Re: [SLUG] using desktop across lan ? fan speed control
use simon tathams's putty. I use mostly linux for myself, but I have couple of win boxen that have putty installed. J On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:08:18AM +1000, li...@sbt.net.au (li...@sbt.net.au) wrote: I have tried installing HP management app on the old DL380 G2 server, Centos4, no monitor, no desktop when I tried running on ssh with 'links https://localhost:3128' (i might have 3128 incorrect, might be different port 3??? ), but, it says: 'you need javascript' I think HP server utility is restricted to run localhost only ? I've tried editing HP's conf 'localhost:3128' to '*:3128', that didn't work either so, how can I run/access DL380's desktop on a different PC on LAN? (I'm trying to see if I can reduce fan speed/noise on DL380, not sure if these HP utilities even run on DL380 G2, that machine might be too old) thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. -- Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of the C++ language. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] date sorting on second last string
Dear I say it ... Excel does a good job at this. Export as csv, import into Excel, select the column and sort. J On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 09:12:14AM +1000, li...@sbt.net.au (li...@sbt.net.au) wrote: I have a wget /sed/awk shell script that fetches page and emails, the resulting format is like: how could I date order sort on penultimate string to end up with date ordered ? Job 1978924 (8) Ttt Pp 20-11-2012 Notes Job 1923886 Ccc Pl 31-08-2012 Notes ... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- best accelerated mac = 9.8 m/(s*s) | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Samba question
here is one of mine: [Misc] comment = Misc Stuff path = /YOURPATHNAME_to_it admin users = root read only = No create mask = 0666 force create mode = 0777 directory mask = 0777 force directory mode = 06777 browseable = Yes Jobst On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 06:55:38PM +1000, Chris Allen (ch.al...@ozemail.com.au) wrote: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 /head body text=#00 bgcolor=#ff At work I (and others) log on to a Unix system from a M$ desktop via Samba.br Every file I we create via this connection has has the access rights of 744.br We would prefer this be to be 664br br I have tried this with bcreate mask/b and bigforce create mode/big but it does not work.br Can any one suggest a solution.br br PS. Is there a reference book the explains Samba in bsimple/b andnbsp; bplain/b language?br Every time I read literature on Samba, it is always written in complex dialect compubabale that only alpha geeks can understand.br That approach does not help persuade the general public to take up Sambabr br Chris Allenbr br /body /html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng. [Anon] | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] For those wondering about the benefits of rooting your phone
Every phone I own I do this, plus the ones of my kids and partner. Here are a couple of threads to follow to do that for a galaxy II: http://www.androidtotal.com/manually-download-install-xwke7-update-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-2/ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13319294postcount=1 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399page=71 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113928 http://www.geeksailor.com/root-galaxy-s-gingerbread-2-3-4/ http://rizeworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/06/root-samsung-galaxy-2-i9100-android-233.html http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1480901 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728754 that should get you going. Jobst On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 11:08:57AM +1100, Gonzalo Servat (gser...@gmail.com) wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Tom Worthington tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au wrote: On 01/12/11 12:57, scott wrote: Not only can you get rid of the apps the manufacturer and providers puts on your phone ... Perhaps I need to do that with the Huawei deuce u8520 android phone I demonstrated at a Slug meeting. The phone reboots itself at random and has been in for repair for several weeks: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/**09/huawei-deuce-u8520-dual-** sim-android.htmlhttp://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/09/huawei-deuce-u8520-dual-sim-android.html I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 and my biggest fear, as with anyone doing the procedure I guess, is bricking the phone. Has anyone done this sort of thing? I want to upgrade to Android 2.3.4 as it comes with some important bug fixes, particularly around battery life, but it hasn't been released yet by my carrier and I'm not sure when it will be, so I'm getting impatient! - Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Tommorow or the next life, whichever comes first, we never know. - Saying from Tibet. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Open source POS software and MYOB
cant help you with the POS but there was a thread a while back on SAGE-AU to replace MYOB: http://www.gnucash.org/ openbravo Saasu.com xero.com LedgerSMB, it is a fork of SQLLedger. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 08:10:43AM +1000, John Nielsen (bammeve...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi All My lover has a stall that sells a great number of small items and were looking for an open source POS system that can assist me in tracking the demographic and psychogragpics of our customers and were also looking for an open source equivalent of MYOB. Any ideas are most welcome...were tracking books and jewlery items. Much joy Johannes N begin:vcard fn:Johannes Nielsen n:Nielsen;Johannes org:Nielsen Communications;Sales Marketing and Web Promotions adr:Balmain;;12/79 Glassop St;Sydeny;NSW;2041;Australia email;internet:nvcommuncati...@gmail.com title:CEO and CFO tel;work:+61 2 8003 5776 tel;cell:0449 065 729 note:ABN 32 710 132 20 x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Avon: I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] web dav setup
check whether the webdav lock db exists: IfModule mod_dav_fs.c # Location of the WebDAV lock database. DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb /IfModule check whether the module is loaded: LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so I am not sure whether it should be directory and not location: Directory /books DAV On Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from ALL /Directory and make sure you have options indexes turned on! As for a sane security setting use this as well AllowOverride none LimitExcept GET POST PUT deny from all /LimitExcept On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 08:39:18PM +1000, Ken Foskey (kfos...@tpg.com.au) wrote: I need to set up a simple read only webdav. No security. I installed the dav_fs and it starts but I cannot browse to the machine. Location /books DAV On Order allow,deny Allow from All /Location Anyone got any hints. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] slow webmail
Since squirrelmail needs to access a mailserver (imap) this could be a case of comm problems between the 2. check the logs of the imap server and see whether there are any problems. it surprises me that you have 408572k of swap used this is not a flamebait I know that people like long uptimes, but rebooting **DOES** solve some problems cause you have 888 days, have you considered??? /this is not a flamebait On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 08:08:45AM +1000, Voytek Eymont (li...@sbt.net.au) wrote: since yesterday, my Squirrel web mail is extremely slow, often to the point of being unusable other php pages also seem slower than normal html pages seem to be served OK but, Squirrel shows the problem most looking with 'top' over 10 or 15 minutes, cpu oscillates from 0.3 to 30% top - 08:04:09 up 885 days, 1:46, 2 users, load average: 0.25, 0.37, 0.36 Tasks: 197 total, 3 running, 188 sleeping, 0 stopped, 6 zombie Cpu(s): 2.3% us, 0.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.4% id, 2.6% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 2336088k total, 2062432k used, 273656k free, 592732k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 408572k used, 1623036k free, 362396k cached how can I t/shoot this further ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- #include signature.h | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] 64 bit.
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:12:07PM +1100, Ken Foskey (kfos...@tpg.com.au) wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:37 +1100, Josh Smith wrote: Those of you who are running 64 bit versions of Ubuntu . . are there any pitfalls? Any problems with applications? Speed? Flash. Flash is still buggy. If you remove all flash support and install the beta flash player directly it works OK. Package manager keeps moving me back to the 32 wrapper version though. Wrapper version is 'mostly' OK. I have a few machines (centos,f12) all running 64 bit with wrapper and adobe repo (meaning it gets upgraded) and I have no problems at all. Jobst -- Goldwaithe's lemma of Murphy's third law: The line in which you are waiting is always the slowest. If you move, the line you move to stops. If you move back, both lines stop, and everyone is angry with you. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] 64 bit.
I actually did something that was NOT suggested, I upgraded a few machines from Fedora 7 (32) to CentOS 5.4 (64). This is actually a downgrade, as a lot of packages and the kernel have LOWER version numbers. I did not want to go through the hassle to get all the users/config/packages/whatever across into a complete new install. RPM is clever enough to keep the higher version numbers as 32 bits, but as the new packages arrive they get exchanged with the newer 64 stuff. All of those are rock solid. Jobst On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:37:45PM +1100, Josh Smith (joshua.smi...@optusnet.com.au) wrote: Those of you who are running 64 bit versions of Ubuntu . . are there any pitfalls? Any problems with applications? Speed? -- Josh Smith Insist on yourself, never imitate... Every great man is Unique. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Passwords are like underwear. You don't share them, you don't hang them on your monitor, or under your keyboard, you don't email them, or put them on a web site, and you must change them very often. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] deleting older files from /boot
Do rpm -qa | grep kernel then do: yum erase kernel-XYZ of the older ones. Do not delete the files in boot directly as you stuff up your rpm database and yum WILL get confused jobst On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:07:53PM +1100, Voytek Eymont (li...@sbt.net.au) wrote: my centos system just run out of space on /boot: # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 101793144 28730252 67892104 30% / /dev/cciss/c0d0p198747 92263 1385 99% /boot none 1168044 0 1168044 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 1064312 34180976068 4% /tmp if I delete older versions of init-rd*, vmlinuz*, do I need to do anything else after deleteting the older files ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- I have a license to kill -9! | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] shopping carts?
http://www.oscommerce.org/ On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 21:53 -0800, Dini wrote: Hi, I'm going to run a shopping cart on my web site. Is there an Open Source Shopping Cart that is idoit friendly and is ok for Au banks? thanks. D Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good - Samuel Johnson. desinQ __ Yahoo!7: Catch-up on your favourite Channel 7 TV shows easily, legally, and for free at PLUS7. www.tv.yahoo.com.au/plus7 -- 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] no speaker sound
Hi had the same problem ... until last night. Number of things to try first: You could check whether the audio works in the headphone jack You could kill pulseaudio (use ps, then kill) run alsa-mixer and check whether speaker isnt muted yum install pavucontrol (more powerful mixer) Then you could do what a lot of people do ... do it the windows way ;-( remove and install again. This is what I did (I just post the content of the YUM log) Dec 02 05:02:42 Installed: pavucontrol-0.9.10-1.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:19:47 Erased: alsa-plugins-pulseaudio Dec 02 05:19:48 Erased: bluez Dec 02 05:19:49 Erased: alsa-plugins-pulseaudio Dec 02 05:19:49 Erased: pulseaudio-module-x11 Dec 02 05:19:54 Erased: gnome-bluetooth Dec 02 05:20:05 Erased: pulseaudio Dec 02 05:20:06 Erased: pulseaudio-module-bluetooth Dec 02 05:20:07 Erased: kde-settings-pulseaudio Dec 02 05:31:08 Installed: pulseaudio-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:31:12 Installed: blueman-1.21-2.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:31:12 Installed: pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:31:14 Installed: bluez-4.58-1.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:31:15 Installed: alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.21-2.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:31:15 Installed: pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:31:16 Installed: paman-0.9.4-4.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:31:17 Installed: pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:31:17 Installed: padevchooser-0.9.4-0.10.svn20070925.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:33:41 Installed: gconfmm26-2.28.0-1.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:33:42 Installed: pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:33:43 Installed: paprefs-0.9.9-5.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:33:43 Installed: pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 Dec 02 05:33:44 Installed: pavumeter-0.9.3-4.fc12.x86_64 On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 02:14 +1100, Daryl Thompson wrote: I brought a Compaq Presario CQ61-214TU and install Fedora 12. I have no Speaker Sound, i do have sound when i plug in a head set or external speaker. I have not tested the HDMI output yet as i don't have access to a DH TV with HDMI. I would like to use the internal speakers. Can any one help me please, the Google searches all relate to ubuntu and not much help on Fedora Thanks in advance Daryl -- 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] 40 Years of Unix
There is no difference anyway ... you still need to have a shell to see that prompt. Besides, every daemon that is started from within init.d starts off as a shell, just look at the first line of any init.d script #!/bin/sh. So without a shell your computer running *NIX based OS'es will be pretty useless. Jobst -Original Message- From: Jake Anderson [mailto:ya...@vapourforge.com] Sent: Monday, 31 August 2009 13:49 To: Jobst Schmalenbach; slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] 40 Years of Unix On 31/08/09 13:04, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: AFAIK no *NIX based computer would run without one ... as soon as the kernel spawns init from there on its all shells So demise, ahh, no. jobst There is no reason init needs to be a (textual) shell. -- 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] 40 Years of Unix
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:26:59AM +0800, jam (j...@tigger.ws) wrote: On Sunday 23 August 2009 16:38:37 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: [snip] The GUI paradigism allows people who have not learned to talk to computers to communicate using pictures. This picture mode is slow and cumbersome (imagine talking to a Russian, but using pictures to convey your point) I beg to differ. Let me see. GUI stands for graphic user interface which does not mean pictures and it doesn NOT mean slow and cumbersome ... and when I used my first X windows (late 80's DEC station) I moved away from the shell only thing FAST ... especially if you need to look after a number of apache servers, all in differnt places/cities/countries and want to compare their httpd.conf's. You can do that by ssh's into all of the machine using 4 xterms side by side. You can't do that without a, what you call slow and cumbersome, GUI. jobst -- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head! | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] 40 Years of Unix
AFAIK no *NIX based computer would run without one ... as soon as the kernel spawns init from there on its all shells So demise, ahh, no. jobst On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:38:52PM +1000, Jeff Waugh (j...@perkypants.org) wrote: quote who=Marghanita da Cruz Can you throw light on the demise of the unix shell? Demise?! :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZhttp://www.lca2010.org.nz/ Patches are like Free Software love letters. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- It took the power of 3 Commodore 64's to go to the moon, but it takes a 2GHz Pentium 4 to run XP... Something is desperately wrong here! | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] setting up squid proxy
You could use tinyproxy if you only want inbound. I very highly recommend to limit the access to a group of ip (client based) addresses otherwise you will open a can of worms, LITERALLY ;-) jobst On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 05:00:40PM +1000, Ben Donohue (donoh...@icafe.com.au) wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to set up squid proxy so that external clients can come in through my adsl connection and then get sent to the correct web server. All the docs I've read seem to assume squid is used as a proxy for internal clients going out through it. I know it be used the other way round for clients coming from external to internal web servers. I'm using webmin to configure the setup and it's pretty basic what I want. Just squid to redirect the http request to the correct server. Any clues or doco on where to start first? I have an internal DNS server so all squid should have to do is lookup the correct address and forward to that. Or have I got something wrong here. Any pointers appreciated. Thanks. Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. - Mohandas K. Gandhi | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Chinese intruder yesterday
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:32:55AM +1000, Jake Anderson (ya...@vapourforge.com) wrote: On 14/08/09 06:02, Jim Donovan wrote: snipping lots of stuff that is unrelated to a particular speaking group of people Bastards. This is why I hate the French. they make some darn good pastries, bread, cars, food, music, films, sympa ;-) -- I'm on a high cholesterol, high sugar, caffeine and liquor fad diet. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Booting (and logout) problem
I have been looking into these files, over and over again :-( but there is nothing indicating an error. X is running fine and the ONLY thing that isnt working is the logout with X restarting (respawning) and presenting the login box. I can login in again, but the only way to do that is thru console login and then startx. ... still hangs jobst On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:13:41PM +1000, Ken Foskey (fos...@tpg.com.au) wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 12:54 +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Anybody knows what this might be? Based on Debian but hopefully it wont be too far wrong. Before you start a new X look at the ~/.xsession_errors file and see if anything is there. Look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and finally look in /var/log/gdm/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- The computer is your friend. It never argues until Gates squeezed Chilly through the CDROM door! | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Booting (and logout) problem
I solved it and I hope this will help a few people. Its got to do that Fedora (and othe linux??) are moving away from xfs (fontserver). In its place sits a directory called /etc/X11/fontpath.d that contains links to all FONT directories on the system You place a link in there and libXfont will inform X that a new font is available. When the upgrade was done to Fedora 10 somehow not all links were made and X didnt get all the fonts is needed. The problem I had that NOTHING showed up in the logs and X was actually quite happily working and only failed to respawn after LOGOUT. Further some of the messages are now logged to /var/log/kdm.log. The ONLY thing that was a little odd was the weird log message of startkde startkde stopped and not respawning. I then used an application that I had not used after the upgrade and suddenly one line in the .xsession-errors showed up fixed font missing. So I did some research and learned that the /etc/X11/fontpath.d had replaced xfs ... and I made sure that all the fonts of the system were properly linked. Jobst On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:54:07PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach (jo...@barrett.com.au) wrote: Hi. I just upgraded to FC10 and everything works BUT 1 thing. When I look at the first mingetty (CTRL-ALT-F1) session the boot process has not cleanly finished as the last lines of the boot process are still clearly visible and the login screen that SHOULD be there is not there. This is not the case for all the other login screens and X is there too (as I am typing this from a X based mutt session). I normally enable only 2 mingettys in inittab but it looks too that inittab still has started all 6. When I log out then X returns to the first login screen (the unfinished boot process visbile) but does NOT respawn a new X session and the only two things I can do is to use one of the mingetty's to login in and use startx or reboot the machine to get a new X login screen. Anybody knows what this might be? Jobst -- People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost. - Bertolt Brecht | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Nothing is stationary. Everything wiggles. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Booting (and logout) problem
Hi. I just upgraded to FC10 and everything works BUT 1 thing. When I look at the first mingetty (CTRL-ALT-F1) session the boot process has not cleanly finished as the last lines of the boot process are still clearly visible and the login screen that SHOULD be there is not there. This is not the case for all the other login screens and X is there too (as I am typing this from a X based mutt session). I normally enable only 2 mingettys in inittab but it looks too that inittab still has started all 6. When I log out then X returns to the first login screen (the unfinished boot process visbile) but does NOT respawn a new X session and the only two things I can do is to use one of the mingetty's to login in and use startx or reboot the machine to get a new X login screen. Anybody knows what this might be? Jobst -- People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost. - Bertolt Brecht | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Ask SLUG - IP Telephony
The first thing that comes to my mind is make sure that both offices have the same ISP, or (this is a good guess) you are in trouble with lag (or am I mistaken here?). jobst On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 07:21:32AM +1100, Ben Donohue (donoh...@icafe.com.au) wrote: Hi all, (this is a bit like an ask Slashdot... maybe we can have an ask SLUG) my work is looking at rationalizing phone/mobile usage with possibly VOIP between offices. I've suggested setting up Linux boxes and using Asterix. As usual FOSS is a bit unknown to the higher ups and they are also looking to external suppliers. Just a general question/thread on what have others done to get down the phone bills of... inter-office calls calls to and from mobiles conferencing (mainly inter-office Australia/NZ and many Asian offices) Blackberry/Windows Mobile Idea's on how others have used Linux and FOSS applications to solve this problem. Anyone do this for a living? (perhaps come in or give an intro on what you can do for us?) Thanks, Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- If builders built buildings the way Microsoft wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, j...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] A command question.
Hi.
I beg to differ.
1: its quicker to type fstr HTML '*.php'
2: less (and more) kill the highlighting done by grep
3: grep has to (internally) call the other processes to to the same I am
already doing with pipes
4: (overly pedantic): can do more with find grep can ever do and I can decide
the order of my pipes and WHAT I want to do.
Jobst
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:49:22PM +1100, Amos Shapira ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
2008/11/17 Jobst Schmalenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Put this into your .bashrc file:
function fstr()
{
OPTIND=1
local case=
local usage=fstr: find string in files.\nUsage: fstr [-i] \pattern\
[\filename pattern\]
while getopts :it opt
...
find . -type f -name ${2:-*} -print0 | xargs -0 grep -sn ${case} $1
2- | sed s/$1/${SMSO}\0${RMSO}/gI | more
It's a nice excercise in bash scripting but quiet redundant with
today's GNU grep:
-R/-r/--recursive will replace the find
--include=pattern will replace find's -name ... (though many times I
use --exclude \*.svn-base to skip SVN files)
--colour will highlight the results
Less' -R/--RAW-CONTROl-CHARS will help page through the highlighted output.
So in the end you can achieve the same result with something like:
grep -r --colour pattern directory/ | less -R
--Amos
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Re: [SLUG] A command question.
Put this into your .bashrc file:
function fstr()
{
OPTIND=1
local case=
local usage=fstr: find string in files.\nUsage: fstr [-i] \pattern\
[\filename pattern\]
while getopts :it opt
do
case $opt in
i) case=-i ;;
*) echo $usage; return;;
esac
done
shift $(( $OPTIND - 1 ))
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
echo $usage
return;
fi
local SMSO=$(tput smso)
local RMSO=$(tput rmso)
find . -type f -name ${2:-*} -print0 | xargs -0 grep -sn ${case} $1
2- | sed s/$1/${SMSO}\0${RMSO}/gI | more
}
... comes with the lot, even highlighting.
;-)
Jobst
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:14:22PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Is there a command that finds a file containing a certain word?
find and apropos don't. They work on filenames only.
Using Hardy H.
Any suggestions gratefully etc.
Bill Bennett
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Re: [SLUG] mt for backup to DAT tape
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 03:28:16PM +1000, Ben Donohue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Daryl, thanks but that did not work. Yum says nothing to install. also yum update mt says nothing to update. So I cannot find mt on the system and I cannot find where to get it. I suppose what I'm really after is a GUI DAT tape backup system. I was going to start with mt and then look for a GUI to make it point and click. Amanda is no a GUI, thats the beauty. Amanda is a little tricky to setup, but once you get the hand of it its very good. The later versions, too, overcame one of its drawbacks not being able to do a backup of a larger filesystem onto a smaller tape AND to backup onto multiple tapes. Dont use a GUI, learn to work with text files. There are lots of entries in the wicki to solve your problems. Jobst So if anyone knows how to get mt installed or what package it is part of would help. Also anyone know of a GUI front end to get point and click backups working. Thanks. Ben Daryl Thompson wrote: Hi Ben you should be able to install the mt with yum install mt note this will need to be run as root -Original Message- From: Ben Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] mt for backup to DAT tape Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:08:52 +1000 Hi Slugs, I was trying to backup to tape using amanda but realised mt was not installed. I can't find what package installs it. I'm using CentOS5.2 (redhat). Can anyone help with what/how to install mt for CentOS5? Thanks, Ben regards Daryl Thompson Ph : 0408 472 041 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any attachments are intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you have received this email in error please advise the sender by return email, do not use or disclose the contents, and delete the message and any attachments. -- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail -- 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] mt for backup to DAT tape
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 07:31:20PM +1000, Ben Donohue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks Mick, that worked. mt installed now. now i'm trying to figure out what device it is... I have two DAT drives connected via SCSI. the command |mt -f /dev/st0 status says no such file or directory. Depending on the version of OS (later Fedora only install the devices that are actaully in the system) I would: ls -al /dev/nst* ls -al /dev/st* to see WHICH devices are available and then decide what you need to do, e.g. mt -f /dev/nst0 status which should yield something like (if there is NO TAPE in the drive) SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (5): DR_OPEN IM_REP_EN There are two types of tapes nstX and stX where X is the number of the tape device. Both indicate tape driver, and point to the same device. The major difference is after performing a task, /dev/st0 will rewind to the begining of the tape, but /dev/nst0 won't. If you do not see any of those devices (assuming you have a SCSI adapter) I would do a ls -al /proc/scsi to see what ADAPTORS your system can see. If you do not see any like for example in my case dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2008-09-17 09:14 . dr-xr-xr-x 161 root root 0 2008-04-08 18:07 .. dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-09-17 09:25 aic7xxx -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-09-17 09:25 device_info -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-09-17 09:25 scsi dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-09-17 09:25 sg then you have a driver problem AND/OR your system cannot see the adaptor. If you can see something I would ls -la aic7xxx/ or whatever your driver of your adaptor is named to see whether the drives are recognised. Jobst Are these devices supposed to be detected on startup? Or do I make the directories and then they will be detected, or different devices not st0 or st1? I'm currently looking for info on this but any pointers greatly appreciated. Ben | Mick Pollard wrote: On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:28:36 +1000 Daryl Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ben you should be able to install the mt with yum install mt make that yum install mt-st It is in the base repo of CentOS 5.2 note this will need to be run as root -- 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] What are the best web-based CRM systems?
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:35:25AM +1000, Richard Hayes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear List, I am looking for a very simple crm system. Both Sugar / TigerCRM might be overkill as only need to track a small number of salespeople. The OpenSource version does not cost anything, is updated frequently and gives what you need. Its easy to install and no bother at all. JObst Any recommendations? regards, Richard Hayes 0414 618 425 begin:vcard fn:Richard Hayes n:Hayes;Richard org:Nada Marketing adr:;;PO Box 12 ;Gordon;NSW;2072;Australia email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:+(61) 2 8001 6179 tel;fax:+(61) 2 9327 4908 tel;home:+(61) 2 9436 0121 tel;cell:0414 618 425 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.nada.com.au version:2.1 end:vcard -- 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] DODO
SHOUT MODE ON I N T E R N O D E SHOUT MODE OFF On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:14:46AM +0800, jam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To my great angst, yet again my ISP has been acquired by iinet, and yet again I am going to move. They won't respond to support mail: 10 over they last year Drew Keating: The TIO can't MAKE us change anything iinet are blacklisted as their invoice mail is not RFC compliant ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]) sigh Anybody: comments on DoDo? I will run my own mail, dns, www and ssh servers. dns is authorative for tigger.ws Thanks 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 - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] more RS232: USB-RS232, PCI ?
The specs do mention linux ;-) http://www.verbatim.com.au/products.cfm?productID=KWL221N2 and http://www.verbatim.com.au/technotes/Linux_S.txt There is a another bunch and I have a couple of their cards. www.sunix.com.tw you can buy them at (e.g.) www.lmc.com.au You just need to make sure that they are either 16c650 chips or compatible, which means the OS just finds them. Note: linux kernel provides for only FOUR serial ports, so if you have the MB with two ports you can only use 2 additional ports however, there is a 2 port and 4 port version. Jobst On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:14:58AM +1000, Voytek Eymont ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, June 26, 2008 12:41 pm, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Ahh! data logging the old fashion way ... but still good. http://www.verbatim.com.au/products/hardware.cfm Jobst, many thanks, this looks like the go, about $58, 4 ports, much rather use that than multiple USB/RS232 dongles; the specs don't mention Linux, are you familiar with it, does it run in Linux ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- You win some, you loose some. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] more RS232: USB-RS232, PCI ?
Ahh! data logging the old fashion way ... but still good. http://www.verbatim.com.au/products/hardware.cfm Jobst On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:39:15AM +1000, Voytek Eymont ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I want to setup a 'data logger' for rain water tanks and hot water storage tanks, for this I'll need at leats 3 RS232 ports luckily, the vinatge of computers found at rubish tips, oops, recycling places, generally has two RS232 ports, but, that still leaves me short of one port: I have several multi RS232s cards, but, ISA, which is of not much use should I get a PCI multi RS232 card, or, go for USB-with-two-RS232 ports gadget ? (or, get another PC, and use two PCs...) -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Computers run on smoke, once the smoke gets out they don't work anymore! | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Problem with ppp
Hi! I have a problem with ppp (rp-pppoe-3.8-1). I have been running rp-ppoe for years, never had problems, now I have on 1 machine. Upon booting I see the following in the syslog: Apr 4 09:46:35 piquet syslogd 1.4.2: restart. Apr 4 09:46:35 piquet pppoe[1887]: PPP session is 5943 (0x1737) ===OUCH! Apr 4 09:46:35 piquet kernel: klogd 1.4.2, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Apr 4 09:46:35 piquet kernel: Linux version 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12)) #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT 2007 Apr 4 09:46:35 piquet kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: ... Apr 4 09:47:00 piquet kernel: DAC960: * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.5.48 of 14 May 2006 * Apr 4 09:47:00 piquet kernel: DAC960: Copyright 1998-2001 by Leonard N. Zubkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 4 09:47:00 piquet kernel: DAC960#0: Configuring Mylex DAC960PRL PCI RAID Controller ... Apr 4 09:47:04 piquet kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at MMIO 0xef003000, 00:A0:CC:3D:18:9C, IRQ 20. Apr 4 09:47:04 piquet kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0d.0[A] - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 21 Apr 4 09:47:04 piquet kernel: tulip1: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 7809 advertising 01e1. Apr 4 09:47:04 piquet kernel: eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at MMIO 0xef007000, 00:A0:CC:3C:75:E8, IRQ 21. Apr 4 09:47:05 piquet kernel: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded Apr 4 09:47:05 piquet kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0c.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 22 Apr 4 09:47:05 piquet kernel: eth2: RTL8169s/8110s at 0xf884c000, 00:18:4d:ef:f6:56, IRQ 22 ... Right there ===OUCH pppoe is already starting, it shouldnt cause *NOTHING* else is up at that time, even the DAC960 is loaded later, neither are the ETHX based drivers. I want rp-ppoe start after the other ETHX cards are up, how do I do that??? Jobst -- File not found! Do you want me to fake it? | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] whack MBR
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:58:21AM +1100, Peter Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear Lazy Web, [snip] So, dear reader, if you have got this far, how hard is it to add a Whack Master Boot Record to the *grub* boot menu, alongside memtest86, which would overwrite the MBR with all zero? That option, combined with a h/w reset, could be used to cause a fresh install. Has such a thing been written? what is the package name? microsofts fdisk. have an old version of a boot disk handy and type fdisk /mbr (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69013) You can even do this through a bootable CDROM: http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm in case you do not have a floppy drive. The advantage of doing this it boots FAST. jobst Regards Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\/\*http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/ 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. You got the Dumb Bird sitting on your shoulder. -- Dr. Phil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Computers are like air conditioners, they stop working properly if you open Windows! | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] asd
Hi. How can I stop this net to appear? 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth3 Whenever I stop and start one of my network cards on one of my servers, this net appears and stuffs up DHCP on a WIFI router that is attached to that machine. I do not have the ETH port running that has the WIFI router attached at all times (for security reasons). I know I can do route del -net 169.254.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 to delete the route, but I'd rather have not show it up in the first place. There got to be some setting to stop this net appearing in the kernel routing table. jobst -- Gravity does not exist, the Earth sucks. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ppp0: error fetching interface information device not found
Hi. OS is FC8, all the network cards are netgear. I am having trouble when booting. PPPD starts and does not find the card eth0 and gives me the following message ppp0: error fetching interface information device not found This ONLY happens at boot, all other times (i.e. killing the ADSL link) ppp0 happily reconnects, even if I kill the card (ifdown eth0). I know the card is there, the driver is correctly defined in in modprobe.conf (and modprobe works), the info in ifcfg-eth0 is correct (BTW I tried both onboot=no and onboot=yes), lspci returns the correct info, I changed the card (fa311tx,fa310tx,ga311), lsmod returs correct info. HWADDR is correctly defined for ALL cards (so they are not swapped by the kernel, i know due to the changes in the later kernels there is a problem if you do not do this). I changed the order of the network cards (i.e. swapped the physical location from eth1 to eth0, inclugin name change) that did not make any difference. Any ideas anyone? jobst -- Egotism is pain, and the only way to end it is to cease to believe that the world revolves around one's petty life. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Sendmail configuration
There are a few mail function in PHP, you did not define which one you are using. You need to set the SENDER email address to a proper domain and this should be YOUR domain (read the RFC's about why). Assming you are using: bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] ) You need to set the additional headers to a proper domain and email address, from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and ahh ... dont use php to SPAM. Jobst On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:38:13AM +0530, Deepan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi All, I am using sendmail via php mail function to send emails. However few servers reject my mails with the error 'Sender address rejected: Domain not found', since mails from my server are sent as [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I change this to a valid domain name ? We only own a public IP. we dont really have a domain name, is it possible to use IP ? Regards Deepan Facebook Sudoku Solver: http://apps.facebook.com/sudokusolver/ Sudoku Solver: http://www.sudoku-solver.net/ Home Page: http://www.codeshepherd/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- * help! I've fallen over and I can't SIGHUP! | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] ADSL modem recommendations (with bridging)
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:43:44AM +1100, Morgan Storey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a DSL-502T that I am just running as the router too, it is only about 6 months old, it works fine with all the linux clients in my place too. It isn't doing dhcp or DNS though as these are handled elsewhere. I do not think that the dsl-502T is made for more then the simple stuff, i.e. as a bridge, however for this its rock solid! I am away from the exchange about 3.5Km and the downloads are about 720kb/s(steady). I had to turn it off yesterday morning as I did some phone cable re-routing, but this is what the modem reports just now (yes this is 1.3 GB since 14.00 yesterday) Rx PDU's 1019840 Rx Total Bytes 1358496516 Rx Total Error Counts 1727 AFAIK the DSL-502T is running linux. I have had some issues with the latest Oh yes: [root ~] #telnet XX.XX.XX.XX Trying XX.XX.XX.XX... Connected to XX.XX.XX.XX Escape character is '^]'. BusyBox on (none) login: XX Password: BusyBox v0.61.pre (2007.11.02-05:10+) Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. # firmware as some of the config pages don't render in firefox, which is majorly annoying, it used to be the other way around that they didn't render in IE on my solitary windows box. I have no problem running firefox (we do not use IE, its blocked at the firewall) This modem has another cool feature. It is impossible to get to any modem in bridge mode without having a second interface, this one has an ethernet AND usb port, so what I did as my setup is (on the LINUX router): eth2: USB based virtual network card that is connected to the USB port of the DSL-502T eth1: INTERNAL LAN facing network eth0: BRIDGE based nework card used for ppp that is connected to the eth port of the dsl-502T ppp0: my WAN based IP address. I do not need a fancy modem, as the linux router does what I need much better/faster although I have to admit that because of the busy box on the 502T its getting close. But on the router I have some fancy cpus ... Jobst On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey hey. On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 23:11 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Can anybody recommend an ADSL modem that does up to an including ADSL2+, is Linux friendly and easy to set up in bridging or half bridging mode? It would also be nice if the adminstrative functions were still accessible when it is in bridging mode. I have a D-Link DSL-502T, which is a couple of years old by now. It had a lot of problems with Linux clients when it was running as a gateway - the Linux resolver just didn't play nicely with its name service. But I'm using it in full bridge mode now in front of a WRT-54G and have no complaints. Don't think they do half-bridging. But flipping it into full bridging mode is a snap, and the internal interface keeps the address that was assigned to it, so the admin interface is still accessible. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- -- Regards Morgan Storey Senior Network and Security Consultant. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] ADSL modem recommendations (with bridging)
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:52:21AM +1100, xorprime ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Try TP-Link ADSL 2+ Modem http://www.tp-link.com/products/product_des.asp?id=111 It's cheap but you need to use an atheros superG cards on the client side to use the proprietary 108mb wifi but it's compatible with B and G and works like a charm in firefox and has bridging So it isn't cheap anymore, isnt it? When I look around through my spare parts I have so many nice/good 100mb ethernet cards lying around and thats enough for all ADSL connections I know of. Jobst On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Morgan Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a DSL-502T that I am just running as the router too, it is only about 6 months old, it works fine with all the linux clients in my place too. It isn't doing dhcp or DNS though as these are handled elsewhere. AFAIK the DSL-502T is running linux. I have had some issues with the latest firmware as some of the config pages don't render in firefox, which is majorly annoying, it used to be the other way around that they didn't render in IE on my solitary windows box. On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey hey. On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 23:11 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Can anybody recommend an ADSL modem that does up to an including ADSL2+, is Linux friendly and easy to set up in bridging or half bridging mode? It would also be nice if the adminstrative functions were still accessible when it is in bridging mode. I have a D-Link DSL-502T, which is a couple of years old by now. It had a lot of problems with Linux clients when it was running as a gateway - the Linux resolver just didn't play nicely with its name service. But I'm using it in full bridge mode now in front of a WRT-54G and have no complaints. Don't think they do half-bridging. But flipping it into full bridging mode is a snap, and the internal interface keeps the address that was assigned to it, so the admin interface is still accessible. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- -- Regards Morgan Storey Senior Network and Security Consultant. -- 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 -- There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn lies, and statistics. - Disraeli | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] /etc/mail/access for a secondary MX
Hi. Wouldnt it be better to use the virtual user table? There are two ways of doing this: 1: @somedomain.com.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] you end up with the same problem again where the RECEIVING (final) mailserver needs to bounc the stuff thats not there but its easy for admin purposes. 2: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Here the RELAY bounces as it knows that only those users exist!! for BOTH cases you need to place into that access file somedomain.com.au RELAY and into the sendmail.mc file FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl Jobst On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:51:13AM +1100, Nigel Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 14/02/2008 10:17 AM, Craig Dibble wrote: Quoting Nigel Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to change the /etc/mail/access from a simple RELAY to something that will check for valid addresses for that domain and reject any BS ones. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? sendmail 8-14-1 on FC6. I might be missing something, but IIRC you can just list the actual [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the access file and filter for allowed users that way. Please feel free to ignore me if I'm talking rubbish, it's been quite a few years since I was that intimate with Sendmail. Not rubbish at all - I'm afraid it's just not quite that simple. Here's what we were using - masked for privacy: abc.com RELAY abc.com.au RELAY abc.net RELAY xyz.com.au RELAY [EMAIL PROTECTED] RELAY [EMAIL PROTECTED] RELAY [EMAIL PROTECTED]RELAY [EMAIL PROTECTED] RELAY [EMAIL PROTECTED] RELAY [EMAIL PROTECTED] RELAY [EMAIL PROTECTED] RELAY To:aaa.com.au 550 User unknown This resulted in everything for aaa.com.au being bounced We do not relay. I'm going to try a few different solutions after hours - naturally I want to limit the disturbance of testing during working hours. Nigel. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Dont blink or you miss it! | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] How do I relocate /home ?
Much safer way and a little less typing ;-) cd /home.orig rsync -av . /home this, too, can be used for mirrors (and backups): cd /somedirectory/somesub rsync -av . backupserver:`pwd` jobst On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:35:09PM +1100, Matthew Hannigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:57:30PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: rysnc -av /home.orig/* /home/ Using a * here will skip dotfiles in /home.orig. There's probably none there but you never know. Secondarily, anytime you use * you make it possible to exceed to command line length. It's sufficient to use a trailing / to get everything in /home.orig. So just rsync -av /home.orig/ /home/ is good Note for rsync newbs; rsync -av /home.orig /home/ is different from rsync -av /home.orig/ /home/ The first will do what you want, the second will create /home/home.orig/ Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost. - Bertolt Brecht | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Lucent winmodem question
Would you be better of to scan ebay for an old EXTERNAL modem, plug that into the RS232 port of you computer and run 64Bit debian? jobst On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:51:45PM +1100, Heracles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a driver for the Lucent winmodem which is available as a deb for i386, but I can't find one to run on 64bit debian. Is one available or am I better off installing the 32bit Debian on my daughter's AMD X2 system and running the one I have? Thanks Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHaKNfybPcBAs9CE8RAokzAJ0Q0SX4LCkm8CRE4TJReSECbzdvrACgkXSw 7jfhs0m+eTLQwbC9qBTAP+k= =S40+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 'I will go to Korea.' - Dwight D Eisenhower. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Quick and dirty mail/spam server
DaZZa
I highly recommend to use
* sendmail
* milter-greylist http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz/#milter-greylist
* clamav
* mimedefang (this runs spamassassin as well)
this runs in the envelope AND data part.
this is better as most of the time the mail doesnt need to come down the
pipe if spamassassin AND/OR mimedefang decided its crap
Considering the amount of mailing lists I am on with the email address I get
only 2 or 3 spams a day and I can live with that.
Jobst
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:52:51PM +1100, DaZZa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Folks.
I've had a hardware failure which has broken my place of employment's
blue-box spam/virus filter for mail.
Currently, I've by-passed it, but this is obviously not an acceptable
solution.
The support organisation for the blue-box device wants circa $3k to
repair it - something I'm not willing to pay
I have the hardware to build a perfectly adequate Linux box which
would do the job.
What I'm looking for is the best/quickest way to build a box which
runs a mail server {postfix}, spam filter {spam assassin} and virus
checker {clamav?} on incoming email - blocks relaying except from
authorised nodes, and forwards incoming emails to the end mail server
once they've been scanned.
It'd be nice if I could configure it to do RBL lookups on incoming
connections as well.
I'm looking for suggestions as to the best/quickest way to do this.
Yes, I'll even install it on Debian if I have to {shut up, David!} :-)
Suggestions? Is there someone out there who does a distro which is
designed to do just this without mucking around? Or do I need to roll
my own?
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] Sendmail Woes
Nigel It wouldnt surprise me if its NOT from YOUR end. This looks like some host connecting and then hanging up, without informing you(r sendmail). Jobst -- COFFEE.COM not found - Reboot user (Y/N) ? | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Sendmail Startup
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:50:36PM +1000, Malcolm Johnston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've implemented the suggestions made by Grant Parnell about changing my /etc/hosts file and now, although dnsdomainname still prints nothing, although it returns success, hostname -f now gives the machine name, rather than just localhost, as the FQDN. Also, sendmail -d now gives a full printout of its various settings, rather than just hanging after printing a few lines of compilation details. Of relevance to my (hopefully former) problem is that it prints: (short domain name $w = localhost) (canonical domain name $j = localhost.localdomain) (subdomain name $m = localdomain) (nodename $k = machine-name) where machine-name is the actual name of my machine. I haven't actually rebooted the machine, but the fact that sendmail now seems to know what is where suggests that the two-minute plus lookup will go away. So many thanks. You could also place the following line into your sendmail.mc file: define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`HOSTNAME_OF_THE_MACHINE') I would suggest that whatever you put in there has a reverse lookup set to you box, or you'll be in trouble being accepted by other mail servers. jobst Cheers, Malcolm Johnston -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- The computer is your friend. It never argues until Gates squeezed Chilly through the CDROM door! | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] samba wierdness
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:05:17AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi If anyone can see the light ... I have a samba share on two machines, suse 10.2 and feisty [video] comment = video inherit acls = Yes path = /home/store read only = No guest ok = Yes On both machines, from a linux desktop browser, the share is publicly accessable. (no login) From XP the suse share is accessable, the feisty share prompts for a password! If I use smbpasswd and create one, then the XP accepts the passwd and works normally !! The acls line makes no difference Neither the logs or the smb.conf files appear out of the ordinary. Try: guest account = pcguest and add pcguest to /etc/passwd jobst -- She said she loved my mind, though by most accounts I had already lost it. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Rate in $ for part time job looking after network
Hi, what the going rate for a (part time) job looking after a network that is made up of linux servers, windows workstations, printers and 1 computer lab. jobst -- The journey of a thousand steps begins with few hundred forgotten necessities. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] DHCP client vs sendmail
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:14:40AM +1000, Peter Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Oh, drat, dang, darn, shoot. My home static IP address is banned by CBL for invalid HELO parameters. I couldn't even email this to slug. Is there any elegant way to have a laptop DHCP client have its sendmail configured properly? In all the cases I have to deal with, my laptop is a DHCP client is behind a NAT firewall. in sendmail.mc: define(`SMART_HOST',`YOUR_ISP_UPSTREAM_MAILSERVER') then do a make in /etc/mail and restart sendmail jobst -- This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Howdy all
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 01:55:18PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This one time, at band camp, Christopher Martin wrote: Hi, I'm new to the SLUG list, so I was wondering about protocols of asking questions on the list. I checked out the FAQ on the SLUG page but http://www.slug.org.au/mailinglists.html resulted in Page not found. Is the main list about SLUG business only, or should questions be sent there? Linux, open sores, and questions of a technical nature are all on topic for ^^^ So, is Ubuntu a sore in your eyes or is it firefox or what ??? ;-) jobst -- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head! __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Hinting an IP Address
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:37:23PM +1100, Howard Lowndes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Martin wrote: $quoted_author = Kevin Fitzgerald ; I have a customer who has had something rather villifying written about them on their own Messageboard and they want to persue it legally. They have asked me to chase down the IP Address and I'm not suer where to start. I know the IP, 210.50.159.126 start by talking to primus... ...who will tell you nothing because they're not allowed to by law. If you really need to pursue it then you need to get the boys in blue involved - the Telecom Act is a legal nightmare in this regard. I doubt the (IT)boys in blue can do anthing about this, they only become involved if some other (cop) department needs their services (I have been talking to them a while back to find out what my legal stands are ...). Since the IP block belongs to IPRIMUS I would suggest to do the following: * use a lawyer * set up a letter with the explanation of what happened * send the letter to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and some other contact addresses at IPRIMUS (ie legal department, etc) * do that including what Leslie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested. jobst -- Hoju Keyboard solo! skskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskksksksksks __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] MTU size
All,
I have one site that gives me trouble downloading anything more than 120k!
However I can download the entire Fedora Core distribution from other
sites (inc the DVD) just fine. I have never had any problems downlaoding
anything from anywhere ...
Now if I check the MTU size with ipconfig -a I get
x
inet addr:xx Bcast:xxx
Mask:xx
inet6 addr: xxx Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10675429 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:50
TX packets:9778109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:12952 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3951229718 (3768.1 Mb) TX bytes:2449740474 (2336.2 Mb)
This is a standard MTU size, right?
Now I have been talking to one of the techies @ my ISP (internode)
and he suggested to drop the MTU size down to 1000.
Telnetting into the other server (the one I have problems with):
GET / HTTP1.0
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:14:02 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat)
Accept-Ranges: bytes
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.2
Ahh! That is a Linux box (I assume its RedHat 3).
So why do I have problems downloading from THAT (and only that) one???
What would be an optimum MTU size?
Does the ADSL modem (which sits infront of that ethernet card) have
some influence in the entire story???
jobst
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Re: [SLUG] Technical Help Required
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:46:39PM +1000, Bill Greville ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi there, I need, very urgently, to solve a problem plaguing one of my customer's Sydney sites. The problem occurs when trying to copy files greater than 80Mb from a Windows XP client to a Samba share on the file-server, running SUSE Linux. The problem manifests itself as a Network connection no longer available error message on the Windows XP client. Samba does not allow (from memory) larger transfer greater than some size. When you mount a windows share to a linux box you must specify something like this: /bin/mount -t smbfs -o lfs,username=USER //MACHINE/SHARE /mnt/somedisk The lfs stands for LaRGE FILE SYSTEM. Maybe you have to do something the other way around jobst -- If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Documentation (management) System
Hi. We need to document our core processes from an IT point view, i.e. how IT interacts with the rest of the company, the services IT provides, what technical structure is there, the software that is availalble etc. 1. What do people use to do this? (document system??) 2. Are there any books about this? 3. Are there any (commerical) utils available? thanks Jobst -- When you lose, don't lose the lesson. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Documentation (management) System
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:25:40PM +1000, Ken Foskey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 17:45 +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Hi. We need to document our core processes from an IT point view, i.e. how IT interacts with the rest of the company, the services IT provides, what technical structure is there, the software that is availalble etc. 1. What do people use to do this? (document system??) 2. Are there any books about this? 3. Are there any (commerical) utils available? There was a book reveiw on slashdot.org about technical documentation. Might be worth a look review was pretty good. do you know the title? jobst -- #include signature.h __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Webserver behind ADSL router
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:56:13AM +1000, Richard Luckhurst ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Thanks James
[snip]
Have a look at the bind 9 admin reference:
http://www.nominum.com/content/documents/bind9arm.pdf
specifically sections 6.2.19 and 6.2.20 (page 80).
In the example below note that:
* directory is the root of the named tree
* data is SUB directory of the directory statement in the options section
* forwarders is what the ISP has given to you
* version is a later thing so people cant find out whether you have a buggy
bind
* in the internal you must set recursion to yes
* in the external you must set recursion to no
* observe the match-clients statement, VERY important.
* make sure that for the domains YOU ARE responsible to set
forwarders to nothing!!
* the forwarders statement in the options section is only
for your *INTERNAL* network to recurse to the next
DNS server (your isp) in case your DNS server does not
have it in cache!
-- example
acl internal { localhost; 192.168.0.0/16; };
options {
directory /var/named;
forwarders { YOUR_UPSTREAM_ISP_DNS_SERVER(s); };
query-source port 53;
version Not_Disclosed;
};
view internal {
match-clients { internal; };
recursion yes;
zone . {
type hint;
file root.hints;
};
zone YOURDOMAIN{
type master;
file data/YOURDOMAIN.internal;
forwarders {};
allow-update { localhost; };
};
};
view external {
match-clients { any; };
recursion no;
zone . {
type hint;
file root.hints;
};
zone YOURDOMAIN{
type master;
file data/YOURDOMAIN.external;
forwarders {};
allow-update { localhost; };
};
}
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[SLUG] HTML email checkers
Hi, I am currently using Anomy::HTMLCleaner, but IMHO it s little too strict. It wacks a few things they are not harmful and destroys the layout of the email. Further, if you have an image within the file but the sourve is an attachment than its not a webbug, but it kills the image too. Are there any other HTML cleaners out there, preferably if they are configurable? thanks jobst -- Hoju Keyboard solo! skskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskksksksksks __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] How to complain about SORBS?
All, I look after a small school (they have 5 email addresses!!!) and the domain (mms.vic.edu.au) got black-listed on SORBS (http://www.au.sorbs.net) I didnt even know that the domain is listed. It was actually hard to find out. One of the ladies at school tried to send here mum an email and all THAT server returned Service Unavailable), noothing else. I run everything you can think of: * graymilter * mimedefang * virus * sendmail is locked down to the bare minimum like I am paranoid. and I know that nobody at that school abuses email (they wouldnt know how to ;-)) ). Now trying to look up something about the domain on SORBS yields throttled, so I cant even find out why or even whether I am listed. Does anybody else have a bad experience with them? I wouldnt even know how the school possibly could get on that list!!! I want to complain about them, Is this actually possible? jobst -- C is a write-only language. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] How to complain about SORBS?
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:34:52AM +1000, Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: $quoted_author = Jobst Schmalenbach ; [snip] SORBS have decided that they have a dynamic IP. perhaps submit a request indicating that it really is a static IP. Thats half of the internet then, isnt it? jobst -- Who is general Failure and what is he doing on my disk? __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] How to complain about SORBS?
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:34:52AM +1000, Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: $quoted_author = Jobst Schmalenbach ; ;; ANSWER SECTION: mms.vic.edu.au. 300 IN MX 10 mail.mms.vic.edu.au. mail.mms.vic.edu.au.157 IN A 150.101.158.78 we are talking about 150.101.158.78, no? SORBS have decided that they have a dynamic IP. perhaps submit a request indicating that it really is a static IP. they probably made this judgement based on the fact they have generic reverse DNS. perhaps try to get internode to change the reverse DNS to something non-generic. You said it: judgement. I agree with SORBS putting dynamic IP's on the blacklist. If you have a dynamic address you can smarthost with your ISP. I do not have a dynamic address and SORBS can only be 50% sure that it is or is not dynamic. For that sheer fact SORBS should send you a warning: you will be backlisted if you dont do xxx and I could fix that problem in no time. The problem is something is getting to their head (and havent we seen this b4 many times???). I understand, too, that they need to be a little arrogant, it comes with the territory, but what they are doing is bullying. Period. jobst -- Diplomacy: The art of saying, Nice Doggy, until you can find a stick. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Incremental Backup Script
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:47:59AM +1100, Lyle Chapman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can anyone point me to a good backup script or program that does incremental backups? I have a particluar directory I want to backup to an external firewire drive every night. goto http://rsync.samba.org and see the examples and resources. You find enoguh there to get started. jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply to the list email address ONLY, do not reply to the email directly, it is piped into /dev/null if its not received from a mailing list email address. Educational software is like Science Fiction. It doesn't have to work, just look good. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Prblem with bash and rsync
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:59:53AM +1100, Ian Wienand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:40:45AM +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: COMMAND=$RSYNC -rlptgoD --delete --delete-excluded --exclude .snapshot --exclude \Temporary Internet Files\ /$d/ $TARGET if [ $DEBUG == 1 ]; then $ECHO $COMMAND; fi $COMMAND Try using eval around this, e.g. eval $COMMAND You need bash to re-evaluate those quotes so it understands it should be one argument. THANK YOU ! *** I dont quite understand why (maybe I am to much thinking of perls and phps eval stuff) especially if I read bash's man page which does not mention anything about what you suggested. Further if I consider --exclude \\Temporary Internet Files\\ which after the shell got it should(?) be --exclude \Temporary Internet Files\ and further if I pass a construct to other util they are still kept together, eg: $MKDIR \this is a spacy name\ But thank you, its working ... jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply to the list email address ONLY, do not reply to the email directly, it is piped into /dev/null if its not received from a mailing list email address. Be gentle with the earth. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Looking for a hosting service provider
All, does anybody of you have any pointers to website(s) where I can read about hosting companies (ie companies hosting your webserver on a shared server or your own/leased equipment or ...). I want to find a new hosting company, my current one is no good (and *NO* currently i dont want to say who and why it is). I know about whirlpool but the data/discussions/faqs are mostly about ADSL/braodband connections (my internet connection is **VERY** stable so I dont need that, *NO* outage since Feb 2003 and that was my fault then). I heard about a company called Web Central, are they any good? Do any of you have any other names? Thanks jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply to the list email address ONLY, do not reply to the email directly, it is piped into /dev/null if its not received from a mailing list email address. best accelerated mac = 9.8 m/(s*s) __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Looking for a hosting service provider
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 07:05:57PM +1000, Luke Yelavich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:22:08PM EST, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: I heard about a company called Web Central, are they any good? AFAIK, WebCentral are a Windows-based hosting company. I guess you are after a Linux-based host? I saw them providun RedHat 9 based servers .. so I assumed they are mixed. And yes it must be *unix based. jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply to the list email address ONLY, do not reply to the email directly, it is piped into /dev/null if its not received from a mailing list email address. We're from the government, we're here to help you... __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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 on a Toshiba Satellite A30
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:56:31PM +1000, Ben Donohue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well for a really left field way to get Linux onto a box is to load linux onto another machine and ghost it onto the laptop after it's finished. yeah I know, but it probably would work. It'll just ask for the CD for driver updates perhaps? I wouldnt even do that. Go and buy yourself one of those IDE converters, so you can stick a laptop disk into a desktop computer. Take all other disk out (so you end up with the correct fstab), maybe even the hardware and install. Once finished passed the first installation, out it back into the laptop and voila Other than that try loading Linux with CD's and not DVD's. DVD's are notorious for f'ups ... jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply to the list email address ONLY, do not reply to the email directly, it is piped into /dev/null if its not received from a mailing list email address. Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites? __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Sendmail question
All,
I have a rule in sendmail which rejects a mail if
a certain subject is found:
F{FullSubjects} -o /etc/mail/subjects_full
F{PartSubjects} -o /etc/mail/subjects_part
HSubject: $CheckSubject
SCheckSubject
R$={FullSubjects}$* $: REJECTSUBJECT
R$* $={PartSubjects} $* $: REJECTSUBJECT
R$* REJECTSUBJECT $* $#error $: 553 Access Denied - MSG may contain
SPAM/WORM/VIRUS/HOAX.
Now I would like to create another file called /etc/mail/subjects_accept
where I can put subjects in that are accepted, eg:
F{AcceptSubjects} -o /etc/mail/subjects_part
Now for this to work I need to ACCEPT this, AFAIK below should work
but it doesnt (it is placed BEFORE any of the other rules).
R$={AcceptSubjects}$* $: ACCEPTSUBJECT
R$* ACCEPTSUBJECT $@
$@ means put it back, or am I wrong here?
Any ideas?
jobst
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Re: [SLUG] Apache 2.0 UserDir
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:55:53PM +1000, Adam W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dave, Adam W wrote: What could be causing this? [snip] After creating my public_html file in /home/adamw, Still getting: [Wed Apr 07 19:16:46 2004] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] (13)Permission denied: access to /~adamw denied The Apache Server must have access to that DIR! However you can do something like this: /home/adamw - 0710 - adamw.apache /home/adamw/public_html - 0710 - adamw.apache jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly, it is send to /dev/null if not from the mailing list email address. Gravity does not exist, the Earth sucks. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Red Hat world tour coming to Sydney March 22
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:57:41AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
How do we get to the RedHat World Tour Sydney event?
Simply check out the map of where the Sheraton on the Park is!
Visit http://www.redhat.com/worldtour/sydney and
then click the Map of Event Location link.
A detailed, useful, accurate map of how to get to Elizabeth Street
from anywhere in the Sydney CBD will appear. You'll be amazed!
It starts at 1000ft but you can zoom in with the magnifying glass + gif
to 500ft then 250ft to 100ft to 50ft; it's amazing just how detailed
and useful the information is; the folks at whereis.com.au could really
learn from these guys.
You're kidding, are you?
* no road names
* if you are not from sydney you wouldnt no that line across
that blue stuff is some famous piece of metal.
* from 2500ft onwards all you see is some blue and yellow
areas with a grey line across and a 1 pointing to
the road or some building?
The only reason *I* know from THAT map where the venue
is because I stayed there a number of times.
not amazing after all.
jobst
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[SLUG] sendmail (rule) question
all, i am trying to get my head aroound a rule. I want to make sure that users can only send to a certain email address when the email address is specified in the BCC field, if put anywhere else the sending of the email fails. This is to make sure that users dont send emails to their friends AND to some of internal based email aliases if its NOT specified in the BCC field. Any ideas? jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. -F1 __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Interesting article ...
http://inet2002.org/CD-ROM/lu65rw2n/papers/g10-c.pdf j -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Interesting article ...
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:43:57PM +1100, Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:32:04PM +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: http://inet2002.org/CD-ROM/lu65rw2n/papers/g10-c.pdf What's it about? It's polite to let people know what it's about, so that many hundreds of people don't waste their time looking at something that's of no interest to them. Correct! I am sorry. Its about the Psychology of WHY people still click on virus/bad/worm based email. Jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. My software never has bugs; it just develops random features. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Interesting article ...
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 03:28:30PM +1100, Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: quote who=Jobst Schmalenbach Its about the Psychology of WHY people still click on virus/bad/worm based email. Synopsis: Due to sharply falling demand since early last century, there is a crippling lack of medical practitioners trained in the specialist field of lobotomy. It wasnt *THAT* bad or do I need to wake up? jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] \setlength{\parsep}{15mm}
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:33:58PM +1100, Terry Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Mary Gardiner wrote: [snip] Yes, thank you. That fixed it. Muchos Gracious (sp?) mucho gracias. j -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. Hoju Keyboard solo! skskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskksksksksks __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Replace Organizer
Sluggers, On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:23:47PM +1100, Simon Bryan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, I am once again trying to replace Lotus Organizer on our network without I did that a while back! back then there wasnt much around and the stuff what was around didnt suit us, so I wrote one. It is still in developemnt (when we get around it as we have 5 projects running in the moment) and if I can get some help I would make it GNU and somewhere on SourceForge/Freshmeat/whatever. I wanted to do this for a while ... so today I removed ALL our data entries, moved it across to a public server (this database is on one of our internal servers) and killed all the users. I added 1 company, i contact and 1 user: user: sample pwd: sample21 It should be pretty ovious what can be done. It has a context sensitive help system and a help intro. Here it is. http://piquet.barrett.com.au/DataBases/Contacts/index.php The deal is, treat it with respect, it not, its gone. If I get some help, I make it OpenSource/GNU. jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. #include signature.h __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Shared Calendar and Groupware Server
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:49:21PM +1100, Kevin Fitzgerald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi All I have a situation where I have a few Techs situated around the country that all need to access a Shared Calendar/Job Logging system so we can all see what Jobs are in action and what Techs are working WHat days. I have heard mention that there is such a beast as part of the e-smith server, does anyone else know of anything that may be of use to me? It needs to be free, and something I can install on an internet server so all my Techs have access from the web. I appreciate any suggestions and URL's I did that a while back! back then there wasnt much around and the stuff what was around didnt suit us, so I wrote one. It is still in developemnt (when we get around it as we have 5 projects running in the moment) and if I can get some help I would make it GNU and somewhere on SourceForge/Freshmeat/whatever. I wanted to do this for a while ... so today I removed ALL our data entries, moved it across to a public server (this database is on one of our internal servers) and killed all the users. I added 1 company, i contact and 1 user: user: sample pwd: sample21 It should be pretty ovious what can be done. It has a context sensitive help system and a help intro. Here it is. http://piquet.barrett.com.au/DataBases/Contacts/index.php The deal is, treat it with respect, it not, its gone. If I get some help, I make it OpenSource/GNU. jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Replace Organizer
Forgot to menation, this one got: * contacts * reminders * notes * project management (inc gant charts etc) * export options * sms (you need smsclient) interface etc. It is getting bashed in our company everyday and has about 7 different table sets (goup of data) and prolly 2 entries. and it works. jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. COFFEE.COM not found - Reboot user (Y/N) ? __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:30:57PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have RH73 on P3 with 256MB and 512MB swapper, single IDE 20GB If i was to increase the RAM, to, say 512MB or 1GB: can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ? Sure. I dont think that any of my machines ever reached half of the swap. Dont worry what Redhat says, I think they made this up for huge memory hungry applications. Your standard ones (httpd,sendmail,ftp,bind,etc) they only need small amounts for each process spawned. And if you have half of your memory available for that kind of thing you have plenty (and that is what you will get with your next setup). I think I read somewhere if you do a redhat install and you have too little swap space it creates the missing amount as a swap file (which I think is really stupid). jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. The road to wisdom is long, so pack a big lunch! __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] RAID SCSI 68 pin
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 10:57:05PM -0800, Phillipus Gunawan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: G'day, I'am a very newbie in scsi raid devices. I collect some of old scsi hdd to experiment in Debian. Before I start my experiment, I would like to ask a few questions - Is it possible to have different scsi hdd (e.g. 1 hdd 20g with 10k rpm and 50g with 15k rpm) as raid 5 (where more than 1 hdd become 1 partition) - Would it be possible in Debian to mount a few diffrent scsi hdd into one partition? - Is there any docos can lead my way on how to learn this things? http://www.t10.org/ http://www.nu2.nu/scsitool/#5 http://www.scsifaq.org jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. You win some, you loose some. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] Sensible backup strategies, and not
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:13:53PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 27 Jan, Shaun Oliver wrote: why not buy a san and have done with it? your tapes could hold way more than any cd-rw and it'd be a far easier solution in terms of space, I mean what does one of those tapes hold? 24 gb so you save in that respect, not only that, the san will automagically swap tapes as required. hth Well, I suspect cost would be one issue. Nope. - http://listings.ebay.com.au/plistings/list/all/category3756/index.html?from=R4 - trading post - swap meets you can reasonable good one around the $100 mark, tapes you can buy from citysoftware in 10packs ($120), so for $220 you are set for a long time (sonys are good!). then go to amanda.org, get amanda (which SPREADS backups across the tape you give amanda) and you have a good backup setup. Just be careful with HP Surestore 8Dat (4/8GB), the heads dont lsat THAT long, HP states some 3hours per day over a 10year cycle. I just threw one out of the open window (literally), this one was only backing up my Bastion Host, I bought it 2nd hand for $250 3 years ago, I cannot complain about that investment jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. Computing power increases as the square of the cost. If you want to do it twice as cheaply, you have to do it four times as fast. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] dd and tape errors
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 08:31:17PM +1100, Grant Parnell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: It failed once. This time I added conv=noerror,notrunc cause the problem is that gzip is then getting the wrong data. So if I would now go to block 805 or even futher and then [snip] Sorry I couldn't be more help. thanks for trying .. Theoretically it's possible to recover the data. It would be a matter of finding the chunk size of the gzip file and finding the start of the next dictionary section. Think gzip stream. What you want to do is give it to a cryptography nutter and tell them as much as you can about what sort of data you expect to find in the file. EG home directory, spreadsheets, linux binaries, plain text documents. EG if you know some scrambled data stream was text you can iteratively check that decrypted bits match an english dictionary. Oh yeah and supplying the gzip/gunzip source code would help too. I just got it off the tape (at least the part I wanted) and the tape is in the bin and so will be all of the tapes with similar age What I learned is specifying (this is an amanda tape hence skip=1) mt -f /dev/tape asf 2 dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k skip=1 conv=noerror | tar -f - -zx is NOT enough. dd will continue but will not give enough info to gzip and gzip will simply hang up (crc error) what one need to specify is dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k skip=1 conv=noerror,notrunc | tar -f - -zx to tell dd not to truncate the data and all is fine . I got away with it this time... phew! jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. XP: If you are nine years old you are just going to love it. If you're a few years older you'll resent the choking paternalistic atmosphere of vapid gee-whiz kiddie entertainment (babysitting), euphemism and fake-friendly bullying. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] dd and tape errors
all, I have a problem getting data of a tape, dd reports errors, but yes I want *that* data (this is the only one). Now I read something of dd using conv=noerrors, but I also read that this ONLY works if st can handle this. I do not need the data where the error occurs but later within that file of the tape. this is what happens: mt -f /dev/nst0 asf 1 dd if=/dev/amandatape of=/backup/OUT.tgz bs=32k dd: reading `/dev/amandatape': Input/output error 801+0 records in 801+0 records out So I thought: mt -f /dev/nst0 asf 1 dd if=/dev/amandatape of=/backup/OUT_02.tgz bs=32k skip=801 but that runs into the same trouble: dd: reading `/dev/amandatape': Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out So if I would now go to block 805 or even futher and then pad the missing blocks with some data. * Can I do this? * What data would that need to be? * Are there any other ways to pull that data of? jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. My Dogma got run over by my Karma. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] dd and tape errors
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 12:25:16PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 25 Jan, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: all, I have a problem getting data of a tape, dd reports errors, but yes I want *that* data (this is the only one). Now I read something of dd using conv=noerrors, but I also read that this ONLY works if st can handle this. Have you tried that, then, or do you mean it's not supported? I've certainly used the option successfully with failing floppies. I was wondering whether the st driver supports taht option. I do not need the data where the error occurs but later within [snip] dd if=/dev/amandatape of=/backup/OUT_02.tgz bs=32k conv=noerror didn't help? It failed once. This time I added conv=noerror,notrunc cause the problem is that gzip is then getting the wrong data. So if I would now go to block 805 or even futher and then pad the missing blocks with some data. * Can I do this? * What data would that need to be? * Are there any other ways to pull that data of? I don't know a way to do that. And I think there's a fundamental problem with writing a single compressed file to any backup device: AFAIK, if there is any data corruption at some point in the compressed data stream, there's no way to re-sync to recover data beyond that point. There is two different types of compression * hardware * software AFAIK you cannot recover from software compressed data but you can from hardware compressed data There may be commercial ventures who have ways to recover data from the tape, just as there are for disc drives. Others here may know more. Sorry I couldn't be more help. thanks for trying .. jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn lies, and statistics. - Disraeli __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] added scsi doesnt show up after boot
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:06:19PM +1100, Grant Parnell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: I put a new scsi card into my system (adaptec 29160). When I load the module with lsmod aic7 I presume you meant insmod aic7xxx It was very late and late night number 5 in a row it loads and I can access the TAPE. [snip] All fine, except the scsi modules are loaded during the initrd thing. Nice of them to mention that it doesen't use /etc/modules.conf for the scsi modules eh? Oh my god, I remember vaguely that's what it was !! Thanks! I guess, it should be somewhere in HOWTO/SCSI ... I hardly swap/add stuff so one doesnt think of this. The box it is running know was last booted 307 days ago only to add another disk to the Fasttrak Array and all my other linux boxen have that same kind/or longer of uptime. Further because its only an ADD on card and doesnt boot I didnt really think of putting it into initrd so I put a line insmod aic7xxx.o into /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit ... But, it makes (now) sense that modules.conf does NOT automagically add scsi cards jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost. - Bertolt Brecht __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] added scsi doesnt show up after boot
I put a new scsi card into my system (adaptec 29160). When I load the module with lsmod aic7 it loads and I can access the TAPE. Into the modules,conf I put alias sound-slot-0 off alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx -there it is! alias scsi_ideadapter FastTrak - this is IDE RAID alias eth0 tulip alias eth1 tulip alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options i810 xfreeversion=41 alias char-major-195 nvidia and when I boot it doesnt come up. However once I do the lsmod it does. The promise based card is working nicely (last boot 210days ago, no glitches) so I should have any problems with that thing what have I forgotten (maybe its too late after all?). jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. Why don't sheep shrink when it rains? __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] chgrp question and/or problem.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:22:02PM +1100, Michael Chesterton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jobst Schmalenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I havent had to do this for a while ie change group status as a USER, but now I do ... You need to be a member of the group you're chgrp'ing to. Mmmh, that did work. The last time I had to do this was when I was administering Solbournes/Irixes (dont know which one I had to do this) and it worked on there. It surprised me I had to be IN that group .. jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. You win some, you loose some. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] screen(1) lovers anonymous
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:50:04PM +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:28:47AM +1100, Rob B ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Here's a cool feature that I've added to all of my ~/.screenrc files now:
hardstatus on
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string %{.bW}%-w%{.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %H %{..Y} %d/%m %C%a
It creates a status bar that has tab-like thingies which looks like this:
http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/random/screen-love.png
I tried that, this is what comes up on the hardline:
0{.bW}0-w0{.rW}0 tcsh0{-}0+w 0=0{..G} 0H 0{..Y} 11/01 12:49pm
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
Never mind, I figured it out myself.
The version of screen I was running was a tad to old.
Upgraded and it works.
j
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[SLUG] chgrp question and/or problem.
all, I havent had to do this for a while ie change group status as a USER, but now I do ... /tmp is a mounted partition. [127] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ls -la /tmp total 7760 drwxrwxrwt 19 root root16384 Jan 15 12:38 . drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Oct 22 23:20 .. [snip] [128] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ touch aa [129] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ chgrp apache aa chgrp: changing group of `aa': Operation not permitted [130] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ls -la aa -rw-r--r--1 bundah bundah 0 Jan 15 12:40 aa My understanding is: Some files can't be chown()'ed at all: files on read-only filesystem, immutable and append-only ones. Otherwise root can change UID and GID as it wishes. Non-root can't change UID of file. Non-root can't change GID of file if he isn't the owner. If non-root owns a file it can change the GID to any of the groups the changing process belongs to. Any change of GID is subject to quotas. Both for root and non-root processes: Change of UID turns suid off. Change of GID for group-executable turns sgid off. ... ... How come I cant change that bloody UID? (I can if I su root). jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly, it gets send to /dev/null. Why don't sheep shrink when it rains? __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- 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] screen(1) lovers anonymous
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:28:47AM +1100, Rob B ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Here's a cool feature that I've added to all of my ~/.screenrc files now:
hardstatus on
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string %{.bW}%-w%{.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %H %{..Y} %d/%m %C%a
It creates a status bar that has tab-like thingies which looks like this:
http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/random/screen-love.png
I tried that, this is what comes up on the hardline:
0{.bW}0-w0{.rW}0 tcsh0{-}0+w 0=0{..G} 0H 0{..Y} 11/01 12:49pm
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
jhs
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Re: [SLUG] off topic: transferring W2K to a new system
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:42:53PM +1100, Eddie F ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If the hardware isn't too different there may not be a problem, and it maybe just find all the hardware... I've found it's usually only a problem when moving between single and multi proccessor systems... ghost the disk first though, just in case. I've heard another way around it is to do an 'apgrade', if you have a W2K upgrade CD (eventhough it's already running W2K), and pull the disk out before it reboots. Then put it in the new system and watch it find all the hadware on it's 'first-boot' Never tried this myself though. I have been using and administrating winblows workstations for 10 years now. When I buy a new workstation (whatever hardware) I get the HD of the NEW workstation and put that as a slave into ANY of my current workstations, and boot to a special boot HD I have which has a simple WIN2000 on it (which I put into the system as well). I do this so I can access *ALL* files on the SOURCE workstation. I then boot into that simple WIN2000 boot partition. I then format and partition the NEW HD, use ROBOCOPY (resource kit) with /sec flag and copy all data from SOURCE workstation to the TARGET HD. Then I put the HD into the NEW workstation and let it boot, the only thing I do is to boot into VGA mode (you can do that in boot.ini with a flag). Then I install the dirvers for the Network card, display card and anthing else which is different, run NEWSID (www.sysinternals.com) and voila, I have a new system *WITH ALL OF MY SETUPS AND SOFTWARE* accessible. I have *NEVER EVER* had a failure in doing so, and would not go through any other way of doing it. The advantage is too: * you get the latest patches * you get the latest software updates * time saved People who say it doesnt work havent got a clue! It even works on NT. I have been proving it for years and boy I RARELY have BSOD'S! Just copy it, Voytek, you'll be just fine. And yes I hate M$, but for reasons too long to discuss here I need to use it for the client workstations, however I use LINUX and *ALL* my servers are LINUX. jobst -- 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] off topic: transferring W2K to a new system
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:26:28PM +1100, Simon Males ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eddie F wrote: If the hardware isn't too different there may not be a problem, and it maybe just find all the hardware... I've found it's usually only a problem when moving between single and multi proccessor systems... ghost the disk first though, just in case. In my experience W2k cannot handle being away from its orginial system. Ie moving a hard drive into a completly new system. Similar hardware seems logical, I think mobo is the big one. Crap. ALL my winblows boxen are clones, I have not one machine in my company which ISNT cloned (the robocopy way, not ghost). jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Only. Please reply ONLY to the list email address, do not reply to the email directly. People without trees are like fish without clean water! __, Jobst Schmalenbach, Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] sendmail/procmail question
all, I want to create mail aliases for my users so we can send SMS messages to their mobile phones. I was thinking something in the line of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this possbile to do with rules in sendmail? Can I do this with procmail? jobst -- Computers are like air conditioners, they stop working properly if you open Windows! __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] neat tricks used for the purposes of evil
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:54:15PM +1000, Angus Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:40:40 +1000, Robert Collins wrote: I'm dubious about 'vastly more versatile' - that quite unsubstantiated. For example, you can't use random perl functions to control squid's behaviour. You can with apache+mod_perl, which in my book counts as vastly more versatility. If you can write a perl script to use it as an ad buster (which I use) you can do anything with perl as you have full control of where it comes from, where it goes to, what browser, what ip, what anything jobst -- Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fish tackle products
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:21:25PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear Sir As an exporter in China, can supply :Fish tackle products. Fishing rod Fish-Sound Fishing bite Alarm Spinning reel Fishing line Accessories Mr. Joe Tux dont need tackle, best fisherman in world! If you dont believe, come to Phillip Island. And when you there, Tux come from behind and hit you on your head, you bloody spammer you! If you have any purchase intentions for other products, please feel free to tell us in case that we can offer you your A saturn 5 rocket to mount you on it and light it up! j -- Was that your wife I saw in that GIF? __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ot: BIND setup, need it resolve to itself 1st ?
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:58:14PM +, Voytek Eymont ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: any BIND experts ? If I am setting up primary DNS server, it is supposed to resolve to itself first, like: 127.0.0.1 it's hostid slave DNS host offtopic What about OS/2? Still using it? you should have my email in your newsletter file ... ;-) /offtopic You have another option, in host.conf you specify: order hosts,bind which basically says that on *local* lookups it should first look in the hosts file and if NOT found go ask the nameserver. So your hosts file should have something like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain EXTERNAL_IPyour.external.domain.name.com its_external_shortname INTERNALIP your.internal.domain.name.com its_internal_short_name You could off course specify a few more machines in there to make local lookups quicker. With local I mean any process running on the machine requesting a lookup. jobst -- Be gentle with the earth. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] shadow password entry
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:04:20PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/27/2003 06:19:13 PM: all, when reading the man pages for shadow/passwd/crypt (3,5) you cannot find an explanation of the !! in the password field of the shadow file. I know what * means, but I cannot find !!. So, what does it mean? From Shadow man 5. If the password field contains some string that is not valid result of crypt(3), for instance ! or *, the user will not be able to use a unix password to log in, subject to pam(7). I had trouble finding answers on google until I searched for double exclamation shadow passwd instead !! shadow passwd or \!\! shadow passwd. I go the answer: When the asterisk is there, nothing can match it. An exclamation mark means a password (or account) is locked via usermod(8). Also, a single exclamation marks means that a account is not allowed for logins. So a double exclamation makes sure that if it was unlocked, it would still have an invalid passwd. They simply mean that no password is available (you can't login remotely with a password for these accounts). jobst -- best accelerated mac = 9.8 m/(s*s) __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re email
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:11:56PM +1000, Paul Maloney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, It's the pest again, sorry for being such a pest, but I have tried everything that I know and have had no success connecting to internet. Dont worry about that. My ISP who is austarnet suggested that I check my modem drivers I have a problem with ISP people refering to drivers automatically as they are tow possible different modems: * winmodems (which do need drivers and usually only work inn Windows) * Comport based modems (which do not required drivers at all other then the correct setup strings) What type of modem do you have? * A PCI modem (the ones you stick into the computer into the PCI bus) Here you have two versions: + A winmodem which requires drivers (usually indicated by a very small chip and not much more + A comport based modem (there are 2 companies I know that build those type, one is Melbourne based) * An external modem connected to your COM port? * An older type ISA based modem It would help to tell us the type of modem you have . When I try to connect using kppp it informs me that it cannot find /dev/ttyS0 and when I set it to /dev/ttyS1 it inform me that the modem is ready then it says sorry the modem does not respond. I suggest you install a program called minicom (if not already installed) and run it with minicom -o, then do a CTRL-A o and set it up. There is lots of documentation in /usr/share/doc/minicom where is your version number. Once done you can check the modem with commands like ATenter and it should return OK jobst -- People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost. - Bertolt Brecht __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Dick Smith internal modem: no carrier, no technicalsupport
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:24:04PM +1000, Martin Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've bought myself a Dick Smith internal modem, which they claim works with Linux (there's a little Tux on the packaging). It smells very much like a WinModem and the only thing I can say stay away from them, they do not work in Linux. Further, from a hardware view the CPU needs to do ALL the work while usin Winmodems while in the external modems the modem itself do the receiving and sending and then tell the CPU via an interrupt that the buffer is full(empty) and only then the CPU needs to fetch (put more into) it. And with an external modem (as with any external equipment eg routers, ADSL, ISDN, switches) you get LED's which are *EVER SO VITAL* in debugging sessions. It works fine with XP. XP is a completely different architecture/THING to LINUX. They do not have anything in common other than running on the same architecture. This is comparing a truck (XP) to a Ferrari (LINUX). Every day I used to work with two identical machines, one has Linux and the other one has Windows running (they were TRULY IDENTICAL). The Linux box is our internal webserver, internal gateway, internal mailserver (IMAP), Samba server, fax gateway and MY workstation (and boy do I like to have three different instances of Eighty Megs And Constantly Swapping (emacs)) yet the response of everything is still crips; the windows box is ONLY used for testing purposes and has 4 different versions of Netscape (which I never be able to run at the same time), 3 different versions of Internet Exploder and Opera, yet it is sluggish and the only thing that is crisp on that box are the colours on the desktop. The performance speaks for itself as does the stability. Please dont say But it works in Windows. I've installed the Linux driver that comes with the modem. This talks to the modem, but all it comes up with is NO CARRIER. Dick Smith technical support refuse to help, Thanks for that, perhaps I should have made myself clearer.We do not provide any technical support for Linux. Dont buy again from them, ever, then THEY will learn quickly as more and more people learn that Linux is THE viable option. jobst -- Though the pen IS mightier than the sword, the sword is mightier at any given moment. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] SLUG Name Change
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:49:37AM +1000, SLUG Committee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear SLUG Members and Subscribers, [snip] The proposed new SULK logo can be found at http://www.slug.org.au/sulk-logo.png Are you going to put the No War letters on it too? jobst -- Educational software is like Science Fiction. It doesn't have to work, just look good. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Milter or mail footer
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:39:39AM +1100, Phil Scarratt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: DOH! This time to the list Original Message not with sendmail . do other packages do it easily? Its not that tricky, it is straight forward to do. But before trying to append a signature you may do a search on the net to find out what the legal implications are of these things. I think there was a discussion a while back on slug about this, maybe you search for it (it had links too). jobst -- The reason you cannot think about eternity is because the intellect which is doing the thinking is an instrument of time and nothing else. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Data acqusition (infrared) and linux
All, I need a card which can do infrared and is ok for Linux (meaning you can get hold of the port numbers etc). Anybody got any pointers? jobst -- Computing power increases as the square of the cost. If you want to do it twice as cheaply, you have to do it four times as fast. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Data acqusition (infrared) and linux
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:26:24PM +1100, Anthony Wood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Many motherboards have IR pins built in, all you need is something to plug into them, I bought an ActiSys IR210 one from www.widget.com.au (now $87), but you have to check whether your motherboard's IR chip is supported by linux. Easier is an IR dongle which plugs into your serial port, I think ActiSys IR220+ ($99) has its own kernel module in the source. They only READ, dont they? I need to output IR data as well (and btw a data acquistion boad has some other nice features as well - digital I/O). -- The journey of a thousand steps begins with few hundred forgotten necessities. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Anybody heard of Connexus Internet?
All, anybody heard of Connexus Internet Services? How good are they? How reliable are they? jobst -- Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites? __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] OT: CALENDAR SWARE
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:08:28PM +1000, Daniel Harper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is slightly off topic but hopefully there is a partial Linux solution out there. I am looking for some calendar/scheduling software that: You can use a Windows client to access within the LAN, and that you can also access and change via the internet. Can anyone point me in the right direction? some guy on aonther list asked the same question, this is a copy and paste what some other guy had answered. - Webevent (http://www.webevent.com) - Steltor's Corporate Time (http://www.steltor.com) - phpGroupware's Calender (http://www.phpgroupware.com) - Webcalender from Sourceforge (http://webcalender.sourceforge.com) - SME Server (add-in for Outlook) - phpProjekt (which I haven't had a chance to have a good look at but looks impressive on the stats) - Above Beyond 2000 PIM (http://www.1soft.com) - Maxmimizer 7.0 (a later version of what we are currently using). - Ximian (client side only). and then there is tutos. jobst -- People without trees are like fish without clean water! __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ADSL SCANNING AT EXTREME LEVELS - Anyone else noticed this?
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 04:12:29PM +1000, John Morrissey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: OVER 3100 seperate instances on Sunday night. I've had a number of customers who use Telstra ADSL at home reporting extreme levels of scanning over the weekend. See extracts of 3 messages from one customer below - he hade 4 different IP addresses over the weekend. I wonder whether those customers pay for that as traffic towards the client (from telstra's point of view) is download and hence payable. If you overshoot your allowance you pay per MB and that could be costly. Maybe this is a case for some kind of observing organisation? jobst -- She said she loved my mind, though by most accounts I had already lost it. __, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L -(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
