Re: [SLUG] Where to buy cheap Cisco routers?

[Rob B]

Amos Shapira wrote:

2008/10/26 Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Ebay

cisco stuff is constantly churning through.

However your question seems two fold.

1) im not sure what router i want
2) where can i get one.


You are right - I'm looking both for a place I can find stuff and a good advise.


so as for point 1) you will need to be more specific with your requirements.
However assuming an adsl router, ebay is still a great place to start.
However im sure many will point out that cheaper alternatives may prove just
as, if not more, satisfactory to a cisco solution.


My workplace has a few dozens of servers, desktops and virtual
servers. They are all hanging through a tiny SonicWall TZ170 which
isn't coping.
We already have the xDSL modems.
I think what I need is an Ethernet-connected box which can copy bits
around more efficiently than the TZ170.

I got a few pointers to iptrading, which was the only serious one I
found on Google before I turned to the list.
I'm considering their offer.



The problem with Cisco kit is the cost.  If you use the TZ 170 in a 
security context, then the replacement is a Cisco ASA (most likely out 
of your budget), but if it's mostly for routing, then a Cisco 1811 or 
1812 (1841 and 1861 would be out of your price range)


As to where to get one, I only know of iptrading or Ebay

cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] wireless access point ?

[Rob B]

At 09:45 PM 6/03/2008, AKS wrote:

what if i plug in an wireless access point through my 
existing  modem ? have anyone used it before . im not sure will it work or not?

please suggest.


This works fine, it's exactly what I do.

modem/router <=> 8 port switch <=> AP

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Re: [SLUG] DIY networking kit at Aldi.

[Rob B]

At 10:18 PM 4/01/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote:

...and a $12,000 fine for using it if you do an "installation".

Joseph Goncalves wrote:

Hi All,
There is a good value networking kit comming up on Thursday 11th at 
Aldi stores. For under $40 you get:
  - 50m of Cat 5e UTP network cable   - 1 pair of tongs (I think 
they mean crimp tool)
  - 20 RJ45 connectors   - 50 cable holders for wall mounting   - 
1 wall outlet with 2 sockets   - 2 wall outlets with 1 socket   - 
1 tool to remove isolation on the cable

Regards
Joseph


... if that "installation" has the capability of connecting to the PSTN 



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Re: FoIP (was: Re: [SLUG] Modem/Router recommendations please.)

[Rob B]

At 12:10 PM 2/01/2007, Penedo wrote:

On 02/01/07, Ken Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Fax does not go well on VOIP, to do with VOIP sending discrete packets
and suppressing silences, where a fax is one great big block of data,
not designed to be broken up.



Yes I know that.
But there is something called T.38 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.38) which
sounds like some standard to send Fax over IP between two "T.38 devices",
and I was wondering whether I can have some sort of a bridge which will
allow me to do:

PSTN-Fax ->  ->  ->  ->


so it might help me send and receive faxes over the Internet using my
regular HP PSC 2400 all-in-one box.



T.38 needs to be implemented right through the VoIP path (ie: the 
ATA/Voice gateway, the SIP/H.323 boxes etc)  Even then, it's a nasty 
piece of work to get right.  I know some Telcos don't even support it.


Rob 



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Re: [SLUG] SPAM is ramping up

[Rob B]

At 10:31 AM 21/12/2006, Howard Lowndes wrote:



Dean Hamstead wrote:

add something in IP tables to ignore the host
then you will save some data as well.



I know greylisting is all the rage at the moment, but 
tarpitting/stuttering seems to be the next big thing due to spambot 
authors writing bots that can get around the greylist delays.


Rob 



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Re: [SLUG] Poor Gb network performance

[Rob B]

At 08:34 PM 30/08/2006, Martin Visser wrote:

1. If the servers are near each other, you might want to test with a 
direct patch between them. (Gigabit ports are auto-MDIX so 
straight-through or cross-over will do)


2. Use netstat -i -c and dstat to give you an idea if losses are due 
to CPU, physical errors, etc.


3. I use the "iperf" utility as nice way to generate and measure throughput

4. I really would have second thoughts on using a non-managed switch 
(i;m guessing the netgear is). A managed switch will enable you to 
see stats about each port and help you to isolate where the problem might be


Don't forget that a GigE NIC in a regular 32-bit PCI slot is 
sub-optimal as well, being that the NIC can theoretically shove more 
data across the wire than the PCI bus can handle (up to 132Mb/s IIRC)


cheers,
Rob

On 8/29/06, Raphael Kraus 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Also, I've seen problems with the Realteks in 2.6.9 kernels, that
seemed to go away with later 2.6 kernels (around 2.6.13, from memory).
> Given the debian box is 2.6.8, that might be an issue, so you might
want to try a later kernel.

That may be a good point, however as the machine is off-site, rather
critical, uses some compiled software and eth0 is less important (i.e.
it's our internal network - I'm more worried about large backups not
taking forever to transfer), I'm not too keen to upgrade the kernel just
at the moment  :^/

I'll discuss this with my colleage and we'll see if we can organise to
give it a crack...

Thanks heaps for all your help!

Regards,

Raphael Kraus
Software Developer
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Re: [SLUG] UPS for Linux

[Rob B]

At 11:00 AM 24/08/2006, you wrote:

Sorry to dump this on the list as I don't have time to research this.

I have had a phone call from a friend out shopping for a UPS for a Linux
server I set up for him, si I need to find out quickly.

Can anyone make a quick recommendation?  Must be ethernet interface, not
USB, etc.


If you *must* have an ethernet interface, the price skyrockets, 
however APC UPS' are well equipped in the connectivity area,  the 
newer (small) units have a combo USB/Serial port dependant on the 
cable you get and apcupsd (http://www.apcupsd.org) is a nice piece of 
software.  The more expensive units also have a web/snmp/ethernet 
card as an option.  I also hear that the MGE UPS' are pretty good as well.


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Re: [SLUG] BGP Protocol

[Rob B]

At 12:08 PM 27/07/2006, O Plameras wrote:

Martin Barry wrote:

oh, that's a whole can of worms right there.

time to convergance varies from network to network:
- number of eBGP & iBGP talkers
- number of feeds and size of feeds
- underlying hardware (CPU intensive)



BGP works well on Cisco4500s and Cisco7000s.

Cisco4500s and Cisco7000s runs on Motorola and RISC CPUs
respectively and are 1980s technologies. Yet, they are
considered the leaders in handling BGP routing.


Eww ... old :)


Now, BGPs run on Linux, for example, http://www.zebra.org and
http://www.quagga.net. Linux runs on PC platforms which are
constantly enhanced in terms of CPU speeds.

It will be interesting to test out convergence of BGP on these
Linux platforms, specifically and performance in general,
then compare with Cisco platforms.

Just thinking loud.



Not Linux I know, but FOSS nonetheless, there is also OpenBGPD 
(http://www.openbgpd.org/ ) from the OpenBSD crew.  We (the former 
Comindico) were getting a proposal together to run a test of OpenBGPD 
as a multi-hop eBGP peer, to take the load of our customers instead 
of distributing the full table across every edge device that needed 
to speak BGP.


cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] ADSL Query

[Rob B]

At 02:09 PM 24/02/2006, Rajnish wrote:

After looking at the broadbandchoice website for some weeks now, I've figured
that I'd ask the sluggers. What are your suggestions for a modest $50/month
commitment, minimum 512Kbps plan from an ISP that does not shy away from
Linux (slackware, fedora) ?


With the market the way it is, the more it seems that you get with 
your $50, the more restrictions there can be on the 
service.  BBChoice is a good place to start, bearing in mind that 
most of the comments you will see on whingepool, are complaints :)


Linux-supporting ISP's ar few and far between, simply because of the 
breadth of experience of their helpdesk staff.


I'd guess that most users use a router which does the NATing for 
their LAN, as you would most likely be doing with your setup.


And one other question: to avoid having long wires running across 
the length of the

house (phone's in one corner, my computer's in another), I was considering a
wireless router (?). What are the draw backs of this ? And also is 
it likely to

interfere with a baby monitor ?


Wireless routers are good, use a separate access point myself, simply 
because I have a cisco 1700 router


As for the interference - most likely not  baby monitors are 
usually 433 or in the 900 MHz range, Wireless ethernet is 2.4GHz


Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] [ot] Using telephone wiring for networking?

[Rob B]

At 10:41 AM 6/12/2005, James Gray wrote:

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 09:20, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 08:41 +1100, Matt Moor wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > This was one of those buzz-wordy type things a few years ago, and some
> > of the big consumer network device companies put out product. I didn't
> > hear about any of them reaching 100Mbit/s, though - and I'd be really
> > surprised if they did, given the number of pairs available in your
> > standard phone line (CAT3, as others have mentioned).
> >
> > You will need special hardware, as listed on the homepna.org site you
> > linked, and I'm not sure what linux support is like. The equipment would
> > also need to be AUSTel certified to be legal in australia (Perhaps not
> > for a PABX system? Dunno if it would even work in this environment)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > P.S. If it's not AUSTel certified, but you want to take the risk, you'd
> > want to know the difference between the US phone network (voltage, etc),
> > and the australian one.
>
> AIUI austel certification only kicks in if you are connecting the thing
> to the phone network. If you happen to have a bunch of copper in the
> walls, that is not connected to the public network - it does not apply.

And by "connected to the public network" they mean "in any way through any
device".  So even if you isolate your network from the public one with a
router or modem etc, you're still deemed to be "connected".  Not sure if
you're still deemed to be connected if the external/public link is wireless
though (they are more concerned about electrical isolation than spurious
data).

At tleast this was how the regs were written back in '95 when I was AUSTel
Certified.  Things may have changed - usual disclaimers apply.



This is not completely true.  If your router is connected to the 
PSTN, then it is the demarcation between the private and public 
networks.  It is the router that needs to be certified, not the home 
network wiring.


If you were to use the home network wiring to carry voice traffic 
onto the PSTN (not VoIP, but analogue voice), then the cabling would 
need to be installed by a licensed person.


cheers,
Rob



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Re: [SLUG] ISP

[Rob B]

At 06:30 PM 18/10/2005, Juergen Busam wrote:

Does anyone has a recommendation for business ISP's? Some good
experience regarding reliability and service?



I'm biased, but Soul (http://www.soulaustralia.com.au) has a good 
network (with national reach) with good international capacity.  The 
network itself is reliable, and has QoS capability.


There are several options for a business-grade service, starting at 
authenticated ADSL (up to 1.5M/256k), right through to non-contended 
SHDSL and upwards and onwards from there.


cheers,
Rob

PS: yes, I work there, but like I said, I'm biased ;)


DaZZa wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Juergen Busam wrote:
>
>
>>Can anyone recommend a reliable ISP (with good Overseas connection) with
>>at least the possibility to have 3M down and 640 K Up, or even better a
>>symmetric connection with 3M down and up?
>
>
> Your options are fairly limited in speed. Unless you're living within a
> short distance of one of the exchanges which have been upgraded to ADSL2+,
> you're not going to get 3 meg on an average ADSL connection.
>
> You *might* get lucky with a business grade connection if you're not on an
> exchange which isn't ADSL2+ - but if you did you'd be up for at least
> $1000 a month.
>
> Internode is one ISP which has some exchanges at ADSL2+ - check out
> http://cgi.agile.com.au/cgi-bin/dsl-coverage-table?Carrier=Agile
> for exchanges which are enabled and http://www.internode.on.net/adsl2/ for
> more information regarding the plans.
>
> http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc-plan.cfm is the place to check for
> compatible xDSL/Cable plans.



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Re: [SLUG] linux locks up cisco - but how/why?

[Rob B]

At 09:08 AM 17/08/2005, Glen Turner wrote:

DaZZa wrote:


The Cisco device would block the bad port if it detects a problem.


The switch ports in the c8?? are too dumb to do that.


Aye.


It's probably a jabbering network interface card (eg, sending
the last packet repeatedly, with corruption). These are usually
isolated by the switch, but we're talking household kit here
(which tends to do cut-through switching which will pass jabbering
frames whereas enterprise switches usual take the slower but
safer path of receiving and checking the entire packet before
re-transmitting it).


I've found it to be the opposite .. commodity gear uses 
store-and-forward rather than other schemes.


Rob


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Re: [SLUG] web site analysis/statistics

[Rob B]

At 12:05 AM 17/05/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Relatedly, can anyone recommend a good squid log analyser?
There's quite a few around -- but i'd like to see what people
actually recommend.
I used Calamaris in the past and liked it.  That *was* a while ago though :)
cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] [OT] Light email replacement for Outlook Express

[Rob B]

At 11:29 AM 26/02/2004, Simon Wong wrote:
Can anyone recommend a light (it needs to run on Windows ME so I don't
trust Mozilla Mail to work) email client that can handle multiple
accounts as a replacement for Outlook Express?
I am checking out Phoenix Mail
(http://www.snapfiles.com/get/phoenix.html) as one option.
I need something reliable for my sister (until I get her laptop onto
Linux ;-)
Eudora has always served me well.  There is even a tool to convert Eudora 
mailboxes to Unix mbox format

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Re: [SLUG] screen(1) lovers anonymous

[Rob B]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
Here's a cool feature that I've added to all of my ~/.screenrc files now:

hardstatus on
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string "%{.bW}%-w%{.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %H %{..Y} %d/%m %C%a"
It creates a status bar that has tab-like thingies which looks like this:

  http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/random/screen-love.png
Very cool!

For something even more geeky try putting wormulon 
(http://raisdorf.net/projects/wormulon) in the hardstatus line as well :)

cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Help with some kernel hacking

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At 05:15 PM 17/12/2003, DE LUCA Ben sent this up the stick:
Hey there, im trying to port a device driver from x86 to my alpha , im very
new to kernel development and to the alpha platform. And was wondering if
any one might be able to give advice or mentor me.
Not that I can help at all, but just out of intrerest - what driver are you 
trying to port?

Rob

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Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

[Rob B]

At 11:57 AM 12/12/2003, Christopher Vance made a rockin' answer to Brad 
Kowalczyk :


Mate, that was probably the best answer I have seen in a long time to a 
question like that ... well done :)

Cheers,
Rob
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Re: [SLUG] Postfix and regexp

[Rob B]

At 01:13 AM 5/11/2003, Voytek sent this up the stick:
** Reply to note from Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 04 Nov 
2003 12:24:07 +1100
>
> why are you tuesday 10pm?

Kevin, that's a good Q.

the answer is long and involved, and, I do not understand some parts of
it...


so, today, when I noticed I'm out by DST, and, adelaide no longer is there,
I though, I'd try an NTPD instead of daytime, I've set up NTPD sometime in
1999, but, never used it since then, NTPD had these in:
poll interval = 16384
augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au
ntp.cs.mu.OZ.AU
ntp.ml.csiro.au
ntp.tip.CSIRO.AU
tick.usno.navy.mil
tock.usno.navy.mil
time.nist.gov
206.54.0.21


Bad ... these are stratum 1 servers.  Ordinary folks like us should 
*really* be synchronising to stratum 2 servers.  Real differences between 
the strata amount to milliseconds usually.  www.ntp.org has *all* the info.

I guess, NTPD takes an average between local machine time as well as remote
clocks, and, I guess, NTPD shouldn't be invoked on on obviously incorrect
time, and, I guess, if I left NTPD running, it would eventually correct
the time. Perhaps an interval of '16384' prevented re-calc from being
somewhat quicker...
Not really.  ntpd will adjust (slew) your clock according to the dfirtfile 
(/var/ntp/drift)  ntpdate steps the change in one hit (see below).

which reminds me, I should really configure ntpd on my Linux server.


ntpd probably isn't the best solution for an intermittent dialup, unless 
you can stay dailled up for about 24 hours while ntpd sets up a drift 
file.  If the Linux box is dialling, put ntpdate into your ppp.up script

If you do decide to go ahead with ntpd, be sure to check out the 
pool.ntp.org website.

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Time Servers

[Rob B]

At 02:35 PM 1/09/03, Edwin Humphries sent this up the stick:
What public secondary time servers are useful for those of us on AEST?
pool.ntp.org is a good one, have a look at the web site (pool.ntp.org ... 
funny that)

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Re: [SLUG] Netgear Wireless

[Rob B]

At 05:59 PM 18/08/03, mick sent this up the stick:
A friend of mine (who owns a pub and will pay me in BEER! to fix
this)has asked me to set up a wireless LAN for him.
I suggested a Linux Box for the server, because I always recommended
Linux.
He has given me an IBM Aptiva for the server hardware (perfect), a
netgear wireless Hub and a WG311 wireless LAN card for the server.  He
will use a Toshiba Laptop running XPoo to access all this wireless
goodness.
PROBLEM:  I can't seem to find a driver or generic driver for this
card.  The server will probably run Redhat 9.0 (although I'm open to
suggestions).  So if anyone can point me in right direction, please do,
your help would be greatly appreciated.
Since this is for beer, I'll weigh in :)

The WG311 is Atheros-based, so the driver found at 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ *may* work.  Can't say for sure, 
never tried it.

cheers,
Rob


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Re: [SLUG] is it just me!!

[Rob B]

At 09:22 PM 31/03/03, Mick Boda sent this up the stick:
/stevenk/alsa 404 error!

Here is the output;
Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~stevenk/alsa/./Packages  404
Not FoundReading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://people.debian.org ./
Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7estevenk_alsa_._Packages) - stat
(2 No such file or directory)
I don't think it's your fault Mick, there is no Packages file on Steven's 
site.  You might want to try fetching the package you need directly 
(alsa-modules-2.4.20-386_0.9.2+1_i386.deb should work) Then do a
dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.4.20-386_0.9.2+1_i386.deb  from wherever you 
downloaded it to install.

Apologies for the sig ... bad sigmonster!

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] debian woody on an alpha...

[Rob B]

At 10:32 AM 29/03/03, J A Barton sent this up the stick:
Firstly, the date. When checked from the srm console the date is correct, 
however from debian..
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date
Sun Mar 29 11:29:11 EST 2065
^^^?
does anyone have any ideas other than forcing the date back 20yrs and a day?
Only ever seen this when the date was set in ARC and then the boot console 
was swapped back to SRM.  By the way, none of my Alphas exibit this problem 
(two multia's, a PC64 and a PWS-500au).  Try setting the date in linux and 
then use systohc(?) to set the hw claock.

Also, at boot, just after activating the swap partition, i get the 
following scsi error:

scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 0a 40 
c6 00 00 26 00
Info fld=0xa40e2, Current sd08:01: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error

This seems not to affect anything, but i have not yet done anything that 
is to disk-thrashing so am unsure how much i should be worrying...
Dunno about that one 

And finally, the petty question... Is there anyway of shortening the 
keystrokes to boot into debian? I have set the options from the srm 
console, so that a simple boot will boot the harddrive, but then i get 
an aboot> prompt to pick a kernel, and seeing as i have only the one, it 
seems a bit pointless.
From the SRM prompt (>>>) type:

set auto_action boot

The show command is your friend in SRM.

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Re: [SLUG] problem adding source during debian install

[Rob B]

At 06:43 PM 28/03/03, Mick Boda sent this up the stick:
I select edit sources list by hand
I type http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/i386/./
I recieve the following error message  E: Type 'http, 
etc,etc,/i386/./'  is not known on line 9 in source list /etc/apt etc, etc.

If I change this to
deb http://people/debian etc, etc
 I recieve and error message that line 9 of /etc/apt/sou  is malformed.
Well, your entry _is_ malformed :)

Try making it:

deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/i386/ ./

Note the space between the / and  ./

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Re: [SLUG] NIS cannot detect root users

[Rob B]

At 08:32 AM 16/03/03, pesoy misak sent this up the stick:

i have two computers that has debian woody in each of
them and  trying to serving an NIS and NFS server NFS
is working fine and NIS during the setup is fine but I
can't log in as "root" the root account is there but
is locally not as NIS users. And when I type ypcat
passwd the results is
nobody:x:x:x:x:x:/dev/null
yosep:xxx:x:/home:/bin/bash
so the root is not bind for some reason could you
please tell me what is happening and solve them out
It's not good security practice to distribute root via NIS.  If, for some 
reason, the NIS server is unavailable, then you will nt be able to log in 
to any box at all.

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RE: [SLUG] Win2k - Linux VPN

[Rob B]

At 04:55 PM 13/03/03, Adam W sent this up the stick:
Just on this topic of VPN's. I have been meaning to ask everybody. How
secure are VPN's in terms of packet sniffers/encryption etc. The company
that I work for has decided to use citrix Nfuse or whatever the S^#@ is!
Because they argue that using a VPN is insecure - I totally disagree
with this, as I know massive multi-national corporations use these and
rely on these. And as if these companies would use this if it was
insecure.
A IPSEC VPN seems to be most secure out of these technologies, when I 
worked for a large ISP we used to implement them (with 3DES encryption and 
key regeneration every hour).  Since the actual keys aren't transmitted, 
they can't be sniffed.  They were a nice cash cow for us, being a managed 
service and all.

However, you still want a firewall or the like protecting the VPN box, if 
the VPN box is compromised, then the whole VPN is compromised too.

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Re: [SLUG] Advice for a Web Cafe

[Rob B]

At 02:36 PM 10/03/03, Kevin FItzgerald sent this up the stick:
I am setting up an Internet cafe/Community access point at my church. We 
have a
room and 50 Machines all with Windows Lic's for the desktops, and I want 
to run
RH8 as the server and Backend. I will probably set it up as an NIS Server for
ease of admin etc but thats not the question for this topic. What i would 
like
is recommendations of filtering software that I can put on the RH8 server to
block access to Porn etc (Being a church this is very important). Can anyone
suggest a Linux Equivalent to products like Net Nanny etc?
Squidguard springs to mind.  Have a look on freshmeat.net.

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Re: [SLUG] Debian (2.2)/Windowmake How do you resize a window?

[Rob B]

At 10:19 AM 10/03/03, Terry Collins sent this up the stick:
I know it sounds sime, but all I can work out under Debian
2.2/WindowMake is how to iconise or maximise my windows.
How do I stretch the window to the size I want?
i.e. right click on title, choose Resize/Move - then what?
I haven't been able to work this bit out.
I usually grab the bottom-right corner of a window and stretch it to 
whatever size I want.

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Re: [SLUG] Postfix: checking that I've got this right.

[Rob B]

At 03:21 PM 6/03/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this up the stick:
We have a mail server on the inside of our network, that cannot be reached
externally, but serves all mail for our systems. Postfix on our
firewall/gateway is to forward all mail destined for our mail systems to
this server.  To complicate things, we have more than one domain name, but
postfix should automagically change the domain name to our regular one on
the way through. (Ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be changed
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and passed through to our internal mail
server.) Additionally, scripts on the firewall/gateway send to the root
user and the root user has a .forward file which contains my email
address.
To rewrite domains, you use the masqurerade_domains option.

myorigin = $mydomain
mydomain = capitalholdings.com.au
masquerade_domains = capitalholdingsgroup.com.au
You might also want to check http://www.postfix.org/rewrite.html and man(5) 
virtual for address redirection.

I'm not sure what to set mydestination to as according to the docs it
"specifies what domains this machine will deliver locally rather than
forwarding to another machine". However if postfix is proxying, do I set
this as per normal - in which case how should I set it for our other
domain names? (Is below correct?)
mydestination is used for local delivery

Have a look at http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#firewall for setting up 
Postfix on a firewall

Here's the parameters I think may need to be set in main.cf (got a feeling
I've got this wrong as the proxying concepts aren't clear for me):
myorigin = $mydomain
mydestination = $myhostname localhost.$mydomain $mydomain
relaydomains = $mydomain capitalholdingsgroup.com.au
mynetworks = 192.168.100.0/24, 27.0.0.0/8"
proxy_interfaces = 192.168.100.1
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
mydestination should be the hostname of the internal mailserver.  There 
really is no need to allow relaying for the whole 127.0.0.0/8 subnet  
you really only need 127.0.0.1/32


and /etc/postfix/virtual to contain the following line:
capitalholdingsgroup.com.au capitalholdings.com.au
I'm not sure you'll need that

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Re: [SLUG] postfix: mynetworks clarification.

[Rob B]

At 11:52 AM 6/03/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this up the stick:

The documentation for postfix states that the default for mynetworks
parameter is "mynetworks_style = subnet" and that this "Trust SMTP clients
in the IP subnetworks that Postfix is connected to."
In Postfix 2.0.4, etc/main.cf says:

# By default (mynetworks_style = subnet), Postfix "trusts" SMTP
# clients in the same IP subnetworks as the local machine.
# On Linux, this does works correctly only with interfaces specified
# with the "ifconfig" command.

Now, the machine that postfix sits on is connected to two networks
(external and internal).
External is 210.23.146.0/?? and internal 192.168.100.0/24

If I leave the default settings, will other members of our service
provider be able to use our machine as a mail relay? (Ie. those coming in
off 210.23.146.0 network?)
AFAICT, maybe  not real sure on this

I guess the obvious solution is to just specify "mynetworks =
192.168.100.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8" and I won't have to worry, but I'm curious
about if this is really necessary (and correct).
This is correct.

cheers,
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[SLUG] NIS/YP question

[Rob B]

While this is not strictly a Linux question, it does involve some Linux 
boxen (and a couple of Windows and FreeBSD systems :)

I have about 5 machines at home, networked together.  Usually, about three 
of them are in use at any given time.  To save updating various bits of 
info when I make a change that would affect them all (adding or renaming a 
host, changing a user password etc.) would it be a good idea to use NIS/YP 
or some such service?  This way, I would only have to make a change on the 
server and have it reflected on the various hosts.

What would be an alternative to NIS in this situation?  LDAP?

cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] How to create an ISP

[Rob B]

At 14:54 7/02/2003, Phillipus Gunawan sent this up the stick:

Doh... is it really true there is no ducumentation on
the net i can look up?


Didn't I give you a link (tldp.org) to search?  If you really want others 
to do your homeopwrk, then I think you are asking in the wrong place.

Where have you looked?

Did you read http://tldp.org/HOWTO/ISP-Setup-RedHat-HOWTO.html at all?  You 
haven't said anything about the size of this pretend ISP, so I think you 
have done pretty well thus far.

There is a book by Geoff Huston (Telstra Internet chief scientist) called 
ISP Survival Guide, (John Wiley & Sons, Nov 1998)  Read a little bit about 
it at http://www.potaroo.net/books.html

If you need bandwidth prices, call backbone providers (worldcom, Telstra, 
Comindico or the like) and ask.

Check out vendor websites for hardware prices.

Be specific - how many dialin lines are you required to have, how many 
customers are you providing services to, are there any other services you 
will provide apart from dialup?

Nobody is going to do your homework for you.
Rob

Anyway, i have tought about that, i made 1 dedicated
linux as a router gateway. it will receives dial up
connection from a client and redirect it with some
"RAS" with squid..

so far, thats what i found on the web. but, is that
the right way? how about the phone line? what modem
should i use?

can experienced_person guide me or show me the light?

Thanks.


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> wrote:
> >I got an assignment, to create almost full
> documentation (implementation
> >and pricing) on how to create an ISP in Sydney.
>
> Step 1: Get lots of funding -- you're going to lose
> a lot of money.  :-)


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Re: [SLUG] How to create an ISP

[Rob B]

At 13:16 4/02/2003, Phillipus Gunawan sent this up the stick:

Greeting SLUG,

I got an assignment, to create almost full documentation (implementation
and pricing) on how to create an ISP in Sydney.
Is there any available article I can lookup which is a real story?

Preferably is a small-medium ISP which using Linux/RedHat as their
servers.


IIRC, there was a document on http://tldp.org along these lines.  Try 
googling for it as well.

cheers,
Rob


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Re: [SLUG] Firewall MD5 signatures on processes

[Rob B]

At 23:49 29/01/2003, Matt M sent this up the stick:



And totally unimplementable on a machine where the same binaries can have
different MD5 sums across different installations, e.g. the one you all are
(most likely) reading this mail on now.


Unless the MD5 sums table is build when you install the machine/software 
or configure the feature.

Correctamundo!

Y'all should remember, these Windows "firewalls" are designed to be 
installed on a single machine (hence the term "personal firewall") and - 
while they will work on a box acting as a gateway - they will only verify 
MD5 sums of local software.  So in effect, these apps combine a bit of 
Tripwire/Aide with a packet filter.

Unix software rule:  Do one thing, and do it well
Windows sofware rule: Do everything

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RE: [SLUG] Problems configuring woody for cable

[Rob B]

At 09:10 30/12/2002, Adam Bogacki sent this up the stick:


Tux:/home/adam# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search paradise.net.nz
nameserver 203.96.152.4
nameserver 203.96.152.12

Tux:/home/adam# /etc/network/interfaces

# /etc/network/interfaces --configuration file for if up(8) if down(8)
# the loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The first network card ... during Deb install
#(network, broadcast & gateway are optional)
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
 adress 192.168.1.1
 netmask 255.255.255.0
 network 192.168.1.0
 broadcast 192.168.1.255


Seems strange that your cable provider would assign you an address in the 
192.168- range.  Does Paradise cable use DHCP to assign the address?  If 
so, try making sure that either pump or dhcpd are installed, and comment 
out all the existing eth0 stuff and put the following into 
/etc/network/interfaces:

auto eth0
iface eth0 dhcp

Do /etc/init.d/network restart and see if everything works.

Failing the above, I had a look at the web page to see what support they 
offrered, and it seems as though Paradise cable is provided by TelstraClear 
(formerly Saturn).  There is a Cable-modem HOWTO at 
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/index.html.  Have a look at 
the entry there for Saturn.

Cheers,
Rob

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From: David Kempe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 30 December 2002 9:39 AM
To: Adam Bogacki
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Problems configuring woody for cable

Adam,
you really have to get back to basics.
forget linuxconf, its not needed.

please tell us the output of these commands and we can get the details
of
exactly what is wrong.
cat /etc/resolv.conf
cat /etc/network/interfaces
ifconfig

if your resolv.conf looks like what you typed below then DNS is broken.
take out the search parameter for now, just have two lines that read
nameserver x.x.x.x and nameserver x.x.x.x

I have never needed to touch /etc/networks - i think it is either
redundant
or built from /etc/network/interfaces

hope that helps,

dave
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From: Adam Bogacki
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 7:12 AM
Subject: [SLUG] Problems configuring woody for cable


Hi,
I'm running Woody testing/unstable in a dual boot-system and
have recently had 512Bd cable installed. The XP drive is fine but I
can't
seem to get it going with Woody.

I apt-get installed linuxconf via ppp, read through the help
files as suggested, and added in all known values for DNS Servers, IP
(Static), Gateway, and SubNet mask. I did not see anywhere to include
network settings for pop3 or smtp (presumably to go in ./muttrc and
Mozilla).

I keep getting the message "Can't find package 'pythonmod' "
although via

'apt-get update',
'apt-get upgrade' and
'apt-get -u dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install'
I found that 'pythonmod' had indeed been installed.

'netconf -status' gives me

'module pythonmod does not exist'
? Service samba is not running
Executing: /etc/rc2.d/S20samba start'

My /etc/resolv.conf is

'search paradise.net.nz
nameserver 203.96.152.4
 203.96.152.12'

my /etc/networks is

"localnet 192.168.1.0
eth0_netmask 255.255.255.0"

which confuses me - where did that DNS come from ?
my IP is 203.79.110.81

Similarly my /etc/hosts had (last time I looked) three different
designations for my system (Tux):

127.0.0.1   Localhost
192.168.1.1   Tux
203.79.110.81   Tux loghost

. I presume these have been calculated by Linuxconf.

I received the linuxconf message

"forwarding of IP traffic is not active in the kernel"

and trying an apt-get update still gives me

"something wicked happened resolving 'mirror.aarnet.edu.au:http'

Sorry for the confusion - any solutions ?

Adam Bogacki

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Re: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ?

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: "Michael Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Rob B'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:49 PM
Subject: RE: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ?

> > > > I need to add an ftpd to my Debian laptop and wwondered what
> > > > ppl have used and can recommend and what not maybe to use.
> > >
> > > apt-get install proftpd
> >
> > >But also I wont be using virtual hosts or anything fancy
> > (hence dont need
> > proftp). So simpliclity is a plus
>
> Just because proftpd can do this fancy stuff, doesn't mean its not easy. I
> don't use those functions and never have. However I use it, because out of
> the box its ready to roll, and not to mention very secure. End case!

I'd have to disagree on both points there - it might be ready to roll, but
it has been the victim of some very serious security flaws in the past.  I
think that, when compared to lukemftpd or vsftpd, proftpd is overkill.

Rob

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Re: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ?

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: "Michael Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Michael Lake'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:27 PM
Subject: RE: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ?


> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I need to add an ftpd to my Debian laptop and wwondered what
> > ppl have used and can recommend and what not maybe to use.
>
> apt-get install proftpd

You didn't really read the email, did you?

>But also I wont be using virtual hosts or anything fancy (hence dont need
proftp). So simpliclity is a plus

Rob

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Re: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ?

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: "Michael Lake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 7:21 AM
Subject: [SLUG] What ftpd - oh the choices ?


> Hi all,
>
> I need to add an ftpd to my Debian laptop and wwondered what ppl have used
and can recommend and what not maybe to use.
> Previously I just had put the install scripts put one on for me but now I
can see I have quite a few choices.
> Use is mainly for home machine<-->machine but will be using at at uni
where it will be effectively directly connected
> so security is a concern. (my IRIX box here shows several attemps / week)
> But also I wont be using virtual hosts or anything fancy (hence dont need
proftp). So simpliclity is a plus.
> Users will be mainly me at uni.
> Anyone used oftpd, vsftpd or twoftpd.

On my Debian box I use vsftpd, couldn't be happier with it.  Real
lightweight, good throughput, and no known buffer overflows or anything :)
Can't be too bad - ftp.redhat.com runs on it, as does ftp.openbsd.org

On my FreeBSD boxes I use lukemftpd, so far, there isn't much of a
difference, lukemftpd can do a couple things that vsftpd can't - like chroot
and kerberos/S-key  authentication

cheers,
Rob


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Re: [SLUG] I think I'm being DoS'd - What can I do ?

[Rob B]

At 09:08 27/11/2002, Adam Hewitt sent this up the stick:


I used to work as a network engineer for a large national wholesale ISP,
and it was *policy* that we provided bandwidth, *not* filtering. Their
philosophy was that if you are being DoS'ed you need to contact the
source ISP and get them to block, otherwise we would still get charged
for the traffic from our supplier.

I can kind of see their point, but it doesn't really help the average
end user.

Even when code red was running riot, we still did not filter...


When I was in support at UUNET/WorldCom/borg - we filtered (on request 
only) when CodeRed and Nimda were peaking.  Most likely because we had no 
policy that said we would not do it, but we also had no policy that said we 
would :)

We also helped out smaller customers (whose links were so badly congested 
that they were essentially cut off) by contacting the ISP of the source of 
the problem.

Not sure if this sort of thing will happen any more though.

cheers,
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RE: [SLUG] Help with Webalizer

[Rob B]

At 08:58 26/11/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this up the stick:


FreeBSD - libjpeg is in the ports tree, gd isn't, nor is webalizer.  But 
after you build the libraries and link all the files  from 
/usr/local/include to /usr/include (or compile webalizer with a 
"--include=/usr/local/include") it's a piece of cake :-)  FYI, the 
./configure under FreeBSD *DID* detect the lack of libjpeg and gd without 
any problems at all.  This was installing from source too (2.0.7 IIRC) - 
maybe this is a RedHat specific build problem??

Webalizer is in the ports tree (ports/www/webalizer) as is gd 
(ports/graphics/gd)

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Re: [SLUG] offtopic - nntp traffic volume question for ISP admins

[Rob B]

At 11:25 25/11/2002, Broun, Bevan sent this up the stick:

Can any ISP admins give me an idea of how much traffic is downloaded for
the major top level groups. Ie how much will be downloading per day or week
if we decide to bring in all of comp. and all of aus.


When I was setting up feeds for customers, we advised that you needed a 10 
meg connection JUST for news if you wanted all 25000 odd groups that we 
carried.

Found this little bit of info :

Usenet Statistics (2002/03/18 - 2002/03/19)

Total feed size (excluding cross-posting): 353062.59 Mb in 1730196 articles 
over 1.00 days

Average daily rate (excluding cross-posting): 353058.50 Mb, 1730176 articles

Total feed size (including cross-posting): 489372.94 Mb in 2438056 articles

Average daily rate (including cross-posting): 489367.28 Mb in 2438028 articles


cheers,
Rob

PS: any vacancies for a VPN/install engineer floating around?  Starting in 
Feb would be good :)


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Re: [SLUG] Debian network install

[Rob B]

At 12:14 22/11/2002 +1100, Richard Hayes sent this up the stick:


Reading the Debian installation how to I did not see how many floppy disks I
need to do a network install?


I did this with my Alphas, and I only needed the two boot floppies.

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[SLUG] iptables problems

[Rob B]

I'm having a hard time deciphering iptables rules.  Would any of these 
rules cause a "sendto: operation not permitted" error?

bunbun:~# iptables --list
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source   destination
ipac_inall  --  anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere anywhere
LOGall  --  127.0.0.0/8  anywhere   LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  127.0.0.0/8  anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere 255.255.255.255
ACCEPT all  --  10.0.0.0/24  anywhere
LOG   !tcp  --  anywhere 224.0.0.0/4LOG level warning
DROP  !tcp  --  anywhere 224.0.0.0/4
LOGall  --  10.0.0.0/24  anywhere   LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  10.0.0.0/24  anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere 255.255.255.255
LOGall  --  anywhere anywhere   LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  anywhere anywhere

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target prot opt source   destination
ipac_inall  --  anywhere anywhere
ipac_out   all  --  anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  10.0.0.0/24  anywhere
LOGall  --  anywhere 10.0.0.0/24LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  anywhere 10.0.0.0/24
LOGall  --  anywhere anywhere   LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  anywhere anywhere

Chain OUTPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source   destination
ipac_out   all  --  anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere 255.255.255.255
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere 10.0.0.0/24
ACCEPT!tcp  --  anywhere 224.0.0.0/4
LOGall  --  anywhere 10.0.0.0/24LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  anywhere 10.0.0.0/24
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere 255.255.255.255
LOGall  --  anywhere anywhere   LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  anywhere anywhere

The ipac_in and ipac_out rules consist only of LOG targets, so I haven't 
included them.

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Re: [SLUG] web-based photo albums

[Rob B]

At 13:47 3/11/2002 +1100, Craige McWhirter sent this up the stick:

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 15:27, Rob B wrote:

> I am about to set up a web-based photo album for my family, and I 
wonder if
> y'all have any experience with them.

I've found curator to a good photo gallery tool. I've been told that
bins is apparently better.

> - no database, images should be stored as files

Check.

> - web-upload would be real nice

Manual upload of webpages generated by curator. It also have a very
sweet templating system.

I've gone with Gallery (gallery.sourceforge.net) simply due to the fact 
that it is the only one that does a web-based upload and doesn't need a 
database.  I needed this feature due to the non-technical nature of the 
users (not me).

cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Need to lease an IP block.

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: "David Hill [Hostcentral]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 1:06 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Need to lease an IP block.


> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know of any person or company that would be willing to lease
me
> a portable /24?

Hmm ... that'll be tough - APNIC will gladly give you a minimum of a /20.
Justifying 4.96 IP's isn't gonna be easy though :)

cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] web-based photo albums

[Rob B]

At 09:26 1/11/2002 +1100, Michael Lake sent this up the stick:


On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 05:41  PM, Kevin Waterson wrote:
> You will need a late version browser to render the
> CSS correctly. With Older browser ymmv.
> I have it up with some sample images at
> http://www.wildcherry.com.au

Some browser feedback for you.
MS Explorer 5.2 on Mac OSX just shows a black page with no links or
anything and thats a late model browser.
Mozilla 1.2b on Mac OSX works fine.


More browser feedback:
Opera 6.05 on WinNT renders the menu on the top right (IE 6 shows it on the 
top left) and shows all thumbnails in a row along the top of the page.

Page loads fast on a dialup connection tho.


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[SLUG] web-based photo albums

[Rob B]

Hi Sluggers,

I am about to set up a web-based photo album for my family, and I wonder if 
y'all have any experience with them.

There are a few must-haves:

- no database, images should be stored as files
- web-upload would be real nice

So far, I am looking closely at Gallery 
(http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php) and yappa 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/yappa/), but I was wondering if anyone has 
used something else.

Cheers,
Rob

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[SLUG] traffic shaping

[Rob B]

I have a traffic shaping script (wondershaper from lartc.org) that I want 
to run automagically.

Where would the best place for it be - in the dhclient-enter-hooks script, 
or somewhere else?  All I'll be doing is calling a small bash script that 
loads the shaper script.

cheers,
Rob

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Re: [SLUG] Encouraging General 'ftp' to 'ssh' Migration?

[Rob B]

At 11:30 20/09/2002 +1000, David sent this up the stick:

>what windows clients do folks recommend for rsync/SSH, or sftp connecting
>winXX to a linux server.
>
>Personally, I am happily windows-free, but I can't see any obvious
>rsync/sftp/gui windows client for my command-line-challenged colleagues.
>
>I've looked briefly at PuTTY sftp and it works fine, but the version I was
>looking at was totally command line. Did I miss something?


www.shaolinsecureftp.com could be a go - never managed to get it working 
properly under WinNT tho 

cheers,
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[SLUG] how do I force user to change password on first login

[Rob B]

How can I add a user, and have them forced to change their password on 
first logon?  This will be on Deb 3.0

On my *BSD boxen I have a file called "change"

#!/bin/sh
if /usr/bin/passwd
then
   /usr/bin/chpass -s /bin/ksh
   exec /usr/local/bin/bash --login
fi

This is put into /etc/shells (making it a valid shell) and the user made to 
have this script as a shell.

Will this work on Debian, or is there a way to make PAM do what I want?

cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] cacti .deb problem

[Rob B]

At 19:19 9/09/2002 +1000, evilbunny sent this up the stick:
>dpkg-reconfigure debconf
>
>you need to specify a lower setting so dpkg prompt you for MySQL
>settings, had the same problem with mozilla, i reset debconf to
>
>dialog and medium...
>
>Monday, September 9, 2002, 7:21:15 PM, you wrote:
>
>RB> OK - here's one for the debian gurus:
>
>RB> bunbun:/var/lib/mysql/mysql$ sudo apt-get install cacti
>RB> Password:
>RB> Reading Package Lists... Done
>RB> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>RB> Sorry, cacti is already the newest version.
>RB> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
>RB> 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
>RB> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
>RB> Setting up cacti (0.6.7-2) ...
>RB> ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'loop@localhost' (Using password: YES)
>RB> ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'loop@localhost' (Using password: YES)
>RB> dpkg: error processing cacti (--configure):
>RB>   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>RB> Errors were encountered while processing:
>RB>   cacti
>
>RB> I have tried purging all dependencies of cacti (including all mysql 
>stuff)
>RB> but this error keeps popping up. It seems to me that the cacti configure
>RB> script seems to think that it's username should be loop - but the mysql
>RB> server doesn't know of a user by that name.

Well after the security update of cacti, I am still stuck with cacti 
half-installed and unable to remove it:

bunbun:~# dpkg -P cacti
(Reading database ... 29204 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing cacti ...
Purging configuration files for cacti ...
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'loop@localhost' (Using password: YES)
dpkg: error processing cacti (--purge):
  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  cacti

I have purged the mysql-server stuff and removed the databases (I selected 
this option when installing mysql-server) and re-installed all the cacti 
and mysql-server dependencies but I'm still getting the same error.

Help!!

Rob



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[SLUG] cacti .deb problem

[Rob B]

OK - here's one for the debian gurus:

bunbun:/var/lib/mysql/mysql$ sudo apt-get install cacti
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, cacti is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up cacti (0.6.7-2) ...
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'loop@localhost' (Using password: YES)
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'loop@localhost' (Using password: YES)
dpkg: error processing cacti (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  cacti

I have tried purging all dependencies of cacti (including all mysql stuff) 
but this error keeps popping up. It seems to me that the cacti configure 
script seems to think that it's username should be loop - but the mysql 
server doesn't know of a user by that name.

Does anyone have any ideas?

cheers,
rob

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Re: [SLUG] Network speed testing

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:57 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Network speed testing


> I used to have a program running under linux which wasa little like
> traceroute except that instead of just showing all the hops from one point
> to another it somehow tested and displayed the speed of each hop.
>
> I have been googling without success.
>
> Can anyone remember the name of such a tool.

There's bing (stochastic bandwidth measuremetn tool), and mtr (Matt's Trace
Route) for starters

Find 'em on freshmeat.net

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Fwd: help needed please

[Rob B]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:21:52 +1000, Martin sprayed into the ether:
>$author = "Nathan McKinlay" ;
>>
>>1) no libmmll wasn't install. However I was unable to install it:
>>
>>webster:/# apt-cache show libmmll W: Unable to locate package
>>libmmll webster:/# apt-get install libmmll Reading Package Lists...
>>Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package
>>libmmll
>
>--
># apt-cache search libmm libmm11 - Shared memory library libmm11-dev
>- Shared memory library - development
>--
>
>those weren't Ls, they were ones... :)
>
>
>>2) the php4.ini file that I found was in /etc/php4/apache/php4.ini
>>when I looked inside it - it had nothing in it at all.
>
>it most definately should not be empty.
>
>
>>3) Should Istill try this option?
>
>try installing libmm11 first.
>
>
>>4) not sure how to do that
dpkg -l | grep libmm will show the following if it is installed:

bunbun:~$ dpkg -l |grep libmm
ii  libmm111.1.3-6.1  Shared memory library

so it is installed on my machine.  I'm having trouble with php/apache
and cacti at the moment, so I'm following this thread closely :)

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] rdate

[Rob B]

At 07:42 12/08/2002 +0930, David Fitch sent this up the stick:
>On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 21:14, Simon Bryan wrote:
> > Is there a time server in Oz that I can simply run rdate -s against? I keep
> > getting connection refused on the ones I find on Google, yet it worked on
> > one in the States :-(
>
>I use ntp against ntp.csiro.au

tsk tsk - shouldn't sync off a stratum 1 time server.

Check out http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm for the info.

Cheers,
Rob


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Re: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

[Rob B]

At 17:21 1/08/2002, Peter Rundle sent this up the stick:

>Ok I suspect that you are droping the returning packets from
>the server you are trying to telnet to, I.E the telnet packet
>goes out but the reply packet is being dropped. Try setting the
>input policy to accept for 30 secs and see if it works, if so
>then set it back to drop and add
>
>   iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
>
>To your fireall.
>
>Alternatively with a policy of drop for outbound packets you
>might be dropping the outbound telnet packet. I haven't trawled
>through them trying to match rules to your destination host. If
>the above doesn't work, try changing the outbound policy for 30
>secs and see if that fixes it, then add the appropriate rule.

Surely if this were the case then nothing would be working from the 
firewall - the odd thing is that I can use lynx from the firewall without a 
problem.  I'll try your suggestion in any case.

Thanks,
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Re: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

[Rob B]

At 16:57 1/08/2002, Tim White sent this up the stick:
> > Like I said, the traceroutes are identical, but here is the route infor
>and
> > iptables listing from the machine in question:
>
>Could you also do
>iptables -L -v
>iptables -L -v -t nat
>iptables -L -v -t mangle
>
>These will show more detail as well as the rules in the nat and mangle
>tables too.

bunbun:~# iptables -L -v
Chain INPUT (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes)
  pkts bytes target prot opt 
in out source   destination
  1372  121K 
ipac_inall  --  anyany anywhere anywhere
37  2892 
ACCEPT all  --  lo any anywhere anywhere
 0 0 
LOGall  --  !loany 127.0.0.0/8  anywhere 
LOG level warning
 0 0 
DROP   all  --  !loany 127.0.0.0/8  anywhere
 0 0 
ACCEPT all  --  eth1   any anywhere 255.255.255.255
   245 12696 
ACCEPT all  --  eth1   any INSIDE/24anywhere
 0 0 
ACCEPT!tcp  --  eth1   any anywhere 
BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST.NET/4
 0 0 
LOGall  --  eth0   any INSIDE/24anywhere 
LOG level warning
 0 0 
DROP   all  --  eth0   any INSIDE/24anywhere
 0 0 
ACCEPT all  --  eth0   any anywhere 255.255.255.255
  1071  105K 
ACCEPT all  --  eth0   any anywhere 
CPE-144-132-154-148.nsw.bigpond.net.au
 0 0 
ACCEPT all  --  eth0   any anywhere 
CPE-144-132-159-255.nsw.bigpond.net.au
34  1088 
LOGall  --  anyany anywhere anywhere 
LOG level warning
34  1088 
DROP   all  --  anyany anywhere anywhere

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes)
  pkts bytes target prot opt 
in out source   destination
 0 0 
ipac_inall  --  anyany anywhere anywhere
 0 0 
ipac_out   all  --  anyany anywhere anywhere
 0 0 
ACCEPT all  --  eth1   eth0INSIDE/24anywhere
 0 0 
ACCEPT all  --  eth0   eth1anywhere INSIDE/24
 0 0 
LOGall  --  anyeth0anywhere INSIDE/24 
LOG level warning
 0 0 
DROP   all  --  anyeth0anywhere INSIDE/24
 0 0 
LOGall  --  anyany anywhere anywhere 
LOG level warning
 0 0 
DROP   all  --  anyany anywhere anywhere

Chain OUTPUT (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes)
  pkts bytes target prot opt 
in out source   destination
  1579  109K 
ipac_out   all  --  anyany anywhere anywhere
37  2892 
ACCEPT all  --  anylo  anywhere anywhere
 0 0 
ACCEPT all  --  anyeth1anywhere 255.255.255.255
   305 19544 
ACCEPT all  --  anyeth1anywhere INSIDE/24
 0 0 
ACCEPT!tcp  --  anyeth1anywhere 
BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST.NET/4
 0 0 
LOGall  --  anyeth0anywhere INSIDE/24 
LOG level warning
 0 0 
DROP   all  --  anyeth0anywhere INSIDE/24
 0 0 
ACCEPT all  --  anyeth0anywhere 255.255.255.255
  1226 82709 
ACCEPT all  --  anyeth0CPE-144-132-154-148.nsw.bigpond.net.au 
anywhere
 0 0 
ACCEPT all  --  anyeth0CPE-144-132-159-255.nsw.bigpond.net.au 
anywhere
30  4734 
LOGall  --  anyany anywhere anywhere 
LOG level warning
30  4734 
DROP   all  --  anyany anywhere anywhere

Chain ipac_in (2 references)
  pkts bytes target prot opt 
in out source   destination
89  7930all  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere
 0 0tcp  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere   tcp dpt:ftp-data
 0 0tcp  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere   tcp dpt:ftp
52  3896tcp  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere   tcp dpt:ssh
 0 0tcp  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere   tcp dpt:telnet
 0 0tcp  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere   tcp dpt:smtp
 0 0tcp  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere   tcp dpt:domain
 0 0udp  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere   udp dpt:domain
 0 0tcp  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere   tcp dpt:www
 0 0tcp  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere   tcp dpt:pop3
 0 0tcp  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere   tcp dpts:netbios-ns:netbios-ssn
 0 0udp  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere   udp dpts:netbios-ns:netbios-ssn
 0 0tcp  --  anyany anywhere 
anywhere

Re: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

[Rob B]

At 16:32 1/08/2002, Martin sent this up the stick:
>what he means is that a machine can be setup to NAT for the network behind
>it but not pass out any traffic for the localhost.

no, all traffic works fine to and from the box doing the NAT, just can't 
get to the news server


>so it would be helpful to know:
>
>- what major version of the kernel are you using?

2.4.18

>- ipchains or iptables?

iptables

>- what NAT rules are you using?

see previous post

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

[Rob B]

At 16:19 1/08/2002, Peter Rundle sent this up the stick:
>>Doubt it, it get's it's DNS from the NAT machine.  The windows machine 
>>works, the linux box doing the NAT doesn't.
>
>your route and iptables listings would really help us help you
>with the debugging.

Like I said, the traceroutes are identical, but here is the route infor and 
iptables listing from the machine in question:

Thanks,
Rob

bunbun:~# route -vF
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags   Metric 
RefUse Iface
10.0.0.0*   255.255.255.0   U 
   0  0   0  eth1
144.132.152.0 *255.255.248.0   U 0  0  0  eth0
default CPE-144-132-152 0.0.0.0 UG   0 
0  0   eth0

bunbun:~# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source   destination
ipac_inall  --  anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere anywhere
LOGall  --  127.0.0.0/8  anywhere   LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  127.0.0.0/8  anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere 255.255.255.255
ACCEPT all  --  INSIDE/24anywhere
ACCEPT!tcp  --  anywhere BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST.NET/4
LOGall  --  INSIDE/24anywhere   LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  INSIDE/24anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere 255.255.255.255
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere CPE-144-132-154-148.nsw.bigpond.net.au
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere CPE-144-132-159-255.nsw.bigpond.net.au
LOGall  --  anywhere anywhere   LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  anywhere anywhere

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target prot opt source   destination
ipac_inall  --  anywhere anywhere
ipac_out   all  --  anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  INSIDE/24anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere INSIDE/24
LOGall  --  anywhere INSIDE/24  LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  anywhere INSIDE/24
LOGall  --  anywhere anywhere   LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  anywhere anywhere

Chain OUTPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source   destination
ipac_out   all  --  anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere 255.255.255.255
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere INSIDE/24
ACCEPT!tcp  --  anywhere BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST.NET/4
LOGall  --  anywhere INSIDE/24  LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  anywhere INSIDE/24
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere 255.255.255.255
ACCEPT all  --  CPE-144-132-154-148.nsw.bigpond.net.au  anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  CPE-144-132-159-255.nsw.bigpond.net.au  anywhere
LOGall  --  anywhere anywhere   LOG level warning
DROP   all  --  anywhere anywhere

Chain ipac_in (2 references)
target prot opt source   destination
all  --  anywhere anywhere
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp dpt:ftp-data
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp dpt:ftp
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp dpt:ssh
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp dpt:telnet
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp dpt:smtp
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp dpt:domain
udp  --  anywhere anywhere   udp dpt:domain
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp dpt:www
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp dpt:pop3
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp 
dpts:netbios-ns:netbios-ssn
udp  --  anywhere anywhere   udp 
dpts:netbios-ns:netbios-ssn
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp dpt:https
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp spt:ftp-data
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp spt:ftp
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp spt:ssh
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp spt:telnet
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp spt:smtp
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp spt:domain
udp  --  anywhere anywhere   udp spt:domain
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp spt:www
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp spt:pop3
tcp  --  anywhere anywhere   tcp 
spts:netbios-ns:netbios-ssn
udp  --  anywhere 

Re: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

[Rob B]

At 15:48 1/08/2002, Tim White sent this up the stick:
>Firewall rules?

To tell the truth, there are none

>Maybe you are NATing forwarded traffic only?

Don't think that this could happen as the box doing the NAt has only one IP 
address, and this is what all traffic is NAT-ed to.

>What about a tcpdump of the external interface of the NATting box?

Could try that,

Cheers,
Rob

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>From: "Rob B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:35 PM
>Subject: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...
>
>
> > Apologies for the incomplete mail, my email client went awry -
> >
> > I have a problem with the routing table - or something - on my gateway
>box:
> >
> > My linux box NATs for the 10.0.0.0/24 network.  From inside that network
> > (on a WinXP box) I can get to the Bigpond cable news-server:

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Re: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

[Rob B]

At 15:43 1/08/2002, Ben de Luca sent this up the stick:
>the dns server on your windows machine is set wrong, check /etc/resolv.conf
>on your nat box for one to use

Doubt it, it get's it's DNS from the NAT machine.  The windows machine 
works, the linux box doing the NAT doesn't.

cheers,
Rob

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>From: "Rob B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:35 PM
>Subject: [SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...
>
> > I have a problem with the routing table - or something - on my gateway
>box:
> >
> > My linux box NATs for the 10.0.0.0/24 network.  From inside that network
> > (on a WinXP box) I can get to the Bigpond cable news-server:
> >
> > C:\>nslookup news-server.bigpond.net.au
> > *** Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.1: Non-existent domain
> > *** Default servers are not available
> > Server:  UnKnown
> > Address:  10.0.0.1
> >
> > Non-authoritative answer:
> > Name:mec2.bigpond.net.au
> > Address:  61.9.128.12
> > Aliases:  news-server.bigpond.net.au
> >
> > C:\>telnet news-server.bigpond.net.au 119
> >
> > 200 Welcome to BigPond Advance -- http://www.bigpond.net.au (Typhoon
>v1.2.2)
> > quit
> > 205 GoodBye
> >
> > Connection to host lost.
> > C:\>
> >
> >  From the box that NATs:
> >
> > bunbun:~# nslookup
> >  > server
> > Default server: 61.9.192.14
> > Address: 61.9.192.14#53
> > Default server: 61.9.192.15
> > Address: 61.9.192.15#53
> > Default server: 61.9.128.15
> > Address: 61.9.128.15#53
> > Default server: 61.9.192.16
> > Address: 61.9.192.16#53
> >
> >  > news-server.bigpond.net.au
> > Server: 61.9.192.14
> > Address:61.9.192.14#53
> >
> > Non-authoritative answer:
> > Name:   news-server.bigpond.net.au
> > Address: 61.9.128.12
> >
> >
> > bunbun:~# telnet news-server.bigpond.net.au 119
> > Trying 61.9.128.12...
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out
> >
> > As you can see, the IP that both boxes are connecting to is the same, and
> > the traceroutes from both boxes are identical (apart from the extra hop
>for
> > the box that is being NATed)

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[SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

[Rob B]

Apologies for the incomplete mail, my email client went awry -

I have a problem with the routing table - or something - on my gateway box:

My linux box NATs for the 10.0.0.0/24 network.  From inside that network 
(on a WinXP box) I can get to the Bigpond cable news-server:

C:\>nslookup news-server.bigpond.net.au
*** Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.1: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  10.0.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:mec2.bigpond.net.au
Address:  61.9.128.12
Aliases:  news-server.bigpond.net.au

C:\>telnet news-server.bigpond.net.au 119

200 Welcome to BigPond Advance -- http://www.bigpond.net.au (Typhoon v1.2.2)
quit
205 GoodBye

Connection to host lost.
C:\>

 From the box that NATs:

bunbun:~# nslookup
 > server
Default server: 61.9.192.14
Address: 61.9.192.14#53
Default server: 61.9.192.15
Address: 61.9.192.15#53
Default server: 61.9.128.15
Address: 61.9.128.15#53
Default server: 61.9.192.16
Address: 61.9.192.16#53

 > news-server.bigpond.net.au
Server: 61.9.192.14
Address:61.9.192.14#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   news-server.bigpond.net.au
Address: 61.9.128.12


bunbun:~# telnet news-server.bigpond.net.au 119
Trying 61.9.128.12...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

As you can see, the IP that both boxes are connecting to is the same, and 
the traceroutes from both boxes are identical (apart from the extra hop for 
the box that is being NATed)

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Rob

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[SLUG] The routing problem that shouldn't be ...

[Rob B]

I have a problem with the routing table on my gateway box:

My linux box masquerades for the 10.0.0.0/24 network.  From inside that 
network (on a WinXP box) I can get to the Bigpond cable news-server:

C:\>nslookup news-server.bigpond.net.au
*** Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.1: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  10.0.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:mec2.bigpond.net.au
Address:  61.9.128.12
Aliases:  news-server.bigpond.net.au

C:\>telnet news-server.bigpond.net.au 119

200 Welcome to BigPond Advance -- http://www.bigpond.net.au (Typhoon v1.2.2)
quit
205 GoodBye

Connection to host lost.
C:\>

 From the box that masquerades, however:

bunbun:~# nslookup
 > server
Default server: 61.9.192.14
Address: 61.9.192.14#53
Default server: 61.9.192.15
Address: 61.9.192.15#53
Default server: 61.9.128.15
Address: 61.9.128.15#53
Default server: 61.9.192.16
Address: 61.9.192.16#53

 > news-server.bigpond.net.au
Server: 61.9.192.14
Address:61.9.192.14#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   news-server.bigpond.net.au
Address: 61.9.128.12

 > server 10.0.0.1
Default server: 10.0.0.1
Address: 10.0.0.1#53
 > news-server.bigpond.net.au
Server: 10.0.0.1
Address:10.0.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
news-server.bigpond.net.au  canonical name = mec2.bigpond.net.au.
Name:   mec2.bigpond.net.au
Address: 61.9.128.12

bunbun:~# telnet news-server.bigpond.net.au 119
Trying 61.9.128.12...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

All the IP addressing looks the same

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Re: [SLUG] OT - Remote display of Win2000 App through Internet

[Rob B]

At 13:01 17/07/2002, Richard Hayes sent this up the stick:
>I apologize for being off topic but I am asking for advise on exporting the
>display of Win2K box through the Internet preferably.
>
>I have an application running on a headless box and want to run it remotely,
>should I use any or all of these VNC, X Windows, PC Anywhere something else?
>
>What are the advantages / disadvantages?

I use VNC tunnelled through an SSH session for security, as I have a Linux 
box on the network as well.

VNC can only have one session active at any one time, unlike X - so even if 
you set it to use a shared session, you are all interacting with the one 
desktop.

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Re: [SLUG] Using the bios to boot a diskless client

[Rob B]

At 14:54 5/06/2002, Richard Hayes sent this up the stick:
>Has oneone used the bios of a pc to boot using GRUB / PXE or anything else
>without having a bootprom in the network card?
>
>I want to have a 'bog standand' pc without any disk and to be able to boot
>from the server.
>
>There is a program called something like 'system image' but I can not find
>it.
>Any clues / pointers would be helpful

If the PC BIOS doesn't support netbooting (ie: built-in network port) then 
you need either:
- The network card to have a bootprom on it
OR
- a floppy drive with a boot image to load into memory, so the system can 
start sucking down an OS

There was a webpage (http://rom-o-matic.net/ ) that built a boot-image via 
some dropdown menus.

Check the pages at www.etherboot.org , 
http://netboot.sourceforge.net/  and  http://www.thinguin.org/

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Re: [SLUG] b0rked system

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: "Rob B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] b0rked system


> - Original Message -
> From: "Jan Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] b0rked system
>
> > 
> >
> > > I then ran tune2fs -j /dev/sda1 through 4 to add the journal, and
> changed
> > > /etc/fstab to make the drives mount ext3 at boot.  Before rebooting, I
> > > re-made the kernel package with some network settings I had forgotten
> > > (didn't remove any config)and installed it, and rebooted - following
the
> > > default questions re lilo all the way.  Now the drives aren't being
> mounted
> > > at all.  I can boot into tomsrtbt rescue disk and mount the drive fine
> to do
> > > an fsck on it, but once I boot back into Debian the problem remains.
> >
> > Well, it sounds like your new kernel can't mount ext3 drives, or is it
> that
> > you've left out SCSI support?
>
> I thought so as well, but both the controller and the disks are detected.
I
> also checked the .config file and both the correct SCSI devices and ext3
are
> included in it.
>
> > First I would try booting from the emergency disk, mount the root
> partition
> > and modify /etc/fstab back to ext2 again. ext3 partitions are backwards
> > compatible and will load as ext2.
> >
> > If that doesn't work, I would next try using the emergency disk to boot
> the
> > root system you already have by giving the lilo prompt on the emergency
> disk
> > a boot command like:
> >
> > boot> linux root=/dev/sda1
>
> Since my emergency disk decided to cark it, I tried booting from the Deb
> rescue disk, this worked OK, but hammered me with module dependency
problems
> due to it being kernel 2.2.20, and I have no 2.2.20 modules.dep file.  I
> will try again with the rescue disk from the bf2.4 directory tonight.

Booted successfully with the bf2.4 rescue disk and was able to repair lilo.
I think, (not sure yet) that the issue was caused by the inclusion of the
devfs filesystem, and not reading the docs :)  I have removed devfs (not
game enough to try it ... dunno why I put it in there)  I'm recompiling now
and will check it out later.

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] b0rked system

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: "Jan Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] b0rked system


> 
>
> > I then ran tune2fs -j /dev/sda1 through 4 to add the journal, and
changed
> > /etc/fstab to make the drives mount ext3 at boot.  Before rebooting, I
> > re-made the kernel package with some network settings I had forgotten
> > (didn't remove any config)and installed it, and rebooted - following the
> > default questions re lilo all the way.  Now the drives aren't being
mounted
> > at all.  I can boot into tomsrtbt rescue disk and mount the drive fine
to do
> > an fsck on it, but once I boot back into Debian the problem remains.
>
> Well, it sounds like your new kernel can't mount ext3 drives, or is it
that
> you've left out SCSI support?

I thought so as well, but both the controller and the disks are detected.  I
also checked the .config file and both the correct SCSI devices and ext3 are
included in it.

> First I would try booting from the emergency disk, mount the root
partition
> and modify /etc/fstab back to ext2 again. ext3 partitions are backwards
> compatible and will load as ext2.
>
> If that doesn't work, I would next try using the emergency disk to boot
the
> root system you already have by giving the lilo prompt on the emergency
disk
> a boot command like:
>
> boot> linux root=/dev/sda1

Since my emergency disk decided to cark it, I tried booting from the Deb
rescue disk, this worked OK, but hammered me with module dependency problems
due to it being kernel 2.2.20, and I have no 2.2.20 modules.dep file.  I
will try again with the rescue disk from the bf2.4 directory tonight.

Thanks for the help,
Rob

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[SLUG] b0rked system

[Rob B]

Hi all,

I'm in a bit of a pickle at the moment - I compiled a new kernel package
using make-kpkg for my Debian Woody box, going from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18, with
the pre-emptive patch and ext3 support.  lilo was updated and all went well
and rebooted fine.

I then ran tune2fs -j /dev/sda1 through 4 to add the journal, and changed
/etc/fstab to make the drives mount ext3 at boot.  Before rebooting, I
re-made the kernel package with some network settings I had forgotten
(didn't remove any config)and installed it, and rebooted - following the
default questions re lilo all the way.  Now the drives aren't being mounted
at all.  I can boot into tomsrtbt rescue disk and mount the drive fine to do
an fsck on it, but once I boot back into Debian the problem remains.

Another (related I'm sure) issue is the fact that lilo has no option to boot
the old kernel, and I can't re-run lilo from the rescue disk.  The FAQ for
Toms disk says to mount the existing hard drive as /mnt (no problem there),
and then do chroot /mnt /sbin lilo - but when I try and run lilo to repair
the MBR, the damn thing complains that it can't find lilo.real (which is
also in /mnt/sbin)

TIA,
Rob

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Re: [SLUG] Re: Couple of Q's for the educated.

[Rob B]

At 12:46 23/05/2002, Angus Lees sent this up the stick:
> > No2. Scanning inbound mail.
> >
> > I _think_ I vaguely remember discussion on this before, but does anyone
> > know a product for Linux which will scan inbound mail attachments as
> > they're spooled for virus', and delete the offending files if they are
> > detected? MTA is sendmail, and whatever local delivery agent comes with RH
> > 7.2. A pointer to a thread in the archives will do for those who don;t
> > wish to raise the discussion again.
>
>packages.debian.org search engine looks like a good starting point:
>
>a search for "virus":
>
> 
>http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=virus&searchon=all&subword=1&version=unstable&release=all

Amavis is fast, and can be used with bot Sendmail and Postfix, you will 
need a virus scanner engine though.  I've heard good reports about Dr. Web, 
RAV and Sophos Sweep.

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Distributed file system...

[Rob B]

At 15:36 17/05/2002, Gareth Walters sent this up the stick:
>G'day all,
>
>I happen to have a small cluster of a few machines that are used for
>testing, they boot from a floppy and mount root via NFS.
>
>I am now allowed to use their hard disks, I was wondering if there is a way
>I can turn the disks into some kind
>of distributed network attached storage so users can access it as one large
>temporary disk (don't care if its slow).
>
>I have had a bit of a search and a look around on the 'net but don't see
>anyway of doing this, yet.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas how I might go about it?

I think OpenAFS could do this, but don't quote me :)

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Distributed email idea - opinions?

[Rob B]

At 06:46 16/05/2002, Ben Buxton sent this up the stick:

> > If this can include an encryption/pgp hook, this may reduce/remove the
> > problem in both transmission interception and who reads it.
>
>If you're worried about that, then perhaps IPSec might do
>the trick. But I'm guessing the NNTP server could easily encrypt
>messages across the pipe.

Spose you could also use stunnel for this.

Rob


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Re: [SLUG] hello

[Rob B]

At 18:14 15/05/2002, will hone sent this up the stick:



WTF??

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Re: [SLUG] Problems with Telstra Cable that have been happening over the last 3 days

[Rob B]

At 14:48 7/05/2002, Matt Hyne sent this up the stick:

>Do Telstra still use this ugly heartbeat - thought they were going to 
>scrap it because it stops people using VPN software.

Yup, they still use it.

What VPN software does it stop?

Rob

>At Sunday, 05-05-02 09:20 (+1000), Paul Robinson wrote:
>>Hi Sluggers,
>> I was wondering if anyone else has been having trouble connecting to 
>> Bigpond cable lately. Since about Thursday I've barely been able to 
>> connect. I'm running RedHat 7.1 with the default kernel and I've had 
>> cable working since January with the service being down only a couple of 
>> times during that time and each of those times I've been able to check 
>> the web and see that there was a problem with the network.
>

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Re: [SLUG] ozemail ISP dial up connection

[Rob B]

At 15:04 27/03/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this up the stick:
>Quoting Ken Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Hi the friendly people at ozemail telephone help, went "Linux , we aren't
> > taught about that, bye," or was it 'buy'.
> > I have red hat 7.2 linux just installed, modem establishes connection via
> > internet dialer kppp and KDE and kmail but doesnt initiate ppp.
> > Dialling Sydney ozemail 82109011.
>
>Typical bloody Ozemail
>
>Are you using wvdial or diald ?  Assuming they still use something vaguely 
>sane
>for login, and PAP/CHAP, then you shouldn't have too much problem.

Yes, they are still using very sane, plain old PAP logins.  If it makes a 
difference, the calls terminate on Ascend (Lucent) TNT's.

Disclaimer - I worked for OzEmail directly once, have since moved up in the 
world.  Linux is not supported since even your average call centre churn 
makes training costs prohibitive.  I have also never used Linux to initiate 
a dialup to OzEmail, although that may happen soon enough.

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] size mismatch when apt-getting

[Rob B]

At 10:39 15/03/2002, Anand Kumria sent this up the stick:
>On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:08:50PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:43:42PM +1030, David Fitch wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 04:41, Mike Lake wrote:
> > > > Failed to fetch 
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/pool/main/l/logcheck/logtail_1.1.1-13.1_all.deb 
> Size mismatch
> > > > How does one get around this?
> > >
> > > I've had problems before with mirror.aarnet to do with wrong checksums
> > > and this size mismatch error, I presumed it was the mirror being in the
> > > process of updating or something but... you had the same problem with
> > > the us.debian site so it's probably not related.
> > >
> > > When I had that size mismatch error it was trying to dist-upgrade to a
> > > version of woody on a cd, I just assumed it was some dud packages on the
> > > cd and changed the sources.list to the web instead and it worked ok.
> > > You've already tried that so sorry probably not much help.
> >
> > Honestly, the best thing I can suggest is not to use mirror.aarnet. It's
> > been stuffed for quite some time, and I don't think it fully recovered.
> > Planetmirror works best for me, and there's also Monash and many other
> > Australian mirrors. Use them. :)
>
>mirror.aarnet.edu.au and planetmirror.com are maintained by the same group
>of people. So if one is broken, both are. If you do find one or the other
>broken (and it isn't a proxy), since they can't monitor everything, it
>always helps to report the problem.
>
>The problem arises because none, as far as I know, of the .au mirrors are
>being "pushed" when updates happen on the main debian. This means they poll
>the site regularly and sometimes you might download either the Packages files
>or the .deb in the middle of being updated.
>
>Typically you can recover from this by:
> - deleting the (partial) .deb from /var/cache/apt/archive (or
> where it is loacted)
> - perform: $ apt-get update
> - try again.
>
>These kinds of problems tend to also be compounded by having proxies in
>the middle (the proxy caches the incorrect response) so if you can bypass
>the proxy that might also help.
>
>Anand

mirror.pacific.net.au works well enough for me

Rob


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Re: [SLUG] Modem

[Rob B]

At 10:16 13/03/2002, DaZZa sent this up the stick:
>The only _real_ modems left on the planet are the USR's. Preferably the
>V-Everything Courier's, but the lower models aren't bad either.


You tried getting "firmware" for these things of late?  Nigh on 
impossible.  The only thing that you can upgrade is the driver.  Very sucky 
from a once fabulous modem manufacturer.

The markets (here we go...) usually have Netcomm Roadster 2's floating 
around.  I saw them just last month.

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Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: "Jamie Wilkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build


> This one time, at band camp, Rob B wrote:
> >bugger ... this looks like one for the "too hard" basket ... I'm not that
> >confident :)
>
> Nah, just a bit more effort.  Look in debian/control for the
Build-Depends:
> line, that's what you'll need installed to build the package.  You will
have
> to backport debhelper from woody or sid in order to build it, so do that
> first.

This could get messy, as debhelper in testing depends on lots of other
things in testing, and I would be better off upgrading to Testing, which I'm
not real keen on at this point (machine is running too well :)

I might try statically linking the package on a Testing machine, damn shame
that one is an Alpha, so I'll have to learn how to cross-compile AND
statically link a package.

Any advice?

Rob

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Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: "Jamie Wilkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build


> This one time, at band camp, Rob B wrote:
> >$ apt-get --version
> >apt 0.3.19 for i386 compiled on May 12 2000  21:17:27
>
> Eek, are you backporting to potato?

Erm, yeah ... the apcupsd port in potato doesn't do all the "pretty" things
(like logging and graphs), so I figured it would be OK to pull the source
package down from Testing and try to build it.

> >make: dh_installlogrotate: Command not found
>
> I expect you'll need a later version of debhelper, too.  I'm surprised
> dpkg-buildpackage didn't complain that you didn't have the build
> dependencies installed, but that might be because older dpkgs didn't check
> that.

bugger ... this looks like one for the "too hard" basket ... I'm not that
confident :)

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build

[Rob B]

At 23:02 28/02/2002, Jamie Wilkinson sent this up the stick:
>This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> >
> >
> >8< snip 8<
> >
> >Here we have an attempt to run autoconf, which fails...
> >
> >> # Add here commands to compile the package.
> >> autoconf -l autoconf autoconf/configure.in >configure
> >> /bin/sh: ./autoconf: is a directory
>
>Which suggests that you don't have autoconf installed.  You do have all the
>build-dependencies for this package installed?  You won't be able to build
>the package from source if you don't.
>
>apt-get build-dep $package

$ apt-get build-dep apcupsd
E: Invalid operation build-dep
$ apt-get --version
apt 0.3.19 for i386 compiled on May 12 2000  21:17:27

but.. autoconf wasn't installed (nothing has needed it until now). 
Installing it fixed the error, and as usual, another problem surfaces



# don't overwrite any existing config file
Installing multimon.conf...
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5/cgi'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5/distributions/debian'
apcupsd script installation on Debian GNU/Linux is only
supported via the debian package management system.

Obtain the contents of the debian/ directory needed to
build the package from:

http://packages.debian.org/apcupsd

Look for a file called apcupsd_.diff.gz and patch
it into the top level of your source tree.

Then from the top of your source tree you may use
dpkg-buildpackage to make test packages.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5/distributions/debian'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5'
install -m 0644 -g root -o root debian/apcupsd.conf 
`pwd`/debian/tmp/etc/apcupsd
install -m 0755 -g root -o root debian/apccontrol `pwd`/debian/tmp/etc/apcupsd
touch install-stamp
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_installdocs
dh_installexamples
dh_installmenu
dh_installlogrotate
make: dh_installlogrotate: Command not found
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 127


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Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build

[Rob B]

At 21:47 28/02/2002, Jeff Waugh sent this up the stick:
>
>
> > How do I fix the "utmp entry ("loop") does not match value of LOGNAME
> > ("root"); using "root" at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
> > " error? and if that gets fixed, will the next lot go away?
>
>Don't build packages as root - use the fakeroot tool. I recommend
>downloading the source and running dpkg-buildpackage manually. -rfakeroot
>will let you build as yourself, using fakeroot.

Thats what I have since found, I have a new error now :)


bunbun:~/apcupsd-3.8.1.5$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is apcupsd
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 3.8.1.5-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  fakeroot debian/rules clean DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 
DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
rm -f build-stamp install-stamp
# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
make realclean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `realclean'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5'
make: [clean] Error 2 (ignored)
dh_clean
  debian/rules build DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 
DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux
dh_testdir
# Add here commands to compile the package.
autoconf -l autoconf autoconf/configure.in >configure
/bin/sh: ./autoconf: is a directory
make: [build-stamp] Error 126 (ignored)
SHUTDOWN=/sbin/shutdown CFLAGS="-O2 -g -Wall" ./configure --prefix=/usr 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-powerflute 
--enable-cgi --sysconfdir=/etc/apcupsd 
--with-cgi-bin=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/apcupsd --with-catgets --with-pid-dir=/var/run
make
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5'
make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2

For some reason, there is no Makefile in the package (?)  Bug?

Thanks,
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[SLUG] Debian source package fails at build

[Rob B]

I'm trying to compile a source package from Debian testing on my Potato 
box.  Here is the error:


/home/loop# apt-get source apcupsd -b --no-download --ignore-missing
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 1525kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://debian.pacific.net.au testing/main apcupsd 3.8.1.5-1 (dsc) [642B]
Get:2 http://debian.pacific.net.au testing/main apcupsd 3.8.1.5-1 (tar) 
[1515kB]
Get:3 http://debian.pacific.net.au testing/main apcupsd 3.8.1.5-1 (diff) 
[9082B]
Fetched 3B in 0s (6B/s)
Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in apcupsd-3.8.1.5
utmp entry ("loop") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using "root" 
at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
utmp entry ("loop") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using "root" 
at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is apcupsd
utmp entry ("loop") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using "root" 
at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
utmp entry ("loop") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using "root" 
at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 3.8.1.5-1
utmp entry ("loop") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using "root" 
at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
utmp entry ("loop") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using "root" 
at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
utmp entry ("loop") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using "root" 
at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
  debian/rules clean DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 
DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
rm -f build-stamp install-stamp
# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
make realclean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `realclean'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5'
make: [clean] Error 2 (ignored)
dh_clean
  debian/rules build DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 
DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux
dh_testdir
# Add here commands to compile the package.
autoconf -l autoconf autoconf/configure.in >configure
/bin/sh: ./autoconf: is a directory
make: [build-stamp] Error 126 (ignored)
SHUTDOWN=/sbin/shutdown CFLAGS="-O2 -g -Wall" ./configure --prefix=/usr 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-powerflute 
--enable-cgi --sysconfdir=/etc/apcupsd 
--with-cgi-bin=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/apcupsd --with-catgets --with-pid-dir=/var/run
make
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5'
make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
Build command 'cd apcupsd-3.8.1.5 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed


How do I fix the "utmp entry ("loop") does not match value of LOGNAME 
("root"); using "root" at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
" error? and if that gets fixed, will the next lot go away?

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Re: [SLUG] freeswan kernel config

[Rob B]

At 16:53 27/02/2002, Simon Wong sent this up the stick:
>Afternoon!
>
>I just installed the kernel-patch-freeswan deb package and reading the
>README it says set PATCH_THE_KERNEL=yes and then:
>
> $fakeroot make-kpkg --config=menuconfig --revision=whatever
> kernel_image
>
>The thing is I can't find any options for the freeswan stuff!
>
>Can someone give me a hint on where it might be or isn't there anything
>I need to manually configure?

I went through this recently, and found it best to use something like:

$fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=whatever --added_patches=freeswan kernel_image

_without_ specifying PATCH_THE_KERNEL.

If you have already run menuconfig, it will carry on until it gets to the 
freeswan options, and then ask you for answers.

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Re: [SLUG] netboot Multia and install of Debian via nfs

[Rob B]

From: "Jamie Wilkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 12:50 AM


> This one time, at band camp, Rob B wrote:
> >I have downloaded the tftpboot.img file from the debian-stable archives
and
> >put it into the /tftpboot directory.  The Multia boots, downloads the
> >tftpboot.img file, and then resets itself back to the SRM prompt without
> >doing anything.
>
> I've noticed that, but I can't remember which image it was that kept
> resetting.  Try using the tftpboot.img in the testing/ tree, I think I
used
> that one most recently.

Yep, that boots fine, but halts at various stages, and I can't determine
why.  So, following Gus's howto, I tried building my own bootpable kernel.
Here is my latest problem:

:/tmpdir# mount -t msdos rescue.bin /tmp/fdimage -o loop
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
   or too many mounted file systems

man mount didn't enlighten me at all, do I need to edit /etc/fstab?

Thanks,
Rob


>
> >Once I get this happening, I'll work on having the root filesystem
mounted
> >via nfs :)
>
> For that, look at Gus' multia nfsroot howto, I think I link it from my
page.



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Re: [SLUG] fstab gone

[Rob B]

- Original Message - 
From: "Jeff Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] fstab gone


> 
> 
> > Getting something weird here ...
> > 
> > :/# mount / -o remount,rw
> > EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option 
> > EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option 
> > mount: / not mounted already, or bad option
> 
> Specify the device instead?

That worked, thanks Jeff

Rob

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Re: [SLUG] fstab gone

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: "Jeff Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] fstab gone


> 
>
> > I have managed to mount / but I an unable to correct /etc/fstab, since I
> > either appear unable to login as root, or the volume is mounted
read-only.
> >
> > What to do from here?  I have tried dropping to single user and editing
> > /etc/fstab there, but I still can't write to the file.
>
> If it's mounted read-only:
>
>   mount / -o remount,rw

Getting something weird here ...

:/# mount / -o remount,rw
EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option 
EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option 
mount: / not mounted already, or bad option

:/#

Thanks,
Rob

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[SLUG] fstab gone

[Rob B]

Somehow, I have managed to wipe out my /etc/fstab file.

I have managed to mount / but I an unable to correct /etc/fstab, since I
either appear unable to login as root, or the volume is mounted read-only.

What to do from here?  I have tried dropping to single user and editing
/etc/fstab there, but I still can't write to the file.

Cheers,
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[SLUG] netboot Multia and install of Debian via nfs

[Rob B]

Hey gang,

I have a bunch of Alpha's and a Multia (oh joy) that I am trying to get
going.

It is diskless (completely) and I think I have set up my server correctly.
The server rund Debian Woody (testing) and has tftpd, dhcp, nfsboot,
nfs-common and nfs-user-server packages.

I have downloaded the tftpboot.img file from the debian-stable archives and
put it into the /tftpboot directory.  The Multia boots, downloads the
tftpboot.img file, and then resets itself back to the SRM prompt without
doing anything.

After seeing the instructions at
http://spacepants.org/multia/debinstguide.html it looks to be simple, anyone
offer any info on why it's not turning out that way?

Once I get this happening, I'll work on having the root filesystem mounted
via nfs :)

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Silly Debian question

[Rob B]

At 23:26 18/01/2002, Steve Kowalik sent this up the stick:
>At  6:57 pm, Friday, January 18 2002, Rob B mumbled:
> > your /etc/apt/sources file.
> >
>I think you mean '/etc/apt/sources.list'
>Apt will happily ignore /etc/apt/sources.

True


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Re: [SLUG] Silly Debian question

[Rob B]

At 09:45 18/01/2002, Richard Hayes sent this up the stick:
>Dear lists,
>
>Last night I tried to install Woody on a system without either CDRom or
>networkcard.
>
>I have a number of floppies:  driver-1.bin,  driver-2.bin, driver-3.bin,
>driver-4.bin, root.bin and rescue.bin
>
>I can easily install the 6 disks but I can not find the other disk images to
>install a base systems on either the debian CD or ftp site.
>
>Do I need the eleven other disks and where are they?

There aren't any base- disks for Woody, only Potato.  Your best bet is to 
install Potato and apt-get update && dist-upgrade to Woody after fixing 
your /etc/apt/sources file.

Cheers,
Rob


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Re: [SLUG] ISP's AND INTERNET SOLUTIONS

[Rob B]

At 13:02 14/01/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this up the stick:

>Take a look at www.alwaysonline.net.au - pretty good deals to be had.

nice plug ;)


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Re: [SLUG] how to use kernel-package and patch kernel for xfs?

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: "John Ferlito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:57 PM


> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 07:12:59PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Nonono,
> >
> >   export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=yes
>
> I think it has to be export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=YES unfortunatley it's case
> sensitive.
>
> Also this will apply all patches  that have been installed, you can be
> selective if you want. I usually do.
>
> $ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=pants.1.0 --added_patches freeswan,mppe
configure
> this sets everything up and patches everything
>
> you can then
> $ make config|menuconfig|xconfig
> at your leisure
> and when your happy
> $ make-kpkg kernel_image

OK ... this is what I have so far ...

aylee:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14$ export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=YES
aylee:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14$ sudo
make-kpkg --revision=loop.1.0 --added_patches xfs configure
aylee:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14$ sudo make config

aylee:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14$ sudo make-kpkg kernel_image

make
CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14/include -Wall -Wstrict-
prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno
-common -pipe -mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8 -mcpu=ev4 -Wa,-mev6 " -C  kernel
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14/kernel'
make all_targets
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14/kernel'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target
`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14/include/linux/modversions.h', needed by
`sched.o'.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14/kernel'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14/kernel'
make[1]: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14'
make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2

Help?
Rob

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[SLUG] how to use kernel-package and patch kernel for xfs?

[Rob B]

Hi all,

I'm going to try a journalled filesystem on my Debian box, and I need some
assistance.

I'm running Woody (Testing) at the moment, and I have downloaded the kernel 
2.4.14
source and xfs-patch and installed it via apt.  I notice in the
kernel-package documentation, there is reference to patch_the_kernel, but
not a lot is explained about this option, such as where and how it is used.

Any pointers?

Cheers,
Rob

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Re: [SLUG] In Car MP3 Players

[Rob B]

At 14:56 11/12/2001, Kevin Saenz sent this up the stick:
>Hi all,
>
>I think I have a little too much time on my hands. :)
>I am considering the idea of building my own Linux
>in car Mp3 player. Before I do this I would like to
>find out if I can get some of the parts in Oz.
>Also I would appreciate it if anyone could point me in
>the right direction for the following
>A touch screen that is big enuf to fit into the dash,
>and runs X nicely.
>Power Transformer from 12 volts to computer voltage
>me thinks it's 5.5 volts or 3.5 ( I think that is only
>CPU.)

Transformer is not the best way due to the -ve rails that computers need, 
you would be best off with some sort of switchmode PSU.  To tell you the 
truth, you would almost be better off buying a empeg unit (now made by S3, 
I think) due to the costs of small components ... check www.empeg.com for 
details

Rob


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Re: [SLUG] [No Subject]

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: "Doctor Zhivago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



anybody knows what solutions the now-defunct elinux (elinux.com.sg) provides

If they are defunct ... most likely none

Rob
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Re: [SLUG] [No Subject]

[Rob B]

- Original Message -
From: "Doctor Zhivago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



anybody knows what solutions the now-defunct elinux (elinux.com.sg) provides

If they are defunct ... most likely none

Rob
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Re: [SLUG] Deleting jobs from postfix queue

[Rob B]

At 17:45 5/12/2001, you muttered something like:
>Hi people
>
>Just a quick one, which I coudn't work out after reading the man pages and 
>searching the linuxdoc.org site.
>
>How do I delete jobs from the postfix mailq
>I can see them there and am getting messages that they are being deffered 
>in sending.
>
>I can see the original jobs in /var/spool/mail/user and access them via 
>mutt or sylpheed but I can't find the ones it keeps trying to resend, I 
>don't where they are or how to delete/stop them.
>
>have tried postfix stop, postfix abort, postfix flush, postfix reload.
>mutt and sylpheed

Try postsuper

Rob


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[SLUG] duplex mode on eth interface

[Rob B]

Afternoon all,

How can I set the duplex mode on an ethernet card?  man ifconfig doesn't 
seem to mention anything.  The reason for this is I am getting a lot of 
collisions and by setting to 10/half explicitly, I hope to reduce the number.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re: [SLUG] OT: University

[Rob B]

At 10:12 21/11/2001, Terry Collins sent this up the stick:
> > 3 years industry experience often counts for a lot more than a degree
> > and you get paid while you gain it.
>
>If you want money, become a plumber - they earn more per lifetime than
>many jobs. The shortage of skilled tradepeople is only going to get
>worse.


... and they only need to know two things.

Sh*t runs downhill and payday is Thursday :)

Rob
-Licenced electrician, now installing and building VPN's for the largest 
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Re: [SLUG] time and date question

[Rob B]

At 15:49 2/11/2001, Jamie Wilkinson sent this up the stick:

>For both of you, check /etc/localtime is a symlink to
>/usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney (or your actual location, swap
>/usr/share for the location of zoneinfo on your system).  Also set your
>hardware clock to follow UTC.  This way the kernel can keep a track of all
>local time changes due to DST and so on.
>
>man hwclock

This is how the system has it, I did set hwclock to be UTC, but I'm still 
on EST rather than summer time

Rob


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[SLUG] time and date question

[Rob B]

I have Debian running nicely on a Sun Ultra5, but the time is out by an 
hour.  How can I adjust (using ntpd?) the time to show daylight savings time?

Cheers,
Rob

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[SLUG] From Debian Weekly News - October 30th, 2001

[Rob B]

For all the Deb-heads on the list (I know there are a few:) ... this was in 
todays Debian Weekly News:

>Linux Down Under. James Bromberger wrote in to tell us about a Debian
>Conference being planned for February 2002 in Australia. The
>conference will be February 4th and 5th, two days before the
>Linux.conf.au conference. For more information, or to read the Call
>for Papers, visit the site at
>[2]http://www.linux.org.au/conf/debiancon.html.

This years Linux.conf.au is to be held in Brisvegas

Cheers,
Rob


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