Re: [[SLUG] VNC on Live Server for RH 7.1 [Next Round]]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/06/2003 06:19:29 PM: --snip-- > > Local Network: > If I start vncserver multiple times on the linux local machine, I always get a > new display number. > > Live Server Box: > Starting vncserver multiple times I keep getting the same X desktop display > number, i.e 1 . This tells me that starting the vncserver is probably dying > straight away. So when I try to connect via the vncviewer remotely the > connection is not there so it keeps giving connection not found. > What does the log file say? Its located in ~/.vnc/ Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: VMware on Redhat 8.0
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:39, Howard Lowndes wrote: > If anyone is running VMware 3.2 on Redhat 8.0 without getting a closing > error message, could they contact me OL pse. VMware interacts badly with some patches RedHat applied to their custom kernels - the suggestion is to use a kernel.org kernel. Read the vmware newsgroups on news.vmware.com. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [[SLUG] VNC on Live Server for RH 7.1 [Next Round]]
An update on this. After playing on my local network and the live server here is what I have observed but still cannot find the issue of the live box yet. Need some assistance if possible. Local Network: If I start vncserver multiple times on the linux local machine, I always get a new display number. Live Server Box: Starting vncserver multiple times I keep getting the same X desktop display number, i.e 1 . This tells me that starting the vncserver is probably dying straight away. So when I try to connect via the vncviewer remotely the connection is not there so it keeps giving connection not found. If anyone has a good understanding of vnc, may be they can give some help to figure out why this is happening on the live box. May be I am missing some impotant X files. Who knows ??? I shall keep playing around to see if I get somewhere on the live box. Cheers Louis. BTW: I can start vncviewer from my local linux connection using this AfterStep X window manager, and it looks great. I basically edited the xstartup file to start afterstep instead of opening an xterm. Louis Selvon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Sluggers: After re-running "/usr/sbin/rhn_register" with my current rhn details and using "up2date" I have successfully installed X Windows (i.e. XFree86). Now from the live server I started vncserver . It asked me to enter a password, blah blah blah ... It generated the 'X' desktop as well. From my PC I stared the viewer and pasted the 'X' desktop session returned by the server , and I am still getting failed to connect. What do I do next ? After installing X do I have to run "startx" before running vncserver ? There is no process "startx" running. Cheers Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] networking stuff give-away
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Del) writes: >I have some free networking stuff. I'd rather give it to a >community based organisation such as Computerbank so if one >of their guys is interested let me know. Similarly if there's >someone that offers free/cheap dial up internet for >community purposes and wants this gear, let me know. >2 x racks of NetComm 33K6 modems. I think there are about > 8 - 10 modems in each rack. >2 x Livingston Portmaster 2 NAS boxes. One is a 10 port > the other is a 30 port unit. You could jigger the modules > around to make 2 x 20 port units. >+ a big pile of serial and phone cables. >+ a big pile of power cables, IEC standard. More than >you'll ever need. >Suitable for setting up or adding to a small cheap (i.e. >non-56K) ISP (maybe such a beastie exists for disadvantaged >folks who want net access?). 8-) APANA Sydney already uses banks of Netcomm ProRack modems and they're wonderfully reliable. We picked some up courtesy of Nick Andrew when he was merging Zeta with Pacific Internet a few years ago. We've got no interest in anything that supports 56 k modems as PRI connections are far too expensive... Regards, Craig. -- Craig Ian Dewick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). http://lios.apana.org.au/~craig APANA Sydney Regional Co-ordinator. Operator of Jedi (an APANA Sydney POP). Always striving for a secure long-term future in an insecure short-term world Have you exported a crypto system today? Do your bit to undermine the NSA. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] networking stuff give-away
Hi, I have some free networking stuff. I'd rather give it to a community based organisation such as Computerbank so if one of their guys is interested let me know. Similarly if there's someone that offers free/cheap dial up internet for community purposes and wants this gear, let me know. 2 x racks of NetComm 33K6 modems. I think there are about 8 - 10 modems in each rack. 2 x Livingston Portmaster 2 NAS boxes. One is a 10 port the other is a 30 port unit. You could jigger the modules around to make 2 x 20 port units. + a big pile of serial and phone cables. + a big pile of power cables, IEC standard. More than you'll ever need. Suitable for setting up or adding to a small cheap (i.e. non-56K) ISP (maybe such a beastie exists for disadvantaged folks who want net access?). -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Searching the slug archives
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Terry Collins wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Erps... searching seems to be ok now... > > I can confirm that the slug archive search results are sometimes total > trash. What goes wrong? Should a different search tool be used, or is it an issue with the way things are set up? Andrew -- Andrew McNaughton In Sydney and looking for work [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://staff.scoop.co.nz/andrew/cv.doc Mobile: +61 422 753 792 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] VNC on Live Server for RH 7.1 [Next Round]
Hi Sluggers: After re-running "/usr/sbin/rhn_register" with my current rhn details and using "up2date" I have successfully installed X Windows (i.e. XFree86). Now from the live server I started vncserver . It asked me to enter a password, blah blah blah ... It generated the 'X' desktop as well. From my PC I stared the viewer and pasted the 'X' desktop session returned by the server , and I am still getting failed to connect. What do I do next ? After installing X do I have to run "startx" before running vncserver ? There is no process "startx" running. Cheers Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] October Open Source Expo
There has been some talk about having an open source expo of some kind in Sydney in the October time-frame. There are a few people quite keen on this, and it has been suggested that interested people have a get together to talk about objectives, structure etc. The ideas so far are to have a broad based event which is open to anyone, and will be held at a location where people can just drop in and see some cool things. Broad based means companies can have a presence too. So, anyone who is interested should come along to the Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel on Thursday 3rd April 2003 from 18:00 to 21:00. If you have any questions or, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] Updating up2date user account details for RHNAccess!!]]
>Mine is located in /usr/sbin and its is a python script. Louis> /usr/bin is not in my PATH. However when I cd there I saw rhn_register exe. I have re ran it and successfully updated with my RHN details. The one in the other path before was auto generated when rhn_register was run whenever that was. Thank you. I have the rhn_register-1.3.1-1 rpm installed, check what version you have and update it. Cheers, Louis -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Postfix: checking that I've got this right.
At 03:21 PM 6/03/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this up the stick: We have a mail server on the inside of our network, that cannot be reached externally, but serves all mail for our systems. Postfix on our firewall/gateway is to forward all mail destined for our mail systems to this server. To complicate things, we have more than one domain name, but postfix should automagically change the domain name to our regular one on the way through. (Ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and passed through to our internal mail server.) Additionally, scripts on the firewall/gateway send to the root user and the root user has a .forward file which contains my email address. To rewrite domains, you use the masqurerade_domains option. myorigin = $mydomain mydomain = capitalholdings.com.au masquerade_domains = capitalholdingsgroup.com.au You might also want to check http://www.postfix.org/rewrite.html and man(5) virtual for address redirection. I'm not sure what to set mydestination to as according to the docs it "specifies what domains this machine will deliver locally rather than forwarding to another machine". However if postfix is proxying, do I set this as per normal - in which case how should I set it for our other domain names? (Is below correct?) mydestination is used for local delivery Have a look at http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#firewall for setting up Postfix on a firewall Here's the parameters I think may need to be set in main.cf (got a feeling I've got this wrong as the proxying concepts aren't clear for me): myorigin = $mydomain mydestination = $myhostname localhost.$mydomain $mydomain relaydomains = $mydomain capitalholdingsgroup.com.au mynetworks = 192.168.100.0/24, 27.0.0.0/8" proxy_interfaces = 192.168.100.1 virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual mydestination should be the hostname of the internal mailserver. There really is no need to allow relaying for the whole 127.0.0.0/8 subnet you really only need 127.0.0.1/32 and /etc/postfix/virtual to contain the following line: capitalholdingsgroup.com.au capitalholdings.com.au I'm not sure you'll need that cheers, Rob -- The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist is afraid that it is. This is random quote 1033 of 1254. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] /dev/bollocks
"An idea so crap, it can only have come from middle management" http://www.fatsquirrel.org/veghead/software/bollocks/ -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: Axis Print Servers Re: [SLUG] Debian package for printing to Jetdirect linked printers
Crossfire wrote:
...snip.
> I believe the last ones I had to deal with were the 560s. In case you didn't
> notice, I WAS the sysadmin, but I wasn't the one who set up the print system
> and left it in a horrible state of mess - I was, however, expected to work with
> it. The Axis print servers general exhibited the worse failure states of any
> of the print servers we had.
Aargh, if you didn't know to contact Intelligent Technologies and get a
bios upgrade, then you were stuffed and I can understand your attitude.
Both the problems I had with them were unsolveable, but once the bios
was upgraded, they ran like a dream. I really don't know why thet didn't
upgrade the bios before shipping them out as there was only one dealer
in Australia.
>
> Did not contact - given that I didn't set the bastards up myself, and for all
> I knew they were arcane and unsupported and I didn't care enough since the
> problems were resolvable by unplugging the blessed thing and plugging it back
> in again. Why the previous admins didn't just buy JetDirect boards is beyond
> me - having the same solution across the board is a lot better than trying to
> manage lots of different ones.
When the axis worked (bios right), they were great. text/telnet/ftp or
WWW configurable. I preferred this over the HP management solution.
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[SLUG] Postfix: checking that I've got this right.
G'day all, Just wanting to check that I've got all the right things to go for setting up postfix on our firewall/gateway. We have a mail server on the inside of our network, that cannot be reached externally, but serves all mail for our systems. Postfix on our firewall/gateway is to forward all mail destined for our mail systems to this server. To complicate things, we have more than one domain name, but postfix should automagically change the domain name to our regular one on the way through. (Ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and passed through to our internal mail server.) Additionally, scripts on the firewall/gateway send to the root user and the root user has a .forward file which contains my email address. I'm not sure what to set mydestination to as according to the docs it "specifies what domains this machine will deliver locally rather than forwarding to another machine". However if postfix is proxying, do I set this as per normal - in which case how should I set it for our other domain names? (Is below correct?) Here's the parameters I think may need to be set in main.cf (got a feeling I've got this wrong as the proxying concepts aren't clear for me): myorigin = $mydomain mydestination = $myhostname localhost.$mydomain $mydomain relaydomains = $mydomain capitalholdingsgroup.com.au mynetworks = 192.168.100.0/24, 27.0.0.0/8" proxy_interfaces = 192.168.100.1 virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual and /etc/postfix/virtual to contain the following line: capitalholdingsgroup.com.au capitalholdings.com.au Any help, tips, pointers, etc appreciated. TIA Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd p: (02) 9955 8000 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [Re: [SLUG] Updating up2date user account details for RHN Access!!]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06-03-2003 03:13:15 PM: > >rhn_register > > This file is a text file on my server located at " /etc/sysconfig/rhn/". Do I > change it to 755, and then run ? > Mine is located in /usr/sbin and its is a python script. I have the rhn_register-1.3.1-1 rpm installed, check what version you have and update it. Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [Re: [SLUG] Updating up2date user account details for RHNAccess!!]
>rhn_register This file is a text file on my server located at " /etc/sysconfig/rhn/". Do I change it to 755, and then run ? When I type rhn_register from the above dir, I get : [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]# cd /etc/sysconfig/rhn/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhn]# ls -al total 28 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Mar 6 14:10 . drwxr-xr-x8 root root 4096 Dec 1 03:30 .. -rw-r--r--1 root root 577 Nov 21 2001 rhn_register -rw-r--r--1 root root 13 Nov 21 2001 rhnsd -rw---1 root root 1255 Mar 6 13:56 systemid -rw---1 root root 2192 Feb 26 2002 up2date -rw-r--r--1 root root 2016 Nov 21 2001 up2date.rpmnew [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhn]# rhn_register bash: rhn_register: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhn]# Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: Automounting NFS servers in /net
At Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:03:26 +1100, Doug Stalker wrote: > The Solaris automounter implements a /net directory which will automatically > mount the entire tree from an NFS server. (i.e.: accessing /net/hostname > automatically mounts hostname:/ on /net/hostname) > > Is there any way to get the same funcionality using linux? I've been > playing around with autofs, but so far havn't had any success. you need to use the "autofs4" kernel module, not just "autofs". (add "probe autofs autofs4 autofs" to /etc/modules.conf and run kernel 2.4 or a patched 2.2) then its a simple matter of mounting an automount point with a suitable executable automount script. see "auto.net" which is probably in the autofs sample scripts somewhere. On Debian, all of this is the default (assuming a 2.4 kernel) and there's an auto.net automount point already setup and mounted on /var/autofs/net/. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] CVS file permissions
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:32:07PM +1100, Serge Krepak wrote: > could someone tell me what the permission for all > files need to be set in CVSROOT dirrectory? I can't > create new module under CVS and think that's a > access/ownership problem. You need write access $CVSROOT. You also need write access to the history file ($CVSROOT/CVSROOT/history) to do anything. I've set it up with all files and directories owned by group cvs and the g+s bit set on the directories (so that group ownership is inherited when a new file or directory is created). Each user who needs access is added to the cvs group. This gives any user in the cvs group permission to modify and create files. If you need finer control over access have a look at OSSP shiela: http://www.ossp.org/pkg/tool/shiela/ Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Updating up2date user account details for RHN Access!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06-03-2003 01:24:28 PM: > Hi: > > Does anyone know how do I update the user credentials for up2date ? > rhn_register Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Updating up2date user account details for RHN Access!!
Hi: Does anyone know how do I update the user credentials for up2date ? It was already installed when I got a live server running RH 7.1. However the user that was entered was a demo one. I have an account with RHN, and I want to enter this info so that up2date allows me to connect to RHN to get some rpms !!! I have tried up2date --configure, but all I see there is a proxy setting for username and password (there are other settings but they are not what I want to edit). I cannot see an option to actually update the user account that up2date is using on my server. The up2date man pages was not of much help. Anyone. Cheers Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] CVS file permissions
Serge Krepak wrote: Hi guys, could someone tell me what the permission for all files need to be set in CVSROOT dirrectory? I can't create new module under CVS and think that's a access/ownership problem. CVS is like any other system. You need to have write access to a file to be able to write it. CVS however writes to directories, so as long as you (the user) has write permission to the directory (CVSROOT) then you can mess with any file in it. If you don't have write permission to the directory then you're hosed. You can use this to restrict access to CVS by chgrp'ing the repository, then doing something like chmod o-rwx; chmod -R g+w Also check that you have write permission to where in the repository you're trying to put the new module -- it might be a write permission problem there rather than in the CVSROOT dir. Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] postfix: mynetworks clarification.
> Now, the machine that postfix sits on is connected to two networks > (external and internal). > > External is 210.23.146.0/?? and internal 192.168.100.0/24 depends on the netmask I think.. it looks in ifconfig and combines the netmask and ip address to get the network.. (not 100% sure but this is the logical way to do it :-).,. so your external netmask is probably 255.255.255.255 ir you are using PPP or may .224 or something if your ISP assigns you some addresses Dave. > about if this is really necessary (and correct). > > Thanks... > > Mike - postfix newbie > --- > Michael S. E. Kraus > Administration > Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd > p: (02) 9955 8000 > -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / [EMAIL PROTECTED] pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] WU-FTP and chroot
On 6 Mar 2003, Mike MacCana wrote: > Per user FTP isn't really acceptable unless you're using a VPN, Secure > FTP, or some other encryption mechanism. Otherwise its very easy for > anyone connected to a network between the client and server to discover > the passwords used. > > I'd maybe look at OpenSSHs SFTP. I agree totally, but what do you do for convenient file globbing? As far as I know sftp doesn't use wild card characters, does it? > > Mike > > On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:16, Stalker, Doug wrote: > > Does anyone know how I can configure wu-ftpd to chroot all users to a > > specified directory? I would like all users who connect via ftp to see /ftp > > as the root directory, but the closest I can get is to have all users > > chrooted to their home directories. > > > > (Using RedHat 7.3, Wu-Ftpd 2.6.2) > > > > > > > > - DOug > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- > > Mike MacCana ConsultantRHCE, MCSE, MCP+I > Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years > Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development > Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] postfix: mynetworks clarification.
At 11:52 AM 6/03/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this up the stick: The documentation for postfix states that the default for mynetworks parameter is "mynetworks_style = subnet" and that this "Trust SMTP clients in the IP subnetworks that Postfix is connected to." In Postfix 2.0.4, etc/main.cf says: # By default (mynetworks_style = subnet), Postfix "trusts" SMTP # clients in the same IP subnetworks as the local machine. # On Linux, this does works correctly only with interfaces specified # with the "ifconfig" command. Now, the machine that postfix sits on is connected to two networks (external and internal). External is 210.23.146.0/?? and internal 192.168.100.0/24 If I leave the default settings, will other members of our service provider be able to use our machine as a mail relay? (Ie. those coming in off 210.23.146.0 network?) AFAICT, maybe not real sure on this I guess the obvious solution is to just specify "mynetworks = 192.168.100.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8" and I won't have to worry, but I'm curious about if this is really necessary (and correct). This is correct. cheers, Rob -- We take no responsibility for non-receipt of this email because we are running Windows NT & everyone knows how glitchy that can be. This is random quote 1153 of 1254. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] CVS file permissions
Hi guys, could someone tell me what the permission for all files need to be set in CVSROOT dirrectory? I can't create new module under CVS and think that's a access/ownership problem. TIA Serge http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Exchange IMs with Messenger friends on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile phone. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] WU-FTP and chroot
Per user FTP isn't really acceptable unless you're using a VPN, Secure FTP, or some other encryption mechanism. Otherwise its very easy for anyone connected to a network between the client and server to discover the passwords used. I'd maybe look at OpenSSHs SFTP. Mike On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:16, Stalker, Doug wrote: > Does anyone know how I can configure wu-ftpd to chroot all users to a > specified directory? I would like all users who connect via ftp to see /ftp > as the root directory, but the closest I can get is to have all users > chrooted to their home directories. > > (Using RedHat 7.3, Wu-Ftpd 2.6.2) > > > > - DOug > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Mike MacCana ConsultantRHCE, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: Axis Print Servers Re: [SLUG] Debian package for printing to Jetdirect linked printers
Terry Collins was once rumoured to have said:
> Crossfire wrote:
> > As for the Axis communication print servers, my only comment is... RUN AWAY.
>
> I respectably suggest that your sys admin was totally bloody hopeless.
> Nicest print servers I've ever used (but I stopped at the 560). Might
> have changed in the last few years.
I believe the last ones I had to deal with were the 560s. In case you didn't
notice, I WAS the sysadmin, but I wasn't the one who set up the print system
and left it in a horrible state of mess - I was, however, expected to work with
it. The Axis print servers general exhibited the worse failure states of any
of the print servers we had.
> > The Axis gear is horrible - as are most external print servers. They're
> > unreliable (They crashed on a regular basis), anti-social (We had an Axis
> > print server which once managed to lock a large segment of the ethernet network
> > at JCSMR by crashing and locking its TX line high)
>
> What did Axis say? Intelligent Technoglies used to handle them here and
> you could get fast response and bios upgrade same day. Fixed any
> problems I found in production servers. However, I suspect InTech got
> out of them as they started selling their own lines cheaper.
Did not contact - given that I didn't set the bastards up myself, and for all
I knew they were arcane and unsupported and I didn't care enough since the
problems were resolvable by unplugging the blessed thing and plugging it back
in again. Why the previous admins didn't just buy JetDirect boards is beyond
me - having the same solution across the board is a lot better than trying to
manage lots of different ones. Especially when almost all of the printers
involved were LaserJet series printers, and all of them could a happily take
a JetDirect board. I actually found a few spare JDs sitting around my office
at the time and I was in the process of ripping out the Axis boxes to replace
them with JDs.
Fixing the print system there was on my long-term Todo list - we had other
issues that needed resolution first. And fixing the print system was going
to be a major task - and major print system outages were not appreciated
by the staff either.
> Now, Intel print servers I requarded as bloody hopeless. Heard my quacks
> receptionist swearing at theirs the other day {:-).
never had the misfortune, fortunately. ;)
C.
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[SLUG] postfix: mynetworks clarification.
G'day all, The documentation for postfix states that the default for mynetworks parameter is "mynetworks_style = subnet" and that this "Trust SMTP clients in the IP subnetworks that Postfix is connected to." Now, the machine that postfix sits on is connected to two networks (external and internal). External is 210.23.146.0/?? and internal 192.168.100.0/24 If I leave the default settings, will other members of our service provider be able to use our machine as a mail relay? (Ie. those coming in off 210.23.146.0 network?) I guess the obvious solution is to just specify "mynetworks = 192.168.100.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8" and I won't have to worry, but I'm curious about if this is really necessary (and correct). Thanks... Mike - postfix newbie --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd p: (02) 9955 8000 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Evolution Can't Start: (Cannot accessBonobo/ConfigDatabase, not upgrading configuration.)
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 12:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 3 boxes, all debian woody (how apt;punny) > > 1. (cyclops) P3 600 i810 256Mb RAM > 2. (wolverine) Celeron 300A 192 Mb RAM > 3. (storm) P166 128Mb RAM > > All have same packages installed, give or take autoconf, netscape, vnc. > All have been installed in the last month. > (1) and (3) run evolution > (2) ran debian woody evolution 1.0.5 and now runs everything else, galeon, > openoffice etc, but evolution (1.2.2) now dies with: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ evolution > > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library > (Killing old version of Wombat...) > (Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase, not upgrading configuration.) > IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0 > > evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: > (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0) > Killed > You have mail in /home/woody/.inbox > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > and an X window pops up with: > > (-) Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: Configuration Database not found. > [OK] > > I have searched and tried everything: > > A) killev;oaf-slay;rm -r /tmp/orbit-woody ~/.gconf ~/.gconfd > > B) purged all packages down to oafd > B2) and removed all the directories which weren't removed by apt because they > weren't empty > > C) both the debian evolution packages (evolution 1.0.5) and the ximian evolution > packages (1.2.2 apt-got from http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/ ximian/debian/) > > D) checking /etc/ld.so.conf and re-running ldconfig > > E) running evolution on cyclops (always works) as the same user > > Any ideas? I didn't get any myself, so I reformatted and started again, and It works. Possibly vmware modules conflicted somehow, but we'll never know. cheers, Woody -- Anthony Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
error message Re: [SLUG] Debian package for printing to Jetdirect linked printers
Anthony Wood wrote:
...snip
> Terry, as far as I can work out, jetdirect cards run an lpd on a
> standard port, so you just set up printing as if it was another
> linux box running lpd/lprng/cups on the standard port.
Hmm, sounds right.
Can anyone give a cluebie on this?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lpr -Php4v /etc/printcap
> Status Information:
> sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
> connected to 'localhost'
> requesting printer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed
> error 'NONZERO RFC1179 ERROR CODE FROM SERVER' with ack 'ACK_FAIL'
> sending str '^Bhp4v' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> error msg: 'spool queue for 'hp4v' does not exist on server damselfly.woa.com.au'
> error msg: ' non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f''
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
checkpc -f does not list any errors.
this is the contents of /var/spool/lpd/hp4v
damselfly:/home/terryc# ls -ld /var/spool/lpd/hp4v
drwx--2 daemon lp 4096 Feb 7 08:14
/var/spool/lpd/hp4v
damselfly:/home/terryc# ls -ld /var/spool/lpd/hp4v/*
-rw---1 daemon root0 Feb 7 08:14
/var/spool/lpd/hp4v/acct
-rw---1 daemon root 187 Feb 7 08:14
/var/spool/lpd/hp4v/general.cfg
-rw---1 daemon root0 Feb 7 08:14
/var/spool/lpd/hp4v/log
-rw---1 daemon root 338 Feb 7 08:14
/var/spool/lpd/hp4v/postscript.cfg
-rw---1 daemon root0 Feb 7 08:14
/var/spool/lpd/hp4v/status.hp4v
-rw---1 daemon root 147 Feb 7 08:14
/var/spool/lpd/hp4v/textonly.cfg
damselfly:/home/terryc#
and this is /etc/printcap
# /etc/printcap
#
# DO NOT EDIT! MANUAL CHANGES WILL BE LOST!
# This file is autogenerated by printconf-backend during lpd init.
#
# Hand edited changes can be put in /etc/printcap.local, and will be
included.
##LPRNGTOOL## DIRECT ljet4 600x600 a4 {} LaserJet4 Default 1
hp4v
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp4v
:ml=0
:mx=0
:af=/var/spool/lpd/hp4v/acct
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/hp4v/log
:cd=/var/spool/lpd/hp4v
:if=/usr/share/lprngtool/master-filter
:lp=/dev/null
:
/etc/printcap (END)
and /usr/share/lprngtool/master-filter exists.
> cheers,
> Woody
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Axis Print Servers Re: [SLUG] Debian package for printing to Jetdirect linked printers
Crossfire wrote:
> I hate JetDirects.
Early ones (<1990) were pretty orrible.
These two have been working okay off multiple linux and a novell box for
about five & two years respectively. Of course, it was RH systems which
did require a special driver. Which is why I asked.
> As for the Axis communication print servers, my only comment is... RUN AWAY.
I respectably suggest that your sys admin was totally bloody hopeless.
Nicest print servers I've ever used (but I stopped at the 560). Might
have changed in the last few years.
> The Axis gear is horrible - as are most external print servers. They're
> unreliable (They crashed on a regular basis), anti-social (We had an Axis
> print server which once managed to lock a large segment of the ethernet network
> at JCSMR by crashing and locking its TX line high)
What did Axis say? Intelligent Technoglies used to handle them here and
you could get fast response and bios upgrade same day. Fixed any
problems I found in production servers. However, I suspect InTech got
out of them as they started selling their own lines cheaper.
Now, Intel print servers I requarded as bloody hopeless. Heard my quacks
receptionist swearing at theirs the other day {:-).
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Re: [SLUG] Debian package for printing to Jetdirect linked printers
Anthony Wood was once rumoured to have said: > On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 09:00, Terry Collins wrote: > > Is there a Debian package to install for printing to jetdirect/network > > print server printers? > > Terry, as far as I can work out, jetdirect cards run an lpd on a > standard port, so you just set up printing as if it was another > linux box running lpd/lprng/cups on the standard port. They do, however, in the older JetDirect boards, the boards would only accept one tcp connection at a time, and of course, you had the usual job interruption woes if somebody wanted to print using a different protocol after you... Ugh. I hate JetDirects. Your best bet it to always try to build a unified system, and not allow anybody but your printspooler to print directly to the printer, and then have everybody queue their jobs via $PRINTING_PROTOCOL. The IBM network interface is somewhat nicer - I've set one up for a friend recently. They require less hand holding as they seem to do lpd right. However I couldn't get CUPS to print to it nicely, so I'm using lpd again. As for the Axis communication print servers, my only comment is... RUN AWAY. The Axis gear is horrible - as are most external print servers. They're unreliable (They crashed on a regular basis), anti-social (We had an Axis print server which once managed to lock a large segment of the ethernet network at JCSMR by crashing and locking its TX line high) and they generally don't handle queueing well due to not being able to assertain good status information about the printer and not knowing quite when to start sending the next print job. Network printers are a wonderful thing... if you can get the damned things to run right. Printing in a homogenous environment is always much easier. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Debian - listing mirror.aarnet.edu.au in apt-get list
Terry Collins wrote: > Can someone send me the lines for listing > mirror.aarnet.edu.au and > ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au I would forget about ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au Even from the UTS I could not get any connection and emails to the admin person at progsoc went unanswered. In fact I think the Debian mob should remove them as a listed mirror. Mike -- Mike Lake Uni of Technol., Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Debian package for printing to Jetdirect linked printers
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 09:00, Terry Collins wrote: > Is there a Debian package to install for printing to jetdirect/network > print server printers? Terry, as far as I can work out, jetdirect cards run an lpd on a standard port, so you just set up printing as if it was another linux box running lpd/lprng/cups on the standard port. cheers, Woody -- Anthony Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Switch Online Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Iptable and routed
Xiaolu, Could you please give some more details. Eg. route tables, firewall rules used, etc. Thanks. Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd p: (02) 9955 8000 "Xiaolu Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/03/2003 06:06 PM To: "Slug (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:[SLUG] Iptable and routed Hi, I install routed daemon in RH7.3, then I put the IPtable firewall on top, I found my routing doesn't work anymore. is there any reason for this. I enable all the traffic but still can't ping to different subnet. Help !! Xiaolu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Debian - listing mirror.aarnet.edu.au in apt-get list
deb ftp://ftp.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/ unstable main contrib
non-free
just substitute unstable for testing/stable ...
:> -Original Message-
:> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
:> Terry Collins
:> Sent: Friday, 7 February 2003 8:59 AM
:> To: Slug List
:> Subject: [SLUG] Debian - listing mirror.aarnet.edu.au in
:> apt-get list
:>
:>
:> Can someone send me the lines for listing
:> mirror.aarnet.edu.au and
:> ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au
:>
:> in their sources.list.
:> I'm only interested in stable stuff and source(kernel recompile).
:>
:> Apt-cache search returns a pile of complaints about my lines.
:>
:> TIA
:>
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[SLUG] Debian package for printing to Jetdirect linked printers
Is there a Debian package to install for printing to jetdirect/network
print server printers?
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[SLUG] Debian - listing mirror.aarnet.edu.au in apt-get list
Can someone send me the lines for listing
mirror.aarnet.edu.au and
ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au
in their sources.list.
I'm only interested in stable stuff and source(kernel recompile).
Apt-cache search returns a pile of complaints about my lines.
TIA
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[SLUG] Mozilla Calendar doesn't allow me to add events to existing calendars
Hi everyone, I know there's a few Mozilla Calendar users here, so... I had an existing build of Moz Calendar installed (I use Debian's Mozilla build, and install the .xpi file to install the calendar). I installed a 0.8 calendar. I had several local .ics files. Mozilla Calendar no longer had these listed in my Calendar list. I right clicked, selected "New Calendar", and chose these files. They loaded fine. However, Moz Calendar now treats these calendars as sacrosanct. I can't edit them. I can't add new events or tasks to them. Is there anyway to make these calendars editable, short of copying all their events into a newly created calendar? -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Multiple Xsessions with Gnome 2
> > XFree86.1.Log. Essentially it appears something is waiting for something > > else to startup - some sort of deadlock or something. > > Are you trying to log on as the same user (it doesn't sound like it)? > Perhaps check the date of the other XFree86.*.log files -> .1 doesn't > necessarily mean :1... If I start as the same user - no problem (however this is of limited use). The log file is the correct one. (It even tells me on stderr when I start X). Basically something in gnome-session doesn;t work. My best guess is that gnome-session is trying to do something with the display :0. This will work fine for the same user as the xauth file will be fine, but if it's a different user - no luck. I had the same problem before, and I assumed it was something screwed in my xfree setup (I'd had other strange problems with X previously), so I reinstalled debian, and am now getting the same problem. So either I've recreated the same weirdness, or its a weird pacakge problem. Regards, nash -- Brett Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Multiple Xsessions with Gnome 2
> > It's cool stuff. :-) > > That doesn't work either: > - Clicking System Tools->New Login activates the screensaver on > my current session and the monitor flickers like X restarted, > but doesn't create a new login window. Hrm. > - System Tools->New Login in a nested window works fine. Yeah, that uses Xnest. > > (Not sure what the problem is with the startx approach though - perhaps > > look at .xsession-errors or something to see the error logs.) > > Nothing looks bad - basically no errors in either .xession-errors, or > XFree86.1.Log. Essentially it appears something is waiting for something > else to startup - some sort of deadlock or something. Are you trying to log on as the same user (it doesn't sound like it)? Perhaps check the date of the other XFree86.*.log files -> .1 doesn't necessarily mean :1... - Jeff -- I get my kicks above the .sigline, sunshine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Multiple Xsessions with Gnome 2
> > I've been having some weird problems with Gnome. I'm not sure if > > gdm is the culprit or something else is. I am currently useing gnome2.2 > > backported to debian 3.0. > > > UserA: Uses startx to start an Xsession > > UserB: uses 'startx -- :1' to start an Xsession > > So, if you're using startx, you're not using GDM. :-) I would recommend > turning on GDM, and using the flexiservers feature: In the System Tools > menu, choose "New login" - it will create a new X server with a login > dialogue, and lock the current X server. Well it has the same effect with gdm, (if userA logs in GDM it doesn't work) > It's cool stuff. :-) That doesn't work either: - Clicking System Tools->New Login activates the screensaver on my current session and the monitor flickers like X restarted, but doesn't create a new login window. - System Tools->New Login in a nested window works fine. > (Not sure what the problem is with the startx approach though - perhaps look > at .xsession-errors or something to see the error logs.) Nothing looks bad - basically no errors in either .xession-errors, or XFree86.1.Log. Essentially it appears something is waiting for something else to startup - some sort of deadlock or something. nash -- Brett Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Multiple Xsessions with Gnome 2
> I've been having some weird problems with Gnome. I'm not sure if > gdm is the culprit or something else is. I am currently useing gnome2.2 > backported to debian 3.0. > UserA: Uses startx to start an Xsession > UserB: uses 'startx -- :1' to start an Xsession So, if you're using startx, you're not using GDM. :-) I would recommend turning on GDM, and using the flexiservers feature: In the System Tools menu, choose "New login" - it will create a new X server with a login dialogue, and lock the current X server. It's cool stuff. :-) (Not sure what the problem is with the startx approach though - perhaps look at .xsession-errors or something to see the error logs.) - Jeff -- "Stay away from my house, you freak! Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?" - Neal Stephenson, ITBWTCL -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: [PLUG] X on remote machine
Doing an ssh to the server would automatically export the display, So perhaps SSH may be a better way to do it.. Regards, -abhijit On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 20:48:08 -0800 Chennakesava Machireddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do > export DISPLAY=clientipaddress:0.0 > > I think this will work. > > Regards > mcreddy > > > -Original Message- > From: upendra > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 3/4/2003 8:20 PM > X-Scanned: By Symantec Carrier Scan Server > Subject: [PLUG] X on remote machine > > Hi Luggers > I am facing following problem > I have 1 machine running X server at 7100 port > with xdmcp > This machine is installed with a software called > mathematica which has gui interface too > all clients are allowed to access this X > and all firewall rules are flushed > > Now one client in newtork telnets to X server machine > and open mathematica on LINUX CLIENT XTERM > but do not get display on client > client said he was getting it earlier ok.. > Now what should i do get the display on remote machine > for that software? > network connection is working ( ping ) > os is Rh 7.2 > regards > upendra > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > -- > > plug-mail mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail > -- > > plug-mail mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail -- "It's easier said than done." ... and if you don't believe it, try proving that it's easier done than said, and you'll see that "it's easier said that `it's easier done than said' than it is done", which really proves that "it's easier said than done". -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] I got my arse kicked into the kerb
Hows this - today i got my arse kicked into the kerb by some dude I dont even know :/. Came up behind me pushed me between a car and the gutter and went for my face - loads of blood and sore noise. Heh. im charging, dont you freaking worry. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Multiple Xsessions with Gnome 2
Hello, I've been having some weird problems with Gnome. I'm not sure if gdm is the culprit or something else is. I am currently useing gnome2.2 backported to debian 3.0. The problem is two people use my machine. We generally both like to keep an Xsession around, rather then continualy log each other of X. What the problem is we can't seem to start a second session of Gnome up. To reproduce: UserA: Uses startx to start an Xsession UserB: uses 'startx -- :1' to start an Xsession UserB's session will never start - it just hangs after it popups the gnoem spadh screen (no icons are shown). UserB can log in okay if UserA isn't logged in. Additionally if UserB starts first, UserA won't be able to start a session. To really make things strange - either user can create two sessions, without a problem. I'm curious if anyone has any idea what may be causing this? If not I'll try reporting a bug - although I'm not sure which component has the problem. Regards, nash -- Brett Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: Follow-up to: Problem accessing User directories in /home
On 5 Mar, Bill wrote: > Hi Luke, > > Thanks for the reply. > > Just prior to receiving it I booted Mandrake into runlevel 3 and determined > that I could log into my user account that way, and access the contents of > my home directory, so the problem is not the Symlink. It's only a problem from runlevel 5? Weird! Yes, if you can get to /home/bill from runlevel 3, the problem can't be with the symlink - although ... > By the way, df -k /home shows the following:- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -k /home > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 5542276 3212340 2048400 62% / Well, that's interesting, since it says that /home is on the root partition (/dev/hda5), not the /dev/hda7 partition (/mnt/hda7) as you thought. > I tried creating a new user account, but received the message :- > > "cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist" > > I renamed these files to "old" and could then create a new user. > > On rebooting, the new user didn't show in kdm, nor would kdm accept the new > user name and password - ditto for trying to login to Gnome etc. You should definitely don't need to reboot to activate a new user! > Tried using UserDrake to check new user account, only to once again receive > the above message re ptmp/gtmp. > > > Seems as though the problem may be with the user lib, whatever that is. I can't say I understand that. > Nope. Mandrake installed first, and /home created on separate partition as > part of install. Okay; and it created it just as a directory within /, not using /dev/hda7. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] let's patch those sendmails!
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:25:46 +1100 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 5 Mar, John Ferlito wrote: > > > I liked the way it silently wiped out my modified > > > /etc/mail/Makefile. > > > > File a bug report. > > No, no, I meant rpm wiped it out. This is on a RH system. I was > agreeing with your sentiment. Exactly, and the RPM shouldn't be completely destroying your old config. File a bug report. :-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] X on remote machine
-Original Message- From: upendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Luggers > I am facing following problem > I have 1 machine running X server at 7100 port I might be wrong, but isn't port 7100 usually used for the X font server and ports around 6000 used for the Xserver? Is there any error when the user tries to run the software, such as "unable to open display"? Is the user able to run any other GUI software successfully? - Doug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] let's patch those sendmails!
On 5 Mar, John Ferlito wrote: > > I liked the way it silently wiped out my modified /etc/mail/Makefile. > > File a bug report. No, no, I meant rpm wiped it out. This is on a RH system. I was agreeing with your sentiment. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] How To Get 1 Million Visitors On Your Website 8966OPjd3-471VgFh6748pAhm1-284hv-30
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on your
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Stop listening to any "so-called expert" because if one program can help you, choosing
the
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methods. Two years of brain sweat.
Big corporations spend thousands of dollars in banner advertisement to get the traffic
I'm
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using this.
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[SLUG] Automounting NFS servers in /net
The Solaris automounter implements a /net directory which will automatically mount the entire tree from an NFS server. (i.e.: accessing /net/hostname automatically mounts hostname:/ on /net/hostname) Is there any way to get the same funcionality using linux? I've been playing around with autofs, but so far havn't had any success. - Doug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
