Re: [SLUG] How to get Nautilus to close the parent window?
quote who=Michael Lake Ah OK. I'll use Browser windows. I saw that option but it wasn't what I wanted as it provided too much info on the screen while the simpler file window was all I wanted. Hence I was looking for other options somewhere. Too much info... in the sidebar? You can turn that off. You can turn most of the other toolbar-ish widgets off too. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ We must be proactive, eternally vigilant, forever fighting, overwhelmingly clever and handsome. - Robert Love -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Specialised delivery for Postfix - can it be done?
Folks. I have a box running postfix which delivers a small amount of mail to both internal and external addresses. I need to be able to configure it to deliver mail for a specific domain to one mail server without doing a MX record lookup - send all mail @foo.bar.au to 10.1.1.1 and everything else to 12.2.2.2, for example. Can this be done? I'm not very familiar with Postfix, so I'm using Webmin to try and configure it - but I'll plug command lines in if someone can point me to the right file/format to stick in. Thanks. 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] Specialised delivery for Postfix - can it be done?
$quoted_author = DaZZa ; I need to be able to configure it to deliver mail for a specific domain to one mail server without doing a MX record lookup - send all mail @foo.bar.au to 10.1.1.1 and everything else to 12.2.2.2, for example. put this in /etc/postfix/transport foo.bar.au :[10.1.1.1] and these in /etc/postfix/main.cf transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport relayhost = 12.2.2.2 cheers marty -- No GUI for you! Use lynx!!!, Come back, One year! /avant -- 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] Specialised delivery for Postfix - can it be done?
quote who=DaZZa I need to be able to configure it to deliver mail for a specific domain to one mail server without doing a MX record lookup - send all mail @foo.bar.au to 10.1.1.1 and everything else to 12.2.2.2, for example. You need to use a transport map, and square brackets around the IP address (to indicate that you want it delivered directly to that IP without any MX lookups). For example: foo.bar.au smtp:[10.1.1.1] That will often go in /etc/postfix/transport (which you need to postmap(1) afterward), but that depends on how customised your configuration is. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Women are too irrational to be crazed killers anyway. - Angus Lees -- 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] Re: [chat] Firefox as IE
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:46:40 +1000 Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan L Tyree wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:19:52 +1000 Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan L Tyree wrote: Can someone remind me how to make web sites think that Firefox is IE? There are other ways but easiest is to download User Agent Switcher extension. Many thanks. Glad to oblige...even if I did change the list the request was on :( I try to keep the really dumb questions on chat. Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092FWD: 615662 -- 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] Firewall
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 14:02 +1000, James Gray wrote: If you need to manage multiple firewalls with a consistent policy/framework across multiple platforms (Linux/BSD and even Cisco PIX, Linksys, etc too) then fwbuilder might be another candidate. Fwbuilder is a personal favourite too. I have nice (encrypted) collection of FWB files for all the firewalls I'm responsible for. Very handy for re-creating in emergency situations as well as cloning. -- Cheers, Craige, signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] Specialised delivery for Postfix - can it be done?
$quoted_author = DaZZa ; OK, now I get an error message in /var/log/mail Jul 10 16:13:57 sky20 postfix/pickup[32763]: 9012CAFE6A: uid=0 from=root Jul 10 16:13:57 sky20 postfix/trivial-rewrite[310]: warning: database /etc/postfix/transport.db is older than source file /etc/postfix/transport How do I update the database file? I assume it's something like newalias? newtransport? run this: postmap hash:/etc/postfix/transport marty -- xterm The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? http://www.bash.org/?4753 -- 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] ubuntu default route
Christopher Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a machine running Dapper with two interfaces, one wired, one wireless. Sounds like network manager would be ideal. There has been some discussion here about it if you want to search the archives. from memory you want to apt-get install network-manager-gnome edit /etc/network/interfaces and comment out the wired and the wireless interface. run nm-applet, you should see a new mouse like icon in the panel. It adds itself to your session startup programs, so you don't need to do anything for it to start after a reboot. It should default to wired, and switch to wireless if wired goes down. What is the 'right' way to do this for Ubuntu/Debian. This would be my way if you don't want to use network manager. First ifdown both interfaces, and make sure there's no dhclient running. Setup the wired interface in /etc/network/interfaces to be auto and dhcp, setup the wireless to be dhcp but not auto. ifup the wired interface. Then it will be wired by default, if you want to swap, sudo ifdown wired; sudo ifup wireless. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Firewall Device Opinions
Hi I'm after opinions on the following two options in terms of a straight firewall. Since I have never used OpenWRT devices before I don't have any idea how they rate against a full pc running as a firewall. The options are: 1. OpenWRT on a Linksys device 2. Small form factor pc with some sort of solid state memory running linux. The only caveat is that it (the fw) has to allow for a DMZ, and may have to run multiple internet (WAN) connections (I am currently investigating/googling whether an OpentWRT device can do this) in the future. Otherwise fairly straight forward. This is for a business environment. Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Firewall Device Opinions
Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: Hi 1. OpenWRT on a Linksys device 2. Small form factor pc with some sort of solid state memory running linux. The only caveat is that it (the fw) has to allow for a DMZ, and may have to run multiple internet (WAN) connections (I am currently investigating/googling whether an OpentWRT device can do this) in the future. Otherwise fairly straight forward. This is for a business environment. I've just installed an Asus device running OpenWRT to replace my home gateway box, and I'm very impressed. It gets full line rate on a 6190/768 ADSL line with pptp, including NAT, firewalling and IPSec tunnels. Also has two USB ports (eg for storage, etc) More good news - all of its 5 ethernet ports can be partitioned into separate logical interfaces, so you can create DMZ VLANs hanging off it. http://wiki.openwrt.org/DemilitarizedZoneHowto And thus you can also create multiple WAN interfaces. Of course, it's silent. BB -- 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] Firewall Device Opinions
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:45:51 +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: 2. Small form factor pc with some sort of solid state memory running linux. I'm doing this at home. I'm running a cut-down ubuntu dapper installation, initially installed as a breezy server then any packages I didn't need removed, followed by a dist-upgrade to dapper when it was released. It has about 200 packages and uses less than 300MB of flash. The h/w is one of those VIA PCs that Vini Engel was selling a month or two ago. I've added a PCI NIC (an SMC card which was small enough to fit in the case) and a PCMCIA NIC to give me LAN, WAN and DMZ. It took some work to install the PCI NIC -- there were no holes in the back of the case for it and the power connector was a bit too close to the PCI slot, but it wasn't hard, just fiddly. It runs off a 512MB CF card via a CF-IDE adapter, because although the board has a CF slot the BIOS can't boot from it. Apparently there is a BIOS upgrade available but I couldn't find it easily, and the CF-IDE adapter wasn't expensive enough for me to care. The box has a fan, but it's very quiet. I could probably disconnect it without anything overheating, but the noise is insignificant -- there are other much more noisy things in the room :-) I did make a few changes to reduce the number of writes to the CF card to extend its life: - mount / noatime - use tmpfs for /tmp (with a max size limit so it can't take all the RAM) - no swap - syslog to a LAN host and stop syslog being restarted each day if there are no local log files (causes a write to /dev) - change ntp.conf so that the drift file is in /tmp and copy it to /var once a week if it's changed (and on boot/shutdown). I think that was all. The only caveat is that it (the fw) has to allow for a DMZ, and may have to run multiple internet (WAN) connections (I am currently I don't know whether any of the VIA motherboards have more than one PCI slot. If not, you'd need to use a case with enough room for a larger PCI card with more than one network port, or use a USB ethernet adaptor. Cheers, John -- Nothing is perfect. Not even Windows sucks perfectly. -- Jay Maynard -- 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] ubuntu default route
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:19:02PM +1000, Michael Chesterton wrote: Sounds like network manager would be ideal. There has been some discussion here about it if you want to search the archives. I'll try it when I next have access to the machine. Ta. -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Re: [chat] Firefox as IE
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:32:43PM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: I try to keep the really dumb questions on chat. There is no such thing as a dumb question :-) There are however off-topic questions Matt -- 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] Ubuntu 6.06 wireless networking
Jeff,I'm going to have to go back to Mandriva, as my network atleast worked under that distro. Now under Ubuntu i cannot see a single wireless network. Nothing seems to show why it can't see a network. It is very frustrating. At work i'm having to boot into windows and run Linux under VMWARE. Very very frustrated.Phil.On 7/7/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Sonia Hamilton * On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:57:31AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: The default software isn't clever enough to do this for you. However, with a little help from Network Manager (install network-manager-gnome), you will have a *very* pleasurable network switching experience; both wifi and wired. Hey Jeff, I installed network manager, but I couldn't seem to find a way of configuring or running it. I had a look around with dpkg -L network-manager, couldn't see anything obvious. Is it just Friday afternoon my brain has gone to sleep?No, it's just a bit obtuse at the moment because it's not nicely integrated for you. Run nm-applet (which is in network-manager-gnome). You should alsocheck that it is in your startup list (System Preferences Sessions).- Jeff--linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Old timers will tell you what a pain unstable was during the newtestament transition. - Jon Corbet on Debian's KJV packages --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] Ubuntu 6.06 wireless networking
Jeff,I'm going to have to go back to Mandriva, as my network atleast worked under that distro. Now under Ubuntu i cannot see a single wireless network. Nothing seems to show why it can't see a network. It is very frustrating. At work i'm having to boot into windows and run Linux under VMWARE. Very very frustrated.Phil.On 7/7/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Sonia Hamilton * On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:57:31AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: The default software isn't clever enough to do this for you. However, with a little help from Network Manager (install network-manager-gnome), you will have a *very* pleasurable network switching experience; both wifi and wired. Hey Jeff, I installed network manager, but I couldn't seem to find a way of configuring or running it. I had a look around with dpkg -L network-manager, couldn't see anything obvious. Is it just Friday afternoon my brain has gone to sleep?No, it's just a bit obtuse at the moment because it's not nicely integrated for you. Run nm-applet (which is in network-manager-gnome). You should alsocheck that it is in your startup list (System Preferences Sessions).- Jeff--linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Old timers will tell you what a pain unstable was during the newtestament transition. - Jon Corbet on Debian's KJV packages --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] Re: Firewall Device Opinions
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 10:02 +0200, Ben Buxton wrote: I've just installed an Asus device running OpenWRT to replace my home gateway box, and I'm very impressed. Which device did you use Ben? I've been wanting to try this out with the WRT54G but could only purchase a newer version (v5) than was supported at the time. This makes it a bit hard to use on an ongoing basis. Maybe Asus's device have a more stable hardware selection. -- Simon Wong [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] Firewall Device Opinions
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 17:45 +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: 2. Small form factor pc with some sort of solid state memory running linux. The biggest problem I have come across looking at these is finding something with 3 NICs without spending a fortune on a multiple interface card from Intel. Another issue seems to be that they are sold as whole units, you can't replace many parts or even the MoBo without returning the whole unit. -- Simon Wong [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
[SLUG] Re: Re: Firewall Device Opinions
Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 10:02 +0200, Ben Buxton wrote: I've just installed an Asus device running OpenWRT to replace my home gateway box, and I'm very impressed. Which device did you use Ben? I've been wanting to try this out with the WRT54G but could only purchase a newer version (v5) than was supported at the time. This makes it a bit hard to use on an ongoing basis. Maybe Asus's device have a more stable hardware selection. I have an Asus WL-500gP. 8Mb Flash and 32Mb DRAM (more than most other openwrt devices). It also has 2 USB ports. Lots of other devices are supported: http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware BB -- 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] Firewall Device Opinions
Phil Scarratt wrote: Hi I'm after opinions on the following two options in terms of a straight firewall. Since I have never used OpenWRT devices before I don't have any idea how they rate against a full pc running as a firewall. The options are: 1. OpenWRT on a Linksys device 2. Small form factor pc with some sort of solid state memory running linux. The only caveat is that it (the fw) has to allow for a DMZ, and may have to run multiple internet (WAN) connections (I am currently investigating/googling whether an OpentWRT device can do this) in the future. Otherwise fairly straight forward. This is for a business environment. The DMZ might be a problem for the WRT54GL since they only have three routable interfaces (wireless, Internet and LAN). I don't think that the four 100Base-TX ports are independently routable. You could certainly work around that -- such as having a DMZ tunnel. My testing has the WRT54GL running out of grunt at around 45Mbps of large packet traffic. So I wouldn't use it as a firewall for anything more than a ADSL link otherwise denying service is just a matter of sending a lot of back-to-back small packets. I'm very impressed by the OpenWRT software -- the packaging is really well thought out and it is a joy to use. We use it for a access points, since we want them to run IPv6, which isn't supported by the manufcturer's firmware. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Firewall Device Opinions
Glen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: The DMZ might be a problem for the WRT54GL since they only have three routable interfaces (wireless, Internet and LAN). I don't think that the four 100Base-TX ports are independently routable. They certainly are. Depending on the exact make/model, every single port (all 5) can be configured as a separately routable inteface if you want. (Yes there are 5 - the WAN port is just configured by default on its own VLAN as the outside interface) The only thing to keep in mind is that traffic _routed_ between separate VLANs is trunked through a single (internal) 100Mb port. Traffic on the same segment is fully switched though. I'm very impressed by the OpenWRT software -- the packaging is really well thought out and it is a joy to use. We use it for a access points, since we want them to run IPv6, which isn't supported by the manufcturer's firmware. Yup - the software is very good. It's really nice to see a debian/apt style system. eg 'ipkg install nmap' and it downloads and installs automatically. BB -- 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] Firewall Device Opinions
quote who=Phil Scarratt I'm after opinions on the following two options in terms of a straight firewall. Since I have never used OpenWRT devices before I don't have any idea how they rate against a full pc running as a firewall. The only caveat is that it (the fw) has to allow for a DMZ, and may have to run multiple internet (WAN) connections (I am currently investigating/googling whether an OpentWRT device can do this) in the future. Otherwise fairly straight forward. This is for a business environment. So, OpenWRT is rad if you want a fairly complete Debian-style environment on your router, but if you would prefer to have a replacement for the normal firmware that has way more features and a much groovier web admin console, try dd-wrt. It handles DMZ, setting up the ports differently, etc. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ It's the most fun I've had without the use of a water-based lubricant. - Stephen Fry on directing his first film -- 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] Ubuntu 6.06 wireless networking
quote who=Phil Manuel I'm going to have to go back to Mandriva, as my network atleast worked under that distro. Now under Ubuntu i cannot see a single wireless network. Nothing seems to show why it can't see a network. It is very frustrating. At work i'm having to boot into windows and run Linux under VMWARE. Very very frustrated. You haven't really explained what happened - it sounded as though wireless worked for you earlier, but you wanted a prettier/smarter interface - now you're saying wireless doesn't work at all? Why throw the baby out with the bathwater when SLUG is here to help solve your problem? - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ I tried to make money ass signing, but the bottom fell out of the market. - Liam Quin -- 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] Re: Re: Firewall Device Opinions
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:45:36PM +0200, Ben Buxton wrote: Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 10:02 +0200, Ben Buxton wrote: I've just installed an Asus device running OpenWRT to replace my home gateway box, and I'm very impressed. Which device did you use Ben? I've been wanting to try this out with the WRT54G but could only purchase a newer version (v5) than was supported at the time. This makes it a bit hard to use on an ongoing basis. Maybe Asus's device have a more stable hardware selection. I have an Asus WL-500gP. 8Mb Flash and 32Mb DRAM (more than most other openwrt devices). It also has 2 USB ports. where did you buy this from ? How has openwrt behaved on this, noticed there are some caveats on it at the openwrt site Alex Lots of other devices are supported: http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] Linux Workshop THIS Sunday
On Wed, July 5, 2006 1:06 am, Chris Deigan wrote: SLUG's workshop will be a be a fusion of traditional SLUG events - consisting of a codefest, videofest, installfest and for the first time at SLUG, a deckfest. many thanks to you and SLUG for the help with Centos CDs -- Voytek -- 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] Firewall Device Opinions
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:31:16AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: The biggest problem I have come across looking at these is finding something with 3 NICs without spending a fortune on a multiple interface card from Intel. The soekris and pc-engines wrap both have 3 NICs, and are available from Yawarra. -- Christopher Vance -- 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] Firewall Device Opinions
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 01:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Small form factor pc with some sort of solid state memory running linux. I'm doing this at home. I'm running a cut-down ubuntu dapper installation, initially installed as a breezy server then any packages I didn't need removed, followed by a dist-upgrade to dapper when it was released. It has about 200 packages and uses less than 300MB of flash. The h/w is one of those VIA PCs that Vini Engel was selling a month or two ago. I've added a PCI NIC (an SMC card which was small enough to fit in the case) and a PCMCIA NIC to give me LAN, WAN and DMZ. It took some work to install the PCI NIC -- there were no holes in the back of the case for it and the power connector was a bit too close to the PCI slot, but it wasn't hard, just fiddly. It runs off a 512MB CF card via a CF-IDE adapter, because although the board has a CF slot the BIOS can't boot from it. Apparently there is a BIOS upgrade available but I couldn't find it easily, and the CF-IDE adapter wasn't expensive enough for me to care. The box has a fan, but it's very quiet. I could probably disconnect it without anything overheating, but the noise is insignificant -- there are other much more noisy things in the room :-) I did make a few changes to reduce the number of writes to the CF card to extend its life: - mount / noatime - use tmpfs for /tmp (with a max size limit so it can't take all the RAM) - no swap - syslog to a LAN host and stop syslog being restarted each day if there are no local log files (causes a write to /dev) - change ntp.conf so that the drift file is in /tmp and copy it to /var once a week if it's changed (and on boot/shutdown). I think that was all. The only caveat is that it (the fw) has to allow for a DMZ, and may have to run multiple internet (WAN) connections (I am currently I don't know whether any of the VIA motherboards have more than one PCI slot. If not, you'd need to use a case with enough room for a larger PCI card with more than one network port, or use a USB ethernet adaptor. A lot of work. Satifying. http://www.ltsp.org does it more elegantly: main FS is RO /tmp is RAM writable stuff sym-linked to /tmp eg logs, dynamic xorg.conf etc About 200M last time I counted, although I used a 30M version in my olive-pickers (5s boot, wireless) http://tigger.ws/vtigger/main.php?g2_itemId=3985 (I don't use X here) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Why do ARM processors (and friends) use k 2.4.x?
Just out of curiosity, why do ARM and other embedded type architectures still use kernel 2.4 series? Verbose technical information is fine ;) Dean -- 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] Why do ARM processors (and friends) use k 2.4.x?
quote who=Dean Hamstead Just out of curiosity, why do ARM and other embedded type architectures still use kernel 2.4 series? Verbose technical information is fine ;) Not all do - the 770 uses 2.6.12. I know some very small systems still use 2.4 due to kernel size (though that is changing with all the nice embedded options in 2.6), 'interesting' hardware support or just pure inertia (once you've built a platform, stick with it for as long as you can - especially if you have a bunch of custom patches). - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ We are not complete muppets. - Murray Cumming -- 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] Why do ARM processors (and friends) use k 2.4.x?
ahh yes custom patches. which could be a big reason for embedded apps with funky proprietary hardwares. good thinking. i thought that perhaps some memory algorithm hadn't been ported (or worse) Dean Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Dean Hamstead Just out of curiosity, why do ARM and other embedded type architectures still use kernel 2.4 series? Verbose technical information is fine ;) Not all do - the 770 uses 2.6.12. I know some very small systems still use 2.4 due to kernel size (though that is changing with all the nice embedded options in 2.6), 'interesting' hardware support or just pure inertia (once you've built a platform, stick with it for as long as you can - especially if you have a bunch of custom patches). - Jeff -- 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] Why do ARM processors (and friends) use k 2.4.x?
quote who=Jeff Waugh Just out of curiosity, why do ARM and other embedded type architectures still use kernel 2.4 series? Not all do - the 770 uses 2.6.12. (And they actually upgraded the kernel for the new firmware - 2.6.16!) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Have you ever kissed a girl? - Bryan Cantrill to Dave Miller -- 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] Firewall Device Opinions
Christopher Vance wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:31:16AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: The biggest problem I have come across looking at these is finding something with 3 NICs without spending a fortune on a multiple interface card from Intel. The soekris and pc-engines wrap both have 3 NICs, and are available from Yawarra. VIA also make a motherboard with 2 NIC's and a PCI slot. ELX sell boxes with these in them I believe. Thanks for the comments. The general consensus (and from my searching) seems to be there is not much difference between the embedded type and the full pc type as long as the embedded type chosen has a processor capable of maintaining a high enough throughput of packets for the chosen application. Fil -- 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] Why do ARM processors (and friends) use k 2.4.x?
On 7/11/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Jeff Waugh Just out of curiosity, why do ARM and other embedded type architectures still use kernel 2.4 series? Not all do - the 770 uses 2.6.12. (And they actually upgraded the kernel for the new firmware - 2.6.16!) I have a Sharp Zaurus C3000 and it comes with a 2.4 kernel out of the box, but people have ported Sharp's patches over to 2.6. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] OSDC Paper Proposals due tomorrow!
G'day everyone, This is a final reminder that OSDC papers are due tomorrow. Our conference is nothing without speakers, so I encourage you all to get your proposals in as soon as possible! http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/cfp06.html For those who've never submitted a proposal before, or spoken at at conference: fear not! A proposal is just a couple of paragraphs about what you think you might like to say. If your talk's direction changes somewhat when you start writing it, that's okay! Further, we encourage you to give your talk(s) to your local user groups (for example OSDClub) before the conference. This will give you some great practice time and give us the chance to give you some feedback. If you have any friends or family members who might also want to present, please feel free to pass this invitation on. Likewise if you know of any related user groups who haven't heard from us, please invite them to participate. Our goal is to make this conference truly representative of Australia's amazing Open Source development community! We look forward to seeing your paper submission. Jacinta PS: If you're interested in being part of the paper selection committee, please contact Richard, our Programme Chair: richard at osdc.com.au -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Nautilus and fsck
Is there a way to tell the Nautilus file manager to fsck disks before mounting them? Is there a way to get nautilus to insert Check Volume in the same menu as it displays Mount Volume for unmounted disks? This is in the context of external USB HDD enclosures. -- Regards Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\/\*http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/ PGP public key ID: 1024D/D0EDB64D fingerprint = AD0A C5DF C426 4F03 5D53 2BDB 18D8 A4E2 D0ED B64D See http://www.keyserver.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] Nautilus and fsck
quote who=Peter Miller Is there a way to tell the Nautilus file manager to fsck disks before mounting them? Is there a way to get nautilus to insert Check Volume in the same menu as it displays Mount Volume for unmounted disks? This is in the context of external USB HDD enclosures. No, but they sound like good feature requests. (Things like this often don't happen because they require top-to-bottom integration that only a distro can provide, not GNOME itself - but that, thankfully, is beginning to change as GNOME pushes distros to integration things like HAL, g-v-m, g-p-m, etc.) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light. - Spike Milligan -- 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] Why do ARM processors (and friends) use k 2.4.x?
Hi Dean, --- Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity, why do ARM and other embedded type architectures still use kernel 2.4 series? Its easier to continue to use 2.4 for time-to-market reasons. I use AT91RM9200 and ARM926EJ-S at work, and we have migrated to 2.6. ARM doesn't provide support for 2.4, atleast they didn't for me. They recommended moving to 2.6. For embedded its much easier to use devfs. Studying, analyzing 2.6 kernel takes some time. Regards, SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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] Nautilus and fsck
On 11 Jul 2006, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Peter Miller Is there a way to tell the Nautilus file manager to fsck disks before mounting them? Is there a way to get nautilus to insert Check Volume in the same menu as it displays Mount Volume for unmounted disks? This is in the context of external USB HDD enclosures. Until Nautilus can do this, you may get somewhere by using tunefs to make the filesystem fsck every time it's mounted. However: - the check will run with no UI and presumably write to .xsession-errors or somewhere - Nautilus may get upset that it takes so long to mount it - this might not even be respected by the code that mounts disks on insertion But it might be worth a try. -- Martin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Nagios - changing scheduled downtime
I know there are some Nagios users out there so this one's for you. How do you change a scheduled downtime period once you have scheduled it? I made the mistake of making some downtime too long but I can't find where to change the time frame. I don't want to have to delete the entry as I should be able to keep it as a record. System is Ubuntu Dapper. For anyone else wondering what this is about...Nagios is a network monitoring framework. You can use it to monitor all sorts of services or machine parameters via built-in and external plugins. -- Simon Wong [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
