[SLUG] Re: 2 problems with Mandrake 9.1
I've used RedHat 8.0 for quite a well with no problem. Ive been using mandrake since the 7's, tried RH 9, friggin hate it :) 1. I can't use internet. I use a normal dial up server. i could make the connection, and DNS entried are updated in the resolv.conf but seems Mandrake still can't get names resolved. I can't even ping the DNS server. I configured the internet via the GUI, I didnt hack any files and it worked. Mandrake Control Center etc 2. My pc won't shut down. it will just hang at the Power Down point. I clicked the Halt button last nite b4 i went to bed and this morning the PC is still on. Yeah known bug, found it in there bugzilla. My work around is like: log out, log back into something other than KDE (i.e. WindowMaker) log out and halt works. bah just read what you said Mandrake may not like you hardware or something, when you see the text Power Down, its means it is now safe to turn you pc off. You see this in debian, depends how well mandrake sync's with the ACPI (advanced power stuff- its a windows designed thing but linux has dun a good job with it.) -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Which Laptop?
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 00:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you're one of the lucky ones! I've never heard of Dell delivering anything sooner than 4 weeks or so. My Inspiron 8000 came in less than a week...but that was nearly 2.5yrs ago so maybe things have changed... -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] multi function printer
I was thinking of getting a laser / fax combo. The boss lady wants a simple fax and I can use this to get my laser printer. On the lower price point. It must run under cups and toner must be in the reasonable range. Any suggestions. If anyone wants to sell me one contact off list :-) -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] How To Turning Serving Email Logging Off!!
change your cron entries so they pipe output to /dev/null. Eg 15 0 * * */foo/bar 21 /dev/null Alternatively, you could pipe output to a file where you check on it only when necessary. Or, you could just address the problems which are generating the warnings? Andrew McNaughton On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Louis Selvon wrote: Hi: Each time cron run some scripts I keep getting the emails of warnings, status etc sent to the admin address of each virtual site where the script ran from. I was not receiving these emails before. How do I turn this email logging off on the Apache server ? And how I turn it back on again when testing other scripts in the future ? The server is still on the old RH 7.3. Cheers. -- No added Sugar. Not tested on animals. May contain traces of Nuts. If irritation occurs, discontinue use. --- Andrew McNaughton In Sydney Working on a Product Recommender System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +61 422 753 792 http://staff.scoop.co.nz/andrew/cv.doc -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Gnome-gv deb package hanging on unpack
One for the deb heads...(yes! I have filed a bug report :-) Can someone give me some tips on tracing what is actually wrong when I try and unpack this package? TIA. /var/lib/dpkg/info# dpkg --unpack /usr/aptArchive/gnome-gv_2.0.0-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 134355 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gnome-gv 2.0.0-1 (using .../gnome-gv_2.0.0-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gnome-gv ... dpkg: error processing /usr/aptArchive/gnome-gv_2.0.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack): dpkg: warning - old post-removal script killed by signal (Interrupt) dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script killed by signal (Interrupt) Errors were encountered while processing: /usr/aptArchive/gnome-gv_2.0.0-1_i386.deb -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] multi function printer
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 09:31, Ken Foskey wrote: I was thinking of getting a laser / fax combo. The boss lady wants a simple fax and I can use this to get my laser printer. On the lower price point. It must run under cups and toner must be in the reasonable range. Any suggestions. HP 3330MFP has been good to me the last 6 months. I use it exclusively as a fax and copier, so I can't tell you whether it's any good under CUPS, I'm afraid, but it does seem relatively robust. I am using CUPS to talk to an HP 2100TN laserjet over the network and that's rocking... For what it's worth, MFP's have traditionally used non standard protocols on the [parallel] wire, and so typically earn paperweight status from linuxprinting.org . The one I'm suggesting, however, eared a mostly which is pretty damn good. http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_3330_MFP -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia +61 2 9977 6866 North America +1 646 270 5376 http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] X-MailScanner part of virus ?
I'm getting literally 100's of mail mssg, all about 100k size, with about 7 or so different subjects line, I guess these are the blaster or whatever 'worms' ? looking at the headers thse have: == Message-Id: 200308250449.h7P4n9Eh082124@ Subject: Thank you! Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:52:05 +1000 X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600. X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 == where is the: 'X-MailScanner: Found to be clean ' coming from ? is that part of the 'virus' ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] X-MailScanner part of virus ?
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm getting literally 100's of mail mssg, all about 100k size, with about 7 or so different subjects line, I guess these are the blaster or whatever 'worms' ? [...] where is the: 'X-MailScanner: Found to be clean ' coming from ? is that part of the 'virus' ? Looks that way to me. I've got it in the procmail rule I added for this virus, and so far nothing's come through without it. I'm currently throwing away about 12MB/hour of this stuff, which is down from about 30MB/hour a few days ago. Andrew -- No added Sugar. Not tested on animals. May contain traces of Nuts. If irritation occurs, discontinue use. --- Andrew McNaughton In Sydney Working on a Product Recommender System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +61 422 753 792 http://staff.scoop.co.nz/andrew/cv.doc -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] LaTeX question, Linux command.
I was going to use a .jpg file in a figure in a LaTeX document,
on the grounds that an.eps file would be too big.
So I copied the method from Keith Reckdahl's Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e, ie.,
\documentclass[dvips,11pt]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
then
use convert myfile.jpg myfile.eps
to get a Bounding Box line, which subsequently becomes the
only line in myfile.jpg.bb
(and deleted myfile.eps)
then
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.jpg}{eps}{.jpg.bb}{`convert #1 'eps:-' }
What *should* happen is that, at dvips, this latter command
translates the .jpg file into an .eps file (specified by
the eps: option) and sends the result to standard output
(specified by the - specification).
Except that it doesn't.
What I get is:---
dvips: Failure to execute convert Myfile.jpg 'eps:-'; continuing
I have this feeling that something is wrong with the
\DeclareGraphicsRule in that part {`convert #1 'eps:-' }.
Could anyone help, please?
Regards,
Bill Bennett.
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[SLUG] LaTeX and the booklet package.
I wanted to make a small booklet, so I used the booklet package.
This package arranges the pages in booklet form. In an ideal
world, I should be able to fold the (landscape) double sided
page across the middle, followed by some judicious cropping
and I have a booklet.
In an ideal world.
In a less than ideal world, I put the command
\special{!TeXDict begin /Tumble true setpagedevice end}
in the preamble and the pages are printed on both sides of a
landscape leaf, in correct order, but they are not squared
upon each other, ie., I can fold the middle of the booklet on
one side, but this will not work for the pages on the back of
the leaf, because I haven't folded in the middle.
I can't help feeling that I'm missing something simple here, but
such things make ideal worlds.
Has anyone encountered this problem before?
Regards,
Bill Bennett
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Re: [SLUG] LaTeX question, Linux command.
Bill Bennett wrote: I was going to use a .jpg file in a figure in a LaTeX document, on the grounds that an.eps file would be too big. I don't have my cp of Goosens here to look up the graphics rule but it looks like you are wanting to use latex and generate postscript. An eps is not necessarily too big. Both convert and jpg2eps (which might even already be on your system as it comes with many teTeX distributions) just encapsulates the binary jpg and it wont be much bigger at all than the jpg. Then you wont need the graphics rule at all. So I copied the method from Keith Reckdahl's Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e, ie., ... Mike UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] amavis and exim
Hi All, I have just setup spamassassin with exim and it is working perfectly, however I am also trying to get amavis to scan emails for viruses and I am getting the following error in my mail.log R=amavis_router T=amavis: Child process of amavis transport returned 2 from command: /usr/bin/amavis WOuld someone mind telling me what this means or how to fix it. Googling has come up with 1 page that looks like russian of some decription. Adam. -- Adam Hewitt - CCNA, LCP Senior Network Engineer GLOBAL DIAL PTY LTD PO BOX 829 Claremont, Western Australia 6910 Suite 1/278 Stirling Highway, Claremont WA 6010 Telephone: +61 8 9383 1800Facsimile: +61 8 9383 2818 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.globaldial.com The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify us via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] multi function printer
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 09:31, Ken Foskey wrote: I was thinking of getting a laser / fax combo. The boss lady wants a simple fax and I can use this to get my laser printer. On the lower price point. It must run under cups and toner must be in the reasonable range. Any suggestions. I don't have your exact answer but... I recently bought a multifunction printer (inkjet (which is not what your looking for but anyway...) from HP (Officejet 4110: supported only via CVS compile, under Redhat 9 (+ fixes)). As far as I know HP are the only company which have any support for multifunctional devices under Linux. (ie: Brother, Canon, Epson *don't* (AFAIK)). If you are going to go HP you might want to check out: http://hpoj.sf.net/ (HP linux drivers) http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ (HP's linux page +filters) Some other Linux printing resources: http://LinuxPrinting.org/ (all the linux printing info you could ever want) and in particular: http://www.linuxprinting.org/vendors.html (lists general vendor support) http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html appears to have some good info as well which might help, and in particular (to contradict my earlier statement re Canon): For a working multifunction device, consider the Epson CX3200 and CX5200 (use kernel 2.4.21 or newer); or one of the HP OfficeJet or PSC devices supported by the HPOJ project such as the PSC 2150 or PSC 750. Avoid Lexmarks, Canons, and Brothers. (I don't think the Canon's have fax tho, :-( Erm, if you *really* want laser, HP I believe have some nice network printers (in the higher price range ~ $1,200 AU, which appear to work with any OS(?), they use things lie FTP + email to transmit data(?)). And in any case, if you find anything good or bad (*especially* if you find a cheaper multifunction laser ) could you post back to the list (and or myself?) I'd *really* link to know :-) I bought my printer from OfficeWorks (www.officeworks.com.au). I asked regarding printers under Linux (and both people I talked to about it even knew what Linux was!), they told me that I could return the printer if I couldn't get it to work. (YMMV) And don't take my word for it, I have only been looking at linux printers the last couple of weeks... Brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil
Watch out for misconfigured webservers used to send spam. I was tuning some mailservers today, making the envelope checks quite tough, and adding some RBLs that we're interested in using. I noticed that there was a large queue of what looked like spam sitting in the deferred queue of one of our machines. All the messages had recipients in the aol domain and bogus senders, and had been deferred due to connection refused at the AOL mailserver. A quick awk+postsuper spell emptied the queue of the rogue messages, and the new rules were showing that more of these messages were not getting through. All good. What seemed interesting was that the source IP for most of these was another machine on the same subnet. netstat --inet -lnp | grep ':25 ' on the suspect machine showed a few httpd processes doing the connection to our newly locked down mailserver. What the hell? I reconfigured the webserver to enable mod_status, turned ExtendedStatus on, and checked out what the webserver was doing. A quick reload and a re-exec of the netstat command, then searching the server-status page for some of the suspect process ids showed that the particular PID at that time was servicing a HTTP POST to the IP of the mailserver on port 25. What the hell? A little bit more investigating showed that the webserver had mod_proxy incorrectly configured. The access controls were allowing anyone to proxy anything to anywhere... including allowing random people to submit posts to random urls... random urls that included every MX listed in the same subnet. We also found a further misconfiguration with the mailserver that would have allowed it to act as a limited relay, for the purposes of this particular spammer. So, it was a neat hack that got performed, and I'm impressed by whoever came up with the idea. I'm guessing however that the specific spammer here had brute-forced to find mailservers on the same subnet as the webserver, and it looks like the spoofing was done by using the domains that this mailserver is MX for, as the from address in the envelope -- again just brute-forcing possible values until it works. I'm wondering now how wide-spread this proxy spam attack is. So, does anyone know how to detect if a webserver is an open proxy just by connecting to it? Or is that another thing that would be brute-forced? I suspect not, otherwise there'd be a lot of proxied POST attempts showing up in the logs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Netgear Wireless
At 05:59 PM 18/08/03, mick sent this up the stick: A friend of mine (who owns a pub and will pay me in BEER! to fix this)has asked me to set up a wireless LAN for him. I suggested a Linux Box for the server, because I always recommended Linux. He has given me an IBM Aptiva for the server hardware (perfect), a netgear wireless Hub and a WG311 wireless LAN card for the server. He will use a Toshiba Laptop running XPoo to access all this wireless goodness. PROBLEM: I can't seem to find a driver or generic driver for this card. The server will probably run Redhat 9.0 (although I'm open to suggestions). So if anyone can point me in right direction, please do, your help would be greatly appreciated. Since this is for beer, I'll weigh in :) The WG311 is Atheros-based, so the driver found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ *may* work. Can't say for sure, never tried it. cheers, Rob -- You want to buy a magical chia pet? This is random quote 1243 of 1254. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil
quote who=Jamie Wilkinson I'm wondering now how wide-spread this proxy spam attack is. Very; there are automated systems that go looking for these, as well as old FormMail scripts, open http proxies (checking for CONNECT to do exactly the same thing), yada yada yada. So, does anyone know how to detect if a webserver is an open proxy just by connecting to it? Or is that another thing that would be brute-forced? I suspect not, otherwise there'd be a lot of proxied POST attempts showing up in the logs. Perhaps find a spammer's toolkit? :-) Constructing the POST shouldn't take too long, though. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain - Martin Schulze -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 19:08, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: A little bit more investigating showed that the webserver had mod_proxy incorrectly configured. The access controls were allowing anyone to proxy anything to anywhere... including allowing random people to submit posts to random urls... random urls that included every MX listed in the same subnet. This is a well known security issue - it's why squid ships with a default configuration that blocks access to unsafe ports - such as 25. So, does anyone know how to detect if a webserver is an open proxy just by connecting to it? Or is that another thing that would be brute-forced? I suspect not, otherwise there'd be a lot of proxied POST attempts showing up in the logs. Yep, try posting or connect, or put to port 25. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] question on modems.
I have a netcomm internal PCI modem, I'm trying to configure it to become an answering machine, when I run vm diagnostics ttySLT0 I have a heap of feedback from vm logs. 08/25 19:52:47 reading port ttySLT0 configuration from config file /etc/mgetty+ sendfax/voice.conf 08/25 19:52:47 detecting voice modem type 08/25 19:52:48 Venus V.90 USB U052099a detected 08/25 19:52:49 vm: Modem returned ERROR 08/25 19:52:49 initializing Lucent voice modem 08/25 19:52:49 vm: Modem returned ERROR 08/25 19:52:49 setting recording preferences didn't work 08/25 19:52:49 vm: Modem returned ERROR 08/25 19:52:49 setting transmit gain didn't work 08/25 19:52:49 vm: Modem returned ERROR 08/25 19:52:50 setting receive gain didn't work 08/25 19:52:50 vm: Modem returned ERROR 08/25 19:52:50 can't deactivate inactivity timer 08/25 19:52:50 vm: Modem returned ERROR 08/25 19:52:50 can't select autobauding 08/25 19:52:50 vm: Modem returned ERROR Can anyone help with translating this? Does this log report basically tell that I can't uses this modem as an answering machine? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX and the booklet package.
Bill Bennett wrote:
I wanted to make a small booklet, so I used the booklet package.
This package arranges the pages in booklet form. In an ideal
world, I should be able to fold the (landscape) double sided
page across the middle, followed by some judicious cropping
and I have a booklet.
In an ideal world.
In a less than ideal world, I put the command
\special{!TeXDict begin /Tumble true setpagedevice end}
curiosity question, what printer and printing system are you using.
I have to do this stuuf soon.
in the preamble and the pages are printed on both sides of a
landscape leaf, in correct order, but they are not squared
upon each other, ie., I can fold the middle of the booklet on
one side, but this will not work for the pages on the back of
the leaf, because I haven't folded in the middle.
I would look at adjusting textlenght and text width and margins until
they are square up.
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Re: [SLUG] 2 problems with Mandrake 9.1
ok 1). I never set DNS in Mandrake never seen a reason to for PPP let the ISP set it. I also use kppp and initiate kppp from Mandrake Control Center under Network and Internet (you can also set you host name here if you select expert mode under DrakConnect). If your using a user account make sure your user is in the ppp group also under Mandrake Control Center (might as well add the user to the audio group too). *NOTE. I found Mandrake doesnt install IPTABLES by default either a good proposition is go to http://www.rpmfind.net download firestarter (firewall app for people who dont like to stuff around) and install IPTABLES with Mandrake Control/Software Management/RpmDrake (+) 2). bet you have a INTEL machine.. The reason it not shutting down is because you didn't set acpi to be activated in the boot manager on the install (there is a small tick box). To fix this is pretty simple, 1. Go into Mandrake Control Center click on the Boot icon then click on DrakBoot then click on configure make sure Enable apci [X] is marked. Now save and and dont exit Mandrake Control Center 2. Now go to Software Management then click on the + RpmDrake in the search box enter acpi in the search box, click on [search], install acpid and the acpi module if its there. 3. Now exit that part of Mandrake Control and go to System then click on DrakXServices make sure acpi and acpid are both marked [X] to start on boot and then save and exit and reboot. PS Were I work now is 100% Linuxit was a hard slog but worth it and thanks for all the people who helped me on my trip into Linux. Jeff Ai wrote: I've used RedHat 8.0 for quite a well with no problem. Yesterday my mate lent me a copy of Mandrake 9.1 and i decided to install it on my machine. All went well, easy installation and configuration (maybe too easy), then i found 2 major problem (so far) 1. I can't use internet. I use a normal dial up server. i could make the connection, and DNS entried are updated in the resolv.conf but seems Mandrake still can't get names resolved. I can't even ping the DNS server. 2. My pc won't shut down. it will just hang at the Power Down point. I clicked the Halt button last nite b4 i went to bed and this morning the PC is still on. any one here has any clue? thanks J Ai http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search -- Regards Richard Neal --- GPLG GPLGPLGP GPLGPLGPLGP GPLGP GPLMICROSOFT GPLGP GPLGPLGPLGP GPLGPLGPL GPLGPL --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] modems,ppp, linux (will I ever get online!)
Its been about 2 months since my last attempt so I thought I might try to get a net connection happening on my Linux box again. This time with a *real* modem that I know works and on Mandrake 9.1 ... dah! Everything goes fine under kppp until logging into network and then I get a pppd timeout error: Aug 25 19:12:57 localhost pppd[3708]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Aug 25 19:13:26 localhost pppd[3708]: Terminating on signal 15. Aug 25 19:13:27 localhost pppd[3708]: Exit. Same as I was getting before, what goes? So according to man pppd signal 15 has something to do with 'peer not responding to echo requests' or similar. Is this a problem with my ISP (bigpond) or something at my end? I can dial in manually under kppp terminal an log in with my details but then after 20secs or so I get disconnected. I am getting really fustrated, I just want to ditch M$ alltogether but I need a net connection. Can someone *please* help? Brad -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] simple graphic utility ?
what's a good simple graphic tool for basics stuff such as resizing, croping etc ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] shell script, how to pass date to output file name ?
I'm trying to dump data into a date-named file as in: mysqldump %dd%-%mm%-dump.sql so far I made an alias for today, but, supect I might not be heading in the right direction with it, so any pointers appreciated: # alias today='date +%b-%-d' Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] /home/user permissions Q
I made the following dir structure: /home/user1/www /home/user2/www and so on, where 'www' is the vhost html doc root users have no shell, only ftp access, as per suggestion here, I made root own all 'user1', ''user2', user himself only owns the 'www' dir that worked OK so far, but, now that I'm trying to get email setup, it's cuusing some hickups, as Postifx has trouble making it's dirs: === This is the Postfix program at host . ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]: maildir delivery failed: create /home/sbt.net.au/Maildir/tmp/1061818151.495_0.myhost.sbt.net.au: Permission denied -- /home/sbt.net.au drwxr-xr-x6 root root 4096 Aug 6 22:22 sbt.net.au --- should I chmod it to rwxrwxr-x ? or ? thanks, Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] /home/user permissions Q
On 25/08/2003 11:53 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote:
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/home/sbt.net.au
drwxr-xr-x6 root root 4096 Aug 6 22:22 sbt.net.au
---
should I chmod it to rwxrwxr-x ? or ?
I think you'll find the Maildir directory has to be owned by the user. So:
# cd /home/sbt.net.au
# chmod 700 Maildir
# cd Maildir find . -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;
# find . -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;
# cd ..
# chown -R user Maildir
Where user is the person who will be logging in to check sbt.net.au's
mailbox.
Best regards,
Gonzalo
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Re: [SLUG] simple graphic utility ?
On 25/08/2003 10:46 AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: what's a good simple graphic tool for basics stuff such as resizing, croping etc ? GIMP Best regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Perl configured, but Apt tells me it's not.
Been there before. Debian's routing failure to keep anything like up to date with perl versions is my only serious gripe with Debian. As you're discovering, trying to get Debian to work with a later version of perl can be rather trying. In the past I've installed (from source) a more recent verison of perl than what Debian used. The problems with apt-get et. al. can be dealt with by making sure that you're newly installed perl knows to look in the directories where debian's stuff is installed. You should probably do that as part of compiling perl, but you can often get by with using the PERL5LIB environment variable. Problem is that PERL5LIB puts directories at the head of the list of places to search where you really want them at the tail of the list so they act as a fallback for stuff where newer versions are not found. So it's better to get it right when compiling perl. You'll also find that there's an ongoing issue due to debian installing libraries for the old perl. OFten it makes no difference (so long as perl searches the old library directories), but where there are binary components, you will need to install the perl modules yourself from CPAN. On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, I'm running in console mode, with 'apt-get update' Mutt functional, after mucking up a file transfer between partitions. 'Tux:~# apt-get install -f -u dist-upgrade --fix-broken' aborted with Debconf: Perl may be unconfigured. Can't locate strict.pm in @INC ... Looks like whichever perl you are running is not finding its library directories. strict is part of the base perl libraries, and if you're not finding it then most of perl's functionality is probably failing. `perl -V` should show you where perl is looking for its libraries. Check that the libraries are actually where perl thinks they should be. I managed to get Lynx working by moving a missing file into its correct place and downloaded and configured Perl 5.8.0 from www.cpan.org following the instructions in /home. The only thing I did not do was 'make distclean' 'make realclean' as I had not built Perl before. However, when I now try 'Tux:~# apt-get install -f -u dist-upgrade --fix-broken' I get Perl may be unconfigured, can't locate Debconf/Log.pm in @INC (@INC contains /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0). @INC needs to contain a good deal more than that. Usually there's 5 or 6 directories. ... but I find ./usr/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm where I inspected it via vi ! right so '/usr/perl5' needs to be one of the entries in @INC. Preferably about the end of the list. Take a look in your /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin directories, and you'll probably find a few versions of perl. eg you might find /usr/bin/perl5.6.0 which debian installed, and /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0 if you installed 5.8.0 from source and didn't tell it to put perl somewhere else. run perlversion -V for each of these and see where debian's perl is looking for libraries. You'll probably have to re-compile perl5.8.0 and tell it to add all of these to the list of directories to search for libraries. How do I get 'Tux:~# apt-get install -f -u dist-upgrade --fix-broken' to work in order to get the system working again ? You might be able to just change the #! line in the script to use the old perl. eg: #!/usr/bin/perl5.6.0 Andrew McNaughton -- No added Sugar. Not tested on animals. May contain traces of Nuts. If irritation occurs, discontinue use. --- Andrew McNaughton In Sydney Working on a Product Recommender System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +61 422 753 792 http://staff.scoop.co.nz/andrew/cv.doc -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Perl5.8 installed; Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.
Hi, thanks for trying to help. I kept reading the apt error messages and trying to fix them. I moved a number of Perl files and directories to where Apt wanted them but it kept preconfiguring pkgs but Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) /etc/apt/apt.conf currently has the line APT::Cache-Limit 4; that is 400Mb, so space is not likely to be an issue. 'apt-get install perl' gave me the response 'perl is the newest version' Tryng to remove perl threatened to remove half of the installed files, if not more. *** I am ready to continue the process of correcting apt's error messages but they now flash by too quickly to be legible and there is no way I'm aware of, in the absence of a WM in console mode, of scrolling back and reading in detail. Can they be viewed in a file somewhere? I downloaded 'stable.tar.gz. from www.cpan.org to /home and unpacked it to form 'perl-5.8.0' - to create space in /usr Following Andrew McNaughton's advice I had a look at /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin but the only version of perl available was 5.8.0 What I DO have is my previous system mounted in a removable drive as subdirectory 'cyberia' which contains 5.6.0 ... Eg '.cyberia/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm' I tried to run perl version -V Tux:/usr/local/bin perl perl5.8.0 -V Unrecognised character \x7F at perl5.8.0 line 1 I had the same response whether it was 'perl' or 'perl-5.8.0' or from within /home/perl-5.8.0 or /home, or /usr/bin, or /usr/local/bin but using 'perl5.6.0' received Can't open perl script perl5.6.0: No such file or directory In sum, I'm starting to contemplate reinstalling Debian, something I am prepared to go to lengths to avoid because I would lose a lot of hard-won material, because I'm living with an 80 yr old who is only starting to get over her computer-phobia, and because I also have other things to do. Any constructive suggestions would be appreciated. Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam Bogacki Address: 6 Rodrigo Rd., Kilbirnie, Wellington 6003, Home Phone: (04) 387 9866 Mobile: (021) 031 9193 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: Perl5.8 installed; Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:52:32PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, thanks for trying to help. I'd much rather help on the mailing list than in my inbox, though. :) The latter is 2100 messages large and growing, and keeping it under control is a daily effort ... I kept reading the apt error messages and trying to fix them. I moved a number of Perl files and directories to where Apt wanted them but it kept preconfiguring pkgs but Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) That's a summary of previous errors. What comes before it? *** I am ready to continue the process of correcting apt's error messages but they now flash by too quickly to be legible and there is no way I'm aware of, in the absence of a WM in console mode, of scrolling back and reading in detail. Shift-PgUp? Can they be viewed in a file somewhere? You can run apt-get inside a 'script' session to capture a transcript. I tried to run perl version -V Tux:/usr/local/bin perl perl5.8.0 -V You don't do it like that - just '/usr/local/bin/perl -V', '/usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0 -V', etc. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] how to adapt this iptables setup?
Yes, I'm cross-posting. But it's kind of a cross-question. I'm working with a copy of Real World Linux Security, 2ed. by Bob Toxen. Right now, I'm working on getting his iptables firewall up. He gives instructions for installing it onto RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Slackware. I am using Debian Woody with backports, and there are some differences in the init scripts. His system comes in two/three parts. There's an iptables_pre script which fits simply into the Debian init system - put it in /etc/init.d and use update-rc.d defaults to plug in the symlinks so it runs before the network is up. It locks everything closed and optionally has support for alternatives to dhclient if that's not what I use. The second/third parts run after the network is up. He writes: Now that the iptables_pre script will protect the system while the network interfaces are being brought up, it is time to arrange for the main script, rc.fwsoho ... to be invoked on bootup. While we could invoke it the same way we invoked iptables_pre, instead we will use a real rc.d-style script to invoke it. This rc.d-style script is based on Red Hat 7.3 iptables startup script but has been modified to generate a message and error exit if IP Tables is not available. He instructs me to copy rc.fwsoho into /etc/rc.d, then put iptables (script) into init.d and symlink it in (the update-rc.d step in Debian). iptables is hard coded to call /etc/rc.d/rc.fwsoho on the appropriate start. Ok. There is no /etc/rc.d in my Debian system. /etc/rcX.d has some meaning beyond just being another place to gather files - it corresponds to runlevel X, and gets swept automatically as the system passes through that runlevel. What is the meaning and equivalent of /etc/rc.d? The other directories referenced appear to exist. To those who want to tell me why I shouldn't use his approach, I welcome the comments, I'll learn from them. But please also tell me the answers to the questions above, so I can get a context to put it all in. Thanks much, Bret -- bwaldow at alum dot mit dot edu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
