Re: [SLUG] Network Server Identification
I don't know if there would be any good way to detect debian specifically if the machines have at least a port open, you could use nmap to return the number of linux machines. Craige McWhirter wrote: Afternoon. I'm after a quick'n'easy tool to identify how many servers we have running Debian across our network so I can gather numbers for a case I'm putting together. Does anyone have nice and simple apps I can suck down and use? -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- Colin Humphreys | RD Network/Systems Administrator | Borland Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Work | Play -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ph) +612 9263 8053 (mob) +61 414 483341 (fax) +612 9263 8080 PGP key: 0xB6037E5E (fprint: F0EA C979 C9E8 A5C9 EBA7 7C63 6F66 227B) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Network Server Identification
quote who="Craige McWhirter" Afternoon. I'm after a quick'n'easy tool to identify how many servers we have running Debian across our network so I can gather numbers for a case I'm putting together. Does anyone have nice and simple apps I can suck down and use? If you're using an ssh key for administration user accounts on the Debian machines (or all yourUnix machines), you could connect to everything with port 22 open using it, and then get the contents of /etc/debian_version. If there's output, that's a Debian machine. :) - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://linux.conf.au/ -- ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Memory Issues: Thanks All
Thanks all who help with suggestions on correcting memory issues within lilo.conf SLUG rocks! cheers David -- The Seismonitor Project www.allshookup.org/research/seisindx.htm email [EMAIL PROTECTED] D.V.Rogers -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] dsl info
Dear Moe, PacBell is a telephone company in California (Pacific Bell) - we're slightly south west of there. Scott Adams of Dilbert fame worked at PacBell - might have even derived some of his ideas from there - scary. As luck would have it, my brother-in-law used to work there too in DSL tech support no less. Ask a Linux related question and expect the first thing for them to say is, "find the START button and go to SETTINGS then CONTROL PANEL". Anyway, there should be a more 'local' linux user group you could use. Try http://linuxmafia.com/sjsu/ and you'll probably find the modem you're after. Good luck and think of us lowly souls who are stuck at 56k when you're cruising the superhighway. Maybe ask PacBell to put cable in my area - our local telcos can't be bothered. hi all, Well just ordered pacbell dsl. Do they have good service? Also, anyone know where I can pickup a used 'Westell Modem'(hopefully from a ex-pacbell dsl user). They also told me that I will need software: Enternet 300. How will this software interact with my linux box? Anyone went through this ordeal? Please share any info you may have. thanks, moe __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Effect of US$/AU$ on MS software.
I recently discovered that books printed in the US which I had been buying for just under A$30.00 were now being priced at _just under A$60.00_; i.e. they were being priced using the current exchange rate for new editions sourced from the US. MS has just announced Windows XP. Its pricing is also likely to reflect the _current_ exchange rate - in other words it just might price itself out of much of the local market. In this context the open source model could start to look very attractive to a lot of people who have not previously been involved with Linux.. Just a thought. Adam Bogacki. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Laptops
I have not tried this but, apparently the floppy works at boot but is not supported in linux by default very hard to find, but would be very usefull, there is a site which has drivers for the floppy drive under linux. These may be mirrored elsewhere but lat time I looked I could not find it. ftp://ftp.rp.csiro.au/pub/people/dbateman/flash/ HIH -Original Message- From: Jon Biddell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 9:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Laptops Anyone have a Libretto working with *any* distro ? I have a 110CT (P233, 32Mb, 4Gb hd) that I'm looking to "upgrade" from Windoze... Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Compiled new kernel, now oddball sound...
Hi all, Compiled a new kernel during the week (2.2.19) - even getting my USB keyboard and mouse working (hey, for me that is an achievement ;) Everything is working fine, except for the sound. The es1371 module is being loaded on startup, and works fine when I log in as root, but I can't seem to get sound working for any other user (there are two user accounts, and its only used as a workstation - no internet connection). Starting xmms while logged in as a user returns an error along the lines of "Check soundcard is configured properly, etc" - but there are no problems with this as root. Any ideas what could be causing this? Cheers Dave - WARNING: This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential/privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this messages are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation. You should scan any attached files for viruses. -
Re: [SLUG] Virtual mail on Linux (RH62)
When trying to ping I am getting no SO_TIMSTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP what is this all about? it is the network code specifically for the 2.4 kernel being ignored because you are still running a 2.2 kernel... later marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Altavista - Probably OT
Have you tried going to: http://www.altavista.com/?ner=2 Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Friday afternoon request for help - PLEASE
This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong said: I realised once it started that I had done a bad thing and am now minus some useful directories namely "/usr/bin" and "/usr/X11R6" :-(( Without seeing the actual damage, I'd say you're hosed. /usr/bin is quite necessary, and if you don't have that directory anymore, then the system is mostly unusable. What distro are you using? You might be in luck and find that tools for rebuilding the machine are in /bin (I'm guessing that /bin is still there, as you can boot into it), if you're using debian, there must be an option to apt to reinstall packages that are broken -- anyone know? Failing that, you'll have to back up your home dir, and reinstall. -- jamesw Always two there are; a Bastard, and a PFY. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Friday afternoon request for help - PLEASE
Thanks for the reply. I'm using RED HAT 7.0. I'll look in the /bin directory for anything that looks usable. * Simon J.P. Wong Ph: +61 2 9555 6910 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * -Original Message- From: James Wilkinson [mailto:jaq@willow]On Behalf Of James Wilkinson Sent: Friday, 6 April 2001 1:50 PM To: Simon Wong Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] Friday afternoon request for help - PLEASE This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong said: I realised once it started that I had done a bad thing and am now minus some useful directories namely "/usr/bin" and "/usr/X11R6" :-(( Without seeing the actual damage, I'd say you're hosed. /usr/bin is quite necessary, and if you don't have that directory anymore, then the system is mostly unusable. What distro are you using? You might be in luck and find that tools for rebuilding the machine are in /bin (I'm guessing that /bin is still there, as you can boot into it), if you're using debian, there must be an option to apt to reinstall packages that are broken -- anyone know? Failing that, you'll have to back up your home dir, and reinstall. -- jamesw Always two there are; a Bastard, and a PFY. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Friday afternoon request for help - PLEASE
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Simon Wong wrote: Thanks for the reply. I'm using RED HAT 7.0. I'll look in the /bin directory for anything that looks usable. If you can still boot and mount your original CD-ROM, you can use RPM to re-install the missing bits. You'll most likely have to use the --force option because the database will tell you they're already installed. Don't know the layout of the RH 7 disk, so I can't tell you where they are - but just look around in the disk. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Friday afternoon request for help - PLEASE
Look on the positive... Think how much better you will know Linux after installing it a second time in as many weeks. Most of us aren't that lucky... Do you have separate partitions? at least one for /home? At any rate, you will next time... You might also look at this as a good time to try out Mandrake - my favorite workstation distro. Jon - Original Message - From: "Simon Wong" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "James Wilkinson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "SLUG" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 11:54 PM Subject: RE: [SLUG] Friday afternoon request for help - PLEASE Thanks for the reply. I'm using RED HAT 7.0. I'll look in the /bin directory for anything that looks usable. * Simon J.P. Wong Ph: +61 2 9555 6910 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * -Original Message- From: James Wilkinson [mailto:jaq@willow]On Behalf Of James Wilkinson Sent: Friday, 6 April 2001 1:50 PM To: Simon Wong Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] Friday afternoon request for help - PLEASE This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong said: I realised once it started that I had done a bad thing and am now minus some useful directories namely "/usr/bin" and "/usr/X11R6" :-(( Without seeing the actual damage, I'd say you're hosed. /usr/bin is quite necessary, and if you don't have that directory anymore, then the system is mostly unusable. What distro are you using? You might be in luck and find that tools for rebuilding the machine are in /bin (I'm guessing that /bin is still there, as you can boot into it), if you're using debian, there must be an option to apt to reinstall packages that are broken -- anyone know? Failing that, you'll have to back up your home dir, and reinstall. -- jamesw Always two there are; a Bastard, and a PFY. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Altavista - Probably OT
Gregg, while I would also find this annoying, I probably like yourself, am viewing this from an IT professional / hobbyist perspective where the search reqiurements are global. However, we are in the minority. Most people on the web are neither IT professionals or hobbyists and from those that I know, most of their requirements are regional and global searches are of little or infrequent use. I dare say that the AV change is in response to this. IMHO AV was a lousy search engine anyway ;) Like you said, vote with your and use Google. I'd be surprised if you didn't find Google better anyway. :) Thus spake Gregg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Not sure why this has gotten so far up my nose but it really has. It is another small step towards the 'dumbing down' of the web and computing in general. Many of you will think I have far too much free time on my hands to be bothered with this but I encourage you to consider it as someone who prefers to think for themselves rather than having others second guess you. RANT For as long as I can remember, I've used the altavista search engine and even have (had) it as my 'home page' on my browser because it was honest, reliable and useful. The actual url is www.altavista.com but they are now redirecting requests to this url to 'country specific' sites, in our case, au.altavista.com, where the default search scope is sites only within Australia. Sure, you can get a full-scope search by clicking a radio button but that's not the point - the default isn't changable and I almost never need to search specifically within Oz. Basically, when I type www.altavista.com, I really want www.altavista.com, not something else (otherwise I would have typed something else). I find this insulting and liken it to the annoying "paperclip man" in MS Office telling me, "It appears that you're typing a letter...". Fortunately we have StarOffice and Linux as alternatives. This "we'll do the thinking for you" stuff needs to be nipped in the bud, not just at Altavista but elsewhere too. Otherwise we might as well exclusively use Windows and AOL and accept all things as they are. /RANT I've voted with my feet (mouse rather) and sent this to Altavista. gsbme-lx040.gsbme.unsw.edu.au/~greggs/altavista/altavista_bye.jpg and complained to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for listening. Gregg Their reply: Dear Valued Member, Thank you for your inquiry. Thanks for your mail. AltaVista has created country specific web sites to provide a better search experience to our visitors from outside the US and altavista.com.au is one of these sites. From the Australian site you : ? have access to a local index of almost 10 million Australian pages ? which is not available from altavista.com ? can search the whole of the index found on .com ? some 550 million pages ? just select 'the world wide web' as your search option under the search box ? can customise your search results ? save them, e-mail them to friends or colleagues, and track where you've searched. For the time being, we will continue to redirect you to the Australian site when you visit altavista.com. If you need to visit the US site, just click on the 'go to US site' link on the top right of the Australian site. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again. Sincerely, Edwin AltaVista Support Team -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Friday afternoon request for help - PLEASE
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Simon Wong wrote: I've seen where the rpms are on the installlation CD, I guess I just have to try lots of them. Well, you need to re-install X11, right? So do everything which starts with "xfree" or has "xfree" or "x11" in its name - that oughta get you close. Is there likely to be one rpm that will contain all the basic stuff like lpr, lpq etc?? Quite possibly, however I can't even begin to say which one. I haven't used deadrat since version 5 - version 6 sucked seriously, and I never went back. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Friday afternoon request for help - PLEASE
This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong said: What sort of size would you suggest for essentially a single user (me) system? As big as you want. I tend to parttition like so: 10M /boot (first on the disk) 128M swap everything else in / This is for my personal machines that do more workstationing than servering. I suppose all program installations will still be on the main partition so it is only working and preference info in /home? Well, if you make /home separate, you can reinstall the system without overwriting that partition, vis (numbers may vary): 10M /boot 128M swap 50M / 2G /usr 6G /home If you hose /usr/bin like you have, you can reinstall from scratch and not overwrite your /home data You won't need to recreate the partitions, as they already exist, and you can recreate the filesystems on / and /usr without fear of overwriting your /home. How do I get /root to be in /home/root? Why do you want to do this? a) if you separate /home from /, root won't be able to log in if theres a problem mounting /home, b) if you're thinking of using root as your normal login account, think again. PS: snip your replies, there were 3 other messages under this one :( -- jamesw Always two there are; a Bastard, and a PFY. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Debian Vs Progeny
Hi Guys, Has anyone had experience between both Progeny (rc2 stable) and the latest Debian (woody I believe is stable) Release? Which would be worth getting for a workstation/Gaming use (q3, UT etc)/Internet use, nothing as a gateway? Any thoughts or ideas would be great. Regards, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Friday afternoon request for help - PLEASE
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 03:20:19PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: Thanks..will try. I've seen where the rpms are on the installlation CD, I guess I just have to try lots of them. Not that I know anything about redhat, but you might be able to do a freshen. Read the rpm man page, then try something like rpm --freshen *.rpm (or more likely rpm --freshen --replacepkgs *.rpm) It should reinstall only the packages that are already installed on your system. I don't know whether it will overwrite your config files though. You might even be able to get rpm to list the packages that have missing files with the verify option, or something. -- chesty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
