questions about software usage at schools, etc. was: [SLUG] Red Hat Slagging

2000-07-12 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:07:15AM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: To do this support and provide the services required we MUST run Windows based software, it makes up a huge % of the education market. We need to run systems that people are familiar with, that they use at home and elsewhere.

package management was: [SLUG] Red Hat Slagging

2000-07-12 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 09:42:04PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Alexander Else wrote: You might have had to learn something. At 18:12 12/07/2000 +1000, Peter Nelson wrote: I know this is very late in the conversation, but being newish to Linux and Unix I

Re: [SLUG] Priority of network traffic

2000-07-12 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:59:34AM +1000, George Vieira wrote: { no need to quote my entire message, I know what I wrote } Shaper does not work on a protocol level but on a link level so because he wants to prioritize protocols on the same link, Shaper won't do much for him except bandwidth

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG]kernel panic - security?

2000-07-09 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 06:34:51PM +1000, David wrote: I've had a series of these lately, and have put it down to a possible motherboard problem - its 4 years old and been in 24/7 use all that time. However, I wondered if maybe its something more sinister. The message is as follows:

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG]SAMBA NT

2000-07-09 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:22:45AM +1000, Bernhard Lüder wrote: Hi, I have a question for the samba specialist. I will keep it short. Situation: - Samba server should be domain master and should do authentication of all logins (all Win98 machines). This is working. - NT is the box

Re: [SLUG] OT : Windows 2000 Port Forwarding

2000-07-09 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 11:19:34PM +1000, Omar Kilani wrote: Hi, I know this is a bit off-topic, but I was just wondering if anyone knows It is *completely* off topic. how to get port forwarding running under Windows 2000 Professional. Your friendly Microsoft support centre would know.

[SLUG] IMP: mailing list changes

2000-07-07 Thread Anand Kumria
I've been working with Anthony Rumble on moving the mailing list over to the slug machine. We are almost there but today because of some configuration errors I made you may end up getting some email twice. This will probably affect you more if you were on the digest mailing list. There have

Re: [SLUG] Info on 'TUX'

2000-07-05 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:05:43AM +1000, James Morris wrote: Sluggers, There's some interesting info on a new high performance web serving package called TUX buried in a slashdot discussion at: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/05/0211257 (the article about the recent specweb

Re: [SLUG] Religious Wars: The Next Battle?

2000-07-04 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 10:01:43AM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 09:12:55PM +1000, DaZZa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Rodos wrote: Command Line vs. GUI The best thing about GUI's is running lots of xterms! And what's wrong with

Re: [SLUG] [WAY OT] Matrix Pilgramage

2000-07-03 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 03:58:18PM +1000, Graeme Merrall wrote: The bit where Neo gets the bug removed in that tunnel was filmed near Central Station in Eddy Street and there's in the helicopter scene where One street over, I think. they fly over the AWA tower. Being a newcomer to Sydney

Re: [SLUG] dead monitors and computers

2000-07-02 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 03:45:45PM +1000, Jill Rowling wrote: Google came up with this: http://www.brw.com.au/frame.asp?page=/newsadmin/stories/BRW/19990208/1143.ht m Does anyone know if it's happening? Just spoke to them and they still do monitor and CPU recycling. Their details:

[SLUG] rms on vi and emacs

2000-07-01 Thread Anand Kumria
RMS is currently at LinuxTag Germany. One of the Stormix developers manning the stall, Peter Lypkie, recalls this question: Q: Is using vi a sin in the church of emacs? RMS: no, not a sin, but is _is_ a penance! Anand -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] apologies for tonight's meeting

2000-06-30 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:11:58AM +1000, Conrad Parker wrote: I won't be able to make it to tonight's SLUG meeting as I am in Canberra attending the AUUG2K conference. If all goes as planned Anand will be chairing the meeting and it looks like it will be a very lively event :) Actually

[SLUG] Tonight's meeting

2000-06-30 Thread Anand Kumria
Just a reminder, Tonight's meeting: - Monthly Linux News - Coll Software Review - PHP4: new features Matt Allen and Graeme Merrall - Debate: "That vi is for newbies" - Kernel-based NFS Neil Brown As well as the usual follow up dinner

Re: [SLUG] Unisys patent on LZW?

2000-06-29 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:55:48AM +1000, John Wiltshire wrote: US Patents are enforcable in Australia (to my knowledge). Some are. The US Patent system has a "feature" which means that a lot are not. The feature is that you can publish your work and *still* apply for a patent within a year of

Re: [SLUG] [OT] where can I get

2000-06-29 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:53:45PM +1000, Robert Smith wrote: Hi look I know this may be a stupid question (but don't they say no question is stupid) but: Appropriate for the group you are posting too is another criteria ... I am trying to run some WinDOZ programmes from my RedHat 6.2

Re: [SLUG] Multiple term windows (TTYs) ?

2000-06-28 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:06:12PM -0500, Matt wrote: Bit of a weird question but, when was this first introduced ? The ability to switch between term sessions with ALT Fx ? Is this a BASH/CSH thing or something else ? You mean the multiple consoles? That was in Linux back before I started

Re: [SLUG] Hi posters.

2000-06-27 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 05:16:46PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: [[ Peter Rundle wrote this ]] Perhaps the list of fame should be resorted on total bytes posted ;-) Perhaps so - but Anand has taken to throwing his netiquette out the window and including verbose quotes... netiquette also

Re: [SLUG] All this talk about mail formats!

2000-06-27 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 05:03:24PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:05:46PM +1000, Jeffrey Borg wrote: Hi there (yet again) Now that all of you there have got me interestered in this Maildir format for messages I would like to try it out Of course I need to get

Re: [SLUG] PC's to give away

2000-06-23 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 03:51:22PM +1000, Carl Osterly wrote: Hi there, Is there anyone who would like some PC's and monitors for setting up in schools/charity organisations? Computerbank, www.computerbank.org.au is a worthwhile cause. Anand -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing

[SLUG] virtual users was: Webmail - advice sought

2000-06-20 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 06:09:13PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: RH6.1+ allows virtual users for mail, no shell account. Does anyone know if these can be configged from the commandline .i.e a script to add. Oh, really? Wasn't aware of that. What does it use for authentication and where does

Re: [SLUG] Webmail - advice sought

2000-06-19 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:59:51AM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi, This is the scenario: High School (in Oz) with 900 students, we did not want the overhead of maintaining email for students so at first banned it altogether then allowed seniors only to use webmail (enforced by SQUID

Re: [lias] Re: [SLUG] Webmail - advice sought

2000-06-19 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 01:20:32PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Simon Bryan wrote: 3) An MX record and exchanger. I guess so, as we already receive mail, it is a permanent dial-up. So why not just run a local mail server, and only give your seniors accounts on it?

Re: [SLUG] The truth about ipchains

2000-06-18 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 06:12:12PM +1000, Dave Kempe wrote: Hey Sluggers, There seems to be many questions about ipchains on this list, and on others I lurk on, is there any ratified configuration? Like has anyone said well this config is secure, this isn't, or any pointers about actual

Re: [SLUG] RPM rpm problem

2000-06-18 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 02:19:43PM +1000, Danny Yee wrote: Jeffrey Borg wrote: DON'T USE ANYTHING FROM RAWHIDE WITHOUT GLIBC 2.2 don't do it unless you download the whole lot burn it to a cd and install redhat pre7.0 Damn, I patched my server from 6.0 to 6.1 without ever doing an

Re: [SLUG] RPM rpm problem

2000-06-18 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 02:36:30PM +1000, Jeffrey Borg wrote: That's ok but redhat 7 will be based on glibc 2.2 like ever major redhat release has been a MAJOR change in libc version for the last quite few versions Actually it is a minor change, libraries have version number like:

Re: [SLUG] ipchains stuff

2000-06-18 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 11:50:26PM +1000, Chuck Dale wrote: you might want to 'ipchains -A -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -j DENY -l' at the end of each new define to catch what's left over. ipchains -P chain DENY That only works for inbuilt chains; ipchains -A chain -j DENY -l is better (or without

[SLUG] Re: your mail

2000-06-18 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 09:13:54AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello i have a problem which i belive in my firewall script but im not sure. Anyway im running a masq with gateway Anyway i run daemons on gateway no sub machines can use auth only gateway i also have ssh and other things

Re: [SLUG] split and join?

2000-06-18 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:57:50PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: hi slugs, i want to split a large file to two floppies and then join them together on another machine. so i looked around and found split and join executables. so i split the file. so far so good can't seem to join it. if

Re: [SLUG] Telstra relaying

2000-06-18 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 02:13:46PM +1000, Peter Faulks wrote: OK, I'm going to show my total ignorance here, (but how else am I going to learn?) What is relaying? I'm (still) trying to set up my own domain, and my 1st attempt at email I got an error 'Relaying denied' Google.com is

Re: [SLUG] sendmail function

2000-06-16 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 04:25:34PM +1000, George Vieira wrote: Send it using the BCC method. I usually create a fake To address and send the real email addresses in the BCC address.. A nicer way is to send it to yourself and bcc everyone else. On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 04:42:15PM +1000,

Re: [SLUG] Terminal Fonts

2000-06-15 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:22:17AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: I'm pretty sure terminal fonts suffer from the first rule of mail clients (read it at http://www.mutt.org/). I can't find one that's easy to read, is smallish so as not to get in the way, and has a reasonable amount of `white

Re: [SLUG] network failure

2000-06-15 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 11:05:53PM +1000, David wrote: I'm having a strange intermittent ethernet failure. I've changed the NIC, the cables and the hub port, but it persists. Any one got any thoughts? ifconfig and route output below. TIA, David. [root@ns log]#ifconfig eth0

Re: [SLUG] Publicity Contacts for InstallFest 2000?

2000-06-15 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 02:39:43PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: [snip] There's a preliminary web page up at http://www.linux.org.au/installfest/ which currently shows LinuxSA and SLUG taking part (Yes, that does mean that we're having an InstallFest in July!) Other LUGs have shown interest

Re: [SLUG] Re: bind (was Telstra relaying)

2000-06-15 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 12:41:57PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Peter Faulks wrote: On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:57:58 +1000, Graeme Robinson wrote: if you tell us what mailserver software you are using someone here might be able to help you configure it. I think my first problem is to

Re: [SLUG] Smart Cards..

2000-06-09 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 03:09:59AM +1000, Chuck Dale wrote: Hi all (forgive the barrage of emails) Has anyone experience using Smart Card Readers with Linux? No, but it is something I am interested in. Of course there has already been a fair amount of development of software for

Re: [SLUG] Analysing maillog

2000-06-07 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 03:16:04PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: I want to analyse a /var/log/maillog file on a daily basis to see who is sending emails to whom, what size they are, and when they are being sent. It looks like the easiest cross reference would be thru the ?AA? code for

[SLUG] Kylix

2000-06-06 Thread Anand Kumria
Some previews of Kylix, URL: http://www.drbob42.com/kylix/ which I talked about briefly at the last meeting. Anand -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text

[OT] Re: [SLUG] Home Network

2000-06-06 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:12:50PM +1000, Jim Clark wrote: I am in the process of building a new house, and I would like to put in a network while it is relatively easy to do (ie, before the gyp-rock goes onto the walls). good plan, I did the same thing myself. What I had in mind was to

Re: [SLUG] Debian XF86Config

2000-06-05 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 09:06:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of curiosity I've put Debian (slink) on a 1.2G partition, with the intention of getting to know why the Debian users are so enthusiastic. The XF86Config setup didn't have the same flexibility as the Xconfigurator

Re: [SLUG] Deai-press

2000-06-05 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 01:38:38PM +1000, George Vieira wrote: Why doesn't the list have a subscription block so if your not registered then the email bounces with a "Sorry, you must first register to submit to the list" message. This comes up every now and then. The reason is that plenty of

Re: [SLUG] O@H Webspace - 96% Linux Free :)

2000-06-04 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:25:12AM +1000, Rodos wrote: On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Matt wrote: Is it "Roh-dos" ? Thats the typical mistake. Rodos ? What a neat name ! Its pronounced Rod-os. The second bit is like "Dos" without the D. Kind of like `borg' without the b and g with r being

Re: [SLUG] Telnet from the Borg

2000-06-04 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:09:03PM +1000, Aravind Naidu wrote: We had a similar problem with a sockets application. It has got to do with the TCP/IP stack of the client (in this MS Win) and the server. I think you'll find this particular problem is dependant upon which service pack is

Re: [SLUG] ipchains question

2000-06-02 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:33:18AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have setup some ipchains rulesets for a small network running cable/masq i have auth running on gateway and local machine i run irc but get cannot find identd please install. Now if i use irc at gateway all works but any sub

Re: [SLUG] A decent text editor?

2000-06-02 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 10:48:48PM +1000, Peter Faulks wrote: Before you all say 'vi' - I'm sure vi is a powerful editor, its just i'd like something a little bit more user-friendly. If any of you have used Boxer (Dos, OS/2, and now a Windoze ver as well), you'll know what I'm after. (if

Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin vs VMWare

2000-06-01 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 04:00:08PM +1000, [-SwM-] wrote: Win4Lin actually runs Windows, which is what it really has over VMWare. This means speed is drastically increased. VMWare is trying to do something different to Win4Lin: emulate operating systems -- not just windows, but many, in a

Re: [SLUG] Life is a 'where is it'

2000-06-01 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 09:34:16PM +1000, Carlo Nizeti wrote: Symantec now have GHOST for netware. I also hear that a Linux version is on the way. Can anyone bring some light to this? [ please if you are going to change subject's like this, how about also modifying the subject line ] on

Re: [SLUG] CivCTP file size check

2000-06-01 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 12:02:03AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Has anyone got CivCTP and could check a couple of files for me. ls -l ./ctp_data/default/graphics/pictures/pic5*.zfs -r--r--r-- 1 geneweb utmp 73830576 Apr 14 1999 ./ctp_data/default/graphi cs/pictures/pic555.zfs

Re: [SLUG] Solutions time! [was] best-of-slug

2000-05-31 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 01:19:57PM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote: well, Progsoc is using ht://dig -- it isn't perfect but it is the best free one out there (swish and friends aren't free). Swish++ is a complete Swish rewrite in C++ and free. http://www.best.com/~pjl/software/swish I just had

Re: [SLUG] Solutions time! [was] best-of-slug

2000-05-30 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:39:52PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:21:55PM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote: I think simply threading the SLUG archives and providing a search engine interface to it will be extremely useful. A similar slug-FAQ or slug-pearls setup for

Re: [SLUG] Re: Procmail My Addiction to Mailing Lists

2000-05-30 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:06:27AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:58:37PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: | I remembered that Anand mentioned a 'panacea' for mailing-list overload a | while back, so I peeked though the archives and found it: | | :0: | *

Re: [SLUG] Solutions time! [was] best-of-slug

2000-05-30 Thread Anand Kumria
{{ Jeff, Mail-Followup-To: is really only respected by Mutt. Unfortunately the semantics of MFT (include as To; insert reply-to: addresses ) mean it doesn't work as intended. Also no need to set Reply-To when it is the same as your From address. }} On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 01:56:55PM +1000,

[SLUG] Last Friday's meeting

2000-05-29 Thread Anand Kumria
IPv6 was discussed, for those that missed it here is an interesting article URL: http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=486 about it. Jason mentioned Bubblemon URL: http://www.nada.kth.se/~d92-jwa/code, I've packaged it for those folks using Debian grab a .deb from here: URL:

Re: [SLUG] ppp

2000-05-29 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 06:25:06AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When installing ppp, one used to have to run a little script that did something to the kernel source, then re-compile the kernel. Yes, back in the dark ages. You would still have to do this if you were compiling PPP

howtos are too hard was: [SLUG] Call for new list best-of-slug ?

2000-05-29 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 01:11:07PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Sonam Chauhan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: David: Good point. There is need for "best-of-SLUG" archivals as well as for searching within this archive. As an addition to this, how about a "slug-howto" list / archive as

Re: [SLUG] Call for new list best-of-slug ?

2000-05-29 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:15:43AM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote: David: Good point. There is need for "best-of-SLUG" archivals as well as for searching within this archive. Here's a suggestion: [snip - account creation, hypermail setup ] - If at any point of time, people feel that a

Re: [SLUG] wine ??

2000-05-28 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 06:03:44PM +1000, Richard Blackburn wrote: Who knows wine? I have RH6.x on one racked hard drive and win95 on another. When I run wine the path isn't right. I've set PATH=/mnt/'devicename'/c but the wine path searches don't work. I think they're set for dual boot

Re: [SLUG] HTML refresh

2000-05-25 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 02:27:18PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: Hi All, I have a cgi script which creates a HTML form and I need to do a single forced refresh. 1. script gets called by user submitting form which references a default gif. 2. cgi script runs doing some molecular simulations

Re: [SLUG] Replying to posts - A request

2000-05-23 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 05:52:40PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 05:37:49PM +1000, Matthew Dalton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you just hit "reply", the message doesn't get cc'd to the list. So everyone just hits "reply all". What you want is for people to

Re: [SLUG] Penetration Software...

2000-05-23 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:03:19PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Des Wass [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guys, I need to beat the bejesus out of a couple of systems (Linux, Firewall-1 You could try SATAN - don't have a URL handy tho... Another option is nessus URL:

Re: [SLUG] Re: Spam SLUG NG

2000-05-23 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 09:00:50AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Anything with this content encoding is guaranteed to be spam. I've been asked to clarify this, so I'll post to the list. There was a similar suggestion regarding the unreadable

Re: [SLUG] Stock brokers?

2000-05-22 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:55:01PM +1000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Since I bank with St George, I guess it would be easier to use their Quick Trade system. Does anyone have it working with Linux? I've had mixed results with St George; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Their tech

Re: [SLUG] newsgroups firewall port

2000-05-16 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 03:28:45PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: hi slugs, what is the port(s) that the newsgroups come in on - go out on that would have to be opened on a firewall? Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP) port 119/tcp Anand -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] wheely mouse in netscape

2000-05-15 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 11:47:13AM +1000, Doug Balmer wrote: hi all, ive had my wheely mouse working in netscape for a while now but every so often it just starts not working. is there some way around this? Same problem here - it works fine once I quit and restart netscape so it is an

[SLUG] eating out with SLUG

2000-05-14 Thread Anand Kumria
Currently SLUG goes to the House of Ghoung Zhou (spelling?) at the end of the each of meeting. The price is $18 for their `banquet', drinks you pay for yourself. The food isn't actually too bad, but the service is fairly hopeless. An alternative is Marigold's which a a further 10 metre walk on

Re: [SLUG] IPCHAINS..again..

2000-05-14 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 05:53:17PM +1000, George Vieira wrote: Does anybody know if the RH 6.1 kernel is default compiled with IPv4 maquerading REDIRECT turned ON? If so, how the hell are you suppose to redirect incoming port connections to an internal machine??? ipmasqadm Everybody

sharing incoming email was: [SLUG] Netscape ??

2000-05-14 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 04:20:47PM +1000, Richard Blackburn wrote: In the old days when my wife and I used another OS, we entered Netscape as individuals with separate 'home pages' and separate address books for Email, but when either of us called in the Email it ended up on both our Email

Re: [SLUG] Firewall Software

2000-05-14 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Jun 18, 2036 at 06:06:33AM -0700, Jeremy Kerwin wrote: Can anyone suggest some firewall softwareor should I just use the standard one that comes with Linux.. `firewall software' is a fairly broad term. Firewalls can be doing packet filtering, application gatewaying, tunneling and

Re: [SLUG] Network Card Shootout

2000-05-12 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 06:10:05PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Hi all, The "six million dollar" machine (the new SLUG box, going live soon) is a bit of an unhappy chappy. Kevin was kindly hosting it for us at Oceania.net, but the connection kept dropping out, and at best, it was "unreliably

Re: [SLUG] Need a home for my server!

2000-05-11 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 10:06:24PM +1000, Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote: okay, Jamie said this is the place to ask about this sorta stuff, so I have a permanently-connected machine sitting on the network at my local uni where I studied and currently teach. It serves my personal email,

Re: [SLUG] Telstra's Business of the Furture Show

2000-05-11 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:32:22AM +1000, Jamie Honan wrote: Richard Hayes, inter alia: Australia furniture company staff *ONLY* with blonde blue-eyed Anglo-celts. The film was more like Meadow Lea ad circa 1995. It was so bad I think they either do not understand the technology or

Re: suggestion for slug email addresses (was Re: [SLUG] Re: May 19th -- Preview of Development Tools for Linux (fwd))

2000-05-11 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:11:22PM +1000, Dave Fitch wrote: Jamie Honan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I forwarded original to Conrad, but must have slipped through. we should have email addresses like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] vice treasurer secretary maybe a PR or media type one maybe an alias for

Re: [SLUG] VPN

2000-05-10 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:17:48PM +1000, Ryan McBride wrote: Could anyone tell me how you go about setting up a VPN between to linux boxes across the net???. We already have a VPN connecting our Melbournce Sydney Office but I need to add another network to this. You have a hardware VPN in

Re: [SLUG] Mounting OS/2 Hard disks under OS/2

2000-05-09 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 02:51:26PM +1000, Charlie Brady wrote: On Tue, 9 May 2000, Terry Collins wrote: I need to mount an OS/2 hard disk in a linux system. Has anyone done it? Of course. it will be mount -t hpfs /dev/sdd1 /mnt/disk5 Does any one know of any problems,

Re: [SLUG] Off Topic - ISP Recommendations

2000-05-09 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 02:18:28PM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote: I'm having a bit trouble finding a suitable ISP to do the following: - Supply a permanent 56k link Can't help you with that. - Host a small, static website - Host a domain name For both these two things I've found a couple

Re: [SLUG] alternative to diald

2000-05-09 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:12:21AM +1000, Jamie Honan wrote: This may not be applicable to esmith, but can I put a plug in for dialserv? This client / server system connects when a user specifically requests using the special client app. For chickens like me who have visions of runaway

Re: [SLUG] NXDOMAIN error, puzzle ???

2000-05-08 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 07:32:53PM +1000, Stuart Hume wrote: hi, I'm trying to set up two domain names and the first one when through with no problems. The second one give me back the following message when i did agrep "findns" /var/log/messages May817:51:24 fwall

Re: [SLUG] Re: O*****k virus: M$ criticized for lack of software security

2000-05-07 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 12:00:21PM +1200, Del wrote: But seriously, folks, what we've all known for years is: - Take a copy of [.*]x out of the box, install it, and the binary files in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /lib, etc, are world readable, and not world writeable. Joe Average User can't

Re: [SLUG] Re: O*****k virus: M$ criticized for lack of software security

2000-05-07 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 05:56:07PM +1000, Ken Yap wrote: What if tomorrow linux was as popular as windows, you have linux users who bought computers with linux preinstalled, they don't know or care about the OS, they might not even know what an OS was. They just need to use the computer for

Re: [SLUG] NT v's Linux

2000-05-07 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 09:14:56PM +1000, Aussie wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got a client that wants to set up for the web, and they've got a "friend" that claims they should go NT over anything else, claiming it's the most secure way with the exception of

Re: [SLUG] can linux provide metering for 6 from 40 workstations ??

2000-05-07 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 11:40:34PM +1000, Bruce M. Brown wrote: could any of you at slug , spare a few lines regarding the following I am teaching computing on an exiting network .It has a standalone machine in the same room that could run Linux AND ACT AS A SERVER . We wish to use the

Re: [SLUG] Automated DNS entry question

2000-05-07 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 02:55:25PM +1000, Alex wrote: Hi, Suppose I have a machine (domain.com) in the US with a static ip, that is also a DNS. Another machine (ftp.domain.com) is the one I use at home to dial in to my ISP, and has a dynamic ip address. Both machines are running Linux.

Re: [SLUG] A Palm V for Free .. no it's not spam :)

2000-05-07 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 12:56:18AM -0500, Matt wrote: Hrmph .. if you hurry and sign up before the 15th of this month you can get yourself a free Palm V courtesy of Jackpot.com (same dudes as Toys.com i think) as part of their launch campaign, they're happy to send to Australia too. I

[SLUG] slug talks

2000-05-07 Thread Anand Kumria
At the last meeting I asked if anyone had any interest in the following talks: Subject:Number: Presenter: LDAP16 me* IPv610 Matt Flannagan* Corba 10 Roland Turner Programming 4 Databases MySQL

Re: [SLUG] Setting up

2000-05-06 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 10:18:17PM +1000, MaxAttack wrote: Or even a link to information on setting up @home with my details would be great too :) I am sure Optus@Home has been discussed but since I don't make use of any cable service I haen't been paying much attention to the threads. Anyway

Re: [SLUG] Procmail woes

2000-05-02 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 01:05:13PM +1000, Nick Croft wrote: It still won't work. I set it up in another user on the same machine and it all works fine!! I wonder what's wrong with my account. The simple minded approach would be to tar all my stuff, wipe the account and start again. Not

Re: [SLUG] Procmail woes

2000-05-01 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 12:25:20PM +1000, John Clarke wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 09:02:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seeing as the Slug list is expanding, I thought it's about time I set up procmail to sort the mail into neat piles. Check out Terry Collins's info on sorting

Re: [SLUG] Procmail woes

2000-05-01 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 09:20:09PM +1000, Nick Croft wrote: Guys thanks for your responses. Also thanks Mike. Also looked at Terry's page. This, URL: http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/tfm/tfm97/node35.html may also be useful. It's not yet happening for me, but I'm on the way. I got rid of

Re: [SLUG] Procmail woes

2000-05-01 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 09:00:31PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: :0 * ^((List-Id|X-(Mailing-)?List):(.*[]\/[^]*)) { LISTID=$MATCH :0: * LISTID ?? debian-\/[^@.]* Mail/Debian/$MATCH :0: * LISTID ?? .*\/[^@.]* ^^ Mail/List

Re: [SLUG] Software for WebCam

2000-05-01 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:12:00PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Jeremy Kerwin wrote: Everyone would be familer with the Jennicam website. I am wanting to know as to how that would be done, what software to be used etc Don't know about Jennicam and don't care, but

Re: [SLUG] DHCP problem!!

2000-04-26 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 05:08:07PM +0530, Ravi Masalthi wrote: Hi, I'm new to this mailing list. I've got a problem with network-booting. I've configured a dhcp server. client is a motorola mediagx board, with in built support for being a discless DHCP client. situation is, client

Re: [SLUG] BSD

2000-04-14 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:05:47AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD is probably the one you are thinking of, and AFAIK is only available for the Intel platform. Apparently it also works on Alphas It has a close group of (mostly Californian) developers, rather unlike the enormous

Re: [SLUG] libtool problem

2000-04-11 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 10:19:17AM -0800, David Ryan wrote: Any help on this one? In attempting to compile some software i get the following error: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/Mutley-1.0.1/src' /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc-o mutley -dlopen Property.la -dlopen

Re: [SLUG] Ancient Sun Gear - gone.

2000-04-09 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:26:57AM +1000, Rachel Polanskis wrote: On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: If anyone has the urge to get Sun 3/60s working, a bunch are available. Ideally you'd be interested in installing them as xterms in some non-profit or similar. If you want to

Re: [SLUG] Linux HCF Modem / Controler Less

2000-04-09 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 04:53:06PM +1000, Alexander Else wrote: At 04:19 PM 4/7/00 +1000, DaZZa wrote: Do you lambast Intel in a similar manner for its cheap Celeron chips? Do you moan about the trend towards using non ECC or non parity RAM because it's cheaper? [snip] comparison may have

Password length limits was: [SLUG] Telnet denies login

2000-04-09 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 10:20:16PM +1000, Kieran wrote: This leads to another question I have. What's the limit of a password in linux? I know under NIS it seems to be 8 characters (unless that's configurable).. Anyone? It has been sometime since I last looked at the crypt(3) but from

Re: [SLUG] Cable Modems and Dialup

2000-04-09 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 12:42:00AM +1000, Ryan McBride wrote: Just a curious question, i dont know a lot about tcp/ip and so forth. If you were to have 2 linux boxes. One with a cable modem with ipmasq and another one with dial in lines attached to it, would it be possible for optus/telstra

Re: [SLUG] Attn: Commitee

2000-04-09 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 09:45:26PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could someone from our newly formed SLUG please mail me with a list of email addresses for the commitee members. Sent via private email. Anand -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To

Re: [SLUG] Routing Issues

2000-03-30 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:10:27AM +1000, Andrew Macks wrote: Bob requests a website which goes to the IP of my BPD connection. Apache gets the request and says "Ahh, now what do I do with Bob's IP.." and looks at the routing table and sends the outbound traffic out via my dial-up

Re: [SLUG] Cancell My Visit To The WP Office 2000 Pres.

2000-03-30 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:14:03AM +1000, Rachel Polanskis wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that's precisely what corel has been doing - fixing wine so it can run wp office 2k - they will actually be using winelib - and have the code re-compiled for linux - it's still

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