[SLUG] Exporting applications from windows?
Is it possible to have an application running remotely on a Windows machine but appareing locally on a linux machine? I have been playing arround with rdesktop and a win2k machine. But I have only been able to export a complete desktop. What I am looking for is something more similar to the way X applications can be forwarded over a ssh session. If I am missing something obvious please clip me arround the ears, but a feature like this would much ease the transition to linux at my place of work. Karl Bowden -- 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?
Yeah, I have seen them pop up quite a bit in terminal solutions. Has anybody had any experience with citrix? We already use VNC through the company for remote assistance, and for a few awked situations, but will not help in providing a smooth transition in this situation. I had also been thinking of using win4lin and exporting the win apps over X throught that means. Karl Bowden Ben de Luca wrote: I believe citrix makes this possible but its certainly not free($$$). On 05/02/2005, at 7:08 PM, Karl Bowden wrote: Is it possible to have an application running remotely on a Windows machine but appareing locally on a linux machine? I have been playing arround with rdesktop and a win2k machine. But I have only been able to export a complete desktop. What I am looking for is something more similar to the way X applications can be forwarded over a ssh session. If I am missing something obvious please clip me arround the ears, but a feature like this would much ease the transition to linux at my place of work. Karl Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.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] Matrox Millennium 32MB G450 DualHead AGP Video card
Luke Yelavich wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:29:34PM EST, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Dean Hamstead" has anyone has any experience with the video card in the subject line in linux. the x.org site claims good support. i understand it has lots of nice inbuilt hardware features. can someone just briefly run through status. dual output? opensource 3d drivers? I used to run one of these... Ahh, great card. Significantly better in 2d display quality than the Radeon and finally Nvidia that replaced it. So crisp! Matrox is *the* card for display snobs. ;-) I am running a Matrox Milennium G550 with a 21" monitor attached here, and I have never had any problems setting up the card in the many distros I have run on the P4 that the card is used in. Granted I am no judge of display quality, but it runs at the resolution and bit depth, as well as refresh rate that I feel comfortable working at, so I am satisfied. Luke Has anybody heard how Linux support is for any of the higher cards yet? Even with binary drivers. Eg: P650, P750, and Parhelia. - Karl -- 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] No access point? [Was: Slow Wireless Speed]
Peter Rundle wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: What you ought to have done (sorry), is buy an access point to connect to your switch (or even to replace it), and configure the wireless bridge as a client to the access point. Yes it's working in ad-hoc mode, (no I didn't read anywhere in the literature where it said that this would work but with serverly degraded performance) :-( Not to worry we can probably stretch the budget to include an access point and deploy the second bridge in another location. A wireless bridge is most often useful when you have an ethernet-enabled device, such as a printer, gaming console or old computer, that can't be upgraded to support wifi (for a normal desktop computer, you'd just get a CardBus or PCI adapter). In this case the remote point is in another building and the said computer will change from time to time so rather than hassle with swaping and changing PCI cards and loading drivers I figured that the wireless bridge was the easy thing to do. Thanks for the info, makes sense but somewhat annoying. P. Hmm. I purchased a few weeks ago, three Dlink DWL2000AP+'s and POE's (DWL-P100) and Antenna' for the purpose of linking up three buildings. I intended for them to operate in 'Multipoint Bridge' mode. Up until now we have the locations linked up via ISDN and using 3 subnets. The sad thing though is that the said units operating in any of their supported modes, will not route packets between networks (Or even subnets). They are only BRIDGES. Even the Linksys WRT54G Wireless Router, (without linux firmware) will not route as I need. Machines at the remote locations can access the main network, but machines at the main network cannot access machines over the wireless network unless that machine first access the machine on the main network. What this means: The print servers at the remote buildings are useless with the current wireless setup. I have a few WRT54G's on order, I will also have to build new POE regulators. The DWL-P100 injects about 42v - 48v into the eth, and the remote regulator outputs 5v, the WRT54G v1 and v1.1 both use 5v but the v2 (which is the only one I can get now) uses 12v. Lesson? I dunno either. - Karl -- 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] kernel-2.4 to 2.6 now no console.
Nope, stock kernel-image-2.6.9 Maybe there is a module thats not loading though. hmmm. Alexander Samad wrote: Hi Did you compile your own kernel ? Sounds like maybe you missed a module (wild guess) A On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:36:55AM +1100, Karl Bowden wrote: I am using debian-testing, and when I boot using a 2.6 series kernel there are no virt consoles. X is at console 2 i think. (I can get to it by Crtl-Alt-F2). I also get an extra cursor in X (its normally a little 'x'). It will diasppare whenever I click on a window title. but will return when ever I switch to another virt console and back again. It also wont disappare when I'm using XFCE. Regards, Karl Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] kernel-2.4 to 2.6 now no console.
I am using debian-testing, and when I boot using a 2.6 series kernel there are no virt consoles. X is at console 2 i think. (I can get to it by Crtl-Alt-F2). I also get an extra cursor in X (its normally a little 'x'). It will diasppare whenever I click on a window title. but will return when ever I switch to another virt console and back again. It also wont disappare when I'm using XFCE. Regards, Karl Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Browser compatibility, while were on the subject.
I have done a bit of work for some automotive dealerships, but a few things hold some back from shifting to Firefox as the primary browser. The following link: http://dealerext.mitsubishi-motors.com.au/ will only display as a plain/text in firefox, mozilla, konqueror, and opera. Yet it displays fine in ie. The Holden dealer website requires the MicrosoftVM, which is not even supported or shipped with windows anymore. And in the Hyundai service website, http://www.hyundaiservice.com.au/ , the second line of the navigation bar does not appear. But I think that is a broken CSS issue. Regards, Karl Bowden -- 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] ADSL and DNS
Michael Fox wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:29:04 +1000, Ben Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michael, Thanks for the quick reply. The ADSL modem is a modem router. It has a USB and four ethernet ports. My Linux firewall is connected to it via an ethernet cable and is on eth0. hence the 10.x range. Are you saying I've got to configure the ADSL modem router to be a dumb device and so it has to pass the public IP to the USB? interface on the Linux box? (if so i'll have to figure out how the make the ADSL modem do it... any clues here???) You need to tell your ADSL router to port forward the service you want through (and where to). ie. I run a webserver on the linux firewall and its ip is 10.0.0.8 I'd then tell my ADSL router in its port forwarding rules to allow TCP 80 through, and send itr to 10.0.0.8 That way when someone externally accesses our public ip on port 80 TCP it passes through the router as per the port forwarding rules. You could do this for DNS the same way. Thanks Also make sure for DNS you forward both TCP and UDP port 53. This cought me the first time. - Karl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Telstra Cable not responding
A friends linux box connected to a Telstra Cable broadband connection decided to stop responding tonight, the box is setup using dhcp, and bpalogin. From what I can determine the DHCP request returns an ip in the range of 192.168.100.x instead of an external/usable ip. Is anybody else experiencing this? Has anybody else had this problem in the past? How should have I configured the box better? I also have an ADSL connection with IINET with a static ip. It uses pppoe and even though the ip is static I just let pppoe fetch it with dhcp. Ebout every 10 - 15 days of connection time these machines will stop responding to the internet. I can turn the modem off and on again and restart that connection but the connection is momentery. It is not until I reboot the machine that the connection will be established reliably again. What gives? Should I not use DHCP (Maybe it's a lease problem)? Thene is nothing in the logs to indicate what's going wrong. It just timeouts. It happens on both machines, one on cable in Sydney (RH8), and one on adsl in Forster (RH9). Regards, Karl Bowden -- 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 Cable not responding
It must have just been a temp tesltra problem, because this morning it works fine. - Karl On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 00:58, Grant Parnell wrote: I've not seen this with Cable before but it's possible it's a new setup for disabled accounts. See if he/she can access 'www' or 'www.nsw.bigpond.com' or whatever the domain you get from DHCP is. Then try accessing the account info. Anything from 'sorry we stuffed up' to 'you forgot to pay the bill' might surface. I got this with Optus dialup when I signed up for somebody once... some private IP space address 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x I can't remember which. I chased for a while and finally rang them.. there was a website you needed to hit and enable the account. On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Karl Bowden wrote: A friends linux box connected to a Telstra Cable broadband connection decided to stop responding tonight, the box is setup using dhcp, and bpalogin. From what I can determine the DHCP request returns an ip in the range of 192.168.100.x instead of an external/usable ip. Is anybody else experiencing this? Has anybody else had this problem in the past? How should have I configured the box better? I also have an ADSL connection with IINET with a static ip. It uses pppoe and even though the ip is static I just let pppoe fetch it with dhcp. Ebout every 10 - 15 days of connection time these machines will stop responding to the internet. I can turn the modem off and on again and restart that connection but the connection is momentery. It is not until I reboot the machine that the connection will be established reliably again. What gives? Should I not use DHCP (Maybe it's a lease problem)? Thene is nothing in the logs to indicate what's going wrong. It just timeouts. It happens on both machines, one on cable in Sydney (RH8), and one on adsl in Forster (RH9). This one's a little harder to fathom... try adding a daily/hourly ping to some host on the net. My thinking is some sort of inactivity timeout. Also an alternative to rebooting, perhaps down up the interface daily. Won't answer the WHY? question but may narrow it down. -- ---GRiP--- Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, Linux Guru, SLUG/AUUG/Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, BMX rider, Walker, Raver rave music lover, Big kid that refuses to grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! Do people actually read these things? - - -- - --- -- - - Karl Bowden Pacific Speed email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.pacificspeed.com.au - - -- -- --- -- - - -- 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 Cable not responding
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 23:36, Ken Foskey wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 22:31, Karl Bowden wrote: Ebout every 10 - 15 days of connection time these machines will stop responding to the internet. I can turn the modem off and on again and restart that connection but the connection is momentery. It is not until I reboot the machine that the connection will be established reliably again. What gives? Should I not use DHCP (Maybe it's a lease problem)? Thene is nothing in the logs to indicate what's going wrong. It just timeouts. It happens on both machines, one on cable in Sydney (RH8), and one on adsl in Forster (RH9). `ifdown eth0` and `ifup eth0` did not work? Nope, it will usually not come back up, citeing timout problems, and if it does come back, the eth0 will send packets but not recive them. - Karl -- 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] DSL modem
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 15:40, Andrewd wrote: Just received the go ahead that my phoneline is DSL ready, so I am now looking at a modem. Has anyone used the Excel 4 port DSL modem/router that retails for approx $100 and willing to give the thumbs up/down on it. Thanx Andrew D I got a Billon 7100 from www.computeronline.com.au and although the firmware is a bit flakey at startup, once going it works well, I dispensed with the units NAT etc, and just run it in bridged mode connected to the firewall. It does not have a hub builtin, but I just plugged it into the existing hub. I also have the unit connected to the firewall through the existing hub and am just running pppoe over that eg: ADSL ModemFirewall Local Workstations || | | +-H--+U-+B-+ Does anyone know if this will have any side effects on the security of my network? - Karl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] DSL modem
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 20:47, Kevin Saenz wrote: Doh!!! I didn't read the hub bit. I agree your firewall will be as useful as the proverbial bits on a bull. :) Because the adsl modem is set to bridge mode the only way in and out of it is by PPPoE, right? So that means also that the only way for someone from the outside to access the network is via the PPPoE client? The only machine with a PPPoE client installed is the firewall, and all of the other machines use the firewall as their gateway to the net. Why would that not be secure? Hi, if all machines are connected to the hub, then the firewall is not being used and is redundant, thus probably not providing the security you wish it was. perhaps it should be thus: ADSL modem -- firewall --- hub -- local workstation #1 hub -- local workstation #2 etc whereas your diagram seems to indicate : ADSL modem -- hub --- firewall hub --- local workstation #1 hub --- local workstation #2 etc If i've overlooked something or can assist, let me know, cheers kind regards, Norman On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Karl Bowden wrote: I got a Billon 7100 from www.computeronline.com.au and although the firmware is a bit flakey at startup, once going it works well, I dispensed with the units NAT etc, and just run it in bridged mode connected to the firewall. It does not have a hub builtin, but I just plugged it into the existing hub. I also have the unit connected to the firewall through the existing hub and am just running pppoe over that eg: ADSL ModemFirewall Local Workstations || | | +-H--+U-+B-+ Does anyone know if this will have any side effects on the security of my network? - Karl -- Epsilon-6! Ph:+612 8807-4780 Fax: +612 8807-4498 E-Solutions for BSD and Linux http://www.paladincorp.com.au/ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb I.T consultants Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile: 0418455661 Web: http://www.spinaweb.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ot: xp firewall port 15932/9541
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 18:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry for such off-topic as windoze firewall... I just enabled firewall on windoze xp, checking it later, I discovered two settings were auto magically enabled, on port msmsgs 15932 and 9541 I just disabled them, and, now I have 16498 and 9459 enabled...? what are these...? IIRC they are Msn Messenger. If you block these on a linux firewall between the XP machine and the net, msn messenger will not work. - Karl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: ADSL uptake is smalll. Re: [SLUG] Yuk
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:33, Ben de Luca wrote: You obviously have never frequented the australian wireless list where you would be told time and time again that this sort of activity is illegal and you need a carrier liscence (sp?) for it. Without being cynical can you advise which legal document says operating 802.11b would require some form of 'carrier license' ? Is a 'carrier license' required to install a remote garage or gate control, etc.? The ACA pretty plainly states, that you only require a carrier license if you are conducting comercial activites across the network between two entities IIRC, you actually only when it's commercial activity and the user is paying for to be able to send or recive data that goes outside the wireless network they are on. Eg,. Paying for internet access over wifi - requires license. Paying for use of a wifi network, which only allows VoIP access to other members on there network - No license needed. -Karl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Resignation of SLUG President and Vice President
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:56, Kevin Waterson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a sad day for SLUG, IMHO. Not in mine. This is the time that SLUG should regroup and refocus. Take an introspective look and work out what SLUG is here for. I used to travel 400km to slug meetings to enjoy a geeky type of with friendly faces. It was simple, we had our questions and answers, we had speaker on something relevant to Linux, eg: new kernel direction or something with a speaker working on the project. Sometimes we would have newbies bring their computer along and get help setting it up. When we got _really_ motivated we would have an install fest to attract new people to linux. That all stopped, and the familiar faces I had dinner with all drifted away, so I stopped attending. I'm one of those country people too (respective to Sydney). I have never been to a slug meeting because of work and family commitments, but always enjoy keeping up with the slug-list. I too think a programming orientated list would be a welcome extra. I enjoy seeing the number of respected linux community members located or associated with Australia. Maybe SLUG based projects pushing toward getting linux onto business desktops in AU would'nt go astray, but then again may not be entierly apporiate as a SLUG project. I totally agree, this is a time for SLUG to regroup and refocus. Kind regards Kevin -- __ (_ \ _) ) | / / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \) \_||_| \) \) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia ps. Kevin, Port is a nice place. You dont know of any work available there? Karl Bowden Forster. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] scp syntax
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 01:09, Voytek Eymont wrote: do I need sshd on my pc to use scp ..? I'm trying to copy some files with scp; I have installed ssh CLIENT stuff only on my OS/2 pc. I did NOT install or configured the sshd stuff I can ssh no probs to the linux box, specify user, it just works BUT, what do I need to scp...? scp says it wants: 0[roman][F:\work\linux]scp usage: scp [-pqrvBC1246] [-F config] [-S program] [-P port] [-c cipher] [-i identity] [-l limit] [-o option] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:]file1 [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:]file2 1[roman][F:\work\linux\temp]scp koala.sbt.net.au: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf RSA key fingerprint is . Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: 1[roman][F:\work\linux\temp] it exist with error level 1, and, nothing copied what do I need ...? To tell scp what to copy. eg.. scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf ~/ to copy /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf from lisa to your home folder. scp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/httpd/conf/ to copy /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf from the local machine to lisa. scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stuff/*.doc theotherbox:~/destdir/ Just like cp, except it lets you put in hostnames as source or dest locations. -Karl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] OpenGroupware.org Replaces MS Exchange
If a company was to use this (OGo) as an exchange server and evolution
as the client, does this mean that one would still have to purchase the
Evolution Connector?
-Karl
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 10:19, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
For the uninitiated. This project replaces MICROSOFT EXCHANGE (in
collaboration with your favourite mail server/imap server/ldap server
that is). Something a lot of sluggers and others have been after for a
long time (me included). It has definately been a stumbling block on the
way to moving larger exchange-dependent companies to Open Source.
This project looks very, very cool to me. Considering it has been tested
in the field ie live installs by a German company (Skyrix) who have now
open sourced lots of the code. I can not implement for customers an LGPL
Group Ware Server.
It does server-based calendaring to Outlook, via a plugin to Evolution
(ie on a linux desktop) and has a webclient, an XML-RPC client and a
Palm Sync Client. This diagram will give you an idea of the scope of
this offering:
http://www.opengroupware.org/en/devs/docs/SxArchitecture.html
I think if you are a sysadmin looking to extend the leap of Linux into
organisations this really ought to be looked at.
I'll be doing the download and testing this software. It could make a
great talk @ slug if it all hangs together.
As to code quality, who really knows. I've heard sendmail, gnome, kde,
mailman, openldap and many other open source products lambasted for code
quality in their time but from the end-user prespective they are out
there and doing their job. As we all know, exposure to open source sets
of eyes will (probably) improve the code base rapido.
Stu
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Unfortunately, it's been reviewed to me as a end-of-life unmaintainable
pile of dung product, but here's the media release. :-) It's a good kick
start, if nothing else.
- Jeff
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MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW PROJECT FORMED: OpenGroupware.org,
AS SKYRiX OPEN SOURCES ITS GROUPWARE SERVER
July 10, 2003 - OpenGroupware.org ('OGo') project announces its formation
and the release today to the worldwide open source development community of
its groupware server software. The software provides the server components
necessary for full office collaboration with the OpenOffice.org suite and
various other Linux and Windows groupware clients. OGo software runs on
Linux and Solaris (www.OpenGroupware.org)
The OGo project is a fully independent open-source project, but will
inter-operate with the OpenOffice.org software and other similarly open
clients via open standards.
The OGo software is based initially on the contribution of the code of
SKYRiX 4.1 Groupware Server, a mature product that has been in development
for 7 years, and one of the earliest groupware products for the Linux
operating system. The contributor, SKYRIX Software AG, is well known in
Germany as a leader in Linux groupware (www.SKYRiX.com).
We are extremely excited to form OpenGroupware.org and to collaborate with
OpenOffice.org to serve the open source community worldwide, said Jens
Enders, president and CEO of SKYRIX Software AG. By configuring the
OpenGroupware.org server together [after install] with the OpenOffice.org
office suite and other leading groupware clients, our customers will be
able to implement a comprehensive and integrated collaboration environment
wholly composed of free software.
The OGo software provides document sharing capabilities for OpenOffice.org
documents and will enable users of MS Outlook (97/2000/XP), Ximian
Evolution, Mozilla Calendar, OOo Glow (OpenOffice.org Groupware Project's
client product), Apple's iCal and other standards-based groupware clients
to collaborate.
OGo software will enable users to share calendar, address book and e-mail
information; they can communicate via instant messaging, share folders,
exchange documents, track changes, share a whiteboard, and browse the Web
all at the same time -- all upon open Internet standards and without paying
or managing cumbersome licensing fees.
Says Gary Frederick, Leader of the OpenOffice.org Groupware Project: Just
to be perfectly clear, this is an MS Exchange replacement. OGo is important
because it's the missing link in the open source software stack. It's the
end of a decade-long effort to 'map' all the key infrastructure and
standard desktop applications to free software. OGo offers users a free
solution for collaboration and document management that, despite being free
of charge, will far surpass the quality and level of collaboration found on
Windows (through integration of MS Office, Exchange Server and SharePoint).
Today marks the completion of 'OpenStack'.
Adds Stu Green, Managing Director of Open Source Professional Services,
The release of OGo means the OpenOffice.org suite is ready for the
enterprise complete
[SLUG] red-carpet channels?
Does anybody know what is involved in creating a red-carpet server and maintaining channels? Karl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] block filesystem devices stored as regular files.
If I create an empty block device in a file (dd if=/dev/zero of=new_filesystem seek=1 count=1 bs=1M) will it use up the whole 10G straight away or will it expand as nessecary? eg is the 10G just a quote or max size of the block? -- Karl Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pacific Speed -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Testing vm's
I am running RH8.0 and was wondering what the easiest way was to setup a VM/jailroot-env to test Phoebe3? I would like just to have chroot enviroments, so I can also test rawhide packages in another vm without messing up my main system (again). I do not want to use VMWare or such if I can help it, as it makes my system really sluggish. I have lots of HDD space but do not want to make seperate partitions to boot into, just one system to boot into, and the others to run in vm's under that system. Regards, Karl Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pacific Speed -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] USB newbie ....
Hey mister root, just put a line like: /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 into /etc/fstab. And then you can mount it from the popup menu on the desktop, or mount /mnt/flash On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 23:54, an unknown sender wrote: Hi guys, here's a USB newbie question. I am using RH 8.0, the system recognizes my USB portable harddisk alrite. I can see # mount .. usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) now, i am not sure how to access the disk. I did a google and it seems it is just a simple mount. so i did (as root) #mkdir /mnt/uhda #mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/uhda mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device i checked my /proc/bus/usb #ls 001 devices drivers #cat devices T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=1840 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms #cat drivers usbdevfs hub 96-111: hiddev hid # any idea? thanx J AI -- Karl Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pacific Speed -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] BIND and a DNS cache on RH8.0
I have a server and two workstations and was wondering what the easiest way is to setup BIND and a DNS caching server? I havent a clue where to start. All I know is that I am on dialup, and want to be able to point the workstations at the server as there DNS server. -- Karl Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pacific Speed -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9 CDs
lankum.com is also sydney based and had my 7 cd set of debian to me overnight. You could buy them from either www.everythinglinux.com.au or www.lsl.com.au. Everythinglinux is in Sydney, lsl is in melbourne. Greetings I'm after some Mandrake 9 CDs (so I can have a go at replacing my W2k Laptop). Does anyone know where I can get them (without downloading)? Thanks in advance! Robert Maurency IT Department Ascham School +61 2 8356 7004 www.ascham.nsw.edu.au * This mail, including any attached files may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended receipient (or authorised to receive information for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. * -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Debian Corrupt install packages
Just recived my 7 cd set of debian for my server. And when trying to install, I get as far as reading off a cd and it tells me that libdb3_3.2.9-16_i386.deb is corrupt. I also get the same message when I tried to get it to fetch the package from the internet (it says "http://http.us.debian.org:80/debian/pool/main/d/db3/libdb3_3.2.9-16_i386.deb was corrupt"). Any suggestions?
Re: [SLUG] prism2.5 pci wireless
Hello Adam, Depending what you wish to do, you could always use the hostap drivers and put the card into AP mode... iirc the wlan-ng drivers use a set of non-standard API's and HostAP drivers can put prism2/2.5/3 devices into client and ad hoc modes as well as AP mode... prism2/2.5/3 devices Does this include the dlink 22mbps gear? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Web server - Gentoo or Linux
I am currently a very compentant gentoo linux user, but would like to set-up a small web server for the fun of it. I would also like to put debian on it for the sake of not having recompiles suck up my cpu usage from the web server. Is this wise thinking? Is it a very hard road learning the in's and out's of debian, after using gentoo for a year or so? Regards, Karl Bowden signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[SLUG] FTP uploading from a bash script
What is the easiest way to upload a file from a bash script to a ftp server? I have a script on a remote box that checks every so often from cron what the ip address is and if it changes then uploads the change to my ftp server, because the remote box is on a telstra cable connection and the owner of the box still finds it difficult to find the ip address when ever something goes wrong, and I have to ssh in. The script will have the username and password hardcoded. ps.. I also want to make sure that I will always have a back door he he he Regards, Karl Bowden signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [SLUG] Secure Merchant Services from PHP?
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 12:57, Richard Buggy wrote: HI Karl, What solutions has everybody else found? What would you recomend if you had to do it over again? I use eWAY (www.eway.com.au) for the gateway but I don't use live transactions. They have an XML interface and a demo in php showing you how to use it. From memory they will work with all major banks. They do not tell you on the site that the XML payment page is not live. (http://www.eway.com.au/support/help4.asp) And where is the code demo? Personally I'd be less worried about the gateway interface and more worried about the features/costs. In the grand scheme of things hiring a programmer to spend a day writing an interface between your application and the gateway is nothing if you're paying $50/month + per transaction costs to have the gateway. Rich --- Richard Buggy IT Services Ph: (02) 8802 4406 Fax: (02) 8569 1757 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Secure Merchant Services from PHP?
I am trying to setup a credit card payment option for a website, but I am finding it hard to find a Merchant Gateway provider in Australia that supports PHP. I have found that ANZ has 3 api's available - ASP, Java or Win32, St. George have a few solutions but do not provide any more details on their website, and CommBank do not provide any information on their website. NetRegistery provide support only Perl, and ASP, but do provide a Generic CGI program that shifts any responsibility on to the developer, and they also require you to also have a e-commerce merchant account already with either St. George, or NAB. I was unable to find enough information on the NAB site, so I do not know if the provide a Merchant Gateway. The program I have chosen to manage my website is phpShop. It works very well for my purposes, except for the lack of a Merchant Gateway in Australia. My PHP skills are scarce but much better than my Perl, Java, or ASP skills. I have managed to create a nice template for the site, and do not want to lose all the hard work that went into it by having to shite to another Shop frontend. What solutions has everybody else found? What would you recomend if you had to do it over again? btw, I like the look of the ANZ setup (except the Java, or ASP thing), and my Site Host does not support Java (or Tomcat). Regards, Karl Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Secure Merchant Services from PHP?
So it seems then that both the ANZ and CommBank API can be interfaced fairly easily with PHP. I also heard that PHP 4.2 now includes SAIP (Server Application Interface Protocol) which is ment to make it easier to mix Perl and PHP scripts in the one site. eb - What shop frontend software do you use for austwireless.com? and are you aware that there are image artifacts on box boarders when viewed in moz? David Paul - What php software was your client using? Does your solution use the standard templates from the php frontend for entering credit card details? I already have all of my accounts CommBank. Which banks also provide multi-browser capable online-banking? Regards, Karl Bowden On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 11:32, evilbunny wrote: Hello Paul, With ANZ they can use Vault X as their provider, www.vaultx.com.au and I have code to interface with ANZ/vaultx already written (and handed them a copy) Was a hack of their C version, but works none the less... www.austwireless.com for a working example (using the code I sent to them) -- Best regards, evilbunnymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom Thursday, December 5, 2002, 11:27:47 AM, you wrote: PLD On 05 Dec 2002 11:04:21 +1100 PLD Karl Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to setup a credit card payment option for a website, but I am finding it hard to find a Merchant Gateway provider in Australia that supports PHP. I have found that ANZ has 3 api's available - ASP, PLD While they all tend to use the Perl, JAVA options ( or ASP for NT ), you can 'hack' the Perl source from the Commonwealth Banks merchant service to use PHP ( I know I have ). PLD Biggest problem with the CBA is of course the long wait period for trying to get your merchant services approved. PLD Regards. PLD -- PLD Paul L Danielshttp://www.pldaniels.com PLD Linux/Unix systemsInternet Development PLD ICQ#103642862,AOL:cinflex,IRC:inflex PLD A.B.N. 19 500 721 806 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mouse Scroll Up disappared in X11
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 21:29, Ben Buxton wrote: Karl Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: I just bought a new Logitech optical wireless mouse (my last mouse was a Logitech wireless as well, but it had balls), and now I cannot use the wheel to scroll up when using X11, Gnome, or KDE. Yet it works fine in windows still. Any suggestions? I'm also using the same mouse, and it's working fine in debian unstable with the following in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Buttons 3 Option Device /dev/mouse EndSection /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/psaux, so I dont know if/how different it is for a USB connection. I did not have the Buttons 3 line in my config, but it did not make any difference anyway. The mouse I have, has a USB base unit, with a PS/2 adapter. By just taking the PS/2 adapter off and pluging in the USB, and setting my dev to Device /dev/input/mouse0, she now works fine. Regards, Karl Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Mouse Scroll Up disappared in X11
I just bought a new Logitech optical wireless mouse (my last mouse was a Logitech wireless as well, but it had balls), and now I cannot use the wheel to scroll up when using X11, Gnome, or KDE. Yet it works fine in windows still. Any suggestions? Regards, Karl Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LinuxChix chapter in Sydney
I have converted both of my parents, but my sister still resists because of MSN Messenger (even though I chat with her using Gabber on my linux box). I wonder if LinuxChix will put out an RFC or guidelines on how to talk to women properly in order to convert them? Curious Karl On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 12:31, Ken Foskey wrote: Mary, I read up on this stuff, this sounds really great, not only for women. I really think we need a newbies list in Slug with similar policies to the linuxchics list. I wish you all the best, if you want me to listen in on a list and answer techie questions to the best of my ability let me know. The politics I will stay out of :-} KenF Maybe you can convert my wife and daughter :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer
Darn, I knew I spoke too soon. I had the machine running fine on the new kernel. Until I restarted her, and upon restart she says fsck.ext3 exited with error 7. (bus error). She has done it before and I cannot figure out why. I checked the logs and she shutdown the same as every other time. Anybody heard of this happening to anybody other than me? Regards, Karl Bowden - Original Message - From: Karl Bowden To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 5:49 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer Thanks ya all for ya effort in helping me. I found that editing the makefile in the tld of the kernel code tree and changing the two references of gcc to gcc3 works well. And just deleting the gcc file and replacing it with a symlink to gcc3 also works but that messes up the rpm system thing a bit. I have had the machine up for a day so far with linux-2.4.18 compiled under gcc3, and no crash yet. I am still using gnome, for now as a matter of elimination though. If it crashes again I will go to KDE3, (and start a lot of flaming :-). Regards, and thanks for your help again. Karl Bowden On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 08:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the gcc3 rpms from ximian, but it only puts a gcc3 in the /usr/bin dir. how do i get gcc3 to be the default? can i just delete the gcc file and replace it with a symlink to gcc3? Regards, Karl Bowden On 8 Apr, Broun, Bevan wrote: Just a note: make sure your dont compile with that RH gcc (2.96). Why not? It's the default version of gcc on RH7.2, and I did nothing special for building any of the 2 dozen or so kernels I've experimented with over the last few months, with no compiler-ish problems. (Just hardware, and scsi error handling problems.) Unless the kernel build is set up to use a special version of gcc squirrelled away specially for the purpose, by the makefiles? luke mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer
GOOD NEWS!! I found the the bus error message is comming from installing the latest version of e2fs-progs. It was auto-updated with ximian redcarpet. (bugger). All I had to do was boot the RH7.2 in rescue mode, chroot into my file system and rpm -ivh e2fs-progs --froce, from the original RH7.2 cd and she boots again. Regards, - Original Message - From: Karl Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer Darn, I knew I spoke too soon. I had the machine running fine on the new kernel. Until I restarted her, and upon restart she says fsck.ext3 exited with error 7. (bus error). She has done it before and I cannot figure out why. I checked the logs and she shutdown the same as every other time. Anybody heard of this happening to anybody other than me? Regards, Karl Bowden I have installed the gcc3 rpms from ximian, but it only puts a gcc3 in the /usr/bin dir. how do i get gcc3 to be the default? can i just delete the gcc file and replace it with a symlink to gcc3? Regards, Karl Bowden On 8 Apr, Broun, Bevan wrote: Just a note: make sure your dont compile with that RH gcc (2.96). Why not? It's the default version of gcc on RH7.2, and I did nothing special for building any of the 2 dozen or so kernels I've experimented with over the last few months, with no compiler-ish problems. (Just hardware, and scsi error handling problems.) Unless the kernel build is set up to use a special version of gcc squirrelled away specially for the purpose, by the makefiles? luke mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer
Thanks ya all for ya effort in helping me. I found that editing the makefile in the tld of the kernel code tree and changing the two references of gcc to gcc3 works well. And just deleting the gcc file and replacing it with a symlink to gcc3 also works but that messes up the rpm system thing a bit. I have had the machine up for a day so far with linux-2.4.18 compiled under gcc3, and no crash yet. I am still using gnome, for now as a matter of elimination though. If it crashes again I will go to KDE3, (and start a lot of flaming :-). Regards, and thanks for your help again. Karl Bowden On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 08:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the gcc3 rpms from ximian, but it only puts a gcc3 in the /usr/bin dir. how do i get gcc3 to be the default? can i just delete the gcc file and replace it with a symlink to gcc3? Regards, Karl Bowden On 8 Apr, Broun, Bevan wrote: Just a note: make sure your dont compile with that RH gcc (2.96). Why not? It's the default version of gcc on RH7.2, and I did nothing special for building any of the 2 dozen or so kernels I've experimented with over the last few months, with no compiler-ish problems. (Just hardware, and scsi error handling problems.) Unless the kernel build is set up to use a special version of gcc squirrelled away specially for the purpose, by the makefiles? luke mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [SLUG] What files/directories to backup in RH ?
I would just backup your /home/ directory, and maybe /etc if you have
done a lot of config on the thing, (like a webserver etc..). I
personally have my /home dir mounted by nfs (thinking about coda), and
stored on my home server. If any machine other than the server goes down
it's just a matter of:
Format, and then, re-install, Do da, do da.
I just tell rh7.2 to use nis as i am installing it, and then give it the
mount details for nfs, and run ximian gnome on it (I also mount
/var/cache/redcarpet with nfs). Ta da, im done.
I then just backup the /etc and /home dir on the server. I have had the
server go down only once on a (noisy) Seagate 30Gb 7200RPM. Got a 40Gb
WD, reinstalled RH7.2 copied over the backups (and did some minor
tweaking I had been meaning to do for ages), and was done.
Dats my .02c worth.
Karl Bowden
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 10:14, Tiwari, Rajnish wrote:
Hi All,
Having installed RH recently, I am thinking of a strategy
to backup important files onto another drive and/or CD ('cos
it is a good thing to and also 'cos it is a case of _twice
bitten, forever shy of seagate disk drives).
I would like to know what are the important files in RH and
where they are kept (/etc/.., ??). As all user data goes into
/users/, so that is easily backed up. What other directories,
config files that I should backup ?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Rajnish
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[SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer
I have a P3-1Ghz with a GeForce2 MX400 and 512Mb PC133 ram. I have her configured as follows: hda1 : 6gb : Redhat Linux 7.2 with Ximian Gnome hda2 : 1gb : Linux Swap hda3 : 16.5gb : Windows XP hda4 : 16.5gb : Windows 98SE My /home and /var/cache/redcarpet are mounted by nfs from my server, and I use NIS for account managment. And all of the OS's start nicely now thanks to grub :-). But my prob is that after putting linux under some load, (eg, open 10 or so mozilla windows as well as evolution) it will crash. The cursor freezes, and the computer does not respond to a telnet session or ping or anything. There are no enteries in the log to explain it. I know that it is not my ram because I swapped it with my other computer (2 x 128mb PC133) and she still does it (it also swapped my vid card with another vid card the same but it made no dif either). I have also tried recompiling the kernel, and putting back on RH7.1 but she still crashes. Yet she rock solid under winxp and 98, even when editing 600mb photos in photoshop. Any suggestions? I dont mind having to reformat because all of my home data is on the server. Regards, Karl Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer
I am using the default kernel at the mo. If I were to upgrade the kernel is there an rpm from redhat for the latest kernel or do I just have to wing it? Are you using the default Redhat kernel ? I was having lots of freezes/crashes until I upgraded the kernel and now it has been running for 4 weeks without a problem. I was pretty sure it was not the machine (P90) since it had been running RedHat 5.2 since it was released and had general uptimes of approximately 200+ days. Matt At Monday, 08-04-02 12:01 (+1000), Karl Bowden wrote: I have a P3-1Ghz with a GeForce2 MX400 and 512Mb PC133 ram. I have her configured as follows: hda1 : 6gb : Redhat Linux 7.2 with Ximian Gnome hda2 : 1gb : Linux Swap hda3 : 16.5gb : Windows XP hda4 : 16.5gb : Windows 98SE My /home and /var/cache/redcarpet are mounted by nfs from my server, and I use NIS for account managment. And all of the OS's start nicely now thanks to grub :-). But my prob is that after putting linux under some load, (eg, open 10 or so mozilla windows as well as evolution) it will crash. The cursor freezes, and the computer does not respond to a telnet session or ping or anything. There are no enteries in the log to explain it. I know that it is not my ram because I swapped it with my other computer (2 x 128mb PC133) and she still does it (it also swapped my vid card with another vid card the same but it made no dif either). I have also tried recompiling the kernel, and putting back on RH7.1 but she still crashes. Yet she rock solid under winxp and 98, even when editing 600mb photos in photoshop. Any suggestions? I dont mind having to reformat because all of my home data is on the server. Regards, Karl Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer
I am unsure about that. Do you think that if I were to be sure, could I still run gnome progs in a kde evniroment? Regards, Karl Bowden could it be gnome-related? I pretty much never used to get crashes (debian potato), now since woody and gnome I get this funny lockup randomly but approx every 2 weeks. The machine is on all the time, the last lockup was the monitor had powered off and I hit a key to wake it, it did and the screen was all stripey lines and junk. I switched to a different virtual console to kill X and it locked up, totally, not even responding to pings. Good thing for ext3, I hit the reset button and all is ok again, until next time anyway. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Kernel panic with Mandrake 8.2 installation
When ever I try to install Mandrake 8.2, I get seg faults. Yet memtest86 reports ok when doing it's default thing, but when I mess arrourd with some settings it will decide that either I have no ram at all, or that I have about 4gb, and freeze either time. I only have 512mb of PC133, in a P3 1Ghz. any suggestions? Regards, Karl Bowden Hello Grant, thanks for the suggestion - now that you mention it, my 8.1 install occaisionally gives messages about bios clock errors (still works fine though so it must be able to recover) I'll try reinstalling again this weekend and let you know the result. Thankyou, Mehmet On Thursday 28 March 2002 08:15 pm, you wrote: Try turning off AMD optimisation, it's a flag you can pass to the kernel with GRUB/Lilo/Whatever bootloader. It's cropped up on here but for some reason I can't reach the slug website right now. Basically on recent AMD Motherboards linux drives the RAM too fast - well it's the mobo's fault for slightly overclocking in the first place which doesen't cause a problem under Windows. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Satellite Connections
Just wondering if anybody has had any experiance with satellite broadband? I snigger want /snigger a two-way satellite connection, but have only found offerings by telstra at the moment (http://www.bigpond.com/broadband/satellite/2wayPricing.asp). The price is pretty steep and I am unable to get cable or ADSL broadband services out here in regional australia (Forster). I have a group of friends that would like broadband as well and are interested in going into a co-op type group for our access using 802.11b to distribute the bandwidth. Because the access is so high on a two-way satellite I was wondering if I also got a one-way sat (http://www.bigpond.com/broadband/satellite/pricing.asp, http://www.nobbys.net.au/meteor/plans.htm) Like the Meteor Leo, that has a 2 Mbps download speed, if i was able to use the two-way for sending requests, and the one-way (without using dialup, because we have shocking phone lines out here) AND the two-way to receive requests, with the one-way being the preference, and the two-way being used as a backup when we fill the one-way? I would also like to keep track of how much traffic each user generates through the gateway (user auth?), but not keep track of local internal traffic. any comments? (or anybody know of any cheeper two-way or one-way?) Regards, Karl Some pest with high hopes Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Opinions, please.
Give me my Windows Notepad any day. kicking my self what newsgroup was this again? /kicking my self I'd like to install elvis, which is a vi/ex clone, but it occurred to me to ask if anyone has any experience with others. Has anyone any strong feelings they'd like to air? Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Permission denied when automounting /home
Out of curiosity what are the permissions on the home directory, and do you have any sym links in the first level of the home dir? Hi all, A simplification of my NIS problems: Whenever I try to mount the servers /home directory on a client machine (either manually or by automounting at startup) I get 'permission denied' from the server. I can mount other directories no worries. Is there some security thing here that I have to take into account? Regards, Nick Reese _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Telstra little pond cable and Linux
I just finished setting up a BigPond connection for a small business in Sydney and found that the USB device is supported under Redhat 7.2, which you will need for the IPTables anywhy. You just have to load the driver for the usb network device (SMC something). But you do not have to use their networking card (or piece of crap hanging on the end of a usb cable). You can use a standard $20 Realtec PCI 10/100 networking card, which I reccomend above the USB device, as the usb cable itself is limited to 10Mpbs (which is not actually a prob because the cable connection is not that fast anywhy), and the PCI card auto configures better. Telstra also give you the option of a ISA card at install time, but I am not sure that would be a good option as not all computers have an ISA bus anymore either. Once you have the card configured, set it to use DHCP, and you should be able to ping a mail server (I think). Once you get the bpalogin software (I used a bin rpm, and it worked first pop for me), you should be able to use the rest of the internet as well. There is good documentation with the software at http://bpalogin.sourceforge.net/. Just remember to turn on the IPTables in the rc.local file with a command like: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Depending of what you have the network cards configured as ofcorse Regards, and hope that helps a little. Karl Bowden It uses DHCP to get an IP, then some protocol for authentication. I think there's some difficulty if they use a USB ethernet card (you need to get a supported ethernet card). Hmm, ok who's they? I assume you mean the people I'm doing the job for. I get to specify the box so it will have a PCI card (or cards as it's a gateway for the rest of the network so I'll need two). You need the bpalogin package to do the authentication. I think that's available somewhere under www.whirlpool.net.au. Thanks I'll have a squiz at that. It will, but you will have difficulties when the cable goes down - the packets coming back will not be able to find you, since that interface no longer exists... Sure, can't be helped but at least any new tcp/ip sessions will get a response, so the user will click a link and nothing will happen so they'll do what all good users do which is try again and 'volia' the site is there (though seems a bit slooowww) but hey that happens all the time, welcome to the internet. Cheers Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Mandrake 8.2
Has anybody finished downloading the 3 cd's of mandrake 8.2 yet? I am almost finished cd1 on my 56k connection (i get unlimited downloads). But if anybody else wanted to download cd2 or cd3, I would be willing to swap the cd's by post. Let me know if you are interested. Also once I have the 3 cds if anybody wanted the 3 cds they could post me 3 blanks and a self addresed, pre payed packaging, and I would be willing to burn em a copy at no extra charge. (except for maybe a 3 or for day wait, but that may be worth it for some people at 1.8gb) Regards, Karl Bowden
Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 8.2
PlanetMirror makes for a good fast mirror. ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/linux/8.2/en/iso/i586/ It's based in oz too. Seems the whole world is downloading Mandrake 8.2 at the moment. There is a scramble to get on the mirrors, even one's with some bandwidth. I wonder why Mandrake didn't give the mirror sites 24 hours notice prior to the release so that they could be primed up with the distribution before the flood. The mandrake site's list of mirrors seemed to be changing every 15 mins as mirrors were taken down and others were put up. Anyway it'll slow down... one day. I have CD 2. 1 and 3 are on their way. Email me off list if you want some burned/do a swap. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Karl Bowden Sent: Wednesday, 20 March 2002 9:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Mandrake 8.2 Has anybody finished downloading the 3 cd's of mandrake 8.2 yet? I am almost finished cd1 on my 56k connection (i get unlimited downloads). But if anybody else wanted to download cd2 or cd3, I would be willing to swap the cd's by post. Let me know if you are interested. Also once I have the 3 cds if anybody wanted the 3 cds they could post me 3 blanks and a self addresed, pre payed packaging, and I would be willing to burn em a copy at no extra charge. (except for maybe a 3 or for day wait, but that may be worth it for some people at 1.8gb) Regards, Karl Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 and fsck
I tried the memtest86 and it reported an all clean. And I think the prob may be caused because of corrupted binaries. Can anybody suggest what commands issued from the redhat 7.2 rescue image that would fix this? Also when booting linux from grub installed in the boot sector on the hdd the console will blank till the display resets (by X starting), but the console is fine when booting from grub on a boot floppy. The boot options are EXACTLY the same. And the prob has only just appered since I installed the agp gforce 2 mx 400 (it was fine with me v3 3000). Any ideas? Regards, Karl Bowden On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 06:19, Karl Bowden wrote: I had my redhat machine crash on me last nite. And now when I boot it tells me that fsck.ext3 has exited with and error level of 7. I can run fsck.ext3, fsck.ext2, and e2fsck, and the all give me the message Bus Error. I then brainstorm Maybe one or more of your binaries was corrupted in the crash? I'd try reinstalling the packages that contain fsck, and the kernel. /brainstorm -- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] A six. A three. A five. Something was happening to the five, however. Battered by the chance collision of several billion molecules, the die flipped onto a point, spun gently, and came down a seven. Blind Io picked up the cube and counted the sides. 'Come on,' he said wearily. 'Play fair.' (Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mate, where is my swap...
Jump into fdisk and print the partition table there to see what is wrong. Maybe you should also post it up here. It might have the partition type wrong, or anyting. Regards, Karl Bowden --- My comp running a RedHat 7.2 and windowewzXp Pro. Dual boot based on lilo. Just today, I had a problem with the windowewz, after editing registry, restart. something wrong happen. I don't really care with windowewz, but the funny thing is. after fixing the windowewz, my swap partition seems to be.. missing. When I load the Redhat, on the booting time, I found: ...[snip] Activating swap Partitions: swapon /dev/hda5: Invalid Argument ...[snip] Swaop /dev/hda5: Invalid Argument Enabling Swap [OK] ...[snip] after login, I type df and the result: Filesystem1k-blocks Used Available Used% Mount on [snip] none 127792 0 0 0% /dev/shm [snip] What is goin on here? And how to get my swap partition back? Thank you in advance for the advice Phillipus. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: FW: [SLUG] NIS login problems
My exports file is as follows: /home 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash) /var/cache/redcarpet10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash) I know it is stupidly insecure, but it makes it easy for me inside the network, and I have a IPTables set not to let it through to my net connection. My internal home network is using dhcp for most settings supplied by the server. Regards, Karl Bowden - Original Message - From: Nicholas Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:04 AM Subject: Re: FW: [SLUG] NIS login problems Karl, I tried this option yesterday, and tried it again this morning as suggested. Everytime I reboot or try to mount /home I get permission denied from the server. I am able to mount other directories (i.e. /tmp/linux which has all the rmp's in it) from the server. On the server my /etc/exports file reads: /tmp/linux *(ro) /home *.eversham.net(rw,all_squash) (note, I have also tried this with: /home *(rw) whithout luck ) how do you set up your /etc/exports?? rgds, Nick Reese From: Nicholas Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: [SLUG] NIS login problems Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 03:29:41 +1000 rgds, Nick Reese Linux earns mindshare, Microsoft buys it... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Karl Bowden Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] NIS login problems X would apper to log in because it cannot find any files in the home directory, and so it just restarts the X server. If you mount the home directory in the fstab file with something like: 10.0.0.1:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0 Then the directory will be automatically mounted when you turn on the computer. (that is the line i use in my fstab file anywhy. I also mount /var/cache/redcarpet, for all the computers on my home network. then you do not have to download the packages for every computer when updating them with redcarpet). Regards, Karl Bowden Hi all, Using Redhat 7.1 I have checked out what all the posibilies could be but I just can't seem to crack it. NIS works fine. I can ypwhich from the clients and they pick up the server no probs. When I try to login at the GUI login dialog it accepts the login, seems to be logging in (X flickers) then drops back out to the login dialog. I put +:: in /etc/passwd and +::: in /etc/group and have changed /etc/nsswitch to default to NIS on the client. Do I have to have auto.home and auto.master in the NIS maps? Do I have to automount /home on the client? If anyone has some ideas and example config files it would be greatly appreciated. regards, Nick Reese _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Redhat 7.2 and fsck
I had my redhat machine crash on me last nite. And now when I boot it tells me that fsck.ext3 has exited with and error level of 7. I can run fsck.ext3, fsck.ext2, and e2fsck, and the all give me the message Bus Error. I then popped in the redhat 7.2 cd and booted the rescue image. In the rescue image it fsck'd all the partitions with no prob, but upon reboot it still gives the same message. What's wrong? Regards, Karl Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] NIS login problems
X would apper to log in because it cannot find any files in the home directory, and so it just restarts the X server. If you mount the home directory in the fstab file with something like: 10.0.0.1:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0 Then the directory will be automatically mounted when you turn on the computer. (that is the line i use in my fstab file anywhy. I also mount /var/cache/redcarpet, for all the computers on my home network. then you do not have to download the packages for every computer when updating them with redcarpet). Regards, Karl Bowden Hi all, Using Redhat 7.1 I have checked out what all the posibilies could be but I just can't seem to crack it. NIS works fine. I can ypwhich from the clients and they pick up the server no probs. When I try to login at the GUI login dialog it accepts the login, seems to be logging in (X flickers) then drops back out to the login dialog. I put +:: in /etc/passwd and +::: in /etc/group and have changed /etc/nsswitch to default to NIS on the client. Do I have to have auto.home and auto.master in the NIS maps? Do I have to automount /home on the client? If anyone has some ideas and example config files it would be greatly appreciated. regards, Nick Reese -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
