[SLUG] Re: July DebSIG

2004-07-21 Thread Craige McWhirter
It's tonight! See you there. On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:33, Craige McWhirter wrote: When: Wednesday, July 21, 7:00pm - 8:00pm Where: James Squire Brewery This month, Andrew Cowie will be discussing what Debian developers can learn from the successes of Gentoo.

Re: [SLUG] Something really weird with PHP

2004-07-21 Thread Del
Howard Lowndes wrote: I am trying to test the status of a value passed to a PHP program as a POST parameter, specifically a SUMBIT button, thus: if (empty($_POST['button'])) { My gut feel (without seeing the entire script) is that 'button' is a reserved word on a form, and somehow that's

[SLUG] Mail forwarding at router

2004-07-21 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, I have set up a small ntwork for a disability group and all is well, except they can't receive any mail. We have adsl with TPG and I have successfully forwarded the web requests to the internal web server from the router, but I think I may have missed something on the email side. The

Re: [SLUG] Mail forwarding at router

2004-07-21 Thread Shaun Oliver
you might want to look at forwarding port 110 for pop3 mind you, that should be a non-issue. -- Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Shaun Oliver http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ --

Re: [SLUG] Mail forwarding at router

2004-07-21 Thread James Ponza
well yeah 110 if you want your pop3 server to be visible... 25 if you want your sendmail server to be accessible... James On Wednesday 21 July 2004 20:19, Shaun Oliver wrote: you might want to look at forwarding port 110 for pop3 mind you, that should be a non-issue. -- Democracy is the

Re: [SLUG] Mail forwarding at router

2004-07-21 Thread Shaun Oliver
Someone much smarter than I, on Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:02:09PM +1000, spake thus. well yeah 110 if you want your pop3 server to be visible... 25 if you want your sendmail server to be accessible... I think the problem is he's not getting mail in from the ISP's servers. Simon, correct me if

Re: [SLUG] Something really weird with PHP

2004-07-21 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 19:26, Del wrote: Howard Lowndes wrote: I am trying to test the status of a value passed to a PHP program as a POST parameter, specifically a SUMBIT button, thus: if (empty($_POST['button'])) { My gut feel (without seeing the entire script) is that 'button'

Re: [SLUG] Mail forwarding at router

2004-07-21 Thread Simon Bryan
On Wed, July 21, 2004 8:59 pm, Shaun Oliver said: Someone much smarter than I, on Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:02:09PM +1000, spake thus. well yeah 110 if you want your pop3 server to be visible... 25 if you want your sendmail server to be accessible... I think the problem is he's not getting

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2004-07-21 Thread Trevor Tregoweth
Hi Everyone I was wondering what people can tell me and help me with DNS setups. What i would like to know, is that when you specify an secondary DNS for a web site, when the primary site goes down, how does the secondary site take over for example, if the first dns server goes

Re: [SLUG]

2004-07-21 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:47:11 +0930, Trevor Tregoweth uttered I was wondering what people can tell me and help me with DNS setups. What i would like to know, is that when you specify an secondary DNS for a web site, when the primary site goes down, how does the secondary site take

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2004-07-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004, Trevor Tregoweth wrote: What i would like to know, is that when you specify an secondary DNS for a web site, when the primary site goes down, how does the secondary site take over for example, if the first dns server goes off line, can and how does the

Re: [SLUG] Mail forwarding at router

2004-07-21 Thread Terry Collins
Simon Bryan wrote: it just occurred to me that the previous ISP may not have adjusted the internet mail records (MX??), will ring them and find out. Doesn't your new ISP do this? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor

Re: [SLUG] Name servers

2004-07-21 Thread Peter Hardy
On 07/22/04 10:18, Mary Gardiner wrote: b) set up a second server on a different IP address and update the nameservers. (Not all clients will notice immediately because DNS can be cached.) It's probably worth pointing out that it's not uncommon for DNS servers to have fairly long caching

[SLUG] Backup-web-server

2004-07-21 Thread Trevor Tregoweth
Hi All after my last post, which i think wasn't quite to the point, i would like to find out how to have a web-backup server, and how to configure them, so that when one goes down the other takes affect. Thanks for you help and suggestions Trevor Tregoweth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Backup-web-server

2004-07-21 Thread Phil Scarratt
Trevor Tregoweth wrote: Hi All after my last post, which i think wasn't quite to the point, i would like to find out how to have a web-backup server, and how to configure them, so that when one goes down the other takes affect. Thanks for you help and suggestions Trevor Tregoweth A load

Re: [SLUG] Backup-web-server

2004-07-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Trevor, Google is your friend. The sort of words you want are 'failover' 'high availability' and probably apache. I googled 'apache failover' and go these. http://www.geocities.com/latompa/ha/apache_heartbeat.html http://www.openminds.co.uk/high_availability_solutions/web_servers/apache.htm

Re: [SLUG] Backup-web-server

2004-07-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004, Trevor Tregoweth wrote: Hi All after my last post, which i think wasn't quite to the point, i would like to find out how to have a web-backup server, and how to configure them, so that when one goes down the other takes affect. Thanks for you help and suggestions I

Re: [SLUG] Backup-web-server

2004-07-21 Thread James Gregory
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 11:14 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2004, Trevor Tregoweth wrote: Hi All after my last post, which i think wasn't quite to the point, i would like to find out how to have a web-backup server, and how to configure them, so that when one goes down the

Re: [SLUG] Backup-web-server

2004-07-21 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 22/07/2004 11:14 AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2004, Trevor Tregoweth wrote: Hi All after my last post, which i think wasn't quite to the point, i would like to find out how to have a web-backup server, and how to configure them, so that when one goes down the other takes

Re: [SLUG] Name servers

2004-07-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:39:05AM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: On 07/22/04 10:18, Mary Gardiner wrote: b) set up a second server on a different IP address and update the nameservers. (Not all clients will notice immediately because DNS can be cached.) It's probably worth pointing out that

[SLUG] Definitive URLs/Experiences on Linux box provide VPN service through to Windows Domains

2004-07-21 Thread Gavin Tomlins
Greetings all, as per topic header, I'm currently in the process of setting up Linux box for VPN into a Windows Domain. I'm interested in hearing other people's experiences,references,URL'sand recommendations. The current scenario is to bypass IPSEC due to logistics overhead and use PPTP

Re: [SLUG] Definitive URLs/Experiences on Linux box provide VPN service through to Windows Domains

2004-07-21 Thread David Kempe
Gavin Tomlins wrote: Greetings all, as per topic header, I'm currently in the process of setting up Linux box for VPN into a Windows Domain. I'm interested in hearing other people's experiences, references, URL's and recommendations. The current scenario is to bypass IPSEC due to logistics

Re: [SLUG] Backup-web-server

2004-07-21 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 10:48, Trevor Tregoweth wrote: after my last post, which i think wasn't quite to the point, i would like to find out how to have a web-backup server, and how to configure them, so that when one goes down the other takes affect. I'm in the midst of deploying a

[SLUG] Stop X from Blanking screen after inactivity

2004-07-21 Thread Kevin Saenz
I have built a PVR, and running twm. Now the thing is that I would like to stop X in going into powersave mode, can anyone one assist? Thanks Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Stop X from Blanking screen after inactivity

2004-07-21 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 22/07/2004 1:29 PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: I have built a PVR, and running twm. Now the thing is that I would like to stop X in going into powersave mode, can anyone one assist? Hi Kevin, Don't know if this will help, but try man xset; specifically the xset dpms command. Regards, Gonzalo

[SLUG] Debian Bugzilla Install

2004-07-21 Thread scott
Hi All, I have installed bugzilla stock standard woody, no modifications made to apache, bugzilla or mysql. I have encountered a small problem, and the only answer I can think of is to modify the cgi scripts (or html, or symlinks perhaps). What happens, is debian bugzilla puts all html files in