[SLUG] Kernel (modem) prob
Hi I can't get my copy of RedHat 7 to compile a new image so as to run my modem. I even tryed a new install then without adding/removing a thing did a 'make menuconfig (OK), make dep (OK), make clean (OK), make bzImage (FAIL). I then downloaded some new Kernals to try to compile, I DL 2.2.18 , 2.4.1 and 2.4.3... 2.2.18 compiled ok after making a fue changes but toled me that I had a PS/2 mouse (I don't) and when I ran the mouse config set it to generic mouse on ttyS0 it refused to work ( also changed in X). 2.4.13 wheren't any good at all they had nuthing in the config menu at all. this whole proses was to get my modem to work. I'll start by saying that I am trying to use a 'LinModem' I know I know I know but I am unlucky enuf to have a PCTel modem (thats HSP to those in the know) you know a WinModem. I have the latest driver mods, have followed the steps and no joy. can someone help? Please no LOL's Robert S -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Strange behaviour of vim within mutt
Hi All, When using mutt I have set the editor to vim but the keymappings are wrong. The up arrow key when pressed opens the line above and inserts an 'A' though sometimes a D or C on that new blank line. if I hit escape before the arrow key then its fine the cursor moves up ie the problem occurs during insert mode. The problem does not occur when using vim outside of mutt. Similarly the down arrow key will give me a 'B' on a new line opened up below the current line. The only mention of vim is where I set that to be the editor: set editor=vim -c 'set tw=76 expandtab' I can't see any key bindings in muttrc that would cause this. Mike -- Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/ Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Anybody home ?
Hi, Is there anybody there or have I stuffed up my mail system (newly installed) ? PS: Didn't know that postfix used procmail. Does procmail work ok if it has no procmailrc file ? (Ie does it have a nice simple 'send everything' default ?) Regards, Confused sys admin/programmer/user everything under linux!!! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Killing a mount
On Sunday 06 May 2001 17:01, Howard Lowndes wrote: How do you kill an NFS mount that won't mount; kill -9 won't touch it. On my RedHat boxen I use: /etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs stop Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Video
Hi, I have recently acquired a digital videocam and want to do some capture/editing. I have the VCR-HOWTO that seems to give basic capture info, but it seems to me that that must be analogue signals. Anything special I need to know to do some basic editing, etc? What connections and software am I looking for? Also grateful for any info on sending video images to US relos that need to see it on NTSC systems. Thanks, Alan -- -- Alan L Tyree[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 419 638 170 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] outlook calender contacts substitute
Hi, Is there a substitute for using outlooks email, calender and contacts etc that would run on a windows PC but use a central linux server to hold the shared data? In other words a nice (windows) client and linux server email/calender and contacts solution. We cannot change the workstations over to Linux. regards Alister Waller (B. Comp) Technical Consultant - Roadtech Systems Ltd Phone: 02 98073516 Fax: 02 98085294 www.roadtechsystems.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] question... multiboot etc.
Michael wrote: Hi, Its come to the point where I require to rebuild my personal workstation. I was thinking of having the following setup. Just wanted to run it by a few of you for comments. hda windows98 (primary Xmb's) windows200 pro (primary Xmb's) hdab linux hdc cdrom OK, I'll throw my bit in. This is actually something that all (6 in total) of my machines do. If you want to keep 3 different OS's on the one boot disk, all in primary partitions I reackon this is the way to go: hda1- Partition magic (or equivalent boot manager) hda2- OS 1 (QNX) hda3- OS 2 (DOS / WIN) hda4- OS 3 (Linux - can be split into logical drives; hda5 /boot, hda6 / ) hdb, hdc etc do with as you like. While it wastes one primary partition (with only 1 cylinder needed on that partition) it does quite nicely ensure that only 1 primary partition is available to the system at boot. In addition, you can use lilo as well as long as it is installed on the 'first sector of boot partition' and NOT the MBR. Partition magic can also be used to boot from a partion on hdb, Sounds like a plug for Partition magic, but I actually discovered it while installing OS/2. It is now the only thing from OS/2 that I use. Regards, Andrew E. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Attn Michael Lake
Apologies to the rest of the list, but Michael, please check your email address. This one is bouncing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: 550 Invalid recipient [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to postoffice.uts.edu.au.: RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 Invalid recipient [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 5.1.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com ...well, it worked before _you_ touched it! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] configuring diald
On 07-May-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When dialling one of those ISPs that start ppp automatically,
what do you put in /etc/diald/connect - noauth or what?
The following connect script did the trick for me. It just initialises the
modem, dials the number and makes sure the call is answered by a modem.
You then need to put your login info in /etc/ppp/(ch|p)ap-secrets as someone
else has already described.
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script is hacked from an example provided with the most excellent
# diald.
#
# Copyright (c) 1996, Eric Schenk.
#
# This script is intended to give an example of a connection script that
# uses the message facility of diald to communicate progress through
# the dialing process to a diald monitoring program such as dctrl or diald-top.
# It also reports progress to the system logs. This can be useful if you
# are seeing failed attempts to connect and you want to know when and why
# they are failing.
#
# This script requires the use of chat-1.9 or greater for full
# functionality. It should work with older versions of chat,
# but it will not be able to report the reason for a connection failure.
# Configuration parameters
# The initialization string for your modem
# MODEM_INIT=ATZL0C1D2%C0
MODEM_INIT=ATZ
MODEM_INIT2=ATM0L0C1D2%C0W1
# The phone number to dial
PHONE_NUMBER=08005190100
#PHONE_NUMBER=08005190150
# The chat sequence to recognize that the remote system
# is asking for your user name.
#USER_CHAT_SEQ=
# The string to send in response to the request for your user name.
#USER_NAME=
# The chat sequence to recongnize that the remote system
# is asking for your password.
#PASSWD_CHAT_SEQ=
# The string to send in response to the request for your password.
#PASSWORD=
# The prompt the remote system gives to indicate it will dial back.
#DIALBACK=
# The prompt the remote system will give once you are logged in
# If you do not define this then the script will assume that
# there is no command to be issued to start up the remote protocol.
#PROMPT=ocol:
# The command to issue to start up the remote protocol. If this
# is defined, issue it even if PROMPT is not defined.
#PROTOCOL_START=slip
# The string to wait for to see that the protocol on the remote
# end started OK. If this is empty then no check will be performed.
#START_ACK=Switching to PPP.
#START_ACK=HELLO
# The chat command. chat -v logs the chatting to the syslog.
CHAT=/usr/sbin/chat -v
# CHAT=chat
# Pass a message on to diald and the system logs.
function message () {
[ $FIFO ] echo message $* $FIFO
logger -p local2.info -t connect $*
}
# Initialize the modem. Usually this just resets it.
message Initializing Modem
$CHAT TIMEOUT 5 $MODEM_INIT TIMEOUT 45 OK \c
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
message Failed to initialize modem
exit 1
fi
$CHAT TIMEOUT 5 $MODEM_INIT2 TIMEOUT 45 OK \c
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
message Failed to initialize modem(2)
exit 1
fi
# Dial the remote system.
message Dialing system
$CHAT \
TIMEOUT 90 \
ABORT NO CARRIER \
ABORT BUSY \
ABORT NO DIALTONE \
ABORT ERROR \
ATDT$PHONE_NUMBER \
CONNECT \c
case $? in
0) message Connected;;
1) message Chat Error; exit 1;;
2) message Chat Script Error; exit 1;;
3) message Chat Timeout; exit 1;;
4) message No Carrier; exit 1;;
5) message Busy; exit 1;;
6) message No DialTone; exit 1;;
7) message Modem Error; exit 1;;
*)
esac
# Success!
message Protocol starting
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Re: [SLUG] Kernel development information
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:53:22PM +1000, Andrew Eager wrote: a) Any (local) user groups that specialise in kernel work (no offence to sluggers) [I don't know of any] we've been talking about a general programming SIG in SLUG for a while, and recently this need has been met with the recent Codefest (by SLUG and UNSW Compsoc) and also next weekend's Linuxfest (by UNSW Compsoc). If you want to do anything more specialised or just different, SLUG could probably provide some resources [arranging rooms, facilities, munchies etc]. Please let the committe know ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you're interested in running something like this. By all means, come to the Linuxfest on the 19th and we can chat about it and also do some hacking there :) http://www.compsoc.cse.unsw.edu.au/article.php?sid=47 Conrad. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)
Hi guys, Sometime ago someone posted (Jeff?) a script which you can set to run in muttrc that runs fortune and sets the output into your sig. From what I remember it wrote a sig to tmp and then used that. Have searched slug archives for that with keywords mutt, quote, sig but can't find it. Can't search woa at present or indeed slug again at moment as web is down, the UTS can't seem to resolve any sites. The rain? Mike -- Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/ Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ?
Adam F. Bogacki was once rumoured to have said: Thanks, C. I followed your advice in going into the - I agree - cruddy RH7 LILO graphic, using control-x to get into interactive login and typing 'linux single'. It told me there were duplicate/bad blocks in /dev/hdb1 which were fixable via fsck. I ran 'e2fsck -y /dev/hdb1' to fix that problem and continued with the boot sequence - only to end up at the same unstable situation I have described before. Yes, and that is just a red herring to your real problem. Boot single again, and play on your file systems. Like I said, something is causing your X server to fail which causes gdm to go into a loop. Fix that whilst booted single, and you'll fix your problem - I can't tell you why your X server is broken, but reading the logs that gdm generates will give you a good start. I think my options are to continue with setting up the 'tomsrtbt' disk mentioned by Ken in an effort to boot via disk, mount file systems to have a look at them to see what is wrong and try to fix it - otherwise to install a new system. In my case that will probably be Debian. Nup - like I said, not necessary. Toms RootBoot is the wrong thing in this situation. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:15:59PM +1000, Michael Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi guys,
Sometime ago someone posted (Jeff?) a script which you can set to run in
muttrc that runs fortune and sets the output into your sig. From what I
remember it wrote a sig to tmp and then used that. Have searched slug
archives for that with keywords mutt, quote, sig but can't find it. Can't
search woa at present or indeed slug again at moment as web is down, the
UTS can't seem to resolve any sites. The rain?
here's another solution:
make a .signature file like this:
%QUOTE%
put whatever you like here what needs to be STATIC.
then make a file called .signature.quotes, add as many as you
like separated by a line. Note the last line must not have
a carriage return.
Student to Teacher: Sir, what's an oxymoron?Teacher to Student: Microsoft security.
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
then make a script called .signature.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
if($#ARGV lt 0 or $#ARGV gt 2) {
print Usage: $^X sigfile [quotefile]\n;
exit 1;
}
# determine the quote
if ($#ARGV eq 1) {
open (FI, $ARGV[1]) or die Can't open $ARGV[1];
# count the quotes
$sig[0] = 0;
while(FI)
{
$sig[$#sig + 1] = tell if /^$/;
}
# read one
srand;
seek(FI, $sig[int rand ($#sig + .)], SEEK_SET) or die Can't seek;
# seek(FI, $sig[0], SEEK_SET) or die Can't seek;
$msg = FI;
while (FI) {
last if /^$/;
$msg .= $_;
}
}
open (SIG, $ARGV[0]) or die Can't open $ARGV[0];
while (SIG) {
$_ =~ s/%QUOTE%/$msg/;
print $_;
}
in your .muttrc you place the following line:
---
set signature = /PATHTOYOURHOMEDIRECTORY/.signature.pl ~/.signatureforquotes
~/.signature.quotes|
---
and from then one you signature will change automaperly!
jobst
Mike
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Re: [SLUG] Anybody home ?
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:03:01PM +1000, Andrew Eager wrote: Is there anybody there or have I stuffed up my mail system (newly installed) ? last night it appeared to be a routing loop inside uts... PS: Didn't know that postfix used procmail. Does procmail work ok if it has no procmailrc file ? (Ie does it have a nice simple 'send everything' default ?) yes (exactly as you described). Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Anybody home ?
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:03:01PM +1000, Andrew Eager wrote: Hi, PS: Didn't know that postfix used procmail. Does procmail work ok if it has no procmailrc file ? (Ie does it have a nice simple 'send everything' default ?) The man procmail says line arguments are present, it starts to look for a file named $HOME/.procmailrc. According to the processing recipes in this file, the mail message that just arrived gets distributed into the right folder (and more). If no rcfile is found, or processing of the rcfile falls off the end, procmail will store the mail in the default system mailbox. If no rcfiles and no -p have been specified on the command line, procmail will, prior to reading $HOME/.procmailrc, interpret commands from /etc/procmailrc (if present). When installed on Debian it did not come with an /etc/procmailrc so if you dont have a personal .procmailrc file then my understanding of the above is that it should deliver to the normal /var/spool/mail/$USER or whatever the default mail spool file is. Best though is give it a test. Send some mail and see where it ends up. Mike PS. My return addr should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] if not let me know. -- Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Home: http://www.speleonics.com.au Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:45:26PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
here's another solution:
make a .signature file like this:
%QUOTE%
put whatever you like here what needs to be STATIC.
then make a file called .signature.quotes, add as many as you
like separated by a line. Note the last line must not have
a carriage return.
Student to Teacher: Sir, what's an oxymoron?Teacher to Student: Microsoft
security.
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
then make a script called .signature.pl
[... long perl script deleted ...]
This is very much in the 'me too' vein, but I get the same effect from
a ten line shell script (and that's a blank line included in the count).
Of course, it wins no prizes in the immediately obvious how it works
category. :-)
--
#! /bin/sh
# The next line has a newline immediately after the quote.
IFS='
'
sigfile=/home/malcolm/Mail/signature-lines
lines=($(cat $sigfile))
length=$(wc -l $sigfile)
echo static stuff goes here ...
echo ${lines[$(($RANDOM % $length))]}
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So who said Perl was only for writing short unintelligible scripts?
Looks like you can write long unintelligible scripts with it as well.
:-)
/me runs for cover.
Cheers,
Malcolm
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Re: [SLUG] Video
Alan L Tyree wrote:
Hi,
I have recently acquired a digital videocam and want to do some
capture/editing.
Firewire card. I don't know anything more than that or whether it is
supported under linux yet.
I have the VCR-HOWTO that seems to give basic capture info, but it
seems to me that that must be analogue signals.
see comment below.
Anything special I need to know to do some basic editing, etc? What
connections and software am I looking for?
Broadcast 2000 seems to be the only stuff. Search around or in the Slug
archive.
aah - http://freshmeat.net/projects/broadcast2000/
Caveat - I don't do this, just had a very bad, recent experience fixing
up a Win98 installation with a digital videocam. It all seemed so
logical to him to just upgrade when the analogue camera broke - he now
knows what bleeding edge means {:-)
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[SLUG] different from address for different lists?
while there's a spate of mutt questions... how can I set a different outgoing email address for different mailing lists? I use mutt and have each list in a different mail file. Mutt supposedly sets my From: address and other headers (like Reply-To: etc) but postfix writes a From header (set in the canonical file) onto outgoing emails also, otherwise people get to see two different email addresses for me. Ta, Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:45:26PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:15:59PM +1000, Michael Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sometime ago someone posted (Jeff?) a script which you can set to run in muttrc that runs fortune and sets the output into your sig. From what I remember it wrote a sig to tmp and then used that. Have searched slug archives for that with keywords mutt, quote, sig but can't find it. Can't search woa at present or indeed slug again at moment as web is down, the UTS can't seem to resolve any sites. The rain? here's another solution: make a .signature file like this: %QUOTE% put whatever you like here what needs to be STATIC. ect... and from then one you signature will change automaperly! Thanks jobst. I ended up working it out myself just then. Here is how I did it. In .muttrc I have: folder-hook slug set signature=/home/mikel/bin/fortune.sig| the script fortune.sig is: #!/bin/bash # Create a short fortune to go before my email sig echo `fortune -s` echo cat ~/.signature -- Green light in A.M. for new projects. Red light in P.M. for traffic tickets. Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Home: http://www.speleonics.com.au Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)
quote who=Michael Lake Sometime ago someone posted (Jeff?) a script which you can set to run in muttrc that runs fortune and sets the output into your sig. From what I remember it wrote a sig to tmp and then used that. Nay, that would have been Mr. Rumble's recent mail. I would never save my signatures to /tmp - ANYONE could see them! ;) Can't search woa at present or indeed slug again at moment as web is down, the UTS can't seem to resolve any sites. The rain? UTS routing loop. Good show. Anyway, here's how to do it: send-hook . set signature = 'fortune |' Send hooks are really useful, and you should read more about these (and folder hooks) in the Mutt manual. . matches everything, and the piped fortune brings in the text. I actually use some hacky Python to do the centering and stuff, which... ah... needs some work. - Jeff -- I used the word 'infrastructure' when describing her cooking style... and she didn't speak to me for a week. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:32:54PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: snip! In .muttrc I have: folder-hook slug set signature=/home/mikel/bin/fortune.sig| the script fortune.sig is: #!/bin/bash # Create a short fortune to go before my email sig echo `fortune -s` echo cat ~/.signature You might also be interested in the -n argument to fortune, which sets the maximum length for the -s option, in characters. So: echo `fortune -l 75 -s` Cheers, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Things just happen. What the hell. -- Didactylos the philosopher (Terry Pratchett, Hogfather) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Attn Michael Lake
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:11:37AM +1000, Howard Lowndes uttered: Apologies to the rest of the list, but Michael, please check your email address. This one is bouncing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errr, according to my list it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or something very similar) [ sendmail bounce snipped ] -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com ...well, it worked before _you_ touched it! -- Steve I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest. --Me -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Strange behaviour of vim within mutt
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:32:11PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: The first reply bounced, sorry if you happen to get this twice. When using mutt I have set the editor to vim but the keymappings are wrong. The up arrow key when pressed opens the line above and inserts an 'A' though sometimes a D or C on that new blank line. if I hit escape before the arrow key then its fine the cursor moves up ie the problem occurs during insert mode. The problem does not occur when using vim outside of mutt. Similarly the down arrow key will give me a 'B' on a new line opened up below the current line. I have seen this problem, but for me it was occurring while running vim after sshing in (no mutt), so this may not help. apt-get install vim-rt Of cause I'm make some big assumptions here :) I think installing vim-rt fixed the problem for me because vim-rt installs amongst other things /ec/vimrc which has the line set nocompatible. (plus other good defaults) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] different from address for different lists?
quote who=Dave Fitch while there's a spate of mutt questions... how can I set a different outgoing email address for different mailing lists? folder-hook or send-hook as appropriate. - Jeff -- It makes perfect sense. If you're a narcissistic arsehole spawned from a curdled gene pool. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] outlook calender contacts substitute
quote who=Alister Waller Is there a substitute for using outlooks email, calender and contacts etc that would run on a windows PC but use a central linux server to hold the shared data? HP OpenMail. Bruce Perens is supposedly trying to get it freed, as HP has decided that version 7 is the last to be released. - Jeff -- Grind'n'wink. That is all. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Finding open files on the system
At the last meeting, it was asked: If the disk is spinning madly is there any way to determine which process is causing the activity ? A bloody good question that I have asked myself many times. I used to have a utility called 'fopen' under QNX but not under linux. If anyone is interested, I have written a utility called 'fopen' which does the following a) Prints the PID, Process name Currently open files for that PID b) as above but for sockets c) as above but for pipes. It also prints either the size of the file (so you can see it growing) or optionally, the time since last access/change/modification. Example: PIDPROCESSTIME FILE/RESOURCE 1161 crond00:05:18 /var/log/cron . etc If anyone interested, let me know. Andrew E. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:20:38PM +0800, Malcolm Tredinnick
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:45:26PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
here's another solution:
[snip]
This is very much in the 'me too' vein, but I get the same effect from
a ten line shell script (and that's a blank line included in the count).
Of course, it wins no prizes in the immediately obvious how it works
category. :-)
--
#! /bin/sh
# The next line has a newline immediately after the quote.
IFS='
'
sigfile=/home/malcolm/Mail/signature-lines
lines=($(cat $sigfile))
length=$(wc -l $sigfile)
echo static stuff goes here ...
echo ${lines[$(($RANDOM % $length))]}
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So who said Perl was only for writing short unintelligible scripts?
Looks like you can write long unintelligible scripts with it as well.
:-)
There is nothing wrong with what you said (and did). I wrote that script
yonks ago with people in mind who needed some error output to help them
to get the script going and to give them some error reports in case they
did something wrong. If you chop it down to the guts you end up with a
4 liner (with a pipe in muttrc), unreadable for most people, this was
NOT my aim.
... and you dont have to run for cover ;-)
jobst
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Re: [SLUG] Finding open files on the system
quote who=Andrew Eager If anyone is interested, I have written a utility called 'fopen' which does the following a) Prints the PID, Process name Currently open files for that PID b) as above but for sockets c) as above but for pipes. You might find some interesting reading in the source code of fuser. :) - Jeff -- From my observation, when it comes to porting Linux to a particular device, a point doesn't appear to be necessary. - mpt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)
Thanks jobst. I ended up working it out myself just then. Here is how I did it. In .muttrc I have: folder-hook slug set signature=/home/mikel/bin/fortune.sig| the script fortune.sig is: #!/bin/bash # Create a short fortune to go before my email sig echo `fortune -s` echo cat ~/.signature -- Green light in A.M. for new projects. Red light in P.M. for traffic tickets. Be careful you don't have fortunes-off installed (especially when sending from your work account!) David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ?
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:06:37PM +1000, Crossfire wrote: Adam F. Bogacki was once rumoured to have said: Thanks, C. I followed your advice in going into the - I agree - cruddy RH7 LILO graphic, using control-x to get into interactive login and typing 'linux single'. It told me there were duplicate/bad blocks in /dev/hdb1 which were fixable via fsck. I ran 'e2fsck -y /dev/hdb1' to fix that problem and continued with the boot sequence - only to end up at the same unstable situation I have described before. Yes, and that is just a red herring to your real problem. Boot single again, and play on your file systems. Like I said, something is causing your X server to fail which causes gdm to go into a loop. Fix that whilst booted single, and you'll fix your problem - I can't tell you why your X server is broken, but reading the logs that gdm generates will give you a good start. I'd suggest a good start would be to stop booting into the graphical startup at least until you fix the problem, with your X server/gdm to do this on redhat just change the default runlevel to 3 instead of 5 boot single user and then edit /etc/inittab and change the line near the top, that looks a bit like id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: and you will then be able to boot normally, (although without X) I think my options are to continue with setting up the 'tomsrtbt' disk mentioned by Ken in an effort to boot via disk, mount file systems to have a look at them to see what is wrong and try to fix it - otherwise to install a new system. In my case that will probably be Debian. Nup - like I said, not necessary. Toms RootBoot is the wrong thing in this situation. yup... boot single is the way -Colin C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Your excuse is: /dev/clue was linked to /dev/null PGP signature
[SLUG] [OT] 3 wire fans
hi i have one of those 3 wire fans on my cpu. My question is how do i measure the rpm of my fan from it. not through software like lm_sensors but in real life ie so it dosent even have to be in a pc. Is there some kind of eq i can use so i can measure the voltage across the 3rd wire and get a rpm value. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Video
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:47:00PM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: I have recently acquired a digital videocam and want to do some capture/editing. As do 1,000's of others, if the proliferation of software magazines is anything to go by. Check out the newsagents. There are at least 4 magazines on digital video and related fields. All windows-centric but the basic ideas apply. I have the VCR-HOWTO that seems to give basic capture info, but it seems to me that that must be analogue signals. VCR != Digital Videocam. Anything special I need to know to do some basic editing, etc? What connections and software am I looking for? There are two basic types of camcorders 1) Signal stored in Analogue format 2) Signal stored in Digital format If your camcorder is: VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS, S-VHS-C, Video 8, Hi8 then it's analogue. Mini-DV, Digital 8 and MPEG-4 are digital. If you have an analogue camcorder, it will only output analogue signals, the kind that work with TVs/VCRs etc. To get that into a PC for editing you need a video capture card. With digital camcorders, they (should) have outputs for both analogue (TV etc) and digital devices. The most common format for digital I/O is FireWire (ieee 1394) also known as I.Link With a firewire system, data gets transferred from the camcorder directly into your PC as a digital stream. The benefit of this is that there's no loss of quality. Plus you get things like time/date stamping etc. Also the PC can drive the camcorder through the link. I haven't played with video under linux, and only seen programs like VideoStudio and Premier (for Windoze), so I can't give personal recommendations; but http://www.linuxvideo.com/ has a list of programs that might help. Editing video is a simple process: - buy a computer with the fastest CPU graphics card you can afford - buy insane amounts of fast hard disk storage to boot - plug camcorder into firewire port on PC - suck video from camcorder onto hard disk - spend copious amounts of time moving blocks of video around, putting cheesy titles in, and running through the 100's of scene-fading options available - render the finished product as a movie - output the movie to your output format of choice Also grateful for any info on sending video images to US relos that need to see it on NTSC systems. The problem with sending video to the US is that they've never heard of anything other than NTSC. But there are methods to send them video. - get the PC to output video as NTSC. This is good if you've got an output card, plus a VCR that can record in NTSC. (Beware! there are 2 NTSC standards: NTSC 4.4 and NTSC 3.6. Find out which one they can cope with ) - if you don't have a tv output card, output the video back to the camcorder. It's a digital transfer, so no loss of quality. Then play the camcorder back onto a normal VCR. At this point you've got a PAL tape. Find someone with a NTSC - Pal converter box and an NTSC VCR, or pay a company to convert it for you. - if they've got a DVD player, chances are it can run VCDs. If so you can burn the movie as a VCD on a standard CD-Rom and not need to use a VCR at all. (caveat: I've run NTSC DVDs and VCDs on my player and had them come out as PAL. Not sure how well US players cope with going the other way) - if they've got a computer, burn it onto a CD-Rom as an AVI or MPEG. For more information search for Linux, DV and NLE. (Digital Video Non-Linear Editing) Cheers Paul Haddon Technical Services Manager Hartingdale Internet -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:15:59PM +1000, Michael Lake uttered: Sometime ago someone posted (Jeff?) a script which you can set to run in muttrc that runs fortune and sets the output into your sig. From what I remember it wrote a sig to tmp and then used that. Have searched slug archives for that with keywords mutt, quote, sig but can't find it. Can't search woa at present or indeed slug again at moment as web is down, the UTS can't seem to resolve any sites. The rain? That was me and I've pasted it in below. Someone else posted a far more elegant one though... Note the switches on fortune that keep them short (-s). There are also switches to not use the off-colour fortunes (actually I think the Debian one requires you to explicitely ask for off colour). Also you can limit the length to an arbitrary number of lines as someone pointed out. Use the other ones posted, though. Mine is ugly ugly ugly and bodgy bodgy bodgy. (But it works so I won't be changing it in a hurry :) #!/bin/sh cat $HOME/.signature /tmp/sig.simonr /usr/games/fortune -s /tmp/sig.simonr cat /tmp/sig.simonr Then this line goes in your .muttrc. The non-obvious part is the pipe at the END of the command. set signature=/home/simonr/bin/sigchange.sh| -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Polymer physicists are into chains. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Video
Paul Haddon wrote:
..snip.
Some of the stuff Paul has mentioned has jogged my memory and I
apologies for posting copious references about other OSs, but it may
give some people a guide.
Editing video is a simple process:
- buy a computer with the fastest CPU graphics card you can afford
The win98 software that I had to fix was only a K6-2-450 and the usual
rule is that things run better under linux than the other one. However,
this bit of software allowed you to make up a layout/schema (jargon?),
then tell it to render (create the final product). It makes logical
sense, to me, for all video editing software to do this.
If wages were involved, $5,000+ on a new machine is chicken feed, but
for home, naah. The final rendering will just take longer.
- buy insane amounts of fast hard disk storage to boot
The particular other os software wanted a certain data transfer rate
(4kb/sec), which should be easily met by a modern IDE hard disk. The
other os had a particular problem with meeting this requirements (yep,
something was causing it not to handle hard disks properly). Once the
installation sequence of everything was sorted out and remained stable,
that other OS managed 20Kb/sec okay. So my guess is that linux should
have no trouble. The doco still talked about having the data on a
seperate disk to the system and using scsi, but this was in the context
of that other OS and for home stuff (where wages are not being taken
into account), it shouldn't be a problem.
We fitted a 27Gb hard disk, which I think gave him a minimum of 40
minutes, but the software would only store 18min (file size limit under
that other os). The doco should give you some guidance on time/storage
requirments.
- plug camcorder into firewire port on PC
- suck video from camcorder onto hard disk
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[SLUG] Linux Electronic Voting Software
Hello folks
Does anyone know of any electronic voting software that is open source?
I need to do some arguments to can/undermine a proposal put to the NSW
Greens whereby they buy some closed source electronic voting software
and pay a fee per vote cast.
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Re: [SLUG] Linux Electronic Voting Software
quote who=Terry Collins Does anyone know of any electronic voting software that is open source? Anand mentioned something about this a while back, a new piece of the GNU Project. Perhaps if I say Anand a few more times, this will pop up in his mail scoring and he will answer it. Anand Anand Anand. - Jeff -- you misspelt 'world dominatrix' - James Wilkinson -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Samba
I have had to set up a machine at school that has one 500Mb IDE drive, one 1Gb SCSI drive and six (6) CDROM drives. The CDROMS have to be available to all of the other machines on the network in such a way that the kids will just have to click on an icon to load the program on the CD (Encarta for example). I can get the other machines to see the CD Server, but when I try to attach one of the drives I am asked for a password. I activated Null Passwords to avoid this problem, but it still occurs. Any suggestions would be of assistance. (I am using Red Hat 6 and the samba that came with it and the machine is an early 486 DX33) I have read the docs, bu obviously have missed something. Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux Electronic Voting Software
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:55:30PM +1000, Terry Collins uttered: I need to do some arguments to can/undermine a proposal put to the NSW Greens whereby they buy some closed source electronic voting software and pay a fee per vote cast. How can I be sure someone isn't fiddling the votes without being able to see the source? Even with the source you'd need to have the compiler options and library versions so you could compare the compiled software with the source to ensure no mods were made when compiling. Electronic voting is a nice idea but I think it's a bit early to go headlong into it, particularly for important things like major political parties. Is this to be used just to poll members for their views on issues or to elect candidates/leaders etc? If it's the former, mabye. For the latter, I doubt Australian electoral law or the AEC would be up to date enough yet. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today -- I think he's from the CIA. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Samba
On Wed, 9 May 2001 22:15, Heracles wrote: I have had to set up a machine at school that has one 500Mb IDE drive, one 1Gb SCSI drive and six (6) CDROM drives. The CDROMS have to be available to all of the other machines on the network in such a way that the kids will just have to click on an icon to load the program on the CD (Encarta for example). I can get the other machines to see the CD Server, but when I try to attach one of the drives I am asked for a password. I activated Null Passwords to avoid this problem, but it still occurs. Any suggestions would be of assistance. (I am using Red Hat 6 and the samba that came with it and the machine is an early 486 DX33) I have read the docs, bu obviously have missed something. This is NOT a secure method, but there is a registry hack to allow unencrypted passwords to be sent to the Samba server. Let me know if you want it and I can dig it out.. Jon -- - Please do NOT send HTML-based email to this address - it will be deleted without being read. Receiving COM and EXE (and even VBS) files doesn't bother me, as they don't run under a real operating system anyway. - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Non-GUI ppp configuration for RedHat?
Okay RH afficionados, please tell me there is a non-GUI way to configure ppp under RedHat 7? If there isn't it's the last straw and I'm gonna install something sane instead. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net And you can't get any Watney's Red Barrel, because the bars close every time you're thirsty... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux Electronic Voting Software
Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
Is this to be used just to poll members for their views on issues or
to elect candidates/leaders etc?
That is the proposal, @ 50c/vote cast.
That fee had me ROFLMEO.
Would you pay $500* for every time your organisation took a vote?
* illustrative figure as the NSW greens have over the reguired 750
members for registration in NSW.
Party Political Broadcast
As a member, I've just been adding comments on-line about the national
meeting agenda for later this month. Other NSW members might also like
to add their comments on the various items and take the membership
computer skills survey. Hint, it could do with a few linux users.
Hint - it wouldn't hurt if a few other people commented on the
technology behind the National Database either. I got a bit carried away
about the virtues of open source software, but I think they will get the
picture if a few more people are post supporting open source software.
/Party Political Broadcast
You have just been subject to propaganda from the NSW Greens {:-).
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Re: [SLUG] Non-GUI ppp configuration for RedHat?
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:08:04PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble uttered: Okay RH afficionados, please tell me there is a non-GUI way to configure ppp under RedHat 7? If there isn't it's the last straw and I'm gonna install something sane instead. ls -l /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*ppp* But other than that small fragment, i'm none the wiser. And I'm not even sure that is the directory, i do know it's _somewhere_ in /etc/sysconfig. -- Steve I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest. --Me -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)
quote who=Rev Simon Rumble
There are also switches to not use the off-colour fortunes (actually I
think the Debian one requires you to explicitely ask for off colour).
Or, make your own! It's fun! It's like PlaySchool without the Macrame and
Paper Mache! Like kindergarten without catch and kiss! Like teenage without
the mutant! Like-- Jeff's posts without the crack!
So, create a quotes file; it looks like this:
$ vi quotes
Quote 1
%
Quote 2
%
PANTS OFF! - Conrad Parker
%
I'll just sit here and fondle my notebook. - Michael Slade
Then, run strfile on it:
quotes.dat created
There were 4 strings
Longest string: 61 bytes
Shortest string: 8 bytes
Thus, you have a fortune compatible strings file (with dat file):
$ fortune quotes
PANTS OFF! - Conrad Parker
Hurrah! Now add this to your .bashrc for speedy fortune file editing fun:
vifortune()
{
if [ -z $1 ]
then
echo Usage: vifortune fortune-file;
else
vi $1;
strfile $1 /dev/null;
echo;
fortune $1;
fi
}
- Jeff
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Re: [SLUG] Samba
Try defining them as public = yes I have found that that gets round the problem sometimes. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com ...well, it worked before _you_ touched it! On Wed, 9 May 2001, Heracles wrote: I have had to set up a machine at school that has one 500Mb IDE drive, one 1Gb SCSI drive and six (6) CDROM drives. The CDROMS have to be available to all of the other machines on the network in such a way that the kids will just have to click on an icon to load the program on the CD (Encarta for example). I can get the other machines to see the CD Server, but when I try to attach one of the drives I am asked for a password. I activated Null Passwords to avoid this problem, but it still occurs. Any suggestions would be of assistance. (I am using Red Hat 6 and the samba that came with it and the machine is an early 486 DX33) I have read the docs, bu obviously have missed something. Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Non-GUI ppp configuration for RedHat?
Okay RH afficionados, please tell me there is a non-GUI way to configure ppp under RedHat 7? If there isn't it's the last straw and I'm gonna install something sane instead. Whats the problem with linuxconf? Does ncurses count as non-GUI? Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Finding open files on the system
Always wanted one of those! But never enough to write it myself... Jon - Original Message - From: Andrew Eager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 4:22 AM Subject: [SLUG] Finding open files on the system At the last meeting, it was asked: If the disk is spinning madly is there any way to determine which process is causing the activity ? A bloody good question that I have asked myself many times. I used to have a utility called 'fopen' under QNX but not under linux. If anyone is interested, I have written a utility called 'fopen' which does the following a) Prints the PID, Process name Currently open files for that PID b) as above but for sockets c) as above but for pipes. It also prints either the size of the file (so you can see it growing) or optionally, the time since last access/change/modification. Example: PIDPROCESSTIME FILE/RESOURCE 1161 crond00:05:18 /var/log/cron . etc If anyone interested, let me know. Andrew E. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Non-GUI ppp configuration for RedHat?
Edit /etc/ppp/options (not totally needed but makes life a lil easier) edit /etc/ppp/pap-secrets (or chap-secrets) edit /etc/ppp/ppp.chatscript then run /usr/sbin/pppd connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -r /etc/ppp/report-chat -f /etc/ppp/ppp.chatscript works for me ;) Dean Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Okay RH afficionados, please tell me there is a non-GUI way to configure ppp under RedHat 7? If there isn't it's the last straw and I'm gonna install something sane instead. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net And you can't get any Watney's Red Barrel, because the bars close every time you're thirsty... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] [OT] 3 wire fans
Alex Salmon wrote: i have one of those 3 wire fans on my cpu. My question is how do i measure the rpm of my fan from it. rpm --query --speed -p fan Mike :-) -- Michael Lake Active caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. Safety Convenor, Australian Speleological Federation Owner, Speleonics (Australia) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Non-GUI ppp configuration for RedHat?
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:27:02PM +1000, David Kempe uttered: Whats the problem with linuxconf? Does ncurses count as non-GUI? That's what I thought -- it used to be there in older RH versions. I ask you, what's the point of a centralised configuration tool if you don't centralise all the configuration in it? The RH manual suggests kppp and RP3, both GUI apps. But then that's not surprising considering Chapter 6: Text Mode Installations at a Glance has a section 6.21: Configuring the X Window System... I'm forced to conclude that RedHat can no longer be configure without X. For that reason it is no longer suitable for servers. Yes yes I know I can always point it to an X server somewhere over a network but I don't always have one available and I like being able to configure/fix machines from ANYWHERE. Hell I was doing sysadmin stuff from Internet cafes in the middle of Vietnam last year! As for those who suggested writing my own script for pppd, yes I could do that (and indeed have in the past) but then I could also build my own distribution from scratch. There's not much point when others have done such a good job. Better to just reinstall, this time with Debian. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Either CONFESS now or we go to PEOPLE'S COURT!! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] [OT] 3 wire fans
ooh ooh ooh you learn this in high school physics you need a stobe light with a controllable frequency you point it at it and adjust it till the blades stop at that point your frequency is a multiple of the fans frequency. Youll find as you lower the frequency the blades will move again and then slow and stop. You will eventually match the number of rotations and then youll get the same affect as you get to 1/2 frequency or 1/4 frequency stop the fan and mark a blade. start it again, then get the mark to stand still and repeat the process. if your at 1/2 youll find that the dot is in two places (or more as you go to 1/4...), increase frequency till it stops in place. Presto! your frequency matches the number of rotations per second. You can then work out all sorts of neat stuff in combo with the blade length (eg radius) works for all fans and isnt os dependant. it is also free to use but comes with no warranty and you can distribute it. Dean Michael Lake wrote: Alex Salmon wrote: i have one of those 3 wire fans on my cpu. My question is how do i measure the rpm of my fan from it. rpm --query --speed -p fan Mike :-) -- Michael Lake Active caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. Safety Convenor, Australian Speleological Federation Owner, Speleonics (Australia) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:30:54AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:15:59PM +1000, Michael Lake uttered: Sometime ago someone posted (Jeff?) a script which you can set to run in muttrc that runs fortune and sets the output into your sig. From what I remember it wrote a sig to tmp and then used that. Have searched slug archives for that with keywords mutt, quote, sig but can't find it. Can't search woa at present or indeed slug again at moment as web is down, the UTS can't seem to resolve any sites. The rain? That was me and I've pasted it in below. Someone else posted a far more elegant one though... Note the switches on fortune that keep Thanks Simon, a nice short script and understandable. I shall try and avoid the fortune -o :-) Polymer physicists are into chains. Mike -- grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines. Michael Lake Active caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. Safety Convenor, Australian Speleological Federation Owner, Speleonics (Australia) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] question... multiboot etc.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The OS/2 program was called Boot Manager not Partition Magic, though old versions of Partition Magic could install it for you, and I think the new versions can still configure it if it's present. The Boot Manager was part of OS/2's fdisk.exe, and therefore to install it, all you need is an OS/2 boot disk with fdisk.exe on it. I've got a disk image of an OS/2 boot disk on my laptop that I build onsite and use when a partition refuses to budge or I want to set up a machine to dual boot. Let me know if anyone wants it. On a single HDD I installed Boot Manager to primary, Win98 2K to primary, DOS to a very small primary, Linux to extended, LILO into that extended partition, and had Boot Manager boot Linux from the extended partition. This gets around the primary limitation. I could have also booted OS/2 from another logical in that extended partition as these are the two OS's that allow it. Thanks, Grant - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Eager Sent: Tuesday, 8 May 2001 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] question... multiboot etc. Michael wrote: Hi, Its come to the point where I require to rebuild my personal workstation. I was thinking of having the following setup. Just wanted to run it by a few of you for comments. hda windows98 (primary Xmb's) windows200 pro (primary Xmb's) hdab linux hdc cdrom OK, I'll throw my bit in. This is actually something that all (6 in total) of my machines do. If you want to keep 3 different OS's on the one boot disk, all in primary partitions I reackon this is the way to go: hda1- Partition magic (or equivalent boot manager) hda2- OS 1 (QNX) hda3- OS 2 (DOS / WIN) hda4- OS 3 (Linux - can be split into logical drives; hda5 /boot, hda6 / ) hdb, hdc etc do with as you like. While it wastes one primary partition (with only 1 cylinder needed on that partition) it does quite nicely ensure that only 1 primary partition is available to the system at boot. In addition, you can use lilo as well as long as it is installed on the 'first sector of boot partition' and NOT the MBR. Partition magic can also be used to boot from a partion on hdb, Sounds like a plug for Partition magic, but I actually discovered it while installing OS/2. It is now the only thing from OS/2 that I use. Regards, Andrew E. - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBOvlQJ29kG4oAlMgUEQLK0gCfVcJKfmvCM3Kqt8dOKUui4cbNROgAoP5P NTEchn6mOdMvPdn+6NHvqbe3 =3VoX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Finding open files on the system
man lsof -Greg On 09-May-01 Andrew Eager wrote: At the last meeting, it was asked: If the disk is spinning madly is there any way to determine which process is causing the activity ? A bloody good question that I have asked myself many times. I used to have a utility called 'fopen' under QNX but not under linux. If anyone is interested, I have written a utility called 'fopen' which does the following a) Prints the PID, Process name Currently open files for that PID b) as above but for sockets c) as above but for pipes. It also prints either the size of the file (so you can see it growing) or optionally, the time since last access/change/modification. Example: PIDPROCESSTIME FILE/RESOURCE 1161 crond00:05:18 /var/log/cron . etc If anyone interested, let me know. Andrew E. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug +-+ DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. (New York Times, November 26, 1991) | Greg Hosler i-net: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| +-+ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Mailserver Logs
Why would my mail server be reporting the following errors? I have several accounts that log on without any problems, recently I setup a new account and they are unable to log on to receive their email. May 7 02:26:24 light ipop3d[20922]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 49: host name/address mismatch: 204.244.162.*** != kam***.dial.uniserve.ca May 7 02:26:24 light ipop3d[20922]: refused connect from 204.244.162.*** In my hosts.allow file I have: pop3d: localhost my.ip.num.000/sub.net.000.000: ALLOW If I change this to: pop3d: ALL: ALLOW I still get a warning in my secure log, but the connection from this account is allowed. Is there a security issue with using this setup? Any Ideas why I would get the error host name/address mismatch, for this account? Also I'm occasionally getting this error in my logs as well. May 8 02:56:45 light sendmail[28329]: NOQUEUE: office.**somewhere**.com [208.181.***.***] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA May 8 02:56:46 light ipop3d[28330]: No such file or directory while reading line user=??? host=office.**somewhere**.com [208.181.***.***] Any ideas?? Thanks Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Non-GUI ppp configuration for RedHat?
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: I'm forced to conclude that RedHat can no longer be configure without X. For that reason it is no longer suitable for servers. OK so that's rubbish and you know it is. You can configure without X reasonably easily, and operate using all of the normal command line stuff. That includes things like linuxconf, ntsysv, and even vi if you have to. More distro flame wars. Does anyone have anything useful to say on this list? Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] [OT] 3 wire fans
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:38:31PM +0800, Alex Salmon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hi i have one of those 3 wire fans on my cpu. My question is how do i measure the rpm of my fan from it. not through software like lm_sensors but in real life ie so it dosent even have to be in a pc. Is there some kind of eq i can use so i can measure the voltage across the 3rd wire and get a rpm value. This is not tested. Every motor becomes when rotated a generator, too (simply spoken). This effect can be used to measure its rotational speed (ie revs). I just looked at one and I assume that the yellow wire together with the black wire is used (12V) to drive the motor. So the red wire is probably used to detect its revs. What you could do is attach 12V to the yellow cable and a multimeter to the red wire (reference point 0V is the black wire). Then measure the voltage and slightly slow down the motor, you should see a lower voltage on the multimeter. This is probably the way MB test the revs. If you go into the bios you can see that the detected speed is rather corse, meaning it has big steps: 5000 .. 4500 .. 4000 ... etc I assume they have some kind circuitry (caps and resistors) to detect a a range of voltages and then display it... jobst -- Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. |__, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director| | _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L | |-(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] sendmail 8.9 and no DNS.. I know, I know, it's an oldie question
I have searched and found http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.22 which is to add the 2 lines in and recompiled the CF file but it doesn't work. I suppose a server listed in /etc/hosts goes into the DS options right? Can anybody put a simple put this in and this in and change this and recompile this for me? I've done this before and I can't find jack on where it was done.. thanks, George Vieira -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: [ANN] Debian SIG Initial Meeting Details
I'd like to be a Debian maintainer for one small(ish) package to lift my contribution level. I would be most interested in hearing such a talk. Cheers Zen On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:58:53PM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote: Okay, I finally got around to it. I've found a venue that suited my idea of a good venue, the SIG can pass judgement on it after the first meeting ;) Here are the gritty details: Where: Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel - boardroom (upstairs) When: Wednesday, 16th May 19:00 Cost: $0, $10 if you pre-order tea/coffee Misc: Dinner, alcohol are available Fasc: Boardroom, power, whiteboard - possibly a TV Agenda: There is none yet, except for those interested to come along and work out what they would like to see the SIG do. Ah, and decide whether the venue/time/day of week are the most suitable. I'd also like to call for anyone interested in giving a 30min talk on something Debian related. After recent discussions, Becoming a Debian Maintainer may be a good initial one ;) A penny for all your thoughts and ideas. I hope to see as many of you there as possible :) -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Announcements List - http://slug.org.au More info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/announce -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Mail prob: unknown local-part mike.lake in domain uts.edu.au
Hi, Well I don't know whether its my exim/mutt prob or the uni's mail system now. Difficult to setup exim/mail when the uni has mail probs. I get the following error when I send mail internally either to others or to myself as in the headers below. The mail bounces with: unknown local-part mike.lake in domain uts.edu.au In mutt I have set: my_hdr From: Mike Lake[EMAIL PROTECTED] set use_from # always generate the `From:' header field alternatively are there particular entries in the exim.conf file I should check? But mainly whats the error actually mean? Should the envelope or return path be [EMAIL PROTECTED] as that is my email addr here. The mikel is just my login on my Linux box. From MAILER-DAEMON Thu May 10 10:15:13 2001 Return-path: Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 Received: from mail by b4114a.chem.uts.edu.au with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14xe6r-6z-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unknown local-part mike.lake in domain uts.edu.au -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mikel by b4114a.chem.uts.edu.au with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14xe6r-6v-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 From: Mike Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Speleonics: Speleological Consultancy and Electronics Design Sender: Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi --- end of included email example -- Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/ Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] RE: sendmail 8.9 and no DNS.. I know, I know, it's an oldie question
PS: I'm not on the list. I have tried all sort of things and I still can't set the linux box to relay via an internal SMTP server. The linux box isn't DNS aware and I've tried putting an /etc/hosts entry for the internet mail server and tried setting all sorts of combinations in the /etc/sendmail.mc file and recompile but to no avail.. Anybody got 8.9.3 working with no DNS..?? thanks, George Vieira -Original Message- From: George Vieira Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:59 AM To: Sydney Linux Users Group (E-mail) Subject: sendmail 8.9 and no DNS.. I know, I know, it's an oldie question I have searched and found http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.22 which is to add the 2 lines in and recompiled the CF file but it doesn't work. I suppose a server listed in /etc/hosts goes into the DS options right? Can anybody put a simple put this in and this in and change this and recompile this for me? I've done this before and I can't find jack on where it was done.. thanks, George Vieira -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] outlook calender contacts substitute
Title: RE: [SLUG] outlook calender contacts substitute HP Openmail has all Exchange Server functionality including Contacts, Calendars, Group scheduling, web access, etc. go to www.openmail.com Adam Armstrong BES Information Technology Systems 80 Albert Street Brisbane QLD 4000 Australia Phone 61 7 3221 7599 Fax 61 7 3221 7657 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Alister Waller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 May 2001 16:34 To: Slug Subject: [SLUG] outlook calender contacts substitute Hi, Is there a substitute for using outlooks email, calender and contacts etc that would run on a windows PC but use a central linux server to hold the shared data? In other words a nice (windows) client and linux server email/calender and contacts solution. We cannot change the workstations over to Linux. regards Alister Waller (B. Comp) Technical Consultant - Roadtech Systems Ltd Phone: 02 98073516 Fax: 02 98085294 www.roadtechsystems.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Calling Sendmail Ninjas.....
Calling all Sendmail Ninjas. I've been mulling over a problem for a few days now and thought I would open it up to the world of Slug for a bit of brain storming. We (at work) are using Trend for Email AV scanning. Trend has the functionality to send emails to the sender and receipiant of infected mails reporting they have sent an infected attachment. So far, so good. Then the marketing department get their hands on the product spec. They have dictated that the system must be able to comply with the following rules * Mail the sender if the sender is our customer (lookup table) * Change the subject line of the original mail * Change the body of the text Trend alone cannot do this - it is very limited in the way it can send out the infected alerts, hence my problem. I am thinking of using libmilter to create a filter which will scan ALL email, decide (by the presence/absence of an X header or certain text in the body) if it needs to process the email as a virus warning. If it is a virus warning, it needs to rewrite the subject and body, then reattach the original file and send it to the original receipiant - then decide if it needs to warn the sender too. I have thought about using a number of different ways - including a new delivery agent (still a good possibility) and procmail (won't do everything I need cleanly). Anyone interested in brainstorming Cheers Greeno -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] [OT] 3 wire fans
On 9 May 01, at 17:38, Alex Salmon wrote: hi i have one of those 3 wire fans on my cpu. My question is how do i measure the rpm of my fan from it. not through software like lm_sensors but in real life ie so it dosent even have to be in a pc. Is there some kind of eq i can use so i can measure the voltage across the 3rd wire and get a rpm value. 3 wire fans are 1 pulse = 1 revolution. A simple electronic speedo circuit should do it. Aussie PGP Key Block available at: http://aussie.mine.nu/aussie/pgp_key.txt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Finding open files on the system
sounds like lsof if you wrote your utility in c I would be interested in looking at the source code, does it parse the /proc file system to get the information? Cheers Tony Andrew Eager wrote: At the last meeting, it was asked: " If the disk is spinning madly is there any way to determine which process is causing the activity ?" A bloody good question that I have asked myself many times. I used to have a utility called 'fopen' under QNX but not under linux. If anyone is interested, I have written a utility called 'fopen' which does the following a) Prints the PID, Process name Currently open files for that PID b) as above but for sockets c) as above but for pipes. It also prints either the size of the file (so you can see it growing) or optionally, the time since last access/change/modification. Example: PIDPROCESSTIME FILE/RESOURCE 1161 crond00:05:18 /var/log/cron . etc If anyone interested, let me know. Andrew E. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Strange behaviour of vim within mutt
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:05:46PM +1000, getadog wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:32:11PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: When using mutt I have set the editor to vim but the keymappings are wrong. The up arrow key when pressed opens the line above and inserts an 'A' though sometimes a D or C on that new blank line. if I hit escape before the arrow key then its fine the cursor moves up ie the problem occurs during insert mode. The problem does not occur when using vim outside of mutt. Similarly the down arrow key will give me a 'B' on a new line opened up below the current line. I have seen this problem, but for me it was occurring while running vim after sshing in (no mutt), so this may not help. apt-get install vim-rt I think installing vim-rt fixed the problem for me because vim-rt installs amongst other things /ec/vimrc which has the line set nocompatible. Thanks ! That solved the problem. Yes /etc/vimrc is supplied by vim-rc according to dpkg -L vim-rt Mike -- Q: What do you call a principal female opera singer whose high C is lower than those of other principal female opera singers? A: A deep C diva. Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/ Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux Electronic Voting Software
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:55:30PM +1000, Terry Collins uttered: Electronic voting is a nice idea but I think it's a bit early to go headlong into it, particularly for important things like major political parties. Is it any worst (or better) than the false bottom ballot boxes or the ballot boxes with dodgy seals. Under the current law once a valid vote is cast and placed into a ballot box it can not removed from the count. So, even if there is proven illegality (very difficult) the vote still counts. The dead will vote often and early!!! In Queensland, SA and other states abuse is wide spread. Branch stacking / rigging is the norm just sometimes it is just a little less obvious. -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing - 113-115 Oxford St Sydney Australia 2010 Phone: +(61-2) 9360 Fax: +(61-2) 9361 0094 Mob: +(61) 0414 618 425 http://www.nada.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Non-GUI ppp configuration for RedHat?
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:01:39AM +1000, Dean Hamstead ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Edit /etc/ppp/options (not totally needed but makes life a lil easier) edit /etc/ppp/pap-secrets (or chap-secrets) edit /etc/ppp/ppp.chatscript then run /usr/sbin/pppd connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -r /etc/ppp/report-chat -f /etc/ppp/ppp.chatscript works for me ;) that is assuming your pppd never dies due to the fact that the connection died. How do you get it up again without sitting in front of the box? You can configure RedHat without GUI. Its all done in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts You need to edit basically three files: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 --- ifcfg-ppp0 DEVICE=ppp0 ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no MODEMPORT=/dev/ttyS1 LINESPEED=115200 PAPNAME=PUT YOUR USERNAME HERE PERSIST=yes DEFABORT=yes INITSTRING=ATZ DEFROUTE=yes HARDFLOWCTL=yes ESCAPECHARS=no PPPOPTIONS= REMIP= NETMASK= IPADDR= MRU= MTU=1500 DISCONNECTTIMEOUT= RETRYTIMEOUT=5 BOOTPROTO=none WVDIALSECT= PEERDNS=no -this makes sure that your resolv.conf isnt re-written each time! DEBUG=no --- chat-ppp0 'ABORT' 'BUSY' 'ABORT' 'ERROR' 'ABORT' 'NO CARRIER' 'ABORT' 'NO DIALTONE' 'ABORT' 'Invalid Login' 'ABORT' 'Login incorrect' '' 'ATZ' 'OK' 'ATDTPUT YOUR PHONENUMBER HERE' 'CONNECT' '' 'sername:' 'PUT YOUR USERNAME HERE' 'sword:' 'PUT YOUR PASSWORD HERRE' 'TIMEOUT' '5' '~--' '' ppp0 connect /usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 - and your done! jobst -- My Carpenter has a 1956 VW Beetle. He still can go to any place in Australia, use any Oil, spark plugs, pertol, tires, wiper blades, etc available today with a car that old. If only software would be like that. |__, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director| | _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L | |-(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Non-GUI ppp configuration for RedHat?
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:28:23PM +1000, Steve Kowalik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:08:04PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble uttered:
Okay RH afficionados, please tell me there is a non-GUI way to
configure ppp under RedHat 7? If there isn't it's the last straw and
I'm gonna install something sane instead.
ls -l /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*ppp*
But other than that small fragment, i'm none the wiser.
And I'm not even sure that is the directory, i do know it's
_somewhere_ in /etc/sysconfig.
Correct.
See my response to Dean.
jobst
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[SLUG] Mail/exim? error: unknown local-part mike.lake in domain uts.edu.au
Hi, Well I don't know whether its my exim/mutt prob or the uni's mail system now. Difficult to setup exim/mail when the uni has mail probs. I get the following error when I send mail internally either to others or to myself as in the headers below. The mail bounces with: unknown local-part mike.lake in domain uts.edu.au NOTE: this mail is being sent from Netscape Mail NOT Mutt to ensure it gets to you all without bouncing :-) In mutt I have set: my_hdr From: Mike Lake[EMAIL PROTECTED] set use_from # always generate the `From:' header field alternatively are there particular entries in the exim.conf file I should check? But mainly whats the error actually mean? Should the envelope or return path be [EMAIL PROTECTED] as that is my email addr here. The mikel is just my login on my Linux box. From MAILER-DAEMON Thu May 10 10:15:13 2001 Return-path: --- Ummm ? Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Ummm? Delivery-date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 Received: from mail by b4114a.chem.uts.edu.au with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14xe6r-6z-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unknown local-part mike.lake in domain uts.edu.au -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == U ? Received: from mikel by b4114a.chem.uts.edu.au with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14xe6r-6v-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 From: Mike Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Speleonics: Speleological Consultancy and Electronics Design Sender: Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi -- Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/ Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Calling Sendmail Ninjas.....
Tony Green wrote:
They have dictated that the system must be able to comply with the
following rules
* Mail the sender if the sender is our customer (lookup table)
* Change the subject line of the original mail
* Change the body of the text
Is it just easier to have something to detect virus infected email and
pass it over to a perl script or something.?
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Re: [SLUG] Calling Sendmail Ninjas.....
on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:09:03PM +1000, Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They have dictated that the system must be able to comply with the following rules * Mail the sender if the sender is our customer (lookup table) * Change the subject line of the original mail * Change the body of the text Trend alone cannot do this - it is very limited in the way it can send out the infected alerts, hence my problem. I am thinking of using libmilter to create a filter which will scan ALL email, decide (by the presence/absence of an X header or certain text in the body) if it needs to process the email as a virus warning. If it is a virus warning, it needs to rewrite the subject and body, then reattach the original file and send it to the original receipiant - then decide if it needs to warn the sender too. I would be very careful about going down this path as it leads you to maintaining all of this - which is fun at first but not for long. I would just tell the marketing dept what software is available and what each package can do. They can choose and accept the limitations. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Calling Sendmail Ninjas.....
* This one time, at band camp, Bevan Broun said: I would be very careful about going down this path as it leads you to maintaining all of this - which is fun at first but not for long. I would just tell the marketing dept what software is available and what each package can do. They can choose and accept the limitations. BB A very good point - but if you have ever dealt with a marketing dept - you know its not that easy. I have the rescources to get a programmer in etc if I need to - I'm just trying to get my head around the right way to do it. I have battled them down from their original spec and this one is now set in stone. Greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996 Mobile: +61-(0)4-2521-9996 GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less. - Linus Torvalds 4/5/2001 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Calling Sendmail Ninjas.....
* This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said: Is it just easier to have something to detect virus infected email and pass it over to a perl script or something.? It would be if Trend supported this... However its only ability is to clean/move/delete the attachment and modify the body of the text in a limited way. You can't tell it to do anything else with the mail and once its gone through Trend, there is no way to tell sendmail that it's an infected email without scanning the body - hence the need for libmilter. Greeno -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Calling Sendmail Ninjas.....
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:38:55PM +1000, Tony Green wrote: * This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said: Is it just easier to have something to detect virus infected email and pass it over to a perl script or something.? It would be if Trend supported this... However its only ability is to clean/move/delete the attachment and modify the body of the text in a limited way. You can't tell it to do anything else with the mail and once its gone through Trend, there is no way to tell sendmail that it's an infected email without scanning the body - hence the need for libmilter. AMaViS! (http://amavis.sourceforge.net) amavis is a mail filter that decodes MIME attachments and passes them to a virus scanner. I've got it set up to quarantine infected mails and sent a warning email to the recipient. It can also reply back to the original sender. Trend AV is on its list of supported scanners. Not exactly what you want, but as it's mostly a perl script, it shouldn't be too hard to hack in what you need.. HTH, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Things just happen. What the hell. -- Didactylos the philosopher (Terry Pratchett, Hogfather) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Calling Sendmail Ninjas.....
* This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy said: AMaViS! (http://amavis.sourceforge.net) amavis is a mail filter that decodes MIME attachments and passes them to a virus scanner. I've got it set up to quarantine infected mails and sent a warning email to the recipient. It can also reply back to the original sender. Trend AV is on its list of supported scanners. Not exactly what you want, but as it's mostly a perl script, it shouldn't be too hard to hack in what you need.. Not a bad idea at all - It will certainly give me a place to start if nothing else. I would be weary of moving away from the 'Trend' way of scanning things - cause of the support contracts etc. However the way they pass emails off to the scanner might be a way to give me a hook into perl Thanks Peter! -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Linuxfest - UNSW
This is a reminder to keep the weekend 19-20th of May free. Compsoc UNSW are having Linuxfest. Bring * Computer * Network equipment * Caffeine * Cool linux stuff This event will be held in the K17 CSE building on the first floor. This will be a chance to listen to some talks from people who love linux and a great time for you to show people your advancements in your coding or linux setup. Please let me know if you would like to give a talk as we can specify a time you'll be talking. Otherwise just get up on the day and offer to present something. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information. Jaime Hemmett Compsoc President, -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
