Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice
Hi Jason I'm with Virgin Media at present in the Merseyside area. The main issue I see with them at present is the traffic optimisations they are currently employing. I'm on the 50meg package so I shouldn't have experienced any of this as yet, but this may change. As Jack said, some love them some hate them. Personally I've had good experiences from them apart from the odd outage and I've just had my upload speed bumped up to 5Mbps. On the lower packages, basically they sap about 60% of your possible speed if you breach certain limits on daily use, but I've even heard nightmare stories of customers on the 50meg package being disconnected for using it too much (but not being told what their fair use limits are). Tech support are pretty poor. Mainly due to 99% of the time getting through to an offshore desk reading a script who panic when you start speaking technically to them. If you can get through to Knowlsley where the ex-telewest staff are, then they are much better, but there's no guarantees. Traffic management policy - http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy.html http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management/traffic-management-faster-uploads.html Customer Forums which may give a view to how good/bad they are - http://community.virginmedia.com/ If you are telecommuting, is it worth looking at a business package with agreed SLAs if you're spending most of the time working remotely. HTH Darren This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged.If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the email message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: 1 Tower Place West, Tower Place, London, EC3R 5BU. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] VPN Connection
If you're using network-manager then I think the configuration is then stored in the gconf structures. On your old system, can you export the configuration? -Original Message- From: scottish-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:scottish-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Keith Wyse Sent: 11 December 2010 13:58 To: ScotLUG Subject: Re: [Scottish] VPN Connection On 2 December 2010 15:52, Ronald MacDonald ron...@rmacd.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Keith, Can you provide your vpn.conf? I note you're using ItsHidden - probably no chance of seeing the server-side conf. Have you got network-manager-pptp installed? Ronald. Hi Ronald; I've gotten back to my computer and checked the things you suggest. I do have network-manager-pptp and network-manager-pptp-gnome installed both at version 0.8-0ubuntu3 As for the vpn.conf file, the files I could find were all under /var/lib/dpkg/info/ network-manager-openvpn.conffiles openvpn.conffiles openvpn.config these aren't what you're looking for though and appear to be to do with openvpn. Should this file be under /etc ? Can you point me in the direction of an example? Also I was using the network manager app to look at what I had setup, and clicked on the routes button and there were no routes. Should this have a route to the server's IP? Thanks for your help Keith ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged.If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the email message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: 1 Tower Place West, Tower Place, London, EC3R 5BU. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] User account disabling
Hi All, Having one of those moments where no matter where I'm searching, can't seem to find what I'm actually looking for. Wondering how any of you are currently handling user account expiry if an account lies idle for a defined amount of time. I've seen perl scripts listed in some places, but I'm trying to see if I can use whatever native tools are already in place to identify when the user last logged in (this is on RHEL systems) and then work out if this is greater than the threshold of 90 days. At this point, we're not actually going to disable those accounts, just looking for a way to identify them so that systems can be flagged as requiring attention. (hopefully this will all help contribute to the argument for a centralised authentication mechanism). Systems are all RHEL so any advice anyone's got on this platform would be greatly appreciated. Password expiry is also being enabled therefore was wondering if this could be centred around that as a way of doing the calculation. Thanks Darren This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged.If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the email message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] User account disabling
Colin Thanks for your responses, they've certainly been most helpful. Darren -Original Message- From: scottish-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:scottish-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Colin Shorts Sent: 17 March 2009 09:18 To: SLUG-list Subject: Re: [Scottish] User account disabling I'll top post too seeing as it's the default for thunderbird too (yes, you can change it). I have dates going back to Thu May 15 18:18:19 +0100 2008 and I haven't played with the defaults. You can specify the number of days using the '-b' switch, but of course if a user has never logged in this will always be shown. C Paxton, Darren wrote: Sorry for top-posting - using crappy outlook Colin It does help, thanks, but isn't the default for lastlog only back to about 30 days or so? I'm guessing I'd have to modify this across all the systems to hold more than this. I think this will be required anyway no matter what I choose, though. Thanks Darren Paxton, Darren wrote: Hi All, Having one of those moments where no matter where I'm searching, can't seem to find what I'm actually looking for. Wondering how any of you are currently handling user account expiry if an account lies idle for a defined amount of time. I've seen perl scripts listed in some places, but I'm trying to see if I can use whatever native tools are already in place to identify when the user last logged in (this is on RHEL systems) and then work out if this is greater than the threshold of 90 days. At this point, we're not actually going to disable those accounts, just looking for a way to identify them so that systems can be flagged as requiring attention. (hopefully this will all help contribute to the argument for a centralised authentication mechanism). Systems are all RHEL so any advice anyone's got on this platform would be greatly appreciated. `lastlog` will probably be your first port of call: # lastlog Username Port From Latest root tty1 Sat Feb 28 14:01:43 + 2009 bin**Never logged in** daemon **Never logged in** adm**Never logged in** lp **Never logged in** sync **Never logged in** shutdown **Never logged in** ~snip~ You can also specify a range of UID's # lastlog -u 1000-2000 This might be more useful for parsing - you might not want to disable some accounts. Password expiry is also being enabled therefore was wondering if this could be centred around that as a way of doing the calculation. Thanks Darren HTH -Colin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged.If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the email message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged.If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the email message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question
Other way to do it is to enable Swat (samba web administration tool) by going into /etc/xinetd.d/swat and changing disable to enable if required, and also allowing access to another network (or run mozilla locally). This gives you a nice interface (and help) for making configuration changes and also for adding users to the database. Should be preconfigured to look at the suse smb.conf on installation. Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Gordon Sent: 05 September 2005 12:13 To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question Unless you're doing cross-domain authentification magick, you don't need to use the machine name on your login, in either the [EMAIL PROTECTED], or domain\user format. As long as you have an account that Samba recognises, then you should be able to log in with just your username. Now, having an account that Samba recognises is another matter. Suse may have some spiffy scripts to synchronise the SMB database with the system database, or it may just leave you high and dry. You can add a user to the Samba database by running smbpasswd - `smbpasswd -a steve` - and then entering in an appropriate password. If the user already exists, then it will just change the password for that user. You also have to have an existing Linux user in the system database with the same username before you make a Samba user - which is why I'm surprised that Suse doesn't synchronise it all automagically for you. If that fails to work, or you've already tried that, send us the most recent logs (grep log file /etc/samba/smb.conf to find out where they're stored) and we can have a look at that. It could be that Windows has some security/encryption options enabled that is confusing Samba Kyle On Monday 05 September 2005 11:45, William Hamilton wrote: Steve Logan wrote: After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the closet... I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running SuSe Professional 9.1. Installation went OK and it's now up and running ready for me to play around with Apache/Tomcat (which is why I want it). Here's my question - I use WinXP for most of my development work and want an easy way of copying files to and from the SuSe box. I've correctly set up Samba client and server on the SuSe box, or at least I think I have. From the Suse box I can see my Win2003 network and copy files across. So that direction works fine. From my XP box I enter the IP address of the Suse box in 'My Computer' and I get back a list of things - 'groups', 'profiles', 'users' and 'Printers and Faxes'. When I click on, say, users I'm asked to login. Here's where my problem starts. I enter '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as the 'User name' and enter my password (I have already set up an account on the SuSe box called steve and I can login fine at the Suse machine) but I'm not logged in. I've tried all sorts of permutations and combinations for the user name but I'm stumped. I presume I'm doing something daft. The suse box is called 'cactuslinux' and there is an account called 'steve'. Help!? Thanks Steve Ah, you dont need to use the machine name when you login. Also, as far as I know you need to add a samba user for the Windows box to authenticate against. Unfortunatly I cannot be more helpful than this - I haven't used samba in quite a while but i'm sure someone else will be able to help nps. Basically yes, your doing something daft but it's a common thing and one that actually stumped me for a while when I first started using samba :) ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- Kyle Gordon Systems Manager Absolute Studios http://www.absolutestudios.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] (is there anyone who can) HELP ? ! !
Forgive the indentation everyone - difficult to try to work with the text as displayed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of babaguy Sent: 11 January 2005 16:13 To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: [Scottish] (is there anyone who can) HELP ? ! ! Hello All ! I bought amp; installed Suse 9.1 Personal - I've had a few difficulties which I've inquired of one of our number about, and more or less resolved, but honestly, I'm not running the machine now because it is simply too much hassle to sort out - so far, that is ! Problems: I can't get the machine to recognise or link up to the external modem I bought.so I can't get online. Have you tried running wvdial or minicom and connect to the port to ensure that it can see it? Or tried using Yast2 to configure? The first disk from the Suse WILL not boot (seems to be corrupted) I would have sent it back at this point or asked for a replacement , so I've used the second one - which seems to be all right.but, as I say, there is essential stuff that isn't occurring. Like what? You havent really clarified what you're saying with any evidence of stuff that's not happening. And one odd thing - there is a quite a lovely initial wallpaper that comes up as standard once the machine is booted. I experimented and stuck on another one, then when I wanted to change back to the original, it had disappeared from the available options.! Cant help here - never really bothered that much about the wallpapers as I do most of my work on the command line. When I have typed in the mount/dev commands I don't seem to get a clickable or command-able list of devices the machine recognises - I have gotten different messages each time I've tried - (but I haven't done anything with it for over a week, as much other work beckoned, which I've done on my old windows 3.1 system.) Mount either shows you the list of mounted devices currently on the system, or, with some command line options, allows you to add other devices that the system may not know about into the filesystem (such as removeable media). Try lspci for a listing of the cards detected by the system. ANYway, I don't want to be a moany, gripy sort of person, but I also would really like to be able to use Linux, and it ain't easy - at all ! - as far as I can see..I realise that Suse have deleted 9.1 Personal - maybe there were problems with it I absolutely hate having to say this, but in the case that you have a manual - did you try working through it? One of Suse's great advantages is the reading material included with the package. I've been using Suse since 5.3 and I always read through it again due to the advice it gives on installing and configuring the system. I'm not sure where you've gotten the idea that Suse have deleted 9.1 - a quick check on the Suse mirror at mirror.ac.uk shows that there's still plenty of data there relating to that particular release. I think you'll realise that 9.2 has been released and Suse are no longer pushing 9.1 as the main product anymore - this doesn't mean that 9.1 has been totally abandoned. Can't really help further on the assistance side of things, but I hope I've pointed you in a general direction. Also, can I ask what mail client you're using as its completely messed formatting here. Cheers Darren This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] [OT] For Sale
Hi All, Looking to get rid of a few items, and wondering if anyone would be interested before I try them on ebay. 1. Atlas Hi-grade laptop Sis Chipset Intel Pentium 3 1 GHz Processor 512 MB Ram Up to 64mb Graphics (Shared from main memory) 30 GB Hard Disk SiS/Uniwill Modem SiS 900 Ethernet Card Sis 7718 soundcard QSI DVD Drive Floppy Drive Touchpad 14 Inch Screen One type2/3 PCMCIA slot One USB Slot PS2 port Serial Port VGA out Parallel Port Infrared Small Rucksack type carrying case Windows 2000 Key and recovery CD included Also just installed Suse 9.1 yesterday morning which installed without any problems and the modem appears to yast. General condition very good apart from a couple of cracks which I can show in pictures to anyone who wants to know. 2. Dell Latitude C600 Laptop Intel Pentium 3 750Mhz Processor with Speedstep 256 MB RAM 16MB ATI Mobile M3 Graphics card 20GB Hard Disk 3com Mini PCI 56K Winmodem 3Com 3C556 Network Card ATI Soundcard Expansion bay for either Sony CD-RW drive or Floppy Drive (connected via Parallel port if both required at same time) Touchpad and pointing stick 14 inch screen Two PCMCIA Slots One USB port PS2 port Serial Port VGA Out Parallel Port TV-Out Infrared Port Docking replicator Windows 2000 Professional Key but no disk. Dell Briefcase style carrying case Again, installed Suse 9.1 without any major difficulties although the modem is a Winmodem and isnt automatically detected. I have a friend who had one of these and had a DVD unit, so I might be able to get that for it, too, but can't guarantee it at this stage. General condition, again very good, apart from a few marks on the lid where its been in and out of the dock. Pictures of both units available on request. I also have a Cisco 2621 router that I got hold of, but its with a mate just now. Expecting it back tomorrow so I can post details of the IOS or anything else that anyone requires who's interested. Sorry for the post to anyone who didn't want to know! Prices, looking for around £300 for each laptop as I'm seeing similar items going for 350-400 on ebay. Cheers Darren This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] [OT] For Sale
Allan, Without meaning to sound facetious, I'd hope to get around £400 - £450 for it, but open to suggestion. Its got two Ethernet ports and a fast serial on it. Cheers Darren -Original Message- From: Allan Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2004 13:42 To: SLUG-list Subject: Re: [Scottish] [OT] For Sale How much are you wanting for the router? Thanks Allan ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Remote Boot using DHCP PXE
Rob Thanks for the suggestions, I do have remote access by way of remote desktop, so I can effectively do whatever I need, however I would have liked to be able to boot a copy of the OS stored on a linux server via enhanced tftp similar to LTSP. On further investigation though, I found Barts Preinstallation environment software http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ , which will help to a certain degree, however it needs console access to the machine, meaning I need to hook up peripherals to engage it. The ideal solution was to have a couple of partitions, one for data and one for OS and I could just blitz the OS one whenever I needed to remotely. I'll look further into it, but looks like its going to be a doozy Cheers again Darren -Original Message- From: Robert (Rob) M. Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2004 10:05 To: 'SLUG-list' Subject: RE: [Scottish] Remote Boot using DHCP PXE Darren, Assuming you can get remote access to the machine (via telnet or other), just issue the Windows shutdown command (see shutdown /? For options) to reboot the machine (after you put the new image into position by some sort of script). You may also want to investigate and solve the root-cause of the corruption ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paxton, Darren Sent: 02 March 2004 17:13 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [Scottish] Remote Boot using DHCP PXE Hi folks, I'm looking at booting a Windows workstation remotely from a Linux server and was wondering if anyone out there has tried it. I've looked at the Remote-Boot mini-howto, however it would appear that my version of dhcpd doesn't support some of the variables in the sample configuration, and compiling the latest version from ISC didn't help either. Reason behind this is I have a windows box that keeps corrupting every so often requiring a reinstall (probably due the the load I put on it), and I'd like to be able to reinstall an image automagically whenever the need arises. Thanks in advance Darren -- Darren Paxton Support Analyst Mercer HR Consulting +44 141 222 8426 This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- Virus scanned by edNET. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] [OT] ADSL Offer?
Thought the group might be interested in the following link: http://easily.co.uk/index.php3?exe=easilyconnect Looks to be a fairly decent deal taken at face value (Static IP), but thought it was worth letting you all see it. (No affiliation with easily) Cheers Darren -- Darren Paxton Support Analyst Mercer HR Consulting +44 141 222 8426 This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Remote Boot using DHCP PXE
Hi folks, I'm looking at booting a Windows workstation remotely from a Linux server and was wondering if anyone out there has tried it. I've looked at the Remote-Boot mini-howto, however it would appear that my version of dhcpd doesn't support some of the variables in the sample configuration, and compiling the latest version from ISC didn't help either. Reason behind this is I have a windows box that keeps corrupting every so often requiring a reinstall (probably due the the load I put on it), and I'd like to be able to reinstall an image automagically whenever the need arises. Thanks in advance Darren -- Darren Paxton Support Analyst Mercer HR Consulting +44 141 222 8426 This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] I'm astonished!
Don't know about the rest of you, but I would never have thought that the makers of Mydoom were targeting SCO due to the current litigation. Nice to see the bleeding edge of journalism at its best! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3457823.stm This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Novell buy Suse
From what I've read, its put Novell in the position where they are able to offer viable solutions to both the server and desktop market. It also gives SUSE the global opportunities that it was previously unable to get hold of due to Redhat's apparent dominance in the market outside of Europe. http://www.itweek.co.uk/News/1147952 for those of you who don't receive IT Week. Personally, I feel Novell have realised they've got a real problem with current offerings and are looking to provide totally alternative solutions to customers by offering completely non-windows based products. (If they don't run windows, they won't be tempted by Active Directory being the psyche methinketh) Darren -Original Message- From: Colin McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 November 2003 21:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Scottish] Novell buy Suse Hi All, Much as I disklike the largely irrelevant business tittle tattling of IT company A buys/sues company B, this one rather caught my interest http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/novell_suse.ht ml Perhaps their just implementing the continuing Ray Noorda business plan to eradicate all forms of *nix. Or maybe they think now is a good time to be pushing Linux on corporate desktops Enough conjecture. Make your own minds up. Do we have a speaker for this month's meet? Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] samba ports
As far as I knew - and as far as my own firewall is concerned, samba uses ports 138 and 139 I guess these could just be control ports though and the data probably flows over different ports, but it may be of some use to you? Darren -Original Message- From: Allan Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 September 2003 10:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Scottish] samba ports Can anybody tell me the ports which samba uses so I can allow them in my iptables. At the moment I have been lazy and just let anything in the LAN get through, but I dont want this. I used tcpdump and found that port 3010 is used. Is this tcp/udp ? And are any other required? Thanks Allan ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Broadband: Made my Trigger
The router will effectively act as your presence on the Internet, your pc will be hidden behind it - and subject to the features you have installed on the router, it can provide firewall, port forwarding, and various other facilities to protect your machine and allow certain services through (such as http, smtp, ftp, ssh etc). After initial configuration, the router can just be switched on and it will get itself online and be quite happy. Using the ADSL modem would mean that your pc would have to initiate the connection whenever you wanted to use the internet - meaning configuration on both windows and linux. You would also have to ensure that your pc has sufficient protection in the form of a firewall. Some members may argue that you would be best installing a firewall even though you may have a router as an added degree of security. Generally ADSL Routers are ADSL modems with the extra technology built in to allow routing of traffic and the other services that it may provide, so you really need just one or the other. A static IP address historically was useful if you wished to host services on your own system, such as mail and http. However, with the advent of dynamic update services its not really necessary. I have a domain name pointed at my ntl cable modem connection, however, this was achieved with a no-ip updating service, this cost $25 for a year and creates DNS records and MX records for my domain to allow me to exist on the Internet as a real domain. Obviously reverse lookups don't work, but I'm not that bothered about that. Also, requesting a static IP can usually incur an extra charge depending on the provider. HTH Darren -Original Message- From: Phil Deane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 September 2003 22:03 To: ScotLUG Subject: [Scottish] Broadband: Made my Trigger Hi Folks I have made my trigger finally, and now can start to plan what kind of connection I want. I am wanting a 1MB connection if i can get it, I have 1 primary PC, which dual boots, well she reboots into windows and i reboot into mandrake, does that count? :-) My 6 year old twins have a pc as well, but I dont think I want to hook that up to the net yet, maybe an option in the future, but for the purposes of your advice, I just want to consider the dual booting pc. People have advised to get a router, but I am not sure what the difference between a router and an adsl modem are? Do I need both? I have tried searching the web but all i come across are sales sites, and of course they are going to say they are great. I also heard data stream, is better than ip-stream, but again not sure why. Do I want a static Ip address? Sounds good, but on dialup I have never had one, so I dont know if one would benefit me Any advice and recommendations greatly appreciated. -- Phil Deane http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] fetchmail
Allan I use a web based script and php/mysql solution called Netfilter logs analyzer http://freshmeat.net/projects/netfilter_log_analyzer/?topic_id=245%2C43%2C14 8%2C150%2C151 If you mail me off-list I'll give you the URL so you can see it running on my system for yourself Darren -Original Message- From: Allan Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 September 2003 01:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] fetchmail Well if you're logged in as allan you can do crontab -e Thanks, that has it working for now. Now to get that iptables graphical log tool ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Fw: LUG Screening
Heh - being an ex-IBM'er I know that unfortunately, he's stuck with it! Darren -Original Message- From: iain d broadfoot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 May 2003 12:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] Fw: LUG Screening * Ben Thorp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: me too Ben Thorp does your mail client _need_ to suck quite so badly? iain. Kyle Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: [Scottish] Fw: LUG Screening [EMAIL PROTECTED] .lug.org.uk 29/05/2003 12:07 PM Please respond to scottish Yeah, I like the sound of that. I'm up for it :-) Kyle On Thursday 29 May 2003 09:34, William Anderson wrote: I dropped an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] just checking it would be OK to screen the Revolution OS DVD at the meeting in June, and got this back from the director ... :) Is everyone cool with this idea of showing the film next month? I know there have been positive noises from #scotlug. If no-one really objects, I can let them know when we'll be showing it, and we could possibly chuck a news link up on scotlug.org.uk - I think it would be a good intro for those not 100% certain of the stories behind free software. J.T.S. Moore wrote: William, Thank you for purchasing REVOLUTION OS! Since you have already purchased the DVD, I am happy to give you permission to screen it for you LUG. All you need to do is e-mail me the time and place of your LUG screening. I will try to post it to the revolution-os.com website. Also, if you could give you LUG a brief sales pitch about the DVD I would truly appreciate it. I am self-distributing the DVD. So I need all the help I can get :-) Best Wishes, J.T.S. Moore Director, REVOLUTION OS William Anderson wrote: Hi, I purchased the Revolution OS DVD from thinkgeek.com and I'd like to do a screening of the movie at the LUG I attend in Glasgow, UK - do I have to get some permission from yourselves before I get the goahead for this? Thanks for any help you can provide. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared. -St. Augustine ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] php and my sql
Looks vaugely familiar!
-Original Message-
From: Ismail Murat Dilek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 11 February 2003 16:35
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Scottish] php and my sql
Hi,
I ve created a mysql database. Basically user fills the form then hits
submit button and all data posted to mysql database.This part works fine.
Next time user return the page enters their email address and hits submit
button. my php script check if email address exist in our database if exist
takes user to download page, if not exist takes them to registration page.
Some strange reason this comparasing is not working properly. it works for
some email addresses, e.g. my email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] is registered
in mysql database so script should take to download page but it is taking me
registration page instead any ideas ?
//Author: Ismail Murat Dilek
require(conn.php);
///
// following part read values of entered details and prepares them for mysql
data input format
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
///
$query =Select email from details; // selects email field from details
table $result = mysql_query($query); //executes sql select query $num_result
= mysql_num_rows($result);
/* searches database for email, if email dosent exist writes details to
database,then redirects user to download page */ for ($i=0; $i$num_result;
$i++) {
$row= mysql_fetch_array($result);
$eml = stripslashes($row[email]);
$email = trim($email);
$eml = trim($eml);
$eq = strcmp($email,$eml);
if ($eq != 0)
{
header(Location:register.php);
}
else
{
header(Location:download.php);
}
}//end for
?
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RE: [Scottish] If you had a choice between...
I concur with this - I've been a SuSE stalwart since 5.3 and that version had an excellent manual to work from. Downloaded the latest version rather than buy it, but I would definitely recommend it. Also, YaST may not be to everyone's taste, but I find it quite useful as an administration tool Darren -Original Message- From: George Richard Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 January 2003 11:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] If you had a choice between... george wrote: I am thinking of trying another linux distro. Up to now it's mostly been MD with a touch of Gentoo thrown in. My choices are Red Hat or SuSe. Any recommendations SuSE, if you don't have a fast internet connection. A staggering breadth of applications included on ~7 CD's. Make sure you get the professional edition. The paper documentation is also quite good. George ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] OT: Weird domain stuff
Is your existing domain registrar transferring their business to another possibly? Do they have the ability to renew themselves or do they go through a registrar? I think the first point of call should be who you registered the domain with and query them as to why you are being contacted, as it could be a genuine notification, however I wouldnt do anything on the bulkregistrar site until you know. Darren -Original Message- From: Mark Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 January 2003 09:53 To: S.L.U.G Subject: [Scottish] OT: Weird domain stuff Hello S.L.U.G, I received the email quoted below this morning. I haven't done anything with the domain, and know of no reason anything should be happening to it. Does anyone know what is going on? Are they trying to take it off me? Is this some kind of scam, or is it a legitimate change? HELP please! Mark == A request has been made to transfer domain name(s) for which you are the administrative contact to the registrar BulkRegister.com. In order to approve or disapprove the transfer, please click on the following Link and use the Login Information provided below within 5 calendar days of this email: Link: http://bulkregister.com/admin.html Login Information - Batch ID : snip Admin Handle : snip Pin #: snip Each domain you submitted for transfer in this batch is listed below: reason-technology.com NOTE: If you have received more than one email, please use the link or login information provided in each email. You may be listed as the administrative contact at your current registrar for more than one handle. Some email programs may require that you copy and paste the link into the address or location window of your browser. If you experience technical difficulties accessing the above link please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] By approving the transfer(s), you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the BulkRegister.com Registration Agreement(RA) and ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy(UDRP) found below. If you experience technical difficulities accessing the above link please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] BulkRegister.com Registration Agreement(RA) http://bulkregister.com/agreement.phtml ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy(UDRP) http://bulkregister.com/disputepolicy.phtml Thank you, BulkRegister Transfer Operations ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Any jobs going?
-Original Message- From: Colin McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 December 2002 12:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] Any jobs going? Colin (Will manage Microsoft NT for money) Sign of desperation :( This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] OT : ADSL modems
I'm not an expert on ADSL, however I think that as long as it uses PPPoA then it will be fine for use in the UK - I know some German Providers use PPPoE, so this could through a spanner in the works - best to find out what protocol your intended ISP uses (ALL uk uses PPPoA). Darren -Original Message- From: Huard, Elise - D CW Consultant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 December 2002 09:43 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [Scottish] OT : ADSL modems Hi, hardware question : does anybody know if it matters if you use a foreign (belgian, for instance) ADSL modem in the UK ? I would use a local microfilter, so i'd have the right frequency range, but i wondered if there are other issues with this. (amongst other things, it would be to upgrade debian on my laptop when traveling about, so there you are : this links it to Linux :-) ) Thanks, Elise *** This email and any accompanying files are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, copy or disclose the content. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender by return email and delete this message. Thankyou for your co-operation. * ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] OT: multiview boxes?
Sorry for posting OT, but I'd just like to ask a question. Thinking of buying an omniview type box - just looking to know where I can get one relatively cheap and cheerful without wires (since I've already acquired two full cables). Already been on maplin, their cheapest is about 70 quid. Any replies greatly appreciated Darren -- Darren Paxton Computacenter Technical Service Analyst Mercer HR Consulting Edinburgh Int 21526 Ext 0131 247 4526 This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] just a test --- please ignore
received in my inbox at 10:10 Well done Willie, you've traversed the space time continuum -Original Message- From: willie fleming [mailto:slug;itscotland.demon.co.uk] Sent: 13 November 2002 10:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Scottish] just a test --- please ignore JUst seeing how slow this really is... sent from here at 10:11 -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Introduction
Colin (who did an introductory PHP talk many moons ago) Colin's PHP talk helped me no end!! I'd be happy to see more on PHP Darren This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
