Re: [SLUG] downgrading from Centos 5 to 4 ?

[Marty Richards]

On 1/09/2012 4:49 PM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:

I have a machine running Centos 5, I'd like to downgrade to Centos 4 in
order to run an older PHP CMS that require 'older' PHP, (it seems easier
to run older system that upgrade the CMS


Going backwards often has security implications and is not recommended.

Upgrading the CMS would be a safer option.

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

[Marty Richards]

Hi Dmitry,

I agree, this should be actively opposed and it will be - Electronic 
Frontiers Australia are already on the case - http://nocleanfeed.com


Cheers,
Marty

Dmitry Smirnov wrote:

Guys this is bloody serious -- let's do something about it.
Petitions, complaints, protests -- anything!
Whom we can write about it? Any ideas how to resist?


2009/12/15 Mike :
  

I'm not sure if this belongs here, sorry if it doesn't.

Well looks like the government got it's way. Our Internet will be censored
next year.

http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/115


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Re: [SLUG] where to get an Ethernet hub (NOT a switch)

[Marty Richards]

Amos Shapira wrote:

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:36:47AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:


I'm looking for an Ethernet hub to be used for network troubleshooting
(trying to find which of our hosts is involved in the load on our
office uplink)
  


Hi Amos,

I might be a little late now... if you've progressed this far with the 
hub option you might as well go all the way now...


However, you are doing this the hard way.  You don't need an ethernet 
hub if you already know where the traffic is going. All you need to do 
is investigate the traffic on your office uplink. Its possible that the 
device you use for the uplink already might give you this info... but if 
it doesn't, you should replace the uplink device with a Linux PC and 
just sniff the traffic from there. Starting from scratch this should 
take about 2 hours to complete (assuming it takes an hour to install 
your favourite flavour of Linux and you're not using mesh VPNs or other 
complex configurations). Ideally you would configure the Linux PC to be 
the local gateway, and then reconfigure the existing uplink device to 
provide the link between the Linux PC and outside.


If you want to really get your hands dirty, you could configure the 
Linux box with 2 interfaces as a bridge and simply insert it in between 
your switch and your office uplink. This would allow you to sniff the 
traffic without needing to change any IP configs on the existing 
network.  (Ah, I see Rob Collins said something like this last week - 
"you can make a trivial two port switch out of a linux machine with 
brtools").


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Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

[Marty Richards]

I had to replace some IBursts - I'm likely to replace 2 of them with a 
single 1M/1M commercial wireless service from Clever @ $399 per month. A 
bit pricey, but we need a decent link there. The site currently uses 2 x 
Ibursts which cost a similar amount anyway.


I'm still looking for a better option if I can find one.

I looked into Telstra's NextG, but gave up because they can't give you a 
real static IP address (without using their cloud and BDSL etc for 
around $1000 per month all up).


Cheers,
Marty


With the Demise of the I-Burst Network, I now have to look for an 
alternative.


The 3G options seem to be

Telstra (the broadband "expert" had heard of Linux - but did not seem 
to know it was an OS!")

Various Plans (capped/shaped plan $80/month)
+299 Modem/router or USB modem ($?)

Virgin
Various Plants (capped/shaped plan $40/month - incudes USB modem and
$60 capped/shaped plan with  (non roaming) homephone/modem/router

IPRIMUS (capped/shaped plan $40/month)
+ (?) USB Modem ($?)

Vodafone & Optus do not seem to have a capped/shaped plan.

Any comments recommendations?

Marghanita

Jonathan wrote:

Hi All,

I just saw someone was unfortunate enough to have a ZTE mobile. I 
just wanted to encourage all people not to get a phone from them. I 
had one. It constantly crashed, dropped out calls, and eventually 
broke itself. Yes, it broke itself. I had it sitting on my leg while 
I was sitting down, no pressure on it, just body temperature, and 
the screen cracked. The leaking then destroyed the phone. The 
warranty wasn't honoured.


Enjoy!







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Re: [SLUG] A8N-SLi Asus Motherboard

[Marty Richards]

Gerald said the following on 15/12/2006 7:53 AM:

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:43:40PM +1000, Gerald wrote:


Do any Sluggers know how to get 4 x sata drives working on this mother
board with Linux or Indeed any O/S?
When i add a drive beyond 2 the system gets screwed up.
  
Kernel panic. This is when the boot drive is set in bios as sda an 80GB system 
disk. 
With only 2 drives, 80GB + 320Gb (for data)the system works fine.
If i add a 3rd or 4th drive, still with bios set to boot the 80GB first, the 
system on booting shows the 80Gb as 1st drive 320GB as 2nd drive the added 
drives as 3rd and 4th drives.

But when Linux boots on sda the kernel panics saying sda1 does not exist.
Since it is kernel panic i cannot find out how drives have been switched.
Do you think i should install the software when the drives are all installed, 
thus hoping that the switching will not matter?

Gerald
  
Check your BIOS settings. Look for "enhanced" or "extended 
compatibility" modes referring to the hard drives etc. Try the modes 
(enhanced or extended often works for me).  One of these modes will 
enable all the SATA's and/or IDE's in various combinations.



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Re: [SLUG] t/s dns name resolution, lack of

[Marty Richards]

Glen Turner said the following on 1/12/2006 11:14 AM:

Voytek Eymont wrote:

I have a user on BigPond cable that can no longer access a particular
domain, www.gazetaprawna.pl



and
 $ dig @195.205.179.10 ns gazetaprawna.pl
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Hi Glen,

This is new - I was getting answers from apollo.infor.pl yesterday (or 
the day before)... but its definitely not responding now.


I don't see a lot of inconsistencies in their setup. Zeus is multi homed 
but that doesn't count. What am I missing?  Thanks ;)


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Re: [SLUG] t/s dns name resolution, lack of

[Marty Richards]

Hi Voytek,

Sounds like a typical Telstra Level 1 drone attended to your call and
was less than fully useful.

This is an interesting problem.

All of the root-servers successfully refer queries to the .pl top level
servers.

All of the .pl top level servers successfully refer queries to the
correct DNS server for this domain.

All of the correct DNS servers are answering for www.gazetaprawna.pl.

So, with the exception of Telstra and Pacific (and maybe others we
haven't found yet) the DNS systems for gazetaprawna.pl are working well.

I've tested half a dozen standard DNS servers using the usual
root.hints etc and they all resolve the name successfully.

Without access to Telstra's configuration, logs or servers its
difficult to see why their name servers are failing on this domain. 

Options are:

*) Change your DNS server setting on your workstations OR add an an
entry for www.gazetaprawna.pl into their hosts file(s). This is only a
workaround but its probably the easiest way to get it working in the
short term. There are other workarounds available depending on your
client's network configuration - do they have their own DNS server?

*) Get back on to Telstra, try and get through to their DNS people
(tell the drone that this is a more complicated DNS server problem and
should be escalated to the right people)

*) Make contact with gazetaprawna.pl - they might help put some
pressure on Telstra - and there is an outside chance that Gazetaprawna
are intentionally blocking the Telstra nameservers.

*) Find a Pacific Internet customer and log a fault under their name -
Pacific are usually miles ahead of Telstra for tech support. 

Good luck! 
Cheers,
Marty

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Voytek Eymont said the following on 30/11/2006 10:34 AM:

  On Wed, November 29, 2006 12:11 pm, Marty Richards wrote:

  
  
Everything looks good for that domain in DNS land currently.

  
  
  
  
You could also log a fault with Telstra on behalf
of your BigPond customer - it doesn't hurt to attack these problems from
both sides.

  
  
Marty,

as well as tests you've done, I've tried connecting to the website from
other Bigpond users locations, it fails from all BigPond links

logging fault with BP was next to useless,
as far as BP support is concerned, it all works fine:

---
Thank you for your email dated 27 Nov regarding www.gazetaprawna.pl.

I have tested this website on a standard BigPond Cable connection, and was
able to reach it without an issue. This was done on a standalone PC, with
all DNS and IP information assigned to me by BigPond automatically. We
cannot specify a DNS server for you to access, as our system changes these
addresses depending on server load. If your computer is unable to resolve
the URL, but can successfully access the site via IP address, I would have
to advise that this is an issue with your computer or one of your other
devices.

If you have any other questions, please visit our Help Centre at
www.bigpond.com/help.

The Help Centre is a handy resource for our members which includes things
such as our Frequently Asked Questions and our new Email Troubleshooter
which has been set up to help you solve all your email problems.

Thank you for choosing BigPond.
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Re: [SLUG] DNS and resolv.conf

[Marty Richards]

Its probably your dhcp client overwriting the settings. There is 
probably a command line or conf option to turn this off.


Cheers,
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Ashley said the following on 30/11/2006 6:17 PM:
I have changed the resolv.conf to show the main DNSs of my provider in 
every place I can find but still I have to manually edit it each time 
I start up and several times whilst I am on line as it changes back to 
the address of my modem/router.
Obviously there is something running that changes it back every few 
minutes but I can't guess what, so I have no idea how to stop it 
changing in Ubuntu.
If anyone out there knows something about Ubuntu64 6.10, please give 
me a clue where to look.


TIA
Ashley

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Re: [SLUG] Problems backing up a server to SMBFS

[Marty Richards]

Hi Raphael,

I've found this one a few times now.

Try using:

mount -t cifs  //yadda/yadda

rather than smbmount.

Cheers,
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Raphael Kraus said the following on 29/11/2006 11:59 AM:

G'day all,

Distro/kernel: Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.8-3-k7-smp

I'm writing backups to a directory mounted using smb, with tar - 
tar clpsvzf myfilename.tar.gz --atime-preserve --same-owner /


It seems to be stopping after 2GB, and it isn't apparent as to what is
causing the problem.

Any suggestions as to either diagnosing this or to as what may be the
problem?
 
TIA!


Regards,
 
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Re: [SLUG] t/s dns name resolution, lack of

[Marty Richards]

Hi Voytek,

Everything looks good for that domain in DNS land currently.

I'm guessing that they had a DNS issue recently and that certain large 
DNS servers like Telstra have cached the bad entry. If this is so, then 
the cached entries should time out in the next day or so... 
Alternatively, some of the .pl top level name servers might be missing 
some glue records - again this should resolve itself soon.


I'm thinking this way because other DNS servers (in Australia) are not 
having any problems resolving this name, but Telstra definately is. 
(Pacific Internet also has this problem).


How long have you seen this problem? If it persists for more than 1 day 
I would be tempted to contact gazetaprawna.pl and let them know that 
they have a problem with some of the biggest DNS servers in Australia 
not resolving their names. You could also log a fault with Telstra on 
behalf of your BigPond customer - it doesn't hurt to attack these 
problems from both sides.


Cheers,
Marty

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Voytek Eymont said the following on 29/11/2006 11:41 AM:

I have a user on BigPond cable that can no longer access a particular
domain, www.gazetaprawna.pl

both IE and FF says 'no such domain'

ping www.gazetaprawna.pl says 'no such domain name'

BUT, the server can be accessed OK as '193.164.157.253'

this is from Bigpond cable,
outside of BigPond cable I can access the server no problem, either via IP
or domain name

any suggestions ?

I tried 'dig @bigpond_dns_ip www.gazetaprawna.pl from my side, but, it
seems I can't dig Bigpond dns from outside


  

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Re: [SLUG] server stopped

[Marty Richards]

ashley maher wrote:


I was happily working (using ssh) on a server and it stopped.
 





Anybody mind guessing where I should look next to find why this thing
stopped (Or even suggesting if I'm looking in the correct places)


 

Next time it stops you might need someone to look at the local console 
for error messages.


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Re: [SLUG] finding a file

[Marty Richards]

Ben Donohue wrote:
Further to this (and this is not an answer to the question above) but 
I'm buggered if i can find the largest files on the hard disk and list 
them in order.
I've tried various arguements but can't seem to crack it.
like find / -S -r (or -s) -name xxx|more

Any ideas out there?
Ben
The lazy way?
du -a | sort -g
will do something along those lines...
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RE: [SLUG] What sort of attack is this

[Marty Richards]

Title: RE: [SLUG] What sort of attack is this






> 
> I have found this is my apache logs
> 
> 132.198.224.115 - - [18/Nov/2003:23:27:10 +1100] "SEARCH 
> /\x90\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\x
> b1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02
> \xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x
> 0
> 
> 
> whith lots more it gets a 400 return code
> 
> I am interested to see what sort of an attack this is ? some 
> quick searching on google hasn't found me anything.
> 
> Any one else seen this, right now I am just blocking their IP address!



This is a webdav exploit. 


Some of the M$ worms (nachi/welchia etc) use this as a secondary attack if port 135 is not available.


Cheers,
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RE: [SLUG] Serial -> PS2 connector

[Marty Richards]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Phillipus Gunawan wrote:

>> Any connector I can buy or any other idea?

>Yes.  They're not exactly globally available these days, but you certainly
>get them.  Ironically, I know DSE has them, because I had to look them up
>for a customer yesterday...

PS2 -> 5 pin din keyboard connectors are fine.

PS2 -> Serial mouse have nearly always given me grief.

YMMV.

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[SLUG] RE: not helping

[Marty Richards]

imho, Ozemail Tech support is her best option. I even supplied the number.
All my other suggestions are equally valid.

Its Outlook providing the negative experience. Do you think she's running it
under Wine? ;)

Please move this OT thread to Slug-chat.

Cheers,
Marty


I don't think that reply achieved much asides from making sure someone's
(likely) first experience with Linux users was a negative one.

Mike


On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 10:50, Marty Richards wrote:
> 
> -
> I am having a problem connecting to ozemail. It keeps giving me the sign
> Error  Ox800 CCC0E. could you please tell me what this means and if I
> can correct it .
> -
> 
> 
> 
> It means "welcome to outlook, resistance is futile, you will be
> assimilated".
> 
> Maybe you could reinstall everything?
> 
> There might be a message in your "deleted items" with more information
about
> the error... 
> 
> Ring Ozemail tech support, they might be able to help - 132 884, 24 hours.
> 
> If you have all day and a few hundred spare dollars, ring Micro$oft.
> 
> Cheers,
> Marty
> 
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RE: [SLUG] problem

[Marty Richards]

-
I am having a problem connecting to ozemail. It keeps giving me the sign
Error  Ox800 CCC0E. could you please tell me what this means and if I
can correct it .
-



It means "welcome to outlook, resistance is futile, you will be
assimilated".

Maybe you could reinstall everything?

There might be a message in your "deleted items" with more information about
the error... 

Ring Ozemail tech support, they might be able to help - 132 884, 24 hours.

If you have all day and a few hundred spare dollars, ring Micro$oft.

Cheers,
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RE: [SLUG] Bynari's Insight Server

[Marty Richards]

> 
> If it simply email why not an imap server (Hope I have this right).

The IMAP server side is great. The problems are with the clients - Outlook
and IMAP is ugly for a dozen reasons. Has anyone met a Windoze mail client
which works nicely with IMAP servers? (think sent items, drafts, deletion
procedures, address books etc).

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RE: [SLUG] ADSL Problem

[Marty Richards]

Hi Martin,

Is PPP compiled into your kernel or is it a module? Try compiling with ppp
as a module if you haven't already...

PADT is a common result of bad username/password, or occasionally on new
connections when Tel$tra hooks you up to the wrong ADSL provider... You
don't get PADT unless you're connected to a DSLAM, so PADT is normally a
good sign on new connections.

Merry Xmas ;)

Cheers,
Marty

> -Original Message-
> From: Martin Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> To: SLUG
> Subject: [SLUG] ADSL Problem
> 
> 
> Merry Xmas all...
> 
> I'm stuck trying to get ADSL working under Debian 3.0. pppoe 
> conf runs and
> seems very happy. It tells me it's found an access 
> concentrator, and all is
> well, but when it goes to start the link I get the error message:
> 
>  ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
> 
> This seems bizzarre... how can it find an access concentrator 
> if it can't
> find the device???
> 
> I'm pretty stumped... /var/log/messages says:
> 
>  Dec 24 08:12:39 denial pppd[189]: Serial connection established.
>  Dec 24 08:12:39 denial pppd[189]: Using interface ppp0
>  Dec 24 08:12:39 denial pppd[189]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
>  Dec 24 08:12:40 denial pppd[189]: Modem hangup
>  Dec 24 08:12:40 denial pppd[189]: Connection terminated.
> 
> over and over. /var/log/daemon says:
> 
>  Dec 24 08:12:39 denial pppoe[286]: PADS: Service-Name: ''
>  Dec 24 08:12:39 denial pppoe[286]: PPP session is 3133
>  Dec 24 08:12:40 denial pppoe[286]: Session terminated -- 
> received PADT from
> peer
> 
> over and over, until the point when I hit ctrl-c, when it says
> 
>  Dec 24 08:14:31 denial modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
> 
> Anyone have any ideas what might be wrong or how I might 
> approach fixing it?
> 
> I like Debian, but it seems like the initial installation and 
> setup process,
> always its weakest point, has gotten even worse? It cluttered 
> my system with
> stuff I never asked for (ISDN, etc), and so far lilo, X and 
> ADSL have all
> failed to work. I'd switch distros if I could give up on apt.
> 
> cheers and thanks in advance,
> 
> Martin
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RE: [SLUG] Web server with 4 virtual hosts behind firewall

[Marty Richards]

Hi Chris,


> If each domain has its own IP address does that mean that I 
> will need to
> bind those ip addresses to the internet interface on the 
> firewall? If so
> can anyone explain how I can bind multiple ipaddress to 1 interface.

Two options here, which may or may not be practical depending on your IP
configuration...
1) Bind the addresses to the web servers and route to them. Use ipchains on
the firewall for access control
2) Bind the addresses to the firewall and port forward relevant requests to
the internal/DMZ web servers

Option 1 is generally the best if its do-able. Option 2 can create mildly
tricky issues if you want to see the real IP's of the web page requestors in
your web logs.

If you want option2, you'd use something like

ifconfig eth0 main.ip.address.x network.mask.x.x
ifconfig eth0:2 second.ip.address.x network.mask.x.x

etc. You may need to enable aliasing in your kernel if not already enabled.
 
> If if tell ipchains to only allow www,dns, and ssh on the internet
> interface, will it allow connections aimed at any of the 4 ip 
> addresses
> or will it only allow the first one bound to the interface?

If you configure subinterfaces as above you will have multiple internet
connections and can apply ipchains to each one. If you route, you can still
do much the same.

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RE: [SLUG] hard drive choices

[Marty Richards]

Title: RE: [SLUG] hard drive choices





> Modern Fujitsu drives tend to have a very strong reputation.  
> I've even hauled a couple from Africa to Europe and then back 
> here into Oz without any problems.
> 
> As for warranties... most companies are now settling for a 1 
> year warranty, with a couple leaving their 3 year warranties 
> intact for their high-end drives.


Except for the recent bad batch which has seen over 300,000 fuji drives returned (most of them were in Compaq's and Dells, mostly in the UK). The unofficial figure on those was a 30% failure rate. (theregister.co.uk has details on this from about a month ago)

The rest of this is IMHO:


Quantums are not good - been replacing lots of them lately, several early failures on the 20Gb models.


IBM are worrying. Aside from the numerous bad reports I have seen the 18Gb SCSI's pack up repetitively.


Maxtors and Western Digital are ok-ish, and Seagate's are good.


Cheers,
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RE: [SLUG] continuous power up query

[Marty Richards]

I run loads of machines 24/7.

The ones that die usually do so overnite, most commonly with a smokey power
supply failure. Occasionally (twice) I lost the power supply, motherboard
and CPU all at once - but again its overnite so I didn't get to see them.
Bodgy SpaceWalker motherboards is a likely culprit.

Cheers,
Marty

> On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 11:13, Peter Chubb wrote:
> > > "Peter" == Peter Garrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > Peter>  I wonder what the pros and cons are of leaving ones domestic
> > Peter> grade home computer powered up continually.  I have one of
> > Peter> lionels dual cpu celeron smp motherboards.
> > 
> > 
> > I have one of those too ... it's been turned on now for 18 months.
> > 
> > I've found that most of my machines have died in one of two
> > circumstances:
> > -- nearby lightning strike, or
> > -- turning on the power.


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RE: [SLUG] DNS

[Marty Richards]

Hi Paul, 

This is usually a result of your internet connection configuration resetting
your resolv.conf. There is usually an option to disable this somewhere -
what are you using to connect to your ISP?

Other, more drastic options would be to set up part of your connection
script to re-rewrite the resolv.conf, or set the permissions/immutable bit
on resolv.conf to prevent updates.

Cheers,
Marty

 
> Dear Molluscs
> 
> Could you possibly help me with a small DNS problem.  Up 
> until now I have 
> been using my ISP's DNS.  I entered the settings during the 
> installation.  I 
> have just set up a caching nameserver using bind and I want to set my 
> resolver configuration to point to my nameserver (my 
> nameserver forwards to 
> my ISP's DNS).
> 
> I have tried typing into resolv.conf to reset my nameserver.  
> My caching 
> nameserver works fine.  The problem is when I reboot the 
> machine it goes 
> back to the old settings.  I have tried changing the settings 
> using the gui 
> program Network Configuration.  I do press save and when I look at 
> resolv.conf the changes are there.  However when  I reboot 
> once again I go 
> back to my old settings.
> 
> How can I change resolv.conf permanently?
> 
> _
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RE: [SLUG] Reduntant links

[Marty Richards]

Hi Richard,

Presumably you aren't running services on these connections...

If so, you can probably get away with setting duplicate default routes with
different metrics. Something like:

route add default gw cable.gateways.ip.address
route add default gw adsl.gateways.ip.address metric 1

This will break things if you're running services. If so, have a look at the
policy based routing stuff and iproute2 - its not difficult and works
nicely.

Cheers,
Marty

> -Original Message-
> From: Richard Hayes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 11:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SLUG] Reduntant links
> 
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> I am looking at use both cable and ADSL for redundant links.
> 
> I would like to use the cable as the preferred route as it cheap.
> 
> Any recommendations? 
> 
> regards,
> 
> Richard Hayes
> 
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RE: [SLUG] iptables / ipchains - Which suits me best?

[Marty Richards]

 
> > I'm looking to share my dialup Internet connection on a soon to be
> > Redhat 7.3 machine, with two clients behind it on a private 
> IP range.

[snip]

> 
> Works for me also.
> > - Netmeeting (nice, but not essential)

Netmeeting was a broken protocol last I looked (~18 mths ago), embedding IP
info deep within the packet where no header-mangler is likely to look.
"Forget it" is my recommedation. If Microsoft wants to write broken software
then leave them to it. (M$ wrote their own proprietary extension to M$ proxy
to handle this - maybe some one really keen has done so for Linux?)

> Never tried.
> > - Music stealing programs? :)

don't these things work over a pair of coathangers? They've been designed to
circumvent everything so they'll probably work. 

Cheers,
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[SLUG] BPALogin problems

[Marty Richards]

Hi Sluggers,

Interesting problem with a Telstra Bigstink BPALogin connection.

It has been working passably well for a couple years, but now...

The symptoms are:

*) the connection is working
*) we're getting an IP address assigned
*) we can resolve the name and ftp to the dce-server

but BPALogin fails with "other-error".

Looking in bpalogin.c this error can be caused by half a dozen infrequent
conditions. We changed the code to identify which condition and found its
the last item - "other error". We're now referring to this as the
"other-other error".

Has anyone else encountered a similar issue? Any thoughts on possible
courses of action? 

Thanks! 

Cheers,
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RE: [SLUG] WebHosting

[Marty Richards]

www.globalhost.com.au can probably help with the hosting/CC/Email etc. They
use Vortex (?) software for the CC transactions. 

Cheers,
Marty

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:42 PM
> To: SLUG
> Subject: [SLUG] WebHosting
> 
> 
> > > Could you please suggest a web hosting service, 
> supporting Linux and also
> > > providing gateway for Credit Card payments.
> > 
> > The hosting is very easy but online credit cards merchant 
> services are 
> > stupidly expensive in Australia.
> > 
> > Just use Paypal no setup fees, no monthly fees just 3.5% + 
> USD 0.35 (A$ 0.65) 
> > per transaction.
> > 
> > http://www.paypal.com 
> 
> 
> I am loooking for a service, which can offer me.
> 1) WebHosting(on Linux)
> 2) Mail Server
> 3) AutoResponder
> 4) Java Support
> 5) Credit Card payment gateway.
> 
> All in ONE place. Currently we have 1 Server for hosting the 
> website, another service as 
> our mail server, a different service for credit card billing 
> system. I am looking for
> some place which can offer me all these services.
> 
> TIA,
> Saurabh
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RE: [SLUG] Pacific Internet ADSL

[Marty Richards]

> Is anyone running Pacific Internet ADSL ?
> 
> I am tossing around a few ADSL providers looking for the ones 
> with good 
> rates vs good performance.
> 
> So far, Pacific Internet and Netspace are my preferred, 
> however when I 
> ping/traceroute Pacific's servers (a week or so ago), I get very long 
> response times (>100ms) whereas Netspace are a lot less (<30ms).
> 
> I would like to try a ping and traceroute test to a Pacific 
> Internet ADSL 
> endpoint to test their network performance prior to ordering 
> a service.
> 
> If anyone can spare a couple of pings on their gateway, could 
> you please 
> let me know the IP address.
> 
> I would also welcome any feedback either carrier's network, support, 
> performance.
> 


I have a pacific link on 202.7.88.17.

The slowness started last Wednesday, gets much worse during the daytimes and
is only evident from outside the pacific network. Its gradually getting
better, each day the peaks are slightly less... A colleague spoke to Pacific
yesterday and they reported no known issues.

Before last Wednesday Pacific ADSL's rocked.

Cheers,
Marty
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RE: [SLUG] Backup Internet Connection

[Marty Richards]

> On Mon, 13 May 2002, Dan wrote:
> 
> > Our Telstra ADSL connection has been down all day :( and 
> the boss is a bit
> > peaved.
> >
> > Wondering what a good backup solution would be?
> >
> > I am in the process of setting up a Linux firewall and is 
> it possible to
> > have a modem in a Linux Firewall that is dialed when the 
> ADSL fails? Would
> > it be hard to set up?
> 
> How much do you wanna spend?
> 
> Put in an ISDN service, arrange with your ISP to have one at the other
> end, buy a decent router and have the ISDN act as a dial on 
> demand backup.


Most of the problems of the last week seem to be more related to the
inter-ISP connectivity than customer to ISP issues. In these cases, dialing
up the same ISP isn't likely to help much.

Cheers,
Marty
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RE: [SLUG] In need of some advice...

[Marty Richards]

Hiya EB,
 
Sounds like fun.

We are using rsync and offsite backup servers to handle this kind of
problem. It works fine as long as the link bandwidth is sufficient to
replicate changed files nightly... The backup server than backs up to tape.

Cheers,
Marty

> -Original Message-
> From: evilbunny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:02 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SLUG] In need of some advice...
> 
> 
> Hello slug,
> 
>   ok any1 offer any advice on this... need a backup solution, on a
>   data backup of about 20gigs a day, however has to be taken off site,
>   and tapes isn't an acceptable solution as the client did accept it
>   as a solution... also can't shut the box down...
> 
>   At this stage some sort of USB (speed isn't an issue) or
>   wireless/off site box else where is the current thinking...
> 
> -- 
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>  evilbunny  
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RE: [SLUG] OT - sendmail processes

[Marty Richards]

Hi David,
 
I don't know why you think this might be off topic...

I often see this pattern from people doing non-stealth port scans on the
target box.
 
hotmail is so seriously screwed that I'd never take anything seriously if it
originated there (although they have improved 300% in the last few months,
they're still screwed).

The westfield one is more interesting... perhaps you could ask them if
they're having problems? Are you having this problem on lots of originating
domains? Packet loss can also cause this, try pinging the target(s) a
hundred times or so... any error counts on your interface?

Cheers,
Marty


> 
> I'm getting a huge number of "NOQUEUE: no connection" messages on my
> sendmail log.
> 
> Corresponding to those there are lots of processes that look 
> like this:
> 
> [root@mail log]# ps ax | grep sendmail
>   486 ?S  0:21 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25
> 32559 ?S  0:00 sendmail: startup with 
> f244.law12.hotmail.com
> 
> When I did this particular ps, there were 14 of these processes, each
> corresponding to a NOQUEUE log thus:
> 
>  sendmail[32559]:  NOQUEUE: Null connection from 
> f244.law12.hotmail.com
> [64.4.19.244]
> 
> Should I be worried? The server doesn't appear to be open relay. I've
> tested it using http://www.abuse.net/relay.html
> The processes seem to persist for some time. I can't find any sign of
> legitimate mail from these hosts.
> 
> They are mostly hotmail or sydhosmtp01.westfield.com.au 
> 
> [root@mail log]# grep sydhosmtp01.westfield.com.au maillog | wc -l
> 322
> [root@mail log]#
> 
> 
> David.
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RE: [SLUG] Sendmail woes

[Marty Richards]

Sendmail is running on the machine and "accepting connections" according to
ps -aux? You can telnet to your.deadrat.machines.ip on port 25 ok?

If so, try sending a mail from another machine to
username@[your.deadrat.machines.ip] and watch your log for problems.

Cheers,
Marty

-Original Message-
From: Nicholas O'Donnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SLUG] Sendmail woes


I have sendmail installed out-of-the-box with redhat 7.2 (with updates) but
I cannot get it to recieve mail from another host other than doing
echo blah | mail username
I can recieve mail from the machine without any problems once I have
mail in the spool, but getting the mail into the spool from the outside
world is the problem
Any help much appreciated

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[SLUG] RE: Weird MAC addresses?

[Marty Richards]

It gets weirder. After a reboot we get an ifconfig of:

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:17:31:42:00

eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:17:31:42:00

Bleh. ;)  Everything works.. for a few hours anyway. The startup is still
showing the details below. Spacky network card?

Cheers,
Marty

-Original Message-
From: Marty Richards 
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:19 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Weird MAC addresses?


Hi All,
 
Weird problem... 

In a new compaq PC with dual netgear 311's (using the fa311 driver from
netgear) we see some interesting effects with the MAC addresses. 

ifconfig shows:

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:73:E8:B0 

eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:E8:6A:FF:7A 

yet the startup shows:

Nov 13 11:49:03 fwwlc kernel: eth0: bus=1 func=72 io=0xc000 irq=11 ver=4.3
Nov 13 11:49:03 fwwlc kernel: eth0: ethernet addr=08:00:17:32:42:00
Nov 13 11:49:03 fwwlc kernel: eth1: bus=1 func=80 io=0xc400 irq=12 ver=4.3
Nov 13 11:49:03 fwwlc kernel: eth1: ethernet addr=08:00:17:32:42:00

Any thoughts on why startup would show 2 cards with the same MAC, yet
ifconfig shows 2 different MACs entirely? 

eth0 is local lan, eth1 connects to an adsl modem.

Cheers,
Marty


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[SLUG] Weird MAC addresses?

[Marty Richards]

Hi All,
 
Weird problem... 

In a new compaq PC with dual netgear 311's (using the fa311 driver from
netgear) we see some interesting effects with the MAC addresses. 

ifconfig shows:

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:73:E8:B0 

eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:E8:6A:FF:7A 

yet the startup shows:

Nov 13 11:49:03 fwwlc kernel: eth0: bus=1 func=72 io=0xc000 irq=11 ver=4.3
Nov 13 11:49:03 fwwlc kernel: eth0: ethernet addr=08:00:17:32:42:00
Nov 13 11:49:03 fwwlc kernel: eth1: bus=1 func=80 io=0xc400 irq=12 ver=4.3
Nov 13 11:49:03 fwwlc kernel: eth1: ethernet addr=08:00:17:32:42:00

Any thoughts on why startup would show 2 cards with the same MAC, yet
ifconfig shows 2 different MACs entirely? 

eth0 is local lan, eth1 connects to an adsl modem.

Cheers,
Marty


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RE: [SLUG] to C/H/S, or not to C/H/S?

[Marty Richards]

Hi Howard,
 
I see this a lot. It seems that hda is in LBA mode, and hdc is CHS. I don't
usually change the mode or the settings, just calculate and create hdcX
slightly larger than the hdaX. This works nicely for disaster recovery also.

Cheers,
Marty

-Original Message-
From: Howard Lowndes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 14 September 2001 7:48 AM
To: SLUG Mailing List
Subject: [SLUG] to C/H/S, or not to C/H/S?


Situation
Perform a customised server installation of RH7.1 with RAID 1

Mission
Create a multi-partition RAID 1 set on two identical IDE drives,
/dev/hda &
/dev/hdc (Seagate ST320410A).

Execution
Perform a graphical RH7.1 install, but when it gets to the bit about
creating
partitions, select the "expert" mode which calls fdisk in the GUI.

At this point I selected hda and set up the partitions I wanted, noting that
the
C/H/S was 2434/63/255 giving blocks of 16065*512 bytes.
I then selected hdc but noticed that the C/H/S was different, being
?/63/16
(I think the ? was about 38792, but it is not important) giving blocks
of
1008*512 bytes.
I selected expert mode and altered the C/H/S to match the values of hda, and
then created the partitions.
All went OK after that.

Questions
1.  Is this a problem with fdisk, or is it a problem with the drives?
2.  Would I have been better off to set hda to the finer granularity of
hdc, or
was I correct in using the coarser granularity that I did, or does it
matter?
3.  WTFG?


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RE: [SLUG] RAID advice wanted

[Marty Richards]

Hi John,
 
It works on 2.2, haven't tried 2.4.

Setting it up can be fun. Theres a really good guide in the slug archives
from John Ferlito.

We are using it on a handful of servers where performance isn't really an
issue but the extra layer of redundancy is desirable. One of these boxes
dropped a drive late last week and is still up. 

If you use IDE drives try not to put 2 drives on the one IDE channel.

If you need performance then you'll probably need hardware raid. 

Cheers,
Marty

-Original Message-
From: John Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SLUG] RAID advice wanted


Hi all,

I need to build a new server with RAID 1.  Can anyone tell me how
reliable the RAID support in 2.2 is?  What about 2.4?  Is 2.4 stable
enough for a production server or should I stick with 2.2?

Any advice on setting up RAID, including the root partition?


Cheers,

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[SLUG] OT - linux job

[Marty Richards]

Hi All,
 
Sorry for the OT post.
 
We would be interested in receiving resumes for a new level 2 position we
are planning on creating. The duties of the position include:
 
*) Linux server builds, installs and admin
*) Linux firewall builds, installs and admin
*) Evilware server builds, installs and admin
*) Network, LAN/WAN and internet support
*) End user support, predominately on Evilware clients (Win9x,NT,2K,Office
etc)
*) Development work on predominately linux based projects
 
Skills we are interested in include:
 
*) general PC/server knowledge
*) Linux capabilities
*) Evilware capabilities
*) Network capabilities
*) Coding of any flavour
*) Internet/Security skills
*) IT support experience
*) Presentability
*) Personality/Social skills
*) Quake 3 capabilities
*) Time management skills
*) Other relevant skills/qualifications
 
Yes this is a big list - we don't expect full competence in all areas and
training will be provided where necessary. Salary will be negotiated based
on experience etc. Don't expect a fortune. At least the development work is
interesting. ;) 
 
The company is a small network consulting organisation and the office is in
North Sydney. 
 
Please email your details when convenient. 
 
Cheers,
Marty
 

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RE: [SLUG] ping problems

[Marty Richards]

Hi Mike,

> After recently installing RH 7.0 and setting it up on our network 
> (assigning IP and default gateway) I realised that I could 
> traceroute to 
> just about anywhere on the planet, I have no probs resolving 
> DNS names etc 
> but 100% packet loss with ping and no www. I'm at a loss as 
> where to go or 
> what to do. Anyone with any suggestions?

Your info is a little open to interpretation...

How are you connecting to the net? Via dialup from the linux box or through
your LAN? If dialup, maybe you should remove your default gateway setting?

The output of netstat -r  and ifconfig (when you are connected to the net)
would probably be helpful.

Cheers,
Marty

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RE: [SLUG] JOB: Exciting Development Opportunities

[Marty Richards]

On Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:51 PM, Jeff Waugh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> Anand is making a sly reference to the fact that there are now only 32
> official members of SLUG. (Or is that 33? I thought you were part of the
32,
> Anand.)
> 
> Given that there's now just over 500 people on the list, I don't think
this
> is too bad a reflection on our organisation. :)
> 
> - Jeff (Now a whole thirty-secondth of SLUG!)

There would be at least one more, but the last few Slug meetings I have
attended didn't appear to have anyone calling for member apps or
contributions as they once did...  I have missed the last couple meetings -
has this changed? 

Cheers,
Marty

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RE: [SLUG] IDE BOOT RAID 1

[Marty Richards]

Hi Dave,
 
Bootable RAID 1 is fun isn't it? ;)

I think we saw this problem when playing with our Raid this week. My guesses
would be:

*) Raid support is not enabled in the kernel
*) Auto-mount raid partitions are not enabled in the kernel
*) The raid partitions are not type fd
*) Something is broken in lilo. Check your lilo.conf and reinstall.

I assume you have a boot disk and it boots if you use mount root=/dev/md0 ?

Good luck ;)

Cheers,
Marty

On Friday, March 30, 2001 10:25 PM, Dave Peters [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> Has anyone setup ide boot raid level 1 on a Caldera 2.3 server?
> 
> Every thing looks good to me but when I attempt to boot from lilo the
> following occurs:
> lilo boots and gives me the options
> I choose linux
> Lilo shows loading kernel  ok
> Lilo shows booting kernel  wait
> Then it shows my ide devices at the bottom of the screen it scrolls
> through them on one line. Its pretty quick so I cant really read them
> all, then it says something about RAMDISK. This is all on that scrolling
> line. then it gives some adapter error. Something like adapter, errno =
> 2 . Then Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:00. 
> 
> Any ideas on what could be the problem?
> 
> Thanks,
>  
> Dave Peters, 
> Network Engineer / Management
> 
> Lighthouse Business Solutions Inc.
> www.light.bc.ca
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RE: [SLUG] raid 1 on linux

[Marty Richards]

Hi All,
 
Thanks for all your help with this, especially the step by step guide from
John. I nearly gave up - instead its now happily booting from the raid1
device ;)

The trick is to make sure you have the right version of the raidtools and
HOWTO. If your howto talks about using mdadd then its seriously out of date
and you're on the long road. 

Longer term though, imho the procedure needs to be dramatically simplified
to something similar to other operating systems. The 26 step job is a trifle
messy and its easy to stray...

Cheers,
Marty

On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 7:43 PM, Jeffrey Borg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> 
> 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


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RE: [SLUG] raid 1 on linux

[Marty Richards]

Doh! Spoke too soon.
 
Yes, the mkraid finished happily.
 
Then the mdcreate raid1 /dev/md0 /dev/hda2 /dev/hdc2 finished happily.
 
But the mdadd -ar now returns:
/dev/hda2: no such device
/dev/hdc2: no such device
/dev/md0: no such device

Sigh. ;)  I think I'll make my own raid using cp hehe. It'll be faster.  

I haven't got as far as trying to boot from the raid yet, and from what I
see on the net thats the really fun part.

Cheers,
Marty

On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:54 PM, Marty Richards
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Hi Howard,
> 
> Thanks for your mail (thanks Crossfire also). I was having problems with
> mdadd -ar returning "invalid argument". We could create raid0 easily, but
> raid1 was not happening.
> 
> I am using 2.2.16
>  
> I have since found some kernel patches that claim to help - these have
been
> installed and mkraid has just finished without lots of ugly errors... so
its
> looking good at the moment but not over yet...
> 
> Cheers,
> Marty
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:17 PM, Howard Lowndes
> [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > What's the problem.  I have a site in Melb that has been running
software
> > RAID1 under RH6.1 for around a year now and it has not given a skerrit
of
> > problem.
> > 
> > The original RAID was a disaster, so what kernel are you using?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Howard.
> > 
> > LANNet Computing Associates <http://lannetlinux.com>
> >"...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!"
> 
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RE: [SLUG] raid 1 on linux

[Marty Richards]

Hi Howard,

Thanks for your mail (thanks Crossfire also). I was having problems with
mdadd -ar returning "invalid argument". We could create raid0 easily, but
raid1 was not happening.

I am using 2.2.16
 
I have since found some kernel patches that claim to help - these have been
installed and mkraid has just finished without lots of ugly errors... so its
looking good at the moment but not over yet...

Cheers,
Marty


On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:17 PM, Howard Lowndes
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> What's the problem.  I have a site in Melb that has been running software
> RAID1 under RH6.1 for around a year now and it has not given a skerrit of
> problem.
> 
> The original RAID was a disaster, so what kernel are you using?
> 
> -- 
> Howard.
> 
> LANNet Computing Associates 
>"...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!"


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[SLUG] raid 1 on linux

[Marty Richards]

Hi All,
 
Is it just me or does the configuration of Raid 1 on Linux really suck?

Its a real pain to configure, and I dread the day I have to fix it after it
breaks.

Even Netware 2.15 was better than this, and that was more than 10 years ago.

I haven't benchmarked it yet but I have a gut feeling that performance is
not going to be anything to write home about...

Cheers,
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RE: [SLUG] Reiser FS

[Marty Richards]

On Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:18 PM, Crossfire [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said:
> > 
> > Be warned that I've noticed problems using reiserfs on LVM partitions.
> > Writing to the reiserfs file system seems to cause bdflush to jump up to
> > between 30-70% cpu usage and thus slows the machine down considerably.
> > Reading is fine of course.
> 
> Yes, well...  You're not supposed to ever use Reiser over a virtual
> block device like LVM or software MD due to block device buffering
> issues - Reiser, being a journaling filesystem, does not mix with disk
> write buffering.
> 
> Because of this, I run reiser against two raw 30GB disks here, rather
> than over an LVM or software MD append/raid.  AFAIK, Hardware RAID is
> fine for this application.
> 
> C.

Interesting. I am about to build a machine using 2 x 20Gb IDEs. I was
planning on software mirroring the drives and running reiser...

This is the first time I've tried to mirror on Linux.. I guess then I should
be looking back at ext2 and suffering the odd fsck? Any suggestions? 

Thanks ;)

Cheers,
Marty

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RE: [SLUG] cp question

[Marty Richards]

On Wednesday, March 21, 2001 12:21 PM, Tony Green
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> * This one time, at band camp, Bernhard L?der said:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am just after a hint.
> > 
> > I have to copy a file to all user directories.
> > 
> > cp file.file /home/*
> > 
> > will only copy file.file to the first user not all users. How would I do
> > this without listing the individual directories
> > 
> try this (should work in bash - you didn't state which shell you were
> using)
> 
> for I in /home/*
> do
> cp file.file $I
> done
> 
> 
> Indentation is optional - just helps readability
> 
> HTH

Won't this clobber any files which might be living in /home? Might want to
check first that none are there...  

Cheers,
Marty

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RE: [SLUG] Whats happening here

[Marty Richards]

On Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:19 AM, Del [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Nick Croft wrote:
> > 
> > They broke into my debian machine
> 
> ... and this is supposed to generate a bunch of "SlackHatStormgenyix is
> better than debian because it's more secure" calls.

Someone asked him what he was running, and he answered... no troll there.

> No, kiddies.
> 
> I use RedHat because that's what I'm used to.  RedHat have an updates
> FTP site (mirrored at mirror.aarnet.edu.au) where, for each of their
> distributions, updates are posted fairly quickly after security bugs
> (root compromise or denial of service) are found.  I'm sure that most
> of the other distribution vendors do the same.

Someone mentioned that there was an article recently (like yesterday I
think, on freshmeat?) saying something about DeadRat plans to charge a
subscription fee for updates... I didn't read the article so I'm not sure
how serious it was. Anyone else see it? I'll ask my colleague later where he
found it..

Maybe if DeadRat didn't introduce so many daft root holes in the first
place... sigh. ;)  (ok, a little trollish - I couldn't resist).
 
Cheers,
Marty

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RE: [SLUG] Dialing through PABX

[Marty Richards]

On Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:03 PM, Alexander Else [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I'm just trying to get a Debian 2.1 box to dial through a PABX system.
'0'
> > gives an outside line, however I'm failing to find the place to sort
this
> > out. I'm getting no dial tone messages. Any ideas?
> 
> Adding x3 to the modem initialisation string will make it ignore the
> lack of dial tone.  A comma after the 0 in the phone number will make
> it pause, in case this helps.

Many PABX's are digital, not analogue. You may need a converter before your
modem will accept it... 
 
Cheers,
Marty

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RE: [SLUG] Re: Can flammers be barred ????

[Marty Richards]

> > Karyn
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Can this K Linux International person be removed?
> 

Perhaps we can politely ask our Singaporean friends to take their personal
grievances elsewhere? 

Karyn said:

>>Please accecpt my apologies for all the trouble caused I'll be most
grateful
>>if anyone could send me a list of what is Not Allowed to be posted in
slug.

I'm not sure if the Slug FAQ specifies exactly what is Not Allowed, but my
thoughts would be anything with negative personal content and/or frequent
religious references is probably not appreciated.

Cheers,
Marty

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RE: [SLUG] tcpdump & tcpshow

[Marty Richards]

Hi Howard,

I have had problems with tcpdump ignoring packets...
 
I use snort now, works very well ;)  www.snort.org

Cheers,
Marty

On Friday, March 16, 2001 1:14 PM, Howard Lowndes
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Can anyone offer the correct options to use with tcpdump and tcpshow to
> see what the data is on an Ethernet link.  I can get it to work on a PPP
> link, but it seems to get confused with an E-link and won't show me the
> data properly.
> 
> -- 
> Howard.
> 
> LANNet Computing Associates 
> "...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!"   --me
> "I trust just one person,
>  and there are times when I don't even trust myself"
> --me
> 
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RE: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface for BAS lodgement.

[Marty Richards]

> Well maybe u shouldn't use the linux version as its crap! Use windows it
> was written for it! honestly i dont understand if u want documentation
> that is not man crap than use .doc!!!
> 
> I am honestly sick of the linux lamers at work, they want to use their
> own crazt abiword or man crap. It cant generate proper .doc files, so
> where is the point? I tried to make for them for application documentate
> software, but i can't appease those freakes.



> Look, I've seen this before. If you want to be employable, than you
> need to have the skills. Not knowing basics documentation stuff
> like Word is surefire way to get passed up. Anyhow theres my advice.
> 
> Paul.

I hope you were smart enough not to use your real name on this post.
 
I wouldn't like to imagine what a potential employer will think when he does
a web search on your name and finds this drivel in the multiple SLUG
archives.

Best of luck. ;)

Cheers,
Marty

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RE: [SLUG] ppp && sockets

[Marty Richards]

 
> However, on the new machine it goes like this:
> 
> debian:~# route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
Iface
> 172.16.4.2  *   255.255.255.255 UH0  00
eth0
> 203.7.132.66*   255.255.255.255 UH0  00
ppp0
> 172.16.0.0  *   255.255.0.0 U 0  00
eth0
> default 172.16.4.2  0.0.0.0 UG0  00
eth0
> 
> acay's cisco doesn't show up the same on the new machine. 

Yup, broken. 

A manual fix (after connecting) would be something like:

route del default
route add default gw 203.7.132.66

Otherwise, add the defaultroute option to either your pppd command line or
your ppp options file. You could also remove the gateway settings in your
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file (if deban has this) - you don't need a default
gateway on your local network if you only want to talk to other machines on
the same local network. 

Cheers,
Marty

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RE: [SLUG] Linux Friendly ISPs?

[Marty Richards]

I use rpi.net.au. Not the fastest in the world, but linux friendly ;)

I also use most of the major ISPs at various client sites, haven't found any
that didn't work with linux... whats the problem with connecting to
Netspace? 

Cheers,
Marty

On Tuesday, March 06, 2001 8:53 PM, Tom Deckert
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Hi,  
>  
> Anyone have comments on Linux-friendly ISPs?  When
> I called around to many of the ISPs listed in the ISP 
> review of Australia PC Magazine, they all said they 
> didn't support Linux.  
>  
> Previously I was with iHug, and didn't have a problem,
> but I've just started with Netspace, and I can't connect
> from Linux, (so I am writing this email using evil software.:(  
> So, I'm not looking for troubleshooting tips, but instead
> ISP tips.
>  
> Also, I'm planning on writing to the Aussie computer mags, 
> urging them to give prominent mention in their reviews to whether an ISP
supports Linux, and would like to urge others to do the same.  If many
people write to them,
> perhaps they might take it more seriously.
>  
> Great Thanks,
> Tom Deckert

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[SLUG] Weird MASQ issue...

[Marty Richards]

Hi Sluggers,

This is a weird one. Any thoughts/speculation appreciated.
 
A client is using a Slackware 7.1 machine as a firewall and IP-Masq
connection for their internal network. Its clean and simple, using an
identical build as a dozen others which are running properly.

UDP and ICMP are masquerading happily

TCP is being weird.

>From the servers and a few workstations it works properly.

>From other workstations the IP address in the TCP header is being
re-written, or mangled, to a particular IP and port. ie, telnet anywhere
results in a packet going through the firewall to a very specific IP and
port, every time.

There is no routing or routers on the internal network.

There are 2 hubs (2803's) and 1 switch (3com). For a while I thought
anything connected to the switch was working while the hubs were mangling,
but I have since proved this false - at least one workstation connected
directly to the switch has the same problem, although most don't.

The switch is a 3com, couple years old by looks. I didn't note the model
number ;(  My current guess is that the switch has been configured to
redirect any TCP connection from most of its switched ports to this
particular IP/port... does anyone know if this can be done with 3com? Are
they capable of playing layer 4 games like this? 

Any other guesses? There doesn't appear to be any other devices involved...
unless something is hiding in the roof, which is possible. 

Tomorrow I'll be taking my Slackware notebook and getting some real details
from various points on the network.

Thanks!
 
Cheers,
Marty

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RE: [SLUG] [OT] Fixed IP ADSL

[Marty Richards]

I was thinking about corporate.pacific.net.au, but haven't committed yet.
Anyone using Pacific? Fixed IP is not a problem there they tell me.

Cheers,
Marty

On Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:44 PM, Ian Ward [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> OK, I'm sick of waiting for Telstra Direct.
> 
> Anyone using any of the other carriers for ADSL?
> 
> I need fixed IP, I have a class-c that needs routing.
> 
> NO tranparent proxies (like on telstra)
> 
> Ian.
> (why the @#$% do we have to drag our carriers kicking and screaming into
the
> 21st century?  INTERNET connectivity in Australia is a joke)
> /rant... sorry. just had to get that off my chest
> 
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[SLUG] FW: [ISN] SSH remote root exploit was released

[Marty Richards]

FYI, upgrade/patch now if you haven't already.

Cheers,
Marty

> -Original Message-
> From: InfoSec News [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:34 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  [ISN] SSH remote root exploit was released
> 
> -- Forwarded message --
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:48:39 -0800 (PST)
> From: Tom Perrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pat Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  Brian Kantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: SSH remote root exploit was released
> 
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> 
> A claimed exploit for the long-rumored SSHD remote root exploit was
> released on BUGTRAQ about an hour ago.  This is the bug in deattack.c
> that allowed a 16-bit numeric overflow :-) (Nobody could do anything
> with 16 bits, could they? :-( )
> 
> There is followup dicussion that seems to indicate that this is a real
> exploit.
> 
> This was originally reported through various channels about 6-7 Feb,
> and showed up on BUGTRAQ 8 Feb.
> 
> There is a claim that Earthlink was "seriously compromised", possibly
> via this exploit.  See http://www.cotse.com/2152001.html for details
> (This was reported on ISN this morning.)
> 
> Try this URL for the BUGTRAQ summary:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/vdb/bottom.html%3Fvid%3D2347
> 
> BUGTRAQ claims that all these are vulnerable:
> 
> OpenSSH OpenSSH 2.2
> OpenSSH OpenSSH 2.1.1
> OpenSSH OpenSSH 2.1
> OpenSSH OpenSSH 1.2.3
> OpenSSH OpenSSH 1.2.2
> SSH Communications SSH 1.2.31
> SSH Communications SSH 1.2.30
> SSH Communications SSH 1.2.29
> SSH Communications SSH 1.2.28
> SSH Communications SSH 1.2.27
> SSH Communications SSH 1.2.26
> SSH Communications SSH 1.2.25
> SSH Communications SSH 1.2.24
> 
> For SSH-1.2.27, the patch is in deattack.c:
> 
> *** deattack.c.orig Wed Feb 14 15:59:25 2001
> - --- deattack.cWed Feb 14 15:59:45 2001
> ***
> *** 79,85 
>   detect_attack(unsigned char *buf, word32 len, unsigned char *IV)
>   {
> static word16  *h = (word16 *) NULL;
> !   static word16   n = HASH_MINSIZE / HASH_ENTRYSIZE;
> register word32 i, j;
> word32  l;
> register unsigned char *c;
> - --- 79,85 
>   detect_attack(unsigned char *buf, word32 len, unsigned char *IV)
>   {
> static word16  *h = (word16 *) NULL;
> !   static word32   n = HASH_MINSIZE / HASH_ENTRYSIZE;
> register word32 i, j;
> word32  l;
> register unsigned char *c;
> 
> Your mileage may vary.  For repairs/workarounds other versions of SSH,
> check the BUGTRAQ notice.
> 
> "Patch early, patch often."
> 
> - --tep
> 
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RE: [SLUG] Firewall with 3 x NIC's

[Marty Richards]

Hi Chris,
 
Yup, easy - use Squid, set it to use your ADSL ISP's proxies as parent, then
set the route for your ISP's proxy to be via the ADSL. Leave the default
route pointing at your 128k link.

I havent done this - anyone see any problems?

Cheers,
Marty

On Thursday, February 22, 2001 2:47 PM, Chris Stokes
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> This may be a dumb idea
> 
> I have an internal (192.168.0..) network and an external on a 128k ISDN
> Firewalled with ipchains on RH7. I have just been connected with an ADSL
> line. I would like this to be used for outgoing port 80 browsing etc only
> and use the 128k ISDN for incoming port forwards of web requests, smtp
etc..
> 
> I have managed to get the ADSL line working on my RH7 test box (no thanks
to
> Telstra who would only install in a M$ machine with no existing NIC)
> 
> Is it possible to set my ipchains firewall up to support this type of
config
> on one machine with 3 NIC's? 
> 
> Regards,
> * Chris Stokes
> Senior Systems Consultant
> Bass Software
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
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RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

[Marty Richards]

On Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:39 AM, Dave Fitch
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:15:25PM -0800, Nicholas Lawrence wrote:
> > Apologies for the long-winded post - I guess my question boils down
> > to:
> > 1. Is anyone having problems with 1 or 2 8139 cards in the same
> > machine?
> > 2. The Intel seems to be a very popular choice - would it be worth
> > investing in (I know worth is relative but the difference is 128meg
> > of ram ).
> 
> you may have read my recent posts on problems getting a
> Dlink DFE-530TX card to work, well I swapped it for a
> RealTek 8139 card (brand is "skymaster") and that works
> great (auto-detected etc in esmith 4.1 (based on RH7)).
> I've no idea of performance but it works for me.
> 
> Dave.


To second the motion, I have had some intermittent problems with the intel
82559. On a Slackware 7.1 box, it seemed to work fine for a week or more but
would occasionally dump the interface with errors similar to

RX buffer not available
TX buffer not available

Rebooting (eek!) was necessary to bring it back on line.

It might have been a driver issue... but I would have thought 7.1 would be
fairly up to date...  Anyways I ripped it out and threw in a cheapy Netgear
which is doing very well. ;)
 
Cheers,
Marty

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RE: [SLUG] deltree equivalent

[Marty Richards]

"deltree -y c:\*.* > nul"  is a real joy in Windoze ;) It gets doubly
entertaining when you use ANSI to remotely reprogram their keyboard
assignments... map enter to this little beauty and they're completely
hosed... not so difficult to do when one runs an ANSI based BBS ;)  I
haven't tried it for years - maybe it doesn't work on the newer versions of
Doze?

rm -rf * is what you're looking for.

Cheers,
Marty



On Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:29 AM, Simon Bryan
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there an equivalent in Linux to the DOS deltree, that will remove 
> folders, files and .files without confirmation? Such a fun command on a 
> Windows system, generally goes like:
> cd /
> deltree *
> Oh S***T!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Simon Bryan
> 
> IT Manager
> OLMC Parramatta
> http://www.olmc.nsw.edu.au
> 
> 
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RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

[Marty Richards]

> Here's me fire wall config:
> 
> Intel 486 DX 2 66, (over powered btw)
> 32 MB (once again overkill)
> 2 Intel Ether Express isa Cards
> 1 Floppy Router, there are many option in this area eg: LRP, FloppFW,
FreeSco etc etc.

I had a firewall like this for years, it worked well (2.0.33 I think).
 
Then I upgraded it to a P133/64Mb (2.2.16) and the performance improvement
was amazing. My users loved me. Lag from external access dropped from an
average 8 secs to around 1.5 seconds. The ISP and modem was not changed.
 
Sure, there is some improvement with the kernel, but is that all it was? I
haven't had time to test it..

Also, 486's sometimes have trouble keeping up with a 100Mb card (if you can
find an ISA one?), and PCI is not an option.

Cheers,
Marty

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RE: RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

[Marty Richards]

My 56k modem isn't even that. ;)  No cable here ;(

The 100Mb card is for my internal network, which helps for squid proxy
access etc, and the firewall is the lynchpin of my routing scheme,
connecting 4 moderately busy subnets and doing other hoopy things.

I see your point re the 10mb cable modem.

Cheers,
Marty

On Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Yes, but your cable modem is only 10Mbits/Sec, well atleast my CM100 is.
> 
> Original Message:
> -----
> From: Marty Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:51:56 +1100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation
> 
> Also, 486's sometimes have trouble keeping up with a 100Mb card (if you
can
> find an ISA one?), and PCI is not an option.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at
> http://www.mail2web.com/ .

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RE: [SLUG] PPPd pain!

[Marty Richards]

Hi Alan, 
 
I use 2 scripts to call ozemail. The first, called  "/call"  is


/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/cua0 115200 -detach defaultroute modem connect /callisp
/call &


The second, called "/callisp" is


chat -v '' 'ATZ' 'OK' 'ATDT94348030' 'ervic' 'PPP' 'ormation' '' 'name'
'myloginname' 'word' 'mypassword'


chmod both of these to executable, run "/call &", watch your log for errors.

These are similar but different to the scripts I sent earlier - these are
ozemail scripts.  ;)

Cheers,
Marty


On Wednesday, February 21, 2001 12:22 AM, Alan Lee [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> The ISP is ozemail/uunet.
> 
> When connected, It dose a little banner, then says
> 
> Service?
> 
> Which then it requies "PPP" to be entered, before the "username" will come
> up.
> 
> Ive been trying all sorts to get it going, editing the pppscripts,
manually
> editing other files and just about everythin else I could think of! I even
> tryed to edit the wvdial source to type PPP when it say "service"!!
> 
> Has anyone got "knowen" working config files I can look over or something
> for a perm. modem connection to ozemail?  If only this companys computers
> didn't get taken :~(
> 
> Regards, Alan Lee
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Steve Kowalik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Alan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "SLUG List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] PPPd pain!
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:39:25AM +1100, Alan Lee uttered:
> > > Hey.. Been forever since ive had to setup PPPD.
> > >
> > MUAH, know the feeling.
> >
> > > Just a quick Q... The ISP my client is going to dialup into gives them
a
> choice ... "PPP for PPP, SLIP for SLIP etc"
> > >
> > > Soo... We need to send "ppp", then a username & password.
> > >
> > In your chatscript, you'll have:
> > ogin: lalala
> > assword: ladida
> >
> > Just add another expect/send pair before ogin, or sername, saying:
> > PPP: ppp
> >
> > If you run chat with -v it will dump everything it recieves (and sends)
to
> /var/log/messages, so you can edit it accordingly.
> >
> > > Regards, Alan Lee
> >
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> contest."
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[SLUG] SCSI Card recommendations?

[Marty Richards]

Hi Sluggers,

I'm about to score a 12/24 Sony DDS tape drive to throw into a clone P150.

Does anyone have any quick recommendations for a SCSI card to drive this
under linux?  I'd prefer something with a module rather than kernel patch...
Last time I got a DPT and spent way too much time getting it working (I've
heard they're better now...).

Thanks ;)

Cheers,
Marty

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RE: [SLUG] ipfwadm

[Marty Richards]

Hi Paul,
 
Yeah, its easy ;) 

rinetd works well with ipchains/ipfw - the input and output chains/rules are
definately still enforced. The forwarding rules are also enforced, but its
rare I use a forward rule to block traffic accross the rinetd portfw - I
usually use an input rule to control access to the forwarded port on the
external interface.

Cheers,
Marty

On Tuesday, February 20, 2001 7:24 AM, Paul Robinson
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Thanks Marty,
>  When you said it was really easy I thought "sure sure" but that 
> was amazingly easy to setup and write out rules for, installed and 
> configured in about 3 mins and that's including downloading and reading
the 
> README and man file. From reading through the man file, and could not find

> any mention of how it interacts with other software such as ipfwadm or 
> ipchains. What happens if you deny something in one program and then allow

> it in the other? Does it let it through or does the program that is
denying 
> the particular connection stop it when it is it's turn to filter the 
> packets? I only ask because easy to install usually means easy to
circumvent.
> 
> Terry, I'd checked the slug archives already and couldn't find any
articles 
> that addressed this problem (just lots of hits on articles saying "you 
> could use ipfwadm"). Thanks anyway.
> 
> Paul
> At 12:36 AM 20/02/2001 +1100, you wrote:
> >Hi Paul,
> >
> >Have you met rinetd? Its a really easy way of portforwarding without
using
> >ipfw or ipchains. I have a copy available for download at
> >www.netwaynetworks.com.au/files/linux/rinetd_tar.tar
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Marty


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RE: [SLUG] 'nc' utility

[Marty Richards]

nc is netcat... its nearly everywhere, do a search ;)
 
Cheers,
Marty

On Friday, January 12, 2001 7:39 PM, Rick Welykochy
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Scraping around the 'net, I found mention of this:
> 
>   echo anything | nc domain.name port
> 
> Sounds handy ... easier than rolling your own tcp blatter.
> Anyone know where to find 'nc'?
> 
> Cheers
> Rick W
> 
> 
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RE: [SLUG] Port intrusion monitoring

[Marty Richards]

hahaha, are you joking  ;)
 
try tcplogd or scanlogd for simple yet extremely effective port monitors. 
 
Or get serious and run snort to actually identify what kind of exploit was
tried, whether it worked, and of course who dunnit.  ;)

Cheers,
Marty

On Friday, January 12, 2001 7:11 PM, Rick Welykochy
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A Windoze phreaque who is perm connected by cable to the Net
> told me he installed some port monitoring software on his PC and
> instantly discovered he was being scanned  many times per hour,
> and also discovered some intrusion attempts.
> 
> A search on google for "port monitoring tools for linux"
> turns very little of interest (although I'm following a few faint
> leads).
> 
> Anyone have the goods on such tools for Linux?
> 
> Thanks
> Rick W
> 
> 
> 
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RE: [SLUG] Fetching mail from a remote mail server

[Marty Richards]

Hi Matt, 
 
If you set up your MX records so that your ISP queues your mail, you can
have sendmail receive it in a near normal fasion whenever you connect. To do
this, run sendmail in daemon mode (sendmail -bd)

sendmail -q90m will cause sendmail to process mail in the queue every 90
minutes...  personally though I'd probably set up a script to manually
launch sendmail to process the queue when the link is detected as up... (eg,
sendmail -q  will cause sendmail to process the queue only once)

I haven't used this setup, it might be broken... good luck ;)

Cheers,
Marty

On Friday, January 12, 2001 11:22 AM, Matt Hyne [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> 
> Folks, I've been asked by a family member if I can help them with their
email system.
> 
> They are running a Linux server + database which is connected to the net
via a dial-on-demand modem.
> What we want to do, is have all the mail for the domain (ie all mail to
mydomain.com.au) downloaded by the linux box and then redistributed to the
users' mailboxes.
> 
> Now I have looked at this in the past and I found that there are problems
with using a central mailbox and a single POP client such as fetchmail to do
the job.  In particular, if the destination email address is contained in a
bcc: field (ie from a list or alias), there is no way of the local system
knowing who the email is destined for.  This also applies to email sent from
a forwarder.
> 
> Does anyone know of any other methods that would be appropriate.  The mail
volume is quite low - < 30 emails a day.  
> 
> I have also thought that UUCP over IP (and then pipe this to sendmail)
might me appropriate - are there any ISPs that can handle this (cheaply) ?
> 
> Outbound mail works fine via sendmail - anyone know how to make sendmail
queue, rather than bring the link up for each message ?
> 
> Matt



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RE: [SLUG] hubs, switches etc

[Marty Richards]

> D-Links prices are also very similar and i havent
> heard of any grief with their switches (their
> NIC's are another story). Infact i havent really
> found a switch that was bad. Most are better than
> a hub

Yup, Netgear switches are better than a kick in the head. I haven't used
D-Link since about 94, because back then they issued some NICs which were
really bad... ie ran slower than a wet week in some machines. (ok, so they
were Optima machines... everything was against me back then ;)  )
 
I went the HP Procurve option because it was within $100 of the netgear, but
offers a 2.4Gb backplane. I don't remember the backplane of the 24port
netgear, but IIRC it was significantly less...

Cheers,
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RE: [SLUG] Problem with NICs...

[Marty Richards]

Hi Terry,

Thanks for the reply.

I believe I have tried ifconfig down/up and it didn't help - but I'll try 
it again just to be sure.

The real problem is that if the switch/hubs that its talking to get reset 
or temporarily power down the interfaces on the linux box don't come back. 
;(  The interfaces are still there, but every packet results in a TX error.

Cheers,
Marty

On Sunday, December 10, 2000 10:13 AM, Terry Collins 
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Marty Richards wrote:
>
> > But there is an interesting problem. If I unplug the network cable from 
any
> > of the NICs, for a whole 2 seconds or so, and then reconnect the cable 
that
> > interface drops off the network and doesn't come back.
>
> What exactly are you testing?
> Have you tried an ifconfig ethX down/up ?
>
> As far as I know, any network disconnection is liable to render the NIC
> out of the system until reboot on any system. Just because I've been
> doing similar things (repatching,etc) for years and getting away with
> it, doesn't mean it works on every system like that. Your "problem"
> sounds like a normal reaction to network dropout.
>
>
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[SLUG] Problem with NICs...

[Marty Richards]

Hi All,

I have a slackware 7.1 box with 3 Netgear FA310TX 100Mb NICs.

It works great (of course).

But there is an interesting problem. If I unplug the network cable from any 
of the NICs, for a whole 2 seconds or so, and then reconnect the cable that 
interface drops off the network and doesn't come back. There are no errors 
reported in the log. Rebooting fixes the problem in the short term.

The netgears are using the tulip driver (dated 7/99 from the excellent Mr 
Becker).

Has anyone else encountered this? Anyone else using a Netgear and can do a 
quick test? if so, what version of the driver are you using?

Thanks!

Cheers,
Marty



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RE: [SLUG] Net Slowness... Telstra Dirty Tricks?

[Marty Richards]

Hi Dean,

I suspect you're close to the mark.
 
I have permanent connections via RPI, Zip/pacific, Ozemail and bigwetspot (bigpond).
 
Initially, they were all having similar problems. 
 
Since yesterday afternoon, only RPI & Ozemail seem to be having problems

Sigh. 

Can anyone provide feedback on other ISP performances for the past 16 hours or so?

Cheers,
Marty


On Tuesday, November 21, 2000 11:41 PM, Dean Hamstead 
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> 
> 
> Is it just me or does it only seem to be the little isps
> affected by this net downage. I can barely maintain an icq
> connection and yet my cable friends seem to be hammering
> down the files.
> 
> The conspiracy theorist in me is yelling fake! What a great
> way to suck customers off the aussie battler ISPs. Its working
> because its almost worth breaking my 2 year affair with RPI for
> some decent downloads. Even pacific seemed slugish at work 
> today. (no pun intended)
> 
> This sort of service is pathetic. We havent even got broadband
> here yet ffs. We use the net as well, and yet because i dont 
> live in the inner city, i dont get the net im willing to pay for.
> I could go into who deserves net but i wont.
> 
> Im not even a direct telstra customer!!!
> 
> Argh! burn telstra burn. 
> 
> 
> 
> Dean
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[SLUG] DDS/DAT tape drives

[Marty Richards]

Hi all,

I haven't played with tape drives on linux yet, but probably will be 
shortly. I'm thinking of either a 12/24Gb or 20/40Gb DAT... can anyone 
confirm these devices are happy on 2.2.x boxes? Any preferred/recommended 
controllers?

Cheers,
Marty


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RE: [SLUG] scripting help.

[Marty Richards]

Minor change - you only want letters? Still untested and probably broken.

 ~~
 #!/bin/sh
 for file in *
 do
first=`echo $file | cut -c1`
if [ "$first" = [A-Za-z] ]
then
cp $file /home/ftp/pub/doc/$first/.
fi
 done
 ~~

Cheers,
Marty

On Monday, November 13, 2000 11:22 AM, DaZZa [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Folks.
> 
> I know this is a little off topic, but I need some help.
> 
> I need a script which will basically run through a directory, and copy all
> files which start with the same letter of the alphabet to a destination
> directory.
> 
> For example, soemthing like this
> 
> cp a*.doc /home/ftp/pub/doc/a/
> 
> except I need it for the entire possible alphabet - AaBbCc etc.
> 
> I also know stuff all about writing shell scripts - something I've got to
> find time to read up on. Oh - I'm using bash as my shell.
> 
> Any shell guru's point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> DaZZa
> 
> 
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RE: [SLUG] scripting help.

[Marty Richards]

Hi Dazza,
 
This script is untested (naturally)... probably broken but not hard to fix. 

~~
#!/bin/sh
for file in *
do
first=`echo $file | cut -c1`
cp $file /home/ftp/pub/doc/$first/.
done
~~

Cheers,
Marty

On Monday, November 13, 2000 11:22 AM, DaZZa [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Folks.
> 
> I know this is a little off topic, but I need some help.
> 
> I need a script which will basically run through a directory, and copy all
> files which start with the same letter of the alphabet to a destination
> directory.
> 
> For example, soemthing like this
> 
> cp a*.doc /home/ftp/pub/doc/a/
> 
> except I need it for the entire possible alphabet - AaBbCc etc.
> 
> I also know stuff all about writing shell scripts - something I've got to
> find time to read up on. Oh - I'm using bash as my shell.
> 
> Any shell guru's point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> DaZZa
> 
> 
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[SLUG] [OT] Solbourne S4000 power unit?

[Marty Richards]

Hi All,

I have found a complete Solbourne S4000 lying around. Unfortunately the 
power supply unit is labelled as bodgy. Its a long shot, but I don't 'spose 
anyone knows of any compatible power supply that might be available?

I haven't checked sun ripened yet - normally their gear is too rich for me 
;(   Last time I wanted 100 pin simms they wanted $365 per module... I've 
since picked up 6 for $60... ;)

Cheers,
Marty


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RE: [SLUG] Large IDE hard drives

[Marty Richards]

On Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:47 AM, Ken Yap [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> >I'm wanting to get a large IDE hard drive for an old Pentium 120 I have
> >here, I'm wondering if there's a limit to the size I can use - I have a
> >feeling the BIOS is limited to 8Gb or something in the older machines.
> >
> >The question is, am I able to fully use a large IDE drive in linux even
> >though the BIOS doesn't support it?
> 
> It doesn't matter to Linux after it's booted because it has its own
> drivers and doesn't use the BIOS. So go ahead. Just make sure the boot
> partition is under 1024 cylinders for the purpose of booting.
> 

And under 65535 cylinders if you want to use it all... or has someone found a neat way 
around this? 

Cheers,
Marty


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[SLUG] 1st Debian install (was M$ goes open source)

[Marty Richards]

> Surely the main hindrance to debian as a first introduction to linux is
> the install itself.  If we help someone with the install then
> administering the system is probably no more difficult than any other
> distribution. What do other sluggers think?
>
> Ken


Yep, this dselect thing is really fsck'd (imho). The rest of it seems ok so 
far, altho the 6 floppies needed for a standard non-cd-boot install was 
nearly enuf to force a return to Slack7.1.  ;)

Still, at least the install never crashed partway thru, like most versions 
of dead rat from 4 to 6.1... ;)  And I liked the menu prompted kernal 
config & suggested changes (eg, I was prompted to remove PCMCIA etc).

Now its up I guess its time to find what works and what doesn't... Anyone 
want to place a bet on whether X works out of the box? its all stocky 
standard hardware... (or did I need to find X stuff in that fscked dselect 
thing?)

Further whinges/praises of debian will be available as they come to hand ;)

Cheers,
Marty




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RE: [SLUG] RE: Damn sendmail.mc and m4

[Marty Richards]

If you're happy to run without DNS, there is a setting in sendmail.cf - 
FallBackMXHost or similar - which can get around this (although it puts a 
few warnings in the log). Otherwise you could do it properly - compile 
sendmail without DNS or use the m4 option.

Cheers,
Marty

-Original Message-
From:   Doug Stalker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Thursday, October 19, 2000 4:31 PM
To: George Vieira
Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail)
Subject:Re: [SLUG] RE: Damn sendmail.mc and m4



George Vieira wrote:
>
> Now that I founnd the files needed I still get problems. I'm trying to 
get
> rid of DNS lookups in sendmail and use a relay host.
>

I tried to do the same thing and failed - I ended up setting up DNS on
our firewall and having the the system use that to do the lookups.

Is it possible to set up a fake named that returns the relay hosts IP
address for every lookup?  Or would that break other applications?







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RE: [SLUG] drawing power

[Marty Richards]

I have 35 PC's powered up in my room. Don't sweat it ;)

Admittedly I have 2 x 10amp circuits in here, and only use 8 monitors... but
everything has a 10 Amp cutoff and I haven't tripped anything for ages. I
suspect a PC without a monitor is only drawing half an amp or so - does
anyone know? ;)

Cheers,
Marty

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Minh Van
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 7:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SLUG] drawing power


i've got 10 pcs in my room. there's 1 extension slipped underneath the
door from another room. is it safe to daisy-chain 10 x6 power adapters and
use them ?

or am i supposed to invest in special extensions, or run more extensions
from other rooms into my room ?

i think a circuit shouldn't have more than 10 amps running off it, and a
typical pc setup with monitor draws about 2 or 3 amps. i don't want to
start a fire.



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[SLUG] A super sparc?

[Marty Richards]

Hi Slug,

I have acquired a couple of new workstations. The problem is I'm not really
sure what the boxes are...

The cases are labelled "Axil 311" and they appear to have 6 CPU's ??
labelled "Super Sparc TMS390".

Unfortunately there is no RAM, and the slots seem to need 100 pin ? memory
which I've never seen ;(

So, can anyone identify these boxes? Does anyone know where I can source
some RAM for them? SMP linux is appealing ;)

Cheers,
Marty



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RE: [SLUG] [OT] Blown up power supply?

[Marty Richards]

>> 
>> It might be just the fuse in the power supply, or it might have taken
>> out the rectifiers as well.
>
>Anyway of working out which? (Without pulling the thing apart - I really
>doubt that there is a way, just asking). And is there any easy way of
>fixing this? eg Pushing the fuse back in as you might a blown fuse on
>your home power board (probably not I'd think).

How bad does it smell? ;) 




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RE: [SLUG] // ??

[Marty Richards]

Typing "cd //" takes me to a directory apparently called "//". pwd then
shows me to be in "//".

This seems to happen on Slackware 7.0, Suse 6.4 and at least one version of
Debian so far.

So this is a POSIX thing? maybe. How come its not all distro's then? Or is
it a recent kernel thing (2.2.14 on mine).

Cheers,
Marty

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Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 10:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [SLUG] // ??


>>  I accidently typed cd // on one of my slackware 7.0 boxes.

>>  Surprisingly it happily took me to //, which seems to be an alias for
the /
>>  directory.

Two leading slashes leads to implementation-defined behaviour, per POSIX.
That's why bash leaves them alone.  Three or more leading slashes are
equivalent to a single one.

So don't use two leading slashes in your scripts if you want to be portable,
but you can use two slashes (as another way of writing a single slash) when
they're in the middle or at the end.
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RE: [SLUG] // ??

[Marty Richards]

>Hi Marty,
>
>>  I accidently typed cd // on one of my slackware 7.0 boxes.
>>
>>  Surprisingly it happily took me to //, which seems to be an alias for
the /
>>  directory.
>>
>Not quite. The pathname treats multiple /'s as a single /. I think
>this is implemented in the guts of the kernel, in the routine that
>translates directory paths to inode numbers and disk locations
>(namei?) so it should happen for all pathnames in all applications but
>I'm guessing.
>
>If you do pwd you should see '/' and not '//'. If you do see '//' I
>would consider that a bug in slackware.
>You will find you can cd to ///, or  or even ///usr/bin

Thanks for the info.

pwd returns //

cd /// or any other number of /'s gives me / as expected.

Maybe its a slackware feature ;)

:)

Cheers,
Marty



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[SLUG] // ??

[Marty Richards]

Hi Sluggers,

I accidently typed cd // on one of my slackware 7.0 boxes.

Surprisingly it happily took me to //, which seems to be an alias for the /
directory.

Interestingly this 'feature' does not occur on DeadRat, or on earlier
versions of slackware.

Does anyone know why this might have happened, and do other distro's behave
similarly?

Cheers,
Marty



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RE: [SLUG] CONFIGURING SLACKWARE TO RECEIVE (RAS)

[Marty Richards]

Hi Katrina,

Hmm... I'd use pppd and a chat script to establish the connection, then
telnet or ssh to the box to get the login... always works a charm for me. If
you want the pppd command line and/or the chat script, please ask.

Does anyone have an opinion on which method (mgetty vs pppd) is better and
why?

Cheers,
Marty


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Butler, Katrina (New)
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 4:57 PM
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Subject: FW: [SLUG] CONFIGURING SLACKWARE TO RECEIVE (RAS)


Yes I admit it we are Micro$oft clones from the Bill Gates cult.

-Original Message-
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Sent: 22 August 2000 16:49
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Cc: Butler, Katrina (New)
Subject: RE: [SLUG] CONFIGURING SLACKWARE TO RECEIVE (RAS)


OK.. I have spoken to Katrina and she requires an actual login prompt. She
doesn't know if she has mgetty installed and I told her to login as root and
just type mgetty and see if there is any errors like "No such file or
Directory" or if it errors with a parameter message required and so on.

She was also told to use uugetty. I personally haven't used it and haven't
got it installed to try it.

Anyone care to advise?

They are from the Micr$oft world.

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Sent: Tuesday, 22 August 2000 4:36
To: Matthew Wallis
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Subject: Re: [SLUG] CONFIGURING SLACKWARE TO RECEIVE (RAS)


On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Matthew Wallis wrote:

> Also probably want to make sure the modem is set to auto answer. ATS0=X
> where X is the number of rings you want it to answer after.

No - do not set the modem to auto answer.

mgetty should send an explicit request to answer to the modem when it
receives the RING signal.

-d

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[SLUG] Linux Distro's exceed linux users

[Marty Richards]

 Number of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Users

 Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux 2.1
and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally surpassed
the number of actual Linux users.

http://bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html



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