Re: [ilugd] Our IP getting listed in cbl again and again

2006-11-30 Thread Tom Cooper
Raj Shekhar wrote: in infinite wisdom Sangeeta Joneja spoke thus On 11/09/2006 04:12 PM: mydestination = $mydomain example.com example1.com mydomain = example.com myhostname = example.com Set your relay host to be your ISP's smtp server. ___

Re: [ilugd] Bowing before strategic charities!

2005-12-20 Thread Tom Cooper
Hi all, To add to this story. When the South African Government went open source, Microsoft offered free software to all the schools. All that was needed was to fill in an application form. That fact was widely publicised. However, what was never publicised was the fact that very few schools,

Re: [ilugd] Bowing before strategic charities!

2005-12-20 Thread Tom Cooper
Alex M Alex wrote: Dear tom The whole issue is on the Freedom and the freedom to Modify. Some References: 1. http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/ 2.http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html 3. http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html 4. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html 5.

Re: [ilugd] Some thoughts on LUGs (globally)...

2005-12-14 Thread Tom Cooper
Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote: One of the biggest challenges facing LUGs at the moment stems from the fact that a growing number have existed for ten years or more. Many of us know each other quite well, and newcomers often find it difficult to get a word in without feeling that they're somehow

[ilugd] [OT]: Gmail invites.

2005-12-02 Thread Tom Cooper
Hi all, I have 49 gmail invites. Anybody wanting one? Contact me off-list. Tom ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi

[ilugd] Some good reasons for using Open Source

2005-11-30 Thread Tom Cooper
Hi all, This makes for some very interesting reading. http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html Regards, Tom ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] pics from foss.in

2005-11-30 Thread Tom Cooper
Akshay Lamba wrote: Dear all, Some pics from foss.in http://www.lambaweb.com/images/foss/ Very nice. I quite enjoyed them. Did you see the guy in the second last picture giving a plumber's smile, though? Tom ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] pics from foss.in

2005-11-30 Thread Tom Cooper
Akshay Lamba wrote: Not sure which one u're referring to tom, though there is one of mine in there somewhere grinning off to glory!! Akshay The last one where the guy's pants are hanging down and you see the top of his bum. ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] pics from foss.in

2005-11-30 Thread Tom Cooper
Akshay Lamba wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 08:21 +0200, Tom Cooper wrote: The last one where the guy's pants are hanging down and you see the top of his bum. Guess i missed that and from your description would like to keep it that way!! That's what is called a plumber's smile

Re: [ilugd] [OT] MTNL DSL connectivity

2005-11-22 Thread Tom Cooper
Well, Mithun, all I can say is I can't wait to see Telscum (Telkom) having their butts kicked. To give you guys and idea how expensive telecommunications is over here, a study was recently done in Cape Town proving that you will save ZAR 2000.00, give or take, to fly to Hong Kong, go to an

Re: [ilugd] [OT] MTNL DSL connectivity

2005-11-21 Thread Tom Cooper
Hi all, Just to add my 2c worth. Here in South Africa broadband is a bit of a joke and costs of telephony is possibly the highest in the world. Consider this: 128k X21 connectivity costs ZAR 10260.00 per month. That still excludes the line rental, which amounts to roughly ZAR 2500.00 per

Re: [ilugd] IPtables

2005-11-14 Thread Tom Cooper
Hi Manish, Take a look at shorewall. I'm sure it can do it for you. HTH Tom Manish Popli wrote: Hi All, I want give access to my some users for some perticuler time let say in the morning and in the evening. on my linux server ..rite now they are able to access 24*7 which i dunno want For

Re: [ilugd] broadcast mailing for all users

2005-07-08 Thread Tom Cooper
Hi, Why not use something like majordomo/mailman? It is quite efficient. Regards, Tom Dear all I want to send one news to all users on my linux box. I had created some aliases for perticular groups using aliases file like group1: user1,user2, but now i want to send mail to all users

Re: [ilugd] Firewall

2005-06-28 Thread Tom Cooper
Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: Hardware: Pentium II 266 MHz, 96MB RAM I need to make this a gateway - routing, firewall and potentially squid too. Don't put squid on such a low spec machine. It has a relatively large footprint. The 'net is slow enough as it is. Don't slow it down even more. In

Re: [ilugd] router on 6.2

2005-05-27 Thread Tom Cooper
SWAPNIL wrote: Dear sir, Thanks for you valuable information. I have gone through the steps, but in this way all systems in my network will directly access the internet if they add my server address in their gateway. I need to set some rules e.g. From my network the machine with IP

Re: [ilugd] router on 6.2

2005-05-26 Thread Tom Cooper
Hi, On RH6.2 you have to edit /etc/sysctl.conf and change the setting net.ipv4.ip_forward to yes. Then you have to use ipchains, as iptables was not availabe yet. Use the following: ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0/0 -j MASQ This is assuming your private IP address is in the network