden. If your distro provides the dkms system, like Mandriva does, then the kernel module for nvidia - or lirc, or hsfmodem, or several others - will be auto-compiled on the first boot to any new kernel if a binary module is not found for that kernel. You need to have the kernel-source or kernel-devel (which is just enough of the kernel-source to compile modules) package for that particular kernel installed, of course, but it has worked very nicely for me. YMMV. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Filesystem-aware disk imaging
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:28:28 -0400
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone here played around with disk imaging tools which are
> filesystem aware? Like partimage[1] and Clonezilla[2]? I'm
> especially interested in experience with FAT and NTFS partitions.
> 'nix is very well-behaved in this area, so an exact disk image often
> isn't needed anyway. Just mount the partition and run rsync, tar, or
> just "cp -a". But restoring a 'doze system is such a mess ("like
> kicking dead whales down the beach") that a tool which exists outside
> the OS is really appealing to me.
>
> [1] http://www.partimage.org/
> [2] http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/
You might also want to look into Mondo Rescue:
http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml
I have no first-hand experience with it, sorry. :-/
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Re: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:16:12 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Freeman) wrote: > > Analog is the word there. :-) I was referring to HD TV via > > DirecTV. And unfortionatly, the only solution which is coming out for > > this is lead by Microsoft in a Microsoft/DirecTV partnership. > > I continue to thank the gods that TV has nothing worth watching which > also benefits from HD. Of course, they'll eventually stop broadcasting > NTSC format video at all, and then I'll be screwed. Eventually? Try February 2009: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_television_in_the_United_States#Analog_shutoff_process Interestingly enough, AFAICT nothing about this law actually requires that the cable companies stop offering an analog tier on their systems (one that would still work with legacy NTSC-only sets and without a converter box), they would just have to convert the digital broadcast signal to analog on their own, before putting it on the wire (or get it directly from the broadcasters in some non-OTA manner, I suppose). It only ensures that OTA stations will no longer be permitted to broadcast such a signal themselves for direct reception by such legacy TV sets. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDV2007.0/MDK9.0 "You can't reason someone out of something they weren't reasoned into." -- Mark Twain ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: "New Login in a nested Window" and a month of aggravation...
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:31:53 -0400 Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically, it all works fine, just not the mouse. The mouse cursor appears > to track but clicking any of the buttons has no effect unless I click like a > bug-mad monkey. If I repeatedly click, eventually the xnest window will > register a click. The mouse and keyboard are both PS2, but plugging in the > USB mouse shows the same symptoms. Distro, Xorg release, video HW on this box? If ATI or NVidia, stock or proprietary X drivers? If the latter, what happens with the former? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDV2007.0/MDK9.0 "An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend." - James Lileks ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Warning: Explicative language involved
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:21:43 -0400 "Jon 'maddog' Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or are you looking for things that don't exist yet (or I/we're not aware > > of)? > > > A little of both. FOSS products and services (commercial or > non-commercial) that exist today that just do something great. Or > unique ways of doing things that "rocks your boat" (www.plutohome.com) > > Maybe something a friend or customer did with FOSS or FOSS products that > was "cool".no "F***king Cool". I get that a lot when someone's sitting near my 'puter and the phone rings, and NCID and Festival team up to announce the Caller ID info over the speakers in a timely and customized manner, i.e. "Telephone call from Jenn's cell". And people say that there's no use for modems anymore ... :) http://ncid.sourceforge.net/ncid/ncid.html Did I mention that a MythTV box can be a NCID client, and the CID data can be overlaid onto the video stream? Though I've never tried it, I strongly suspect that having that happen might also draw a wow or two. Plus, I hate squinting at those little screens on phones, don't you? ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDV2007.0/MDK9.0 "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." -- Hubert H. Humphrey ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Urpmi and friends [Was: Re: Anyone good with dpkg/apt]
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:05:28 -0400
Neil Joseph Schelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 March 2007 12:06 pm, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > I need to see the list of files in an uninstalled package. The rpm equiv
> > would be
> >
> > rpm -qpl foo.rpm
> >
> > Anyone know how to do this? Is there anything?
> >
> > TIA
>
> Install apt-file, which will build a searchable index of all files in the APT
> repositories. apt-file update will update the cache. apt-file search
> filename will tell you all packages that have that filename.
Interesting, as was Paul's post on the (very) many apt-related tools that are
available. Both of them serve to reinforce my appreciation, as a devotee of an
RPM-based distro, for the superb adjuncts to rpm that Mandr{ake,iva} has
developed, collectively known as "the urpm* apps".
They all utilize a local cache of the metadata from all of the available
packages in one's configured repositories, similar to the one described above.
One major difference, though, is that they are also all installed by default on
every MDK/V system, and together they comprise the backend for the distro's GUI
package management tool, rpmdrake.[1]
To do what is asked for here on a MDK/V system, and without ever having to
actually fetch the RPM in question, is as easy as:
urpmq -l foo
To see which as-yet-uninstalled packages, if any, foo depends upon:
urpmq -d -m foo
To then fetch and install it, along with any needed dependencies:
sudo urpmi foo
To see the info on any available package, a la "rpm -qi":
urpmq -i foo
To list all available RPMs whose basenames contain the string "foo":
urpmq -y foo
To update the local cache, and then fetch and install all the available updates
(if there are any, and only after asking for confirmation prior to commencing
said install):
sudo urpmi.update -a && sudo urpmi --auto-select
Did your compile just soil the sheets on you because it couldn't find
"libfoo.h", whatever on earth that might be? Piece o' cake:
urpmf libfoo.h
This will return the basenames of any and all available RPMs which have the
string "libfoo.h" as any part of the name and/or path of an included file or
symlink, along with the file/path that matched. Very handy, IME.
To add a repository:
sudo urpmi.addmedia mynameforit {http://,ftp://,rsync://}path/to/repodir with
../relative/path/to/metadatafile.cz
To create a metadata file (named "hdlist.cz", and placed into the $PWD), and in
doing so turn a shared directory of RPMs into a urpmi-compatible repository:
genhdlist ../relative/path/to/repodir
Since all of the urpm* tools are GPL and are written in Perl, I would think
that someone with Perl proclivities - *cough* not that there's anything wrong
with that, of course *cough* ;-) - would find it a less than insurmountable
task to adapt them for use with their own RPM-based distro of choice ...
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Tools/urpmi is a great place to start, should
anyone want to learn more about the urpmi system.
[1] One exception is urpmc, which is in contrib. A nifty little number, it does
a urpmi.update to freshen the cache, determines what a urpmi --auto-select done
at that point would want to install, then outputs the changelogs of those RPM
packages. In a cron job, a real admin's friend.
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Re: QuantumBooks Waltham is closed
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:46:05 -0500 "Jeff Macdonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/27/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Passing on this information because I just recently let everyone know > > > what a good store it was. Got an announcement this morning that the > > > Waltham store of Quantumbooks is closed. The original Kendall Square > > > store remains open. > > > > Bummer. I was a huge fan of SoftPro when they were in Burlington, > > > I bought my first computer book there, Rodney Zak's "Programming the Z80" > when I was maybe 12 years old? I do miss SoftPro very much. Likewise. I bought my first two Linuxes at the Burlington one - Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 first, and then Mandrake 7.1 not long thereafter. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDV2007.0/MDK9.0 "The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." -- George F. Will ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:22:06 -0500 "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to the source/binary discussion: > > Building from source *does* bypass a lot of problems. It has been > suggested in the past that something like a cross between BSD ports > and RPM might be a good solution for many problems. Something that, > with one simple command, could automatically download all the needed > source packages, configure, build, and install them, without scary > looking terminal windows or the need to edit configuration files by > hand. Sounds like Gentoo's "Portage" system, accessible either via the CLI or by way of any of a number of GUI frontends, would appeal to you: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1 The simple command in question is "emerge", and anyone familiar with apt-get, urpmi or yum will find that it's very similar to all of those. > However, the "build most things from source" solution is not without > issues itself. It it slower than binary packages (imagine installing > the first GNOME package this way -- please wait while we build the > world from source). It's largely incompatible with the world of > closed-source, binary-only software. Depending on the user, that > might be considered a feature, or a fatal flaw. It can also make > testing/SCM/support a real nightmare, as now every system can have a > slightly different configuration. Slower, definitely, but on recent equipment sporting dual-core CPUs and acres of RAM, it's not as pokey as one might expect it to be. Gentoo also has prebuilt packages available for many apps; if patience isn't your long suit, you could install something like GNOME prebuilt and then recompile it in the background for your specific system's configuration, which pretty much gives you the best of both worlds. This is, in fact, basically how most Gentoo systems are first installed these days. Portage accomodates binary-only packages such as Sun's JRE/JDK fairly well; the ebuild for something like that will fetch the published *.bin file in exactly the same manner as the other ebuilds would sources, and then just install from it rather than configure/build/install, while still providing full dependency management - if binary-only X requires library Y, Y is fetched and built before X is installed. As for the differing configurations, if one adheres to the Gentoo method of using USE flags (found in /etc/make.conf) to enable/disable building in support for specific features and subsystems - as opposed to hacking on the ebuilds directly - then each system's individual configuration eccentricities can be quickly determined by a glance at that file (and frontends exist to assist one in working with these flags, as well). When reporting a bug with an ebuild, one merely also includes the USE flags that are in use on the system having the problem, and that's usually sufficient to account for these sorts of variations. Going back to ESR's beefs, Portage is also not immune to the occasional problem with dependencies, especially if one incorporates a significant number of builds flagged as "testing" (vs. "stable"), but it has a few powerful features (such as slots, arch keywords and package masking) that together tend to keep these sorts of glitches to a minimum, IME. It's still a long ways from being something Grandma can self-admin with ease, but if she's the user and you're the remote admin - an arrangement which makes far more sense to me anyway, without regard to distro, but that there's a whole 'nother discussion - then it's pretty sweet. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDV2007.0/MDK9.0 "In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem." -- J. A. Dever ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Rackmount shopping
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:59:30 -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't really related to Linux persay, but I'm sure someone here > can help. I'm looking to buy a bunch of rackmount accessories for our > new datacenter installation at work, including shelves, power strips, > cable guides, etc. Has anyone got a good source for this stuff they > can share? I'm all for local vendors if I find one, but it just > doesn't seem easy to find this stuff even in the online world. Lightyear Cable Products, Manchester - http://www.lightyearcable.com Talk to Bill Tickler, tell him Bill from HUB Networking sent you. HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Seperating networks
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:47:28 -0400, Steven C. Peterson wrote: > I currently use a Linux box running Clark Connect to run my network, > this box supply's a modified Linksys wrt54g to provide my wireless > services that said most of my devices run on the wireless, the wrt54g > pulls dhcp provided by the Linux box, I am unaware of what software > Clark connect uses to run the dhcp server. > > My question is Along with my devices and my roommates devices i have > some other people who pay me to provide inter net to them (We co-op > in to a pair of bonded t1 lines), i would like to separate my network > from every body else's, (I.E. I do not want them to see my printers > and shared folders, nor do i want to see theirs.) > > Any suggestions other than putting another router in place? A second router would certainly be the easiest and most secure way to accomplish this, of course. If I were you, I'd at least seriously consider it. I know nothing about ClarkConnect beyond what can be gleaned from a quick glance at the website; I gather that it is a firewall distro of some sort, along the lines of IPCop or SmoothWall? If you have root access to it, some tweaking of the config file for the DHCP daemon (which is probably dhcpd, so the file is probably "/etc/dhcpd.conf") should allow you to assign your devices to a different subnet than the default one used by the other users, based on their individual MAC addresses, and to have it also hand out sufficiently restrictive netmasks to all clients that the two subnets would remain *somewhat* invisible to one another - this is bypassed ridiculously easily by anyone who gives their own system(s) a static IP and netmask, however. For example, if the subnet in use at the moment is 192.168.0.x and the netmask is 255.255.255.0, then you'd tell dhcpd to continue to assign addresses in that range to clients whose MAC addresses it does not recognize, and to give them the 255.255.255.0 netmask. You'd then tell it to assign specific IP addresses to each of your devices, which it knows based on their MAC addresses, that are found somewhere in the 192.168.1.x range, giving those systems a netmask of 255.255.255.0 as well. Lastly, you'd change the netmask in use both on the firewall box's LAN-facing interface and on the router to be 255.255.254.0, so that they can both "see" whatever is on each of the two subnets. As I say, this is trivially easy to bypass, but if you can be fairly confident that the other users are unlikely to try to do so and can be expected to just accept whatever DCHP gives them, then this gives you at least some separation. I'd recommend a couple of iptables rules on your own boxes to drop any packets to and from the other subnet, as well; just remember that they can easily give themselves a 192.168.1.x address if they want, and that any decent sniffer app will tell them about the existence of the second subnet in short order. You may also have to hack the init script for the Linux box's LAN interface to have it give itself an alias address on the 192.168.1.x network, and to tell dhcpd to give that address out to your systems (only) as their gateway address, or your devices may not be able to find it after the changes. Really though, for the price of a second router and another NIC for the Linux box, you'd be much better off, IMHO. Any decent firewall distro can keep two internal subnets completely and securely separate; I would expect ClarkConnect to be no different from the rest in this regard. If for some reason you can't add another NIC to the firewall box, even just a second router daisy-chained to the first one and operating in NATed mode (and using its own internal DHCP server) would be a big improvement over this sort of security-by-obscurity scheme, I'd say. HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Job postings
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:26:36 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Kjel Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I am posting a job online, and I am wondering what job boards folks > > on the list actually look at (if any). > > i have had good luck with dice.com and you could always put it on the > NHJoblist a yahoogroups, if it is a New hampshire job, that is. Don't forget to post it to the gnhlug-jobs mailing list, as well. ;-) -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Xinerama?
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:01:56 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -- Original message -- > From: "Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have one of those mini shuttle boxes which has a 1280x1024 > > display off of a NVIDIA GeForce 6600. I was given an extra > > e-GeForce 6200LE. The new card has two connectors on the back. One > > is the regular video connector we all know with three rows that are > > all off senter. The other connector is shaped like this: > > > > |--| > > | + + + + + + + + | > > |+ + | > > | + + + + + + + + | > > |+ + | > > | + + + + + + + + | > > |--| > > > > Here's the device section from the xorg.conf > > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Videocard0" > > Driver "nvidia" > > VendorName "Videocard vendor" > > BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 6600" > > EndSection > > > > > > So given all that... > > > > Do I somehow disable the builtin video and go with the new card? > > Do I use both cards? > > If I just use the new card, is there some sort of adapter to make a > > monitor fit the 'funny' connector? > > > > Thanks guys... > > > > -- > > Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger > > things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your > > driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God > > divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if > > this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net > > Without knowing the full details of the card, I would think that the > 'funny' connector is a DVI connector, for connecting to a digital > flat panel. Yes, you should be able to use both video cards in one > system. Concur, and yes, adapters for DVI=>DB-15 are available IIRC. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Time flies when you're chasing bugs and LARTing lusers
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:24:25 -0400, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:35:53PM -0400, Bill Mullen wrote: > > > > That's right, it's here again ... > > > > Happy SysAdmin Day to everyone in GNHLUG! > > > > http://www.sysadminday.com/ > > How self-serving :-) > >(wait for it ...) Now now, don't get your back up over it ... ;-) -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Time flies when you're chasing bugs and LARTing lusers
That's right, it's here again ... Happy SysAdmin Day to everyone in GNHLUG! http://www.sysadminday.com/ -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:23:16 -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:50:33AM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote: > > Economies are grinding to a halt all across the world as I have > > introduced this puzzle to a few Flickr groups... > > Y'all do realize that this is the memetic equivalent of the Star Trek > "Computer, compute the value of pi to the last digit" trick? Or of Arthur Dent getting the computer aboard the Heart Of Gold to synth a "proper" cup of tea - after all, it *did* finish ... eventually. ;) -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Video Conversions
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:51:50 -0400, Travis Roy wrote: > I've recently started getting Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes > from dapcentral.org. > > Most of them are encoded with MS-MPEG4v2/Nandub. > > What I want to do is convert them to burn them to a DVD. > > Does anybody know of any console based Linux utilities to do this. I > was using ffmpegX on my mac, but I ended up with an audio drift > problem where the more the movie goes on, the more out of sync it > gets. I heard this has to do with the audio being VBR. I think ToVid can probably handle that. I don't have access to a DVD burner, so I have no way to determine that for certain, but this task appears to be within its stated capabilities. It's a command-line app (set of scripts, actually) with an optional GUI. http://tovid.sourceforge.net/ -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: GNHLUG RSS feeds, was Re: GNHLUG.Www - Automated notification of topic changes
On Tue, 2 May 2006 15:32:39 -0400, Marc Nozell wrote: > It really changes the way I use the web. No longer do I hit > slashdot.org, cnn.com, cnet.com, sourceforge.net looking for new info. > Nor do I have to remember to check in with amusing blogs like jwz.org > to see if he has updated -- now it just shows up in my list of feeds. Seconded. I use Liferea (http://liferea.sf.net) as my RSS app, and team that up with Dillo (http://www.dillo.org) as its external browser. This combo has drastically cut the time that it takes me to keep up with the sites I like to follow; Liferea lets me pick and choose those articles that I truly want to read from among the rest, and Dillo fires up almost instantly while completely ignoring all of the rubbish (Flash, etc.) to be found on many of these pages, stuff which only wastes my bandwidth and tries to distract my attention from the information that I seek. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: RFC: Distros for Hosstraders
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:56:04 -0400, Dan Jenkins wrote: > Ben Scott wrote: > > > Where can I download it from? The website gives me a link to > > http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/en/downloads/mirrors/2006iso > > but that just yields an empty page for me. > > The joys of a broken website. > > Here's a public FTP mirror I have used reliably: > ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/iso/2006.0/i586/ > > There are 3 CDs in the set. > They also have a Live CD version, though I have not used it. If you prefer rsync, this one's quite speedy, when you can get in: carroll.cac.psu.edu::MandrivaLinux/official/iso/2006.0/i586/ I find I can get access about 80% of the time; it can be hit-or-miss during "prime time" (early evenings and weekend afternoons), though. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Free web-based email?
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 12:44:23 -0400, Jason Stephenson wrote: > Bill McGonigle wrote: > > > I've been pretty happy with SquirrelMail. It's not flashy or AJAX > > yet, but it works OK. Runs on Linux/Apache/PHP - I think many > > ISP's offer it with their minimal-level packages (a few bucks a > > month). > > I set up SquirrelMail where I work. It works and was pretty simple to > setup. Another feature it lacks that I might actually add is SSL > support. SquirrelMail itself doesn't need much to support SSL if your > server does. It just needs to have all the links changed that start > "http://"; to use a funtion that checks the protocol in use and > outputs either http or https. 'Course it might just work if you > configure Apache to force SSL on that directory. Worth noting here is SquirrelMail's "Secure Login" plugin: http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=61 This forces use of SSL at login time. On the two systems that I use it on, the entire subsequent session uses SSL, but that may well be more a function of my Apache configurations than of the use of the plugin. Another login-oriented SquirrelMail plugin that I'm fond of (because it's mine ) is this one: http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=223 -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Umask?
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 12:43:37 -0400, Neil Schelly wrote: > I've got a debian system here and most definitely have the umask > command, but it's not a binary or a package or anything like that. > It's a BASH builtin, so you won't see it anywhere in a package. > > Anyway, in answer to the question you were trying to answer on the > BBS, default permissions are kinda decided by the process doing the > writing. Lots of daemons have options for default umasks, bash does > with the umask command, etc. That is the general term for how to > specify default permissions, but it doesn't imply a specific global > means of setting it. -N A good example of this is that for Win32 filesystems (vfat, smbfs), the ownership and permissions for the entire mount will be determined by the options given to mount, either on the command line or in the /etc/fstab file. This includes the umask= option, though IIRC use of the fmask and dmask options in lieu of umask is preferred nowadays, to let you specify differing permissions for files and for directories (respectively). Basically, when asked how to set default permissions on files, one needs to ask in return: "On *which* files?" :-) > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 12:09 pm, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > > Hey, all -- someone on a BBS I'm on asked about how to set default > > permissions on files, and I immediately thought of "umask"... which > > appeared to not be installed on my Debian box. So I plugged it into > > Debian's search page, and got essentially nothing. Is "umask" not > > used in Linux? Has it been deprecated? If so, what was it > > replaced with? Etc., etc., etc... -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: In Linux, no one can hear you Wine
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:16:18 -0800 (PST), Bayard Coolidge wrote: > *sigh* Kids nowadays... And to think I was toggling in RIM loaders > on an '8 before most of them were born... > > Christopher Chisholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did someone just say they did something in Windows 3.1?! Nah, it > must have been my imagination ;-) I hear that, Bayard. Remember when getting that done successfully (a neat trick in itself) would let you next wrestle with the "high-speed" paper tape reader/punch/shredder? ;-) Loved them '8s, though - I guess you never forget your first 'puter. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: get-extern-ip-addr.pl
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:08:52 -0500, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> A little hack that I wrote to help a colleague keep track of how
> often his broadband IP changes. I thought others might find this to
> be useful too.
Here's one of mine, which should work as long as the target site remains
available (and doesn't undergo a revamp - it still works fine more than
two years after I wrote it, so I suppose that's a good sign):
#!/bin/sh
# Prints external IP address to stdout
lynx -dump http://www.whatismyip.com 2>&1 | grep 'Your IP Is' | gawk '{
print $4 }'
Obviously, it could benefit from some logic to identify and report on
connectivity failures, if one were intending to use it in a cronjob as
you describe in yours; it fails silently, which works for my purpose.
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Re: Red Hat man pages and escape sequences
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:45:19 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > What's the fix for when Red Hat derived systems (in the current > case, my Fedora Core 4 desktop) display crap in man pages? [Suggestion of dumping FC for $OTHERDISTRO reconsidered and omitted.] > This typically manifests as a highlighted printed representation of > non-printable escape codes, and/or non-English characters, where one > would normally expect dashes, quotes, and the like. > > This smells like a Unicode issue to me. Likewise - and that's one funky aroma, ain't it? Gack. ;-) > I know I've seen the fix for this before, but I can't remember > where, and Google just finds a lot of discussion and bitching, and in > this case, I just want the damn thing to work. > > Tried KDE konsole, GNOME gnome-terminal, xterm -- all fail in some > way. Tried setting LANG=C and unsetting LANG, no change. Tried > cursing loudly; didn't help, but made me feel a little better. Does setting "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" (what my Mandrake systems call it) or "LANG=en_US.utf8" (what my Gentoo box calls it) make any difference? I don't have any experience with FC, but I'd be interested to know which man pages display this way, so that I can inspect them on these systems. I don't recall having seen this sort of thing here, but it's entirely likely that I just haven't pulled up the right man pages yet. :-/ -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Follow-up: Red Hat / Fedora dual boot
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:42:38 -0500, Zhao Peng wrote: > Hi Jerry, > > Thanks for your suggestions. > > Below is what I did. > > 1 regular boot up from Knopixx > 2 bring up konsole > 3 su - > 4 swapoff /dev/hda6 > 5 qtparted& > > For step 5, I got a line saying "qtparted: cannot connect to X server" > > So I started qtparted via "K menu" -> "systems", and tried to resize > hda4 (which is extended partition, and still the only partition the > "resize" is not gray-out). Hda4 has size of 46.04 gb, consisting of > hda5 thru hda7, used space for these 3 partitions is less than 1 gb. > > So I right-clicked on hda4, and selected "resize", and set "Free after > > space" at 40 gb, and committed change from "File" menu. The pop-up > windows says that the operation is successful. BUT, hda4 is still > 46.04 gb, and nothing changed! So I tried to commit changes from > "Device" menu, the operation is also successful, but it didn't make > any difference: hda4 was NOT resized. You don't want to resize hda4, IMHO - if you do, any space you free up will not be usable because you can only have a maximum of four primary partitions, and you already do have that many. The only workable option I see is to resize the logical partitions now within hda4, and then to create new logical partitions from the new free space inside hda4. As for getting QTParted to work as root (which would seem to be the only way it will allow you to resize hda5/6/7), two things you can try: run "xhost +" in the konsole before doing the "su -", or run the "Root Shell" command found (IIRC) on the menu under "KNOPPIX", and try to run qtparted from that. Also, I wouldn't background qtparted when you run it, because whatever it may output to the console might be useful info; no point in throwing it away if you don't have to. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:42:57 -0500, Chris Brenton wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:39 -0500, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: > > > > > Didn't SuSE recently decide to switch to GNOME as the default > > > desktop (although continuing to package KDE RPMs and such)? > > SuSe 10 you can go either way. Can't remember if Gnome or KDE is the > default selection, but I *thought* it was still KDE. Either way KDE > installs nicely. My only problem has been with laptops & touchpads. > The scroll option on by default is a pain. Downloading the Ksynaptics > RPM and shutting it off solved the problem. > > >I have compiled KDE from source, which may be my only option in > >the > > future. Who is championing KDE at the moment? > > Apparently Linus... ;-) > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00021.html It's probably worth mentioning that Mandriva (née Mandrake) not only continues to consider KDE to be their default desktop - while offering all the other major DEs/WMs such as Gnome, XFCE, Enlightenment, Icewm, the *boxes, etc. alongside it - but has also contributed significant resources to KDE development for years now. I have so far detected no groundswell of interest on their part in changing this orientation anytime soon. If you're planning on compiling KDE from source anyway, Gentoo then becomes an excellent option; it makes the process a fairly painless one. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: HOWTO? run k3b as root
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:03:03 -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote: > My sugestion may not have been clear. What I have > in mind is that you start a normal KDE session as a > nonprivileged user, with all the usual GUI glop on the > screen that KDE normally presents when you do that. > (It might even make sense to verify that you can start > normal X clients like xclock from an xterm that's > part of that session before proceeding with the rest > of this.) Then, from that xterm (that's still part > of that nonpriveleged X session) you'd say: > > ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ...which should start an SSH client that'll connect > to your local SSH server and arrange for X traffic > from the root session to be tunneled back through > your unprivileged X session to the X server, to which > you have already authenticated yourself. > > Make sure your local SSH server hasn't been instructed > to block X traffic, BTW. In the interests of further clarity, perhaps it's worth adding that once one is looking at the root prompt, the command to run at said prompt is "k3b", and not "startx". -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: YASP (Yet Another Sendmail Problem)
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:25:32 -0500 (EST), Steven W. Orr wrote: > Hi. I zoomed in further on what my problem is but I have no idea how > to fix it. I placed a copy of my sendmail.mc at > > http://steveo.syslang.net/sendmail.mc > > The problem is that masquerading is not happening on a send. If I send > to foo then sendmail expands it to go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > instead of sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If I send *from* steveo, then steveo (by default) is sending from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Does anyone have an idea for how I can fix this? Umm, I assume that you mean something short of "switch to an MTA that can be fairly easily configured by mere mortals, like Postfix"? :-) I'm only half-joking, actually; with Postfix, fixing this is as simple as tacking the following line onto your /etc/postfix/main.cf file: myorigin = $mydomain And then issuing this command, as root: postfix reload That sure beats fscking around inside sendmail.rc, doesn't it? ;-) -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Suggestions for SOHO email service
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:29:14 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > So, it's just a matter of selecting an MX, SMTP, (optional) web > interface, and spam filtering. Gee, is that all? This could be an > education experience. FWIW, here's what I run here to handle the mail: SMTP server:Postfix Webmail:SquirrelMail (w/ Apache), WAN logins resticted to SSL-only Filtering: Amavisd-new, which calls SpamAssassin and ClamAV Access: UW-IMAP, providing POP3 and IMAP (SSL forced when from WAN) Consolidation: Fetchmail I have a FQDN from no-ip.com, and have pointed the MX record for the domain at that. It is updated automatically on those rare occasions when the IP address changes by a setting on my SmoothWall firewall box. The TCP ports forwarded from the WAN to the mail server are 25, 993 and 995; that takes care of inbound SMTP, SecureIMAP, and SecurePOP3 (the Apache server runs on a different internal system). Postfix relays all of the outbound mail via the ISP's SMTP server, and for inbound mail, I have it identifying itself to other systems by using the no-ip.com FQDN, rather than the actual hostname of the system on which it runs. Fetchmail pulls mail in from other servers for several users and delivers it to Postfix. If any further details of the setup here would be useful to you, I'd be happy to either post them here, or to mail them to you. HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Quick dumb question...
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 14:18, Brian Chabot wrote: > How do you change the directory used for TMPDIR system wide? > > (It's Mandrake 10.0) > > I ask because the partition used by /tmp (the root filesystem... don't > ask. It's an old legacy system) is filling up FAST on an old machine. How's the available RAM/swap situation under the system's normal load? If it's sufficient, you might want to consider placing /tmp on a tmpfs ramdisk. Drop to init 1, clean out /tmp, and add this line to fstab: none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 Mount /tmp, and back to init whatever. Now /tmp will use no space on the root filesystem, it's contents will vanish on each reboot, and no one's environment will need adjusting. BTW, this is toggled in the GUI with the "Clean /tmp at each boot" checkbox, which hides behind the Advanced button under Boot -> Boot Loader in MDK Control Center - but I'd want to do it as above, to be certain to regain the HD space currently in use. HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Is anybody getting good BitTorrent rates with Comcast?
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 18:06, Bill Freeman wrote: > Ted Roche writes: > > Knoppix 4.0 DVD! Yipee! Please send along the URL of the torrent, and > > I'll tell you if I am seeing similar slowness. > > > > One Q: do you have ports 6881-6889 forwarded to the machine trying > > the download? I had heard rumors that more modern bittorrent clients > > were throttling download rates for one-way, download-only clients, > > but cannot confirm such. > > I'm definately supplying over 40kBps up load. I started out > with ports 6881-6889, but on advise of several web pages am now doing > ports 1-6. 1) Go back to just 6881-6889. You certainly don't need all those others open, no matter what those websites said (probably not a terrific idea from a security viewpoint, either, I'd think). Be sure to forward both protocols (TCP and UDP) for all ports within that range, though. 2) Your upload rate is way too high, IMO; I find that allowing it to go above 20kB/s or so begins to throttle my d/l bandwidth - not just for BT, but for everything (the u/l bandwidth gets saturated, ACKs and such cease to get through in a timely manner, d/l speeds suffer). Also, it seems that a max u/l rate above 12kB/s or so for an individual torrent rarely provides any real increase in that torrent's d/l rate, so there probably isn't much point in going higher than that for any one torrent. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Is anybody getting good BitTorrent rates with Comcast?
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 17:14, Bill Freeman wrote: > I've tried changing away from the default ports. I've fiddled > with max_uploade_rate (in hopes of better tit for tat). It could be, > I suppose, my netgear router (I don't go on the Comcast segment > "bare"). Or it could be Comcast. > > [Here's where it starts to tie into Linux:] > > Or maybe the Knoppix 4.0 DVD torrent I'm using is poor. > > Or do I need to fiddle some of the Linux firewall settings to > let connections happen at a good rate? (FC2 2.6.10 kernel.) > > What rates do other folks see? You need to configure the router to forward ports 6881-6889 (TCP & UDP) to the internal system where you're running the BitTorrent client. That, in combination with setting the max upload rate to a reasonable value so that you don't saturate your upload bandwidth, gives the best results. You also need this same port range open on the client system's firewall. I use Azureus (a java BT client), which allows you to set u/l caps for individual torrents, as well as an overall one. I cap the overall u/l rate at 20, and then can run two torrents each capped at 10; this gets me rates that will vary considerably from one torrent to the next, but 90-130kB/s is not unusual to see with the fastest ones, and the average ones usually come in at around 40-60kB/s. And yes, that's on Comcast. The one I have running right now - 11 seeds (8 connected), 21 peers (17 connected), 707MB file, 8% completed, u/l limited to 10kB/s - is coming in at an average of about 55kB/s, with bursts up to around 80kB/s, FWIW. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: The Daemon, The GNU, and the Penguin
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 16:26, Tom Buskey wrote:
> On 7/21/05, Nolan, Catherine (PTG) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 3. How much would you pay for the printed information - although it was
> > freely available online.
>
> It's worth paying for a paper copy sometimes. Less so for "books you
> study", more for books stuff like this, fiction, etc. If it's the
> type of book I'd search through, the paper copy isn't as important
> (The Perl Bookshelf). If it's something I'm going to sit down to
> read, paper is better ("The Unix Philosphy", "A Quarter Century of
> Unix" :-)
I'm in complete agreement with Tom on this; I've been following - and
enjoying - the chapters on Groklaw as they've come out, and if a hard
copy were available for ten bucks or less, I'd add it to my bookshelf.
Others may find it to be worth a bit more, that's just the price point
that works for me in this case.
Since the subject matter is of a historical nature, this book doesn't
suffer from the instantaneous obsolescence that besets so many technical
reference materials, and it should be every bit as interesting a read
some years down the road as it is now, I'd expect. Good stuff!
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Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 08:06, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Greg Rundlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I receive my email through rundlett.com, and a healthy dose of spam
> > through freephile.com; both of which are externally hosted through a
> > web hosting provider that includes email service and easy-to-manage
> > web-based administration of user accounts/aliases/forwards and even
> > lists. How would I go about moving those services to my local machine
> > (offering email accounts to family too) with the least amount of
> > hassle and worry?
>
> It should be a matter of just changing your MX records to point to
> your new mail server[1]. Of course, if you're using DynDNS.org[2], be
> forewarned, that you can't use your own domain name unless you pay
> them for services.
Common MX gotcha: Ensure that the hostname to which the MX records point
is defined as an A record, and not a CNAME one. I use a free subdomain
from no-ip.com, which is conveniently updated by my SmoothWall system in
those rare cases when my IP address changes. I also use that as the mail
server's Postfix hostname, which doesn't have to match the actual FQDN
of the box itself (in this case, one which does not resolve externally).
Example:
Set up an auto-updateable "A" record with a dynamic DNS provider (the
"ez-ipupdate" client supports several of them). Let's say that you go
with no-ip.com, and the name you get from them is "freephile.sytes.net".
Set the MX record for each one of your *.com domains to point to
"freephile.sytes.net". Configure Postfix's primary configuration file,
"/etc/postfix/main.cf", thusly:
myhostname = freephile.sytes.net # how Postfix will identify itself
mydomain = rundlett.lan # or whatever you're using locally
myorigin = rundlett.com # the default DN for addresses without one
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain,
realhostname.$mydomain, rundlett.com, freephile.com
# this postulates "realhostname.rundlett.lan" as the system's FQDN
[snip]
> [2] Be aware that as soon as you start hosting your own e-mail and
> probably using your own MTA to send mail from, you'll start
> getting rejection messages from the MTAs of domains you connect to
> which blacklist dynamic IP addresses. For example, anone you send
> to at an aol.com account will require you relay through an MTA
> with a static address.
Two ways to do this with Postfix:
1) Globally (all outbound mail is routed via your ISP's SMTP server).
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
relayhost = [smtp.comcast.net] # your ISP's SMTP server, in brackets
2) Case-by-case (most outbound mail is delivered directly, mail to
specific domains is routed via your ISP's server).
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
#relayhost =# leave undefined
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
/etc/postfix/transport (create this file, if necessary):
aol.com smtp:[smtp.comcast.net]
.aol.comsmtp:[smtp.comcast.net]
* :
The first two entries define domains that go via your ISP ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", respectively); other such domains should follow that
pattern, and should come before the final entry, which is a catchall.
After creating or altering the transport file, you'll need to run
"postmap /etc/postfix/transport", and then run "postfix reload".
Aliases go into the /etc/postfix/aliases file; after changing it, run
"newaliases", then run "postfix reload". Be sure to set a destination
for mail addressed to "root" in there - it should point to a real user.
Common Postfix gotcha: On many distros, Postfix is configured by default
to run in a chroot jail; on Mandr{ake,iva} systems, this will be in the
"/var/spool/postfix" dir. You will find an "etc/" dir within it, which
contains copies of certain /etc/ files (hosts, resolv.conf) that the
chrooted daemon needs to be able to access. Ensure that after updating
any of the original files (the ones in /etc/), you then copy those new
versions into $CHROOT/etc/ and run "postfix reload".
As for the MailScanner stuff to which Bill referred, I use amavisd-new
to link in SpamAssassin and ClamAV with Postfix, and it works quite
well. The Mandr* RPM for amavisd-new makes the requisite changes in the
"/etc/postfix/master.cf" file for you, which is a real hassle-saver. ;)
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Re: Postfix: phantom hostname.
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 13:42, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Okay, this is pissing me off. > > I've got a machine, currently "reddwarf", that used to be "nebula". > I've -- obviously -- changed its name. "nebula" isn't mentioned in > /etc/hosts, and the IP resolves (both reverse and forward) to reddwarf. > /etc/hostname is reddwarf. The "live" hostname (eg. the output of > "hostname") is reddwarf. /etc/mailname is reddwarf. A "strace -f > postfix" doesn't show the word "nebula" anywhere. "nebula" isn't > mentioned in any of the postfix config files; reddwarf is. I've made > sure that the postfix processes have restarted. Hell: I've dpkg > --purge'd postfix (after installing exim), and then installed postfix > again from scratch. > > THEN WHY THE FLOCK, WHEN I TELNET TO PORT 25, DOES IT THINK IT'S NEBULA?! > > Suggestions as to why this might be would go a long way toward saving > the small amount of sanity I have left. If Postfix runs chrooted, some portions of it will be using the copies of certain /etc files located under the chroot dir (on my system, the "/var/spool/postfix/etc" dir holds these files); if these files differ from the ones in /etc, I get warnings in my mail logs to that effect. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /var/spool/postfix/etc/ host.conf hosts localtime nsswitch.conf resolv.conf services That's the only factor that I can think of, but it's a longshot ... :-/ -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Mandriva announces acquisition of main Lycoris assets
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 14:04, Dan Jenkins wrote:
> http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2556
>
> Mandriva, formerly known as Mandrakesoft, to purchase several assets
> from Lycoris.
> Lycoris' founder and CEO Joseph Cheek is joining Mandriva.
> Mandrake and Connectiva merged a few months back, and now the combined
> company is acquiring Lycoris.
> Interesting.
Definitely. As an avowed Mandr{ake,iva} fan, I'm particularly intrigued
by this development. I'm curious to see what bits from Lycoris end up in
the next release ("Mandriva 2006"), which will also be the first release
to incorporate Connectiva's technology. I guess it's about time I threw
together a box to run Cooker on, just to keep an eye on it ... ;)
There's a bit more on the acquisition at NewsForge:
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/15/2030250
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Re: Rookit infections: AARRGH!
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 08:50, Fred wrote: > What I'd like to know is how my systems are being cracked. What is the > port of entry(!), how are my systems broken into. What's the latest news > on this. If you're running AWStats on the server, make sure that it's up to date; there is a vulnerability in versions prior to 6.4, when used in CGI mode (I've been bitten by this one recently). http://awstats.sourceforge.net Besides chkrootkit, I always run rkhunter - I like that it is easily upgradeable by running "rkhunter --update", which downloads the latest rootkit signatures, a la ClamAV and the like. It never hurts to get a second opinion, after all ... ;-) http://www.rootkit.nl/projects/rootkit_hunter.html > I am suspicious that they are somehow breaking in through ssh -- my logs > show lots of suspicious sshd authentication failures. I get a ton of those as well; ISTR hearing this phenomenon attributed to unpatched RH6 systems being vulnerable to some worm or other that is the generator of these attacks, and that runs through a set list of username and password combinations. I just add each IP address to /etc/hosts.deny once it turns up in the syslog, and then I never hear from them again. Many of the recent attempts of this type are originating from SE Asian nations, it appears; if any list member knows of a good list of the IP address blocks that are allocated to these regions, I'd love to see it (or a link to it), as using that in hosts.deny would be a considerably more efficient way to block these IPs, I'd expect. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Exchange, calendaring and IMAP [ mostly off-topic ]
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:50, Paul Lussier wrote: > [3] I requested of a few people suggestions for a hostname. The > guidelines for the name were: It must be clever, insulting, and > derogatory towards MS, Windows, Exchange, or any combination > thereof. However, it must be subtle enough that non-geeks "won't > get it" and amusing enough that geeks will find it very funny. > Feel free to provide me with more options. Marvin? ... though much of the subtlety of that one will evaporate with the upcoming H2G2 film release, I suppose ... Maginot? I particularly like that one ... Fishnet, perhaps? It looks alluring at first glance, but a closer inspection reveals that it is primarily comprised of holes ... ;) -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: x2x
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:41, Derek Martin wrote: > I'm surrounded by systems. Having multiple displays is cool, but > having to use multiple keyboards and mouses to access them is not. I > want to use x2x to solve the problem, but I have some concerns about > typing passwords and such over unencrypted X session. Anyone know how > to run x2x under ssh and make it work properly? My attempts so far > seem to have been futile... You may find something useful here: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/klee/misc/x2x.html#secure The overall page is fairly old, but the first method listed was added to it about a year ago, so it might still work with current versions. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Well, goshdarn it (Access-4-Free)
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 14:18, Bill McGonigle wrote: > I signed up for an Access-4-Free account since Earthlink was blocking > ports based on recommendations here. Bugger. I want my $5 back. > > I guess I'll be giving MV a ring. Yeah, that's a real kick in the head, eh? I'm very disappointed, having extolled their virtues in several places (including here) in the past. I guess I'll be doing without a backup ISP entirely ... :( -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: sendmail SMARTHOST
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 22:48, Paul Lussier wrote: > Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Do it yourself: If your ISP's name servers stop working, you don't > > care. Yours keep working, as long as your connection to the Internet > > keeps working. > > After the way ComCrap has been lately with their DNS, I'm about to set > this up at home. I'm sick of my wife complaining she can't get out to > the net all because some moron at ComCrap tripped over the extension > cord and cycled power on their DNS server farm :) Aaargh! This ridiculous situation has been driving me up a wall, also. It appears that they are giving out a different set of nameserver IPs via DHCP these days, and those servers only work sporadically; the IP addresses that they had been using up until recently still work fine, at least for the time being (and have better response time, to boot). :-/ -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Gmail Invites
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 21:35, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On Apr 9, 2005, at 21:20, Dan Jenkins wrote: > > > I just don't know 50 people who want a Gmail account. Damned if I know > > who sent me an invite. I figured I'd use it for the throwaway email > > addresses and see how that works. > > With 50 Gmail accounts you've got a hundred gigs of storage. Add in > the gmailfs and you can ditch your hard drive and boot off of Gmail. > Let them worry about backup. :) And yet another monitor gets coated with droplets of beverage ... LOL! -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: BB/Forum software suggestions
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 13:21, Cole Tuininga wrote: > I'm working on creating a bit of a web based family portal/community > center and one of the pieces I'm looking at is a forum or bulletin board > type service. > > Ideally, I'd like the software to be php based, though if it's a > fantastic package I might be willing to go to the effort of supporting > mod_perl on the server. The storage can be either mysql or flat files. > Beyond that, I'd like if could handle threaded discussions, and perhaps > have some basic administration (like requiring a user account to post, > etc). > > Anybody have experience with packages they like? I've worked with phpWebSite a little, and have been satisfied with it; it has a nice calendar component, useful with this sort of a site. http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu If you can stand to go with a Perl-based solution, YaBB is one that I particularly like. I have a Mandrake Community TWiki page up with a few scripts that simplify the installation for Linux users (the docs assume that everyone is unzipping on Windows and then uploading the files to a remote webhosting service, rather than doing it all on one Linux box). http://www.yabbforum.com http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome?topic=YaBB Here's a very tiny YaBB site that we have operating at the moment: http://forum.clamhaven.com While we have it set up so that one needs to register to both read and post, both requirements are configurable. Also, members may be assigned to groups, and sections can be made visible only to certain groups. We do this on this site, to separate the public discussion area from the area reserved for staff members only. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: This has got to drive RMS nuts
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 09:28, Benjamin Scott wrote: > tongue.insert (head->cheek); [snip] > > You do realize that Microsoft is not, in fact, staffed by physical > incarnations of pure evil, I hope. Of course not! One would expect that the purity level varies markedly, from one minion to the next; after all, quality control has never been the long suit over there ... ;-) -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Semi-OT: Fixing my Windows MBR
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 20:17, Dan Jenkins wrote: > Travis Roy wrote: > > > >> You might be able to fix this with the Win2K CD. I know that with XP's, > >> you can boot to the recovery console and run "fixmbr"; ISTR that you can > >> do the same with Win2k's CD ... maybe not, but it's worth a try. > > > > I forgot to mention, I do not have the Win2k CD > > To bring this more On-Topic, depending on your Linux > distribution, the installation CD often contains a "rescue" > option. (For example, Mandrake lets you restore a Windows boot > sector.) I would have suggested that, but AIUI it does the restore from the saved MBR located in the /boot dir (usually named "boot.0300"), and Travis had mentioned earlier that he had already blown away his linux partitions. I use the MDK rescue system often, but I've never tried to reinstall a Win MBR with it on a system not also containing Mandrake. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Semi-OT: Fixing my Windows MBR
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 17:12 (IOW, almost 12 hours in the future ), Travis Roy wrote: > So I had a dual boot win2k/linux box. I now have a seperate box for linux. > > I wiped out the linux partition on the windows box and well.. I said > "oh, I'll fix the mbr later". Well, windows did an update over the night > and when it rebooted no MBR.. > > The PC doesn't have a floppy drive. > > Does anybody know of a CD image with tools to fix this problem? You might be able to fix this with the Win2K CD. I know that with XP's, you can boot to the recovery console and run "fixmbr"; ISTR that you can do the same with Win2k's CD ... maybe not, but it's worth a try. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: internet radio
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 12:18, Mike Medai wrote: > Does anyone here know of a good internet/web radio player. I'm trying > to listen to some radio while tinkering with all of this new stuff and > wasn't able to find anything definitive to fill that niche. Btw, > preferably something that will interact nicely with Windowmaker too. I use Streamtuner, which calls XMMS to do the playing. http://freshmeat.net/projects/streamtuner/ -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Any dialup ISP's besides EarthLink support LINUX
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 18:18, Richard A Sharpe wrote: > Does anyone know of any ISP's that have local NH numbers, who support > LINUX > users or have away to connect with a LINUX client, so far Earth Link has been > the only one I can find and I am using it right now. I use http://access-4-free.com as my (backup) dialup ISP. I've never had any problem connecting from Mandrake using Kppp or wvdial, nor has my SmoothWall box had any trouble getting online. Their pricing policy is attractive, if a bit unusual - free for up to 10 hours in one month, each hour from #11 to #20 is $1, all hours above 20 in that same month are free; for this reason, they make a very inexpensive backup solution. They provide a wide array of access numbers in NH, and have other plans that are more suitable to dialup-only users, such as an unlimited, "accelerated" (IOW, transparently proxied) account with 5 email addys for $9.95/month. One nice touch is that their POP server can be polled from outside their network; they also provide webmail access. The only glitch I've ever had with them is that on occasion their DHCP server would pass along to connecting clients two DNS server numbers (as it should), but the primary one would be down, leading to timeouts and thus slowing the perceived speed of the connection; I worked around this problem by hard-coding two of their working DNS server addresses into /etc/resolv.conf, and then disabling the auto-updating of that file by pppd by removing the line "usepeerdns" from /etc/ppp/options. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Debian flamewar
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 09:08, Dan Jenkins wrote: > Cole Tuininga wrote: > > > As an example, let's say I happen to know that in order to get a > > remote machine to handle X forwarding with ssh, I need the xauth > > command. But I'm not really sure in what package I would find xauth. > > > > > > $ apt-cache search xauth xbase-clients - miscellaneous X clients xvfb > > - virtual framebuffer X server > > > > Sounds like xbase-clients is what I want. This is the thing that > > kinda "wowed" me about apt when I first started playing with debian. > > I'm imagining that yum probably has a similar ability though. > > That was one of the things I liked most about Debian too. > I think it has inspired the other extended package managers (yum, urpm, > ...). > > For example, Mandrake's equivalent is: > # What package contains xauth: > $ urpmq xauth > mkxauth > > # Fuzzy search (these packages mention xauth): > $ urpmq -y xauth > The following packages contain xauth: > XFree86 > mkxauth > pam > > # Who depends on this package: > $ urpmq -R xsane > xsane > xsane-gimp > > # What does this package depend on: > $ urpmq -d xsane > bash > chkconfig > common-licenses > fontconfig > glibc > grep > hotplug > ifplugd > ldconfig > libatk1.0_0 > libexif9 > libexpat0 > libfontconfig1 > libfreetype6 > libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0 > libglib2.0_0 > libgphoto-hotplug > libgphoto2 > libgtk+-x11-2.0_0 > libieee1284_3 > libjpeg62 > libpango1.0_0 > libpcre0 > libpng3 > libsane1 > libtermcap2 > libtiff3 > libusb0.1_4 > libxfree86 > libxpm4 > pango > sash > usbutils > xsane > zlib1 > > Of course, this one can be less useful for some packages, since > dependencies can fan out rapidly. > xauth, for example, depends on 80 different packages. And let's not forget Mandrake's handy "urpmf" command for this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ urpmf xauth xorg-x11:/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth xorg-x11:/usr/X11R6/man/man1/xauth.1x.bz2 kdebluetooth-devel:/usr/include/qobex/qobexauth.h smlnj:/usr/lib/smlnj/src/eXene/graph-util/CM/DEPEND/xauth-sig.sml smlnj:/usr/lib/smlnj/src/eXene/graph-util/CM/DEPEND/xauth.sml smlnj:/usr/lib/smlnj/src/eXene/graph-util/CM/x86-unix/xauth-sig.sml.bin smlnj:/usr/lib/smlnj/src/eXene/graph-util/CM/x86-unix/xauth.sml.bin smlnj:/usr/lib/smlnj/src/eXene/graph-util/xauth-sig.sml smlnj:/usr/lib/smlnj/src/eXene/graph-util/xauth.sml freeswan:/usr/share/doc/freeswan-2.04/std/draft-beaulieu-ike-xauth-02.txt XFree86:/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth XFree86:/usr/X11R6/man/man1/xauth.1x.bz2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ When a compile barfs because it's looking for a specific file, urpmf is ideal for identifying exactly which -devel RPM(s) can provide that file. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ urpmf xrender.pc libxorg-x11-devel:/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xrender.pc libxfree86-devel:/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xrender.pc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Debian flamewar
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 14:11, Bob Bell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:09:50AM -0500, Jason Stephenson <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It was largely the issues of "package management" that made me decide to > > go with FreeBSD and OpenBSD for my computers at home, instead of various > > flavors of GNU/Linux. I found the ports collections to be the solution > > to deb and rpm hells. > > If you want to try Linux again sometime, I suggest you consider Gentoo. > Probably the most similar to the BSDs wrt ports and such. I use it and > like it. There would certainly be a learning curve, but there's a lot > of good documentation at gentoo.org. I wholeheartedly agree. We run a Gentoo box here, an old dual-PII/350 with a couple of SCSI drives. It gets fairly light duty; its main 24/7 job is running an Enemy Territory server (at et.hubnetworking.net, if anyone on the list cares to drop by ). Gentoo's package management system, "portage", is just a joy to work with, IMHO. As for the RPM-based distros, I think Mandrake's urpm* tools are superb. Just my $0.02USD ... -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Play wav files from serial input
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 15:26, Charles Farinella wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 15:11, Bill Freeman wrote: > > > (I'd been happily converting records to digital until > > my laptop died last year.) > > I've been wanting to do that for awhile, but haven't been able to > motivate myself enough to figure out how. Tips? Brief rundown? I use Audacity for this; it's versatile, has a nice GUI, and you can save your recording as a "project" (for me, that's usually an entire album, with recording having been paused while I flipped it over) in Audacity's native format. Whether saved or not, one can then easily export selections from that project into the individual wav/mp3/ogg files corresponding to each track, optionally adding mp3id info. It pays to have reasonable acreage to work with on disk, of course, especially if you plan on doing multiple editing operations on the entire project. Note that you'll need to have the appropriate libraries installed to be able to use the mp3 and ogg formats - liblame & libvorbis, IIRC - and there's some other lib for mp3id support. Some distributions have made the lame lib (and its variants) a wee bit more difficult to locate and install than others ones have ... or so I gather from the folks (the "lamers"?) that will even admit to using that sort of thing. *cough* ;) -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Remote Debian install?
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 10:44, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Between Randy's and Bill's replies, I think I've figured it out. Please > let me know if anyone sees any holes in it: > > 1) Log into my RH box. 1a) Run swapoff. ;) > 2) Take the swap partition out of /etc/fstab. > 3) Fdisk the swap partition to be type 83, and format it with a "real" FS. > 4) Do a minimal install of Debian on a machine local to me. > 5) Tar the files over (via SSH or somesuch) to the RH box's former swap > partition. > 6) Configure /etc/fstab to reflect its new reality. > 7) MAKE SURE that networking (modules and config) are correct. > 8) MAKE SURE that ssh is set to start automatically. > 9) Make the bootloader on the RH side point to the Debian side. > 10) Type "reboot", and hope... > > Assuming it comes up, I've got a minimal Debian install. It occurs to me that if RH is now using lilo as its bootloader, you are lucky, as this gives you a useful safety valve in the event that the Debian install *doesn't* boot properly for whatever reason. Rather than setting up the Debian install as the default option in RH's lilo.conf (as I had originally suggested), a more prudent approach would be to leave the default set to RH, run "/sbin/lilo -v" to write out the new MBR, and then run "/sbin/lilo -R debian" (assuming that "debian" is the label you gave to the new "image=" entry). When you reboot, the "debian" option will be selected, even though the default remains intact. If it fails, all it takes is asking the host to reboot the machine manually, and it will come back up running RH again. One hopes that they don't charge an arm and a leg for a button push. :) The only other consideration that comes to mind as a possible obstacle to a successful Debian boot is the initrd file that will be created on the local Debian machine, and then used on the target system; if the target box has SCSI drives, or anything else that would require one or more kernel modules to be present in the initrd, you may need to remake the Debian initrd to include them. An examination of the current RH install (lsmod, etc.) should tell you if this will be necessary or not, and if it is, which module(s) you'll need. You should be able to work "within" the Debian install on the remote system, at least to some extent, while RH is running by doing: mount -t proc proc /mnt/debian/proc chroot /mnt/debian /bin/bash source /etc/profile Hopefully, this will let you run mkinitrd or whatever else is needed to tweak Debian into a working state. At the very least, apt-get and such should work properly from here. If you need to remake the initrd file, though, it'd probably be easier to just do that on the local install and then copy the thus-created file over to the remote one. If RH uses lilo, you'll have to run /sbin/lilo again after replacing the Deb initrd file. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Remote Debian install?
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 11:41, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Hi, all. I've got a machine I want to install Debian on. So far, so
> good. Now the bad news: it's in California, at a hosting service.
> It's running RH (Fedora). I can get the hosting service to install
> Debian for me, but it'll cost me $150. Can anyone think of a
> mechanism by which I could install Debian from a RH box?
I'm not up on the various ways one can install Debian, but you could do
this with Gentoo easily enough; perhaps there is a parallel method for
Debian? The key is to create new partitions for the new install - you
won't be able to install "over" the existing RH install remotely.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=0
I suppose that one could ...
1. Create a fairly minimal Debian install locally, on any convenient
partition, to form the basis for your target system (you can flesh it
out later, once it's up & running on the target box);
2. Configure the networking on this local install as would be correct on
the target system (as to IP address, gateway, resolv.conf);
3. Install sshd & configure it to run at boot time;
4. Edit /etc/mod{ules,probe}.conf to load the correct module for the NIC
on the target system;
5. Edit /etc/fstab to reflect where the various partitions will live on
the target system;
6. Shut it down, reboot the box to another Linux (either one installed
on that system or one on a livecd/rescue disk, doesn't matter);
5. Tar up the entire Debian installation into a single tarball;
6. Use scp to get the tarball onto the target box;
7. Ssh in and create the new partitions, mkfs 'em, and mount them as
/mnt/debian (this will be Debian's root partition), /mnt/debian/usr,
/mnt/debian/var, etc.;
8. "cd /mnt/debian && tar xzvf /path/to/tarball.tar.gz";
9. Adjust the RH bootloader config to add an entry for the Debian kernel
& root partition, and make that the default option (if RH uses lilo,
don't forget to run "/sbin/lilo -v" after editing /etc/lilo.conf );
10. Reboot, ssh in, re-configure the bootloader from the Debian install
(thereby rewriting the RH-created MBR with one created from Debian);
11. Reboot once more, ssh in again, and take it from there.
I hope I haven't left anything out ... who knows, it just might work! ;)
HTH!
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Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 23:56, Fred wrote: > So, maybe some of you have had some banking experience. Is there some > sort of obscure Federal regulation or similar that stipulates that > financial institutions can only allow a max of 90 days of data at a time > to the customer? And why would their be such an inane restriction, > anyway? I suspect that the real issue here is merely one of storage space; by setting a fixed period for which they will make data available (last 90 days, last 3 statement periods, whatever), they can move enough transactions out of the database to keep up with the new transactions being added, all while keeping their online storage capacity fairly static and predictable. If there's one thing that bankers like, it's "static and predictable" ... especially when it comes to expense items. ;) Years ago, before online banking existed, I was a mainframe operator for a statewide bank in Concord. We had the same policy then for the account history data that we made available to the tellers over the online system - current statement period plus the last two, that's it; everything beyond that was archived. Disk packs aren't cheap. :) -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Migration from Windows to Linux
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 19:34, David Ecklein wrote: > However, to repeat my example, consider that most people running Windows are > today on the internet and are probably using Outlook Express. A good part > of the difficulty in migration is right there. If they have been at it for > a few years, their email archives are voluminous and constitute a > significant value to them. Their address books and various settings have > grown like Topsy. A utility to transfer such OE accounts into even one of > its Linux equivalents would go a long way to getting people off the fence. > Some sort of cataloging such aids to migration would be a good core for a > migration manual, and a powerful promotion for wider Linux usage. The best pre-migration strategy I've heard yet is to get used to using FOSS apps on the Win platform first, wherever possible (such as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, etc.). This isn't practical in all cases, of course. As for getting a mail store out of Outbreak/OE, the easiest method is to set up an IMAP server on the Linux box, and then connect to it from Outlook (by creating a new IMAP account). You can then create whatever folders you want on the IMAP server and move the messages directly from the local folders to the IMAP ones, all within Outlook; all decent Linux mail clients support IMAP (though Kmail's support of it could be better, IMHO), so the mail is now equally available from within any of them once you make the switch - just set "localhost" as the server name. On a Mandrake box, doing the following as root would get IMAP running: urpmi imap chkconfig imap on chkconfig imaps on service xinetd restart That doesn't do anything for the address book, but it's a start ... ;) Here are a few links that you might find useful in your quest: http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-roadmap.html http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6705 http://www.kbst.bund.de/Anlage304428/Migration_Guide.pdf HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: VoIP and Asterisk
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 17:05, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > The 32 internal phones could be a bit of a problem. If you are planning > on switching to IP phones, then it's no problem. You just plug the > phones and the asterisk box into the network. You could also switch to > "soft-phones" and have people use their PC's as their phones. You can > get IP phones fairly cheap if you just want standard desk phones. > > If you want to keep the 32 analog phones, then there could be a problem, > as you would need 32 FXS ports (8 cards x 4 ports each), and I don't > know too many systems that have 9 or 10 PCI slots. However, chances are, > the phones that you have are not analog phones. They are most likely > digital, and would require an ATA. You could use two channel banks, with one of them connected to all eight outgoing lines and sixteen of the internal lines, and the other hooked up to the remaining internal lines, and then all you'd need on the box are two PCI slots (for T100P's), AFAICT. It seems that this could also be handled by running two (or more) asterisk boxes, and letting them hand off calls between themselves; between them there would be enough PCI slots for sufficient h/w to accommodate the analog lines, and IIUIC, asterisk is designed to interoperate well with itself in exactly this fashion. See sections 2.3.2 and 2.3.3, respectively, in: http://www.digium.com/handbook-draft.pdf -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Spam control (was: BitTorrent and Comcast?)
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There also seems to be the new trend of sending crap emails that have no > content and random words.. I think those are just sent to verify email > addresses, but then there's no product or service being sold. I believe that he aim of such messages is to poison the cache of filters such as SpamAssassin and POPFile, which use Bayesian techniques that are based on the relative likelihood of certain words and phrases appearing in spam messages vs. the chance of them showing up in "ham" messages. By including a raft of words chosen at random, these mails skew the results of the classifier, polluting the "likely to be spam" word list with words that are not at all likely to be found in "real" spam, thus diminishing the effectiveness of the filter - in theory, anyway. I'm not at all sure that this sort of thing accomplishes its goal, though, as many of the words that appear in these messages are in fact rather obscure (that's what you get when you pick words at random from a list), and are therefore rather less likely to appear in a legitimate "ham" mail than they are to show up in one of these "pseudo-spam" ones. So, it may just be a wash. On the off chance that the technique works, I delete these "pseudo-spams" outright, rather than using them as fodder for sa-learn; hopefully, this tactic circumvents their authors' intent. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 16:05, Bill Freeman wrote: > Does anyone know whether Comcast considers using BitTorrent as > a client to be a terms of service violation (because each client also > serves)? I can't get a straight answer out of Comcast customer > support. They just quote the sections of the terms of service that > caused me to ask in the first place. But it's not clear to me whether > a BitTorrent client is what they consider to be, legally, a "server". > What probably matters is whether their network monitoring people watch > for, notice, and object to, the kind of activity that BitTorrent > generates. > > Any experiences, positive, negative, or otherwise? I have no idea whether or not they include BT under their definition (though I can certainly see how they might), but I can attest to having used the BT client about two dozen times now on Comcast-connected systems, without my having heard a peep from them about it - and that includes leaving it up for 12-24 hours after the d/l completes, in order to achieve a share ratio > 1.0. I think it's probably relatively safe to postulate three things: 1) That a strict interpretation of the rule would encompass BT on the list of servers, as it involves an app listening for and responding to connects originating from other systems, and then sending them data; 2) That they probably haven't given BT much thought, as it likely makes up only a tiny fraction of the P2P traffic on their net by comparison with KaZaa and whatever else is popular on Wintendo boxes these days; 3) That if they are monitoring BT traffic at all, it seems that they are not inclined (ATM) to be draconian in their attitude towards it. That's just based on my limited experience, though; hope it helps some. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Comcast blocking port 25? (not what you think)
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Mark Komarinski wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 11:42:56AM -0400, Travis Roy wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > >Why don't they just use Comcasts provided SMTP server? What is the > > >real benefit of having them send through your server? > > > > It's always been setup that way.. And I think the comcast server > > requires some kind of auth, and my parents never even setup a > > @comcast.net email address. > > None of that is needed. I have my machine forwarding via > smtp.comcast.com without authentication and it shows up as if coming > directly from wayga.org. See the headers for more info. > > Just have them use smtp.comcast.net as their SMTP server, but leave the > rest of the headers as-is. Seconded. I send through them all mail to sites that block me via an RBL, and don't have problems, even though the From: address is my own. I also do not use a Comcast address on this (or any other) mail. Their servers accept all mail that comes from any node within their network; all they monitor for, AIUI, is volume (to identify customers that are spammers). Your folks should be able to change their SMTP setting within Outbreak to "smtp.comcast.net", and never notice any difference ... other than that their mail now goes out successfully, of course. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "If I call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs does the dog have? Five? No, four, because calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg." - A. Lincoln ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Comcast blocking port 25? (not what you think)
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Travis Roy wrote: > I just find it stupid that they would do something like this. It's one > thing to block port 80 since running a webserver is against the AUP/TOS, > but to block access to an outside mail server smells of crushing the > competition and limiting choice. I highly doubt that this has anything to do with that, and everything to do with an attempt to limit the ability of compromised Wintendo boxes to spew spam directly from their Comcast connection to MTAs the world over. By forcing their customers to pass all outbound mail via Comcast's own SMTP servers, they nip all of that unwanted behavior in the bud; it just happens to impact your (non-standard) arrangement as "collateral damage." -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't." - Robert Benchley ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: On Nh living and commutes..
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Travis Roy wrote: > Bruce Dawson wrote: > > > If you're paid from a MA company, there are no income tax benefits to > > living in NH and working in MA. You still have to pay MA income tax - > > your company will automatically take it out of your paycheck. > > Yes, but you get some back, unlike most MA residents. As someone who has lived in both states (for several years each) while working in MA, this blanket statement varies greatly from my experience. Care to expand a bit on the reasoning behind this conclusion, Travis? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: On Nh living and commutes..
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Bruce Dawson wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 16:24, Jared Watkins wrote: > >... > > reasonable housing costs... and if I can live in NH and enjoy the > > extra tax benefits that brings.. all the better. > > Ummm. I surprised that no one mentioned this before. If you're paid from > a MA company, there are no income tax benefits to living in NH and > working in MA. You still have to pay MA income tax - your company will > automatically take it out of your paycheck. Adding to that burden, it's worth pointing out that if you work in MA but live in NH, and that residence in NH is rented, there is a double-whammy awaiting you - if you were renting in MA, a portion of your rent would be deductible on your MA income tax; residents of other states who work in MA are not allowed to partake of this modicum of relief. :( -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Server/mail/naming setup theory
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Jason Stephenson wrote: > Dan Jenkins wrote: > > > In /etc/postfix/transport, add these lines: > > aol.com smtp:[smtp.bur.adelphia.net] > > netscape.net smtp:[smtp.bur.adelphia.net] > > earthlink.net smtp:[smtp.bur.adelphia.net] > > rcn.net smtp:[smtp.bur.adelphia.net] > > I missed a bit of that discussion, but does the above tell postfix to > actually relay through that server or does it tell postfix to "spoof" > that server on HELO? It tells Postfix to to relay through that server mail for those specific domains. After any changes are made to that file, one needs to then run "postmap /etc/postfix/transport" and "postfix reload" to enable them. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Server/mail/naming setup theory
connecting from, and do a reverse DNS lookup on it. If they do not > > get a response, they refuse your mail. Your current address > > (68.235.175.211 as I write this) does reverse properly, but if that > > does not always occur, you may lose mail. > > This is what the problem is I believe, so I think I want to change the > configuration of postfix to accept mail going to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a factor in mail outbound from your system, not inbound, and when you set your ISP's server as the relay host, it ceases to be a problem. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem." -- J. A. Dever ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Server/mail/naming setup theory
would it be > worth it to set up dns on my home network? I get my internet IP > dynamically, and all my internal hosts (5) except for my server are > dynamic. so if this is the case, I would also be very greatful for some > pointers on that. No need; just put "mail.me.org" into each of the other system's /etc/hosts files as one of the names by which your server is known, and point all of your mail clients to that address, so that they all use your mail server to send, rather than any local SMTP server (and have them use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the sender). Assuming that you are using 192.168.0.x addresses on your LAN, set $mynetworks in the server's main.cf as follows: mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 If you have a static external hostname, you should be pretty much all set at this point. If not, then you're faced with having to keep the A record at ZoneEdit updated when your IP address changes. There are a number of mechanisms by which one can accomplish this, but we'll need to know more about your firewall system(/device) to know which one will work best. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem." -- J. A. Dever ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Can this be protected?
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Tilly, Lawrence wrote: > Now, I've heard of bots similar to what search engines use that crawl > the web and scour for email addresses on web sites. It sounds very > reasonable of a tactic and if it doesn't actually happen now I'm sure it > will very soon. I have also heard suggestions on how to present your > email so people can decipher it but automated systems wouldn't recognize > it as an address ( such as writing: "lawrence AT foo.com" vs. > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ). Normally this is fine except for two things: >1. Some friends and family members are a little less technically > inclined than others and may not figure out how to translate that > without an obvious and distracting explanation. >2. I would really like to simplify things (for those same members) > by using the mailto: tag, but I don't know if the actual HTML code > including the mailto would be scanned by spam-crawlers and defeat the > whole thing. There are a number of methods to do this, which involve substitution of ASCII codes for the actual characters themselves; here is one: http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/content.php?pageid=2609 While it is not impossible by any means, it is IMHO unlikely that a bot would be written to waste time trying to deconstruct such an obfuscated address, when there are so many plain-text addresses out there which can be far more readily (and, therefore, speedily) harvested. Another option would be to present a link to a page containing a form that the user can fill out to send you their message; this would enable you to avoid making the address itself visible (or otherwise available) at all. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, "The glass is twice as big as there is any need for it to be." ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: p2p, anonymity and security
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Greg Rundlett wrote: > I would like to get bittorrent working, to be able to download ISO's and > free software more quickly than perhaps I've been able to in the past, > and at the same time donate my spare bandwidth to those around me who > are looking for the same files. [snip] > I poked a few holes in my Linksys to forward packets to my Linux server. I have no experience with other P2P apps than BitTorrent (and no interest in them, really), but I can tell you that to get the most out of BT, you need to tell your router to forward ports 6881 through 6889 inclusive to the internal machine running BT. You also need to limit the upload rate to no more than about 60-70% of your upstream bandwidth, or the inability to send packets in a timely fashion will choke your download speeds - and not just the BT d/l speed, but everything else on the box (browsing, etc.). How the upload rate is limited will vary from client to client; with the ncurses client, it's a command-line option (--max_upload_rate). I have no idea how this is done with MLdonkey, nor do I know if it can support the range of open ports that BT requires for proper (IOW, fast) operation. You may have better luck with another client for the BitTorrent stuff - one that is more specifically tailored to BT, and not one that "tacks it on". > So, my first question...Is a Linksys Router doing 'firewall' duty and > NAT easy to get past? If the answer is yes, then what should I do? Use > a firewall-specific distro to convert my old P133MHz box into a Linux > firewall? Maybe someone wants $100 to come over and show me how it's > done? (location Newburyport, MA or E. Kingston, NH) It should be acting as a reasonably effective firewall, and should only be permeable on those specific ports you have left open /and/ forwarded to an internal system. Should you opt to replace it with Linux, I've had great results with SmoothWall (http://www.smoothwall.org), which is very easy to install, works on low-spec systems, and has a browser-based interface. It also includes the Squid proxy, and Snort for intrusion detection/logging. As for your offer, I'd take it, but I have no transportation (I'm in North Andover, MA, a stone's throw from 495). If that's not a problem for you, send me an e-mail and we'll set a mutually-convenient date and time. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 Veni, vidi, velcro. "I came, I saw, I stuck around." -- Anonymous ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: dialup to MSN with Linux?
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Matt Oquist wrote: > 2. does anyone have a local dialup ISP they recommend over MSN (which >costs $20/mo)? If by "local" you mean NH, friends of mine have had good service from: http://www.bit-net.com $20/mo./unlimited, plenty of access numbers, not Linux-phobic. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem." -- J. A. Dever ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: named madness
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Joshua S. Freeman wrote: > Hey folks.. hope everyone is managing to stay warm... I host about 10 > domains on my linux box. Usually I only really do anything with a few > of them.. I wanted to fire one up tonight... www.xstatic.org... but i > can't get it to go... below, you can seewhat i see in /var/log/messages > when I restart named.. but also, check out > http://monica.threeofus.com/gmi/named.txt and > http://monica.threeofus.com/gmi/xstatichost.txt. > > So you can see what named is reading when it starts... > > Any idea why I'm getting that 'unexpected end of input' error when named > tries to restart xstatic.org? Just a WAG, but perhaps the lack of a trailing dot in line 11 (the 2nd NS definition line - "nic.cent.net") of xstatichost.txt? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem." -- J. A. Dever ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Maybe time for a new distro?
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Also, SuSE is relatively strong financially being part of Novell. > Mandrake was recently in the French bankruptcy court, [...] FWIW, Mandrake just reported it's first quarter in the black: http://www.newsforge.com/business/04/01/22/1249249.shtml?tid=2&tid=82&tid=94 -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem." -- J. A. Dever ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Maybe time for a new distro?
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, brian wrote:
Brian, I second Brian's motion; here is another recommendation for
Mandrake. :)
> Been using Redhat for years (still have my 5.0 installation CD's and
> diskette from Redhat (am on 9.0 currently)).
As Mandrake is an RPM-based distro, you should feel right at home. MDK was
also originally (way back when) based on RH, so you'll find little that is
unfamiliar to you about the layout, runlevels, initscripts, etc. etc. ...
> Some would consider this a character flaw, I know, and don't really
> care.
Certainly, there's something to be said for brand loyalty. :)
> However, I've been thinking recently of switching to a different distro,
> mostly for "because" reasons and partially to just try other things.
> I've also got a fair amount of Debian experience, FWIW.
Things you'll recognize in MDK from Debian:
The unified menu system, gives you the same menu tree in all WMs
The "/etc/alternatives" system comes from Debian also, IIRC
The single best MDK innovation, IMHO, is the urpm* suite of tools. They
rival Debian's apt system in functionality, and make installation of RPMs
virtually effortless (and "Dependency Hell" largely a thing of the past).
When a compile is looking for a file, you can't beat urpmf for finding the
package that provides it - whether or not it's been installed yet; issuing
"urpmi filename" will get it and its deps, from CD or d/l or local dir or
NFS or any combination of those (as needed), and install them all. Sweet.
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/brpm3.html
> My major wants/needs are:
> Support for my dual-head ATI card
Anything a version of X can do, MDK with that version of X can do, AFAICT.
> Gnome out-of-the-box (preferred)
MDK includes it - and it's not a neutered version, like RH's KDE ... ;)
> Some degree of mutli-media support ("stereophonic beeps" are usually
> sufficient for me)
With the RPMs found in the PLF and contrib collections, multimedia support
is just fine; I watch TV and DVDs on this 9.0 box routinely. Mandrake's
hardware detection is pretty decent as well, IMHO.
> Ability to function well as a server for Mysql/perl/cgi type stuff
All that and more is there; MDK is a solid server platform, with things
like Apache2 available if you're interested (and Apache1 if you're not).
MDK's default versions of Apache are impressively tweaked ones, BTW:
http://www.advx.org/specs.php
Another useful MDK toolset is msec, the Mandrake Security system:
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php
> Any suggestions/ideas/comments/thoughts/flames welcome...
If you decide to try it, do a tiny bit of reading first:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/FiveStarNews
The latter URL is a page of the MDK Community Twiki, a project of the
Mandrake Expert mailing list members; some good info to be found there.
After install, go to this page and follow the directions there to set up
(at least) PLF, contrib and update sources for your urpm* database :
http://www.urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php
Stay away from the secsup.org mirrors, they're broken ATM.
The GUI software manager (rpmdrake) uses urpmi as its backend, so all of
the packages at those sources will now be in its s/w lists as well.
HTH!
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Re: Comcast to raise prices again?
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Scott Garman wrote: > In regards to a claim made by the article, "The company also plans to > double the downstream speeds for Internet service, which it said would > occur at no additional cost to customers," - I'll believe it when I see > it. According to an alledgedly informed source who regularly posts in the Usenet newsgroup attbi.ne.techtalk.general, this bandwidth upgrade (which has already taken place on several other branches of the Comcast network) is slated for 1/24/04 for the MA/NH region, and will at that time only require the power-cycling of the modem on (or after) that date for it to take effect. No upstream b/w changes. FWIW ... WMNBM. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem." -- J. A. Dever ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Domain Registrar?
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Charlie Farinella wrote: > We need a new Domain Name Registrar since the one we've been using > (Discount Domain Registry) must have ignored their Viagra spam and can't > seem to stay up. > > Can anyone recommend someone to us? Reliable and cheap, please. I've had consistently good experiences with http://joker.com ... I've been involved with six domain purchases from them, which have all gone well. One thing they do *not* do is make your domain immmediately available to others (i.e. squatters) if you inadvertently let it expire; they give you a 30-day window after expiration in which to renew it. Nice touch. Current pricing is approx. $12.32USD/yr for com/net/org domains, subject to the euro exchange rate in effect at purchase time (as joker.com is a service of CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH, a German firm). They also offer domains under the info and biz TLDs. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'" -- Dave Barry ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: OT: Help decoding SPAMMER's encoding of my contact info
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Michael ODonnell wrote: > I wrote: > >>> The encoded string is: > >>> > >>> MTA2NDIwL21vZEB3b3JsZC5zdGQuY29tLy8 > >> > >>It's base64. The decoded string is: > >> > >>106420/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>HTH! > > > >It does help - thanks! For the benefit of those here gathered, please > >reveal your methods; how did you decode it? Is there a simple filter > >already existing (along the lines of uudecode) or did you have to write > >something? > > Ah! Never mind - I should have known that there'd already be something > in place. I just said "apropos 64" on my Debian system and it told me > about base64-decode... I used "mimencode -u" on my Mandrake box, FWIW. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'" -- Dave Barry ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: OT: Help decoding SPAMMER's encoding of my contact info
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Michael ODonnell wrote: > The encoded string is: > > MTA2NDIwL21vZEB3b3JsZC5zdGQuY29tLy8 It's base64. The decoded string is: 106420/[EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'" -- Dave Barry ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Domain Hosting/Mail Fwding vendor?
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, joe kagenski wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has a suggestion for a vendor for domain > host/email forwarder functions? I use a free account at http://www.zoneedit.com for this, works great. Look at the setting up the option called "MailForwards". -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Is there no depth to which MickeySoft won't sink?
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Bill Mullen wrote: > As Sylvester might say, "They'e desspicable!" ... ;) Ummm, now that I think of it, that was Daffy Duck, wasn't it? Oops. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you *are* the sucker." - Mike McDermott ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Is there no depth to which MickeySoft won't sink?
Remember the Xbox Linux Project? Apparently, M$ is now fighting back, and doing so in their typical sneaky, "slip it to them in the background, both unrequested and unapproved by them" fashion: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39116400,00.htm Excerpt: = "Microsoft is updating Internet-enabled Xbox game consoles with a software patch that blocks users from installing the Linux operating system on the machine, and also apparently deletes some files Linux users have stored on the Xbox's hard drive, according to the Xbox Linux Project." "The group also noted that some Xbox Live-enabled games appear to automatically connect to Microsoft servers, identifying the machine running the game, without the need for an Xbox Live account." = As Sylvester might say, "They'rrrre desspicable!" ... ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you *are* the sucker." - Mike McDermott ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Latest wrinkle in the Verisign saga
Article: http://securityfocus.com/news/7009 Excerpt: On Wednesday, Boston-based Internet security and privacy consultant Richard Smith found buried in the SiteFinder page a so-called "Web bug," an invisible image file delivering a cookie that doesn't expire for five years. "This certainly means the culling of some information", said Smith. "They're getting a sense of what domain names are mistyped, and perhaps this can be used by a domain name sales company. In addition, Overture is a pay for click search engine, with questionable affiliates." -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU # 270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you *are* the sucker." - Mike McDermott ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: adm and address blocking
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Thomas M. Albright wrote: > Additionally, i've been getting attacked from ipt.aol.com. They own the > address range from 172.128.0.0 - 172.211.255.255 What would be the > netmask to block a range like that? 172.128.0.0/8 would block the entire > class B, right? 172.128.0.0/8 would select the entire class A, and would be essentially the same as 172.0.0.0/8, AFAICT - the mask is 8 bits long, encompassing therefore the first number in "dotted-quad" notation. A B network would have a 16-bit netmask. The range you describe is actually comprised of an amalgam of subnets of the 172.0.0.0 network, and in order to block exactly those addresses (and not inadvertently block any others, due to an overly-broad specification), you'll need to separate them out and block them individually. Network/MaskRange 172.128.0.0/10 172.128.0.0-172.191.255.255 172.192.0.0/12 172.192.0.0-172.207.288.255 172.208.0.0/14 172.208.0.0-172.211.255.255 HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU # 270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." - Andy Rooney ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
ATTENTION: Netgear router users
Here is a copy of a post made by Gary G. Taylor to various Linux news groups on Monday; if you run a Netgear router, it's worth reading, as the problems described in the post appear to be valid, AFAICT. The affected routers contain a hard-coded IP address to which they are sending SNTP packets, often as frequently as one per second, which is causing a DDOS effect on the target time server, located at the U. of Wisconsin. It seems that several Netgear router models have a flaw which has caused an unintended denial of service attack on the University of Wisconsin. You can read details here: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ It is estimated that there are 700,000 affected routers, of various models, out there worldwide. If you are using a Netgear router please update your firmware to the most recent version. The Netgear product support download pages begin here: http://www.netgear.com/support/dnld_main.asp Not only is this flaw causing problems for the University of Wisconsin but it must also be using bandwidth across the entire internet, so it is in our interests to cap off this traffic as well as being good neighbours on the internet. You can also help by distributing knowledge of this flaw elsewhere, in discussion forums, newsgroups, chatrooms etc. If you know of anybody who uses a netgear router product you may consider mentioning the flaw. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend." - James Lileks ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: in the MX record??
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Jason Kern wrote: > I will be hosting a site for someone who has an exchange server set up > locally. Mail traffic for the domain needs to end up at that server > rather than be hosted on my web server (sendmail). Can I just have the > MX record in DNS set to point to their exchange server? Or does the MX > record point to my server which redirects via SendMail config? The > exchange server has only a dedicated IP address. As long as their mail server has an IP address that is directly accessible from the WAN, having the MX record point to it should work. If the target system has a valid hostname that one can retrieve by doing a reverse lookup on the IP address, then use that in the MX record - if not, use any "A" record name that points to that IP address. CNAMEs should not be used in MX records. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't." - Robert Benchley ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Mouse swapping on a laptop
Dan Coutu said: > My laptop has a touchpad mouse built-in and that works fine with my > mouse setting as a generic 2-button ps/2 mouse. I have a Logitech > wireless wheel mouse that I attach to it when working with it on the > desktop. I do use the touchpad when take the computer elsewhere, no > point in dragging around a load of hardware. > > What I'm trying to determine is whether or not there's a way to enable > use of the wheel on the cordless mouse without making a mess of the > mouse behavior when it is not plugged in. I'd suggest creating two "InputDevice" sections in your XF86Config-4 file, one for each pointer, and two corresponding "ServerLayout" sections. You can then start X with the first ServerLayout by default, and specify the second explicitly on those occasions when you need it. Which is which depends on which configuration you use more frequently. Let's say, for example, that you want the wheel mouse to be the default. The InputDevice sections would look like: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse2" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" EndSection The ServerLayout sections would look like: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout2" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse2" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection When home (where the mouse is connected), you would start X in whatever fashion you routinely do now, and "layout1" will be used, because it is the first one encountered in the XF86Config-4 file. When traveling (without the mouse), you would start X from a console rather than from a display manager, with a command line like: startx -- -layout layout2 HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Perl help
Erik Price said: > > Cole Tuininga wrote: >> Got a perl question for y'all. I rarely have to do anything with >> perl, and I'm sure perl has a good reason for behaving like the >> following, but heck if I can figure it out. >> >> The perl cookbook suggestions using sprintf for rounding floats. This >> seemingly works fine: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e 'print sprintf( "%.2f\n", 0.562 )' >> 0.56 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: perl -e 'print sprintf( "%.2f\n", 0.567 )' >> 0.57 >> >> However, I'm extremely confused by the following: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e 'print sprintf( "%.2f\n", 0.565 )' >> 0.56 > > I don't have an answer, Cole, but the same happens in Python and I'd bet > in C as well -- must be a convention of the printf routines: > > Python 2.2.2 (#1, Mar 9 2003, 08:18:26) > [GCC 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)] on cygwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> print "%.2f\n" % 0.562 > 0.56 > > >>> print "%.2f\n" % 0.567 > 0.57 > > >>> print "%.2f\n" % 0.565 > 0.56 It's kind of a kludge, but perhaps adding some very small value such as 0.1 just prior to the rounding will get the result you want? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e 'print sprintf( "%.2f\n", 0.56501 )' 0.57 -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: [gnhlug-announce] Books for review and door prizes
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, brian wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 13:30, Morbus Iff wrote: > > > Incidentally, I contributed to Linux Server > > Hacks, and did Perl consulting on Google Hacks ;) > > To anyone who hasn't read it, the Linux Server Hacks book is a great > collection of, well, hacks. That book was (to me at least) worth 3x > it's cover price. Well, there's that review done, then. Good job, nice and concise. So, who gets the book, since you already have a copy? ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Errr! DSL is here, DSL is gone.
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > FWIW, it should also be possible to have the firewall fix-up script > invoked automatically when the "dhcpcd" daemon sees the new IP address. > It is supposed to be able to invoke an external program when that > happens. I've never tried it, though. It works, too. On RH/Mandrake systems (at least), you just name the script /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-.exe, and it will run whenever dhcpcd gets a new IP address on . I use it to update my system's "A record" on ZoneEdit's DNS servers, and then mail me my new IP address. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: DSL firewall/router solutions?
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, at 10:19am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Or, is it just easier to use iptables/netfilter on my system at home and > > make that the router/ firewall for my network? > > For someone with your experience level, Paul, I'd say to go with IPTables. > It isn't hard, and you'll never run into something you can't do. Perhaps the ideal solution would be to scare up a low-spec box and throw in a couple of cheap NICs, then put SmoothWall onto it. It'll give you everything a router can and more, is a snap to set up and configure, and you can ssh in to it and play with the config files directly when you have a particularly tricky hoop that needs jumping through. :) > Just don't define any routes via gateways that don't exist. ;-) Well, with the possible exception of that one ... ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Walmart.com sells Microtel PC with SuSE Linux software
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Sharpe, Richard wrote: > And I believe IBM already offers SuSE and Redhat on their PC's These are very promising developments for Linux, IMHO; as we all know, the most daunting aspect of running Linux for most people is the current need to install and configure it oneself. Preloads from reputable HW makers will remove that factor, and make it more likely that businesses (HP/IBM) and home users (WalMart) will be willing to "take the plunge". They also present Linux on a relatively equal footing with M$'s offerings, which is a milestone in and of itself. As a Mandrake devotee, I'm particularly excited about the HP deal ... it comes at an excellent time, just as the company has announced that they expect to successfully emerge from the Frech equivalent of Chapter 11 by the end of the year - the endorsement of the company and its product that is implicit in the HP contract can only help them in that regard. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Walmart.com sells Microtel PC with SuSE Linux software
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Sharpe, Richard wrote: > Good for SuSE!! > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/14/HNwalmartsuse_1.html Good for Mandrake!! :) http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2003070202226NWDPHW -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Samba + W2K question
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Derek Martin wrote: > Yup. Get the sources, unpack them, and have a look in > samba-2.2.8a/docs/htmldocs for the file Samba-PDC-HOWTO.html, which I > followed carefully and had no problems. One site I've found to be very helpful with Samba is: http://samba.netfirms.com They have pages on "Samba as a PDC" and "Add a Win PC to the domain", which may be useful in this case. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: OT from Tokyo
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, at 9:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. > > I encourage you to take all that stuff with a bit of salt. Long-time > members of this list sometimes resemble a group of people sitting around a > bar, debating the issue of the day. We're all loud and opinionated, but > really quite harmless and personable. :-) I'd hate for you to feel > unwelcome, or for the list to lose a contributor, just because someone got > their shorts twisted over a minor thing. :-) > > Speaking only for myself, but hoping I'm not alone. What Ben said. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: ISP TOS violations (was: web mail)
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Furthermore, if I were you, would not contact Adelphia about this. > It could easily backfire. They might not know or care about your > existing TOS violations, but complaining that you you are having trouble > violating their Terms Of Service might be considered asking for > punishment. :-) Couldn't agree more with Ben here. Ken, have you checked to see if port 443 is still allowed? If so, consider switching to using https ... which isn't a bad idea with SM anyway, IMHO. The "secure login" plugin ensures for me that my users use https whether they want to or not, and the "WebForward" that I have set up through ZoneEdit means that when they type "mail.domain.com" into their browser, they get directed to "https://domain.com/webmail/src/login.php"; ... :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, "The glass is twice as big as there is any need for it to be." ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Bandwidth Bog down ?
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, jim wrote: > Hi all! > Before I ask my question, Im very new to Linux (6 months). Im running > MDK 9.1, and through brute force and ignorance have managed to get an Apache > server up and running, Using PostNUke. I'm connecting with a Verizon DSL > (1.5/128K) going into a Linksys router. For some reason the speed just bogs > down when accessing my site. It will take several minutes just to load some > icon graphics. It has done this before, and it seemed that cycling the > power on the router fixed it. Although now it doesn't seem to fix it > anymore. Any ideas on where I should start to troubleshoot this? I've done > the google searches and can't seem to find anything. Your help is greatly > appreciated. > > The sites addy is http://www.edensplace.com:1515 (Verizon blocks port 80) You can always just ditch the router and hook the Mandrake box up to the DSL modem directly; just throw another NIC in there (Realtek-based ones can be had for about $10), and hook the router to that to serve any other machines you may have. You can set up the connection, the sharing, and the firewall pretty easily by using the Mandrake Control Center. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Merging file sub-trees
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In a message dated: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:49:57 EDT
> "Lee D. Rothstein" said:
>
> >>Are you sure you're using the Gnu 'cp'?
> >>My Debian man page has it mentioned and
> >>it seems to work for me.
> >
> >==
> >
> >No stinkin '--reply' option for:
> >
> >
> >cp, on Redhat:
> >--
> >$ cp --version
> >cp (fileutils) 4.1
> >
> >cp, on Cygwin:
> >--
> >$ cp --version
> >cp (fileutils) 4.1
>
>
> H:
>
> $ cp --version
> cp (fileutils) 4.1.9
> Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
>
>
> Maybe this option is new in 4.1.9 and those systems haven't upgraded yet?
Could be ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cp --version
cp (fileutils) 4.1.11
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
>From "man cp" on this (Mandrake 9.0) box:
--reply={yes,no,query}
specify how to handle the prompt about an existing
destination file
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Re: merging file sub-trees
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > At various different times 'mv' alone; or 'cp' followed by an 'rm' would > do this, but alas, no more. > > In brief, I want the merge to move everything from 'a' into 'c', > overwriting all like-named files, and merging everything else > > Example: > > > Two original directories in the current directory: 'a', 'c'. > > I would issue following command: > > $ merge a c > > on the following subtrees: > > -- > > a/ > 1.txt > a.txt > a/b/ > 3.txt > tenex.c > a/c > foo.txt > foobar.txt > > -- > > c/ > c/a/ > 1.txt > os360.o > c/a/b/ > tenex.c > larrysucks2.bat > c/b/ > aardvark.texi > bleet.1 > c/b/a/ > billsux.alot > > -- > > to yield the following results: > > -- > > c/ > c/a/ > 1.txt > a.txt > os360.o > c/a/b/ > 3.txt > tenex.c > larrysucks2.bat > c/b/ > aardvark.texi > bleet.1 > c/b/a/ > billsux.alot But what happened to: c/a/c/ foo.txt foobar.txt ? :) > How can I do this without writing the shell script from hell. And "cp -a --reply=yes a c/ && rm -fR a" won't do this? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Automating Red Hat updates (was Re: A call for recomendationsand helpful some advice)
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 21:14, Cole Tuininga wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 20:54, Derek D. Martin wrote: > > So, don't use up2date. If you have more than one system, it's > > certainly worth your bandwidth to simply mirror the Red Hat updates > > tree. Make the result an NFS export, and write a simple shell script > > to update your systems. If you don't want to get complicated, this > > script can be as simple as 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' (in the appropriate > > directory, of course). > > There's an assumption being made in this suggestion however. That is > that I can safely nfs export to the systems in question. Unfortunately > they are kind of scattered across the net, and having a system with an > open portmap and nfs server doesn't thrill me. Not to beat a dead horse here, but Mandrake's urpmi tool lets you define http and ftp sources as well as local/CD/nfs ones, which makes getting updates off a mirror on the LAN (or even installing from one, for that matter, which I've done about ten times) one *heck* of a lot simpler. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: A call for recomendations and helpful some advice
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 21:05, Derek D. Martin wrote: > At some point hitherto, Cole Tuininga hath spake thusly: > > I've never tried Mandrake as a server - how does it compare to RH or > > Debian? I have to say that the biggest thing keeping me on Debian for > > servers (and some of my personal desktop systems) is apt. > > My biggest reservation about running Mandrake is that I hard the > company isn't doing very well; it may soon disappear altogether (along > with support for it)... While it is true that the company is currently under the protection of the French bankruptcy court as it reorganizes (because the now-departed management made a litany of poor financial decisions, which left the outfit in considerable debt), the folks that work there who also post to the "Mandrake Expert" mailing list - such as Vincent Danen, who is the lead guy in charge of all security updates - seem to be confident that the current leadership have implemented sufficient changes, such as the new EOL policy (not unlike RedHat's, except that updates remain free) and the voluntary Mandrake Club, to enable the company both to satisfy the court's requirements and to eventually right their financial ship. Since the base distro itself is entirely GPLed, *including* Mandrake's various config tools, it is entirely likely (if not downright probable) that if, for whatever reason, the current company fails to survive, the prime movers behind it and/or others from the (quite loyal) user base will soon find a way to resurrect it in some fashion, IMHO. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
