[SLUG] Ubuntu vs Debian File System Heirachy

2007-01-10 Thread Trent Murray
Hi all Ubuntu Guru's Just a quick email to see if someone could clarify what differences there are between the Debian File System Hierarchy and the Ubuntu FSH. -- Regards, Trent Murray -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://sl

Re: [SLUG] Spam again

2007-01-10 Thread David Lloyd
Sonia, http://www.akadia.com/services/postfix_uce.html Scroll to the "Header and Body Checks" section, although the whole thing is worth a read. DSL -- 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] howto remotely edit session & panel? (Ubuntu Edgy)

2007-01-10 Thread David Lloyd
Alan, When I had to change some settings for a friend, I used the VNC stuff. That seemed to make it easy. It strikes me that Sonia could also start a "real Gnome session" like this: % ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] [enter passwords etc] remote_machine % gnome-session & The only thing that I've

Re: [SLUG] NAS & SCSI/SATA

2007-01-10 Thread David Kempe
Hi Amos, I have done something like that with shared storage and your classic linux heartbeat stuff a while ago. The setup I was referring to was actually the storage devices for Xen nodes, so we are doing raid1 over AoE (using vblade/LVM) across two whole machines. Kinda like a SAN AOE storag

Re: Blocking wang attachments with postfix [Was: [SLUG] Spam again]

2007-01-10 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/11/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ahh is that what it is, but can't they also be .rma And that would as a guess be realmedia audio files (aka no video). But that's a guess of course. I guess someone could block those too. Thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: Blocking wang attachments with postfix [Was: [SLUG] Spam again]

2007-01-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Just a quick query on the above line. Shouldn't |do| read |do[ct]| > and |xl} read |xl[st]} No. I'm happy to get that stuff because more often than not it's something I actually want to receive... *or* the bad ones are painfully obvious before even opening them... *or* I don't use any

Re: Blocking wang attachments with postfix [Was: [SLUG] Spam again]

2007-01-10 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/11/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Fox wrote: > On 1/11/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> /filename=\"?(.*)\.(bat|chm|cmd|com|do|exe|hta|jse|rm|scr|pif|vbe|vbs|vxd|xl)\"?$/ >> REJECT For security reasons we reject attachments of this type >> >> Ju

Re: Blocking wang attachments with postfix [Was: [SLUG] Spam again]

2007-01-10 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/11/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /filename=\"?(.*)\.(bat|chm|cmd|com|do|exe|hta|jse|rm|scr|pif|vbe|vbs|vxd|xl)\"?$/ REJECT For security reasons we reject attachments of this type Just a quick query on the above line. Shouldn't |do| read |do[ct]| and |xl} read |xl

Re: [SLUG] howto remotely edit session & panel? (Ubuntu Edgy)

2007-01-10 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:19:43 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > vnc currently not available to that machine, due to firewall issues... If you can ssh in to the machine, it is. You can tunnel vnc over ssh, e.g.: http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/VNC/vnc-over-ssh.html Cheers, John -- This is

Re: Blocking wang attachments with postfix [Was: [SLUG] Spam again]

2007-01-10 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:22:32PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > I see you run Exim - any postfix users got ideas on how to do this in > > Postfix (ie block the mentioned type of attachments). > > Postfix for the win. Thanks heaps! -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Blocking wang attachments with postfix [Was: [SLUG] Spam again]

2007-01-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> * On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:02:12PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > > I recently blocked .jpg and .gif attachments on our server here at > > bong.com.au (which also serves fragfest.com.au) > > > > We also block .exe .com .scr .doc .xls .ppt > > I see you run Exim - any postfix users got ideas

Re: [SLUG] howto remotely edit session & panel? (Ubuntu Edgy)

2007-01-10 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:14:06PM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:11:54 +1100 > Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How do I remotely (ssh -X) edit the settings in sessions and the panel > > on an Ubuntu Edgy machine? > > > > I tried "gnome-session-properties &"

Re: [SLUG] howto remotely edit session & panel? (Ubuntu Edgy)

2007-01-10 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:11:54 +1100 Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I remotely (ssh -X) edit the settings in sessions and the panel > on an Ubuntu Edgy machine? > > I tried "gnome-session-properties &" and I got errors about "Could not > connect to gnome-session". > > I ran "gc

Re: [SLUG] Spam again

2007-01-10 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:02:12PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > I recently blocked .jpg and .gif attachments on our server > here at bong.com.au (which also serves fragfest.com.au) > > > We also block .exe .com .scr .doc .xls .ppt I see you run Exim - any postfix users got ideas on how to do

[SLUG] howto remotely edit session & panel? (Ubuntu Edgy)

2007-01-10 Thread Sonia Hamilton
How do I remotely (ssh -X) edit the settings in sessions and the panel on an Ubuntu Edgy machine? I tried "gnome-session-properties &" and I got errors about "Could not connect to gnome-session". I ran "gconf-editor &" and searched for session & panel stuff - couldn't find anything relevant. --

Re: [SLUG] DIY networking kit at Aldi.

2007-01-10 Thread Glen Turner
If the network concerned doesn't connect to the PSTN in any way, shape or form, then you don't have to have a licenced cabler do anything, nor are you liable for squat in fines. That's not so. The rule is that all "fixed installations" require a license. When was the last time a home user go

Re: [SLUG] howto safely remove Evolution (Ubuntu Edgy)?

2007-01-10 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:17:09AM +1100, Oliver Hookins wrote: > There are probably gnome configuration items that still reference it as the > default mail client. Have a look through gconf, you should be able to find > them and remove them. * On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:26:59AM +1100, Jeff Waug

[SLUG] ADSL modem/firewall /etc/hosts

2007-01-10 Thread jam
Hi recent discussion was about /etc/hosts to have the name for a local machine rather than the complexity of DNS views. [IE a local machine reffering to a www page 'virtual-hosted' to a local machine gets the modem setup page, not the intended page] If you do not use views then EVERY machine has

Re: [SLUG] howto safely remove Evolution (Ubuntu Edgy)?

2007-01-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11/01/07, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to remove Evolution from a Ubuntu Edgy machine I admin (my dad's) - how do I safely do this? I get these dependencies in aptitude: How about marking evolution with "M" in aptitude then work your way through the "r" (reverse-depe

Re: [SLUG] howto safely remove Evolution (Ubuntu Edgy)?

2007-01-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> * evolution-exchange depends on evolution (>= 2.8.0) > * evolution-plugins depends on evolution (>= 2.8.1) > * nautilus-sendto depends on evolution (>= 2.4) > * ubuntu-desktop depends on evolution > > The first two I can obviously ignore, what about the last two? nautilus-sendto m

Re: [SLUG] howto safely remove Evolution (Ubuntu Edgy)?

2007-01-10 Thread Oliver Hookins
On 1/11/07, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to remove Evolution from a Ubuntu Edgy machine I admin (my dad's) - how do I safely do this? I get these dependencies in aptitude: * evolution-exchange depends on evolution (>= 2.8.0) * evolution-plugins depends on evolution (>

[SLUG] howto safely remove Evolution (Ubuntu Edgy)?

2007-01-10 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'd like to remove Evolution from a Ubuntu Edgy machine I admin (my dad's) - how do I safely do this? I get these dependencies in aptitude: * evolution-exchange depends on evolution (>= 2.8.0) * evolution-plugins depends on evolution (>= 2.8.1) * nautilus-sendto depends on evolution (>= 2.4

Re: [SLUG] NAS & SCSI/SATA

2007-01-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/01/07, David Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, I have setup an HA version of this recently and recent with some hardware was giving me excellent throughput on Gigabit networks (haven't By "HA" you mean that multiple hosts are connected to the same disk-chain? Care you give more poi

[SLUG] Asterisk with NetJetPCI success

2007-01-10 Thread Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux
Finally... managed to get the NetJetPCI ISDN card we sell to work with Asterisk 1.4 and chan_mISDN. I've spent the last few hours trying to understand asterisk's extensions.conf file and doing testing back and forth between our office & home asterisk servers, SIP devices, our PABX trunk ports (

Re: [SLUG] NAS & SCSI/SATA

2007-01-10 Thread David Kempe
David Kempe wrote: Yes, but I would recommend RAID6 in a decent CPU machine. Multiple concurrent failures are less and less common these days and really bite hard on RAID5.. I meant less and less rare :( dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] NAS & SCSI/SATA

2007-01-10 Thread David Kempe
Phil Scarratt wrote: Hi esteemed ladies and gentleman... I have a couple of questions which I am currently googling which I would value people's opinion on: 1. Never having used NAS before, I am looking to find out the relative performance benefits of NAS as opposed to the plain ole' linux b

Re: [SLUG] Re: Low-light webcam for 256K upstream

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:37 +1100, Ben wrote: > I noticed there are no patches or modules released after early January > 2006, but there are reports of things working on the mailing lists at > saillard.org Hrmn. I hadn't checked how recent the saillard driver was. But, at least on my model, it's b

[SLUG] NAS & SCSI/SATA

2007-01-10 Thread Phil Scarratt
Hi esteemed ladies and gentleman... I have a couple of questions which I am currently googling which I would value people's opinion on: 1. Never having used NAS before, I am looking to find out the relative performance benefits of NAS as opposed to the plain ole' linux box file server, and

Re: [SLUG] Re: Low-light webcam for 256K upstream

2007-01-10 Thread Ben
On 1/10/07, Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter Hardy wrote: > You can get the new driver from http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ , and > it's also packaged for ubuntu (and probably debian) as pwc-source. > Install that, and you should find some documentation in > /usr/share/doc/pwc-sour