Re: [SLUG] patch your bash shells now

2014-09-26 Thread Chris Barnes
Menno I believe that is the old test, not entirely accurate. This one is supposed to be more accurate. rm -f echo; env X='() { (a)=\' bash -c echo date; cat echo If you're safe it should return: date cat: echo: No such file or directory I'm no BASH expert so I'm not too sure how the two tests

Re: [SLUG] Help to force install in CentOs (TOR in China)

2014-09-26 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi Robert, I'm not really familiar with installing Tor. What distro are you using? And whats the problem you having installing Tor? Is it that the package cant be downloaded from the pre-configured repository sources because the Great Wall is blocking the download? or that permissions on the VPS

Re: [SLUG] BASH update for Debian 6?

2014-09-26 Thread Chris Barnes
) automatically. If anyone is curios to hear more, discuss or anything else, I'd be very happy to hear from you. Thanks. --Amos On 26 September 2014 10:28, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: ahh thats the info i was looking for. Thanks Amos. You're right, upgrade

Re: [SLUG] BASH update for Debian 6?

2014-09-26 Thread Chris Barnes
Yep, it appears theres a number of things that depend on BASH so uninstalling isnt an option in my case. On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:45 PM, David da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: On 26/09/14 17:38, Chris Barnes wrote: thanks for the tip Mark, I had considered trying to install the BASH update

Re: [SLUG] BASH update for Debian 6?

2014-09-26 Thread Chris Barnes
:06 pm, Chris Barnes wrote: Yep, it appears theres a number of things that depend on BASH so uninstalling isnt an option in my case. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5244106#post5244106 Works for me. On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:45 PM, David da...@kenpro.com.au

Re: [SLUG] BASH update for Debian 6?

2014-09-26 Thread Chris Barnes
edit: sources.list, not apt.sources On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Perfect Patrick. I didn't even realise the squeeze-lts repo existed so I've added another line to my apt.sources to pull that repo from my existing mirror. vulnerability

[SLUG] BASH update for Debian 6?

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Barnes
Hey people, I haven't seen an update for BASH come down in the Debian Squeeze security updates. As a result my machines are still vulnerable. My Debian 7 machines received the update promptly just not my 6 machines. Has anyone else received an update for BASH on Deb 6? Im using the

Re: [SLUG] BASH update for Debian 6?

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Barnes
updates are supposed to be released until 2016. LTS support is NOT provided by Debian security team. See the LTS announcement in https://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140424.html My take - upgrade is overdue. --Amos On 26 September 2014 08:56, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey

Re: [SLUG] BASH update for Debian 6?

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Barnes
to hear more, discuss or anything else, I'd be very happy to hear from you. Thanks. --Amos On 26 September 2014 10:28, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: ahh thats the info i was looking for. Thanks Amos. You're right, upgrade is overdue. On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Amos

Re: [SLUG] BIND9 zone question

2014-08-14 Thread Chris Barnes
Awesome thanks for the tip with dnsmasq. -- Kind Regards, Christopher Barnes e. chris.p.bar...@gmail.com On 14/08/2014 6:51 PM, Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au wrote: On 14/08/14 09:44, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi Christopher, So that works perfectly for Netflix because any part

Re: [SLUG] BIND9 zone question

2014-08-14 Thread Chris Barnes
...@gmail.com wrote: For a individual target hosts, i.e. not a whole domain, if you're the one doing the lookup, you could also use /etc/hosts. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome thanks for the tip with dnsmasq. -- Kind Regards

[SLUG] BIND9 zone question

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Barnes
Hey people, Got a bit of a tricky question, well it seems tricky to me. I want to use bind to resolve a single host address for a very large zone I don't own. The background is that I'm trying to circumvent georestrictions on TV streaming site. I've determined that the host on the internet

Re: [SLUG] BIND9 zone question

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Barnes
of Akamai's pickiness, you might want configure the proxy not to report who or where it's asking on behalf of. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey people, Got a bit of a tricky question, well it seems tricky to me. I want to use bind to resolve

Re: [SLUG] BIND9 zone question

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Barnes
shouldn't make a difference, unless Akamai is also checking X-Forwarded-For. DNS fiddles won't change the apparent location of any machine. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Christopher, You're right that this Akamai hostdoesnt like my location

Re: [SLUG] BIND9 zone question

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Barnes
dns requests for the akamai.net domain are sent to the forwarder to resolve. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Correct, The Netflix servers are seeing my requests come from my server in the US. Thats the whole point of having the server in the U.S

Re: [SLUG] Free computer/network/VoIP gear

2014-06-03 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi John, If you still have the Grandstream phones I'd be interested in those. On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:35 PM, John Clarke johnc+s...@kirriwa.net wrote: Hi Sluggers, I'm doing a clean out and have a few items that might still be useful to someone else. Everything is free (pick up from

Re: [SLUG] Filesystem help for a non-expert

2014-04-22 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi Grant, Are you talking about the EXT filesystem? Also, when you say your previous attempt at unmounting the disks caused the system to fail. Do you mean it simply crashed, or do you mean there was a catastrophic loss of data? And what kinds of troubles have you been having with the two disks

Re: [SLUG] I can't be the only one.

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Barnes
Its a shame the device was stolen before the phone locator app was installed/activated. Samsung Galaxy S phones have a find my phone feature built in thats automatically enabled when you set your phone up (if you chose to enable that feature). For all others - http://preyproject.com/ On Wed,

Re: [SLUG] A couple of electronics projects

2013-09-12 Thread Chris Barnes
I sometimes go to a meeting of hobby electronics enthusiasts in the City. they meet once a month. Its called The PIC Club but its not exclusive to people using Microchip's PIC MCU, people take their Arduino's and ARM based MCUs, and even the odd Parallax Propeller as well.

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-02 Thread Chris Barnes
Token ring would work. Now, i wonder if anyone has already implemented token ring over i2c under linux. On 02/06/13 10:01, Chris Barnes wrote: come to think of it. the whole master/slave process of I2C would probably make it terribly difficult to implement tcp/ip since each device would have

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-02 Thread Chris Barnes
at 10:26 AM, Glen Turner g...@gdt.id.au wrote: On 02/06/2013, at 9:31 AM, Chris Barnes wrote: yeah. come to think of it. the whole master/slave process of I2C would probably make it terribly difficult to implement tcp/ip since each device would have to be able to switch from slave

[SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Barnes
This one might be impossible but does anyone have any clues for running TCP/IP over the I2C bus? I have a few Raspberry PIs and I'd like to create an Out Of Band network on them by linking them all by I2C and then running TCP/IP over it. Any suggestions? -- Kind Regards, Christopher Barnes

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Barnes
if you can bind an i2c endpoint to a serial port then running some sort of ppp server on it. On 01/06/13 17:30, Chris Barnes wrote: This one might be impossible but does anyone have any clues for running TCP/IP over the I2C bus? I have a few Raspberry PIs and I'd like to create an Out Of Band

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Barnes
bind an i2c endpoint to a serial port then running some sort of ppp server on it. On 01/06/13 17:30, Chris Barnes wrote: This one might be impossible but does anyone have any clues for running TCP/IP over the I2C bus? I have a few Raspberry PIs and I'd like to create an Out Of Band network

Re: [SLUG] python in linux mint

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Barnes
Sounds like you want a basic Python IDE. Never used Python myself. But a quick search looks like Eric for Linux Mint might be a good one to try. http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get my kids

Re: [SLUG] On switching ISPs.

2013-05-01 Thread Chris Barnes
For a moment I thought I'd been subscribed to an Android support mailing list My guess as to what you are asking is do you need to save the phone contacts from your old sim card before turfing it? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Its a bit hard to say but generally Android likes to chuck

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Barnes
Linder j...@tigger.ws To: slug@slug.org.au On 30/04/2013, at 11:41 AM, Chris Barnes wrote: Well i think it depends what you want to do with the thing. The Olinuxino has something like 60 GPIOs compared to the Pi's 17 or so. 2 UARTs 16 channel ADC External memory interface RTC Also

Re: [SLUG] Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Barnes
Well i think it depends what you want to do with the thing. The Olinuxino has something like 60 GPIOs compared to the Pi's 17 or so. 2 UARTs 16 channel ADC External memory interface RTC Also it looks like the Olinuxino has a built-in hardware crypto engine. so really it depends what you want to

Re: [SLUG] Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Barnes
Looks nifty. doesnt have a lot of ram but it does sport an external memory interface to increase the available ram. Looks like you can get them from element14 a fraction pricier than the RaspberryPi On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:01 PM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Is this

Re: [SLUG] script to analyse syslog in realtime

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Barnes
. Preceded it with the tool since to only apply to events since the last time you checked. For fancier setups, use the tools mentioned by others or the venerable swatch Regards, Matt On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, my firewall logs

[SLUG] script to analyse syslog in realtime

2013-02-13 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi everyone, my firewall logs everything to a syslog server - new connections, terminated connections, etc basically what im trying to do is analyse the syslog in realtime looking for a specific string which indicates a new connection has been established, and to count the number of occurrences

Re: [SLUG] ISP Recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread Chris Barnes
Why would you phone go flat? Like another person pointed out, if there is a queue, you can opt to have a representative call you back. you dont lose your place in the queue. much easier. and what is this monthly usage you're referring to? Your ADSL usage or your mobile phone usage? If thats your

Re: [SLUG] ISP Recommendation

2013-02-05 Thread Chris Barnes
depends how much you'd like to spend, how do you feel about needing static ip addresses, ipv6 support, etc. but basically, take a look at the Whirlpool Broadband Choice website. You can punch in your phone number and it will present you with a list of available internet providers and their plans.

Re: [SLUG] newbie to writing programs

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Barnes
Right. That explains it then. I couldn't see that documented anywhere but it makes sense. Thanks everyone! On Jan 19, 2013 12:54 AM, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 05:57:09PM +1100, Chris Barnes wrote: What i mean is if the parent forked at the line pid

Re: [SLUG] newbie to writing programs

2013-01-17 Thread Chris Barnes
){ And since the child process wont have a value for pid it wont exit, but the parent will. Does that make sense? Chris Barnes wrote: I can daemonise processes, the problem I've got is I cannot for the life of me understand HOW it works. Have you read the man page for fork? On my Mac (BSD unix

Re: [SLUG] Tuning Systems and Energy Use (Sys Admin Roles and Responsibilities)

2012-10-21 Thread Chris Barnes
I'm curious to know which processor and disk you've got in your laptop On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Marghanita da Cruz marghan...@ramin.com.au wrote: Jake Anderson wrote: snip I don't know who is saying desktop pc's are pulling 12W but I haven't seen a system that will pull that from

Re: [SLUG] clone system to a vm?

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Barnes
Take a look at Ghost4Linux (G4L) Its not necessarily fast, but its got a pretty comprehensive suite of tools. On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:55 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Sun, September 2, 2012 7:21 pm, Ross Mitchell wrote: I suggest that you install VirtualBox, then install your Centos 4 os

Re: [SLUG] Recycling/Disposing of old PC's - Send to kids in Africa for their schools

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Barnes
Its probably a long shot but would they be interested in networking gear? I've got a couple of Cisco Routers (2600 series) and a couple of Cisco Switches (3550XL) in good working condition I dont need anymore. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:30 AM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Re: Agora

2012-07-03 Thread Chris Barnes
After months of waiting my Pi arrived at the post office this week ready for me to collect. I was only allowed to order 1. I'm hoping i wont have to wait months again if i want to order another. Kind Regards. On Jul 3, 2012 11:25 PM, Geoffrey Cowling geoffrey.cowl...@gmail.com wrote: 4.

Re: [SLUG] Bar Code scanners

2012-04-15 Thread Chris Barnes
I'm not sure about that. The subject of the original post seems to suggest Patrick is interested in scanning bar codes as opposed to whole books. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Gonzalo Servat gser...@gmail.com wrote: I think the OP wants to scan actual books, not barcodes? This might help:

Re: [SLUG] Re: Ubuntu instalation

2012-04-01 Thread Chris Barnes
Ok heres the link to Boot Repair. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair Give it a try. If you still cant get Ubuntu running give us a shout. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Christopher Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Johannes, I have a link to a cdrom you can download to

Re: : [SLUG] Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-05 Thread Chris Barnes
Havent ordered one yet, my b/day is coming up at the end of the month so I asked for one (I know its going to be late). I've got a few ideas for mine, retrofit my car with one of those fancy navigation and media systems like what you find in the euro cars - ipod doc, satnav, bluetooth handsfree

Re: : [SLUG] Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-05 Thread Chris Barnes
Have you looked at the Parallax Propeller? 32 gpio pins it also has 8 cores (or what they call Cogs) 32bit 80Mhz top speed with external clock source, or 12Mhz with internal osc. 3.3v power boot from i2c eeprom or serial ive been playing around with one. The only downside - they invented a new

Re: [SLUG] one entity with two tld domains web setup?

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Barnes
At the DNS level point the www 'A' record on both domains to the same ip address where the web server is hosted. or make the www record for name.com.au a 'cname' record and point it to the www record for name.com e.g. www.name.com - 111.222.333.444 www.name.com.au - www.name.com Does that help?

Re: [SLUG] Re: SUSE 11.4 failsage boot only after a first update (Joseph Buk)

2011-09-26 Thread Chris Barnes
of course. direct/nat'd tcp/ip connection from the unsafe internet to the private lan is really the only attack vector anyone half malicious would try... http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/26/2218238/mysqlcom-hacked-made-to-serve-malware On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:38 PM, James Linder

Re: [SLUG] Multifunction printers vs dedicated sheet-feed scanners?

2011-09-05 Thread Chris Barnes
I cant say I have a lot of experience with the dedicated scanners but from what I've seen the expensive ones are very fast and very reliable. They also come with a scsi interface option. i worked at a mortgage lender years back and one of the departments had these expensive scanners because they

Re: [SLUG] non-root users cant use network

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Barnes
)                                = 0 exit_group(4)                           = ? On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 01:06:34PM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote: cpbarnes@netbook:~$ ping 127.0.0.1 socket: Permission denied cpbarnes@netbook:~$ wget http://127.0.0.1

Re: [SLUG] non-root users cant use network

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Barnes
Wasnt too sure what to check when it came to locales. echo ${LANG} returned blank so I set LANG=en_AU.iso88591 didnt make any difference to wget or what strace shows when running wget. but interestingly i ran strace with ifconfig and that shows a few interesting bits. not quite sure what it

Re: [SLUG] non-root users cant use network

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi Peter, You're absolutely right. I was tired as hell when i posted the email last night and realised this morning in the shower the real error was the one you pointed out. I think you're right about it being an Android derived kernel as the installers provided by the Netbook manufacturer for

Re: [SLUG] non-root users cant use network [FIXED]

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Barnes
SUCCESS! regular users can see all info from /sbin/ifconfig, ping 127.0.0.1 gets replies, and wget no longer throws Permission denied. I had been trying to figure this problem out for months. I thought the only customisations made to the kernel were around the hardware - ARM SOC platforms,

Re: [SLUG] non-root users cant use network

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Barnes
and fast - /dev/sda2 rootdelay=7 :| built-in fastethernet and b/g wifi Thanks again for your help. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote: Your problem is here: On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 08:52:42PM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote: socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM

[SLUG] non-root users cant use network

2011-08-28 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi everyone, I'm fairly new to the list. I've got what I would consider an interesting issue with a little netbook I've been playing around with. basically regular users cannot make any outbound network connections. for example: cpbarnes@netbook:~$ ping 127.0.0.1 socket: Permission denied

RE: [SLUG] Calamaris/Webalizer download count versus Netfilter byte countversus ISP byte count

2003-11-19 Thread Chris Barnes
recording packet length, or the ULOG target not properly logging every packet? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2003 9:09 PM To: Chris Barnes Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] Calamaris/Webalizer download count versus Netfilter byte

RE: [SLUG] Calamaris/Webalizer download count versus Netfilter byte countversus ISP byte count

2003-11-19 Thread Chris Barnes
Message- From: Michael Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2003 11:09 AM To: 'Terry Collins'; 'Chris Barnes' Cc: 'SLUG' Subject: RE: [SLUG] Calamaris/Webalizer download count versus Netfilter byte countversus ISP byte count UDP packets? Who gets billed for DNS, NTP

[SLUG] Calamaris/Webalizer download count versus Netfilter byte count versus ISP byte count

2003-11-18 Thread Chris Barnes
with Netfilters byte counters, or anything like that. Does anyone have any ideas? Very much appreciated. Chris Barnes. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] Bandwidth/packet/netfilter log file analysis tools

2003-11-17 Thread Chris Barnes
the database and generate reports for you. A couple that come to mind are ulogd-php and webfwlog. Regards, Chris Barnes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gareth Walters Sent: Monday, 17 November 2003 9:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

[SLUG] pppd+mschap-v2 patch

2003-11-17 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi people, Does anyone know where I can find patches to patch pppd to work with mschap-v2? Im trying to set-up a pptp vpn on a Linux machine. Ive used google to search for the patches on the net but not much luck. Thanks in advance. Chris Barnes. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] syslog.conf

2003-11-05 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi everyone, Simple question, how would I get syslog to write all messages starting with IPTABLES to a specific file, instead of /var/log/messages. I've read the syslog.conf man page but I just don't understand the syntax. Thanks heaps Chris Barnes -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

RE: [SLUG] php text recommendations

2003-11-05 Thread Chris Barnes
I also use this book and Its really handy. It does cover the basics of PHP and MySQL but it also gets into the thick areas too. I don't think I'd call it advanced though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard Doyle Sent: Thursday, 6

Re: [SLUG] Slow DSL connection

2003-10-02 Thread Chris Barnes
First thing, take one of your computers known to work at full speed on dsl...so if you have a laptop in your office which cruises nicely on broadband then take that and plug it into the clients router/modem and see what happens. If the problem persists, check the router/modem tech support page.

[SLUG] hard disk copy

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi people, I have replaced a 6gig disk with a 60gig disk and used dd to copy the contents of the old 6gig disk across to the new 60gig disk, but the 60gig disk is only sowing as having a 6gig partition, which is what I expected to happen, but my question is does anyone know how I can stretch that

Re: [SLUG] hard disk copy

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Barnes
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:37, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:25:55AM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote: expected to happen, but my question is does anyone know how I can stretch that partition to be 60gigs? The partition is formatted as vfat. There are several partition resizing

RE: [SLUG] supermount no longer works after kernel recompile.

2003-09-28 Thread Chris Barnes
: Monday, 29 September 2003 8:11 AM To: Chris Barnes Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] supermount no longer works after kernel recompile. Supermount is a Mandrake specific patch. First thing to check is that you're using Mandrake kernel sources. If you're using a stock kernel then you won't be able to get

RE: [SLUG] copying whole disks with knoppix

2003-09-28 Thread Chris Barnes
Just a quick question, is there any easy way to determine the block size on a hard disk? Because most people might omit the 'bs'option because they aren't sure of the block size and they don't want to stuff anything up. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] trouble booting.....Mounting local filesystems

2003-09-27 Thread Chris Barnes
Thanks heaps for your help on this. The below solution worked quite well. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Airlie Sent: Saturday, 27 September 2003 12:07 PM To: Chris Barnes Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] trouble booting.Mounting

[SLUG] trouble booting.....Mounting local filesystems

2003-09-26 Thread Chris Barnes
? Im using Mandrake 9.1 by the way. Thanks very much, Chris Barnes. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Redhat 9 install

2003-09-07 Thread Chris Barnes
I'm no expert, but I thought there was an arguement you could pass to the boot loader to specify the ammount of memory the setup program should use I cant remember how to do it, but basically instead if just hitting enter when the cd-rom boots, i think you type something like linux mem=64 or

[SLUG] OpenSSL and Squid --with-ssl

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi people, I hope this question isn't too basic, but i'm having a fair bit of trouble getting Squid to compile with OpenSSL support. I am trying to compile Squid 2.5.STABLE2 along with OpenSSL 0.9.7b. Keep in mind that before-hand I successfuly compiled OpenSSH-3.6.1p1 against OpenSSL 0.9.7b on

[SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile?

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi sluggers, I have recently installed Debian 3.0r1. I'm fairly new to debian, but I thought I was going ok until i tried to compile something. When I installed Debian it was a base install, nothing else. So I dont have compilers or linkers installed. I've tried installing gcc-3.0 (apt-get

Re: [SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile?

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Barnes
Yep I got the Debian 3.0r1 discs from the front of APC Magazine...which is where I pick up alot of my other disctibutions from. See I dont normally use Debian, but I thought it was time for a change and Debian just happened to be on the magazine. I've configured the apt sources to get from disc

Re: [SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile?

2003-08-11 Thread Chris Barnes
Message - From: Crossfire [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile? you probably don't want gcc-3.0 actually... if you use: apt-get install binutils gcc cpp make

Re: [SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile?

2003-08-09 Thread Chris Barnes
really need to install from a package is the development environment. - Original Message - From: Peter Chubb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:43 AM Subject: [SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile? Chris == Chris

Re: [SLUG] UPS woes. - SOLVED

2003-06-22 Thread Chris Barnes
at 14:39, Chris Barnes wrote: Ahh nice work! I've actually been up all night looking for more information this thing. I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like its a copy of UPS made by Microtek Italia called the MICROedge MEG501. I wasn't able to find ANY information about the protocol they used

[SLUG] UPS woes.

2003-06-21 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi everyone, The other day my boss bought a UPS which was on special at Dick Smith Electronics for $100 (400Va, 9pin Serial-to-pc, 6 minutes @ half-load), an ok price i guess. The DSE web site notes that the UPS has Linux software, which is true, I was able to download an RPM. But the rpm wont

Re: [SLUG] UPS woes.

2003-06-21 Thread Chris Barnes
the software, like testing the ups, etc. On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 12:59, Ian Wienand wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 07:54:28AM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi everyone, The other day my boss bought a UPS which was on special at Dick Smith Electronics for $100 (400Va, 9pin Serial-to-pc, 6 minutes

Re: [SLUG] need a hand with iptables

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Barnes
Hmmm I know I wanted to go by MAC address for a good reason but I'm stumped if I can remember what it was. I'll remember it after i wake up properly. I'll have a look at the patch. Thanks heaps :) On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you really need to go by MAC address?

[SLUG] need a hand with iptables

2003-02-09 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi, I'm looking for someone willing to give me a hand with iptables. I am writing a piece of software which will make use of iptables but i have very little idea about iptables and not a great deal of time to learn right now and need to have the software ready fairly soon. I can give details

Re: [SLUG] need a hand with iptables

2003-02-09 Thread Chris Barnes
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, that's an excellent description; I'm afraid I can't help you though. That's a big project and I don't have many spare cycles in the day .. (besides which I don't know php) You wont need to know PHP because I'll do all the

Re: [SLUG] /etc/rc.config

2002-12-27 Thread Chris Barnes
Firstly, it would be a bit more helpfull if you named the script as I'm not sure what you are trying to do. BTW, The SuSE 6.2 release is over three year old. The script is called dynacc (http://www.fire.wolfsburg.de/proj/dynacc/) and its been designed for suse 6.2 or 6.3 I chose this

Re: [SLUG] lost software

2002-12-22 Thread Chris Barnes
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 23:11, Mick wrote: Hi all, I've lost some software I've just installed. It exited the installation with a maninstall error. everything else went smoothly. Installing man pages.../usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/man/man1': No such file or

[SLUG] Web server with 4 virtual hosts behind firewall

2002-12-19 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi people, I've been asked to setup a web server with 4 virtual hosts...no big deal, but eventually I will also be asked to put that web server behind a firewall. here's the basic idea: 4 domain names each with their own IP Web server is Apache configured with 4 virtual hosts. Firewall is

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9 CDs

2002-12-19 Thread Chris Barnes
I have the Mandrake 9.0 cds from the cover of the APC magazine and from what i can remember it was the october issue. If you like i can copy the cd-roms and send them to you. On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 09:04, Robert Maurency wrote: Greetings I'm after some Mandrake 9 CDs (so I can have a go at

Re: [SLUG] Installing Gentus

2002-11-27 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi, You need to be more specific as to which stage of the boot process shows the 1's and 0's... I'm only guessing but it sounds like you are getting the 1's and 0's at the LILO prompt...is this right? if so then those 1's and 0's indicate an error with Lilo. you should search google for the

Re: [SLUG] what is microcode??

2002-11-12 Thread Chris Barnes
Thanks Jan and Grant I have a bit better Idea of microcode now. Although it seems like microcode may give me slightly better system performance (if I transfer the microcode to the processor that is) I seriously doubt anything is going to speed up this old box :) She's been good, but with this

[SLUG] Out Of Memory problems WAS what is microcode??

2002-11-12 Thread Chris Barnes
I have 160megs physical and 350megs swap but i think I have more than enough swap space simply because last time a program crashed due to lack of available memory the system did alot of swapping but only occupied just less than half of the total swap space. Tests with another 2 programs showed the

[SLUG] what is microcode??

2002-11-11 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi people, I'm in the midst of compiling the 2.4.19 kernel on my system and i came across something I hadn't noticed before (so i don't know if its a new feature or not), its microcode support. I checked the help for this feature but it doesn't explain what microcode is. I went to the web site it

Re: [SLUG] cant install linux mandrake 9.0, please help

2002-11-10 Thread Chris Barnes
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 11:41, Josh Brady wrote: hi, hey how you doen. i get to the prompt where is display the msg, press enter to install or f1 for more options. i press enter to install. the problesm starts not long after this. its display a msg saying loading stuff into memory and i see

Re: [SLUG] winmodem

2002-11-10 Thread Chris Barnes
Why do you still want an internal modem? wouldn't it be just be easier now and in the long run to invest in a cheap external modem which is more than likely going to work first time not just in linux but windows too. Cheap internal modems aren't that much cheaper than cheap external modems. just

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Chris Barnes
I hate that...you make sure your machine is up for as long as possible to be on the top of the ranks on the Linux Counter site, but then you hit those damned keys. It still baffles me why that function is enabled by default on linux. its the absolute first thing I disable after a new install. It

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Chris Barnes
Yep, my girlfriend knows all about panicking in the morning...so do I...I'm always at the receiving end of the abuse which results from her panicking. On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:57, Nikolai wrote: Chris, great advice, thanks for your help As a security tip I suggest you turn off all your

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Chris Barnes
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 13:13, Nikolai wrote: well, a couple of times a screwed my system quite badly it simply froze, and since I'm always in X Window envioronment 3 finger salute was the only option to reboot, console wasn't accessable either (not that I know a whola lotta things about how

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 7.1 on sparc fails to start

2002-11-06 Thread Chris Barnes
I'm running a terminal off ttya which is the only option (besides ttyb which isn't really any different) On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 18:39, Ken Foskey wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 00:07, Chris Barnes wrote: failed to open /dev/tty1failed. guess, put a terminal on the end of the serial port

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 7.1 on sparc fails to start

2002-11-06 Thread Chris Barnes
monitor and try booting the cdrom with the keyboard and monitor config instead of headless over a dumb terminal. On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 07:55, James Gregory wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 23:59, Chris Barnes wrote: I'm running a terminal off ttya which is the only option (besides ttyb which isn't

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-06 Thread Chris Barnes
I've never heard anything like that before on a Linux machine. I know that I have experienced self reboots on Windows machines due to hardware problems (like busted memory or over heating CPU) but I would imagine that the Linux kernel would panic instead of rebooting your machine..but then again

[SLUG] Mandrake 7.1 on sparc fails to start

2002-11-04 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi people, I recently spent a great deal of time downloading Mandrake 7.1 for SPARC on my 56k modem. Any way I burnt the ISO to cd-rom and stuck it in my Sparc Station 5 to boot. SILO boots and I get the welcome screen, I type in text enter and the cd-rom starts to boot the text image but half

Re: [SLUG] ppp log?

2002-11-04 Thread Chris Barnes
When ever I search my syslog for pppd entries I always use cat /var/log/syslog | grep pppd | more this shows only the pppd entries...including session times, data transfered, etc depending on how often your logs are rotated the results could go back longer than you require so it might take a

Re: [SLUG] interchange e-commerce

2002-11-04 Thread Chris Barnes
I played around with it quite a while ago but because there was so much stuffing around with Perl modules and configuring it was confusing so i decided it might be better for me to actually build a similar package my self in php4 which would be specific to the business and because I have php4

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2002-10-30 Thread Chris Barnes
Most linux distributions are free...thats not just a Mandrake thing. One thing mandrake might have over other distributions is that it has been optimised for Pentium architectures where as redhat and others have no optimisation for any specific architecture and therefore will work on just about

Re: [SLUG] runtime error for c++ prog

2002-10-30 Thread Chris Barnes
The core file isn't the kernel, from what I understand its the area of memory your program was using when it crashed. You can use a debugging tool on core files (like gdb or kdbg)...i don't know how this will help you but thats about all I know about core files...and I'm not too good at c++

[SLUG] Fresh Mandrake 9.0 install but having language probs in OOO

2002-10-28 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi, I got my self a copy of Mandrake 9.0 on the weekend and installed it successfully. All seemed to be working quite well until I started up an OpenOffice.Org app. For some reason all my OOO apps are running in a different language (it appears to be German from what I can tell) and because of

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