Firewall rules question

2001-12-04 Thread Tom Rauschenbach
Folks, I am aware that my current filewall rules are too simplistic to allow most FTP. The remote server cannot establish a connection with my LAN as I drop all packets with the SYN bit set (I think that's right, I drop the kind of packets that try to start a connection is what I'm trying t

Re: Need advise on a dead keyboard.

2001-12-04 Thread Greg Kettmann
I don't recall seeing the original post on this. Yes, often reseating the connector fixes a problem, however, please note that on most keyboard's, at least most that I work with, they go through some sort of initialization routine when the machine is powered on. They must go through this routine

Re: Need advise on a dead keyboard.

2001-12-04 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Sometimes just unplugging and replugging a PS2-style kbd will revive it. I don't know if this is accepted practice but I can report that it's saved my butt in certain circumstances when nothing else worked. * To unsubscribe from

Re: /usr/local (was: ext3)

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Iadonisi
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:02:13PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: > > In a message dated: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:26:11 EST > Paul Iadonisi said: > > > I normally don't speak up either, but I'm of the same mind as Red Hat. > >To be blunt, as a sysadmin, I despise the concept of throwing *all* of a > >p

Re: Where to get old machines

2001-12-04 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > My friends and I are about ready to put up a beowulf cluster out of > semi-old pentium based machines. We have one small problem.the > meachines. With the demise of Electronic Planet (by the Kinkos in > Nashua) we can't find a place that sells older computers wit

Older Machines

2001-12-04 Thread paulc
Hello to GNHLUG, source of old machines ... Nev's Monitor Depot 28 Charron Ave., Unit 13, (near Nashua Airport) Nashua NH 03063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Had some Pentium (MMX) 233 Mhz, AT Case, and used Laptops yesterday. As a matter of fact, they have lots of junk (floppies [drives], early

Re: /usr/local (was: ext3)

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:26:11 EST Paul Iadonisi said: > I normally don't speak up either, but I'm of the same mind as Red Hat. >To be blunt, as a sysadmin, I despise the concept of throwing *all* of a >packages files under a single directory. Well, to be fair I never advocated

RE: Where to get old machines

2001-12-04 Thread Rob Round
RST reclaiming is still there in Hudson, but they aren't open to the public anymore. I used them a lot when I worked across the street at Lockheed, but you have to make an appointment now to look at their stuff. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Beha

Re: /usr/local (was: ext3)

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Iadonisi
I normally don't speak up either, but I'm of the same mind as Red Hat. To be blunt, as a sysadmin, I despise the concept of throwing *all* of a packages files under a single directory. It typically makes PATH variables a mess. I'm sure I could think of other annoyances about that approach, but

RE: Where to get old machines

2001-12-04 Thread Rob Round
RST reclaiming is still there in Hudson, but they aren't open to the public anymore. I used them a lot when I worked across the street at Lockheed, but you have to make an appointment now to look at their stuff. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Beha

Re: Where to get old machines

2001-12-04 Thread Michael O'Donnell
>Try CEC Enterprises in North Chelmsford, MA. Really? I must be having mental block - I live in N.Chelmsford and I can't think which place you're referring to. I also recall that there is (used to be?) a place on the east side of the Merrimack approx 1/2 mile north of the NH/MA line that wa

Re: /usr/local (was: ext3)

2001-12-04 Thread Dana S. Tellier
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: [snip] > I can see their argument for where they put stuff: > > apache/httpd is a user, user stuff goes in /home/ > apache logs a whole bunch of stuff, logs go in /var/log/ > apache is a program, programs binaries go in /usr/bin >

Re: Where to get old machines

2001-12-04 Thread Marc Evans
Try CEC Enterprises in North Chelmsford, MA. - Marc On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Todd Littlefield wrote: > On the off chance that replies only go to you, could you summarize > the responses for the list? I've been looking for just such a place > myself, since EP went out of business. > > Thanks. > > Cm

CentraLUG mtg (Concord) Dec 12 moved/cancelled

2001-12-04 Thread Bobnhlinux
The CentraLUG / CNHLUG meeting for December in Concord, NH, is canceled or moved, depending on your point of view. We will all be attending the GNHLUG meeting @ Martha's exchange, right? Same day Dec 12, 6pm (dinner) or 7:30ish pm, (meeting), if things go as in past meetings. Correct me if that's

Re: ipchains/ssh

2001-12-04 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Joseph L. Hill wrote: > I added the following rule to ipchains.sh on a RH 7.2 server but I still > can't ssh into that server. > > ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -s any/0 --dport 22 -p tcp If the source should really be "any", then do not specify one at all, and the sou

Re: /usr/local (was: ext3)

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 13:19:09 EST "Dana S. Tellier" said: > I normally don't pipe in, but in this instance I had a sudden >thought. Where RedHat is coming from, MANY of their users are [...snip...] >People who've used only Windows and want to try "this Linux thing". Rig

Re: Where to get old machines

2001-12-04 Thread Todd Littlefield
On the off chance that replies only go to you, could you summarize the responses for the list? I've been looking for just such a place myself, since EP went out of business. Thanks. CmdrRoot wrote: > > My friends and I are about ready to put up a beowulf cluster out of > semi-old pentium based

Where to get old machines

2001-12-04 Thread CmdrRoot
My friends and I are about ready to put up a beowulf cluster out of semi-old pentium based machines. We have one small problem.the meachines. With the demise of Electronic Planet (by the Kinko's in Nashua) we can't find a place that sells older computers with same/similar specs cheaply. If a

Re: ipchains/ssh

2001-12-04 Thread Karl J. Runge
Is the syntax actually "-s any/0"? What happens if you remove "-s any/0" completely (that should be the same as matching anything, right?) On Tue, 04 Dec 2001, "Joseph L. Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I added the following rule to ipchains.sh on a RH 7.2 server but I still > can't

Bug tracking software

2001-12-04 Thread Rich Payne
Can anybody reccommend a decent bug tracking package (preferably open source) that keeps customers seperate? We've used bugzilla in the past and been happy with it, however I need a package that will keep customer A from seeing customer B's bugs, and vice versa (as they very well could be competi

ipchains/ssh

2001-12-04 Thread Joseph L. Hill
Hi, I added the following rule to ipchains.sh on a RH 7.2 server but I still can't ssh into that server. ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -s any/0 --dport 22 -p tcp if I stop the ipchains service then I can ssh in, (so it's not a tcpwrap issue). Any thoughts? Thanks, -joe -

Re: /usr/local (was: ext3)

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:35:54 EST Benjamin Scott said: > Ah, here you touch onto a unique problem with Linux. > > The reason Apache is normally installed in /usr/local on Sun, HP, SGI, and >so on, is that it is third-party software. Not that it's relevant, but 3rd party softwa

Re: ext3

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:27:40 EST Benjamin Scott said: > Sorry -- I meant migrating from one filesystem *format* to another, in >place. For example, if you countered a limitation in ext2, and wanted to >switch to ReiserFS, and did not have the ability to add additional disk >sp

/usr/local (was: ext3)

2001-12-04 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: > For example, the defacto standard installation location of apache was > always /usr/local/apache. RH changed that and scattered it all over the > place. Just leave it alone. Ah, here you touch onto a unique problem with Linux. The reason Apache is

Re: ext3

2001-12-04 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: >> That reminds me of people who say X11 is silly, because they have never >> "needed" to use one program from another machine on MS-Windows. I find >> the limitations of the system in use tend to shape what one regards as >> one's> "needs" quite a bit. :-

Re: ext3

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 19:35:37 EST Benjamin Scott said: >> If you're migrating from one fs to another, why would you be shrinking >> anything? > > 1. Shrink old FS and LV by some amount. > 2. Grow new LV and FS in the resulting free space. > 3. Move some data from old FS to new