RE: [SLUG] Hard drives

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Biddell
> 1)The drive bays are of the 'Lazer" brand, whilst the box > says they are hot > swappable, I have some reservations about doing this, for > fear of spiking the drive and damaging it or the others on > the machine. I know that one has to be present in the machine > for the bios to detect t

RE: [SLUG] Hard drives

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Biddell
> 1)The drive bays are of the 'Lazer" brand, whilst the box > says they are hot > swappable, I have some reservations about doing this, for > fear of spiking the drive and damaging it or the others on > the machine. I know that one has to be present in the machine > for the bios to detect t

[SLUG] T.Rex firewall

2003-01-30 Thread Kevin Saenz
Just asking if anyone has played with t.rex firewall content filtering software? Are there any +ives over spamassassin or squidGuard? Thanks -- Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Firewall MD5 signatures on processes

2003-01-30 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Matt M wrote: > > >>And totally unimplementable on a machine where the same binaries can have >>different MD5 sums across different installations, e.g. the one you all are >>(most likely) reading this mail on now. > >Unless the MD5 sums table is build when you install t

[SLUG] Mixing Memory Brands

2003-01-30 Thread Jonathan Kelly
Hi, does anyone have any knowledge/experience of there being problems mixing *brands* of memory. The memory is PC2100 (266MHz) Reg Ecc. I currenty have one 512M stick of Crucial installed, and need another, but there seems to be upto about 25% difference in price depending on brand (and of course

Re: [SLUG] Mixing Memory Brands

2003-01-30 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 08:57, Jonathan Kelly wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone have any knowledge/experience of there being problems > mixing *brands* of memory. The memory is PC2100 (266MHz) Reg Ecc. I > currenty have one 512M stick of Crucial installed, and need another, > but there seems to be upto a

Re: [SLUG] Mixing Memory Brands

2003-01-30 Thread Michael Lake
Jonathan Kelly wrote: > does anyone have any knowledge/experience of there being problems > mixing *brands* of memory. The memory is PC2100 (266MHz) Reg Ecc. I > currenty have one 512M stick of Crucial installed, and need another, > but there seems to be upto about 25% difference in price depending

[SLUG] TimeZone settings

2003-01-30 Thread mkraus
G'day all... How do I go about manually checking / setting my TimeZone settings? FWIW, I'm using Mandrake 8.2 TIA Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - htt

Re: [SLUG] TimeZone settings

2003-01-30 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Friday 31 Jan 2003 10:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I go about manually checking / setting my TimeZone settings? > FWIW, I'm using Mandrake 8.2 Hi Mike, Your default timezone is set by the soft-link /etc/localtime - for instance on my system (Ma

[SLUG] which linux and what hardware specs

2003-01-30 Thread Peter Hewett
I'm about to install Linux as an internet firewall/router on a our small internal network. We currently have an old box of unknown spec, routing onto our LAN using a 56K dialup internet connection. I'm thinking I'll buy red hat 8 personal to get the full latest beast and a graphical interface. My

Re: [SLUG] which linux and what hardware specs

2003-01-30 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Friday 31 Jan 2003 10:43 am, Peter Hewett wrote: Regarding 486 vs Pentium, I've no recent experience to help with that I'm afraid. > And will red hat 8 personal have everything I need to do the job ? I tried experimenting with this, and found that if you i

Re: [SLUG] which linux and what hardware specs

2003-01-30 Thread Terry Collins
Peter Hewett wrote: > > I'm about to install Linux as an internet firewall/router on a our small > internal network. We currently have an old box of unknown spec, routing onto > our LAN using a 56K dialup internet connection. A 486 is fine for this. There is a nice O'Reilly's book on Firewalls, v

Re: [SLUG] which linux and what hardware specs

2003-01-30 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 2003.01.31 10:43 Peter Hewett wrote: I'm about to install Linux as an internet firewall/router on a our small internal network. We currently have an old box of unknown spec, routing onto our LAN using a 56K dialup internet connection. I'm thinking I'll buy red hat 8 personal to get the full la

[SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread mkraus
G'day all... I'm wanting to set up a third network segment at work to use as a DMZ and place the external mail server in it. I'm wondering what is the best (read simplest yet secure) solution - Postfix or Qmail as the MTA. Comments welcomed. Thanks. Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administratio

Re: [SLUG] which linux and what hardware specs

2003-01-30 Thread Guy Ellis
Hi Peter, Try IPCop, it's ideal for your application. It's only 25MB, it's free and will even run on a 486. www.ipcop.org Yes it does have a gui. Cheers, - Guy. At 10:43 am 31/01/2003 +1100, you wrote: I'm about to install Linux as an internet firewall/router on a our small internal network

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 31/01/2003 11:22 AM +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all... I'm wanting to set up a third network segment at work to use as a DMZ and place the external mail server in it. I'm wondering what is the best (read simplest yet secure) solution - Postfix or Qmail as the MTA. I recommend Post

Re: [SLUG] which linux and what hardware specs

2003-01-30 Thread mkraus
The link to Cetus seems to be down. Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 Terry Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 31/01/2003 11:25 AM To: Peter Hewett <[EMAI

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread Colin Humphreys
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:22:31AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm wondering what is the best (read simplest yet secure) solution - > Postfix or Qmail as the MTA. I have used both of these. I havn't really looked into it in the last couple of years, but back then one of these two would be y

Re: [SLUG] which linux and what hardware specs

2003-01-30 Thread Terry Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The link to Cetus seems to be down. > Try http://www.lankum.com same place (new name) -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" --

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread mkraus
Care to elucidate upon the non-GPL licensing restrictions? Thanks Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 Russell Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 31/01/2003 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread Mary
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > I recommend Postfix. *Much* easier to configure, is secure and very > reliable. Qmail is also good but it's not the easiest MTA to > configure. I don't current run a multi-user server, so I'm not interested in this for personal use, I'm just curious.

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread Colin Humphreys
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:44:23AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Care to elucidate upon the non-GPL licensing restrictions? google for qmail licensing and you will get the idea. In section 1.8 of Life with Qmail http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#license 1.8. License qmail is copyrighted

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread Tom Massey
* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-31 11:30]: > Care to elucidate upon the non-GPL licensing restrictions? http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#djb -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread Mary
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Care to elucidate upon the non-GPL licensing restrictions? [I think you might have sent a reply to a private mail to this list. Sometimes not what the author of the private mail wanted.] Distribution of qmail is under the terms at: http://cr.yp.to

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread Stuart Guthrie
What about Exim? http://www.exim.org/ I've heard it's better than both postfix and qmail. I use postfix currently but will look at exim based on a chat with Paul Wickham. Apparently it's used at an ISP in the UK with several million mailboxes "Energis Squared also use exim for their mail system

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail vs Exim

2003-01-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On 31 Jan 2003, Stuart Guthrie wrote: [Exim] > they also use it exclusively for email requirements. Maybe Paul could > give us an overview sometime? If Paul isn't interested, I could probably whip something up. I'm an old sendmail hack from way back, took one look at exim and haven't been back.

[SLUG] Hylafax issue

2003-01-30 Thread Kevin Saenz
I have tried to send a postscript file as a fax. the document is only 2 pages, the problem is when I use sendfax -n -d number file the modem stays connected to the fax and continues to send page after page I turned off the modem after 6 pages can anyone tell me what I have possibly done wrong? I c

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
> What about Exim? > > http://www.exim.org/ > > I've heard it's better than both postfix and qmail. "Different"... It's just another MTA. Whilst postfix is a drop-in replacement for sendmail, a lot of sendmail admins will find exim easier going, as it's a bit more hackable and flexible. You ge

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
> So qmail is useful if you want to let non-privileged users configure their > own virtual hosts without any need for a privileged user to do anything > except the initial setup. > > Is there are way to do this with Postfix? Yes, but you do it in a more traditional way - LDAP, databases, etc. w

[SLUG] (no subject)

2003-01-30 Thread Tiwari, Rajnish
Hi All, Is there a place where i can find out about what distribution & releases use which version of the linux kernel ? As a quicky, could someone fill me on which kernel versions are on Redhat 7.X & 8 ? Thanks in advance. Regards, Raj -- SLUG - Sydne

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread Mary
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Yes, but you do it in a more traditional way - LDAP, databases, etc. > with user permissions to change those details managed separately. I > don't see any fundamental advantage to the Qmail method... to me, it's > messy. 8) I just wanted to know if it was

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2003-01-30 Thread Colin Humphreys
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:02:43PM +1100, Tiwari, Rajnish wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a place where i can find out about what distribution & > releases use which version of the linux kernel ? > > As a quicky, could someone fill me on which kernel versions > are on Redhat

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread mkraus
G'day... Basically, my biggest two factors for choice are: * How easy is it to set up in a DMZ and relay onto a host in the internal network? * How secure is it. Wow, qmail and postfix really seem to flame each other in regards to security. Some mutual chips on shoulders it woul

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Basically, my biggest two factors for choice are: > * How easy is it to set up in a DMZ and relay onto a host in the > internal network? That's about four or five lines of configuration total with postfix. :-) > * How secure is it. Very secure, and very reliable. See the pos

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2003-01-30 Thread Kevin Saenz
if you have a redhat based system you could also do less /etc/redhat-releases to find out what kernel you have on your system man uname uname can help you > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:02:43PM +1100, Tiwari, Rajnish wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Is there a place where i can find out about what d

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

2003-01-30 Thread Kevin Saenz
Both programmers know what they are talking about, also have very large egos, but postfix is less confusing in configuring. > G'day... > > Basically, my biggest two factors for choice are: > * How easy is it to set up in a DMZ and relay onto a host in the > internal network? > *

Re: [SLUG] which linux and what hardware specs

2003-01-30 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 11:12, Robert Thorsby wrote: > On 2003.01.31 10:43 Peter Hewett wrote: > > I'm about to install Linux as an internet firewall/router on a our > > small internal network. We currently have an old box of unknown > > spec, routing onto our LAN using a 56K dialup internet connecti

[SLUG] a few things...

2003-01-30 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, I have a couple of problems that I hope you can help me with: 1. a) I am trying to get Return to Castle Wolfenstein working with the native linux binaries. The single player mode works without a hitch *IF* I run it as root. If I run is as a normal user, it loads, I select 'play' and selec

[SLUG] My quote of the day

2003-01-30 Thread Matthew Sanderson
Seen on a web forum aimed at helping Solaris users. Such a gem, had to share it: > dre1988 (MIS) Apr 25, 2002 > I tried a > > cat /dev/null > /var/adm/wtmpx > > This should send the file to /dev/null and create a 0 byte file for > wtmpx. > However, the file system is still 100% full. Is there a