[Astlinux-users] rsync for backup

2008-11-17 Thread David Kerr
I've been investigating using rsync to backup my Astlinux box on a regular schedule from a remote client. I have it working from my Apple Mac with no changes to the Astlinux box. The command I use to accomplish this is... rsync -avz -e "ssh -p" @:/oldroot/mnt/asturw /Users/david/Documents/Astlinu

Re: [Astlinux-users] Survey of arno firewall variables

2008-11-17 Thread Tod Fitch
On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: On Nov 17, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Darrick Hartman wrote: What Lonnie is trying to do is determine which features most people use/need so he knows which options to build into his web interface. Right now you can edit the firewall.conf file for Arno

Re: [Astlinux-users] Documentation updated

2008-11-17 Thread Tod Fitch
The changes under "Using Runnix" are good and would have, I think, saved me some time. Very good. I don't recall the old wording under "Using UnionFS" to be able to pick out the changes, so no comment on those. Are there any plans to have a Wiki on www.astlinux.org so the documentation ef

Re: [Astlinux-users] Survey of arno firewall variables

2008-11-17 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Nov 17, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Darrick Hartman wrote: > What Lonnie is trying to do is determine which features most people > use/need so he knows which options to build into his web interface. > Right now you can edit the firewall.conf file for Arno's Firewall from > the new web interface, but it's

Re: [Astlinux-users] Survey of arno firewall variables

2008-11-17 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Clara, Both the "astfw" and "arno" firewalls are shell scripts used to more easily configure iptables. Kristian wrote astfw for astlinux. Arno's firewall (written by Arno van Amersfoort) is much more configurable, and has been Darrick's choice for some time. Take a look at /stat/etc/arno-ip

Re: [Astlinux-users] Survey of arno firewall variables

2008-11-17 Thread Clara Chan
Thanks for the prompt replies. -Original Message- From: Darrick Hartman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 November 2008 9:30 AM To: AstLinux Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Survey of arno firewall variables Clara Chan wrote: > Thanks Darrick for the explanatio

[Astlinux-users] Documentation updated

2008-11-17 Thread Darrick Hartman
I've updated some of the documentation at http://www.astlinux.org Please review "Using Runnix" and "Using UnionFS". Some additional changes are needed on the "New Installation" page. 0.6.2 should be released later this week. There have been several fixes and updates in the 0.6 branch in the p

Re: [Astlinux-users] Survey of arno firewall variables

2008-11-17 Thread Darrick Hartman
Clara Chan wrote: > Thanks Darrick for the explanation. Where did astfw come from, then? > > Cheers, > Clara astfw was written by Kris. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build t

Re: [Astlinux-users] Survey of arno firewall variables

2008-11-17 Thread Clara Chan
Thanks Darrick for the explanation. Where did astfw come from, then? Cheers, Clara -Original Message- From: Darrick Hartman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 November 2008 9:21 AM To: AstLinux Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Survey of arno firewall variables

Re: [Astlinux-users] Survey of arno firewall variables

2008-11-17 Thread Darrick Hartman
Clara Chan wrote: > Lonnie, > > Just a question, what's the difference between Arno's Firewall and Astfw > Firewall. > > Cheers, > Clara Clara, I was the one who originally brought Arno's firewall into Astlinux a few years ago. It's a firewall that I've been using for several years. It's

Re: [Astlinux-users] Survey of arno firewall variables

2008-11-17 Thread Clara Chan
Lonnie, Just a question, what's the difference between Arno's Firewall and Astfw Firewall. Cheers, Clara -Original Message- From: Lonnie Abelbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 November 2008 2:33 AM To: AstLinux Users Mailing List Subject: [Astlinux-users] Survey of arn

Re: [Astlinux-users] NODHCP in rc.conf

2008-11-17 Thread Tom Chadwin
> > What version of Astlinux? > 0.6.1 net5501 > > NODHCP in 0.6.1 should result in except-interface=XXX being added to > > dnsmasq for you > It didn't seem to, but I might not have been using it correctly. For > NODHCP to work, does LOCALDNS have to be set to yes? It wasn't in > my case. To disa

[Astlinux-users] Survey of arno firewall variables

2008-11-17 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
I am looking at adding a basic arno firewall gui in altweb. I would like to survey the arno firewall users what firewall.conf variables they use, beyond the defaults. Just the variables used, no configuration settings necessary. Please respond with an off-list email to me. Thanks, Lonnie -

Re: [Astlinux-users] Securing Astlinux 0.6.1

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Aeberli
Does anyone no where these messages in the log come from? chan_misdn.c:2448 in misdn_hangup: MISDN_USERUSER: FAX MAG Is this someone trying to use my * box? Daniel Martin Rogers a écrit : > If you are using SIP you should also be paranoid and set allowguest=no, > as this defaults to yes. > > Ma