[SLUG] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 29th June, 2001

[Jeff Waugh]

Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 29th June, 2001

   My apologies for the late announcement; human error was the dominant
   contributing factor. We'll endeavour to have announcements out much,
   much sooner than this in future (ie. closer to our usual timing).
   
   Please note: We will be attempting to start and finish the meeting
   earlier from now on, so dinner doesn't run so late. Talks will start
   at 7pm, with the usual suspects beforehand.
   
The Usual Suspects

 * Q&A - "What has Linux done for/to me lately?"
 * Linux News & Discussion
   
Andrew Tridgell on Samba

   Tridge, infamous author of Samba and rsync, will be coming along to SLUG
   and speaking about Samba development, all the new goodies in 2.2, plus
   what's coming up in Samba 3. He'll also be happy to answer questions on
   all manner of things.
   
   MCSEs very welcome. ;)
   
   http://au1.samba.org/samba/samba.html
  http://rsync.samba.org/
   
Jamie Honan on Amtel AVR Hacking

   One of the bug-bears of running a PC that is basically unattended is
   that you usually require a keyboard to boot. For servers in machine
   rooms, this is no problem. Often a kayboard / mouse / monitor switch
   is used. For home use, or remote situations, e.g. data logging,
   routers / firewalls, the keyboard is more of an annoyance.
   
   Jamie Honan has come accross some remarkable micro-controllers, the
   Atmel AVR range. These devices are cheap, easy to connect and easy to
   program. Replacing the keyboard will require one DIN plug and one
   chip. What is even better is that all the software tools to program
   the beastie are available for free under Linux. This includes gcc,
   gdb, and download software.
   
   The keyboard connector is also of interest, because it provides a fair
   amount of power (unlike the printer port or the serial port) and
   because it is actually bi-directional. It should be possible to have a
   small LCD display connected to this device, and a couple of momentary
   press switches. This allows a PC to be controlled without a keyboard
   or monitor. Such applications could include: data logging, remote web
   cam, MP3 player.
   
Dinner

   After the meeting at the BBQ King, near George St. If you would like
   to come to dinner this month, please RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or
   simply reply to this email), so we can warn the restaurant if numbers
   are higher than expected.
   
  Directions to this month's SLUG meeting:
 http://slug.org.au/slugmeet.shtml

See you there!

- Jeff

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Re: [SLUG] [OT] Webmail as an ISP

[Jon Austin]

> Were we just on a good thing ?

Obviously not. One.Net is no more =)

> Is there someone else out there doing what one.net did ?

If you are looking for an ISP, http://www.cynosure.com.au/isp/
has a pretty good (albeit outdated) list of ISP's with what 
hosting/connection offerings they have.

- Original Message - 
From: "Andy Eager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 4:20 PM
Subject: [SLUG] [OT] Webmail as an ISP


> Were we just on a good thing ?
> Is there someone else out there doing what one.net did ?


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[SLUG] [OT] Webmail as an ISP

[Andy Eager]

Hi all,

As yet another casualty of one.net,  I was wondering if anyone had any 
experience with webmail as both an ISP and site hoster.

I joined up with optus just to get connected, but couldn't get the site 
redelegated without paying a bomb.

It seems to me that one.net were reasonably unique in that 'personal' 
webspace provided as part of most unlimited plans could be used to hold 
a registered domain name.  (ie www.provider.com.au/~yourname  could be 
used as www.yourdomain.com.au)

Now you need to pay $20-$30 per month to host the site and another 
$20-$30 per month for 'unlimited' access.

Were we just on a good thing ?
Is there someone else out there doing what one.net did ?


Andrew


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[SLUG] OnStream ADR Tape Drive

[John Ferlito]

I bought one of these a while ago from everything linux. But they can't
source the tapes anymore. Anyone know of a source in Sydney for them?

NB. Do not ever buy one of these drives. They are really wierd, need a
spevcial kernel driver, wierd options to tar and won't work with stuff
like arkeia.

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RE: [SLUG] xdvi displays RGB !

[Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP]

24bit colour depth does give problems on some apps, netscape being one.
Corel Word Perfect 8 is another and so is ymessenger

Don't know why though, just have to try another colour depth

sorry

-Original Message-
From: Mike Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2001 2:13
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Mike Lake
Subject: Re: [SLUG] xdvi displays RGB !


On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:21:13PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
> I made a post a while ago on my fonts in xdvi appearing strange.
> (22 May 2001). I still have not worked out what the prob is.
> 
> When I run xdvi the fonts appear to be "colour separated" ie
> all the letters instead of being black on a white background
> are alternating, vertical blue/red stripes."
.

BTW it's definately not a colour map running out from a hog like Netscape.
xwininfo:
Depth: 24
Visual Class: TrueColor

Netscape ain't running.

Have a look at the gif and you will see what I mean. Running out of colors
from the available colormap appears quite different.

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Re: [SLUG] xdvi displays RGB !

[Mike Lake]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:21:13PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
> I made a post a while ago on my fonts in xdvi appearing strange.
> (22 May 2001). I still have not worked out what the prob is.
> 
> When I run xdvi the fonts appear to be "colour separated" ie
> all the letters instead of being black on a white background
> are alternating, vertical blue/red stripes."
.

BTW it's definately not a colour map running out from a hog like Netscape.
xwininfo:
Depth: 24
Visual Class: TrueColor

Netscape ain't running.

Have a look at the gif and you will see what I mean. Running out of colors
from the available colormap appears quite different.

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[SLUG] xdvi displays RGB !

[Mike Lake]

Hi,

I made a post a while ago on my fonts in xdvi appearing strange.
(22 May 2001). I still have not worked out what the prob is.

When I run xdvi the fonts appear to be "colour separated" ie
all the letters instead of being black on a white background
are alternating, vertical blue/red stripes."
See previous post for the details. Seems like no one here
has encountered tha prob before but I have found out a few
more snippets that may help someone to guess what my prob may be.

If I hit 1G while in xdvi to turn on anti-aliasing the "colour
separation" disappears but I have bitty fonts - yep expected as
ani-aliasing is now off. If I type 0G to turn off aliasing I get 
the color-separated fonts again.

At 1s magnification (the largest) there is no prob but its there at 2s or
smaller magnification.

Any ideas on what the prob might be? The screen looks terrible. 

I have attached a gif to show what the prob is. Wait! don't flame me yet -
its only 1485 bytes. In this case a picture is really worth 1000 bytes of
text.

Mike
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 xdvi.gif

[SLUG] Stallion epipe

[pauld]

Hi all,

Has anyone had any experience with Stallion's epipe? I've used two to
connect via ADSL and set up a VPN between the two sites but I'm hitting a
brick wall with the NAT to the net. 

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Re: [SLUG] PCMCIA 10/100 card tuning?

[Rachel Polanskis]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Dean Hamstead wrote:

> append options to the kernel or to the module ;)
> 
> 
> Look in the kernel source ;)


Thanks everyone for your help.  
I had no idea what kernel options to pass to this PC card since it 
doesn't have a real unique identifier but I used the "pcnet_cs" 
value I found.   I tried all sorts of things to stop the card from 
auto-negotiation but it still comes up 100TX FD.  I think I have one 
of those cards that cannot be changed by the current Linux. 

I would've gone through the source but I don't have room for it on the 
HDD.   One of the things I tried was in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and 
adding IF_PORT=10base2 to the config.  It complained about an invalid 
ioctl.  Further searching on the net indicated that this meant the 
card couldn't change the port speed.

Surely there must be a way to change the port speed?!  It's a 10/100 
card, meaning there are 2 choices!  I think the issue is that the 
driver in Linux doesn't know how to turn off auto-negotiation 
for this particular brand :(


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Re: [SLUG] rpc.statd vuln

[Del]

The tools you are after are all here:

http://www.linuxsecuritycentral.com/

Look under "Intrusion Detection" under the Resources section.

As a related piece of advertising spam:  I offer a monthly service
whereby I do all of this for you (install tools, harden system, run
tools, monitor output, monitor for intrusion attempts, keep distro
up to date), sort of like Red Hat Network but with more teeth (and
for Debian as well).  I won't bore the list with the details and
pricing, contact me off line if you're interested.

> Just after Jon sent a note regarding an `intrusion' noted in
> syslog as `rpc.statd gethostbyname \220 ...' I got the same sort
> of message.
> 
> Strangely I also received something called `torn' in, of all
> places, my .wine/fakewindows/Program Files/ directly after. As
> I only installed wine the day before, and only have 3 windows
> exe's installed, I know I didn't put it there.
> 
> I did cat on it. It was a binary but I could make out 3 or 4
> English words, like Windows, Files, Name, Mail.
> 
> So add .wine to your list of places to go looking for intrusions.
> 
> Nick ___
> 
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, George Ferizis wrote: Re: [SLUG] t0rn toolkit
> 
> > Hi all,
> >  I just noticed something very funny on my system, it was a set of
> > programs that was loaded into my /tmp directory named t0rn, which seemed to
> > be some type of trojan toolkit.
> >
> > The funny things is...I didn't put it there, and I'm the only one with
> > access to the box. I am guessing this means security on the box has been
> > compromised, so I was wondering if anybody knew of any monitoring tools that
> > could be used to alert me when some form of login is made.
> > Thanks,
> > George

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[SLUG] Keyboard emulator designs available

[Jamie Honan]

Hopefully I'm still giving my talk about my keyboard emulator
this Friday's SLUG meeting.

My draft design is finished and available on
http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~jhonan/havr-go/havr-go.html

It's a small board, meant to be available in kit form. In full form, 
it allows the control of a
Linux PC by an LCD and two switches. It is a low cost and tiny
replacement for a PC keyboard. Finally it is a low cost, simple way
to experiment with embedded controllers.

I'd appreciate any feedback. As you should know I'm not a hardware
type so this may have some embarressing moments. 

Please note, this is only a preliminary. It worked for me :)

The photos are blurry, this is following previous advice about
using a scanner. Didn't work for me :(, have to await repairs
to my camera.

Regards
Jamie


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Re: [SLUG] Dangling symlink ?

[Steven downing]

Adam,
I think Matt hit it on the head, Debian seems not to have handled the upgrade to a 
'modular' xserver too well.  Anyway, I scoured around my box last night and heres a 
few notes to help you understand what should be happening.

steved@Moria:~$dpkg --list xlib6g
==
ii  xlib6g  4.0.2-7 pseudopackage providing X libraries
I run a slightly older version of X.

steved@Moria:~$ ls -la /etc/X11/X
rwxrwxrwx1 root root   20 Mar  3 00:36 /etc/X11/X -> 
/usr/bin/X11/XFree86
So /etc/X11/X is a symlink to /usr/bin/X11/XFre86

steved@Moria:~$ ls -la /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root  1491868 Feb 22 16:13 /usr/bin/X11/XFree86
And /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 is the xserver, and it's a real file (1.4 meg)

So what package has provided that file?
steved@Moria:~$ dpkg --search /usr/bin/X11/XFree86
dpkg: /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 not found.

WHAT?  Not found? I was just looking at it!
Lets try a generic search for just XFree86

steved@Moria:~$ dpkg --search XFree86
xserver-xfree86: /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
xfree86-common: /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/XFree86-FAQ.html
xserver-xfree86: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/XFree86.1x.gz
xfree86-common: /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/XFree86-FAQ.text.gz
xdm: /etc/X11/xdm/pixmaps/XFree86.xpm
xdm: /etc/X11/xdm/pixmaps/XFree86bw.xpm

The first one is the one we are looking for.
Package 'xserver-xfree86' has provided /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86,
but this is a different spot to /usr/bin/X11Xfree86, and here's the tricky part.

steved@Moria:~$ ls -la /usr/bin/X11
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   12 Mar  1 23:01 /usr/bin/X11 -> ../X11R6/bin

/usr/bin/X11 is what I call a 'directory symlink' to the /usr/X11R6/bin directory.
i.e /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 is the same file as /usr/bin/X11Xfree86
Anytime you ask for something in the /usr/biun/X11 directory it points you straight at 
the /usr/X11R6/bin directory.

steved@Moria:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 
testing/unstable

And you can check if the Xfree86 version 4 server is installed by:
steved@Moria:~$ dpkg --status xserver-xfree86
Package: xserver-xfree86
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 11300
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: xfree86
Version: 4.0.2-7
Replaces: xserver-common (<< 4.0), libxfont-xtt (<< 1:1.3.0.1-13)
Provides: xserver
Depends: xserver-common (>> 4.0), debconf (>= 0.2.26), libc6 (>= 2.2.1), zlib1g (>= 
1:1.1.3)
Suggests: mdetect, read-edid
Description: the XFree86 X server
 The XFree86 X server is an X server for several architectures and operating
 systems; its architecture was completely redesigned for the 4.0 release, and
 features a loadable module system in which required modules are loaded on
 demand by a single server binary as opposed to the video card-specific X
 servers of the 3.x release.
 .
 The XFree86 server supports most modern graphics hardware from most vendors,
 and supersedes most version 3.x XFree86 X servers.  See
  for information on its support for
 your particular hardware.
 .
 If the mdetect and read-edid packages are present, the debconf scripts in
 this package will use them to attempt automatic configuration of your mouse
 and monitor.

Notice the Status: line near the top...

Anyway, my notes from that time indicate that I fixed it all by:
apt-get install task-x-window-system
I was also missing files like 'startx' and 'deXter' which is the debian Xwindow config 
utility..

Hope that all helps


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Re: [SLUG] rpc.statd vuln

[Nick Croft]

Just after Jon sent a note regarding an `intrusion' noted in
syslog as `rpc.statd gethostbyname \220 ...' I got the same sort
of message.

Strangely I also received something called `torn' in, of all
places, my .wine/fakewindows/Program Files/ directly after. As
I only installed wine the day before, and only have 3 windows
exe's installed, I know I didn't put it there.

I did cat on it. It was a binary but I could make out 3 or 4
English words, like Windows, Files, Name, Mail.

So add .wine to your list of places to go looking for intrusions.

Nick ___

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, George Ferizis wrote: Re: [SLUG] t0rn toolkit

> Hi all, 
>  I just noticed something very funny on my system, it was a set of 
> programs that was loaded into my /tmp directory named t0rn, which seemed to 
> be some type of trojan toolkit.  
>
> The funny things is...I didn't put it there, and I'm the only one with 
> access to the box. I am guessing this means security on the box has been 
> compromised, so I was wondering if anybody knew of any monitoring tools that 
> could be used to alert me when some form of login is made.  
> Thanks, 
> George 
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Re: [SLUG] keeping track of ip;s

[Jon Carnes]

Hu... 
   arpwatch?

- Original Message - 
From: "wal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:25 PM
Subject: [SLUG] keeping track of ip;s


> Hi,
> 
> can anyone suggest a utility or what options do i have
> if i would to keep track of network addresses assigned
> to sites for an organization
> 
> Sometihng that will allow me to keep track of
> WAN net address
>   LAN addresses
> server/switch/router addresses within LAN/WAN
> 
> Is there some opensource application for this?
> 
> Any suggestions/pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Regards../
> wal 
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Re: [SLUG] keeping track of ip;s

[Dean Hamstead]

you could whip up a quick ms access 'database', or just
use the mysql cli ;)

but seriously

http://www.wesmo.com/~rwest/MID/

looks good

Dean


wal wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> can anyone suggest a utility or what options do i have
> if i would to keep track of network addresses assigned
> to sites for an organization
> 
> Sometihng that will allow me to keep track of
>   WAN net address
>   LAN addresses
>   server/switch/router addresses within LAN/WAN
> 
> Is there some opensource application for this?
> 
> Any suggestions/pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Regards../
> wal   
> 
> 



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[SLUG] keeping track of ip;s

[wal]

Hi,

can anyone suggest a utility or what options do i have
if i would to keep track of network addresses assigned
to sites for an organization

Sometihng that will allow me to keep track of
WAN net address
LAN addresses
server/switch/router addresses within LAN/WAN

Is there some opensource application for this?

Any suggestions/pointers would be appreciated.


Regards../
wal 

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Re: [SLUG] File system on CD

[Rob B]

http://www.ocslink.com/~blunier/ has one called Live CD.  Blurb on 
freshmeat is:

"Live CD is a project to create a CD that runs Linux.
The CD is bootable, and runs Debian Linux without needing
a hard drive..."

Cheers,
Rob

At 14:19 25/06/2001, you wrote:
>I came across this article
>http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/host_security_article-3211.html
>today and remembered this thread... They only talk about *BSD in the
>article, but you
>might be able to apply some of the concepts to Linux...
>
>- Original Message -
>From: "Peter McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [SLUG] File system on CD
>
>
> > Just wondering if anyone out their has managed to make their Linux box
>truly
> > bullet proof by placing the file system onto a CD.
> > I know it might make it a bit inflexable, but I was thinking it must be a
>great
> > way to make your box hack proof.
> > Or is this idea just plain stupid ?
>
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Re: [SLUG] own domainname with non-permanent connection?

[Dave Fitch]

thanks everyone for the pointers I'll check them all out.

Ta,
Dave.

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[SLUG] ComputerBank NSW Meeting

[Craig Warner]

Hi,

The next meeting of ComputerBank NSW will be held on Tuesday 3rd July 2001. 
Email me for address details.

Craig Warner


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