Re: [SLUG] downgrading from Centos 5 to 4 ?

On 1/09/2012 4:49 PM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: I have a machine running Centos 5, I'd like to downgrade to Centos 4 in order to run an older PHP CMS that require 'older' PHP, (it seems easier to run older system that upgrade the CMS Going backwards often has security implications and is not

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

Hi Dmitry, I agree, this should be actively opposed and it will be - Electronic Frontiers Australia are already on the case - http://nocleanfeed.com Cheers, Marty Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Guys this is bloody serious -- let's do something about it. Petitions, complaints, protests -- anything!

Re: [SLUG] where to get an Ethernet hub (NOT a switch)

Amos Shapira wrote: On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:36:47AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: I'm looking for an Ethernet hub to be used for network troubleshooting (trying to find which of our hosts is involved in the load on our office uplink) Hi Amos, I might be a little late now... if

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

I had to replace some IBursts - I'm likely to replace 2 of them with a single 1M/1M commercial wireless service from Clever @ $399 per month. A bit pricey, but we need a decent link there. The site currently uses 2 x Ibursts which cost a similar amount anyway. I'm still looking for a better

Re: [SLUG] A8N-SLi Asus Motherboard

Gerald said the following on 15/12/2006 7:53 AM: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:43:40PM +1000, Gerald wrote: Do any Sluggers know how to get 4 x sata drives working on this mother board with Linux or Indeed any O/S? When i add a drive beyond 2 the system gets screwed up. Kernel panic.

Re: [SLUG] t/s dns name resolution, lack of

, November 29, 2006 12:11 pm, Marty Richards wrote: Everything looks good for that domain in DNS land currently. You could also log a fault with Telstra on behalf of your BigPond customer - it doesn't hurt to attack these problems from both sides. Marty, as well

Re: [SLUG] t/s dns name resolution, lack of

Glen Turner said the following on 1/12/2006 11:14 AM: Voytek Eymont wrote: I have a user on BigPond cable that can no longer access a particular domain, www.gazetaprawna.pl snip and $ dig @195.205.179.10 ns gazetaprawna.pl ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached Hi Glen, This

Re: [SLUG] DNS and resolv.conf

Its probably your dhcp client overwriting the settings. There is probably a command line or conf option to turn this off. Cheers, Marty T: 02 9460 8077 F: 02 9460 8166 Ashley said the following on 30/11/2006 6:17 PM: I have changed the resolv.conf to show the main DNSs of my provider in

Re: [SLUG] t/s dns name resolution, lack of

Hi Voytek, Everything looks good for that domain in DNS land currently. I'm guessing that they had a DNS issue recently and that certain large DNS servers like Telstra have cached the bad entry. If this is so, then the cached entries should time out in the next day or so... Alternatively,

Re: [SLUG] Problems backing up a server to SMBFS

Hi Raphael, I've found this one a few times now. Try using: mount -t cifs //yadda/yadda rather than smbmount. Cheers, Marty T: 02 9460 8077 F: 02 9460 8166 Raphael Kraus said the following on 29/11/2006 11:59 AM: G'day all, Distro/kernel: Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.8-3-k7-smp I'm writing

Re: [SLUG] server stopped

ashley maher wrote: I was happily working (using ssh) on a server and it stopped. SNIP Anybody mind guessing where I should look next to find why this thing stopped (Or even suggesting if I'm looking in the correct places) Next time it stops you might need someone to look at the

Re: [SLUG] finding a file

Ben Donohue wrote: Further to this (and this is not an answer to the question above) but I'm buggered if i can find the largest files on the hard disk and list them in order. I've tried various arguements but can't seem to crack it. like find / -S -r (or -s) -name xxx|more Any ideas out there?

RE: [SLUG] What sort of attack is this

Title: RE: [SLUG] What sort of attack is this I have found this is my apache logs 132.198.224.115 - - [18/Nov/2003:23:27:10 +1100] SEARCH /\x90\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\x b1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02

RE: [SLUG] Serial - PS2 connector

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: Any connector I can buy or any other idea? Yes. They're not exactly globally available these days, but you certainly get them. Ironically, I know DSE has them, because I had to look them up for a customer yesterday... PS2 - 5 pin din keyboard

RE: [SLUG] problem

- I am having a problem connecting to ozemail. It keeps giving me the sign Error Ox800 CCC0E. could you please tell me what this means and if I can correct it . - It means welcome to outlook, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. Maybe you could reinstall everything?

[SLUG] RE: not helping

that reply achieved much asides from making sure someone's (likely) first experience with Linux users was a negative one. Mike On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 10:50, Marty Richards wrote: - I am having a problem connecting to ozemail. It keeps giving me the sign Error Ox800 CCC0E. could you please

RE: [SLUG] Bynari's Insight Server

If it simply email why not an imap server (Hope I have this right). The IMAP server side is great. The problems are with the clients - Outlook and IMAP is ugly for a dozen reasons. Has anyone met a Windoze mail client which works nicely with IMAP servers? (think sent items, drafts, deletion

RE: [SLUG] ADSL Problem

Hi Martin, Is PPP compiled into your kernel or is it a module? Try compiling with ppp as a module if you haven't already... PADT is a common result of bad username/password, or occasionally on new connections when Tel$tra hooks you up to the wrong ADSL provider... You don't get PADT unless

RE: [SLUG] Web server with 4 virtual hosts behind firewall

Hi Chris, If each domain has its own IP address does that mean that I will need to bind those ip addresses to the internet interface on the firewall? If so can anyone explain how I can bind multiple ipaddress to 1 interface. Two options here, which may or may not be practical depending

RE: [SLUG] hard drive choices

Title: RE: [SLUG] hard drive choices Modern Fujitsu drives tend to have a very strong reputation. I've even hauled a couple from Africa to Europe and then back here into Oz without any problems. As for warranties... most companies are now settling for a 1 year warranty, with a

RE: [SLUG] DNS

Hi Paul, This is usually a result of your internet connection configuration resetting your resolv.conf. There is usually an option to disable this somewhere - what are you using to connect to your ISP? Other, more drastic options would be to set up part of your connection script to re-rewrite

RE: [SLUG] continuous power up query

I run loads of machines 24/7. The ones that die usually do so overnite, most commonly with a smokey power supply failure. Occasionally (twice) I lost the power supply, motherboard and CPU all at once - but again its overnite so I didn't get to see them. Bodgy SpaceWalker motherboards is a likely

RE: [SLUG] Reduntant links

Hi Richard, Presumably you aren't running services on these connections... If so, you can probably get away with setting duplicate default routes with different metrics. Something like: route add default gw cable.gateways.ip.address route add default gw adsl.gateways.ip.address metric 1 This

RE: [SLUG] iptables / ipchains - Which suits me best?

I'm looking to share my dialup Internet connection on a soon to be Redhat 7.3 machine, with two clients behind it on a private IP range. [snip] Works for me also. - Netmeeting (nice, but not essential) Netmeeting was a broken protocol last I looked (~18 mths ago), embedding IP

[SLUG] BPALogin problems

Hi Sluggers, Interesting problem with a Telstra Bigstink BPALogin connection. It has been working passably well for a couple years, but now... The symptoms are: *) the connection is working *) we're getting an IP address assigned *) we can resolve the name and ftp to the dce-server but

RE: [SLUG] Pacific Internet ADSL

Is anyone running Pacific Internet ADSL ? I am tossing around a few ADSL providers looking for the ones with good rates vs good performance. So far, Pacific Internet and Netspace are my preferred, however when I ping/traceroute Pacific's servers (a week or so ago), I get very long

RE: [SLUG] Backup Internet Connection

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Dan wrote: Our Telstra ADSL connection has been down all day :( and the boss is a bit peaved. Wondering what a good backup solution would be? I am in the process of setting up a Linux firewall and is it possible to have a modem in a Linux Firewall that is

RE: [SLUG] In need of some advice...

Hiya EB, Sounds like fun. We are using rsync and offsite backup servers to handle this kind of problem. It works fine as long as the link bandwidth is sufficient to replicate changed files nightly... The backup server than backs up to tape. Cheers, Marty -Original Message- From:

RE: [SLUG] Sendmail woes

Sendmail is running on the machine and accepting connections according to ps -aux? You can telnet to your.deadrat.machines.ip on port 25 ok? If so, try sending a mail from another machine to username@[your.deadrat.machines.ip] and watch your log for problems. Cheers, Marty -Original

[SLUG] RE: Weird MAC addresses?

? Cheers, Marty -Original Message- From: Marty Richards Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:19 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Weird MAC addresses? Hi All, Weird problem... In a new compaq PC with dual netgear 311's (using the fa311 driver from netgear) we see some interesting effects

[SLUG] Weird MAC addresses?

Hi All, Weird problem... In a new compaq PC with dual netgear 311's (using the fa311 driver from netgear) we see some interesting effects with the MAC addresses. ifconfig shows: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:73:E8:B0 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr

RE: [SLUG] to C/H/S, or not to C/H/S?

Hi Howard, I see this a lot. It seems that hda is in LBA mode, and hdc is CHS. I don't usually change the mode or the settings, just calculate and create hdcX slightly larger than the hdaX. This works nicely for disaster recovery also. Cheers, Marty -Original Message- From: Howard

RE: [SLUG] RAID advice wanted

Hi John, It works on 2.2, haven't tried 2.4. Setting it up can be fun. Theres a really good guide in the slug archives from John Ferlito. We are using it on a handful of servers where performance isn't really an issue but the extra layer of redundancy is desirable. One of these boxes dropped

[SLUG] OT - linux job

Hi All, Sorry for the OT post. We would be interested in receiving resumes for a new level 2 position we are planning on creating. The duties of the position include: *) Linux server builds, installs and admin *) Linux firewall builds, installs and admin *) Evilware server builds, installs

RE: [SLUG] ping problems

Hi Mike, After recently installing RH 7.0 and setting it up on our network (assigning IP and default gateway) I realised that I could traceroute to just about anywhere on the planet, I have no probs resolving DNS names etc but 100% packet loss with ping and no www. I'm at a loss as

RE: [SLUG] JOB: Exciting Development Opportunities

On Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:51 PM, Jeff Waugh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Anand is making a sly reference to the fact that there are now only 32 official members of SLUG. (Or is that 33? I thought you were part of the 32, Anand.) Given that there's now just over 500 people on the list,

RE: [SLUG] IDE BOOT RAID 1

Hi Dave, Bootable RAID 1 is fun isn't it? ;) I think we saw this problem when playing with our Raid this week. My guesses would be: *) Raid support is not enabled in the kernel *) Auto-mount raid partitions are not enabled in the kernel *) The raid partitions are not type fd *) Something is

RE: [SLUG] raid 1 on linux

Hi All, Thanks for all your help with this, especially the step by step guide from John. I nearly gave up - instead its now happily booting from the raid1 device ;) The trick is to make sure you have the right version of the raidtools and HOWTO. If your howto talks about using mdadd then its

[SLUG] raid 1 on linux

Hi All, Is it just me or does the configuration of Raid 1 on Linux really suck? Its a real pain to configure, and I dread the day I have to fix it after it breaks. Even Netware 2.15 was better than this, and that was more than 10 years ago. I haven't benchmarked it yet but I have a gut

RE: [SLUG] raid 1 on linux

Hi Howard, Thanks for your mail (thanks Crossfire also). I was having problems with mdadd -ar returning "invalid argument". We could create raid0 easily, but raid1 was not happening. I am using 2.2.16 I have since found some kernel patches that claim to help - these have been installed and

RE: [SLUG] raid 1 on linux

. It'll be faster. I haven't got as far as trying to boot from the raid yet, and from what I see on the net thats the really fun part. Cheers, Marty On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:54 PM, Marty Richards [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Hi Howard, Thanks for your mail (thanks Crossfire also). I

RE: [SLUG] Whats happening here

On Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:19 AM, Del [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Nick Croft wrote: They broke into my debian machine ... and this is supposed to generate a bunch of "SlackHatStormgenyix is better than debian because it's more secure" calls. Someone asked him what he was

RE: [SLUG] Reiser FS

On Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:18 PM, Crossfire [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said: Be warned that I've noticed problems using reiserfs on LVM partitions. Writing to the reiserfs file system seems to cause bdflush to jump up to between

RE: [SLUG] Dialing through PABX

On Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:03 PM, Alexander Else [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm just trying to get a Debian 2.1 box to dial through a PABX system. '0' gives an outside line, however I'm failing to find the place to sort

RE: [SLUG] Re: Can flammers be barred ????

Karyn I agree. Can this K Linux International person be removed? Perhaps we can politely ask our Singaporean friends to take their personal grievances elsewhere? Karyn said: Please accecpt my apologies for all the trouble caused I'll be most grateful if anyone could send me a list

RE: [SLUG] tcpdump tcpshow

Hi Howard, I have had problems with tcpdump ignoring packets... I use snort now, works very well ;) www.snort.org Cheers, Marty On Friday, March 16, 2001 1:14 PM, Howard Lowndes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Can anyone offer the correct options to use with tcpdump and tcpshow to see

RE: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface for BAS lodgement.

Well maybe u shouldn't use the linux version as its crap! Use windows it was written for it! honestly i dont understand if u want documentation that is not man crap than use .doc!!! I am honestly sick of the linux lamers at work, they want to use their own crazt abiword or man crap. It

RE: [SLUG] Linux Friendly ISPs?

I use rpi.net.au. Not the fastest in the world, but linux friendly ;) I also use most of the major ISPs at various client sites, haven't found any that didn't work with linux... whats the problem with connecting to Netspace? Cheers, Marty On Tuesday, March 06, 2001 8:53 PM, Tom Deckert

RE: [SLUG] ppp sockets

However, on the new machine it goes like this: debian:~# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 172.16.4.2 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 203.7.132.66*

RE: [SLUG] [OT] Fixed IP ADSL

I was thinking about corporate.pacific.net.au, but haven't committed yet. Anyone using Pacific? Fixed IP is not a problem there they tell me. Cheers, Marty On Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:44 PM, Ian Ward [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: OK, I'm sick of waiting for Telstra Direct. Anyone using

[SLUG] Weird MASQ issue...

Hi Sluggers, This is a weird one. Any thoughts/speculation appreciated. A client is using a Slackware 7.1 machine as a firewall and IP-Masq connection for their internal network. Its clean and simple, using an identical build as a dozen others which are running properly. UDP and ICMP are

[SLUG] FW: [ISN] SSH remote root exploit was released

FYI, upgrade/patch now if you haven't already. Cheers, Marty -Original Message- From: InfoSec News [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ISN] SSH remote root exploit was released -- Forwarded message

RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

Here's me fire wall config: Intel 486 DX 2 66, (over powered btw) 32 MB (once again overkill) 2 Intel Ether Express isa Cards 1 Floppy Router, there are many option in this area eg: LRP, FloppFW, FreeSco etc etc. I had a firewall like this for years, it worked well (2.0.33 I think).

RE: [SLUG] deltree equivalent

"deltree -y c:\*.* nul" is a real joy in Windoze ;) It gets doubly entertaining when you use ANSI to remotely reprogram their keyboard assignments... map enter to this little beauty and they're completely hosed... not so difficult to do when one runs an ANSI based BBS ;) I haven't tried it for

RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

On Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:39 AM, Dave Fitch [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:15:25PM -0800, Nicholas Lawrence wrote: Apologies for the long-winded post - I guess my question boils down to: 1. Is anyone having problems with 1 or 2 8139 cards in the same

[SLUG] SCSI Card recommendations?

Hi Sluggers, I'm about to score a 12/24 Sony DDS tape drive to throw into a clone P150. Does anyone have any quick recommendations for a SCSI card to drive this under linux? I'd prefer something with a module rather than kernel patch... Last time I got a DPT and spent way too much time getting

RE: [SLUG] PPPd pain!

Hi Alan, I use 2 scripts to call ozemail. The first, called "/call" is /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/cua0 115200 -detach defaultroute modem connect /callisp /call The second, called "/callisp" is chat -v '' 'ATZ' 'OK' 'ATDT94348030' 'ervic' 'PPP' 'ormation' '' 'name' 'myloginname'

RE: [SLUG] ipfwadm

Hi Paul, Yeah, its easy ;) rinetd works well with ipchains/ipfw - the input and output chains/rules are definately still enforced. The forwarding rules are also enforced, but its rare I use a forward rule to block traffic accross the rinetd portfw - I usually use an input rule to control

RE: [SLUG] Port intrusion monitoring

hahaha, are you joking ;) try tcplogd or scanlogd for simple yet extremely effective port monitors. Or get serious and run snort to actually identify what kind of exploit was tried, whether it worked, and of course who dunnit. ;) Cheers, Marty On Friday, January 12, 2001 7:11 PM,

RE: [SLUG] 'nc' utility

nc is netcat... its nearly everywhere, do a search ;) Cheers, Marty On Friday, January 12, 2001 7:39 PM, Rick Welykochy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Scraping around the 'net, I found mention of this: echo anything | nc domain.name port Sounds handy ... easier than rolling your own

RE: [SLUG] hubs, switches etc

D-Links prices are also very similar and i havent heard of any grief with their switches (their NIC's are another story). Infact i havent really found a switch that was bad. Most are better than a hub Yup, Netgear switches are better than a kick in the head. I haven't used D-Link since

RE: [SLUG] Fetching mail from a remote mail server

Hi Matt, If you set up your MX records so that your ISP queues your mail, you can have sendmail receive it in a near normal fasion whenever you connect. To do this, run sendmail in daemon mode (sendmail -bd) sendmail -q90m will cause sendmail to process mail in the queue every 90 minutes...

[SLUG] Problem with NICs...

Hi All, I have a slackware 7.1 box with 3 Netgear FA310TX 100Mb NICs. It works great (of course). But there is an interesting problem. If I unplug the network cable from any of the NICs, for a whole 2 seconds or so, and then reconnect the cable that interface drops off the network and

RE: [SLUG] Problem with NICs...

. ;( The interfaces are still there, but every packet results in a TX error. Cheers, Marty On Sunday, December 10, 2000 10:13 AM, Terry Collins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Marty Richards wrote: But there is an interesting problem. If I unplug the network cable from any of the NICs, for a whole 2

RE: [SLUG] Net Slowness... Telstra Dirty Tricks?

Hi Dean, I suspect you're close to the mark. I have permanent connections via RPI, Zip/pacific, Ozemail and bigwetspot (bigpond). Initially, they were all having similar problems. Since yesterday afternoon, only RPI Ozemail seem to be having problems Sigh. Can anyone provide

[SLUG] DDS/DAT tape drives

Hi all, I haven't played with tape drives on linux yet, but probably will be shortly. I'm thinking of either a 12/24Gb or 20/40Gb DAT... can anyone confirm these devices are happy on 2.2.x boxes? Any preferred/recommended controllers? Cheers, Marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

[SLUG] [OT] Solbourne S4000 power unit?

Hi All, I have found a complete Solbourne S4000 lying around. Unfortunately the power supply unit is labelled as bodgy. Its a long shot, but I don't 'spose anyone knows of any compatible power supply that might be available? I haven't checked sun ripened yet - normally their gear is too rich

RE: [SLUG] scripting help.

Hi Dazza, This script is untested (naturally)... probably broken but not hard to fix. ~~ #!/bin/sh for file in * do first=`echo $file | cut -c1` cp $file /home/ftp/pub/doc/$first/. done ~~ Cheers, Marty On Monday, November 13, 2000 11:22 AM, DaZZa [SMTP:[EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] scripting help.

Minor change - you only want letters? Still untested and probably broken. ~~ #!/bin/sh for file in * do first=`echo $file | cut -c1` if [ "$first" = [A-Za-z] ] then cp $file /home/ftp/pub/doc/$first/. fi done ~~ Cheers, Marty On

RE: [SLUG] Large IDE hard drives

On Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:47 AM, Ken Yap [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I'm wanting to get a large IDE hard drive for an old Pentium 120 I have here, I'm wondering if there's a limit to the size I can use - I have a feeling the BIOS is limited to 8Gb or something in the older

[SLUG] 1st Debian install (was M$ goes open source)

Surely the main hindrance to debian as a first introduction to linux is the install itself. If we help someone with the install then administering the system is probably no more difficult than any other distribution. What do other sluggers think? Ken Yep, this dselect thing is really

RE: [SLUG] drawing power

I have 35 PC's powered up in my room. Don't sweat it ;) Admittedly I have 2 x 10amp circuits in here, and only use 8 monitors... but everything has a 10 Amp cutoff and I haven't tripped anything for ages. I suspect a PC without a monitor is only drawing half an amp or so - does anyone know? ;)

[SLUG] A super sparc?

Hi Slug, I have acquired a couple of new workstations. The problem is I'm not really sure what the boxes are... The cases are labelled "Axil 311" and they appear to have 6 CPU's ?? labelled "Super Sparc TMS390". Unfortunately there is no RAM, and the slots seem to need 100 pin ? memory which

RE: [SLUG] [OT] Blown up power supply?

It might be just the fuse in the power supply, or it might have taken out the rectifiers as well. Anyway of working out which? (Without pulling the thing apart - I really doubt that there is a way, just asking). And is there any easy way of fixing this? eg Pushing the fuse back in as you

[SLUG] // ??

Hi Sluggers, I accidently typed cd // on one of my slackware 7.0 boxes. Surprisingly it happily took me to //, which seems to be an alias for the / directory. Interestingly this 'feature' does not occur on DeadRat, or on earlier versions of slackware. Does anyone know why this might have

RE: [SLUG] // ??

Hi Marty, I accidently typed cd // on one of my slackware 7.0 boxes. Surprisingly it happily took me to //, which seems to be an alias for the / directory. Not quite. The pathname treats multiple /'s as a single /. I think this is implemented in the guts of the kernel, in the routine

[SLUG] Linux Distro's exceed linux users

Number of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Users Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux 2.1 and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally surpassed the number of actual Linux users. http://bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html --