Re: [SLUG] Drive Config, RAID ReiserFS

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 08:34:07AM +1000, Crossfire wrote: Adam F. Bogacki was once rumoured to have said: I'd be interested in any advice on partitioning (someone has suggested 10Gb for /), and the use of ReiserFS and S/W RAID where do I get my sticky hands on them ? Uh,

Re: [SLUG] Ipchains Firewall

quote who=Andy Haigh We have an ipchains firewall that has multiple IP addresses set up on the external NIC. We are going to change to a different ISP and will require to change the external IP addresses. I just want to check that this is as simple as just changing the IP addresses in linux

Re: [SLUG] Ipmasq and dialin

quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've recently discovered that our new ipmasq rules block people who dial in to the linux server to remotely work/browse. This is easily avoided by recalculating ipmasq while the link is up. However I'm at a loss as to the best way to automate this procedure when

[SLUG] [IMP] Archives Down Tonight

Hi all, Anyone who reguarly uses the SLUG archives will know that they've been borked for a number of months, showing May as the most recent month in the archive, but listing every mail notwithstanding. This is mostly due to laziness on the administrators' parts, but also to the somewhat

Re: [SLUG] dial up ???

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Paul Younis wrote: I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of Paul, I dont think there is a HOWTO on that. Try mgetty - it makes PPP dialin easy, and has good documentation. There is an old article: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue36/ali.html and

Re: [SLUG] dial up ???

quote who=Paul Younis I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some docmentatin on how to set up my linux box as a dial-in (so people can dial in to me) and shre www. Linux Gazette - the most unhyped, brilliant source of documentation for practical work with Linux.

Re: [SLUG] Drive Config, RAID ReiserFS

quote who=Andre Pang i'm not sure if the same applies to XFS. i'm reasonably confident that XFS + RAID(0|1|5) works fine, though. (Jeff?) Hey, send over a couple of big arse drives and I'll find out for you, okay? ;) [ I'm pretty sure it does. ] - Jeff -- 2.4.1ac17 is full of

RE: [SLUG] Ipchains Firewall

It may be that simple. It depends how ipchains is configured on your machine. I had an ipchains script that would get the external ip address and stor it in $EXTIP when ever I ran the script so if I did happen to change my external ip I wouldn't have to change the files assosiated with the

RE: [SLUG] dial up ???

I have done this before. It really isn't very difficult at all but i dont know if i should paste the url to every one, some might consider it spamming.. I'll give you the url off the list. or if you like i can just explain it to you. -Original Message-From: Paul Younis

Re: [SLUG] [IMP] Archives Down Tonight

quote who=Jeff Waugh Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 11:47:40 +0200 (Like, right now!) - Jeff -- The Unix Way: Everything is a file. The Linux Way: Everything is a filesystem. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

RE: [SLUG] Unable to export /mnt/cdrom via NFS

read my first mail, do what I said (hint, you haven't yet), and then let us know if you _still_ have problems. -Greg On 06-Jul-01 Laurie Savage wrote: Thanks to those who replied with solutions but this still isn't working. I cannot export the /mnt/cdrom directory from my NFS server. The

[SLUG] mkdir and $?

This is annoying - if anyone knows why this is happening, please tell me. I'm only interested in the errno, not the error (which is not set with -p, as stated in the docs). For some reason, testing if $? = 0 is always false, even if $? really ought to be true (ie. it's built all the directories

Re: [SLUG] mkdir and $?

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:20:52PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: This is annoying - if anyone knows why this is happening, please tell me. I'm only interested in the errno, not the error (which is not set with -p, as stated in the docs). For some reason, testing if $? = 0 is always false, even

RE: [SLUG] mkdir and $?

which distro, and which eratta applied ? -G On 06-Jul-01 Jeff Waugh wrote: This is annoying - if anyone knows why this is happening, please tell me. I'm only interested in the errno, not the error (which is not set with -p, as stated in the docs). For some reason, testing if $? = 0 is

Re: [SLUG] mkdir and $?

quote who=Greg Hosler which distro, and which eratta applied ? Shouldn't matter - I was doing something embarrassingly silly. - Jeff -- I get my kicks above the .sigline, sunshine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Security and catting to an env variable (Was: mkdir and $?)

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:13:22PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Which works great! So, second question. I need to use what's going on in stdin twice in a script, so I'm currently doing this: STDIN=$(tee -a pantslog) ... echo $STDIN | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm not quite sure what you

Re: [SLUG] Security and catting to an env variable (Was: mkdir and $?)

quote who=Andre Pang tee -a pantslog | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, but I need to do stuff to stdin between times. :) - Jeff -- The worst vice is advice. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] mkdir and $?

On 06-Jul-01 Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Greg Hosler which distro, and which eratta applied ? Shouldn't matter actually, believe it or not it might matter. There was a bug in the errata fileutils to RH 7.0 in mkdir that caused it to return false errors. that particular bug does not

Re: [SLUG] dial up ???

sure hope you are not going to be running a mini isp of your cable modem. :-) big no no dan - Original Message - From: Mike Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Younis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] dial up ??? On Fri,

[SLUG] modconf not modprobe

,Hi, Jeff was right. In Debian it's 'modconf' not 'modprobe'. I tried it as root and the module selections came up. As some have noted, 'tulip' was already installed in the kernel. I took the opportunity to install raid0 but could not find ReserFS. I understand that it comes with 2.4.x -

Re: [SLUG] mkdir and $?

quote who=Greg Hosler which distro, and which eratta applied ? You don't know what distro Jeff runs? Where have you been? On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:46:24PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Shouldn't matter - I was doing something embarrassingly silly. Wha? No plug? grep -ci debian IN.slug 5562

Re: [SLUG] mkdir and $?

quote who=Greg Hosler Your description dounded alot like that particular bug. It sounded more like me doing something that should never have worked in the first place. ;) - Jeff -- Perl - The Movie. Starring

[SLUG] X problem on optima laptop

I have just got a new optima a 1000 laptop. Naturally I thought it needed Linux. I installed RH7-1 no problem. When I start x i get four quadrants of the screen with a large black cross in the middle. Everything works except I can't see it. If I run Xconfigurator it detects an SiS 630 with the

[SLUG] can't mount filesystem

Hi all, Uber-newbie question for you. I have a disk with an ext2 filesystem that I want to mount onto a running system. Trying mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb /export gives the error mount: mount point /export does not exist Help? Cheers, Rob -- It is not down on any map; true places never are.

Re: [SLUG] can't mount filesystem

Well, does /export exists? It's certainly not a standard first level directory. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com _ We needn't, as socialists, get too concerned about privacy; it's a bourgeois right,

[SLUG] optus cable hosting website

Hi guys I was just wondering if anyone knows somebody that hosts their own website on their optus cable account ? I know alot of people who are on ADSL are doing it (I'm not talking about the business plan) even though they're not suppose to.. is that possible too with optus cable ? Thanks

Re: [SLUG] optus cable hosting website

quote who=Tom Gao I was just wondering if anyone knows somebody that hosts their own website on their optus cable account ? I know alot of people who are on ADSL are doing it (I'm not talking about the business plan) even though they're not suppose to.. is that possible too with optus cable

RE: [SLUG] dial up ???

http://www.bluenetgroup.com/support/howto/create_linux_dialin_server.html Bernhard LüderThis electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system

Re: [SLUG] optus cable hosting website

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Tom Gao wrote: I was just wondering if anyone knows somebody that hosts their own website on their optus cable account ? I know alot of people who are on ADSL are doing it (I'm not talking about the business plan) even though they're not suppose to.. is that possible too

[SLUG] randal

The dude is a serious party animal. 48 hours of uptime he's still going. It was 6:30 before we parted company and i was shattered.. Fell asleep on the ferry home and ended up catching a cab from back at the quay! This is a guy you want to party with. Alexander -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] Archives up and better than ever!

http://lists.slug.org.au/search hey neat! what search software is that? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug