[LUAU] which mirrors must be kept?

2005-10-17 Thread Vince Hoang
After the disk failure from a few months ago, these are the current mirrors left on the HOSEF server: 71G fedora 69G centos 50G debian 42G ubuntu-cd 11G debian-security 8.7G debian-cd 4.7G linux-kernel 2.1G knoppix Mandrake, SuSE, and all the BSDs were dropped. The

Re: [LUAU] OT: Looking for networks-off topic

2005-09-19 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 09:12:30AM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote: This is probably mostly off-topic, and I apologize for that. If this is not apreciated, feel free to blast me publicly or privately, and I'll keep it strictly to Linux stuff from now on, no hard feelings at all. For the folks

Re: [LUAU] SuSE 9.3

2005-07-28 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:41:45PM -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: When will Vince the Great add SuSE 9.3 iso's to our local mirror? :-) Wayne Great curmudgeon, maybe. 9.3 is being synced now. If you need it sooner or the LiveDVD version see the USC mirror:

Re: [LUAU] Handling Brute Force Attacks

2005-07-28 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:29:16AM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: How are others handling this? Do you block the IP address? If so, does it help, or are you still found by yet another zombie? Any suggestions or insight are welcome. The reactive projects popping up in response to this are great

Re: [LUAU] CentOS4 Hung on Up2date

2005-07-08 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 01:32:06AM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, there is much to ponder from all your input, thanks. It's not leading to much faith in the few users I'm been able to convince to try Linux (or the rubberneckers) when I reinstall the OS (my own lacking) or switch to

Re: [LUAU] searching luau archives

2005-06-23 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:00:03PM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote: Is there any way set up to search the luau archives? The best way I think would be to use Google and prefix your search with site:lists.hosef.org. I wish I could give you a better answer, but mail archive indexers generally suck.

Re: [LUAU] interesting article on Mark Spencer/Digium

2005-06-11 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:03:10AM -1000, Jim Thompson wrote: PizzaHut claims there is no PizzaHut at that address, in that zip code, or with that NXX http://www.pizzahuthawaii.com/finder/storelocation.html Try the Leeward link. http://www.pizzahuthawaii.com/finder/storelocation2.html

Re: [LUAU] List archive

2005-06-02 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:28:26AM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: On Wednesday 01 June 2005 11:26 pm, Jimen Ching wrote: Is an archive of this mailing list available? http://lists.hosef.org/pipermail/luau/ We are using mailman, which puts the list-archive header into each message. Lots of

[LUAU] Andrew Tridgell in town this month

2005-06-02 Thread Vince Hoang
Scott forwarded me a note from tridge, of rsync and samba fame, a few months ago, and I am finally getting around to it. He will be staying near the University at Manoa from the 17th to the 25th of June and is interested in doing some day hikes with people. Is anyone interested? -Vince

Re: [LUAU] NetBlocks (was: Re: Open Source Ghosting)

2005-05-16 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 06:12:43AM -1000, Angela Kahealani wrote: What is your manao on the best resource to find netblock info? I've found searching for CIDR info via whois unreliable at best. The best would be a list from a network administrator. If the request comes from a user, I resort to

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-15 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:50:28PM -1000, Randall Oshita wrote: Well done, and thanks for de-spamming the wiki. Pardon if this has been mentioned but what do you use for this? Most wikis store revisions to the wiki pages. So removing the spam manually is simply a matter of reverting to the

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-14 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:01:30PM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: http://www.hosef.org/wiki/OpenSourceGhosting has incorrect information. The sentence: g4u has now become g4l. Is this a non-issue? The quote does not exist anywhere on the wiki and there has been no edit of that

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-14 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 07:28:17AM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: The quote does not exist anywhere on the wiki and there has been no edit of that particular page at least 90 days. My mistake. I was using http://www.hosef.org/wiki/RecentChanges?days=90 and not

Re: [LUAU] Running a standard distro without swap space

2005-05-12 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 02:34:19PM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote: Any ideas on how well a machine running a popular distribution of Linux (RH, FCx, Mandrake, Debian, etc) would do if the machine had no swap partition? Anybody actually do it? If so, how well did work? Turn off swap and

Re: [LUAU] syslog

2005-04-05 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:12:24AM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apr 5 10:50:09 kernel: arp: 192.168.0.xx moved from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx to yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy on fxp0 Apr 5 10:50:09 kernel: arp: 192.168.0.xx moved from yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx on fxp0 Apr 5

Re: [LUAU] RHEL4 Clones

2005-03-28 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 05:57:54PM -1000, Wilson wrote: Anyone used RHEL clones like Whitebox and CentOS? From what I can find it seems like Whitebox linux is a one man show and CentOS has a small group maintaining the updates. Precisely. I suspect Whitebox is popular solely due to the catchy

Re: [LUAU] On Demand Staffing for Information Technology Projects

2005-03-25 Thread Vince Hoang
*grumble* Someone explicitly subscribed to LUAU and _then_ spammed. -Vince

Re: [LUAU] K12LTSP and VNC

2005-03-20 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:09:29AM -1000, Tom Gordon wrote: I haven't noticed this happen to anything k12ltsp-related. Although, I have seen it happen for the kernel (new kernel broken) but that is why new kernels aren't set to boot by default. At the worst, for example, if the

Re: [LUAU] K12LTSP and VNC

2005-03-20 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:08:34AM -1000, Tom Gordon wrote: That's considering the symptom is immediately recognizable. It won't be with a newbie. With the tech coordinators, it would be safe to assume most are newbies. But hiding the update process from them does not improve their learning one

Re: [LUAU] K12LTSP and VNC

2005-03-19 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 05:28:05PM -1000, Tom Gordon wrote: Thankfully it's already set up to do it. but it's not supposed to work unless /var/lock/subsys/yum exists. I guess they did that to make a user-friendly way to turn it on (via system-config-services, i guess). the console way to do

Re: [LUAU] EMail Gateway

2005-03-19 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:19:51PM -1000, Randall Oshita wrote: I'm guessing the gateway has POSTFIX (or whatever)to relay the messages to the Exchange box. Is there something I must do with DNS as well? Like MX record for gateway AND(?) MS Exchange box? The MX needs to point to the postfix

Re: [LUAU] Newbie Installation Question

2005-03-15 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:43:46PM +0900, John Johnson wrote: I have a lot setup at this point and all is running smoothly and I would hate to download the source, build it, and totally mess up the settings that FC3 has as default. Any suggestions as to what I should do? Thanks in advance! Do

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-12 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:56:49PM -1000, Jim Thompson wrote: If you're curious as to why Maui X-Stream, Inc. isn't being forced to stop what they're doing, this is where things get a little tricky. http://starbulletin.com/2004/10/15/news/story2.html

Re: [LUAU] pthreads signaling question

2005-03-11 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:05:28PM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote: Jim Thompson wrote: The Fedora Project officially ended support for Fedora Core 1 (FC1) on September 20th, 2004. FC3 was released November 8, 2004. Maybe you should run FC3 (which is current) .vs a release that is now known

Re: [LUAU] Email Proxy Server question

2005-03-08 Thread Vince Hoang
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:50:28PM -1000, Rodney Kanno wrote: On the Linux box, I have the ports for POP3 and SMTP open but still not able to send or receive email from and email program on the Windows box. I keep getting an operation timed out error message. It smells like a firewall issue.

Re: [LUAU] Email Proxy Server question

2005-03-08 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 02:30:43PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried turning off my firewall completely, and I still cannot get out. I have found that if I turn on IP forwarding / masquerading, everything works just fine. However, with IP forwarding / masquerading on, I found that

Re: [LUAU] Loading a tar.gz file in Debian Linux

2005-02-24 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:27:35PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know the best directory to open the gui window manager xfce from a tar.gz file. You mean install from source? Untar it and read the INSTALL file. Or bail on the source package install and use a _supported_ package.

Re: [LUAU] Loading a tar.gz file in Debian Linux

2005-02-24 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:36:39AM -1000, Jim Thompson wrote: Neither do I. `rm /etc/rc?.d/S???dm` Uh, thats a bit brute-force, don't you think? I used to `update-rc.d -f xdm remove`, but that removed all the symlinks. By removing only the S* symlinks, the K* symlinks stick around and

Re: [LUAU] rh9 kernel nptl support

2005-02-18 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:08:55PM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote: I'm not finding any references to a seperate nptl related rpm. And I get confused, because I read one thing that says linux thread support has been moved into glibc, while in other places I find references to it being part of

Re: [LUAU] FW: Linux and Sony PS2

2005-02-15 Thread Vince Hoang
From: Earl Fusato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am working with Waimea Middle School and I have been looking into the possibility of using the Sony Play Station as a platform to have some of the students do some programming. I found that Sony has released a linux program development kit. It

Re: [LUAU] k12ltsp desktop

2005-02-13 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:12:11AM -1000, Ted Kanemori wrote: The script includes: for new in .screenrc .gtkrc .kde .gnome-desktop You suggest: notice that .gnome-desktop is copied and not Desktop. /etc/skel contains .kde, .gtkrc and Desktop (Desktop contains FloppyAccess) I cannot find

Re: [LUAU] k12ltsp desktop

2005-02-12 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:06:54PM -1000, Ted Kanemori wrote: I'm sorry if I was unclear. The client desktop (by default) has only 4 icons. Home for the user, Trash, Floppy Access, and Start Here Some kids have been deleting some of these icons(including Floppy Access). The

Re: [LUAU] apache security question

2005-02-09 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:43:11AM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote: So, we have a script or something that every time you create a directory in that secure directory, the script adds an .htaccess file, and the .htaccess file is used to enforce privacy, requiring a username and password to log

Re: [LUAU] apache security question

2005-02-09 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:34:32PM -1000, Jaymes Schooler wrote: And Rightfully so...Being Paranoid that is... You may want to use something a little stronger for authorization such as mysqlauth or almost any other authentication Scheme/Module...Also you may want to include nobots.txt in any

Re: [LUAU] Is this thing on?

2005-01-25 Thread Vince Hoang
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:46:51PM -1000, James A. Stroble wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 17:36, Jim Thompson wrote: Consider, is anything on this page still accurate? http://www.sslug.dk/misc/ely.dkuug.dk/6-1-1-luau.html LUAU used to exist over at luau.hi.net, but now it is

Re: [LUAU] Meetings for beginners

2005-01-21 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:29:13AM -1000, Takemoto, Ken wrote: I'm a beginner too, reading my second book on the subject but not yet actually installed and used Linux. Installation and practice for me is within the next month or so. I'd like to attend meetings also, to help me along in the

Re: [LUAU] Might I Be Hacked II

2005-01-21 Thread Vince Hoang
s/Hacked/Compromised/ On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:31:21PM -1000, John S. Johnson wrote: On a subsequent reboot of the system, the system is not coming up. During the boot-up process, after the default system font is set, the prompt for Interactive bootup comes up and then the screen blanks out

Re: [LUAU] Video Taping the TPOSSCON Sessions

2005-01-15 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:55:44PM -1000, Matt Darnell wrote: Is there anyone with time/interest to video some of the TPOSSCON sessions? I have a relatively good digital video camera that someone could use. http://lists.hosef.org/pipermail/hosef-managers/2005q1/002888.html Another camera

Re: [LUAU] Excellent SSH advice

2005-01-15 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:32:45AM -1000, Dwight Victor wrote: I guess using tcpd/libwrap in conjunction with iptables will provide another layer of security. Could use iptables to allow specific IP addresses and tcpd/libwrap to allow specific users. Libwrap provides user access restrictions

Re: [LUAU] Excellent SSH advice

2005-01-13 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:42:10PM -1000, Dwight Victor wrote: Hmmm. If the wrapper is first to receive data, and finds that the attempt should be denied, whouldn't it drop the connection? Why would it pass the buffered information to the SSH daemon? How can you implement a buffer overflow on

Re: [LUAU] Excellent SSH advice

2005-01-12 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:31:56AM -1000, Dwight Victor wrote: If you know the IP addresses of the machines that you'll be SSHing from...it's best to compile your version of SSH to support tcp_wrappers and configure your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files to only allow SSH access from

Re: [LUAU] Excellent SSH advice

2005-01-12 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:27:43PM -1000, Dwight Victor wrote: Are you sure about that Vince? Almost certain, yes. The way I understand how tcp_wrappers works is that the wrapper is actually listening on the service port and when the attempt is successfully authenticated against the

Re: [LUAU] Excellent SSH advice

2005-01-12 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:45:25PM -1000, Tom_Gordon/RISE/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't libwrap the old way of doing things? Would using iptables not be faster? Faster in performance, yes. Faster and simpler in configuration, generally no. -Vince

[LUAU] http://www.tposscon.com/ troubleshooting

2005-01-07 Thread Vince Hoang
Hi folks, Can the members working from military bases try loading up the TPOSSCON website? I have one report of someone at a military base unable to load the site due to local policies blackholing the host for the website, blackdoghosting. A change-order has already been placed to open up the

[LUAU] Accessibility Workshop at UH this month

2005-01-07 Thread Vince Hoang
http://accessibility.freestandards.org/ Posted on Friday, October 29 @ 10:52:26 EDT The Free Standards Group (FSG) today announced an international meeting of experts to further ongoing research, engineering, and standardization efforts in support of comprehensive access to information and

Re: [LUAU] Virtual directory points to another computer

2005-01-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 08:43:39PM -1000, Randall Oshita wrote: you are probably better off moving from the Linksys to a Soekris or WRAP so you can get some real disk storage on the device. Link? Sorry. The smaller devices were brought up so much last year, that I figured the links did not

Re: [LUAU] Virtual directory points to another computer

2004-12-30 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:42:34AM -1000, Matt Darnell wrote: The applicatoin is to have a local FTP server but the data the user can upload/download would be located on another PC. The link between the two PC's should be encrypted. What platforms are involved? The responses so far imply *nix

Re: [LUAU] Virtual directory points to another computer

2004-12-30 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:05:57PM -1000, Matt Darnell wrote: One side is an Linksys WRTG54S - http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33scid=35prid=610 - running openwrt - http://openwrt.org/ the other side is a debian box. The files on the FTP server are too large to fit on the

[LUAU] aloha! (from Aaron J. Seigo)

2004-12-29 Thread Vince Hoang
[Forwarding this on, since Aaron is not on the list. -Vince] :From: Aaron J. Seigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Subject: aloha! :To: luau@lists.hosef.org :Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:08:10 -0700 :User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 hello everyone =) i'm coming to Oahu next month from chilly, snowy Calgary, Canada to

Re: [LUAU] Window manager missing under FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-03 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 12:14:53 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also discovered that the config utility doesnt place the xorg.conf in the /etc/X11 file . Several people told me that it should. Moved to there manually and was able to fix a mouse error manually then. I think

Re: [LUAU] A CMS Question from the State

2004-12-02 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:53:45 -1000, R. Scott Belford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received this question from a state contact in the DOE. Anyone want to offer their perspective? Sorry for the late response. I meant to discuss this when you come to do the server install but would you be able

Re: [LUAU] Window manager missing under FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-01 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 12:02:52 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying out FreeBSD 5.3 on an box which seems to run fine except that the X does not load the screen for ( xfce ) the window manager I use on all my FreeBSD 4.x boxes. init files seem to be there, but I just

Re: [LUAU] Kernel panic?

2004-11-11 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:05:27 -1000 (HST), Karen Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Jim Thompson wrote: check /etc/fstab ? How do I check /etc if I can't boot as far as the command line? Boot with Knoppix? Yes. Or any of the boot/live/rescue CDs that are available.

Re: [LUAU] Automatic mounting of floppy and CDROM

2004-10-20 Thread Vince Hoang
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:08:44 -1000, David Imai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had given up on autofs, but since you said it should work I took another look and was able to get it working. The problem was in /etc/default/autofs. It contains a line that says AUTOFS_ENABLED=false. When I changed it

Re: [LUAU] managing multiple network profiles?

2004-10-20 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:19:43 -1000, Charles Lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop running FC2. It has both ethernet and wireless. I have about a dozen different locations that I use my laptop, each one with different network settings. I have been just using the

Re: [LUAU] Slackware and Windows XP

2004-10-17 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:41:30 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Windows 98 on the first drive and Slackware on the second drive. Both are sharing LILO on the MBR. If I do a clean install of WinXP Pro on the first drive it will surely wipe LILO, Right? Yes. I

Re: [LUAU] wiki software recommendations?

2004-10-13 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:25:32 -1000, Charles Lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a wiki on a linux box for the group I work in. The intent is that it'll help facilitate project management, documenation, scheduling, that kind of thing. But I'm having trouble figuring out which

Re: [LUAU] Automatic mounting of floppy and CDROM

2004-10-13 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:58:45 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Imai wrote: I am currently preparing a number of used computers for home users who are mostly beginners. Most of them are Pentium II with 128MB or less RAM and 4GB hard drives. The computers currently

Re: [LUAU] controller amount of data to flush from buffer cache

2004-10-13 Thread Vince Hoang
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:24:55 -1000 (HST), Jimen Ching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is, I'm writing large amounts of data to disk. I.e. 4megs per write() call and gigabytes of data. The buffer cache is intercepting these write() calls and flushes what seems to be 32k at a time. I want

Re: [LUAU] X Input Methods

2004-10-13 Thread Vince Hoang
MonMotha and Wayne have both unsubscribed. Take this offlist if you want to continue. +---+ .:\:\:/:/:. | PLEASE DO NOT |:.:\:\:/:/:.: | FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=: |

[LUAU] POLITICS: evoting

2004-10-07 Thread Vince Hoang
On a somewhat controversial topic, a friend has organized a press conference downtown today at noon to make a statement against the electronic voting proposals. it's going to be between pioneer plaza and bank of hawaii, on fort street mall, and we're going to deliver a short statement urging

Re: [LUAU] open source ghosting/wiki syntax?

2004-09-21 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:46:35 -0700 (PDT), TB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, one of the URLs I try to link to has a ~ in it, and the wiki software elides it, breaking the URL. Anyone know how to fix it? Try using a second tilde: http://foo.bar/~~baz/ -Vince

Re: [LUAU] HOSEF Slashdotted

2004-09-20 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:06:35 -1000, Maddog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody wrote this here: http://www.hosef.org/ But I don't see anyplace with more technical information on exactly how they did the fedora diskless workstations and server setup. I'd like to see something like that.

Re: [LUAU] Can the HOSEF server survive a slashdotting?

2004-09-19 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:51:01 -1000, Dean Takemori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/19/023218tid=146tid=106 Most likely, given that the link does not point to hosef.org. You only get to the server if you follow the links within the Advertiser's article.

Re: [LUAU] HOSEF Slashdotted

2004-09-19 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:43:15 -0700, Ben Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like you guys are slashdotted today! Congratulations! http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/04/09/19/023218.shtml?tid=146tid=106 Thanks to John Pescador for submitting the article and getting it approved. -Vince

Re: [LUAU] Sobell's Book on FC2

2004-09-13 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:38:35 -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was at Barns Noble today and saw Sobell's Practical Guide to Fedora Core 2. Many of us have benefited greatly from Mark Sobell's Practical Guide to Unix, and this book should do the same wonder. At least it

Re: [LUAU] LUAU is your LUG

2004-08-16 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 03:13:13 -0500, MonMotha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considered a member of LUAU (or so I've been told) and I'm in Indiana... It is all a ruse to improve the signal to noise ratio. :) But seriously, anyone that is subscribed to LUAU is a member. Plain and simple. HOSEF has

Re: [LUAU] networking -- off topic?

2004-08-15 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 15:03:37 -1000 (HST), Tim Newsham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone here aware of a reasonably priced broadband solution that has good uplink speeds? The two obvious broadband solutions, verizon dsl and road runner, have quite low uplink caps. You might consider business

Re: [LUAU] Live Fedora CD

2004-08-14 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:37:46 -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Vince. I was not able to go into this web page. Also, since I may do modifications, royalty free images are not what I meant, unless they also grant rights to do derivative work. wayne Well, if you

[LUAU] Kudos to Warren Togami and everyone involved with Fedora

2004-08-14 Thread Vince Hoang
(Forwarded message from Brian Chee. The message was stuck on the moderator's queue because it was too big. Attachments, bad m'kay?) -- Since Warren is very good at downplaying his role in this project, I'd like to let the cat out of the bag and share the memo I just received from Matthew Szulik,

Re: [LUAU] Live Fedora CD

2004-08-12 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 07:35:27 -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could some of you tell me where I can find copyright-free Hawaiian scene images? Google lists a bunch, but I did not find any that charge as little as istockphoto.com for royalty free images.

Re: [LUAU] PHP Class Announcement

2004-08-12 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:59:34 -1000, Kevin W. English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About me: I have been using php since 2000 when we had to type $HTTP_GET_VARS instead of $_GET and we named our files php3/phtml instead of php. s/GET /REQUEST / # :-) -Vince

Re: [LUAU] FAI bootstrap help

2004-08-12 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:57:07 -0400, Scott J Guyton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just starting using linux, knoppix to be exact, and I have obtained a dell laptop that needs to be bootstraped for an installation (it has no OS whatsoever). I would consider booting any installation CD the

Re: [LUAU] PHP class and Sarge

2004-08-12 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:39:16 -1000, Nathan A. Keirn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Debian Sarge tonight, but when x starts I can only move the mouse for a second and then the Gnome Logon Screen appears and I have no mouse or keyboard control. Anyone have any recommendations. Boot

[LUAU] LUAU history needed

2004-08-11 Thread Vince Hoang
Hi folks, This message is primarily geared towards all you old-time lurkers on the list. We are hoping to gain a few historical accounts on the history of LUAU to use as material to develop more content on the hosef.org website. I am doing as much as I can from Google and the existing LUAU

Re: [LUAU] user experiences

2004-07-22 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:24:47 -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. My main interests are in the multi-lingual aspects of Linux and hardware development. Just wish I could have 48 hours a day. (Don't we all?) On the class idea, it is an excellent thought. I can guarantee

[LUAU] Administrivia: site availability

2004-07-22 Thread Vince Hoang
The power to the building where hosef and videl are hosted is planned to be cut for a portion of the next two weekends. So if you experience problems hitting either server, at least you know why. (The servers were down for portions of the past two weekends for the same reason.) -Vince

Re: [LUAU] Does this shock you?

2004-07-08 Thread Vince Hoang
No, this does not shock me. :) On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:17:19 -1000, R. Scott Belford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Newsham wrote: the URL descriptions dont match these programs. They're standard windows services (registry, security subsystem, win32 subsystem, session manager).

Re: [LUAU] Good Linux movie - Revolution OS

2004-07-07 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 08:46:24 -1000, Matthew John Darnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.revolution-os.com/ Anyone know of any other movies like this? None on open-source, but.. Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires is the closest thing I can think of. This is great high

Re: [LUAU] SATA hot swap - off topic

2004-07-07 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:19:54 -1000, Jeff Mings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. What I'd really like to be able to do is just switch out backup hard drives once a month. The goal is simple data redundancy, not hardware fail-over. I'm planning on colocating a server, and I

[LUAU] Administrivia: rejecting non-subscriber posts

2004-06-27 Thread Vince Hoang
I modified the list software tonight to reject non-subscriber posts. Prior to the patch, non-subscribers were getting a note that their message was being held for approval, but silently discarded. Well, now if you post to the list using a sender address that is not registered, you will get a

Re: [LUAU] fvwm question

2004-06-25 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:10:05 -1000, Charles Lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to find a reference to this yet. Anybody seen something similar, anybody know how to fix it so that fvwm doesn't do this? The gorilla admin approach would be to move all your local

Re: [LUAU] linux for school file web server

2004-06-24 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:20:13 -0700 (PDT), Ric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am convinced that Linux just works That is MacOS X, actually. :) I was just wondering if anyone has any recommendations for which Linux distro I should install on them for doing the same thing as my current server -

Re: [LUAU] Apt-sources list

2004-06-24 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:08:29 -1000, Maddog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone be so kind as to provide me with the local mirror lines for my apt sources.list file? Since you left out the disitribution and version, start here: http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/

Re: [LUAU] regarding HOSEF mtgs (was: Personal Touch Computers)

2004-06-18 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:19:19 -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect these subjects must have been discussed at hosef mtgs. This (i.e., ignorance) is one of the main perils of living (only) in a cyber world. wayne You can choose to join hosef-managers for more

Re: [LUAU] Personal Touch Computers

2004-06-13 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 06:41:57AM -0500, J. donahoe wrote: Saw your post on the hosef website. Can you tell me why the owner (Mr. Litvanoff) is such an a--hole? Please take this offlist. -Vince

[LUAU] Administrivia: mail aliases on videl

2004-06-13 Thread Vince Hoang
The mailing aliases on videl that were added to ease the transition of the list server from videl have now been set to bounce with a message that references lists.hosef.org. I suspect Warren will have videl reinstalled by end of summer. The lists affected are: hosef-announce hosef-managers

Re: [LUAU] mozilla question

2004-06-08 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:12:21AM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote: I use mozilla as my browser/mail client on a redhat 9 machine that resides in my office in Hilo. When I'm over here in Honolulu, I tunnel the client over ssh to read my mail on my laptop. When I start a mozilla browser on my

Re: [LUAU] VPN

2004-06-02 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 08:58:33PM -1000, Randall Oshita wrote: But I was just wondering if port translation is the same as port redirection. Is it safe to say that the nat daemon does port translation as well as address. Maybe. I tried natd 5 years ago. It did what I needed it to do at the

Re: [LUAU] VPN

2004-05-29 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 04:47:57PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know if FreeBSD's NATd is considered a Network Address and Port Translation device (NAPT). Nice to know people are still using FreeBSD. You might consider joining freebsd-questions. It is high traffic, but you can snarf

Re: [LUAU] EMail Server Limits

2004-05-29 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -1000, Maddog wrote: My Exchange Server has a 16 GB limit and it was reached today and crashed the server. I have been trying to get these guys to buy me a server I can run Debian + Exim + Squirrelmail on without any luck. Will that combination crap out when

Re: [LUAU] EMail Server Limits

2004-05-29 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:44:26PM -1000, Maddog wrote: The problem with the PST's is that they cannot access those emails from the web. In Microhard Exchange the Files are stored as a db using the MSDE or Microsoft Desktop Engine which is sort of a combination of SQL Server and Access. My

Re: [LUAU] Fedora or Debian

2004-05-27 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:51:03AM -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: How does Debian deal with security issues? For example, if Apache issues a security alert and an upgrade to correct the vulnerability, how quickly does Debian make the update available? Security updates seem to happen quickest with

Re: [LUAU] Fedora or Debian

2004-05-27 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 07:52:03AM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: I would say that the conservative path would be to track stable. The FreeBSD team tests releases until they become stable. When a release reaches the point of production stability, in the opinion of the team, the name is changed

Re: [LUAU] VPN

2004-05-27 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:01:30PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So basically, i need to buy more WAN IPs huh? Well, you need a device that supports one-to-one NAT if you decide to take that approach. -Vince

Re: [LUAU] VPN

2004-05-26 Thread Vince Hoang
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:49:10PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to have multiple vpn clients to connect to the same vpn concentrator if the clients are using a NAT behind the same WAN IP? I heard about NAT-T but is there other ways? ESP with Cisco devices? I believe NAT

Re: [LUAU] VPN

2004-05-26 Thread Vince Hoang
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 08:40:03PM -0600, Paul wrote: I may be wrong, but I would think that would work fine. Each user would have the same source IP address, but different source ports (1024) via NAT. Anyone else know? IPSEC headers do not have the concept of a port, so it cannot be

Re: [LUAU] mod_rewrite

2004-05-24 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 03:10:15PM -0600, Paul wrote: The VirtualHost directive is a pain since I have to restart Apache every time there is a change. I would like an option to do reconfiguration dynamically and prevent restarts. I have also heard that too man VirtualHost entries begin to

Re: [LUAU] Cheap linux router

2004-05-23 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:06:25PM -0700, paul wrote: I have been using a Soekris(http://www.soekris.com) box for my main router. Not very cheap ($200), but versatile, cool, and quiet. Most people have been able to push 17 Mbps through the net4501. Of course, it's processor is only an AMD 486.

Re: [LUAU] Windows shortcut equivalent in Linux

2004-05-19 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 02:32:55PM -1000, Vikram Khurana wrote: The reason I can't do cd ~ is because it may or may not be in the home directory. Here is why. The way I intend to distribute this program is by zipping up the directory tree which looks like /Parse/Linux/Linux executable

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