RE: [plug] please help with majordomo

2001-08-30 Thread Fritz Mesedilla
yup. it was really left unattended. kailangan ko pang kumuha ng walis tambo para linisan yung dumi. no kidding. no security or anything. it was for a test mailing list ng kabilang department. tapos nag-resign yung sysad so iniwan na lang yun. nakalimutan. i was passing by. then i saw it, parang b

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Orlando Andico
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote: .. > If you run /Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/g_auto_install from the > install CD of Mandrake 8.0 it is suppose to run a _simulated_ install and > the resulting auto_inst.cfg.pl can be used to autoinstall. I would suggest Corel Linux. Their

RE: [plug] please help with majordomo

2001-08-30 Thread Fritz Mesedilla
thanks so much! i guess you're right, i'm better of reformatting it. uh, weird question... what is IMHO? and HTH? hehe. sorry. di ko alam eh. Fritz Mesedilla Systems Administrator Summit Interactive, Inc. FHM | Seventeen | Candy | Cosmopolitan | Preview | Good Housekeeping femalenetwork.com | ca

Re: [plug] very nice background

2001-08-30 Thread Junn Flores
we've tried the site sacha gave but it's different from the one in linux10. i was more pronounced and good-looking. --- Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > copy and paste from sacha's answer in > ph-linux-newbie: > > > Mr. Rene Torres of

Re: [plug] Re: MandrakeFreq #3

2001-08-30 Thread Juan Miguel Cacho
En Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:46:24AM +0800, Federico Sevilla III escribio: #_ Marvin, #_ (cc PLUG in case someone there can help us) #_ #_ Quoting "Marvin T. Pascual" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: #_ > Last night I just check the Linux MandrakeFreq #3 that you gave me and I #_ > found out that it's still Ma

[plug] [ OT ] LDAP Inquiry

2001-08-30 Thread Marvin T. Pascual
Guys, Can you please explain to me clearly what's the use of LDAP and when to use it, and what's the difference between LDAP and Relational Database? Also, can you recommend a good Open Source LDAP besides OpenLDAP and it's site where I can download it? I'm still confused with LDAP. All I know

Re: [plug] scp question

2001-08-30 Thread Jimmy
Thank you to all who replied, now I found my probem, here's my workaround, I'd like to copy my file from remote host(orion) and I spawn a command $scp myscreen.jpg jimmy@orion:/home/jimmy/myscreen.jpg and the error appears upon looking at the global variables of my profile I found

RE: [plug] Sercuring a New Linux Box

2001-08-30 Thread Ronneil Camara
> -Original Message- > From: KRYPTON [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [plug] Sercuring a New Linux Box > > Question: What are the basic sercurity that I have to do in > making a server > so that I wont be > having th

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Juan Miguel Cacho
En Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:34:31AM +0800, neuroticimbecile escribio: #_ #_ hi jeff, #_ #_ that's just what qlinux did. we got a plain redhat 6.2 distro, fooled #_ around with its install scripts so that all the user has to do is pop the #_ cd into the cd drive and boot. after a few minutes, you

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Marvin T. Pascual
> hi jeff, > > if you want to check it out i think there are still some of them in the > office. please email me privately. > > -eric Eric, I think Jeff is not in the Philippines right now. = ) Marvin _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To lea

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Juan Miguel Cacho
En Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 01:24:29AM +0800, Ian C. Sison escribio: #_ #_ Missing the point here. I wasn't advocating something like LFS. I was #_ advocating modifying an existing distro (mdk or rhat) to suit the needs of #_ a normal office. It would include pre-integrated versions of #_ #_ LTSP

[plug] Re: MandrakeFreq #3

2001-08-30 Thread Federico Sevilla III
Marvin, (cc PLUG in case someone there can help us) Quoting "Marvin T. Pascual" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Last night I just check the Linux MandrakeFreq #3 that you gave me and I > found out that it's still MandrakeFreq #2. Can you still replace it to > MandrakeFreq #3? Thanks in advance. = ) I

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread neuroticimbecile
On Thursday 30 August 2001 22:54, you wrote: > #Gawa ng distro na nakapackage primarily para sa gobyerno na may sangkap > #Pinoy. > # > > I tend to agree with D.S. Sarmiento's point on this -- build around an > already existing distribution. The effort that'll be spent on maintaining > a separate

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Ian C. Sison
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, D. S. Sarmiento wrote: > 4000 packages is indeed bloated. if Mandrake doesnt fit the bill then > get another distro that will. am sure the single cd versions of > caldera, suse or turbolinux contains less than 80 packages staroffice > included. then you can spend the rest of

Re: [plug] partition

2001-08-30 Thread Tonton Rabena
gamit ka nalang ng disk druid.. mas madadalian ka mag partition.. =) - Original Message - From: "Jaypee B Molina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philippine Linux Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 5:14 PM Subject: [plug] partition > good day! gusto ko lang sanang m

Re: [plug] Sercuring a New Linux Box

2001-08-30 Thread Tonton Rabena
hrmm.. 1. close all unnecessary ports.. check your inetd.conf or xinetd or some daemons (portmap, lpd, statd, rpc.* etc..) 2. use tcpwrappers 3. use secure connection... ssl or ssh 4. check for latest software updates 5. use firewall (ipchains / iptables) - Original Message - From: "KR

Re: [plug] B&W monitor

2001-08-30 Thread JMG
runlevel 3 is my default. and i do not have xwindows installed so i don't have the xconfigurator. will look up the threads. thanks. On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Rowel Atienza wrote: > > > > I have a rh7.1 and rh6.2, i believe that the default installation if for > > colored monitor. how do i reconfigure

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread D. S. Sarmiento
4000 packages is indeed bloated. if Mandrake doesnt fit the bill then get another distro that will. am sure the single cd versions of caldera, suse or turbolinux contains less than 80 packages staroffice included. then you can spend the rest of your time to create more applications that could b

Re: [plug] Sercuring a New Linux Box

2001-08-30 Thread iiperez
>Question: What are the basic sercurity that I have to do in making a server >so that I wont be >having this kind of problems. I know there are alot , maybe some ports I >have to close? or >basic scripts? > >Please advise Hello SuperMAN; I hope this PDF file will give you some idea; http://w

Re: Re: [plug] partition

2001-08-30 Thread Jaypee B Molina
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >AFAIK, there's an option to what filesystem you'll make in your partition >during your installation and one of which is make it a swap partition. Try >to check it again. = ) okay. thanks!!! :) __ www.edsamail.com _ Philippine Linux Us

Re: [plug] please help with majordomo

2001-08-30 Thread Kelsey Hartigan Go
One way is to check the process running or not. It is possible that ps and netstat may be compromised, possibly even login. What you can do is get these files from another uncompromised system and run it. 1 telltale sign when you do netstat or ps is that some of the connections may not show

Re: [plug] Sercuring a New Linux Box

2001-08-30 Thread Ian C. Sison
You should take a look a Bastille Linux On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, KRYPTON wrote: > Good day to all! > > I have this problem whenever I make a new server it seems that I'm missing > something > although its working the way I want it to. May nakaka hack sa mga servers ko... > There are times na nawawa

Re: [plug] Re: Playing around with NFS+XFS

2001-08-30 Thread Ian C. Sison
Whoops! missed your earlier post! Sorry! _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [plug] Re: Playing around with NFS+XFS

2001-08-30 Thread Ian C. Sison
Hi Jijo, did you try bonnie in these tests? Bonnie is a much better stress tester. On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > Some follow-up stuff: > > I ran the sequential write tests using dd as in: > > # time dd if=/dev/zero of=/opt/test/test.img bs=1M count=3000 > > with three set

Re: [plug] B&W monitor

2001-08-30 Thread Bob Williams
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Rowel Atienza wrote: > I guess what you want is to have text mode (b&w console login) > instead of X11 (gnome,kde,x) Or is it a paperwhite monitor that you want X, but no color? In which case, Xconfigurator is the right tool for a RedHat box. The monitor type wil

Re: [plug] please help with majordomo

2001-08-30 Thread Rino Mardo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 if it has been left unattended online (even with a firewall) it could have been compromised. and yes the only to make sure that there are no trojans there is to disconnect it from the network, reformat and reinstall. even if there are sniffer sniffe

RE: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT WAS>> Re: [ph-linux-newbie] Help:Implementing Thin Clients

2001-08-30 Thread Chris G Haravata
Hey, guys! > How about if we conduct a sort of symposium/seminar on the "Advantages of > Linux and the Open Source Softwares" or "What can Linux do or something" > and invite the top-level management of different government agencies > (especially the DOST - should support this plan) first? I ass

Re: [plug] B&W monitor

2001-08-30 Thread Rowel Atienza
> I have a rh7.1 and rh6.2, i believe that the default installation if for > colored monitor. how do i reconfigure my boxes for B&W monitor without > reinstallation? > I guess what you want is to have text mode (b&w console login) instead of X11 (gnome,kde,x) as your default m

Re: [plug] partition

2001-08-30 Thread Marvin T. Pascual
- Original Message - From: Jaypee B Molina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philippine Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 5:14 PM Subject: [plug] partition > good day! gusto ko lang sanang magpaturo how to set a partition na "linux swap" sa installation ng red ha

[plug] red hat and mandrake

2001-08-30 Thread Jaypee B Molina
hello guys! after attending the linux10 seminar at asia pacific college, try ko agad install yung binili kong cd, red hat 7.1. at nagustuhan ko sya kasi ang ganda na talaga ng "presentations" nya, compared to mandrake 6.2 at 7.1. lalo na yung boot image nya, ang galing. tsaka pag nagsta-startup

[plug] partition

2001-08-30 Thread Jaypee B Molina
good day! gusto ko lang sanang magpaturo how to set a partition na "linux swap" sa installation ng red hat 7.1. hindi ko kasi mapalitan yung "linux native" kapag ginagamit ko yung fdisk nya e. kaya ang ginawa ko pa noon, ginamit ko yung installation nung mandrake 7.1 to partition my hard disk n

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Marvin T. Pascual
- Original Message - From: Ian C. Sison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT > > Nope. not redo the wheel, but build upon the expertise. > > Remarkable as what our individual achievements

[plug] Sercuring a New Linux Box

2001-08-30 Thread KRYPTON
Good day to all! I have this problem whenever I make a new server it seems that I'm missing something although its working the way I want it to. May nakaka hack sa mga servers ko... There are times na nawawala ang command na "LAST" parang nabura daw , tapos there are some accounts or usernames

[plug] Re: Playing around with NFS+XFS

2001-08-30 Thread Federico Sevilla III
Some follow-up stuff: I ran the sequential write tests using dd as in: # time dd if=/dev/zero of=/opt/test/test.img bs=1M count=3000 with three settings that aren't XFS-related but are NFS-specific. Namely, the wsize and rsize settings of NFSv3. - 8192 -- 32768 - - 65535

[plug] [OT] you must see this site

2001-08-30 Thread Ronneil Camara
Sorry for this off-topic post, but you must see it http://www.zthing.com/zthings/schlong.html Onie _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscr

[plug] Playing around with NFS+XFS

2001-08-30 Thread Federico Sevilla III
Hi everyone, By popular demand of some fellow members in the Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG), I decided to show up at work at midnight when everyone else was away, to mess around with the server's hard drives. The objective: stress-test NFS+XFS and show the world it's more than ready for pri

Re: [plug] please help with majordomo

2001-08-30 Thread Froilan Mendoza
At 05:30 PM 8/30/2001 +0800, you wrote: >kasi hindi namin alam kung baka napasok na ito. >and someone has left a sniffer o kung ano man. > >is reformatting it the only way to secure it? >is there a tool that can check for sniffers? Reformatting will make sure that everything will be "fresh" afte

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Ian C. Sison
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, D. S. Sarmiento wrote: I tend to disagree. Mandrake Linux for example has over 4000 packages in its latest incarnation. I _would not_ want to : 1. accept the default installation and install hundreds of packages i would not even touch 2. go through the list of packages on

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Ian C. Sison
Missing the point here. I wasn't advocating something like LFS. I was advocating modifying an existing distro (mdk or rhat) to suit the needs of a normal office. It would include pre-integrated versions of LTSP, central authentication via pam/ldap/samba, staroffice productivity, possibly a si

Re: [plug] [ OT ] BIR's problem

2001-08-30 Thread D. S. Sarmiento
this is cheap. get a Linux certified under Oracle 8.1.7. by Oracle. see http://www.suse.de/en/support/oracle/ we have 11 Oracle 9i chugging here at our datacenter. Denis Sarmiento Lockheed Martin - The Aerospace Company Running 96 days 7 hours 10 mins - SuSE Linux Enterprise S390 mainframe

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread D. S. Sarmiento
nothing fancy, but what exactly did they create?..another linux distro with StarOffice etc? another case of reinventing what has been done already...am sure the regular run on the mill distros can do as much out of the box..the take off point is not another distro. it takes a lo

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Jeff Gutierrez
#Gawa ng distro na nakapackage primarily para sa gobyerno na may sangkap #Pinoy. # I tend to agree with D.S. Sarmiento's point on this -- build around an already existing distribution. The effort that'll be spent on maintaining a separate distro can be redirected into building custom applicatio

Re: [plug] [ OT ] Comment on this: None so far of the Large Taxpayers uses Linux and other Open Source Softwares

2001-08-30 Thread D. S. Sarmiento
yes. old fashion material greedits all over the place in government. sadly, it is discouraging that these guys shuns away from Linux and Open Source despite being free or cheap.but bec. they cant make money out of it unlike the tons of money they could make from commercial software

Re: [plug] [ OT ] Comment on this: None so far of the Large Taxpayers uses Linux and other Open Source Softwares

2001-08-30 Thread D. S. Sarmiento
yes. old fashion material greedits all over the place in government. sadly, it is discouraging that these guys shuns away from Linux and Open Source despite being free or cheap.but bec. they cant make money out of it unlike the tons of money they could make from commercial software

Re: server audit (Re: [plug] please help with majordomo)

2001-08-30 Thread Jeff Gutierrez
Hi Migs, #Not a majordomo question. Anyway, I learned a trick to find "script kiddies": # #find / -name "*.c" # I'm probably missing something here.. but can you please explain how this trick could find droppings from script kiddies? (Sorry, di ko nasimulang basahin ang talitaktakang ito) st

Re: [plug] [ OT ] Comment on this: None so far of the Large Taxpayers uses Linux and other Open Source Softwares

2001-08-30 Thread D. S. Sarmiento
yes. old fashion material greedits all over the place in government. sadly, it is discouraging that these guys shuns away from Linux and Open Source despite being free or cheap.but bec. they cant make money out of it unlike the tons of money they could make from commercial software

Re: [plug] [ OT ] Comment on this: None so far of the Large Taxpayers uses Linux and other Open Source Softwares

2001-08-30 Thread D. S. Sarmiento
yes. old fashion material greedits all over the place in government. sadly, it is discouraging that these guys shuns away from Linux and Open Source despite being free or cheap.but bec. they cant make money out of it unlike the tons of money they could make from commercial software

Re: [plug] Boot a full Linux on a CD.

2001-08-30 Thread Brian Baquiran
- Original Message - From: Andre M. V. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [plug] Boot a full Linux on a CD. > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > > > Hey, cool list! Thanks a lot for the new stuff to add to my

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Dax
Suggestion: we go for a very agressive LINUX AWARENESS stuffs for about 6 months to 1 yr would do the trick of increasing 'Linux Base'. Target Large Schools and Universities and large govt agencies (lalo na siguro yung mapepera :Tapos spawn/fork para sa iba. Gawa ng distro na nakapackage p

Re: [plug] KDE 2.2 vs GNOME 1.4

2001-08-30 Thread Federico Sevilla III
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 at 04:56, Percy wrote: > hopefully, gnome 2 will be lighter than its previous versions. Uhh ... I seriously doubt this. Like what Orly very often says and writes, it's cheaper to get more RAM then to spend for good programmer time to optimize an entire suite of applications an

Re: [plug] KDE 2.2 vs GNOME 1.4

2001-08-30 Thread Federico Sevilla III
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 at 00:22, Percy wrote: > yup! xcfe is indeed a good, lightweight window manager. kaya lang > ampangit ng terminal hehehe (im used to the white-on-black thing). but > hopefully, ma-customize ko yung xcfe based on my prefs. I don't like xfterm, either.I personally like wterm. If

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread D. S. Sarmiento
too time effort to be wasted on yet another Linux distro. why not build on the strengths of the distros that we currently have? believe me, the last thing that this sector (government) would like to have is yet another distro, your PLUG Linux distro...the wealth of bits and pieces in the

server audit (Re: [plug] please help with majordomo)

2001-08-30 Thread Miguel A.L. Paraz
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:30:23PM +0800, Fritz Mesedilla wrote: > hi! > i was given a server with majordomo that is online. > now they want it to be secured by reformatting it. > > kasi hindi namin alam kung baka napasok na ito. > and someone has left a sniffer o kung ano man. > > is reformatti

Re: [plug] don't you wish /bin/login logged IP's instead

2001-08-30 Thread Miguel A.L. Paraz
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:03:54PM +0800, eric pareja wrote: > change the names of the slip lines to something shorter? > s202-135-84-foo? saves you about 4 characters wasted. uhh... I don't control the DNS servers where those records came from... _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and ar

Re: [plug] Virtual Hosting

2001-08-30 Thread Rjey H. Nomer
Thank you for all the reply, we got it using apache and sendmail. Rjey On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 at 14:17, Deds Castillo wrote: > > This is very trivial to do in qmail, matter of modifying rcpthosts and > > vritualdomains file. > > For

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread neuroticimbecile
On Thursday 30 August 2001 18:40, you wrote: > En Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:45:50PM +0800, Gino LV.Ledesma escribio: > #_ One thing I hope we aren't forgetting: training and support. > #_ > #_ Setting up the initial systems are far easier to do compared to > #_ maintaining the system afterwards. Whi

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Ian C. Sison
Nope. not redo the wheel, but build upon the expertise. Remarkable as what our individual achievements have done, we must use our collective expertise so that we can build a cohesive system that can be adapted to an office environment - something we can throw at TPTB and say, "look, there's no r

Re: [plug] Boot a full Linux on a CD.

2001-08-30 Thread Gideon N. Guillen
Andre M. V. wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > > >>Hey, cool list! Thanks a lot for the new stuff to add to my "collection". >>I'm more inclined to push the LBT, but the others are okay, as well. Now >>if only someone could get me credit card sized CD-Rs that I could bur

Re: [plug] Boot a full Linux on a CD.

2001-08-30 Thread Gideon N. Guillen
Juan Miguel Cacho wrote: > En Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:04:36PM +0800, Gideon N. Guillen escribio: > The first thing that entered my mind was... "What the hell are inodes?" I > had to read that little booklet three times just to absorb the terms and > concepts that were so foreign to me. /dev/hdxx,

Re: [plug] don't you wish /bin/login logged IP's instead

2001-08-30 Thread eric pareja
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:31:00PM +0800, Miguel A.L. Paraz wrote: > given this 'last' output: > > root pts/1slip-202-135-84- Tue Aug 28 21:05 - 21:11 (00:06) > > kind of useless isn't it? perhaps /bin/login and other wtmp writing programs > should just log the IP, then 'last'

Re: [plug] links, really as good as lynx?

2001-08-30 Thread Rino Mardo
it should be escaped. one thing newbies should be taught or made aware of is never, ever to use spaces in filenames or email addresses. - Original Message - From: Juan Miguel Cacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [plug]

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT WAS>> Re: [ph-linux-newbie] Help:Implementing Thin Clients

2001-08-30 Thread Rino Mardo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > How about if we conduct a sort of symposium/seminar on the > "Advantages of Linux and the Open Source Softwares" or "What can > Linux do or something" and invite the top-level management of > different government agencies i think they're already

Re: [plug] very nice background

2001-08-30 Thread Rino Mardo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 copy and paste from sacha's answer in ph-linux-newbie: > Mr. Rene Torres of Progressive Ideas did it by himself. You can > ask him It's a pretty common theme. Visit the LWN Penguin Gallery (http://www.lwn.net/Gallery/) for more of these adorable

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Rino Mardo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 if q-linux already did something that works out of the box for endusers then why reinvent the wheel? let's use that and enhance it further. - - Original Message - From: Marvin T. Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu

Re: [plug] scp question

2001-08-30 Thread Rino Mardo
you're syntax is wrong. man scp for the correct syntax. - Original Message - From: Jimmy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: PLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 4:33 PM Subject: [plug] scp question > hello pluggers, > > I'm trying to scp the remote host and I got this error..

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Juan Miguel Cacho
En Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:45:50PM +0800, Gino LV.Ledesma escribio: #_ One thing I hope we aren't forgetting: training and support. #_ #_ Setting up the initial systems are far easier to do compared to #_ maintaining the system afterwards. While we can make the PLUG mailing #_ list a primary to

Re: [plug] links, really as good as lynx?

2001-08-30 Thread Juan Miguel Cacho
En Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 04:34:30PM +0800, Gino LV.Ledesma escribio: #_ #_ With the older versions, yes. With v0.96, there's no field that accepts #_ that anymore. What a weird thing to do for a new version. Maybe it has to be specified in a linksrc file or something? I'm using v0.95 -- Juan

Re: [plug] B&W monitor

2001-08-30 Thread dwen siapno
Xconfigurator ?! On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, JMG wrote: > I have a rh7.1 and rh6.2, i believe that the default installation if for > colored monitor. how do i reconfigure my boxes for B&W monitor without > reinstallation? > > thanks > > jmg > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archive

Re: [plug] [ OT ] Comment on this: None so far of the Large Taxpayers uses Linux and other Open Source Softwares

2001-08-30 Thread Juan Miguel Cacho
En Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 04:31:46PM +0800, Dax escribio: #_ #_ mas maganda sigurong pakinggan as "gifts" ;p Tama ka, tutal alam naman natin ang ibig sabihin, diba? ;-> -- Juan Miguel Cacho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philippines ...the poor count their blessings, the affluent count their calories

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Gino LV.Ledesma
One thing I hope we aren't forgetting: training and support. Setting up the initial systems are far easier to do compared to maintaining the system afterwards. While we can make the PLUG mailing list a primary to helping out, it would be great if there were training sessions after the initial

[plug] I'm using a WinModem!

2001-08-30 Thread Orlando Andico
I found an old TurboLinux 6.1 CD here at home, and installed it on this poor box (64MB, Cyrix 233MHz). Well.. it works!! I'm dialed in now!! I'm using a Conexant HSF56 WinModem!! with the stock TLW6.1 2.2.16-3 kernel! of course the WinModem drivers are binaries. Ick. Oh well.. 64MB induces all s

[plug] please help with majordomo

2001-08-30 Thread Fritz Mesedilla
hi! i was given a server with majordomo that is online. now they want it to be secured by reformatting it. kasi hindi namin alam kung baka napasok na ito. and someone has left a sniffer o kung ano man. is reformatting it the only way to secure it? is there a tool that can check for sniffers? it

[plug] B&W monitor

2001-08-30 Thread JMG
I have a rh7.1 and rh6.2, i believe that the default installation if for colored monitor. how do i reconfigure my boxes for B&W monitor without reinstallation? thanks jmg _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body t

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Marvin T. Pascual
> If for some reason StarOffice cannot be used, are there utilities out there > that can convert existing MS Office files to something usable in linux? AFAIK, StarOffice 5.2 can read/write/execute different formats especially the MS's .doc, .xls, and .pps. No problem with StarOffice 5.2 it's als

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Ian C. Sison
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote: > En Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:52:49PM +0800, Marvin T. Pascual escribio: > #_ > #_ In addition, let's also start with PLUG's Linux distro for Desktops kasi > #_ 'yan ang in-need for the end-users. Just like what the Q-Linux did. A > #_ distro that al

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT WAS>> Re: [ph-linux-newbie] Help:Implementing Thin Clients

2001-08-30 Thread Marvin T. Pascual
> One of the people we should invite is Presidential IT Adviser - Virgilio > Pena. > > This is the man in charge of turning our government into an e-government. > There was an article/interview with him in the Philippine Star: NetWorks > section dated Friday, August 24, 2001 > > I think there is a

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT WAS>> Re: [ph-linux-newbie]Help:Implementing Thin Clients

2001-08-30 Thread Ian C. Sison
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote: > > One of the people we should invite is Presidential IT Adviser - Virgilio > Pena. > > This is the man in charge of turning our government into an e-government. > There was an article/interview with him in the Philippine Star: NetWorks > section dat

Re: Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread JM Cruz
Marvin t. Pascual wrote: >> Speaking of which maybe we can tackle something that was discussed in the >> PLUG meeting, specifically offering a "way out" of proprietary software >> for office and government agencies. Consistent with our multi-pronged >> approach, education and advocacy, maybe we

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT WAS>> Re: [ph-linux-newbie] Help:Implementing Thin Clients

2001-08-30 Thread JM Cruz
Just an idea, can we make a site and have a set of topics and slide presentations for the topics so that PLUG members can do their stuff to promote Linux in their own little way, because the material is already their, speacially for pluggers that want to promote to schools!!! ,JM Ian Sison

Re: [plug] links, really as good as lynx?

2001-08-30 Thread Gino LV.Ledesma
> If you want to connect to localhost you have to have httpd running in > your > machine. It is. > To tell links not to use proxies for a particular host: > > press "ESC" go to "Setup" then choose "Network options" then enter the > hosts > you want to access directly in the space provided. Wi

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Juan Miguel Cacho
En Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:52:49PM +0800, Marvin T. Pascual escribio: #_ #_ In addition, let's also start with PLUG's Linux distro for Desktops kasi #_ 'yan ang in-need for the end-users. Just like what the Q-Linux did. A #_ distro that already has the StarOffice, KDE/Gnome, etc. #_ If for so

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT WAS>> Re: [ph-linux-newbie] Help:Implementing Thin Clients

2001-08-30 Thread Juan Miguel Cacho
En Thursday 30 August 2001 15:39, Marvin T. Pascual escribio: #_ How about if we conduct a sort of symposium/seminar on the "Advantages of #_ Linux and the Open Source Softwares" or "What can Linux do or something" #_ and invite the top-level management of different government agencies #_ (especi

Re: [plug] [ OT ] Comment on this: None so far of the LargeTaxpayers uses Linux and other Open Source Softwares

2001-08-30 Thread Dax
mas maganda sigurong pakinggan as "gifts" ;p On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote: > En Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:32:14AM +0800, Marvin T. Pascual escribio: > #_ > #_ I agree. = ) > #_ > #_ Pero, how come our government are still buying these very expensive > #_ softwares? Since we're

[plug] scp question

2001-08-30 Thread Jimmy
hello pluggers, I'm trying to scp the remote host and I got this error %scp orion:/home/jimmy/myscreen.jpg ./myscreen.jpg protocol error: unexpected stderr is not a tty -where are you? What could be the problem? TIA Jimmy Lim Operation & Support Team Leader Tricom _ Philipp

[plug] [ OT ] BIR's problem

2001-08-30 Thread Marvin T. Pascual
Guys, We've just talked with my immediate boss that our top-level management decided to change our OS & database from Sun Solaris & Oracle to M$ Win2k & M$ $QL $erver na! Kasi naman ang na-approve lang na pera sa BIR ay P 200 M lang instead ang budget sana ay P 1.2 B para sa hardware & software

Re: [plug] PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY PROJECT

2001-08-30 Thread Marvin T. Pascual
> Speaking of which maybe we can tackle something that was discussed in the > PLUG meeting, specifically offering a "way out" of proprietary software > for office and government agencies. Consistent with our multi-pronged > approach, education and advocacy, maybe we can come up with an open sourc