[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Election status - more nominations needed

2005-03-22 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 13:50 +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: > * I'd like to hold monthly hands on workshops somewhere - Anyone > got a club house with some storage available? Seem me when you're ready to startup. I have two locations and two very different audiences. -- "My government will

Re: [SLUG] Squid & Porn filters

2005-03-22 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 14:27 +1100, Michael Fox wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:24:07 +1100, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know of any addon to Squid (probably commercial) that will > > provide, and more importantly, maintain a database of porn sites that > > can be block

Re: [SLUG] ISP recomendation

2005-03-22 Thread Marek Wawrzyczny
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:53, David wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:38:07 +1100, Julio Cesar Ody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > >> Hi list, > >> > >> the company where I work now, for reasons beyond mention, is willing > >> to change it's network provider. Since we work mostly with video > >>

Re: [SLUG] ISP recomendation

2005-03-22 Thread David
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:38:07 +1100, Julio Cesar Ody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> the company where I work now, for reasons beyond mention, is willing >> to change it's network provider. Since we work mostly with video >> conference software, we do need a reliable low-latency and

Re: [SLUG] Tracking down qmail-smtpd err message output

2005-03-22 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:04:24AM +1100, Peter Rundle wrote: > Sluggers, > > I'm running qmail-smtpd via tcpserver launched from /etc/init.d/qmail: > > /var/qmail/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x/var/qmail/control/tcp.smtp.cdb -u502 > -g503 \ > 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & > > In the qmai

Re: [SLUG] Tracking down qmail-smtpd err message output

2005-03-22 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 03:03:33PM +1100, Peter Rundle wrote: > > Linux processes, including MTAs, write to 'syslogd' daemon for logging. > [snip] > > Thanks for your reply, pardon my ignorance but I'm not quite sure how to > make the connection between the program and syslog. In contrast to lot

Re: [SLUG] email server

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
if your running your webserver and your mail server on the same machine then you just need https, connections from squirelmail to imap wont go through the internet and so dont need to be encrypted Dean Michael Fox wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:42:26 +1100, Phill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am tryi

Re: [SLUG] ISP recomendation

2005-03-22 Thread O Plameras
Julio Cesar Ody wrote: Hi list, the company where I work now, for reasons beyond mention, is willing to change it's network provider. Since we work mostly with video conference software, we do need a reliable low-latency and high bandwidth connection. Which ISPs based in Sydney would you guys recom

Re: [SLUG] Tracking down qmail-smtpd err message output

2005-03-22 Thread O Plameras
Peter Rundle wrote: ..SNIPPED. So should the syslog.conf entry be warn4.* /var/log/smtpd.log To ascertain the allowed parameters, check this file with: #vi /usr/include/sys/syslog.h In /etc/syslog.conf allowed entries takes this format: e.g. mail.

Re: [SLUG] email server

2005-03-22 Thread Michael Fox
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:42:26 +1100, Phill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying my hand at setting up an email server with webmail access. > Fedora 3 comes with squirrelmail but the login uses plain text transfer. Can > anyone recommend webmail software that forces at least encrypted login b

[SLUG] email server

2005-03-22 Thread Phill
I am trying my hand at setting up an email server with webmail access. Fedora 3 comes with squirrelmail but the login uses plain text transfer. Can anyone recommend webmail software that forces at least encrypted login but possibly secure transfer of mail as well?   Regards, Phill  

Re: [SLUG] ISP recomendation

2005-03-22 Thread Jon Austin
I would not suggest TPG if you want low latency at all times.. Check out Broadband Choice & Whirlpool.. http://www.whirpool.net.au If you need high ingress/egress bandwidth at all times, you probably want a symmetrical circut, so a SHDSL rather than ADSL. Just don't buy a consumer grade service a

Re: [SLUG] ISP recomendation

2005-03-22 Thread Edwin Humphries
I have to agree with that. Very good indeed - and they resell the RequestDSL Business-grade DSL product as well. On 23 Mar 2005 at 15:08, Michael Fox wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:38:07 +1100, Julio Cesar Ody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > the company where I work now, for re

Re: [SLUG] ISP recomendation

2005-03-22 Thread Michael Fox
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:38:07 +1100, Julio Cesar Ody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > the company where I work now, for reasons beyond mention, is willing > to change it's network provider. Since we work mostly with video > conference software, we do need a reliable low-latency and high >

Re: [SLUG] Tracking down qmail-smtpd err message output

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Rundle
O Plameras, > Linux processes, including MTAs, write to 'syslogd' daemon for logging. [snip] Thanks for your reply, pardon my ignorance but I'm not quite sure how to make the connection between the program and syslog. So far I understand that I edit /etc/syslog.conf and place an entry in there to

Re: [SLUG] ISP recomendation

2005-03-22 Thread Luke Skywalker
We use TPG here on 1500/256 ADSL and are very happy with there reliability and service We have our own Dynalink RTA100 modem going into a 16 port switch. Works good. I dont know about cable at all...but i think it has low outgoing bandwidth, and its unavailable where we are (Port Macquarie area)

RE: FW: [SLUG] samba

2005-03-22 Thread Phill
I was alerted to the fact that the firewall was casing me grief. And it was. Problem solved Regards, Phill smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglist

Re: FW: [SLUG] samba

2005-03-22 Thread Luke Skywalker
i meant hosts allow in the smb.conf... i can send you my smb conf if you like? Are you using an interfact to configure it? i found the KDE control panel really really good to use Luke Phill wrote: Hosts deny is set to all:all Hosts allow Has the following ALL: 10.1.1.9 (the ip address of the router

[SLUG] ISP recomendation

2005-03-22 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
Hi list, the company where I work now, for reasons beyond mention, is willing to change it's network provider. Since we work mostly with video conference software, we do need a reliable low-latency and high bandwidth connection. Which ISPs based in Sydney would you guys recommend for that? We're i

Re: [SLUG] Squid & Porn filters

2005-03-22 Thread Michael Fox
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:24:07 +1100, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of any addon to Squid (probably commercial) that will > provide, and more importantly, maintain a database of porn sites that > can be blocked. > > I have a church school wanting this and we are runnin

[SLUG] Squid & Porn filters

2005-03-22 Thread Howard Lowndes
Does anyone know of any addon to Squid (probably commercial) that will provide, and more importantly, maintain a database of porn sites that can be blocked. I have a church school wanting this and we are running Squid on Linux as a transparent proxy. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your

Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting

2005-03-22 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 04:50:53PM +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: > usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 > usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out > usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out > usb 1-2: device not accepting address 2, error -110 > usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3 > u

[SLUG] Re: Sharing IMAP Folders

2005-03-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:05:12AM +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: > Pity there's no REALLY good IMAP mail client. Mutt works really well. - Matt (Showing his xterm bias again) signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Su

Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting

2005-03-22 Thread Michael Fox
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:39:32 +1100 (EST), Grant Parnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like this could be a power issue. If the external device has a > plug-pack option, try this with the laptop. That was my thoughts too. The poster never got back to us and said its a laptop ide drive in a la

Re: [SLUG] Tracking down qmail-smtpd err message output

2005-03-22 Thread O Plameras
O Plameras wrote: Peter Rundle wrote: ...SNIPPED.. Where will it go when I reboot the server and the rc3.d version of the init script starts tcpserver? How can I get these messages into a log file like /var/log/messages or /var/log/maillog? Linux processes, including MTAs,

what module is CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB? was: [SLUG] this is strating to look like hardware

2005-03-22 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:53:16PM +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: > Anand Kumria wrote: > > > > >You want to use the 'old, slow' USB storage access driver which will pop > >up thing as 'uba'. Check for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB in the kernel. > > > >Anand > > > Anand, > > Tried: > > lsmod | grep mod > > r

Re: [SLUG] Tracking down qmail-smtpd err message output

2005-03-22 Thread O Plameras
Peter Rundle wrote: ...SNIPPED.. Where will it go when I reboot the server and the rc3.d version of the init script starts tcpserver? How can I get these messages into a log file like /var/log/messages or /var/log/maillog? Linux processes, including MTAs, write to 'syslogd'

Re: [SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders

2005-03-22 Thread David Fisher
Thanks very much for that Edwin, but these guys are already using Eudora (which doesn't work on this machine, but does on others) and I tried Thunderbird (which gave the same problem). There is one OE client on the network I have yet to set up (the horror...) I'm really inclined to think it's

Re: [SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders

2005-03-22 Thread Edwin Humphries
David, If you're using Outlook or OE, then try another client. In setting up our Dovecot IMAP system, we early on dispensed with MS clients (we run XP and 2K) - I suspect their implementation of IMAP is purely suited for MS servers. I have used Pegasus and Eudora with varying success, and Thun

Re: [SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders

2005-03-22 Thread David Fisher
> I'm setting up a couple of imap servers using dovecot myself, but on > Debian sarge. You may have a problem here, because the last time I looked > (IIRC) dovecot does not yet support shared folders. > > Having said that I would be delighted for both of us if someone could > prove me wrong

Re: [SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders

2005-03-22 Thread Edwin Humphries
Jan, Thanks for this. Looks like 1.0 will solve our issues. Waiting ... On 23 Mar 2005 at 10:26, Jan Schmidt wrote: > > > > I'm setting up a couple of imap servers using dovecot myself, but on > > Debian sarge. You may have a problem here, because the last time I looked > > (IIRC) dovecot d

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread James Gray
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:09 am, Phill wrote: > So it seems that clamav is very popular. I'll give it a go A little late (I know) but I'm running a few mail servers based on MailScanner + SpamAssassin + ClamAV (+ NAI VirusScan on few at work). MailScanner works well with Exim and Sendmail and EXTRE

Re: [SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders

2005-03-22 Thread Jan Schmidt
> I'm setting up a couple of imap servers using dovecot myself, but on > Debian sarge. You may have a problem here, because the last time I looked > (IIRC) dovecot does not yet support shared folders. > > Having said that I would be delighted for both of us if someone could > prove me wrong.

[SLUG] Tracking down qmail-smtpd err message output

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I'm running qmail-smtpd via tcpserver launched from /etc/init.d/qmail: /var/qmail/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x/var/qmail/control/tcp.smtp.cdb -u502 -g503 \ 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & In the qmail-smtpd source there is a line: strerr_warn4("qmail-smtpd: invalid rcptto: ",addr.s,

FW: [SLUG] samba

2005-03-22 Thread Phill
Hosts deny is set to all:all Hosts allow Has the following ALL: 10.1.1.9 (the ip address of the router to the subnet where the windows machine is) The samba authentication mode is set to user I tried to add a completely new user to see if that would help but it does not Regards, Phill O'Flynn M

FW: [SLUG] samba

2005-03-22 Thread Phill
If the server has a host name of internal. and the windows machine is not labelled the same will that cause problems for samba. It does't with ssh. This works fine Regards, Phill O'Flynn Muse-Tech Ph 02 4782 6832 Fax 02 4782 6835 Mobile 0422 202 422 email: [E

Re: FW: [SLUG] samba

2005-03-22 Thread Kevin Saenz
What were your steps in configuring samba? what is your smb.conf file like? have you made a domain? are you authentincating with the server? have you created users using smbpasswd? I know it makes no real difference what version of XP are you using Home or pro? > Hi, > Are you using User/Share l

Re: FW: [SLUG] samba

2005-03-22 Thread Luke Skywalker
Hi, Are you using User/Share level security I found that the problem for me was setting which ip addresses where allowed access (in my subnet...) that was the major problem. this is my host allow for a particular share: I only want a few hosts to access...but you can define whole subnets too.. ho

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Del
Phill wrote: So it seems that clamav is very popular. I’ll give it a go http://wiki.babel.com.au/index.php?area=Linux_Projects&page=clamav Probably not all that helpful -- we have some specialised sendmail .mc files that aren't linked from that page yet but it's a start. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Lin

FW: [SLUG] samba

2005-03-22 Thread Phill
I have already done this Regards, Phill -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2005 7:37 AM To: Phill Cc: slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] samba could be to do with password encryption (ie you need to turn it on in samba) Dean Ph

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Voytek
>>>we turn away more mail than we recieve. and plenty of spam still gets >>>through. but no virii. >> >> >> i am really curious, but is someone using SPF or similiar techniques to >> reduce the amount of spam? there are lot of rumors about the success of >> SPF-like methods, but the rumors range f

Re: [SLUG] samba

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
could be to do with password encryption (ie you need to turn it on in samba) Dean Phill wrote: I hsve setup a samba server on a fedora 3 platform but am having trouble connecting from windows xp. xp seems to recognise the share but the password is not accepted (the password is right). the samba .

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
spamassasin turns away ALOT of spam but spam still gets through - thats life hence the hard rules based on character encoding and attachments Dean Gottfried Szing wrote: hi we turn away more mail than we recieve. and plenty of spam still gets through. but no virii. i am really curious, but is som

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Gottfried Szing
> This one time, at band camp, Gottfried Szing wrote: > >> i am really curious, but is someone using SPF or similiar techniques to >> reduce the amount of spam? there are lot of rumors about the success >> of SPF-like methods, but the rumors range from "yeah, great success" to >> "hm, not really us

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Gottfried Szing wrote: > i am really curious, but is someone using SPF or similiar techniques to > reduce the amount of spam? there are lot of rumors about the success of > SPF-like methods, but the rumors range from "yeah, great success" to "hm, > not really useful" a

[SLUG] samba

2005-03-22 Thread Phill
I hsve setup a samba server on a fedora 3 platform but am having trouble connecting from windows xp. xp seems to recognise the share but the password is not accepted (the password is right). the samba .config seems to be ok. I have set it up before but this is the first time i have had trou

[SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Phill
So it seems that clamav is very popular. I’ll give it a go   Thanks all   Regards, Phill   smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailingl

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Gottfried Szing
hi > we turn away more mail than we recieve. and plenty of spam still gets > through. but no virii. i am really curious, but is someone using SPF or similiar techniques to reduce the amount of spam? there are lot of rumors about the success of SPF-like methods, but the rumors range from "yeah, gr

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
im running exim + clamav + spammassassin + mailman + mysql on openbsd go team opensource. but yeah. no dramas. i also dont allow malicious file formats such as .exe .scr etc if you cant zip them then theres a problem. i also explicitly ban chinese, russian and a few other character sets. but this m

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Voytek Eymont
> I am just about to try my hand at setting up an email server on fedora 3. Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program that is cheap, effective and simple to setup? I'm using Postfix & amavisd with clamav and BitDefender free edition simple to setup ? it was a lot easier to setup than a fri

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Gottfried Szing
> clamav i am using exim4 + clamavd (virus) + spam assassin in combination and this works really create. no problems with this configuration for more than one year. (note: on a debian system and not on fedora). cu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscripti

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Voytek Eymont
> I am just about to try my hand at setting up an email server on fedora 3. > Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program that is cheap, effective > and simple to setup? I'm using Postfix & amavisd with clamav and BitDefender free edition -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Maili

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
clamav Phill wrote: I am just about to try my hand at setting up an email server on fedora 3. Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program that is cheap, effective and simple to setup? Regards, Phill -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Phill
I am just about to try my hand at setting up an email server on fedora 3. Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program that is cheap, effective and simple to setup?   Regards, Phill   smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group M

Re: [SLUG] this is strating to look like hardware

2005-03-22 Thread Ashley Maher
Anand Kumria wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:47:11AM +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: More external usb adventures. As was noted yesterday there was the possability of a kernel problem with the usb. So upgrading to hoary failed. Blow away old install, fresh hoary install. Suggestions greatfully ap

RE: [SLUG] Nomination: Silvia Pfeiffer (fwd)

2005-03-22 Thread Silvia.Pfeiffer
Thanks to Conrad I have received my nomination. I'd like to decline this nomination. I'm really sorry but to do a job like this requires some time comittment and time is really the thing I have least. I don't even attend all slug meetings! And I'm not even subscribed to the general slug list any