[SLUG] Low power domain controller / user authentication ?
Hi All, Sorry I do not post much, but I do have a question that I would like to ask here... I have used a mixed network for my own use for years, primarily I always had Linux doing the grunt work for web services serving, but I also always had windows boxes, the problem is, as the network grows or as I replaced PC's, I always kept the old boxes on the network, needless to say a while ago I started looking for ways to save power space and reduce heat build up - my work area was like a sauna at one point :) Anyway, to cut to the chase, I still need a box to do authentication and to act as a domain controller, but I would rather use a cheap dislkless device that sleeps when not called upon, does anyone know of a device like this ? or if I must use a PC, is there a CD or say USB key Linux distro that can be cut down to just Samba ? I have a couple of Nettel ne2520 embedded devices if somone wants to hack one to do what I want, they can have the other. Thanks in advance. -- Greg -- 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] Unwired for Broadband ?
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 14/12/2004 at 9:25 PM Elliott-Brennan wrote: I tend to agree with Markw1977, (beware, saga looming) In a related (somewhat) incident, I had wired my house so that I could have net access from the study - at the rear of the house. The telephone cable comes through into the front of the house and I added a connection and wiring to the rear of the house. My Smoothwall firewall is three feet from where the cable enters the study. I was having connection problems and rang my ISP. They asked several questions: when they asked if I was using Windows, I said Yes - I use W and Linux (didn't tell them the latter); they asked if my computer was connected directly to the USB modem, I said Yes, because the old pc with Smoothwall installed IS connected directly to the USB modem; they asked if my pc was within three feet of where the phone line comes into the house; I said Yes because it comes into the house at one end of the building, then out of the house and back in three feet from my firewall. I didn't tell them about Smoothwall. Funnily enough, the problem happened to be at their end and not mine. I don't even have to guess what they would have said if I had told them everything. Regards, Patrick Hehe... is that not true for 99.9% of ISPs? It's not just Linux though, BSD, Unix, OS X... all suffer from the Oh, if it's not Windows then the problem is at your end... syndrome. When dealing with them, don't disclose your OS. Hey, can you use an MUA that at least indicates who has said what by indenting or something ? Onto the second part, it has nothing to do with anyhing other than companies cannot train hoardes of support staff on every OS, there are various reasons for this, but if you are using something other than a supported OS (such as a form of linux or UNIX), then you do not need the help from an ISP's help desk other than to ask Is there any known issues at this time because (blah) You are responsible for your own systems or network trying to suggest that somehow these companies etc are anti pick your OS is tiring to read, it also would be good if people change the subject line when they divert away from the subject. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- 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] Firebird Google search to do Australia?
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 15/07/2004 at 1:29 PM vernon wrote: edit google.src its found in /path/to/firefox/searchplugins/ edit this line action=http://www.google.com/search; too look like action=http://www.google.com.au/search; OR you could change it to sensis LOL Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- 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] AOL SUCKS
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 25/02/2004 at 10:56 PM Jeff Allison wrote: Anyone been getting these And maybe know a work around Don't work around it, you should use your ISPs SMTP server to send out mailAOL is to be commended for this type of checking. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- 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] DNS Tools
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 19/06/2002 at 4:35 AM Garth Sperring [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: Sluggers, Does anyone know of or use a good (web based/KDE/Win32) tool to manage BIND 9.x DNS entries? Webmin should do it ok. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Apache Gateway?
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/06/2002 at 1:56 PM Jessica Mayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: I'm sure someone asked about this before but have been unable to find anything usefull in the archives or on the Apache website... What I want to do is have a webserver fetching some of it's content from a second apache that is NOT visible to the outside world. I'm sure it can be done, but how? Correct me if I'm wrong... Perl, PHP other scripting language. There is not much to go on here, ie why not just mirror the info if static or use an available method to redirect/port forward ? Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Fwd: (offtopic) Banks 'n' browsers
Hello Slug, I know there were various experiences with Banks down here, maybe some of you even wrote something up to help other Linux users -- this message is along those lines. If you have anything you can offer, or would like to mention, you can do so to Evan direct, or via myself, please do not post replies to the LIST :) Evan often writes for Zdnet, is on the Board for the LPI in Canada runs a hosting company called Starnix -- he is a strong supporter of Linux. Below is our exchange. *** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *** On 1/05/2002 at 4:09 PM Evan Leibovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 May 2002, Greg Wright wrote: There was lots of talk at one time in SLUG www.slug.org.au on this topic, you will find links to archives on the site. Of course it was only on AU banks. I've looked at the archive and see some discussion, but only a _wish_ for some kind of resource. Could you kindly post a message to the list mentioning my URL and asking if anyone would like to submit their experiences with Australian banks to me? I already have entries for Canada, the US and Britain -- I'd be happy to add in anything from around the world. Thanks! For more info, this is how the discussion started out . A discussion in my local user group started on how some of our local banks' online services were friendlier to Linux browsers than others. I started putting the discussion in the form of a web page, which can (at least for now) be found at http://www.leibovitch.ca/banks-n-browsers.html I'm curious to know if 1) this kind of site, extended to other banks (and maybe even high-profile websites) would be of general public interest 2) anyone else is doing this kind of thing (better to contribute to an existing effort than to reinvent the wheel 3) anyone here has any comments or suggestions before I develop the page a bit more and make it public. - Evan - Evan *** END FORWARDED MESSAGE *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] WINE update running Quickbooks
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 28/04/2002 at 1:39 PM Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: It's that BAS time again. So, for the first time, I really gave Quickbooks a serious workout using Codeweavers WINE on Linux. Now the truer picture is coming to light. I found many tiny annoyances and a few downright crashers. Crashers: (*) bringing up the BAS form crashes WINE everytime (*) too-fast too-heavy keyboard action crashes WINE (i.e. too many focus changes in between mouse moves) ... race condition Minor annoyances include: (*) SHIFT-TAB doesn't work (*) dates are in American format (*) maximising some windows causes severe display redrawing probs (*) lotsa of other small things (focus, redraw, text highlighting) So, I was able to bring the accounts up to date (crefully entering American instead of Aussie dates, and simply avoiding other known bugs), but had to calculate the BAS/GST crappe manually. As Codeweavers say, this software is in beta test and there are many API calls that simply do not work. As well, the console log of invalid/corrupt system calls is very revealing. I'm not as impressed as I was a few months ago (since I've only now really tested the depths of Quickbooks), but do understand that daunting task facing the WINE team: it is quite difficult to reliably implement an undocumented system API. I am sure the guys who work on this project would like to hear about these problems -- it is likely they may already know. I think to change things in this area, individually we all have to ask application providers -- When will you provide a Linux compatible version of your application ? Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Apache Virtual Host not working.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** does not seem to matter what permissions on the directory i have. currently with drwxrwxrwx nobody nogroup. (i know this is way open) have changed owner to apache and root and a user. still no luck. su to nobody, see if you can reach the index file -- bets are you cannot, look at permissions on dir/s above. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: Crossover now supports Office 2K / IE
This may be of interest to you http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT6509081484.html *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 28/03/2002 at 11:41 AM S Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: This is BIG news. For only $55USD, you can get people switched over. I've not tried it yet, but based on the other products Codeweavers are knocking out, its going to be good. - Anyone can tell the differences between Crossover and Wine? My impression is that Wine can do the same thing but it is free. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Forum Software
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/02/2002 at 9:33 AM Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: What are ppls recommendationd for forum/BB software to run under linux (PHP or Perl) PHP probably, depends on size/growth. You will probably need an SQL server for most PHP projects, there may be text based Perl options. So far I have looked at phorum and phpBB2, and both of them are screwed. ?? there are so many choices, look around sourceforge and freshmeat. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: [Cb-nsw] M$ wants the 'help' charities with software
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 1/12/2001 at 7:48 AM Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: quote who=Craig Warner I strongly recommend that both a representation from SLUG and ComputerBank be at this meeting. I spoke to Craig at the SLUG meeting about this; I'll be calling NOIE on Monday and seeing if we can arrange something. It may be advantageous to have someone representing the Linux-Education groups, such as Linux in Australian Schools. Ken? The LPI ? [ Also, I have an appointment with my local MP, to discuss IT issues from a govt. perspective. I will not be bringing up the 'r' word. ;) ] Want any help here ? I believe locally we have a responsibility to advocate to the Govt here not just for use, but for development as well. I like the idea of being pro active with our Govt., we need to find time to talk Jeff ;-) Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Stories of larg-scale desktop Linux adoption?
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 15/11/2001 at 2:45 PM Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been having a little dig around for news about large scale adoption of Linux in enterprises, especially on the desktop (i.e. 1000's of google servers aren't applicable). My impression is that this is basically not happening much, but it has started happening. Get in touch with the LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) people; they have a number of good stories that might help you out, that haven't really been covered in the press. Especially educational institutions. I will echo what Jeff has said, the LTSP is an impressive project and VERY active, they have also been certified on some of IBMs hardware, look at www.ltsp.org If you want a contact or have a specific request, message me off line and I will put you in contact with one of the main project leaders -- he is very helpful. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: Agenda Computing's VR3
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 8/11/2001 at 11:08 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/redhat-list] wrote: Anybody use the VR3 ? I would like to know of your experiences with it ? URL=http://www.agendacomputing.com Are there any better ones out there ? By 'better' Imean with better apps and RAM Larry[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have one of the first units, I took it along to the last meeting, if I attend the next I could bring it along Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Using sendmail with bigpond isp
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 4/11/2001 at 4:14 PM Laurie Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: I have attempted to read the documentation in the sendmail-cf directory but am even more confused now. How can I set up sendmail to send all mail created by local users out through our bigpond.com server? I want to set up batch overnight mailing on my RedHat machine using a simple wvdial ;sendmail -q ; fetchmail -d0 -q script (it worked with Postfix!) We are using the bigpond family mail with five addresses. My users are Look around www.moongroup.com, or you can join the mailhelp list, IIRC all the docs needed are on the site. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Using sendmail with bigpond isp
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 4/11/2001 at 6:13 PM Jon Biddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: SMTP server is mail.bigpond.com in sendmail.cf DSsmtp.syd.fl.net.au This all works fine Of course, I cheated and used WEBMIN to so some of it...:-) Very naughty :) M4 and sendmail.mc work well, but granted the sendmail docs do not seem clear on all the options etc -- examples are missing I guess, but the good thing is if you get used to using the correct way, it is very portable and simple to make changes. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] is there a maximum file size under Linux?
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 5/11/2001 at 12:13 AM Regen Meister [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: Hi, we have a Linux server running MFG/Pro and the database has reached 3GB. We have more info wanting to get in, but the database can't seem to grow beyond 3GB. People have told me that Linux ext2 file system can only accomodate file sizes up to 3GB. 1/ Is that true? 2/ Is there a way around it? (because the sys admin wants to migrate to Windows 2000 :-( and turf Linux out of the company :-( ) Most older versions of Linux are limited to any single file being 2 GIG, newer versions like say RH 7.2, probably Mandrake, SuSE all should not have this limit, not sure of others , somone else can talk about Debian or other flavours There are various file systems you can use, but ext3 seems to be the one emerging as what will be the standard. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Booting using GRUB off high disks
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 30/10/2001 at 6:23 PM Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: Hi all, I'm having some problems with setting up GRUB as a bootloader for my machine. Just as a side note, not related to your problem, I have found GAG to be an excellent boot loader.. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] handy way to merge txt files?
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 5/10/2001 at 4:02 PM cpaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: hi - i have two plaintext files i want to merge them, discarding duplicate lines is there an easy way ? cat and sort come to mind, read the man page on sort, IIRC -u is the option . Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Security Issue
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 18/09/2001 at 2:13 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: Lloyd, This (Steven's suggestion) is likely the problem. If you just did 'su root', you'll have inherited your user's PATH. You should probably run 'su - root' instead. See the su manpage. or su -l so you login with all variables. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Sendmail aliases
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 20/09/2001 at 6:02 PM Peter McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: Howdy all I have just migrated our mail server to RH 7.1 and have noticed something different with respect to aliases. In the previous version of sendmail you were not included in the aliases list if you sent and email. eg alias - user1,user2,user3 If user1 sends an email to alias then only user2 and user3 would get it. This new version of sendmail all three get the email. I would prefer the old verion way of doing things, does anyone know of a switch (possibly in sendmail.mc ?) that would allow this behaviour ? You probably should be looking at changes in procmail instead... Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 -- Int. +61 418 292020 Available for Global Contracts US Fax -- 801 740 2874 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Is there a SSH for Win-nt/2000?
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 29/06/2001 at 7:10 PM Jobst Schmalenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: Is there a ssh for windows NT/2000? There are lots of clients, I have settled with putty. (terra term is good as well, but not as portable) There is a SSHD as well, not sure what use it would be at all except for the possibility of tunneling VNC which would be a good idea. I looked at the site a few weeks back, sorry do not have the URL at hand. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 Available for Global Contracts Int. +61 418 292020 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Joining SLUG Remotely
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 30/06/2001 at 1:55 AM Anthony Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: I have not followed this thread, but you guys may be able to use PayPal for member dues etc, they now accept Australian Bank accounts, you can call me some time if you want me to explain how it all works or look at www.paypal.com Yeah, but it still goes through US Dollars at some point.. so the money will end up being different all the time.. Id love to use it on my site too.. except of 2 problems.. 1. This US Dollar conversion issue.. Yes, it will probably not suit anyone who must have exact Aus dollar amounts, for me the closest AU dollar is ok so I would just look up the daily exch. rate and manually calculate, ie for SLUG I would use it and pay say $28 Aus dollar to be sure I covered the amount, but I realise this would probably not suit many people, and in your case you could not expect customers to do this..I have been using the system for a while, at least they have Aus bank accounts now, I am also under the belief that AU dollars was on the cards, the US slump may have slowed this plan down however. 2. I can't validate myself, because it doesn't seem to like my credit card.. I've tried everything.. and it just says Denied every time.. My card is fine.. Im booking stuff up on it all the time.. It's just paypal's systems don't like it.. So.. While Id love to try it out.. I can't use it.. and if I can't use it, theres probably lots of others who can't too.. which is kind of limiting. Yeah, cards can be a problem, I can tell you that the service has not been idle (ie changes and card companies forced some restrictions, ie I used to be able to credit my debit card, the card companies soon crushed that, I believe it is back on again now) I emailed their support, and they were totally unhelpfull. Yes, it is like anywhere, probably outsourced to some clone call centre where cut and paste answers are the order of the day, anything requiring real knowledge or help is just too hard for most call centres, I am willing to help you offline, I have helped a few organizations setup accounts. -- Anthony Rumble - Managing Director EverythingLinux.com.au - The Alternative Operating System Store LinuxHelp.com.au - Support,Training,Development,Consulting Phone: 0500 500 368 Direct 02-9712-1799 Fax 02-9712-3977 Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 Available for Global Contracts Int. +61 418 292020 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] NZ proposes GST on downloaded software.[ Here next ?]
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 28/06/2001 at 5:32 PM Richard Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Richard Sharpe So, the reality is that for companies, things do not cost 10% more, so there is no advantage to using free software. Obviously not because Free Software is 100% less than 10% less than 110%? :) Surely there were those other advantage of Free Software in there too... Jeff, you have taken my quote completely out of context. I was responding to the claim that GST makes free software somehow more attractive than non-free software for businesses. It is just not so. I would have to agree here, in Aus and I suspect NZ, we already pay highly inflated prices for most software because of a weak dollar etc etc, in many business uses many other factors come into play when deciding on a solution. I won't go into other brain dead ideas of controling the Internet, I ashamedly think we must be world leaders in this area, however any poor sod in Aus who recieves funds for registration of software that has been downloaded will already be passing on the GST in most cases. As to your other claims about the advantages of free software, the situation is very complex, and perception is reality for many businesses. This is true, but I have to say in many places I have gone, I am happy with the uptake of Linux by many Australian companies, but in the end each has to do their own deciding, I have read tech docs by so called IT professionals that would make your hair curl (reasons why X OS is superior to Y), in the end I would have to concede that obviously X is an expert at marketing and the main reason why it was chosen. I am someone who lives and breathes free software, and while my record is not as resplendent as that of some others, I think it speaks for itself. However, the world is an inherently complex place, and the GPL creates difficulties for some businesses. In addition, until we have strong certification, like LPI, being pushed at businesses by all the Linux supporters around the world, free software will appear to be unsupported and unsupportable to many businesses. Speaking of LPI and my main reason for chiming in, can you contact me off list Richard ? Also anyone interested in helping promote LPI could contact myself, LPI will be creating a formal body here to help promote the certification (funds are needed). There has been some interest in certification here, but not enough IMHO, the LPI certs are recognised by many large corporations througout the world (if there is interest on SLUG a seperate thread could be started) Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 Available for Global Contracts Int. +61 418 292020 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] What is LPI ? What is ELC ? -- info only
Hello All, I know some SLUG members are aware of what LPI or ELC stands for, yesterday Richard and I used the abbreviation LPI in replies, I have been asked what LPI is, so I will just put this out there. In short, LPI stands for, Linux Professional Institute, you can find more information here http://www.lpi.orgor can ask me any questions you do not have answered when you have looked at the site, LPI is run by Linux Community members and produces *NO* course material, only hi quality, neutral, non profit exams to help further Linux uptake in the Commercial world, the tests are no slam dunk, so if someone holds an LPI cert, they will have a certain skill level. LPI goals are low cost certification for all run by the Community, good stuff don't you think? :) If I use the term ELC, it is also a non profit org, till a few months ago the charter was promotion of Linux in the Embedded space (like an LI for Embedded), now we are also moving into standards in a step by step fashion, you can find more out at http://www.embedded-linux.org or again you can ask me direct. Both organisations have people from Australia SLUG members/supporters involved. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 Available for Global Contracts Int. +61 418 292020 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Joining SLUG Remotely
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 29/06/2001 at 2:11 AM Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: Neither have I. The plan was to have credit card thingeries going through Linux Australia, but we've heard poop all, and I've no idea what the status of LA is at the moment anyway. That is because SLUG has never asked Linux Australia about it. You've asked me, informally, which is entirely different. I can not ask on SLUG's behalf because I am involved with both groups: - arm's length and all that. What is in the interests of SLUG may not be in the interest of LA. Anand Hey Anand.. I have not followed this thread, but you guys may be able to use PayPal for member dues etc, they now accept Australian Bank accounts, you can call me some time if you want me to explain how it all works or look at www.paypal.com Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 Available for Global Contracts Int. +61 418 292020 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] (OT) bad HMTL links
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 26/05/2001 at 1:23 PM David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know of a piece of softare that crawls a web site and checks bad links? look through freshmeat.net , there are a few options . Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 Available for Global Contracts Int. +61 418 292020 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Getting a kosher gcc for Redhat 7
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 24/02/2001 at 10:56 PM Harry Ohlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: I just tried to build GRUB, after hearing about it at Friday's meeting. It gave me an error message that prompted me to try to update my gcc given that I'm still running the dodgey one that came with RH7.0 "out of the box". FWIW the GCC on RH7 is supposedly bug free more correct/stringent, ie it is less tolerant with compling code with errors, at least this is what RH says publically. KGCC is provided so that kernel compilation is possible as there is a supposed error in early kernels shrugs Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 Available for Global Contracts Int. +61 418 292020 Web http://www.ausit.comE-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers -- providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: : Re: [SLUG] majordomo
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 15/02/01 at 21:19 John Ferlito wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:03:29PM +1100, Alister Waller wrote: anyone got any idea why my majordomo list doesn't work no more?? Looks like your using smrsh as the sendmail shell. This only lets sendmail run programs that live in a certain directory /usr/lib/sendmail off the top of my head. You either need to put a copy of the majordomo wrapper in there or stop using smrsh. Check you sendmail.mc and .cf - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - "|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l all all-list" (expanded from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Transcript of session follows - sh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs 554 "|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l all all-list"... Service unavailable That error is the SMRSH as mentioned, have you upgraded Sendmail or something? also, use a symlink, not the wrapper in the SMRSH dir to the majordomo wrapper, this is in the Majordomo FAQ's IIRC Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 Available for Global Contracts Int. +61 418 292020 web http://www.ausit.come-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers, ITpro, Ozzie Soft, providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Qt/Embedded
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 25/01/01 at 15:11 John Ryland wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2001 07:50, Jamie Honan wrote: John, bending your ear about Qt/Embedded ... John, Greg, other Linux.conf attendee's, and organisers, have a look at a story about halfway down this page... http://www.embedded-linux.org/index.php3 if there are inaccuracies, please advise (or other names that may have been left off) Further to this discussion, it may interest you that the ELC also runs a general list where there may be others interested in this topic. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 Available for Global Contracts Int. +61 418 292020 web http://www.ausit.come-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers, ITpro, Ozzie Soft, providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] the best way to provide Email server redundancy ??
Hello All Am new on the list but some may know who I am or met me at Linux.conf I am involved with ... LPI www.lpi.org ELC www.embedded-linux.org Among many other organizations and projects :) , anyway, on with an answer... *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 23/01/01 at 8:08 Ricky C wrote: Rating: mildly OT (probably more networking than Linux) hi All, We are in the process of setting up a new email server in our US office. The box we are evaulating is a VA Linux 1000 1U form factor running RedHat 6.2 It is more than adequate as an email server. my questions 1) what is the best way to achieve redundancy on an email server ? A few extra boxes, hopefully not on the same network (read subnet DNS), and as many backup mx records as you have hosts. otherwise you have to go into something larger you do not say how many users, but cannot be that many if Sendmail and one box alone will handle the mail 2) is RAID worth it for an email server ? for sure, RAID would be worth using wherever you can use it, its one more step in data security 3) for those working for ISP how does ISP provide redundancy ? and I need a Linux solution, as this is the only network OS we use. Most small to mid ISPs will use backup hosts as mentioned, otherwise you get into having front ends and backend boxes, you better decide first on your exact requirements and possible growth.. 4) backups is not a solution for us, we bascially need something that can take over with minimal down time Are you asking the same question? answers the same. :) 5) is there any disadvantage running a web server (Apache) off the same box ? eg. performance, security...etc Gee, you sure you wanna look after this box ? Sorry, but so many "how long is a piece of string" questions, again depends on usage, on the first question I thought you must have decided what the users and load may be, so running Apache as well could be anything from totally acceptable, to totally stupid. If the load on Apache for example is to give some basic directions for those who use e-mail, then its not likely to be hit hard and therefore having a low load level, if its going to run a busy website with SSI enabled etc do virtual hosting, then that is different. Any service you add to any box where ports are opened up add security risk, security is a relative word also. Do you really want to analyze security of this box ? if yes, then its probably crack able before you add the wire, RH 6.2 + Sendmail with a Kernel below 2.2.16x is broken :( , but then again there are thousands of ISP's in the US and here that run old broken Sendmail box's. You better fire off another message with how many users what Kernel/Sendmail/Apache combo you are using. Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 Available for Global Contracts Int. +61 418 292020 web http://www.ausit.come-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers, ITpro, Ozzie Soft, providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Graphical Bootup - Was: VMWare and LILO configuration
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 24/01/01 at 16:43 John Ryland wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2001 15:33, Crossfire wrote: What's the one RedHat 7.0 uses? No, its still LILO, but with evil evil graphical boot menu hacks! NO! Looks ugly I'm sure they could have done better. I would like to work on making the kernel bootup graphically, not just the bootloader. I know it's so Windows like, but I want to do it even better, A simple display of a png or something for those not interested in the boot sequence, probably is more at home on Corel Linux than anywhere else Regards Greg Wright -- IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 Available for Global Contracts Int. +61 418 292020 web http://www.ausit.come-mail Greg AT AusIT.com Trading As - AAA Computers, ITpro, Ozzie Soft, providers of IT services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
