Re: Wildcards: What is the equiv to dos REN *.txt *.old

*.txt backups/$NOW/. Try doing that in DOS :) - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo http://hairy.geek.nz/ | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE

Re: ADSL router capable of multiple VPN connections to same server?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Matthew Gregan wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:41:21PM +1200, David Zanetti wrote: That depends on a lot of factors and exactly what you define as a packet filter or a firewall. Yes, and it depends what you define NAT

Re: Wildcards: What is the equiv to dos REN *.txt *.old

things, like renaming such that case is changed to all lower-case, and many other useful things. See rename(1). - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo http://hairy.geek.nz/ | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6

RE: OT -ADSL router capable of multiple VPN connections to same s erve r?

diminishing returns for expending more and more effort, and you _still_ won't be perfect. You can go pretty far in this stuff, locked down PCs, 802.1x, and it's not cheap. But someone will work a way around it. It just takes time. - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include geek

RE: OT -ADSL router capable of multiple VPN connections to same s erve r?

, but it's easy to implement. - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo http://hairy.geek.nz/ | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE/cSB0T21+qRy4P

Re: lilo problem

`lilo` to install it. - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo http://hairy.geek.nz/ | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE/Z9qYT21+qRy4P

Re: Setting up DNS?

. Alterantively, configure both machines to have the ISP nameservers and allow at least udp/53 out, NATing as appropriate. - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo http://hairy.geek.nz/ | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Where/when does debian turn swapon

in the process. It's done just before fsck'ing the root filesystem, after it works out if it's safe to do (seem to check wether it's an older kernel and swap is on an md device..) Can send whole file if you'd prefer. - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( oo

Re: default route

dist you're running? Kinda hard to offer anything other than well, on Debian it'll be in /etc/network/interfaces but since you're running random dist X I don't know.. :) - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo http://hairy.geek.nz/ | /(_O

Re: Screen Snapshots

? - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo http://hairy.geek.nz/ | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE/VqDKT21+qRy4P+QRAvt4AKCO4ZaTmTdMvUmbRBKgA1zhKmIX

Re: Hardware compatibility

that in the case of RAID cards, you might still have some problems installing other distributions (eg, Debian is one for this problem) where the RAID card driver insists on implementing it's own block device instead of just appearing as a SCSI device. Some Compaq RAID cards fall into that problem. - -- David

Re: Distro for a server

2.1 .. etc. - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo http://hairy.geek.nz/ | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE/VTY4T21+qRy4P

Re: Paradise spam + virus filtering

be as low as 1 second if you wish, but I wouldn't suggest doing that :) The important thing to understand is that it DOES NOT MATTER where you are in the network, the propogation time is entirely based on caching of the answers, and nothing else. - -- David Zanetti

Re: Paradise spam + virus filtering

and the cache must re-fetch it. This has _nothing_ to do with the DNS in that case, it has to do with what expiry and revalidation information is on the HTTP response, as well as the configuration of the HTTP Proxy. - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( oo

Re: ./ (having to include when using the command-line)

to typing ./prog for things in the current directory I don't even notice it any more. - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing. | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: whats wrong with my regex?

a literal \, so try: grep nick\\t file - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing. | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6

Re: Fun with serial port lines

. - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing. | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE/R0BaT21+qRy4P+QRAkpLAKC/8ON3r

Re: Squid auth

usernames/passwords from SMB sources, unless you're confident your local wire is secure, since Basic HTTP auth is plain-text equivilent. You're exposing your SMB passwords quite a bit. - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope

Re: IP Masquerading, Is this ok?

/rp_filter - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing. | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE/NuV4T21+qRy4P

Re: Silent / Fanless options ??

fileserver/gateway/anythingserver at home?), you'd be better off ditching the CF and just using PXE and nfs-root. - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing. | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: NVidia Drivers and Gentoo

, you don't have MTRR support. /proc/mtrr is world-readable on most of the kernels I've used, so user won't matter. - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing. | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Identifying filesystem type

won't follow a symlink, since identifying a symlink is Useful. - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing. | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made

Re: Identifying filesystem type

/homevg /dev/mainvg/homevg: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery) The -s switch is important, othewise it'll (correctly) just identify it as a block device :) - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope

Re: Identifying filesystem type

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Carl Klitscher wrote: and df -T will also return info... Only of mounted filesystems, the same way `mount` does with no arguments. - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( oo

Re: Identifying filesystem type

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Robert Fisher wrote: No, still not there... [EMAIL PROTECTED] robert $ file -Ls /dev/hdc3 /dev/hdc3: Are you sure you actually have such a partition on the disk? What does /proc/partitions say? - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL

Re: CD's/speed

there. Pit length would definately affect audio quality on some players, as if it's too far out of spec the player probably won't like it too much! :) - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing. | /(_O

Re: VMWARE on Duron 900

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Nick Rout wrote: or do I dd if=/dev/cdrom of=win2k.iso This works, I've done it a few times. - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing

RE: How to mount a scsi tape drive?

/local/sbin are usually non-package managed or locally installed binaries. Hope this helps :) - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing. | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6

Re: How to mount a scsi tape drive?

can be used to verify the message was signed by a key which I claim to use. - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing. | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Re: How to mount a scsi tape drive?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Bryce Stenberg wrote: When I type 'mt status' I get: -bash: mt: command not found Are you root? It may not be in the non-root path. Otherwise, mt-st is the package you're after (in at least Debian) - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL

Re: How to mount a scsi tape drive?

if there's no /dev/tape symlink, ala `mt -f /dev/... status`. - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing. | /(_O ./ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine

Re: File resume in linux?

is capable of resuming (not all FTP servers behave right, but almost all HTTP server should since resumption is a native part of the spec).. - -- David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (__) #include geek/unix.h | ( ooMooo Hope.. is a dangerous thing. | /(_O

Re: ssh through closed network with proxy server?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: If bouncer supports proxies, it should be possible to set up the sshd on any port outside $corporate - correct? Having to set up sshd for bouncer on port 443 at home can be a stopper id there's a web

Re: Problems updating a kernel...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Carl Cerecke wrote: Steve Brorens wrote: By the way, this whole business of multiple filesystems and having to preset the sizes is A Real Pain for users used to any other OS - is there any move to fix whatever obscure

Re: filesystems (Was: Problems updating a kernel...)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Steve Brorens wrote: Hmm, looks to me as if LVM's solving a slightly different problem in a sense - that of managing lotsa disks. For most non-server installations the problem is surely that we want to give all or part of the

Re: Shadowed Passwords

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, David Stephen wrote: When installing certain applications, such as diald and postgres, the instructions recommend running them with a purpose established user/group like postgres/postgres. I presume that these should be

Re: Debian Install Problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Andre Renaud wrote: Request_Module[Block-Major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot Open root device 03:41 kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root device on 03:47 It looks like your root device has changed - ie: You

Re: Cross platform stuff (slightly OT)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Hamish McBrearty wrote: We have a bit of a dilemma here. The school has just purchased a web management suit for filtering and monitoring of student web useage. It's a great product, using the NT login name to track users.

Re: Cross platform stuff (slightly OT)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Chris Hellyar wrote: Craig, does your setup using smb work without users having to re-enter their credentials? I tried it out a while ago and got varied results depending on client side browser version and OS.. I'll bet

Re: ls | egrep | rm ???

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Paul wrote: I am trying to delete files by piping the output from ls to egrep to rm : ls | egrep '(cd|CD)' | rm find is probably a more appropriate tool in this instance. Try `find -iname \*cd\* -exec rm \{\} \;` I'd

Re: Software raid mirroring

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: have a friend whose using this and one of the two drives that are part of the mirror died, whats the quick way of sorting this out when the new drive is put in? Add the new disk, make sure it's

Re: MSN Messenger for Linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Kevin Linux account wrote: Has any one used the MSN Messenger client for Linux? How do perform GAIM is what I use, despite it's name it does MSN. Works flawlessly. - -- I know of no technological device at this time that

Re: uname

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Chris Hellyar wrote: I'll play this game... Why not.. :) No bragging rights per se, tho.. Linux wakko 2.4.19 #2 Fri Nov 1 19:53:05 NZDT 2002 i686 unknown It's #2 because I added LVM support on that date, so I could do this:

Re: iptables

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added these iptables rules to my server/gateway but it makes traffic server go VERY slow eg. mail, POP3, SSH. When I removed them it went ok. The idea of the following rules is to allow incoming SMTP

Re: iptables

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, David Zanetti wrote: [clip, iptables rules] Opps, add the following before the established/related line: iptables -N services iptables -N logdrop Forgot you had to create the custom chains before using them :) - -- I know

Re: Video 4 Linux, PVR's etc..

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Vik Olliver wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 13:25, Adrian Robertson wrote: Where in NZ can you find BTTV cards? All I can find is non BTTV cards. Maybe I have not looked hard enough. Not sure where mine came from now. See

Re: A step backward!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jonathan Viney wrote: You are confusing users with system commands. Root is a user on the system. 'root' itself is a user not a command. To change to the root user run su root You may wish to use a login shell, in which

Re: ADSL Setup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Hansen Loke wrote: Too bad they won't have cables to my place for another year or so. I take it that they installed a splitter for you? What are thier rates and do they have a data limit? No splitter involved, access over

Re: Upgrade suggestions - mobo + Athlon

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Andrew J Sands wrote: [Gigabyte board, Athlon XP 1800+] As (and any flames to /dev/null) this system is likely to triple/quad boot; has anybody on the list had serious difficulties with the Athlon(??) processors or should I

Re: Help!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Peter Cornelius wrote: As a Mandrake newbie from Saturday I believe the first thing I need to do is to come to terms with some of the new expressions, commands and abbreviations. I was advised from whence to download some

Re: vmware users on the list?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Chris Hellyar wrote: Are there any users of VMware on the list who use it day to day? ie: running Office 2K or similar under windows 2k or 98 on a LAN, I ran VMWare 2.x for about a year and a half as my work Win32 desktop.