[SLUG] Linux Fax and Voice
I just got myself ISDN to allow 2 extra phone lines into our SOHO I have configured Haylafax to accept faxes. I would like to configure my box to be a answering machine that will email the message is that possible? If so what application do I need to install? Thanks Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] identd
identd attacks/probes are the fasting rising probe at http://isc.incidents.org/ Something could be up -- another reason not to run it. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] identd
thanks, Del Matt; I have removed pidentd which I was considering installing. thanks again. Bill -- 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 7 Mar, Mike MacCana wrote: up2date -u up2date --solvedeps= up2date --whatprovides= Apt is useful, but 99% of people's complains about rpm seem to be they never bothered to download the documentation CD, or just decided they were too cool to read the docs, and hence don't know about up2date, which has been in Red Hat for four or five versions now. I thought up2date could only be used to update security fixes from RH. You're saying I could have used that to update my X11 instead of fetching all the rpms? If I say update -l, which lists all new packages, it lists nothing, since everything is up to date. Yet since I'm running RH 7.2, that means I'm using old versions of kde and gnome. I had a look at the man page for the first time, following your email. Yep, it looks good too. Apparently I can say, e.g., up2date kdebase. It doesn't actually define what a package is, though, so I don't know if I could say update kde, or update gnome. Do you know what a channel is, that it says can be associated with a package? If I say: up2date --showall | grep -i kde it reports nothing, so apparently it changes its output when output is redirected in any way, since I can only collect the output via copy and paste from X, in which case I see there are 83 packages in kde (but they're all 2.2.2). How weird is that? But in either case, it appears it won't update anything except the hot fixes that RH produce. So I can't update kde to 3.1 or gnome from 1.4 to 2.2, it seems. Whereas I'm optimistic I can with apt-rpm. I could be just confused though. I'd be happy to learn I'm wrong! 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!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...snip.
How weird is that? But in either case, it appears it won't update
anything except the hot fixes that RH produce. So I can't update kde to
3.1 or gnome from 1.4 to 2.2, it seems.
That is correct. RH up2date only responds to updates for each version
that RH posts. Although, mu up2date/RHN is a gui which lists old and
new. Have you registered at http://rhn.redhat.com (?)
As mentioned before, I would recommend noting the rpms that you need,
then use wget or similar to pull those from the aarnnet/redhat/updates
directory into /var/spool/up2date directory, then run the RHnetwork
updater.
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[SLUG] Nautilus themes
Hi All, I found a way before that you could change the 'theme' of nautilus, however I seem to have lost it. Could someone please refresh my memory on how to do this?? Adam. -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Nautilus themes
Hi All, I found a way before that you could change the 'theme' of nautilus, however I seem to have lost it. Could someone please refresh my memory on how to do this?? Adam. -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Nautilus themes
Before you ask, I am running gnome 2.2...I have been told to do it under the Gnome theme manager, goto custom, and then go to the nautilus section, however I dont seem to have a nautilus section??? -- Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] mpg files
What do people use to see .mpg files? Thanks, Alan -- -- Alan L Tyree[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] mpg files
This one time, at band camp, Alan L Tyree wrote: What do people use to see .mpg files? totem, xine, plaympeg are a few. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] mpg files
Alan L Tyree [of Sydney Linux Users Group] wrote: What do people use to see .mpg files? xine and mplayer support a very large number of codecs. mpeg, avi, asf, wmv, mov, ram and just about all versions of these. Cheers, Grant -- 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 8 Mar, Terry Collins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...snip. How weird is that? But in either case, it appears it won't update anything except the hot fixes that RH produce. So I can't update kde to 3.1 or gnome from 1.4 to 2.2, it seems. That is correct. RH up2date only responds to updates for each version that RH posts. Although, mu up2date/RHN is a gui which lists old and new. mu up2date/RHN? I know now that up2date can be used to list old and new packages, and by default runs instead as a gui, but I don't really understand what you're saying there. Have you registered at http://rhn.redhat.com (?) Yes, though I don't think I'd visited it until today. I get the email about RHM updates, and recommendations to run up2date, and do so. But I just visited the URL and logged in, and it said my system is badly out of date (and that my browser (netscape 4.78) is unsupported), and then goes on to list 1259 packages in the errata. Yet up2date says they're all up to date (except the kernel, since RH uses older kernels than me). ]# up2date --list Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.2... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.2... Fetching rpm headers... NameVersionRel -- The following Packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration: NameVersionRel Reason --- kernel 2.4.18 26.7.xPkg name/pattern kernel-source 2.4.18 26.7.xPkg name/pattern None of the packages you requested were found, or they are already updated. As mentioned before, I would recommend noting the rpms that you need, then use wget or similar to pull those from the aarnnet/redhat/updates directory into /var/spool/up2date directory, then run the RHnetwork updater. Certainly the packages listed as available for my system, which I should upgrade to, are the same as the packages I have updated and already installed. But in any case, these packages don't include new things like the latest major versions of kde or gnome. They really are just errata fixes. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] apt-rpm looks great (was: [Re: Which XFree86 is Applicable for RedHat 7.1 ?])
On 7 Mar, Mike MacCana wrote: Its possible, people have done it before. But personally I'd rather just do an upgrade, and I don't see what there is to `fix'. An hour or two scheduled maintenance once a year isn't a big deal for me. Remember, Red Hat aim to keep binary compatibility within major version numbers, so 7.x - 7.(x+1) is, in my brain, equivalent to a service pack in the windows world. And, or course, what you're upgrading to is stable with much testing, fixing and (these days) three beta releases before its declared so. rpm doesn't merge your changes to config files, though, or help you do it interactively. The only way I know to do it is to note down each ..rpmnew file, and carefully run sdiffs or edit the old and new manually. Doing it for a whole system is a daunting task. Admittedly, the fundamental problem isn't with rpm, it's that config files aren't designed to make that task easy, nor does (any?) package include its own config file updater, which is the only other approach. By this I mean, sendmail could provide its own script that would update a version N config file into N+1 (mostly a matter of sed scripts), and then go on to ask you if you want to use each of the new features, or what to do about old features deleted. That kind of thing. At work, when we release new versions of products, we either maintain backward compatibility, or provide update tools for the old data files. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Automounting NFS servers in /net
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 8:03 pm, Stalker, Doug 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. We used to do this back in the UK many moons ago (1994) using the AMD (BSD) automounter on a variety of systems. It would appear that the AMD automounter has been supersceded by the am-utils package available from: http://www.am-utils.org/ and this section of the manual appears to show just what you'd like: http://www.am-utils.org/am-utils_10.html#SEC93 NB: I've not tried this myself! Chris - -- Chris Samuel : http://csamuel.org/ : Wollongong, NSW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPmmYFI1yjaOTJg85AQHVCQf/WXkTxaj8zj0tzFgRgKESvcsafJy+rOIz +n+c4jsWjCxjluGgyCB5mLgtAb0n+6TEQU42eeg7RBqLMgxaCEc42sPCAFYYLOhf Sb+PMhOpmwB/ljceXXsekaWFdlgECXYeLg0/z2C0Z9xs+Za2jIUcH/3OOCGHWd81 wqFQc0cOeBR66srftlpSs7pCB/8bAz8Rqw8YmpuNFdWH5SNy+NbfAmtUf60rwkFZ LTZUxpvNeNGbEUMg/kC53wkJTG65CVcIshQFVXfg+bTmGr6Dtk3VrhKPcwzQiSMp sEjy1iOFu0NwZaJTLxJ/UHmerO3wUVn4hC2+qZR08eqmGVTBfGQIsg== =blmN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] anti spam question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Monday 03 Mar 2003 12:22 pm, Kevin Saenz wrote: I am looking for a good antispam application. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have spamassassin it seems to be letting a lot of undesirables in. First of all, if you've not upgraded 2.50 then try it, it's well worth it! I've been using SpamAssassin for a while now and the only tweaks I've added have been: 1) Upping the weighting of Web bugs to 5 (i.e. they get caught automatically). This produced some false positives for me, but not many. 2) Configuring the RBL checks and installing DCC, Razor2 Pyzor. 3) Much whitelisting (just in case, and aids point 4 w.r.t ham) 4) Now with 2.50 I've got SpamAssassin autolearning spam and ham for Baysien analysis, which will hopefully reduce any false positives. As a result my wife receives virtually no spam any more (it's trapped 1382 since 30th December against 41 false positives). cheers! Chris - -- Chris Samuel : http://csamuel.org/ : Wollongong, NSW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPmmeA41yjaOTJg85AQEbNAf/a57aV7zNHzPmPRgJYtF2Kfz1+VA3pW2I KHt4S9/rVh6mNOHXK5c2aWg4hEIuc9kT3lRcip9lhDhOXn2DoMayf+HwfWuYXjC2 GvAYNNBg3guXzx6QJMrzMYXM2JtuPLdAxv9MPi4wgjYwg2fRqZnVS7CQ6TS/TYxv 3PwuE1s9ePBb+1NQhfTynpzEZ6gTE9bSt3mtyMOGNzdgl73HvG9P3d/mXIfCU5Um vLFMVSC8fyLz+Er7v8dSXvduMIL108sj6TQREdscmZS92LfJhBMXjiypN+ZZBxXQ 9u/7hfJgRW20ImHn2XnBCWJ+MQ15Ef3jmZutR7zII9ZG21oGmoNIQw== =Dx2N -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] FXS format in Linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 4:02 pm, sfg wrote: A VNTD* has sent me a document in FXS format which is winfax. Getting even this is like pulling teeth. Is there anyone out there who knows how to read it in linux? Unfortunately not. There is a program called eFax runs under Codeweavers Crossover Plugin (modified WINE) that will let you view .EFX files, but I don't believe will handle FXS. Out of interest, what does the file command say about it ? Also, if you've got ImageMagick installed, what does identify say ? cheers, Chris - -- Chris Samuel : http://csamuel.org/ : Wollongong, NSW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPmmgRY1yjaOTJg85AQEk4Qf/Vkz/TaBHPtPDIvAFSHNmjBBJ+d78Cu30 KCLjQMlEaRN28MtbjmX/8xWmKnsYU2GdJfjq0JFk5GbELzZ9E9qK7B36l3QguZZ0 JgskOI6m6n9LLRL8u++n4g/EzS8SFTqxEauhMamoper6r6HLhReEJxhkGuO/rzS6 iKXcT+c+JRuWKT3H6qHzwegvriBJbvAyffFOPgJOd8UgoB5iUEzoA2LDB5vAAtU0 eRyNlMlKyC+AfHjkHrE1qTNUxmwXJoN61YxTVH11Y5d6d05afFeL7vizh70XFzVa Yfu+lzS+s36il6RBaRWjYGanOTKFBWv3L5GRT4ISyIhK/1z+bsfenA== =Q9LA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] identd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Friday 07 Mar 2003 12:59 am, Bill wrote: should identd be installed, or is it a security risk? These days it's really not important. When I was working at a Unversity back in 92-94 we installed it on our big Ultrix computing servers so we could have some way of identifying users making connections for auditing purposes, but these days with single user systems you can't really rely on it. Remember, the main reason for installing an IDENT/AUTH service is to help you when someone comes to you and says we had a connection from machine X and your AUTH server said it was 'blah'. Also remember that IDENT/AUTH servers do not have to return a username, they can quite happily return some sort of token that you can then tie back into a user. Crackers tend to look for these services because they can then do a reverse-ident to figure out what the service they connected to is running as. For instance - a cracker connects from his own machine a web server. Whilst that connection is still up he then connects to the IDENT/AUTH server on the web server and asks who is the user behind the connection *from* the web server to his own box. The IDENT/AUTH server will then give away the UID of the owner (unless it is configured to return some sort of obscure token), so they can tell if it's running as apache, httpd or as their preferred target, root. cheers! Chris - -- Chris Samuel : http://csamuel.org/ : Wollongong, NSW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPmmiAI1yjaOTJg85AQHXPwgAoQfD5+ahca8gR70/x5eagRcNSnSdZHCc PSlGRmhb7B2zAVhclDhOTzFk+zzpswwG9jAZO0O4UtK42nwl3D0wdnyNr/Nyh6Eg YgYa+USgkEBnq/ACK8paPHjt4MFaCcw9UmYQerZXbxh/+dF1fa0lAB6u38dLNs1E zbSigeDNKT9BVg2VdMDnB/Pfom/g1LqUacc+KpwVmCG9PE5MMiDmivl+WthudKtQ YLvNQGApdz4XPBSagtOIB+8q2+SH7Haz3j6Vk3SoqxFiKLHlBBb2MzsipDals4pH f0GfynuBoLQu4ZyDytaMFFTM4YciKXhtWuAV2jnhyNjBApz3mgCTNg== =cTiT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
