Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 25, Issue 20
Hi, Works with vncviewer, should work with any program in reality. Amos Shapira wrote: On 18/02/2008, Jeffrey Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better than than use the socks server feature in ssh ssh -D 1080 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Umm, never noticed this option. My main use of ssh tunnelling right now is for mysql and postgresql access. Does anyone have experience using ssh -D and tsocks ( http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/) to allow mysql/psql clients to take advantage of this? Cheers, --Amos -- 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: slug Digest, Vol 25, Issue 20
Dear list, I want to setup a server so remote users (ie brother in-law) can access a box with Aussie IP address. Currently foreign IPs can not assess eBay Australia he sells lots of stuff through eBay. Behold ssh port forwarding, from say his machine: ssh -L 1201:ebay.com.au:80 [EMAIL PROTECTED] he browses localhost:1201 Better than than use the socks server feature in ssh ssh -D 1080 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go and grab foxyproxy - http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/ addon for firefox and configure *ebay.com.au* to use a socks proxy of localhost:1080 Regards Jeffrey -- 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] Telstra Next G
Hi, Which device are you using. I am using a maxon bp3-usb (id is 16d8:6280) it did work like that with usb serial BUT the latently was still pretty sky high for me. I ended up recompiling the sierra module to include the usb ids added into it. ps I am using kppp to connect as a normal user. Jeff Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, I've got a Telstra Next G card working under Linux Mint 4.0 (ubuntu gutsy) and I'm looking to tidy up (read de-geekafy) the steps needed to connect it. Firstly I need to load the usbserial.ko module which I do with; insmod /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.ko vendor=0x19d2 product=0x0001 Where should this go under Ubuntu? I found /etc/modprobe.d but my first attempt to create a nextG file in there didn't work and I'm still loading the module by hand. Secondly, to connect I use Kppp to dial the connection. This works fine except that in order to set the default route to the PPP0 interface I need to be root. Thus I fire up kppp using sudo in a terminal window. This prompts for my password and works ok but I'm wanting to give this laptop to an ex-windows user who is used to connecting to Next G without having to enter their password in a terminal window. Ideas? Thanks P. -- 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] Upgrading HDD of Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT?
Hi, Just make sure /boot partition is under the 8gb or 20 gig size of the hard disk. Once loaded linux (or even windows nt/2k/xp) for that matter don't care about the bios limitions. Jeffrey On Thu, 19 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm looking to replace the hard disk drive of a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT from its current 6Gb (1.5Gb free space) to something to allow me to add Ubuntu on it next to the existing Windows 98. The machine has the latest (circa 2001) BIOS 8.20 from Toshiba. I've been advised that the main constraint might be the BIOS' support for large disks. Toshiba's support say that it won't support a disk larger than the current 6Gb but they never asked me about the BIOS version I have. A Toshiba support partner (a company which will actually would do the disk installation for me, listed in Toshiba's web site) says that it will support 20Gb and they are not sure about 40Gb. Someone on another mailing list reminded me of the possible old 33Gb disk limit, which would allow me to use a 30Gb disk. Does anyone know what are the attributes I should look for? Physically, it seems that the limits are 2.5 width and 9.5mm height (the height of the current disk). Thanks, --A -- 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] commonwealth bank netbanking stopped support linux?
Hi, Netbank works fine, all you need is javascript support basically. So far it seems to work in any browser I have tried. I usually use it in konqueror (khtml) and it's fine. The address I always use to connect to is http://www.netbank.commbank.com.au/ NOTE: No https here it will redirect to a https:// url by itself. it will then redirect to either www1 or www2 names. (this is the same url loaded when you load netbank the correct way. The bit I am worried about if the next version of netbank will still work as well as this one. But I got into their pilot of which nothing has happened so far. Trust me if it dosen't work their new version I will be phoning and asking to talk to the people who program the thing. Jeff On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Jan Newmarch wrote: Works fine for me today, with Fedora 2/Mozilla 1.7.3 Jan -- On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 22:19, Hugh Madden wrote: Has anyone noticed that commbank's netbanking has stopped working with linux/ mozilla? I get a page not found with Linux, while it continues to work fine with windows. (and I realise this is hard to believe, but I have not changed anything) Just tried it then to check; no problem. Note this is with Firefox rather than Mozilla but I would have thought that the behaviour would be identical. -- Peter Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM Id: pjhacnau On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send slug mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of slug digest... Jan Newmarch, School of Network Computing Monash University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://jan.netcomp.monash.edu.au Tel: +61 3 9904 4249, Fax: +61 3 9904 4124 (ESOS: Monash Provider No. 8C) If Pacman had affected us as kids, we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music (Marcus Brigstocke) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Kernel upgrade problem
Hi there I have a redhat 7.2 machine here which is running cyrus for imap storage. The curus and the db4 are all compiled on this machine. Now due to system instability I had to upgrade the kernel from the standard redhat one. So as usual just compiled and installed a generic 2.4.24 kernel. Only that totally broke cyrus so bad it wouldn't even startup. Now I think it's something to do with threading libraries in glibc and the redhat kernel with the berkeley db? am I right here. Is there something I missed in the 2.4.24 kernel? The funny thing is that a identical mail server (though using redhat 7.3) was upgraded to 2.4.22 with no problems. -- Jeffrey Borg -- 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] PHP MySQL help
An easy beginners solution to this is just to make date fields in mysql as
integer type instead of datetime.
Later on once you are more familar with the mysql functions you can use
them to convert to the unix timestamp that time() produces etc...
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Robert Maurency wrote:
I've got a MySQL question for you.
Is the php value ?echo time();? suitable for a MySQL timestamp field?
The reason I ask is because I'm getting an odd result in my web content
publishing site.
I'm grabbing form data from a query string and inserting it into MySQL.
(NewsDate is a MySQL timestamp field)
$query = INSERT INTO News(Headline, Story, Status, Author,
NewsDate) VALUES(' . $_GET['Headline'] . ', ' . $_GET['Story'] . ', ' .
$_GET['Status'] . ', ' . $_GET['Author'] . ', ' . time() . ');
This query works fine, but when I view the information on my news page the
date returned ($row-NewsDate) is:
00
Which formatted with this function ?echo date(h:i d M Y,
$row-NewsDate);? returns:
11:00 01 Jan 1970
If I leave the time() function out of my insert statement then the returned
value is:
20030320084636 or (02:14 19 Jan 2038)
Does anyone know what is going on here?
Any help, much appreciated.
Rob
(I'm making the tranistion between ASP Access to PHP and MySQL and am
having a tough time with this GUI-less database.)
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Re: [SLUG] Unexplained traffic
Hi That looks like spamming instead of using email they are requesting the url's that they want to spam on your web server. The most people would see them in the access log or in summary stats created using things like webalizer. If you can configure apache to display a certain page for proxy accesses (eg access denied etc...) then configure that page to be something like /denyip.pl (or whatever your favourite programming language may be), You will need to basically grab the ip address and drop it into your firewall. I do this for code red worm attempts. On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Peter Vogel wrote: Thank you to those who provided useful suggestions for firewall configuration tools. I seem to have that sorted now. However I find that I receive about 20mb/day of traffic that I can't account for. I do get Possible syn flood messages a few times a day. Could that add up to megabytes? I also have unsucessful access attempts to apache every few seconds. Here is a typical couple of munites from my log: 217.84.6.34 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:20:38 +1100] GET http://www.freemobiletunes.com/cgi-bin/arp/rankem.cgi?action=inid=chartz HTTP/1.0 404 1341 http://www.8ung.at/smartlogo/ringtones.htm; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95) 24.29.148.128 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:20:52 +1100] GET http://www.adpowerzone.com/scripts/diatok.js HTTP/1.0 404 1225 http://www.geocities.com/bassw20/index.html; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.02; Windows 98) 217.227.90.195 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:21:06 +1100] GET http://www.gsmsitez.net/cgi-bin/topsites/topsites.cgi?larsi HTTP/1.1 404 1286 http://www.logotown.de; Mozilla/4.5 [fr] (Win95; I) 217.227.90.195 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:21:33 +1100] GET http://utop.net/cgi-bin/utop.cgi?ID=/150 HTTP/1.1 404 1172 http://www.logotown.de; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) 62.195.81.215 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:22:55 +1100] GET http://www.leadhound.com/show2.php?id=9236bid=23967 HTTP/1.1 404 1181 http://www.mp3rock.com; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) 62.195.81.215 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:24:30 +1100] GET http://banners.webmasterplan.com/view.asp?site=2358ref=146341b=2 HTTP/1.1 404 1201 http://www.die-80er-jahre.de; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95) 62.195.81.215 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:24:50 +1100] GET http://www.leadhound.com/show2.php?id=9449bid=24968 HTTP/1.1 404 1183 http://www.rapworld.com; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) 62.195.81.215 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:26:12 +1100] GET http://www.leadhound.com/show2.php?id=9236bid=23966 HTTP/1.0 404 1181 http://www.mp3rock.com; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) 62.131.12.251 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:26:50 +1100] GET http://www.1-click-clipart.com/bin/rankem.cgi?action=inid=1cool HTTP/1.1 404 1213 http://www.top20cool.com/index.html; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) 62.195.81.215 - - [03/Feb/2003:08:27:16 +1100] GET http://banners.webmasterplan.com/view.asp?site=2306ref=145686b=3 HTTP/1.0 404 1193 http://www.myownmusic.de; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98) Any ideas what the cause of this is and can I stop it?? Thanks Peter -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Telling a HP5simx where to get paper
Take at look at ifhp on the LPRNG website. You can then use options with lpr I think it's -Z inlower,duplex etc... and it all just works. Also you get to see the username and job name on the printer screen at the same time :-) I have used this with a 5SiMX, 8000DN, 4Si and it all works exactly the same way. On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Terry Collins wrote: Has anyone worked out how to tell a HP5simx which tray to get its paper from? At this stage I have to manually configure the panel and pull all other size papers and I would like to get around doing that. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] SLIGHTLY OT: how to restore data without a tape drive,3rd party ?
We are using LTO tapes where I work and all that's on them is tar files. Nothing more and nothing less. The scripts in use a slight modification to the ones with the tar source. Restoring is easy as tar xvf /dev/tape and using mt fsf 1 to get to the right file. As far as a third party restoring stuff it should be easy so long as they have a lto drive. + some unix + tar As far as ourselves we have 2 locations where ech location stores the other locations tapes. On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Gareth Walters wrote: G'day all, We are just about to upgrade our backup system to run under LINUX using 100/200Gb LTO tapes. I was just thinking how much we would have to rely on the offsite backups if something were to happen to the office. Does anyone have any experience getting a third party to restore data from backup tapes? Who did you use, what services did they offer and what did it cost? TIA Gareth Walters -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Memory leak?
Taking away the buffers and cached you end up with the 2nd line of numbers which indicate you have 362mb of free ram, you have around 150mb of programs in memory the rest being cached files from disks. On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Melinda Taylor wrote: I just noticed after using dump that 100% of the memory in my system is now in use. I check this also on my linux laptop, after using 'dump' my 412 MB ram had only 12k free. The command free shows: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:514328 502352 11976 0 4476 345684 -/+ buffers/cache: 152192 362136 Swap: 875500 0 875500 Similarly in my server, after issuing a dump command the whole 3GB of physical RAM is used! Even after dump is finished the ram isn't freed (I am running redhat 7.3). How do I recover the ram in situation like this. With mylaptop I can reboot with the server I can't! Can anyone recommend tools for checking and monitoring such things. Many Thanks, Melinda -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] New Mail notification
Hi, This is something I have looked into before without much success. I am after a xbiff but one which just makes the pc speaker beep when new mail is waiting for the user. I.e If there are any unread messages just beep the speaker. This would just run from cron every minute to notify the user of new email. Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] New Mail notification
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Conrad Parker wrote: On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 10:34:17AM +1000, Jeffrey Borg wrote: Hi, This is something I have looked into before without much success. I am after a xbiff but one which just makes the pc speaker beep when new mail is waiting for the user. I.e If there are any unread messages just beep the speaker. This would just run from cron every minute to notify the user of new email. untested, but putting this in your .bashrc should do the trick: Not quite there is no terminals in use. It's a machine alongside another machine with a monitor switch. I just want to make it beep once a minute or so to give the hint to switch over and look at any new email :-) MAILPATH='/var/mail/jeffrey?\a' (search for MAIL in the bash man page for details on the related options; \a is ctrl-g, ie. the 'beep' character, other text between the quotes will be printed on the terminal. Note this is invoked directly by the shell not cron). Conrad. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2
I wouldn't have bothered with the extra expense of the card just make sure there is a /boot partition within the first 32gig or so The linux kernel is perfectly ok with ide disks it just ignores that the bios has to say on the matter My laptop has a 12gb disk in it bios only supports 8gb disks. But it makes no difference. On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Jon Biddell wrote: At 14:16 29/04/02 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I am looking at putting RH7.2 on the following machine and wondered if anyone had heard anything good or bad about the system. I would be upgrading to 512MB RAM and a 40GB 0r 60GB HDD. Simon, The spec seems to look fine - the only concern is the hard drive size - has the motherboard got an integrated ATA100 controller ? The reason I ask is I fell into the trap of installing a pair of 40Gb Seagates ($168 odd each at the moment !!) and my bios would only recognise them as 32Gb An Ultra TX/2 ATA100 controller fixed that, although they are now hde and hdf...:-( Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Configuring a satellite (iHug service)
Yep the old rp_filter trap! Had me stumped for about 10 mins as well. You only need to disable it on the sm200d interface though. On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ramon, due to spoof prevention... have a look in you boot scripts for rp_filter and change... for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter; do echo 1 $f done to for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter; do echo 0 $f done -- Best regards, evilbunnymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 11:47:36 AM, you wrote: rb Hi peoples, rb I've got a tricky one which has got me a little stumped.. rb I'm installing satellite for my net connection. Ive got it all working rb The ISP is a reseller of the iHUG service. rb The Dial up account is with a local ISP. (not an iHug specific account) rb Ive got the card all configured (ie the driver loads etc) rb and the Dialup appears to allow me to change my source IP outgoing. rb How does it the satellite stuff work: rb data goes out via the ppp0:0 (dialup) interface rb with a source address of the Satellite card rb The satellite card is configured with a dummy IP address rb and it receives packets (from my ISP) sent to the external IP Address. rb (there is an app running in bg that 'locks' on to the satellite and get the rb data) rb How is it setup:? rb (say the satellite External IP address is 1.2.3.4 ie real. rb the card drivers are loaded rb The module is loaded into the kernel and then the app is loaded. rb The the 'NIC' side of the card is configured. rb # ifconfig sm200d 10.0.0.1 rb Dialup the ISP via modem (local IP given 5.5.5.1, remote ip given rb 5.5.5.254) rb # ifconfig ppp0:0 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.255 pointopoint 5.5.5.254 rb delet the old ppp0 route rb # route del default rb add new route (via ppp0:0 so it sets the source of the IP to the sat IP) rb # route add default gw 5.5.5.254 dev ppp0:0 rb What happens ? rb I can ping an external host rb # ping www.ibm.com rb The return ping response actually DO come back on the sm200d interface rb sm200dLink encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx rb inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 rb UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 rb RX packets:97 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 rb TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 rb collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 rb Interrupt:9 rb The box I am doing this on is a firewall (smoothwall) but I have dropped rb all the rb ipchains ruls and set default policies for input,output as ACCEPT and rb forward as MASQ (because there is an internal network attached to eth0 @ rb 192.168.1.0 rb And I also set some ipchains logging with ipchains -A input -d 1.2.3.4 -l rb and I can see all the reponses come back .. rb my question? rb How do I get the card/linux to deliver them to the application (eg ping) or rb whatever rb given that they come back on a different interface to what sent out on? rb How can I debug this further to see where/why they are going no where? rb How is this 'jump' between NIC's configured ? rb Any suggestions are MUCHly appreciated! :^) rb - ramon. rb This email was sent to you by Ramon Buckland, Software Engineer at f5. rb You can reach Ramon directly on 0421 379 694. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Partitioning Filesystem recommendations
I think I am sold on a single 160gb xfs partition. + boot. the fsck tool for xfs just returns true :-) ie it's not needed. whereas ext3 defaults to a fsck every 25 mounts or 180 days (which ever comes first) the same as ext2. I know this can be turned off but in my experience it's needed as errors do creep in. On 21 Apr 2002, Craige McWhirter wrote: On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 19:27, Jeffrey Borg wrote: xfs - don't know about tools for it As Chris mentioned, the full SGI suite is there. xfs - hopefully no fsck's every x days and y mounts. Nope. Responds nicely when a laptop user in a hurry (me) just powers off his laptop and runs for the bus. Kiss those fsck's goodbye. xfs - kernel it's totally different very deep hooks, will it work with win4lin patches. I don't use win4lin so I can't really comment but what I can give is that in my experience with XFS (XFS patched 2.4.17/18) on production Debian servers (Potato) and workstations (Sid) across 3 hardware archs (x86 / SPARC / PPC) I've encountered no problems (and my laptop boots s quickly). Perhaps I've been lucky, YMMV :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Partitioning Filesystem recommendations
Hi everyone. Well I finally got 4 x 80gb hdd's to use with a 3ware 6400 controller which I have had for months. Now I am going to have ~160gb in a system. Any idea's on partitioning schemes/filesystems. So far I am only speed testing it to try and find the right stripe size for raid0+1. Raid 5 on the above card is far too slow. Btw the machine is used for desktop - word processing / web browsing / email server - email + proxy cache + web server + samba + ftp development - whatever I want to do. media - mp3, ogg etc... Also the filesystem cons + pro's ext3 - compatable with very robust ext2 tools because it is ext2 ext3 - it's in the kernel source less patching! ext3 - long fsck time every x days or y mounts xfs - don't know about tools for it xfs - hopefully no fsck's every x days and y mounts. xfs - kernel it's totally different very deep hooks, will it work with win4lin patches. Anyway all ideas appreciated. Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Partitioning Filesystem recommendations
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Crossfire wrote: Jeffrey Borg was once rumoured to have said: Hi everyone. Well I finally got 4 x 80gb hdd's to use with a 3ware 6400 controller which I have had for months. Now I am going to have ~160gb in a system. Any idea's on partitioning schemes/filesystems. So far I am only speed testing it to try and find the right stripe size for raid0+1. Raid 5 on the above card is far too slow. Btw the machine is used for desktop - word processing / web browsing / email server - email + proxy cache + web server + samba + ftp development - whatever I want to do. media - mp3, ogg etc... Also the filesystem cons + pro's ext3 - compatable with very robust ext2 tools because it is ext2 ext3 - it's in the kernel source less patching! ext3 - long fsck time every x days or y mounts ext3 is _SLOW_. Not to be used for cache nor mail servers. xfs - don't know about tools for it Extensive tool suite - SGI provided all their standard tools which have been shipping on Irix systems for quite a while. You failed to mention reiser though: Reiser is nice and fast when you're reading, slow when you're writing, and fast to recover. Maximal space utilization through the intelligent use of btrees. Downside? Poor recovery utilities. This is why I didn't mention it. you're probably best off using a mix of filesystems, using that which best fits the mount-point. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Partitioning Filesystem recommendations
Stable enough for a single 160gb filesystem. Also benchmarks much faster than ext3 as well. At the moment I am trying again using a different stripe on the array. On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Ben de Luca wrote: snip xfs - don't know about tools for it Extensive tool suite - SGI provided all their standard tools which have been shipping on Irix systems for quite a while. /snip hmm, who stable is xfs now, and how strong is the will at sgi to support it? Id uses rfs to help support some thing new and free. -- 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] Shocking Service
Couldn't agree more about the water. I did specifically ask for tap water. The Coke thing you would have to ask for the can beforehand. But the water thing I just said No, forget about it. On 23 Feb 2002, paul wrote: I am just posting to the list to comment on the shocking service and treatment me and my firend recived at the House of Ghanzou. We ask for WATER and they wanted to charge us $1 per person, i feel that this is an out rage, we as a group spent almost $800 there. At least they can give us some free water. I mean they pay what, 8c for a 1000L. Then the next incident which really pissed me off was when my friend ordered a coke, the waiter came back with a glass full of coke. Then when my friend ask if it came with the can the waiter ignored him, looked right past him . This i feel is shocking service, we as a group spen more then $800 there and they give us this shocking service. I think that SLUG should re-asses its dinner arrangments if this is the kind of service that we recive. 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
Re: [SLUG] IPROUTE2 and IPTABLES combination
I am doing this for every machine on my lan has a range of 200 ports on the public ip which is useful for incoming connections to apps which can be reconfigured for eg. realplayer, icq etc... how about just putting a SNAT line in as well? and forget the iproute2 stuff. On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, George Vieira wrote: hi all, Firstly - Merry Christmas to all, My question (for hopefully the rest of this year) is how do you use in conjunction with iptables to NAT a few servers out the internet with their public external IPs using iproute2 (so I've been told can do it) ?... $IPTABLES -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $EXTDEV -d 203.x.x.x.x -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.1 I've have worked out the incoming using DNAT/IPTABLES (as above) but the outgoing and iproute2 has confused me or have I gotten things mixed up? I've been told that iproute2 has to do this... but some examples I've tried were total screw ups. thanks, George Vieira. -- 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] PPPD Problem - a real puzzeler
Hi everyone, I posted about this about a month ago and I haven't looked at it even trying a few other things suggested. Here is the problem Using irda serial connectin to a nokia 9110 using pppd under linux to another pppd under linux dosen't work well it looks like it works, it get's an ip address and ready to transfer data (ie interface ppp0 is now working) one problem is data goes in but dosen't get to the other end OK here is what's been tried for pppd removing all modem and hardware control options adding local option to pppd removing escape control support all that pppd was run with in the end was pppd -detach lock local defaultroute usepeerdns user jeffrey which none of those options affect anything (and yes my network card was removed at the time hence the routing table is empty before pppd is started. Other combinations which worked minicom on it's own windos me using pppd also using the phone's ppp support works fine also using the terminal on the phone works fine also any idea's? Jeffrey Borg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] National Bank Internet Banking
Also I have been using commonwealth internet banking for ages with netscape and mozilla (though I use mozilla all the time now with it) and it works fine, You do need javascript though, but not java but there is a java applet in there just an ad at the top. don't need cookies either :-) On 11 Dec 2001, Damien Elmes wrote: John Nicholls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In October I participated in a trial by the National Bank of their new browser-based Internet banking service. I was able to use the trial without problem on a Red Hat 6.2 box with Netscape 4.72. The trial concluded and the new service was launched on 19 November. Since then I have been unable to access it. ... successfully with Mozilla under Mandrake 8.0, I installed Mozilla 0.96 and Java pug-in 1.3.1. All cookies are enabled, Java and JavaScript are enabled, and there is a symbolic link from javaplugin_oji.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/. Under this setup, when I select Login new service, all I get is a new completely blank screen. do you have mozilla-psm installed (might be bundled in some distributions). without that, HTTPS urls will not work. i get a login page successfully under mozilla 0.9.6 here. cheers, -- Damien Elmes [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
Re: [SLUG] BIOS upgrade (OT... a bit)
couldn't you just make it smaller in the bios and go and install linux on it anyway like my laptop 12gb disk windoze only see's 8gb and it's only in the 1st 2gb only anyway. Linux on the rest works fine. Linux dosen't care about broken bios'es! Heck it dosen't even use it! Just don't forget your settings in the bios, write them down somewhere! On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi slugs, I decided to upgrade my hard disk only to find that the BIOS does not like a 40Gb hard disk! it's a VIA chipset with an Award modular BIOS. Anyone know of anywhere in Sydney that I can get an upgrade. I have a 1Mb BIOS chip and it needs upgrading to a 2Mb chip to allow for the flash upgrade. I've heard others talk about the rocks markets. would it help? where is it and when is it on? Or anywhere else that may help. Any help much appreciated! Thanks Ben -- 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] PPP Problem
tcpdump shows packets going out the ppp interface, they don't arrive at the other end though. and vise versa! oh well back to using minicom :-) On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote: Could it be a routing problem ? with the connection not getting to be the right route ? Do you have a network card in the machine as well ? Try ifdown eth0 or and see if the data then goes out. If it does, then the default route isn't being set. Troubleshoot to that end. Chris -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Borg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 12 November 2001 10:41 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] PPP Problem Hi, Ok this one is a real brain teaser and has got me totally beat, I have a nokia 9110 phone. And another mobile connected to my machine at home. Here is what I can do. - use the nokia 9110 as a standalone device with it's built in ppp stack etc... and have ip connectivity to from it. - use windows me and dialup and send packets to and from as well (with infrared) - use minicom under linux (again using infrared) to dialup and use a terminal session! Here's what dosen't work - ppp under redhat 6.2 (using netcfg so all default redhat scripts) - it connects get's an ip address etc.. but no data passes either way (the interface is there just no data makes it in or out of it!) - tcpdump on either end reports the correct packets for that end only, it's as if the connection is disconnected! but still there Now I don't think it's the server end because windows me and the phone itself can use it and so can minicom under linux works a treat as well All entries in messages are normal for a successful connection I have used the default ATZ and the windows init strings for the modem in the phone - as well as the minicom default one. I have tried setting the port speed from 115200 to 19200 but with infrared it dosen't work only at 115200 it works (even minicom works at that speed!) the only odd thing is that when I do a ifdown ppp0 the logs say it's disconnected etc.. but the phone dosen't disconnect. Anybody got any idea's as I am 99% sure it's the laptop end under linux. Oh BTW both phones understand normal AT commands :-) Jeffrey Borg -- 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] {{RESOLVED}} Unable to handle kernel NULL pointerdereference at
all PC133 SDRAM is memory which can run as high as 133mhz it can also run at a *lower* speed ie. 100mhz or 66mhz just fine On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Dinangkur Kundu wrote: Hi, I just joined the mailing list yesterday. I am also having same problem. My PC cinfig: 333MHz IBM Cyrix TX ProII motherboard I had to change the RAM due to errors. I couldn't find 66MHz bus RAM in the market. So, I did put 133MHz bus RAM. Windows 98 is working well but when I wanted to install the Linux Redhat 7.1. It doen't boot the kernel. Just hang up. I think this RAM bus problem. Shall I change external Chache option from the BIOS. Or something else. Thank you. Ringku --- Bernhard_Lüder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the info. I have done 2 things: Replaced the RAM Reduced the RAM speed in the BIOS This seems to have done it. Bernhard Lüder This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system immediately and notify the sender by electronic mail. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Fitch Sent: Friday, 26 October 2001 14:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:52:36AM +1000, Bernhard Lüder wrote: what does this error message in syslog mean, after which the server crashed: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0020 it's a kernel bug. the kernel dereferenced a null pointer and hence crashed (which should never happen and if it does is bad programming). I'm sure there's a howto (or something) somewhere on how to make some sense of all the resulting crash info. If you collect all the info, log a bug. Dave. -- 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 __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- 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 problem getting ADSL to work
You could do what I did to get satellite working using an aliases address for outgoing stuff say it's eth0 and eth0:0 so route del default route add default gw 172.24.1.1 dev eth0:0 would do the trick. (well it works on ppp links, I can not see how it wouldn't work on ethernet) On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: I have a client who has taken up an ADSL connection with Flow Comms and I am having the devil getting it working correctly. ASCII piccy Private network 192.168.1.0/24 | |-- 192.168.1.20 (234.234.234.235) eth0| (alias) - | 192.168.1.1 | | (234.234.234.234) | Linux Box |(alias)| | | | | | 172.24.1.2 | - eth1| | ^^^ ADSL Service Provider 172.24.1.1 ? ? The world out there The problem is how do I get masquerading to use the 234.234.234.234 address as if it on the outside interface rather than the 172.24.1.2 address which is the true interface address. Even if I re-alias the eth1 interface as 234.234.234.234 instead, it still don't work. If I ping from the Linux box to the outside world then nothing happens because it tries to use the 172.24.1.2 address as the source address and that doesn't work with the ADSL service provider, but if I force the ping to use the 234.234.234.234 address as its interface address (with the -I option) then success. I guess the 172.24.x.y address are only there just so that the modem and the DSLAM have an address each. Basically I need the 172.24.1.1 address to be the default gateway, but I always want the Linux Box to say that its interface address to that default gateway is 234.234.234.234 for the purposes of pinging and masquerading. Any ideas? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com -- 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 problem getting ADSL to work
Opps one more thing to that diagram You will need to use eth1 as the interface with the alias. otherwise it won't work at all. Otherwise it will try and send the packets out the eth0 interface back onto your local lan. On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jeffrey Borg wrote: You could do what I did to get satellite working using an aliases address for outgoing stuff say it's eth0 and eth0:0 so route del default route add default gw 172.24.1.1 dev eth0:0 would do the trick. (well it works on ppp links, I can not see how it wouldn't work on ethernet) On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: ASCII piccy Private network 192.168.1.0/24 | |-- 192.168.1.20 (234.234.234.235) eth0| (alias) - | 192.168.1.1 | | (234.234.234.234) | Linux Box |(alias)| | | | | | 172.24.1.2 | - eth1| | ^^^ ADSL Service Provider 172.24.1.1 ? ? The world out there -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Login problem help!
auctually on mandrake like redhat and debain if I recall correctly that's all under /etc/X11 so it would be /etc/X11/(kdm|xdm|gdm) On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, blinddog wrote: KDE is the desktop and there is no etc/gdm (or etc/kdm) On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:43, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=blinddog When I login and the X login promt appears it normally would have my login, my partners and the root to choose from. Now I have approx 30 icons to choose from being things like alias, axfrdns, nscd, qmailq, shutdown, halt etc. Also I have now lost the button to shutdown, reboot etc and can only action these from a console. Is this GDM or KDM? (I'm assuming it's one of those two.) If it's GDM, edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf - most of it is self-documenting, but email the list if you can't work anything out. - Jeff -- 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] [OT] Someone trying to hack me (better solution)
If you want to kill this new worm on the head (instead of many http requests stop it after the 1st it's very simple and a bit insecure) either use a firewalling tool or plain old route! firstly chmod +s your tool (this is insecure I know but then the webserver user can do the dirty work of blocking hosts in real time!) then say for iptables get a script called /scripts/root.exe to execute (in whatever your language is) /sbin/iptables -I INPUT -s (SOURCE IP) -j DROP OR /sbin/route add -host (SOURCE IP) dev lo and no more requests from that machine at all. On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Graeme Robinson wrote: the solution is to install linux and setup a firewall-gateway. Forget trying to secure your win98 box. At 06:41 AM 19/09/2001 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi sluggers, I am convinced someone is trying to hack me, or crack rather. I am sitting on a dialup connection, and there's strange traffic happening. Even when I'm not FTP'ing or anything, I see I have sent out like half a megabyte or something. Is this unusual??? I am using Windows 98 SE on this particular connection. Is there a packet sniffer for Windows that I can sit on the connection to inspect all incoming and outgoing traffic, and get the IP address of the other side, etc? What is the best firewall that I can install for Windoze 98? Thanks heaps. James -- 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
[SLUG] Re: WAS: Someone trying to hack me (better solution)
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Graeme Robinson wrote: At 10:15 AM 19/09/2001 +1000, Jeffrey Borg wrote: If you want to kill this new worm on the head (instead of many http requests stop it after the 1st it's very simple and a bit insecure) either use a firewalling tool or plain old route! firstly chmod +s your tool (this is insecure I know but then the webserver user can do the dirty work of blocking hosts in real time!) then say for iptables get a script called /scripts/root.exe to execute (in whatever your language is) /sbin/iptables -I INPUT -s (SOURCE IP) -j DROP OR /sbin/route add -host (SOURCE IP) dev lo and no more requests from that machine at all. Interesting idea! Dropping packets from a source address will mean nothing gets logged from that source IP and Apache won't see the request, but it won't necessarily stop the traffic, just filter it at your server/gateway. This is helpful if you were getting a denial of service attack that was crippling your ability to serve html to legitimate requests but isn't going to solve the problem if the attack is chewing into your bandwidth and affecting latency/data charges. you get 1 request and quite a few incoming packets to try and establish a tcp connection. but it's not that much traffic compared to allowing the requests to happen. Anyway it's working fine for me (btw I only have one machine here anyway, but I don't want to block off the web server.) well in this solution no outgoing bandwidth is used because you don't send anything back and there is really minimal incoming traffic. I had 12 mb incoming today and 11mb yesterday because of this. I expect it to drop back to about a meg or two after this. Might be a cool idea to add to the script a log of the IP's being dropped that you could then email your ISP to filter out further upstream at their routers. Bit late at that stage you need to stop the requests in real time. by the time that happends they have finished scanning. Different if you could change the rules in real time on the other end. I see an eventual solution to distributed denial of service attacks like code red lying in the automated notification and blocking of source IP's at the source rather than destination ISP. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Stability of 2.4.x kernels
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Andre Pang wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:30:47PM +1000, Jeffrey Borg wrote: anyway the problem tonight was that realplayer couldn't be killed off. I suspect that the sound driver locked and wouldn't release realplayer and thus any tools to kill realplayer wouldn't work at all. in fact cat /proc/pid of realplayer which was guessed/cmdline would lock. try using the ALSA sound drivers. i had a few problems with the normal OSS drivers on my laptop (the drivers didn't like suspend/resume very much), and i had numerous apps floating around which refused to be killed becuase of this. ALSA fixed it all up perfectly. This isn't a laptop, although on my laptop I am using ext3 so crashes don't hurt as much, I am but worried about my other machine with ext3 because it also has software raid mirroring on it. Although I don't like patching the kernel too much as so far 2.4 I have needed no patches to make it work. my 2.2 kernels were patched so much usually. My 2nd and it's happened quite a few times is that the user schedulder dies and the only resolution is just to cold reboot. THe funny thing is that it still works as a router :-) But that's all in the kernel schedulder. what kinda symptoms? Exactly as it says machine locks but will still route packets/ act as a firewall etc.. connecting to a tcp port which is open will accept the connection and hang. I.E. say the kernel knows to open the port but no data can be transmitted. But it will still route packets as this dosen't involve any user processes My experience with 2.2 was that it's far more stable. But I don't think I will go back. nod, i agree. i hope 2.5 comes out _really_ soon so 2.4 really does get a proper chance to stabilise. I agree too many changes to 2.4 at the moment. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux on Cyrix-233: what's happen here...?
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: I have a second hand Cyrix IBM 233 with the peocessor description: 6 * 86 MX PR233 IBM26*86MX-CVAPR233GE 3.0X 66MHZ-2.9V CORE that 3.0X 66MHZ as meaning in that it only *runs* at 200mhz the PR stuff is just marketing hype because it performs the same as a Pentium 233 (but that's clocked at 233mhz) It's like the athlon and P4 these days. so leave the multiplier at 3 and it will work fine. And set the voltage to 2.9v I set the mother-board jumpper corectly as stated in the docs. The funny thing here is: if i set it properly, the linux installation will stop at: Running Anaconda - please wait... Install exited abnormally -- received signal signal 11 sending termination signals... done sending kill signals... done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /proc/bus/usb /mnt/runtime /mnt/sourcew umount failed ( ) /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system But... if I set the mother-board jumpper to pentium 200, I can install everthing normally, withoung having any problem. I checked the processor (the hardware) and it is 233 as I typed before. Any help please? Thanks in Advance, Phillipus. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Stability of 2.4.x kernels
Hi I want to just share a few incidents which involve the 2.4 kernel and comparasions to 2.2.x Firstly I recently upgraded my machine and it was either go to 2.4 or use 2.2 with ide patches so I took the 2.4 plunge. Secondly my firewall setup is much simplier thanks to netfilter :-) also DNAT is very useful and beats that port forwarding hacks of 2.2! Basically You can get realplayer to work without helpers from a internal machine. Anyway I have these modules loaded into the kernel * nvidia drivers * win4lin stuff (only the last 3 days or so because there is now 2.4.9 support) * driver for a skymedia 200dtp card (sat dvb data) The rest is compiled in and not binary only stuff. anyway the problem tonight was that realplayer couldn't be killed off. I suspect that the sound driver locked and wouldn't release realplayer and thus any tools to kill realplayer wouldn't work at all. in fact cat /proc/pid of realplayer which was guessed/cmdline would lock. so I had numerous top's ps's etc... all locked and blocked. Only resolution was to reboot and still the root filesystem had to be fscked. My 2nd and it's happened quite a few times is that the user schedulder dies and the only resolution is just to cold reboot. THe funny thing is that it still works as a router :-) But that's all in the kernel schedulder. My experience with 2.2 was that it's far more stable. But I don't think I will go back. Jeffrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Sendmail problem
Hi all Speaking of sendmail and interfaces, Is there anyway to get sendmail to log on which interface/ip the mail is received? Why I am asking, I have a satellite setup here and using the satellite ip as the lowest MX, then the perm modem is next then a external mail server as 3rd, I am just curious as to when the satellite fails. Jeffrey Borg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] One floppy Linux Presentation System
And, a thought occurs. Won't Terry have to compile and install ecore, evas, eke(magic|point) every time, since it's a CD? You could always rebuild the cd with what you want on it, The BBC cd's are an excellent starting point for doing that. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Installing OpenSSH on RH5.2?
What about just grabbing the source rpm and doing a rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm That should work anyway and if any libraries fail (maybe openssh do the same for that source rpm and install it first etc) Jeff On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Jon Carnes wrote: I need to install a resonable version of OpenSSH on a server running RH5.2. My problem (beyond the fact that I need to upgrade that system...) I can only find BSD source files for the OpenSSH, and RPM's for later versions of RH. Any suggestions to save me from yet another midnight upgrade? Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] How to upgrade my RPM and install the file I need?
Short answer. You need rpm version 3.0.5 or greater. (but not version 4) The latest versions of rpm 3.0.5 onwards can install version 4 rpms using a version 3 rpm database. rpm 4 has a different database format. On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Fernando Lemos de Mello wrote: ... I need the latest version of rpm to do an installation, so I downloaded the .rpm for rpm... but guess what? you need the latest version of rpm to install the .rpm for rpm as follows: # rpm -i rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed I get this same error when I try to install a file for my modem. So I can't make my winmodem to get to work. How should I proceed to upgrade RPM and finally install the file? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Staroffice 5.2 - HTML mode
In SO 5.2 when creating an HTML document, how do you get the page title into the code, short of switching to HTML source mode and inserting it there, which does work. I have looked at every obvious button/menu/thingy that I can think of and I'm damned if I can find it anywhere; and the help isn't much. File - Propertities - Description Tab You can edit it there the field is labelled "Title". Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] raid 1 on linux
One more thing Just in case you think you have /etc/raidtab wrong On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, John Ferlito wrote: f) vi /etc/raidtab and add something like this raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 4 persistent-superblock 1 device /dev/somenonexistintdevice ^ failed-disk 0 device /dev/hdc3 raid-disk 1 This will tell the raid tools that you want raid 1 on two disks but that currently hda3 is a failed disk so don't use it. I just did this in case something went wrong! then you will be 100% certain that it won't touch the existing drive. then just fix it up later. Oh yeah Print out the how to as well and read it a few more times. Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] More kernel whoopsy messages
It is caused by connecting a UDMA66 Drive to a UDMA33 Controller
From my experiences in a squid proxy box it seems to be pretty harmless
And I have found no solution to the problem.
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Sean Carmody wrote:
I also have slightly irritating (but apparently harmless) kernel
messages that pop up repeatedly each day:
Mar 14 23:01:29 cardano kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Mar 14 23:01:29 cardano kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
Mar 14 23:01:29 cardano kernel: ide0: reset: success
The hard-disk in question is a Seagate:
hda: ST313021A, ATA DISK drive
hda: ST313021A, 12419MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1583/255/63
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Re: [SLUG] ps2html
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Rick Welykochy wrote: any idea how to ps2html? I tried a couple found with google ... crap. The closest thing is ps2pdf to create a pdf file OR use ghostscript to make an image out of each postscript page. (this is kinda not that efficient compared to pdf) I presume you want to stick the result up on a web page somewhere? Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Access control
I have something for web access it will need squid and it works via arp cache so the database of machines is dependant on the nic (is dhcp will work fine) it jsut turns web access on and off and expires web access runs squid + perl redirector mysql db php frontend On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Darrell Burkey wrote: I'm looking for a simple web based solution that would allow a client to control which machines on their network have access to services such as web browsing and email. Essentially they need to turn access on and off as it suits them. I was thinking along the lines of ipchains scripts and I notice that webmin has a module for this. I've been looking around freshmeat for something even more friendly without luck. Any suggestions? Cheers. ~~ Darrell Burkey @ Home Canberra, ACT -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ext2 fs error
Hi The trick is to go to single user mode and if the filesystem is not / you can just unmount it and run fsck on it. Otherwise you will have to remount it read only with mount -o ro,remount / Then you can run fsck on it safely and it won't complain about damage. Jeff On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Fikret Can wrote: hello everybody, The following error is displayed on the console; EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext2-new block: free blocks count corrupted for block group 9 I know it is related to "fsck.ext2". My question arises, when fsck is run on an mounted fs, ext2.fsck /dev/hda1, it warns that severe damage may occur. What can i do after reboot to put Linux in maintanence mode and run fsck on an unmounted fs. Also, would it help putting the machine in init-level 1. Thanks in advance. k -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Is their HTMl code to have Apache show you what modulesit has loaded?
Hi
You do have something like the following defined in the httpd.conf file???
so that the .php, .php3 and .phtml will be interperted as php files?
IfModule mod_php4.c
AddIcon /icons/php4.gif .php3 .php4 .php .phtml
/IfModule
IfModule mod_php4.c
AddIcon /icons/phps.gif .phps
/IfModule
IfModule mod_php4.c
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
/IfModule
if that is right below you can rip out the empty php4 if defined modules
bits.
the real important lines above are the AddType bits.
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Terry Collins wrote:
Dean Hamstead wrote:
Apache can cough up its info as
http://url/server-info
http://url/server-status
status is how apache is doing, what its just done etc.
info is how its configured on a per module basis.
Taah, server-status was what the brain was tring to remember, except I
somehow ran it from the commandline.
server-info lists the php4 stuff
Module Name: mod_php4.c
Content handlers: application/x-httpd-php ,
application/x-httpd-php-source , text/html
Configuration Phase Participation: Create Directory Config, Merge
Directory Configs, Child Exit
Request Phase Participation: none
Module Directives:
php_value - PHP Value Modifier
php_flag - PHP Flag Modifier
php_admin_value - PHP Value Modifier (Admin)
php_admin_flag - PHP Flag Modifier (Admin)
Current Configuration:
QUESTION1 - Is it supposed to actually say php4 somewhere above, like
under content handles, or is the above okay?
.
I also noticed that in httpd.conf this section
IfDefine PHP
/IfDefine
IfDefine PHP4
/IfDefine
IfDefine PERL
/IfDefine
IfDefine DAV
/IfDefine
IfDefine MODULES
IfDefine SSL
/IfDefine
ClearModuleList
...
is before a similar section
IfDefine SSL
AddModule mod_ssl.c
/IfDefine
IfDefine PHP
AddModule mod_php3.c
/IfDefine
IfDefine PHP4
AddModule mod_php4.c
/IfDefine
IfDefine PERL
AddModule mod_perl.c
/IfDefine
IfDefine DAV
AddModule mod_dav.c
/IfDefine
QUESTION2 - Could the first section be wrong?
In that it sees the first section, which adds no module, and thus
ignores the second set, which actually adds the module.
If so, this may explain why neither Perl or PHP will work for me.
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[SLUG] Port 445 Scan
Hi I have had over the last few weeks thousands of attemps at port 445 on my server (not a network scan - although it has been a network scan a few times) these attacks are just at one host. (from one host!) Now I have dug up that this is the new 'SMB' port for windoze 2000 etc.. called DS But I was curious to any other uses for tcp port 445 Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: Executing commands on remote machines (was: Re: [SLUG] SOS)
Everything else deleted. This idea should work! You could also try pipeing the script into sh like this ssh newhost /bin/sh script might work? but being unix it should! well it does work echo "echo testin" | ssh somehost /bin/sh yields you guessed it. testin saves the copying anyway. Jeff $ scp script newhost:script $ ssh newhost script will copy the script to the new host and then attempt to run it. For the examples you gave, something like $ ssh newhost ls would do just what you want. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin problem
I have installed Windows95 (OSR2) under Win4Lin and now want to install some of Office 2000 but the CDROM seems to be unavailable. Windows Explorer shows an A:\, B:\, C:\, J:\ and N:\ drive but if you click on the CDROM (N:\) you get a dialog box which says "N:\ is not accessible The device is not ready" This is similar to the message you get if you try to access the (non existant) B:\ drive. The result is the same whether the CDROM is mounted or unmounted under linux. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this? Check perms on your cdrom device make sure the user running win4lin can read the cdrom device. mouting it makes no difference in win4lin basically windoze is reading from the almost raw device Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] More Email Questions
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Ken Yap wrote: Hi again, well i got the mail server to work without the help of bigpond (hurrah) just one concern of mine. How does one check if there mail server is an open relay ?? There is the simple method of telnetting from outside, but be aware that there is more than one way to relay, spammers have used holes such as the % or ! interpretations in paths and it's not obvious that the mail has been relayed until later. To be really sure request a check by a RBL site, such as www.mail-abuse.org. get onto box u want to check telnet mail-abuse.org it will attempt to relay back into the ip you telnet to it from :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] A4tech serial mouse support in X.
Hi What about using gpm on it with the -R option then using a /dev/gpmdata device for x using the mousesystems protocol for that device May just work Just because I have that brand mouse here and it works without ANY problems - just that it hasn't got a middle button. Jeff On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Arunava Sen wrote: thanks for confirming this, man. i kinda had this bad feeling as well. now ill return the piece of sh%^ tomorrow. Greg wrote: Hi, i sell a4tech, and there is the odd problem with them and linux, the ps/2 ones seem fine, but the odd serial one won't work, whilst it's fine with winblows. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] NT and cityrail.
Hi The ip address of the server is familar! anyway it's zipworlds web server I have control of a box co located there and I can verify there is bandwidth available (well in australia anyway!) download from mirror.aarnet.edu.au - 700Kb a sec (bytes not bits) download from the box to a box a newcastle uni - 200Kb a sec download overseas well depends on the location but usually like 150kb a sec to zilch (depends) so no wonder why it's faster On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, John Ferlito wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:53:16PM +1100, Russell Davies wrote: After becoming extremely annoyed with the abysmal performance of http://timetables.cityrail.nsw.gov.au/, I set out to investigate what was going on when information could no longer be accessed one day. Shortly thereafter the pages were up again and the seemed to be running great! An nmap -O revealed the following.. Remote OS guesses: Linux 2.1.122 - 2.2.14, Linux kernel 2.2.13 I'm glad they woke up to themselves. What happened here is that there web server is running on their premises on whatever OS. Anyway their link became flooded. So they moved the timetables to the ISP's server. That's all assuming you're talking about an event that happened a fair while ago. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] reiser+usb backport
Hi They can co exist, just look CAREFULLY at the rejected file it's a file system definitions (the usb has a special filesystem in proc and reiserfs is a filesystem duh.) anyway you will be quickly pick out the patch is trying to do and do it manually. it's only 1 .h (header) file and it does all work together. The order is not important. If you want the exact file I can find it for you, but the patch program will tell you which one was rejected. Jeff On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote: Anyone got ideas on using both reiser and the usb backport? the patches conflict. One will patch in but the other will fail. Im not heaps worried, but it would be nice. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ASP and apache?
Hi, As far as I know Apache does'not support ASP. But there is chili!soft third party software which enables you to execute ASP code on apache. It costs around $800 for a single CPU server. However, I strongly suggest you converting the ASP code to PHP by asp2php tool.It is totally free. Check http://asp2php.naken.cc/download.html Asp2php works for the mostpart quite well, only MAJOR problems Are sloppy asp programming, like having different CasEs on variables (vbscript seems to be case insensitive ) and they just won't work in php. database stuff is a bit flakey. And you will still need to spend time fixing the code. I converted a little web links subscription which used a asp frontend + access db to mysql + php, And it worked EXACRLY like the asp version. Then I totally re wrote the front end! - the old one sucked anyway. Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] ICMP 0 DoS attack
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Troy Bell wrote: conspiracy theory Makes one wonder if they are testing the water for an attack on us Aussies /conspiracy theory I know there's been alot of talk on this list about scans and probes and when they occured and stuff, so it's probably not a good idea to revisit it too much, but is anyone else noticing a high amount of these scans across their own subnets? One persistant guy to port 8080! + scans for 137 and 139 + imap and pop2 ports and the odd scan for port 21 Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Scsi problem
Hi there I will describe the machine in detail first. It's a Gateway server - 7210 It's basically a dual cpu capable machine it's based on the 440 GX + chipset it only has 1 cpu in it currently a PIII 600 It has onboard everything but the main problem is the scsi It is a Adaptec 7896 dual channel controller. Anyway to the fun part. (or lack of) any kernel I have tried so far from 2.0 to 2.2.16 with latest aic7xxx driver either as a module or just compiled right in. It basically locks up like this (this is another adaptor just replace the wording) (I have typed it correct as it appears) (scsi0) Adaptec AIC-7896/7 Ultra2 SCSI host adaptor found at PCI 0/12/0 (scsi0) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded That's it it's frozen at that point and won't go any further I have had it working on ide disks and that worked fine. The latest aic7xxx driver I tried was 5.1.31 from the person maintainig the driver itself. Jeffrey Borg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] lpr with JetDirect (solution)
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Richard Ames wrote: Ken was right on target RedHat suggests LPRng and apparently have it in Rawhide. See: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14691 Don't rip the binary rpm out of rawhide btw! because it's based on glibc 2.2 and won't work with glibc 2.1, Get the source rpm for it and recompile it, That should work for you. Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] TNT2 drivers with a patched Win4Lin kernel ??
go and change the Extraversion flag in the makefile for the kernel /usr/src/linux to make -win4lin on it the make clean; make dep the kernel sources then make the NVdriver again On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Mehmet Ozdemir wrote: OK, I think I know whats's wrong when I try to use NVdriver with the Win4Lin kernel it doesn't load eg: insmod NVdriver = Using /lib/modules/2.2.14-win4lin/video/NVdriver /lib/modules/2.2.14-win4lin/video/NVdriver: kernel-module version mismatch /lib/modules/2.2.14-win4lin/video/NVdriver was compiled for kernel version 2.2.14-5.0 while this kernel is version 2.2.14-win4lin. so if I do insmod -f NVdriver everthing is GREAT, so the question now is how can I get NVdriver to be force loaded on boot ? which file do I need to edit for this to happen ? Kind Regards Mehmet Ozdemir -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Borg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 11 July 2000 12:28 AM To: Mehmet Ozdemir Subject: RE: [SLUG] TNT2 drivers with a patched Win4Lin kernel ?? Hi On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Mehmet Ozdemir wrote: I'm using 2.2.14-5.0 also i saw a smp kernel at: ftp://ftp.trelos.com/pub/OLD/LINUX/RPMS/Kernel-Win4Lin1-RedHat6.2smp-2.i386. rpm It would appear that the file from trelos is a kernel and the file from NVIDIA is a patch, yes? No trelos provide a patch for all the latest stable kernels about 60kb in size. or prebuilt replacenment kernels for many major distributions. (or course I chose to build my own) which should work for your case. As for NVdriver it's a kernel module and a large one at that. Which you compile some c code and link some binary stuff to make the module. Some binary code is there for it. (you haven't noticed all 3d apps include XFree86 4.0 are like at least 130Mb in size? as reported by top when using the OpenGL libs from nvidia? So when using a win4lin patched kernel NVdriver loads ok or not? Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
