RE: [SLUG] Disk Full Message - help pls

To find disk usage on a directory level, on the command line try:- cd / du --human --max-depth=1 --one-file-system then repeat using cd du traversing directories you think are candidates for clean up. Use the following in a directory to see files sorted by size ls --sort=size -lh Also from

RE: [SLUG] measuring traffic

This won't work if it is a network with a dumb (cheap/unmanaged) switch. (An old dumb hub/repeater would be fine but almost no one uses these nowdays). You really either need to get access to the gateway (and even then it may not support any decent stats or raw capture) or have a switch that

RE: [SLUG] endless packets from my wireless router

As the 1st byte of the destination MAC address is even it is not multicast/broadcast packet, but directed directly to your host. Clearly neither tshark or tcpdump have a dissector for it so it probably is a proprietory heartbeat of some sort. You could verify if it is wireless specfic of you can

RE: [SLUG] screen on SunOS

Try export TERM=vt100 (assuming you are using some sort of variant of /bin/sh) This is a generic terminal that should work Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile:

RE: [SLUG] expect - more modern tool available?

Robert, by explanation and driven by the context of the original poster, they are a different use-cases. *dialogs are very useful when the user entering the commands is sitting on the outside of the glass. It makes it easy to write a simple unambiguous user interface expect and their ilk are

RE: [SLUG] Upgrading HP laptop BIOS without Windows, how?

Subject: Re: [SLUG] Upgrading HP laptop BIOS without Windows, how? On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:53:04PM +1000, Visser, Martin wrote: I'll see if I can get answer internally. Thanks Martin. I'm a little annoyed that when my laptop died the motherboard was replaced under warranty, the replacement had

RE: [SLUG] Upgrading HP laptop BIOS without Windows, how?

I'll see if I can get answer internally. An alternative might be to see if you can hold of one of the Windows PE or similar bootable CDs. Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile:

[SLUG] HP / Redhat Linux LEAGUE event on August 17 at North Ryde

Fellow SLUGgers, HP and Redhat will be hosting the Linux Enterprise Architect and General User Event (LEAGUE) at the HP offices at North Ryde (NOT Rhodes) from 3-6pm on Friday August 17. The event will focus on deploying, maintaining and managing a Linux environment, followed by a demonstration

[SLUG] HP / Redhat Linux LEAGUE event on August 17 at North Ryde

Fellow SLUGgers, HP and Redhat will be hosting the Linux Enterprise Architect and General User Event (LEAGUE) at the HP offices at North Ryde (NOT Rhodes) from 3-6pm on Friday August 17. The event will focus on deploying, maintaining and managing a Linux environment, followed by a demonstration

RE: [SLUG] WAN link optimisation

Gavin said :- What I'd _really_ like, though, (and haven't found any explicit references to yet) is like (3) but actually duplicating packets down multiple links, a sort of 'network raid 1' where (3) is network raid 0. In other words, something that transparently splits a stream into multiple

RE: [SLUG] reported memory and actual memory

The standard Redhat^h^h^h^h^h^hCentos kernel only supports up to 4GB. You will want to install and boot either kernel-smp or kernel-hugemem Regards, Martin Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138

RE: [SLUG] WAN link optimisation

I think that the technology Gavin is thinking of is more about economising on the content being sent rather than tweaking TCP parameters. For those that aren't familiar with WAN compression technologies they are probably made most famous by the product coming from Riverbed (but there are many

RE: [SLUG] vmware

I don't have a vmware-server box in front of me, but have a look in /var/log/vmware (or /var/log/messages) for any sign of what is going on. You can also run vmware-cmd ThisBox.vmx start from a terminal and see if that spits out anything useful. You can also look inside the vmx file if it points

RE: [SLUG] Printing PNGs with transparent backgrounds

Googling seems to indicate this is a deeper bug than the app (gnome-print was blamed in one report, but it seems deeper than this.). I also had similar problems with modifying the SLUG bootcamp flyer in inkscape - it didn't seem to like partially opaque objects. You may also find that the issue

FW: [SLUG] vmware

For the benefit of the SLUG archive -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 28 May 2007 7:06 PM To: Visser, Martin Subject: Re: [SLUG] vmware On Monday 28 May 2007 15:48, you wrote: vmware-cmd ThisBox.vmx start Martin thanks you set me

RE: [SLUG] New Epson Stylus Photo 1410 - Linux friendly?

Unfortunately I think this is a case of 'overloading' on model numbers. I think you will find that the PSC 1410 is in fact an HP printer (low-end A4 size all-in-one) not an Epson A3 printer. While I totally concur that adding an HP printer on Linux is pretty painless, the experience might not

RE: [SLUG] dhcpd3 problem

The two lines below Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0d:88:7e:91:5b/192.16.0/24 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0d:88:7e:91:5b/192.168.0/24 Also seem to indicate you have an IP address typo somewhere in your config (192.16.0/24 prob should be 192.168.0/24 ) Martin Martin Visser Technology Consultant

RE: [SLUG] Ubuntu Feisty VMware

I have had Feisty running inside VMware Workstation 5.5 on Win XP for about 3 months now. (I think I did 2 installs). Just selected an Other 2.6.x Kernel. It even nicely runs in SMP using my Intel Core Duo. I haven't seen the issue you refer to. Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting

RE: [SLUG] Looking for an RPM package

Googling shows it at http://frontier.eas.asu.edu/updates/fedora6/kernel-i386/ Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail:

RE: [SLUG] ubuntu server

To convert a Ubuntu server to desktop, I am pretty sure the all you need is to apt-get install ubuntu-desktop which will add the virtual package (and all its dependencies. It sounds like your video chipset is causing you grief with the liveCD. In cases like this, I always use the alternate CD

RE: [SLUG] AMD based computers.

As has been said, there is no general case that says either way whether Intel or AMD CPUs are better. Certainly for most of last year the AMD based HP servers were much better bang-for-buck having their dual core Opteron. For those interested HP Proliant server model numbers ending in the digit 5

RE: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

inside interest Gee, with all the other brands being plugged, it would be remiss of me not to mention that my fairly new HP Compaq nc6320 is a beautiful thing. As Jeff promoted, Intel graphics chipsets are a good thing. Out of the box it does very nice 3D for Beryl and games using the Intel 945GM

RE: [SLUG] Are IPv6 ports different from IPv4 ports

TCP is a protocol layer on top of IP - whatever version. IP doesn't know about ports - only protocols. So yes, your diagnosis is correct, the TCP running on IPv4 is a different stack that running on IPv4. So Domino LDAP is bound to all of your IPv4 interfaces and slapd to all of your IPv6

RE: [SLUG] tailing, following and filtering

I regular use constructs such as tail -f syslog | grep -i deny | grep -v outside | egrep 10.1.2.3|10.3.2.1 This allows me to follow syslog as it comes out and filter on 1. Only lines with Deny or deny (or other mixed case AND 2. Are NOT associated with the outside interface AND 3. Only

RE: [SLUG] Some Thoughts Regarding Spam

According to this article - http://www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1935 01739 the recent sharp increase of spam is due to a couple of new trojans, one of which uses a peer-to-peer mechanism for it's bots. My guess is that if the bulk of spam is being sent by

RE: [SLUG] change title of xterm window

There is some old magic concerning this that I have mostly forgotten. But as you probably are aware, the title of the window (and all the decoration around the windows contents) is in fact rendered by the window manager. So when an X application starts, it informs the window manager what it

RE: [SLUG] L2TPD/IPSec problems - getting there but not quite

A simple debugging technique I have used (short of mangling the source) is to run programs with strace. Redirect the copious system call trace log from stderr to a file and least you might get an idea of what pppd was last trying to do before it died. Martin Visser Technology Consultant

RE: [SLUG] L2TPD/IPSec problems - further

Haven't done any of this much on Linux, but have done similar things with commerical firewalls. Does the log entry sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 No network protocols running] indicate that there is no interesting traffic on the link. If you have configured the Ipsec to come up on demand then you need

RE: [SLUG] timing out a process with timeout

Malcolm, I was thinking along the same lines. The equivalent in bash is something like:- $ timeout=10; docommand blah1 blah2 blah3 sleep $timeout; kill %% But there is a problem in that if docommand finishes before the timeout expires then you still hang around sleeping. So you need to

RE: [SLUG] NTP problems

H. man hwclock gives some great info of how clocks work in Linux (I hope it is correct!) In particular, the system clock, which is a software clock maintained by the kernel, is only loaded from the hardware clock at bootup (unless you have some wacky script doing hwclock --hwtosys). If your

RE: [SLUG] Graphics library

If you are going to look at libraries that are used for display rendering you might also want to check out Rasterman's Imlib2 http://www.enlightenment.org/Libraries/Imlib2/ (he may also be working on a successor there as well, one of the e-somethings but I can't work out which one) I guess Gdk

RE: [SLUG] Graphics library

GD is also quite ubiquitous - certainly for CGI and other dynamic web image creation http://www.boutell.com/gd/ Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax:

RE: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

There is a good website here http://www.linuxhpc.org/ with lots of info and references. Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail:

RE: [SLUG] debian vs FC threads (was: presidents report)

I guess I feel obligated to respond. I can only assume that my naming puts me in the basket as one of the rude / inconsiderate / ill-informed posters. I am almost certain I have never been rude on this list (please let me know otherwise), and as I usually write a draft and think at least a little

RE: [SLUG] FC5 Kernel headers

I can share your frustration, many many times - yet I persevere knowing that the end mostly justifies the means. As far as packaging goes, however I have learned in the last year or so (having been a Linux hobbyist for about a 14 years now) that Debian distros (in particular Ubuntu) have this

RE: [SLUG] We need an IP accounting package

http://www.ntop.org is pretty close to what you want Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com This email

RE: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

Huh? When did this thread become a debate on the definition of Free or Open Source Software? And for what it is worth I have never heard this definition anywhere - OSS is code censorship - you can read my ideas (source code), but you can't use them (my copyright and often an exclusionary

RE: [SLUG] Re: [SCLUG] Re: Interesting view

Bohdan, Ithink that most Linux users (fanatics even ) would agree with you that there is a tradeoff in choosing between Linux and Windows. Granted that if I go to the store and buy a big-brand computer it with Windows it will just work. And I can go buy hardware and software and it will

RE: [SLUG] ISP info leakage

Howard, I'm not sure what the issue is. The reality is if that you use your real name and give any indication of your locality then unless your name is Smith or Jones, you probably will count on one hand your matches. For instance I usually say I live in the Southern Highlands, but anyone can

RE: [SLUG] Replacement for Gimp - Labelling folders

Try inkscape - I'm a Corel Draw old-timer and it definitely would fit the bill for what you want. And once you have created the SVG template, (which is just XML), you could then just run a quick script to substitute your text for however many spine labels you want. Martin Visser Technology

RE: [SLUG] Line-oriented telnet clients?

Just a guess, but it seems regular telnet supports line mode with the command mode line From the telnet man page : mode TypeSpecifies the current input mode. When the Type variable has a value of line, the mode is line-by-line. When the Type variable has a value of character, the mode is

RE: [SLUG] Linuxworld stand for LA!

I'll try and make it for at half-a-day (probably Wednesday) - pressing customer engagements withstanding. (I might also get roped into the HP stand for the other half of a day). Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord

RE: [SLUG] ipv6

Anand Kumria wrote :- The site-local prefix (fe80) has been deprecated (rfc3879), instead you want IPv6 local addresses (rfc4193) which you can self-generate with tools such as: http://www.hznet.de/tools/generate-uniq-local-ipv6-unicast-addr.sh Hmm, I dropped off the IETF announce lists a

RE: [SLUG] Re: pentium M series

All, I just googled for benchmark performance linux kernel i386 versus i686 and found nothing of any import. I am just wondering if anyone has bothered doing this. It would be nice to know what the tradeoff is between performance and convenience of not needing to know the CPU architecture. Using

RE: [SLUG] Debugging no data for the GNOME weather applet

Mary, I don't use this app, but a quick squizz at the code at http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-applets/gweather/ would indicate it just uses HTTP like a web browser to grab weather details. My guess is that the server(s) configured for use may have broken or changed format. I would run up

RE: [SLUG] Convert program

Way-back I used to be a fan of the netpbm tools (as opposed to imagemagick) - but I think either of these can do a good job of basic scaling. However if you specificly want to create a webpage in a photo album arrangement, I had fantastic results with the free as in beer Jalbum software -

RE: [SLUG] drivers

Googling finds that, this author of this article seems to have already blazed a trail - http://tzilla.is-a-geek.com/articles/egalax/ The author also refers to touchkitusb, I found this - http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0412.0/0061.html .deb != .rpm is sometimes easily fixed with

RE: [SLUG] IP Address Source

Simon, anyone know the reason for this? - 'Cause it ain't science! There are a gazillion geolocation databases out there and they all have different information - so why does this happen? IP addresses are handed out to companies and ISPs in fairly large blocks. IANA originates all the IP

RE: [SLUG] USB Audio Input Devices

If you are serious at doing this right you definitely want to look at semi-pro equipment. I have a TASCAM US-122 that does 2 inputs/ 2 outputs quite well (48KHz sampling at 24 bits). The inputs can be line level or mic level (it uses XLR inputs). The great thing about this unit is the whole unit

RE: [SLUG] Debian server issues with WinXP

James, I concur with Terry that it might be a permissions thing (or at least whether you are authenticated correctly to have permission.) Though, I do have to say your first test case where you need to attempt to open the file twice seems strange. This would indicate to me some timing issue with

RE: [SLUG] Printer not detected

Ken, I have a PSC 2510 which all went swimmingly on Ubuntu Hoary, though mine has Ethernet. If you haven't already done so have a look at the good doco at http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php There are support forum links from that site as well which might give be able to give more direct

RE: [SLUG] Technical Help Required

Bill, Googling for your symptoms doesn't show up anything obvious, nor on http://portal.suse.com/PM/page/search.pm. Have you looked at the samba log file? (I haven't got a SuSe box in front of me - but it probably is in /var/log/samba/*). This might show at least where samba is having problems.

RE: [SLUG] Documentation (management) System

Jobst, I think this basically falls under the framework known as ITIL/ITSM. Googling will give you links to the standards bodies, as well as service providers and practitioners. Pretty well all IT service providers (HP included ;-) ) offer services that allow organisations to align their IT

RE: [SLUG] DHCP Client not working with unwired

Pete, Is your datalogger ethernet got fixed speed (10M?) or duplex and is it possible that the Unwired modem is 100M only? Mii-diag or mii-tool will tell you what your datalogger is set to. Use ifconfig and look for packet counts (or tcpdump if iy have it on the logger) to see if it is actually

RE: [SLUG] timeline generation software

I have found Ploticus to actually give nicer results than Gnuplot. http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/gallery/gall.hbars.html#timeline (And there is a SVG EPS along with bitmap output which is nice) This package using Ploticus looks right up your alley

RE: [SLUG] Changing DHCP servers

Simon, There is a reasonably standard approach to this - I have done these migrations a number of times (mainly to perform IP address migration when companies merge or need to move away from registered address space). OK, the problem is how do you introduce a new DHCP scope served by a new

RE: [SLUG] Home LAN and video

Bill, I've not actually done direct DVD viewing of the network, but here is a few ideas. Firstly I believe that the maximum bitrate of the video+audio MPEG2 stream is around 6M bits per sec, which is around 600k Bytes per second on the wire. This shouldn't stress any network out (even plain old

RE: [SLUG] problem with wireless

David, The interfaces that Ubuntu tries to bring up at boot time is determined basically by the contents of /etc/network/interfaces. (This is configured by the network GUI tool) You might want to man interfaces and ifup to get a feeling of what is going on. A simple problem that you might have

RE: [SLUG] Ftp get a directory

Plain vanilla ftp won't do this. (you could script it though) The preferred method (assuming you don't have rsync on the server) is to use wget. Martin Martin Visser, CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road

RE: [SLUG] Ftp get a directory

From memory, mget only does multiple gets within a directory. Martin Visser, CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail:

RE: [SLUG] is a floppy inserted ?

if [ `head --bytes=512 /dev/fd0 | sum | cut --fields=1 --delim= ` != 0 ]; then echo Floppy in drive ; fi (sum does a checksum which I think is only zero if all the contents are zero. You should only need to check the partition/boot sector I think - I won't guarantee this code is correct

RE: [SLUG] Execution via email ?

Believe it or not, in days when the Internet wasn't quite grown up (early 90's of last century) some people only had email access to the internet. There were actually mail servers setup that you could email an instruction which would 1. ftp download the file 2. break it up into little bits 3.

RE: [SLUG] Next ALJ cover disk

Just a thought, but what about one of the specialist live distros. Two genre's that I have used are in the multimedia/audio/video space and the network/security space. The multimedia ones are especially useful as they often pay attention to low-latency, hardware support etc, as well as having

RE: [SLUG] stealthed ports

Kazik, As Chris said try nmapping from outside. (If you think you are ready publish, your IP name/address here and some of us will probably try and hit you. Of course if your on the net already you have probably been scanned many time already ;-) A scanner detecting a port as in stealth simply

RE: [SLUG] Ubuntu - changing global keyboard type

dpkg-reconfigure console-data looks promising (from my google brain) Martin Visser, CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800

RE: [SLUG] recursive tree log grep ?

The default editor mode for bash is Emacs. Even though I am also a vi editor user, I tend to leave bash at default. (I think your /someword is actual the vi command) To search backwards through history in standard bash, type Ctrl-r and then the search string. Repeated ctrl-r looks further back.

RE: [SLUG] EMF IPAQ

Basically a highly-conductive (read metal) box with no holes (or holes smaller than the wavelength of the EMF you want to shield from). It should probably be also connected to a ground. .. Google for faraday cage. (I'm not a physicist so hopefully a better answer will come along) Martin

RE: [SLUG] Ubuntu freezes after login on Athlon-64

Have a look at /var/log/xorg.0.log for anything obvious (though is X is running it probably isn't there). Otherwise /var/log/messages should also be checked. I know that SuSe 9.2 locked up after login for me on one system. This turned out be having a non-existent sound driver. The Gnome desktop

[SLUG] Suse 9.3 Net Install?

Anyone tried out the Suse 9.3 netinst, as per SUSE-Linux-9.3-mini-installation.iso? I got mine from http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/suse/Suse/i386/9.3/iso/ and MD5SUM is correct etc, etc. When you have a few source options network or CDROM. Choosing CDROM only lets you go into rescue mode. Choosing

RE: [SLUG] Suse 9.3 Net Install?

] On Behalf Of Graham Smith Sent: Wednesday, 4 May 2005 11:51 PM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] Suse 9.3 Net Install? On Wed, 4 May 2005 23:38, Chris Deigan wrote: quote(Visser, Martin); http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/suse/suse ). Googling doesn't offer an answer. iiNet's mirror has

RE: [SLUG] running X11 app through Apache

Julio, It seems what you are trying to do and what you are doing it with are orthogonal. The apache web server is design to take requests via HTTP, process them, and spit them out as HTTP. Usually this means a browser sends a GET or POST request for a URL, and the Apache server returns, HTML or

RE: [SLUG] Grabbing a copy of Linux

Also keep an idea on some of the mainstream computer mags. They tend to put at least one of the distro's on the cover every month or two. (Sometimes the newsagents have them cheap in the surplus bin). As said by another, Ubuntu, is a very good 1 CD distro. Martin Visser, CISSP Network and

RE: [SLUG] Love Linux

You mean the machine doesn't get any use ... 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 (Only joking!!) Regards, Martin Martin Visser, CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113,

RE: [SLUG] finding a file

If I am looking for quick wins i find du --max-depth=1 | sort -rn always a nice way to find the directories that have the biggest impact on disk space. (Often a lot of small files in part of the file hierarchy are what fills disks) Regards, Martin Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security

RE: FW: [SLUG] Possible hacker Attempt

To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: FW: FW: [SLUG] Possible hacker Attempt Thanks Martin!! Very helpful Regards, Phill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Visser, Martin Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2005 9:19 AM Cc: slug@slug.org.au Subject: RE: FW: [SLUG

RE: [SLUG] Monitoring APIs

Tess, You probably can find what you want by just manipulating the output cat /proc/stat using perl|c|java or whatever. You can also look at the standard monitoring tools in http://freshmeat.net/projects/sysstat/ and see what they do. There are even nice remote monitoring tools in existance

RE: [SLUG] Fwd: [LINK] unix time = 11111111111 about mid-day today.

Umm the next number after 111 is 112 (we're talking a decimal number of seconds since the beginning of the current epoch Jan 1 1970 here, not a binary value) Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 3

RE: [SLUG] Link X Window

From my dim past assuming you have the the correct Imakefile then xmkmf was the correct incantation to create the Makefile. If you want samples of raw X programming then you probably should dig up sources for classics like xeyes, xclock or even xterm. I think that

RE: [SLUG] a nice question

I have a very easy fix for this - you want to limit the rate at which read or write the data. As tge gzip/tar process will then have lots of breathing time for CPU/disk intensive operations: There is a very nice pipe viewer/rate limiter called pv 1. So write your command so it uses stdout to

RE: [SLUG] top command - looking for a site that explains the runningprocesses

For non-interactive system processes you should google for documentation that describes init, the grand-daddy of all processes, and /etc/inittab and the scripts in the /etc/init.d directory which effectively configure init. (chkconfig also drives the /etc/init.d configuration). Of course each of

RE: [SLUG] Laptop as remote display?

Most brand name servers support this functionality through a special chipset or daughterboard. You then have full access to BIOS and running OS functions. On the HP Proliants it is called Remote Integrated Lights Out (RiLO). You can even have virtual floppies and CDs (that are mounted from your

RE: [SLUG] Laptop as remote display?

Jan, Visser, Martin wrote: Most brand name servers support this functionality through a special chipset or daughterboard. You then have full access to BIOS and running OS functions. On the HP Proliants it is called Remote Integrated Lights Out (RiLO). You can even have virtual

RE: [SLUG] Test sorry

I betcha, well I am just guessing, the line OS Kernel: Linux version 2.2.20 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 looks a bad spammers mail header to SpamAssassin. (Non fully-qualified email address) Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting Integration Technology

RE: [SLUG] NTPD FC3

Are you sure it is rejecting the source port? From reading the doc the default should be that it accepts from any port. Have you checked NTP version support - I imagine the FC3 ntpd is by default version 4 and hence your older clients may not support that. Try setting version 3 or 2 in the config.

RE: [SLUG] Mega X machine spec - ideas?

You probably want to use sar or the like on your existing machine to get a baseline understanding of CPU/disk/network etc. Hopefully you can extrapolate requirements from that. If the application onf the server is particularly critical you might want to consider using a hardware loadbalancer to

RE: [SLUG] find ot locate binary

A quick and dirty reply (using the locate database) export lookfile=gcc;locate $lookfile | grep -e .*/$lookfile$ This will find the file gcc (only). .*/ is greedy and should eat up all directory names up to the last / Of course Jill's find solution will look at the running filesystem whereas

RE: [SLUG] PPP failure

I don't think your log is clear enough to determine the problem. Usually I would expect to see a NACK for parameters that aren't being accepted in the negotiation. If you can't increase the quality of the log, I would suggest using something like Ethereal to monitor the link and hopeful you then

RE: [SLUG] Lusers grabbing IP addresses - stopping them

The correct answer is that DHCP (and bootp) and in fact any simple protocol that uses broadcasts to discover resources/services that it will rely on need to run on a secure network infrastructure. This means physical access as well as having control of the devices that use the network. (As an

RE: [SLUG] Graphic tablet

I didn't catch the original messages, but how does one determine definitively which device to use for USB peripherals? I have been delaying trying out my Acecad Flair graphics tablet until I managed to get a Xfree with it all built in. (I had tried some earlier patches that included the acecad

RE: [SLUG] Graphic tablet

: martin.visserAThp.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Visser, Martin Sent: Monday, 18 October 2004 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] Graphic tablet I didn't catch the original messages, but how does one determine

RE: [SLUG] mrtg + exim

This probably is close to what you want - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/08/12/mailgraph.html (As a hint for googling, RRD is generally now the engine of choice, having been written by the author of MRTG) Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting Integration

RE: [SLUG] Network Testing

I know it might seem to be a sledgehammer to crack a nut, but Nagios is a good service oriented monitoring tool that is OSS. BTW Most load-balancing devices that need to do service monitoring simply open the service port and try to get a basic response that proves that the service is up and

RE: [SLUG] Network Testing

Phone: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com -Original Message- From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:10 AM To: Visser, Martin Cc: Slug List Subject: RE: [SLUG] Network Testing

RE: [SLUG] /etc/profile

Short answer is :- In every running shell arrange to execute . /etc/profile, which sources the script in /etc/profile. Long answer :- Don't follow the short answer unless you know what /etc/profile does. /etc/profile is normally run once (and once only) by the shell when it initializes. Clearly

RE: [SLUG] passing parameter to a shell script

$1 will hold the first argument Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail:

RE: [SLUG] tcl script - help needed

If you have a look at your Tk installation you should find a demos directory. On RHEL 3 it is in /usr/share/tk8.3/demos. Run wish widget and you should get a nice array of sample apps with fairly easy to understand code. (filebox.tcl and colrs.tcl are probably closest to your reqs) Martin

RE: [SLUG] Definitive URLs/Experiences on Linux box provide VPN servicethrough to Windows Domains

I haven't actually configured this up yet, but hundreds of HP's Linux dudes use this to PPTP connect to our Windows managed network. http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 3

RE: [SLUG] Home LAN IP details

Usually each of your PCs will register their hostname with the DHCP server when they ask it for an IP. Your modem/router will probably have a web page (look for status or somesuch) that will reveal the names, IP address and MAC (ethernet) address it knows about. Often they also act as a DNS and as

RE: [SLUG] Developing FOSS while employed developing proprietarysoftware

My company basically owns my IT brain while I am employed for them, so anything I develop in an area of HP's business is considered theirs. This might seem restricting to some, but they do have a specific program which allows HP employees to register their involvement in OSS projects.

[SLUG] Pivot display monitor?

Hi, I'm thinking of buying a pivot type LCD monitor (you can rotate the monitor from landscape to portrait mode), a HP L1730 in fact. Does any know whether these only work with certain graphics cards? And is there a signal that is sent from the monitor that alerts the card that it's mode is

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