Re: [SLUG] Where to buy cheap Cisco routers?

2008-10-29 Thread Rob B
Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/10/26 Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ebay cisco stuff is constantly churning through. However your question seems two fold. 1) im not sure what router i want 2) where can i get one. You are right - I'm looking both for a place I can find stuff and a good advise.

Re: [SLUG] wireless access point ?

2008-03-06 Thread Rob B
At 09:45 PM 6/03/2008, AKS wrote: what if i plug in an wireless access point through my existing modem ? have anyone used it before . im not sure will it work or not? please suggest. This works fine, it's exactly what I do. modem/router = 8 port switch = AP cheers, Rob -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] DIY networking kit at Aldi.

2007-01-04 Thread Rob B
At 10:18 PM 4/01/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote: ...and a $12,000 fine for using it if you do an installation. Joseph Goncalves wrote: Hi All, There is a good value networking kit comming up on Thursday 11th at Aldi stores. For under $40 you get: - 50m of Cat 5e UTP network cable - 1 pair of

Re: FoIP (was: Re: [SLUG] Modem/Router recommendations please.)

2007-01-01 Thread Rob B
At 12:10 PM 2/01/2007, Penedo wrote: On 02/01/07, Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fax does not go well on VOIP, to do with VOIP sending discrete packets and suppressing silences, where a fax is one great big block of data, not designed to be broken up. Yes I know that. But there is

Re: [SLUG] SPAM is ramping up

2006-12-21 Thread Rob B
At 10:31 AM 21/12/2006, Howard Lowndes wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: add something in IP tables to ignore the host then you will save some data as well. I know greylisting is all the rage at the moment, but tarpitting/stuttering seems to be the next big thing due to spambot authors writing

Re: [SLUG] UPS for Linux

2006-08-25 Thread Rob B
At 11:00 AM 24/08/2006, you wrote: Sorry to dump this on the list as I don't have time to research this. I have had a phone call from a friend out shopping for a UPS for a Linux server I set up for him, si I need to find out quickly. Can anyone make a quick recommendation? Must be ethernet

Re: [SLUG] BGP Protocol

2006-07-27 Thread Rob B
At 12:08 PM 27/07/2006, O Plameras wrote: Martin Barry wrote: oh, that's a whole can of worms right there. time to convergance varies from network to network: - number of eBGP iBGP talkers - number of feeds and size of feeds - underlying hardware (CPU intensive) BGP works well on

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Query

2006-02-24 Thread Rob B
At 02:09 PM 24/02/2006, Rajnish wrote: After looking at the broadbandchoice website for some weeks now, I've figured that I'd ask the sluggers. What are your suggestions for a modest $50/month commitment, minimum 512Kbps plan from an ISP that does not shy away from Linux (slackware, fedora) ?

Re: [SLUG] [ot] Using telephone wiring for networking?

2005-12-09 Thread Rob B
At 10:41 AM 6/12/2005, James Gray wrote: On Tuesday 06 December 2005 09:20, Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 08:41 +1100, Matt Moor wrote: Hi Richard, This was one of those buzz-wordy type things a few years ago, and some of the big consumer network device companies put out

Re: [SLUG] linux locks up cisco - but how/why?

2005-08-17 Thread Rob B
At 09:08 AM 17/08/2005, Glen Turner wrote: DaZZa wrote: The Cisco device would block the bad port if it detects a problem. The switch ports in the c8?? are too dumb to do that. Aye. It's probably a jabbering network interface card (eg, sending the last packet repeatedly, with

Re: [SLUG] web site analysis/statistics

2005-05-17 Thread Rob B
At 12:05 AM 17/05/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Relatedly, can anyone recommend a good squid log analyser? There's quite a few around -- but i'd like to see what people actually recommend. I used Calamaris in the past and liked it. That *was* a while ago though :) cheers, Rob -- We don't hate

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Light email replacement for Outlook Express

2004-02-25 Thread Rob B
At 11:29 AM 26/02/2004, Simon Wong wrote: Can anyone recommend a light (it needs to run on Windows ME so I don't trust Mozilla Mail to work) email client that can handle multiple accounts as a replacement for Outlook Express? I am checking out Phoenix Mail

Re: [SLUG] screen(1) lovers anonymous

2004-01-07 Thread Rob B
Jeff Waugh wrote: Here's a cool feature that I've added to all of my ~/.screenrc files now: hardstatus on hardstatus alwayslastline hardstatus string %{.bW}%-w%{.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %H %{..Y} %d/%m %C%a It creates a status bar that has tab-like thingies which looks like this:

Re: [SLUG] Help with some kernel hacking

2003-12-17 Thread Rob B
At 05:15 PM 17/12/2003, DE LUCA Ben sent this up the stick: Hey there, im trying to port a device driver from x86 to my alpha , im very new to kernel development and to the alpha platform. And was wondering if any one might be able to give advice or mentor me. Not that I can help at all, but just

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-12 Thread Rob B
At 11:57 AM 12/12/2003, Christopher Vance made a rockin' answer to Brad Kowalczyk : much snip Mate, that was probably the best answer I have seen in a long time to a question like that ... well done :) Cheers, Rob (Fellow multi-OS user) -- Age before beauty; and pearls before swine. This is

Re: [SLUG] Postfix and regexp

2003-11-04 Thread Rob B
At 01:13 AM 5/11/2003, Voytek sent this up the stick: ** Reply to note from Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 04 Nov 2003 12:24:07 +1100 why are you tuesday 10pm? Kevin, that's a good Q. the answer is long and involved, and, I do not understand some parts of it... snip so, today, when I

Re: [SLUG] Time Servers

2003-09-02 Thread Rob B
At 02:35 PM 1/09/03, Edwin Humphries sent this up the stick: What public secondary time servers are useful for those of us on AEST? pool.ntp.org is a good one, have a look at the web site (pool.ntp.org ... funny that) cheers, rob -- A penny saved is ridiculous. This is random quote 169 of 1254.

Re: [SLUG] Netgear Wireless

2003-08-25 Thread Rob B
At 05:59 PM 18/08/03, mick sent this up the stick: A friend of mine (who owns a pub and will pay me in BEER! to fix this)has asked me to set up a wireless LAN for him. I suggested a Linux Box for the server, because I always recommended Linux. He has given me an IBM Aptiva for the server hardware

Re: [SLUG] is it just me!!

2003-03-31 Thread Rob B
At 09:22 PM 31/03/03, Mick Boda sent this up the stick: /stevenk/alsa 404 error! Here is the output; Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~stevenk/alsa/./Packages 404 Not FoundReading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list

Re: [SLUG] debian woody on an alpha...

2003-03-30 Thread Rob B
At 10:32 AM 29/03/03, J A Barton sent this up the stick: Firstly, the date. When checked from the srm console the date is correct, however from debian.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date Sun Mar 29 11:29:11 EST 2065 ^^^? does anyone have any ideas other than forcing the date

Re: [SLUG] problem adding source during debian install

2003-03-28 Thread Rob B
At 06:43 PM 28/03/03, Mick Boda sent this up the stick: I select edit sources list by hand I type http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/i386/./ I recieve the following error message E: Type 'http, etc,etc,/i386/./' is not known on line 9 in source list /etc/apt etc, etc. If I change this to

Re: [SLUG] NIS cannot detect root users

2003-03-15 Thread Rob B
At 08:32 AM 16/03/03, pesoy misak sent this up the stick: i have two computers that has debian woody in each of them and trying to serving an NIS and NFS server NFS is working fine and NIS during the setup is fine but I can't log in as root the root account is there but is locally not as NIS

RE: [SLUG] Win2k - Linux VPN

2003-03-12 Thread Rob B
At 04:55 PM 13/03/03, Adam W sent this up the stick: Just on this topic of VPN's. I have been meaning to ask everybody. How secure are VPN's in terms of packet sniffers/encryption etc. The company that I work for has decided to use citrix Nfuse or whatever the S^#@ is! Because they argue that

Re: [SLUG] Advice for a Web Cafe

2003-03-11 Thread Rob B
At 02:36 PM 10/03/03, Kevin FItzgerald sent this up the stick: I am setting up an Internet cafe/Community access point at my church. We have a room and 50 Machines all with Windows Lic's for the desktops, and I want to run RH8 as the server and Backend. I will probably set it up as an NIS Server

Re: [SLUG] Debian (2.2)/Windowmake How do you resize a window?

2003-03-09 Thread Rob B
At 10:19 AM 10/03/03, Terry Collins sent this up the stick: I know it sounds sime, but all I can work out under Debian 2.2/WindowMake is how to iconise or maximise my windows. How do I stretch the window to the size I want? i.e. right click on title, choose Resize/Move - then what? I haven't been

Re: [SLUG] postfix: mynetworks clarification.

2003-03-05 Thread Rob B
At 11:52 AM 6/03/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this up the stick: The documentation for postfix states that the default for mynetworks parameter is mynetworks_style = subnet and that this Trust SMTP clients in the IP subnetworks that Postfix is connected to. In Postfix 2.0.4, etc/main.cf says: # By

Re: [SLUG] Postfix: checking that I've got this right.

2003-03-05 Thread Rob B
At 03:21 PM 6/03/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this up the stick: We have a mail server on the inside of our network, that cannot be reached externally, but serves all mail for our systems. Postfix on our firewall/gateway is to forward all mail destined for our mail systems to this server. To

Re: [SLUG] How to create an ISP

2003-02-06 Thread Rob B
At 14:54 7/02/2003, Phillipus Gunawan sent this up the stick: Doh... is it really true there is no ducumentation on the net i can look up? Didn't I give you a link (tldp.org) to search? If you really want others to do your homeopwrk, then I think you are asking in the wrong place. Where have

[SLUG] NIS/YP question

2003-02-06 Thread Rob B
While this is not strictly a Linux question, it does involve some Linux boxen (and a couple of Windows and FreeBSD systems :) I have about 5 machines at home, networked together. Usually, about three of them are in use at any given time. To save updating various bits of info when I make a

Re: [SLUG] How to create an ISP

2003-02-03 Thread Rob B
At 13:16 4/02/2003, Phillipus Gunawan sent this up the stick: Greeting SLUG, I got an assignment, to create almost full documentation (implementation and pricing) on how to create an ISP in Sydney. Is there any available article I can lookup which is a real story? Preferably is a small-medium

Re: [SLUG] Firewall MD5 signatures on processes

2003-01-29 Thread Rob B
At 23:49 29/01/2003, Matt M sent this up the stick: And totally unimplementable on a machine where the same binaries can have different MD5 sums across different installations, e.g. the one you all are (most likely) reading this mail on now. Unless the MD5 sums table is build when you install

RE: [SLUG] Problems configuring woody for cable

2002-12-29 Thread Rob B
At 09:10 30/12/2002, Adam Bogacki sent this up the stick: Tux:/home/adam# cat /etc/resolv.conf search paradise.net.nz nameserver 203.96.152.4 nameserver 203.96.152.12 Tux:/home/adam# /etc/network/interfaces # /etc/network/interfaces --configuration file for if up(8) if down(8) # the loopback

Re: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ?

2002-12-04 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 7:21 AM Subject: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ? Hi all, I need to add an ftpd to my Debian laptop and wwondered what ppl have used and can recommend and what not

Re: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ?

2002-12-04 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Michael Lake' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:27 PM Subject: RE: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ? Hi all, I need to add an ftpd to my Debian laptop and wwondered what ppl

Re: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ?

2002-12-04 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Rob B' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:49 PM Subject: RE: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ? I need to add an ftpd to my Debian laptop and wwondered what ppl have used and can

Re: [SLUG] I think I'm being DoS'd - What can I do ?

2002-11-26 Thread Rob B
At 09:08 27/11/2002, Adam Hewitt sent this up the stick: I used to work as a network engineer for a large national wholesale ISP, and it was *policy* that we provided bandwidth, *not* filtering. Their philosophy was that if you are being DoS'ed you need to contact the source ISP and get them to

RE: [SLUG] Help with Webalizer

2002-11-25 Thread Rob B
At 08:58 26/11/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this up the stick: FreeBSD - libjpeg is in the ports tree, gd isn't, nor is webalizer. But after you build the libraries and link all the files from /usr/local/include to /usr/include (or compile webalizer with a --include=/usr/local/include) it's

Re: [SLUG] offtopic - nntp traffic volume question for ISP admins

2002-11-24 Thread Rob B
At 11:25 25/11/2002, Broun, Bevan sent this up the stick: Can any ISP admins give me an idea of how much traffic is downloaded for the major top level groups. Ie how much will be downloading per day or week if we decide to bring in all of comp. and all of aus. When I was setting up feeds for

Re: [SLUG] Debian network install

2002-11-21 Thread Rob B
At 12:14 22/11/2002 +1100, Richard Hayes sent this up the stick: Reading the Debian installation how to I did not see how many floppy disks I need to do a network install? I did this with my Alphas, and I only needed the two boot floppies. cheers, rob -- Vote Cthulhu! Why choose the lesser

Re: [SLUG] Need to lease an IP block.

2002-11-03 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: David Hill [Hostcentral] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 1:06 PM Subject: [SLUG] Need to lease an IP block. Hi all, Does anyone know of any person or company that would be willing to lease me a portable /24? Hmm ...

Re: [SLUG] web-based photo albums

2002-11-03 Thread Rob B
At 13:47 3/11/2002 +1100, Craige McWhirter sent this up the stick: On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 15:27, Rob B wrote: I am about to set up a web-based photo album for my family, and I wonder if y'all have any experience with them. I've found curator to a good photo gallery tool. I've been told

Re: [SLUG] web-based photo albums

2002-10-31 Thread Rob B
At 09:26 1/11/2002 +1100, Michael Lake sent this up the stick: On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 05:41 PM, Kevin Waterson wrote: You will need a late version browser to render the CSS correctly. With Older browser ymmv. I have it up with some sample images at http://www.wildcherry.com.au

[SLUG] web-based photo albums

2002-10-30 Thread Rob B
Hi Sluggers, I am about to set up a web-based photo album for my family, and I wonder if y'all have any experience with them. There are a few must-haves: - no database, images should be stored as files - web-upload would be real nice So far, I am looking closely at Gallery

[SLUG] traffic shaping

2002-09-24 Thread Rob B
I have a traffic shaping script (wondershaper from lartc.org) that I want to run automagically. Where would the best place for it be - in the dhclient-enter-hooks script, or somewhere else? All I'll be doing is calling a small bash script that loads the shaper script. cheers, Rob -- Pussy

Re: [SLUG] Encouraging General 'ftp' to 'ssh' Migration?

2002-09-19 Thread Rob B
At 11:30 20/09/2002 +1000, David sent this up the stick: what windows clients do folks recommend for rsync/SSH, or sftp connecting winXX to a linux server. Personally, I am happily windows-free, but I can't see any obvious rsync/sftp/gui windows client for my command-line-challenged colleagues.

[SLUG] how do I force user to change password on first login

2002-09-16 Thread Rob B
How can I add a user, and have them forced to change their password on first logon? This will be on Deb 3.0 On my *BSD boxen I have a file called change #!/bin/sh if /usr/bin/passwd then /usr/bin/chpass -s /bin/ksh exec /usr/local/bin/bash --login fi This is put into /etc/shells

Re: [SLUG] cacti .deb problem

2002-09-10 Thread Rob B
At 19:19 9/09/2002 +1000, evilbunny sent this up the stick: dpkg-reconfigure debconf you need to specify a lower setting so dpkg prompt you for MySQL settings, had the same problem with mozilla, i reset debconf to dialog and medium... Monday, September 9, 2002, 7:21:15 PM, you wrote: RB OK -

[SLUG] cacti .deb problem

2002-09-09 Thread Rob B
OK - here's one for the debian gurus: bunbun:/var/lib/mysql/mysql$ sudo apt-get install cacti Password: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, cacti is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages

Re: [SLUG] Network speed testing

2002-09-05 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:57 PM Subject: [SLUG] Network speed testing I used to have a program running under linux which wasa little like traceroute except that instead of just showing all the hops from one

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: help needed please

2002-08-30 Thread Rob B
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:21:52 +1000, Martin sprayed into the ether: $author = Nathan McKinlay ; 1) no libmmll wasn't install. However I was unable to install it: webster:/# apt-cache show libmmll W: Unable to locate package libmmll webster:/# apt-get install libmmll Reading Package Lists... Done

Re: [SLUG] rdate

2002-08-11 Thread Rob B
At 07:42 12/08/2002 +0930, David Fitch sent this up the stick: On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 21:14, Simon Bryan wrote: Is there a time server in Oz that I can simply run rdate -s against? I keep getting connection refused on the ones I find on Google, yet it worked on one in the States :-( I use

Re: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

2002-08-01 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: Rob B [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:35 PM Subject: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ... I have a problem with the routing table - or something - on my gateway box: My linux box NATs for the 10.0.0.0/24

Re: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

2002-08-01 Thread Rob B
a tcpdump of the external interface of the NATting box? Could try that, Cheers, Rob - Original Message - From: Rob B [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:35 PM Subject: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ... Apologies for the incomplete mail

Re: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

2002-08-01 Thread Rob B
At 16:19 1/08/2002, Peter Rundle sent this up the stick: Doubt it, it get's it's DNS from the NAT machine. The windows machine works, the linux box doing the NAT doesn't. your route and iptables listings would really help us help you with the debugging. Like I said, the traceroutes are

Re: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

2002-08-01 Thread Rob B
At 16:32 1/08/2002, Martin sent this up the stick: what he means is that a machine can be setup to NAT for the network behind it but not pass out any traffic for the localhost. no, all traffic works fine to and from the box doing the NAT, just can't get to the news server so it would be

Re: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

2002-08-01 Thread Rob B
At 16:57 1/08/2002, Tim White sent this up the stick: Like I said, the traceroutes are identical, but here is the route infor and iptables listing from the machine in question: Could you also do iptables -L -v iptables -L -v -t nat iptables -L -v -t mangle These will show more detail as

Re: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

2002-08-01 Thread Rob B
At 17:21 1/08/2002, Peter Rundle sent this up the stick: Ok I suspect that you are droping the returning packets from the server you are trying to telnet to, I.E the telnet packet goes out but the reply packet is being dropped. Try setting the input policy to accept for 30 secs and see if it

[SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

2002-07-31 Thread Rob B
I have a problem with the routing table on my gateway box: My linux box masquerades for the 10.0.0.0/24 network. From inside that network (on a WinXP box) I can get to the Bigpond cable news-server: C:\nslookup news-server.bigpond.net.au *** Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.1:

[SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

2002-07-31 Thread Rob B
Apologies for the incomplete mail, my email client went awry - I have a problem with the routing table - or something - on my gateway box: My linux box NATs for the 10.0.0.0/24 network. From inside that network (on a WinXP box) I can get to the Bigpond cable news-server: C:\nslookup

Re: [SLUG] OT - Remote display of Win2000 App through Internet

2002-07-18 Thread Rob B
At 13:01 17/07/2002, Richard Hayes sent this up the stick: I apologize for being off topic but I am asking for advise on exporting the display of Win2K box through the Internet preferably. I have an application running on a headless box and want to run it remotely, should I use any or all of

Re: [SLUG] Using the bios to boot a diskless client

2002-06-05 Thread Rob B
At 14:54 5/06/2002, Richard Hayes sent this up the stick: Has oneone used the bios of a pc to boot using GRUB / PXE or anything else without having a bootprom in the network card? I want to have a 'bog standand' pc without any disk and to be able to boot from the server. There is a program

Re: [SLUG] b0rked system

2002-06-04 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: Rob B [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] b0rked system - Original Message - From: Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] b0rked system quote who=Rob B I then ran tune2fs -j /dev/sda1 through 4 to add the journal, and changed

[SLUG] b0rked system

2002-06-03 Thread Rob B
Hi all, I'm in a bit of a pickle at the moment - I compiled a new kernel package using make-kpkg for my Debian Woody box, going from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18, with the pre-emptive patch and ext3 support. lilo was updated and all went well and rebooted fine. I then ran tune2fs -j /dev/sda1 through 4 to

Re: [SLUG] b0rked system

2002-06-03 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] b0rked system quote who=Rob B I then ran tune2fs -j /dev/sda1 through 4 to add the journal, and changed /etc/fstab to make the drives mount ext3 at boot. Before rebooting, I re-made the kernel package

Re: [SLUG] Re: Couple of Q's for the educated.

2002-05-22 Thread Rob B
At 12:46 23/05/2002, Angus Lees sent this up the stick: No2. Scanning inbound mail. I _think_ I vaguely remember discussion on this before, but does anyone know a product for Linux which will scan inbound mail attachments as they're spooled for virus', and delete the offending files if

Re: [SLUG] Distributed file system...

2002-05-16 Thread Rob B
At 15:36 17/05/2002, Gareth Walters sent this up the stick: G'day all, I happen to have a small cluster of a few machines that are used for testing, they boot from a floppy and mount root via NFS. I am now allowed to use their hard disks, I was wondering if there is a way I can turn the disks

Re: [SLUG] hello

2002-05-15 Thread Rob B
At 18:14 15/05/2002, will hone sent this up the stick: snip WTF?? -- Answering Machine Message for the Mental Health Institute: If you are co-dependant, please ask someone to press 2 for you. [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 190 of a collection

Re: [SLUG] Distributed email idea - opinions?

2002-05-15 Thread Rob B
At 06:46 16/05/2002, Ben Buxton sent this up the stick: If this can include an encryption/pgp hook, this may reduce/remove the problem in both transmission interception and who reads it. If you're worried about that, then perhaps IPSec might do the trick. But I'm guessing the NNTP server

Re: [SLUG] Problems with Telstra Cable that have been happening over the last 3 days

2002-05-06 Thread Rob B
At 14:48 7/05/2002, Matt Hyne sent this up the stick: Do Telstra still use this ugly heartbeat - thought they were going to scrap it because it stops people using VPN software. Yup, they still use it. What VPN software does it stop? Rob At Sunday, 05-05-02 09:20 (+1000), Paul Robinson

Re: [SLUG] ozemail ISP dial up connection

2002-03-26 Thread Rob B
At 15:04 27/03/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this up the stick: Quoting Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi the friendly people at ozemail telephone help, went Linux , we aren't taught about that, bye, or was it 'buy'. I have red hat 7.2 linux just installed, modem establishes connection via

Re: [SLUG] Modem

2002-03-12 Thread Rob B
At 10:16 13/03/2002, DaZZa sent this up the stick: The only _real_ modems left on the planet are the USR's. Preferably the V-Everything Courier's, but the lower models aren't bad either. You tried getting firmware for these things of late? Nigh on impossible. The only thing that you can

Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build

2002-03-01 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build This one time, at band camp, Rob B wrote: bugger ... this looks like one for the too hard basket ... I'm

Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build

2002-02-28 Thread Rob B
At 21:47 28/02/2002, Jeff Waugh sent this up the stick: quote who=Rob B How do I fix the utmp entry (loop) does not match value of LOGNAME (root); using root at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47. error? and if that gets fixed, will the next lot go away? Don't build packages as root

Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build

2002-02-28 Thread Rob B
At 23:02 28/02/2002, Jamie Wilkinson sent this up the stick: This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Rob B 8 snip 8 Here we have an attempt to run autoconf, which fails # Add here commands to compile the package autoconf -l autoconf autoconf/configurein configure

Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build

2002-02-28 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 12:01 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build This one time, at band camp, Rob B wrote: $ apt-get --version apt 0.3.19 for i386 compiled on May 12 2000

[SLUG] Debian source package fails at build

2002-02-26 Thread Rob B
I'm trying to compile a source package from Debian testing on my Potato box. Here is the error: as root /home/loop# apt-get source apcupsd -b --no-download --ignore-missing Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 1525kB of source archives. Get:1

Re: [SLUG] netboot Multia and install of Debian via nfs

2002-02-07 Thread Rob B
From: Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 12:50 AM This one time, at band camp, Rob B wrote: I have downloaded the tftpboot.img file from the debian-stable archives and put it into the /tftpboot directory. The Multia boots, downloads the tftpboot.img file

Re: [SLUG] fstab gone

2002-02-03 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] fstab gone quote who=Rob B I have managed to mount / but I an unable to correct /etc/fstab, since I either appear unable to login as root, or the volume is mounted read-only. What to do from here? I

Re: [SLUG] fstab gone

2002-02-03 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] fstab gone quote who=Rob B Getting something weird here ... :/# mount / -o remount,rw EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option ASCII diamond EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option ASCII heart mount

[SLUG] netboot Multia and install of Debian via nfs

2002-01-31 Thread Rob B
Hey gang, I have a bunch of Alpha's and a Multia (oh joy) that I am trying to get going. It is diskless (completely) and I think I have set up my server correctly. The server rund Debian Woody (testing) and has tftpd, dhcp, nfsboot, nfs-common and nfs-user-server packages. I have downloaded

Re: [SLUG] Silly Debian question

2002-01-20 Thread Rob B
At 23:26 18/01/2002, Steve Kowalik sent this up the stick: At 6:57 pm, Friday, January 18 2002, Rob B mumbled: your /etc/apt/sources file. I think you mean '/etc/apt/sources.list' Apt will happily ignore /etc/apt/sources. True -- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. -Sigmund Freud

Re: [SLUG] Silly Debian question

2002-01-17 Thread Rob B
At 09:45 18/01/2002, Richard Hayes sent this up the stick: Dear lists, Last night I tried to install Woody on a system without either CDRom or networkcard. I have a number of floppies: driver-1.bin, driver-2.bin, driver-3.bin, driver-4.bin, root.bin and rescue.bin I can easily install the 6

Re: [SLUG] ISP's AND INTERNET SOLUTIONS

2002-01-13 Thread Rob B
At 13:02 14/01/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this up the stick: Take a look at www.alwaysonline.net.au - pretty good deals to be had. nice plug ;) -- Guns don't kill people, I do. [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 457 of a collection of 1201 --

Re: [SLUG] how to use kernel-package and patch kernel for xfs?

2001-12-29 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: John Ferlito [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:57 PM On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 07:12:59PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Nonono, export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=yes I think it has to be export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=YES

[SLUG] how to use kernel-package and patch kernel for xfs?

2001-12-27 Thread Rob B
Hi all, I'm going to try a journalled filesystem on my Debian box, and I need some assistance. I'm running Woody (Testing) at the moment, and I have downloaded the kernel 2.4.14 source and xfs-patch and installed it via apt. I notice in the kernel-package documentation, there is reference to

Re: [SLUG] In Car MP3 Players

2001-12-10 Thread Rob B
At 14:56 11/12/2001, Kevin Saenz sent this up the stick: Hi all, I think I have a little too much time on my hands. :) I am considering the idea of building my own Linux in car Mp3 player. Before I do this I would like to find out if I can get some of the parts in Oz. Also I would appreciate it

Re: [SLUG] [No Subject]

2001-12-06 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: Doctor Zhivago [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anybody knows what solutions the now-defunct elinux (elinux.com.sg) provides If they are defunct ... most likely none Rob Sorry, couldn't resist :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] [No Subject]

2001-12-06 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: Doctor Zhivago [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anybody knows what solutions the now-defunct elinux (elinux.com.sg) provides If they are defunct ... most likely none Rob Sorry, couldn't resist :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Deleting jobs from postfix queue

2001-12-04 Thread Rob B
At 17:45 5/12/2001, you muttered something like: Hi people Just a quick one, which I coudn't work out after reading the man pages and searching the linuxdoc.org site. How do I delete jobs from the postfix mailq I can see them there and am getting messages that they are being deffered in

[SLUG] duplex mode on eth interface

2001-11-26 Thread Rob B
Afternoon all, How can I set the duplex mode on an ethernet card? man ifconfig doesn't seem to mention anything. The reason for this is I am getting a lot of collisions and by setting to 10/half explicitly, I hope to reduce the number. Cheers, Rob -- Mashed potatoes can be your friend.

Re: [SLUG] OT: University

2001-11-20 Thread Rob B
At 10:12 21/11/2001, Terry Collins sent this up the stick: 3 years industry experience often counts for a lot more than a degree and you get paid while you gain it. If you want money, become a plumber - they earn more per lifetime than many jobs. The shortage of skilled tradepeople is only

[SLUG] time and date question

2001-11-01 Thread Rob B
I have Debian running nicely on a Sun Ultra5, but the time is out by an hour. How can I adjust (using ntpd?) the time to show daylight savings time? Cheers, Rob -- As long as the music's loud enough, we won't hear the world falling apart. [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent)

Re: [SLUG] time and date question

2001-11-01 Thread Rob B
At 15:49 2/11/2001, Jamie Wilkinson sent this up the stick: For both of you, check /etc/localtime is a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney (or your actual location, swap /usr/share for the location of zoneinfo on your system). Also set your hardware clock to follow UTC. This way

Re: [SLUG] Why the different platforms

2001-10-04 Thread Rob B
At 13:17 4/10/2001, Minh Van Le wrote: Why all the platforms ? - AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Alpha/Sparc/Sun. Please don't group Alpha with Sun ... us DEC owners are hurting enough as it is :) Rob -- Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. This is random quote 167 of a

Re: [SLUG] www.thiefware.com

2001-09-19 Thread Rob B
At 23:39 19/09/2001, Jon Biddell wrote: Is this the so-called SmartTags 'feature' that M$ are including in IE6 ? If so, I feel a lawsuit for copyright violation would only be A Good Thing...:-) Not exactly, but the Smart Tags feature (?), which has since been put away, was similar. This

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alister Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:15 AM On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Alister Waller wrote: # start curiosity Did this affect both Linux and Windows users? # end curiosity

[SLUG] can't mount filesystem

2001-07-06 Thread Rob B
Hi all, Uber-newbie question for you. I have a disk with an ext2 filesystem that I want to mount onto a running system. Trying mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb /export gives the error mount: mount point /export does not exist Help? Cheers, Rob -- It is not down on any map; true places never are.

Re: [SLUG] File system on CD

2001-06-25 Thread Rob B
http://www.ocslink.com/~blunier/ has one called Live CD. Blurb on freshmeat is: Live CD is a project to create a CD that runs Linux. The CD is bootable, and runs Debian Linux without needing a hard drive... Cheers, Rob At 14:19 25/06/2001, you wrote: I came across this article

Re: [SLUG] Outlook Express and Mutt/GPG

2001-06-24 Thread Rob B
Flame me if I'm wrong, but I think it is if a message is GPG-signed, OE simply cannot handle it. Probably something to do with these headers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Eudora handles them fine. Cheers, Rob At 10:31 24/06/2001, enterfornone wrote:

[SLUG] howto copy files and keep details intact?

2001-06-24 Thread Rob B
Hi all, I have a directory of files (ip accounting data) that I want to move to another directory. If possible, how can I do this while keeping the creation date etc the same? Cheers, Rob -- A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. This is random quote 37 of a collection of

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