Re: [SLUG] terminal via email
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:58:02 +1100 (EST), Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some time ago, I came across a utility that would process a terminal command in an email body, and, email back the output; but I don't recall what it was, anyone knows of such tool ? :0 Wcb: .lock.gpgverify * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /usr/bin/gpg --batch --verify --keyring /home/tgreen/.gnupg/pubring.gpg 2 /dev/null :0 ab: .lock.gpgweblog * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (umask 0002; sed -e /SIGNED MESSAGE/,/^$/d -e /BEGIN PGP/,/END PGP/d -e s/^$/P/ /home/tgreen/pyblosxom/data/$(date +%s).txt) I use this procmail snipped to update my blog via GPG signed email. Should be fairly easy to adapt it to your purpose. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Locking network interface number to specific MAC address
On Thu, 17 May 2007 14:20:33 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a motherboard with two identical (apart from the MAC addresses of course) ethernet interfaces. The two MAC addresses are consectutively numbered; XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:34 and XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:35. On most reboots, the interface with the 34 MAC address becomes eth2 and the other becomes eth3, but very occasionally they get swapped around which rather screws things up. Is there any way to lock a MAC address to an interface name? There certainly is, though it varies on distro. In debian/ubuntu, you put a hwaddress entry into the interfaces line. e.g. iface eth0 inet static address 10.206.60.107 netmask 255.255.0.0 gateway 10.206.100.250 hardware XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:34 I'm fairly sure the same type of thing applies in the ifcfg-XXX world of redhat derivatives greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Postfix/SASL issue on ubuntu
Yes On 14/04/2007, at 10:53 PM, David Ward wrote: How is your saslauthd running ? My working one is running like so: server:/var/run/saslauthd# ps ax | grep sasl 3352 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam 3354 ?S 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam 3355 ?S 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam 3356 ?S 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam 3357 ?S 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:47:05 pm Tony Green wrote: I resorted to some stracing and found that it looks like it's not able to file /var/run/saslauthd/mux, however it's there and the saslauthd is running # ps -ef | egrep sasl root 8160 1 0 21:22 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd - a pam root 8161 8160 0 21:22 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd - a pam root 8162 8160 0 21:22 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd - a pam root 8163 8160 0 21:22 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd - a pam root 8164 8160 0 21:22 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd - a pam Going to do some more comparison on the old server, but thought this might shed more light on the matter. -- -- Regards David Ward -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Postfix/SASL issue on ubuntu
On 13/04/2007, at 3:10 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: If you feel it isn't reading the conf file, could it be errors related to postfix chrooting? On my server I do this in /etc/fstab, so postfix can access saslauthd: Hey Sonia, thanks for the reply. I've tried it both chrooted and none-chrooted, same result with both (the old server ISN'T, but I get the same results on the new server chroot or no chroot) It's only a hunch that it's not reading the smtpd.conf, not sure where postfix gets it list of auth mechs from if it's not in there. Also, is postfix a member of the sasl group? Yep #egrep sasl /etc/group sasl:x:45:postfix Any other ideas? -- 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] Postfix/SASL issue on ubuntu
I resorted to some stracing and found that it looks like it's not
able to file /var/run/saslauthd/mux, however it's there and the
saslauthd is running
8652 read(12, AUTH PLAIN xxx\r..., 4096) = 33
8652 gettimeofday({1176464431, 158663}, NULL) = 0
8652 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 14
8652 connect(14, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=/var/run/saslauthd/mux},
110) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
8652 close(14) = 0
8652 time(NULL)= 1176464431
8652 stat64(/etc/localtime, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 stat64(/etc/localtime, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 stat64(/etc/localtime, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 send(7, 20Apr 13 21:40:31 postfix/smtp..., 140,
MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 140
8652 time(NULL)= 1176464431
8652 stat64(/etc/localtime, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 stat64(/etc/localtime, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 stat64(/etc/localtime, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 send(7, 20Apr 13 21:40:31 postfix/smtp..., 107,
MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 107
8652 time(NULL)= 1176464431
8652 stat64(/etc/localtime, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 stat64(/etc/localtime, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 stat64(/etc/localtime, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 send(7, 20Apr 13 21:40:31 postfix/smtp..., 148,
MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 148
8652 time(NULL)= 1176464431
8652 select(13, NULL, [12], [12], {300, 0}) = 1 (out [12], left
{300, 0})
8652 write(12, 535 5.7.0 Error: authentication ..., 57) = 57
8652 gettimeofday({1176464431, 160965}, NULL) = 0
/var/run/saslauthd# ls -ltr
total 4
-rw--- 1 root root 5 2007-04-13 21:22 saslauthd.pid
-rw--- 1 root root 0 2007-04-13 21:22 mux.accept
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-04-13 21:22 mux
# ps -ef | egrep sasl
root 8160 1 0 21:22 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -
a pam
root 8161 8160 0 21:22 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -
a pam
root 8162 8160 0 21:22 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -
a pam
root 8163 8160 0 21:22 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -
a pam
root 8164 8160 0 21:22 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -
a pam
Going to do some more comparison on the old server, but thought this
might shed more light on the matter.
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[SLUG] Postfix/SASL issue on ubuntu
Sluggers, I've got an issue trying to get SMTP auth working on a 6.10 ubuntu server. I've got it working on 6.06, but I'm banging my head against a wall trying it in 6.10. Basically, I get 535 5.7.0 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure when I try to authenticate using SMTP AUTH My initial feeling is that SASL isn't reading the /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf. I've set that file to: pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login However, when I check through telnet, I see: 250-AUTH NTLM LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5, where as on the working (6.06 ) server I see only PLAIN and LOGIN. I've double checked all settings that I can think of, I've copied smtpd.conf into /usr/lib/sasl2 (strings on /usr/lib/libsasl.so.2). I've verified the locations specified in main.cf. A manual check of sasl (testsaslauthd) works fine with the same user # /etc/default/saslauthd # This needs to be uncommented before saslauthd will be run automatically START=yes # You must specify the authentication mechanisms you wish to use. # This defaults to pam for PAM support, but may also include # shadow or sasldb, like this: # MECHANISMS=pam shadow MECHANISMS=pam # main.cf egrep sasl|tls /etc/postfix/main.cf smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes #smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous, noplaintext smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, check_relay_domains #smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_path = /etc/postfix/sasl smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/cert.pem smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/privkey.pem smtpd_use_tls = yes tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom tls_daemon_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom Cluesticks welcome, I know now why I love sendmail so much :-) -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Howdy all
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 13:55 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Linux, open sores, and questions of a technical nature are all on topic for the main list. You can't write that kind of comedy, nice one Jaq -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Webdav fstab
On 05/06/2006, at 10:35 PM, Charles Myers wrote: Yep got it and mounting fine now ;) Thanks.. My next problem is sharing a calendar file.. I thought it would be clear cut.. but seems very complicated sharing calendar files in 'nix (compared to exchange servers :( ) I will keep researching for now (if anyone has any experiences sharing .ics files please chime in, any help would be great) .. Thanks for the help as usual.. ;) I share out a plethora of iCal files using webdav, works fine and was simple to setup. Front end is iCal, backend is Apache+WebDAV on a linux server. Just set up the DAV, point iCal at it and you're away. Much cheaper than .mac -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] CMS recommendations
On Mon, 29 May 2006 11:31:27 +1000, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at setting up a new website. The principle function i'm looking for is an easily navigable/theme-able/menu-able picture gallery - the site is for a photographer - but who knows where a site will end up, so the more the system has got the better. Has anybody got any suggestions? Caveats? Gallery2 works really well, it also plugs into things like Drupal if you decide you do want additional functionality down the track. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Time to re-visit a curly one
On Mon, 29 May 2006 14:57:35 +1000, Michael Kedzierski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/29/06, Peter Rundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Should slug be a subscribers only list? I think this makes sense, I don't know why someone would be posting to a list they aren't a part of. I can think of a few reasons, however the number of people who do it should be small. It's not like the requests will go to the bin, they'll be held for moderation. The admins can then use the 'auto accept mail from this address' once they've verified it's not spam. I'm not in favour of a closed list, but there are options to lessen the pain if the ctte decide to go down that path. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Gallery2 themes setup; was: photo gallery recommendations sought
On 07/05/2006, at 7:10 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm looking at using Gallery2 within a clubs' custom CMS; if anyone is familiar with its 'themes setup': how big a job is it to incorporate a photogallery page within existing page layout...? (no database hook up, just, look'n'feel setup) (and, how long is a piece of string ?) I'm just trying to figure out whether I can do it with a text editor, or, do I need someone with Dreamweaver..?) For the NFP's I look after, i just use drupal/gallery (actually civiccms and gallery - but that's drupal under the hood). Works great and the themes aren't an issue as it's all held within the drupal framework. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] photo gallery recommendations sought
On 05/05/2006, at 8:56 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm looking for a photo gallery, if anyone has any recomendations, so far I've looked at Coppermine, which actually seems quite good, but, if anyone has other suggestions, I'm interested in hearing Gallery2 - http://www.gallery2.org/ -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: WAS: RE: [SLUG] Invalid credentials error code 49
On 24/04/2006, at 7:53 AM, O Plameras wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: Dude, you can use gobbledegook in a DN. This is not true that you can use gobbledegook in a DN. That's the reason for the SCHEMAS and RFCs, to keep DN etc in line with standards. There are two standards X.500 and IETF. You use anything else then you don't obey the standards at the perils of having errors in your LDAP implementations. Can doesn't mean should. You CAN use anything in your DN, I've done it and it works [1]. That doesn't mean that you SHOULD use it. In the same way you can set up BIND to host any DNS domain you choose, it doesn't mean that the rest of the denizens [1] For certain values of 'works' -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: WAS: RE: [SLUG] Invalid credentials error code 49
Sorry - suffering from premature posting - I'm seeing a therapist about it.. On 24/04/2006, at 7:53 AM, O Plameras wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: Dude, you can use gobbledegook in a DN. This is not true that you can use gobbledegook in a DN. That's the reason for the SCHEMAS and RFCs, to keep DN etc in line with standards. There are two standards X.500 and IETF. You use anything else then you don't obey the standards at the perils of having errors in your LDAP implementations. Can doesn't mean should. You CAN use anything in your DN, I've done it and it works [1]. That doesn't mean that you SHOULD use it. In the same way you can set up BIND to host any DNS domain you choose, it doesn't mean that the rest of the denizens of the 'net will think it's a good thing, however you might have a legitimate (in your eyes) reason for doing it. Oscar, I think you should be weary of the terminology you use. Saying you CAN'T do something implies some sort of real limitation, maybe you should say it's not a good idea or that it's not the way it was designed to be used. There are times when you may want to set up an LDAP DN which looks wrong, according to the RFC's. greeno [1] For certain values of 'works' -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: WAS: RE: [SLUG] Invalid credentials error code 49
On 24/04/2006, at 8:28 AM, O Plameras wrote: Tony Green wrote: On 24/04/2006, at 7:53 AM, O Plameras wrote: This is not true that you can use gobbledegook in a DN. That's the reason for the SCHEMAS and RFCs, to keep DN etc in line with standards. There are two standards X.500 and IETF. You use anything else then you don't obey the standards at the perils of having errors in your LDAP implementations. Can doesn't mean should. You CAN use anything in your DN, I've done it and it works [1]. That doesn't mean that you SHOULD use it. I did not say you CAN'T. You didn't say you can't you said This is not true that you can. I accept I reversed the modal verb and added a contraction, but the sentiment of the sentence remains intact. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ADSL Query
On 25/02/2006, at 5:40 PM, Martin Ellison wrote: I haven't had any problems with iinet myself. They don't seem to mind Linux. But then I have an Ethernet modem; also I have dual boot XP/FC, so I just get their technical support to fix the XP side, and then translate to FC. I've got nothing but good things to say about iiNet. I've been with the for a few years (both dial up and ADSL). Their tech support is great (once you get through some of the dodgy first line support guys). They offered help with Debian, OSX and Airports - none of which they officially support. Their plans are pretty good too. I've got 1500kbps/80GB/month for a fairly reasonable $90 - if only I was on an iiNet DSLAM! -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Committee nomination: Grant Parnell for President (or VP)
quote who=Grant Parnell I've been using Linux since about 1993. I've been going to SLUG for at least 8 years now. I work for EverythingLinux (ELX) and have an interest in the Linux market. I've been on the committee since 2004, first as Secretary then as President. I'm involved with OSIA and Computer Bank Sydney. I guess I prefer the command line to the GUI - old habbits plus things seems to work more consistently accross distributions. My preference is Fedora mainly because of habitual use. Seconded. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] linux to linux shares
On 20/02/2006, at 8:25 PM, O Plameras wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: ... as long as you recompile your kernel. SNIP I do re-compile my kernel, though as a matter of procedure, to trim out the unnecessary modules and components. lyrics They say our love won't pay the rent Before it's earned, our money's all been spent I guess that's so, we don't have a pot But at least I'm sure of all the things we got Babe I got you babe I got you babe /lyrics Someone turn off that alarm clock! So what is it? If Tux comes out of his igloo and can see his own shadow, we have 42 more days of checking our kernel source code for security holes? -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Training.
quote who=Chris Deigan Best to send your questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and wait for an answer (I hear they can be pretty snappy). Depends on how much caffeine they've injected this morning :-) -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ISC DHCP and Jumpstart
OK, not directly Linux related, but there's Linux in there somewhere. I'm setting up a DHCP jumpstart environment on Solaris (jumpstart is the Solaris build system for those who're scratching their heads). The problem I'm having is that the DHCP requests are only sucessful if I use 'boot -v net:dhcp - install' (note the '-v' it turns on verbose booting). If I leave out the verbose flag, it fails. I've gone through Google and Sunsolve with no luck. To add something interesting to the mix, if I host the DHCP on a linux server it works fine without the '-v' (exactly the same config file for DHCP). I could cope with the '-v' hack if it worked across the board, but the new T2000's don't support the '-v' flag to boot. Anyone seen this before? greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] traffic usage whilst listening to radio ?
quote who=Rob Sharp On 1/6/06, Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/6/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at setting up 'internet radio' to listen to overseas streaming b/cast via windoze media player, whilst playing, the player shows: '16Kbit/sec' 16 KBits not 16KBytes! Yeah, but he only asked for a 'guesstimate' so I think that's close enough ;) -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Further to Azureus/Bittorrent req - checking ports?
quote who=Bill Azureus still shows Blue Smiley mostly, with the occassional Yellow Smiley, indicating supposed NAT problems. I'm pretty sure that everything is setup correctly, but when I try checking ports ( either 6881 or 49152) on sites uch as grc.com (Shields Up) these ports are shown as blocked. I don't believe tht this is correct or else Azureus would not be downloading/Uploading. I have run Netstat to check open ports but neither 6881 or 49152 show up. How can I be certain that port 6881 is forwarded to 49152 and that I have no problems with NAT on my modem/router? 1) telnet to your host on the port 6881 (telnet MYIP 6881) from your host, this will prove that it is listening on the right port. 2) telnet to your host on the port 6881 from another host on the same subnet, this will prove that it's not refusing non-local connections. 3) telnet to your host from a machine outside of your network (I can help out with that if you can't) I just went through the bittorrent fun and games on my Mac with a Netcomm router. I thought I was going mad until I figured out that my mac had the local firewall enabled. 1 worked, 3 didn't and I couldn't figure it out until I did 2. Try those and let us know how you go, it should help us narrow down where the problem is. greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spam filtering: not hard. (was: Re: [chat] spam...)
quote who=Jamie Wilkinson If you're using Evo or sommat, you can regularly filter your junk mailbox into bogofilter, or try to work with its spamassassin integration, or wait for them to get around to making a decent plugin interface and then you can hack the Junk button to your hearts desire. I use IMAP and just have a 'Spam-to-Scan' folder where I jump anything I want to feed into SA/Bogofilter. Then a cronjob runs across it, feeds the filters and deletes the mail. Works really well. greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spam filtering: not hard. (was: Re: [chat] spam...)
quote who=Jamie Wilkinson If you're using Evo or sommat, you can regularly filter your junk mailbox into bogofilter, or try to work with its spamassassin integration, or wait for them to get around to making a decent plugin interface and then you can hack the Junk button to your hearts desire. I use IMAP and just have a 'Spam-to-Scan' folder where I jump anything I want to feed into SA/Bogofilter. Then a cronjob runs across it, feeds the filters and deletes the mail. Works really well. greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Embedding CVS commit info into scripts
Oh great font of knowledge that is SLUG, I genuflect in your general direction. I've got a CVS query which I hope is an easy one to answer, only trouble is, CVS has too much google juice and I can't seem to separate the wheat from the chaff. I'm CVS'ing some scripts, the current version control procedures are to (optionally) add comments to the start of the file. Since there's no real control over this, I'd like to put CVS over the top of it and have something create these entries. Personally, I'm happy with 'cvs log', but they really want to keep the in script comments, for at least the last revision. I'm hoping there's a way of putting a keyword into the script and have CVS replace it with the latest revision info and log message. Hope this makes sense, I have a small herring which I am ready to sacrifice in your name. greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] Embedding CVS commit info into scripts
quote who=Roger Barnes I'm CVS'ing some scripts, the current version control procedures are to (optionally) add comments to the start of the file. Since there's no real control over this, I'd like to put CVS over the top of it and have something create these entries. Sounds like $Log$ is what you need http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/info/cvs/cvs_12.html HTH, It certainly did. Thanks Roger and James, you both hit the nail on the head with a mighty cluebat. TG -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Embedding CVS commit info into scripts
quote who=Michael Lake I presume you meant fount of knowledge. No, I meant font. Isn't knowledge the default SLUG typeface? ;) -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] smh media streaming now windows only- link
quote who=Mark Chandler I wonder if he meant Sea Monkey. But, I can't see anything obvious from a Google search on Sea Monkey, etc. that might be relevant to this issue. Could be this 'grease monkey' https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefoxid=748 Sounds likely to me : Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of poular sites, are already available in the Greasemonkey script repository at http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts. You can write your own scripts too. Mark Pilgrim's definitive Greasemonkey guide, diveintogreasemonkey.org will show you how. I've never used it, just got bored and did a quick gogole -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Keeping passwords safe
I normally don't like to pimp my own work, but hey, what the heck. http://bandcamp.tv/vault/ is a GPG based password storage system with some hooks into things like CVS. I stopped hacking on it a while ago but, because of other reasons, I recently started looking at it again. It might not do everything you want, but it's pretty nice to use if you're in a *NIX environment. Comments/bugs/flames to the normal address. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] urgent help requested for Solaris
On 27/09/2005, at 4:16 PM, Charles Gallagher wrote: Running Solaris 10 on the network I need to FTP to the internet to get updates to software. However there is no DNS server for the internet and gateway to the internet defined. DNS == /etc/resolv.conf gateway == /etc/defaultrouter (or 'route add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx') -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] bulk mail script
On 29/08/2005, at 9:49 AM, Alexander Else wrote: Hi all, A task has been allocated to me to send out a mail (possibly with a word/pdf attachment) to a few hundred email addresses in an hour and a half. As i don't have a lot of time to do my homework on this one, i hope someone can point me to one or two options for a script that will do this for me. I know it's a pretty trivial task to write one but the limited time frame and apparent urgency of it makes me want to just pick one up and make sure it works for me before then, rather than write my own and risk missing that tiny-but-critical flaw. When you say 'sending it out in an hour and a half', is that just the submission of the email, or actual delivery? There's little chance you can ensure that it's going to be delivered within that time period, but submission into the mail system's fairly straight forward. One hurdle you're going to face is getting classified as bulk email (or worse, spam). I'm assuming that you're doing something nice and these people actually WANT your email to be sent to them. I'd check MIME:Lite for PERL, but you've not stated what languages you're proficient in, so that may not be of use to you. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] bulk mail script
On 29/08/2005, at 11:12 AM, Peter Chubb wrote: Surely if the message is identical for all of the recipients, then: cat message | /usr/lib/sendmail -f 'from_address' address1 address2 address3 will do the trick. Providing you've got the MIME message formatted correctly in the file message. If you just have a PDF that you want to send, you can't do that, you have to encode it up - which is the tricky bit. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] dual authentification
On 04/08/2005, at 9:22 PM, Ken Foskey wrote: Got this one today, strange one: Do you know if it is possible to setup a Linux redhat server to require two passwords to gain root access? The responsibilities for the server are going to be split over two different teams and we don't want either to have root access without the other team knowing about it. Please let me know if you can come up with something. Basically they would like to set up the machine so that it requires two people to sign in to root, an application guru and an administrator. If anything is destroyed then they are both accountable as they look over each others shoulders. I'm guessing you could do a dual stage 'sudo su'. One account which allows sudo su access to pre-root (which the application guy has the password to) and then a sudo from pre-root - root using the password which the admin guy has. You'd have to watch the console logins, that would be more tricky and single user mode etc would have to be considered. There may be holes in this theory, but I'm pretty sure a couple of sudo statements and a pre-root account could be a way to do it. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] script assistance please
On 20/06/2005, at 9:36 AM, David wrote: I need to go through an entire directory replacing foo.bar with bar.foo within each file and at the same time I also need to replace macintosh line breaks with unix ones. perl -i -pe 's/foo.bar/bar.foo/g;s/\r/\n/g' filename(s) -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] script assistance please
On 20/06/2005, at 10:51 AM, Tony Green wrote: perl -i -pe 's/foo.bar/bar.foo/g;s/\r/\n/g' filename(s) I was going to put some explanation in, but got to eager :-) OK let's break that down: perl - pretty obvious, runs the Perl interpreter -p - says to perl, 'for every line in the file, do this...' -i - says to perl, 'don't create backup copies' -e - says 'run the next bit as if it's a script' s/foo.bar/bar.foo/g;s/\r/\n/g : This is the bit that does the work s// - the substitute command, The '/' are just separators \r - a 'return' \n - a 'newline g - means 'global', ie for every ocurrance. So, put that together, and it means 'substitute every foo.bar with bar.foo and every \r with \n' -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] finding a file
On 15/04/2005, at 11:44, Ben Donohue wrote:
Further to this (and this is not an answer to the question above) but
I'm buggered if i can find the largest files on the hard disk and list
them in order.
I've tried various arguements but can't seem to crack it.
like find / -S -r (or -s) -name xxx|more
This will give you the 10 largest files on your hard drive (that can be
seen by the user executing the code)
find / -ls -type f 2/dev/null | awk '{print $7 $11 }' | sort -nr |
head -10
Change the 'head -10' to another number to get more/less files listed.
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Re: [SLUG] Print server
On 26/03/2005, at 7:51 AM, Phill wrote: I am trying to setup a print server on a fedora 3 platform using samba. Windows xp sp2 correctly recognises the printer but a test document does not get printed The follwing ports are open on the firewall: 137:udp, 139:tcp, 445:tcp smb.config printers section looks like this [printers] comment = All Printers valid users = phill path = /var/spool/samba #has read/write/execute permissions for all users browseable = no public = no printable = yes Where should I look next? You don't state, but I assume you can print OK from linux directly? What printer sub-system are you using? Is there anything in the logs? (/var/log/samba/* /var/log/[printer|lpd|messages] etc) -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders
On 21/03/2005, at 11:10 AM, David Fisher wrote: I'm setting up a couple of imap servers using dovecot myself, but on Debian sarge. You may have a problem here, because the last time I looked (IIRC) dovecot does not yet support shared folders. Having said that I would be delighted for both of us if someone could prove me wrong. I just did a quick test on my courier imap setup. You can symlink imap directories, though I can't give assurances of how well it works. Perhaps it may be worth looking at if you really need it and can't find any other way. TG -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fwd: [LINK] unix time = 11111111111 about mid-day today.
On 18/03/2005, at 11:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, heh, interesting is there a way we could watch it ticking over, as in running digits? while [ 0 ]; do clear; date; date +%s; sleep 1; done -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Robert Collins
On 28/02/2005, at 9:53 PM, Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 21:43 +1100, Chris Deigan wrote: Evening, I'd like to nominate Rob Collins for Treasurer. I suck at writing reasons, so I won't even bother. :) I accept ... damn :) Seconded - even if it's just to get Jaq off the hook this year! -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Robert Collins
On 28/02/2005, at 10:25 PM, Jeff Waugh wrote: s/hook/hookers/ - take away the cash supply, vote [1] Robert Collins for treasurer! Come on - the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. He's paid back most of the money now! -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Incremental Backup Script
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:47:59AM +1100, Lyle Chapman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can anyone point me to a good backup script or program that does incremental backups? I have a particluar directory I want to backup to an external firewire drive every night. http://bandcamp.tv/quickbackup Might be of use, depending on your needs -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] A New Linux User Is Born
On 14/01/2005, at 1:05 PM, Craige McWhirter wrote: Many of you will be happy to hear that long time SLUG member, former committee member (VP) and general Linux activist, Tony Green and his wife Danni successfully brought Edward into this world overnight. Edward was a healthy 8 lbs 2 ozs (3.7 kilos) and everyone is well and happy, if not a little tired. :) Congratulations Tony and Danni! SLUG have sent flowers on all our behalf. I'm so glad that spawning a child process in Linux is a fair bit easier (and a whole lot quicker!) We really appreciate all of the e-mails and phone calls, it's great to know we have so many friends out there. Thank you to Craige and the ctte for the flowers, a very nice thought. Now, next codefest is to find out how to bootstrap a baby. I need snmp monitoring so that I can hook it into my NMS. Thanks again, Tony, Dani and Edward -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Laptop as remote display?
On 31/12/2004, at 1:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It it possible, via a monitor cable plugged into a headless machine, to display all the video signals (from boot time to running an X session) in a window on another computer? Not that I'm aware of, however there is serial console support in linux. You can have a serial cable between the two machines and use it as a console, great for text based stuff but no good for X - but that's what X forwarding is for :-) I've not used it in 2.6 but it was fairly simple to use in 2.4. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] sshd config: tighten access ?
On 30/12/2004, at 2:42 PM, Brett Fenton wrote: if you're really interested you can add a line like to hosts.deny ALL: ALL: spawn (/bin/echo -e %d %a %c %s from %h at `date` |/usr/bin/mail -s 'LOGIN ATTEMPT %h %a' [EMAIL PROTECTED]) which basically emails you a log each time someone tries to connect. the connections will always fail unless they are coming from an IP from within an IP or IP range specified in hosts.allow Swatch makes life a lot easier when you're trying to do this kind of thing. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] free software alternative to Big Brother
On 21/12/2004, at 2:45 PM, Danny Yee wrote: Does anyone know of a free software server monitoring tool with similar functaionality to Big Brother? I'm having trouble as all the obvious search terms are overloaded. http://nagios.org One of the best monitoring tools I've used. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] free software alternative to Big Brother
On 21/12/2004, at 3:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for the sake of an alternative though, you might want to look at opennms.org. opennms has come a long way, but it's all java. Not a real problem if you've got the grunt to run it. Nagios+cricket+syslog-ng+swatch+snmp gives a great (and free) NMS -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] jfs on rh73 ?
On 10/12/2004, at 8:41 AM, O Plameras wrote: how do I determine if this rh73 has jfs support, Two ways: As root, check that you have the module device driver configured: 1) # ls /lib/modules/2.4.???/kernel/fs/jfs/jfs.o or 2) As root, check that in /boot/config-? contains this, 'CONFIG_JFS_FS=m'. Note that this will only work if JFS support was built as a module. It may have been built directly into the kernel. A check of /proc/filesystems (as suggested by Dave) will show if this is the case. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ADSL/DNS/IPTables issue
Happy Friday Afternoon one and all, I've got a annoyance of a problem which, I thought, was limited to my home ADSL connection, but I was wrong. I upgraded my firewall at home to Debian Sarge (running 2.6 kernel) and quickly found some problems which didn't used to exist. I thought it was MSS clamping (which I had missed), but enabling that didn't fix everything. The issue is that when a desktop requests a DNS lookup, it times out before it comes back (5 seconds approx). You can immediately request the address again and everything works fine - a simple but annoying work around. I thought it was some weird setup thing with my ADSL (iiNet). I switched from PPPoE on the firewall to running that on the ADSL modem - still no good. I looked into MTU's, but nothing worked (went down to 1452). The firewall config is the same on the old and the new setups, port 53 tcp/udp is allowed through. I'm running bind9 on the firewall and the iptables is run through shorewall. Head scratching and googling hasn't yielded much more info and now I've replicated the problem on a brand new, but completely separate, machine (same packages but on Telstra ADSL). Concussion from a cluestick to the head is more than welcome. Greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Preventing attacks
On 08/11/2004, at 1:31 PM, O Plameras wrote: Now, I posed the problem without really knowing the complete details of the circumstances because 'kerberos' is meant to be the strongest security protection against this sort of attacks. I gather that 'ssh' which I noticed is the cryptographic security procedure used at these Debian sites has not prevented the attacks. I note here some differences between ssh and kerberos: 1. SSH needs local identity files whilst kerberos does not (Attacker has less info to paly with) 2. SSH does not impose time restrictions on a session whilst kerberos does (Prevents replay attacks) 3. In SSH the client decides what tools and application to run on the server whilst in kerberos, the server may restrict the clients from running certain tools and applications (Ease and simplicity of management as to who and what to allow or disallow) This is my understanding of SSH and Kerberos so correct me if I'm wrong. SSH is a remote shell Kerberos is an authentication system http://www.ssh.com/support/documentation/online/ssh/adminguide/32/ Kerberos_Authentication.html They can be used together but kerberos on it's own provides no way to remotely (or locally) access the machine. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] procmail and mailing lists
On 03/11/2004, at 5:31 PM, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Hope that helps someone; for a full set of mailing list procmail check out http://spacepants.org/conf/dot.procmailrc Pearl, pearl, pearl![1] [1] http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/pearls -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Seeking GNOME application for image manipulation
On 16/09/2004, at 2:21 AM, Mary Gardiner wrote: I take photos with a digital camera. I arrange these in a directory structure by hand. I would like to be able to rotate them (this camera isn't one of the ones which knows which way up it goes so I have to rotate all the images by hand) and resize them. Ideally I would do this by selecting a bunch of images in Nautilus or some image application and performing an action on them. Instead I appear to have the following options: - Nautilus's default Image Viewer which cannot resize images at al Before switching to the OSX dark (but purty) side, I used to use the nautilus script function to do rotations on selected files. I just had an imagemagik script which called convert(?) with the right params... Easiest way I could find, but that was a while ago now. TG -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] db-4.2.52 install problem
On 07/09/2004, at 4:30 PM, David wrote: I'm trying to install netatalk which requires BerkeleyDB.4.2 I've downloaded the tarball for db4 and built it according to instructions (I think). The output of #make install is below. It looks OK to me. When I configure netatalk, it tells me db4 isn't there (see below). What did I do wrong? You have to tell netatalk where BerkeleyDB lives. You might find it easier to create a symlink in /usr/local which links BerkeleyDB.4.2 to BerkeleyDB (since then you can swap versions without causing problems and most things check for /usr/local/BerkeleyDB - no version). -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] db-4.2.52 install problem
On 07/09/2004, at 5:01 PM, David wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Tony Green wrote: On 07/09/2004, at 4:30 PM, David wrote: I'm trying to install netatalk which requires BerkeleyDB.4.2 I've downloaded the tarball for db4 and built it according to instructions (I think). The output of #make install is below. It looks OK to me. When I configure netatalk, it tells me db4 isn't there (see below). What did I do wrong? You have to tell netatalk where BerkeleyDB lives. You might find it easier to create a symlink in /usr/local which links BerkeleyDB.4.2 to BerkeleyDB (since then you can swap versions without causing problems and most things check for /usr/local/BerkeleyDB - no version). thanks.. but this is what I did: Did you try the symlink though? Do that then do another ./configure and see what happens -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] splitting text files by key word lines ?
On 03/09/2004, at 10:19 PM, Voytek wrote: I have an MySQL 'whole server' dump which is somewhat not very small at about 91M and 400,000 lines, how can I spilt it into separate unequal files, based on key word line ? for I in keyword1 keyword2 keyword3 do egrep $I bigfile sorted-$I done -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Nagios escalation issue
I'm scratching my head over this one, hoping that someone'll be able to
hit me with a clue stick.
I've got a working nagios install but am having problems getting
escalation working. The following escalation definitions are in place
:
define serviceescalation{
host_name nts-t
service_description RAID
first_notification 1
last_notification 0
notification_interval 5
contact_groups ops
}
define serviceescalation{
host_name nts-t
service_description RAID
first_notification 3
last_notification 0
notification_interval 5
contact_groups mobiles
}
When the RAID service is tripped, I get e-mails out to the 'ops'
contact groups every five minutes (irrespective of the
notification_interval set). I would expect the e-mails to 'ops' be
joined by e-mails to 'mobiles' after the first 3 alerts (15 minutes),
however it's not.
Am I missing something here?
TG
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Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
On 24/08/2004, at 2:52 PM, Jared Pritchard wrote: Just experiencing some crazy problems with named (dns). Our web server (which is also our gateway to the Internet for our office machines) serves as a DNS and sporadically over the last couple of days, for no known reason, named keeps failing and every now and then (between 15 minutes to a few hours) it will just, stop. I restart it using service named restart and it says that the shutdown of named failed, but startup is OK. Originally (not knowing what the problem was) I reset our web server, so its not just some bug in startup, and we have made NO changes that should effect its workings at all. Just weird. =/ Ive looked through the cronjobs theres nothing that even comes close to the failure times, so I cant see what the problem might be. Has anyone experienced this sort of thing before, or have any idea what it might be? Be useful to see some logs from the server. /var/log/daemon.log is a good place to start, depending on your syslog config. Sounds to me like bind (named) is dying. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] logout stop
On 18/08/2004, at 6:55 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote: The problem is that I have a 95yo neighbour who I have set up with an old box currently running Redhat 8 and Gnome. But the full Gnome desktop is really too much for the box, and I would like to replace with a lightweight desktop. I don't think that she would take too kindly to the log in as root, type halt kind of instruction, so I was looking for an alternative. Actually the solution I found was not a solution after all - it merely logs out of the window manager. I suspect I should use some kind of script with sudo and dialogue, but any suggestions would be welcome. Might not work for you (depending on the hardware), but I used to use an ACPI script to run shutdown if the power button was pressed. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] recovering overwritten files
On 16/08/2004, at 10:16 AM, Voytek wrote:
I've just managed to overwrite my recntly completed script, as well as
it's backup, essentially, I've copied another file to the script's
name,
not deleted, but, overwiritten.
I guess I need to start again ?
Yep, and if you want to avoid doing it again, consider using :
alias mv='mv -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias rm='rm -i'
I usually enable these options for users who aren't familiar with
UNIX's userfriendlyness
Put them in ~/${SHELL}rc to have them work on each login
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Re: [SLUG] find help
On 18/07/2004, at 10:16 PM, James Gregory wrote:
I just tried to use the 'find' command to locate for me all files on a
filesystem that were modified on a given date. I have just discovered
that this is a moderately difficult problem. 'man find' tells me that
there are atime, ctime and mtime options but they only let me specify
time relative to today in hours. I can see that I potentially could
construct a find query with these tools and judicious use of -a and
'!',
but that can't be the simplest way.
Quickest way I found to do this (hacky but quick) was
find . -ls | egrep Jul 18
I think all modern versions of find support '-ls', if yours doesn't,
try '-exec ls -l {} \;' instead.
Remember that 'ls' pads the date, so Jul 1 is Jul 1 (two spaces).
Greeno
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Re: [SLUG] ssh and X forwarding woes.
On 16/07/2004, at 12:50 PM, Richard Heycock wrote: I have turned maximum debug on the machine that doesn't work and there is no mention of X11 unlike the other which clearly indicates that it is setting up X11 forwarding. In addition to Jan's suggestion, check /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the server side of the connection. Check that X11Forwarding is set to 'yes', even if you try to override it on the command line, you can't if it's set to 'no' in that file. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] madwifi for Debian
On 09/07/2004, at 7:32 PM, Matthew Davidson wrote: make -C /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal modules make: *** /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/build: No such file or directory. and indeed the file does not exist. Symlink your kernel source tree to /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/build (/usr/src/linux-2.4.26?) -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] executable file from GUI
On 23/06/2004, at 12:54 PM, Simon Bryan wrote: 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 Since the script is in bash and you're running a GUI, you need something to sit in the middle to provide a window. I'd suggest using an xterm, though gnome-terminal or kterm (and many others) would do. xterm -e scriptname should do what I think you're trying to do. You may be able to associate *.sh with xterm -e so that all shell scripts become 'clickable', but I've never tried it. Greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] executable file from GUI
On 23/06/2004, at 1:29 PM, Tony Green wrote: Since the script is in bash and you're running a GUI, you need something to sit in the middle to provide a window. I'd suggest using an xterm, though gnome-terminal or kterm (and many others) would do. Sorry - I meant to add that this is only required because you need interactivity with the script (username/password input in this case). Normally, if the script doesn't require user input, you should be able to just double click it. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mandatory profiles
On 29/04/2004, at 10:25 PM, David Kempe wrote: Hi people, If you had a bunch of Knoppix boxes, one the server and the rest workstations, anyone know of a nice way to have a HDD install, but have mandatory profiles. IE, if users stuff up stuff on the desktop, their profile is loaded fresh each time, on a per user basis. Any suggestions? I can think of a few ways, but thought there might be some funky tips I didn't know about. Perhaps a combo of pam_mkhomedir, /etc/skel and an 'rm -fr ~' in the .profile (or equiv)? -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Destroyed hard drive
Evening all, I've got a machine which has been vandalised, it looks like someone has copied/dd'ed /dev/random over the hard drive(s). Obviously, they're not mountable, the paritions are borked (rebulit but still not usable) and some of the data's going to be useless. From some digging, I can see some data towards the mid-end of the disk, so it didn't finish. Anyone know any ways of automating part of the recovery? greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Destroyed hard drive
On 18/04/2004, at 19:58, Tony Green wrote: Evening all, Oh yeah, don't mention backups. If they'd had them, I wouldn't be going through this. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Destroyed hard drive
On 18/04/2004, at 20:32, Terry Collins wrote: Don't most distros allow you to automate installation. Yes, which would be useful if I was looking to do an install. I'm looking to do a sector by sector scan of the drive and recover whatever I can. I'm trying to find tools which may make this easier. If there is no backup, then it wasn't important. I won't bother responding to that.. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Bad magic number in super-block
On 16/04/2004, at 02:30, Edwin Humphries wrote: G'day all, We're just trying to add a second HDD to our Fedora server. It's not new but recent. fdisk'd it OK (one single linux partition), then ran mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1, which reported no problems. Then, to check (because we weren't entirely sure about the provenance of the drive) I ran fsck, which reported as follows: You didn't state what command you used exactly, but I'd wager you tried to fsck /dev/hdb rather than fsck /dev/hdb1 (note the 1). That would explain the message. Greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Vice President
This one time, at bandcamp, Peter Hardy said : Heh, thanks Craige and Ben. I accept. Seeing as there's only one nomination for president, I'd also like to put myself forward for this. If nothing else, Jan should work a little for his stripes. :-) Seconded. I vote for a steel cage match. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Problems with .tv?
I'm kinda cut off at the moment from access at the moment and have found, to my horror this morning, that the .tv domain structure seems to have gone on safari. I have a few .tv's and all of them now resolv to 65.201.175.144. I've checked netsol's whois and I'm still the owner. The auth DNS servers are ns1.nic.tv and ns2.nic.tv, looks like someone's playing silly buggers. Anyone know what's going on? Please email me directly as well as the list (as I'm signed up to slug on one of the affected domains) Greeno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Problems with .tv?
I'm kinda cut off at the moment from access at the moment and have found, to my horror this morning, that the .tv domain structure seems to have gone on safari. Looks like, according to www.tv (verisign), it's a 'technical issue' with no estimated fix time. Ah well, email's for wimps -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] linux cooking my PSU
h I have the complete opposite. On one machine it would spazmodically crash on me in windows leaving a black screen. I hold down the power button for several seconds to reboot the machine. With Mandrake 8.0 I was experienced extended uptime and I could still play alot of the games I wanted, under winex Now with mandrake 9.0 I have the same problems with my machine as it was Windows. What PSU do you have and what hardware do you have in the machine? I've seen this problem a fair bit and most of the time it's an underpowered (or shoddy) PSU.-- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mozilla/Firebird/Konqueror problem with stgeorge.com
Hi: I read a few days (weeks?) ago about a fix for stgeorge.com's changed site that cannot be accessed from Linux anymore. Can someone post it again, please? http://www.google.com/search?q=stgeorge+linux+fix+site:slug.org.auie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8 -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] MTA for laptop
Hi all, I have an old Compaq Armada currently running Debian Woody. I will be travelling with it, using a dial-up connection. Question is a good lightweight MTA for it. Exim and friends seems like an overkill. I could use Sylpheed or some such, but I would prefer to run text based stuff most of the time since the machine is underpowered. Nullmailer and masqmail work pretty well. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] cfengine query
I'm wading back into cfengine after a bit of a break and I'm running into the same problems, hopefully one of the cfengine advocates out there will be able point me in the right direction. A typical example is: I'm editing /etc/system on solaris, I want to ensure that this line is set : set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967296 I can use the 'AppendIfNoSuchLine' command and that'll work fine the first time around. My issue is, what happens the next time I want to change that line? I could switch to the 'ReplaceLineWith' command, but that won't add the line if it doesn't exist. Is there a sensible way around this? I'm guessing I might be missing something but a couple of dives through the refernce manual turned up naught. If anyone has a decent set of examples (or knows of a site with examples worthy of study), I'd be happy to do some more self-study. I googled for examples, got a lot of results but, like most things, quantity != quality. Since I'm rolling this out fresh, I'd like to get it right from the outset. Cheers greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] cfengine query
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:14:28PM +1100, Tony Green wrote: Not that I have any cfengine experience, but from your description, wouldn't AppendIfNoSuchLine followed by ReplaceLineWith do the job? Creates it if it doesn't exist, and sets it to the right value either way. For new adds, you'll run both, but I don't think the extra processing time is going to be noticeable. That's kinda where I'd got to and it does work, it just seems wrong. A ReplaceLineWith on a generic 'string.*' will always replace the line (and therefore always edit the file). I was going to wrap it in a BeginGroupIfNoLineMatching, but it's the wrong way around. It may be that there is no elegent way around it, but I'll wait until Uncle Gus pipes up before I consider it a lost cause ;-) Of course, if that's impossible with cfengine I'll just go away and hide. You can join me under the table, I have biscuits! Out of interest, do have any recommendations as to introductory cfengine material? I really should learn how to use it, everyone seems to think it's the world's greatest admin tool. Debian: apt-get install cfengine-doc Web : http://www.gnu.org/software/cfengine/docs/cfengine-Tutorial.html It really is worth the effort, but it is a lot of effort :-) -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [Job: Syd] Java Coder wanted
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004, Terry Collins wrote: ...snip want to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. Does that list still take spam from agencies? I'm not sure who is filtering posts to that list... it was Tony Green for a while, maybe it still is. In practice, about 50% of the posts are people asking for work, the rest non-agency. But I don't know whether that's because agency stuff is filtered out :) IIRC, we've only had one agency posting on the list. That was from a guy who I knew and who was recruiting for a FOSS related position within a company who was known to be linux friendly. All of the other agency posts we had (when I was running the list) were turned down. I can't speak for the current admins. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Could someone explain a sendmail log message please?
On 18/01/2004, at 19:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I'm looking to see why it's trying to use /var/spool/mqueue - it looks like the system is set up to use /var/spool/mail. I'm now reading sendmail's README.cf and looking to see how to alter that. I think: define(`QUEUE_DIR',`/var/spool/mail') DO NOT DO THAT Lots of things will break and children will cry. You'll be changing where sendmail puts its queue (which should be /var/spool/mqueue[-client]). /var/[spool/]mail is where the MTA puts mail which it has delivered (users mailboxes) by default. VERY different things. The error message means that it cannot find the DNS entry for the domain. Why you can resolve it manually, I don't know. Setting the allow unresolvable domains will NOT allow you to be used a spam relay. It may mean you get a couple of extra spam messages through to your self, but not a noticable difference. The relay controls (access.db etc) in sendmail control the relaying of mail, allow unresolvable domains just means that you will accept mail if the domain of the user is not reverse resolvable. Are you allowing both port 53 UDP and TCP through? Since DNS requests go out by both TCP and UDP (depending on the query size), this could be what your problem is. -- 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] Could someone explain a sendmail log message please?
On 18/01/2004, at 21:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've turned on FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) and followed Tony Green's other advice, and then got errors like this from mailq: I've been using sendmail for years now and I can safely say that the best option for you at the moment is to install postfix. Sendmail is great if you really want to understand SMTP. If you just want to get things working, use postfix. You'll be much better off searching for a postfix howto than trying to crowbar sendmail into working. TG -- 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] Could someone explain a sendmail log message please?
On 18/01/2004, at 15:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just hoping someone can explain what some log messages mean, since I appreciate that there's a wide range of errors I could be making. (sendmail.mc, submit.cf, access, genericstable, aliases, reolv.conf, host.conf, spamassassin/local.cf, ...) Jan 17 22:56:14 posh sm-mta[16557]: i0HBuE2p016557: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], reject=553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist Jan 17 22:56:14 posh sm-mta[16557]: i0HBuE2p016557: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=3150, class=0, nrcpts=0, bodytype=7BIT, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1 Can the machine which generates these messages resolve slug.org.au (host slug.org.au)? I'm guessing that you're blocking DNS requests and sendmail can't resolve the hosts. If you really can't sort it, you can try adding FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) into your sendmail.mc TG -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How to import Mozilla mail to Evolution?
On 18/01/2004, at 17:22, Jeff Ai wrote: hi guys, I thought it would be easy, but turned out could not find a clear solution on google. any ideas from you good slugers? am using Evolution 1.4.5 and Mozilla 1.5 Don't know if there's a conversion script which you can run, however you could just upload your mail to an IMAP server and then download it to your new client (or leave it on there and never have to worry about switching clients again). If you're stuck for an IMAP server to use, I could set you up a temp one on one of my servers. TG -- 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] Getting sendmail to use nullclient
Might be a stupid question, but have you re-created your sendmail.cf once you modified the sendmail.mc? In debian, there is a make file in /etc/mail, so you just mod sendmail.mc then do a 'make'. You'll also, obviously, have to restart sendmail so that it picks up the changes to the config files. I would recommend testing out your config using the sendmail debugging. /usr/lib/sendmail -bv matth and /usr/lib/sendmail -bv /parse matth I've got a lot of null mailers setup and they all work fine with a very similar sendmail.mc to yours. HTH greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spam Rejection During Connection
On 10/12/2003, at 10:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this sort of thing not exist? or is it not a good idea? I do this with sendmail and spamass-milter [1]. I don't think it's a great way of doing things, but it does work well on my box. I certainly would be weary of using it in production. It basically uses the libmilter sendmail hooks to do parsing of the message during the SMTP conversation. You can do a lot of user level checking by using something like 'access.db' in sendmail, I'm sure the other MTA's have a similar function. Sendmail and postfix have inbuilt RBL checks, if you enable them. After recent events [2], I'd be weary about enabling them on their own. TG [1] http://bandcamp.tv/spamass-milter/index.html [2] One of the main RBL's got DOS'ed and gave positives to every query -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] PCMCIA Hard Disk Drive on Slackware 9.1
On 10/12/2003, at 14:23, David Uzzell wrote: Just a quick question for those that may have stumbled across this in the past :) I have a 2Gb PCMCIA Hard Disk Drive that I would like to be able access under Linux, I want to use it for Still Picture storage and sharring between Linux and windows! The challange is how to get it avaliable so that I can use it under slackware? IIRC you just need the PCMCIA/IDE modules. Either compile the PCMCIA source or use a recent kernel which should have the required code already. My old tosh 2gb PCMCIA HDD worked fine with both my laptop (linux) and my ipaq (linux). TG -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] CLI deMIMEing attachement in Maildir, what with ?
On 10/12/2003, at 14:12, Voytek wrote: I have some largish emails with attachements on my Linux server in my /Maildir, it contains some pics, etc, that needs to end up on the server's web directory I don't feel like downloading it on a 33.6 modem, to detach, then, ftp back again what can I use from command line to detach mime attachemts ? Mutt? I think it can open just a single mail file, perhaps with the '-f' flag? Then you can just save the attachments. TG -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] removing exim would remove logrotate - i dont want it to
On 03/12/2003, at 09:36, Michael Lake wrote: It would remove logrotate ! Thats used to rotate my apache-perl, mysql logs. Logrotate needs an MTA to report on it's errors, so removing exim means no MTA. Easiest way is to do an apt-get install nullmailer, nullmailer is a very small MTA which sends email to a specified smart host. If you REALLY don't want an MTA on the box, then you'll need to cludge the logrotate package so that it no longer requires an MTA. Do I just backup logrotate.conf and logrotate.d directory and let exim remove logroate then just reinstall logrotate or what? Won't work, trying to install logrotate will force the install of an MTA -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] sendmail/procmail question
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:31, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: all, I want to create mail aliases for my users so we can send SMS messages to their mobile phones. I was thinking something in the line of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this possbile to do with rules in sendmail? Yes Can I do this with procmail? No Ah, I'm guessing your next question will be how :-) Try adding the required entries into /etc/mail/aliases [1] then run 'newaliases'. Providing you've got alias support in sendmail (which most installs do by default) you should be fine. TG [1] Location may vary depending on distro/age/personal preferences -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] No more Red Hat Linux support after April 30 2004 - Quick Survey
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 15:07, Andrew Bennetts wrote: I'm curious -- why would you choose Debian over Fedora? I'm a happy Debian user, but I would've thought that someone with a Red Hat background would use Fedora? In my view, the lack of corp support would be key. The reason a lot of people choose redhat by default is because of the name recognition etc. If you're loosing that advantage, perhaps it's time to evaluate if your distro is truly right for you. (I'm assuming that fedora will not be officially supported by Redhat and that vendors will start releasing products tested with RHAS-WE etc) -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Static IP being assigned dynamic IP - debian
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 13:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, I have a machine freshly build, and just for building purposes, it was assigned a dynamic IP address from a dhcp server. I have since changed it to a static IP address, not through the dhcp server, but just in the local /etc/network/interfaces (Without rebooting), then ran `ifdown eth0; ifup eth0` This worked fine for about a day, until the dhcp server offered a new IP address, and the debian machine accepted!! I restarted the network (ifdown eth0; ifup eth0), and it worked OK again. However, I noticed dhclient-2.2.x running, so I have terminated that process, and hopefully everything will continue to work ok. I would have suggested that you do the following when changing from dhcp - static ifdown eth0 edit interfaces ifup eth0 If you do the ifdown after editing rather than before, it doesn't 'know' about the dhcp settings and doesn't terminate the dhclient (AFAIK). greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mounting Hardrives in SuSe 7.0
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 16:40, Rick Welykochy wrote: (sudo or su are required if you're not logged in as root: the disk can only be directly accessed as root) -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] IP accounting from a PIX (or similar) using SNMP
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 10:36, John McQuillen wrote: Try MRTG - http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html Thanks for that one, but cricket is 'mrtg on steroids'. Apparently neither can do what I'm after. Though it sounds like netflow can. I'm going to be replacing the 515 with a linux based fw at some point, the cost of the netflow will help justify it too :-) Thanks for everyone suggestions (both on and off list). TG -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] IP accounting from a PIX (or similar) using SNMP
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:24, John McQuillen wrote: I am very much a novice when it comes to snmp, so please feel free to hit me with a clue stick if there is much more to it than I am suggesting :) Actually, I can't see any reason why that won't work.. I'll start on some perl snmp stuff and see how it goes :-) Thanks TG -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] IP accounting from a PIX (or similar) using SNMP
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:53, Terry Collins wrote: Just checking. You are going to write something in perl to capture the snmp packets, thove them into a file and a certain times just count up packets for various accts? Thats the current plan. I may use rrdtool or similar in the long run -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] IP accounting from a PIX (or similar) using SNMP
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eh? There's something I'm missing. cricket is rrdtool (frontend actually) so it should just do what you want to Maybe, but it doesn't seem to want to. Google threw up a lot of people trying and very few people getting it working. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] IP accounting from a PIX (or similar) using SNMP
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:29, John McQuillen wrote: SNIP If my understanding is correct, the PIX is doing most of the work here, we just have to read the correct counters and analyse the data as required. Yep, I think you're right. We're now just debating the right way to collect/collate the data. Since I use cricket for everything else, it would be nice to get it to do it too. I've come up with some stuff to do it, I just have to cron the reset of the counter on the 1st of each month now -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] The Infopackets Gazette -- Oct/01 (Wed)
OK, here's some interesting info From the headers of the last spam 'someone' signed the SLUG mailing list up for : X-No-Abuse: The IP address used to subscribe this user X-No-Abuse: was: 203.10.46.62 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nslookup 203.10.46.62 SNIP Non-authoritative answer: 62.46.10.203.in-addr.arpa name = 46-62.mary.acu.edu.au. Now, most of the signup's we've seen have been from this domain (hence my copying their registrar and abuse addresses on this email). The other address I can remember is 203.10.46.54. I would not like to venture a guess as to who's behind this, but I would like them to stop. It proves nothing and is very immature. If the admin staff at ACU have any control over this individual, please stop them from abusing both your and our networks. Thanks in advance for your assistance in this matter. TG -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 2 11:13:16 2003 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from maddog.slug.org.au (slug.progsoc.uts.edu.au [138.25.7.4]) by flute.bandcamp.tv (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id h921DGeK023364 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:13:16 +1000 Received: from maddog.slug.org.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maddog.slug.org.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E6710A380; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:14:10 +1000 (EST) X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from ns1.infopackets.com (ns1.infopackets.com [207.44.192.24]) by maddog.slug.org.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E0E10A380 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:14:02 +1000 (EST) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by ns1.infopackets.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h922f7f05984; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 22:41:07 -0400 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Disposition: inline MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 2.117 (F2.6; A1.50; B2.16; Q2.16) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 02:41:07 UT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wsfg [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Habeas-Swe-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-Swe-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-Swe-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-Swe-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-Swe-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-Swe-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-Swe-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-Swe-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-Swe-9: mark in spam to http://www.habeas.com/report/. X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: ATTN: ABUSE / NETWORK ADMINS -- X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] was subscribed X-No-Abuse: to our list using double opt-in X-No-Abuse: co-registration provided by Topica X-No-Abuse: on 20031001. X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: http://www.topica.com X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: The IP address used to subscribe this user X-No-Abuse: was: 203.10.46.62 X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: NOTICE: X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: ALL REMOVAL REQUESTS TO OUR LIST X-No-Abuse: ARE AUTOMATED. TO REMOVE THIS X-No-Abuse: ADDRESS, PLEASE VISIT: X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: http://www.infopackets.com/remove+change+email.htm X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: Regards, X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: Dennis Faas X-No-Abuse: List owner and editor X-No-Abuse: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: http://www.infopackets.com X-No-Abuse: X-No-Abuse: X-SLUG-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=3.4 tests=CLICK_BELOW, HABEAS_SWE, NO_REAL_NAME, OPT_HEADER, REMOVE_PAGE X-SLUG-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60, Mailman 2.1, Pete's evil mailman hack 0.3 Subject: [SLUG] The Infopackets Gazette -- Oct/01 (Wed) X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux and Free Software Discussion slug.slug.org.au List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug List-Unsubscribe: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=CLICK_BELOW,HABEAS_SWE, NO_REAL_NAME,OPT_HEADER,REMOVE_PAGE autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on flute.bandcamp.tv Content-Length: 8746 Lines: 320 Content-Type: text/plain X-Evolution-Source: imap://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Infopackets Gazette: October 01, 2003 NOTE: This newsletter has been truncated to ensure timely delivery to Readers and to reduce web server bandwidth consumption. The original newsletter was produced in HTML format, contains
Re: [SLUG] Spam Subscriptions
Jon (or Allan if you'd prefer), The machine that subscribed to the lists was the same as the machine you're using at the moment. Since we know you're at work, that casts doubt on the whole 'home machine' argument. I've also never heard of a virus that signs people up for random mailing lists, mind you I don't pay attention to outlook virii so I can't be sure about that one. Your machine is called 'mandark' (as evidenced here by a SMTP log from one of your emails) Sep 29 16:14:27 flute sm-mta[29152]: h8T6EReK029152: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=1805, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mail.mary.acu.EDU.AU [203.10.46.15] mandark was the requester for the subscription to the windows newsletter : Received: from mandark ([203.10.46.54]) by marn1.acu.edu.au (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.12) with ESMTP id 2003093014453265:19566 ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:45:32 +1000 The odds on a conincidental virus (which causes subscribtions to spam lists) infecting your machine at the same time that you're berating everyone in SLUG for not doing anything about SPAM are pretty high. If it truly is a virus, then please ensure you clean your machine to stop any future subscriptions coming from your address. Perhaps I could suggest not using your work machine for private emails, this would also solve the problem. Your abusive attitude is not welcome on the list. We do not want more swearing, more threats or more tantrums. Just stop Jon. No more follow-ups, no more threats, no more swearing, no more childish pranks. Just stop, unsubscribe if you wish, just stop. I'm sure your employeer would rather you got on with more productive work. TG On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 12:00, Allan Bogasti wrote: I've just read Jeff Waugh's totally inaccurate and childish attempt to intimidate me HAHAHAHAHAHA I subscribed no-one to anything, however I did discover how it happened. I use Windows at home for some things, including VPN'ing into work to manage servers. I had a virus that came in through Outlook that I didn't catch - this virus nuked my address book. I have had reports from others who's addresses I have that they have been subscribed as well... Sorry - not my fault (well, not directly) Jeff, you are pathetic The IP you posted is a proxy that is at my employer, anything else happened from HOME. I'm unsubscribing now... Byebye, wankers -- __ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] bigpond cable.
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:41, Malik Jayawardena wrote: Hi Sluggers, Got a problem with Bpalogin. I've tried it on, RH8.0, 9.0 + Mandrake 9 + 9.1 and it doesn't work. It seems to work ok on Mandrake 8.0 though and I think RH 7.3. I'm not sure what the changes are that screwed with its functionallity but it certainly isn't working properly in the newer versions of both. I have been to the bpalogin sourceforge site and a few people seem to have to same problem but there seem to be only half ar$ed answers there and they really don't help much. Google seems to think it's a known problem : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=713082group_id=19555atid=219555 -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] bigpond cable.
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:34, Tony Green wrote: Google seems to think it's a known problem : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=713082group_id=19555atid=219555 Mandrake comes with a built in firewall that is most likely dropping the heartbeat, go into the mandrake control center and have a poke at the security settings, you want to allow your dce-server to access port 5050, and set the same in /etc/bpalogin.conf. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
