Re: List archives.

2001-10-10 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:41:53PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: until then, htdig is accessible via http://www.ethernal.org/search.html but, please.. give it another hour to finish indexing : (its only a 486 :P) All done... search form now on: http://www.ethernal.org/List-Archives/ Mike.

answerphone software?

2001-10-10 Thread Nick Rout
anyone know of any software for answering the phone and taking messages for use under linux (eg on a firewall that is also used for dialout). I know vaguely that there are some getty's (vgetty?) for doing this, but is there an easy package that makes the messages available to Joe-non-technical

[suse-announce-e] SuSE Linux 7.3 Available On October 12th

2001-10-10 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
I think I'll get a copy... - Begin Included Message - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 11 08:29:05 2001 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:51:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Martina Eckstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [suse-announce-e] SuSE Linux 7.3 Available On October 12th To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Carl from IBM

2001-10-10 Thread Chris Hellyar
I'm easy.. So to speak. It'll give me more time to get my t's crossed for doing the demo. I walked through all the steps and bits that need explaining last night. It's probably a good hour and a bit to get it done and not have people wondering what on earth just happened and the end of it :-).

Can't telnet to local machine

2001-10-10 Thread acorn
Hi everyone, Something rather odd has recently occured to a machine and I can't telnet to it anymore. I can rlogin OK, but telnet won't happen. The /var/adm/messages file is saying... telnet/tcp: bind: Address already in use and the error is produced by inetd. rpcbind is running, but not

Re: Carl from IBM

2001-10-10 Thread Julian Carver
All, So, Chris is happy to put his talk off for a month. It'll be good to have things monthly anyway. Does someone need to book the venue for November? I've just spoken to Carl from IBM. He still has to confirm with the Dunedin LUG, but apart from that it's all good. I'll post to the list

Re: Carl from IBM

2001-10-10 Thread Nick Elder
In my Humble opinion two meetings between now and Xmas is enough. We have got all next year to have monthly meetings. To much of a good thing may cause burn out. (I think there is only about 5 weeks between the meetings anyway) I see Chris Hellyar is happy to postpone his talk

Re: Carl from IBM

2001-10-10 Thread Nick Rout
screw voting, this is NOT a democracy :-), its a benevolent oligarchy. Carl from IBM on 30 October, Chris me on email on 6 December. All we need now is someone to confirm Carl's availabilityand soon! anyone wants to argue they can come round to my place and face off

Re: Can't telnet to local machine

2001-10-10 Thread Rex
On Thursday 11 October 2001 14:33, you wrote: telnet/tcp: bind: Address already in use The only way that telnetd is being run is from inetd, I haven't set anything up (that I'm conscious to), that would start it in a standalone fashion. From netstat, I can't see a reference to port 23

Re: Can't telnet to local machine

2001-10-10 Thread acorn
On Thursday 11 October 2001 14:33, you wrote: should resemble /home/rex # netstat -anp | fgrep :23 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:23 0.0.0.0:* LISTE N 395/inetd IPX0 0 FE2AA8C0:2340 -

Re: Can't telnet to local machine

2001-10-10 Thread Rex
On Thursday 11 October 2001 15:30, you wrote: /home/rex # strace -f -p 395 -o /tmp/err The file /tmp/err isn't even generated. I started the strace command, telnet to localhost, got thrown out immediately at which point strace aborted. And inetd is still running with the same pid ?

Re: Can't telnet to local machine

2001-10-10 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:00:14AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get no output at all, even if I fgrep :23 on a regular netstat output as well. try 'netstat -ta' or, 'lsof -i' Mike. -- Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of

RE: Can't telnet to local machine

2001-10-10 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Not an incredibly useful comment but who here uses telnet these days? now that theres some damn fine windows ssh clients like putty :-) J. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2001 11:45 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: