Re: [SLUG] /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:17:44PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 20:03, Andrew McNaughton wrote: * Most non-linux systems don't have a file at /bin/bash. /bin/sh will always be there. Then you can code this in your if statements if [ -f $FILENAME ] ; then fi And it will not work. This is not valid /bin/sh scripts, because most It will if /usr/bin/[ exists: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/[ lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Oct 4 2002 /usr/bin/[ - test [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/[ sh-utils-2.0.11-14 Or you can use this instead: if test -f $FILENAME; then ... fi which will work on all shells. Don't do this unless it is necessary. I disagree. Use /bin/sh unless you really need something that bash provides and sh doesn't. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Debian install fails - cant downloadlibstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
Brendan Dacre wrote: Michael Lake wrote: We went to another tty and can see that that file is on the CD in dir /pool/main/g/gcc2.95/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-11woody1_i386.deb and its size is so 142324 bytes. We can also use cp to copy it to /tmp so its certainly readable. I wonder if this is the problem The installation guide says... CD's 2 through 5 will each boot a different ``flavor'' depending on which CD-ROM is inserted. See Choosing the Right Installation Set, etc... CD 5 Boots the `bf2.4' flavor. Mike, I don't think that is the problem. I have done several successful bf2.4 installs by specifying it (as I assume you did) when booting from CD1. I think you are right about the CD problem. And in fact, it may be the file called Packages which I think is used to verify the details and location of all the packages. Probably the one in \dists\woody\main\binary-i386. There appears to be a backup version of this file in Packages.gz. You might want to compare them. OK thats a good idea. If you have enough spare disk space, you might want to copy the CD to this spare space, replace the Packages file and do the install from disk rather than CD. You can probably also get the MD5 sum of the libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package (from the Packages file) and independently verify the file is correct. Yeah, i got the MDF sums from debian and I will check that this weekend just to see if that was the problem. But otherwise Ken has now lent me his Official Debian CD collection and Jill and I last night started to install from that and we dont get the problem that I was getting with my iso image. This time the packages do get validated fine. We had bought the DVD but Jills DVD reader is too old I think.It can read enough of the DVD to boot but not the rest of the DVD. Prob the red laser is just too low a resolution to handle the DVD. Tonight we will try again uisng CDs. -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. 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] linux on ibook
Hi All, I got myself an ibook about 6 or 7 weeks ago and although originally I was thinking why would anyone want to install linux in this when OS X is so cool, and you can run X11 with Fink?...I am beginning to feel myself being slowly drawn to install linux on it, like a fly to a bug zapper...its so mesmorizing... My question is has anyone compared YDL with a debianPPC install and what kind of results did you get? At heart I am a great debian fan, I run debian on my PC at work, my two servers at home and my desktop at home (although not for long...I need my games :( )...but the though of installing a distro that was made for my ibook has me interested (that and the fact that it comes with apt-rpm installed and configured by default aparently)... Any comments? Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:25:27 +0800 Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I got myself an ibook about 6 or 7 weeks ago and although originally I was thinking why would anyone want to install linux in this when OS X is so cool, and you can run X11 with Fink?...I am beginning to feel myself being slowly drawn to install linux on it, like a fly to a bug zapper...its so mesmorizing... He, he, he, ... My question is has anyone compared YDL with a debianPPC install and what kind of results did you get? At heart I am a great debian fan, I run debian on my PC at work, my two servers at home and my desktop at home (although not for long...I need my games :( )...but the though of installing a distro that was made for my ibook has me interested (that and the fact that it comes with apt-rpm installed and configured by default aparently)... Haven't tried YDL but like you I was a committed Debian user long before I got my iBook. For me, there was simply no good reason to try anything other than Debian. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ Perl : this is a blue collar language - Angus Lees -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] linux on ibook
The main items I see with running a dual boot system (if that's what you are thinking of doing) are: Do you want to transfer software between the two systems? If so, I think you need to create a small partition specifically for the transfers. MacOS X can't read EXT3 and I'm not sure if Linux can read HFS(?sp?) properly. There seem to be some issues with Debian's power management. This is probably not an issue with the desktop Apple models, but may still be an issue with the laptops. The initialisation sequence for Debian X11 on the LCD occasionally goes awry. The standard fix is to shut down X11 and restart it. If you are doing a dual boot, the MacOS X major system upgrades can sometimes confuse themselves and you may have to re-install Linux afterwards. Just keep everything backed up somewhere. Other than that it looks very good and performs well (on the Tibook). Cheers, Jill. -Original Message- From: Adam Hewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:25 AM To: PLUG Cc: SLUG Subject: [SLUG] linux on ibook Hi All, I got myself an ibook about 6 or 7 weeks ago and although originally I was thinking why would anyone want to install linux in this when OS X is so cool, and you can run X11 with Fink?...I am beginning to feel myself being slowly drawn to install linux on it, like a fly to a bug zapper...its so mesmorizing... My question is has anyone compared YDL with a debianPPC install and what kind of results did you get? At heart I am a great debian fan, I run debian on my PC at work, my two servers at home and my desktop at home (although not for long...I need my games :( )...but the though of installing a distro that was made for my ibook has me interested (that and the fact that it comes with apt-rpm installed and configured by default aparently)... Any comments? Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- IMPORTANT NOTICES This email (including any documents referred to in, or attached, to this email) may contain information that is personal, confidential or the subject of copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties. This email is intended only for the named addressee. Any privacy, confidence, copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties, is not lost because this email was sent to you by mistake. If you received this email by mistake you should: (i) not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise use it, or its contents, without the consent of Aristocrat or the owner of the relevant rights; (ii) let us know of the mistake by reply email or by telephone (+61 2 9413 6300); and (iii) delete it from your system and destroy all copies. Any personal information contained in this email must be handled in accordance with applicable privacy laws. Electronic and internet communications can be interfered with or affected by viruses and other defects. As a result, such communications may not be successfully received or, if received, may cause interference with the integrity of receiving, processing or related systems (including hardware, software and data or information on, or using, that hardware or software). Aristocrat gives no assurances in relation to these matters. If you have any doubts about the veracity or integrity of any electronic communication we appear to have sent you, please call +61 2 9413 6300 for clarification. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook
quote who=Adam Hewitt I got myself an ibook about 6 or 7 weeks ago and although originally I was thinking why would anyone want to install linux in this when OS X is so cool, and you can run X11 with Fink?...I am beginning to feel myself being slowly drawn to install linux on it, like a fly to a bug zapper...its so mesmorizing... My question is has anyone compared YDL with a debianPPC install and what kind of results did you get? At heart I am a great debian fan, I run debian on my PC at work, my two servers at home and my desktop at home (although not for long...I need my games :( )...but the though of installing a distro that was made for my ibook has me interested (that and the fact that it comes with apt-rpm installed and configured by default aparently)... If you're already a Debian user, you'll almost certainly come back to it after trying YDL. Not because YDL is a bad distro - it's essentially Red Hat for PPC, and customised really nicely to the Apple hardware range - but you get used to the sheer breadth and depth of binary packages available for Debian; no need to rebuild lots of things from src.rpms... I recently helped a friend through the process of getting his iBook, using Mac OS X, then Mac OS X with Fink, then dual booting with YDL, then dual booting with Debian, then scratching OS X to run Debian with Mac-on-Linux. Now he's happy. :-) It's so much nicer running Free Software on a Free OS. ;-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ Broken hearts rarely come with Some Assembly Required stickers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Any comments? I'm running yellowdog linux on my ibook which I got a couple of months ago. Getting the graphics card working with the version of X in debian at the moment (xfree4.2) requires some work, whereas with yellowdog it was a put the cd in, click a couple of times and you're up and running kind of thing. I still plan on getting debian running (reasons below), but I might wait for xfree 4.3 to make it's way into sarge. Yellowdog is fine (it's basically just redhat rebadged for PPC). It's full of pointy clicky goodness, it supports all the hardware out of the box (I think the tv out might not work, never tried it though), it has quite a lot of up to date software distributed with it, it looks pretty polished. The installation was flawless, the only thing I had to do was switch on acceleration for the video card (which again was clicking a box, very easy). Has apt-rpm, mac- on-linux, lot's of groovy stuff. Basically it's like all the commerical linux offerings now, very polished and pretty easy to install. The only iritation I've had with YDL is getting packages. apt-rpm is fine, but if the packages don't exist then it's not that useful (not that this has happened a lot, the majority of things are available). I've actually had to install a couple of things from source again which after using debian for awhile is really annoying :) Not YDL's problem though really, just smaller user base, and people like me complaining rather than packaging software. Cheers...Steve. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook
This one time, at band camp, Rowling, Jill wrote: Do you want to transfer software between the two systems? If so, I think you need to create a small partition specifically for the transfers. MacOS X can't read EXT3 and I'm not sure if Linux can read HFS(?sp?) properly. There's been a lot of development recently for HFS+ support, and now Benjamin Herrenschmidt's kernel tree has support for HFS+ filesystems, though it's said that write support may break your HFS+ journal. It certainly can read from the fs though. There seem to be some issues with Debian's power management. This is probably not an issue with the desktop Apple models, but may still be an issue with the laptops. The initialisation sequence for Debian X11 on the LCD occasionally goes awry. The standard fix is to shut down X11 and restart it. I'm running 2.4.22-ben1 on my tibook IV and the power management and LCD support is great, I've not seen any of these problems. I've also just gotten the DVI out working brilliantly (though not perfect) just in time for my presentation tomorrow night. There's a massive userbase on the debian-powerpc mailing list, and though there's certainly a few YDL and other ppc distro users on there, the core powermac kernel developer and the powermac radeon X hacker are Debian users, which may sway your decision ;-) -- [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
[SLUG] targeted virus or paranoia central ?
during last weekend, I received several hundred of the the latest ms 'virus' emails, all about 100k, with about 7 different subjects. on Monday, the flow slowed down, just maybe a hundred or so all day, and, I assumed the worst was over, so to speak. However, between Tuesday and Wed this week, I received in excess of 1,000 emails in say 12 hours, and, when I looked at it in the afternoon, I was getting one new mssg every minute. looking at mailboxes of several hundred users, it was only my own email that was being hit so much, likewise, the admin of email on other servers where my server is hosted doesn't see *that many* virus hits across his servers. Suggestions were made to me that perhaps I was 'targeted' with it ? - how much of the crap are others getting ? the actual payload dosn't worry me, but, I don't want to pay for the traffic, so, in the end, as an interim measure, I've deleted my own email address (as to refuse this crap at smtp server) I suppose the only way to stop it, traffic-wise, would be to filter upstream ? I thought ms tax only applied when you bought a new PC, seems, ms tax is a lot broader Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook
Adam Hewitt wrote: I got myself an ibook about 6 or 7 weeks ago and although originally I was thinking why would anyone want to install linux in this when OS X is so cool, and you can run X11 with Fink?...I am beginning to feel myself being slowly drawn to install linux on it, like a fly to a bug zapper...its so mesmorizing... I have OSX and Debian/GNU running on my TiPowerBook. The OSX is all very nice and flashy (what you call cool) but it is sometimes irksome and Debian with a nice window manager and X11 is actually more functional. OSX Irks: * Apple's X11 is not integrated well with the rest of OSX. When fire it up the path is not set properly within OSX and some apps under X11 cant find other apps that they need to call. E.g. xfig can't import eps figs as it cant find ghostscript to rasterise the eps file. gs is there but xfig cant find it. * There are many window operations with no keyboard shortcuts even with with disability access enabled. * There are no multiple or virtual desktops. * Xdvi is poor on OSX. * There is no firewall yet from Apple but you can get 3rd party ones. E.g. to restrict ftp or http access to your box you uncheck the ftp and http boxes in Apples firewall gui. What does it do? Set up some rules and block incoming on http port? Nope. It simply terminates the ftp and http server so you cant then browse local documentation using a web browser! Duh. OSX Pros: * I like having the OSX available as I know that the application to connect to a projector and video sync to it for giving presentations will always work but in Linux its more problematic. (I use a common DOS partition to swap files) * One can *browse* Windows networks quite easily from OSX and mount Windows shares. * Quicktime on an OSX desktop is very nice. My question is has anyone compared YDL with a debianPPC install and what kind of results did you get? At heart I am a great debian fan, Debian has excellent support for the ibook. Subscribe to the debian-ppc mailing list. I havent tried YDL. 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
Re: [SLUG] Ping me please!
David Fisher wrote: Would some kind person please try pinging the addresses 202.12.88.42 or 202.12.88.106 and let me know the results, please? I need to test the ICMP block on my router from external ping traffic. Great, another path MTU discovery black hole, another undiagnosable network. Fellas, how about using rate limiting. Linux has marvellous QoS features, enough to allow a few ICMP ECHOs for fault diagnosis but to deny a ping flood. Note that its probably not a good idea to block ICMP source quench packets. Nah, block those suckers. Source Quench is deprecated. The list is Block Obsolete Source Quench Information Request/Reply Datagram Conversion Shouldn't cross network boundary Address Mask Request/Reply Redirect Domain Name Router Advertisment/Selection Required for operation (rate limit these to, say, 10% of bandwidth) Destination Unreachable Time Exceeded Security Failure Parameter Problem Required for diagnosis (rate limit these to, say, 1% of bandwidth) Echo Request/Reply Timestamp Request/Reply Regards, Glen -- Glen Turner Tel: (08) 8303 3936 or +61 8 8303 3936 Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Academic Research Network www.aarnet.edu.au -- linux.conf.au 2004, Adelaide lca2004.linux.org.au Main conference 14-17 January 2004 Miniconfs from 12 Jan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
rate limiting Re: [SLUG] Ping me please!
** Reply to note from Glen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:39:20 +0930 Fellas, how about using rate limiting. Linux has marvellous QoS features, enough to allow a few ICMP ECHOs for fault diagnosis but to deny a ping flood. where/how to do so ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] failed kernel update, what next ?
If I already posted this, and there was a reply, I apologize in advance (but I couldn't find my post nor reply in the archive) I was atempting to update kernel from RHN with # up2date -f kernel whilst I was on ssh connection the the box before it finished, the SSH dropped with Corrupted MAC on input I'm assuming that: if ssh session closes, whatver process was invoked in that session get's killed ? it seems I was 59% completed. what should I do NEXT to asses/ and, recover if needed ? -- # up2date -f kernel Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... kernel-2.4.20-20.7.i686.rpm ## Done. Preparing...### [100%] Installing... [SSH2] Disconnecting: Corrupted MAC on input.# ( 59%) [SSH2] INFO: DISCONNECT Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] targeted virus or paranoia central ?
Its all sobig.f stuff. Your experience is similar to mine. Not that I have had my turn in recieving it, but some customers are getting shiteloads of sobig.f and other are getting none. Its all part of the virus's master plan - check a recent slashdot article on some of the nasty implications. Anyway, its all going to go away soon as sobig.f will expire. Probably to be replaced by a worse sobig.g. dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Suggestions were made to me that perhaps I was 'targeted' with it ? - how much of the crap are others getting ? the actual payload dosn't worry me, but, I don't want to pay for the traffic, so, in the end, as an interim measure, I've deleted my own email address (as to refuse this crap at smtp server) I suppose the only way to stop it, traffic-wise, would be to filter upstream ? I thought ms tax only applied when you bought a new PC, seems, ms tax is a lot broader Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] ot: SCSI HD spins down, then, up
I have a couple of SCSI HDs QUANTUM ATLAS_V__9_WLS 0230, IBM DORS-32160W WA0A as well as scanner, CDROM, CDRW on a AHA 2940UWPro PC (non-Linux) the system runs 24x7, and, I can't fault it, it runs my voice server, fax server, etc, etc I'm on the keyboard between 2 and 5 day/week so, I can not fault it, BUT, on at leats 2 or 3 ocasiosns whilst I'm here, suddenly, I can hear one of the SCSI drives spin down, then, within maybe 10 or 15 seconds, the drive spins up again this is assesed by the brief (lack of) noise (actually, it quite pleasant when the noise briefly goes down) has anyone witnessed that sort of wind down/up thing? the 1st time it happened, i though, 'expl. deleted my drive just died' BUT, when I walked to it, the noise restarted, and, I couldn't fault it. any ideas what is it ??? it just happened few minutes ago, hence, this post Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Desperate plea..off-topic: Putty does not show password prompt
Hi All This is a desperate plea . . . I have tried Google, comp.security.ssh news group, as well as man pages, debug output, logging and seeing what the dolphins have to say about it..anyway to the problem... I regularly log (ssh) into various machines/networks I maintain with PuTTY. All has worked really well (for months) up until a yesterday. Remote machines are all Linux - RedHat 7.2, 7.3 and 9.0. What happens is the session negotiation seems to go ok but then when it comes time to display the password prompt on the Putty terminal nothing comes up. I suspect something to do with the encryption negotiation (which is I think the last thing to be done before password is required). The following points apply: - I use SSH2, with, in order of preference, AES, Blowfish or 3DES encryption (have tried all 3 to no avail) - using SSH1 usually works but not reliably (eg typing rubbish - eg ',c' will hang the terminal) - I can ssh to the remote machines from my own local LINUX RedHat 9 machine - not a single problem. - I can SSH into my local linux machine with Putty. My local linux is RH9.0 running OpenSSH 3.5p1-6. - The other remote linux machines are running RH7.2/7.3 with OpenSSH 2.9p2-7, 3.1p1-3 or 3.1p1-8 - The output of the putt log for the failed connection is: =~= PuTTY log 2003.08.28 14:01:02 =~= Event Log: Writing new session log (SSH packets mode) to file: putty.log Event Log: Looking up host dayang.dnsalias.com Event Log: Connecting to 203.51.0.93 port 22 Event Log: Server version: SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.1p1 Event Log: We believe remote version has SSH2 RSA padding bug Event Log: We claim version: SSH-2.0-PuTTY-Release-0.53b Event Log: Using SSH protocol version 2 Incoming packet type 20 / 0x14 (SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT) Outgoing packet type 20 / 0x14 (SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT) Event Log: Doing Diffie-Hellman group exchange Outgoing packet type 30 / 0x1e (SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST) Incoming packet type 31 / 0x1f (SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP) Event Log: Doing Diffie-Hellman key exchange Outgoing packet type 32 / 0x20 (SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT) Incoming packet type 33 / 0x21 (SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY) Event Log: Host key fingerprint is: Event Log: ssh-rsa 1024 8e:d5:14:83:cc:e4:53:43:58:e9:79:ca:fe:8f:95:bd Outgoing packet type 21 / 0x15 (SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS) Incoming packet type 21 / 0x15 (SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS) Event Log: Initialised zlib (RFC1950) compression Event Log: Initialised zlib (RFC1950) decompression Event Log: Initialised AES-256 client-server encryption Event Log: Initialised AES-256 server-client encryption Outgoing packet type 5 / 0x05 (SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST) =~= PuTTY log 2003.08.28 14:01:02 =~= - The debug output of one of the remote machine openssh server basically agrees with the putty log. The last 3 lines of debug output are something like: Outgoing packet SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS Incoming packet SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS KEX and that's it. I initially thought it was something on the Windo$e but why would Putty keep working with my local machine and not the others. Hence, I'm tending towards the OpenSSH server's need upgrading. But if that's the case, why would the problem have just surfaced now? I'd like to be 100% sure that upgrading is going to fix the problem Any thoughts whatsoever would be greatly appreciated. Please, no comments as to why on earth am I using a Windo$e box at all??? I ask myself the same sometimes but at the moment I need to...trust me I've looked at it from all angles, but hopefully soon circumstances will allow the total expulsion of M$. TIA Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] URGENT: Please help, Mail problem (FROM Field=NOBODY....change?)
Hi - I'm new to this group, and relatively new to linux (I work in it every day and have done for the past 8-10months or so - but it has been all in VI editing HTML PERL scripts etc. so no specific linux commands besides the basics) but now I have reached a point in the PERL scripts that it sends emails out to a list of users... however, when they receive them, it is addressed from 'nobody'. We REALLY REALLY need to change that!!! I use the command 'mail' in the form mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/mailout.$$ I cannot find an option in the 'mail' man pages that allows me to specify the 'from' section, and I am assuming that it is the 'user' that sends the email that fills in that position. Maybe the user is guest, or nobody or whatever - i don't know :/ How can I change the user or specify the 'from' field in the email without using a different mailing program? I need it to be admin or something - If I have to change mail programs, I will opt for sendmail in the short term, so what I would need the correct syntax to accomplish the same as above WITH from defined as well :) (the man pages for sendmail weren't much help in this regard) Any help will be muchly appreciated!!! Regards, Jared Pritchard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] URGENT: Please help.../Desperate plea...
A word of advise...People are less likely to want to help when you appear to be demanding it of them... Dont get me wrong, I understand that you are frustrated, possibly been searching mailing lists, google, IRC, etc with no luck (or maybe you haven't ;) and this is your last ditch effort. Thats fine, but dont beg. LUGs seem to be more forgiving that IRC and other places, but it still puts people off. Good luck, Adam. On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 07:16, Jared Pritchard wrote: Hi - I'm new to this group, and relatively new to linux (I work in it every day and have done for the past 8-10months or so - but it has been all in VI editing HTML PERL scripts etc. so no specific linux commands besides the basics) but now I have reached a point in the PERL scripts that it sends emails out to a list of users... however, when they receive them, it is addressed from 'nobody'. We REALLY REALLY need to change that!!! I use the command 'mail' in the form mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/mailout.$$ I cannot find an option in the 'mail' man pages that allows me to specify the 'from' section, and I am assuming that it is the 'user' that sends the email that fills in that position. Maybe the user is guest, or nobody or whatever - i don't know :/ How can I change the user or specify the 'from' field in the email without using a different mailing program? I need it to be admin or something - If I have to change mail programs, I will opt for sendmail in the short term, so what I would need the correct syntax to accomplish the same as above WITH from defined as well :) (the man pages for sendmail weren't much help in this regard) Any help will be muchly appreciated!!! Regards, Jared Pritchard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] failed kernel update, what next ?
do it again.. it should complete.. if ssh crashes again.. get a new SSH client.. Dave. On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Voytek wrote: If I already posted this, and there was a reply, I apologize in advance (but I couldn't find my post nor reply in the archive) I was atempting to update kernel from RHN with # up2date -f kernel whilst I was on ssh connection the the box before it finished, the SSH dropped with Corrupted MAC on input I'm assuming that: if ssh session closes, whatver process was invoked in that session get's killed ? it seems I was 59% completed. what should I do NEXT to asses/ and, recover if needed ? -- # up2date -f kernel Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... kernel-2.4.20-20.7.i686.rpm ## Done. Preparing...### [100%] Installing... [SSH2] Disconnecting: Corrupted MAC on input.# ( 59%) [SSH2] INFO: DISCONNECT Voytek Eymont -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / [EMAIL PROTECTED] pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] URGENT: Please help.../Desperate plea...
Have a go at setting a From: header in the /tmp/mailout.$$ or changing your sending line to: (echo From: Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED];cat /tmp/mailout.$$) | mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] which will work if you mail daemon (e.g. postfix) allows setting the from address, which you'll have to get working anyway. Otherwise have a go at running the script as the user you want the mail to come from. cheers, Woody On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:20:35PM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote: A word of advise...People are less likely to want to help when you appear to be demanding it of them... Dont get me wrong, I understand that you are frustrated, possibly been searching mailing lists, google, IRC, etc with no luck (or maybe you haven't ;) and this is your last ditch effort. Thats fine, but dont beg. LUGs seem to be more forgiving that IRC and other places, but it still puts people off. Good luck, Adam. On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 07:16, Jared Pritchard wrote: Hi - I'm new to this group, and relatively new to linux (I work in it every day and have done for the past 8-10months or so - but it has been all in VI editing HTML PERL scripts etc. so no specific linux commands besides the basics) but now I have reached a point in the PERL scripts that it sends emails out to a list of users... however, when they receive them, it is addressed from 'nobody'. We REALLY REALLY need to change that!!! I use the command 'mail' in the form mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/mailout.$$ I cannot find an option in the 'mail' man pages that allows me to specify the 'from' section, and I am assuming that it is the 'user' that sends the email that fills in that position. Maybe the user is guest, or nobody or whatever - i don't know :/ How can I change the user or specify the 'from' field in the email without using a different mailing program? I need it to be admin or something - If I have to change mail programs, I will opt for sendmail in the short term, so what I would need the correct syntax to accomplish the same as above WITH from defined as well :) (the man pages for sendmail weren't much help in this regard) Any help will be muchly appreciated!!! Regards, Jared Pritchard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] targeted virus or paranoia central ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: during last weekend, I received several hundred of the the latest ms 'virus' emails, all about 100k, with about 7 different subjects. on Monday, the flow slowed down, just maybe a hundred or so all day, and, I assumed the worst was over, so to speak. However, between Tuesday and Wed this week, I received in excess of 1,000 emails in say 12 hours, and, when I looked at it in the afternoon, I was getting one new mssg every minute. I had the same problem. It was all coming from one machine at cornell.edu so I put in a .procmail rule to redirect all mail with a header Received: (from that machine) line in it back to the complaints address I found on their web site (which otherwise wasn't responding when I sent them mail asking them to fix it). After that the flood lasted another 2-3 hours then stopped, all by magick. I did get whacked with several GB of mail in that time however, most annoying. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] URGENT: Please help.../Desperate plea...
...that is I find my problem quite baffling...which probably means that it is something really simple I'm missing and tomorrow I'll wake up and think a offf course that's the problem...one can only hope that'll be the case :) Phil Scarratt wrote: Point taken...I usually try not to, but slipped this time. I find it really quite baffling. Fil Adam Hewitt wrote: A word of advise...People are less likely to want to help when you appear to be demanding it of them... Dont get me wrong, I understand that you are frustrated, possibly been searching mailing lists, google, IRC, etc with no luck (or maybe you haven't ;) and this is your last ditch effort. Thats fine, but dont beg. LUGs seem to be more forgiving that IRC and other places, but it still puts people off. Good luck, Adam. On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 07:16, Jared Pritchard wrote: Hi - I'm new to this group, and relatively new to linux (I work in it every day and have done for the past 8-10months or so - but it has been all in VI editing HTML PERL scripts etc. so no specific linux commands besides the basics) but now I have reached a point in the PERL scripts that it sends emails out to a list of users... however, when they receive them, it is addressed from 'nobody'. We REALLY REALLY need to change that!!! I use the command 'mail' in the form mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/mailout.$$ I cannot find an option in the 'mail' man pages that allows me to specify the 'from' section, and I am assuming that it is the 'user' that sends the email that fills in that position. Maybe the user is guest, or nobody or whatever - i don't know :/ How can I change the user or specify the 'from' field in the email without using a different mailing program? I need it to be admin or something - If I have to change mail programs, I will opt for sendmail in the short term, so what I would need the correct syntax to accomplish the same as above WITH from defined as well :) (the man pages for sendmail weren't much help in this regard) Any help will be muchly appreciated!!! Regards, Jared Pritchard -- Phil Scarratt Draxsen Technologies IT Contractor 0403 53 12 71 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] URGENT: Please help.../Desperate plea...
Even man Mail might help :) J/k. If you are just using straight mail or mailx the switch you want is '-r [EMAIL PROTECTED]' eg. mail -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Greetings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless of course mail is called in a perl script using Net::Mail or something then there would be a from variable. C. -Original Message- From: Anthony Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 28 August 2003 4:28 PM To: Adam Hewitt Cc: Jared Pritchard; SLUG; Phil Scarratt Subject: Re: [SLUG] URGENT: Please help.../Desperate plea... Have a go at setting a From: header in the /tmp/mailout.$$ or changing your sending line to: (echo From: Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED];cat /tmp/mailout.$$) | mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] which will work if you mail daemon (e.g. postfix) allows setting the from address, which you'll have to get working anyway. Otherwise have a go at running the script as the user you want the mail to come from. cheers, Woody On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:20:35PM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote: A word of advise...People are less likely to want to help when you appear to be demanding it of them... Dont get me wrong, I understand that you are frustrated, possibly been searching mailing lists, google, IRC, etc with no luck (or maybe you haven't ;) and this is your last ditch effort. Thats fine, but dont beg. LUGs seem to be more forgiving that IRC and other places, but it still puts people off. Good luck, Adam. On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 07:16, Jared Pritchard wrote: Hi - I'm new to this group, and relatively new to linux (I work in it every day and have done for the past 8-10months or so - but it has been all in VI editing HTML PERL scripts etc. so no specific linux commands besides the basics) but now I have reached a point in the PERL scripts that it sends emails out to a list of users... however, when they receive them, it is addressed from 'nobody'. We REALLY REALLY need to change that!!! I use the command 'mail' in the form mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/mailout.$$ I cannot find an option in the 'mail' man pages that allows me to specify the 'from' section, and I am assuming that it is the 'user' that sends the email that fills in that position. Maybe the user is guest, or nobody or whatever - i don't know :/ How can I change the user or specify the 'from' field in the email without using a different mailing program? I need it to be admin or something - If I have to change mail programs, I will opt for sendmail in the short term, so what I would need the correct syntax to accomplish the same as above WITH from defined as well :) (the man pages for sendmail weren't much help in this regard) Any help will be muchly appreciated!!! Regards, Jared Pritchard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug ** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] targeted virus or paranoia central ?
** Reply to note from Andrew McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:37:41 +1200 (NZST) We've got a bunch of accounts on our server, but it's only really two addresses that are getting hit particularly hard (down to about 400K/min now). Those accounts are very publicly known. They're widely publicised contact addresses. My guess is that the reason you're being hit hard is because you send your mail address to lots of list subscribers? Andrew, that's what I was guessing. I can't say I'm on that many list, probably only about 10, BUT, a number of them have web archives with full addresses I think I'll wait till tommorow before I cautiously re-enable my address Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] URGENT: Please help, Mail problem (FROMField=NOBODY....change?)
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:16:58PM -0700, Jared Pritchard wrote: but now I have reached a point in the PERL scripts that it sends emails out to a list of users... however, when they receive them, it is addressed from 'nobody'. We REALLY REALLY need to change that!!! Have a read of: perldoc -q mail and look for the section How do I send mail? Cheers. -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED]Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~normFax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Vendor demonstrations at SLUG meetings - what do youthink?
quote who=Jeff Waugh How does everyone feel about having more regular demos such as these? Should we actively seek demos of cool products that SLUGgers are interested in? Mary suggested to the committee that we could have a Show and Tell Forum if there was interest. Another question to add to the mix: What would you suggest as interesting products you'd like to see presented at SLUG? (Remember, products can be FOSS projects too!) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ I guess there's part of me that's always resented it... to be an actor, you have to have someone else say yes to you. - Edward Norton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] importing mail users ?
I'm somewhere along the path of setting web server and mail server on RH73 with Postfix; so far, I've created all the users that have web vhosts, and, more or less set the Apache vhosts for them. the web users have no shell access, just ftp, and, /home/%username% is owned by root now I'm looking at setting the mail server I want to import couple hundred or so users, and, create /home/*/Maildir structure preferably at same time. I have no data, just users and dir tree that I need to create. Whilst Postfix would create the Maildir tree on first mail delivery, that didn't work for me, as I CHOWNed all /home/user to be owned by root these uses will be ONLY mail users, no shell, no ftp, just POP3 mail from some ISP - what tool I use to import users ? - to create desired dir tree ? - what to use to DISABLE ftp access ? (is that something in need to do in ProFTPd ?) should I also CHOWN all /home/username(s) to be owned by root ? thanks for all suggestions, Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Vendor demonstrations at SLUG meetings - what do you think?
I would like to see demos. I can think of a few vendors that have products of interest. The main thing I would like to see is the product was running Linux. Not just FOSS, as that can cover a multitude of items. Examples: (some of these obviously would have to be a graphical presentation rather than a demo) The Beowulf cluster of Sony Playstations; Sun LX50s (or whatever is replacing them); IBM mainframes running lots of Linux images Software vendors who are keen to announce the port of their application to Linux; Cyclades devices; Firewalls - in - a - box (running Linux) ... Cheers, Jill. -Original Message- From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 28 August 2003 5:12 PM To: Penguinillas Subject: [SLUG] Vendor demonstrations at SLUG meetings - what do you think? Hey gang, So, every now and then, a hardware or software vendor asks us if we'd be interested in a demo of their product at our SLUG meetings. Unfortunately, most of these requests are wildly out of scope, but sometimes there are really cool ones, like the Sony Playstation development kit demo. We didn't want to pass that one up. Very on topic, very cool. :-) Assuming the following points: * A vendor demo would almost always replace one of our talks; very rarely would they be speedy ten minute jobs (and if they were, it's more than likely that they'd just be uninformative ads, so would not be very interesting anyway) * We'd only accept FOSS-related or otherwise on topic demos * We'd encourage a technical and/or community focus, rather than a marketing or advertising focus, so hopefully the demo would feel just like a normal SLUG talk anyway (the Sony one was pretty good in this respect) How does everyone feel about having more regular demos such as these? Should we actively seek demos of cool products that SLUGgers are interested in? Let us know what you think! Thanks, - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ Python amazes me for its concision. The current prototype is all of 900 lines of code, yet it contains a lexer, parser (recursive descent), core language interpreter, and parallelizing process spawner. - Raph Levien on Rebar -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- IMPORTANT NOTICES This email (including any documents referred to in, or attached, to this email) may contain information that is personal, confidential or the subject of copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties. This email is intended only for the named addressee. Any privacy, confidence, copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties, is not lost because this email was sent to you by mistake. If you received this email by mistake you should: (i) not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise use it, or its contents, without the consent of Aristocrat or the owner of the relevant rights; (ii) let us know of the mistake by reply email or by telephone (+61 2 9413 6300); and (iii) delete it from your system and destroy all copies. Any personal information contained in this email must be handled in accordance with applicable privacy laws. Electronic and internet communications can be interfered with or affected by viruses and other defects. As a result, such communications may not be successfully received or, if received, may cause interference with the integrity of receiving, processing or related systems (including hardware, software and data or information on, or using, that hardware or software). Aristocrat gives no assurances in relation to these matters. If you have any doubts about the veracity or integrity of any electronic communication we appear to have sent you, please call +61 2 9413 6300 for clarification. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Vendor demonstrations at SLUG meetings - what do yout hink?
On 28/08/2003 6:04 PM +1000, Rowling, Jill wrote: [...] Examples: (some of these obviously would have to be a graphical presentation rather than a demo) The Beowulf cluster of Sony Playstations; Sun LX50s (or whatever is replacing them); IBM mainframes running lots of Linux images Software vendors who are keen to announce the port of their application to Linux; Cyclades devices; Firewalls - in - a - box (running Linux) How about Email/Groupware Collaboration solutions aimed at replacing or providing an alternative to Exchange? such as Bynari, Samsung Contact, etc. Maybe vendors could pay a fee to demonstrate their product at SLUG meetings? (of course this would go towards the SLUG bank account) Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] SquirelMail without IMAP ? POP ? /Maildir ?
I'm hoping someone here can help: can SquirelMail run with only Postfix and /Maildir, no IMAP, no POP, like, accessing mail from /Maildir ...? I keep getting -- SquirrelMail version 1.4.1-0.2.7.x By the SquirrelMail Development Team ERROR Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost. 111 : Connection refused Go to the login page -- I do not have IMAP, and, aim to install POP, but, at this time don't have POP either must I have IMAP or POP before I can use it ? the /etc/squirelmail config seems to only have setting for IMAP, but not for POP, can it work with POP ? sorry for asking lot of perhaps trivial Qs, BUT, I have been trying to look up docs on SquirellMail, but, can't get on, it seems the squirrelmail.org server is devoid of some files at this point: http://www.squirrelmail.org/ Fatal error: Failed opening required '/home/groups/s/sq/squirrelmail/includes/constants.inc' (include_path='') in /home/groups/s/sq/squirrelmail/includes/std_header.inc on line 5 and, the archive I have doesn't seem to have much in the way of config Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] SquirelMail without IMAP ? POP ? /Maildir ?
quote who=Voytek can SquirelMail run with only Postfix and /Maildir, no IMAP, no POP, like, accessing mail from /Maildir ...? No. If you need to do that, you might want to try sqwebmail. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ Gah. Out of coffee. Shall think whilst auto-caffeinating. - Telsa Gwynne -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] SquirelMail without IMAP ? POP ? /Maildir ?
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:35:26PM +, Voytek wrote: can SquirelMail run with only Postfix and /Maildir, no IMAP, no POP, like, accessing mail from /Maildir ...? No, it needs an imap server. sorry for asking lot of perhaps trivial Qs, BUT, I have been trying to look up docs on SquirellMail, but, can't get on, it seems the squirrelmail.org server is devoid of some files at this point: http://www.squirrelmail.org/ Fatal error: Failed opening required '/home/groups/s/sq/squirrelmail/includes/constants.inc' (include_path='') in /home/groups/s/sq/squirrelmail/includes/std_header.inc on line 5 Use Google's cache: http://google.com/search?query=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.squirrelmail.org%2Fwiki%2FSquirrelMailRequirements The cached copy is a little broken too but it's mostly readable. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] radius monitoring
Hi All, Does anyone know of a program or configuration option that allows the rotation of ports using Cistron Radius? ie. if you have 50 ports, and 49 people are logged on, when number 50 connects, the person who has been logged on the longest gets booted automatically?? Cheers, 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
[SLUG] KDE World Clock on Red Hat 9.0
I am an extremely new Linux user (only installed it for the first time a couple of weeks ago), and I am enjoying what I believe to be the best O/S I have ever seen. I am running the application KDE World Clock on Red Hat 9.0 Xwindows (very nice), but no matter which country/city I put the mouse cursor over, it shows the same time (Sydney Australia).Does anyone know how to configure it so it shows the correct time zone for each city/country ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] SquirelMail without IMAP ? POP ? /Maildir ?
On 28/08/2003 6:35 PM +, Voytek wrote:
I'm hoping someone here can help:
I must introduce you to www.google.com{.au}. It is an extremely good search
engine and has the answers to a lot of your questions. :)
can SquirelMail run with only Postfix and /Maildir, no IMAP, no POP, like,
accessing mail from /Maildir ...?
Well, if you wanted to access Maildir directories directly it would require
the web server to have access to everyone's mailboxes. Not very secure is
it. I'm not sure if there are other reasons, but this alone is a good
reason not to implement such functionality.
I do not have IMAP, and, aim to install POP, but, at this time don't have
POP either
Why is installing an IMAP server such a problem?
must I have IMAP or POP before I can use it ?
Yes, you need IMAP. There is a POP3 plugin for Squirrelmail but I think
it's only for fetching mail from other POP3 servers once you are logged in.
the /etc/squirelmail config seems to only have setting for IMAP,
but not for POP, can it work with POP ?
See above.
sorry for asking lot of perhaps trivial Qs, BUT, I have been trying to
look up docs on SquirellMail, but, can't get on, it seems the
squirrelmail.org server is devoid of some files at this point:
Squirrelmail.org is down, yes, but Google isn't. :)
Regards,
Gonzalo.
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Re: [SLUG] URGENT: Please help, Mail problem (FROMField=NOBODY....change?)
One approach is to format each line command as follows: su username -c mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/mailout.$$ This assumes your system knows to append '@mydomain.com' to yield '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and you are running in super shell. Oscar Plameras www.purl.org/net/aboutme - Original Message - From: Jared Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:16 PM Subject: [SLUG] URGENT: Please help, Mail problem (FROM Field=NOBODYchange?) Hi - I'm new to this group, and relatively new to linux (I work in it every day and have done for the past 8-10months or so - but it has been all in VI editing HTML PERL scripts etc. so no specific linux commands besides the basics) but now I have reached a point in the PERL scripts that it sends emails out to a list of users... however, when they receive them, it is addressed from 'nobody'. We REALLY REALLY need to change that!!! I use the command 'mail' in the form mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/mailout.$$ I cannot find an option in the 'mail' man pages that allows me to specify the 'from' section, and I am assuming that it is the 'user' that sends the email that fills in that position. Maybe the user is guest, or nobody or whatever - i don't know :/ How can I change the user or specify the 'from' field in the email without using a different mailing program? I need it to be admin or something - If I have to change mail programs, I will opt for sendmail in the short term, so what I would need the correct syntax to accomplish the same as above WITH from defined as well :) (the man pages for sendmail weren't much help in this regard) Any help will be muchly appreciated!!! Regards, Jared Pritchard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Monthly Meeting 29 August 2003 (Tomorrow)
Sydney Linux Users' Group Monthly Meeting: August When: Friday, August 29, 6:30pm - 9:00pm (tomorrow night) Where: UTS Broadway http://www.slug.org.au/events/uts.html SLUG's monthly meeting, featuring general talks, special interest talks and SLUGlets. Open to the public and free of charge. The rooms this month are 1.04.06 - the entry level of building 1 at UTS. See the map link above. (Room 2.04.11 for SLUGlets) Note: Members should bring their membership cards this month, as we'll be voting on the SLUG logo competition entries. See here for the submissions. Entries will also be shown at the meeting. General Talk Jeff Waugh - Firewalls when you have better things to do. Following on from last month's IPtables talk, this month discusses helper apps and other methods for easing the pain of configuring IPtables by insulating you from it. Technical Talk Jamie Wilkinson - Testing and Maintaining Multiple Distributions with UML Using User Mode Linux to host Linux distributions for testing and maintenance. As usual, SLUGlets will be running in a nearby room during the 2nd half of the meeting for those who do not wish to attend the technical talk. 6:30pm: Doors Open 6:45pm: The Usual Suspects QA - Introduction to SLUG + What has Linux done for/to me lately? + SLUG News Discussion 7:00pm: SLUG logo competition voting 7:25pm: General Talk Jeff Waugh - Firewalls when you have better things to do 8:10pm: Break Refreshments in the foyer, for a small covering charge. 8:30pm: Split into two groups for: + Jamie Wilkinson - Testing and Maintaining Multiple Distributions with UML + SLUGlets: quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free Software. This month, discussion of kernel compilation. Dinner Dinner at Spice Boys (Indian), $20 per head. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been half-asleep? Have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name... -Kermit the Frog (Rainbow Connection) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] targeted virus or paranoia central ?
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 02:36, Del wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: during last weekend, I received several hundred of the the latest ms 'virus' emails, all about 100k, with about 7 different subjects. on Monday, the flow slowed down, just maybe a hundred or so all day, and, I assumed the worst was over, so to speak. However, between Tuesday and Wed this week, I received in excess of 1,000 emails in say 12 hours, and, when I looked at it in the afternoon, I was getting one new mssg every minute. I had the same problem. It was all coming from one machine at cornell.edu so I put in a .procmail rule to redirect all mail with a header Received: (from that machine) line in it back to the complaints address I found on their web site (which otherwise wasn't responding when I sent them mail asking them to fix it). After that the flood lasted another 2-3 hours then stopped, all by magick. Newbie question here. Is this definitive? I've read that this virus spoofs the return address, which I understand to mean the text, but what about the IP chain? I've read in separate articles about untraceable spam. Is this happening here? If there's a definitive way to be sure of the origin of an email, I'd like to know that's so, and how to determine it. Thanks, 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
Re: [SLUG] SquirelMail without IMAP ? POP ? /Maildir ?
I think it needs IMAP. Stu On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:35, Voytek wrote: I'm hoping someone here can help: can SquirelMail run with only Postfix and /Maildir, no IMAP, no POP, like, accessing mail from /Maildir ...? I keep getting -- SquirrelMail version 1.4.1-0.2.7.x By the SquirrelMail Development Team ERROR Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost. 111 : Connection refused Go to the login page -- I do not have IMAP, and, aim to install POP, but, at this time don't have POP either must I have IMAP or POP before I can use it ? the /etc/squirelmail config seems to only have setting for IMAP, but not for POP, can it work with POP ? sorry for asking lot of perhaps trivial Qs, BUT, I have been trying to look up docs on SquirellMail, but, can't get on, it seems the squirrelmail.org server is devoid of some files at this point: http://www.squirrelmail.org/ Fatal error: Failed opening required '/home/groups/s/sq/squirrelmail/includes/constants.inc' (include_path='') in /home/groups/s/sq/squirrelmail/includes/std_header.inc on line 5 and, the archive I have doesn't seem to have much in the way of config Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX question, Linux command.
At Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:41:14 +1000, Michael Lake wrote: 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. .. also if you're aiming for postscript output, the jpg will have to be converted to postscript at some point in the process. (iirc, PDF can embed a jpg directly so thats a different story) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Perl5.8 installed;Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.
Dude, you've hosed your system. At this point you can either: restore from backups (*ahem*) try to undo whatever you did (iirc you moved /usr and /lib somewhere else) try to duplicate exactly what Debian had put in those directories by hand (almost impossible) or save what data you can and reinstall. The choice is yours, but I know what I would have done by now. At Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:52:32 +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote: 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. Where/what is this hard-won material? Just copy your important data off somewhere temporarily (maybe just another partition) and reinstall. The alternative is going to be *weeks* of hand hacking stuff. If you'd simply reinstalled you'd be done by now. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Evolution Question
Has anyone managed to add a program to the list of things that can open mail attachments of specific file types in Evolution emails. I'm talking about the 'open in electronic eyes' 'open in open office' options you get when you click on the attachment in Evolution. Stu -- Stuart Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eureka IT Pty Ltd 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
