> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:16 +1300, Daniel Grant wrote:
> > What is the output of these:
> > grep hdb1 /etc/mtab
>
> Nothing,
>
> > grep hdb1 /proc/mounts
>
> And nothing.
>
> >
> > I belive mount checks mtab, which could possibly get out
> &g
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 09:39 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> > Technically, you shouldn't use the terminating '/'...
> > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1
> > is better. However, here's a few questions:
> >
> > Does 'df' show an entry for /mnt/hdb1
>
> Nope,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -hT
> Filesystem
> I have set up a computer on a LAN.
>
> It runs Mandrake 9.2. I have set it up to obtain an IP
> address etc from the dhcp server on boot. The dhcp server
> in a standard multi purpose asdl modem.
>
> Everything works fine, an IP address is obtained and
> routing is set correctly.
>
> The only pr
> On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:19:16 +1200
> Zane Gilmore wrote:
>
> > Nick Rout wrote:
> > > None of it cheap, but if you are looking for technical
> > > books its a great place. Good for OT books too :-)
> > You're absolutely right there.
> > Although I counted about 6 different Linux magazines the
> >
> Hey folks
>
> While at work, I use Ihugs webmail service to monitor my
> personal emails. I seem to get all of the mail sent out
> delivered directly back to me.
>
> Anyone else using this service available to test it?
I've never had any issues before (except the reply-to being
prefilled)
Well
> They use an accounting package which bases its files on
> the Linux server. When a user uses the system it works
> fine. when they try to re-index the system it changes the
> user permissions on the files. As an example.
>
> /Local/SybizDrive - drwxrwxrwx root:root
>datafile.dbf -rwxrw
> BTW the new Knoppix 3.8.1 rulez all.. unionfs #1
>
> regards
>
> Paul Swafford
It is great fun. Booting up a cdrom and then doing an
apt-get update and then an apt-get remove/install something
is pretty funny. It is far more handy now being able to
directly edit stuff in /etc.
Now, all we nee
> I'm a little worried that my 'mail server' PC is getting
> overloaded and I am losing emails etc.,
Inbound mail? You shouldn't lose outbound mail. Do you
have a secondary (backup) MX?
Or is this client pc's to server mail?
> or that I am
> having delays in outgoing mail. How can I set up som
>
> > > /media/usb if I just pull it out, but I want to
> > > unmount it before pulling it out.
> >
> > You don't really need to unmount before pulling the
> > thing out, a sync should do (and then give it a second
> > or two). Has always worked for me. No data loss.
>
> Actually, you could also t
> > /media/usb if I just pull it out, but I want to unmount
> > it before pulling it out.
>
> You don't really need to unmount before pulling the thing
> out, a sync should do (and then give it a second or two).
> Has always worked for me. No data loss.
Actually, you could also try to set it to m
> Hotplug (running as root) mounts my usb drive, so only
> root can umount it. Is there any way I can allow the
> normal user to umount it?
>
> I do have the "user" option in /etc/fstab, but that's only
> useful if the user mounted it in the first place.
Can you add the "users" option instead?
> spamassassin is running almost fine, but seems to give too
> much weight to one factor. The factor is ALL_TRUSTED -
> which means all the MTA's the mail has gone thru are
> trusted, or conversely are not known spam
> senders/relayers. ALL_TRUSTED gives a negative score (ie
> less likely to be spa
>
> I've had my google search attempts blocked by google - I
> get a page saying that I'm a bot searching google and to
> check my machine for viruses and spyware.
>
> Now, my logs don't show any excessive google access, and
> iptraf on the firewall can't find any either. Anyone else
> come across
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:35:36 +1300
> yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:28:48 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> > > Some people prefer to work from the command
> > > line, even if they're in an X session, so a method of
> > > elevating privs that also preserves $DISPLAY and X
> sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="username"
password=]
> sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x2 user="username"
password=]
> rcvd [PAP AuthNak id=0x0 52 65 71 75 65 73 74 20 44 65 6e
69 65 64]
Hex String "52 65 71 75 65 73 74 20 44 65 6e 69 65 64" in
ASCII: Request Denied
Check the username and password again.
> Er - its a humor site right?
Scroll down to the very bottom of the page for your answer.
Or try the front page (http://www.bbspot.com/). The
slashdot story generator is always good for a laugh.
That said the related "news" in the article should be a bit
of a give away:
- Microsoft Announces A
>
> I see from my logs that someone has repeatedly sending
> mail to a non-existent user on my system (for once this is
> something I actually want, not a piece of spam)
>
> How should the sending smtp server react to constant
> messages from my smtp server to the effect that the
> message is rejec
> hi,
>
> I am trying to get exim+procmail on fresh install of debian(woody) to
> to run the following (testing) script whenever the user recieves an
> email with the subject consisting soley of numbers:.
>
> ~/.procmailrc:
> PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$HOME/scripts
> MAILDIR=$HOME/.mailspool
> D
>
> I'm just setting up RH9 to use a time server (from KDE
> using the Date/Time Properties dialog).
>
> What time server should I use given I'm using an xtra
> connection?
Probably pool.ntp.org
> Does xtra have a time server does anyone know?
No from memory. I believe they even state so on the
Roger Searle wrote:
Sorry for not being clear: I've moved from using vncviewer to "remote
desktop connection" on my linux box.
From the vncviewer(1) manpage under the POPUP WINDOW section:
The viewer has a popup window containing a set of buttons which perform
various actions. It is usually bro
> Thanks Daniel,
>
> That's been a big help - a better handle on it gained.
>
> We have two MASQUERADE entries.
>
> Now, why doesn't #iptables -F clear them out?!
it clears out the filter table by default.
> or?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# iptables -F POSTROUTING
> iptables: No chain/target/ma
> Ok, so we've spotted the $ error (script syntax differs
> from CLI); command accepted..
The $ in the script indicated it was a variable, which was
being set in your script. You were setting it to ppp0 in
the script (the EXTIF="ppp0" line).
> Shouldn't this be working now?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED
Vik Olliver wrote:
To avoid my wife throttling me, can anyone tell me how to tell apt-get
to throttle its bandwidth usage?
Well, I use apt-proxy which acts as a caching proxy, and uses wget to
download the packages. Edit the config file
(/etc/apt-proxy/apt-proxy.conf) and add --limit-rate=4k (or
>
> I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but I've learned
> heaps doing it this way.
>
> I'm trying to generate yesterday's date and then pass it
> as an arguement to a command.
date -d 'yesterday'
and format as required
Regards
Daniel
Andy George wrote:
1> Is there a way that I can make the REMOTE machine on an SSH connection
beep? To attract the attention of the machines owner?
You will need write permissions on /dev/console ( and you will annoy
anyone logged on at the console :))
(using bash)
echo -e '\a' > /dev/console
\a
> 0% [1 gaim 11584/2509KB 0%]
> Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/updates gaim
> 1:0.75-0.9.0
> Error reading from server Remote end closed connection
> [IP: 193.1.219.82 80]
> Failed to fetch
>
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/RPMS.updates/gaim-0.75-0.9.0.i386.rpm
> Error reading
> Mind you, isn't the whole point of a router to join 2
> seperate networks? The router has two ports, one on each
> network and as far as the VNC client is concerned the
> packets are sourced to and sent from a device on its own
> network with the router taking care of getting the traffic
> betwee
> I have set up a Linux box to act as a router between two
> networks here at work.
> eth0 has IP 155.190.50.52 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0
> eth1 has IP 203.110.12.230 with netmask 255.255.255.240
>
> I want to route any traffic on port 5900 from equipment on
> eth0 to a machine with IP 203.11
> I want to build a binary rpm from a source rpm, without
> installing the binaries on the system, ie I don't want to
> risk mucking up my existing installation of the earlier
> version of same package.
First of all then, don't build as root. A badly written
spec file could install over the top o
I've tried IPtraf, but that doesn't show (that I know of) traffic
sorted by Ip and volume (it does do MAC addresses, but that doesn't help
with switches etc in between). Arpwatch will show fake IP headers, snort
does work, but takes a while to set up. In the end, using Ethereal and
sorting by sourc
> Hi all,
>
> I've downloaded the tarball of a package I want (net-snmp)
> , untarred and run the ./configure with the options I
> want and finally `make`. Now I want to find out where
> all the binaries, man pages, configs etc are going to end
> up when I run `make install`.
make -n install
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