Re: [SLUG] importing m$-windoze fonts
Hi Rajnish, You just need to copy the fonts into the correct directories, normally: # /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ Specifically, if you are using TrueType fonts, you are probably after the TTF folder located at: # /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF After copying the fonts into the appropriate directory, ensure the fonts have read permissions for all users. Then you will probably need to run fc-cache just to make sure the fonts are properly setup/cached. I hope this is of help, Dave. On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:40:29 +1100, Rajnish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Months ago I read somewhere (mag, I think) about importing m$-windoze fonts into linux. I don't recall any tool etc. Has anyone done that ? How can it be done ? Thanks in advance. -- Regards, Rajnish -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] free software alternative to Big Brother
HAHAHAHAH! that's one of those *SO OBVIOUS* things that you'd *never* have thought of until it was pointed out :P On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:13 pm, DaZZa wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Danny Yee wrote: Does anyone know of a free software server monitoring tool with similar functaionality to Big Brother? I'm having trouble as all the obvious search terms are overloaded. Big Sister http://bigsister.graeff.com/home.html Freeware clone of Big Brother. There's also JFFNMS - http://www.jffnms.org - but it depends on the functionality you want. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Font Antialiasing problems
At Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:14:54 +1100, Indelible wrote: Yes, definitely the native res. Everything else is sharp as, it's just the fonts which give me trouble. Run gnome-font-properties(*) and play around with the anti-aliasing amounts and the various LCD RGBA orderings. You also get to tell gnome-font-properties all about your current resolution too, so make sure that matches what X already knows it is (oops I'm ranting again). (*) I think thats what its called - I don't have any gnome stuff installed on my current machine. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Dell GX1 Optiplex Wont boot
definately sounds like something has come loose in transit i would concur with stripping out all unneeded peripherals and cleaning the insides. but i wouldnt go past physical violence. not towards staff or friends but towards the machine itself. you would be suprised what a few well placed blows does for an ailing computer. Dean Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, I've just inherited two Dell Optiplex GX1 400Mhz boxen which are surplus to some corporations requirements because they won't run XP. So obviously we put Linux on them right? Trouble is that they won't boot. I was told that they were perfectly functional and even saw one running before accepting them. Both have exactly the same problem which is that on power on the CPU fan and mother board power up, the disk does a quick head movement and the cd-rom clicks, but then nothing. No video, no disk activity, no floppy access no num lock/caps lock light on the keyboard (though the num caps and scroll lights flash just once on power-on). Tried alternate screens keyboards etc, to no avail. Removed the memory, and they beeb loudly in complaint, but putting it back, reseating the CPU etc, nothing. Tried putting in an alternate PCI video card, but no difference. It seems to be more than a component failure, it's as if the boot sequence is in some sort of disabled state. So something happened to both of them between me picking them up and taking them home, unless my house is in some sort of Optiplex free zone in cyberspace :-( I can't think of anything else that might work. I've looked on the net and it appears that this problem occurs when overclocking them, but I haven't done that. Cluesticks or are they destined for the junk yard? TIA's P. -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] dhcpd not working
I'm setting up dhcpd on Ubuntu 4.1
The client can get a lease, and ping the dhcp server, but can't get past
there. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/dhcp3 # ip route ls
203.23.xxx.xxx/xx dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 203.23.xxx.8
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.254
default via 203.23.xx.1 dev eth0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/dhcp3 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/dhcp3 #
--extract from dhcpd.conf--
authoritative;
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.253;
option routers 192.168.1.254;
}
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RE: [SLUG] free software alternative to Big Brother
You've also got www.nagios.org (used to be netsaint) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Ponza Sent: Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:07 PM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] free software alternative to Big Brother HAHAHAHAH! that's one of those *SO OBVIOUS* things that you'd *never* have thought of until it was pointed out :P On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:13 pm, DaZZa wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Danny Yee wrote: Does anyone know of a free software server monitoring tool with similar functaionality to Big Brother? I'm having trouble as all the obvious search terms are overloaded. Big Sister http://bigsister.graeff.com/home.html Freeware clone of Big Brother. There's also JFFNMS - http://www.jffnms.org - but it depends on the functionality you want. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.784 / Virus Database: 530 - Release Date: 27/10/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.784 / Virus Database: 530 - Release Date: 27/10/2004 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] problems getting apt-get through a firewall
hi all, since the network firewall was tightened where i work, i can't get apt-get to work. i can't figure out why, because i thought apt-get used ftp and http, and both of these are allowed through: -start snip from the firewall rules- ! ! general permit list for all workstations ! access-list 190 permit tcp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq www access-list 190 permit tcp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq 443 access-list 190 permit tcp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq domain access-list 190 permit udp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq domain access-list 190 permit tcp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq 22 access-list 190 permit tcp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq telnet access-list 190 permit tcp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq ftp access-list 190 permit tcp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq ftp-data access-list 190 permit tcp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq smtp access-list 190 permit tcp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq pop3 -end snip from the firewall rules- this is what i get when i run apt-get update: justin-desktop:/home/justin# apt-get update Get:1 ftp://debian.ihug.com.au testing/main Packages [3191kB] Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages Get:2 http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Release [111B] Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages Get:3 http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Release [114B] Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages Get:4 http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Release [115B] Err ftp://debian.ihug.com.au testing/main Packages Could not connect data socket, connection timed out Get:5 ftp://debian.ihug.com.au testing/main Release [81B] 0% [5 Release 0/81B 0%] any ideas? thanks justin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] dhcpd not working
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 00:29 +1100, David wrote: I'm setting up dhcpd on Ubuntu 4.1 The client can get a lease, and ping the dhcp server, but can't get past there. Any suggestions would be gratefully received. I assume you mean that the clients can't ping other machines than the dhcp server, which is also acting as a gateway. It's no sufficient to just enable ip_forwarding - have you also set up some iptables rules for the forwarding? In this case, you'll need IP masquerading, because the client machines have non-routeable 192.168.* addresses. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] problems getting apt-get through a firewall
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 08:04 +1100, justin randell wrote: hi all, since the network firewall was tightened where i work, i can't get apt-get to work. i can't figure out why, because i thought apt-get used ftp and http, and both of these are allowed through: I don't recognise the firewall rule syntax, so I don't know if there's anything wrong with it. apt-get should only require http and ftp as you say, so I would try using wget and ftp type rules on the commandline to check whether they work. Cheers, Jan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] problems getting apt-get through a firewall
I don't recognise the firewall rule syntax, so I don't know if there's anything wrong with it. neither do i :-) its cisco IOS stuff i think, but i'm not much of a network person. both wget and ftp work fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/justin$ ftp home.exetel.com.au Connected to el.exetel.com.au. 220 ProFTPD 1.2.9 Server (home.exetel.com.au) [el.exetel.com.au] Name (home.exetel.com.au:justin): 0295664082 331 Password required for 0295664082. Password: 230 User 0295664082 logged in. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp justin-desktop:/home/justin$ wget http://slug.org.au --08:59:19-- http://slug.org.au/ = `index.html' Resolving slug.org.au... 138.25.7.4 Connecting to slug.org.au[138.25.7.4]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 5,002 [text/html] 100%[] 5,002 --.--K/s 08:59:19 (171.84 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [5002/5002] anyone got any other ideas? thanks justin On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:57:43 +1100, Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 08:04 +1100, justin randell wrote: hi all, since the network firewall was tightened where i work, i can't get apt-get to work. i can't figure out why, because i thought apt-get used ftp and http, and both of these are allowed through: apt-get should only require http and ftp as you say, so I would try using wget and ftp type rules on the commandline to check whether they work. Cheers, Jan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] problems getting apt-get through a firewall
justin randell wrote: Err ftp://debian.ihug.com.au testing/main Packages Could not connect data socket, connection timed out Get:5 ftp://debian.ihug.com.au testing/main Release [81B] 0% [5 Release 0/81B 0%] any ideas? Dont use ftp at all? you probably need to use passive ftp if you want it to work. the test is to take your ftp test further by trying to actually download something - if it gives you an error, then the high data port that ftp is trying to talk on is getting blocked. So you need to issue a PASV first. (just switch on passive mode really) I would just use an http mirror. mirror.pacific.net.au/debian should work fine dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] problems getting apt-get through a firewall
thanks dave :-) i'm sure i tested using a http source already, but whatever, http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian works fine now. On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:16:04 +1100, David Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: justin randell wrote: Err ftp://debian.ihug.com.au testing/main Packages Could not connect data socket, connection timed out Get:5 ftp://debian.ihug.com.au testing/main Release [81B] 0% [5 Release 0/81B 0%] any ideas? Dont use ftp at all? you probably need to use passive ftp if you want it to work. the test is to take your ftp test further by trying to actually download something - if it gives you an error, then the high data port that ftp is trying to talk on is getting blocked. So you need to issue a PASV first. (just switch on passive mode really) I would just use an http mirror. mirror.pacific.net.au/debian should work fine dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] problems getting apt-get through a firewall
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 08:04 +1100, justin randell wrote: hi all, since the network firewall was tightened where i work, i can't get apt-get to work. i can't figure out why, because i thought apt-get used ftp and http, and both of these are allowed through: Looks like you are using acl's on a cisco router which is not really a firewall. This will allow you to establish a control chanel connection access-list 190 permit tcp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq ftp This will do nothing at all as you will never try to connect to ftp-data (20) The server will try to connect to you with a src port of 20 access-list 190 permit tcp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 any eq ftp-data ftp is one of those unfortunate and ugly protocols like (portmap) that uses random ports. traditional ftp you - (21) ftp server ftp requests a high tcp port from you and connects to you ie an inbound connection most acls will block this you( 1023) - (20) ftp server passive ftp you - (21) ftp server ftp server tells you a high numbered tcp port to connect to you - (1023) ftp_server note that the connection on 21 is always up it is the control channel. So from your acls above for passive ftp to work you would need access-list 190 permit tcp 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 gt 1023 any gt 1023 which probably violates your policy Solution use http or get a stateful firewall that can create the required rules on the firewall. For ip tables use ftp_conntrack module One last thing if I gave out my companies access rules on a mailinglist I would be shot. just include the relevant lines next time. jimbob -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Poor ping times after shipping server to co-lo facility
Afternoon and Merry Xmas Sluggers, Just sent a server up to qld to a CoLo Center with FC2 set up on it. After powering it up with the new network settings the server is experiencing shocking ping times (in the order of 1000-2000ms even for local traffic). It was configured as per their instructions on ip's, gateway etc (usual settings) on the main NIC and there is a 2nd NIC which we are using to connect to another server via a crossover cable using 192.168.1.x addresses. The default gateway is set to the correct one on eth1 (real world IP nic). looking at ifconfig it shows a number of overruns (1600 out of 6000 packets) and 3 dropped packets. tcpdump shows an abnormally high number of arp requests - lots of other local ip's for the centre but none that the box should care about. Can anyone suggest anything to check? Trying to rule out misconfiguration before getting them to replace the NIC - there was evidence it had a less than gentle trip up to QLD and it's possible the nic has been damanged. The admin guy had to open the case and reposition the riser card holding the video card and 2nd NIC (the one not working) so it's l ooking that way - just need to know if anyone has any suggestions before we fork out for them to fix it. Thanks in advance, Paul -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
