Re: [SLUG] Re. SLUG meeting instructions for newbie

2001-06-24 Thread Scott Howard
(Yes, I know this is completely off-topic, but it goes to show the power of the Internet, and so I thought I'd post it anyway. Replies off-list unless there's a reason not to...) On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:48:17PM +1000, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: For the uninitiated, the computer chips in Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Outlook Express and Mutt/GPG

2001-06-24 Thread Rob B
Flame me if I'm wrong, but I think it is if a message is GPG-signed, OE simply cannot handle it. Probably something to do with these headers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Eudora handles them fine. Cheers, Rob At 10:31 24/06/2001, enterfornone wrote:

Re: [SLUG] own domainname with non-permanent connection?

2001-06-24 Thread Michael Still
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Dave Fitch wrote: I will shortly have my own domain name so have been looking at web and email fowarding for it so www.mydomain.com goes to www.myisp.com.au/~username and [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to my isp email address. I have my ISP answer for stillhq.com, which is

[SLUG] howto copy files and keep details intact?

2001-06-24 Thread Rob B
Hi all, I have a directory of files (ip accounting data) that I want to move to another directory. If possible, how can I do this while keeping the creation date etc the same? Cheers, Rob -- A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. This is random quote 37 of a collection of

Re: [SLUG] howto copy files and keep details intact?

2001-06-24 Thread Michael
How about using tar to tar them up and then untar them to the new location :) - Michael On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rob B wrote: Hi all, I have a directory of files (ip accounting data) that I want to move to another directory. If possible, how can I do this while keeping the creation date

Re: [SLUG] howto copy files and keep details intact?

2001-06-24 Thread Rob B
Further to this problem, my /var partition keeps filling up. How can I see what is doing this? The system is Debian Potato (2.2r3) Cheers, Rob At 20:43 24/06/2001, Rob B wrote: Hi all, I have a directory of files (ip accounting data) that I want to move to another directory. If possible,

Re: [SLUG] howto copy files and keep details intact?

2001-06-24 Thread Howard Lowndes
For you copying try the -a option with cp As for the /var I suggest you run something like: cd /var ; for i in * ; do du -s $i ; done then look for likely candidates, cd to them and rerun to above with the new directory level. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com

Re: [SLUG] howto copy files and keep details intact?

2001-06-24 Thread Jon Carnes
On Sunday 24 June 2001 06:43, Rob B wrote: Hi all, I have a directory of files (ip accounting data) that I want to move to another directory. If possible, how can I do this while keeping the creation date etc the same? Cheers, Rob cp -a or mv -a The -a tells it perserve user owner,

[SLUG] rpc.statd vuln

2001-06-24 Thread Jon Austin
does anyone know what exploit this is and what versions of rpc.statd are vuln? i have been looking but no joy Jun 25 19:10:23 tcpublic /sbin/rpc.statd[144]: gethostbyname error for ^XF7FFBF^XF7FFBF^YF7FFBF^YF7FF BF^ZF7FFBF^ZF7FFBF^[F7FFBF^[F7FFBF%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%

Re: [SLUG] rpc.statd vuln

2001-06-24 Thread marty
does anyone know what exploit this is and what versions of rpc.statd are vuln? i have been looking but no joy looks like a buffer overflow exploit. have a look at http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#scans for sunrpc and note that there have been multiple buffer overflow

Re: [SLUG] Lots of multias on offer...

2001-06-24 Thread Terry Collins
Jamie Honan wrote: 16 each VX40B-F2 (166mhz Alpha) 16mb Ram, Floppy drive, No HD's (SCSI) These do NOT include stands, monitors, keyboards, or mice. Most if not all will probably need a battery. All were in working condition when removed from service. The advice I received is that

Re: [SLUG] howto copy files and keep details intact?

2001-06-24 Thread Peter Rundle
I have a directory of files (ip accounting data) that I want to move to another directory. If possible, how can I do this while keeping the creation date etc the same? $ cd /yourdir $ find . -print | cpio -pdmuv /newdir $ man cpio {-p| --pass-through} In copy-pass mode, cpio

Re: [SLUG] Redhat Network Services

2001-06-24 Thread John Clarke
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:42:56AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: I am seeing repreated probes on my firewall from tgftp.nws.noaa.gov (http) to ports 3507 3511 to my only box on the RHNS. And you're not running wmWeather or something similar? It grabs weather info from weather.noaa.gov which

Re: [SLUG] slrn - getting down arrow key to show each article.

2001-06-24 Thread Mike Lake
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:20:37AM +0930, Dave Fitch wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 04:10:19PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote: Am using slrn to read comp.text.tex and when you scroll down the headers with the down arrow key you have to hit enter as well to read the articles. I want it to be like

Re: [SLUG] rpc.statd vuln

2001-06-24 Thread Del
Jon Austin wrote: does anyone know what exploit this is and what versions of rpc.statd are vuln? i have been looking but no joy http://www.linuxsecuritycentral.com/ - Advisories - Query Advisories Look for nfs I think it's the one marked ID # 1480 which is from BugTRAQ. The full

Re: [SLUG] Redhat Network Services

2001-06-24 Thread Terry Collins
John Clarke wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:42:56AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: I am seeing repreated probes on my firewall from tgftp.nws.noaa.gov (http) to ports 3507 3511 to my only box on the RHNS. And you're not running wmWeather or something similar? It grabs weather info

Re: [SLUG] own domainname with non-permanent connection?

2001-06-24 Thread Matt Hyne
I know with www.dns2go.com that you can tell it to set your IP address to 0.0.0.0 when/if you go offline (regularly if you use Telstra ADSL). Generally, a static IP addr on Telstra's ADSL network will set you back a considerable amount for little more gain - they consider this a bigpond

Re: [SLUG] Outlook Express and Mutt/GPG

2001-06-24 Thread John Clarke
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:55:14PM +1000, Rob B wrote: Probably something to do with these headers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline No, more likely this one, inserted by both mutt and Eudora: Content-Type: multipart/encrypted;

Re: [SLUG] Lots of multias on offer...

2001-06-24 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:59:20AM +1000, Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anyone up for shipping a few in? We'd have to be quick, and have a decent number for it to be worthwhile. [snip] I currently have: 31 each VX51B-F2 (100mhz Pentium) 24mb Ram, 340mb IDE HD, Floppy 16 each

Re: [SLUG] own domainname with non-permanent connection?

2001-06-24 Thread John Clarke
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 04:04:14PM +1000, Graeme Robinson wrote: meantime another ISP hosts my domain and my mailserver is configured for pop collection and multidrop distribution of my domain mail. It works pretty well but I've heard multidrop can get into trouble when delivering

Re: [SLUG] Lots of multias on offer...

2001-06-24 Thread Terry Collins
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:59:20AM +1000, Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anyone up for shipping a few in? We'd have to be quick, and have a decent number for it to be worthwhile. [snip] I currently have: 31 each VX51B-F2 (100mhz Pentium) 24mb Ram,

[SLUG] small or floppy distro with nfsd

2001-06-24 Thread Grant Street
Hello all I have after much angst been able to install debian onto my libretto 50CT. This was with the help of a friends machine with nfsd. But now I want to update/add/remove packages and I don't have another nix machine at home. But I do have a doze box. I don't want to repartition at this

Re: [SLUG] own domainname with non-permanent connection?

2001-06-24 Thread Graeme Robinson
Quoting Matt Hyne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Another option is to config sendmail to fetch you mail using the ETRN (??) command - that way, the mail will be stored on a secondary server and you initiate the transfer to the primary when you are up - and list mail (non TO: addressed mail) will work

Re: [SLUG] own domainname with non-permanent connection?

2001-06-24 Thread Martin
Graeme Robinson wrote: Quoting Matt Hyne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Another option is to config sendmail to fetch you mail using the ETRN (??) command - that way, the mail will be stored on a secondary server and you initiate the transfer to the primary when you are up - and list mail (non

[SLUG] Religious Flamewar Required - authentication

2001-06-24 Thread Matthew Davidson
Hello, As PCAN (http://www.cat.org.au/pcan) is finally leaving the vapourware stage, I'm starting to have to think about the practicalities of setting up a digital access centre, and about doing things the Right Way(TM). I'm reading up about NIS and LDAP, but does anybody have any practical

Re: [SLUG] PCMCIA 10/100 card tuning?

2001-06-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
Check your duplex setting, seeing as you have a dumb hub you might need to force 10mbps/half-duplex Your symptoms sound like your at full duplex. Dean Rachel Polanskis wrote: Hi sluggers, I've managed to get myself a groovy little notebook running SuSE 7.1 on it. I went and bought a

Re: [SLUG] PCMCIA 10/100 card tuning?

2001-06-24 Thread Rachel Polanskis
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Dean Hamstead wrote: Check your duplex setting, seeing as you have a dumb hub you might need to force 10mbps/half-duplex Your symptoms sound like your at full duplex. Yes - that's what I suspect too, but I do not know where the change is made! -- Rachel Polanskis

[SLUG] Anyone could help plz

2001-06-24 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
I am Phillipus Gunawan, a student of Charles Sturt University, Sydney. I am writing this letter in regard to research the software development lifecycle that you are taken on your project. The purpose of this research is to generate a report that represents implementation of project

Re: [SLUG] PCMCIA 10/100 card tuning?

2001-06-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
append options to the kernel or to the module ;) Look in the kernel source ;) Dean Rachel Polanskis wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Dean Hamstead wrote: Check your duplex setting, seeing as you have a dumb hub you might need to force 10mbps/half-duplex Your symptoms sound like your at

[SLUG] Dangling symlink ?

2001-06-24 Thread Adam F. Bogacki
Hi Matt, Eora:/etc/X11# ls -l ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 gave me ls: ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86: No such file or directory. It seems I have a dangling symlink. How do I fix it (and my GUI back) ? Also, trying dpkg --list xlib6g returned ...snip Name Version

[SLUG] Amanda Onstream Tapetype Definition

2001-06-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
Has anyone got an Amanda OnStream ADR50 Tapetype defintion for amanda? Could you please email it to me. Thanks! Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: Dangling symlink ?

2001-06-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: Eora:/etc/X11# ls -l ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 gave me ls: ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86: No such file or directory. It seems I have a dangling symlink. How do I fix it (and my GUI back) ? OK, you're missing the xserver-xfree86 package.

Re: [SLUG] Religious Flamewar Required - authentication

2001-06-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Matthew Davidson wrote: I'm reading up about NIS and LDAP, but does anybody have any practical experiences / irrational prejudices they'd like to share about the various distributed authentication options? Some constraints are: My personal preference is to use the

[SLUG] Tux 2.0 server

2001-06-24 Thread Peter Rundle
Is anyone using the Tux 2.0 server yet? In this article http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2774242,00.html it claims that tux on the 2.4 kernel is 2-3 times faster than IIS or apache. Comments? Cheers Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Religious Flamewar Required - authentication

2001-06-24 Thread Del
Something for beginners I wrote a while ago: http://www.babel.com.au/techreports/authentication.html It is old, pre-2000, and there is some link rot but it's still basically OK. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Sorry For: Anyone Could Help Plz

2001-06-24 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
I'm really sorry for sending a really stupid questions to this mailing list. I was try send it into wrong address as it suppose goes to my friend address. Thx, Phillip.