Re: [SLUG] Databases, some advice please.
I've just started out teaching myself SQL using mySQL as a platform, the learning curve has been very comfortable so far. I am using it primarily for web based stuff and find using mySQL and PHP together almost too easy, that said I barely have my toes wet yet :-) . I find that the documentation is also very thorough and there are plenty of online tutorials to run through. cheers, Brad Bill Bennett wrote: I'd like to teach myself something on databases. The table of Window equivalents lists:--- 1) KNoda 2) Gnome DB Manager 3) OpenOffice + MySQL 4) InterBase7 (Prop) 5) InterBase6 (Presumably no longer Prop) 6) Berkley DB 7) Rekall (Prop) 8) StarOffice Adabase Has anyone any experience of any of these that they'd like to air? As I have only (very, ancient) limited experience of Access, I think thorough documentation would be a high priority. Any help, comments etc. Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Databases, some advice please.
I've just started out teaching myself SQL using mySQL as a platform, the learning curve has been very comfortable so far. I am using it primarily for web based stuff and find using mySQL and PHP together almost too easy, that said I barely have my toes wet yet :-) . I find that the documentation is also very thorough and there are plenty of online tutorials to run through. Brad, if you haven't as yet, check out PHPMyAdmin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Gentoo
From: dencar [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:40, Oscar Plameras wrote: I've prepared a presentation called About Gentoo for people who think its a crazy idea. It's on offer as a SLUG talk if anyone is interested. So, I'd be keenly interested to know what Gentoo has to offer. On my K6-3 450, 350mb ram, system a stage1 install took 72 hours, including download of KDE (48 hours) using the default 'use' flags. Kde still won't start automatically from runlevel 5, the kernel (installed using genkernel is corrupt and contains messages: wrong loader,giving up, linux fatal error, A20 gate not responding, refuses to access high mem, no setup signature found, incomplete literal tree, incomplete distance tree, out of memory, memory error, malloc error, ran out of input data, system halted, OK booting the kernel, invalid compressed format, to quote a few.) Remarkably the system boots from the HD but not from a boot disk - it quits when it runs out of input data. Also, none of my awe sound is installed nor is the nominated ext3 file support compiled and, when I tried to recompile, lo and behold the sis kernel driver is broken. Gentoo takes me back to RH 5.1 days, with less satisfaction so far, but I'll persevere. I wish you luck. dencar So, what distro do you use at this time ? What do you mainly use it for ? Workstation ? Server ? Gateway ? Firewall ? Specialist application ? Oscar Plameras http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Gentoo
Hi Dencar why don't you post to the list some one might help you? a few things- gentoo doesnt use runlevels like you think or maybee u have been used to on redhat? try using the default kernel sources? Some times the gentoo kernels can be a bit weird, you might want to log a bug report on bugs.gentoo.org. From: dencar [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:40, Oscar Plameras wrote: I've prepared a presentation called About Gentoo for people who think its a crazy idea. It's on offer as a SLUG talk if anyone is interested. So, I'd be keenly interested to know what Gentoo has to offer. On my K6-3 450, 350mb ram, system a stage1 install took 72 hours, including download of KDE (48 hours) using the default 'use' flags. Kde still won't start automatically from runlevel 5, the kernel (installed using genkernel is corrupt and contains messages: wrong loader,giving up, linux fatal error, A20 gate not responding, refuses to access high mem, no setup signature found, incomplete literal tree, incomplete distance tree, out of memory, memory error, malloc error, ran out of input data, system halted, OK booting the kernel, invalid compressed format, to quote a few.) Remarkably the system boots from the HD but not from a boot disk - it quits when it runs out of input data. Also, none of my awe sound is installed nor is the nominated ext3 file support compiled and, when I tried to recompile, lo and behold the sis kernel driver is broken. Gentoo takes me back to RH 5.1 days, with less satisfaction so far, but I'll persevere. I wish you luck. dencar So, what distro do you use at this time ? What do you mainly use it for ? Workstation ? Server ? Gateway ? Firewall ? Specialist application ? Oscar Plameras http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html -- 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
[SLUG] ot: xp firewall port 15932/9541
sorry for such off-topic as windoze firewall... I just enabled firewall on windoze xp, checking it later, I discovered two settings were auto magically enabled, on port msmsgs 15932 and 9541 I just disabled them, and, now I have 16498 and 9459 enabled...? what are these...? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Sharing a cd burner across network
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone knows how to share a cd burner across a network? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ot: xp firewall port 15932/9541
tic they're probably the eXtreme sPyware ports that call home to M$ with all your personal info so they can harvest it sell it. /tic Amanda sorry, couldn't resist the dig. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sorry for such off-topic as windoze firewall... I just enabled firewall on windoze xp, checking it later, I discovered two settings were auto magically enabled, on port msmsgs 15932 and 9541 I just disabled them, and, now I have 16498 and 9459 enabled...? what are these...? -- 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
[SLUG] Re: [activities] Codefest
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:04:31 +1000 Benno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a room booking for the 8/11 at UNSW. The booking is from 9am-10pm. How does this suit people? And anyone had any ideas for talks they would like to give, or code they want to write? I might ramble about some of the stuff i've been working on such as porting Darwin to L4, however this may be too technical/uninteresting for people :) Cool. I've got an idea, the coding equivalent of high wire trapeze that might even bring non-coders, wanna-be coders and I-could-never-be-a-coders along. I hereby offer to try and find/fix any bug in any piece of software that mets the following conditions: 0) Software is released under any of the standard Open Source or Free Software licenses. 1) Is available as an official Debian package. 2) The version of the package in Debian unstable has the bug. 3) The software runs in user space (ie not kernel code). 4) Is written in C, C++ or Python. 5) Has a easy recipe for recreating the problem. 6) You notify me in advance of the Debian package name (by private email please). 7) You can be present to confirm that the bug is fixed. 8) Time permits :-). Hecklers, rubbernecks, supporters, people who think they could do better, people wanting to help etc are all welcome. I will attempt to give a running commentary the debugging progresses. All bugs found/fixed will be submitted as bug reports with a patch to Debian's bug tracking system. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ Orcad Express 9: Its a nice demo but I wouldn't want to use it on a day-to-day basis -- me -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Gentoo
---BeginMessage--- On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:40, Oscar Plameras wrote: I've prepared a presentation called About Gentoo for people who think its a crazy idea. It's on offer as a SLUG talk if anyone is interested. So, I'd be keenly interested to know what Gentoo has to offer. On my K6-3 450, 350mb ram, system a stage1 install took 72 hours, including download of KDE (48 hours) using the default 'use' flags. Kde still won't start automatically from runlevel 5, the kernel (installed using genkernel is corrupt and contains messages: wrong loader,giving up, linux fatal error, A20 gate not responding, refuses to access high mem, no setup signature found, incomplete literal tree, incomplete distance tree, out of memory, memory error, malloc error, ran out of input data, system halted, OK booting the kernel, invalid compressed format, to quote a few.) Remarkably the system boots from the HD but not from a boot disk - it quits when it runs out of input data. Also, none of my awe sound is installed nor is the nominated ext3 file support compiled and, when I tried to recompile, lo and behold the sis kernel driver is broken. Gentoo takes me back to RH 5.1 days, with less satisfaction so far, but I'll persevere. I wish you luck. dencar Oscar Plameras http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html ---End Message--- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] Codefest
At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:14:32 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I hereby offer to try and find/fix any bug in any piece of software that mets the following conditions: heh, that sounds like fun. -- - Gus (looking around for a meaty libc6/toolchain bug ;) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Sharing a cd burner across network
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:20:59PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: Just wondering if anyone knows how to share a cd burner across a network? I vaguely remember some sort of generic network block device thing running around in the kernel. Perhaps that could be fiddled to suit your needs. Alternately, do what we do - person who wants to burn SSHes into the box with the burner in it, and runs 'burncd image' - burncd being a wrapper script I wrote for cdrecord. Works tastily for me. If you need a helping hand making the image, I'm sure xcdroast or whatever you use could write the image to a file rather than a disc. I guess you could write a webpage that would accept an image and burn it, but I don't think that's a really practical solution (file size limits come to mind). -- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] Codefest
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:14:32PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I've got an idea, the coding equivalent of high wire trapeze that might even bring non-coders, wanna-be coders and I-could-never-be-a-coders along. That sounds like a hell of a lot of fun. I'd volunteer to a fellow high-wire artist, but I'm not confident enough in my general debugging technique. grin -- CH3 CH3 \_/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \ 1,2-dimethylcaterpillar \_/\_/\_/\_/\_/\_/\_/\_/\_/\_/\_/ Richard Bos and Steve VanDevender, ASR -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Sharing a cd burner across network
Alternately, do what we do - person who wants to burn SSHes into the box with the burner in it, and runs 'burncd image' - burncd being a wrapper script I wrote for cdrecord. Works tastily for me. If you need a helping hand making the image, I'm sure xcdroast or whatever you use could write the image to a file rather than a disc. I guess you could write a webpage that would accept an image and burn it, but I don't think that's a really practical solution (file size limits come to mind). Yeah I thought there would have been a sleek way of being able to dump files on the burner and it goes off and does the job. I have a similar script called fast and slow one for the 4X and one for the 48X they work a treat. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] Codefest
It is said that Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I've got an idea, the coding equivalent of high wire trapeze that might even bring non-coders, wanna-be coders and I-could-never-be-a-coders along. I'll stand by and make fun of your buggy code. :p Just kidding. :-) - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Gentoo
I think this was meant to be sent to the list so ill send it back, answers are intermixed On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 09:48 PM, Dennis Robertson wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 18:46, you wrote: Hi Dencar why don't you post to the list some one might help you? a few things- gentoo doesnt use runlevels like you think or maybee u have been used to on redhat? the run levels are set in /etc/inittab, same as other distros; X won't start automatically in runlevel 5, but I'm working on it. yep it uses inittab , but it doesnt use runlevels like you might have been used to try this command rc-update add default xdm try using the default kernel sources? Some times the gentoo kernels can be a bit weird, you might want to log a bug report on bugs.gentoo.org. I am using the default kernel gentoo-sources (2.4.20-gentoo-r7); the problem seems to be the poor performance of genkernel in firstly not compiling for my system and selected filesystem and then corrupting the copy of bzImage to /boot/kernel. I find bugzilla one of the worst aspects of the distro. yeah, well im not really comfortable with the gentoo kernel, try running linux 2.4.22 instead, if that doesn't work you might have some strange hardware. As for using bugzilla? I guess if you dont fix bugs or report them no one is ever gonna fix them. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Gentoo
On 14 Oct 2003 13:54:06 +1000 Mike MacCana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want a customzied build... 1. grab the source packages from http://ftp.horde.org/pub/SRPMS/rh9/ 2. Install them with rpm -Uvh *.src.rpm 3. Edit /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/(package).spec 4. Append any custom options you want after the `%configure' bit. 5. Install rpm-build, and run rpmbuila -ba (package).spec Install the resulting custom package. Call me lazy, but it would be good to do even less than this; it would be nice to be able to do rpmbuild -tb whatever.tar.gz for anything. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] Codefest
This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I hereby offer to try and find/fix any bug in any piece of software that mets the following conditions: I offer the following lists of bugs: http://bugs.qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/base.cgi http://bugs.qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/standard.cgi :-) -- [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] ot: xp firewall port 15932/9541
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 18:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry for such off-topic as windoze firewall... I just enabled firewall on windoze xp, checking it later, I discovered two settings were auto magically enabled, on port msmsgs 15932 and 9541 I just disabled them, and, now I have 16498 and 9459 enabled...? what are these...? IIRC they are Msn Messenger. If you block these on a linux firewall between the XP machine and the net, msn messenger will not work. - Karl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Sharing a cd burner across network
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:39, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:20:59PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: Just wondering if anyone knows how to share a cd burner across a network? I vaguely remember some sort of generic network block device thing running around in the kernel. Perhaps that could be fiddled to suit your needs. Alternately, do what we do - person who wants to burn SSHes into the box with the burner in it, and runs 'burncd image' Another way you could do this is have a desktop shortcut involving SSH ssh tkemali -C k3b Most modern SSH setups will graphically prompt for the password if run in such a way - so you click, type the password, and the burner app runs. If you set up key based SSH you can also avoid the prompt completely. Mike -- __ Mike MacCana ConsultantRHCX, 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: [SLUG] Sharing a cd burner across network
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Kevin Saenz wrote: Just wondering if anyone knows how to share a cd burner across a network? My first thought is DONT. The most reliable approach is to offer either NFS or Samba shares to either plonk files or ISO images into. The shares should be on the same machine as the CD-burner. You could then fill out a web page with stuff like the volume name, desired format etc etc. Or if you're running an X server perhaps run Xcdroast with the display on the remote workstation. -- ---GRiP--- Electronic Hobyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasonal nudist, Linux Guru, SLUG/AUUG/Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, BMX rider, Walker, Raver rave music lover, Big kid that refuses grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! Do people actually read these things? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Gnoppix 0.6.0-beta1 release
http://www.gnoppix.org/ 0.6.0-beta1 released. Apparently just like Knoppix, but with a Gnome 2.4 desktop instead of KDE. /me puts it on his list to take a look at. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: No TV and No Beer make Homer something something Marge: Go Crazy? Homer: Don't mind if I do! rrrarrgghar! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] help needed on gcc compiler
Hi All I'm working on downsizing a huge object code. It's compiled by gcc and linked by ld. For downsizing it, I remove "-g" to remove debug message. That's really helpful and the code size is smaller but not enough. I read gcc manual but it doesn't sayif parameter will increase object codesize. Do you know any other parameters of gcc and ld may increase object codesize? Any suggestions will be appreciate. W.L. in Taiwan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] help needed on gcc compiler
[Please don't post HTML to this list] On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:44:31AM +0800, well wrote: Hi All I'm working on downsizing a huge object code. It's compiled by gcc and linked by ld. For downsizing it, I remove -g to remove debug message. That's really helpful and the code size is smaller but not enough. I read gcc manual but it doesn't say if parameter will increase object codesize. Do you know any other parameters of gcc and ld may increase object codesize? gcc's -Os option is the most likely to help -- it optimises the code for small size. -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] help needed on gcc compiler
well wrote: Hi All I'm working on downsizing a huge object code. It's compiled by gcc and linked by ld. For downsizing it, I remove -g to remove debug message. That's really helpful and the code size is smaller but not enough. I read gcc manual but it doesn't say if parameter will increase object codesize. Do you know any other parameters of gcc and ld may increase object codesize? Any suggestions will be appreciate. W.L. in Taiwan Try running strip on the resulting binary. Cheers -Rod -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Gnoppix 0.6.0-beta1 release
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 09:45, Jan Schmidt wrote: /me puts it on his list to take a look at. I checked it out recently. oh no that that morphix which is apparently more mature than Gnoppix. Morphix wasn't as slick as Knoppix - it didn't work with my usb mouse, and the boot up screen had multiple errors that didn't seem to drastic. One thing is for sure - Klaus does a damn good job of Knoppix. I am just about to check out http://www.dynebolic.org/ should have finished downloading recently. I don't think its based on Knoppix. from the website: dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software! anyone interested in a review? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Video Servers
Hi all, I have been asked to research Video Servers for our school. The aim is to store the Video / DVD on a hard disc and then deliver the video from there to the desktop / TV. There are a number of Windows based systems, I was wondering if anyone knew of an Open Source solution? Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Video Servers
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:27:28PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I have been asked to research Video Servers for our school. The aim is to store the Video / DVD on a hard disc and then deliver the video from there to the desktop / TV. www.videolan.org opensource, linux/windows/others, multicasting works. cheers, Woody There are a number of Windows based systems, I was wondering if anyone knew of an Open Source solution? Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Video Servers
You could try vls/vlc, from what I have tested it works pretty well. the only problem I see is that the client can not truly interact with the server. ie: if you have a DVD playing on the server the client side cannot stop, fast forward, rewind. Other than that it will deliver video output to Linux and windows. Hi all, I have been asked to research Video Servers for our school. The aim is to store the Video / DVD on a hard disc and then deliver the video from there to the desktop / TV. There are a number of Windows based systems, I was wondering if anyone knew of an Open Source solution? Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb I.T consultants 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] Gnoppix 0.6.0-beta1 release
quote who=Dave Kempe anyone interested in a review? Sounds like a Live CD head-to-head talk would be enlightening... Knoppix, Gnoppix, Morphix, etc., etc... Not only how good are they when they boot but how easy are they to modify. That'd be way sweet. - Jeff (who hasn't put his head in the live cd oven for a while) -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ I love 2001. Especially the beginning with the proto-humans screaming at each other and beating each other to death with rocks and bones. That very neatly encapsulates my whole concept of interpersonal relationships. - Branden Robinson -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] IPtables Script
G'day, Got an iptables script which shares the DSL out over the network. Thanks to the joys of being on Telstra the connections been up and down quite regularly lately. Problem is the script is (well, was) based around ppp0 When the connection goes down it usually doesn't come back up as ppp0, it'll be ppp1 ppp4 etc. Currently just going thru the script and replacing any instances of pppX with pppY each time it comes up on a diff. i/f 2 thoughts on how I could try and fix it 1 - force it to come up on ppp0 2 - set a var. @ the top of the script so its just one change per down Problem! I dunno how to do either. Thoughts / comments / flames appreciated. TIA. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] IPtables Script
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:08, Craig Mead wrote: G'day, 1 - force it to come up on ppp0 unit 0 in the ppp config. 2 - set a var. @ the top of the script so its just one change per down or use ppp+ in the iptables script, which will match all ppp interfaces. And doesn't need to be bounced on link failure/resumption. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] IPtables Script
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 15-10-2003 03:08:16 PM: G'day, Got an iptables script which shares the DSL out over the network. Thanks to the joys of being on Telstra the connections been up and down quite regularly lately. Problem is the script is (well, was) based around ppp0 When the connection goes down it usually doesn't come back up as ppp0, it'll be ppp1 ppp4 etc. Currently just going thru the script and replacing any instances of pppX with pppY each time it comes up on a diff. i/f 2 thoughts on how I could try and fix it 1 - force it to come up on ppp0 2 - set a var. @ the top of the script so its just one change per down Problem! You could use ip-up. What flavor of Linux are you using? All I know is between Redhat and Debian they are different. man pppd and search for ip-up for details. I think the pppX is file descriptor 1. An example script would be for redhat in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local (providing you are only using ppp on your dsl, and nothing else): /path/to/firewall.sh $1 And put in your firewall script: $ppp=$1 Don't forget to make the ip-up.local executable for the user that pppd launches as. Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Video Servers
It is said that Simon Bryan wrote: I have been asked to research Video Servers for our school. The aim is to store the Video / DVD on a hard disc and then deliver the video from there to the desktop / TV. There are a number of Windows based systems, I was wondering if anyone knew of an Open Source solution? You could rip it as a .mpeg/avi file using various applications. - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
