Re: [SLUG] Networking problem - help pls!

2007-09-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:04:04AM +1000, bill wrote: > I have a home LAN of 4 PCs and 1 laptop. > > Connected phone-line --> modem/router --> gigabit ethernet switch --> PCs ( > via CAT5 cable) > > Problem: the laptop and 3 PCs connect to the 'Net OK. > > 4th PC won't even ping the modem/router,

Re: [SLUG] undocumented null cipher for ssh?

2007-09-19 Thread Scott Ragen
Jeremy Portzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 20/09/2007 02:00:21 PM: > Are you sure this is a standard option? I've tried this in the past and > never been able to make it work, and on my current system it just gives: > > $ ssh -c none localhost > No valid ciphers for protocol version 2 given,

Re: [SLUG] undocumented null cipher for ssh?

2007-09-19 Thread Jeremy Portzer
Scott Ragen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 20/09/2007 01:10:02 PM: Someone mentioned on list a while ago about using an undocumented feature of ssh that allows a null cipher (in order to speed up large file transfers). Does anyone remember the option? The cipher name is "none". Regards

[SLUG] SCO delisted from NASDAQ

2007-09-19 Thread DaZZa
The final death throes begin... http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/LAW12419092007-1.htm DaZZa -- 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] undocumented null cipher for ssh?

2007-09-19 Thread Scott Ragen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 20/09/2007 01:10:02 PM: > Someone mentioned on list a while ago about using an undocumented feature > of ssh that allows a null cipher (in order to speed up large file > transfers). > > Does anyone remember the option? > The cipher name is "none". Regards, Scott --

[SLUG] undocumented null cipher for ssh?

2007-09-19 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Someone mentioned on list a while ago about using an undocumented feature of ssh that allows a null cipher (in order to speed up large file transfers). Does anyone remember the option? I've tried googling the list archives, can't seem to find the post - nearest I got was: http://lists.slug.org.au

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-19 Thread Tony Sceats
This is usually relevant to the permissions on /dev/dsp - usually it's rw for the audio group.. you can modify these as you see fit $ ls -l /dev/dsp crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 2007-09-17 14:28 /dev/dsp On 9/20/07, Kevin Shackleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Erik, > > This machine does no

Re: [SLUG] Networking problem - help pls!

2007-09-19 Thread Tony Sceats
Hi Bill, try running ethtool on the NIC and try to see if there's a link and what mode it's configured in.. you can also try to hard set the link modes with ethtool.. depending upon the switch type you may be able to hard set on it as well # ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports

[SLUG] Networking problem - help pls!

2007-09-19 Thread bill
I have a home LAN of 4 PCs and 1 laptop. Connected phone-line --> modem/router --> gigabit ethernet switch --> PCs ( via CAT5 cable) Problem: the laptop and 3 PCs connect to the 'Net OK. 4th PC won't even ping the modem/router, although it did access the 'Net properly a couple of months ago

RE: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-19 Thread Andrew Wilson
Hi I unsubscibed my email from this [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could you please stop sending me the mailing list. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Shackleton Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:59 AM To: SLUG list Subject: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] x

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-19 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Erik, This machine does not have an "audio" group. I'll try out that concept after work. Thanks, Kevin. Forwarded Message From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kevin Shackleton wrote: > Any ideas about looking for the problem? Most likely cause is that you are not

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail Woes

2007-09-19 Thread Nigel Allen
Addendum Grabbed an hours worth of traffic with tcpdump and ran it through ethereal. It appeared like everything was normal right up to the DATA command. Then the remote machines just hung. This happened with multiple ISP mail servers (all legit and large) whilst working fine (unbreakably fine

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Windows interoperabiliy

2007-09-19 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 09:29 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 20/09/2007, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > cygwin is like Linux I have never had any problems getting things sorted > > out, the community is very strong. We have plenty of Unix experts at my > > company so I leveraged those

Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root

2007-09-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Kevin Shackleton wrote: > Any ideas about looking for the problem? Most likely cause is that you are not in the 'audio' group. In a terminal window, run the 'groups' command and that will tell you what groups you are a member of. Erik --

Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root

2007-09-19 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Kevin Shackleton wrote: An odd development in the last couple of days - xmms won't play any mp3s for any user. ie the play slider does not show a knob after I try to start a play. It's ok for root, so the relevant files are there. Using FC7 Starting from a command line there is no error messa

[SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root

2007-09-19 Thread Kevin Shackleton
An odd development in the last couple of days - xmms won't play any mp3s for any user. ie the play slider does not show a knob after I try to start a play. It's ok for root, so the relevant files are there. Using FC7 Starting from a command line there is no error message, nor is there in /var/l

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Windows interoperabiliy

2007-09-19 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20/09/2007, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > cygwin is like Linux I have never had any problems getting things sorted > out, the community is very strong. We have plenty of Unix experts at my > company so I leveraged those skills as well. What about the licensing? Our coders now use

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Windows interoperabiliy

2007-09-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 06:57 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > Cygwin is Unix on the desktop, I have built production systems in it > > How provides the support on the cygwin environment - how have you gone about > selling the cygwin to the company ? I just developed a system and implemented it.

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Windows interoperabiliy

2007-09-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:37:04AM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:34 +1000, Minh Van Le wrote: > > I've been browsing at some Unix interoperability programs and emulators like > > Cygwin, Windows Services for Unix (SFU), coLinux, Uwin, VMWare etc. > > > > My quick question is,

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Windows interoperabiliy

2007-09-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:34 +1000, Minh Van Le wrote: > I've been browsing at some Unix interoperability programs and emulators like > Cygwin, Windows Services for Unix (SFU), coLinux, Uwin, VMWare etc. > > My quick question is, Is Windows Services for Unix (SFU) better than Cygwin > ? No, yes,