Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations (with bridging)
On 28/02/2008, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been banging my head against my adsl modem and I wondering if it might not just be easier/cheaper to replace it with something better. Can anybody recommend an ADSL modem that does up to an including ADSL2+, is Linux friendly and easy to set up in bridging or half bridging mode? It would also be nice if the adminstrative functions were still accessible when it is in bridging mode. I've been using a Thompson SpeedTouch 536 in straight bridge mode in front of a WRT54GL (OpenWrt) with the WRT handling the pppoe dialing but your modem should handle it in bridge mode OK. When you switch to bridge mode you usually lose administrative access to the modem. I haven't played with half bridging so not much help there. This is with Bigpong and it needs the pppoe username and password. You could try seeing if it works in gateway? mode before switching to bridge? With this modem in gateway mode it has a fairly good CLI. Tony -- 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] how to import weird gpg keys in mutt?
Sonia Hamilton wrote: After the keysigning at LCA, I'm receiving signings from people. Most of them I can import into my keyring in mutt using ^k, as the sender has used mime. But how to import the keys that don't use mime? I've tried gpg --import on the email, no joy. The mail headers look like this: ... ... Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:28:35 +1100 X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.1.2 (Tiger) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) hQIOAyLo+Up3tYIPEAf/Qg94dgzigZ7ZWBEIGeEum7mkycM5HVuDjnUixyirD6AX I had trouble with a couple of keys also but I am using Icedove with Enigmail. These ones were where gmail flagged them as spam and I had to dig them out and forward them to my other account to decrypt. All the ones that were forwarded automatically by gmail were OK. This is probably not the right way to do it but it worked for me:) Open the email and copy from BEGIN PGP... to END PGP... and save it to somefilename.asc then email it to yourself as an attachment with nothing in the body of the email and then it might decrypt and import OK??? #-BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) AFqU+IUbrwXpRMlAY/LQw8Ho7ikoVs7KtMkhGjHpfamDrSS/YaI8ZlKK snip... Bg== #=F+uL #-END PGP MESSAGE- -- 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] Extracting images from PDF file?
Robert Thorsby wrote: On 2006.11.24 09:23 Penedo wrote: Speaking of PDF processing - I have twice reserved rental cars through GINZ (ginz.com) and both times they sent me a scanned page of the reservation voucher inside a PDF file which won't print. The files display perfectly on my monitor and look like a scanned image. Is there some way to extract the image out of the PDF file so I can print it by some other means? Try pdf2ps which might give you a printable output. Try pdfimages. Try pdftk (PDF Toolkit) If you only have a small number to do try the Gimp open the pdf on the page number of the image and select it with the dotted box thingy, crop and save as *.ps or whatever. -- 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] Making samba DWIM
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:49 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: Hi gang I've been having some trouble with Samba I can't seem to work out myself, and I was hoping someone can help. The setup I have for web work is a Windows 2000 desktop (for Dreamweaver, Ultraedit, Firefox+IE+Opera, and so on) and a debian dev/test server with Apache and Perl (just simple CGI in this case, but it varies). To work on the files I mount a Samba share as a Windows drive, and just edit everything directly on the Linux box (the apps are all set to use Unix newlines etc). I can save/reload to see changes, and I generally have half a dozens shell open on the box, and various other infrastructure so that the who boxes work more like one hybrid machine than two separate ones (in a previous incarnation they were even duck-taped together). This workflow has worked really well for me for a number of years, but I always have trouble fiddling the samba setup to the right place. For some reason, saving from the Windows box seems to reset the permissions of the files. And in this particular case, that also means 644 (and thus not world-readable so nobody can do the CGI). Now, I assume that Windows is doing something funky and delete/write'ing the file instead of overwriting the file. Could someone with more samba-fu than I explain if there's a way to make these file writes behave themselves and maintain whatever permissions they currently have? Have you tried the force create mode = force directory mode = man smb.conf -- 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] A Ubuntu/Debian and a grub question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) How will grub work out where to find menu.lst? How will it 'know' to use the updated /dev/hda7/boot/grub/menu.lst rather than the out of date /dev/hda6/boot/grub/menu.lst version? 2) I used apt to update the kernel image, and it thought I was still using the / mounted on hda6 (it clobbered all the extra hda7 entries I'd made and used to boot from). How do I tell apt that I'm running on hda7, not the hda6 which I was using when I first installed? What made apt decide that hda6 is / - that disagrees with both menu.lst and fstab? Is that information stored in a 3rd place, too? I've manually fixed up the hda7 menu.lst file, but before I went any further I thought I'd ask about this, in case. I should and could copy the menu.lst file to both drives again, but thought I'd ask which one grub is really using, and how it picks it. I still wish grub had a mode that let you check the config before you rebooted. The easiest way to set where grub looks for the stage* images might be to just re-install grub from the new partition. try unmounting /dev/hda6 and commenting it out in fstab, then from the new partition do: # sudo grub-install /dev/hda # sudo update-grub and it should find the new menu.lst or checkout the '--root-directory=' option install grub-doc info grub -- 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] A Ubuntu/Debian and a grub question
Tony Lissner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) How will grub work out where to find menu.lst? How will it 'know' to use the updated /dev/hda7/boot/grub/menu.lst rather than the out of date /dev/hda6/boot/grub/menu.lst version? 2) I used apt to update the kernel image, and it thought I was still using the / mounted on hda6 (it clobbered all the extra hda7 entries I'd made and used to boot from). How do I tell apt that I'm running on hda7, not the hda6 which I was using when I first installed? Check where the kernel is looking for root with rdev If it is hda6 it should change to hda7 after a reboot What made apt decide that hda6 is / - that disagrees with both menu.lst and fstab? Is that information stored in a 3rd place, too? I've manually fixed up the hda7 menu.lst file, but before I went any further I thought I'd ask about this, in case. I should and could copy the menu.lst file to both drives again, but thought I'd ask which one grub is really using, and how it picks it. I still wish grub had a mode that let you check the config before you rebooted. The easiest way to set where grub looks for the stage* images might be to just re-install grub from the new partition. try unmounting /dev/hda6 and commenting it out in fstab, then from the new partition do: # sudo grub-install /dev/hda # sudo update-grub and it should find the new menu.lst or checkout the '--root-directory=' option install grub-doc info grub -- 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] How to set runlevel in Breezy
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 17:44 +1000, Kirti wrote: Fedora has neat way of conserving resources by changing from init 5 to init 3. Ubuntu (breezy) comes with default runlevel 2 with GUI. How to change this to CLI and stop most of the inessential services - I only need to have database and apache servers running? What would then be an option to change back to GUI when required? Stop the gui sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop To prevent it starting on next boot sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove To put it back sudo update-rc.d gdm defaults Or for an easier way to manage what programs will run at boot sudo apt-get install rcconf When you need the gui startx man update-rc.d -- 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] SLUG: lan and ppp[0] clash
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 15:22 +1000, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: Sluggers, I've used Linux for some years now but I've struck an issue on which I need a quick fix to my ignorance on - I ask of your knowledge on the following: I have on this machine [195.168.0.1] Mandrake 10.1 on an AMD 64 bit Athlon 3k cpu with .5g ram and 2 80g HDD's and typically run kde 3.2.3 as my desk top. I have an 8 port 10/100 ethernet network switch which permits me to connect computers with each other, I have this machine, a Tosh A10 Satellite [195.168.0.2] and a dual boot mandrake / windoesn't box [195.168.0.3] which MYOB's my accounts [please tell me there is a linux replacement to MYOB]. network picture: domain tac.com.au [nameserver 223.225.0.3] [nameserver 223.225.0.6] | | dialup -- Modem [ppp0] 195.168.0.1 --blue cable--[switch] | | Laptop ethernet port-- 195.168.0.2 --blue cable--[switch] | | accounts -ethernet port-- 195.168.0.3 --blue cable--[switch] So far I am able to transfer files between the laptop and this machine, this is done where I share photos and the like between the laptop and this machine, for this I use gftp and log in to the user on the Toshiba and control the transfer from 195.168.0.1. ie, I start gftp from 195.0.168.0.1, then specify the connection to 195.168.0.2:21 user nick pswd x and push enter and I can see the contents of 195.168.0.2 from 195.0.168.0.1, and can freely transfer files both ways using 195.168.0.1. I would like to be able to do this from konqueror instead of gftp [despite its brilliance] because there are other [ugh] windows users who need to do the same thing though they do not grok any of this, gftp would be 'too hard' for them. How can this be done? How can it be done from [ugh] windoesn't? All machines have an ethernet connection available and I am using the blue cables, can ping each computer from 195.165.0.1, but cannot necessarily ping from, eg, 195.168.0.2 back to 195.168.0.1, it tells me the host is unreachable despite 'ifconfig 195.168.0.1 and 2 up' on both computers - any ideas what I have done wrong here? Some things to play around with. Are the nic lights blinking on 0.1 when pinging from 2? Run tcpdump on 0.1 to see if ping gets there ping might be getting to 0.1 but not making it back to 2/3? # iptables -L check if firewall is not up (policy ACCEPT) What are the results from 'netstat -rn' from all machines? 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3 should point to gateway 192.168.0.1 To get across interfaces eth0 and ppp0 on 0.1 echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward When I have the lan - ethernet - network running I seem to be precluded from using the internet on this machine 195.168.0.1, and I can't see this machine from 195.135.0.2, nor the internet connection via ppp0. I can have ppp0 running and eth0 running but it will only see the eth0 interface. When I do 'ifconfig 195.168.0.1' down' and then try the internet connection again I can see the internet and can send / receive emails any ideas on what I've done wrong with this set up? screen captures of what to do would really help me with this.. Sometimes I run the laptop in windoesn't for the purpose of downloading pictures from my LG880U camera phone [no, it won't work in linux, no drivers, dammit]. Any ideas on how to get around this issue? It does have a bluetooth so I might be able to get a bt card and do it via that.. ideas please? tia Nick Tomlin. www.alarmist.com.au We scare for you... -- 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] FireFox 'open with' csv excel
Roger Barnes wrote:
Hi Stu,
I am wondering if anyone else has had this problem?
I have. :)
When we create a CSV (comma seperated values) text file in
our app and firefox passes it to Excel (yes I know, immovable
object currently but working on it! OO _is better), all of
the data is thrown to column one in a completely boneheaded manner.
Normally, one would expect Excel to start the whole import
text file stuff ie how the text should be imported
(delimited/fixed) whatever.
If you haven't already, try naming the file from the web browser with a .csv extension
For example, if your application is a cgi, eg
http://somehost.com/sendsomecsv.php?param1=value1, try adding a csv filename
after the script name, eg
http://somehost.com/sendsomecsv.php/export.csv?param1=value1
Also, try experimenting with the content-type header that you return:
Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel
Content-type: application/csv
Content-type: text/csv
One or both of these approaches has worked for me in different situations, but
I'm not sure how well it applies for firefox.
This works in Firefox for our application using php4.
Excel doesn't ask you what to do with it because it already
knows (and always gets it wrong). Different versions of Excel
don't handle this the same so it might need tweaking.
If this doesn't do what you want there are programs to write
proper Excel files and you shouldn't have to do any
escaping/fugding the data.
header('Content-type: application/octet-stream');
$filename = date(d-M-Y-) . 'file.csv';
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename);
header('Pragma: no-cache');
header('Expires: 0');
If there are any fields that start with 0 (zero) it will drop
the leading 0 unless you fool it by adding an equal sign and
double quote the value ,=\$fieldname\,
I have found that it doesn't matter what spreadsheet program
you use, they are all braindead when used this way, including
00 and Gnumeric.
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Re: [SLUG] debian
Paul Maloney wrote: Hi all. Well I finally got denian up and running and found it to be a great OS. My problem is that Kppp will not run, when I click on Kppp nothing happens. How can I fix this. Thanking you in advance Kppp might not be installed? If you install it, it may depend on a heap of other kde stuff OR use 'pppconfig' which should already be installed. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Sarge ssh dropping connection after upgrade
This setup has been running without problems for the last 3 - 4 years until the upgrade. I have been having trouble with ssh dropping the connection ever since the server was upgraded to Sarge last week. The upgrade went ok with no errors or warnings. Two computers on an internal 192.168.xxx.xxx network not connected to the internet. Normally the client machine(still woody) ssh's to the server (upgraded to sarge) with key based authentication and stays connected until the next power failure. Now since the upgrade every night the client loses the connection and has to be re-connected manually every morning. The ssh config files seem to be identical (diff). The only thing that has changed is the upgrade. The client is still running woody and hasn't been touched for a year or two. A few days ago I was connected to the server with two xterms at the same time and one dropped out but the other remained connected? So just wondering if any one else is having this problem with Sarge? I'll go through the logs later, and if anyone has any ideas what to look out for? In desperation I could always try telnet(yea I know, boo hiss spit) to isolate ssh from the likely candidates. in sshd_config: KeepAlive yes -- 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] Linux/Windows shared partition question
Leslie Katz wrote: I have a computer which, until recently, had one hard drive. My operating system was Windows XP Professional. The drive had two partitions, one the usual C:\, of file type NTFS, and the other, of file type FAT32, a hidden one from which, as I understand it, I can restore Windows, if necessary. I recently installed a second hard drive in the computer and, on it, installed Fedora Core 3. On the second drive, I created a /boot partition and a / partition, both of file type ext3. I also created a swap partition. I knew I could create on the second drive a partition of the vfat file type and so I did that as well, understanding that that partition would be capable of being used by both OSs. However, that partition does not appear when I run Windows. Have you formatted it in Windows? Was my understanding wrong? Have I simply created an unnecessary partion accessible only by FC3? -- 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] St George banking (again...)
Sonia Hamilton wrote: YASGQ (Yet Another St George Question): I can't get St George internet banking going, has anyone got this working? Pointers on how to do it? I've searched the slug archives, lot's of (justified) kvetching but I couldn't find a solution. I've looked at [1], installed prefbar [2], tried every agent string. I'm running Ubuntu Warty, I've got SunJava 1.5 installed. I've written to STG, I get the usual response... blah, blah supported browsers, blah IE blah :-) I have been using St George Internet Banking for about four weeks now with Debian Sarge. Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2) about:plugins Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.0_01-b08 (I had trouble with the Java version before this one, it wouldn't work(TM)). Even though I had '*.stgeorge.com.au ALLOW' in the 'Web Features - Block Popup Windows - Allowed Sites' I still had to turn off Popup Blocking to get it to work and just used Firefox default user agent and it works OK. Mozilla: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1 Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.0_01-b08 Using teh default User Agent here too and '*.stgeorge.com.au' in the Allowed Sites it works with blocking on:) Other than the above nothing else was done. Tony -- 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] dpkg-reconfigure does not write a new XF86Config-4 file
Michael Lake wrote: Hi all I have a strange problem. Im trying to create a new XF86Config-4 file as after an upgrade X does not work anymore. I get no screens found. But hen I do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 a new XF86Config-4 config file is not written. There are no errors during the reconfiguration, I answer all the dialogs using the default values from last time but no new config is written at the end. The config would normally be in /etc/X11 or maybe /root I have searched with find for XF86Config-4 and XF86Config-4.new I have even tried removing any old XF86Config-4 but to mo luck. I had the same thing happen when my XF86Config-4 file was altered by another program. From Sarge /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 # If you have edited this file but would # like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following commands as root: # # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
