[SLUG] Anna Kournikova email worm - disinfection
Windoze uninfection details thanks to AVP Australia... = 1. Virus creates a registry key under: HKEY_Current_User\Software\OnTheFly 2. Text of the above registry key is: "Worm made with Vbswg 1.50b". 3. After sending emails to all users in Outlook address list, the value of this registry key is set to "1". Afterwards, the virus will not send any more emails. 4. Saves virus to C:\%WindowsDirectory%\AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs 5. Creates email message and sends to all users on available address lists (creates individual emails, not a group send). Attaches the file saved in step 4 above, then deletes C:\%WindowsDirectory%\AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs after sending all emails. 6. On January 26, it opens a browser window with the website www.dynabyte.nl To clean the virus: 1. Search and destroy all emails with the subject line: " Here you have, ;o) " 2. Delete the registry key mentioned in item 1 above. 3. Search and destroy all copies of AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs = -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Antivirus solution????
I am only running sendmail and am using AVP rather successfully. Admittedly, I don't really like how it is implemented but it is efficient, works (ie. catches the viruses). Some clever person patched sendmail to incorporate the linkage to the antivirus system which passes every piece of mail to the antivirus software. It is written for AVP but will accomodate other products as well. I believe the way to do it is through libmilter. Sadly, I don't have the time and I am not sure wether libmilter is stable enough yet. (Libmilter is a part of the sendmail distribution). tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] cash by fax info
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: X-RBL-Warning: (relays.orbs.org) Open relay - see http://www.orbs.org/verify.php3?address=202.101.28.153 People with this header will now have to be moderated... (ie I used an appropriately vagueised version of the above). tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Blown monitor guns
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Michael Lake wrote: Also, it's time to purchase a new monitor. Anyone know if flat screens are common yet ... and cheap? Are they worth it? Well I have seen some and they look very good but they are very pricy. If you are really short on desk space (esp depth) or you want I have got a DV150 (15") which is very nice. Apart from the fact that it doesn't do some of the refresh rates it is supposed to in the manual it is beautiful and pricey (2.2k). Oh yeah, a graphic artist was going to buy one and had a look at this one and decided it wasn't worth it yet. Apparently, because the colour changes slightly when you change viewing angle was enough to make them worried... I can actually watch this thing much longer than a CRT so it works out well for me. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] SSH hint required
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Peter Rundle wrote: I've been given a script that looks like this ... machine a .sshrc file or something? man ssh didn't help much. Why not? you haven't got enough experience reading between the lines :-) From memory: In a section called RSA authentication... use ssh_keygen (or was it ssh-keygen?) to generate the keys, the private one stays on the machine with the script, the public one gets renamed and copied to the servers you are trying to monitor in ~root/.ssh - then it should just happen. Please check with the manual (man ssh) for the fine details. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] named slave
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, David wrote: /var/log/messages (slave DNS host) says: Dec 13 18:53:42 fast named[21052]: rcvd NOTIFY(duelplay.com.au, IN, SOA) from [203.23.36.1].1034 Dec 13 18:53:42 fast named-xfer[21179]: can't make tmpfile (named.duelplay.Lm0CQb): Permission denied The master server behaves properly, serial numbers are correct. Both boxes The problem is not on the master. The master DNS runs as root, but on the slave host, named runs as uid Yukk. that's an old version - it should be 8.2.2pl7! named and all files are owned by named. I don't know why they are different, and I don't remember ever doing anything to make them different. What should they be? The directory where the slave files are written to must be owned by named. Temporary files are written to that directory and then renamed... This is what fails in your case. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Little knowledge required about Dell
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Craig Warner wrote: Very general question, does any one have experience setting up Dell notebooks, docking stations and external monitors. ComputerBank has been donated some of these units and I having a bit of fun getting the external monitor to work. The trick with most external monitors/data projectors is that you plug the laptop into the external device first BEFORE turning the laptop on. After that everything is usually sweet. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Looking for rpm V4
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Ian Ward wrote: I cannot find a copy of rpm Version 4 (source or binary) that the hasn't been built with rpm V4 www.rpm.org You also need the db (??? - I don't remember) ver 3. It will tell you anyway... There is a *.tgz somewhere on their site - I have a copy if you are really stuck. How do you upgrade from V3 to V4 if people build V4 rpms with V4 sheeesh!! Good one eh? anyone done this? I've looked in lots of places, but cannot get a hit on a howto This stuff is too obvious for a howto :-) tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] VBA scripts on linux
Hi, Is anyone aware of a way of running VBA scripts (the current version of VB) under linux. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] One for the smtp routing guru's
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Peter Rundle wrote: Sendmail seems to be in the way way too hard basket (besides Rodos said it wouldn't work anyway). So perhaps I need to look at qmail or see if our local resident perl genius can really "whip up my own mta". I just love these guys that can build a nuclear reactor with three lines of perl code. Yeah right. Qmail? ROFL! 3 lines of perl maybe! Many different users set their mua to use the mail server as their outbound smtp. Some users are allowed to have their e-mail delivered ... Yeah, but sendmail can do all this... Even if you shake your head in disbelief - or was it just because you or Rodos can't do it :-P tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] One for the smtp routing guru's
Peter Rundle said: without any tampering, others however are obviously evil and their mail must go via the corporate server to have whatever degrading indignaties are to be imposed on them (virus scanning, long winded legalise tacked on the end, all nudie pictures removed etc...) This can all be done with libmilter (part of the sendmail distribution). you have to put OSS between "commercial" software and the internet to stop it from becoming spam central. ;-) Sendmail these days comes with a lot of SPAM stomping features... Of course a smart user might try to set their "mail from" to something else and put a quite note in the body of the message requesting the recipient not reply to the envelope address but to the address written ... this doesn't match the envelop "mail from" something nasty might happen to their e-mail... libmilter again. Now the tricky bit, if the "mail from" is NOT in the "naughty users list" their mail gets released to the ether undamaged, otherwise, their mail is routed to the corporate server for appropriate tampering before heading out. ditto. All you have to do is to write a mail filter program that does all this (or multiples that do a bit at a time). Ok, this is a pretty new feature in sendmail but I am working on one that does virus scanning... The guys who wrote the scanner have actually used a rather clever feature in sendmail so they can use a mailer to send all the mail to the mailer first and the mailer re-injects the mail into sendmail who then delivers it to the final destination. That way all the mail goes through the mailer who can do with it as it pleases (including throwing it into a black hole). Ok, this is more than just tweaking the *.cf file... My statement was that it can be done. BTW, I have dealt with both sendmail and qmail and my choice is sendmail. Yes, I know, the learning curve for sendmail IS much steeper but it is much more feature-rich (and potentially bug-prone). Further, I do have to refer to the doco quite often as I DON'T remember everything about it. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] RPM Fun - Solved.
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, David Kempe wrote: painful. I am still looking forward to all this fun when TL goes to rpm-4.0... Whats TL? TurboLinux - a distribution that is rpm based like RH but comes secure (networking-wise) by default. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Those ol' modem installation blues .....
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: The only difference from the usual winmodem dialup to Primus seems to be the login script: Win98/SE and winmodem require manual input of the password while RH6.2 includes the password as part of configuration. I have tried reconfiguring without the password but nothing changes - it behaves as described above. What do you see when you try to "log in" using minicom? The question here is are you sure that the dialer is set up correctly. There are two main ways of connecting to a remote machine using Linux: - one that presents the "Username/Password" prompts first - these need to be set up in the chat script. - one that goes straight into ppp mode - this needs to be set up in /etc/ppp (options, chap-secrets, pap-secrets as desired). If you try to mix the two methods you will have big problems... BTW, this assumes that your modem actually connects properly in the first place. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] SQL Servers
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question is, which is worth putting the effort into - indeed, is one better than the other ? If you are after speed and can put up with a limited implementaion - mysql is your answer. Postgresql is a very complete implementation - the cost is speed. When I decided to write some code with DB backend I decided I would put up with the speed penalty and use the more complete implementation. Later when I have a complete product, I will re-evaluate wether most or all functionality I require exists in the fast one I will change the drivers to that one... Anyway, Postgresql 7 is supposed to be a lot faster... tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Bind and Debian
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Edward Murphy wrote: Now I ended up having to stop bind on my system as it's causing the Bigpond DNS servers to DOS me :-( I believe the old version was 8.2.2p5-11 and I've now got 8.2.2p7-1. This was the subject of a CERT alert. Yes definitely go to 8.2.2p7. Any new edition windblows machine (2000, ME, etc) will do this. Another great feature from M$ not reading the specs and doing things their own way... tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] speaking of HW ...
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote: I dont recommend VIA based boards. My gigabyte-ali works well i havd found gigabyte to generally be good in linux. Intel chips are usually ok also Funny, you should say that, I have an AOpen VIA/133 chipset m/b in mine and have had no problems at all - the easiest upgrade ever. I tried a Gigabyte m/b a while ago and had no end to my woes... (I won't be buying more of them for a while). tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] xircom pcmcia
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, John Ferlito wrote: I've come across a Xirconm 10/100-Upgradeable pc card, sans snip fit. Does anyone have one of these beasts and have any idea what the upgradeable part actually means? I suspect it is a misnomer and just means that if you plug it into a 10M port it will talk 10M, similarly, ... 100M port ... 100M. I just bought one of these beasts (Xircom 32bit cardbus ethernet 10/100 + modem 56 - CBEM56G-100). The problem I have with it is that it does not see any DHCP replies (driver problem I guess), yet when I give it a fixed IP it works fine... tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] VPN
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Daron Barndon wrote: at that could cover the distance between the mountains and Sydney? I expect I would be over the 44 K mark although with enough height, line of site to Sydney would not be a problem. Line of sight to the mountains is pretty well out of the question. I have had a brush with the SWAMP project (Sydney Wollongong Area Microwave Project) linking major universities with (usually) 32Mbit microwave installations. You should have seen the trouble they had to go through... Anyway, from the City there are at least two hops to Penrith. Ok, one of the hops is a drop as well, but the major hop is via the prospect tower (for height reasons). tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] web question..
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Michael wrote: When I have a web client hit a web page on my server... what information can one extract from the browser? I'd like to know where I could find a url that explains the variables.. as I would like to get a php3 script to grab out as much info from the client and log it. Especially if I could find out what url they just can from to get to the page they are at. Just have a page that does ?PHP phpinfo() ? It will tell you all the variables and their content. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Toshiba Tecra notebooks and X
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, CaT wrote: http://www.probo.com/timr/savagemx.html This makes it work! tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux doesn't have bad security...
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Graeme Merrall wrote: people have bad security. Why does this bother me? If I was an Eisa customer or even an ex-Eisa customer with my details sitting on that server waiting for someone to come along, I'd be getting on that phone pretty darn quick. I also hope that other people will nag them into doing something about it or shame them into Sadly I have some "customers" like that. - I have tried nagging - I tried abusing the owner It hasn't worked (sounds like the good old adage: "It WON'T happen to us ..."), so I have given up and am just waiting for the inevitable to happen. Anyone know what else to do (apart from doing it for free ;-)? tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] IP masq timeouts question
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, [iso-8859-1] Alex JuniorBurger wrote: Someone mentioned a while back that this could be due to IP masq timeout values. The closest thing I found When you are doing things on the gateway they will not get masqueraded! Only the ones behind the gateway machine will get masqueraded. This is not the problem. And since the machines behind the gateway work fine I suspect that the problem is with the gateway machine's browsing setup - possibly DNS, routing. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Firewalls, X, etc (was: Network Security Fest)
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, chesty wrote: So far I've looked at TIS firewall toolkit, but its not ideal, out of the box you have to use xhost to allow the firewall to connect to your X terminal, telnet to the firewall, login to the firewall, start the X proxy, telnet to the remote box, login to the remote box, set your display then start your X applications. Its clunky and not very secure (xhost and telnet), which defeats the whole purpose of putting a firewall in. No, please... ;-) SSH has X-proxying inbuilt. It is authenticated and encrypted - very secure. The alternative is a commercial firewall, which some people are pushing for anyway. I'm hoping to get something up and running using linux, then let them decide if they still want to go with commercial firewall, or stay with Thinking of a red box (WatchguardII)? Well guess what, it is just a linux box inside (actually dual linux box if my memory serves me correctly). So really with a bit of work you can do the same on your PC - just as good. But really, the tricky bit is to get the rules in there (and correct rules at that). You will find that the example in the ipchains howto is not really a good example even though it gets you started. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] RE: Damn sendmail.mc and m4
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: define(`SMARTHOST', esmtp:smarthost.domain)dnl Shouldn't that be SMART_HOST? I got it from the sendmail book. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Sendmail connection problems
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Des Wass wrote: Anyone have any idea what could be causeing this? It looks from the logs like there is either a routing or a firewalling issue. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Associating filenames
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote: which begs the question, what did they do to bolt metadata onto the freebsd core for OSX ?? Umm... There was a really good article about this going around a while back. Fairly interesting, it covered all the hacks they went through to combine the two systems. As far as my reading of it went was that they dropped the feature. As far as my personal opinion goes: file(1) does a reasonable job anyway. Who needs file extensions? I don't like them because windoze gets it wong too often. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] RE: Damn sendmail.mc and m4
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Doug Stalker wrote: I tried to do the same thing and failed - I ended up setting up DNS on our firewall and having the the system use that to do the lookups. No problem with that. Is it possible to set up a fake named that returns the relay hosts IP address for every lookup? Or would that break other applications? You will break any other app that uses the DNS. define(`SMARTHOST', esmtp:smarthost.domain)dnl This should be all you need as sendmail passes it on to the smarthost for delivery. (Remember it still needs to look up smarthost.domain in the DNS). tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, George Vieira wrote: I removed the entry and it starts up real damn quick.. weird that it MUST resolve these addresses. Must find a way to ignore them.. Your real fix is in /etc/nsswitch.conf Here you set several lines to "files [NOTFOUND=return]" - especially the hosts (DNS lookup) line... tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Authentication Question
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, George Vieira wrote: yellow pages `yppasswd` is one way.. when the user changes their password then all servers update the unix password... (not samba password though).. Hold on, guys, what's wrong with LDAP? tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Oracle through a firewall
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Kevin Saenz wrote: Hi has anyone had any joy allowing oracle plus/sql through a firewall? Do you really want to do this? Personally, I would have thought the security risk is too high. While on the topic of firewall has anyone been using iptables? What are the benefits moving from ipchains to iptables? There is no iptables for kernels 2.4. As of 2.4 this is what you need to use INSTEAD of ipchains. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] mail list acceptable use guidelines
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Dave Fitch wrote: just bounce all attachments, whatever their type. Strip is probably easier than bounce... maybe repeat offenders (within a certain timeframe) should be put on a list of people who can't post without manual approval? Sounds like you are volunteering for this job? ;-) I would have thought we had better things to do than police a list in this manner. Probably (a) a hassle for the list maintainers, and (b) pointless anyway with free web email accounts etc. Quite true. Something that bugs me every now and then is when people include the previous message verbatim. We are all rather intelligent and all that should be necessary is a mind jogger... I also have been noticing that replies usually go to the list as a whole. I have started doing it as well to try to reduce the number of followups on the list. Really, what should happen is that these should end up in the archives somehow without cluttering the list - does that sound feasible? tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Beginners Home Network
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Ken Yap wrote: It's probably that the 100 Mb NICs can't autonegotiate without a hub to talk to. You could try specifying the media in the modprobe line, but with hubs so cheap, it's not worth spending much time on a crossover. I'm running 100Mb Intel NIC's and they will operate at 100MHz FDX on a crossover cable. Similarly, when I had one Acer el cheapo card (Via Rhine chipset) - it would talk at 100MHz with the Intel card... tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Starting samba automagically
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alister Waller wrote:
I am trying to start samba up when the server boots.
I put
/usr/sbin/smbd -D
/usr/sbin/nmbd -D
in /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
This does not seem to do it though. Users cannot access the share although I
could as adm
I suspect you have got it in the wrong part of the network startup
script. I have attached the standard startup script that comes with
several distributions. Put it in /etc/rc.d/init.d and then run (as root):
chkconfig smb on
(it lives in /sbin if your path is not finding it).
This should fix your problem.
tom.
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#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: 345 91 35
# description: Starts and stops the Samba smbd and nmbd daemons \
# used to provide SMB network services.
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] exit 0
# Check that smb.conf exists.
[ -f /etc/smb.conf ] || exit 0
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting SMB services: "
daemon smbd -D
daemon nmbd -D
echo
touch /var/lock/subsys/smb
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting down SMB services: "
killproc smbd
killproc nmbd
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/smb
echo ""
;;
status)
status smbd
status nmbd
;;
restart)
echo -n "Restarting SMB services: "
$0 stop
$0 start
echo "done."
;;
*)
echo "Usage: smb {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
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Re: [SLUG] TR-3 tape and Samba Permissions Q's
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Alister Waller wrote: I have samba shares set up but when a user creates a directory or file on the server from their windows machines the permissions are set as per the user so no one else can access them. How do I make the permissions open so all can access when a file or directory is created?? or am I missing you need to use the "force user" and/or "force group" directives for that share. I would recommend creating a "dummy" user that is disabled and using these uid/gid values in the "force *" directives. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Queuing under Linux
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Peter Rundle wrote: I want to create a queue for an SMS messaging system. Can anyone point Some of the carriers will actually accept email messages and resend them as SMS. Hutchinson is one of them - from memory. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Red Hat 7.0 network install setup
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Robert Maldon wrote: rpm -qp --filesbypkg anaconda-runtime-7.0.1-6.i386.rpm|grep genhdlist anaconda-runtime /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist You don't need to install the RH 7.0 version of anaconda in order to run the 7.0 version of genhdlist. You can find a useable version of genhdlist in the distributions misc/src/anaconda/utils dir (at least it's there in the 6.X series). This version is used by a script detailed in the above FAQ. Anaconda IS the default installer for RH 7.0. It looks really pretty even if the networking part doesn't quite work (I had a bleeding edge CD set and the network setup does need some manual editing - or GUI if you want to go that way). tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] remote printing acorss Internet, possible ??
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Dave Kempe wrote: Doesn't lpr or lprng work over the internet? Can't the clients just insert a hostname and then print to that, as long as the permissions are ok then it should work right? to make it print to a printer across the Internet and behind a firewall ?? Remember, you are trying to print over the internet BEHIND a firewall. If you desire to get rid of the firewall (effectively) and deal with the NAT problem then yes it will work. But seriously, you want that firewall there for a good reason: To protect your internal network - that is why it gets more complex. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: Talks for SLUG meetings (including this month's)
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Aaron Binns wrote: 1) Firewalls 2) VPN 3) SSH 4) common partitioning questions 5) Samba Sounds like you guys have topics for years to come... :-) A lot of these can be rather involved - you would be up for lots of 30 min talks! I can answer some of those questions - sadly the friday night timeslot doesn't suit me... tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Distro on a CD (off the shelf, or off the burner)
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Jamie Honan wrote: In this case, uou're probably looking at a hard drive or NFS. Guys, NFS on a gateway - Please spare me! Please let me tell you about a site that will not allow telnet into the trusted zone from the dmz but yet allows nfs from the trusted zone to the dmz - Do I really have to continue? tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Oddball ADSL Question
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jason Rennie wrote: I have a hub, and i want to connect 2 machines to the hub, and plug the adsl modem into the hub. Usually, the best way to do this (similarly to cable) is to have one machine as the proxy/firewall, etc. The other machine(s) to sit on the private network behind your proxy machine. Would i then be able to get ADSL to dial out form one of the machines at a time ? That way i can try one, if it doens't work, bring up the working link. Or am i doomed ? Should be theoretically possible, given that you need to have the standby machine off or at least the ADSL side the interface down. tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland Rd., Ryde NSW 2112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
