On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 18:42, LS wrote:
Hi Felix et al:
I am still confused.
From Putty I see no X forwarding
option.
If you are using VNC, then you don't want X forwarding, it's a different
thing. You just want plain TCP/IP port forwarding over which you use the
VNC protocol.
I also
I was wondering if anyone has played with smoothwall.
What I would like to know is if smoothwall can do the following
allow for both pppd and adsl connection at the same time.
So my system has essentially have 4 legs. they are ppp0, eth0, eth1, and
eth2.
Thanks
Kevin
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On 19 Mar 2003 21:57:46 +1100 Tony Green wrote:
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 21:55, Ben Leslie wrote:
I'd like to nominate Peter Hardy for president.
Seconded
Thanks a lot guys. I'll accept.
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Just letting y'all know Mandrake 9.1 (Bamboo) has been released.
New features can be found at:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/9.1/features/
Mandrake has really polished the distro for new users -- including NTFS
resizing, MandrakeGalaxy (same thing as the bluecurve concept in RH --
the same
Hi David et al:
My version of Putty was an old one.
Try ftp://ftp.tartarus.org/pub/people/owen/putty-x86.exe .
I have downloaded this one. I see the X-Forwarding stuff under
SSH - Tunnels .
So I tick Enable X11 Forwarding.
For X display location what do I enter ?
Sorry I need a bit more
Kevin Saenz wrote:
I was wondering if anyone has played with smoothwall.
What I would like to know is if smoothwall can do the following
allow for both pppd and adsl connection at the same time.
So my system has essentially have 4 legs. they are ppp0, eth0, eth1, and
eth2.
No, it can't.
Hi felix et al:
Reply Louis
If you are using VNC, then you don't want X forwarding, it's a different
thing. You just want plain TCP/IP port forwarding over which you use the
VNC protocol.
Louis I thought VNC by itself is not secure. X Forwarding
provides the encrypted security I need. Is this
Do you mean two 'internet' (untrusted) interfaces or 1 internet, 1 dialin?
smoothwall is pretty limited from my few hours of playing with it.
shorewall on any linux box with iptables and iproute would so what you want
i believe
dave
- Original Message -
From: Kevin Saenz [EMAIL
Mandrake has really polished the distro for new users -- including NTFS
resizing,
Does anyone have any experience with how Mandrake do this?
what software revisions or expected stability?
sounds dangerous to me, unless great inroads into NTFS has been made
recently.
thanks,
dave
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2 untrusted interfaces.
Do you mean two 'internet' (untrusted) interfaces or 1 internet, 1 dialin?
smoothwall is pretty limited from my few hours of playing with it.
shorewall on any linux box with iptables and iproute would so what you want
i believe
dave
- Original Message -
I have had some experence with some NT and w2k cracking tools
at work which booted Linux and modified the local sam database
you could either change Administrator or a local users password
with out issue.
But resizing NTFS sounds like a lot of fun. Apparently RH does
NTFS resizing now as well. So
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 07:55:12PM +1100, Mick Boda wrote:
Hi All
dpkg -l xserver-xfree86 the following message is produced
ii xserver-xfree86 4.1.0.-16 the xfree server
What is apt-get update command that will install the dependcies?
Is that a problem? If you want to install a basic
I want to develop an application that uses a background database but
delivers the displayed data in a web browser. OK, no big deal so far.
The problem is that I also want to be able to deliver printable material
which will need a degree of formatting to suit a preprinted form. This
printable
Can any one give me any hints on how to if possible setup exim such that
if it recieves an email that is say over 100K that it routes it over a
smart host instead of trying to deliver directly
Alex
pgp0.pgp
Description: PGP signature
you could either change Administrator or a local users password
with out issue.
But resizing NTFS sounds like a lot of fun. Apparently RH does
NTFS resizing now as well. So it seems to be pretty stable.
The guy (Anton I think is his name) that is working on NTFS-ng for Linux,
put a lot of
-Original Message-
From: Del [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2003 3:45 PM
To: James Gray; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] apt-get weirdness lately
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Just an observation not a criticism, but is it just me or
have
Hi Howard,
How are your XSL skills? Both of these suggestions take XML and render
to graphics/PDF. This would mean you would create an XML file of the
data, then apply a XSL to transform it to the requested graphic.
SVG - XML language for scalable vectors. I've used it for minimal gantt
chart
Howdy Folks,
Looking for a little advice on sendmail
config.. Say we have the following domain MX entries:
inracing.com.au.
2592 IN
MX 10
mail.isa.net.au.inracing.com.au.
2592 IN
MX 20
mx2.isa.net.au.inracing.com.au.
2592 IN
MX 200 mx2.vector.net.au.
Normally that all works
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:43:27AM +1100, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
Damien,
Please wrap your lines. 740 character lines are a little hard to read
...
inracing.com.au.2592IN MX 10 mail.isa.net.au.
inracing.com.au.2592IN MX 20 mx2.isa.net.au.
Howard Lowndes wrote:
I want to develop an application that uses a background database but
delivers the displayed data in a web browser. OK, no big deal so far.
The problem is that I also want to be able to deliver printable material
which will need a degree of formatting to suit a
From: John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please wrap your lines. 740 character lines are a little hard to read
*grin* says the man who's telling us his current uptime and weather in his
mail headers? ;)
(Seriously though, I hate people who hard-wrap their lines before sending,
with a vengeance -
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RedHat/RPM - I used RedHat since version 4.2 through to 6.x then ditched it in
favour of Debian. RPM's methods for resolving dependency problems are less than
spectacular and sometimes impossible without forcing. Having said that,
ARGH, why does Ctrl+v through VNC send a message 1/10th of the time in
lookout express?!
From: John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please wrap your lines. 740 character lines are a little hard to read
*grin* says the man who's telling us his current uptime and weather in his
mail headers? ;)
Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
From: John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please wrap your lines. 740 character lines are a little hard to read
*grin* says the man who's telling us his current uptime and weather in his
mail headers? ;)
Now that is just pure bitchiness. PMT?
I would have let this
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:29:25AM +1100, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
From: John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please wrap your lines. 740 character lines are a little hard to read
*grin* says the man who's telling us his current uptime and weather in his
mail headers? ;)
Oh, so someone actually
I think microsoft own it, however the specification for it is publicly
viewable.
For example:-
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/rtfspec.asp
It's more of a markup-style format rather than a binary (or
dump-a-big-chunk-of-whatever's-in-memory-at-moment) format like some of
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:31:03AM +1100, Mike MacCana wrote:
up2date -u
To update the entire system
up2date -i (package)
To install a package, and any dependencies it requires.
Its been this way since 6.0
Yes but why would I use a system where I have to either
a) register on a website
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:32:04AM +1100, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
ARGH, why does Ctrl+v through VNC send a message 1/10th of the time in
lookout express?!
No idea. I use VNC only to access an NT server here, and I don't use
lookout ;-)
I've replied to some of your message already so I'll
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:55:48AM +1100, John Clarke wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:29:25AM +1100, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
It looks like it. It might be sendmail's config or it might be DNS.
Do an MX DNS query for inracing.com.au on mx2.isa.net.au. Does that
return the correct
or is there another way around this silliness above and I've been
misinformed?
current:
http://www.biology.duke.edu/computer/unix/current
... and/or your favourite (closest) Red Hat updates mirror site.
My company (Babel Com Australia) offers a service where we provide
updates via up2date, as
John Clarke wrote:
Hmm, though that gets me thinking... - while mx2.isa.net.au resolves to the
same IP as the actual hostname on the machine
(hungryhungryhippos.isa.net.au), will sendmail realise that it's the same
machine? Or should I be doing a Cwmx2.isa.net.au to make sure?
I wouldn't have
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:41:20AM +1100, Del wrote:
Actually I'll countermand John C's advice and suggest that yes, it
is actually a good idea to put mx2.isa.net.au in to your Cw as it
does help the secondary MX relaying problem.
Thanks Del. I've not seen this problem before and didn't know
quote who=Mike MacCana
I find most people who bitch and moan about Red Hat (or Linux, as RPM is
the standard packaging format for that OS).
This is inaccurate, and you've said it before.
To clarify, the RPM format was chosen as the standard format for LSB
packages, rather than as the standard
John Ferlito wrote:
...snip.
Yes but why would I use a system where I have to either
a) register on a website to setup a Demo account which expires every
2 months unless I fill in a survey. Ever tried doing this if you are
managing 5+ machines. It's a bit of a pain.
b) pay for the
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 09:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having said that, Mandrake's urpmi is a big leap in the right
direction, but still lacks the simple elegance of apt-get/dpkg/dselect
in both operation and configuration.
now i'm turning into a debhead, can someone 'please
They are way more elegant.
dpkg is what it's all built off. If you get the .deb file you can use
dpkg -i package.deb just like you would on an rpm based system.
apt is the obtaining of the packages from either a local source say
your installation cd's or a remote source like ftp.
apt is cutting
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:44:36PM +1100, Stewart wrote:
now i'm turning into a debhead, can someone 'please explain' exactly
what the difference between apt-get/dpkg/dselect is and how they work
together? to my mind three commands aint as 'simple elegance' as one
rpm one. :-)
dpkg: the
I think you are comparing them at different levels..
rpm should be compared with dpkg not with apt..
up2date, apt-rpm, urpmi should be compared with apt...
I'm not saying apt isn't the best I'm just saying a like with like
comparison would be better...
and I think dselect should be compared
quote who=Stewart
now i'm turning into a debhead, can someone 'please explain' exactly what
the difference between apt-get/dpkg/dselect is and how they work together?
to my mind three commands aint as 'simple elegance' as one rpm one. :-)
Okay:
dpkg:
Basic package management functions
now i'm turning into a debhead, can someone 'please explain' exactly
what the difference between apt-get/dpkg/dselect is and how they work
together? to my mind three commands aint as 'simple elegance' as one
rpm one. :-)
.deb is the standard debian package file (equiv is .rpm file)
dpkg
What most apt advocates usually don't mention is that up2date is similar to apt, in
that you can easily type something like 'up2date ssh' and it will go and do it.
Unfortunately there are not any other sources that you can use up2date from except the
Red Hat Network.
So even though I find
quote who=Tim White
Does anyone know of any other RHN type servers for free?
Probably better to look at apt-rpm repositories, such as freshrpms.net. The
GStreamer guys distribute their own packages this way, as do many others.
Not sure the RHN stuff is built to do this in such a
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:22:37PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Tim White
Does anyone know of any other RHN type servers for free?
Probably better to look at apt-rpm repositories, such as
freshrpms.net. The GStreamer guys distribute their own packages this
way, as do many others.
thanks for the subject change - i should've done that myself. :)
and thanks to all who replied, it's a bit clearer now.
i was getting a bit mystified because 'apt-get install php' wasn't
working for me, where i thought the package name was a sort of wildcard
search, it doesn't seem to be. i
quote who=Stewart
i was getting a bit mystified because 'apt-get install php' wasn't working
for me, where i thought the package name was a sort of wildcard search, it
doesn't seem to be.
No, not at all, otherwise you'd get every package starting with or including
php in the name... That
upgrading the kernel is about 10x easier on debian as on other
distributions (imho).
you simply select your kernel options in config/menuconfig/xconfig
build a .deb package, then install the package with dpgk.
i think you'll be suprised at how easy it is.
brett
: -Original Message-
:
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Even neater:
apt-cache search php
That will help you out a lot in future. I use it all the time. :-)
perfect. ta. ;)
so i've just installed php4/mysql/apache-ssl/tethereal/webalizer/samba
and some other things i need using dselect
funny someone just mentioned this.. and low and behold linuxtoday popped
up this
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
Dave.
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quote who=Stewart
what's the latest stable kernel i should be going for? (on i386 of course)
You don't really have to build the kernel unless you need specific patches
or whatever... Try this:
apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4
Lots to choose from.
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On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 15:23, Stewart wrote:
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 03:03 PM, Brett Fenton wrote:
upgrading the kernel is about 10x easier on debian as on other
distributions (imho).
so i've been told and i can see it now too.
you simply select your kernel options in
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 03:35 PM, James Gregory wrote:
Debian's great and all, but let's not belittle the achievements of
other
linux vendors (and more importantly spread misinformation). 'make rpm'
was around before 'make-kpkg'.
seconded - last thing i want to do is start another
They're FAT32 resizing progs have been pretty good in the past - and
from the times I did use them they worked without destroying any data.
However, I wouldn't use the NTFS resizing application on a
mission-critical computer, or a PC without backing up all your data.
I would wait a few releases
I believe the MandrakeSecurity MNF could possibly do what your after.
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mnf
Maybe even SNF (only if you have older hardware, though)
Cheers,
Chris
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 23:37, Kevin Saenz wrote:
2 untrusted interfaces.
Do you mean two 'internet'
quote who=James Gregory
I for one am ecstatic that you're loving Linux Debian-style. What I wanna
know is how this is 10X easier than doing make rpm in your kernel source
tree? Or rebuilding the .src.rpm for your kernel, or dagnammit, just
installing the distribution's pre-built RPM of the
Hi all,
I've got a GNU-C question:
Is it possible to test the accessability (rw or ro) of a memory region
before writing to it?
(I want to be able to test whether or not a string is in the code or
data segment)
Thanks,
Andy
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Is it possible to test the accessability (rw or ro) of a memory region
before writing to it?
(I want to be able to test whether or not a string is in the code or
data segment)
uggh.. do you not know? did you not put it there?
usually wanting to do something like this is due to bad design
3COM or Nokia PCMCIA should work ...
I've been out of the loop for a while.. I might give the Toshiba/Motorola
a miss as they usen't to work when I was writing BT stacks..
Dave.
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, James Gregory wrote:
Can anyone recommend me a Bluetooth interface thing that works with
3COM or Nokia PCMCIA should work ...
I've been out of the loop for a while.. I might give the Toshiba/Motorola
a miss as they usen't to work when I was writing BT stacks..
actually 3COM mightnt' be the best either...
any USB should in theory work, as the USB / Bluetooth interface is
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 03:57 PM, Jeff Waugh wrote:
the stuff you
get out of kernel-package is very slick, handles depmod, lilo/grub,
etc.,
etc. It builds highly integrated kernel packages appropriate to the
Debian
environment.
i'd say so. i'm now running 2.4.18, upgraded from 2.2.0.
Dave Airlie wrote:
Is it possible to test the accessability (rw or ro) of a memory region
before writing to it?
(I want to be able to test whether or not a string is in the code or
data segment)
uggh.. do you not know? did you not put it there?
No. I didnt put it there. I am writing a library
uggh.. do you not know? did you not put it there?
No. I didnt put it there. I am writing a library function as follows:
void log_string(char *in_str)
{
. open file, write string, close file
. write '\0' to *in_str to clear the log msg if in data seg
}
I agree
uggh.. do you not know? did you not put it there?
No. I didnt put it there. I am writing a library function as follows:
void log_string(char *in_str)
{
. open file, write string, close file
. write '\0' to *in_str to clear the log msg if in data seg
}
I agree it's
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:18, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Mike MacCana
I find most people who bitch and moan about Red Hat (or Linux, as RPM is
the standard packaging format for that OS).
This is inaccurate, and you've said it before.
No it is not. I think you've just chosen to interpret
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:46, Terry Collins wrote:
John Ferlito wrote:
Yes but why would I use a system where I have to either
a) register on a website to setup a Demo account which expires every
2 months unless I fill in a survey. Ever tried doing this if you are
managing 5+ machines.
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:06, Brett Fenton wrote:
apt is cutting out a step. in the simplest case with an rpm you might
visit rpmfind.net for example, locate your package, download and then
install.
Er, no. That's not the simplest case.
up2date -i package
apt is great, but as we've said
quote who=Mike MacCana
Of course, the ability of those packages to integrate with the rest of the
system is fairly limited if they're turned into dumb archives by a program
such as alien, which, when run on an rpm based system, will turn rpm into
effectively dumb archives in dpkg format -
Hi all.
I'm wondering if anyone has seen this behaviour before. The system load is
quite low, but not abnormally low. This machine normally stays between 0.5
and 2 during the day. However, the CPU states are split between user and
system, there is no idle at all. Here's an excerpt from top:
Does anyone know of any other RHN type servers for free?
current, as I mentioned earlier.
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