[SLUG] DHCP help! (IP interfaces)

2000-06-30 Thread Danny Yee
I've got a machine with multiple IP addresses on the one ethernet card, and I can't get it to do DHCP on different interfaces. When started using the default script, it only listens on eth0. Jun 30 15:56:19 thrud dhcpd: Interface eth0 matches multiple shared networks Jun 30 15:56:19 thrud

Re: [SLUG] DHCP help! (IP interfaces)

2000-06-30 Thread DaZZa
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Danny Yee wrote: ifconfig reports eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:EC:0C:73 inet addr:129.78.151.2 Bcast:129.78.151.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 EtherTalk Phase 2 addr:21672/15 UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500

Re: [SLUG] DHCP help! (IP interfaces)

2000-06-30 Thread Danny Yee
DaZZa wrote: Basically, I don't know of any way to do this with DHCP. DHCP is based on the MAC {hardware} address. You're requesting IP addresses from the DHCP server for the _same_ hardware address. The server is going to look at its database and go "This MAC already has an IP address

Re: [SLUG] DHCP help! (IP interfaces)

2000-06-30 Thread Danny Yee
I wrote: No, no! The *client* machines are only ever on one network and only have one interface. The problem is that the *server* needs to be able to respond to requests on different interfaces and it's not. (The dhcpd manual page says it should listen on *all* non-broadcast interfaces,

RE: [SLUG] DHCP help! (IP interfaces)

2000-06-30 Thread George Vieira
This may or may not work, but if your running (according to Marty Richards) Dead Rat, you might be able to add at the end of the /etc/rc.d/rc.local the alias ethernet addresses as the last entry. So hopefully DHCP won't see the alias addresses until the card itself gets it's DHCP IP first.

Re: [SLUG] DHCP help! (IP interfaces)

2000-06-30 Thread Danny Yee
George Vieira wrote: This may or may not work, but if your running (according to Marty Richards) Dead Rat, you might be able to add at the end of the /etc/rc.d/rc.local the alias ethernet addresses as the last entry. So hopefully DHCP won't see the alias addresses until the card itself gets

Fw: [SLUG] Yet Another Dead Rat bug? (YADRB for short).

2000-06-30 Thread John Zantey
Hmmm, quite funny enough, when I started playing around with linux, it was with Slackware... I found it to be quite consise and clean, even thoughI have RH (I aint found many problems with it yet, except for it's bloated size + a few niggly personal things) and Corel (quite kewl) running quite

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] uptimes - comments on USR Modems

2000-06-30 Thread Kieran Haughey
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:19:38PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Erich Schulz wrote: My web server at home is 33Meg Dx, works just fine on my US robotics 56K modem: I prefer the Banksia (MyFastModem V34 model) modems to the USR modem. I found the US Roboticsa will give the highest speed

Re: filesystem layout (was Re: FW: [SLUG] uptimes)

2000-06-30 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:54:02AM +1000, Dave Fitch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Matthew Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: [snip] log files etc rotate these days rather than continually growing. I just have root and swap most of the time (sometimes /opt as well) except

[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] Linux 'loosing' partions

2000-06-30 Thread Dave Fitch
Jason Nicholls [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 06:10:47PM +1000, Dave Fitch wrote: Also I don't like logical and extended partitions, I just use primary partitions. It limits you to 4 per disk but I'm paranoid. Why is that? a) cos i'm paranoid (intel stuff is crap) b)

Re: filesystem layout (was Re: FW: [SLUG] uptimes)

2000-06-30 Thread Dave Fitch
Jobst Schmalenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am sorry but you missed the point, logfiles get swapped by logrotate and that doesnt happen every 5 minutes. If you have only ONE partition and you get SYM attacked with IPCHAINS logging the attack, you will NOT be able to log in (or some other kind of

Re: [SLUG] DHCP help! (IP interfaces)

2000-06-30 Thread DaZZa
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Danny Yee wrote: DHCP is based on the MAC {hardware} address. You're requesting IP addresses from the DHCP server for the _same_ hardware address. The server is going to look at its database and go "This MAC already has an IP address allocated" No, no! The

Re: [SLUG] save to disk

2000-06-30 Thread Chris MacKenzie
Gregg Jorgen Suaning wrote: Anyone know how the 'save to disk' function works on a laptop? This is the facility where the data in memory is saved to disk and the computer shuts off - when the computer is restarted, you pick up where you left off. The facility I have (rather, had) on my

Re: [SLUG] DHCP help! (IP interfaces)

2000-06-30 Thread Danny Yee
DaZZa wrote: I've had a bit more of a think about it, and I'm not sure I understand quite how your network is running. Do you have three IP address ranges bound to the one physical segment? Or are you forwarding requests from other segments to one DHCP server via a router or some such?

Re: [SLUG] uptimes - comments on USR Modems

2000-06-30 Thread DaZZa
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Kieran Haughey wrote: I prefer the Banksia (MyFastModem V34 model) modems to the USR modem. I found the US Roboticsa will give the highest speed peaks, but wasn't as reliable (more redials), whereas the Banksia modem gave a consistent connection at the cost of being

Re: [SLUG] DHCP help! (IP interfaces)

2000-06-30 Thread Michael Fox
I say... buy a 2nd nic :) makes life alot easier... -Original Message- From: Danny Yee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, 30 June 2000 7:00 Subject: Re: [SLUG] DHCP help! (IP interfaces) DaZZa wrote: I've had a bit more

Re: [SLUG] where can I get

2000-06-30 Thread Jim Hague
On 30-Jun-2000 Jeff Waugh wrote: Robert Smith wrote: I am trying to run some WinDOZ programmes from my RedHat 6.2 system but find that I need a copy of WinDOZ loaded to do so. I have limited space on my hard drive and need a cut down copy of WinDOZ. Now the question: where can I get (in the

Re: [SLUG] Everyone uses explorer (fwd)

2000-06-30 Thread J Dean
Enjoy Windows 98 37.1% Windows 95 26.4% Windows NT 21.6% Unknown 6.5% Macintosh 4.9% Windows 1.3% Linux 0.6% Solaris 0.5% No Data 0.3% WebTV 0.3% Cheers James Danny Yee wrote: J Dean wrote: Just checked up on Sydney Morning Herald stats. For last week

Re: [SLUG] uptimes - comments on USR Modems

2000-06-30 Thread Rodos
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, DaZZa wrote: [ lots of stuff about the US Robotics Modems ] P.S. COmments apply ONLY to the Courier. Sportsters are on a par with the Banksia - cheap, mass produced junk. Yep a few Sluggers and Zeta customers have the Couriers. I have two and appart from one power supply

Re: [SLUG] uptimes - comments on USR Modems

2000-06-30 Thread Kieran Haughey
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 06:44:31PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Kieran Haughey wrote: My USR/3Com Courier has served me very faithfully. I consider 22day connection times to be far from 'more redials'. If your talking USR Sportsters, then I can probably understand that.

Re: [SLUG] uptimes - comments on USR Modems

2000-06-30 Thread Kieran Haughey
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:15:21PM +1000, Rodos wrote: On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, DaZZa wrote: [ lots of stuff about the US Robotics Modems ] P.S. COmments apply ONLY to the Courier. Sportsters are on a par with the Banksia - cheap, mass produced junk. Yep a few Sluggers and Zeta customers

Re: [SLUG] Everyone uses explorer (fwd)

2000-06-30 Thread Danny Yee
J Dean wrote: Windows 98 37.1% Windows 95 26.4% Windows NT 21.6% Unknown 6.5% Macintosh 4.9% Windows 1.3% Linux 0.6% Solaris 0.5% No Data 0.3% WebTV 0.3% That looks very much like my figures, except that I'm seeing 10% more Win 98 and 10% less Win NT.

[SLUG] NFS talk at SLUG

2000-06-30 Thread Jamie Honan
Niel Brown gave a talk last night at SLUG about the Linux implementation of NFS. I'd be hard pressed to summarise his talk. Niels' slides may go up on our web site, which among other things will show which kernel has which set of patches. (Gus may elaborate). Niels' subtitle was the politics

[SLUG] RAID

2000-06-30 Thread Graeme Robinson
Does anyone have experience of using RAID controllers with RH6.1. I'm planning on a machine setup with an Adaptec pci RAID controller performing RAID 0 to provide disk redundancy - any pitfalls to plan for? It looks to me like it should be quite straightfoward - that the RAID will happen

[SLUG] Red Hat slagging

2000-06-30 Thread Jamie Honan
Dead Rat and Micro$oft are too similar imho. Red Hat is in no way comparable to MSoft. Red Hat distributions may have some strange installation quirks, may have bugs, (largely due to legacy problems, I suspect), the company may be well funded and seemingly successful, but thats where the

RE: [SLUG] Red Hat slagging

2000-06-30 Thread Dave Kempe
There may be individuals you don't like, but this is a different thing. Sort of on that note too, seeing as the community one of the strong points about Linux, its important taht we stick together. Having all this division seperate us can only weaken us. Red Hats' involvement with Linux

RE: [SLUG] RAID

2000-06-30 Thread George Vieira
Unfortunately RAID is only supported in software and not using the Adaptec's Hardware RAID. Your probably better off just getting a 2940UW or something and do it that way rather than spending $900 on a AAA-131U or something. But this has been quite some time since I've been working in Anabelle

RE: [SLUG] RAID

2000-06-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
There is the ability to config the kernel to handle the Mylex RAID adapter, at least. -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates http://www.lannet.com.au On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, George Vieira wrote: Unfortunately RAID is only supported in

Re: [SLUG] Red Hat slagging

2000-06-30 Thread Andrew Macks
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Jamie Honan wrote: Red Hat funds a lot of development for Linux kernel and applications, and the results are all GPLed. Red Hat participates in standards processes. Funds.. Tricky word. How do you put money back into Linux? There's no fair way to do it. There will

[SLUG] I Like My USRob Modem !!!!!

2000-06-30 Thread Erich Schulz
Somebody is mixed up. I like my USR modem. I live way out on the stick (wyee point for those in the know), and my USR modem has been fantastic. We had a cheapie before, and sometimes when it rained, the link would drop out every hour, but NOT with my new USR. I have been online for about 60 days,

[SLUG] SynOptics Hubs

2000-06-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
Does anyone have doco on synoptics "lattishub"'s SynOptics has been taken over, and i cant find anything. Ive got these things coming out my ears, (ok thats an exageration) and id like to know what their extra do-dads are for and possibly use them Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing

[SLUG] SuperStack Passwords

2000-06-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
I dont remember who asked, so yall can read it =) Our superstack 2 1000 manual has the following username - password combos for defaults... monitor monitor manager manager security security admin (no password) each user has different privileges which i cant be bothered to type in. Can i

Re: [SLUG] Red Hat slagging

2000-06-30 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 11:34:08AM +1000, Andrew Macks uttered: Funds.. Tricky word. How do you put money back into Linux? There's no fair way to do it. There will never be a fair way to do it. Simply because of the nature of Linux. Why does their need to be a fair way to do it? This

Re: [SLUG] Red Hat slagging

2000-06-30 Thread Danny Yee
Andrew Macks wrote: Funds.. Tricky word. How do you put money back into Linux? There's no fair way to do it. There will never be a fair way to do it. Simply because of the nature of Linux. SuSE on the other hand give development of projects in return. SuSE is heavily involved with

Re: [SLUG] Red Hat slagging

2000-06-30 Thread kevin
Andrew Macks wrote: On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Jamie Honan wrote: Red Hat funds a lot of development for Linux kernel and applications, and the results are all GPLed. Red Hat participates in standards processes. Funds.. Tricky word. How do you put money back into Linux? There's no fair

Re: [SLUG] Red Hat slagging

2000-06-30 Thread Terry Collins
Dave Kempe wrote: Sort of on that note too, seeing as the community one of the strong points about Linux, its important taht we stick together. Having all this division seperate us can only weaken us. No, having discussion enables the community to recognise its weak points and fix them up.

Re: [SLUG] Red Hat slagging

2000-06-30 Thread David Sainty
Sorry, but my 2.2 cents worth I have used Linux since 1993. I have used many different distributions over that time. I saw Red Hat start, saw RPM released and saw consequent development efforts initiated or contributed to by Red Hat. I agree with Jamie that Red Hat _is_ in no way comparable

Re: [SLUG] Red Hat slagging

2000-06-30 Thread kevin
I'm sick of people saying Red Hat is like Microsoft. Look at the facts. hear hear. Where does it say in the GPL that thou shall not make a wad of cash? Good luck to anyone who has the savvy to do so. Most linux users dream of a day when there is a linux machine on every desktop. RedHat have

Re: [SLUG] Red Hat slagging

2000-06-30 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 11:46:07AM +1000, chesty uttered: So whats the difference a home user would see between debian with the Linux kernel and debian with the freebsd kernel? Bugger all, perhaps? Depends on how much weird and wacky hardware they have, I guess. -- Rev Simon Rumble

[SLUG] Linux and Nokia 5110 Interface

2000-06-30 Thread pworboys
Has anyone got a Linux System interfaced to a Nokia 51xx/61xx GSM phone via RS232 that can give me a hand ? Somethng similar to the Nokia Data Suite programs but coming from a Linux System to send SMS Peter -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To

[SLUG] Extracting Weather text out of a web page - Newbie Question

2000-06-30 Thread Grahame M. Kelly
Yes, I'll admit to being a html/web newbie. So, for a thick head on this side of the email, how does one extrace the temperature, due point, humidity textural information etc. from a page like http://www.weather.com/weather/cities/as__sydney.html Does anyone have a simpler more elegant

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Nokia 5110 Interface

2000-06-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
look for gnokii infact i beleive the site is www.gnokii.org Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone got a Linux System interfaced to a Nokia 51xx/61xx GSM phone via RS232 that can give me a hand ? Somethng similar to the Nokia Data Suite programs but coming from a Linux System to send

Re: [SLUG] Extracting Weather text out of a web page - Newbie Question

2000-06-30 Thread Rick Welykochy
"Grahame M. Kelly" wrote: So, for a thick head on this side of the email, how does one extrace the temperature, due point, humidity textural information etc. from a page like http://www.weather.com/weather/cities/as__sydney.html Does anyone have a simpler more elegant solution ? Simpler

Re: [SLUG] Extracting Weather text out of a web page - Newbie Question

2000-06-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
Grahame M. Kelly wrote: Yes, I'll admit to being a html/web newbie. Sure. As if. ;) Does anyone have a simpler more elegant solution ? Certainly - you're best best for parsing a webpage for "stuff" is Perl, but the trouble is, the site will always change, forcing you to rewrite the code.

Re: [SLUG] Extracting Weather text out of a web page - Newbie Question

2000-06-30 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 02:19:00PM +1000, Jeff Waugh uttered: Better solution: Go to *their* source! (well, likely source) http://weather.noaa.gov/ These sources aren't particularly reliable. They're used for the Windowmaker dock app wmweather which I use. Polling frequently fails and the

Re: [SLUG] Extracting Weather text out of a web page - Newbie Question

2000-06-30 Thread Matt Allen
Hi, Right, the way i "borrow" the weather from www.bom.gov.au is this: 1. in PHP ise the fopen function to read the entire page(source) into an array. 2. run though the array and check each line for the occurance of some certain text like: "Sydney ". 3. strip off the other guff. 4.