Re: [SLUG] TPG modem recommendation

2004-04-29 Thread David Kempe
Chris Barnes wrote: My suggestion, the Dlink DSL-500. They only cost about $200 from Harris Technology. I second that recommendation. The generation II ones have stacks of cool features and are rock solid dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] LAN Traffic Regulator

2004-04-29 Thread Richard Neal
hai lookup traffic shaping on http://www.freshmeat.net On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 07:15, Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote: Hi, I have a linux gateway connected to the net (RedHat 9), with a small network hanging off it. I'd like to be able to regulate the flow of traffic to the separate (fixed)

[SLUG] mandatory profiles

2004-04-29 Thread David Kempe
Hi people, If you had a bunch of Knoppix boxes, one the server and the rest workstations, anyone know of a nice way to have a HDD install, but have mandatory profiles. IE, if users stuff up stuff on the desktop, their profile is loaded fresh each time, on a per user basis. Any suggestions? I

Re: [SLUG] mandatory profiles

2004-04-29 Thread Tony Green
On 29/04/2004, at 10:25 PM, David Kempe wrote: Hi people, If you had a bunch of Knoppix boxes, one the server and the rest workstations, anyone know of a nice way to have a HDD install, but have mandatory profiles. IE, if users stuff up stuff on the desktop, their profile is loaded fresh each

Re: [SLUG] mandatory profiles

2004-04-29 Thread David Kempe
Tony Green wrote: Perhaps a combo of pam_mkhomedir, /etc/skel and an 'rm -fr ~' in the .profile (or equiv)? yeah I was thinking that. this tool might help: http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kiosktool.php locks down a kde desktop.. hrmm, i think the script way is a bit more useful tho. dave --

Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails

2004-04-29 Thread Broun, Bevan
on Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:32:01AM +1000, Jared Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - Got a little problem. =) We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an attached virus. We get tonnes of

Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails

2004-04-29 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 11:32, Jared Pritchard wrote: Hi - Got a little problem. =) We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an attached virus. [..snip..] Has anyone got ANY idea on what could

Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails

2004-04-29 Thread Terry Collins
Jared Pritchard wrote: Hi - Got a little problem. =) We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an attached virus. Umm, you have a user 130Qe49y1 do you? ...snip. Has anyone got ANY idea

Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails

2004-04-29 Thread David
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jared Pritchard wrote: Hi - Got a little problem. =) We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an attached virus. we get these all the time. It's a result of spammers

Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails

2004-04-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
All right. What an explosive cocktail of themes! Did you make sure that representatives of the whole political spectrum will be there? To: Jared Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Slug List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc: Subject: Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails Reply-To: In-Reply-To:

Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails

2004-04-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
Ooops, sorry about the bogus mail content. This bit here is random insertions from the rest of my outbox (fortunately not too incrimination) :) The rest of the message is all good. On Fri, Apr 30, 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: All right. What an explosive cocktail of themes! Did you make sure

Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails

2004-04-29 Thread Chris Freeman
John Clarke wrote: My usual response is something like this sent to the postmaster at the site which sent the virus notification: WARNING! Your message was infected by VIRUS: Worm.SomeFool.Z Well done. You bloody idiot. Bloody idiot indeed! You've notified the one person you

[SLUG] clamdscan failing

2004-04-29 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, just wondering if anyone can help out with a clamdscan problem. I'm using clamscan to scan incomming e-mails under qmail-queue-scanner.pl and it's all working fine detecting virii etc except for the fact that it takes around 2 secs to do the scan. So I wanted to use clamdscan (the

Re: [SLUG] clamdscan failing

2004-04-29 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:49:58PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: Can't access the file ERROR This message only appears in the source (I'm looking at clamav-0.70-rc but it's probably the same in other versions) in one place in clamd/scanner.c: /* check permissions */

Re: [SLUG] clamdscan failing

2004-04-29 Thread Peter Rundle
John Clarke wrote: Are you running clamd as root or as a non-privileged user? Is the directory containing the file readable by that user? /root is normally only readable by root. The solution, if you're running clamd as a non-privileged user, is to put the files into a directory that the clamd

Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails

2004-04-29 Thread Jared Pritchard
Thank you ppl - That puts my mind to rest - and thanks to the flood of fast responses!! Appreciated! =) In case anyone else has missed it - here's a summary A spammer or virus will forge (and most likely has in our case) a domain to mask their own presence, so when the recipient replies

Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails

2004-04-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004, Jared Pritchard wrote: Any idea how we might try and find the real source AND/OR should we report the abuse to some authority of some sort? You'd need the headers of the original mail to find the machine that passed the virus to the machine with the detector. You

Re: [SLUG] clamdscan failing

2004-04-29 Thread Stuart Cooper
clamdscan failing? maybe it clammed up! Stuart. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html