Re: [SLUG] cable and optusnet

2003-12-09 Thread Richard Neal
yes one exists its called "drakconnect" Type that in a any terminal after you swap to root ie su [enter] root password drakconnect & [enter] the main mandrake website has all this info on it (there is a whole manual you can download) Just follow the questions.Its petty much the same as Wind

Re: [SLUG] SGI Octane-> Linux?

2003-12-09 Thread Richard Neal
Give me $2k and I would build a kick arse AMD 64 bit machine On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 17:34, Jasper Streit wrote: > I was wasting time on ebay today (as you do) and stumbled across this > australian crowd selling some nice SGI octane boxes at around > AU$2000(for the 400Mhz) and felt the urge to s

Re: [SLUG] DNS glue means?

2003-12-09 Thread Martin
$quoted_author = "Sonia Hamilton" ; > > I'm trying to understand what 'glue records' are for in DNS. I've googled > and think I've worked it out, but I haven't come across a good definition > yet. it would be nice if it was as intended: a glue record is an 'A' record that accompanies delegatio

[SLUG] opengroupware on Mandrake

2003-12-09 Thread Kevin Saenz
Ok, as there was no response on how to resolve my problems in slug and on ogo (opengroupware) I would post howto get ogo working under mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 Most of this document is a blatant cut and paste of the ogo_rh.html with mods for Mandrake firstly I created the users adduser opengroupw

[SLUG] ip_nat_irc

2003-12-09 Thread Shaun Oliver
hi all, I'm having some problems with dcc direct client conection. I have a box running smoothwall and the ip_nat_irc module is loaded. my problem is, I'm getting conflicting reports on how I should do things. one person's telling me to set up a forward rule, for each of my irc clients, and anothe

[SLUG] pinging from RH9

2003-12-09 Thread David Perry
Success! Thanks to Ben and Scott for their suggestions. When I installed RH9 I had not entered the correct address for the gateway (my Smoothwall firewall). Netstat -nr showed this up. So I could browse the web using the proxy in Smoothie which was correctly specified in Mozilla, but I cou

[SLUG] validating the rcX.d scripts are consistent

2003-12-09 Thread Ken Foskey
At work we have a caldera system, it is very RedHat like for those not in the know. The issue I have is the scripts are not setup correctly in the rcX.d (no K40nfs in the rc2.d or rc1.d for instance). I have a vague recollection of a utility that will point out setup problems with rc scripts lik

[SLUG] SGI Octane-> Linux?

2003-12-09 Thread Dion
Maybe you could. But you certainly couldn't when these babies came out a number of years ago. As for the original question. I don't have an Octane, but I have had my eye on them including those sold on Ebay in Australia by networkr I think. Anyway as far as I have been able to reseach, you

[SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread Kevin Waterson
MS is set to begin charging a license fee for FAT file system FAT is used by camera manufacturers and more importantly is used on Compact Flash cards used by digital cameras. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0312/03120403microsoftisfat.asp enjoy Kevin -- __ (

Re: [SLUG] ip_nat_irc

2003-12-09 Thread scott
With ip_nat_irc you should not have to set up port forward for any of your irc clients. Have you tried running tcpdump to see where it stalls? Also perhaps posting your iptables rules would help. Cheers, Scott -- Scott Ragen Support Manager/IT Administrator Roadtech Systems www.roadtech.com.au

[SLUG] Spam Rejection During Connection

2003-12-09 Thread scott
Hi All, I was wondering if it is possible, or even etiquette to have the following spam filter: One that accepts the incoming tcp port 25, and then does the checks in realtime. ie: EHLO; mail 250 myserver MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 Ok MAIL TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 Ok DATA Then compa

Re: [SLUG] Spam Rejection During Connection

2003-12-09 Thread Tony Green
On 10/12/2003, at 10:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this sort of thing not exist? or is it not a good idea? I do this with sendmail and spamass-milter [1]. I don't think it's a great way of doing things, but it does work well on my box. I certainly would be weary of using it in production.

Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:38:33AM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote: > MS is set to begin charging a license fee for FAT file system > FAT is used by camera manufacturers and more importantly is > used on Compact Flash cards used by digital cameras. Don't know why. It's utterly shite for flash memory

Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 10:56, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:38:33AM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > MS is set to begin charging a license fee for FAT file system > > FAT is used by camera manufacturers and more importantly is > > used on Compact Flash cards used by digital cam

Re: [SLUG] convert src to binary rpm

2003-12-09 Thread Simon Bryan
Gavin Carr said: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:25:04PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> This one time, at band camp, Simon Bryan wrote: >> >HOw do I convert a src rpmm to the correct rpm for my system? (i386 i686? RH9) >> > >> >I tried rpm --rebuild but it says it is an invalid option. >> >> Try >>

Re: [SLUG] convert src to binary rpm

2003-12-09 Thread David Gillies
Simon Bryan wrote: OK< I downloaded a src.rpm (openldap-2.1.25-1.src.rpm) from rpmfind.net and tried the rpmrebuild, but it tells me that it is not a specfile If you run rpmbuild --rebuild openldap-2.1.25-1.src.rpm, that should get you going. The other way of dealing with the source rpm is to in

Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread Jan Schmidt
> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 10:56, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:38:33AM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > > MS is set to begin charging a license fee for FAT file system > > > FAT is used by camera manufacturers and more importantly is > > > used on Compact Flash cards used by

Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 10:56, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:38:33AM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > MS is set to begin charging a license fee for FAT file system > > FAT is used by camera manufacturers and more importantly is > > used on Compact Flash cards used by digital cam

Re: [SLUG] Spam Rejection During Connection

2003-12-09 Thread Kevin Saenz
> I was wondering if it is possible, or even etiquette to have the following > spam filter: > One that accepts the incoming tcp port 25, and then does the checks in > realtime. > ie: > EHLO; mail > send a 530 Access Denied and exit> Yes it's possible, just means someone needs to update your ac

Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread Benno
On Wed Dec 10, 2003 at 11:27:17 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > >> MS is set to begin charging a license fee for FAT file system > >(Uh oh, anti-MS ranty pants thread...) > >They're charging a license fee for THEIR CODE, on top of the statement that >there are patents related to the FAT filesystem. T

Re: [SLUG] Spam Rejection During Connection

2003-12-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
> One that accepts the incoming tcp port 25, and then does the checks in > realtime. Every modern MTA should do this, indeed, even decidedly unmodern MTAs do. ;) > ie: > EHLO; mail > send a 530 Access Denied and exit> > 250 myserver > MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > exit> > 250 Ok > MAIL T

Re: [SLUG] convert src to binary rpm

2003-12-09 Thread Simon Bryan
David Gillies said: > Simon Bryan wrote: > >>OK< I downloaded a src.rpm (openldap-2.1.25-1.src.rpm) from rpmfind.net and tried >>the rpmrebuild, but it tells me that it is not a specfile >> > > If you run rpmbuild --rebuild openldap-2.1.25-1.src.rpm, that should get > you going. THanks for that,

Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
> MS is set to begin charging a license fee for FAT file system (Uh oh, anti-MS ranty pants thread...) They're charging a license fee for THEIR CODE, on top of the statement that there are patents related to the FAT filesystem. These include the long file name mapping method, which has fairly

Re: [SLUG] Spam Rejection During Connection

2003-12-09 Thread Alexander Samad
Just started to use exim4 with clamav, which kind of fits in here, i bounce virus email at the smtp data level (5xx). I was looking at also install the hook to spamassassin and blocking any thing that has say >15 point rating ! again at the smtp data level A On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:25:26AM +

Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread mlh
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:40:00AM +1100, Benno wrote: > And of course the patents only cover the long filename stuff, and most cameras > I've used only do 8.3 *anyway*. Only because the original patents expired. The original FAT, pile of crap that it was WAS patented. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Lin

[SLUG] CLI deMIMEing attachement in Maildir, what with ?

2003-12-09 Thread Voytek
I have some largish emails with attachements on my Linux server in my /Maildir, it contains some pics, etc, that needs to end up on the server's web directory I don't feel like downloading it on a 33.6 modem, to detach, then, ftp back again what can I use from command line to detach mime atta

[SLUG] PCMCIA Hard Disk Drive on Slackware 9.1

2003-12-09 Thread David Uzzell
Just a quick question for those that may have stumbled across this in the past :) I have a 2Gb PCMCIA Hard Disk Drive that I would like to be able access under Linux, I want to use it for Still Picture storage and sharring between Linux and windows! The challange is how to get it avaliable so

Re: [SLUG] Spam Rejection During Connection

2003-12-09 Thread mlh
You can get back at spammers by using tarpits which slow the connection down and thus tieing up their connection. (google for teergrube/tarpit) And you can help poison the spammers email harvesting, with tools like sugarplum. (freshmeat link since the home page seems to be down) http://freshmeat.

Re: [SLUG] PCMCIA Hard Disk Drive on Slackware 9.1

2003-12-09 Thread Tony Green
On 10/12/2003, at 14:23, David Uzzell wrote: Just a quick question for those that may have stumbled across this in the past :) I have a 2Gb PCMCIA Hard Disk Drive that I would like to be able access under Linux, I want to use it for Still Picture storage and sharring between Linux and windows!

Re: [SLUG] CLI deMIMEing attachement in Maildir, what with ?

2003-12-09 Thread Tony Green
On 10/12/2003, at 14:12, Voytek wrote: I have some largish emails with attachements on my Linux server in my /Maildir, it contains some pics, etc, that needs to end up on the server's web directory I don't feel like downloading it on a 33.6 modem, to detach, then, ftp back again what can I

[SLUG] editing users' home path, is that a 'GI' ?

2003-12-09 Thread Voytek
I need to setup a couple of users for access to a project, ftp and shell aceess. using webmin, I've edited home dir to '/home/project/www' (from /home/username) (hmmm, why did the prompt change to 'bash-2.05a$' ?)(after altering home dir ?) is that a 'good idea' ? or, should I leave home dir as

Re: [SLUG] CLI deMIMEing attachement in Maildir, what with ?

2003-12-09 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Voytek wrote: >I have some largish emails with attachements on my Linux server in my >/Maildir, it contains some pics, etc, that needs to end up on the server's >web directory > >I don't feel like downloading it on a 33.6 modem, to detach, then, ftp back >again > >w

Re: [SLUG] editing users' home path, is that a 'GI' ?

2003-12-09 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:49:13PM +, Voytek wrote: > using webmin, I've edited home dir to > '/home/project/www' (from /home/username) > > (hmmm, why did the prompt change to 'bash-2.05a$' ?)(after altering home > dir ?) Because the prompt is probably set in /etc/bashrc sourced from $HOME/.

Re: [SLUG] editing users' home path, is that a 'GI' ?

2003-12-09 Thread scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11-12-2003 01:49:13 AM: > I need to setup a couple of users for access to a project, ftp and shell > aceess. > > using webmin, I've edited home dir to > '/home/project/www' (from /home/username) > > (hmmm, why did the prompt change to 'bash-2.05a$' ?)(after altering ho

[SLUG] rpm vs source problem

2003-12-09 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, Am still working away at my problems (now I know what recursion means!) How do I solve this: Started to build the openldap rpm from a source rpm, failed due to dependencies. One of those dependencies (but the problem is with them all) is db-devel needs to be 4.2.5, which of cours is availa

Re: [SLUG] editing users' home path, is that a 'GI' ?

2003-12-09 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 15:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11-12-2003 01:49:13 AM: > > > I need to setup a couple of users for access to a project, ftp and shell > > aceess. > > > > using webmin, I've edited home dir to > > '/home/project/www' (from /home/username) > > >

Re: [SLUG] CLI deMIMEing attachement in Maildir, what with ?

2003-12-09 Thread Mark Paine
> I have some largish emails with attachements on my Linux server in my > /Maildir, it contains some pics, etc, that needs to end up on the server's > web directory > > I don't feel like downloading it on a 33.6 modem, to detach, then, ftp > back > again > > what can I use from command line to

Re: [SLUG] rpm vs source problem

2003-12-09 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 14:57, Simon Bryan wrote: > Hi all, > Am still working away at my problems (now I know what recursion means!) > > How do I solve this: > Started to build the openldap rpm from a source rpm, failed due to dependencies. > One of those dependencies (but the problem is with them

Re: [SLUG] rpm vs source problem

2003-12-09 Thread David Gillies
Simon Bryan wrote: (some I probably don't need). This could be very tedious - is there another way? This sounds like you are in need of apt-rpm. Having apt installed can automatically deal (most of the time) with dependancies that you might require and download them for you (if they're availabl

Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They're charging a license fee for THEIR CODE, on top of the statement that > there are patents related to the FAT filesystem. These include the long file > name mapping method, which has fairly obvious and clever prior art (UM

Re: [SLUG] editing users' home path, is that a 'GI' ?

2003-12-09 Thread Mike MacCana
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 03:04, Voytek wrote: > ** Reply to note from Mike MacCana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:09:47 > +1100 > > > > What does the original poster actually want to do? Allow people to > > upload files to a public server? > > > > The best thing would be to use SFTP. I

Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > They're charging a license fee for THEIR CODE, on top of the statement > > that there are patents related to the FAT filesystem. These include the > > long file name mapping method, which has fairly obvious and clever prior > > art (UMSDOS) in our operating system of choice. > > Do I get $0.

[SLUG] Re: ip_nat_irc

2003-12-09 Thread Deedra Waters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shaun, I just leave dcc alone unless I irc from an unfirewalled box. I've had so many problems with dcc and iptables that I don't care about it any more, and since I don't do file transfers on irc, it's not really a big deal for me. As I said, I'd s

[SLUG] Use this patch immediately !

2003-12-09 Thread Microsoft
Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now! There are dangerous virus in the Internet now! More than 500.000 already infected! <> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] [MailServer Notification]To Recipient virus found and action taken.

2003-12-09 Thread Administrator
ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has detected virus-infected attachment(s). Sender = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient(s) = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject = [SLUG] Use this patch immediately ! Scanning time = 10/12/2003 4:50:02 PM Engine/Pattern = 6.810-1005/1.698.00 Action on virus found: The attachment pat

Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 04:42:33PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > Do I get $0.25 refund if I format my flash card as ext2? > > Why do you think your vendor will charge you for the format of their media? Because http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp says: A license for remova

Re: [SLUG] Use this patch immediately !

2003-12-09 Thread Andar Broment
Silly Spammers, sending a windows virus to a Linux mailing list XD Muskie - Original Message - From: "Microsoft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 2:32 PM Subject: [SLUG] Use this patch immediately ! > Dear friend , use this Internet Explo

[SLUG] Badly configured mail server

2003-12-09 Thread Mike MacCana
To the person whose server generated the message below: please disable the autoreply feature on your mail virus scanner. Many viruses use false return addresses and badly configured mail servers like this end up flooding innocent people's inboxes with warnings. Mike On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 16:50,

Re: [SLUG] Use this patch immediately !

2003-12-09 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 17:06, Andar Broment wrote: > Silly Spammers, sending a windows virus to a Linux mailing list XD *snip* > - Original Message - > X-SLUG-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.4 required=3.4 Damn! Sorry guys. Yes, the test has already been tweaked. :-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] Fwd: Short selling SCO shares

2003-12-09 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, With the court ordered 30 day deadline to show their code to IBM approaching I am looking at short selling SCO stock. IBM may create a 'nice little earner' in the new year. The pump and dump scheme has taken the shares from $1.09 to over $22.00 in a year. Currently their share

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Short selling SCO shares

2003-12-09 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Richard Hayes wrote: > >Dear list, -chat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug