[SLUG] The VPN challenge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 People, The cursory searching I have done on this topic has come up with little of value. At least, any potential solutions that I've seen seem rather convoluted - and I don't want to be a crypto expert just to set up a VPN. What I want is a VPN endpoint, running Linux, that can be connected to with free clients for Windows NT/2000/XP and Mac OS X, and Linux as well obviously. Freeswan seems the obvious solution, but there is little docco to indicate how I configure it for maximum interoperability. Let alone interop with other free software. I also thought "isn't IPsec meant to be a standard?" Shouldn't I be able to use that? What do people recommend for this stuff? I'm operating a bit in the dark ... having only used CheckPoint at work. Rgz, Luke. - -- Luke Burton. (PGP keys: http://www.hagus.net/pgp) "Exciting" is hardly the word I would use. -- C3P0 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0.2 iQA/AwUBPuWsWICXGdaqw+o1EQLOxQCg5hZ3TNuXtQ0G2HGnNT0gAJsLKykAoMyr SLcxKMh8Fa81TtGfLG1VC5WC =Ok2v -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] The VPN challenge
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:00:52PM +1000, Luke Burton wrote: > What I want is a VPN endpoint, running Linux, that can be connected to > with free clients for Windows NT/2000/XP and Mac OS X, and Linux as > well obviously. > Check out PPTP. It works well with Windows clients, though i havent come across a Mac client. W2K and XP come with decent PPTP support. A great PPTP server for Linux is PoPToP. http://www.poptop.org/ > Freeswan seems the obvious solution, but there is little docco to > indicate how I configure it for maximum interoperability. Let alone > interop with other free software. A decent tutorial on IPSec can be found at http://jixen.tripod.com/ -- Rene Cunningham DCNUT Pty Ltd http://www.dcnut.com The primary cause of failure in electrical appliances is an expired warranty. Often, you can get an appliance running again simply by changing the warranty expiration date with a 15/64-inch felt-tipped marker. -- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] The VPN challenge
Luke, > Freeswan seems the obvious solution, but there is little docco to > indicate how I configure it for maximum interoperability. Let alone > interop with other free software. > > I also thought "isn't IPsec meant to be a standard?" Shouldn't I be > able to use that? > > What do people recommend for this stuff? I'm operating a bit in the > dark ... having only used CheckPoint at work. Considering you want windows to connect to the server I'd be looking at one of these two solutions: http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/ipsec-x509.php Or http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/freeswan-l2tp.html I couldn't get any of these working - trying to get the latest freeswan compiled on mandrake was just beyond me... The RPMS were broken etc etc Good Luck, AW. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Debian and apt
not strange at all. just do it by http use the list at: http://www.debian.org/mirror/list and replace the ftp with http as required On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 00:16, Ashley Lynn wrote: > I know this is a strange question for me to ask, but: > Does anyone have a couple of Debian sourses to go in the apt_sources.conf file > that do NOT have the words mirror or ftp in them. I need to upgrade a system, > but the server block any site with these words in them. > > Stay well and happy > Heracles > > PS No I haven't converted, I just have one machine running Corel Linux which > need some upgrading. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Video Card Problems
On Tuesday 10 Jun 2003 8:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > are you running the latest Nvidia binary drivers? if you are > > using the XFree ones you'll get issues I think.. > > > > Dave. > > Yup, > The I believe they are the latest. (although I Haven't looked > for a few weeks). > > The problem seems to be getting more severe, lockups are > happening more frequently, but I am not sure if its due to the > reboot button, or not (Although all partitions are either on > ext3, or reiserfs). I have only had a problem like that once before using the other OS and it turned out to be some corrupt RAM on the card. Just a thought. Saty well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] scsi cables?
PAW products - www.paw.com.au IIRC, has just about everything SCSI. Rob - Original Message - From: "Ben de Luca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:29 PM Subject: [SLUG] scsi cables? > sorry for being a little off topic but can some one give me some > recommendations for purchasing scsi cables in sydney > > I am after a cable with VHD Centronics 68 Male, Half Pitch DB68 Male > connectors. > > as seen here > http://www.scsischool.com/ststore/itemdetail.cfm?topbar=scsi-topbar.htm&Prod uct_ID=SCSI33ARRAY > > > > Ben de luca > > -- > 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] The VPN challenge
Try CIPE - Crypto IP Encapsulation Websites: LINUX: http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/cipe.html WinNT/2k/XP: http://cipe-win32.sourceforge.net/ Don't believe the blurb on win32 site re XP - it does work. Howto's and other things that might help: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Cipe+Masq.html http://mia.ece.uic.edu/~papers/volans/cipe.html I am in the process of writing something for Linux-Win32 connections. You can also run it with something call pkcipe for public key authentication. My ***GUESS*** (i Have no evidence whatsoever) is that it will work on OS X. Fil Luke Burton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 People, The cursory searching I have done on this topic has come up with little of value. At least, any potential solutions that I've seen seem rather convoluted - and I don't want to be a crypto expert just to set up a VPN. What I want is a VPN endpoint, running Linux, that can be connected to with free clients for Windows NT/2000/XP and Mac OS X, and Linux as well obviously. Freeswan seems the obvious solution, but there is little docco to indicate how I configure it for maximum interoperability. Let alone interop with other free software. I also thought "isn't IPsec meant to be a standard?" Shouldn't I be able to use that? What do people recommend for this stuff? I'm operating a bit in the dark ... having only used CheckPoint at work. Rgz, Luke. - -- Luke Burton. (PGP keys: http://www.hagus.net/pgp) "Exciting" is hardly the word I would use. -- C3P0 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0.2 iQA/AwUBPuWsWICXGdaqw+o1EQLOxQCg5hZ3TNuXtQ0G2HGnNT0gAJsLKykAoMyr SLcxKMh8Fa81TtGfLG1VC5WC =Ok2v -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Phil Scarratt Draxsen Technologies IT Contractor/Consultant 0403 53 12 71 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] The VPN challenge
One other thing...CIPE can also be easily used through/behind a firewall Luke Burton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 People, The cursory searching I have done on this topic has come up with little of value. At least, any potential solutions that I've seen seem rather convoluted - and I don't want to be a crypto expert just to set up a VPN. What I want is a VPN endpoint, running Linux, that can be connected to with free clients for Windows NT/2000/XP and Mac OS X, and Linux as well obviously. Freeswan seems the obvious solution, but there is little docco to indicate how I configure it for maximum interoperability. Let alone interop with other free software. I also thought "isn't IPsec meant to be a standard?" Shouldn't I be able to use that? What do people recommend for this stuff? I'm operating a bit in the dark ... having only used CheckPoint at work. Rgz, Luke. - -- Luke Burton. (PGP keys: http://www.hagus.net/pgp) "Exciting" is hardly the word I would use. -- C3P0 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0.2 iQA/AwUBPuWsWICXGdaqw+o1EQLOxQCg5hZ3TNuXtQ0G2HGnNT0gAJsLKykAoMyr SLcxKMh8Fa81TtGfLG1VC5WC =Ok2v -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Phil Scarratt Draxsen Technologies IT Contractor/Consultant 0403 53 12 71 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] German characters in linux
* Robert Tillsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi guys > I've been looking into being able to type accented characters in linux. > This is because I'm learning german and want to be able to type notes. > Hello Robert. Perhaps the neatest thing available now is sexkbmap which should come with X. You'll need a recent xterm (version 4.1.0 or newer). Get a utf-8 xterm running by calling 'uxterm'. You can then use different keyboard layouts by calling (for instance) setxkbmap de If you want to get back to the US layout, call setxkbmap us or setxkbmap us_group3. All the layouts are in listed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kbd. Some of them can be toggled back to US by using the right alt key as a switch. 'setxkbmap de' will give you umlauts on the keys around ;'\[] etc. The German ss character is where you'd expect =. Read http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/howto.html for a full treatment. Nick mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Nice web tool for Mandrake 9.1
Hi there For those of you who prefer Mandrake Linux, I just bumped into this: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php It´s purpose is to make all of the additional software application mirrors available to your installer under Mandrake including lots of stuff like Java and un-exportable apps. The way it works is to create from simple choices the comands you need to update your RPM sources. Note: It will take quite a while and download lot of data to update the local application lists. Once you´ve run it check out your new software application list! HTH Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] debian, missing unstable debs
Thanks Chris, Home last night I performed the usual tasks apt-get update # we pulled down some new index files apt-get dist-upgrade worked, downloaded everything (so a 24 hr 'delay and it was all okay) but it managed to get into a Loop Dependancy and was stating it needed me to set the APT::Force-LoopBreak due to libpam I will try purging the dists cache and see how I go. Thanks. On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:13:35 +1000, Chris D. wrote > ramon buckland wrote: > >I use apt-proxy as well > > I was getting a problem where all my index files were cached, and not > being updated. Try removing the dists/ directory of all your cached > dirs in /var/cache/apt-proxy/ > > - Chris > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ramon buckland www.thebuckland.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] hwclock, date, and time zones ...
Hi all, I am having some trouble understanding how to get the software clock to stay set on my red hat 9 box. Typing hwclock -r reports the correct time, so I know the hardware clock is ok. I then do hwclock --hctosys to set the system time. When I type date it is correct. Then, about 5 minutes later, I type date again and it is suddenly 10 hours ahead! Cleary I've got time zone issues ... /etc/sysconfig/clock shows: ZONE="Australia/Sydney" UTC=false ARC=false But this is the same as on my red hat 8 box, which works happily. What am I missing? Thanks, August Simonelli -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] hwclock, date, and time zones ...
This one time, at band camp, August Simonelli wrote: >Typing hwclock -r reports the correct time, so I know the hardware clock >is ok. >I then do hwclock --hctosys to set the system time. >When I type date it is correct. Check what /etc/localtime points to, if it is a symlink; if not copy over /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney on top of it to make sure (though I don't know if Red Hat's /etc/sysconfig/clock will do that for you). date --set "/mm/dd hh:mm:ss" will set the system clock to the local time, then a hwclock --systohc will save it to the hardware clock (which I suppose is opposite to what you want). Note that the hwclock will be saved in UTC... >Then, about 5 minutes later, I type date again and it is suddenly 10 >hours ahead! ah yes. Because your hardware clock is correct, your system will add 10 hours to that. After setting the system time, and saving UTC to the hardware clock, remove /etc/adjtime or else your machine will have odd ideas about clock drift on your next boot. -- [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] The VPN challenge
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Rene Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:00:52PM +1000, Luke Burton wrote: > > What I want is a VPN endpoint, running Linux, that can be connected to > > with free clients for Windows NT/2000/XP and Mac OS X, and Linux as > > well obviously. > > > > Check out PPTP. It works well with Windows clients, though i havent come > across a Mac client. W2K and XP come with decent PPTP support. It also comes with a half dozen protocol holes. See Bruce Schneier's analysis of the protocol (I don't have the URL to hand, but google should turn it up). > > Freeswan seems the obvious solution, but there is little docco to > > indicate how I configure it for maximum interoperability. Let alone > > interop with other free software. The FreeSWAN docs are quite complete. I got IPSec running pretty quick. Time delays were due to my fsckups, not the software or documentation's fault. The docs that come off the FreeSWAN site tend to be swan-to-swan centric, but none of the information is swan-specific. The one gotcha is that 2K/XP clients only implement X.509 key management, which needs a patch to FreeSWAN (the Debian versions have the patches pre-applied). Another Microsoft "we'll do things our way and f**k the rest of you" idea. -- --- #include Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] hwclock, date, and time zones ...
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:21:09AM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, August Simonelli wrote: > >Typing hwclock -r reports the correct time, so I know the hardware clock > >is ok. > >I then do hwclock --hctosys to set the system time. > >When I type date it is correct. > > Check what /etc/localtime points to, if it is a symlink; if not copy over > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney on top of it to make sure (though I > don't know if Red Hat's /etc/sysconfig/clock will do that for you). > > date --set "/mm/dd hh:mm:ss" will set the system clock to the local > time, then a hwclock --systohc will save it to the hardware clock (which I > suppose is opposite to what you want). Note that the hwclock will > be saved in UTC... > > >Then, about 5 minutes later, I type date again and it is suddenly 10 > >hours ahead! > > ah yes. Because your hardware clock is correct, your system will add 10 > hours to that. There is an option in most distributions to run the hardware clock at the local time, this allows other OSes which are on your system to "share" the clock. If you are not dual(or quad!)-booting, it is better to have the hardware on UTC, as this does not change for daylight saving, so if your computer is off for the changeover period there is no problem. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] hwclock, date, and time zones ...
> "Jamie" == Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jamie> This one time, at band camp, August Simonelli wrote: >> Typing hwclock -r reports the correct time, so I know the hardware >> clock is ok. I then do hwclock --hctosys to set the system time. >> When I type date it is correct. Jamie> Check what /etc/localtime points to, if it is a symlink; if not Jamie> copy over /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney on top of it to Jamie> make sure (though I don't know if Red Hat's Jamie> /etc/sysconfig/clock will do that for you). If the sequence # hwclock --hctosys # date shows the correct time, then delay some time # date shows an incorrect time, then the issue is that something else is skewing the system time after the initial sequence has been run. My guess is you're running ntpdate or rtime from a cron job or something, that's getting the time from another machine and setting the local clock. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all slightly different. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] hwclock, date, and time zones ...
> >If the sequence > # hwclock --hctosys > # date >shows the correct time, then > delay some time > # date >shows an incorrect time, then the issue is that something else >is skewing the system time after the initial sequence has been run. > >My guess is you're running ntpdate or rtime from a cron job or >something, that's getting the time from another machine and >setting the local clock. > Yeah, I used ntpdate to set the time initially but ntpd is not running and I don't see it happening anywhere else (cron, init, etc). Looks like it was /etc/adjtime that was causing the skew (is that possible?). Blowing it away and letting it recreate it has cleared things up as the /etc/adjtime values before: -1714.782194 1055295468 0.00 Were very different than after: 0.00 1055296402 0.00 I s'pose I should man hwclock and actually read rather than skim (cause it explains all this very well, doh!) ... But what would be the fun in that! Thanks for all the help! august -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied
Dear Members, I am using postfix in my home mailserver. It is working fine as long as I am also connected to my home network and relays mail to any destination. But if I connect to my server from my work the SMTP server (in my home network) refuses to relay it. How can I set it to relay mail for me regardless of whereever I am? Thanks. Mahen. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied
On 11/06/2003 10:15 AM +0800 El 4Love wrote: Dear Members, I am using postfix in my home mailserver. It is working fine as long as I am also connected to my home network and relays mail to any destination. But if I connect to my server from my work the SMTP server (in my home network) refuses to relay it. How can I set it to relay mail for me regardless of whereever I am? Uhh, that's not such a good idea. You need a way for Postfix to be able to differentiate between a spammer and you. I suggest looking into the SMTP AUTH mechanism for Postfix. A search for 'postfix smtp auth' on www.google.com returned what promises to be an useful HOWTO: http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/ HTH. Regards, Gonzalo. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied
Let me get this right you would like to relay your emails from anywhere in the world? If this is the case then how would you stop spammers from using your server in sending spam? Why don't you try and implement squirel or IMP web based emails on your mail server then all you need to do is log on using your farvourite browser, read and send emails. in all honesty by the sounds of things you are requesting the sysadmins worst nightmare. By rule of thumb you only relay trusted networks the internet is _NOT_ a trusted network. > Dear Members, > > I am using postfix in my home mailserver. It is working fine as long as > I am also connected to my home network and relays mail to any > destination. But if I connect to my server from my work the SMTP server > (in my home network) refuses to relay it. How can I set it to relay mail > for me regardless of whereever I am? > > Thanks. > > Mahen. -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb Your one stop shop for I.T solutions. Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile: 0418455661 Web: http://www.spinaweb.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 12:31, Kevin Saenz wrote: > Let me get this right you would like to relay your emails from anywhere > in the world? If this is the case then how would you stop spammers from > using your server in sending spam? Why don't you try and implement > squirel or IMP web based emails on your mail server then all you need to > do is log on using your farvourite browser, read and send emails. > in all honesty by the sounds of things you are requesting the sysadmins > worst nightmare. SMTP auth would be the right solution here. A uname/pw combo tells the MTA to allow relaying for that connection. I don't know how to do it with postfix, but with sendmail you need sasl. Webmail etc is an alternative but not a solution. greeno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied
This one time, at band camp, Tony Green wrote: >SMTP auth would be the right solution here. A uname/pw combo tells the >MTA to allow relaying for that connection. > >I don't know how to do it with postfix, but with sendmail you need sasl. You need SASL and the postfix SASL/TLS patch if you're building postfix yourself, otherwise Debian provides a postfix-tls package which supports it (not sure about Red Hat). The howto Gonzalo posted is easy to follow and works out of the box. -- [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
[SLUG] Questions on hotplug.
Many thanks for the reply. =+-> As root, check to see if the hotplug process is running. I assume that, at root, I simply type hotplug? I'm not sure because the manual for hotplug is beyond my comprehension. It seems to be saying (in the syntax) that I type hotplug and then pipe it to NAME, where NAME is the agent that's been connected by hotplug. If I'm right, then it's a circular argument, because I don't know where (or under what name) hotplug has connected the burner. I have one other question. If I want to burn a CD at the end of a work session, I will have to connect the burner whilst the computer is still on, ie., a warm connection. Will hotplug wear this? Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied
Thanks Group. I got a clear picture now. I am actully now following the howto posted by Gonzalo. Mahen On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 10:46, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Tony Green wrote: > >SMTP auth would be the right solution here. A uname/pw combo tells the > >MTA to allow relaying for that connection. > > > >I don't know how to do it with postfix, but with sendmail you need sasl. > > You need SASL and the postfix SASL/TLS patch if you're building postfix > yourself, otherwise Debian provides a postfix-tls package which supports it > (not sure about Red Hat). The howto Gonzalo posted is easy to follow and > works out of the box. > > -- > [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] Postfix - Relaying Denied
From: "Tony Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > SMTP auth would be the right solution here. A uname/pw combo tells the > MTA to allow relaying for that connection. > > I don't know how to do it with postfix, but with sendmail you need sasl. > SASL will also do the job on postfix. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Questions on hotplug.
Bill Bennett wrote: >=+-> As root, check to see if the hotplug process is running. > >I assume that, at root, I simply type hotplug? I'm not sure >because the manual for hotplug is beyond my comprehension. ps aux | grep hotplug - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] apm issues
Hello sluggers, I'm getting the problem where, when my system is shutdown with 'shutdown -h now' or from gdm - It shuts down, but when it calls upon apm it simply restarts into the BIOS. I am running Debian SID with a custom Kernel-2.4.20 (with apm compiled as a module) - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] MSWebsite2LinuxWebSite.sh utility?
From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept I´ve a friend who has a Linux server and they have got a MS web site loaded. Problem is that MS doesn´t care about upper/lower case and GNU/Linux does. Is there a utility that can uncapitalise image file names, directory names and tags or should I write one? Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] MSWebsite2LinuxWebSite.sh utility?
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:11:15PM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept > > I´ve a friend who has a Linux server and they have got a MS web site > loaded. Problem is that MS doesn´t care about upper/lower case and > GNU/Linux does. Is there a utility that can uncapitalise image file > names, directory names and tags or should I write one? Plan B: use mod_speling with apache which I think does what you want, plus some more. Note that the spelling of mod_speling is mod_speling, not mod_spelling. Geek Humour! -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] MSWebsite2LinuxWebSite.sh utility?
You can do it in a couple of lines by calling sed or better yet in perl. Brett Stuart Guthrie wrote: From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept I´ve a friend who has a Linux server and they have got a MS web site loaded. Problem is that MS doesn´t care about upper/lower case and GNU/Linux does. Is there a utility that can uncapitalise image file names, directory names and tags or should I write one? Stu -- Brett Fenton General Manager NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet Business Services Provider Trusted by 10,000s of Oz Businesses Since 1997 This email is from NetRegistry Pty Ltd. The contents of this message are commercial and in confidence to the intended addresseee. The message may contain copyrighted and/or legally priviledged information. No person or entity other than the intended recipient may read, print or store this message, including any and all attached files. The intended recipient may not forward this message to any third party without express written permission from NetRegistry Pty Ltd. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] debugging ODBC / samba
Hello. Wondering how other sluggers might go about debugging this little problem. I have set up a samba server (smbd Version 2.999+3.0.alpha24-3 for Debian) to serve an MYOB data file to three clients on a network. the actual MYOB part seems to work ok (once we gave the server enough RAM - 32M RAM it seems is not enough these days :-) But there is a second program that uses ODBC to query the data file and it runs like a proverbial something.. unusably slow. The data file is set up as a System DSN in the ODBC control panel in win2k. I've run tethereal on the connection to the server and see a lot of SMB AndX Read requests from the client and not a lot of replies going back. I think i need to work on tuning samba with this but am unsure where to start. As i say the performance of the non-ODBC SMB connections seems acceptable now.. but until i can get the ODBC driver working I'm unable to complete the move and finish the project. Any hints most welcome. :) cheers, ..S. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] MSWebsite2LinuxWebSite.sh utility?
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:11:15PM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept > > I?ve a friend who has a Linux server and they have got a MS web site > loaded. Problem is that MS doesn?t care about upper/lower case and > GNU/Linux does. Is there a utility that can uncapitalise image file > names, directory names and tags or should I write one? You can translate the names using tr: tr [:upper:] [:lower:] A little bit of shell arround it will do what you want for the fielnames. For the tags I'd recomend perl. There are plenty of sources for good http tag matching regex's -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] MSWebsite2LinuxWebSite.sh utility?
This one time, at band camp, Stuart Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept > > GNU/Linux does. Is there a utility that can uncapitalise image file > names, directory names and tags or should I write one? #!/bin/sh for file in $* do if [ -f $file ] then lcfile=`echo $file | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]` if [ $file != $lcfile ] then mv -i $file $lcfile fi fi done Kind regards Kevin -- __ (_ \ _) ) | / / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \) \_||_| \) \) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
