Re: [SLUG] Debian Compliment

2000-12-03 Thread Heracles
Jason Rennie wrote: I just switched over to debian from redhat, may i reccomend it. Apart from only needing 3 floppies and an internet connection to do the install the system runs quite well. This may be so, but what does it use to do general config. I want to install my old bj300 to run

[SLUG] hey!

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Re: [SLUG] Debian Compliment

2000-12-03 Thread chesty
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:19:19AM +, Heracles wrote: [debian] This may be so, but what does it use to do general config. vi :) I don't think there is a big, buggy, bloated, complicated, do everything badly config program for debian. You could install linuxconf I guess, but you might

Re: [SLUG] Perl MySQL script not working

2000-12-03 Thread Rick Welykochy
Peter wrote: Thanks but I plead total perl ignorance. As far as I can tell this doesn't run by itself. What do I do with it? Try this: man DBI and if you don't have DBI, download and install it from CPAN. It'll provide you with foolproof database access. -- Rick Welykochy || Praxis

Re: [SLUG] Perl MySQL script not working

2000-12-03 Thread Crossfire
- Original Message - From: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Slug [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Perl MySQL script not working Sigh, this is another case of O'Reilly books being only for those who already know what they are doing. I spoke

Re: [SLUG] Perl MySQL script not working

2000-12-03 Thread Tom Massey
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Rick Welykochy wrote: and if you don't have DBI, download and install it from CPAN. It'll provide you with foolproof database access. And the easiest way to install stuff from CPAN is to use the CPAN shell: [root@localhost]# perl -MCPAN -e shell (go through the

Re: [SLUG] Perl MySQL script not working

2000-12-03 Thread Crossfire
Of course, what wasn't mentioned is that DBI doesn't include any database drivers... So you'll want to do a 'install DBD::mysql' in the CPAN shell as well if you want to be able to access MySQL... +--+ | Crossfire | This message was brought

[SLUG] sendmail

2000-12-03 Thread David
I have to map virtual domains, both incoming and outgoing. I am host to 3 domains, viz. domain, domain1 and domain2. Any one user will only ever relate to one domain. All the docs I have available give slightly different instructions. I am running RH6, Sendmail 8.9. Below is a cryptic version

[SLUG] DVD recording H/ware and software

2000-12-03 Thread kevin
Is there an linux compatable DVD recorders and if so, is there some software available to make it work? Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Deny http access to a domain

2000-12-03 Thread Rick Welykochy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where specifically deny http access to traffic refered from example.com Surely. Of course. -- Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited "Tired of being a crash test dummy for Microsoft? Try Linux" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

RE: [SLUG] Debian Compliment

2000-12-03 Thread Craige McWhirter
I recently did a little rant about how within two weeks of me playing with Debian for the first time I had switched 20 RH 6.2 systems across 3 hardware platform (i386,PPC,SPARC) to being all Debian. The main reaon was Manageability. From a sysadmin point of view, discovering the Debian way the

Re: [SLUG] Debian Compliment

2000-12-03 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 21:40:41 chesty wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:19:19AM +, Heracles wrote: [debian] This may be so, but what does it use to do general config. and yes, I read the Debian Docs that I had available and could not find mention of a config utility. vi :)

Re: [SLUG] Deny http access to a domain

2000-12-03 Thread James Morris
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Finn wrote: or do you want to deny all traffic that refered by a link from a website (example.com) to your website? It could be done through a perl script... but there is probably a better way This is exactly what I need to do.

[SLUG] Network authentication

2000-12-03 Thread James Wilkinson
I need to upgrade the old auth mechanism at work, because it's hella-broken (syncing passwd files across machines), and it's come back to bite me today, so I really want to do soemthing like NIS, only not NIS. I'm thinking authentication using either LDAP or Kerberos, so I'd like comments and

Re: [SLUG] Network authentication

2000-12-03 Thread Craige McWhirter
We're in the progress of doing this ourselves at the moment. I don't think it's something you can just "do". I'm reading "Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services" and doing some research on the net (Google is your friend). From what I've seen so far moving to LDAP looks like it needs

RE: [SLUG] Network authentication

2000-12-03 Thread Jill Rowling
Hi all, NIS is "nice" ie super easy to set up and use but really sadly broken in that any user can see what's in /etc/shadow. The only reason why you would want to use it is if you have to support some NIS-only clients like IRIX O2s AND you never have internet connections from the LAN. NIS+

Re: [SLUG] USB CD Burner

2000-12-03 Thread Jason Rennie
Does anyone know of any utils to burn cds on a USB cd burner? AFAIK xcdroast only supports SCSI/IDE burners (but please correct me if I am wrong) Actaully it all of the linux cd-burning stuff i`ve seen only supports scsi. It does IDE through scsi emulation. Can USB be made to emulate

Re: [SLUG] Deny http access to a domain

2000-12-03 Thread Sonam Chauhan
It could be done through a perl script... but there is probably a better way This is exactly what I need to do. If you're using Apache, you can write a simple Apache handler to do a fast check of HTTP_REFERER on each page served off your website. I don't know your setup but with mod_perl

RE: [SLUG] DVD recording H/ware and software

2000-12-03 Thread Michael Still
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Dave Kempe wrote: a search on google says that cdrecord can support some dvd recorders http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/ cdrecord.html let us know how you go, Heya, I have a DVD ROM burner, and found at the time (6 months

[SLUG] Unsupported Protocol 0x8207 received??

2000-12-03 Thread Peter Vogel
Anyone know the measning of: "Unsupported Protocol 0x8207 received " message during ppp0 dialup negotiation (connecting to Bigpond Direct using a V90 modem)? Thanks Peter -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Unsupported Protocol 0x8207 received??

2000-12-03 Thread Tom Massey
Peter Vogel wrote: Anyone know the measning of: "Unsupported Protocol 0x8207 received " It means that during protocol negotiation the BigPond server attempted to talk to your machine using Cisco Discovery Protocol Control. You could try putting stuff like 'noipx' 'noip' in /etc/ppp/options

Re: [SLUG] Unsupported Protocol 0x8207 received??

2000-12-03 Thread Kevin Saenz
I was told not to worry too much about it because it's supposed to be a cisco thing can anyone verify this for me? also has anyone successfully got RH6.2 dialing up to big pond? I keep getting could not get local ip address. Thanks Kevin Anyone know the measning of: "Unsupported Protocol

Re: [SLUG] USB CD Burner

2000-12-03 Thread John Ryland
On Monday 04 December 2000 16:23, Jason Rennie wrote: Does anyone know of any utils to burn cds on a USB cd burner? AFAIK xcdroast only supports SCSI/IDE burners (but please correct me if I am wrong) Actaully it all of the linux cd-burning stuff i`ve seen only supports scsi. It does

Re: [SLUG] USB CD Burner

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="John Ryland" On Monday 04 December 2000 16:23, Jason Rennie wrote: Can USB be made to emulate scsi ? I'm not sure I quite get the question. You can get USB devices that use a SCSI like protocol over the USB cable. I have one. It's a USB SanDisk Compact Flash reader.

[SLUG] How do I see what my modem reports?

2000-12-03 Thread Peter Vogel
How do I see what my modem reports during the ppp connection sequence? It doesn't seem to appear in the /var/log/messages file. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] How do I see what my modem reports?

2000-12-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
You need to tell pppd to be verbose echo "debug" /etc/ppp/options or add debug to the pppd command line Dean Peter Vogel wrote: How do I see what my modem reports during the ppp connection sequence? It doesn't seem to appear in the /var/log/messages file. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] How do I see what my modem reports?

2000-12-03 Thread Terry Collins
Peter Vogel wrote: How do I see what my modem reports during the ppp connection sequence? It doesn't seem to appear in the /var/log/messages file. Basically you have to tell the system to log stuff. It is in the PPP-HOWTO last I looked (about 2.5 years ago {:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}}

Re: [SLUG] Unsupported Protocol 0x8207 received??

2000-12-03 Thread DaZZa
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Peter Vogel wrote: Anyone know the measning of: "Unsupported Protocol 0x8207 received " message during ppp0 dialup negotiation (connecting to Bigpond Direct using a V90 modem)? Protocol ID 0x8207 - Cisco Discovery Protocol - CDP for short. Basically, it's a