RE: [SLUG] xdm server question

2000-07-13 Thread George Vieira
If your refering to the broadcast list and it's not visible then try modifying the file (under RedHat) in /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess and remove the # from the "* hosts allowable to connect" thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcompu

RE: [SLUG] Priority of network traffic

2000-07-13 Thread George Vieira
it's messy but it's cheap and might even _work_! I tried this wort of method but with ethernet aliases like ETH0:1 and shaper won't work with aliases... of course ( sorry, but I was desperate at the time to a quick solution). thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L

RE: [SLUG] Re: OT car stories

2000-07-15 Thread George Vieira
I had an 808 station wagon with a $5000 stereo in it and being a wog boy living in Marrickville (Home town of wogs), I knew that it was risky. Parking it in your drive way isn't enough and these days even in the garage is also bad. I lost it after about 1 year of installing it ( I considered

RE: [SLUG] modprobe woes

2000-07-16 Thread George Vieira
But there must be a better way, right!? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: Peter Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 17 July 2000 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG

RE: [SLUG] IP Addressing/Subnetting The Easy Way...

2000-07-16 Thread George Vieira
Come on Dazza, get people really confused now and tell how supernetting works. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: DaZZa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 17 July 2000 11:41 AM

[SLUG] bigphysarea.2.2.14.patch howto on RH6.2

2000-07-17 Thread George Vieira
Has anybody done a patch for kernel 2.2.14 (RH 6.2) for the bigphysarea.2.2.14.patch ? How do you apply it, I did this years ago and I haven't played with the kernel for so long now... I remember it to be something like patch patchfile1 file2 or something -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

[SLUG] PPPD and reseting the modem

2000-07-17 Thread George Vieira
ning mgetty for dial in access and thought possibly this might be causing it even though dial in works fine. any ideas or is there a command I can use to initialise the modem on the "pppd init script" to reset the modem? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L htt

[SLUG] OT: FreeBSD and tape drives.

2000-07-19 Thread George Vieira
there.. Can anybody help in finding if the drive is avaiable? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] Sendmail 8 and Relaying

2000-07-19 Thread George Vieira
try looking at /etc/mail/relay-domains Use webmin www.webmin.com as it's tops for simple modifications... thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: Peter McCarthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

RE: [SLUG] Java IDEs

2000-07-19 Thread George Vieira
patches.. Never turned back again... thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: Stephen Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 20 July 2000 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Java

RE: [SLUG] Mailman

2000-07-20 Thread George Vieira
yep.. that'll probably be your sendmail refusing to execute shell commands I think.. I changed my sendmail.cf to use normal sh. try finding this line (actually this line below is the changed effected one I have) Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=10/30, R=20/40, D=$z:/, thanks, George

[SLUG] DIALD,PPPD and chatting away at my fingers..

2000-07-21 Thread George Vieira
Yyyyaawwnn, oh I need sleep. Can somebody help me with using `chat`? I found out that diald passes the $MODEM variable to the connect script to dial the ppp peer. How does chat get the modem and dial it? I can't find it in the man pages (Unless my sleep is getting to me). Or am I doing this

[SLUG] Perl splitting help

2000-07-22 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, I have a problem as I don't know Perl very well and need to do the following: 1. Grab a file containing a list of people and phone numbers seperated by a | .eg. --- playlist.txt--- George Vieira|0410123123 Another Person|0414321321 2. Split the lines into fields so I can print each

[SLUG] DIALD again..man I'm starting to hate it.

2000-07-23 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, I tried looking everywhere but have no idea why DIALD always disconnects from the site when it's idle for more than 30 seconds... If I keep pinging the site, it stays up. I tried using the IDLE option in PPPD with no luck even using a setting of 7200 seconds so I assume it's DIALD

RE: [SLUG] Linux as server in Mac environment

2000-07-24 Thread George Vieira
O... the goold old days of NRMA IT. This is from memory and I may be wrong but your Macs may have to get changed to IP rather than Appletalk. I think these days you can get Appletalk over IP but that may require OS8 or OS8.5 not sure. My first attempt would be to get the linux box to

[SLUG] lock users to their home directories on a telnet?

2000-07-25 Thread George Vieira
Is it possible to lock telnet users to their home directories under RedHat =6.1? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists

RE: [SLUG] lpr with JetDirect and Laser Jet (only one copy printed)

2000-07-26 Thread George Vieira
Oops, hate it when I hit `reply` and not `reply all`, in a damn rush... As below, it appears that this happens in both RH 6.1 and 6.2 and yet reversing the options tends to make it work. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au

[SLUG] Kernel patching with RH

2000-07-27 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, I have downloaded the kernal patch for RedHat to go to 2.2.16-3 via an RPM file. Has anybody tried this RPM install and is there anything that I may want to be carefull of? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au

RE: [SLUG] Kernel patching with RH

2000-07-27 Thread George Vieira
to boot.. OK , so I should be quite safe to revert back if necessary... Just check the lilo.conf and where it's pointing to... thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: Ken Yap [mailto:[EMAIL

[SLUG] Grepping a variable and spaces.

2000-07-30 Thread George Vieira
$TMP " to prevent numbers like 43512 popping up when searching for 435 etc.. but when I change the grep line to`grep -e " $TMP "` or to `grep -e \" $TMP \"`I get nothing.. can anybody help? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Cit

[SLUG] UPS and Linux

2000-07-31 Thread George Vieira
Hi All, I managed to get a nice socre and now have a small UPS for my Linux box at work for $30. What I don't know is where to find `powerd` to enable the power loss protection and shutdown service. Also does anybody know ( or in my case remember) which pins did what on the serial line to tell

[SLUG] UPS and linux

2000-07-31 Thread George Vieira
Sorry, found it at RPM find and some other docos to.. I hate that when you some alot of time and then realised the obvious searching areas.. Sorty.. Beep,beeep... shutting down.!!! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] GDM and removing the halt and reboot on the login

2000-08-02 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, Is this possible to remove the reboot and halt from the GDM gui login? Also is it possible to make the chooser run only and no GUI on the console.. I want to make it so remote users can log in but no console GUI. thanks, George. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] GDM found it.. damn, did it again..

2000-08-02 Thread George Vieira
Sorry all for the wasted email.. /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf there's a line I didn't see called: SystemMenu=1 always find it just after the email and heaps of searching... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] LS-120mb SuperDisk Support ??

2000-08-02 Thread George Vieira
works fine for me.. Just remember that it's NOT a floppy drive but a removable HDD that support 1.44 floppy disks.. mount /dev/hdXX /mnt/floppy -Original Message- From: Mighty Dragon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 8:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [SLUG] samba printer problems

2000-08-02 Thread George Vieira
a difference but mine also mentions the line printing = bsd and I also have guest = ok don't know if this would fix it though. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: [SLUG] samba printer problems

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
Found it name resolv order = broadcast hosts lmhosts dns etc..etc.. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 3 August 2000 2:07

RE: [SLUG] MAX OS...

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
Looks like they're up to scratch on their homework.. 2.4 kernel and 2.2.16 (exploit free kernel, until a new bug has been found) Winmodem support ( first I've seen ) Not a bad start. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au

[SLUG] Zmodem transfer to an telnet NT box

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
and sz commands under linux and just need one for NT Anybody used or know of any that I can download for these lamers who don't use TCP/IP and just a crappy text terminal access? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -- SLUG

RE: [SLUG] help! Environment variables.

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
have you tried /etc/rc.d/rc.local ? and if you need individual different environments then add it to the .profile or .bash_profile for each user... thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From

RE: [SLUG] help! Environment variables.

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
Oh bugger... what was I thinking... yeah.. sorry. Up to my eye balls in moving a web site with a crappy setup to a new linux server and...and ..and..and... aaah no excuses... thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au

RE: [SLUG] help! Environment variables.

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
jBASE environments and I didn't want root to be effected so I did a global .profile and everybody loads that as well as their own so I can change 1 file to effect all users as well as individual users own files pheww.. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L

RE: [SLUG] help! Environment variables.

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
well depends see, I built my server and added each user one by one and already had modified the /etc/skel/.profile file for ksh and I had no problem. If he had 1000 users already then he'll most likely do it another way... thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L

RE: [SLUG] shell scripts

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
even if it reran again... You can probably try the -daemon switch to not run in the background and if it gets to the next line then obviously the program died or something thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original

[SLUG] Linux and Clustering..

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
or not or just a waste... Has anybody done anything similar or saw problems with this idea??? I need a super fast and very redundant system. Management were thinking of going AIX or something. Anybody seen or heard of performance from these type of systems? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel

RE: [SLUG] Linux and Clustering..(databases)

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
and recently 6.2 thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: Jill Rowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 4 August 2000 1:31 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SLUG] Linux and Clustering

RE: [SLUG] HDD Failures (Was Linux and Clustering..)

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
personally don't like Seagates and fujitsu drives but some other people probably do.. just my non preference... thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

[SLUG] SSL

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
and was wondering which is best to install and which one is used... OpenSSL or just SSL? What's the difference? Is there a good enough RPM install or am I really going to lose time on this? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au

RE: [SLUG] Linux and Clustering..(databases)

2000-08-03 Thread George Vieira
This customer has 4-5 GB of data been trashed around like a whirl pool as it's a logistics database and handles not just their data but their clients data too.. Aparently they only have 70-80 users at the same time. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L

[SLUG] SSL and apache-ssl problems still

2000-08-04 Thread George Vieira
know in Red Hat it /usr/bin/perl not /usr/local/bin/perl I tried making a Sym link but failed... Any ideas on a remedy? I hope it's not install a different version of Perl or something.. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au

RE: [SLUG] Zmodem transfer to an telnet NT box

2000-08-04 Thread George Vieira
What I meant by command line is that the users are using CU under linux to a dial up server which is NOT TCP/IP and is just plain text based. Hence the connection is texted based. Once your logged in it drops you into a C:\ prompt to do maintenance work. But the users usually require to send or

RE: [SLUG] How to turn off XDM

2000-08-05 Thread George Vieira
Well after a long period of time, I have finally moved over to GDM as I figured that I can configure it more than I could with XDM.. I don't know, maybe I couldn't find the options on XDM. I have no got GDM going with no GUI on the console but it accepts connections from clients on specified IP

[SLUG] Apache and SSL solved...well, not really...

2000-08-05 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, Just for your information, the RedHat 6.2 install I had trying to get SSL working on Apache was a bit of a horror. I got it so far as to get certificates going but to a point of Seg Faulting after connecting to the page... weird..(possibly due to SSL looking for Perl5 in

RE: [SLUG] ISPs and Permanent Static IPs

2000-08-06 Thread George Vieira
account. So I guess the answer would be for ISDN or something else.. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: George Vieira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 7 August 2000 11:46 AM

[SLUG] Microsloth having a go at Linux....Ooooooh..

2000-08-08 Thread George Vieira
interested in reading this it's at http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

RE: [SLUG] Billy Boy is arriving

2000-08-09 Thread George Vieira
Yeah sure... with those big cards and a picture of a winking penguin. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: Pete Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 10 August 2000 10:37 AM

[SLUG] Probems installing IMAP RPM.

2000-08-13 Thread George Vieira
imap-4.7-5.i386.rpm warning: /etc/pam.d/imap saved as /etc/pam.d/imap.rpmorig warning: /etc/pam.d/pop saved as /etc/pam.d/pop.rpmorig unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -- SLUG - Sy

RE: [SLUG] Ethernet speed 10 or 100 Mbps ??

2000-08-14 Thread George Vieira
Dazza's right.. You can even have a full duplex 10/100Mb card on a switch and yet if the NIC has been told to run at 10Mb and not 100 (as some cards you can configure it) then that's what it's going to run at... what a waste. A database of NICs is the only way to know. thanks, George Vieira

RE: [SLUG] virtual hosting question

2000-08-14 Thread George Vieira
, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: Rob Shugg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2000 10:26 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [SLUG] virtual hosting question guys I have just modified

[SLUG] ASP and apache?

2000-08-14 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, I'm not sure if it exists or what but is there ASP support for Apache 1.3? Someone from out clients site has decided to run ASP and wants to remove the Linux box there and I'd like to keep it there is possible... thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L

RE: [SLUG] ICQ irc through ipchains

2000-08-15 Thread George Vieira
patched around for hours to get the normal ICQ 99a/99b to work and got as far as trying to get the sockets working but failed.. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint: C697 F10B F6A0 F4E9 C5DF B3E7 F057 B03A 99E8 7F2C

RE: [SLUG] Network Monitor

2000-08-16 Thread George Vieira
I'm using NTOP and thank God for that... I found where my traffic was coming from as before linux was my firewall/gateway/proxy, I had no idea where the ISP costs were coming from After the linux box was put in, NTOP showed that while most users were transfering around 100KB to 500MB since

RE: [SLUG] Network Monitor

2000-08-16 Thread George Vieira
-Original Message- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 8:17 PM To: George Vieira Cc: 'Carlo Nizeti'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] Network Monitor I bet she uses some streaming audio application.. how about windows media player attached to her

RE: [SLUG] PPP and ip-up

2000-08-16 Thread George Vieira
ORKIP \ linkname $DEVICE \ ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote rm /var/run/$1.pid /dev/null 21 /snip thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint: C697 F10B F6A0 F4E9 C5DF B3E7 F05

RE: [SLUG] Helix GNOME

2000-08-16 Thread George Vieira
Evolution looks nice and all but I don't know how stable it is and the little I did play, it didn't crash. Helix I run on a few servers and it depends on what you select.. My total including other apps was around 50MB or so... hope that helps. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator

[SLUG] TCPDUMP..

2000-08-17 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, I'm trying to filter out a host and port at the same time but not sure how to type the expression.. I'm trying to do the following but on 1 line: tcpdump -x host 10.10.0.69 tcpdump -x port 80 Is there a way to do this to narrow my searchign down? thanks, George Vieira Network

RE: [SLUG] Modem Problem

2000-08-20 Thread George Vieira
Can you run minicom and see if the modem responds OK? Do an ATZ and check that it returns an OK message back. What are you running to get this error, PPP dial up or something else? -Original Message- From: Richard Blackburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 21 August 2000 5:49 To:

RE: [SLUG] Re: Linux Certification

2000-08-20 Thread George Vieira
With all this in mind, this is why I have a web file version of my CV. This is OS independant as I also have done work on MACs Bit messy I know due to number of HTML files and GIFs but it works. -Original Message- From: Stuart Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 21 August

RE: [SLUG] multihomed machine.

2000-08-21 Thread George Vieira
I would (as I have at work) add 2 physical NICS as it's cheap and fully firewalls the internal from the external. Having 1 network card means that if not setup properly, people can NAT through the router whithout going through Squid or whatever. I'm pretty sure your router should be able to do

RE: [SLUG] Redirecting mail in /var/spool/mail/username

2000-08-21 Thread George Vieira
His problem is that the mails have arrived already and the person who owns it probably doesn't work there anymore or has requested it forwarded to another account. Like I said direclty to him, probably a POP3 will be the trick unless someone can strip out the mail file into seperate emails files

RE: [SLUG] CONFIGURING SLACKWARE TO RECEIVE (RAS)

2000-08-22 Thread George Vieira
OK.. I have spoken to Katrina and she requires an actual login prompt. She doesn't know if she has mgetty installed and I told her to login as root and just type mgetty and see if there is any errors like "No such file or Directory" or if it errors with a parameter message required and so on.

RE: [SLUG] Newbie having troubles with Diald

2000-08-22 Thread George Vieira
Do default gateway? Should have one. route add default dev ppp0 I get tap error when starting diald and thats OK. Never caused me any problems so I won't fsck what works. -Original Message- From: Operation Open Arms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 2:32 PM

RE: [SLUG] hrmm.. go Telstra

2000-08-23 Thread George Vieira
I'm the same.. I started with W98 here at work and then went to W2K and was fine for a while and then the usual happened M$ products didn't work with M$ products. So I tossed the whole thing and went to NT 4 WKS as I run it at home and it's quite sweet. It's only because I need Outlook for

RE: [SLUG] hrmm.. go Telstra

2000-08-23 Thread George Vieira
you know what evolution is up against if they really really want to get it right. George. -Original Message- From: Thom May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 7:41 PM To: George Vieira Cc: 'John Wiltshire'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] hrmm.. go Telstra

RE: [SLUG] tape drives and software...

2000-08-23 Thread George Vieira
Go Tapeware and cost isn't too bad considering how good it is. Works much like Arcserve and supports backing up NT servers and other workstations via Linux http://www.tapeware.com -Original Message- From: Colin Humphreys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 3:23 PM

RE: [SLUG] vgetty add-ons/voice menus.

2000-08-24 Thread George Vieira
Actually even better, use the good old scrolling or flashing CAP,NUM,SCROLL LEDS on the keyboard... Just to let you know there are messages. Even speaking out the message via Text to Speech (I did have that running once) "You have 3 messages".. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] // ??

2000-08-27 Thread George Vieira
Yes it DOES work on RedHat like it did on Slackoware. At least for me. -Original Message- From: Marty Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] // ?? Hi Sluggers, I accidently typed cd // on one of my slackware 7.0

RE: [SLUG] Help with rm

2000-08-28 Thread George Vieira
-fr` to a `ls -l` and make sure it display the files you want to remove and then use the real command thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C

[SLUG] Badly OT but need advice - Windows NT Bind..

2000-08-28 Thread George Vieira
the cache so it forces it to look up again. Any help on this OT is greatly appreciated... thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] Ipchains internal forwarding module... what's it called.. can't find it..

2000-08-29 Thread George Vieira
? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists

RE: [SLUG] Ipchains internal forwarding module... what's it called.. can't f ind it..

2000-08-29 Thread George Vieira
Sorry, I think I explained the problem badly. I have a port forward for port 80 external to point to an internal port 80 web server. I am having a problem where internal machines trying to access the external IP address of the internal web server and it can't reach it and I think it's because of

RE: [SLUG] configuration backup to floppy

2000-08-29 Thread George Vieira
etc.sysconfig 1 /etc/sysconfig -Original Message- From: George Vieira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 12:00 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [SLUG] configuration backup to floppy Hi all, Since we're in the scripting mood...Ok, Ok... maybe some. I have created

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

2000-08-30 Thread George Vieira
Forget it! Throw the damn PSU and get another one for $30 if not less.. The job of a fuse is REALLY to prevent a fire. There is no way a fuse will blow before a transistor will and I'll tell you it doesn't take a hell of a lot to blow a transistor unless there is some heavy over power clamping

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

2000-08-30 Thread George Vieira
I still thinks it's easier to either buy one or just get one of some dodgy old machine somewhere.. I'm telling you it's gonna be a b$@!* as those things take out alot and I mean alot of components.. Forget the bulbs as they are not accurate enough and power supplies have their own loads so it

[SLUG] IPROUTE2

2000-08-30 Thread George Vieira
e URL http://www.linux.com/howto/IP-Masquerade-7.html But not only does it not make sense to me but it also doesn't allow my entries. I also followed some other links and had no fun there either... thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC

[SLUG] Change seconds to H:M:S

2000-09-05 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, I have PPPD running and sending out via $CONNECT_TIME variable the time the link was up for. The problem is that it's in seconds only and I get rsults like "37646752 seconds". Is there a way to convert this into H:M:S? I am doing this in a bash script.. thanks, George Viei

RE: [SLUG] Time

2000-09-06 Thread George Vieira
I'd just remove the file /etc/sysconfig/clock-- or something like that then do rdate -s time.nist.gov thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C

[SLUG] apache and users ~/public_html directory

2000-09-06 Thread George Vieira
I have tried looking at the apaches docs but can't find anything on this error and why it won't let me view it's contents. I have the feeling it may have something to do with the virtual sits and might not know which site does the internal users belong to but I may be wrong... Can anyone help here? t

RE: [SLUG] IDE cdrom gone AWOL

2000-09-06 Thread George Vieira
What happens when you try to mount the full command eg. mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom I have problems sometimes where it doesn't know where to place it.. weird. Also, is the CDROM on the primary master IDE slot as it looks like it's pointing to it via /dev/hda..??? thanks, George Vieira Network

RE: [SLUG] Running SOlaris binaries on Linux?

2000-09-06 Thread George Vieira
, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: DaZZa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] Samba Problem

2000-07-16 Thread George Vieira
I have seen his smb.conf and it appears that he's using: name resolve order = host lmhosts wins bcast so it looks up the /etc/hosts file first... I suggested him to change it to: name resolve order = bcast wins host lmhosts thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator Citadel Computer Systems P

RE: [SLUG] DOS Boot floppy

2000-09-07 Thread George Vieira
go to a windows machine and using the control-panel - add/remove software - startup disk and make a boot disk. then copy to the disk the ahaXXX.sys driver and apsicd.sys driver if you need cdrom support then do the device=ahaXXX.sys device=apsicd.sys in your config.sys thanks, George Vieira

RE: [SLUG] RE: Ot train BSOD stuff

2000-09-10 Thread George Vieira
to make it look like they really need the money.. I saw Central Station with a normal Windows desktop but the usual case of no camera. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP

RE: [SLUG] Wierd host in network traffic

2000-09-10 Thread George Vieira
Have you tried tcpdump and watch everything as you said there should be practically nothing going in out out. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID

RE: [SLUG] [OT] looking for Linux friendly supplier (Sydney)

2000-09-10 Thread George Vieira
out the motherboard, or worse like in my nephews case the power supply which blew the RAM,MB and one of his HDDs then it's all covered under the same roof thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F

RE: [SLUG] Making sendmail relay to another mail server

2000-09-11 Thread George Vieira
Sendmail doesn't use /etc/hosts and you'll need to specify it's FQDN instead.. I'm pretty sure I tried this and it failed though there maybe a DNS ignore function somewhere.. Easier to put the FQDN though. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP

RE: [SLUG] File systems and redundency

2000-09-13 Thread George Vieira
partition it but it's just a matter of how much to allocate for each partition.. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- Fro

RE: [SLUG] File systems and redundency

2000-09-13 Thread George Vieira
That could be a pain. I have a +30GB database for this client to handle here and just worried about the performance on the file system even though it's a RAID 5. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1

FW: [SLUG] File systems and redundency

2000-09-13 Thread George Vieira
Sorry for keeping this thread going and anybody can mail me directly if they want but has anybody set up a RAID 0/1? I am thinking of creating a 40GB (20+20) RAID 0 and then mirror that for redundancy. That's the fastest redundancy I know of. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http

RE: [SLUG] Sendmail quirks

2000-09-18 Thread George Vieira
had permissions of 700 and for tests I changed it to 744 and it worked OK and services like squid and others started to work again. Sendmail might be having this problem too.??..??..?? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82

RE: [SLUG] Wine with MS apps

2000-09-18 Thread George Vieira
, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Peter Rundle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 8:40 AM

RE: [SLUG] IDE for java / C etc.

2000-09-18 Thread George Vieira
We are developing stuff under Linux using IBMs "Visual Age for Java 3.0".. Big hog though.. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C ---

[SLUG] IPCHAINS problem.

2000-09-21 Thread George Vieira
10.10.0.0/16 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j ACCEPT This line sucks... # /sbin/ipchains -A input -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 10.10.10.70/32 23 -p tcp -i ppp0 -j REJECT # IP Forwarding /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQ thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http

RE: [SLUG] SAMBA sharename problem

2000-09-21 Thread George Vieira
Do what I do sometime and is add the "remote announce=" IPs in even though it's local and change the name look up (forgot what's it called) to it uses broadcast then hosts then DNS. I find it works fine for me.. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.

[SLUG] Terminal Server printing in Linux

2000-09-26 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, Sorry if this question has been asked before but does anyone know how to set up a terminal server with 5 or so printers attached so linux can print to it? I believe these are serial LAT type of printers and I have no idea how linux and pass the print jobs to it. Possibly have to get the

RE: [SLUG] Execute a file

2000-09-26 Thread George Vieira
Could it be needing a perl module or something similar in httpd.conf . Or even allow CGIs to run in the directory you placed the file eg. Options ExecCGI -Original Message- From: Marshall, Joshua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 12:36 PM To: slug Subject:

RE: [SLUG] SMS messaging Solutions?

2000-09-27 Thread George Vieira
FYI, I just rang the Vodafone number 0414100200 and it's not answering. Apparently it's been down since 2AM and they are working on it. I have once tested an SMS via the vodafone network number(as above) and was successfully able to SMS a Telstra phone. -Original Message- From: Luke

RE: [SLUG] sending rewind and retension commands to tape

2000-09-28 Thread George Vieira
I use the `mt` command, it has all the features I need.. man mt thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Ian Ward

RE: [SLUG] excluding a directory using TAR.

2000-10-05 Thread George Vieira
Unfortunately I tried the same and could only include from a file list using the -T switch (I think it's -T). thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID

AAarrrgh!! RE: [SLUG] [OT] FW: Fw: A wish for you...

2000-10-05 Thread George Vieira
Sending that email is one thing, making 20 threads about it afterwards is another so lets leave it at that. I'm starting to get sick of these OT subjects and the damn threads after it! thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC

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