On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:52:35AM +1100, Alan Vink wrote:
IP Alias has been deprecated in 2.4.x and replaced by a more powerful
firewalling mechanism
*Could someone shed some light on this?
It sounds a bit strange to me that aliases has been replaced with
a firewalling mechanism, but I
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:15:57PM +0800, henry wrote:
Dear List :
1. How do I open a file with filename ***.ps.gz ?
gv file.ps.gz
gv can open postscript and pdf files, the version on my
system gunzips automatically.
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:08:51PM +1100, David Kempe wrote:
The only practical reason I can think of is another security factor -
you limit network connects to only certain MAC addresses.
How is it you do this on linux? is there a MAC addresses filtering package
or some kernel patch?
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:35:12AM +1100, Mike Lake wrote:
Need to get 13.9MB/24.0MB of archives. After unpacking 3003kB will be used.
I have just seen the no-download in 'man apt-get' and thats great as my system has
already
downloaded the needed debs
Apparently not all of them, it wants
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:55:32AM +1100, Steve Kowalik wrote:
steven@broken:~$ grep-available -s Build-Depends -F Package 'apcupsd'
Build-Depends:
Which means it doesn't define any Fun
I'm not sure what grep-available is searching, but I don't
have any Build-Depends in
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:51:21AM +1100, Kerry Seibold wrote:
Reposted with debug detail now included.
List directory hangs also.
Any ideas?
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x8282e70) PASV
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x8282e70) 530 Not logged in.
I assume this means you're still in active mode
and later when you try to
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:41:52PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Kerry Seibold
770 gives rwx permission to owner and group, --- to other.
660 gives rw- permission to owner and group, --- to other.
Yeah, generally the file ones are set to 660, and having stuff readable to
other is
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:38:32AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
We've got a DX2/66 running our firewall here, and it's got a firewall
script with about 40 rules - lots of port forwarding, a transparent squid
proxy, and NAT. Load average never gets a digit other than 0 in it -
unless I'm
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:24:08PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
Sorry? Would you care to explain exactly where my understanding of load averages is
flawed?
I can explain why I sent the mail.
Someone said a 486 might not be powerful enough for a firewall, you said your
486 does fine, it has
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:52:13PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Or, check out psgrep in my .bashrc:
http://perkypants.org/dotfiles/
Your comments near psgrep are the reason I don't bother adding
aliases, etc, to my profile. It used to annoy me when I'd jump
on another box and didn't have all my
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:50:19PM +1100, Simon Bryan wrote:
Caqn some SAMBA guru please help? I need to setup a share so that only one
user has read/write access from any workstation, the user is a valid Win NT
Try:
[careers]
path = /some/real/path
writeable = yes
valid users = msmith
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:35:59PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a correction to that script I posted, that tells you the next
available X11 display number, so you can automatically start up
multiple X sessions.
Theres a trick thats sometimes helpful when greping the output of ps,
ps
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:06:53PM +1100, Grant Parnell wrote:
#!/bin/bash
CPUs=1
COUNT=0
while [ 0 ]
do
cd /usr/src/linux
make clean; make dep; make $CPUs
LET COUNT=$COUNT+1
echo $COUNT /tmp/compile_counter
done
Not sure what make 1 does. Maybe make -j $CPUs
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:11:42AM -0500, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Any new ideas ?
You've got:
default=Linux
but no label called Linux, try
default=Debian2.2r4
or comment out the default line.
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:00:29PM +1100, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
The strange problem I'm having is that the first 4 people might go to
this form and type in their name and email address and I get the 4
emails. However, the 5th person may put their name in and email and I'll
get the form, but
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 02:27:12PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
Hi all,
I have a Perl script (textogif) which I downloaded which coverts latex equations to
gifs by using gs to render ps files. It's failing with:
Error: /undefinedfilename in (pstoppm.ps)
cause I don't have that file on
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:06:11PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
D Dynalink (I think) connected to a Celeron 733/128Mb
I've got a dynalink 56K dialup.
D 220msec
I get the same result with factory defaults.
D 450msec +230msec
Seems unreasonable. I don't have an answer as to why
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:03:59PM +1100, getadog wrote:
Seems unreasonable. I don't have an answer as to why its so much bigger.
(But I could make one up if you like)
There's a few thing you can do to improve delays.
Compressing data adds delays, and since encrypted data doesn't compress
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:41:56PM +1100, Adam F. Bogacki wrote:
INIT:Id4 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel.
When I tried the same with the 2.4.14 kernel it was simpler:
Starting GNOME display manager
Not sure why you got that
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 23:11, Adam F. Bogacki wrote:
Starting Gnome Display Manager: gdm.
INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
That message from INIT might not be caused by gdm.
# Format:
# id:runlevels:action:process
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
I think this
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:07:32PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
Use 'strace' to see what is happening when (if) it tried to suid.
strace is one of those cases where suid won't work. Its
disabled for security. The program still runs but as
the user who runs it, not root.
Try strace ping 127.0.0.1
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:58:38PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Anyway, that's how I got myself into the pickle. Not sure as to whether the
box is back up or booted yet, too much festivity going on between times.
strings /lib/ld-2.2.4 | grep kernel too old
FATAL: kernel too old
So you stuffed
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 07:16:58PM +1100, Grant Parnell wrote:
fred:/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog # make clean all
rm -f core *.o *~ lxdialog
/bin/sh: -lncurses: command not found
GRiPZ Right from your first message the command not found bit bothered
me. compilier/linker/library
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:20:55PM +1100, CaT wrote:
If I try and follow those instructions and rebuild lxdialog, I get this
fred:/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog # make clean all
rm -f core *.o *~ lxdialog
/bin/sh: -lncurses: command not found
This is because it's no longer an
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:06:08PM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
Dec 15 13:04:48 chimay kernel: hdb: ATAPI reset complete
Dec 15 13:04:48 chimay kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Dec 15 13:04:48 chimay kernel: ide-scsi: Strange, packet command
initiated yet DRQ isn't asserted
Try:
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:01:47PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote:
One problem I do have is that my Gnome printing has *no* fonts in it.
The preview shows no fonts and the ps file created is text less!
I had a similar problem, I think it was because psfonts wasn't
installed.
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:43:56PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Simon Wong
# apt-get --reinstall install gsfonts gsfonts-other gsfonts-x11 xfonts-100dpi
Still no fonts. Any other ideas?
try reinstalling defoma, libgnomeprint-data and libgnomeprint15
Your forgot gs
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:00:58AM +1100, Simon Wong wrote:
I did try defoma from unstable but it didn't make any difference so I
downgraded again.
First, try running defoma-app update gs and see if you get an error
message.
You might need to upgrade defoma from unstable, then try running
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:06:24PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
dpkg --purge --force-depends zmailer-ssl apt-get install postfix (or
exim, or whatever).
apt-get install zmailer-ssl- postfix (or exim, or whatever)
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:53:31PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
| I want to ssh to our EXTERNAL webserver
from here
| specifying this card address
AA BB V
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:58:58PM +1000, getadog wrote:
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:53:31PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
| I want to ssh to our EXTERNAL
webserver from here
| specifying this card
I suspect that the mail client doesn't have to be broken as the modem
will see the escape sequence before any running program(the mail client)
gets it. So if you are using a modem out of the box and your connection
software doesn't reprogram it before it dials up, there is a good chance
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:34:09PM +1000, Scott Ragen wrote:
Just one more thought.
When I type free i get a total of 30628k of memory on a 32mb chip.
Could this alter the amount of memory I would put in lilo for 128mb? nothing
is onboard, no video, sound (if that makes a difference) or NIC
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:20:52PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
This is annoying - if anyone knows why this is happening, please tell me.
I'm only interested in the errno, not the error (which is not set with -p,
as stated in the docs).
For some reason, testing if $? = 0 is always false, even
quote who=Greg Hosler
which distro, and which eratta applied ?
You don't know what distro Jeff runs? Where have you been?
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:46:24PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Shouldn't matter - I was doing something embarrassingly silly.
Wha? No plug?
grep -ci debian IN.slug
5562
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:48:29PM +1000, Jason Rennie wrote:
I've been playing around with mod_auth_pam for apache, and i cant seem to
get it to work.
auth required /lib/security/pam_unix.so debug
I've never used mod_auth_pam (reads, I don't know what I'm talking about),
but I think I read
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:16:07PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
When I point it at http://localhost/~mikel I get
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~mikel on this server.
AND the URL in the browser changes to:
http://mycomputername.mydomain.edu.au/~mikel/
In your apache
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:56:07PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
So if I was using 'localhost' which is refering to a URL that the request
comes from then it would use ServerName:Port ie b4114:80 ?
(Real names here now.)
With it off (ie just now I commented it out) what would it use as
hostname
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:04:47PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
...Hmmm, tried that, but no difference. Windows with blowfish is still
fast, and Linux with blowfish is still as slow.
Just something to try if you're bored, I have no idea if it
will achieve anything.
Try something like tcpdump
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:11:39PM +1000, Debian User Adam Bogacki,,, wrote:
Hi,
I copied Wordperfect 9 into /usr but when I try to execute in /usr it
I get the message no such file.
ls -l tells me that 23730473 bytes of a file named WORDPERF IS IN /usr
but I cannot get it to run.
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:28:45PM +1000, Andre Pang wrote:
on another note, has anybody else found that 2.4.5 is playing
weird memory games with the swapfile and is generally pretty
unstable? i managed to completely freeze it just by running
'Eterm -fn 9x15' (which is actually an invalid
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:16:35AM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
qualify_domain = uts.edu.au
comment it out.
OK Have now done that.
Did it fix anything?
So now when you send mail locally it should append your hostname
to the To: and From: addresses.
To test:
echo test1 | mail -s test1
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:52:39PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
I get the following error when I send mail internally either to others
or to
myself as in the headers below. The mail bounces with:
unknown local-part mike.lake in domain uts.edu.au
It just so happens that I had a similar
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:32:11PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
The first reply bounced, sorry if you happen to get this twice.
When using mutt I have set the editor to vim but the keymappings are wrong.
The up arrow key when pressed opens the line above and inserts an 'A' though
sometimes a D or
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:24:24PM +1000, Ben Leslie wrote:
To list a few bad points of Zope: It's huge, it requires a lot of
machine resources, and having getting Zope to play nice with Apache is
non-trivial (it likes to ignore the options its own documentation says
to use to turn off
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:28:12PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
Ben Leslie wrote:
Python (www.python.org) is a nice object oriented language which I find
quite good for most of my needs. I'll outline pros and cons below.
Pros:
Database interfaces for postgresql (and probably
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 07:34:10PM +1000, marty wrote:
Has someone said arpwatch yet?
Arpwatch maintains a database of Ethernet MAC addresses seen on the
network, with their associated IP pairs. Alerts the system administrator
via e-mail if any change happens, such as new station/activity,
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 08:29:15PM +1000, marty wrote:
unless i have this totally wrong, arpwatch is no good to me...
I'm not 100% sure whether it will be. But its a nice tool
anyway.
is there a tool that captures ethernet frames?
As john already said, tcpdump, but if arpwatch doesn't help,
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:43:33PM +1000, getadog wrote:
tcpdump -eni eth0 ip
I hit send then had a thought.
tcpdump -nei eth0 ip and not src net 192.168.0.0/24
change 192.168.0.0 with your network address
Then you will only record packets with forged
source ip addresses.
Then if you run
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