Re: [SLUG] Possibly Useful Content
Stephen Black wrote: I have received much help from the SLUG community and I would like to try and help somebody for a change. There will be people reading this list whose computer is not working well, who are lost in a world of not knowing which way to turn? That was me a few days ago but then I saw the light! HALLELUJAH!!! Instead of trying to fix the problem I pulled out the install CD and I started formatting like iv'e never formatted before in my life! and then I re installed fc6 onto my computer. While that may fix the problem in some cases it doesn't help you learn anything and actually encourages bad behaviour. It's the windows mentality: reboot, upgrade or reinstall. You've been lucky but there are many problems which reinstalling can't fix, and in those cases by reinstalling you just waste time without finding the cause of the problem. You'd be better served gathering detailed information and googling or asking for advice on the list. -- 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] e-mail content filter
On 1/23/07, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone recommended dspam -- but www.dspam.org is old and been claimed by some squatter/exploiter. Time to laugh or cry... http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/ ...if you are a real masochist. -- 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] e-mail content filter
On 1/23/07, Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This one time, at band camp, John wrote: >A signpost would be appreciated and any suggestions as to how I might >achieve my desired configuration. Try setting up dspam in between your MTA and the delivery. www.dspam.org I haven't used it yet, but I was reading about it several months ago. It might be suitable. I'd suggest using it before recommending it. It's really "argh, it burns" material. -- 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] LDAP replication with OpenLDAP - slurpd behaving badly
Howard Lowndes wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:20:11AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: OK, I now have replication running albeit with cleartext credentials and without SASL - they're on the TODO list - tks to all who responded. What I am seeing now is slurpd is working and doing the replication and I have independently checked that the updates have happened in both databases. What slurpd is not doing is clearing the slurpd.replog file, thus it keeps trying to update and is hogging the CPU. I see the size of the slurpd.replog file go to zero bytes briefly, then return to it's original size; this seems to occur on about a 30 second interval. If I cp /dev/null slurpd.replog when it has a positive size then it all goes quiet. Any ideas on why slurpd does not clear the slurpd.replog file after it has done the updates? what version of slapd are you using, with 2.3.x (not sure which revision) the preferred method syncrepl 2.3.27 and syncrepl is not available from FC6 anywhere Syncrepl works in 2.2.x as well, if you can't get a later version of OpenLDAP. -- 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] LDAP replication with OpenLDAP
Del wrote:
My problem is that in the master slapd.conf file I seem to have to
have the replica credentials in cleartext, which I don't like. I
have tried passing them as {SSHA} but that doesn't seem to work. Is
there a way around this problem.
How about connecting using ldaps (i.e. LDAP over SSL) ?
Correct solution to the wrong problem (sending, not storing, clear text
passwords).
Whoops, yes misread the question a little there. Still, he is connecting
over standard LDAP unencrypted so over SSL is a good idea.
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Re: [SLUG] LDAP replication with OpenLDAP
Howard Lowndes wrote:
I am having a small problem with LDAP replication with OpenLDAP.
The relevant part of the master slapd.conf reads:
replica host=
suffix="o=lannetlinux"
binddn="cn=replica,o=lannetlinux"
credentials=""
bindmethod=simple
tls=no
and the relevant part of the replica slapd.conf reads:
databasebdb
suffix "o=lannetlinux"
directory /var/lib/ldap
mode0600
rootdn "cn=replica,o=lannetlinux"
rootpw {SSHA}vb3qg3DofXJfERT3w76mhT1GvXP31rbD
updatedn"cn=replica,o=lannetlinux"
updateref ldap://:389
My problem is that in the master slapd.conf file I seem to have to have
the replica credentials in cleartext, which I don't like. I have tried
passing them as {SSHA} but that doesn't seem to work. Is there a way
around this problem.
How about connecting using ldaps (i.e. LDAP over SSL) ?
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Re: [SLUG] Why is Sleepycat BDB database so big
Howard Lowndes wrote: Does anyone have any idea why the Sleepycat BDB database use bu=y openldap is so big. I have an ldap database with just over 200 entries, but the BDB occupies over 430Mb. Seems highly inefficient to me. The transaction logs tend to grow out of control, I'm still not sure why this happens. You can shrink the local database by stopping slapd, cd to the database directory then run slapd_db_recover, slapd_db_archive -d, then slapindex -v for good measure before starting slapd again. Oliver -- 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] howto safely remove Evolution (Ubuntu Edgy)?
On 1/11/07, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to remove Evolution from a Ubuntu Edgy machine I admin (my dad's) - how do I safely do this? I get these dependencies in aptitude: * evolution-exchange depends on evolution (>= 2.8.0) * evolution-plugins depends on evolution (>= 2.8.1) * nautilus-sendto depends on evolution (>= 2.4) * ubuntu-desktop depends on evolution The first two I can obviously ignore, what about the last two? I want to remove evolution because I got my dad using thunderbird, to make Linux more like his old 'doze machine. He keeps on accidently opening evolution, even though I've removed it from menus... There are probably gnome configuration items that still reference it as the default mail client. Have a look through gconf, you should be able to find them and remove them. -- 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] trackpad vertical scroll
Kim Pepper wrote: I've got a Compal CL-50 laptop with Edgy installed. The edgy xorg installation detected a generic mouse device, but there is no vertical/horizontal scrolling when dragging a finger down the rhs/bottom edge. I googled about it and found a whole lot of info on a synaptic driver, which i tried, but go no mouse at all. Anyone know how to get this working? Mine just worked automatically (Dell Inspiron 6400), and it is using the synaptics driver. That being said, only the vertical scroll zone is working, not the horizontal (which would be handy), so if you find a solution let me know. It's probably just related to correct configuration of the synaptics driver. For your reference this is the input device section for my touchpad from my xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents""true" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" EndSection Oliver -- 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] blocking image/html email in postfix. Was: SPAM is ramping up
Sonia Hamilton wrote: * On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 08:33:01PM +1100, Rob B wrote: I know greylisting is all the rage at the moment, but tarpitting/stuttering seems to be the next big thing due to spambot authors writing bots that can get around the greylist delays. I'm googling this - looks good. On a related issue, I would like to block (at my mailserver - postfix) any mail that contains an image (gif) or is in html. Any pointers on how to do this? Radical I know, but I'm tired of the spam (yes I have spamassassin with regularly updated 3rd party rules + greylisting - a lot still gets thru). If you are already using spamassassin you could write a new custom rule that looks for the text "Content-Type: image/gif" or "Content-Type: text/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] migrating Apache 1.3x to 2 ?
Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm looking at migrating Apache 1.3x vhost server to new machine running Apache 2 vhosts; Sounds like you are undertaking something similar to one I did last year (migrating a RH 7.3 machine to RHEL 4). I found barely any changes had to be made to the vhost files. If you have the luxury of throwing the vhosts onto the new machine and testing it yourself then do so... fixing up the errors as you encounter them. The behaviour and presence of some main config directives has changes though so as always the first point of reference should be the Apache docs. -- 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] migrating MySQL 3 to 4 ?
Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm looking at migrating MySQL 3.x server to new machine running MySQL 4.x; at this time I aim to dump one by one user databases and insert data into MySQL 4.x, if there are any MySQL experts here, any comments please ? If you read the MySQL 4 documentation it has a section on upgrading from version 3. Things to look out for are use of reserved words in table/column/database names, as there are a lot more reserved words in version 4; you may also run into problems with autoincrement columns due to the differing starting values (which can be fixed during import by setting the SQL mode in the session variables). What I did last time is run mysqlbackup on the source and pipe that into mysql via ssh on the destination. Any things that needed fixed up to work on MySQL that were simple search/replace jobs I piped it into sed or perl before the destination server. -- 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] Brain Freeze - ADSL
O Plameras wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: On Mon, December 11, 2006 11:21 am, Scott Waller (Lots of Watts) wrote: Finally changed over to Layer2 1.5 meg blah blah blah. And am having problems with my setup. Scott, dumb question: I thought about this. what's the advantage of having a 'Layer2' connection over the usual 'userid/password/login' connection ? Better throughput than Layer3, in general. Devices on Layer2 work less as hard than devices on Layer3. Layer3 assembles data before send and dis-assembles at receive. Layer2 does not. So, less latency. Not quite right, you still have layer 2 frames which are disassembled and reassembled. However your device is operating as a simple ethernet (or ATM if your ISP supports it) bridge rather than also encapsulating the traffic in PPP which is the norm, hence less overheads. -- 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] ADSL without paying for a phone line?
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote: Is there a way of getting ADSL at home without paying for a landline? I use my mobile for everything, and don't use the landline but am paying for it to run ADSL on. Nope. Welcome to Australia, where we subsidize privately owned corporations whether we like it or not. Think yourself lucky you can at least get decent ADSL. My line is connected via a RIM (little mini exchange in the street) so I can't get ADSL2+ connected and instead have to connect via a Telstra port, so I'm once again subsidizing Telstra. My line rental is the same, despite getting a diminished service. My only recourse is to keep getting paper bills and to pay by credit card. This at least costs the bastards money. And the end user too, more and more these days. There are at least a couple of bills each month I have to pay where it costs me extra if I want a paper bill, or if I don't set up automatic debit for payment. Oliver -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
