Re: [SLUG] TFTP server problems.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:18, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks.
Distro is OpenSUSE 11, X64
I'm trying to get a box to allow inbound tftp connections. As far as I
can tell, the config is right for xinet.d. Config file is as follows
service tftp
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= jffnms
group = www
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = -s /opt/jffnms/tftpd/
}
However, every time I try to connect to the tftp service, I get the
following error in my logs
Sep 24 09:18:03 fred in.tftpd[29931]: cannot set groups for user nobody
I think this means the service is trying to run as user nobody -
despite the config file telling it to run as another user.
Anyone got any clue why? Or can point out what I've stuffed up?
TIA
DaZZa
Hi DaZZa,
Are you using YaST2 to configure this? (i.e. the TFTP and/or the
xinetd YaST modules) I ask because YaST is liable to overwrite the
config if you manually update /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and YaST reruns.
You should be in 'just works' territory if you're using YaST.
Cheers,
h
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Re: [SLUG] TFTP server problems.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 16:15, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't even know what that error means - I can only assume it's telling me that the in.tftpd process is running as user nobody despite me telling it to run as jffnms - but I'm not even 100% sure of that. DaZZa Odd. Apparently that problem is all over Google like a mad penguin's... you know the rest. This thread[0] suggests that tftpd cannot run as an arbitrary user (without providing a reason), have you tried keeping the defaults? (of running as root AFAIK). h [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=339130 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] TFTP server problems.
DaZZa wrote:
Sep 24 09:18:03 fred in.tftpd[29931]: cannot set groups for user nobody
Perhaps you need to pass the user and group in parameters
to in.tftpd rather than as parameters to xinetd. See the -u
parameter and the manual page in.tftpd(8), which says:
-u username
Specify the username which tftpd will run as; the
default is nobody. The user ID, group ID, and (if
possible on the platform) the supplementary group IDs
will be set to the ones specified in the system
permission database for this username.
which implies that without -u the daemon will run as the
nobody user.
I'm not sure in.tftpd could even bind to the listening port
unless it starts as the root user.
If you are running a recent Linux (with IPv6 support)
you may also need to ensure that xinetd doesn't try to
bind the IPv4-only TFTP protocol to a IPv6 socket.
See the flags parameter in xinetd.conf(5).
An example from a running TFTP server is:
service tftp
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = -s /srv/tftpboot -c -vv -u tftp -p -U 007
disable = no
per_source = 11
cps = 100 2
flags = IPv4
}
On my distro xinetd also references TCP Wrappers, so /etc/hosts.allow
says
in.tftpd: ALL
On my distro a firewall also exists and a iptables rule had to be added
for the TFTP protocol (which runs over UDP). That requires the tftp connection
tracking module nf_conntrack_tftp to be installed so that RELATED rules can
be matched.
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Re: [SLUG] Best WINE Front end ..?
Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been looking for a WINE front end to run some MS apps. (specifically MYOB, but others as well) When you say front end, what are you thinking of? I ask because my Ubuntu system works exactly as I would expect: running the MYOB installer through Wine installed the software and added the Start Menu folders and icons into the KDE Wine menu. This is the same as what happened back on Debian, and IIRC has been fairly standard for a while now. Running the software from the icon, naturally, fires it up under Wine. So, what are you actually expecting this front end to do? Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Comp TIA+ / CLP
I did take a peek at the LPI site the other day and found no indication of how it works, where I can sit the exam and what material I'd need to be studying in order to prepare myself. The site is very vague on this. Do you know of any yourself? On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 at 10:23, Blindraven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About a year ago I was looking to get my RHCE but have since decided to shoot for a more realistic goal, something to have under my belt as i move along. I've heard of the Comp TIA Linux + Cert and the Novell CLP and am wondering which one would be more industry recognisable. Long story short: anything from CompTIA is rubbish. I can't speak for Novell, but I hear their Linux certs are decent. My recommendation, however, would be the LPI certs (lpi.org). -- Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. - George Burns -- In a world without walls or fences, there would be no need for windows or gates.. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Comp TIA+ / CLP
On 25/09/2008, at 6:03 PM, Blindraven wrote: I did take a peek at the LPI site the other day and found no indication of how it works, where I can sit the exam and what material I'd need to be studying in order to prepare myself. The site is very vague on this. Do you know of any yourself? I think there's a tafe course run from granville that covers LPI. http://archive.slug.org.au/2006/training.html http://www.gonzo.edu.au/moodle/ Everything looks a little out of date, but Geoffrey Robertson looks like the contact for tafe, and there's lots of links on those pages, include some to study material http://lcdp.sourceforge.net/ -- http://chesterton.id.au/blog/ http://barrang.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Comp TIA+ / CLP
Gonzo looked promising but seems dead, and has not been updated in over a year. the other link points towards the same site. The only place I've found so far is http://www.simt.nsw.edu.au/lpi1.php - but they want 2grand. All I want to do is sit the exam which is only supposed to be around $70. On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Michael Chesterton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/09/2008, at 6:03 PM, Blindraven wrote: I did take a peek at the LPI site the other day and found no indication of how it works, where I can sit the exam and what material I'd need to be studying in order to prepare myself. The site is very vague on this. Do you know of any yourself? I think there's a tafe course run from granville that covers LPI. http://archive.slug.org.au/2006/training.html http://www.gonzo.edu.au/moodle/ Everything looks a little out of date, but Geoffrey Robertson looks like the contact for tafe, and there's lots of links on those pages, include some to study material http://lcdp.sourceforge.net/ -- http://chesterton.id.au/blog/ http://barrang.com.au/ -- In a world without walls or fences, there would be no need for windows or gates.. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Just Works flatbed scanner for Hardy (standalone or multifunction)
I went and bought a HP 2280 all-in-one, because it was cheap ($69, before $20 cash back) and HP usually work ok with Linux. It doesn't work out of the box, as Hardy is running HPLIP 2.8.2-0 and the 2280 requires 2.8.6 for scanning. So I can get it working, which is good, but what happens when the dist-upgrade comes around? I assume by the time 10.04-LTS is out that the 2.8.6 or better will be standard, but it is there anything I can do to make sure the upgrade will go smoothly and the hand installed 2.8.6 will be ignored? At the moment there's an auto installer for 2.8.9 available. When dist-upgrading should some effort be made to remove this first, or would installing it by hand make future upgrades any more successful? Ben On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Searching for a scanner that's plug and play. Best I've found so far is the Canon LiDE25 (this is a stand alone flatbed scanner). Found various info that seems to indicate Canon and HP are the best bets at the moment. While the Ubuntu hardware guide does have a reasonable set of options, I can't find any that are currently available. Emphasis here on the just works. Relatively cheap would be good too :-) Size/brand/quality/etc. are not relevant. I'm really hoping you know of something that will fit the bill as buying a bucket of WiFi adapters was one thing, but I don't have the space to start a scanner collection :-) Thanks, Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] apt-get install problem
Hi, I have had a problem installing new packages in an etch/lenny system for a week or two. Have repository gpg scripts been changed ? Is there a wider problem ? I've attached todays 'apt-get upgrade' output below. Synaptic tells me The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and ensure the repository address in the preferences is correct. Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tohunga:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: abiword-common abiword-help abiword-plugins gpm The following packages will be upgraded: acpid libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libncursesw5 ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term 7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. 29 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 6133kB of archives. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main libgnomevfs2-common 1:2.22.0-4 [1180kB] Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main gnome-screensaver 2.22.2-1 [1888kB] Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main ncurses-bin 5.6+20080920-1 [136kB] Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main libncurses5-dev 5.6+20080920-1 [1526kB] Get:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main libncurses5 5.6+20080920-1 [334kB] Get:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main ncurses-base 5.6+20080920-1 [174kB] Get:7 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main libncursesw5 5.6+20080920-1 [356kB] Get:8 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main ncurses-term 5.6+20080920-1 [507kB] Get:9 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main acpid 1.0.6-12 [31.9kB] Fetched 6133kB in 35s (172kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 333980 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libgnomevfs2-common 1:2.22.0-4 (using .../libgnomevfs2-common_1%3a2.22.0-4_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libgnomevfs2-common ... dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 127 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomevfs2-common_1%3a2.22.0-4_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 127 dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Preparing to replace gnome-screensaver 2.22.2-1 (using .../gnome-screensaver_2.22.2-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gnome-screensaver ... dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 127 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-screensaver_2.22.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 127 dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Preparing to replace ncurses-bin 5.6+20080913-1 (using .../ncurses-bin_5.6+20080920-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ncurses-bin ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomevfs2-common_1%3a2.22.0-4_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-screensaver_2.22.2-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Tohunga:~# -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re. apt-get install problem
Synaptic also tells me W: GPG error: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1 Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch) [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: GPG error: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au etch Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1 Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch) [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: GPG error: http://packages.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2 .. which should not affect stuff from other mirrors. How should one fix these signatures ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Comp TIA+ / CLP
In order to sit for the LPIC 101 and 102 exams basically used the LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell book from O'Reilly - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005283/ as well as the exam prep material from https://www.lpi.org/eng/certification/the_lpic_program/lpic_1 Regards, Martin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Best WINE Front end ..?
Daniel Pittman wrote: Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been looking for a WINE front end to run some MS apps. (specifically MYOB, but others as well) When you say front end, what are you thinking of? I ask because my Ubuntu system works exactly as I would expect: running the MYOB installer through Wine installed the software and added the Start Menu folders and icons into the KDE Wine menu. As I understand it, things like playonlinux add a user-friendliness form of GUI which makes WINE simpler to configure and install, whilst at the same time you still have access to the underlying aspects of WINE if you want. If WINE is complete, why do further applications which sit on top of it exist? My current understanding is that I'm likening playonlinux (and such apps) is to WINE just as GKrellm is to lm_sensors. Is this incorrect? Kind Regards Kyle -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] September SLUG Monthly Meeting — this Friday
== September SLUG Monthly Meeting == You can read the full version of this announcement on the Web at http://www.slug.org.au/node/106 When: 18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 26 September, 2008 We start at 18:30 but we ask that people arrive 15 minutes early so we can all get into the building and start on time. Please do not arrive before 18:00, as it may hinder business activities for our host! Appropriate signage and directions will be posted on the building. Where: Atlassian[0], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market Street) Entry is via the rear on Slip Street. There are stairs going down along the outside of building from Sussex St to near the entrance. A map of the area and directions can be found here[1]. = Talks = ** General Talk ** Lindsay Holmwood: Practical performance monitoring with collectd It's 3am and your boss calls asking why the server farm is down. Pages are taking ages to load, ping times are skyrocketing, and the big client is wondering why they're paying you good money for a down service. You log in and your app is running like a dog, the load average is shot, but nothing's chewing up CPU. What do you do? Problems like this don't just happen - there are usually warning signs. Enter collectd, a lightweight statistics collection daemon for *nix. Lindsay will be covering collectd's statistic collection features, storing the results, hooking it into your monitoring system, and graphing the results. ** In-Depth Talk ** Peter Chubb: I Hate Spam!!! All of us are affected by spam. I'll be giving some war stories ... hear about the time that collateral spam brought down UNSW CSE's mail servers ... how to report spammers so it doesn't happen to you! ... hear about the time that spamassassin managed to OOM and bring down an important web server ... how to configure your MTA to reject enough spam that spamassassin doesn't have to do so much work. I'll be giving my examples for Exim configuration, but the principles (and I'll be talking more about what to do than how to do it) will apply to all mail servers. ** SLUGlets ** General discussion and QA about Linux, free software and open source. = Meeting Schedule = See here[2] for an explanation of the segments. * 18:15 : Open Doors * 18:30 : Announcements, News, Introductions * 18:45 : General Talk * 19:30 : Intermission * 19:45 : Split into two groups for * In-depth Talk * SLUGlets * 20:30 : Dinner Dinner is at Golden Harbour Restaurant, in Chinatown. We will be having the $24 Banquet[3], but we will be collecting $25 per head for ease of accounting and to cover a tip. We will be taking numbers during the break to confirm the reservation size. If you have any particular dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian), or if you would prefer to order separately, let us know beforehand. Dinner is a great way to socialise and learn in a relaxed atmosphere :) We hope to see you there! [0] http://www.atlassian.com [1] http://tinyurl.com/35fxes [2] http://www.slug.org.au/meetings/meetingformat [3] http://www.goldenharbour.com.au/specials.html -- Sridhar Dhanapalan President Sydney Linux Users Group http://www.slug.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Best WINE Front end ..?
Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been looking for a WINE front end to run some MS apps. (specifically MYOB, but others as well) When you say front end, what are you thinking of? I ask because my Ubuntu system works exactly as I would expect: running the MYOB installer through Wine installed the software and added the Start Menu folders and icons into the KDE Wine menu. As I understand it, things like playonlinux add a user-friendliness form of GUI which makes WINE simpler to configure and install, Simpler than using the existing tools supplied with your distribution to install the supported software packages? I would be surprised. whilst at the same time you still have access to the underlying aspects of WINE if you want. Again, I don't really understand what you mean. Wine doesn't really have underlying aspects in any meaningful sense -- it isn't like you get a dozen separate utilities to run. You just, you know, run 'wine example.exe'[1] and it works. If WINE is complete, why do further applications which sit on top of it exist? Good question. Again, this depends on what /you/ mean be complete, in that I can't answer your question because wine is, so far as I can tell, functional and complete. My current understanding is that I'm likening playonlinux (and such apps) is to WINE just as GKrellm is to lm_sensors. Is this incorrect? I think so, in that your question seems to carry the same assumption as before: that wine is somehow deficient, incomplete or broken as shipped, and that third party solutions are required to provide a GUI front end to do ... something. I still don't know what that something is, though, and I am having trouble even imagining what it could possibly be. Now, if you had talked about, for example, commercial support for Microsoft Office, or better support for Windows games[2], then this would have made sense. Talking about a user friendly GUI to something that doesn't really have a command line, as such, doesn't make much sense though. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] ... or double-click on the executable in your file manager. [2] At least for a while some of the non-free branches of wine had better support for this. I don't know if that is still true. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Best WINE Front end ..?
What I find useful is winetricks, which makes downloading prerequisite software from various web sites very simple. Having said that, I still haven't got Outlook to work. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1
Hi All I don't know of any adsl2 modems that just work in linux. Any one know of any such modems for ADSL2 that play well with linux. Any links to good sites, documentation etc I have tried Netcomms NB5 which I could not get to work. ( i hope it wasn't a fault with the modem) The NB5 supposedly works with adsl1 adsl2 supposedly works with MacOS linux ... but no support documentation that I can find. Never was a problem with adsl one . I have been using an Alcatel speed touch home modem. That just simply works with linux ... with factory defaults set. Using Roaring Penquin software rp-pppoe-3.5-32.1.i386.rpm it is very simple to set up. Just run adsl-setup Only needs two config files needed for it to work: chap-secrets pppoe.conf as shown below. Any help very much appreciated Thx Roger ## chap-secrets ## Secrets for authentication using CHAP ## client server secret IP addresses redhat-config-network will overwrite this part!!! (begin) ## redhat-config-network will overwrite this part!!! (end) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * password ### pppoe.confor ifcfg-ppp0file USERCTL=yes BOOTPROTO=dialup NAME=DSLppp0 DEVICE=ppp0 TYPE=xDSL ONBOOT=no PIDFILE=/var/run/pppoe-adsl.pid FIREWALL=NONE PING=. PPPOE_TIMEOUT=80 LCP_FAILURE=3 LCP_INTERVAL=20 CLAMPMSS=1412 CONNECT_POLL=6 CONNECT_TIMEOUT=60 DEFROUTE=yes SYNCHRONOUS=no ETH=eth2 PROVIDER=DSLppp0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PEERDNS=no DEMAND=no -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1
R.G.Salisbury wrote: I have tried Netcomms NB5 which I could not get to work. ( i hope it wasn't a fault with the modem) That modem works fine for me with Linux. My father uses the same modem, also with Linux. Funny enough, the modem itself runs linux :-). Using Roaring Penquin software rp-pppoe-3.5-32.1.i386.rpm I let the NB5 do all the ppp and authentication stuff. Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - TLC declared bankruptcy after they received less than 2 percent of the $175 million earned by their CD sales. That was about 40 times less than the profit that was divided among their management, production and record companies. -- Courtney Love on the REAL piracy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1
This one time, at band camp, R.G.Salisbury wrote: I don't know of any adsl2 modems that just work in linux. All the ones with an ethernet port just work with Linux. It's really the best approach as it'll never be obsolete or unsupported with your OS, no matter what happens in the future. I've had good experiences with Billion. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. - Samuel Adams -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008, R.G.Salisbury wrote: I have tried Netcomms NB5 which I could not get to work. ( i hope it wasn't a fault with the modem) The NB5 supposedly works with adsl1 adsl2 supposedly works with MacOS linux ... but no support documentation that I can find. I use the Netcomm NB1 ok. It has the mode that (pretty much?) all modems have now where it can do the authentication and NAT setup etc itself. In this case, you plug your Linux box into it via ethernet, pick up an address via DHCP and log into its web interface to set it up. If you want to have Linux do all the authentication etc you need to go to the modem's web interface as above, put it in Bridge Mode, which is a bit of a pain. But at least you only have to do it once. The best directions I've found for setting bridge mode on the NB5 are http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=566074r=8724589#r8724589 I use pppoeconf (the Ubuntu package) to configure authentication and such from there, and it hasn't gone wrong on ADSL 1 or 2. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1
R.G.Salisbury wrote: Hi All I don't know of any adsl2 modems that just work in linux. It sounds like your trying to bridge the modem to have the host behind be the www interface. I used to do that with ADSL 1 as well, but since moving to 2, I just let the modem(/router **) do the negotiation work and set up port forwarding rules for those things I want to go straight to the linux server host behind it. You can even set up the modem to forward simply everything to the host behind if you still want to use that as a router. Only thing I guess you lose there is the ability to mangle/hide your internal IP from the call that goes to the outside. Of course if you are doing that, you are effectively introducing an 'interim' subnet and can at least mangle to the interim subnet's address, thereby still protecting your internal addresses. But by still having iptables running on the box behind AND enabling the firewall in the modem, you gain an albeit minimal additional security layer. Obviously, it's not going to stop anyone who REALLY wants to get in, but it just adds that little extra layer of complexity. ** It seems pretty much every ADSL2 modem is also a router these days and thus has an ethernet port. Of course, that also means you need another power outlet as opposed to powering over USB like the Alcatel stingray did. Kind Regards Kyle -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] General Protection Fault
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Anyone know what this message means: Sep 26 11:58:34 Heracles kernel: [ 6732.917592] general protection fault: [1] SMP I have searched with google but although it gets lots of mentions no one seems to have a reply. Is this a hardware or a software fault. I am running ubuntu 8.04 and kernel: 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux according to uname. TIA Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI3EgxybPcBAs9CE8RAhGsAKCpawCzXn/PIJ8J/CF66MbLfyrRgACePtHi 2cLXiQqMDFU0Kfmh/HIZQHo= =0+7u -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] General Protection Fault
heracles == heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: heracles Hi, Anyone know what this message means: heracles Sep 26 11:58:34 Heracles kernel: [ 6732.917592] general heracles protection fault: [1] SMP It means that your processor has tried to do something that it is not allowed to --- for example, trying to access read-only memory for writing. The syslog message should have given more info than that --- it should have gi9ven a kernel backtrace if the error happened in the kernel, or the process affected if in userspace. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] General Protection Fault
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Peter, Unfortunately the next message is: syslogd 1.5.0#1ubuntu1: restart. The previous message is just the DHCP renewal: Sep 26 11:54:31 Heracles NetworkManager: info DHCP daemon state is now 3 (renew) for interface eth0 Sep 26 11:54:31 Heracles dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.101 -- renewal in 1420 seconds. So no clues there. The program that I started just before the crash was: Crack Attack. Heracles Peter Chubb wrote: heracles == heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: heracles Hi, Anyone know what this message means: heracles Sep 26 11:58:34 Heracles kernel: [ 6732.917592] general heracles protection fault: [1] SMP It means that your processor has tried to do something that it is not allowed to --- for example, trying to access read-only memory for writing. The syslog message should have given more info than that --- it should have gi9ven a kernel backtrace if the error happened in the kernel, or the process affected if in userspace. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI3FGaybPcBAs9CE8RAsWsAJ9J+etDfOiqDJHNl0UhLRF+qDiLVgCfablM 5zbxT84EznEK5l2Vt6Fqo80= =Hg1C -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
