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

2000-12-04 Thread Dave Kempe
In short, your ISP is a bunch of slack arsed lusers who should know enough to turn this feature off when configuring Cisco terminal servers. It's a single line of text in the config file to disable it. Perhaps tho, he is connecting to bigpond direct. They may have client cisco routers that

[SLUG] Masquerading ICQ follow up

2000-12-04 Thread Tom Massey
Hi, A couple of people have asked me for a summary of how I got this working, suggestions I got and so on. Here's a few thoughts, by no means complete, I hope they're useful... (All this assumes that you've already got a local network set up with ipchains working to share Internet access).

RE: [SLUG] Masquerading ICQ follow up

2000-12-04 Thread Dave Kempe
This method also has the advantage over the ip_masq_icq module that it should work regardless of changes to the ICQ protocol (The ip_masq_icq module doesn't currently work with the latest version of ICQ). I did some diggin in some old scripts i had that work great with ICQ 2000: /sbin/insmod

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

2000-12-04 Thread DaZZa
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Dave Kempe wrote: In short, your ISP is a bunch of slack arsed lusers who should know enough to turn this feature off when configuring Cisco terminal servers. It's a single line of text in the config file to disable it. Perhaps tho, he is connecting to bigpond

RE: [SLUG] Deny http access to a domain

2000-12-04 Thread Peter Worboys
This might help Use the .htaccess file AuthUserFile/dev/null AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthNameReallySillyExample AuthTypeBasic Limit GET order allow,deny allow from all deny from .example.com /Limit Peter Worboys -Original Message- From:

[SLUG] Help needed with html form and perl script

2000-12-04 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi, One of our students submitted a 'Guestbook' perl script as part of her assessment. We were able to assess it for the things we needed, but it doesn't quite work (so no full marks of course!). I am going round in circles trying to see what I am doing wrong so am asking for help. When the

[SLUG] Help needed with html form and perl script

2000-12-04 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi, One of our students submitted a 'Guestbook' perl script as part of her assessment. We were able to assess it for the things we needed, but it doesn't quite work (so no full marks of course!). I am going round in circles trying to see what I am doing wrong so am asking for help. When the

RE: [SLUG] Masquerading ICQ follow up

2000-12-04 Thread Tom Massey
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Dave Kempe wrote: I did some diggin in some old scripts i had that work great with ICQ 2000: /sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/ip_masq_icq.o ports=4000,4001,4002,4003,4004,4005,4006,4007,4008,4009,4010,4011 range=60200,61000 tcp_timeout=14400 tcp_fin_timeout=60

Re: [SLUG] Masquerading ICQ follow up

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Tom Massey" Interesting - according to the ip_masq_icq docs, this shouldn't work with ICQ 2000. :-) ICQ 2000 would more often than not be using the AIM protocol, rather than the ICQ one. They've finally started integrating their systems after all this time. Thus my early response

Re: [SLUG] Help needed with html form and perl script

2000-12-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
Your web server doesnt know to interpret the script, generally youll want it to be in the cgi-bin, or allowed to run via ExecCGI or even mod_perl. Dean Simon Bryan wrote: Hi, One of our students submitted a 'Guestbook' perl script as part of her assessment. We were able to assess it for

Re: [SLUG] Masquerading ICQ follow up

2000-12-04 Thread Crossfire
- Original Message - From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Masquerading ICQ follow up quote who="Tom Massey" Interesting - according to the ip_masq_icq docs, this shouldn't work with ICQ 2000. :-) ICQ

Re: [SLUG] dump and Tower of Hanoi algorithm

2000-12-04 Thread Terry Collins
root wrote: Can anyone interpret the man page for dump that discusses the use of the "modified Tower of Hanoi" algorithm. What is the logic in using that? Basically you have multiple copies of everything spread over various tapes, but a minimum of tapes. In your GFS system, somewhere you

Re: [SLUG] Deny http access to a domain

2000-12-04 Thread Rick Welykochy
Sonam Chauhan wrote: sub handler { if ( $ENV{HTTP_REFERER} !~ /example.com/ ) { return DECLINED; } #ok... go to next handler nitpik Since domains are case insensitive ... if ( $ENV{HTTP_REFERER} !~ /example.com/i ) --^ But then

[SLUG] C Programmer problem

2000-12-04 Thread Ken Foskey
Here is one for people to scratch their head on: unsigned char ucObject[255]; memset(ucPrtLine,0,sizeof(ucPrtLine)); sfb = fiInp-afpRec.sfbPtr; memset(ucObject,0,sizeof(ucObject)); strcpy((PCHAR) ucObject,(PCHAR) fiInp-ucOName); if (ucObject[0] == '\xff') {

Re: [SLUG] Newbie question about rpms

2000-12-04 Thread Matthew Dalton
Simon Bryan wrote: Hi, I have just setup a SuSe 7 server to run AUC - I hope - I went looking for certain apps and packages needed such as MySql and glibc. Some I found as tar balls some as rpm's however glibc I can only find as rpm's none of which are stated as for SuSe. In this situation

Re: [SLUG] Help needed with html form and perl script

2000-12-04 Thread Nicholas Wilcox
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Simon Bryan wrote: When the submit buttonis pressed on the form the data is sent in the new URL but instead of the perl script running it loads into the browser window as text. It is called guestbook.plx (have tried cgi as an extension as well) and it has 755 as it's

Re: [SLUG] Help needed with html form and perl script

2000-12-04 Thread Arthur Barton
A quickie.. is it calling to perl in the correct place? was it done in perl 5(5.6), if you have perl 4? loading as plain text... hmm what is the output of the script supposed to be, output html [text] page? early morning ramblings. sorry (also apologies for possible HTML format and / or legal

[SLUG] Re: [lias] Newbie question about rpms

2000-12-04 Thread Terry Collins
Simon Bryan wrote: Hi, I have just setup a SuSe 7 server to run AUC - I hope - I went looking for certain apps and packages needed such as MySql and glibc. Some I found as tar balls some as rpm's however glibc I can only find as rpm's none of which are stated as for SuSe. Suse does RPMs.

Re: [SLUG] C Programmer problem

2000-12-04 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 08:57:44AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: a) 'x\ff' is implicitly an integer. No, it's a char, but promoted to int for the comparison. Since char is a signed type, the value is sign-extended during the conversion, and hence you're actually comparing against 0x.

[SLUG] Tape drive in RedHat 6.2

2000-12-04 Thread George Ferizis
Hi, I was just wondering if anybody can give me any info on installation of a tape drive in RedHat 6.2 /etc/sysconfig/hwconf shows the tape drive at device /dev/st1 However : * an stinit craps out with Can't find the tape characteristics database. * no /dev/tape * no

[SLUG] Scanjet 5p

2000-12-04 Thread Matthew Davidson
Hello, Has anybody had any happy experiences with the HP Scanjet 5p? I'm ashamed to admit I've been lazy, and had mine set up to run from a legacy OS on a dual-boot machine. Unfortunately, the drive I was running this OS from died in a distressingly noisy manner (probably because 99.9% of the

[SLUG] Linux on CHEAP Internet computer

2000-12-04 Thread grant
Howdy Thought this may intest you guys, especially for schools... Internet computer $200US with no monitor K6200 64Mb RAM OS runs from CDROM rest is stored on Flash 10/100 network card 56k soft modem linux 2.2 netscape 4.73 xterm, ssh, vnc, IRC, Citrix client, games http://www.thinknic.com/

[SLUG] MIME encoder...

2000-12-04 Thread Colin Humphreys
I have a progect that involves being able to send mail to a smtp server. This now requires to be able to send attachments. Is there a little app around that will mime-encode a binary and dump back the encoded stuff? -Colin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] MIME encoder...

2000-12-04 Thread Brock Henry
I haven't done this before, but http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=modulequery=mime shows lots of modules that will do it. Brock Henry At 14:48 05/12/2000 +1100, you wrote: I have a progect that involves being able to send mail to a smtp server. This now requires to be able to send

[SLUG] syslogd 1.4 not logging all messages

2000-12-04 Thread Marshall, Joshua
Hi, I've just noticed that since I upgraded syslogd to version 1.4-0, some messages aren't being sent to the /var/log/messages file that were being sent there when I was using 1.3-3 (I think it was this version) Typical messages are: ipchains deny packets, Ethernet in promiscuous mode etc. I

[SLUG] tribute to Tux

2000-12-04 Thread DaZZa
Remember those old lego sets you had when you were a kid? Check this out. http://www.ericharshbarger.org/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?penguin_6.jpg+lego/images/penguin The main site is at http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/ for those who want to know more. Me, I just want the plans to the lego Tux!

RE: [SLUG] syslogd 1.4 not logging all messages

2000-12-04 Thread Richard Ames
Check to see if klogd is still running. On RedHat '/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslogd status' if klogd is dead, restart the syslog daemon with '/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslogd stop' then start. Syslog is buggy... I haven't yet got a good understanding of which version is NOT buggy. Richard -Original

Re: [SLUG] Tape drive in RedHat 6.2

2000-12-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
* an stinit craps out with Can't find the tape characteristics database. * no /dev/tape id venture to say that should be a symlink to /dev/st1 Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613