Re: [leaf-user] Is there a way to auto email log files question --> was Need Help Debugging Firewall Rules

2002-06-03 Thread Greg Morgan
"Vintage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, to change the subject, I was going through the archives and saw that > you also had comments on the mailonerr utility. I also read the following > thread and got to Greg Morgan's mini-HOWTO on mail. I get lost at his point > 7 and from there it seems

RE: [leaf-user] Secure Shell Setup

2002-06-03 Thread David Pitts
Thanks. You are correct in that I want to shell TO the LRP box. I will try this. When you say, put the public key on the LRP box, where would it go? Which directory? Thanks for your assistance with this. David Pitts IT Services Manager Reid Library University of Western Australia Ph: 61 (08

Re: [leaf-user] Secure Shell Setup

2002-06-03 Thread T Burt
I will try and jump in here You did not specify whether you are trying to ssh FROM the LEAF box or INTO the LEAF box. I am going to assume that you want to ssh INTO the LEAF box. If this is the case, then you want to create the key on the box you are doing the ssh from. This could be a P

[leaf-user] Secure Shell Setup

2002-06-03 Thread David Pitts
Hi all. I have been trying to setup OpenSSH but I'm having a problem creating the key. I have ssh.lrp, ssh-key.lrp and libz.lrp. Do I also need Makekey? It looks like running ssh will start ssh-keygen which I guess creates a key?? When I run ssh-keygen or ssh I get an error message saying tha

Re: [leaf-user] Newbie Bering Developer

2002-06-03 Thread Brad Fritz
On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 21:09:59 EDT Steven Nickle wrote: > I am in the process of setting up a development environment to build an > application to run under Leaf/Bering. I am not the best person to answer, but since no one responeded to your leaf-devel posting (or this one) yet, I'll jump in.

Re: [leaf-user] pptp client for bering

2002-06-03 Thread Brad Fritz
On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:45:48 PDT Jim Van Eeckhoutte wrote: > Is there a pptp client for bering? Or a way to set it up. I do not have any personal experience with it, but pptp.lrp described in the Bering user's guide at http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bupppoa.html is probably what you wa

[leaf-user] Newbie Bering Developer

2002-06-03 Thread Steven Nickle
I am in the process of setting up a development environment to build an application to run under Leaf/Bering. I was hoping for suggestion on the environment to set up. So far I have a box triple booting between W2k, Debian/Slink, and Leaf/Bering. For the Debian/Slink environment, what kernel ve

Re: Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread T Burt
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > The temptation with RH is to leave all those services it installs by > default running... which is risky for a firewall. > RH was notorious for having everything enabled, but they surprised me and changed that in RH 7.2. The default now, is to disabl

Re: [leaf-user] Is there a way to auto email log files question --> was Need Help Debugging Firewall Rules

2002-06-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Vintage wrote: > > Michael - I am reading through ipfilter.conf and just realized that this is > my own IP address... > > It makes sense, but yeah, I feel pretty silly... I never noticed that rule; but, yes, it makes sense for an interface to DENY input packets the source of which is itself,

Re: Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread T Burt
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > A few comments ... > > 1. We don't have idiots here (at least I don't think we do), so I infer > from your use of the phrase "idiot image for 1680" that you are using Dave > Cinege's old LRP 2.9.8, not one of the newer LEAF distributions that this >

Re: [leaf-user] svi documentation?

2002-06-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
George Luft wrote: > > Is the svi shell script documented anywhere? > > It seems rather elegantly and concisely written, but not being expert in > ash, I am having a hard time following it. I tried searching the web and > newsgroups with no luck. > > Can anybody point me in the right directio

[leaf-user] pptp client for bering

2002-06-03 Thread Jim Van Eeckhoutte
Is there a pptp client for bering? Or a way to set it up. ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm ---

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: [leaf-user] To Bering users: help us torelease 1.0

2002-06-03 Thread Wyatt Draggoo
> Oxygen uses elvis-tiny, which covers most of the important parts of > vi, and does it well. Are there any advantages to using elvis-tiny to compiling vim with -tiny (I think that's what it is...)? I know it's personal preference, but although I'm a very big vi fan, I've never liked Elvis. I

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: [leaf-user] To Bering users: help us to release 1.0

2002-06-03 Thread David Douthitt
On Monday 03 June 2002 08:22 am, T Burt wrote: > One feature that I particularly liked in Trinux, is the ability to > download packages from an ftp or http server during system startup. Oxygen did this very early on - in fact, Trinux was an inspiration for Oxygen development. > Has anyone cons

Re: [leaf-user] svi documentation?

2002-06-03 Thread David Douthitt
On Monday 03 June 2002 04:16 pm, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > As you can see, there's not a lot to it. The singlefilearg > command is defined in /bin/POSIXness, and checks to make sure the > file /etc/init.d/$1 exists...if it does, the appropriate init.d > script is run, with any arguments to s

Re: [leaf-user] svi documentation?

2002-06-03 Thread Brad Fritz
On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:57:06 EDT George Luft wrote: > OK, first dumb question: where can I find it so I can extract and print it > from the package. The only reference I can find to it is in > /var/lib/lrpkg/root.pn.links. But the file itself doesn't appear to be in > the root.lrp package. >

Re: [leaf-user] Re: Problem with userguide

2002-06-03 Thread Eric Wolzak
> Le Lundi 3 Juin 2002 13:30, J.L. Blom a écrit : > > Dear sir, > > In your latest userguide you wrote for the setup using 2 floppies a > > syslinux.cfg which doesn't work in my system. > > > > The problem is the fact that it looks like you use a CR in line 3: > > > > display syslinux.dpy > > tim

Re: [leaf-user] svi documentation?

2002-06-03 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> OK, first dumb question: where can I find it so I can extract and print it > from the package. The only reference I can find to it is in > /var/lib/lrpkg/root.pn.links. But the file itself doesn't appear to be in > the root.lrp package. > > I know I could just copy it from /usr/sbin to /mnt/f

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: [leaf-user] To Bering users: help us to release 1.0

2002-06-03 Thread Eric Wolzak
Hello Charles , KP and list > > > Another point, is the handling of /lib/modules. > > > Charles approach in Dachstein-CD has been an intelligent /etc/modules > and > > > load process - with mount/umount commands and cd capabilty. Eric create > a > > > link and hold the CD mount in /cdmnt. Couldn't

[leaf-user] Is there a way to auto email log files question --> was Need Help Debugging Firewall Rules

2002-06-03 Thread Vintage
Michael - I am reading through ipfilter.conf and just realized that this is my own IP address... It makes sense, but yeah, I feel pretty silly... [ snip ] > I do not know where this comes from; but, you probably should figure > that out; unless, of course, you will never be interested in what

RE: [leaf-user] svi documentation?

2002-06-03 Thread George Luft
OK, first dumb question: where can I find it so I can extract and print it from the package. The only reference I can find to it is in /var/lib/lrpkg/root.pn.links. But the file itself doesn't appear to be in the root.lrp package. I know I could just copy it from /usr/sbin to /mnt/fd0, but I'm

Re: Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, T Burt wrote: > > Thank you all for your replies, you have all been most helpful. > > To make up some deficiencies in my post... > > I used the idiot image for 1680 from the downloads. idiot image... is this a hint that you are referring to LRP2.9.8? or Eigerstein, Dachste

Re: Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:31 PM 6/3/02 -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > 3. The third realistic possibility is a marginal floppy drive, one that > > can't quite manage to read the additional tracks that the 1680 format >uses. > > If the target hardware uses a standard floppy drive, you might see if > > swapping

Re: Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> 3. The third realistic possibility is a marginal floppy drive, one that > can't quite manage to read the additional tracks that the 1680 format uses. > If the target hardware uses a standard floppy drive, you might see if > swapping in a newer one improves the device's performance. For the reco

Re: [leaf-user] svi documentation?

2002-06-03 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> Is the svi shell script documented anywhere? > > It seems rather elegantly and concisely written, but not being expert in > ash, I am having a hard time following it. I tried searching the web and > newsgroups with no luck. > > Can anybody point me in the right direction? The only documentatio

[leaf-user] svi documentation?

2002-06-03 Thread George Luft
Is the svi shell script documented anywhere? It seems rather elegantly and concisely written, but not being expert in ash, I am having a hard time following it. I tried searching the web and newsgroups with no luck. Can anybody point me in the right direction? ___

Re: Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread Ray Olszewski
A few comments ... 1. We don't have idiots here (at least I don't think we do), so I infer from your use of the phrase "idiot image for 1680" that you are using Dave Cinege's old LRP 2.9.8, not one of the newer LEAF distributions that this list primarily supports. This increases the plausibili

[leaf-user] Re: Problem with userguide

2002-06-03 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Lundi 3 Juin 2002 13:30, J.L. Blom a écrit : > Dear sir, > In your latest userguide you wrote for the setup using 2 floppies a > syslinux.cfg which doesn't work in my system. > > The problem is the fact that it looks like you use a CR in line 3: > > display syslinux.dpy > timeout 0 > default li

RE: [leaf-user] ISDN with 16 lines/modems possible with Bering ?

2002-06-03 Thread François BERGERET
Bonsoir Jacques merci de répondre aussi vite. Good evening Jacques, thanks for this so speedy reply. I have just discovered your subdirectory /isdn/eicon... I have not think to search at your pages, I am realy sorry ! You have so tons of files, what great job ! But, what file must I do use with B

Re: [leaf-user] Need Help Debugging Firewall Rules - Dachstein

2002-06-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Vintage wrote: > > Michael - many thanks for the help - that did the trick. Just one question, > is there any danger to having these two rules at the top of my firewall > rules list? (See bottom of my note for output of "ipchains -nvL" Actually, this is desirable. Look at it this way, ipchai

Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread T Burt
Thank you all for your replies, you have all been most helpful. To make up some deficiencies in my post... I used the idiot image for 1680 from the downloads. Since my redhat box doesn't have a device for 1680, I used the Windows exe version, which works great! Thank you. The floppy I crea

[leaf-user] Bering and dnscache

2002-06-03 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Lundi 3 Juin 2002 12:08, Tom Lisjac a écrit : > Hi Jacques, > > Thanks for building the Bering firewall distribution... it's quite > excellent! > > I have almost got everything working on my new Bering router but am > having one lingering problem that I can't seem to solve. I can ping IP > addr

Re: [leaf-user] ISDN with 16 lines/modems possible with Bering ?

2002-06-03 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Lundi 3 Juin 2002 20:35, François BERGERET a écrit : > Hi all Bering users and developpers, > et bien le bonjour à Jacques NILO, bien sûr ! Bonsoir François > This is the link to a free GPL kernel driver and its tools to use > ISDN DIVA cards suite from EICON. > > http://www.melware.de/en/32040

[leaf-user] Bering with Orinoco wireless -- problems

2002-06-03 Thread Brock Nanson
> Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:08:35 -0600 > From: Matt Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [leaf-user] Bering with Orinoco wireless -- problems > > Looking through the archives (even as of late) it has come to my > attention that many hold the same position

RE: [leaf-user] ISDN with 16 lines/modems possible with Bering ?

2002-06-03 Thread François BERGERET
Hi all Bering users and developpers, et bien le bonjour à Jacques NILO, bien sûr ! This is the link to a free GPL kernel driver and its tools to use ISDN DIVA cards suite from EICON. http://www.melware.de/en/3204080cnt=rfnbr21.htm I am not (yet) a Linux specialist, and I hope so

Re: [leaf-user] getting make and gcc on lrp

2002-06-03 Thread David Douthitt
On Monday 03 June 2002 12:54 pm, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Ant Ken wrote: > > how would i go about getting make and gcc and any other > > development tools on to lrp? > > You don't. > > > is there a package avalible? > > No. There is, actually, a make.lrp - make is good for a l

Re: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread Omar D. Samuels
I have had similar problems, but for me I found that it seemed to be more of a (believe it or not) issue with the kind/brand diskette I use, I guess all floppies are NOT created equal :) Have u tried a different brand? A different brand that's brand new? What syntax are you using to format the

Re: [leaf-user] getting make and gcc on lrp

2002-06-03 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Ant Ken wrote: > hi, > > how would i go about getting make and gcc and any other development tools > on to lrp? You don't. > is there a package avalible? No. See FAQs sect13 at http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=1300&page_id=9

Re: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, T Burt wrote: > Has anyone had difficulties booting the Supersize floppy? Yes. Others have had much success with them. I have had good success with 1680. It squeezes more sectors on each track, while some other formats (e.g. 1722) add additional tracks (cylinders) to the f

[leaf-user] getting make and gcc on lrp

2002-06-03 Thread Ant Ken
hi, how would i go about getting make and gcc and any other development tools on to lrp? is there a package avalible? antken email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August

[leaf-user] Bering with Orinoco wireless -- problems

2002-06-03 Thread Matt Russell
Looking through the archives (even as of late) it has come to my attention that many hold the same position on this situation as I do.. i have a 400mhz p2 system, 256MB RAM, Bering v1.0 rc2 with a 3com 3c905c-tx-m pci card, an ISA-to-PCMCIA card, and an Orinoco wireless "SILVER" card, flash ve

RE: [leaf-user] Need Help Debugging Firewall Rules - Dachstein

2002-06-03 Thread Vintage
Michael - many thanks for the help - that did the trick. Just one question, is there any danger to having these two rules at the top of my firewall rules list? (See bottom of my note for output of "ipchains -nvL" For those of you who come across the same problem, this is what I did... I redid

Re: [leaf-user] Need Help Debugging Firewall Rules - Dachstein

2002-06-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Vintage wrote: > > I have searched the FAQs and mail archives but could not find the solution. > I am currently running Dachstein (CD version) on the Road Runner cable > network. As might be expected on a cable network, my logs quickly overfill > with the following noise: > > Every few second

[leaf-user] Need Help Debugging Firewall Rules - Dachstein

2002-06-03 Thread Vintage
I have searched the FAQs and mail archives but could not find the solution. I am currently running Dachstein (CD version) on the Road Runner cable network. As might be expected on a cable network, my logs quickly overfill with the following noise: Every few seconds - Jun 3 10:50:30 firewall ker

[leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread T Burt
Has anyone had difficulties booting the Supersize floppy? I have one machine that stops booting at the "Loading" prompt. The floppy is good, cause it works on other machines. Any guesses if this would be a Syslinux problem? Or initrd? Does anyone know of an URL or reference that might provi

Re: [leaf-user] To Bering users: help us to release 1.0

2002-06-03 Thread T Burt
If I can come up to speed quickly enough, I would be glad to help. One feature that I particularly liked in Trinux, is the ability to download packages from an ftp or http server during system startup. This takes the pressure off the space limitations of the floppy, and allows one to includ

Re: [leaf-user] power down the hard disk after use

2002-06-03 Thread Przemyslaw Rudy
Luis.F.Correia wrote: > To start, you will need a harddisk which supports that function. > Then, you must have a kernel with APM support. > Isn't it enough to set the "HDD down" function in PC BIOS? It works for me with bering rc2 and I'm not sure if the APM is compiled into the kernel. __

RE: [leaf-user] power down the hard disk after use

2002-06-03 Thread Luis.F.Correia
To start, you will need a harddisk which supports that function. Then, you must have a kernel with APM support. Although I'm not shure about this, it's a start... -Original Message- From: Ant Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

[leaf-user] power down the hard disk after use

2002-06-03 Thread Ant Ken
hi, for speed on one of my test routers i boot from a hard drive when it is finnished booting i would like to power it down so the box makes less noise and uses less power ( this is an absolute must in todays energy conscious society :-) ) could i put something in one of the init files so wh