Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 25, Issue 20

2008-02-18 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi, Works with vncviewer, should work with any program in reality. Amos Shapira wrote: On 18/02/2008, Jeffrey Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better than than use the socks server feature in ssh ssh -D 1080 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Umm, never noticed this option. My main use of ssh

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 25, Issue 20

2008-02-17 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Dear list, I want to setup a server so remote users (ie brother in-law) can access a box with Aussie IP address. Currently foreign IPs can not assess eBay Australia he sells lots of stuff through eBay. Behold ssh port forwarding, from say his machine: ssh -L 1201:ebay.com.au:80

Re: [SLUG] Telstra Next G

2007-12-30 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi, Which device are you using. I am using a maxon bp3-usb (id is 16d8:6280) it did work like that with usb serial BUT the latently was still pretty sky high for me. I ended up recompiling the sierra module to include the usb ids added into it. ps I am using kppp to connect as a normal

Re: [SLUG] Upgrading HDD of Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT?

2005-05-24 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi, Just make sure /boot partition is under the 8gb or 20 gig size of the hard disk. Once loaded linux (or even windows nt/2k/xp) for that matter don't care about the bios limitions. Jeffrey On Thu, 19 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm looking to replace the hard disk drive

Re: [SLUG] commonwealth bank netbanking stopped support linux?

2004-10-24 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi, Netbank works fine, all you need is javascript support basically. So far it seems to work in any browser I have tried. I usually use it in konqueror (khtml) and it's fine. The address I always use to connect to is http://www.netbank.commbank.com.au/ NOTE: No https here it will redirect

[SLUG] Kernel upgrade problem

2004-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Borg
using redhat 7.3) was upgraded to 2.4.22 with no problems. -- Jeffrey Borg -- 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] PHP MySQL help

2003-03-19 Thread Jeffrey Borg
An easy beginners solution to this is just to make date fields in mysql as integer type instead of datetime. Later on once you are more familar with the mysql functions you can use them to convert to the unix timestamp that time() produces etc... On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Robert Maurency wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Unexplained traffic

2003-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi That looks like spamming instead of using email they are requesting the url's that they want to spam on your web server. The most people would see them in the access log or in summary stats created using things like webalizer. If you can configure apache to display a certain page for proxy

Re: [SLUG] Telling a HP5simx where to get paper

2003-01-19 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Take at look at ifhp on the LPRNG website. You can then use options with lpr I think it's -Z inlower,duplex etc... and it all just works. Also you get to see the username and job name on the printer screen at the same time :-) I have used this with a 5SiMX, 8000DN, 4Si and it all works exactly

Re: [SLUG] SLIGHTLY OT: how to restore data without a tape drive,3rd party ?

2002-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Borg
We are using LTO tapes where I work and all that's on them is tar files. Nothing more and nothing less. The scripts in use a slight modification to the ones with the tar source. Restoring is easy as tar xvf /dev/tape and using mt fsf 1 to get to the right file. As far as a third party

Re: [SLUG] Memory leak?

2002-07-23 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Taking away the buffers and cached you end up with the 2nd line of numbers which indicate you have 362mb of free ram, you have around 150mb of programs in memory the rest being cached files from disks. On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Melinda Taylor wrote: I just noticed after using dump that 100%

[SLUG] New Mail notification

2002-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi, This is something I have looked into before without much success. I am after a xbiff but one which just makes the pc speaker beep when new mail is waiting for the user. I.e If there are any unread messages just beep the speaker. This would just run from cron every minute to notify the

Re: [SLUG] New Mail notification

2002-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Borg
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Conrad Parker wrote: On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 10:34:17AM +1000, Jeffrey Borg wrote: Hi, This is something I have looked into before without much success. I am after a xbiff but one which just makes the pc speaker beep when new mail is waiting for the user. I.e

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Borg
I wouldn't have bothered with the extra expense of the card just make sure there is a /boot partition within the first 32gig or so The linux kernel is perfectly ok with ide disks it just ignores that the bios has to say on the matter My laptop has a 12gb disk in it bios only supports 8gb

Re: [SLUG] Configuring a satellite (iHug service)

2002-04-24 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Yep the old rp_filter trap! Had me stumped for about 10 mins as well. You only need to disable it on the sm200d interface though. On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ramon, due to spoof prevention... have a look in you boot scripts for rp_filter and change... for f in

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning Filesystem recommendations

2002-04-21 Thread Jeffrey Borg
as errors do creep in. On 21 Apr 2002, Craige McWhirter wrote: On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 19:27, Jeffrey Borg wrote: xfs - don't know about tools for it As Chris mentioned, the full SGI suite is there. xfs - hopefully no fsck's every x days and y mounts. Nope. Responds nicely when a laptop user

[SLUG] Partitioning Filesystem recommendations

2002-04-19 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi everyone. Well I finally got 4 x 80gb hdd's to use with a 3ware 6400 controller which I have had for months. Now I am going to have ~160gb in a system. Any idea's on partitioning schemes/filesystems. So far I am only speed testing it to try and find the right stripe size for raid0+1. Raid 5

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning Filesystem recommendations

2002-04-19 Thread Jeffrey Borg
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Crossfire wrote: Jeffrey Borg was once rumoured to have said: Hi everyone. Well I finally got 4 x 80gb hdd's to use with a 3ware 6400 controller which I have had for months. Now I am going to have ~160gb in a system. Any idea's on partitioning schemes

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning Filesystem recommendations

2002-04-19 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Stable enough for a single 160gb filesystem. Also benchmarks much faster than ext3 as well. At the moment I am trying again using a different stripe on the array. On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Ben de Luca wrote: snip xfs - don't know about tools for it Extensive tool suite - SGI provided all

Re: [SLUG] Shocking Service

2002-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Couldn't agree more about the water. I did specifically ask for tap water. The Coke thing you would have to ask for the can beforehand. But the water thing I just said No, forget about it. On 23 Feb 2002, paul wrote: I am just posting to the list to comment on the shocking service and

Re: [SLUG] IPROUTE2 and IPTABLES combination

2001-12-24 Thread Jeffrey Borg
I am doing this for every machine on my lan has a range of 200 ports on the public ip which is useful for incoming connections to apps which can be reconfigured for eg. realplayer, icq etc... how about just putting a SNAT line in as well? and forget the iproute2 stuff. On Mon, 24 Dec 2001,

[SLUG] PPPD Problem - a real puzzeler

2001-12-14 Thread Jeffrey Borg
pppd also using the phone's ppp support works fine also using the terminal on the phone works fine also any idea's? Jeffrey Borg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] National Bank Internet Banking

2001-12-11 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Also I have been using commonwealth internet banking for ages with netscape and mozilla (though I use mozilla all the time now with it) and it works fine, You do need javascript though, but not java but there is a java applet in there just an ad at the top. don't need cookies either :-) On 11

Re: [SLUG] BIOS upgrade (OT... a bit)

2001-11-21 Thread Jeffrey Borg
couldn't you just make it smaller in the bios and go and install linux on it anyway like my laptop 12gb disk windoze only see's 8gb and it's only in the 1st 2gb only anyway. Linux on the rest works fine. Linux dosen't care about broken bios'es! Heck it dosen't even use it! Just don't forget

RE: [SLUG] PPP Problem

2001-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Borg
? Do you have a network card in the machine as well ? Try ifdown eth0 or and see if the data then goes out. If it does, then the default route isn't being set. Troubleshoot to that end. Chris -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Borg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 12 November

RE: [SLUG] {{RESOLVED}} Unable to handle kernel NULL pointerdereference at

2001-10-27 Thread Jeffrey Borg
all PC133 SDRAM is memory which can run as high as 133mhz it can also run at a *lower* speed ie. 100mhz or 66mhz just fine On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Dinangkur Kundu wrote: Hi, I just joined the mailing list yesterday. I am also having same problem. My PC cinfig: 333MHz IBM Cyrix TX ProII

Re: [SLUG] A problem getting ADSL to work

2001-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Borg
You could do what I did to get satellite working using an aliases address for outgoing stuff say it's eth0 and eth0:0 so route del default route add default gw 172.24.1.1 dev eth0:0 would do the trick. (well it works on ppp links, I can not see how it wouldn't work on ethernet) On Tue, 23 Oct

Re: [SLUG] A problem getting ADSL to work

2001-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Opps one more thing to that diagram You will need to use eth1 as the interface with the alias. otherwise it won't work at all. Otherwise it will try and send the packets out the eth0 interface back onto your local lan. On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jeffrey Borg wrote: You could do what I did to get

Re: [SLUG] Login problem help!

2001-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Borg
auctually on mandrake like redhat and debain if I recall correctly that's all under /etc/X11 so it would be /etc/X11/(kdm|xdm|gdm) On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, blinddog wrote: KDE is the desktop and there is no etc/gdm (or etc/kdm) On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:43, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Someone trying to hack me (better solution)

2001-09-18 Thread Jeffrey Borg
If you want to kill this new worm on the head (instead of many http requests stop it after the 1st it's very simple and a bit insecure) either use a firewalling tool or plain old route! firstly chmod +s your tool (this is insecure I know but then the webserver user can do the dirty work of

[SLUG] Re: WAS: Someone trying to hack me (better solution)

2001-09-18 Thread Jeffrey Borg
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Graeme Robinson wrote: At 10:15 AM 19/09/2001 +1000, Jeffrey Borg wrote: If you want to kill this new worm on the head (instead of many http requests stop it after the 1st it's very simple and a bit insecure) either use a firewalling tool or plain old route

Re: [SLUG] Stability of 2.4.x kernels

2001-09-15 Thread Jeffrey Borg
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Andre Pang wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:30:47PM +1000, Jeffrey Borg wrote: anyway the problem tonight was that realplayer couldn't be killed off. I suspect that the sound driver locked and wouldn't release realplayer and thus any tools to kill realplayer

Re: [SLUG] Linux on Cyrix-233: what's happen here...?

2001-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Borg
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: I have a second hand Cyrix IBM 233 with the peocessor description: 6 * 86 MX PR233 IBM26*86MX-CVAPR233GE 3.0X 66MHZ-2.9V CORE that 3.0X 66MHZ as meaning in that it only *runs* at 200mhz the PR stuff is just marketing hype because it

[SLUG] Stability of 2.4.x kernels

2001-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi I want to just share a few incidents which involve the 2.4 kernel and comparasions to 2.2.x Firstly I recently upgraded my machine and it was either go to 2.4 or use 2.2 with ide patches so I took the 2.4 plunge. Secondly my firewall setup is much simplier thanks to netfilter :-) also DNAT

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail problem

2001-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Borg
curious as to when the satellite fails. Jeffrey Borg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] One floppy Linux Presentation System

2001-05-11 Thread Jeffrey Borg
And, a thought occurs. Won't Terry have to compile and install ecore, evas, eke(magic|point) every time, since it's a CD? You could always rebuild the cd with what you want on it, The BBC cd's are an excellent starting point for doing that. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Installing OpenSSH on RH5.2?

2001-04-28 Thread Jeffrey Borg
What about just grabbing the source rpm and doing a rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm That should work anyway and if any libraries fail (maybe openssh do the same for that source rpm and install it first etc) Jeff On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Jon Carnes wrote: I need to install a resonable version

Re: [SLUG] How to upgrade my RPM and install the file I need?

2001-04-24 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Short answer. You need rpm version 3.0.5 or greater. (but not version 4) The latest versions of rpm 3.0.5 onwards can install version 4 rpms using a version 3 rpm database. rpm 4 has a different database format. On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Fernando Lemos de Mello wrote: ... I need the latest

Re: [SLUG] Staroffice 5.2 - HTML mode

2001-03-29 Thread Jeffrey Borg
In SO 5.2 when creating an HTML document, how do you get the page title into the code, short of switching to HTML source mode and inserting it there, which does work. I have looked at every obvious button/menu/thingy that I can think of and I'm damned if I can find it anywhere; and the help

Re: [SLUG] raid 1 on linux

2001-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Borg
One more thing Just in case you think you have /etc/raidtab wrong On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, John Ferlito wrote: f) vi /etc/raidtab and add something like this raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 4

Re: [SLUG] More kernel whoopsy messages

2001-03-14 Thread Jeffrey Borg
It is caused by connecting a UDMA66 Drive to a UDMA33 Controller From my experiences in a squid proxy box it seems to be pretty harmless And I have found no solution to the problem. On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Sean Carmody wrote: I also have slightly irritating (but apparently harmless) kernel

Re: [SLUG] ps2html

2001-03-09 Thread Jeffrey Borg
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Rick Welykochy wrote: any idea how to ps2html? I tried a couple found with google ... crap. The closest thing is ps2pdf to create a pdf file OR use ghostscript to make an image out of each postscript page. (this is kinda not that efficient compared to pdf) I presume

Re: [SLUG] Access control

2001-01-13 Thread Jeffrey Borg
I have something for web access it will need squid and it works via arp cache so the database of machines is dependant on the nic (is dhcp will work fine) it jsut turns web access on and off and expires web access runs squid + perl redirector mysql db php frontend On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Darrell

Re: [SLUG] ext2 fs error

2001-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi The trick is to go to single user mode and if the filesystem is not / you can just unmount it and run fsck on it. Otherwise you will have to remount it read only with mount -o ro,remount / Then you can run fsck on it safely and it won't complain about damage. Jeff On Thu, 11 Jan 2001,

Re: [SLUG] Is their HTMl code to have Apache show you what modulesit has loaded?

2000-12-06 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi You do have something like the following defined in the httpd.conf file??? so that the .php, .php3 and .phtml will be interperted as php files? IfModule mod_php4.c AddIcon /icons/php4.gif .php3 .php4 .php .phtml /IfModule IfModule mod_php4.c AddIcon /icons/phps.gif .phps

[SLUG] Port 445 Scan

2000-11-07 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi I have had over the last few weeks thousands of attemps at port 445 on my server (not a network scan - although it has been a network scan a few times) these attacks are just at one host. (from one host!) Now I have dug up that this is the new 'SMB' port for windoze 2000 etc.. called DS But

Re: Executing commands on remote machines (was: Re: [SLUG] SOS)

2000-10-31 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Everything else deleted. This idea should work! You could also try pipeing the script into sh like this ssh newhost /bin/sh script might work? but being unix it should! well it does work echo "echo testin" | ssh somehost /bin/sh yields you guessed it. testin saves the copying anyway.

Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin problem

2000-10-18 Thread Jeffrey Borg
I have installed Windows95 (OSR2) under Win4Lin and now want to install some of Office 2000 but the CDROM seems to be unavailable. Windows Explorer shows an A:\, B:\, C:\, J:\ and N:\ drive but if you click on the CDROM (N:\) you get a dialog box which says "N:\ is not accessible The

Re: [SLUG] More Email Questions

2000-09-14 Thread Jeffrey Borg
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Ken Yap wrote: Hi again, well i got the mail server to work without the help of bigpond (hurrah) just one concern of mine. How does one check if there mail server is an open relay ?? There is the simple method of telnetting from outside, but be aware that there

Re: [SLUG] A4tech serial mouse support in X.

2000-09-05 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi What about using gpm on it with the -R option then using a /dev/gpmdata device for x using the mousesystems protocol for that device May just work Just because I have that brand mouse here and it works without ANY problems - just that it hasn't got a middle button. Jeff On Tue, 5

Re: [SLUG] NT and cityrail.

2000-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi The ip address of the server is familar! anyway it's zipworlds web server I have control of a box co located there and I can verify there is bandwidth available (well in australia anyway!) download from mirror.aarnet.edu.au - 700Kb a sec (bytes not bits) download from the box to a box a

Re: [SLUG] reiser+usb backport

2000-08-16 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi They can co exist, just look CAREFULLY at the rejected file it's a file system definitions (the usb has a special filesystem in proc and reiserfs is a filesystem duh.) anyway you will be quickly pick out the patch is trying to do and do it manually. it's only 1 .h (header) file and it does

Re: [SLUG] ASP and apache?

2000-08-16 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi, As far as I know Apache does'not support ASP. But there is chili!soft third party software which enables you to execute ASP code on apache. It costs around $800 for a single CPU server. However, I strongly suggest you converting the ASP code to PHP by asp2php tool.It is totally

Re: [SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] ICMP 0 DoS attack

2000-08-10 Thread Jeffrey Borg
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Troy Bell wrote: conspiracy theory Makes one wonder if they are testing the water for an attack on us Aussies /conspiracy theory I know there's been alot of talk on this list about scans and probes and when they occured and stuff, so it's probably not a good

[SLUG] Scsi problem

2000-07-30 Thread Jeffrey Borg
and that worked fine. The latest aic7xxx driver I tried was 5.1.31 from the person maintainig the driver itself. Jeffrey Borg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] lpr with JetDirect (solution)

2000-07-27 Thread Jeffrey Borg
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Richard Ames wrote: Ken was right on target RedHat suggests LPRng and apparently have it in Rawhide. See: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14691 Don't rip the binary rpm out of rawhide btw! because it's based on glibc 2.2 and won't work with

RE: [SLUG] TNT2 drivers with a patched Win4Lin kernel ??

2000-07-10 Thread Jeffrey Borg
: Jeffrey Borg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 11 July 2000 12:28 AM To: Mehmet Ozdemir Subject: RE: [SLUG] TNT2 drivers with a patched Win4Lin kernel ?? Hi On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Mehmet Ozdemir wrote: I'm using 2.2.14-5.0 also i saw a smp kernel at: ftp://ftp.trelos.com