Re: Tunneling a protocol over ssh

2003-11-04 Thread Ed Robbins
Here ya go, I do the exact same thing. I build an ssh tunnel from work to my home and it is very seemless, once you figure out the routing. /usr/sbin/pppd proxyarp noauth pty "ssh home -p 22 -C -2 '/usr/sbin/pppd proxyarp notty noauth 192.168.100.20:192.168.100.21'" 192.168.100.21:192.168.100.

Tunneling a protocol over ssh

2003-11-04 Thread Chris
I have a problem at work because they have turned off nearly all our ports outgoing as well as incoming what I would like to do is this... HOME Linux box running a vncserver | | | CABLE MODEM | | | Firewall at work

Re: X with ssh, (was Novell to acquire Suse)

2003-11-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
It occurs to me that I've been sloppy (if not outright incorrect) with my terminology so maybe (an attempt at) some clarification is in order. Let's call Dan's desktop machine (with the X server) machineX - this is the machine where Dan wants to initiate the SSH connection from and which has the

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Bill Sconce
[...] > X11Forwardingyes > X11DisplayOffset 10 > > ...and you want to be sure that those capabilities > aren't being overridden in the /etc/default/ssh files, > which are read by the SSH daemons on startup. This is one of the really great discussions, the kind of thing which can s

Re: X with ssh, (was Novell to acquire Suse)

2003-11-04 Thread Dan Coutu
Michael ODonnell wrote: Well, I have had no problem with this when interacting with other flavors of Linux or even FreeBSD. So I'm certain it is not my local system that's the problem. I'm using ssh to connect remotely like this: ssh -XCA -l mylogin remote.system.name OK - so you're instr

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Well, I have had no problem with this when interacting with other > flavors of Linux or even FreeBSD. So I'm certain it is not my > local system that's the problem. > > I'm using ssh to connect remotely like this: > > ssh -XCA -l mylogin remote.system.name OK - so you're instructing the SSH

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:44, Dan Coutu wrote: > I tried Cole's suggestion of installing xbase-clients but that didn't do > it. I had been thinking > that perhaps I needed to start with a remote environment that already > had a valid DISPLAY > defined because it was a workstation. Can anyone verif

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Dan Coutu
Michael ODonnell wrote: The biggest burr in my butt so far has been trying to get the systems so that I can use X applications (like xemacs) on the servers that display back to my desktop via an SSH tunnel. The servers do not have X installed on them because they're not workstations. But it sure

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
> The biggest burr in my butt so far has been trying to get > the systems so that I can use X applications (like xemacs) on > the servers that display back to my desktop via an SSH tunnel. > The servers do not have X installed on them because they're not > workstations. But it sure would be nice

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 13:18, Dan Coutu wrote: > Paul Lussier wrote: > The biggest burr in my butt so far has been trying to get the systems so > that I can use X > applications (like xemacs) on the servers that display back to my > desktop via an SSH > tunnel. The servers do not have X installed

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Dan Coutu
Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:51:32 EST Dan Coutu said: It seems like the only distribution not in turmoil lately is Debian and they are just really really slow. (I know, they like to say they're 'stable'.) I've never been bothered by Debian's release cycle.

Re: Debian slow to release (was: Novell to acquire Suse)

2003-11-04 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:50:23 EST "Ken D'Ambrosio" said: > I have a local Debian repository I rsync nightly -- which allows for > _really_ fast net installs -- and so forth and so on. Will it bake > brownies for me? No. Is it the easiest to install, or the best at > hardware de

RE: Debian slow to release (was: Novell to acquire Suse)

2003-11-04 Thread Travis Roy
> But Debian's whole process -- > and apt-get's ease-of-use -- is really, really hard to argue with. I know this has also been said a hundred times before.. but apt is NOT the packaging system deb is.. you can get apt for Redhat and use it with RPMS... up2date (if you pay for it) works kind of lik

Debian slow to release (was: Novell to acquire Suse)

2003-11-04 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
> I've never been bothered by Debian's release cycle. I run > Debian/Testing on my desktop with Debian/Stable on my servers. If I > need a newer version of package on my stable servers, it's usually > available from backports.org. I know that this has all been hashed out before, but I'm going to

Re: Calendaring (server side)?

2003-11-04 Thread Greg Rundlett
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, all. It's come to my attention that the only real reason I can't just > outright dump Outlook on my end-users' machines is because of calendaring. [snip] > So: I'm looking for something, server-side, that's RFC 2445 (iCal) > compliant, t

Re: Calendaring (server side)?

2003-11-04 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 17:20:27 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, all. It's come to my attention that the only real reason I can't just > outright dump Outlook on my end-users' machines is because of calendaring. > Furthermore -- regardless of platform -- it would be super-duper handy to >

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
The thing that's got me confused is... what's Novell planning on doing? First Ximian, now SuSE -- where are they going? Are they trying to be a Linux powerhouse? If so, why? What do they intend to do with Netware? Maybe an attempt to coalesce them? Or is this yet another in a long string of b

Re: OT: Video formats

2003-11-04 Thread Paul Lussier
On 3 Nov 2003, at 1:13pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My digital camera does 1 minute movie clips. However, it writes them as > .MOV files, which I can only seem to view with Quicktime (even though the > manual says that they are "Motion JPEG" files). Does anyone know how I can > convert these file

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
> announcement had left me thinking that maybe SuSe would be a good > choice for the distribution to switch to. I've been playing around with Suse 9.0 and I can confirm that it doesn't suck. > It seems like the only distribution not in turmoil lately is Debian > and they are just really reall

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:51:32 EST Dan Coutu said: >It seems like the only distribution not in turmoil lately is Debian >and they are just really really slow. (I know, they like to >say they're 'stable'.) I've never been bothered by Debian's release cycle. I run Debian/Testing on

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Derek Doucette
Dan Coutu said: > On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 09:40, Michael ODonnell wrote: >> http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/novell_suse.html > > This is pretty interesting. Now couple this with Red Hat's announcement > yesterday that they were discontinuing the ordinary Red Hat Linux >

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Bill Sconce
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:51:32 -0500 Dan Coutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 09:40, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/novell_suse.html > > This is pretty interesting. Now couple this with Red Hat's announcement > yesterda

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Marc Evans
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Dan Coutu wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 09:40, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/novell_suse.html > > This is pretty interesting. Now couple this with Red Hat's announcement > yesterday that they were discontinuing the

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Dan Coutu
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 09:40, Michael ODonnell wrote: > http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/novell_suse.html This is pretty interesting. Now couple this with Red Hat's announcement yesterday that they were discontinuing the ordinary Red Hat Linux distribution and only sel

Re: Building a Linux Distro

2003-11-04 Thread Derek Doucette
Are you referring to linux from scratch type of place? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Also another place with some good resources is BYO Linux http://www.byolinux.org/ Hope that is what you are looking for. Derek Doucette http://derek.homeunix.org Paul Lussier said: > > Hi all, > > At one tim

Building a Linux Distro

2003-11-04 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, At one time I could have sworn there was a HOWTO on how to build your own Linux Distro. Now, even with the help of google, I can't find any such thing. Maybe I'm searching on the wrong thing. Anyway, does anyone know where I can find docs on building a Linux distro? (extra points for b

Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
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RE: Calendaring (server side)?

2003-11-04 Thread Sharpe, Richard
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