[SLUG] Need to unsubscribe
Hi all, I need to unsubscribe. I have been to the unsubscribe web page, but unfortunately can't find or remember my password, tried to get the system to send me the password but nothing has arrived several hours later. I could be subscribed under any one of a number of email addresses so I tried all the ones that it could be, but again nothing arrives in the email. Can someone help? It is likely the email address used will be closed soon and then there will be bounces happening which I want to avoid. Cheers OLMC Simon Bryan IT Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] LMB 14 North Parramatta Direct Number:88381200 SwitchBoard: 96833300 fax: 98901466 mobile: 0414238002 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SME Server question
Hi all, Anyone running an SME server? If so do you know if it is possibel to use lat-user or any other tool in a script to do a bulk update of user passwords? The users already exist. Cheers -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Samba3 and User Profiles
Hi all, In Samba3 the default profile is given with logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U which maps to the username, is it possible to use %G or %g to map to the users Group Name - for a number of reasons I can't test this until I convince someone else that it should work. The reason being is that we want all our student users to use the one profile and all our teachers to use another profile. Will there be an issue with permissions? The profiles arte currently owned by the Samba admin user and the group is the username. We have been having trouble getting XP to login and read a profile but seemed to have solved it now: 1. Use the NetworkID Wizard to add the computer to the domain (creates machine account) - I don't have cli access to the samba server 2. Run gpedit and enable the option that stops the login from checking the ownership of the profile 3. Add the samba admin user to the local administrators group. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] cp -a no dot files
HI all, Is there a way to do 'cp -a' but not copy dot files? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] cp -a no dot files - DON'WORRY
On Sat, January 8, 2005 10:12 am, Simon Bryan said: HI all, Is there a way to do 'cp -a' but not copy dot files? DOH - just copy the directory contents rather than the directory huh. eg cp -a /dir/path/*rather than cp -a /dir/path -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] CHeck script
Hi all, I am moving my users home directoires from one server to another and in the process standardising usernames such that about 300 need changing. Once I hav copied over the directories (cp -a) I will then need to rename some of the directories. I have a csv file with the format oldname,newname and a script to read it: #!/bin/bash while read name1 name2; do mv $name1 $name2 # done /home/OLMC/snap/rename.txt I have tested the script by changing the action to echo name1 echo name2 and it worked fine. Can't test this easily without going live, whilst it would not be a disaster (just a PITA) if it goes wrong is there anything glaringly obvious that I have done wrong here? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] PC's available
Hi all, I have around 15 PC's and monitors available free to anyone who wants / needs them. They are a mixture of P90 and P11 processors most with 32MB Ram some slightly more. They have been used as thin clients on an LTSP network and ar being replaced by some more up to date donated systems. These are free to whoever wants them, but the pickup point is in Hornsby. Any takers please reply offlist. Cheers and a Happy New Year to all -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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 Version and Kernel
On Fri, December 10, 2004 9:51 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 06:55:47PM +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: Also noted /etc/fedora-release ... is a link to redhat-release Thanks all, have the info I need now. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux Version and Kernel
Hi all, I have an 'application' server provided by a third party, I have root access via ssh, but would like to query the bxo as to the version of Linux and Kernel that it is running. Is this possible from the command line? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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 Version and Kernel
OK, I get this below, so the kernel is 2.4.18-5, and the processor version is clear, but there is nothing that says Redhat7 or FC3? This might be displayed at boot time, but cannot re-boot just yet. Linux student 2.4.18-5 #1 Mon Jun 10 15:14:29 EDT 2002 i686 unknown On Thu, December 9, 2004 12:08 pm, Guy Ellis said: uname -a At 11:15 AM 09-12-04 +1100, you wrote: Hi all, I have an 'application' server provided by a third party, I have root access via ssh, but would like to query the bxo as to the version of Linux and Kernel that it is running. Is this possible from the command line? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Guy Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.traverse.com.au Tel 03 9486 7775 Fax 03 9482 7754 Mobile 0419 398 234 -- -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] migrating home directories
Hi all,
I am trying to migrate the home directories of our users onto a SNAP
Terabyte server. The issue I am having s one of preserving ownership on
hte files and directories.
This is what I have tried:
I have mounted the terabyte server into /mnt/snap using NFS and Samba (not
at the same time of course!).
1. Used cp -dpr - copies the files and directories OK, but gives
'Operation not allowed' when trying to set the ownership.
2. tar -cf /mnt/snap/filename {home directories} then tar -xvf on the
resultant file, again it create the directories but gives errors such as
Cannot change ownership to uid 6209, gid 6209: Operation not permitted
when trying to set the permissions, I have confirmed that the uid and gid
correspond to the relevant user in /etc/passwd
I can't see nay log entries to indicate any other issues.
Any clues appreciated
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Re: [SLUG] find ot locate binary
Thanks all, prompt advice as always, has got me on the way out of another hole of my own making! :-) On Mon, November 22, 2004 12:43 pm, Erik de Castro Lopo said: On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:30:29 +1100 (EST) Simon Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I just want to 'find' or 'locate' a file called xyz rather than all directories and filenames that contain that string what would I enter at the command line? For files: find / -name xyz -type f For directories: find / -name xyz -type d Erik -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] find ot locate binary
Hi, If I just want to 'find' or 'locate' a file called xyz rather than all directories and filenames that contain that string what would I enter at the command line? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Reinstalling Apache and PHP
HI all, I need to check a procedure. I am helping a disability group with their computing and website and am moving the website from running in EzPublish to MySource. However it appears that the install of Apache and php do not have the correct configure options. The server is a FC2 just upgraded to FC3 and have run yum update. I am assuming that the install of Apache and PHP would be from RPM's and I am going to have to install from source code (preferrably using Apachetoolbox as it does all the linking for me). The question is this: do I need to uninstall the existing rpm's or can I just install over the top? I would rather not end up with stray binaries and files scattered allover the server which would be bound to confuse me in a couple of weeks time! -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] Banks colluding with Microsoft ?
On Tue, October 26, 2004 3:43 pm, David said: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Howard Lowndes wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:50, Rod Butcher wrote: Sluggers, I started off having to spoof my Firefox browser as Moz 1 Win98 to do St George internet banking. That stopped working so I used IE 5 Mac. That now crashes and I have to use IE6 Win XP. There is as pattern here .. and in the US i believe it would warrant antitrust / racketeering / cartel / wirefraud investigation. Anybody got any real facts on this ? Ockams Razor (paraphrased): Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be easily attributed to stupidity. occam's razor if there are many possible answers to a question, the simplest one is usually correct... Then again.. that's probably the same thing. They have XP on their desktop, so obviously they think everyone else must have to. Much more likely than a conspiracy. OTOH, it suits M$ to be non-standard, so there isn't much likelihood that they will discourage this behaviour. Similar issue with the Department of Education and their Back to School Allowance. It is an Access Database that you import the details into then export a file to disk. SOme genius decided that it would be a good idea to allow them to be emailed back - cept the option to still save to disk comes after the automated email link, and that won't work unless you have MS OUtlook installed, so instead you get an 'Error 498398' and you can't export the file to send in! The programmers response was that all I have to do is to install Outlook as my default email client and it will work - I declined the offer. This is an example of stupid or lazy programming rather than conspiracy. I believe the higher ups have told the programmer to fix it. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] proxy
On Thu, October 7, 2004 5:24 pm, James Gray said: On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 03:50 pm, Robert Tillsley wrote: Thanks for the advice guys. What I am looking for is transparent authentication. Someone else has just told me that dansguardian won't work with ntlm authentication and AD groups, so I might have to reconsider this. Cheers Robert Tillsley Another option might be squidguard which is a standard Squid redirector. AFAIK this works with NTLM authentication (it did in our testing anyway). Cept DG is a very effective 'content' filter which is very useful in schools, squidguard AFAIK is url/ip based. You can use Squid with authentication and DG, the hassle is that DG needs to connecto to a proxy, so the normal trick is to point it at the ISP's proxy. You can't put it in front of Squid if you want to authenticate. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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 remove files en masse
Hi all, We have run out of space in our user directory file. All users have been warned to delete or convert the thousands of bmp files to soemthing else or they will be deleted. So now I want to carry out my threat. I can list them all with ls -alR |grep bmp but how do I feed something like that to 'rm' -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Apache and SSI
Hi all,
We are trying to use SSI to read the IP address of requests to our
webserver so we can deny some ip addresses access to certain pages.
I have followed the instructions at:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html#configuringyourservertopermitssi
We are using:
head
titleIP/title
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
script type=text/javascript
var IP = '!--#echo var=REMOTE_ADDR --';
document.write(IP: + IP);
document.write(BR);
//ip = 10.192.0.111;
if (IP.match(/10.192.0.\d{1,3}/)) {
document.write(matches);
} else {
document.write(doesn't match);
}
/script
/head
We are viewing it using Firefox and IE, when we connect to some remote
servers using this system it displays fine. Just in our case the variable
is always empty.
Any ideas?
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[SLUG] echo not echoing anymore
Hi all, I have the following two files in the root directory of all my users on an LTSP4 setup. The purpose is to map their home drives from another server into the user space on the LTSP server. Works fine. However since a recent 'yum upgrade' (this is running on FC2) none of the text appears in the terminal screen. If you respond to the two pauses in the cursor with a correct username/password combination it works, but I need it to display the prompts. It is run by running the 'mapodrive' file as I couldn't figure out how to do the xterm -e thing any other way. File: mapodrive xterm -e ./leavemealone File:leavemealone #!/bin/bash echo -n Enter your username read -e USERNAME echo -n Enter your password read -es PASSWORD `sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=$USERNAME,password=$PASSWORD //10.192.0.14/homes /home/$USERNAME/ODrive` -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] LTSP and USB and 'full machines'
Hi all, I am trying to get some info on two topics: 1. I need to be able to use USB devices with LTSP4, specifically download images from a digital camera with an XD card. I have found some references but they involve a lot of command line work and my users will freak at that. I am running LTSP4 on FC2 and Gnome desktop. Is this possible? I think I know waht to do in the lts.conf but not sure then how to access the files. A ny clues references appreciated. 2. Is it possible to mix 'full' machines with LTSP machines? ie we have ten LTSP workstations, I could solve some of the USB issues if I had a machine with a local install of FC, but would need it to use the username/password from the LTSP server (nis?) and also use the home directory on the LTSP server or at least provide access to it through the desktop. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] LTSP and USB and 'full machines'
On Wed, August 11, 2004 8:34 am, Peter Rundle said: Simon, 2. Is it possible to mix 'full' machines with LTSP machines? An alternative is to setup some LTSP machines to use 'local apps'. In this configuration rather than the applications running on the server with the X display being sent to the desktop, the servers file system(s) are attached to the desktop using NFS and the applications run on the CPU of the desktop. This means that the desktops hardware, such as USB ports, are local to the GUI applications. But the software resides on the filesystem of the server so you still get single point for software update and user file storage, but you off-load the CPU resource to the desktop PC. Until about 10 minutes ago the clients were all P90 with 32MB RAM, but have just been offered a stack of PIII with a lot of RAM so this might be possible now. Thanks for that. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] mqueue permissions
Hi all, I keep getting thes in my logs, but am not sure what permissions I should set on that file. Any clues? dangerous permissions=40777 on queue directory /path/to/clientmqueue/: 5 Time(s) -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] Rebuild hda
On Thu, July 29, 2004 1:20 pm, Terry Collins said: Simon Bryan wrote: I could of course just disconnect the second HDD until the first is re-built, but felt there had to be a more logical method. Very logical and very safe. Highly recommended. Just note the mounting specs and anything else you need to know. Install new HDA, install Operating system, mount HDB. Refer to old-HDA (mounted as HDB/C/D) if you run into problems along the way. OK, OK I get the message! :-) I will unplug the thing whilst rebuilding. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Rebuild hda
Hi all, I am getting messages that indicate that hda1 in my FC system is failing. This machine was previously ourt proxy server and has a hard life so I beileve the messages! Easy enough, acquire new disk and rebuild. However I have a second HDD that is 100% full with Video files, I do not want to delete these, I simply want to rebuild linux on the first drive and then re-mount it and re-share back to Windows clients. I have not done it this way before, normally I let the install delete everything on all HDD's, is this going to be simple or are there some gotchas? I could of course just disconnect the second HDD until the first is re-built, but felt there had to be a more logical method. Cheers -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] Mail forwarding at router
On Thu, July 22, 2004 6:57 pm, Shaun Oliver said: Someone much smarter than I, on Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 08:36:36AM +1000, spake thus. Yes we have our own domain and want to use our own server. Mail does go out OK, but nothing seems to come in and ...it just occurred to me that the previous ISP may not have adjusted the internet mail records (MX??), will ring them and find out. Yep, that'd do it. I'd have thought though you'd be able somehow to update your own zone files no matter where they be. but it's certainly a possibility. Turns out it was as simple as Sendmail not listening on the correct interface - it was only listening to the interface connected to the LTSP clients where I did all the original testing :-( All fixed now. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Mail forwarding at router
Hi all, I have set up a small ntwork for a disability group and all is well, except they can't receive any mail. We have adsl with TPG and I have successfully forwarded the web requests to the internal web server from the router, but I think I may have missed something on the email side. The internal server is FC2 running Sendmail. What ports do I need to forward to this server from the router. Sending out of email works fine and internally email works fine. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] Mail forwarding at router
On Wed, July 21, 2004 8:59 pm, Shaun Oliver said: Someone much smarter than I, on Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:02:09PM +1000, spake thus. well yeah 110 if you want your pop3 server to be visible... 25 if you want your sendmail server to be accessible... I think the problem is he's not getting mail in from the ISP's servers. Simon, correct me if I'm wrong here. if you wanted to use your own smtp serup, then yes you'd forward port 25 to the machine running sendmail. a better idea would be to use your ISP's own mailserver as a smarthost for the time being unless you have your own domain and you want to use your own mta. as for getting the mail in, I would have thought there would have been no need for any jiggery pokery. just my 2 bob worth Yes we have our own domain and want to use our own server. Mail does go out OK, but nothing seems to come in and ...it just occurred to me that the previous ISP may not have adjusted the internet mail records (MX??), will ring them and find out. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] apt-get and FC
Hi all, I am wanting to use apt-get with FC1 and all works fine, except it wants to remove a program I want to keep (ltsp-floppyd - which is used to allow the thin client users to access their local floppy drive). Can I tell it to upgrade but not remove? Can't see it in the options. Yum fails on the dependency check, specifically on gtkam-gimp, we use and need Gimp. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ssh command
I am trying to get SOPHOS to update automatically on my linux servers as well as all the MS servers and workstations, in fact the MS ones all work nicely - updated every four hours. The instructions for doing this in Linux are given below, can anyone tell me what they mean by a 'shared area' and how that ssh command is supposed to work?...and what's a 'trust relationship' in Linux? Cheers SImon If you have multiple, networked Unix computers, you may want to install and update Sophos Anti-Virus from a central directory, rather than carrying out installation at each computer separately. This procedure assumes that there is a trust relationship between the computers. 1. On one Unix computer, set up a shared area that is available to all the other computers. 2. Untar the Sophos Anti-Virus for Unix distribution archive or archives to this shared area. If you have computers on your network that use more than one Unix operating system (e.g. Linux and FreeBSD), untar the distribution archive for each system into a separate directory. 3. Use ssh to run the install.sh script on every connected Unix computer, from the shared area. For example, enter ssh -l [username] [hostname] / .install.sh where [username] is your user ID and [hostname] is the computer on which you want to install Sophos Anti-Virus. In each case, ensure that you run install.sh from the correct set of distribution files for that computer?s operating system. On older Unix computers, ssh may not be available. You can use rsh instead, though it is less secure. Step 3 can be put into a script which is run from one of your Unix computers. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Outgoing http traffic
hi all, I have an LTSP4/FC2 server running, using GNOME as the desktop and it works quite well, but a couple of problems or issues still exist. 1. When a user logs in they get a message about Xkb Error - I have checked and made all the adjustments that I can find on the web and the Fedora site. For instance the Fedora site says to change the XKbRules line in xorg.conf, however the line didn't exist and adding it had no effect. 2. Maybe related but the fonts on the terminals are crap - the server console is very good. Have checked that the font server is running and the order of the fonts in the font path. 3. I need to direct all web requests transparently to our proxy server. I could get the users to enter the details into the web browser, but then I am also giving them instructions on how to bypass it! (For our own purposes we have left open direct access to the net without going through the proxy). We are not running a firewall on this server as it is internal and behind the site firewalls - however there is no problem with running one if that will help. Any help with any of these would be appreciated -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] executable file from GUI
Hi all, Why can't I 'double click' this file from the GUI to execute it? I am sure I used to do that with the previous incarnation of my LTSP server. It is owned by the user, is in the users home directory and has rwxr-xr-x permissions #!/bin/bash # check if there are 2 paramters echo -n Enter your username read -e USERNAME echo -n Enter your password read -es PASSWORD `sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=$USERNAME,password=$PASSWORD //10.192.0.14/homes /home/$USERNAME/ODrive` -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] sudoers
Hi all, Can someone give me the syntax to put in the sudoers file to allow all users to be able to mount (in particular samba homes if that is relevant). I don't seem to be able to get the EBNF right! -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] NTFS and Fedora
Hi all, I need to install an NTFS disk in an FC1 system. I have downloaded the NTFS rpm and tried to install it and got the following message: This RPM requires kernel-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl. You already have it installed, but it is not running. Please reboot and select that kernel, then retry the install. My kernel appears to be 2.4.22-1.2115 and when I boot it does not offer me an alternative kernel to boot from. I have installed the apt-get on this system. Could the rpm be mistaken, or is it likely I do have that kernel, if so where would it be and how do I activate it. I have never built a kernel and have no concept of the process...yet. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] NTFS and Fedora
On Fri, May 28, 2004 11:00 am, Mike MacCana said: On Fri, 28 May 2004, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I need to install an NTFS disk in an FC1 system. I have downloaded the NTFS rpm and tried to install it and got the following message: This RPM requires kernel-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl. You already have it installed, but it is not running. Please reboot and select that kernel, then retry the install. My kernel appears to be 2.4.22-1.2115 and when I boot it does not offer me an alternative kernel to boot from. I have installed the apt-get on this system. Could the rpm be mistaken, or is it likely I do have that kernel, if so where would it be and how do I activate it. I have never built a kernel and have no concept of the process...yet. Building a kernel is generally unnecessary. If you need a new driver, just grab the package containing that driver for your kernel. rpm -q kernel Will list installed kernels on your machine. Tell us the output and we'll take it from there. I had another look back at what I had done with the apt-get system and it seemed that apt-get dist-upgrade had never finished, so I have started it again and one of the 'new' packages listed is the new kernel that I want. Will wait until that finishes and see what happens - besides I cant do an rpm -q at the moment as apt-get appears to have locked the rpm database. Thanks and will let you know what happens -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] NTFS and Fedora
On Fri, May 28, 2004 11:00 am, Mike MacCana said: On Fri, 28 May 2004, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I need to install an NTFS disk in an FC1 system. I have downloaded the NTFS rpm and tried to install it and got the following message: This RPM requires kernel-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl. You already have it installed, but it is not running. Please reboot and select that kernel, then retry the install. My kernel appears to be 2.4.22-1.2115 and when I boot it does not offer me an alternative kernel to boot from. I have installed the apt-get on this system. Could the rpm be mistaken, or is it likely I do have that kernel, if so where would it be and how do I activate it. I have never built a kernel and have no concept of the process...yet. Building a kernel is generally unnecessary. If you need a new driver, just grab the package containing that driver for your kernel. rpm -q kernel Will list installed kernels on your machine. kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl After all that downloading the apt-get failed during the install :-( -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Second LTSP Server - progress but need help still
On Thu, May 20, 2004 3:52 pm, Simon Bryan said: Hi all, I wnat to start sharing the load of my thin clients between two servers. We currently bhave one running RH7.2 and LTSP2. I have setup a second server running FC1 and LTSP4 (and installed the kernel from LTSP3 as suggested) The first server is the DHCP server still and I have modified the dhcp.conf to point a workstation at the new server (I do not want this to be a matter of user choice - need to hardwire them). Everything goes along nicely until it tries to load vmlinuz (the kernel?) and then it just hangs putting up a dot every 30 seconds or so. I did have an issue with a typo that meant it could not find the file and I got that sort of error message, so I am sure it is finding it, just doesn't seem to be able to load it. I can't find any relevant entries in the logs on either server - nothing even at the right time/date. What I hav done is copy the vmlinuz file to the original server and it finds and runs it nicely, but just after a messge about switching to multi-user mode I get an error that syslogd cant write to the file handle on my second server port 514 and then it stalls with 'Parse error Line 19' but I can't work out Line 19 of what!!?? Help! -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Second LTSP Server
Hi all, I wnat to start sharing the load of my thin clients between two servers. We currently bhave one running RH7.2 and LTSP2. I have setup a second server running FC1 and LTSP4 (and installed the kernel from LTSP3 as suggested) The first server is the DHCP server still and I have modified the dhcp.conf to point a workstation at the new server (I do not want this to be a matter of user choice - need to hardwire them). Everything goes along nicely until it tries to load vmlinuz (the kernel?) and then it just hangs putting up a dot every 30 seconds or so. I did have an issue with a typo that meant it could not find the file and I got that sort of error message, so I am sure it is finding it, just doesn't seem to be able to load it. I can't find any relevant entries in the logs on either server - nothing even at the right time/date. Any clues on where I go to from here to get this happening? DO I need to modify some of the /etc/X11 files as well? (Remember I do not want to display a chooser) -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] Desktops
On Sat, May 8, 2004 2:20 pm, James Gregory said: Hey all, I've been getting a lot of requests from people for whom I've setup Linux desktops who are becoming increasingly frustrated with the fact that their Linux box doesn't behave like windows. There's a bunch of ways this manifests, but most commonly I field complaints that OpenOffice is completely unusable on the basis that menu items are arranged differently. Strange I get the same complaints, but it is due to using differnet versions of MS Office and different versions of Windows! Have you looked at customising the toolbars to put some things in the 'right'place, but ask first which version of Office on which version of Windows you want to emulate. In addition for things that have keyboard shortcuts - all the ones I have used are the same. So start with a cheat sheet of these to turn them into 'Power Users' - at least convince them of that. Alternatively I have shown some MS addicts Lindows (not sure of it's current status) and they were quite happy with that. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] Small network Windows replacements
Matthew Palmer said: I am setting up a Samba domain and would like to make it an AD look alike, That's some low ambitions you've got there. I'd expect you to be able to pull off something *much* better than AD... Setting up the server is fairly straightforward these days, and hooking clients up to it is a piece of piss. On the UI side, I've worked with ldap-account-manager (AKA lam) and it's pretty good, and I've recently heard Thanks for that, you have just jogged my memory, i read it all when looking at setting up an OpenLDAP server at work - have decided toinvest in a pre-built appliance server instead (all OSS based, but pur together much better than I can do), but the organisation doesn't have that sort of money. Good now I know where to go and read about it. Cheers, -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] Small network Windows replacements
Thanks to all for the offers of help. I have an offer from a local company in Hornsby (their reply was offlist so won't put there name up here.yet!) to put their staff onto the job for me - which is very much appreciated. Once we have a plan of attack I will be in contact with the others who offered help to see if they want to work in with us or even help with the training of staff etc. Simon Males said: What organisation is this? The organisation is Studio ARTES Northside Inc., http://www.studioartes.com.au (was going to take too long to get a .org). The Manager is my wife who has been in disability work for over twenty five years along with her offsider that has similar experience. Having great success. The move to the new building is currently massively over budget :-( but worth every cent! The donations and freebies from over 35 local companies so far we can't estimate the value of but it is huge. The major funding comes from Governments and private donations and the collection of fees from the clients. Hoverer there is always a struggle to get the next set of funding, and there are no guarantees, with a lot of hoops to jump through (which is right for public monies). For the first year of operation ALL staff worked as volunteers for NO pay, adn we are still very much dependent on volunteers, so they are a dedicated lot and deserve as much help as I can muster for them. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Small network Windows replacements
Hi all, I am helping a disability organisation I am associated with to setup a small network of 10 Linux, three Windows and a Linux server. We can't afford the needed hardware or the licences to go to XP and MS Office etc, so we are looking at Linux alternatives. However it needs to maintain a familiar Windows look and feel. I am looking for suggestions for the following list of requirements. OS Lindows Office APpsOpen Office and ABIWord Email Yahoo Mail using Web Browser Photo Manipulation GIMP ACDSEE (IMage viewing and slideshows) ? Publisher (They like the templates)? PrinterHP2100 Plus we will need to connect Scanners, USB Digital Camera Any other suggestions or thoughts are welcome. I am setting up a Samba domain and would like to make it an AD look alike, I did read about this somewhere but am having trouble finding it again. PS, this is in the Hornsby area of Sydney if anyone wants to help -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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 share and XP
We are running all our Home directories for Windows from the Samba 'Homes' share with noproblem for W2K or XP. We also have a number of other shares that I access from my XP machine, as I amn ot actually loggin in to the domain I need to specify the domain user I want to authenticate with so use the /USER:domain_name\username switch Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit said: Hi, I'm running Redhat 9 and samba 2.2.7a. I recently setup an XP on my network but couldn't get it to recognise a share on the linux box. Usually on W98 and W2000 I'd use the *.reg files that come with the samba distribution. This would ensure that the password encryption is consistent. There is a '.reg' file for XP, but running that had no effect and I couldn't map a network drive from the XP box. Does anyone have experience with setting up shares on samba and getting them to work with XP? any input appreciated, kr, Luke -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] pam_mkhomedir
Grant Parnell said: On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I have this line in my pam.d/login file: session required/lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel while this creates the user directory nicely, it creates new copies of the dot files rather than copying the ones from /etc/skel. Is there anyway I can force it to copy the ones in /etc/skel? This would remove the need for my users (school students who only know Windows) from having to setup their proxy settings abd Open Office settings. Umm... normally when you run useradd it COPIES from /etc/skel so I'm thinking this should be what happens ... especially since it's mentioned in your pam line. Maybe it's got a permissions problem (strange for root though). Just a thought... is /home NFS/SMB mounted or something like that? Copies everything except the dot files - which it seems to rebuild, if once the user is created I manually copy the dot files .gnome, .gnome2 etc and reset permissions the user gets the settings I want. I may need to play with the umask setting but am having trouble finding a reference for it. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] pam_mkhomedir
Hi all, I have this line in my pam.d/login file: session required/lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel while this creates the user directory nicely, it creates new copies of the dot files rather than copying the ones from /etc/skel. Is there anyway I can force it to copy the ones in /etc/skel? This would remove the need for my users (school students who only know Windows) from having to setup their proxy settings abd Open Office settings. Cheers -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] Changed Motherboard
Got back to work today and started checking this - first no joy at all. Still the same issues, except if I deleted the entries in modules.conf there were no errors during startup, the system indiscated the ethx ports had started - but they hadn't!! So pulled the server out of the rack to check jumpers on the mother board, they were both set to enable, what the heck moved one to disable and both NIC's came up (to this point I was not even getting green lights). The tech said they wouldn't power up until the drivers were running properly - shouldn't listen to him. Thought that was weird so put them both back to enable and got two brand new cables out of the box - both NIC's with lights and no errors on startup!! Yeah!! Must have been the cables - which is weird as they worked with the previous mother board. Put the server back in the rack, same cables, only one comes on!!! Arghhh. But at least that card is working fine. Now have to pull it out of the rack again!! Ain't life grand! Robert Collins said: On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 19:41, Simon Bryan wrote: They are built into the motherboard. Possibly what config file would hold this info? check modules.conf for aliases to eth0 and eth1. RH does some (IMO) weird crack. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] Changed Motherboard
Mike MacCana said: On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I had RH9 setup on a MicroPro rack mounitng server. However one of the NIC's failed and they have replaced the motherboard. However when I boot up now eth0 and eth1 both fail with messages that they 'don't appear to be present, delaying initilization' and the EEPROM checksum is invalid (I think the latter is related to enabling the boot roms in CMOS). They assure me that is exactly the same Motherboard and versions etc. The NIC's are 100/1GB. How do I go about getting RH to re-install the NIC's? Are the networks cards inbuilt or installed in a slot? Their configuration may have been bound to their MAC address. They are built into the motherboard. Possibly what config file would hold this info? Has kudzu been run since the motherboard was reinstalled? Forgot to mention, when first boted Kudzu said a card had been removed, I said OK, it then said it found some cards, I said OK, it then offered to copy over the network configuration, I agreed with that as well. Rebooting since (checking CMOS settings) kudzu runs during bootup but doesn't find anything, if I run it after bootup it also doesn't find anything. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Changed Motherboard
Hi all, I had RH9 setup on a MicroPro rack mounitng server. However one of the NIC's failed and they have replaced the motherboard. However when I boot up now eth0 and eth1 both fail with messages that they 'don't appear to be present, delaying initilization' and the EEPROM checksum is invalid (I think the latter is related to enabling the boot roms in CMOS). They assure me that is exactly the same Motherboard and versions etc. The NIC's are 100/1GB. How do I go about getting RH to re-install the NIC's? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] What to put in fstab
Hi all, I have setup an smbmount to replace my NFS mount that was giving me phantom readings (reading the original HD and not following to the new FS). AT the monmen I have to do it manually with smbmount \\server\remote_share /mnt/local_mount_point This then prompts me for a password and mounts as 'nobody' which is fine I only need it to be readable not R/W. Even when I included the username and password paramters in the command it asked for a password. What would I put in fstab to make this mount at boot time? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] Phantom NFS mount
Grant Parnell said: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, This is a continuation of a problem I was having before, where directory is exported via NFS but when it is mounted on another machine gives an old copy of the directory. I think I know what is happening but not the cure! The directory in question is /var/auc/course, but I have just realised that in fact there is a second (IDE B) drive mounted at /var/auc/course (I ran out of room on the old disk and simply copied the data to the new disk and then mounted it). I believe that what I am seeing on the NFS share is the original directory from the first IDE drive. I can't unmount at the moment and see, as this would bring down a particularly busy system, need to give 24 hours notice! Does this sound logical? If so is there a way I can get the NFS mount to see the real data on the second IDE drive? Not sure if someone's beaten me to it but there's no ideal way with NFS that I know of. It will always exhibit this behaviour because of the way it uses inodes or something techie like that(tm). In other words it can only handle ONE FILESYSTEM PER MOUNT. Solution 1: add the mount point to /etc/exports on the NFS server Solution 2: Use another technology such as Samba NFS will allow full unix permissions attributes to be maintained but (as far as I'm aware) Samba won't since it's emulating DOS permissions. IE the files will appear to be owned by the same user and have approx 0x775 permissions (-rwxrwxr-x) depending on how you set it up. Yeah I can probably use Samba as it is already running, the permissions problem is not a huge problem as this is for the backups and the permissions can always be changed if and when a file is copied back to the live system. Thanks for that, I was getting very confused as to where these files were coming from. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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
Phil Scarratt said: Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I am once again trying to replace Lotus Organizer on our network without having to resort to MS Exchange Server and MS Outlook. The only functionality we need is the Diary, Shared and Private, with decent printouts and potentially alarms or alerts. The ability to sync with a PDA would be great. I don't want to add anything other than the diary/calendar program, we already have Squirrellmail running nicely and have replaced Pegasus for the bulk of our users. Any ideas? What about Evolutionno idea if it does the shared thing though. NOt clear from their docs on-line, certainly can handle meeting requests etc. Worth a look as well. Thanks -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Phantom NFS mount
Hi all, This is a continuation of a problem I was having before, where directory is exported via NFS but when it is mounted on another machine gives an old copy of the directory. I think I know what is happening but not the cure! The directory in question is /var/auc/course, but I have just realised that in fact there is a second (IDE B) drive mounted at /var/auc/course (I ran out of room on the old disk and simply copied the data to the new disk and then mounted it). I believe that what I am seeing on the NFS share is the original directory from the first IDE drive. I can't unmount at the moment and see, as this would bring down a particularly busy system, need to give 24 hours notice! Does this sound logical? If so is there a way I can get the NFS mount to see the real data on the second IDE drive? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Replace Organizer
Hi all, I am once again trying to replace Lotus Organizer on our network without having to resort to MS Exchange Server and MS Outlook. The only functionality we need is the Diary, Shared and Private, with decent printouts and potentially alarms or alerts. The ability to sync with a PDA would be great. I don't want to add anything other than the diary/calendar program, we already have Squirrellmail running nicely and have replaced Pegasus for the bulk of our users. Any ideas? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] TUrn off firewall
HI all, Two versions of this story: SHORT VERSION: 1. How do I ensure that there are no firewalls enabled in a RH7.2 install? ie if they are enabled what do I do to turn them off? LONG VERSION: 2. I had an old HP server with a SCSI drive running RH7.2 and shared with Samba. The power supply died and I did not have a spare, as it was an old machine I decided to just move the HDD into another machine running RH8. The network was not enabled on this machine as it had no NIC, so I installed one and ran a RH Upgrade on the RH8 IDE drive to get it to RH9. Apparently I should have selected to leave the boot loader alone, as when it was finished the machine would only boot to a grub prompt, this happened from the HDD and the Floppy. I found that I could edit the files on the floppy and get it to boot the image on the SCSI drive, I coule then mount the IDE drive as /mnt/ide which worked and after much mucking about I finally got the network up and running - had to put a link from /lib/modules to the 2.4.20-8 directory in the IDE /lib/modules, (guess the image on the floppy needed the newer kernel?). Anyways thisworked and I was able to copy my data files from the SCSI drive to a CD using SAMBA. Then I had to shutdown the machine to put all the covers back on and move it into it's normal position. Next time it booted all seemed OK, except it cannot be see on the network and if I try to ping from it I get 'sendto: Operation not permitted'. However it IS getting it's IP address from my Router using DHCP, I have it's MAC address in the router and give it the same IP each time, if I change that IP the IP on eth0 changes accordingly when I reload. eth0 is starting, stopping, reloading etc with no errors that I can find, just it is sealed off from the world. I can always do a complete re-install as I have backupped my data, but I wouldiek to know what is happening. Cheers, -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] boot problem RH
Hi all, I have gone back to work on a RH9 system I setup a while ago but never used. It used to boot up fine, but now it hangs at 'bringing up interface ppp1' It did used to have a modem attached and was being setup for dialout internet access. I did once get it to respond to the Press I for Interactive Setup and I got it booted up, but forgot to add a mouse, now it is just ignoring me pressing the I key and continuing on without stopping and then hanging. I have tried connecting the modem back to the Serial ports and have disabled the serial ports in CMOS. Any other clues on how I can get this happy again? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] boot problem RH - Don't Worry
Sorry about that, have it sorted, booted from the install CD went to RESCUE, renamed the /etc/ppp directory, when I re-booted it gave an error and kept going, now I can set it to not boot ppp on startup. Simon Bryan said: Hi all, I have gone back to work on a RH9 system I setup a while ago but never used. It used to boot up fine, but now it hangs at 'bringing up interface ppp1' It did used to have a modem attached and was being setup for dialout internet access. I did once get it to respond to the Press I for Interactive Setup and I got it booted up, but forgot to add a mouse, now it is just ignoring me pressing the I key and continuing on without stopping and then hanging. I have tried connecting the modem back to the Serial ports and have disabled the serial ports in CMOS. Any other clues on how I can get this happy again? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] MySQL rpm upgrade
Hi all, I am attempting to upgrade MySQL from mysql-3.23.56-1.72 to 4.0.17-0. WHen I run the server rpm I get: error: failed dependencies: libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by mod_auth_mysql-1.11-1 libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by MyODBC-2.50.37-2 libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by MySQL-python-0.9.0-2 libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by perl-DBD-MySQL-1.2216-4 libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by php-mysql-4.1.2-7.2.6 So I thought OK upgrade the devel package first, however it comes up with: file /usr/bin/comp_err from install of MySQL-devel-4.0.17-0 conflicts with file from package mysql-3.23.56-1.72 file /usr/bin/mysql_config from install of MySQL-devel-4.0.17-0 conflicts with file from package mysql-3.23.56-1.72 and similar with the client package. The question is can/should I override the dependencies or the 'conflicts' (what does that mean anyway). If I should override the conflicts and install them first, what is the command to do so? Overwrite Package? Overwrite Files? Cheers, -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Weird NFS issue
Hi all, I have a directory being shared via NFS, however the shared directory and the original are NOT the same! When I view the mounted directory it shows a much older version of the original directory. This is persisting even though I have unmounted and remounted the directory and indeed rebooted one of the servers. Is this normal? What the mounted drive shows is a much older version of the directory, perhaps in the state it was when the share was first created. Any clues appreciated. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] Weird NFS issue
Grant Parnell said: I don't know but hypothetically if you exported the directory and mounted it before the partition was mounted you could get this effect. IE if the exported directory is a mount point and it had an old copy which the new partition was then mounted over... Have tried all combinations of that. Have moved the mount point, stopped and started the NFS server etc. Seems the problem is in the server rather than the client as no matter where I mount it I get the same result. This is a RH9 server Webmin shows the OS as Linux 2.4.7-10 Have noticed that the problem directory is a sub directory of the share ie sharing /var/auc and the directory that is stuck in the past is /var/auc/course, if I try to share /var/auc/course directly with exactly the same permissions as the /var/auc I find that I do not have permission to mount that share. The directory permissions and ownership are all the same (there are two other directories in /var/auc that do behave properly - they reflect the contents of the original. Does this new info ring any bells with anyone? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- 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] convert src to binary rpm
David Gillies said: Simon Bryan wrote: OK I downloaded a src.rpm (openldap-2.1.25-1.src.rpm) from rpmfind.net and tried the rpmrebuild, but it tells me that it is not a specfile If you run rpmbuild --rebuild openldap-2.1.25-1.src.rpm, that should get you going. THanks for that, seems to be running (for about 40 minutes so far!), should it take that long? This is on a P4 with 512MB -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] rpm vs source problem
Hi all, Am still working away at my problems (now I know what recursion means!) How do I solve this: Started to build the openldap rpm from a source rpm, failed due to dependencies. One of those dependencies (but the problem is with them all) is db-devel needs to be 4.2.5, which of cours is available as a RH9 or even a src rpm. The source is available and I installed from that (forgot to check whether it had been installed previously from rpm) - when I did check the rpm manager there is an older version, now if I wnat to uninstall that I will break dependencies on a large number of other files, and at the moment the system can't find my new db files. The only solution I can see is to uninstall everything that is dependent on the old files, install the new ones and then re-install the programs deleted previously (some I probably don't need). This could be very tedious - is there another way? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] convert src to binary rpm
Hi all, HOw do I convert a src rpmm to the correct rpm for my system? (i386 i686? RH9) I tried rpm --rebuild but it says it is an invalid option. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] cable and optusnet
Grant Parnell said: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, John Gibbons wrote: Greetings, I am a newcomer to Linux and cannot speak the technical language at all. After somehow successfully installing Mandrake 9.1 alongside XP I am at a loss to connect to optusnet via the cable modem that works OK with XP. Have read a couple of howtos in books for beginners written by well meaning but communication challenged experts and have read some advice on the internet but cannot understand it either. They may as well be written in Esperanto or Swahili as far as a complete beginner is concerned. Would some kind Linux Wizard who still remembers basic English please come to my rescue? Well I could probably help if I used Mandrake. From what I know of optus cable there's almost no setup involved. All you need to do is find the network setup tool for Mandrake (Drakconf?) and setup an 'ethernet' interface and have it automatically setup using something called DHCP and activating it, that's it! My problem is giving you the specific terms used and things to click on in the Mandrake config tool. If you're physically using a different computer, turn the cable modem off first because it locks onto the particular network card. I understand the problem with the instructions, being slightly above bottom level myself. The instruction to physically turn off the modem is critical when changing from one computer or network card to another - pull out the power cord. I would go to http://www.webmin.com and download and install the latest version of this program, it is quite well documented. The go to the Network - Network Configuration - Network Interface, Choose your network card in the bottom panel about INterfaces started at boot time (probably shows as eth0), choose DHCP from the setup, blank out any exisiting Netmask or IP address and then choose Save and Apply. Sometimes that doesn't reconfigure the NIC to DHCP and get a new address, so you might have to restart networking (at the command line - /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart should do it, I think Mandrake has the same layout as RedHat that I use or if in Windows frame of mind - reboot the sucker!) SHould do it. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Upgrading LDAP
Hi all, We have started our implementation of Samba 3 to replace our NT Domain. I have installed RH9 'with everything', then uninstalled the Samba rpm and installed Samba 3 from source (needed a lot of configure options). The RH install installed LDAP 2.0.2 I would like to upgrade that to the latest version 2.1.23, however if I try to uninstall the rpm's it won't unless I ignore a whole lot of dependencies, I cannot find an rpm of 2.1.23. How much chaos is likely to ensue if I uninstall the rpm's ignoring dependencies and then install 2.1.23 from source? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] LTS Server Error
Hi all, I keep getting a very large number of these messages as 'running processes' belonging to 'root' on my LTSP server, these also appear on the server terminal CTRL_ALT_F8, I done't seem to be able to clear them. ANy clues as to the cause and a cure would be appreciated. For process /usr/bin/dialog --msgbox There already appears to be an X server running on display :0. Please quit this server and then press Enter. You can change consoles by pressing Ctrl-Alt plus a function key, such as Ctrl-Alt-F7 to go to console 7. X servers usually run on consoles 7 and higher. r. 10 70 (PID 23511) -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: iis vs apache - Re: [SLUG] win2003 vs samba
Malcolm V said: On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 22:12, David Kempe wrote: snipped miniplug Over here at Solutions First, we have put together a cd with apps just like this that we consider useful. You can get the contents here: http://cd.sol1.net/ I am uploading the iso of the CD to here: http://cd.sol1.net/sol1giveawaycd.iso There is also this CD, http://pmw.myip.org/oss/ . I think there is also another such project but I can't find the link right now. GnuWinII is a CD of OS for Windows - http://gnugeneration.epfl.ch -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Samba and Windows AD
I noticed a discussion here about this topic but it wandered from what I need to know. We are currently runinng a Windows NT Domain, we need to move on to an Windows AD Domain (NT is no longer sujpported etc). A simple option is of course to just put in a Windows 2003 server - but this then means I have to repurcahse access licences for all 200 plus workstations, and in fact we set up a test server and were not that happy with it anyway (too many issues getting it to run). The question is can I go to Samba 3 and completely replace the Windows server - therefor no access licences to worry about. Has anyone done this that can give me amy pitfalls to watch out for? Will I need a separate authentication server such as LDAP or will the SAMBA server do the authentication and user management? I don't expect detailed HowTo's (but would be nice) rather just a yes or no that it is or is not possible. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Samba and Windows AD
Thanks all for the quick info, that combined with a bit more reading has convinced us that what we will do is setup the server as a Samba server specifically to become the PDC in our domain and then retire the exisiting one - which is slow and running out of space. We are pretty sure that we don't actually need everything that AD provides. This would also mean I can forget about tracking access licences. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] SAMBA config options
Hi all Is there a way that I can see what config options my current Samba install was configure with? I notice with Samba 3 it is in the config.log, but does not seem to be there in earlier versions. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Memory Usage
Hi all, Below is part of the 'top' display from one of my servers. Note that it is sorted on Memory and that the top few use only 1.1% of memory, yet the summary at the top would indicate that about 90% or more of memory was in use. Can anyone give me some possible reasons / fixes for this or am I just reading it wrong? 7:47am up 22 days, 18:29, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.07, 0.01 139 processes: 138 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.7% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 98.8% idle Mem: 771132K av, 760852K used, 10280K free,5740K shrd, 222472K buff Swap: 522072K av,5992K used, 516080K free 166472K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 29455 nlazo 9 0 8868 8868 1036 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 aucemail 1004 mysql 9 0 8164 8164 2312 S 0.0 1.0 0:27 mysqld 1018 mysql 8 0 8164 8164 2312 S 0.0 1.0 0:21 mysqld 1019 mysql 9 0 8164 8164 2312 S 0.0 1.0 2:38 mysqld 1020 mysql 9 0 8164 8164 2312 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 mysqld 27344 apache 9 0 7488 7488 7000 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd 27345 apache 9 0 7488 7488 7000 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd 27338 apache 9 0 7384 7384 7000 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd 27341 apache 8 0 7384 7384 7000 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd 27343 apache 8 0 7384 7384 7000 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd 27337 apache 9 0 7380 7380 7032 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd 27342 apache 9 0 7380 7380 7000 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd 27346 apache 9 0 7380 7380 7000 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd 28333 apache 9 0 7380 7380 7028 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 httpd -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Memory Usage
James Gray said: Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, Below is part of the 'top' display from one of my servers. Note that it is sorted on Memory and that the top few use only 1.1% of memory, yet the summary at the top would indicate that about 90% or more of memory was in use. Can anyone give me some possible reasons / fixes for this or am I just reading it wrong? 7:47am up 22 days, 18:29, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.07, 0.01 139 processes: 138 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.7% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 98.8% idle Mem: 771132K av, 760852K used, 10280K free,5740K shrd, 222472K buff Swap: 522072K av,5992K used, 516080K free 166472K cached This looks pretty normal. Notice the buff and cache are about 217Mb and 163Mb respectively? The Linux kernel will try and use all the RAM is can for buffers and cache, after accomodating the programs etc, to minimise disk/network access (which is much slower than RAM - naturally). However, if a program needed more space (heap/stack etc) the kernel will sacrifice buff and/or cache to make room. The only time to worry is when you see a lot of swap in use and large amount of paging activity. This is usually a good sign that either something has sprung a leak, or that you need more RAM. However, if a program starts then goes idle for an extended period, the kernel may well swap it out of RAM to either make space for another program or allocate more buffers/cache. I'm not that familiar with the actual complexities of the kernel's memory allocation algorithms but you get the general idea. OK, thanks for that, I note in the reply from Mike the comment about 'windowish' worrying about RAM usage - I had just finished looking through my WIndows servers memory requirements, which is a different kettle of fish to this. I then noticed that all my Linux servers were in a similar state to this (except one where the virus scanner had gone psycho and never finished - over 5 days 5 different instances of it were still running (the scan shoud take about 10 minutes at 1am in the morning). Killing them off and reconfiguring the virus scanner freed a lot of memory and CPU! Good to keep learning about these things. Cheers -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] command line to GUI script
HI all, Is there anyway to make the following simple bash script run by clicking on an icon in the desktop? Even if the icon opens the terminal window would be OK. #!/bin/sh echo echo echo echo -n Enter your username: read -e username echo echo echo -n Enter your password: read -s password [ -a /home/$username/O_drive ] || mkdir -p /home/$username/O_Drive sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=$username,password=$password,posix=0,uid=$1,gid=$1,umask=0077 //10.192.0.14/homes /home/$username/O_Drive Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] command line to GUI script
Thanks Mike, that is fine Mike MacCana said: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Simon Bryan wrote: HI all, Is there anyway to make the following simple bash script run by clicking on an icon in the desktop? Even if the icon opens the terminal window would be OK. Make the icon run the command in a terminal window. Or use gdialog or kdialog. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] VideoLan
Has anyone had direct experience with Videolan (Video Server). I am about to setup a test server for a very small scale trial. If so are there any gotcha's? Did you use a video or DVD converted to MP3 - waht did you use for the conversion? Was any thought given to copyright issues? (Mine would be for within a school) Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] How do group permissions work?
Hi all, This is a repost of an issue as I didn't see any responses and I need to solve it. All my staff are in two groups, popusers is their primary group and staff is the secondary group. Below is part of a directory listing, I would have thought that anybody in the 'staff' group would have full control. However they can generally negotiate through the directories until they hit one with files in and then they get 'permission denied' When they are on the local network they access the files with no problems from Windows workstaions using SAMBA. I have subsequently set the permissions to 776 and the owners to nobody.staff for the whole directory. This solves the access problem...but They are accessing the directory through a system called AUC which is a 'curriculum content management system, with email and discussion boards' etc and is in fact a large cgi script. Is it feasible that the cgi is not recognising them as being members of the staff group? If so any ideas on how I would 'fix' it? drwxrwxrwx 20 root staff4096 Oct 17 12:13 . drwxrwxrwx4 root root 4096 Oct 10 11:10 .. drwxrwx---2 root staff4096 Oct 15 09:55 Admin drwxrwx---2 nobody staff4096 Oct 17 12:23 BOARD drwxrwx---5 root staff4096 Aug 18 11:45 BookIt drwxrwx---2 root staff4096 Sep 11 07:08 BOS drwxrwx---6 root staff4096 Oct 10 11:29 CoCurricular drwxrwx--- 10 root staff4096 Oct 10 11:23 Curriculum_Coordinator drwxrwxrwx4 root staff4096 Oct 10 11:15 Director_of_Mission drwxrwx---2 root staff4096 Oct 16 11:50 Excursions drwxrwxrwx 17 root staff4096 Oct 13 21:14 LearningAreas drwxrwx--- 17 root staff4096 Aug 27 13:37 Literacy drwxrwx---4 root staff4096 Oct 15 16:42 MAGAZINE 2003 drwxrwx---2 root staff4096 Oct 16 07:57 NEWSLETTER ITEMS drwxrwx---9 root staff4096 Aug 4 14:00 Parramatters drwxrwxrwx8 root staff4096 Oct 15 14:49 PastoralCare drwxrwx---3 root staff4096 Oct 10 11:22 Peer_support drwxrwx---2 root staff4096 Sep 30 14:37 ProfDev drwxrwx---2 nobody staff4096 Oct 15 12:39 Technology Bulletin drwxrwxrwx3 root staff4096 Oct 10 11:19 TechSupport -rwxrwx---1 nobody staff 26624 Oct 15 17:33 WORKFLOW STEPS.doc -rwxrwx---1 nobody staff 19968 Oct 15 16:30 Year 11 Retreat.doc Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Video Servers
Anthony Wood said: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:27:28PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I have been asked to research Video Servers for our school. The aim is to store the Video / DVD on a hard disc and then deliver the video from there to the desktop / TV. www.videolan.org Now that seems to have real possibilities - the end system needs to be fairly user friendly however in the creation of images on the server and the administration of the system. Will read the docs and let the list know how we go. Cheers Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Video Servers
Hi all, I have been asked to research Video Servers for our school. The aim is to store the Video / DVD on a hard disc and then deliver the video from there to the desktop / TV. There are a number of Windows based systems, I was wondering if anyone knew of an Open Source solution? Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] LTSP Memory question
HI all, I was just looking at the memory usage on my LTSP server and it was running at 98%! Which seemed excessive, given that there is no-one actually at work, and there were maybe one or two terminals still switched on. So using the 'Windows Principle', I re-booted, now that it has come back up memory usage is down to 35%. Quite a difference given that whatever terminals were on are still on. Does LTS suffer from memory leaks? Could this be caused by people just switchin off the terminal without logging out? (Of course they can't shutdown). Unfrtunatley I forgot to look at what was using the memory before I re-booted, but will do so next time. But are there any known issues with this? Cheers, Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] LTSP Server problem
Hi all, My LTSP Server screen often drops to a 'DOS' style window with a message about 'there already being an X-server on that port, quit the other X-server and press OK' plus a lot of other info on how to change console screens. Sometimes I can click on OK and it goes away but generally it persists. Is this unusual? Is it soemthing I need to fix? I very rarely want to use the server console anyway so it is not normally a usage problem. Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] How to set standard settings for all users?
Given that you're using GNOME, I'd recommend Galeon or Epiphany, as you can configure their defaults (or mandatory settings) at the host-global level. You can't do this with Mozilla. OK, I like the look of Galeon, so how do I make it the default browser? Uninstall all the others? :-) Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] pam_mkhomedir and /etc/skel
Hi all, I ahve session required/lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0077 in my pam.d/login file, and indeed the users directories are created on first login, however it does not seem to be copying the files from /etc/skel/ in particualr it is not copying .gnome/panel.d/default/* Is there anywhere else it could be copying these from? What permissions should be on files in /etc/skel? Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] pam_mkhomedir and /etc/skel
Kevin Saenz said: mine pam_mkhomedir line is set to umask=0022 what do you have in /etc/skel? Hi all, I ahve session required/lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0077 in my pam.d/login file, and indeed the users directories are created on first login, however it does not seem to be copying the files from /etc/skel/ in particualr it is not copying .gnome/panel.d/default/* Is there anywhere else it could be copying these from? What permissions should be on files in /etc/skel? Just the normal files, I just want it to use the files in .gnome/panel.d/default so that there is an icon on the panel that is a link to a URL. I have also expermented with putting the files into /etc/gnome, now that has made a difference, the only file on the panel now is the footprint :-( Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] How to set standard settings for all users?
Hi all, Have beed trying to work out how in Linux you set the system wide settings for all users. )Started with trying to get a simple shortcut to a URL on the desktop for everyone - still can't do it automatically). Now I am looking at how do I set other Mozilla prefs - or would it be easier in some other browser? I need to set the home page and the proxy settings in particular. In our windows setup we can do this with a combination of profiles and login scripts. I assume that Linux can do the same? ie I make a change to a system file and all users receive the change. There must be a basic process that I am missing at the moment. Anyone care to enlighten me and point me somewhere useful a newbie could use as a reference? The system is a LTSP server (I believe it is RH8) using Gnome on the desktop and Samba/Winbind for authentication to the NT domain. Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] ltsp font problem
Hi all, Few a few deft moves I managed to delete my lts.conf file and the backup (takes talent). I have re-built everything -almost. The fonts in the menus etc look like bar-codes! I assumed this was a font-server problem. I have the font server running on the ltsp server. When I enable USE_XFS in the lst.sconf file the connection fails with a messge that it can't connect to tcp/192.168.0.1:7100. The IP address is right and ps indicates it is running [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps -ae |grep xfs 1226 ?00:00:00 xfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I haven't changed anything else except the lts.conf file, so there must be a setting in there I am missing, I did not do the inital setup on this system. Any ideas anyone? Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] LTSP server
Hi all, We have a LTSP server running nicely and enabling us to recycle our older (P90) computers sans HDD. Users login using windows credentials and can map their home drive permanently to the server so it is available as well. However I need to do one of two things: 1. Add a link to everyones desktop to a particular web page so that they can click it to launch Mozilla with the correct page loaded. or preferrably 2. Have Mozilla launch when any user logs in and go to the pre-determined web page Can I do either of these without having to login as every user first? Is all this info in a dot file that I can copy to the exisiting users directories and add to the skel directory? cheers Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] UWS IE5 Policy
Geoffrey Robertson said: My wife does some teaching out at USW. They have receintly told her that they will no longer be issueing paper pay slips. They will be online and she will be required to use IE5 to read them. She has told them that she uses Linux and is waiting for them to get back to her. I think the more interesting question is the legality of doing this. AFAIK they must provide a pay slip and even a written record of all the super deductions for the month. You can't require people to have to outlay money to check pay slips. Just checked with our office and they maintain that this would be illegal for them. Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] VNC
HI all, I am experimenting with using VNC to access the desktop on my LTSP server from my Windows laptop. I can connect OK but all I get is a plain grey screen and the mouse curosr, there was an app running when I clicked and dragged, I thnk it was iconmanager or something similar, however since I closed it, I don't even get that anymore. I have set the password and edited /etc/sysconfig/vncserver to create a session on my username and window 1. Any other clues appreciated Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Squid + Winbind + squirrelmail
Alexander Samad said: Well another 1/2 hour of playing with it fixed most of my problems, seems like there are 2 pwcheck programs, one compiled to check just /etc/shadow and the other to use the pam modules! so a quick reconfigure and bobs your uncle. But I still want to be able to map login ids to mailbox/email address. So that user ad+test has an email of [EMAIL PROTECTED] not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you set 'use default domain = yes' in smb.conf (check the actual command) that did the trick for me, users now don't have to login with the domain+username. Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] umask and pam_mkhomedir.so
Hi all, I am trying to get pam_mkhomedir to create the users home directory with rwx--, no matter what I ste the umsak to in the call to pam_mkhomedir in pam.login I get rwxr-xr-x and this is allowing other users to browse into any users directory. Note that this is on a LTSP server/client setup, and I am then using a mount command to mount their normal home directory insided their main home directory. I also need a simple bash script that creates a directory if it doesn't exist if directory/path does not exist then mkdir directory/path endif Can anyone help me with either question, my new bash scripting tech is off on exams at the moment. Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] mount smbfs question
Hi all, I am using the following in a bash script to mount a users real home directory onto a LTSP thin client. Seems to work except, if the user is eg teacher the owner of the directory as set by the uid=$1 becomes Teacher and prac2 has become PRAC2. Is there a way to force all these to lower case or make them not case sensitive? What seems to happen is that if I run this from the thin client logged in as a user then when I click on 'refresh' on the users home directory window, it closes and won't open again, in fact most of the icons on the taskbar seem to be disabled eg 'Start Here' doesn't start aything. Damn. I just realised what it is, it is the case of the user in Windows. Maybe I need to work out hwo to change the case of all the users in the domain :-) sudo mount -t smbfs -o remount,username=$1,password=$2,uid=$1,gid=$1,umask=022 //IP.of.other.server/homes /home/$1 Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Strange email attempt
Hi all, logwatch reports the information below for email I understand most of them because they are misspelling of usernames however the second one is ocurring daily (always on my username) and it has me intrigued. Does anyone know if this is something I should be concerned about. Unknown users: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 72 Times(s) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1 Times(s) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 24 Times(s) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 24 Times(s) Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] WInbind and getent
Hi all, As one of the final steps of my project I need to get winbind running on my LTS server. I have installed and configure Samba and Winbind in exactly the same way as on a full workstation (which works fine) - however even though wbinfo gives all the right answers: wbinfo -t secret is good wbinfo -a can authenticate plain text and ntlm wbinfo -u all domain users displayed wbinfo -g all domain groups displayed I have added winbind to the passwd and group line in nsswitch.conf I have copied libnss_winbind.so to /lib and made a soft link to .2 and .1 I have copied pam_winbind.so to /lib/security I have modified /etc/pam.d/login as on my workstation Yet, getent stubbornly only shows the local users and groups so i can't login / su with a domain username / password as I can on the workstation. The server is running RH7.2 and Samba is 2.2.8a I am obviously missing something obvious, any clues appreciated. Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Smbmount help needed
Hi all, I am one step away from a wholesale distribution of older machines back onto our network as Linux workstations - some as thin clients some as full blown clients. My one remaining problem is how to allow a user to mount their home directory from another server back onto the local system - or is there another way they can get access to their home drive? The home drives are on a server and shared with Samba, I was hoping to have a script on the desktop that would run and mount the drive for them after they login. The users do NOT exist on the workstation they are being authenticated via winbind from an NT server. A skeleton home directory is created for them on first login, I would like to map their real home directory to that directory. 1. Mount works for root, but can't be used by an ordinary user. 2. Smbmount doesn't seem to work unles used within mount (-t smbfs) See 1 I don't seem to be able to get my head around this at the moment, been staring at it too long and can't think of alternatives (can't see the forest for the trees!). Any help or suggestions appreciated. Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] SQUID logfile parsers/analysers
Gareth Walters said: G'day all, Now I have the ntlm authentication working I need a squid logfile parser/analyser that will handle the usernames. I am not having much luck, I have been using pwebstats but it doesn't handle usernames at all. Has anyone got any recommendations? Ideally I would like monthly reports (our billing period) and as up to date as possible reports on a daily/weekly basis. There are a number of good ones linkied to form the Squid FAQ, I use SARG and Squidalyser. SARG gives excellent daily reports, per user plus a number of other categories. If looking to tie this to a billing system then look at Squidalyser as it stores the data in a database that you can use - we have a number of php scripts that check users downloads and sticks them in a list if they go over the monthly limit. Squid then uses that list to put them into a ver restrictive delay_pool. Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] SpamAssassin further question
Hi all, I have SA happily running on both my mailservers. At first I just had it tag the mail, now I want to automatically dump it in the users Trash (the next step will be to not deliver it to the user at all - we are a school). On one system I changed spamassassin-spamc.rc to: :0fw | /usr/bin/spamc :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes ~/INBOX.Trash which seems to be working - without the ~ it gets put in /var/spool/mqueue/INBOX.trash On the second system where the mail is in ~/mail and the Trash is ~/mail/Trash I put: :0fw | /usr/bin/spamc :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes ~/mail/Trash which should work, however SA is happily totally ignoring that and still just tagging the mail and putting it back in the users INBOX. Yes I have stopped and started the spamd daemon and am currently running with -x. I searched through all the possible directories listed in the INSTALL file as to where there might be a second set of configuration files, but could not find any except those in /etc/mail/spamassassin. For the completeness of the record /etc/procmailrc is: INCLUDERC=/etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-spamc.rc All files in /etc/mail/spamassassin are owned by root and in the root group, however they have been chmod to 777 Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] squid authentication with winbind.
Gareth Walters said: I am using IE and Mozilla, neither one ask for a username/password if I get rid of the ntlm lines in squid.conf then it pops up a dialog and works but otherwise all it does is fail. I have checked and rechecked it. :( Any ideas? I also found that I needed to use the default domain directive in the smb.conf file, that way I did not have to give the domain as well as the username. Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] php help
Hi al,
I have the following code - downloaded from ZEND - that checks a users name
and password against our NT server, the username is then stored in $USER.
How can i then make the contents of that value available to other php pages?
I have tried a second form with the second page as the 'action' but it does
not seem to work for me ($USER is null in the second page), if I make the
second page the 'action' for the first form, it works but any username can
be entered with any or no password. To reduce the size of this post I have
removed most of the comments - the code works in the same way as smbauth in
Squid.
form method=POST
table
trtdUsername:/tdtdinput type=text name=USER
size=12/td/tr
trtdPassword:/tdtdinput type=password name=PASS
size=12/td/tr
trtdnbsp;/tdtdinput type=submit value=submit
name=submit/td/tr
/table
/form
p
?php
if ($REQUEST_METHOD==POST) {
global $USER;
global $PASS;
# PDC Variables Below:-
$SambaPath=/usr/;
$ServerNetBIOS=OurPDC;
$NETLOGONfolder=NETLOGON;
$ServerIP=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
$DomainName=Our Domain;
$filename=proxyauth;
# Execute at UNIX command line:-
$smbauth = exec($SambaPath.bin/smbclient
\//.$ServerNetBIOS./.$NETLOGONfolder.\ -I .$ServerIP. -d 0 -E -U
.$USER.%.$PASS. -W \.$DomainName.\ -c \get .$filename. -\);
# Check to see if 'allow' is returned:-
if ($smbauth==allow || $smbauth==allowp) {
echo Username = .$USER;
} else {
echo Username or Password Incorrect try again;
}
}
?
/body
/html
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IT Manager
OLMC Parramata
ICQ#: 137562751
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[SLUG] Authentication question
Hi all, I am trying to build a system for my school to restrict downloads for users when they exceed a certain limit. In fact that bit works, now I need to add some whistles and bells. We run SQUID on a RH server with DansGuardian as a content filter and Squidalyser running nightly to analyse the logs. I have a php page that runs against the database created by Squidalyser from the Squid logs. A user can enter their username and be told what their data usage for the month is, however any user can enter any known username, so there is a privacy issue. I would like the user to have to authenticate themselves first and then only see their own usage. Currently we run an NT Domain with users authenticating to the PDC, when they go into our Intranet (which is AUC) on a Linux (RH) server they are authenticated on that NT server by a PAM module (comes with the AUC distribution). (I still find PAM a bit of a black art). However the proxy server is not on that server it is on another RH server. Is it feasible that I can achieve what I want? If so can someone point me in the right direction? Would winbind be of any help? _ Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramata ICQ#: 137562751 _ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Perl to Sendmail
Hi all,
Below is part of a perl script that was written for me (by someone on
industry placement), the purposae of the script is to pull users out of the
Squidalyser database who have exceeded a pre-determined download limit in
the month and create a file, that file is then used by Squid in delay_pools
to slow down their bandwidth to about 20Kbs instead of the full ADSL speed.
What we would like to do is to also have the user sent an email telling them
that this has happened. Is this possible? If so is it a trivial task or
complex?
# Open file for writing
open(DAT,$EXCEED_FILE) || die(Cannot Open File);
# Process each result - write to file if user exceeded the monthly quota
while (%hash = $query-fetchhash)
{
#print User Name: .$hash{'rfc931'}.\n;
#print Usage: .$hash{'SUM(bytes)'}. bytes\n;
if ($hash{'SUM(bytes)'} $DATA_LIMIT)
{
# Write user name to file
print DAT olmc_cd.\\;
print DAT $hash{'rfc931'}.\n;
#print EXCEEDED QUOTA OF .$DATA_LIMIT.\n;
}
#print \n;
}
# Close writing file
close(DAT);
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OLMC Parramata
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[SLUG] Alternative to AUC and WebCT
Hi all, A while back someone on here mentioned an online system that was similar to the WebCT that Uni's use. I seem to have lost my references to it, if anyone knows what I am talking about could they direct me please. _ Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramata ICQ#: 137562751 _ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Advice for a Web Cafe
What i would like is recommendations of filtering software that I can put on the RH8 server to block access to Porn etc (Being a church this is very important). Can anyone suggest a Linux Equivalent to products like Net Nanny etc? For good 'content filtering' that would not add significant overhead to your setup have a look at DansGuardian. We are using it in our school and it is very effective - some times too effective which is our preferred mode of operation. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
