[SLUG] Modems with voice capabilities
Hi all, I have a swannsmart modem with data/fax/voice capabilities I would like to use it as answering machine. Has anyone tried to get the swannsmart modems to work as an answering machine under linux? Otherwise what modem works as an answering machine under Linux? -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb I.T consultants Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile: 0418455661 Web: http://www.spinaweb.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] good cd burning software?
hi all any recommendations on a good piece of cd burning software, i'm using k3b and not liking it very much :( any suggestions appreciated cheers Jasper -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: Virtual Machines (Re: [SLUG] good Oz-based mail host)
On 01/12/2003, at 5:49 PM, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003, Grant Parnell wrote: Read both your posts sounds like you could go with a Linux virtual machine, I did some research on this a while back. About US$25/month with some included bandwidth buys you a User Mode Linux virtual machine. [snip] For people who don't know, a Linux virtual machine, as distinct from a virtual host, is a server you have root on. [snip] Ah - this is perfect. I was kind of thinking that jboss would be nice as well, but virtual hosts don't tend to have it, and colo is too rich for my blood. This looks pretty good: http://rimuhosting.com/ V. -- Viveka Weiley, Karmanaut. http://www.karmanaut.com | http://www.planet-earth.org http://www.MacWeb3D.org | http://sydney.siggraph.org.au hypermedia, virtual worlds, human interface, truth, beauty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: Virtual Machines (Re: [SLUG] good Oz-based mail host)
This one time, at band camp, Viveka wrote: Ah - this is perfect. I was kind of thinking that jboss would be nice as well, but virtual hosts don't tend to have it, and colo is too rich for my blood. Any reasons for jboss over tomcat? As far as I know, they do the same thing... -- [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] good cd burning software?
any recommendations on a good piece of cd burning software, i'm using k3b and not liking it very much :( It depends on whether you prefer GUI or CLI. My own choice is mkisofs + cdrecord, as between them they take care of everything I need them to do. On the GUI side, there's X-CDroast, at www.xcdroast.org. I used to use this quite a bit, until I became comfortable with the command-line stuff. Cheers, James -- ...so there I am at ten thousand feet with a power drill in one hand, a takeaway menu in the other, no parachute and a _very_ suprised expression... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] good cd burning software?
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any recommendations on a good piece of cd burning software, i'm using k3b and not liking it very much :( It depends on whether you prefer GUI or CLI. My own choice is mkisofs + cdrecord, as between them they take care of everything I need them to do. On the GUI side, there's X-CDroast, at www.xcdroast.org. I used to use this quite a bit, until I became comfortable with the command-line stuff. I have also used mkisofs and cdrecord from the command line without any problems. I have had CD burning software running in KDE or Gnome crash, I suspect because of insufficient memory. (I was using a 128 Meg memory machine). cheers, Bernard Doyle Cheers, James -- ...so there I am at ten thousand feet with a power drill in one hand, a takeaway menu in the other, no parachute and a _very_ suprised expression... -- 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
Re: [SLUG] good cd burning software?
On Wed 03 Dec, Jasper streit bloviated thus: any recommendations on a good piece of cd burning software, i'm using k3b and not liking it very much :( xcdroast works well for me, though it sometimes silently drops files which have weird characters. I never managed to get k3b or that other sexy GUI one going... -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net If the designers of X-windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same prinicples -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that. -- From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] good cd burning software?
quote who=Jasper streit any recommendations on a good piece of cd burning software, i'm using k3b and not liking it very much :( If you want a sweet, easy to use, put-files-on-cd style burning tool, use Nautilus. Choose CD Creator from the Go menu (or just type burn:// into the address bar), copy some stuff onto it, and then click the Burn CD toolbar button. It will give you the option to burn to ISO or your CD burner. It's way neat. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ Everyone's a little queer, why can't she be a little straight? - Weezer, Pink Triangle -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] good cd burning software?
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 23:18:39 +1100 Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want a sweet, easy to use, put-files-on-cd style burning tool, use Nautilus. Choose CD Creator from the Go menu (or just type burn:// into the address bar), copy some stuff onto it, and then click the Burn CD toolbar button. It will give you the option to burn to ISO or your CD burner. It's way neat. Here's another vote for nautilus. I used it for the first time without previously realising it was there. I stuck my blank in; up pops nautilus with the burn:// url and I just dragged my files in. What it doesn't understand is that if the file is *.iso, it should do whole image not treat it as a normal file. For that *.iso to cd job I use the cli; e.g. cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 severn-i386-disc2.iso where the 0,0,0 may well be different for you -- you can get the right ones with 'cdrecord -scanbus' Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: Virtual Machines (Re: [SLUG] good Oz-based mail host)
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:45:31 +1100 Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, Viveka wrote: Ah - this is perfect. I was kind of thinking that jboss would be nice as well, but virtual hosts don't tend to have it, and colo is too rich for my blood. Any reasons for jboss over tomcat? As far as I know, they do the same thing... Nah, tomcat is just the servlet/jsp runner (and http server if you want it). jboss is a full j2ee implementation, which includes a servlet/jsp runner (either tomcat or jetty). The actual difference is that j2ee has mind-boggling amounts of libraries that once you understand and can write to and you get stuff like load-balancing and scalability for free. (If you count the brain imploding chore of reading the j2ee docs as 'free') Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] good cd burning software?
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] What it doesn't understand is that if the file is *.iso, it should do whole image not treat it as a normal file. (I think someone was fixing that so it would ask you if you wanted to burn the image or something... I'll find out.) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ Once this door opens, happiness waits for us. I wush to meet happiness as soon as possible by opening the door with key. Can you follow this change? Willfully darling! - from engrish.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Invitation to Spring IPSI Conferences in Serbia
Dear Dr. Slug, We are pleased to invite you, as a VIP Forum speaker, to one of the following two Spring 2004 conferences in Serbia, cosponsored by YU IEEE Computer Chapter: a) IPSI-2004k at the mountain Kopaonik (arrival: Thursday April 1, 2004. and departure Sunday April 4, 2004.) Hotel Grand, headquarters of the conference, is rated as the best ski hotel in the nation (5 stars). All relevant information and the detailed invitation letter can be found on the web (http://kopaonik.internetconferences.net). Deadlines: Abstract (100 words) by December 15, full paper by January 31. b) IPSI-2004s in the monestary Studenica (arrival Thursday June 3, 2004. and departure Sunday June 6, 2004.) It is held in the most famous medevial monastery of the nation. Serbian frescoes of centuries 12 to 14 are considered to be the best of the world. All relevant information and the detailed invitation letter can be found on the web (http://studenica.internetconferences.net). Deadlines: Abstract by February 15, full paper by March 31. Deadlines for abstracts are short, but it is only 100 words, so it is easy. We invite participants (99% from USA, Canada, Mexico, EU, Israel, and Far East) from the following three groups: (1) Well known university professors with a high citation index, (2) VIPs from leading industry, and (3) Talented PhD students from leading universities of the world. Also, the best PhD students of Belgrade University. So far, at our conferences, in seven cases Nobel Laureates gave the opening keynote. All those who visited our conferences in the past loved them and like to come back - see the web for the lists of participants of our past conferences (http://www.internetconferences.net). If you plan to submit an abstract/paper, please reply to this e-mail at your earliest convenience, because both conferences have size limitation of 60 particiants. Our email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please put the name of the conference into the subject line (Kopaonik or Studenica). Sincerely yours, Prof. Dr. Veljko Milutinovic, Fellow of the IEEE General Chairman P.S. Please tell us exactly if you want to be informed about other scientific non-profit conferences organized by us. If you would like not to be informed about our conferences, please let us know. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Weird GRUB thing
Recovering would normally be as simple as putting in manual boot details (the root, kernel and initrd commands), booting, and then running grub-install to update grub. Not so simple for me as I have only a vague idea of what I'm doing. From my grub boot floppy, I get as far as the first step grub root (hd0,0) and get: Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83 I presume this is an error report. Is there any other way of repairing grub? Or what else can I do?? Thanks Peter On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:15:13 +1100 Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 18:37, Michael Kraus wrote: G'day... Ahh, well, afaik (this was true for LILO anyway), the boot loader doesn't actually reference a file by the filename, but rather the size and offset of the file on the drive. grub understands the file system. So grub can handle disk defragmentation, partition resizing etc all just fine - as long as partition order and #'s don't change. The break of grub on the origin drive is the key: it means that grub was already broken, or broken during the image process. Or, if the partition #'s changed (say a primary becoming an extended) it would break things, as grub references fields relative to the parition. As to what could break grub, if the /boot partition (the 'install location of grub') changes, then the installed info for grub will be incorrect, and grub won't be able to read menu.lst, which is the list of what to boot. Recovering would normally be as simple as putting in manual boot details (the root, kernel and initrd commands), booting, and then running grub-install to update grub. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt. Peter Vogel ZapTV Pty Ltd 30 Adeline St, Faulconbridge 2776 Australia Tel: 02 4751 8735 Fax: 02 4751 2601 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Security Certifacte
Ok - it's all working now. :) After taking the advice from one of the responses, I stopped all HTTPD and APACHE apps from running (httpd stop, apachectl stop etc.) then killed all the corresponding apps... THEN I did a shutdown and restart (cold boot)... But it STILL showed the old certificate. :S But I checked it today, and the new one is somehow magically installed. I don't get it. But it's working. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Maybe for future reference someone can tell me why this might have happened? Perhaps I had to restart the machine I was working on... maybe it's stored in cache or something here... h. Dunno. Thanks for your help anyway. Regards, Jared Pritchard. -Original Message- From: Jared Pritchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 28 November 2003 4:11 PM To: Slug List Subject: [SLUG] Security Certifacte Hello. Our security certificate is going to expire on the 11-12-03. I'm new to this business since the original was implemented. Back then, it was done via Equifax. The old keys etc. went under the default names of 'server.key' 'server.crt' and so on I have generated a new key for the business and named it 'waterexchange.key' to make it a bit easier to identify (our website is www.waterexchange.com.au) Then I generated a Certificate Request sent that off to GeoTrust who then generated the signed certificate. Then I installed that certificate under 'waterexchange.crt' - So far so good. Using the openssl I can read the certificate and all the output seems fine. It has all our details such as the common name etc. as it should be. Now - I have edited the httpd.conf file to point to the new files as above, then restarted apache httpd using apachectl restart httpd restart ... ... ... In theory, this should set the new certificates in motion ?? But a quick test on the webpage (change http:// to https://) by opening the certificate info still displays the old stuff. I thought somehow it might store that info in cache so I tried on other computers that had never been to the site (at least not the ssl areas)- tried all sorts of things - nothing. Old cert. So I tried = apachectl stop apachectl start and the corresponding commands for httpd but still nothing... Any ideas??? We are running RedHat / Apache / MOD SSL I think it's RedHat 7.3 (Had to be for a RADIUS server) Apache is V 1.3.23-11 openssl is V 0.9.6b-18 Does the original certificate have to run out first??? = If so - how does that work? If we've referenced to the new certs shouldn't it load those details... unless there's a central registry or something...? Perhaps at GeoTrust.? Anyway - I;m lost any help will be greatly appreciated. : ) A point in the right direction even? Regards, Jared Pritchard Waterexchange Pty. Ltd. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2736 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/attachments/20031128/69988264/= winmail.bin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Logitech Keyboard numpad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03-12-2003 02:31:03 PM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03-12-2003 12:55:09 PM: [..snip..] My keyboard works fine, special keys and all, but my XF86Config is set slightly differently to yours: Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us I have: Option XkbModel logicordless I have just tried that option, and no difference. I forgot to mention I am using debian unstable... it could be a bug?? Just for a followup... Perhaps it was some sort of weird bug Yesterday afternoon, My X session wouldn't accept any input from the keyboard - mouse was fine, when I touched a key, it would just beep at me. I logged in as another user, and it was fine - I hadn't modified any settings before/when it went wrong. I removed ~/.X* most of the ~/.gnome directories, ~/.metacity and ~/.nautalus I lost all my desktop preferences, but not only was my keyboard working again, but so was the numpad! Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Modems with voice capabilities
I have a copy of my logs for vgetty has anyone who has made their linux box into an answering machine come across this problem? I am running vgetty from command line to test out my modem. 12/04 11:00:24 yS1 check for lockfiles 12/04 11:00:24 yS1 locking the line 12/04 11:00:24 yS1 lowering DTR to reset Modem 12/04 11:00:25 yS1 send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d] 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 send: ATS0=0Q0D3C1[0d] 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'ATI' 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 Generic Rockwell modem (56000) 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'ATI3' 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'ATI4' 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 additional info: '56000 BPS External Modem D56RSN-W1' 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 modem quirks: 0004 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=2' - OK 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=0' - OK 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'AT+FAA=1;+FCR=1' - OK 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'AT+FBOR=0' - OK 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'AT+FLID=49 115 ' - OK 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'AT+FDCC=1,5,0,2,0,0,0,0' - OK 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 detecting voice modem type 12/04 11:00:28 yS1 Rockwell detected 12/04 11:00:29 yS1 initializing ROCKWELL voice modem 12/04 11:00:29 yS1 vgetty: Modem returned ERROR 12/04 11:00:29 yS1 can't set transmit gain 12/04 11:00:29 yS1 vgetty: Modem returned ERROR 12/04 11:00:29 yS1 can't set record gain 12/04 11:00:31 yS1 waiting... 12/04 11:00:33 yS1 wfr: waiting for ``RING'' 12/04 11:00:33 yS1 wfr: waiting for ``RING'' 12/04 11:00:36 yS1 wfr: waiting for ``RING'' 12/04 11:00:39 yS1 cannot set controlling tty (ioctl): Operation not permitted 12/04 11:00:39 yS1 this might be caused because you have run mgetty/vgetty 12/04 11:00:39 yS1 from the command line. Don't do that, use /etc/inittab! 12/04 11:00:39 yS1 reading ring_type ring configuration from config file /etc/m getty+sendfax/voice.conf 12/04 11:00:41 yS1 playing voice file /var/spool/voice/messages/standard.rmd 12/04 11:00:41 yS1 vgetty: No raw modem data header found 12/04 11:00:41 yS1 vgetty: Could not play greeting message 12/04 11:00:43 yS1 recording voice file /var/spool/voice/incoming/v-18689-10704 96041.rmd 12/04 11:00:43 yS1 Rockwell: Illegal sample rate (134634540) 12/04 11:00:43 yS1 vgetty: Illegal compression method 0xbfffeb60, speed 1346345 40 12/04 11:00:43 yS1 vgetty: Could not record a message Hi all, I have a swannsmart modem with data/fax/voice capabilities I would like to use it as answering machine. Has anyone tried to get the swannsmart modems to work as an answering machine under linux? Otherwise what modem works as an answering machine under Linux? -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb I.T consultants Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile: 0418455661 Web: http://www.spinaweb.com.au -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb I.T consultants Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile: 0418455661 Web: http://www.spinaweb.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] good cd burning software?
any recommendations on a good piece of cd burning software, i'm using k3b and not liking it very much :( What specifically aren't you liking? Development is pretty rapid, so make sure you've got the latest version. AFAIK, and I've investigated this pretty well, all other graphical CD recording apps on Linux are, well, shit. My opinion anyway, but I'm sure a lot of people would agree with me. XCDRoast is one of the few apps that makes GUI buring more difficult than just running the command line tool. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] good cd burning software?
Thanks all for the responses, I was using it to burn some iso images- had a couple of crashes. Basically i am slowly migrating everyone in my vicinity to linux machines and want to be able to have idiots operate the cd burning. I.e. when someone says 'burn' and there isn't a blank cd in there- i'd like the software to eject the CDR tray and say put in a blank CD- o wise one you know, that general kind of ludite proof stuff. So in brief- command line burners are definitely not an option. As for the version of k3b, i'm running 0.9. i'll go and check for an update soon and also I'll give Nautilus a go in a minute. Cheers, Jasper On 03/12/2003, at 11:44 AM, Mike MacCana wrote: any recommendations on a good piece of cd burning software, i'm using k3b and not liking it very much :( What specifically aren't you liking? Development is pretty rapid, so make sure you've got the latest version. AFAIK, and I've investigated this pretty well, all other graphical CD recording apps on Linux are, well, shit. My opinion anyway, but I'm sure a lot of people would agree with me. XCDRoast is one of the few apps that makes GUI buring more difficult than just running the command line tool. Mike -- 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
Re: [SLUG] good cd burning software?
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 03:02, Jasper streit wrote: As for the version of k3b, i'm running 0.9. 0.10 is out :^) Not sure of the distro you're using but its already one of the major Fedora apt repositories. Mike -- __ Mike MacCana ConsultantRHCX, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Modems with voice capabilities
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Kevin Saenz wrote: I have a copy of my logs for vgetty has anyone who has made their linux box into an answering machine come across this problem? I am running vgetty from command line to test out my modem. 12/04 11:00:24 yS1 check for lockfiles 12/04 11:00:24 yS1 locking the line 12/04 11:00:24 yS1 lowering DTR to reset Modem 12/04 11:00:25 yS1 send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d] 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 send: ATS0=0Q0D3C1[0d] 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'ATI' 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 Generic Rockwell modem (56000) 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'ATI3' 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'ATI4' 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 additional info: '56000 BPS External Modem D56RSN-W1' 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 modem quirks: 0004 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=2' - OK 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=0' - OK 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'AT+FAA=1;+FCR=1' - OK 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'AT+FBOR=0' - OK 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'AT+FLID=49 115 ' - OK 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 mdm_send: 'AT+FDCC=1,5,0,2,0,0,0,0' - OK 12/04 11:00:26 yS1 detecting voice modem type 12/04 11:00:28 yS1 Rockwell detected 12/04 11:00:29 yS1 initializing ROCKWELL voice modem 12/04 11:00:29 yS1 vgetty: Modem returned ERROR 12/04 11:00:29 yS1 can't set transmit gain 12/04 11:00:29 yS1 vgetty: Modem returned ERROR 12/04 11:00:29 yS1 can't set record gain The above 2 errors are 'normal' 12/04 11:00:31 yS1 waiting... 12/04 11:00:33 yS1 wfr: waiting for ``RING'' 12/04 11:00:33 yS1 wfr: waiting for ``RING'' 12/04 11:00:36 yS1 wfr: waiting for ``RING'' 12/04 11:00:39 yS1 cannot set controlling tty (ioctl): Operation not permitted 12/04 11:00:39 yS1 this might be caused because you have run mgetty/vgetty 12/04 11:00:39 yS1 from the command line. Don't do that, use /etc/inittab! 12/04 11:00:39 yS1 reading ring_type ring configuration from config file /etc/m getty+sendfax/voice.conf 12/04 11:00:41 yS1 playing voice file /var/spool/voice/messages/standard.rmd 12/04 11:00:41 yS1 vgetty: No raw modem data header found 12/04 11:00:41 yS1 vgetty: Could not play greeting message 12/04 11:00:43 yS1 recording voice file /var/spool/voice/incoming/v-18689-10704 96041.rmd 12/04 11:00:43 yS1 Rockwell: Illegal sample rate (134634540) 12/04 11:00:43 yS1 vgetty: Illegal compression method 0xbfffeb60, speed 1346345 40 12/04 11:00:43 yS1 vgetty: Could not record a message The above looks like a permissions problem on the /dev/ttyS1 device. I have a swannsmart modem with data/fax/voice capabilities I would like to use it as answering machine. Has anyone tried to get the swannsmart modems to work as an answering machine under linux? Otherwise what modem works as an answering machine under Linux? I happen to have used a Dynalink V1456VQE modem quite OK, I suspect all the recent EXTERNAL SERIAL modems with voice have the same basic capabilities. -- ---GRiP--- Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, Linux Guru, SLUG/AUUG/Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, BMX rider, Walker, Raver rave music lover, Big kid that refuses to grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! Do people actually read these things? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Removing exim and replacing with nullmailer fails.
Hi all, Okies based on suggestions from here I am removing exim from a virtual server and replacing with nullmailer as we dont need a complete mail system like exim provides. 1. I tried it on my laptop as a testand it went quite well. By just asking Debian to install nullmailer it knew that it had to remove exim which it did. That is I didntn have to remove exim (which would have removed the logrotate) and then install nullmailer. Here is the problem 2. I then tried it on the virtuous server.. $ sudo apt-get install nullmailer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: exim The following NEW packages will be installed: nullmailer 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/68.6kB of archives. After unpacking 1106kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: exim: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: at depends on mail-transport-agent; however: Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is to be removed. mailx depends on mail-transport-agent; however: Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is to be removed. (Reading database ... 11568 files and directories currently installed.) Removing exim ... Stopping MTA: exim. /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim.prerm: update-inetd: command not found dpkg: error processing exim (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 Starting MTA: exim. Errors were encountered while processing: exim E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) $ The reason why it barfed at trying to run update-inetd is that the package netlit-inetd is not there as its been removed by me. The reason why its removed is that the server is running nothing from inetd and does not have an inetd. How should I go about exim to nullmailer - I dont want to break the nice server by using --force without seeking advice here. I have backed up exim.conf 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] Removing exim and replacing with nullmailer fails.
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:39:50PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Removing exim ... Stopping MTA: exim. /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim.prerm: update-inetd: command not found dpkg: error processing exim (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 The reason why it barfed at trying to run update-inetd is that the package netlit-inetd is not there as its been removed by me. The reason why its removed is that the server is running nothing from inetd and does not have an inetd. Well, I guess you just found out why it's a bad idea to remove netkit-inetd... Quick and dirty fix is to create an empty script in /usr/sbin/update-inetd. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] rndc: connect failed: connection refused
For the record: I eventually had to kill named and restart it manually in order to get rndc to connect. I've added control and key statements to /etc/bind/named.conf as well as creating a /etc/bind/rndc.conf file with options and key statements. I used rndc-confgen to create both the key and its key statement. The Debian docs tell you this isn't necessary, but I can now do #/etc/init.d/bind reload without it spitting the dummy. I can only assume there is a bug in the Debian configuration of Bind9.2, but i'm not smart enough to figure out what it might be, so the next best thing I can do is post this here in case someone else has the same drama. David. On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: listening on 953. I've changed the named.conf and rndc.conf files as shown below, but obviously that isn't effective for the daemon that is already running. Agreed. does this mean that I should kill named, then restart it? That doesn't seem to make much sense to me, but at the moment I'm not seeing an alternative. Neither the init script or rndc will let me stop named. I think you're going to have to kill named. Theoretically everything will keep on working if the slaves are working OK. Just a guess at what is happening (too bad google doesn't know the difference). When named starts it reads the rndc key, you need that key to control named, to get it to reread its config, for example. If you change the key on the disk, as you've said, it won't affect the running named. It will stop you from being able to control named, though, because the key named loaded at startup, and the key on the disk that the rndc binary uses don't match any more. If it still doesn't work after a kill and restart, I don't know. -- 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
Re: [SLUG] Removing exim and replacing with nullmailer fails.
Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:39:50PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Removing exim ... Stopping MTA: exim. /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim.prerm: update-inetd: command not found dpkg: error processing exim (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 The reason why it barfed at trying to run update-inetd is that the package netlit-inetd is not there as its been removed by me. The reason why its removed is that the server is running nothing from inetd and does not have an inetd. Well, I guess you just found out why it's a bad idea to remove netkit-inetd... Quick and dirty fix is to create an empty script in /usr/sbin/update-inetd. okies thats something I had not thought of. I was a bit wrong too; update-inetd belongs to netbase but it expects to find /etc/inetd.conf or xinetd.conf Looking a update-inetd script it just exits with 0 if OK so I could just add an option taht if neither exist to exit with 0 inetd is removed as it is not needed. Thats one less daemon that crackers can attempt to exploit. Given that Debian and now Gentoo have been breached, and that I am a newbie sysadmin, I am trying to reduce potential holes that can be used. The Securing Debian is quite good, been reading it. Mike -- 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] Samba PDC logout scripts
We're thinking of setting up a hotel business centre using samba as a PDC to dynamically create user accounts, allow/disallow user access and time usage, using samba login and logout prompts. Sounds really simple and elegant, but when a user logs out of the windows machine, will samba always execute the required logout script? How reliable is this? (It has to be, as we're envisaging it as the basis for billing). Edwin Humphries, Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ironstone.com.au Phone: 02 4233 2285 Fax: 02 4233 2299 Mobile: 0419 233 051 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Modems with voice capabilities
12/04 11:00:41 yS1 vgetty: Could not play greeting message 12/04 11:00:43 yS1 recording voice file /var/spool/voice/incoming/v-18689-10704 96041.rmd 12/04 11:00:43 yS1 Rockwell: Illegal sample rate (134634540) 12/04 11:00:43 yS1 vgetty: Illegal compression method 0xbfffeb60, speed 1346345 40 12/04 11:00:43 yS1 vgetty: Could not record a message The above looks like a permissions problem on the /dev/ttyS1 device. It does create the file the problem is that it is 0 bytes. I happen to have used a Dynalink V1456VQE modem quite OK, I suspect all the recent EXTERNAL SERIAL modems with voice have the same basic capabilities. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Really useful restore permissions script..
I just had the situation this bloke is tlking about: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/23/2003/09/2/91333 Accidently chmoded way to far up a tree and stuffed win4lin. This script enables a restoration of the permissions to the stuffed tree. YKmMV as the chown relates to uid/gid not actual names. HTH Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
