Re: [SLUG] Re: can't Install linux on Sun

2002-01-02 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:09:56PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Crossfire thats odd, since Sun Firmware uses ARP/RARP to get IP, not BOOTP/DHCP. [and, oh boy is RARP fun] It sucks of the arse, and... I was installing something crackful that didn't like bootp recently. Maybe it

Re: [SLUG] PPP as non-root

2002-01-02 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 9:46 pm, Tuesday, January 1 2002, Simon Wong mumbled: I tried that but it didn't fix it. Any other ideas? Sure. Add the user to the dip group. (Assuming Debian.) -- Steve jim Lemme make sure I'm not wasting time here... bcwhite will remove

Re: [SLUG] Re: can't Install linux on Sun

2002-01-02 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:04:35PM +1100, Crossfire wrote: thats odd, since Sun Firmware uses ARP/RARP to get IP, not BOOTP/DHCP. Recent versions can use either DHCP or RARP, although I'm fairly sure that none of the versions for the sun4m's support it... Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] Re: can't Install linux on Sun

2002-01-02 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 16:29, David Fitch wrote: Trouble is I really want the cd install to work - if there's a problem later and I can't boot off the disk (for some reason) I don't want to go through all this again I want to be able to pop in the cd and go. Invoking all my powers of

Re: [SLUG] Re: can't Install linux on Sun

2002-01-02 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:02:25PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: January's meeting is in a couple of short weeks and this would make for much hacking-fun-buggery after Craig Small's talk. I could also bring my CD's along which I know work with my SS20. sounds good... and I would... except

Re: [SLUG] Re: can't Install linux on Sun

2002-01-02 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 22:07, David Fitch wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:02:25PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: January's meeting is in a couple of short weeks and this would make for much hacking-fun-buggery after Craig Small's talk. I could also bring my CD's along which I know work

Re: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB ???

2002-01-02 Thread Russell Ashdown
Netware incorporates proprietary system calls that can be utilised by developers for file locking. date retrieval and many other functions. If you are using mars-nwe the Netware server emulator, it may be that not all these system calls are supported. The calls themselves have changed since

[SLUG] Evolution - HOw do I import Mozilla mails

2002-01-02 Thread Ken Foskey
OK Mozilla is crashing when I reply twice.I installed evolution and it now works but it will not import Mozilla mail. ANy work arounds? I read the FAQ there did not appear to be anything. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Debian SIG - January

2002-01-02 Thread Craige McWhirter
Now with added secure and midnight-closing parking in Lincoln Cr, across the road from the hotel. Hopefully this map is not auto-generating and it will still be there for you: http://map3.whereis.com.au/telmap/map/map11571.gif All day parking costs $7 so I'd hazard a guess that an hour or two

Re: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB ???

2002-01-02 Thread Vince Meissner
To clarify, I am looking at using samba not the netware emulator. The other reason for upgrading is that they have reached the user limits of their netware licence and will need to upgrade regardless (25 user, NW 4.10) so removing load from the existing server will not be a solution. The big

[SLUG] Mutt remotely exploitable!

2002-01-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hahaha! On one hand it's funny, on the other... YOU HAVE PATCHES ALREADY! http://www.mutt.org/announce/mutt-1.2.5.1-1.3.25.html - Jeff -- Trying to get a PC to analyse one of the most abstract forms of language - the poem - is like trying to drill for oil with a banana.

[SLUG] IPTABLES and confusing messages

2002-01-02 Thread George Vieira
hey all, I thought I was starting to get an understaning of iptables when I stumbled on this problem. I've figured out how to SNAT and DNAT thanks to the help from the previous post and SLUGGERS who explained it a bit better than the man pages. My problem now is that I have rules (as below)

Re: [SLUG] Mutt remotely exploitable!

2002-01-02 Thread Balial
Anyone know what the exploit actually is? Chuck On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:15:31AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Hahaha! On one hand it's funny, on the other... YOU HAVE PATCHES ALREADY! http://www.mutt.org/announce/mutt-1.2.5.1-1.3.25.html - Jeff -- If it ain't broke, it

Re: [SLUG] IPTABLES and confusing messages

2002-01-02 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:23:52AM +1100, George Vieira wrote: I've figured out how to SNAT and DNAT thanks to the help from the previous post and SLUGGERS who explained it a bit better than the man pages. My problem now is that I have rules (as below) which allow incoming ports for TCP, any

Re: [SLUG] Re: can't Install linux on Sun

2002-01-02 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:20:16PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=David Fitch will rsync/wget just get the diffs? (assuming there is any) Yep, use rsync. Servers are described on cdimage.debian.org. doesn't seem to work for a single binary file (iso), ie. I did the rsync and it

I can feel it in my water (Was: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as afileserver for MYOB ???)

2002-01-02 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 18:16, Jeff Waugh wrote: If pain persists, please read the man page, it's a much better reference than my blabber. ;) Am I the only one who read this as bladder? -- Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] IPTABLES and confusing messages

2002-01-02 Thread Crossfire
George Vieira was once rumoured to have said: hey all, I thought I was starting to get an understaning of iptables when I stumbled on this problem. [snip] The other thing weird is that my rules aren't DROPPING non allowed packets and yet my rules appear quite strict.. I usually ACCEPT

Re: [SLUG] Mutt remotely exploitable!

2002-01-02 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:33:37AM +1100, Balial wrote: Anyone know what the exploit actually is? From looking at the patch for it, it looks like it is a buffer overflow in parsing addresses in headers. I think I read somewhere that it is only a 1 byte overflow, but still exploitable despite

RE: [SLUG] IPTABLES and confusing messages

2002-01-02 Thread George Vieira
The problem isn't that they can't reach the ports as the ports I allowed are working.. it's the ports that aren't specified should be handled by the default chain and/or the last chain which is supposed to be LOGGING and DROPPING but aren't even run. # # DROP and log everything

Re: I can feel it in my water (Was: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB ???)

2002-01-02 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:25:13AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 18:16, Jeff Waugh wrote: If pain persists, please read the man page, it's a much better reference than my blabber. ;) Am I the only one who read this as bladder? No, but it didn't seem strange that Jeff

Re: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB ???

2002-01-02 Thread David Kempe
The big problem is that magical word support, If MYOB don't support Linux and the customer has problems with MYOB on linux, then MYOB can (and do) say sorry it's your network, not our software. I think that this problem is a bit of a myth. Experience with these software vendors shows that

RE: [SLUG] IPTABLES and confusing messages

2002-01-02 Thread George Vieira
Ahaa!! Crossfire was right. Packets do not pass through the INPUT chain first and then the FORWARD chain like they do in IPCHAINS. I have allowed the internet network on the internal device and dropped practically everything else and it now logs and drops properly. Thanks for that information. I

Re: [SLUG] Mutt remotely exploitable!

2002-01-02 Thread Pete Ryland
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:27:14AM +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:33:37AM +1100, Balial wrote: Anyone know what the exploit actually is? From looking at the patch for it, it looks like it is a buffer overflow in parsing addresses in headers. I think I read

[SLUG] help setting up nfs

2002-01-02 Thread smcc4178
Can anyone help with this? I've been trying to setup a simple nfs betweens two machines but have hit a block: I'm using RedHat 7.1 on both machines. rpcinfo -p sever tells me the services on each ok. rpcinfo -n 2049 -u server nfs gives: program 13 version 2 ready and waiting program

Re: [SLUG] help setting up nfs

2002-01-02 Thread David Fitch
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:48:43PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and yet when I try to mount a filesystem: mount server:/remote/dir /local/dir I get: mount: RPC: Timed out error. I have tried all the options in the RedHat HOWTOS and still don't have a clue. so you've got the nfs

Re: [SLUG] Mutt remotely exploitable!

2002-01-02 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:14:35AM +, Pete Ryland wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:27:14AM +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote: From looking at the patch for it, it looks like it is a buffer overflow in parsing addresses in headers. I think I read somewhere that it is only a 1 byte

[SLUG] Re: how to use kernel-package and patch kernel for xfs?

2002-01-02 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Rob B} OK ... this is what I have so far ... aylee:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14$ export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=YES aylee:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14$ sudo make-kpkg --revision=loop.1.0 --added_patches xfs configure aylee:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14$ sudo make config configure,

[SLUG] Slightly OT. overriding filename with headers from CGI program.

2002-01-02 Thread Gareth Walters
G'day all, I have a little perl CGI script that sends its stdout to the browser with the appropriate Content-type header and data from a file. The problem I am having is that I want it to be saved with a filename determined by the script and not by the URL of the script. I tried adding a name=

Re: [SLUG] Slightly OT. overriding filename with headers from CGI program.

2002-01-02 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:56:18PM +1100, Gareth Walters wrote: The problem I am having is that I want it to be saved with a filename determined by the script and not by the URL of the script. I tried adding a name= field in the Content-type header but it didn't make any difference. Try

[SLUG] ot - ultra scsi 150 controller with ultra 160 drives

2002-01-02 Thread Steven Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey guys I have a ultra 150 controller with a server, and am looking into getting new replacement drives for it. What i would like to know is if a ultra 160 scsi drive (for example, a Seagate Cheetah 73.4GB 10K RPM Ultra 160) will work on this

Re: [SLUG] Slightly OT. overriding filename with headers from CGI program.

2002-01-02 Thread Gareth Walters
- Original Message - From: Andrew Bennetts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gareth Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:14 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Slightly OT. overriding filename with headers from CGI program. On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:56:18PM

[SLUG] CPU Restriction

2002-01-02 Thread SH
Sluggers, I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with restricting cpu/memory usage for users in a Solaris environment. Thanks SH

Re: [SLUG] CPU Restriction

2002-01-02 Thread Broun, Bevan
on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:57:56PM +1100, SH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sluggers, I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with restricting cpu/memory usage for users in a Solaris environment. I dont, but man ulimit might help. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] CPU Restriction

2002-01-02 Thread chesty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:57:56PM +1100, SH wrote: I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with restricting cpu/ memory usage for users in a Solaris environment. Theres nice/renice for cpu. Theres probably lots of way to set it up. If you set their login shell with a low