Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report

2001-03-01 Thread chesty
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:50:32PM +1100, Umar Goldeli wrote: Anyway, he'll need root to put ethx into promisc mode.. On a related note, its possible to remove promiscous mode capability from the kernel, plus a whole bunch more, eg set the immutable bit on some files, append only on others

Re: [SLUG] Editing python scripts in emacs

2001-03-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Ken Caldwell" At the moment dpkg -l shows emacs20 and emacsen-common installed. I did not see any packages containing "emacs" and "python" what should I be looking for? http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode/ or, lazarus: ~ $ apt-cache search emacs | grep python python-elisp

Re: [SLUG] Free LinuxExpo Tickets

2001-03-01 Thread Scott Howard
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 03:56:03PM +1100, Crossfire wrote: Ok, I have a small pile of Free LinuxExpo Tickets to give away! The only catch22, you have to come to North Sydney before the expo to collect them. or just go to http://www.infosalons.com.au/linuxexpo/register.html Scott. --

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Fixed IP ADSL

2001-03-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 01:43:34PM +1100, Ian Ward uttered: (why the @#$% do we have to drag our carriers kicking and screaming into the 21st century? INTERNET connectivity in Australia is a joke) /rant... sorry. just had to get that off my chest Think yourself lucky you're not here in the

[SLUG] Need an old USR Modem

2001-03-01 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi, Has anyone got an old USR modem they would like to see go to a good home? We need one to provide dial in access for the company that provides our internal communications and media retrieval system. Anything from 14k4 up will do, just that they are all setup for USR and our old Netcomm did

[SLUG] Per accounting/password management for a squid

2001-03-01 Thread Richard Piper
Has anyone got a favourite program for managing passwords and doing per user accounting and logging on a squid cache. It is todays project! Thanks Richard Richard Piper Intensive Care Unit Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney, Australia Work (612) 9926-8617 or 8656 Home (612) 9419-2339 Pager

Re: [SLUG] Per accounting/password management for a squid

2001-03-01 Thread Simon Bryan
I use sqrmgrlog from http://web.onda.com.br/orso/index.html At 07:35 2/03/2001, you wrote: Has anyone got a favourite program for managing passwords and doing per user accounting and logging on a squid cache. It is todays project! Thanks Richard Richard Piper Intensive Care Unit Royal

Re: [SLUG] Dual Screen Problem

2001-03-01 Thread kevin
Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, How do I get gdm to display / work with a second physical screen? Afaik You don't. you need the X server to support 2 heads. Have a look in the 2.4 kernel for frame buffer support "[EMAIL PROTECTED] kevin"@oceania.net "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb

Re: [SLUG] Dual Screen Problem

2001-03-01 Thread Crossfire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said: Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, How do I get gdm to display / work with a second physical screen? Afaik You don't. Bullshit. Gdm works with multihead fine [it displays to .0 only however]. its you WM that needs to be ICCCM (? IIRC)

Re: [SLUG] Dual Screen Problem

2001-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossfire wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said: Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, How do I get gdm to display / work with a second physical screen? Afaik You don't. Bullshit. very mature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Dual Screen Problem

2001-03-01 Thread Peter Rundle
you need the X server to support 2 heads. I have that working already (re: my first e-mail). The mouse moves seamlessly onto the second screen, I can get windows open on it eg export DISPLAY=mybox:0.1; xterm I just can't get a window manager working on it. When I try and start another window

[SLUG] Setting Passwords

2001-03-01 Thread John Ferlito
I used to have a little program once that would let me set passwords via a script but I can't remember wat it was called. ie something the lets me do. setpasswd -u user -e encryptedpw Yes I'm feeling to lazy to write a perl script :) Anyone remember what it was called. --

Re: [SLUG] Setting Passwords

2001-03-01 Thread John Ferlito
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:29:25AM +1100, John Ferlito wrote: I used to have a little program once that would let me set passwords via a script but I can't remember wat it was called. ie something the lets me do. setpasswd -u user -e encryptedpw Yes I'm feeling to lazy to

Re: [SLUG] Dual Screen Problem

2001-03-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
Peter, Maybe you had best talk to rasterman or mandrake then. possibly some E groupy so as not to bug them. I believe Xinerama makes the two heads appears as one with an od res. Which the window manager shouldnt have problems with as one can easily define any crazy res you want in XF86Config,

Re: [SLUG] Dual Screen Problem Progress

2001-03-01 Thread Peter Rundle
Ok, kinda got it working. Seems that the dual screen thing is a limitation of Gnome. If I launch E (or even twm, lwm or wmaker) from the xinitrc it opens up on the second screen no worries. I can't move windows from one screen to the other (but I kinda figured that wouldn't work anyway cause

Re: [SLUG] Dual Screen Problem Progress

2001-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Rundle wrote: Ok, kinda got it working. Seems that the dual screen thing is a limitation of Gnome. If I launch E (or even twm, lwm or wmaker) from the xinitrc it opens up on the second screen no worries. I can't move windows from one screen to the other (but I kinda figured that

[SLUG] How to launch Gnome panel from E (was Dual Screens)

2001-03-01 Thread Peter Rundle
Ok, So I have E working on both screens -- (way cool). I basically only want Gnome for the panel, so I try and launch a gnome-session and of course if barfs cause the window manager is already running. I can run just the gnome control centre from the E menus and all so obviously I can just run

Re: [SLUG] How to launch Gnome panel from E (was Dual Screens)

2001-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Rundle wrote: Ok, So I have E working on both screens -- (way cool). I basically only want Gnome for the panel, so I try and launch a gnome-session and of course if barfs cause the window manager is already running. I can run just the gnome control centre from the E menus and all

[SLUG] mail behind a proxy

2001-03-01 Thread Peter McCarthy
Howdy I have an interesting idea for having a mail server behind a proxied network. My situtation is I have a my Linux RH 6.2 box as the gateway to the net which currently sends and receives all internet mail. (mail1) What I propose to do is move the majority (but not all) of the users to a new

[SLUG] I broke my SID.

2001-03-01 Thread Steven downing
After finally getting all the packages downloaded to my machine, I did the actual 'dist-upgrade', a script of which is posted here: http://gonzo_united.tripod.com/sid.html (approx 200K) I tried to clean up the script output as much as possible, although I left some of the 'line noise' around

Re: [SLUG] mail behind a proxy

2001-03-01 Thread John Ferlito
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:05:20PM +1000, Peter McCarthy wrote: My situtation is I have a my Linux RH 6.2 box as the gateway to the net which currently sends and receives all internet mail. (mail1) What I propose to do is move the majority (but not all) of the users to a new Mail server

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Fixed IP ADSL

2001-03-01 Thread Richard Piper
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Ian Ward wrote: OK, I'm sick of waiting for Telstra Direct. Anyone using any of the other carriers for ADSL? I need fixed IP, I have a class-c that needs routing. The problem is also that the lease time seams to be 0. So you get a new IP everytime it crashed, and

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Fixed IP ADSL

2001-03-01 Thread David Kempe
I understand this does not happen with the cable service Yeah cable is not reliant on PPP for auth, so it can easily give you back the same IP. Also it cable just doesn't disconnect no where near as much as ADSL. My Telstra ADSL is waaay less stable than a Dingoblue dialup. I dunno what i