[SLUG] Telnet Auto Login

2003-06-23 Thread scott
Hi All, How would I attempt to create an automatic login on Telnet? We have a linux box, where we have people to connecting to it, so they can telnet to a client of ours (On AIX,). Is there anyway I can have it automatically have them login without the username & password prompting on the AIX ma

[SLUG] replacement IM for sametime

2003-06-23 Thread Joe Black
Does any one know of a IM client that can connect to sametime server to replace the sametime client from IBM ? I'm running codewaevers for everything MS / IBM on Mandrake 8.1 but sametime does not connect to the server. thanks -- __ Sign-

[SLUG] .art files

2003-06-23 Thread Erich Schulz
Hi: I have been sent some photos in .art format, does anybody know what these are and how to view them in Linux, tried gimp, but not very sucessfull so far. Cheers Erich -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Opening .sxw text in Word XP

2003-06-23 Thread Glen Turner
Adam Bogacki wrote: cp /home/adam/xxx.sxw /mnt/DOS/Documents and Settings/Adam/My Documents Space is a parameter delimiter, so you need cp /home/adam/xxx.sxw '/mnt/DOS/Documents and Settings/Adam/My Documents' so that the spaces embedded in the filename are regarded as part of the filename rath

Re: [SLUG] RH73 kernel updating, modutils >= 2.4.18 is needed bykernel-2.4.20-18.7

2003-06-23 Thread scott
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -i kernel* > error: failed dependencies: > modutils >= 2.4.18 is needed by kernel-2.4.20-18.7 > > > > but get this dependency prob, what do I need to do ?? > > Download and upgrade (rpm -U) the latest modutils rpm which is greater then or equal to versio

[SLUG] RH73 kernel updating, modutils >= 2.4.18 is needed bykernel-2.4.20-18.7

2003-06-23 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm installing RH73 on Cel900 I've installed off pressed CDs, then, applied fixes from an errata CD, that worked OK (I think..) (using 'rpm -F *' from the i386 directory on the errata CD) I now downloaded the latest kernel from RH bugfix site [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# dir ker* kernel-2.4.20-18.7.

Re: [SLUG] Opening .sxw text in Word XP

2003-06-23 Thread scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 24-06-2003 05:44:04 PM: > Hi, > I've been trying to send a text file in OO .sxw format which WinXP > does not open legibly. > > I thought I'd convert it to a WordXP file by > > 'cp /home/adam/xxx.sxw /mnt/DOS/Documents and Settings/Adam/My Documents' > > but Deb

[SLUG] Procmail mailboxes

2003-06-23 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, can anyone tell me why my procmail mailboxes are not working (attached). Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DROPPRIVS=yes LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH$ PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/adam SHELL=/bin/bash LINE

[SLUG] Opening .sxw text in Word XP

2003-06-23 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I've been trying to send a text file in OO .sxw format which WinXP does not open legibly. I thought I'd convert it to a WordXP file by 'cp /home/adam/xxx.sxw /mnt/DOS/Documents and Settings/Adam/My Documents' but Debian unstable keeps telling me that 'Documents is not a directory' When

RE: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail

2003-06-23 Thread oscarp
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:19:25AM +1000, James Gray wrote: > > > > > We are running into problems when we get a flood of > > messages (>50/minute) > > > as the whole mail filtering/scanning thing quickly chews up > > all CPU time > > > > Are you runnin

Re: [SLUG] autoconf gtk test

2003-06-23 Thread Conrad Parker
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:39:17PM +1000, Nick Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 20:22, Ken Foskey wrote: > > OpenOffice.org has a new requirement for gtk for their crash reporter > > and I am trying to implement a warning for the absence of gtk-2.0. I > > had a hunt on google and came up with

Re: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail

2003-06-23 Thread Oscar Plameras
From: "Oscar Plameras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Here's the pertinent details for the system concerned: > > # ps aux | awk '{print $1 "\t" $3 "\t" $4 "\t" $10 "\t" $11}' > > USER%CPU%MEMTIMECOMMAND > > nobody 78.114.70:11.69 /usr/bin/spamd > > root0.0 0.0 0:28.5

Re: [SLUG] evolution edit ldap addresses

2003-06-23 Thread Dave Kempe
True to precedent I managed to fix it moments after sending a message to slug. Evolution doesn't let you edit the contacts if you are connected anonymously. So in the account settings in Evolution I had to put in the login method using DN and put in the DN for the server. I didn't care about permis

[SLUG] evolution edit ldap addresses

2003-06-23 Thread Dave Kempe
Hey sluggers, anyone got evolution editing addresses in ldap? I am running openldap - standard woody install with default setup. Except I have loaded the evolutionperson.schema from evo's cvs. I can drag and drop contacts onto the ldap server and it works great - I can view them etc. however I can

[SLUG] Reaction: SCO case: Australian LUGs says it's a storm in a teacup

2003-06-23 Thread Jan Schmidt
Sam, In your article (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/23/1056220519703.html), you state that "The Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide user groups did not bother to respond." We (the SLUG committee) are curious as to what attempt you made to elicit a response from our user group - none of the

RE: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail

2003-06-23 Thread Andrew McNaughton
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Andrew McNaughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, 23 June 2003 5:03 PM > > To: James Gray > > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail > > > > > > > > It sounds to me like you might want

Re: [SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread Umar Goldeli
Howdy, Thanks for this - but this runs multiple copies of tcpdump etc which tends to lose packets and slows down miserably after about 5 instances or so.. Cheers, Umar. > Have you considered doing a: > > # tcpdump -i | grep 1.2.3.4 > 1.2.3.4.log & > # tcpdump -i | grep 2.3.4.5 > 2.3.4.5.log

Re: [SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread Umar Goldeli
Howdy, > The bottom of this is the fact that the packet filtering using tcpdump on linux > is not done by tcpdump itself nor by the libpcap, but by the BPF filtering capability > of the kernel (read: the kernel only send the appropriate packets to the userland > side). > > To solve your problem

Re: [SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread Umar Goldeli
Howdy, > I don't know any way to do this with existing tools, but it would > presumably not be a particularly difficult task for a c programmer to > modify tcpdump for this purpose. Know any good ones? :) > Depending how much speed you really need, this could also be done in perl > using Net::Pc

Re: [SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread Adam Hewitt
Mike, I believe the original request was looking at about 100 ips, and a scalable solution. I dont think 100 tcpdumps is either simple or scalable. Adam. On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 10:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'day... > > Have you considered doing a: > > # tcpdump -i | grep 1.2.3.4 > 1.2.3.4

Re: [SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread mkraus
I guess if you knew perl or bash scripting, you could have the perl/bash script read through the output a line at a time evaluating it with a regular _expression_ and have the appropriate output directed to the appropriate file. This would be the most portable way. Warmest regards Mike --- Mich

Re: [SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread mkraus
G'day... Have you considered doing a: # tcpdump -i | grep 1.2.3.4 > 1.2.3.4.log & # tcpdump -i | grep 2.3.4.5 > 2.3.4.5.log & Of course, you may wish to refine the grep regexp if you are getting other stray lines in your log files. Never underestimate the power of the simple axioms that alre

Re: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail

2003-06-23 Thread Oscar Plameras
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:19:25AM +1000, James Gray wrote: > > > > > We are running into problems when we get a flood of > > messages (>50/minute) > > > as the whole mail filtering/scanning thing quickly chews up > > all CPU time > > > > Are you runni

RE: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail

2003-06-23 Thread James_Gray
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew McNaughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 23 June 2003 5:03 PM > To: James Gray > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail > > > > It sounds to me like you might want to allow more concurrent processes > than you are at present.

[SLUG] ANNOUNCE: SLUG Meeting, Friday 27th June 2003

2003-06-23 Thread Jan Schmidt
Sydney Linux Users' Group Monthly Meeting: June When: Friday, June 27, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway, room 2.4.13 and (SLUGlets) 2.4.11 SLUG's monthly meeting, featuring general talks, special interest talks and SLUGlets. Open to the public and free of charge. This month's me

Re: [SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
Hi, The bottom of this is the fact that the packet filtering using tcpdump on linux is not done by tcpdump itself nor by the libpcap, but by the BPF filtering capability of the kernel (read: the kernel only send the appropriate packets to the userland side). To solve your problem, you dont need

Re: [SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread Andrew McNaughton
FWIW I don't know any way to do this with existing tools, but it would presumably not be a particularly difficult task for a c programmer to modify tcpdump for this purpose. Depending how much speed you really need, this could also be done in perl using Net::Pcap. snort might also be of int

Re: [SLUG] installing cd writer

2003-06-23 Thread August Simonelli
In case you aren't using lilo and are using Grub (as most red hat systems do) here is an example section from my /etc/grub.conf (it's from red hat 9 but i think they are close enough): title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-9) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi

Re: [SLUG] Network Problem

2003-06-23 Thread moise lim
On Monday 23 June 2003 04:05 pm, El 4Love wrote: > Hello All, > > I have encountered a problem with our network. > Following is diagrams shows how our computers are connected. > > Internet > > > ADSL Router/Firewall > > | > > Switch

[SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread Umar Goldeli
Howdy, How are we all? :) Here's an interesting question that I'm looking for a solution to - quite simply, is there a way to run tcpdump to capture different ip addresses and output them to different files without running multiple copies of tcpdump? Specifically - something along these lines

Re: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail

2003-06-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 02:50, Tony Green wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 11:43, Bruce Badger wrote: > > Could you expand a bit on why postfix over exim? > > I've heard a LOT of support for postfix and have seen some diehard > sendmail guys switch over. Postfix was designed as a drop-in replacement

Re: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail

2003-06-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 02:19, James Gray wrote: > Are there other alternatives (Postfix, Qmail etc) that people have experience with? > We currently pump 10,000+ messages and 6Gbytes+ a day through our mail gateway. Apart from my usual recommendations for Postfix (easy to configure, robust, secure,

Re: [SLUG] installing cd writer

2003-06-23 Thread James Gregory
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 18:13, Perry, David J wrote: > I need some help installing a CD writer on a Redhat 8.0 system. You need probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi in /etc/modules.conf and something like append="hdb=ide-scsi" in the appropriate lilo.conf entry. You'll also need to ensur

[SLUG] installing cd writer

2003-06-23 Thread Perry, David J
I need some help installing a CD writer on a Redhat 8.0 system. It is a CD-RW brand CDR-6S52 IDE device only a couple of months old and was working in a Windows box. It is installed as the slave on the first IDE cable and shows up as /dev/hdb . There is no SCSI hardware on the system. I can r

Re: [SLUG] SSH2 hostbased authentications issues...

2003-06-23 Thread Chris Deigan
Low Christopher - clow wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ssh -l "different server user" server I usualy use this to login via ssh: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] No idea about hostbased austhentication though - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gro

Re: [SLUG] Debian upgrade question.

2003-06-23 Thread Chris Deigan
Tony Green wrote: >On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 10:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> G'day all... >> >> Is it possible to non-destructively upgrade a Debian "potato" install >> to a Debian "woody" install non-destructively? (Ie. Not loose data?) > >edit /etc/apt/sources.list, change potato entries to read

Re: [SLUG] Mutt Key ID dead end.

2003-06-23 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Nick C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > Morning, > > Sometimes in Mutt I press a wrong key, possible 'k', and get a dialog in the > command area at the bottom: > > Please enter the key ID > > and nothing will get out of this dialog bar killing the process. > > Is ther