Re: [SLUG] Wacky Linux Game and XFree4 GLX...

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:35:52PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Anand Kumria said something along the lines of: ... > > Bzflag. Phear my sk33lz. > > You are so asking for a SLUG "All on Anand" match. Somehow, I think you'd > enjoy that though. ;) > Arghh !!! bzflag. I've been trying to get tha

[SLUG] Routing Book

Hi, Can anyway suggest a good Book on configuring Linux as a router. I am still having some problems and think it might be time to read up and maybe get a grasp on what should be happening rather than what is happening. ideally something that deals with many scenarious including dialup, LAN and

[SLUG] Re: Debian Automated Installs

\begin{John Ferlito} > Has anyone played with automating debian installs? So far I've > come across fai and replicator which both seem fairly young packages so > don't really work seamlessly. What I'm really after is something similar > to redhats kickstart disk. Basically put a disk in the

[SLUG] DOS file recovery

Are there any DOS file recovery programs in linux, things which might run vaguely similar to norton utilities ? Thanks, -- John August "Recently opened Empire State Building 'Giant Ape Proof' say architects." - The Onion, Monday October 19, 1931 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing Lis

[SLUG] rprint for equinox ESL-16.

Hi y'all, Here I go again. I am trying to get this Equinox terminal server to do remote printing using the rprint command. I am slightly cheating (as I am using the SCO binaries to run them as I can't compile the source) and get the following error. I guess it's trying to get access to the port f

Re: [SLUG] Oracle through a firewall

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Kevin Saenz wrote: > Hi has anyone had any joy allowing oracle plus/sql through a firewall? Do you really want to do this? Personally, I would have thought the security risk is too high. > While on the topic of firewall has anyone been using iptables? > What are the benefit

RE: [SLUG] Authentication Question

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, George Vieira wrote: > yellow pages `yppasswd` is one way.. when the user changes their password > then all servers update the unix password... (not samba password though).. Hold on, guys, what's wrong with LDAP? tom. Consultant AUSSECPhone: 61 4 1768 2202 339 Blaxland

RE: [SLUG] Re: CPU suspend mode in Linux?

From: Angus Lees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >\begin{John Wiltshire} >> NT4sp3+, Win2000 and Linux all execute a HLT instruction >when idle on a >> single CPU machine. I'm pretty sure there are issues with >SMP machines that >> means you have to busy idle. > >if you have the APM stuff enabled,

RE: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.

Great, thanks heaps. That was the real answer I was looking for... thanks to all others too.. George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Messag

RE: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, George Vieira wrote: > I removed the entry and it starts up real damn quick.. weird that it MUST > resolve these addresses. Must find a way to ignore them.. Your real fix is in /etc/nsswitch.conf Here you set several lines to "files [NOTFOUND=return]" - especially the hosts (

Re: [SLUG] Setting window manager in Debian.

Rodos wrote: > > I then installed the sawmill window manager, also from a deb via apt-get. > Make sure you have both sawmill and sawmill-gnome the latter allows configuration via the gnome control centre -- Mark Pearson BSc (Computing) -- Technical and Computer Support Department of Nuclear Med

[SLUG] RE: Video Hardware Problems - SOLVED!

To Dave and any others who reply, Thanks for the help, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In my experience, 1 long and a few short is loose video card or RAM. Check >that the ram or the video card is ok? >dave (David Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)

[SLUG] Video hardware Problems

Hi Guys and Gals, A couple of days ago I installed Suse 7.0 (October 2000 Linux Format mag CD). During installation I could not choose my monitor (NEC Multisync 3D) as it was not listed. Chose another NEC monitor instead, and reset Resolution and Colour depth to appropriate 800x600, 256 colours).

[SLUG] Re: Setting window manager in Debian.

\begin{Rodos} > Also the machine boots into xdm which I dislike but I can't find where/how > it is getting started. if xdm is installed, it gets started from /etc/init.d/xdm like any other service. if you don't want it, remove it (or install one of the alternatives, like gdm) -- - Gus -- SL

[SLUG] Re: CPU suspend mode in Linux?

\begin{John Wiltshire} > NT4sp3+, Win2000 and Linux all execute a HLT instruction when idle on a > single CPU machine. I'm pretty sure there are issues with SMP machines that > means you have to busy idle. if you have the APM stuff enabled, you also get a "make IDLE calls when idle" option. i pr

[SLUG] Debian Automated Installs

Has anyone played with automating debian installs? So far I've come across fai and replicator which both seem fairly young packages so don't really work seamlessly. What I'm really after is something similar to redhats kickstart disk. Basically put a disk in the drive debian gets installed

[SLUG] Setting window manager in Debian.

I am trying to change my window manager in debian, without success. I installed gnome from the helixcode deb via apt-get. The default window manager is window maker. I then installed the sawmill window manager, also from a deb via apt-get. I now have an option under window managers to change t

RE: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.

The problem is this site is bit and there is also going to be a remote site logging in too.. I don't want to sit there entering host names for simple workstation activity. Fine if it's a known server but not worried about workstations. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citade

Re: [SLUG] MS Linux gets closer

[MS buying a stake in Corel, and what it means, esp. viz. .net] I saw a recent discussion of this on slashdot recently. Contained there are a number of interesting posts, basically along the lines of 'looking at chicken entrails'. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/12/1454212&mode=thread

RE: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.

I've found that this whole problem is a local name lookup problem. The file /etc/hosts stores things that can be quickly looked up. I've found by adding lines in here that say what the current hostname is of the machine and the correct ip address(s) - all of them, then it makes it alot faster. The

[SLUG] Oracle through a firewall

Hi has anyone had any joy allowing oracle plus/sql through a firewall? Does anyone know what ports TNS use when sending and recieving information While on the topic of firewall has anyone been using iptables? What are the benefits moving from ipchains to iptables? Thanks Kevin -- SLUG - Sy

RE: [SLUG] CPU suspend mode in Linux?

From: Arunava Sen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Yesterday, a friend of mine mentioned that he is using some win98 >program that "cools" his cpu and that it drops his temperature by 6 >degrees when idle. I assume it issues a 'hlt' instruction or something >similar. The interesting thing is that the

RE: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.

What I meant by connections is that there will be no communication between this server and any other servers, eg.. no gateway, no dns server, nothing.. it's a stand alone server with an IPchains rule to not accept any connections except the workstations allowed. I opened this up for testing and i

[SLUG] CPU suspend mode in Linux?

Hello, Yesterday, a friend of mine mentioned that he is using some win98 program that "cools" his cpu and that it drops his temperature by 6 degrees when idle. I assume it issues a 'hlt' instruction or something similar. The interesting thing is that the program's help file said something like "t

Re: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, George Vieira generated: >There is no /etc/resolv.conf as it's an isolated database server and has no >connections to any other server.. How can you telnet to it if it has no connections? >Is there a way to get the TCP wrapper or whatever it is that's trying to >resolve the

Re: [SLUG] POP3 authentication on sendmail

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:32:54AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >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 authenticat

Re: [SLUG] Authentication Question

Well, if I sync samba with the unix password database then this could work... I'll look into it. Thanks a lot. Regards, Gonzalo. George Vieira wrote: > > yellow pages `yppasswd` is one way.. when the user changes their password > then all servers update the unix password... (not samba passwor

RE: [SLUG] POP3 authentication on sendmail

> > > >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/s

RE: [SLUG] Authentication Question

yellow pages `yppasswd` is one way.. when the user changes their password then all servers update the unix password... (not samba password though).. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9

RE: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.

No the problem is not a allow/deny problem as it eventually lets you in but takes forever. I just found out one of the other guys had put an entry in the /etc/resolv.conf which had a 10.10.0.X address for our DNS server in it which may have caused the delay as nslookup doesn't like 10.x.x.x or 17

RE: [SLUG] New RH 7.0 Respin ISO images

I believe it was a bug fix to get around an embarrassing error. I saw a reference to it on slashdot about a week ago ( http://www.slashdot.org/ ) Does the RedHat site not have anything about it? - Jill. ___ Jill Rowling Snr Design Engineer & Unix System Ad

[SLUG] Authentication Question

Hi Slugers. I have a question regarding authentication with Samba and Radius. I have a setup of 3 computers. One of the machines will be the main firewall (which will also handle PPP dialin using a 8 port serial card), the Second machine will be the main Password/File Server (using SAMBA) and th

Re: [SLUG] Netscape error

> At some point around Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:13:35 +1100, Jason Stokes said: > > Heracles wrote: > > > >From time to time, usually after a few hours on the net, Netscape > > > will crash and autoclose with the only error given being "bus > > > error". > > > > Yes, Netscape leaks memory like a s

[SLUG] New RH 7.0 Respin ISO images

Can anyone tell me what the RedHat 7.0 RESPIN ISO images have that the old ones didn't ? ie: 7.0-i386-respin-disc1.iso, 7.0-i386-respin-disc2.iso Further, there now also seems to be a file called 7.0-i386-upgrade.iso. Anyone know what the hell this is ?? As usual, there are no docs to go wi

Re: [SLUG] Netscape error

>Here's a queston: why is "From" always quoted with a > if it appears on >the first column of an email message? Can't SMTP servers distinguish >between "From" in the header section and "From" in the body of the >message? It's to prevent people from inserting fake header lines in the body of the

Re: [SLUG] CLID software ?

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Rodos wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Grahame Kelly wrote: > > I use XCallerID to retrieve the CallerID from my modem, look up a MySQL DB, > Grahame, what modem do you use. Not to many support CallerID. I use a Dynalink V1456VQE (~$100) and the local distributor in E.Chatswood

Re: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.

George Vieira wrote: > > Hi all, > > I know this is an oldie question but my initial telnet connections take > forever to connect. It connects and then you wait for a minute before > getting the logon message. > > I know the oldie answer was to remove `named` as the server was trying to > resol

RE: [SLUG] MS Linux gets closer

The way I see this is, that MS is testing the GPL water with a relatively small investment (at least small for MS). Naturally they will want to get MS products running on Linux. Even though that will get people upset I think it is a good thing, because we then get an opportunity to offer Linux as

Re: [SLUG] MS Linux gets closer

Howard Lowndes wrote: > > My concern here is that M$ might use its clout to challenge the GPL and > try to distribute its own "no source code" version. If this were the case, then perhaps a revision of the kernel license may be needed? I can see benifits of having some MS apps ported to linux fo

[SLUG] Slow initial telnet.

Hi all, I know this is an oldie question but my initial telnet connections take forever to connect. It connects and then you wait for a minute before getting the logon message. I know the oldie answer was to remove `named` as the server was trying to resolve the IP address but named isn't runnin

Re: [SLUG] CLID software ?

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Grahame Kelly wrote: > I use XCallerID to retrieve the CallerID from my modem, look up a MySQL DB, Grahame, what modem do you use. Not to many support CallerID. Rodos -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Thompson's rule for first time telescope makers. It is Camion Technology | faster

Re: [SLUG] MS Linux gets closer

> My concern here is that M$ might use its clout to challenge the GPL and > try to distribute its own "no source code" version. > > -- > Howard. ...and thus undermine the whole basis of the open source free software movement. Make no mistake, it is the GPL that poses the greatest threat to M

Re: [SLUG] MS Linux gets closer

A "no source code" version of linux or of the ".NET" applications? Doesn't products like Vmware already do this? All I've ever seen on the Vmware site is binaries. Correct me if I'm wrong (cos I've never actually read the GPL, just got the general jist of it) doesn't the GPL only apply if you have

Re: [SLUG] CLID software ?

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: > Is there any means by which I can get a modem to pass the CLID of an > incoming call over to Linux so that I can work with it against a > database. A search on Google has not turned up much of relevance. Hi Howard. I use XCallerID to retrieve the CallerID from

Re: [SLUG] MS Linux gets closer

My concern here is that M$ might use its clout to challenge the GPL and try to distribute its own "no source code" version. -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wh

[SLUG] CLID software ?

Is there any means by which I can get a modem to pass the CLID of an incoming call over to Linux so that I can work with it against a database. A search on Google has not turned up much of relevance. -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates <

[SLUG] MS Linux gets closer

Whilst not directly releasing its own distribution Microsoft may use its recent deal with Corel to "ease itself into the open source community" according this article by the National Post Online http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20001012/426367.html Kind regards Kevin Wa

Re: [SLUG] Time Drift

With RH it's in the xntpd rpm -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Thom May wrote: > At some point around Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:27:49 +1100, marty said: > > On my box (deadrat 6.2) the hw

Re: [SLUG] Netscape error

At some point around Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:13:35 +1100, Jason Stokes said: > Heracles wrote: > > > > >From time to time, usually after a few hours on the net, Netscape > > will crash and autoclose with the only error given being "bus > > error". It has only happened since I upgraded to Netscape

Re: [SLUG] Netscape error

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jason Stokes generated: >Here's a queston: why is "From" always quoted with a > if it appears on >the first column of an email message? Can't SMTP servers distinguish >between "From" in the header section and "From" in the body of the >message? RFC822 holds the answer. Or

Re: [SLUG] Netscape error

Heracles wrote: > > >From time to time, usually after a few hours on the net, Netscape > will crash and autoclose with the only error given being "bus > error". It has only happened since I upgraded to Netscape 4.75. > Any ideas? It is not much of a hassle, but I would prefer not to > have the pr

Re: [SLUG] Time Drift

; On my box (deadrat 6.2) the hwclock reports the right GMT but the system ; clock seems to have drifted over the 20 days the box has been up so it is ; now about quarter of an hour slow... ; ; any suggestions for why that is happening and a [fix | pointers to docs] ? ; http://cr.yp.to/clockspe

Re: [SLUG] Time Drift

At some point around Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:27:49 +1100, marty said: > On my box (deadrat 6.2) the hwclock reports the right GMT but the system > clock seems to have drifted over the 20 days the box has been up so it is > now about quarter of an hour slow... If the load average is *massive* then

Re: [SLUG] Netscape error

Pretty much a fact of life with Netscape - 4.75 is the *least* bad version i've come acroos. actually... If you're after a long term fix, Moz M18 now does Java, and so, I think, does galleon... -Thom At some point around Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:27:37 +, Heracles said: > >From time to time, usu

[SLUG] Time Drift

On my box (deadrat 6.2) the hwclock reports the right GMT but the system clock seems to have drifted over the 20 days the box has been up so it is now about quarter of an hour slow... any suggestions for why that is happening and a [fix | pointers to docs] ? later marty "I can't buy what I want

[SLUG] Netscape error

>From time to time, usually after a few hours on the net, Netscape will crash and autoclose with the only error given being "bus error". It has only happened since I upgraded to Netscape 4.75. Any ideas? It is not much of a hassle, but I would prefer not to have the problem. Stay well and happy H

Re: [SLUG] Routing problem...perhaps

Alister Waller said something along the lines of: > Surely that would be on the Linux machine that the other linux machine dials > into...on machine R in my example below. The proxyarp setting is required on the gateway, not the remote machine. man pppd reads thus: proxyarp

Re: [SLUG] Modem recommendation.

I'm using a US Robotics 56K Professional Messaging Modem, the one with a few meg of RAM for off-line fax reception, voicemail and the like, and it is rock solid. Also works as a bloody good full-duplex speaker phone. I've also got a Banksia Wave SP (56k) that works fine and is surplus if you ewan

[SLUG] SuSE Linux 6.3

OK, I know it's an older version, but it's a good intro to Linux and the documentation is pretty bloody good as well. If anyone was to offer me, say, $20 for the box, or a slab of Hahn Light (or a bottle of Butterscotch Schnapps), I would part with it. -- Regards, Jon --

Re: [SLUG] IP Chains config

> I will get the hang of this one day. I know the feeling - BOY, do I know the feeling !! > ipchains -P forward DENY > ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.26.0/24 -j MASQ Except for numbers, this works on my system. > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > i get a 0, not t