RE: [SLUG] Routing problem...perhaps

2000-10-15 Thread Alister Waller
Surely that would be on the Linux machine that the other linux machine dials into...on machine R in my example below. If I look on there I have an options.server that is used by mgetty (this has proxyarp in it). I also have a options.ttyS1 and options.ttyS0 for my two modems that I dial into. thes

Re: [SLUG] Linux SMP kernel

2000-10-15 Thread chesty
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:49:30PM +1000, George Vieira wrote: > Guess what? I got the damn Netfinity machine working, no thanks to IBM. Teaser :) Why don't you post how you did it so others behind you won't have to go through the same problems. > What I'd like to know is how can I show either i

RE: [SLUG] POP3 authentication on sendmail

2000-10-15 Thread John Wiltshire
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Hello > >Our company is now of the ORB/RBL list and would like to stay there. >One requirment we do have is to use our mail server while OS using >ISP assigned IP addresses. > >I have heard about doing pop3 authentication on sending mail!! >

[SLUG] a case in point for Open Source

2000-10-15 Thread Ken Yap
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0041/friedman.shtml Mentioned in /. Project contractors effectively hold NYC to ransom. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] POP3 authentication on sendmail

2000-10-15 Thread grant
Hello Our company is now of the ORB/RBL list and would like to stay there. One requirment we do have is to use our mail server while OS using ISP assigned IP addresses. I have heard about doing pop3 authentication on sending mail!! I have found http://spam.abuse.net/tools/smPbS.html which h

RE: [SLUG] Modem recommendation.

2000-10-15 Thread David Kempe
> Part of my changing my view was as a result of paying for advertising in > various dead tree directories, with a view of getting new business and > then finding that many of the telephone calls I received were people > wanting free support for hardware they had purchased elsewhere. > > If I can

Re: [SLUG] Routing problem...perhaps

2000-10-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
Alister Waller said something along the lines of: > R:can ping G's ppp IP address > cannot ping G's eth0 IP address.error: destination host unreachable > cannot ping W at all. error: destination host unreachable > > G:can ping W's IP address > Can ping

Re: [SLUG] Modem recommendation.

2000-10-15 Thread Terry Collins
Rodos wrote: > > I need another (3rd) modem. A few people here are using the US Robotics > Courier V Everything as they are so rock solid. Hmm, I prefer the old Banksia V34 to the USR Courier for consistent throughput still. > I was going to get another > one until I rang their tech support to

[SLUG] Routing problem...perhaps

2000-10-15 Thread Alister Waller
Hi again, frustrating day here for me. Scenario: I have a WIN 98 PC at a remote depot. I am setting up a Linux machine there to dialup another linux machine which is their main server. I want to win98 PC to use the linux machine as a gateway. I have done something similar here with one linux m

[SLUG] Linux SMP kernel

2000-10-15 Thread George Vieira
Hi y'all, Guess what? I got the damn Netfinity machine working, no thanks to IBM. What I'd like to know is how can I show either in GUI or text mode the amount of load is on each CPU. Bit like Windoze NT Task Manager which shows a graph of both CPUS. GTOP is the closest thing I've got but d

RE: [SLUG] Modem recommendation.

2000-10-15 Thread David Kempe
> > Can't comment much on it's mgetty compatability but I've had great success > with SwannSmart modems. Haven't tried the new SwannSmart II but the > previous model has served me well in a variety of roles, works fine with > Linux too on a variety of flavours. I gotta agree with that as well,

RE: [SLUG] ssh howto??

2000-10-15 Thread Visser, Martin (SNO)
Try http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/security/ssh.html and http://www.employees.org/~satch/ssh/faq/ssh-faq.html Martin Visser Technology Consultant - Compaq Global Services Compaq Computer Australia 410 Concord Road Rhodes, Sydney NSW 2138 Australia Phone: +61-2-9022-5630 Mobile: +61-411-2

RE: [SLUG] ssh howto??

2000-10-15 Thread David Kempe
if you have got the ssh and ssl packages the man pages and accompanying docs are pretty good. other wise www.openssh.org i think is the correct place. dave > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Marcus > Sent: Tuesday, 17 October 2000 12:0

Re: [SLUG] IP Chains config

2000-10-15 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:45:49PM +1000, Alister Waller wrote: > I did some looking around and found in /etc/rc.d/init.d an ipchains file. I > guessed that this would be run at startup, but I don't know linux well > enough to know this for sure. Possibly. In /etc/rc.d/rc3.d, you'll see several

[SLUG] ssh howto??

2000-10-15 Thread Marcus
I need some help with ssh, not a specific problem. I just need a howto for ssh. I have looked but with limited success. anybody know where I can get one?? Thanks, Marcus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] IP Chains config

2000-10-15 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:46:11PM +1000, Alister Waller wrote: > According to the REDHat Linux Bible (6.1) it says to add the following to > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network (page 555) > after > > case "$1" in > start) > ipv4_forward_set > > ipchains -P forward D

[SLUG] Re: Linux Dos emulators

2000-10-15 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{RunTimeError} > I recently aquired a game that brings back memories from when I was a kid > staying up late to get to try to finnish the game. The game is The Secret of > Monkey Island. > Unfortunatly i cant seem to get it to work on my linux system. I installed > Dosemu for linux. I run /u

Re: [SLUG] Linux Dos emulators

2000-10-15 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:42:53PM +1000, RunTimeError wrote: > Unfortunatly i cant seem to get it to work on my linux system. I installed Dosemu >for linux. I run /usr/bin/dos but I cant seem to find monkey island installed on the >linux system, i then tried /usr/bin/dosexec monkey.exe but it s

[SLUG] IP Chains config

2000-10-15 Thread Alister Waller
Hi again, I will get the hang of this one day. It looks to me as if the way REDHAT handles IP chains changed from 6.1 to 6.2. I am stuck and in a bit of a hurry so perhaps you guys could help me out. NOTE: this is very basic and very open but I am just experimenting with this right now. Acc

[SLUG] Linux Dos emulators

2000-10-15 Thread RunTimeError
I recently aquired a game that brings back memories from when I was a kid staying up late to get to try to finnish the game. The game is The Secret of Monkey Island. Unfortunatly i cant seem to get it to work on my linux system. I installed Dosemu for linux. I run /usr/bin/dos but I cant see

Re: [SLUG] Re: Walk the Linux walk

2000-10-15 Thread Michael Still
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Steven Kerr wrote: > I preceeded to enlighten him that we had been running Linux in these > areas for the last 2 years. To quote the Asia-Pacific VP of Redhat @ The Australian Unix User's Group conference this year: "It is better to appologise than to ask permission" This

Re: [SLUG] WYSIWYG HTML editors and a bigpond question

2000-10-15 Thread Michael Lake
Graeme Merrall wrote: > Does anyone know of a good WYSIWYG editor for X? I've got some boring boring > HTML stuff I need to do and I know of know useful package. Worse still Two I have tried: "Quanta" comes with SUSE Linux and is excellent. You write the code and if your stuck there are drop down

Re: [SLUG] Modem recommendation.

2000-10-15 Thread Dan Treacy
Can't comment much on it's mgetty compatability but I've had great success with SwannSmart modems. Haven't tried the new SwannSmart II but the previous model has served me well in a variety of roles, works fine with Linux too on a variety of flavours. JMHO, Dan - Original Message - Fr

Re: [SLUG] disk partitioning

2000-10-15 Thread SydLnx
On 16 Oct 00, Alister Waller wrote: [SLUG] disk partitioning > I have a Disk partioned rather poorly. > I have more free space on the drive and have used cfdisk to partion > this. How do I now mount this so that I can make use of this space? > The disk basically only has / mounted (plus a swap and

Re: [SLUG] perl quicky

2000-10-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
Herbert Xu wrote: > > There is a /proc/self you know :) Okay, well I didn't see that there... but that wouldn't have been any fun anyway! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Modem recommendation.

2000-10-15 Thread Ben Leslie
Hi Rodos! On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Rodos wrote: > I need another (3rd) modem. A few people here are using the US Robotics > Courier V Everything as they are so rock solid. I was going to get another > one until I rang their tech support to ask a question. Seems that unless > your modem is less than

[SLUG] Modem recommendation.

2000-10-15 Thread Rodos
I need another (3rd) modem. A few people here are using the US Robotics Courier V Everything as they are so rock solid. I was going to get another one until I rang their tech support to ask a question. Seems that unless your modem is less than 3 months old you have to pay $25 to speak to a technic

Re: [SLUG] disk partitioning

2000-10-15 Thread Jason Rennie
> I would ideally like to partition it up to be the usual like /home /usr /var > /usr/local etc. Can this be done now or do I need to backup and then rebuild > and restore data into the new partitions? Just use mount /dev/{partition name} /mount/point Then copy all of the files over from the old

Re: [SLUG] disk partitioning

2000-10-15 Thread enterfornone
you should be able to mount it somewhere temporarily, move everything accross from say /usr then remount it as /usr you might want to do it in single user mode or from a bootdisk so nothing tries to access /usr while it is on the move another way is to mount it somewhere and make links for /us

[SLUG] disk partitioning

2000-10-15 Thread Alister Waller
Hi, I have a Disk partioned rather poorly. I have more free space on the drive and have used cfdisk to partion this. How do I now mount this so that I can make use of this space? The disk basically only has / mounted (plus a swap and boot partion of course). (not done by me) I would ideally lik

Re: [SLUG] WYSIWYG HTML editors and a bigpond question

2000-10-15 Thread James Hamilton
There is an IDM product called Homepage Builder that comes with a customised version of wine. It is available for a 60 day trial from http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/hpbuilder/linux but I have no expereince of it James On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Graeme Merrall wrote: > Does anyone know of

Re: [SLUG] Is this a routing problem?

2000-10-15 Thread Erich Schulz
I didn't see a copy of the routing table in your email, maybe if you could include the routuing printout (route command) Erich Schulz PO Box 6028, Lake Munmorah, NSW 2259 Ph: (+61)0500 551 228 , Fax: (+612) 43583113 Mob: 0408 201 228 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slu