Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendations
Asrock ion 330 is great as it accelerates video using an nvidia ion. I use one as my xbmc box Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] RAID and LVM
On 20/02/2010, at 11:53 AM, Brett Coady bc196...@yahoo.com.au wrote: The trouble with Bonnie and IOzone is that they test the filesystem , for my example I was looking at the raw disk speed for raid results. Well if you keep the kernel and filesystem identical between runs you end up benchmarking the hardware. Still useful for the purpose of comparision. I have since that learnt that some Motherboard backup the BIOS to the end HDD and have a setting to do so. My motherboard has no option for this and has dual BIOS anyway but it still appears to do it! The difference in drive size is not the dual bios at all. And leaving a buffer at the end of drives when using software raid is a good idea cos diffrences in drive geometry will always happen. Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Any Active Directory LDAP gurus?
What I really need to know sooner rather than later is what data I need to store in our postgresql database. IE what the LDAP schema is. We can work out the other bits later. if you have an AD server you can point an LDAP browser at it and see the structure/schema In terms of making your application an Active Directory server, you need to be on top of DNS, Kerberos and LDAP to have even a chance of getting it to work. Samba 4 has taken years, even with help from MS (eventually) Also would be interested in finding other products (open or not) that do this running on Ubuntu Hardy preferably. not sure exactly what you are trying to do... perhaps if Samba 4 does what you want, you don't need to worry. It should be able to be backended onto your database with some wrangling so perhaps you don't need to do anything - just store your auth info in the database and deal with getting samba 4 to auth to it. If you want some other more detailed discussions, feel free to contact me off list or give me a call. thanks Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM
I recently migrated our mail and stuff to Zimbra network edition. The nokia mail for exchange is a a great sync tool, and I get email synced in as well, crackberry style. This is using Zimbra mobile, which is a heavy handed and probably non-free solution to your problem. Just wanted to mention it, as I have found the Zimbra web interface and Zimbra mobile the only decent thing that syncs to my Nokia fully. Doesn't do tasks at all yet though. dave - Original Message - From: Peter Chubb pet...@gelato.unsw.edu.au To: slug@slug.org.au Sent: Friday, 13 March, 2009 10:34:00 AM GMT +10:00 Canberra / Melbourne / Sydney Subject: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM The quastion is, what do I use on my laptop? What's light weight, simple, can track appointments, contacts, TODOs, memos and keys, and can sync with a Nokia? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM
Well i didn't want to plug myself, but we have pricing on our site if you are interested in the hosted version. You can get started for like $15/month easy. There are other Australian hosting providers linked off the Zimbra site as well, all with pretty similar pricing, so there is plenty of choice. Thanks Dave - That is the for-money Zimbra version, including extra money for the Zimbra Mobile side. Nice, but probably outside the budget of most home users at ~ USB $500 for Zimbra Mobile alone. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Calendar Server?
davical works ok, but the interface sucks to use. zimbra is what we are using now for a caldav backend for lightning. lightning barfs when you have like over 10 caldav calendars. the backend for lightning could do with some work. dave Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings We are currently evaluating Calendar Servers for a backend to the Lightning plugin for Thunderbird. Shortlisted so far are the Sun Java Calendar Server, Apple's Calendar Server, Bedework and DAViCal. Anyone have any illumination, rumination or cogitation that might assist us? Anyone got any been there - done that - it was easy stories to relate? TIA Nigel. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] IOWait definition]
Grant Street wrote: I have a machine with a good proportion of IOWait 20-30%. It does have local disks and it performs operations on NFS mounts. I just wanted to be sure if IOWait includes NFS activity or not. I also want a way if it is NFS to be able to say for sure if it is a bottleneck on the nfs client or server. NFS is not a linux machine so visibility is not allways the best. dstat might help you correlate stuff. http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/ dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] : Increasing filesystem reliability (was : Filesystem which allows online fsck?)
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Another option I'm looking into is the possibility of running the sync command at known idle times which follow a activity which results in disk writes. that should help. how about just not loosing power? Ie, some sort of built-in UPS/battery etc? It might be possible to keep the machine alive with a built in battery long enough for sync to finish. I know its a work around, but this is a pretty tricky problem. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] search engine for company network (OT)
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: However, nothing beats Google Desktop. It's changed my work life enormously! I'm forced to use that other, horrible OS and its even worse mail client, but by indexing the whole lot everything is just a very quick search away. Google Desktop can be pointed at network drives, so it'll index those for you too. Google desktop does have a network web interface that people can search the files through a lan web page thingo. Its an addin, can't remember the name. here we are: http://dnka.com/ dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Minimal CentOS installation --- How?
Peter Chubb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I install the bare minimum --- something like the result of debootstrap --- just enough to run yum? As it'll be in a chroot I don't need any network utilities, etc, have you tried rpmstrap? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] WAN link optimisation
Visser, Martin wrote: I think that the technology Gavin is thinking of is more about economising on the content being sent rather than tweaking TCP parameters. Hi, I'm familiar with the Riverbed equipment and I have to say that its very protocol dependent. SMB/CIFS is very chatty in general and the Riverbed stuff is great at reducing that chatter. NCP (the Novell filesharing protocol) is not as chatty and as as such does not benefit much from the riverbed tech. OpenVPN can do adaptive link level compression which may get you a fair way with speeding things up (I have used it to great success extensively). It uses LZO compression, so for certain types of data, you can get good results. There is patent problems here, which is why the OpenSource world may not have tacked it seriously for a while. check out: http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/rproxy.html (The Tragedy of the RProxy) and other searches for rproxy. Overall, we get round the problems with a combination of OpenVPN, remote desktop solutions and fixing the protocols/applications that cause the problem in the first place. Oh and at Glen Turner - how is bandwidth greater than 155Mbps considered low? :) (yes i know you work at aarnet! :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ripping a window$ media stream?
Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This doesn't give any errors, but mplayer won't play the file. Is this the right way to rip using mplayer? Is there an easier way to do this (maybe using another program)? vlc can rip streams like this and it supports windows media dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] SLUG website down?
Hi, yeah we lost a disk in array on the server that hosts the VM. It kinda failed and un-failed and then finally died. Its OK now, just not redundant until we replace the disk tomorrow so it might go down again :) Sorry for any inconvience... thanks dave Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I was doing some googling and followed a link to the list archive only to find the SLUG website completely AWOL. Are people aware of this? Is there anything I can do to help? Cheers, Erik -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] data recovery specialists?
Jon Wilson wrote: Hiya, Can anyone recommend any data recovery specialists, preferably in Sydney? We have a several boxes of ten year old DLTIII tapes, but have only been able to read the data we need off about half of them. Payam have been good for us http://www.payam.com.au/ dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Encrypted Filesystem
http://luks.endorphin.org/ this looks like being a step in the right direction. check it out and let us know :) dave LUKS is the upcoming standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a standard on-disk-format, it does not only facilitate compatibility among distributions, but also provide secure management of multiple user passwords. In contrast to existing solution, LUKS stores all setup necessary setup information in the partition header, enabling the user to transport or migrate his data seamlessly. While LUKS is a standard on-disk format, there is also a reference implementation. LUKS for dm-crypt is implemented in an enhanced version of cryptsetup. Trent Murray wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend an encrypted filesystem technology under linux? the only one I have heard of is FUSE...does anyone have experience and/or knowledge of other encrypted filesystem technologies that they would recommend? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Encrypted Filesystem
I would steer clear of them still. The FUSE ones have the best chance of support going forward, I suppose though if you really want one. Truecrypt on loopback is a better option imho... http://www.truecrypt.org/ at least its going to survive future kernel changes and is cross platform dave Trent Murray wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend an encrypted filesystem technology under linux? the only one I have heard of is FUSE...does anyone have experience and/or knowledge of other encrypted filesystem technologies that they would recommend? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Backup System - Any recommendations
Trent for this scenario backuppc is what you want. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html is not an imaging solution though - for that you will need to pay money. For about 1-2K acronis true image enterprise server does what you want and more - live imaging to central server, without shutting down the windows machine. There are free imaging solutions, but they all require shutting down the PC dave Trent Murray wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a backup solution that can be run centrally from a linux box and can also backup windows boxes on a LAN Apart from performing basic incremental data backups it will also need to be able to perform disk imaging over the wire (e.g disk images of windows boxes to be stored on the linux server to prevent me from having to reinstall XP and every other application known to man when disks fail) Compression is also a must have. Thanks again for your thoughts and suggestions! =) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] UUID / fstab
I don't think you need the UUID in order to put it in fstab. If you are confident it will be in the same place each time, you can use the traditional /dev/sda1 or /dev/hdb2 or whatever it actually is. Edgy just does this to make sure devices are mounted in consistent places, inline with upstart becoming all event driven. dave david wrote: Edgy generates UUID's for partitions when installing, but if a new partition is created there is no UUID for it -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter
Thats right John, amavis is the content_filter doing the filtering here. You can edit something beneath /etc/amavis/conf.d/ to allow zips and or exe's temporarily, as amavis has no decent quarantine by itself. Something like Maia Mailguard does this, however this purpose Mailzu is the product I would recommend... http://www.mailzu.net/ Its a quarantine release method for amavis. Setup would be similar for any php/mysql app, with the database being fed by amavis's sql injection, present in later release of amavis (I think yours would be late enough) dave John wrote: I am not a good interpreter of log files but a search of the mail.log came up with the following line which would appear to be relevant: amavis[3692]: (03692-04) Blocked BANNED (multipart/mixed | image/jpeg,.exe,.exe-ms,FTLINK40.jpg), [ip number] senders email address - my email address, quarantine: banned-A53A50k3vlJk, Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED], mail_id: A53A50k3vlJk, Hits: -, 3 9533 ms which would tend to suggest that its amavis doing the rejecting but I'm not much closer to objective. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter
John wrote: Yes, I know we tried that. Eventually we got round it by renaming the .exe .jpg and gmail accepted it - amavis didn't though! Dave, does mailzu require an SQL database? The documentation of mailzu would seem to indicate that one isn't neccessary. I don't have one installed at the moment so I'd prefer to avoid setting one up if I could. yes I believe mailzu does require a database. Mysql would be the candidate, but if amavis uses a perl dbd abstraction layer, then you could use something like sqllite or similar to not chew ram as much. amavis uses the file utility to find out the magic of the file, so renaming things doesn't always work. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OLPC to consider trialling laptops in Australia
Thats awesome. I hope they let us buy two get 1 dave elliott-brennan wrote: The SMH had some very exciting news today. http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/australia-trials-low-cost-laptop/2007/01/12/1168105153500.html The OLPC are looking at trialling the laptops in remote indigenous communities. Whooo h! My .2c worth. Regards, Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] NAS SCSI/SATA
Phil Scarratt wrote: Hi esteemed ladies and gentleman... I have a couple of questions which I am currently googling which I would value people's opinion on: 1. Never having used NAS before, I am looking to find out the relative performance benefits of NAS as opposed to the plain ole' linux box file server, and Most NAS's are a plain ole' linux file server make up your own mind as to the performance of that :) 2. kinda related, are SATA drives now good enough to use instead of SCSI (in a RAID)? Yes, but I would recommend RAID6 in a decent CPU machine. Multiple concurrent failures are less and less common these days and really bite hard on RAID5.. The particular application I am looking to use it with is where I would guarantee 40-50 concurrent users accessing files of the storage unit at once. Open sessions isn't a problem, size and frequency of file transfers is the only thing you need to optimise for. Shouldn't be a problem on a machine with 4 hdds in raid6 (linux software raid of course) and samba. should fly along. FWIW, I have setup an HA version of this recently and recent with some hardware was giving me excellent throughput on Gigabit networks (haven't got numbers on hand) but I was very impressed. 750GB SATAs i used. try and get a board and drives that supports NCQ, with a recent kernel for drivers, and you will get decent performance too... dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] NAS SCSI/SATA
David Kempe wrote: Yes, but I would recommend RAID6 in a decent CPU machine. Multiple concurrent failures are less and less common these days and really bite hard on RAID5.. I meant less and less rare :( dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] NAS SCSI/SATA
Hi Amos, I have done something like that with shared storage and your classic linux heartbeat stuff a while ago. The setup I was referring to was actually the storage devices for Xen nodes, so we are doing raid1 over AoE (using vblade/LVM) across two whole machines. Kinda like a SAN AOE storage device with no single points of failure. The project is not quite finished yet, but should be as soon as I get some time. This sort of setup requires the actually Xen Dom0s to be different machines, bringing the machine count to at least 4. If you want just HA samba, you only need two machines, even if you use DRBD to keep the disks in sync. Samba is tcp though so if you want to keep the streams running you need to use LVS, or something like the approach we are doing above, which is Xen live migration for HA failover (this bit is not fully tested yet for me). One of the things I have learned the hard way is that clustering is very much a word that can mean lots of things, kinda like content management... so it all depends on what you are trying to do... dave Amos Shapira wrote: On 10/01/07, David Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I have setup an HA version of this recently and recent with some hardware was giving me excellent throughput on Gigabit networks (haven't By HA you mean that multiple hosts are connected to the same disk-chain? Care you give more pointers about such a setup? Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] denyhosts feedback sought
I wouldn't bother with it. Just firewall off SSH to only your IPs or use portknocking. Makes the problem denyhosts tried to address go away. dave Voytek Eymont wrote: Just looking at denyhosts.sourceforge.net: seems like a good idea, is it ? anyone here uses it, or, something like it ? what other preventive counter measures should I look at for Centos 4.4 LAMP server ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?
If they run windows, I find logmein.com as the best remote support thingo by far. penetrates nat etc pretty well. https://secure.logmein.com/go.asp?page=support_faq#basics-04 client runs on linux, but server (on target PC) is windows only unfortunately. I think that a decent (read simple to use) NAT penetrating solution for this problem is definitely needed on Linux. thanks dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but we are talking about a system for our fathers. Mine is in the UK. Trying to bootstap his system ie the modem-firewall allows VPN and you've setup a virtual server and you're running VPN in the first place so you can connect to his machine so you can setup for the gaffer ... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] btlaunch...
You might want to consider Azureus, the overhead is a little big (java - hey its Free now!) but it will have all the features you need maybe with a plugin. dave Ken Foskey wrote: OK so I want to use BT efficiently. I want to keep seeding the files that I download (Ubuntu anyone :-) but I also want to give priority to my new downloads. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?
Funnily enough we have had a project just recently with the exact same problem. http://htmldoc.org/ htlmdoc is by the people who made CUPS and probably will do unless you have css up the wazoo or something more complex. For the ultimate in rendering ability, embeded mozilla engine via http://michele.pupazzo.org/mozilla2ps/ then the run the output through ps2pdf. moz2ps doesn't seem to work with stdin though (you should be ok). those two choices are the easiest to use, though moz2ps seems to like a gui (gtk libraries) and sometimes it likes to run as root (tarball version) get ubuntu edgy or recent debian and you should be ok with that though. dave Sonia Hamilton wrote: I (well my boss actually) want to convert several hundred html pages to pdf - what's the easiest way to do this? Any pointers, ideas? I guess I'm looking for a tool like pdf2html (but going in the reverse direction). I've found a php module called html2pdf [1] - just wondering if there's a stand alone tool callable from the shell. [1] http://directory.fsf.org/print/misc/html2pdf.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Multiple interfaces in iptables rules
Damn Pete, just use shorewall :) dave Peter Hardy wrote: Peter Hardy wrote: But I'd like a rule to apply to my eth0 and eth1 interfaces while ignoring all other ethernet interfaces. Rusty's Packet Filtering HOWTO doesn't specify any syntax for it. It's not possible to give multiple -i or -o flags, and splitting it in to seperate rules for each interface is awkward at best. I've tried comma separated interfaces by running `iptables -A INPUT -i eth0,eth1 -j LOG`, but it doesn't log any traffic to eth0, so I'm guessing iptables is looking for an interface named eth0,eth1. And, of course, space separating the interface names just gives a bad argument error. So, is it possible to have iptables match two or more interfaces in a single rule? For the benefit of the archives, I solved this by marking packets based on the interface criteria, and then matching on marks. As an example, my multi-homed gateway previously had a number of rules like these to filter traffic routed between the local networks. $IPT -A FORWARD -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp -i $OFFICE_IFACE -o ! $INET_IFACE -j tcp_local $IPT -A FORWARD -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp -i ! $INET_IFACE -o $OFFICE_IFACE -j tcp_local My question came up because I'm about to attach another Internet link to it, and wanted it excluded from the above rules just like $INET_IFACE is above. The solution I'm trialling is to mark all incoming packets like so: # Packets arriving from external links are marked 1 $IPT -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i $INET_IFACE1 -j MARK --set-mark 1 $IPT -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i $INET_IFACE2 -j MARK --set-mark 1 # Packets departing on an external link are marked 2 $IPT -t mangle -A PREROUTING -o $INET_IFACE1 -j MARK --set-mark 2 $IPT -t mangle -A PREROUTING -o $INET_IFACE2 -j MARK --set-mark 2 Then my jump rules become: $IPT -A FORWARD -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp -m mark ! --mark 2 -i $OFFICE_IFACE -j tcp_local $IPT -A FORWARD -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp -m mark ! --mark 1 -o $OFFICE_IFACE -j tcp_local -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [OT Winders question] SFS filesystem
I think if you search for dynamic disks and linux you will get best information from google dave Howard Lowndes wrote: Sorry, it's OT, but I should get some better sense from this list than a Winders list. Does anyone have pointers to the SFS filesystem on Windows 2003 server? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus Advice
Penedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this setup also addresses image spam? (I'm asking because I see this subject raised on a parallel Linux mailing list, I'm getting the feeling that the entire net is now trying to tackle this problem right now). anything spamassassin supports, amavis and or Maia support. You can load in custom rules or use an auto-update rules service like rules-de-jour or plugin anything you want spamassassin. So yes it does support it, though I haven't implemented it anywhere yet. The increased Bayesian learning from having a decent system to do it, means that you find that the Bayesian is what gets the spam, and you don't need to sweat the new rules so much. That being said, I agree that image spam is becoming a real problem and no doubt I will need to do something about it soon for someone, so I will probably just integrate the aforementioned SA plugin.. Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Vodafone 3G/GPRS cards and Linux
I have a fair bit of experience with some of these things. search the archives and google for lots of info. also, if its just gprs you need, then you don't need the vodafone card, just a gprs/gsm modem will be fine - one of the ones from Intercel with a standard sim would work fine. dave Cirilo Bernardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A customer wants internet access to a remote monitoring station via 3G or GPRS (actually only GPRS is available in his area). Does anyone have experience with the Vodafone cards? I only need to be able to dial into them. The Vodafone techs have been very helpful although the ones I have spoken to are not aware of anyone using the cards with Linux (except fot the long-retired Ericsson GC75). The Digicall retail shops of course are absolutely clueless and not helpful; no one want to allow me to plug a card into a laptop to test it unless I buy it first. - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How do you remove GRUB?
James Gray wrote: I was going to say something like: sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda warning for the archives... don't do this. ever. (just in case someone isn't thinking one day :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux compatible Sydney 3G for notebooks
Matthew Palmer wrote: That page doesn't give exact model numbers, so it's hard to tell. It certainly looks more like the one I didn't get (Huawei brand, I think?); the Merlin I got has the SIM slot toward the back of the card. Both of them work fine with Dapper, though -- they appear to the kernel as being little more than an ACM modem. our contact at vodafone said you can get a Merlin card if you tell em you are using a Mac dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] A comparison for fun ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried a few, settled on guidedog, guarddog. I still see no way of adding these to my firewall rules: iptables -A INPUT -i tun+ -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i tun+ -j ACCEPT for shorewall in /etc/shorewall/zones add a vpn zone in /etc/shorewall/interfaces: (associate that zone with tun+) tun+vpn and in /etc/shorewall/policy make policys for your vpn zone: vpn lan ACCEPT lan vpn ACCEPT seriously, use shorewall. anyway - unless you are routing openvpn tunnels to lots of different lans, you only need a tun0 interface (use the server-client mode). if you want to route subnets behind the clients the ccd option is useful for this. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ubuntu routing
If you want a good firewall, use shorewall. and have it do it for you dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I cant find anything that does the equivalent of echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward on my newly installed ubuntu box. Before I invent a way, does anybody know if I'm missing something. Thanks James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] shared internet folders
O Plameras wrote: http://www.openafs.org O Plameras ROFL! dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How to set runlevel in Breezy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff my wurry here is that a very elegant and clever system invented by Tompson Ritchie et al is disgarded because the no doubt clever ubuntu developers don't understand why it was done, and trashed it as useless. Don't blame ubuntu devs for this. Its inherited from Debian. And its just a default. this thread on debian-policy discusses it: http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2005/09/msg9.html You are talking about a Redhat system or derivative that uses the different runlevels in different ways. You can setup your Debian derivative system to do that - there is plenty of Googlejuice about it. I'm working on migrating as POS system (1000s systems, worldwide) from RH9 to ubuntu. Unless I can reverse the run level stuff, I can't use it! Consider: a box boots as 1) a thin client 2) a thick client 3) a stand alone order taker 4) A manager PC. Elegantly handled by run levels, different services in different runlevels corresponding to the different roles. So don't use ubuntu, work around what they've done or put things back as they were. They were that way on a Redhat derivative. Differences between distros are just that, differences. There are plenty of other differences between the distros, you just need to understand why they are there. From my perspective it would be nice if they did stuff eg no root login and you could put it back just as easily (sudo passwd root) but you are not a normal user, and don't expect everything to be easy... dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] VPN server for Mac clients
Crossfire wrote: Teach them how to use Fugu to copy from sftp. :) I'm not sure if SMB works properly over openvpn. I think it does. Safari, however, does not for some strange reason. Camino is not afflicted by this issue however. I dunno about all these OSX things, but from memory OSX is just samba, and I know that works fine over openvpn. You need wins for reliable name resolution though - same as any vpn. (unless you bridge the connections, not route) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] oracle ubuntu
ashley maher wrote: I'm completing an install of oracle onto ubuntu. I'm following the instructions from the oracle site: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/install/xe-on-kubuntu.html These suggest that the .deb package should just work on kubuntu-ubuntu breezy (Which is what I've got) However I get this for my troubles: /var/lib/dpkg/info/oracle-xe.postinst: line 57: bc: command not found apt-cache search bc didn't come up with anything. Regards, Ashley try apt-get install bc dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: A Sys Admin's worst nightmare
Simon Wong wrote: I have used separate VLANs on the switch to segregate all the PCs. Although, I think the VLAN may not be impenetrable but I think its adequate? vlans are fine. but seriously in an internet cafe, just rebuild the machines every day. imaging or scripted builds are possible. netbooting the whole os makes rebuilding pretty easy. just depends on how you set it up etc, but just don't consider the client oses worth keeping would be my strategy. scales better too. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] debian-31r1a-i386-netinst ubuntu equivalent
David wrote: I'm having serious trouble installing ubuntu, but I've managed to get a Debian net installation happening using debian-31r1a-i386-netinst Is there an equivalent for Ubuntu? dunno about that, but you should be able to upgrade from that to breezy without too much troubles, as long as you install ubuntu-standard first (after changing your sources.list) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] debian-31r1a-i386-netinst ubuntu equivalent
David wrote: I don't quite get that... do you mean change sources.list from debian stable to ubuntu, then apt-get install ubuntu-standard, then ??? apt-get dist-upgrade? Everything I've read says that Debian and Ubuntu are sufficiently different to create some problems if you install one over the other. I'd love you to be right.. would save me a lot of trouble. we do it all the time. and you got it in one how. done lots of woody -hoary upgrades and some sarge-breezy upgrades. sarge-hoary doesn't really work dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Heads Up - troubles with time zones
Scott Sinclair wrote: I believe in Ubuntu, that /etc/localtime is a symlink, and thus why it probably didn't have this problem. So, would there be any problem not recopying the file and mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.old and resymlinking the file: ln -s (timezone) /etc/localtime ? is that going to cause any problems? I tried it on a few rhel3 systems and it seemed to be fine hope it is :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Throttling??? Re: [SLUG] bittorrent clients
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What it really needs is a nice front-end compiler that builds all the nasty kernel-level filter and queue discipline stacks when you describe in more common language what you want to happen. Unfortunately, the necessary description language doesn't currently exist and neither does a decent front-end, neither does sensible documentation... Mind you, the linux advanced routing utilities (ip and friends) still haven't caught on in the mainstream and they aren't as hard to use. These things take time... I think shorewall is getting there. http://shorewall.com.au/traffic_shaping.htm You need a recent version, and everything else mentioned on that page, but the language should allow you to avoid tc fairly neatly. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] LVM problems
Daniel Pottumati wrote: # vgremove storage returns: Volume group storage not found or inconsistent. Consider vgreduce --removemissing if metadata is inconsistent. had this problem just yesterday. what about lvremove /dev/storage? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Distribution with maintained 2.4 kernel
Simon Males wrote: The closest thing to a maintained 2.4 kernel distribution I've found is Debian Sarge. Fedora 3 would be of being the preferred choice, but no luck in finding any prebuilt 2.4 kernels. Ubuntu has had nothing but 2.6 kernels, but I see Dapper has 2.4 kernel in its universe repository but I do not know if that is going to be available when it goes Gold. I haven't had any further distribution experience of late, so treading on new ground. stick with Debian Sarge. You will get old debian love and the upgrades to the new gui stuff you want will be fine (once KDE gets in nicely) thanks dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Xscreensaver too advanced!
Simon Wong wrote: It's Ubuntu but I've only done a bare bones installation by a seed file. I'm learning how to do that so I've probably left off something there too! did you include ubuntu-base? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] hylafax
Phill O'Flynn wrote: Has anyone had experience with configuring hylafax with a windows client. Some help would be greatly appreciated right now I've had a bit of experience, but you need to ask a more specific question... are you using whfc or one of the new ones? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Iptables
tuxta2 wrote: Hi sluggers, Im quite ashamed to say it, but for a couple of years now all my firewalling and routing has been done using either webmin or firestarter. I have no idea how to use iptables! I find I just dont feel totally in control when using gui front end and have now decided to learn how to use iptables. My question is, can anyone point me to either a good online tutorial, or a book that will show me step by step what to do and why? I use debian stable for my server, and the tutorials that I have found (I have never been good with google) usually give redhat examples including config files that dont exist in debian (or are in a different location). Don't use iptables. Use shorewall. You will still understand firewalling, but don't need to worry about the iptables syntax biting you. also you get dual net connections in a nicely integrated script dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux client and windows dhcp server
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Does anyone know what I need to do to get the Linux machine to publish its name to the windows dns? nsupdate should work. probably need the win2k dns server to allow 'non-secure' updates. not sure if you can get it to work with secure updates (probably need a kerberos ticket etc for that to work, ie be an AD member) man nsupdate. I haven't actually tried this, but some googling suggested it. if you figure out, post back :) if you can't, I can actually try it tomorrow... dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux client and windows dhcp server
Morgan Storey wrote: yep that works here with a win2k dhcp server and at work with a win2k3 dhcp server. yeah I just checked - the win2k and 2k3 dhcp servers have an option (default to on) that updates the A and PTR record if requested by DHCP clients. If you didn't want to change the client and had some control over the server, you could choose the other option to always dynamically update the zone. I think you will need your domainname configured properly, probably in dhclient.conf or equiv (maybe resolv.conf might provide a setting). dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Moving o/s etc. (1.5gig) from 60gig ATA drive to 10gig scsi
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: * reboot, boot off the scsi disk, voila. before you do that, fix fstab so that root is /dev/sda instead of hda and like wise for any other partitions you might have... dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Timezone/Daylight savings query.
Christopher Vance wrote: Not yet fixed in Ubuntu 5.10. You can do the honors and lodge a bug here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/ thanks dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux music appliances?
Luke Kendall wrote: Surely someone is putting together a small noiseless PC loaded up with software to make a music appliance? Surely? I could build one myself given time, but I'd rather take the quick way out if there was one. does a bit more than what you asked, but its probably as close as you will get. http://www.hmc.com.au/hmc/welcome.php the d1 guys run mythtv on their linux stuff - not sure what distro dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Email Cascading?
Kevin Fitzgerald wrote: I want to set it up so that scalix.company.dyndns.org periodically goes to mail.company.com.au, gets the mail and puts it in the appropriate mailboxes. I know that one way to do this would be set up forwarders at mail.company.com.au but this does not actually clear the mailboxes there and they will max out over time. I wouldn't do that. I would simply have the server use postfix transport mapslike so: company.com.au :company.dyndns.org:2525 that is, if port 25 is not reachable. if port 25 is reachable and you use dyndns.org, then you can simply do it in DNS: MX 10 mail.company.com.au MX 20 your.server mail.company.com.au CNAME company.dyndns.org it does work. You do risk losing mail if their dyndns is particularly dynnamic, and whoever happens to get their IP next is an open relay. In the years I have been doing this for multiple customers, I haven't ever had that happen. Dyndns has been rock solid. They also have a few tricks to help out with hosting mail on a dyndns account - check out their pages for more info. So basically, I am suggesting hosting their mail directly on their connection. Alot less dicking around with fetchmail and forwarding etc - basically, when you add a user to the scalix setup, it just works as an email address straight away. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Debugging init problems (on Debian) (fixed at last)
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: This machine is now under extreme suspicion. I'm going to pull the hard drive mount it on another machine and go over it with a fine tooth comb. Probably a good idea, but I would also consider NPTL - mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled does wonders when your glibc and kernel disagree over NPTL - from bitter experience :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Debugging init problems (on Debian)
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Anybody have any clues on how to get this working again? is there a chance your init is trojaned? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Help needed in transhorming a VirtualHost directive intoDirectory or Location
Michael Lake wrote: The problem is that http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au:9090 does not work. It eventually times out but there is no error in the error log to tell me what I have wrong in the httpd config file. Either you just fixed it, or you have an a firewall problem or something, because that URL seems to work for me dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Kubuntu Hoary query
Michael Fox wrote: As I noticed some stuff is missing and even when I uncomment the existing lines for universe, I still cant find some items. how do you know they are missing? mirror.pacific.net.au and mirror.isp.net.au are both ok. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ibdriver for iBurst modem
Mark M Lambert wrote: Hi guys, I'm running Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 (off the CD, no updates) and trying to install the drivers for my iBurst PCMCIA modem. I downloaded the lasted ibdriver source from sourceforge, and the compile seems to go okay. I can get make and make install to happen with no errors, the PCMCIA card is recognised, but I can't get the modules to load (see below) does that driver support 2.6 properly yet? I haven't checked in a while, but last time I tried it on 2.6 I got the same problem. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Dual PCI NIC?
I'd steer clear of D-Link, at least the 580-TX. It caused us nothing but trouble.. we ended up buying quad intel cards instead and have had no problem with them. http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2003q4/010847.html I had problems with the old sundance driver which that post is reffering too, but haven't had any problems with newer sundances or 2.6 I have one machine running 5 580TXs for a couple of years now without problems. On debian. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] minimal live CD
David wrote: I've looked at the Knoppix website, but that looks similar in concept to Ubuntu. There are a million Knoppix variants, but if you want a Knoppix shell you can simply boot knoppix with knoppix 2 at the boot prompt. it boots runlevel 2 I think - all knoppix root shell, with all hardware and software available, except X. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Presentation Mind Control - 21st September 2005
QuantumG wrote: Ok, I'll bite. WTF. If you have something worthwhile to say, geeks will listen to you. We don't need this motivational speaking crap. Or is this about making presentations to the mindless masses? I talk to plenty of geeks who have something worthwhile to say, but can't make the words make sense. Its not motivational speaking, its effective communication. Entirely different. Geeks are just people, people listen to effective communicators, regardless of the worth of their speech. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] DHCP Client not working with unwired
Peter Rundle wrote: Link Data Logger -- unWired modem (Failure) 13:23:05 IP 0.0.0.0.bootpc 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:01:c0:00:f9:8e, length: 548 13:23:06 IP 220.101.10.1.bootps 220.101.12.219.bootpc: BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length: 300 that looks like it works. 220.101.10.1 look slike an unwired dhcp server. perhaps the data logger can't handle tne public ip. i think the unwired addresses are tied to each modem statically, so perhaps you can just try the same static address on the logger and forget about dhcp? as long as you duplicate its affect you shouldn't need it. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Technical Help Required
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Samba does not allow (from memory) larger transfer greater than some size. When you mount a windows share to a linux box you must specify something like this: /bin/mount -t smbfs -o lfs,username=USER //MACHINE/SHARE /mnt/somedisk The lfs stands for LaRGE FILE SYSTEM. Maybe you have to do something the other way around I doubt thats the problem. a large file would be greater than 2GB in size for a start. and this limitation is a limitation of smbfs, not samba. and it was removed with version 3 or greater. nevertheless, LFS support in samba itself has been around for ages. 2gb files tho. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] DHCP Client not working with unwired
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if the unwired modem is a router or a bridge? I'm assuming it's a bridge and that the default gateway and the dhcp server is on the other end of the unWired connection. Its a bridge I think for all purposes. It probably can do some routing, but for your purposes, its a bridge. Therefore, ensure it has good reception if you are moving it around. Very directional those modems. Martin Visser makes good suggestions, tho I would recommend tethereal over tcpdump these days. I find it easier to read I spose. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Nokia Mobile VPN client and Freeswan
Simon Wong wrote: Afternoon all! Probably a long shot but does anyone know if it's possible to setup Freeswan so it will accept VPN connections from the Nokia Mobile VPN client. you probably want one of the new freeswans (superswan or openswan I think). I don't use ipsec anymore - Openvpn all the way. Anyway, I think you just need the ipsec stuff with the nat traversal patches which openswan integrated about the time it was created. So it should be nice and easy to get working. In an IPsec kinda way good luck :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] postfix
ashley maher wrote: I found some references on setting up postfix from postfix.org. However some references are better than others. Does anybody know a good reference for setting up a decent postfix server for a postfix newbe? (decent Imean spam filter, virus et al) there are a few guides around. search for howto postfix spamassasin clamav etc or amavisd-new. depends on your distro choice dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fw: Postfix, IMAP, Lotus Notes, Evolution OfflineIMAP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. At the moment I use an entry in the transport file for Postfix to direct all mail for our domain to the Notes server. I need to be able to this by user but can't see how it is done. Transport seems only to accept domains. Can postfix do this,and if so, how? Sure, just get a recent version of postfix. can do crazy stuff like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :[192.168.1.1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] :[192.168.9.1] @thisdomain :[192.168.1.10] all in the transport map. I think I needed 2.1.5 or so from memory. I can dig futher to confirm if you get stuck. 2. With the Lotus Notes client running in IMAP mode I can create emails offline. When I sync the client with the server the server will send out any unsent emails. Copies of sent mails are thus filed in the main server sent folder or as directed by the user. Evolution seems to insist on either an SMTP server or sendmail. This will not create a sent mail copy in the main server IMAP store but will store it on the machine the user happened to be using when they sent the email. Is there a way round this? If not, is there an OSS client that would allow me to do this? I think Thunderbird will do this. I set it up just yesterday to do something similar for a client. Once he reconnects after being offline, the mail gets sent, sent items end up in his imap sent items, and new mail is downloaded. Seemed to work fine. Unless I misunderstand the problem, Thunderbird should be fine for this, with the included Offline Extension in recent versions. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fw: Postfix, IMAP, Lotus Notes, Evolution OfflineIMAP
David Kempe wrote: Sure, just get a recent version of postfix. can do crazy stuff like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :[192.168.1.1] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[192.168.9.1] @thisdomain:[192.168.1.10] all in the transport map. oh and another tip, if you want mail for users redirected outside, you need aliases, not transports. so in transport you go: [EMAIL PROTECTED] local then in your aliases db you: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Monitoring postfix/sendmail
Carlo Sogono wrote: It's to be sent to the email add of our 'monitoring employee'. I use Perl to talk to /usr/sbin/sendmail -t like so: Perhaps your organisation needs nagios. I would be happy to provide some professional services around nagios for you if you like :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Open VPN.
Peter Hardy wrote: From memory it was fairly simple to set up a routed network following the directions in the HOWTO[1] and win32 install notes[2]. But we did have a lot of problems using certificate authentication, and ended up going with a shared key instead. It was a while ago though, and I didn't do any of the work on the Windows end (that box lives in Poland..). Tis pretty straight forward. I have got certs working fine. The easy-rsa scripts that come with openvpn are a great starting point. openvpn gui makes it easy for windows users to connect, change passwords and do other stuff. http://openvpn.se I think. There are guis for macOSX and linux as well. I want to get it working with ifup-down sometime for debian. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ideas for linux internet server hardware.
Ben Donohue wrote: Just wondering if there are any ideas out there about where to buy good compatible with Linux hardware. Possibly building a custom machine. Or how about 3 years warranty on a name brand server? HP? IBM? 4G Might not get much with a brand name. I wouldn't bother with virtualisation - I reckon its overrated :) also, I would save money on the hardware and go for decent bandwidth. Hosting on broadband (adsl certainly) is never a great idea. Knock off 1G and spend it on colo for a year. much better off.. we do this sort of stuff for a living if you want to call me about it tomorrow. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] cfengine DNS
Richard Heycock wrote: I'm trying to set cfengine to copy a file from one host to itself and I keep getting the error Server returned error: Host authentication failed. Did you forget the domain name. Which it seems is due to me not having reverse mapping on my DNS server. it seems the short answer is no. google says: http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Cfengine_Protocol for a simple DNS solution, dnsmasq might give you pretty easy forward and reverse for your needs. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL bridge mode on Linux
Peter Rundle wrote: Is there any point in persuing this or should I try and work on ditching Telstra for one of the other vendors? You probably have a siemens modem/router and hence are on a 10.0.0.0 style subnet. odds on the router is at 10.0.1.138 or something like that. anyway, you can probably make that work, but your connection won't do the same as the other providers. It will be PPPoE, and you will only get a /30 routed to you if you are on Bigpond Direct (for a massive fee of course). At this stage, the other providers are looking like the best bet for the same network config. Of course, it all depends on what you are actually trying to achive. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL bridge mode on Linux
Peter Rundle wrote: I actually want the IP available to the Linux box so that I can do cool and groovy network thinks like Masquerade, proxy, reverse proxy etc. I could let the Modem hold the IP but then it's not available to the reverse proxy. Sounds like Roaring Penguin will have to be it. then you do need to swtich the modem into bridged mode. I would start with its web interface. Then goto google if its not helpful dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Problems with rsync
Howard Lowndes wrote: Agreed, but in this case I manage the whole LAN (it's very basic) and it only has hubs, not switches. Theres your problems. get switches dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] This virus that's been going around.
James Gray wrote: Which simply means someone with you and/or SLUG in their address book has been infected. Doesn't really narrow it down much :-/ I agree with your sentiments though - it does increase the noise level. I run a fairly Unfortunately, its not just address books that these worms target these days. Internet caches, temporary files and even trawl the web and try and make up addresses are some of the methods they use. So it makes finding the culprit even harder. About the only thing you can do it use the originating IP address. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] pptp IP address assignment
Michael Fox wrote: So openvpn is the way to go? I want to setup something similar to Ryan, or atleast configure my linux machine thats currently serving files out to my lan to also do some vpn server end point stuff (for wireless and wan connected people). I am still researching on what way to attempt on Debian Sarge install. it sure is the way to go. openvpn in bridged mode work great for wireless stuff. for endpoint/roadwarrior stuff put it in routed mode and go from there. its damn nice. I even got it to work through an ssl proxy today, so now I can administer linux boxes that where previously stuck behind said proxy. for debian: apt-get install openvpn answer - yes I want a tap device made for me. grab sample config file from openvpn.net. follow simple howto. too easy. get stuck, ask questions. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] pptp IP address assignment
Ryan Verner wrote: I'm in the midst of moving it to a completely different solution right now, actually, which probably is a bit more interesting :-) I hope its openvpn :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] WINE and Frontpage 2002.
John Gibbons wrote: Has anyone tried using WINE to run FrontPage 2002? John. http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibility/browse/name?app_id=253;forum=1 crossover office might help you. 30 day free trial dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Can anyone tell me what ns1.aztec.20.com is???
Kevin Saenz wrote: I wouldn't suggest a port scan. It is illegal to port scan another server without permission. really? where does it say that? what about if i telnet to each port in succession? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Someone's bruteforcing my debian box...should I worry?
Dean Hamstead wrote: ahh script kiddies might want to put ssh on a non standard port. If you dig through the archives, you might find a suggestion i made about tcpwrappers only allowing australian subnets. this will cut this crap out pretty well. of course ideally, you only ssh from know ips dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Someone's bruteforcing my debian box...should I worry?
Nick Croft wrote: They're from Russia, and can keep trying as long as they don't get in. I had someone from Russia get into one of my boxes once. Someone added an admin user then later on changed the bloody password to admin. of course it was 'brute' forced. The only thing that saved the box was the grsec enabled kernel - PaX kicked in on everyone of the 8 different rootkits they tried. pretty impressive effort I must say. grsec saved the box even though the attacker had a shell... seems to work better than afs and kerberos i must say ;) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] SLUG BoF at LCA?
Peter Hardy wrote: Anybody interested in having a SLUG dinner one night during LCA? yeah. might be up for it. of course we could just meet up somewhere for a beer dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting
Ashley Maher wrote: Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=04 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : sense not available. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda: Write Protect is off thats not meant to happen. seems like a dead disk. but could be cable, enclosure or something else. once it gets that right you need to partition it before you format it. cfdisk is probably most useful. does cfdisk /dev/sda help at all? thanks dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting
Ashley Maher wrote: The laptop is realley what I want this for. Working on the desktop is loely (it proves it works) but not what i was looking for. the 2.6 kernel has some removable drive stuff broken if you ask me. have you tried mucking around with different drivers for your usb chipset? usb-storage is all you get with usb-removable drives. I reckon firewire support which works pretty much the same is badly broken in 2.6 so I stick to 2.4. You won't be able to get 2.4 to work nicely with Ubuntu (tho I am sure someone here might be able to help). maybe try debian testing on that laptop - you get debian anyway, just a bit more headache making it work. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Editing a windows registry file through Linux
I've not used them, but it claims to be an almost fully functional registry editor. Cheers, John yes, i happened to have need of that tool(ntpasswd) today and it does work well. scripting it to do useful things to samba profiles might be a challenge for another day, but at least it can make the odd change or two offline. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Range of Wifi
Howard Lowndes wrote: I am trying to get a wifi signal working between two BV houses about 20 m apart separated by a colourbond fence. I can get it to work but the signal is weak - typically less than 20% and drop outs are frequent. Am I asking too much of wifi? no, colourbond will destroy the signal. get them as high as possible. dav -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] freeradius cisco aps mac authentication
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a debian (sarge) server running free radius. I have a cisco wireless access point which is using mac authentication. I've gotten a test user being authenticated. What I'm not sure how to handle its the assigning of IPs. If possible I'd like to use my normal dhcp server. If I'm not using ppp, the radius server isn't involved in the issuing of ips at all, right? Doesnt the AP just talk radius for authentication, then allow association or not? then you would just use straight dhcp for the client - if you want a static ip, just give them a static lease. the cisco might have some sort of partition and dhcp relay function - been a while since i used them. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Weird login behaviour
O Plameras wrote: But it does not bother me to see that discussions arise about trivial items on symantecs which are not helpful as far as I am concerned. I'm more interested to learn what others are doing in terms of security, etc., the things that matters most rather than trivialities. well perhaps you might want to consider grsecurity, it can help prevent a bunch of rootkits that might like to take hold: http://grsecurity.net/features.php perhaps even prevent hostile modules from loading in some instances. as for your compiling or not compiling modules support or not, I think the issue has beens sufficiently blurred to be useless. lets move on. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] wireless pci card netgear wg311
Linley Caetan wrote: has anyone had some luck with this one? Running FC3 . its shite even on windows. take it back and get a linksys dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Best document management system for small org
Howard Lowndes wrote: Two options might be Zope or some sort of wiki. use plone - its in debian and will work fine. requires a beefy box if you have lots of users. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ghosting a disk
Howard Lowndes wrote: I think it's there because, before I started, I tried: fdisk /dev/hdc and it came back that it couldn't read the device. Now when I do fdisk /dev/hdc it comes back with a correct looking partition table that matches the master. well it wasn't there to begin with. what does ls -alh /dev/hdc say? fdisk should not say 'can't read the device' when you try it on an empty disk. It should just have no partition table on it. Ie, when you go p for print, it has only free space. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Priner compatability
Russell Hudson wrote: Can you advise on a make of printer that is compatible with the Linux operating system, or even a particular model of mono laser printer, hopefully for less than $350? Hi Russell, You can find a database of compatible printers from www.linuxprinting.org. I would tend to recommend the HP laserjets, I am pretty sure the 1015 works with linux. OK, I checked that myself and it only works partially due to some firmware bug. bugger. so maybe you are stuck with a kyocera fs1010. they work ok as printers and will work fine in linux. http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Kyocera-FS-1010 tho that would be $475 worth of printer. maybe with some digging and cross referencing to computer vendor sites you can do better... cups would be the way to go. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Incremental Backup Script
Lyle Chapman wrote: Can anyone point me to a good backup script or program that does incremental backups? I have a particluar directory I want to backup to an external firewire drive every night. cheers I use rdiff-backup for this. it works ok. it uses librsync and stores reverse diffs in a special subdirectory. if you check the wiki I have written a lame script that works for firewire. (i have since updated it inhouse, but not on the wiki - let me know if you need help) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Exporting applications from windows?
Rowling, Jill wrote: Hi all, The way I have seen this done is pretty much the same as the way you do it Windows server to Windows client. I use Citrix mainly, and sometimes Rdesktop. 1) Citrix metaframe: the Linux client is free but the server costs. Exports a whole desktop. Uses a more efficient protocol to transmit than does VNC, so appears quicker. Requires a Windows Application server set up. Good graphical display, limited only by the amount of memory you put in the Windows server. I think in our case the license cost vs. Windows desktop maintenance trade-off was something like 60 people. YMMV. You can export just a single application with Citrix. Just 'publish' the app, and when people click the shortcut on their (linux) desktop, it authenticates, then opens the app. Works pretty well, shame you have to pay for citrix to get it dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Weird masquerading problem
Gavin Carr wrote: Hi all, I've got a very standard masquerading firewall between my internal network and the outside, done with smoothwall/iptables on Debian Woody. Works beautifully, and has for a while. is that shorewall or smoothwall? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Sendmail inexplicably slow to send mail
Paul Robinson wrote: Anyone had any experience with this sort of problem? I've searched through the slug archives and google and checked the suggestions there (/etc/host entries and dns settings) to no avail. have you checked the response time/quality from your dns servers? use: #time host -t mx testmaildomain.com mydnsserver It sounds very much like a DNS problem, or even a failing disk... but I use postfix, so I don't know much more about sendmail... dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
