Re: [SLUG] Is there a bot-abuse list?

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Dalton
Michael wrote: > > For the life of me I can't recall the name of that program jill is > referring to. I remember stumbling across it when I was just browsing > months ago... damn.. and I since cleared history :( It's not 'sugarplum', is it? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Is there a bot-abuse list?

2001-04-10 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:27:39PM +1000, Michael wrote: > For the life of me I can't recall the name of that program jill is > referring to. I remember stumbling across it when I was just browsing > months ago... damn.. and I since cleared history :( wpoison? http://www.monkeys.com/wpois

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Problems

2001-04-10 Thread Crossfire
Doug Stalker was once rumoured to have said: > I've searched the mailing list archive and can't find an answer to this one: > > I've just gotten Telstra ADSL. It's working fine from my Windows Me system > (the one I'm using now) but when I try to use pppoe on my gateway system > (Debian Potato)

Re: [SLUG] Packet Fragmenting and IP_MASQ...

2001-04-10 Thread Crossfire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said: > Geez don't get testie, I email SLUG CAUSE I NEEDED HELP.. far out... If you want help, then state your problem, and what you want help with. What you did instead was make poor assumptions, and ask questions based upon those assumptions, without

RE: [SLUG] Is there a bot-abuse list?

2001-04-10 Thread Michael
For the life of me I can't recall the name of that program jill is referring to. I remember stumbling across it when I was just browsing months ago... damn.. and I since cleared history :( On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Ian Tester wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Jill Rowling wrote: > > > There's also the

RE: [SLUG] ADSL Problems

2001-04-10 Thread Doug Stalker
Adding in debug doesn't give any more information. I can get the following though: legba:/home/doug# pppoe -A -I eth1 -- Access-Concentrator: nkt1-kent AC-Ethernet-Address: 00:90:39:47:00:3a --

Re: [SLUG] 3 Easy Pieces

2001-04-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Where do you recommend I find an ISO to burn me a Debian CD so I can screw > up^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hinstall it on my laptop? http://cdimage.debian.org/ and follow the links. :) - Jeff -- Wars end, love lasts. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User G

RE: [SLUG] Is there a bot-abuse list?

2001-04-10 Thread Ian Tester
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Jill Rowling wrote: > There's also the bot-trap where the ignorant bot wanders at its peril into a > series of server-side scripts with no way back. he he, some bot-bait! Make a link on your main page (or even on every page) and use tags to make the text colour the same as

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Problems

2001-04-10 Thread John Ferlito
put the following line in /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider or whatever ppp options file your're using for the connection. debug It will probably give you some more useful debug info to work out what's going wrong. On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:35:46PM +1000, Doug Stalker wrote: > > > I've searched t

Re: [SLUG] Packet Fragmenting and IP_MASQ...

2001-04-10 Thread sdennis
Geez don't get testie, I email SLUG CAUSE I NEEDED HELP.. far out... 1) I'm not blocking ICMP at all 2) I didn't know about PMTU. That's the kinda thing i needed to know (ta) Crossfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/04/2001 11:51:00 AM To: Stephen Dennis/NSW/QBE/AU@QBE cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] ADSL Problems

2001-04-10 Thread Doug Stalker
I've searched the mailing list archive and can't find an answer to this one: I've just gotten Telstra ADSL. It's working fine from my Windows Me system (the one I'm using now) but when I try to use pppoe on my gateway system (Debian Potato) I get the following in /var/log/messages: legba ppp

[SLUG] Printer question

2001-04-10 Thread dmgray
I have an NT 4.0 workstation box on a network with two Linux boxes. One of the Linux boxes has a printer I want to be able to use from the NT box. When I try to add the printer from the control panel, it finds the printer (Samba is running on one of the machines) but tells me there is no "...suita

Re: [SLUG] Zope

2001-04-10 Thread John Ferlito
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:35:17PM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking at various platforms for developing web apps, primarily a > slashdot/K5 style community site, with associated services. I've a > perverse desire to hand-roll all this in perl, but given time One s

Re: [SLUG] regex, CVS question fixed

2001-04-10 Thread Gareth Walters
I worked it out by just changing my approach, not by working out how to use a regex to do it. ---G - Original Message - From: "Gareth Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 11:50 AM Subject: [SLUG] regex, CVS question > I am pulling my ha

[SLUG] Zope

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Davidson
Hello, I'm looking at various platforms for developing web apps, primarily a slashdot/K5 style community site, with associated services. I've a perverse desire to hand-roll all this in perl, but given time constraints, and a niggling concern for people who may have to maintain it after me (you c

Re: [SLUG] 3 Easy Pieces

2001-04-10 Thread Crossfire
DaZZa was once rumoured to have said: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote: > >>> I never felt out of control with Debian. It told me what it >>> was doing, what to do next, what it would require. >> >> Awesome. ;) > > OK, I'm in the mood to experiment. > > Where do you recommend I find an I

Re: [SLUG] 3 Easy Pieces

2001-04-10 Thread DaZZa
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > I never felt out of control with Debian. It told me what it > > was doing, what to do next, what it would require. > > Awesome. ;) OK, I'm in the mood to experiment. Where do you recommend I find an ISO to burn me a Debian CD so I can screw up^h^h^h^h^

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: cfengine

2001-04-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> what is needed is: Mandrake (the dude, not the distro) had some interesting ideas (kinda similar, though not really involving cfengine) for doing this up on his website. However, as keen as he was to implement them, I think his departure from A has changed things a little. - Jeff --

Re: [SLUG] 3 Easy Pieces

2001-04-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> First I tried Progeny RC2. My experience is that it is probably more for > very modern hardware (large disks, reasonable RAM, all PCI, no ISA). Ah, rats. :( I haven't had the opportunity to check it out yet, but it sounds rather like the Storm install I tried. "What? No mouse? HANG TIME!" >

RE: [SLUG] Is there a bot-abuse list?

2001-04-10 Thread Jill Rowling
There's also the bot-trap where the ignorant bot wanders at its peril into a series of server-side scripts with no way back. It was discussed in "Sys Admin" magazine a couple of months back. ... look on google. It was mainly to stop spambots from gathering emails. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling

Re: [SLUG] MySql question

2001-04-10 Thread Martin
Simon Bryan wrote: > > Thanks, I had the impression that 'dump' deleted the database, will try > that when I transfer again soon. try "mysqldump dbname > some_file_name" and look at what it creates... basically all the sql to recreate your tables and populate the db... later marty -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Packet Fragmenting and IP_MASQ...

2001-04-10 Thread Crossfire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said: > Hello all, > > I just figured out why my router wouldn't work. The MTU of the external > interface was 1472 (i set that) and I read the thing about IP_masq code not > liking non-fragmented packets.. So just a quick couple of questions.. Uh

[SLUG] regex, CVS question

2001-04-10 Thread Gareth Walters
G'day all, I am pulling my hair out trying to work this out I have seached the web etc to no avail. Its so simple too... I need CVS to do a check for whenever someone commits a change. So I need to add something in the commitinfo file each line has the format regex command Now all I need to

[SLUG] Input/output error

2001-04-10 Thread Geoffrey Robertson
I think I have a small nastyness on a disk. For a week cron has been emailing me this stuff: /etc/cron.daily/standard: find: /home/geoffrey/.enlightenment/.initialized: find: /home/geoffrey/.ssh/identity: Input/output error find: /home/geoffrey/tafe/adp/Practical.C.Programming/pracc/total5w: +Inp

[SLUG] Packet Fragmenting and IP_MASQ...

2001-04-10 Thread sdennis
Hello all, I just figured out why my router wouldn't work. The MTU of the external interface was 1472 (i set that) and I read the thing about IP_masq code not liking non-fragmented packets.. So just a quick couple of questions.. 1) Isn't it faster if it doens't have to fragment the packet??

Re: Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Slightly OT: Hardware query

2001-04-10 Thread Gareth Walters
Price isn't really the problem its useability/convienience. We needed 4 machines 2 LINUX and 2 Windows we cannot use Laptops for the windows machines as they need to have a fast 3D AGP graphics card. Using rackmount gear in one big lump means there is little setup needed by the user they just ne

[SLUG] New FTP remote exploit (fwd)

2001-04-10 Thread DaZZa
===Begin Forwarded Message=== FYI, there is a new FTP exploit hitting the streets that effects almost ALL ftp servers, regardless of server OS, or ftpd version. If you are a home user, not on the Cisco internal network (NAT'ed with a 10. number), then PLEASE be careful if you are running FTP s

[SLUG] 3 Easy Pieces

2001-04-10 Thread Jamie Honan
I recently had cause to try out some distributions, and thought I'd share some of my experiences. First I tried Progeny RC2. My experience is that it is probably more for very modern hardware (large disks, reasonable RAM, all PCI, no ISA). Progeny uses Parted as the partition editor, and Grub as

Re: [SLUG] MySql question

2001-04-10 Thread Martin
Simon Bryan wrote: > > OK, Samba to the rescue with the copy, but could not get the new database > recognised by the mysql server, regardless of mysqladmin, refresh, flush, > reload. However when I stop and start the server it works! i think mysql only looks at the parent directory of the databa

Re: [SLUG] LILO refuses to boot Windows.

2001-04-10 Thread Steven downing
As I recall, Windows doesn't play nicely unless it is the first Hard Drive. Which can be a pain now that you have Linux installed, so you'll have to do things like: Re install LiLo on the boot partition of the Windows hard drive. In /etc/fstab change the hda and hdb 's around. Swap the two drives

RE: [SLUG] LILO refuses to boot Windows.

2001-04-10 Thread Wylie Edwards
Did you install mandrake or linux first? Has Windows ever booted properly in that configuration on its own (ie before you installed Mandrake)?? I have a feeling that Windows wont boot because it needs to be on the first partition on the first drive or it gets really mad. Try setting it up as fo

Re: [SLUG] LILO refuses to boot Windows.

2001-04-10 Thread Peter Rundle
> If I swap hda and hdb, Windows boots straight up, so the > drive is definitely bootable. > Any ideas? Yep. Windows insists on being in the first partition on the first drive. I've yet to see any installations where it can reside somewhere else. If anybody has had success with this I'd be

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Preventing module from being cleaned

2001-04-10 Thread Ian Ward
> all you need to do is add the line: > > alias char-major-90 tun Thanks very much, this did the trick. (/etc/conf.modules) Sorry I forgot to mention it was RedHat. Now I know how to fix some other annoying mesages regarding ppp_deflate and bsd_comp Ian. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group M

Re: [SLUG] Is there a bot-abuse list?

2001-04-10 Thread marty
> > A little Apache add-on that delayed the reply to requests from > > particular IPs would be most welcome. > > > > yes, there a RBL apache-module, it works nice if you setup > your own rbl @ localhost, querying in realtime rbl.maps.vix.com > or any other, cost traffic/time. do a google search

Re: [SLUG] Is there a bot-abuse list?

2001-04-10 Thread Andreas Mueller
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:24:36AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: > A little Apache add-on that delayed the reply to requests from > particular IPs would be most welcome. > yes, there a RBL apache-module, it works nice if you setup your own rbl @ localhost, querying in realtime rbl.maps.vix.com or

[SLUG] LILO refuses to boot Windows.

2001-04-10 Thread Aussie
I have recently installed a Windows system with Mandrake Linux from the APC pocketbook CD. While Mandrake boots well and runs nicely, Windows refuses to boot and hangs the system attempting to do so. The configuration for the hard drives is as follows. hda1 - swap drive [active] hda5 - ex

[SLUG] Is there a bot-abuse list?

2001-04-10 Thread Terry Collins
I know there is mail-abuse for listing open relay sites. Is there an equivalent for bad search engine bots? I currently have three search engines crawling my www and all three ignore robots.txt. This means that they are determined to index about 40,000 stored Slug, 2600, htdig, etc messages. Two

[SLUG] Debian & encrypted FS

2001-04-10 Thread Arunava Sen
Hi, I just installed a base potato system and upgraded to unstable. this is my first debian system, so im just getting used to some of the stuff. I was wondering... does anyone here have encrypted FS working with debian? >From what I understand, I can use the make-kpkg script to apply the relevan

[SLUG] Re: Need staticly linked tar

2001-04-10 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Tony Green} > Anyone got a staticly linked version of GNU tar that I can have? I'm > still trying to recover my deb box - not easy without being able to use > apt! > > I'd search the net for one if I could get a browser up... :-( if you can ftp from somewhere (another box?), i believe th

[SLUG] Re: Re: Preventing module from being cleaned

2001-04-10 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Ian Ward} > > \begin{Ian Ward} > > > I have VTUN operating between three servers, it works great. > > > It needs the tun.o module loaded. Unfortunately, it does not do this > > > itself. > > if you run vtund without the tun.o module loaded, are there any > > "can't find module xxx" modprob

Re: [SLUG] Re: Preventing module from being cleaned

2001-04-10 Thread Ian Ward
- Original Message - From: "Angus Lees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "slug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:29 AM Subject: [SLUG] Re: Preventing module from being cleaned > \begin{Ian Ward} > > I have VTUN operating between three servers, it works great. > > > > It needs

[SLUG] Need staticly linked tar

2001-04-10 Thread Tony Green
Sluggers, Anyone got a staticly linked version of GNU tar that I can have? I'm still trying to recover my deb box - not easy without being able to use apt! I'd search the net for one if I could get a browser up... :-( Box very broken Mail me a copy if you have. TIA Greeno -- Greeno <[EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Weird record in ipchains log.

2001-04-10 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 03:36:17PM +1000, DaZZa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > > I have the telnet port open in IPCHAINS but hosts.allow lets only a [snip] > Which bit is worrying you? > > DaZZa sadly the bit whats worrying it *ME*. I got to