Re: [SLUG] downgrading from Centos 5 to 4 ?
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, Marty -- 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] Australian government to censor your internets
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 beatbreake...@gmail.com: 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] where to get an Ethernet hub (NOT a switch)
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). Cheers, Marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's
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! -- 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] A8N-SLi Asus Motherboard
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. -- 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] t/s dns name resolution, lack of
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 T: 02 9460 8077 F: 02 9460 8166 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. --- -- 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] t/s dns name resolution, lack of
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 snip 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 ;) Cheers, Marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] DNS and resolv.conf
Its probably your dhcp client overwriting the settings. There is probably a command line or conf option to turn this off. Cheers, Marty T: 02 9460 8077 F: 02 9460 8166 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 -- 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] t/s dns name resolution, lack of
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 T: 02 9460 8077 F: 02 9460 8166 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 -- 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] Problems backing up a server to SMBFS
Hi Raphael, I've found this one a few times now. Try using: mount -t cifs //yadda/yadda rather than smbmount. Cheers, Marty T: 02 9460 8077 F: 02 9460 8166 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, Raphael Kraus Software Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02 8306 0007 Direct Line 02 8306 0077 Sales | 02 8306 0099 Fax 02 8306 0088 Support 02 8306 0055 Administration 1300 13 WILD (9453) National | 1300 88 WILD (9453) Fax Wild Internet Telecom Pty Ltd, ABN 98 091 470 692 Correspondence - 201/6 Lachlan Street, Waterloo NSW 2017 Telephone 1300-13-9453 | Facsimile 1300-88-9453 http://www.wildit.net.au DISCLAIMER CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this email message and any attachments may be confidential information and may also be the subject of client legal - legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. This email and any attachments are also subject to copyright. No part of them may be reproduced, adapted or transmitted without the written permission of the copyright owner. If you have received this email in error, please immediately advise the sender by return email and delete the message from your system. -- 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] server stopped
ashley maher wrote: I was happily working (using ssh) on a server and it stopped. SNIP 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. Cheers, Marty -- 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] finding a file
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... Cheers, Marty -- 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] What sort of attack is this
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, Marty Netway Networks Pty Limited t 02 - 8920 8877 f 02 - 8920 8866 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] w http://www.netwaynetworks.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Serial - PS2 connector
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. Cheers, Marty Netway Networks Pty Limited t 02 - 8920 8877 f 02 - 8920 8866 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] w http://www.netwaynetworks.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] problem
- 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$oft. Cheers, Marty Netway Networks Pty Ltd (T) 8920 8877 (F) 8920 8866 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] RE: not helping
imho, Ozemail Tech support is her best option. I even supplied the number. All my other suggestions are equally valid. Its Outlook providing the negative experience. Do you think she's running it under Wine? ;) Please move this OT thread to Slug-chat. Cheers, Marty I don't think that reply achieved much asides from making sure someone's (likely) first experience with Linux users was a negative one. Mike On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 10:50, Marty Richards wrote: - I am having a problem connecting to ozemail. It keeps giving me the sign Error Ox800 CCC0E. could you please tell me what this means and if I can correct it . - It means welcome to outlook, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. Maybe you could reinstall everything? There might be a message in your deleted items with more information about the error... Ring Ozemail tech support, they might be able to help - 132 884, 24 hours. If you have all day and a few hundred spare dollars, ring Micro$oft. Cheers, Marty Netway Networks Pty Ltd (T) 8920 8877 (F) 8920 8866 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Mike MacCana ConsultantRHCE, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 Netway Networks Pty Ltd (T) 8920 8877 (F) 8920 8866 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Bynari's Insight Server
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). Cheers, Marty Netway Networks Pty Ltd (T) 8920 8877 (F) 8920 8866 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] ADSL Problem
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]] Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 8:44 AM 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug Netway Networks Pty Ltd (T) 8920 8877 (F) 8920 8866 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Web server with 4 virtual hosts behind firewall
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. Cheers, Marty Netway Networks Pty Ltd (T) 8920 8877 (F) 8920 8866 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] hard drive choices
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, Marty Netway Networks Pty Ltd (T) 8920 8877 (F) 8920 8866
RE: [SLUG] DNS
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? _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug Netway Networks Pty Ltd (T) 8920 8877 (F) 8920 8866 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] continuous power up query
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. Netway Networks Pty Ltd (T) 8920 8877 (F) 8920 8866 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Reduntant links
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug Netway Networks Pty Ltd (T) 8920 8877 (F) 8920 8866 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] iptables / ipchains - Which suits me best?
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, Marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] BPALogin problems
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, Marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Pacific Internet ADSL
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Backup Internet Connection
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] In need of some advice...
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... -- Best regards, evilbunny mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Sendmail woes
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 Nick -- 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: Weird MAC addresses?
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 ~ But not even in their wildest dreams could the business elites have imagined that in 2001, the AntiTrust department itself would be offering a convicted monopolist state protection -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] 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 ~ But not even in their wildest dreams could the business elites have imagined that in 2001, the AntiTrust department itself would be offering a convicted monopolist state protection -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] to C/H/S, or not to C/H/S?
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? Howard. __ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] RAID advice wanted
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, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] OT - linux job
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] ping problems
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] JOB: Exciting Development Opportunities
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] IDE BOOT RAID 1
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 -- 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] raid 1 on linux
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] raid 1 on linux
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, Marty -- 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
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!" -- 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
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!" -- 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] Whats happening here
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Reiser FS
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Dialing through PABX
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Re: Can flammers be barred ????
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] tcpdump tcpshow
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 http://lannetlinux.com "...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 -- 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] Open Government- No linux interface for BAS lodgement.
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. snip 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 "Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours" - Richard Bach. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Linux Friendly ISPs?
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] ppp sockets
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] [OT] Fixed IP ADSL
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 -- 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
[SLUG] Weird MASQ issue...
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] FW: [ISN] SSH remote root exploit was released
FYI, upgrade/patch now if you haven't already.
Cheers,
Marty
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Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ISN] SSH remote root exploit was released
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:48:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Perrine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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Subject: SSH remote root exploit was released
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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."
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RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] deltree equivalent
"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 -- 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] Hardware recommendation
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 g). 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] SCSI Card recommendations?
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] PPPd pain!
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 -- Steve "I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest." --Me -- 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] ipfwadm
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Port intrusion monitoring
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 -- Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited "Tired of being a crash test dummy for Microsoft? Try Linux" -- 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] 'nc' utility
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 -- Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited "Tired of being a crash test dummy for Microsoft? Try Linux" -- 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] hubs, switches etc
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, Marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Fetching mail from a remote mail server
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Problem with NICs...
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Problem with NICs...
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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RE: [SLUG] Net Slowness... Telstra Dirty Tricks?
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: rant 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. /rant Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- 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
[SLUG] DDS/DAT tape drives
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] [OT] Solbourne S4000 power unit?
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] scripting help.
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 -- 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] scripting help.
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 -- 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] Large IDE hard drives
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] 1st Debian install (was M$ goes open source)
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] drawing power
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. -- 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
[SLUG] A super sparc?
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] [OT] Blown up power supply?
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? ;) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] // ??
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] // ??
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Linux Distro's exceed linux users
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
