Re: [SLUG] create partitions fdisk, no reboot?

2006-11-09 Thread Sonia Hamilton
is installed with parted [1] - thanks for your help :-) [1] http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/re-read-the-partition-table-without-rebooting-linux-system.html -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] PDA/phone/linux

2006-11-09 Thread Sonia Hamilton
:-) Also means 1 less charger to carry when travelling, less space usage in my bag. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] create partitions fdisk, no reboot?

2006-11-08 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Is there a way of creating partitions using fdisk, and not having to reboot before creating filesystems on the new partitions? ie getting the kernel to be aware of the new partions. (Apart from using LVM :-) ) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them

Re: [SLUG] Another anti-spam idea

2006-11-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
a decent mail client that allows you to quickly get rid of any spam that got thru... Did someone say mutt? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation bind them. In the bright land of Linux, Where the hackers play

[SLUG] gui LDAP tools mentioned on Friday?

2006-10-28 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I missed the talk on Friday about LDAP. Just wondering if any gui tools for editing an LDAP database were mentioned, or any links posted. Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation bind them

Re: [SLUG] Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus Advice

2006-10-24 Thread Sonia Hamilton
-- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation bind them. In the bright land of Linux, Where the hackers play. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus Advice

2006-10-24 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:21:37PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: * On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:23:39AM +1000, Penedo wrote: On 24/10/06, Dave Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: easier. A decent setup with postfix/amavis/postgrey gets most people most of the way with filtering. Maia

Re: [SLUG] More spam stuff - Spamassassin and procmail

2006-10-17 Thread Sonia Hamilton
a Testbench. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation bind them. In the bright land of Linux, Where the hackers play. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] image spam counter measures ?

2006-10-16 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:46:19PM +1000, Penedo wrote: On 16/10/06, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When setting up the log files for FuzzyOcr, what ownership/permissions should I use for the log and hashdb files? I used 666 just to get it going, but would like to tighten it up

Re: [SLUG] image spam counter measures ?

2006-10-16 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:01:41AM +1000, Penedo wrote: On 16/10/06, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But wouldn't I then have to wait around to the exact moment SA opens the file for fuser to work? Or is there some way to make fuser wait in the background? I don't see a way

[SLUG] scripting question

2006-10-16 Thread Sonia Hamilton
, $mydays is the # of days I want to keep email. Is there any better way of writing the for loop to go thru the 2 sets of values? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation bind them. In the bright land of Linux

Re: [SLUG] image spam counter measures ?

2006-10-15 Thread Sonia Hamilton
the log files for FuzzyOcr, what ownership/permissions should I use for the log and hashdb files? I used 666 just to get it going, but would like to tighten it up. I presume the account that SpamAssassin runs under - how do I work out which a/c that is? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS

Re: [SLUG] Jobs jobs jobs!

2006-10-08 Thread Sonia Hamilton
as it is mainly Sydney jobs :) An rss feed of this would be rather useful... -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation bind them. In the bright land of Linux, Where the hackers play. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Debian mirrors disappearing and reporting spam on list archive?

2006-09-27 Thread Sonia Hamilton
March). Presuming that decisions at ISPs aren't totally random (I know, a very strong assumption) Debian mirrors are being removed because volume of traffic vs space can't be justified. Perhaps Ubuntu usage is really encroaching on Debian? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all

Re: [SLUG] session problems Ubuntu Dapper

2006-08-26 Thread Sonia Hamilton
only say sorry. :-) Nothing to be sorry about - one sets rather high expectations after using Linux for a while :) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation bind them. In the bright land of Linux, Where

[SLUG] foreign language charsets problem Ubuntu Dapper

2006-08-26 Thread Sonia Hamilton
layouts - no luck. I've also installed the Spanish language pack (Administration, Language Support). Should I try to fix this via xmodmap, or is there an easier way? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation

[SLUG] session problems Ubuntu Dapper

2006-08-25 Thread Sonia Hamilton
to remove that and go back to the old system, where logout gave you the option to save a session? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation bind them. In the bright land of Linux, Where the hackers play. -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] session problems Ubuntu Dapper

2006-08-25 Thread Sonia Hamilton
of pursuing a more realistic and appropriate, albeit slightly more complex and esoteric, path. /flamebait I've actually been thinking this for a while, hence I don't see this as flamebait - I've been thinking about going back to Debian, and trying Gentoo. Howard, what distro do you prefer? -- Sonia

[SLUG] udev/jpilot question

2006-08-10 Thread Sonia Hamilton
=ttyUSB*, NAME{ignore_remove}=pilot, MODE=666 My question is: what is this supposed to be doing, and why would I want to do it? (man udev didn't help...). Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation bind

[SLUG] network-mangler^H^H^Hmanager problems

2006-07-25 Thread Sonia Hamilton
a look thru scripts in /etc/network, nothing... -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation bind them. In the bright land of Linux, Where the hackers play. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Re: Dapper Drake

2006-07-08 Thread Sonia Hamilton
, /etc, and so on. Has a bit of intelligence eg doesn't modify /etc on machines I shouldn't. This is all documented in O'Reilly's 'Linux Server Hacks', hack 72, Get Settled in Quickly. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say

Re: [SLUG] Firewall

2006-07-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
be found by apt-get) I use shorewall [1], basically a perl wrapper on iptables. Easy to config with a collection of files in /etc/shorewall, and very flexible - from a single laptop to a large network. [1] http://www.shorewall.net -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Complaining that Linux doesn't

Re: [SLUG] Linux compatible Sydney 3G for notebooks

2006-07-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
://quozl.linux.org.au/mm-5100/ I think you'll find some of the providers specify Windows, even though basically all you need is a DHCP client... -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile

Re: [SLUG] rync problem

2006-07-06 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:38:19PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:23:38PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm rsyncing some files from a linux server down to a FAT partition on my laptop (FAT because I want to access the files from both Linux and Windoze

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 6.06 wireless networking

2006-07-06 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Jeff, I installed network manager, but I couldn't seem to find a way of configuring or running it. I had a look around with dpkg -L network-manager, couldn't see anything obvious. Is it just Friday afternoon my brain has gone to sleep? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Complaining

Re: [SLUG] LVM Re-mounting Hell

2006-07-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
be on the website by now. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining that there's no place to hitch up a horse. (Daniel Dvorkin) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] rync problem

2006-07-04 Thread Sonia Hamilton
case, with and without spaces and special characters - a possible cause of problems? I mount the target partition like this: /dev/hda2 /media/hda2 vfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread Sonia Hamilton
line-by-line. (You can manually copy and paste lines, but not easily move one line of diffs from one file to another). Anyone know of a gui tool that allows you to do this? I usually use vimdiff, but I'm looking for an easier to use tool for my (linux) students. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238

Re: [SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread Sonia Hamilton
ok, but a bit clumsy in the way you have to 'switch directions' to take diffs from each file. I'll try with the later versions... -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu

2006-06-16 Thread Sonia Hamilton
(and answers). -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining that there's no place to hitch up a horse. (Daniel Dvorkin) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: Greylisting (was: Re: [SLUG] mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] slow)

2006-06-14 Thread Sonia Hamilton
? Or is this an unrelated fix? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining that there's no place to hitch up a horse. (Daniel Dvorkin) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: Greylisting (was: Re: [SLUG] mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] slow)

2006-06-14 Thread Sonia Hamilton
to know about.o Interestingly both servers (mine and SLUGS's) seem to be running postgrey. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining that there's no place to hitch up a horse. (Daniel

[SLUG] mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] slow - 'unverified address'

2006-06-13 Thread Sonia Hamilton
address: Address verification in progress (in reply to RCPT TO command) This 'unverified address' problem - how do I resolve it? What's causing it to be unverified? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early

Re: [SLUG] hald error on boot (Ubuntu Dapper)

2006-06-12 Thread Sonia Hamilton
*). Of course, this might just postphone the hang till when you try to access smbfs :-) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining that there's no place to hitch up a horse. (Daniel Dvorkin

Re: [SLUG] Is there a truly upgradable Linux distro?

2006-06-12 Thread Sonia Hamilton
. If you've got different partions (eg /home, /var) it can be easier to reinstall and keep your existing data on these separate partions. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Debsig, late, but on.

2005-11-16 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Robert Collins wrote: Hiyall... sorry for the late notice, I'm still finding my feet again after UBZ. Thanks Robert. Location, time? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Veni Vidi Linux! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] Debian/Ubuntu question

2005-09-15 Thread Sonia Hamilton
A Debian/Ubuntu question: On Redhat boxes, network drivers are aliased using /etc/modprobe.conf eg there will be lines like: alias eth0 tulip Where's the equivalent on Debian/Ubuntu? It's not in /etc/modules or /etc/modprobe.d/* -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Veni Vidi Linux

[SLUG] sending email from a laptop

2005-08-17 Thread Sonia Hamilton
to do that. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Veni Vidi Linux! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] auto update squidguard/chastity

2005-07-04 Thread Sonia Hamilton
IÂve installed squidguard/chastity on a firewall, to block p0rn. Does anyone know of a website that provides a dynamically updated list I could regularyl grab using cron. IÂve googled, but nothing came up. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Veni Vidi Linux! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Radius Authentication

2005-07-04 Thread Sonia Hamilton
/libs/pam/ -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Veni Vidi Linux! -- 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] script dying after ssh..?

2005-05-18 Thread Sonia Hamilton
could try? Try ssh -vvv ... to get more information from SSH about what's happening try running the script with sh -x to see if this gives any useful info Great, thanks for that. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Linux; a re-GNU-able resource. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

[SLUG] script dying after ssh..?

2005-05-16 Thread Sonia Hamilton
fine; copies all the stuff thru to all machines (I'm using an ssh key for root). But when I uncomment the ssh line, only the first machine is done, suggesting that ssh is dying somehow. Any ideas on what I could try? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . The information revolution will be fought

Re: [SLUG] Script Help

2005-05-10 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* cd .. rmdir $name done studentlist -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Type cat vmlinuz /dev/audio to hear the voice of $DEITY. -- 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] postfix with TLS/SASL on debian woody

2005-05-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 07:26:15AM +0930, David Fitch wrote: has anyone got this combination working? (postfix with TLS/SASL on debian woody) No, haven't got it going, but it's on my todo list... The tutorial at [1] may help. [1] http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-sarge/ -- Sonia

Re: [SLUG] PDAs

2005-05-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
to use on Palm. Of course, other Palm apps may be a problem. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Only the autonomous can plan autonomy, organize for it, create it. Temporary Autonomous Zones -- Hakim Bey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] gpg getting slower and slower - maintenance?

2005-04-26 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 06:11:35PM +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Sun, 2005-24-04 at 19:31 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I've noticed that as I get more signatures on my key, gpg is getting slower and slower decrypting or authenticating emails. A partial improvement can be had

Re: [SLUG] Buying a Printer

2005-04-24 Thread Sonia Hamilton
at the bottom, so you can fill it with almost a whole ream of paper. I bought it after researching in Linux magazine reviews (it was reviewed in a German magazine - can't remember which one). -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Despite its refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty, the Australian

[SLUG] gpg getting slower and slower - maintenance?

2005-04-24 Thread Sonia Hamilton
-trustdb echo -e \n--send-key to pgpkeys.mit.edu gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --send-key A8B77238 echo -e \n--refresh-keys gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --refresh-keys Environment: $ mutt -v Mutt 1.5.6+20040907i (CVS) ..snip $ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.5 ..snip -- Sonia Hamilton

[SLUG] problems compiling a module

2005-04-16 Thread Sonia Hamilton
$(dir) $(patsubst %-sub-dirs,%,$@) ) echo done. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] first day of week in Ubuntu Hoary?

2005-04-09 Thread Sonia Hamilton
). I've trawled thru the Configuration Editor (Applications, System Tools), couldn't find anything. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . It's all GNU to me. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Linux Conferences

2005-03-20 Thread Sonia Hamilton
://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Conferences/ Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Linux; a re-GNU-able resource. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] St George banking (again...)

2005-03-18 Thread Sonia Hamilton
agent string. I'm running Ubuntu Warty, I've got SunJava 1.5 installed. I've written to STG, I get the usual response... blah, blah supported browsers, blah IE blah :-) [1] http://puzzling.org/computing/help/banking [2] http://prefbar.mozdev.org/ -- Sonia Hamilton . Environment Minister Ian Campbell

Re: [SLUG] St George banking (again...)

2005-03-18 Thread Sonia Hamilton
. I'll email the maintainer of [1] so she can add it to her page (is this the same Mary?). Thanks again for all your help. [1] http://puzzling.org/computing/help/banking -- Sonia Hamilton . Every program expands until it can send mail... except Exchange. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] StGeorge online banking Linux

2005-01-09 Thread Sonia Hamilton
], a few lobbying emails to StGeorge wouldn't go astray :-) (yes, I read SlashDot [2] too...). [1] http://secunia.com/advisories/12889/ [2] http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/01/09/0737248.shtml?tid=172tid=113tid=218 -- Sonia Hamilton . Everything has been globalized except our consent George Monbiot

[SLUG] how to find user's original id?

2004-09-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
it returns uid=1002. But after sudo'ing to root, the id command returns uid=0(root). How would I find the user's original id before they sudo'd to root? Thanks for any help, -- Sonia Hamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] mutt and foreign characters

2004-07-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:32:34AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: I think this sets your entire system's language to Spanish. You might want en_AU.ISO-8859-1 instead (both will display all the ISO-8859-1 characters, which include the Spanish accented characters) or possibly en_AU.UTF-8. * On

[SLUG] mutt and foreign characters

2004-07-04 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Anyone got any pointers on how to make foreign characters display in mutt? For example when someone sends me email in Spanish, the accented characters appear as question marks: El CMI Valpara?so discutir? I've noticed from the mail agent string that the sender is using Outhouse (don't know if

[SLUG] wanted: old Linux journal magazines

2004-05-20 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'm interested in buying old 'Linux Journal' magazines, for dates between Jan/2000 and April/2004. I'm not collecting them, and I know I can read the articles online - I just enjoy reading the magazines ;-) If you've got some to sell, please email me directly with prices and dates, rather than

[SLUG] a2ps printing issue

2004-04-10 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I use a2ps for printing out my man pages (thusly: 'man foo | a2ps'), and this is great, except that my pages print too far to the right ie about an inch of white space to the left, and the right hand edge chopped off. How would I go about fixing this? I've tried using a2ps with the A4 paper

Re: [SLUG] a2ps printing issue

2004-04-10 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a2ps for printing out my man pages (thusly: 'man foo | a2ps'), and this is great, except that my pages print too far to the right ie about an inch of white space to the left, and the right hand edge chopped off. How would I go about fixing

[SLUG] mozilla thunderbird, mime, and ms outhouse

2004-03-01 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I've migrated my Windows users to Mozilla Thunderbird running off a Linux imap server (with procmail/spamassassin filtering). Everything's working well, except for one thing - attachments aren't being displayed for some messages, and of course the culprits are messages sent from ms outhouse. The

Re: [SLUG] accessing MS desktops from Linux

2004-02-25 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* David Uzzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are going to run Terminal Services you could use rdesktop which * Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try rdesktop - assuming you have Terminal Services. The negative of * Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use Citrix Metaframe at

[SLUG] accessing MS desktops from Linux

2004-02-20 Thread Sonia Hamilton
know I can use VNC, but it's a bit clunky, especially since the 1 Windows app that the users need to access is their main app (which they use all day). Anyone had experience with the Citrix ICA Client running on Linux? It looks promising. Any other hints as to what I could use? -- Sonia Hamilton

Re: [SLUG] Maildir layout with IMAP?

2004-02-12 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Maildir/INBOX separation is required - on Courier the top Maildir is just treated as INBOX directly on the client side. * David Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm using Maildir style folders with an IMAP server (bincimap), and I .. I wouldn't touch the server side at all

[SLUG] Maildir layout with IMAP?

2004-02-11 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'm using Maildir style folders with an IMAP server (bincimap), and I wondering how I should setup the Maildirs so that on the mail client the inbox emails appear at the top of the tree, rather than as a subfolder of '/'. IMAP mail retrieval is working, but the users on my network don't like the

[SLUG] DNS glue means?

2003-12-08 Thread Sonia Hamilton
the address without any additional queries. Whereas for the glueless case, .net. would need to be queried to find out information about bar.net. or qux.net; when you get glueless built on glueless built on glueless etc things start to slow down and/or fail. Is this correct? -- Sonia Hamilton Linux - Free

[SLUG] djbdns opinions?

2003-12-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I've been looking at DJ Bernstein's djbdns server at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html. I'm thinking of using it instead of bind9; just wondering if anyone has any experiences with using it, and opinions (positive or negative). As a background, I help (or maybe hinder :) ) the administration of a bind

Re: [SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-06 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Michael Tokar said: Hey there people, this is my first post to slug! I am in need of some help and I was wondering if you guys could lend a hand/brain. Thanks for taking the time to read! Ok, here's the situation: 2 HDDs currently on my PC Harddisk0 60gb drive Partitioned into 2 drives

Re: [SLUG] per user ip accounting suggestions? - THANKS

2003-09-30 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* Oscar Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] It may be configured to record 'connect time', duration, incoming traffic in bytes, outgoing traffic in bytes, and other things that get recorded into a log file. A script could then be written to

[SLUG] per user ip accounting suggestions?

2003-09-29 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I've looking for a package that allows me to do per-user accounting (ie bandwidth used for each user in /etc/passwd for different time periods/protocals/etc). Any pointers to a package I could use? I'm currently using ipac-ng, but as far as I can see, this only does accounting per protocol/ip.

[SLUG] SGML pretty printers/formatters

2003-07-25 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'm starting to write my documention in DocBook SGML. Are there any tools that format/layout my SGML? I don't mean tools that convert SGML to HTML etc (for that I obviously use Jade). I'm looking for something similar to the C code pretty printers that layout my messy SGML so it's easier to work

[SLUG] transparent bridging?

2003-07-13 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Is it possible to setup a linux box as a transparent bridge? The reason is that I'm routing an ip range, and I want to stick a Linux box in the middle, just for ip accounting purposses. I know I can use proxy-arp to do this; seems a bit messy. -- Sonia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

[SLUG] exchange migration pointers?

2003-06-19 Thread Sonia Hamilton
My work is going through a painful multi-site MS Exchange migration at the moment, and me being the Linux person, I said 'why don't you use Linux - less $$ on hardware, more reliable, easier to manage, etc'. But then I realised I wouldn't know how to do the stuff on Linux that can be done on

Re: [SLUG] Knoppix love/hate...

2003-06-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
: also, this might be useful HOWTO upgrade to debian unstable http://knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2251 dave * Chris D. wrote: This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I like having all the latest debian features in Knoppix, but being able to install *anything* at all

Re: [SLUG] mySQL command summary

2003-03-21 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone seen a command summary for mySQL on the web? (ie just a categorised list of all the commands - not a tutorial, etc.) I've had a look on mysql.com googled, haven't found anything apart from the commercial ssc reference card http

[SLUG] mySQL command summary

2003-03-19 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Has anyone seen a command summary for mySQL on the web? (ie just a categorised list of all the commands - not a tutorial, etc.) I've had a look on mysql.com googled, haven't found anything apart from the commercial ssc reference card http://www.ssc.com/ssc/productlist.html -- Sonia

[SLUG] how to block relayers on postfix?

2003-02-17 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'm running a postfix mail server, which is set up to prevent spam relaying using some of the hints on the spews and various rbl websites. However, I still get some spammers who have a go at my server to attempt relaying - is there some easy way in postfix to block an ip as soon as someone tries

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