[SLUG] .procmailrc + forwarding
Hello, When forwarding email with procmail, the from-address that procmail uses is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible to force procmail to use something different from the login name? The problem is that the email address that's normally used is an alias and what I'm trying to do is to force forwarded mail to use this alias as the from address. Thanks. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] wpa_supplicant weirdness
Hi, I've recently been playing around with wpa_supplicant and a d-link DWL-630 pcmcia wireless card (madwifi). I have an adsl modem/router (non-wireless) with four switched ports. I have a wireless access point device plugged in to one of the ports and a couple of PC's in to the others. I have no problem getting the laptop to associate with the access point, so wpa_supplicant and madwifi work fine. From the laptop, once connected, I can ping/connect to the access point's IP and to the PCs plugged in to the other switch ports without problem. But I can't ping/connect to the adsl/modem router and hence have no internet access. When I send the pings, I can see the LEDs of the port where the access point is attached to the router flicker, but I get nothing back. The subnet is 192.168.10.0/24, the router has .1, access point .99 the PCs have .70 and .80 respectively. It's a straight forward setup, I can't get my head around why it doesn't work. If I use WEP instead of WPA/wpa_supplicant things work ok. I'd be grateful for any advice. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Wireless with WPA
Hi, I'm trying to set up WPA with a pre-shared key for some additional security on my wireless access point. The access point is a 3com OfficeConnect 3CRWE454G72. It allows me to set up WPA with pre-shared key and to specify the key. I use a prism54-based pcmcia wireless card which works fine with the access point when used with WEP. When running wpa_supplicant it scans for access points and finds the 3com ok but doesn't connect. Among a lot of debug output the following is shown (with a couple of x's thrown in): 0: 00:0b:ac:xx:xx:xx ssid='WPAtest' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11 skip - no WP/RSN IE I am assuming because the two values are 0 wpa_supplicant thinks the access point is not WPA capable. Am I correct? Would anybody have any idea how to correct this situation? Thanks, Matt -- 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] Line wrapping with TBird composer
That's strange. So when you write a message, while writing it wraps at 72, not at window width? Do you have any funky entries in your prefs.js or user.js? Howard Lowndes wrote: I don't have a problem with this, in fact it works fine, but unwrapped lines, when quoted, remain unwrapped and off the side of the screen. Indelible wrote: Does anybody else have the problem with Thunderbird not wrapping lines as you type? I write mails in plain text and have the preference set to wrap the line at 72 chars. However, when typing the message, it wraps at window width + about 3 characters (which is normally about 90 chars). So I end up with a scroll bar and the left margin disappearing. Very annoying! When I click on Send, the message is rewrapped at 72 characters. If anybody knows a remedy, I'd be grateful. Matt. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Line wrapping with TBird composer
Does anybody else have the problem with Thunderbird not wrapping lines as you type? I write mails in plain text and have the preference set to wrap the line at 72 chars. However, when typing the message, it wraps at window width + about 3 characters (which is normally about 90 chars). So I end up with a scroll bar and the left margin disappearing. Very annoying! When I click on Send, the message is rewrapped at 72 characters. If anybody knows a remedy, I'd be grateful. Matt. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] mp3 to wav console tool
I'm looking for a simple console-only tool to generate wav's from mp3's. Any suggestions? Thanks, M. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ASX website
On the ASX website (www.asx.com.au) they have a menu made up of round icons at the top of the page. However, this menu works with neither firefox nor mozilla even though javascript is enabled. The menuicons 'highlight' on mouseover but on clicking them nothing happens. In the statusbar of the browser it says "javascript:void(0)". I've seen this in several other places as well and was always wondering if there is some setting I've got to correct or what. Anybody? Matt. -- 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] Re: ssh login from ssh login
The only problem with the solution as described appears to be that when the ssh session terminates, the netcat ones don't. They need to be killed separately. Would there be a workaround for this? Regards, Matt. Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 22:50 +1100, Indelible wrote: Are you referring to the method involving netcat? (Description here: http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2004/09/09/OpenSSHGatewaysWithProxyCommand/ ) Yup. Rob -- 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] Font & Antialiasing problems
I don't have have gnome installed either, just WindowMaker. So I guess gnome-font-properties is not really an option. But thanks anyway. Regards, M. Angus Lees wrote: Run gnome-font-properties(*) and play around with the anti-aliasing amounts and the various LCD RGBA orderings. You also get to tell gnome-font-properties all about your current resolution too, so make sure that matches what X already knows it is (oops I'm ranting again). (*) I think thats what its called - I don't have any gnome stuff installed on my current machine. -- 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] Re: ssh login from ssh login
Are you referring to the method involving netcat? (Description here: http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2004/09/09/OpenSSHGatewaysWithProxyCommand/ ) Regards, Matt. Robert Collins wrote: > No. 3) is all about the weakness in agent forwarding. Your local agent will answer requests from the intermediate machine as if they were from you, so the intermediate machine if attacked can login to anything you can login into. ProxyCommand is your friend though, it lets you tunnel via other machines quite securely. Rob -- 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] Re: ssh login from ssh login
Thanks everybody for the discussion. It's set me straight on a few issues ;) Regards, Matt (yet another one, I guess...) Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:22:18PM +1100, Indelible wrote: A while ago somebody mentioned in a talk that it was a really bad idea to log into a machine via ssh and from there log into another machine using ssh. I don't get it. Why is this bad? Several possible reasons (some as mlh has already pointed out): 1) If you use a password to get to the far machine, it's trivial to capture the keystrokes as they pass through the intermediate machine. Anyone with root access (either the admins or, if the machine has been cracked, the attacker) can easily sniff that password. 2) A public key stored on the intermediate machine is fair game for anyone with root on the box (again, legitimate or cracker). A passphraseless key is very bad juju, but even a passphrased one is vulnerable to the same keystroke logging stuff. 3) An ssh-agent-based system is the most secure, but a sneaky root user on the intermediate machine can use your proxy to get into the far machine (and anything *else* that's accessable through your ssh-agent session). It's not as bad as 1 & 2 above, because access can only be obtained while your ssh-agent session is active on the intermediate machine, but it's still Bad Stuff. Of course, none of these problems are particular to SSH (except maybe #3; I'm not aware of too many other mainstream systems with a similar capability), but you did ask in the context of SSH in particular. In short, in order for SSH access through an intermediary to be sensible, you have to be very confident that (a) the legitimate admins of the machine are trustworthy enough, and (b) that the machine has not been compromised. On the modern Internet, that's not a gamble I take lightly. - Matt (the other one) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ssh login from ssh login
Hi, A while ago somebody mentioned in a talk that it was a really bad idea to log into a machine via ssh and from there log into another machine using ssh. I don't get it. Why is this bad? Regards, M. -- 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] Font & Antialiasing problems
Yes, definitely the native res. Everything else is sharp as, it's just the fonts which give me trouble. Michael Fox wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:12:52 +1100, Indelible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everybody. I'm running debian sarge on a PC with a LCD screen. The problem I'm having is that all my fonts look slightly out of focus. I suspect this is due to misadjusted antialiasing. I've googled and came up with mostly antiquated howto's on making X look better. I've tried to tweak XF86config-4 and .fonts.conf but without success. Are you running the native res for the LCD in question. ie. native res for most 17" LCD screens is typically 1280x1024... and if you don't run this then you get mixed results on the display. Confirm you are running the correct res. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Font & Antialiasing problems
Hello everybody. I'm running debian sarge on a PC with a LCD screen. The problem I'm having is that all my fonts look slightly out of focus. I suspect this is due to misadjusted antialiasing. I've googled and came up with mostly antiquated howto's on making X look better. I've tried to tweak XF86config-4 and .fonts.conf but without success. I don't use gnome or kde, I just have a windowmaker desktop. I mostly use the mozilla apps and Openoffice. I'd be grateful for any pointer on how to get the fonts focused (else I'll go blind, I fear...). Thanks in advance! Regards, M. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] DNS records
Hello, I've got a static ip with some provider. I'd like to run my own mail server. So now I have to register a DNS name including MX records. Do I have to register the name with the current provider or can I do this with anybody (like anchor,...)? Thanks, i -- 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] Packages kept back
> > Whenever I apt-get update/upgrade a bunch of packages are listed as 'kept > > back'. What's the reason for this? How would I force upgrading the > > packages kept back? > > Try using apt-get dist-upgrade. This lets you upgrade packages that might > cause other changes to other packages installed on your system, such as > replacing or needing to remove something. I tend to use dist-upgrade all > the time when running unstable. Does this apply for testing (which I'm running) as well? How could I find out why a particular package is kept back? At the moment neiter samba nor cups packages are upgraded. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Packages kept back
Whenever I apt-get update/upgrade a bunch of packages are listed as 'kept back'. What's the reason for this? How would I force upgrading the packages kept back? Thanks. I -- 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] Cable or ADSL?
Thanks everybody for this discussion. Now I'm off comparing deals ;)
Regards,
M.
DaZZa wrote:
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Indelible wrote:
The subject asks the question:
What's preferable, cable or ADSL?
Given cable, Telstra or Optus?
Cable is faster, but generally has more limits {download caps}, and is
more expensive, and not always available.
ADSL is cheaper, there's more options, and you can get better plans, but
it's slower.
Depends what you value most - price or speed.
DaZZa
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[SLUG] WRT54G + ADSL
I'm wondering how people with the Linksys WRT54G and ADSL use it? With a separate ADSL modem? Which one? Thanks. M. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Cable or ADSL?
The subject asks the question: What's preferable, cable or ADSL? Given cable, Telstra or Optus? Thanks. M. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
