I am wondering, is there any software I can use with Linux that
can scramble
everything on my hard disk
Boot off a CD or single disk system such as toms root boot.
cat /dev/random /dev/hda
will really scramble things but it will take a long time to go over the
whole disk. There'll be no
You've probably got
user * password
in your chap secrets
you need
user * passwors *
or
user * password ip-address
which specifiacally sets an PI for that connection.
Thats not it - I have
user * pass *
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I'm currently trying to get PoPToP working, but it's coming up with an error
on the server:
Dec 11 12:13:58 legba pppd[10845]: The remote system is required to
authenticate itself
Dec 11 12:13:58 legba pppd[10845]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret
(password) for it to use to do so.
Dec 11
suggests to me it is in the wrong place - where should I be placing
sting for this?
- Doug
-Original Message-
From: George Vieira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 12:22 PM
To: Doug Stalker; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Pppd server won't
Firstly unless your using TCPwrappers and pptpd in the
inittab /etc/hosts.allow will do nothing..
It was worth a try. :)
Check your /var/log/messages for anything else, so far your
posting just a couple of lines and we're probably missing an
important piece..
can you send a
Is there something else I'm misisng here? The fact that noauth is
being ignored suggests to me it is in the wrong place -
where should I
be
placing
sting for this?
have you told pptpd wher to findc its options?
Its should be in the /etc/pptpd.conf I think.
make sure its
How can I stop a system from beeping on things like hitting tab when there
are multiple matches, scrolling too far in less/vi etc? Is there a way to
disable it for all apps (other than removing teh speaker)?
The system I'd like to do this for is a Redhat 7.1 box.
- Doug
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How can I stop a system from beeping on things like hitting tab
when there
are multiple matches, scrolling too far in less/vi etc? Is
there a way to
disable it for all apps (other than removing teh speaker)?
The system I'd like to do this for is a Redhat 7.1 box.
When you're in
To: 'Doug Stalker'
Subject: RE: [SLUG] SCSi card disappeared after upgrade to 2.4
AAaahaa!! you haven't compiled the modules for it..
Can you still boot back into 2.2.17? If you can then do this
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
(Exit and Save it).
Reboot into 2.4 kernel
cd /usr/src
I can't be the only person using debian 2.4.12 who needs scsi -
there must
be a debian package for it somewhere!
You might have a non standard card (since you called it 'cheap') which
isn't supported in the standard kernel. This will mean you have to
build your own kernel unless
Doug Stalker was once rumoured to have said:
That doesn't explain why there is no /scsi directory in
/lib/modules/2.4.12.
That'll be because it got moved to kernel/drivers/scsi in 2.4.
Next question: how do I work out which module to load? Under 2.2.17 lsmod
shows
Module
I recently moved a debian system from kernel 2.2.17 to 2.4.12. Everything
is working fine (once I changes ipchains to iptables) except that the SCSI
card doesn't work anymore. It's a cheap ACARD scsi adapter, with a CD
burner and a DDS3 tape drive runing off it that was working fine under
Dear SLUG,
Apologies if this a poor email id to send to !
I'm looking for a 443 MHz or possibly 500 MHz Celeron CPU to
upgrade an old
HP PC (from 366 Mhz, I've checked with HP that it will take a small speed
upgrade).
The PC stores only carry about 850MHz upward now and say slower speeds
I have two Linux boxes, one is a server and holds the usernam/password
file, however it's HDDs are full and so are the available slots, ie I
cannot just add another drive I would have to replace one. The
other Linux
box can be a server or workstation but it does have a very large HDD.
I
I've just moved a SCSI CD burner and a DDS3 tape drive out of a windows
system into a linux system to allow network backups. The tape drive works
beautifully using mt and tar, but I don't have any CD recording software
installed at the moment. Can anyone recommend any good command line CD
Thanks all; I now have cdrecord and mkisofs installed.
- Doug
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I have a large collection of html written with fixed colors that I want to
convert to CSS. The lines that need changing look like this:
BODY bgcolor=#CC text=#66 link=#006600 vlink=#003300
alink=#00FF00
TABLE border=0 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=2 width=100%
bgcolor=#CC
And
Be aware that if you want to increase the memory on these boxes
you _must_
use HP sourced RAM.
Yep, I think that's right. Can't be sure but I thinks this is a
nasty worthy
of MS themselves. Me thinks that the bios queries the ram and
when it doesn't
say HP Dimm the bios says get lost,
I'm
using Telstra ADSL with Debian and it's working very well - better than it works
with windows. I'ts been down once in the past few weeks, when something
went wrong with Telstras Authenticationserver.
The
package you need is pppoe. I had some setup problems - PAP will
notwork with
My experience of RealTeks has been that there are very cheap and very
unreliable. I've never had any problems quite as extreme as this.
Try putting a crossover cable directly between the two systems, and see how
that goes.
- Doug
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
put the following line in
/etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider or whatever ppp options file your're using
for the connection.
debug
It will probably give you some more useful debug info to work out what's
going wrong.
Adding DEBUG=1 to adsl-start gives some more usefull information.
In
sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x68 auth chap MD5]
Does anyone have any ideas wjat is going wrong here?
Whoops - I had a type in chap-secrets ([EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of
user@bigpond)
Now when I run adsl-start it just sits there, with the debug showing
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 --
I've searched the mailing list archive and can't find an answer to this one:
I've just gotten Telstra ADSL. It's working fine from my Windows Me system
(the one I'm using now) but when I try to use pppoe on my gateway system
(Debian Potato) I get the following in /var/log/messages:
legba
Look at your IPChains rules for input and output. Allow any form of
output, and make sure data beinng returned to user ports (ie: ports
above 1024) is allowed to return. (you can use the -y flag to allow
data to return, but not allow new connections to be established)
- Doug
George Ferizis
I fixed my problem with backspace not working under X - I edited
/etc/X11/Xmodmap so the following lines were uncommented:
keycode 22 = BackSpace
keycode 107 = Delete
I still have no idea how the problem started, but a working solution is
good enough for me.
- Doug
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Debian Woody System. Everything going fine. Then from a console I
killed X ('killall gdm') to see if it would make any difference with my
sound problem - it didn't. I started gdm back up, but teh backspace key
wont work - it just beeps. I rebooted teh entire system - same
problem.
If I have a CD-R to which I have burnt multiple sessions, how can I get
the system to mount an earlier session instead of defaulting to the most
recent? Under Windows one of the CD-Burning apps added an option so I
could right click on a drive letter and select a session - but I don't
know the
Policy-based routing should be able to do this - I started looking into
something similar, but the project it was for never went anywhere.
Start with the Linux 2.4 Advanced Routing HOWTO. I suspect that most
things in it can be done with a 2.2.X Kernel, ipchains and iproute2.
My
I got the same problem trying to get my AWE 64 (ISA) working with Debian
Woody.
What I've found:
as alsaconf starts up it flashes an error about a missing module - I
think this is the auto-detect modules. If I give teh setting manually I
get the same error as listed below, except maestro.o is
John Ryland wrote:
When the telstra guy came to install it from Windows, it like took him
practically all day. Various things went wrong for him and he had to get some
other guy in to help in. After they had gone it took about 5 minutes to setup
the ppp over ethernet package on Linux. I
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:34:05PM +1100, Terry Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
you spend 15 minutes wondering why root is seeing a different /usr/bin
than your user sees.
I got to wonder whether *THIS* has to do with the day?
Oooops. Let me rephrase:
Alex Salmon wrote:
my idea was that as all primes end in 1,3,7,9 (not all ending 1 3 7 9 are
primes tho) so i wouldent need to start testing the number if it ended in
say 5. sure this would slow down the working initily but as i get in to
the say the 5 or more it would dramticly
I was thinking, that as computers are binary machines, you could
probably speed up your algorithm by thinking in binary rather than
decimal. This will mean doing a lot of modification to your algorithm.
Just thinking out loud again.
Even better would be to think it terms of how many
More things I can't figure out with Debian!
How do I set up sound? I installed alsaconf, but it complains about
grep: /etc/modutils/alsa: No such file/directory and modprobe: can't
locate module snd-detect.
Is there a better way to setup sound? Is there a (working) automated
utility to do
Matthew Dalton wrote:
Doug Stalker wrote:
Is it normal for packages to be missing like this in unstable?
I think it's more a problem with the aarnet mirror than with debian
unstable. Try a different mirror.
It looks like you were right - I changed my unstable to
ftp.monash.edu.au
Is there an ssh2 daemon for Debian (Potato)
I ran apt-get install ssh, and I have an sshd running - but it is SSH1
only.
apt-get install ssh2 results in
Package ssh2 has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
Doug Stalker wrote:
I installed proftd with the default settings (anonymous=N was the only
question) and it works fine. I consider that to be a fix. :-)
George Vieira wrote:
Not a fix but I prefer to use ProFTPd... Customize the hell out of it.
I'm having trouble with running an FTP
Conrad Parker wrote:
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 02:37:24PM +1100, Doug Stalker wrote:
apt-get install ssh2 results in
Package ssh2 has no available version, but exists in the database.
...
your next step is to do "apt-cache search ssh2" to see what packages
do anythin
Jeff Waugh wrote:
So lets assume for a moment I want to get X windows working, preferably
with Helix Gnome.
Where do I start?
First off, run either:
a) tasksel, and choose the "X Window System" task, or,
b) apt-get install task-x-window-system
Both of these commands
I just got the following from the Nation Australia Bank. I thought it
may be of interest to other SLUG members.
-
Dear Mr Stalker,
Thank you for your feedback.
We are currently in the process of upgrading our
From the two messages I've posted to SLUG today I've received error
messages from imr1.bain.com.au complaining of too many hops. A look at
the headers shows that the messege is going to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], it is then converted to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and that it then starts running in a circle
Steven downing wrote:
I've only been a Linux user for a few months now, and decided to go Debian last
week. Inside one week I've got more set up and working correctly than I did in x
months of RedHat. X worked out of the box, (almost, bad hardware cursor), XMMS and
all those sound
computer computer wrote:
hi
how do you know that nework card is detecting by redhat7?. After i had
installed my Sohware fasr ethernet network card and configure it and
rebooting the computer, i saw the word eth0. however when i used the
command arp -r and rarp commands to see the mac
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who="Doug Stalker"
If there a guide anywhere titled "Debian for people who have had a lot
of experience using Redhat and redhat like linux distributions like
Mandrake who now wish to change to Debian"?
Yep. It's:
man everything
a
Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:33:37PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Read the above stuff on X, and look through "apt-cache search"... Lotsa cool
stuff. "Just add water."
^
Don't do this. It's silly and you would just be
computer computer wrote:
hi
everytime i turn my computer on, my mouse freezes and it does not move
till i disconnected it and reconnected it again from the back of my computer.
[...]
Any idea? and how do solve it?
Does this happen when you start X-windows? What if you unplug/replug to
I need to dump the output of an Oracle SQl query to a file, but
unfortunately it replaces all NULL field with a carrage return.
Correct carrage returns can be determined by the fact the have 200
spaces in front of them due to line padding. To fix the problem and
geteverything back into correct
What flags are you passing cpio in SCO? There is a -c flag that write
steh header in text instead of binary, and it says in the SCO cpio man
page that this is required for archives being moved between different
system types.
Also check the block size - if they are different between systems
"Marshall, Joshua" wrote:
Hi,
I'm having weird happenings on my firewall.
[...]
The problem I'm having is forwarding data between the 10.0.5.6 eth1 to
the 10.10.10.x eth0. Packets are working fine for the rest of the
system.
[...]
The ipchains rules (in, out, forward) accept
"Marshall, Joshua" wrote:
IP forwarding is enabled, and it is working on the other interfaces.
Any other clues?
I noticed that most of the problems seem to be from the 10.0.5.10 to the
10.10.10.x LAN, not the other way around (tcpdump showed me this)
Try disabling IPchains
Ken Yap wrote:
or a way of installing a boot loader without
mounting the partition that it will be running.
could boot a rescue floppy, make a tmproot in ramdisk, say
/tmp/foo, mount the boot partition under that as /tmp/foo/boot, create a
/tmp/foo/etc/lilo.conf (hope you remember the
quote who="Aaron Binns"
I have the "Sed Awk" O'Reilly, but I was wondering if anyone out there who
works with shell scripting had suggestions for other scripting based books? I
would like to find a book (or two) which teach how to shell script in general,
rather than concentrating on
I had to reinstall windows on my dual-boot system, and as expected
windows overwrote the lilo boot loader. Easy to fix, I just put in my
linux boot disk and boot it up - except teh disk has devoloped a whole
bunch of bad sectors.
Not a problem! I think. I'll just use a TOMRTBT boot disk to
I have a linux box which acts as a gateway: it accepts connection from
the internal private network (called ethP), masqurades them and then
forwards them out to the internet (via interface ethI)
This works fine, except now teh client wants to change things around a
bit - he wants any packets
Terry Collins wrote:
Doug Stalker wrote:
This doesn't answer your question, and might not be the best solution,
but there are apps like tcpgate, redir, etc that will collect packets
for ports on one machine and redirects them to another machine/port.
I don't like tcpgate as it re
Lucent based PCI modems will work, *BUT* the drivers are very specific
to one kernel version. (Unless they've released some more recent
drivers)
On later kernel versions I could use it for a text based dialup
(Vodafone Telenotes) but it would crash when I tried to use it for PPP.
If you do need
Graeme Nichols wrote:
Hello Folks,
Please bear with me if the questions I am about to ask appear to be a
bit silly. I am completely new to Linux.
I have just installed Red Hat Linux 6.1 onto a 10G HD.
Welcome!
[...]
Linux still works fine. WIN 98 works just fine and doesn't hang
I can't for the life of me build a kernel that boots my machine. Yet
the default redhat 2.2.14-5.0smp kernel works fine.
get the source rpm for the kernel package our using from redhat
and the .config file should be in there.
Just make sure you don't do 'make mrproper', or
Ian Ward wrote:
As
administrator, you will need to keep UID/GID consistent between the two
systems.
Is it possible to copy the passwd, shadow and group files from one
system and have them work another?
I just tried it here and it worked fine but are there any
not-immediately-obvious
Appologies for the off-topic post, but it is for a linux system...
Does anyone know where I can get a power supply for a Micro NLX case?
To further complicate things it has to be paid for with VISA.
- Doug
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George Vieira wrote:
Now that I founnd the files needed I still get problems. I'm trying to get
rid of DNS lookups in sendmail and use a relay host.
I tried to do the same thing and failed - I ended up setting up DNS on
our firewall and having the the system use that to do the lookups.
George Vieira wrote:
Also when creating swap space, what happens if you put somethign large like
1000MB as swap? Could that have been the problem as I remember 128MB was the
limit but this time it did
I think the way it works is not matter how bug the swap partition is only teh
first 128MB
We have several unix server here at work run several processes in
different tty's with different logins. The application output is sent to
the tty the process is running in. When accessing the systems locally
it's an easy matter to switch between teh different screens with
ctl-alt-F*, but is
Some feedback for everyone who helped with my question on security Vulnerability
scanners:
Nessus - It looks very nice, but it doesn't seem to work very well when doing
remote probes. Scanning the system it was installed on (My Home system,
Mandrake 7.1 w/ ipchains firewall) picked up a few
Jason Rennie wrote:
Hi all,
I have a hub, and i want to connect 2 machines to the hub, and plug the
adsl modem into the hub.
It would be better to have the ADSL connect to one machine, with another NIC
in that machine connected to the hub. This makes it easier to do thing like
Jill Rowling wrote:
ObLinux: Would Linux cope with an AI the scale of Mike Holmes?
Would not scale. Can imagine self asking permission to format new disk...
Can imagine answer.
I wondered at the time that Heinlein had been looking at PDP-11 front
panels.
That's the only thing that
I want to demonstrate that a particular (linux) system is vunerable so I
can try to get something done about it. According to netstat -a the
following TCP ports are listening for connections:
1700, 1025, echo, discard, daytime, chargen, ftp, telnet, gopher, shell,
login, exec, pop2, pop3,
Gregg wrote:
Dear Slug,
Two nights ago we had a lightning storm (but not actually near us). Since then,
my modem connects fine to my ISP but DNS doesn't seem to work. I can ping IP
addresses but not domain names.
Try the following to help to isolate the problem:
What happens if you try
I've written a script to use for paging messages from a linux system,
and all that remains to be done is to run it with its output directed to
the modem and the output of the modem directed back to it. The only
problem is I can't figure out how to do this: page /dev/modem
/dev/modem doesn't
Ahh I see they are doing THAT again.
In the mid 1980's, the way you used to protect software from being
copied
was to deliberately write a bad sector to the disk using special
hardware.
Your game software would check for the existence of this bad sector,
and not
run properly if the sector
Dave Kempe wrote:
I've also gone into single user mode to fix problems (or make them worse
:-) but I've never been into lvel 2 or 4.
That's ok Doug. One day you'll find someone willing to go to 2 or even 4
with you. No doubt she'll be very special :-)
LOL.
I just had a quick look at
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:43:40PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
The kernel, vmlinuz-2.2.17-idepci,
I've seen kernals with names liek this before (mandrake with its
2.2.15mdk etc)
but whenever I compile I get a kernel named simply after the version.
How can
I create a custom kernel version name
Angus Lees wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:13:59AM +1100, Jill Rowling wrote:
This is good; if distros can stick with a standard.
[different run level conventions]
i'm curious: does anyone actually use different runlevels?
I use 0 and 6 for rebooting/shutting down, and sometimes
David Fisher wrote:
Linuxconf is not an admin aid, it is a learning impediment.
And how many newbies would have given up when they were first learning if they
didn't have access to it?
It might not teach you how to manually configure linux by creating/editing files
but it makes linux a
the Australian Dollar is on its lowest terms ever and nobody in the
world want to buy Australian products, or?
Thinking about how this discussion has noting to do with linux (although I am finding
it
interesting) and reading this it suddenly occured to me: Has there ever meen an
Australian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well - goodbye to SLUG.
It was fun while it lasted.
How about setting up a SLUG-OT list, where non-linux discussions that start on
the SLUG list can been taken? I've seen this done on a few other mailing
lists and it helps keep the main list on topic while providing
-Au.
- Doug Stalker
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Jill Rowling wrote:
Well, yes, you can just boot from a floppy if the machine has a floppy
drive.
The main thing about RAID 1 is that a hard disk crash whilst the machine is
running does not get noticed by users.
I just had a RAID 1 drive fail and lock the system - after rebuilding it was
Christine Whybrow wrote:
Hi,
I've just installed Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on my new motherboard.
1/ Sound. The sound is reported ( by Win 2000 ) as a Intel 82801BA/BAM AC
'97 Audio Controller 2445. Linux seems completely unable to detect it!
Have you tried runnig sndconfig? It's a redhat
Howard Lowndes wrote:
I did hear a rumour that RAM theft is a problem in corporate
environments. Does anyone have any first hand experience of just how
prevelent it might be.
Yes. I used to work doing Technical support for a large computer company, and we
had a tech-lab where we could
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
Why dont you shop the parts yourself and put them together into a box.
You can build computers very cheap this way and you are not requested
to buy a particular shop's hardware set
I do that for my personal systems, but for work systems it's a lot easier
I have a system running sendmail that is behind a firewall (private
network). On the outside of the firewall is our mail server. I have
already configured the firewall to accept mail and relay it to the mail
server where it can be sent to the outside world; I have verified this
works by
David Kempe wrote:
Dougie,
tail /var/log/messages
it may not be pppd that is dieing, but chap. or chat.
I've listed what I get in /var/log/message below (I removed some lines to reduce
the size) . The crash is immediatly after "Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/modem" so I
think Tom Massey is right
David Kempe wrote:
Dougie,
tail /var/log/messages
it may not be pppd that is dieing, but chap. or chat.
I did, and it is pppd. (And it's a crash, not a script failure) I'll post the
relavent part of the log tomorrow
You may need a custom chat script.
What isp are you dialing?
It's a
Tom Massey wrote:
Doug Stalker wrote:
Install the modem drivers
This is a kernel module called 'ltmodem.o'? Binary only, released by
Lucent.
Thats the one. (AFAIK, it the only official linux driver for any winmodem)
2) Any ideas on what is causing pppd to crash and how
CaT wrote:
newmonth = `echo $oldmonth | sed -e 's/0\([1-9]\)/\1/'`
newmonth = `echo $oldmonth | sed -e 's/^0//'`
Both of these work on the target system, so I'm going with the one that involves
the least typing.
Other suggestions worked fine on linux (where I'm writing the script) but
I'm sure this is easy but U'm having a big mental blank when I try to do
it.
I have a variable in a shell script (#!/bin/sh) which is a number
representing a month. It has a 0 in the front if it is less than ten
(ie: July is 07) but I need to remove that leading zero. How can I do
this?
-
Scenario: I have two HDDs that are identical (same brand, model, size,
etc) and I want to make one a copy of the other. At the moment I'm just
plaicng them both into a system, booting up from a disk with TOMSRTBT on
it, and running dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda. This works, but takes a
long time
Jean-Yves Provost wrote:
DaZZa wrote:
What kinda of hub/upstream device is it connected to?
DaZZa
That's cheating ;-)
It's also not 100% reliable. A lot of 100Mbs hubs will convert everyone to
10MBps if a single 10Mbps card is connected. (This may also apply to
switches) I've also
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