[SLUG] The VPN challenge

2003-06-10 Thread Luke Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 People, The cursory searching I have done on this topic has come up with little of value. At least, any potential solutions that I've seen seem rather convoluted - and I don't want to be a crypto expert just to set up a VPN. What I want is a VPN e

Re: [SLUG] The VPN challenge

2003-06-10 Thread Rene Cunningham
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:00:52PM +1000, Luke Burton wrote: > What I want is a VPN endpoint, running Linux, that can be connected to > with free clients for Windows NT/2000/XP and Mac OS X, and Linux as > well obviously. > Check out PPTP. It works well with Windows clients, though i havent com

RE: [SLUG] The VPN challenge

2003-06-10 Thread Adam W
Luke, > Freeswan seems the obvious solution, but there is little docco to > indicate how I configure it for maximum interoperability. Let alone > interop with other free software. > > I also thought "isn't IPsec meant to be a standard?" Shouldn't I be > able to use that? > > What do people reco

Re: [SLUG] Debian and apt

2003-06-10 Thread Brett Fenton
not strange at all. just do it by http use the list at: http://www.debian.org/mirror/list and replace the ftp with http as required On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 00:16, Ashley Lynn wrote: > I know this is a strange question for me to ask, but: > Does anyone have a couple of Debian sourses to go in the

Re: [SLUG] Video Card Problems

2003-06-10 Thread Heracles
On Tuesday 10 Jun 2003 8:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > are you running the latest Nvidia binary drivers? if you are > > using the XFree ones you'll get issues I think.. > > > > Dave. > > Yup, > The I believe they are the latest. (although I Haven't looked > for a few weeks). > > The problem

Re: [SLUG] scsi cables?

2003-06-10 Thread Robert Collins
PAW products - www.paw.com.au IIRC, has just about everything SCSI. Rob - Original Message - From: "Ben de Luca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:29 PM Subject: [SLUG] scsi cables? > sorry for being a little off topic but can some one give me som

Re: [SLUG] The VPN challenge

2003-06-10 Thread Phil Scarratt
Try CIPE - Crypto IP Encapsulation Websites: LINUX: http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/cipe.html WinNT/2k/XP: http://cipe-win32.sourceforge.net/ Don't believe the blurb on win32 site re XP - it does work. Howto's and other things that might help: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Cipe+Masq.html http

Re: [SLUG] The VPN challenge

2003-06-10 Thread Phil Scarratt
One other thing...CIPE can also be easily used through/behind a firewall Luke Burton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 People, The cursory searching I have done on this topic has come up with little of value. At least, any potential solutions that I've seen seem rather convol

Re: [SLUG] German characters in linux

2003-06-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Robert Tillsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi guys > I've been looking into being able to type accented characters in linux. > This is because I'm learning german and want to be able to type notes. > Hello Robert. Perhaps the neatest thing available now is sexkbmap which sh

[SLUG] Nice web tool for Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-10 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Hi there For those of you who prefer Mandrake Linux, I just bumped into this: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php It´s purpose is to make all of the additional software application mirrors available to your installer under Mandrake including lots of stuff like Java and un-exportable app

Re: [SLUG] debian, missing unstable debs

2003-06-10 Thread ramon buckland
Thanks Chris, Home last night I performed the usual tasks apt-get update # we pulled down some new index files apt-get dist-upgrade worked, downloaded everything (so a 24 hr 'delay and it was all okay) but it managed to get into a Loop Dependancy and was stating it needed me to set the APT::For

[SLUG] hwclock, date, and time zones ...

2003-06-10 Thread August Simonelli
Hi all, I am having some trouble understanding how to get the software clock to stay set on my red hat 9 box. Typing hwclock -r reports the correct time, so I know the hardware clock is ok. I then do hwclock --hctosys to set the system time. When I type date it is correct. Then, about 5 minutes

Re: [SLUG] hwclock, date, and time zones ...

2003-06-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, August Simonelli wrote: >Typing hwclock -r reports the correct time, so I know the hardware clock >is ok. >I then do hwclock --hctosys to set the system time. >When I type date it is correct. Check what /etc/localtime points to, if it is a symlink; if not copy over /us

Re: [SLUG] The VPN challenge

2003-06-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Rene Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:00:52PM +1000, Luke Burton wrote: > > What I want is a VPN endpoint, running Linux, that can be connected to > > with free clients for Windows NT/2000/XP and Mac OS X, and Linux as > > well obviously. > > > > Check out PP

Re: [SLUG] hwclock, date, and time zones ...

2003-06-10 Thread Anthony Wood
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:21:09AM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, August Simonelli wrote: > >Typing hwclock -r reports the correct time, so I know the hardware clock > >is ok. > >I then do hwclock --hctosys to set the system time. > >When I type date it is correct. >

Re: [SLUG] hwclock, date, and time zones ...

2003-06-10 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Jamie" == Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jamie> This one time, at band camp, August Simonelli wrote: >> Typing hwclock -r reports the correct time, so I know the hardware >> clock is ok. I then do hwclock --hctosys to set the system time. >> When I type date it is correct. Ja

RE: [SLUG] hwclock, date, and time zones ...

2003-06-10 Thread August Simonelli
> >If the sequence > # hwclock --hctosys > # date >shows the correct time, then > delay some time > # date >shows an incorrect time, then the issue is that something else >is skewing the system time after the initial sequence has been run. > >My guess is you're running ntpdate or rtime

[SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied

2003-06-10 Thread El 4Love
Dear Members, I am using postfix in my home mailserver. It is working fine as long as I am also connected to my home network and relays mail to any destination. But if I connect to my server from my work the SMTP server (in my home network) refuses to relay it. How can I set it to relay mail for m

Re: [SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied

2003-06-10 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 11/06/2003 10:15 AM +0800 El 4Love wrote: Dear Members, I am using postfix in my home mailserver. It is working fine as long as I am also connected to my home network and relays mail to any destination. But if I connect to my server from my work the SMTP server (in my home network) refuses to

Re: [SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied

2003-06-10 Thread Kevin Saenz
Let me get this right you would like to relay your emails from anywhere in the world? If this is the case then how would you stop spammers from using your server in sending spam? Why don't you try and implement squirel or IMP web based emails on your mail server then all you need to do is log on us

Re: [SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied

2003-06-10 Thread Tony Green
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 12:31, Kevin Saenz wrote: > Let me get this right you would like to relay your emails from anywhere > in the world? If this is the case then how would you stop spammers from > using your server in sending spam? Why don't you try and implement > squirel or IMP web based emails

Re: [SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied

2003-06-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Tony Green wrote: >SMTP auth would be the right solution here. A uname/pw combo tells the >MTA to allow relaying for that connection. > >I don't know how to do it with postfix, but with sendmail you need sasl. You need SASL and the postfix SASL/TLS patch if you're bui

[SLUG] Questions on hotplug.

2003-06-10 Thread Bill Bennett
Many thanks for the reply. =+-> As root, check to see if the hotplug process is running. I assume that, at root, I simply type hotplug? I'm not sure because the manual for hotplug is beyond my comprehension. It seems to be saying (in the syntax) that I type hotplug and then pipe it to NAME, wher

Re: [SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied

2003-06-10 Thread El 4Love
Thanks Group. I got a clear picture now. I am actully now following the howto posted by Gonzalo. Mahen On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 10:46, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Tony Green wrote: > >SMTP auth would be the right solution here. A uname/pw combo tells the > >MTA to allow re

Re: [SLUG] Postfix - Relaying Denied

2003-06-10 Thread Oscar Plameras
From: "Tony Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > SMTP auth would be the right solution here. A uname/pw combo tells the > MTA to allow relaying for that connection. > > I don't know how to do it with postfix, but with sendmail you need sasl. > SASL will also do the job on postfix. -- SLUG - Sy

Re: [SLUG] Questions on hotplug.

2003-06-10 Thread Chris D.
Bill Bennett wrote: >=+-> As root, check to see if the hotplug process is running. > >I assume that, at root, I simply type hotplug? I'm not sure >because the manual for hotplug is beyond my comprehension. ps aux | grep hotplug - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[SLUG] apm issues

2003-06-10 Thread Chris D.
Hello sluggers, I'm getting the problem where, when my system is shutdown with 'shutdown -h now' or from gdm - It shuts down, but when it calls upon apm it simply restarts into the BIOS. I am running Debian SID with a custom Kernel-2.4.20 (with apm compiled as a module) - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] MSWebsite2LinuxWebSite.sh utility?

2003-06-10 Thread Stuart Guthrie
From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept I´ve a friend who has a Linux server and they have got a MS web site loaded. Problem is that MS doesn´t care about upper/lower case and GNU/Linux does. Is there a utility that can uncapitalise image file names, directory names and tags or should I write o

Re: [SLUG] MSWebsite2LinuxWebSite.sh utility?

2003-06-10 Thread Anthony Wood
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:11:15PM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept > > I´ve a friend who has a Linux server and they have got a MS web site > loaded. Problem is that MS doesn´t care about upper/lower case and > GNU/Linux does. Is there a utility that can u

Re: [SLUG] MSWebsite2LinuxWebSite.sh utility?

2003-06-10 Thread Brett Fenton
You can do it in a couple of lines by calling sed or better yet in perl. Brett Stuart Guthrie wrote: From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept I´ve a friend who has a Linux server and they have got a MS web site loaded. Problem is that MS doesn´t care about upper/lower case and GNU/Linux does.

[SLUG] debugging ODBC / samba

2003-06-10 Thread Stewart
Hello. Wondering how other sluggers might go about debugging this little problem. I have set up a samba server (smbd Version 2.999+3.0.alpha24-3 for Debian) to serve an MYOB data file to three clients on a network. the actual MYOB part seems to work ok (once we gave the server enough RAM - 32

Re: [SLUG] MSWebsite2LinuxWebSite.sh utility?

2003-06-10 Thread Colin Humphreys
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:11:15PM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept > > I?ve a friend who has a Linux server and they have got a MS web site > loaded. Problem is that MS doesn?t care about upper/lower case and > GNU/Linux does. Is there a utility that can un

Re: [SLUG] MSWebsite2LinuxWebSite.sh utility?

2003-06-10 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Stuart Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From the ThisMustHaveBeenDoneBeforeDept > > GNU/Linux does. Is there a utility that can uncapitalise image file > names, directory names and tags or should I write one? #!/bin/sh for file in $* do if [ -f $file ] then