Re: [SLUG] Programming language

2006-12-17 Thread Alexander Samad
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:01:29PM +1100, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > $ cat program > > #!/bin/bash > > while IFS=: read qnumber question answer ; do > > echo "Question number $qnumber" > > echo "$question" > > echo "$answer" > > echo > > done < question

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-17 Thread Alexander Samad
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:09:20PM +1100, Michael Kedzierski wrote: > On 12/17/06, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:51:43PM +1100, Michael Kedzierski wrote: > >> On 12/17/06, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >* On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:54:06P

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-15 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:39:46PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my > machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to > Linux). > > Reason: I'm going to convert my dad's pc to Ubuntu (he's shipping it to > me), I'm

Re: [SLUG] Debian RAID1 rebuild mirror after single drive failure

2006-12-15 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:26:54PM +1100, Michael Brown wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a debian woody system running in RAID1 degraded mode at the moment > because there is no hot spare currently. > mdadm isn't installed, just the bog stadard raidtools I think. > I've taken out the dead drive, and

[: Re: [SLUG] how to type £]

2006-12-14 Thread Alexander Samad
but now I am having problems with actually t

[: Re: [SLUG] how to type £]

2006-12-14 Thread Alexander Samad
king for :) > > http://tldp.org/LDP/lfs/LFS-BOOK-6.1.1-HTML/chapter07/console.html Worked for the console, but not in xwindows > > Hope it helps > > Regards, > Alex. > > > Alexander Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > How do I go about typing £ on a US key

[SLUG] how to type £

2006-12-13 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi How do I go about typing £ on a US keyboard ? I currently have to search for the symbol on the net and then copy and paste it with in x. Running debian etch-amd64, Xorg xfce4 How do I go about configuring a alt key to be a alt-gr key thank alex signature.asc Description: Digital signatur

Re: [SLUG] ethical question - teach beginner doze or linux?

2006-12-03 Thread Alexander Samad
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 09:39:41PM +1100, Ben wrote: > On 12/3/06, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Here's an ethical question for you. I have a middle aged friend who > >wants to "learn computers"; he's never used computers before (he's a > >builder). In exchange for some work he's doi

Re: [SLUG] ethical question - teach beginner doze or linux?

2006-12-03 Thread Alexander Samad
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 09:09:58PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > Here's an ethical question for you. I have a middle aged friend who > wants to "learn computers"; he's never used computers before (he's a > builder). In exchange for some work he's doing for me, I'm going to > install everything, ge

Re: [SLUG] create partitions fdisk, no reboot?

2006-11-09 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 05:41:58PM +1100, Scott Ragen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/11/2006 03:08:46 PM: > > > Is there a way of creating partitions using fdisk, and not having to > > reboot before creating filesystems on the new partitions? ie getting the > > kernel to be aware of the ne

Re: [SLUG] PDA/phone/linux

2006-11-06 Thread Alexander Samad
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:01:25PM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: > > On Mon, November 6, 2006 1:31 pm, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:30:21PM +1100, david wrote: > > > I'm going to be /really/ annoying and ask whether > > you really need a pda phone :-). > > most ppl I know

Re: [SLUG] Resizing remote screen window not changing the column or row setting

2006-10-12 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:09:31AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 11 Oct 2006, Alexander Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:12:00AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Some thing changed on my system recent

Re: [SLUG] Resizing remote screen window not changing the column or row setting

2006-10-11 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:39:29PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:09:31AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > > On 11 Oct 2006, Alexander Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:12:00AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > >

Re: [SLUG] Resizing remote screen window not changing the column or row setting

2006-10-11 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:09:31AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 11 Oct 2006, Alexander Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:12:00AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Some thing changed on my system recent

Re: [SLUG] Resizing remote screen window not changing the column or row setting

2006-10-10 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:12:00AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > Hi > > Some thing changed on my system recently but I am unable to determine > what caused the problem. > > The problem > > login into local machine hufpuf > start rxvt with a small size window sa

[SLUG] Resizing remote screen window not changing the column or row setting

2006-10-10 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi Some thing changed on my system recently but I am unable to determine what caused the problem. The problem login into local machine hufpuf start rxvt with a small size window say 60x30 ssh to another machine multi start screen with 'screen -DR alex' start vim with vim /etc/screenrc - any fil

Re: [SLUG] ADSL2+ netcomm NB5+

2006-10-04 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:03:43AM +1000, justin randell wrote: > alex, > > i just switched over from adsl1 to adsl2+, and i'm using NB5, and i > can confirm bridged mode works just fine. > > cheers > justin cool sound like it is all thumbs up > > On 10/5/06, A

[SLUG] ADSL2+ netcomm NB5+

2006-10-04 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi Just in the process of checking out tpgs adsl2 +. I currently have adsl running in bridged mode and having the adsl session run by oe on my linux firewall. I am presuming I am going to be able to do the same with nb5+ and adsl2+ Alex signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SL

Re: [SLUG] Seeking iptables interface-specific script

2006-08-22 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:51:23AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Is there a canonical way of writing interface specific iptables scripts? > > At the moment, I'm trying to write a couple of scripts with this > behaviour to put in /etc/network/if[action].d/: > - when lo comes up, add an iptables ru

Re: [SLUG] How to force which device is eth0?

2006-08-21 Thread Alexander Samad
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:14:43AM +1000, O Plameras wrote: > Matthew Hannigan wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:55:26AM +1000, O Plameras wrote: > > > >>I'm using Fedora, and I use the file /etc/modprobe.conf > >>to say, e.g., > >> > >>alias eth0 tulip > >>alias eth1 e100 > >>alias eth2 3c59x

Re: [SLUG] Paging IMAP gurus

2006-08-05 Thread Alexander Samad
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:44:45AM +1000, James Gray wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm running a Courier IMAP server with Postfix MTA for my own > personal network (with a handful of POP3 users). The problem is that > I often use different mail clients. Some support automatic archiving > (deleting)

Re: [SLUG] hosts.allow question

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:42:07PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 25 Jul 2006, DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Folks. > > > > I'm having a bit of trouble with getting hosts.allow to do what I want it > > to do. > > > > As I understand it, you can either enter IP addresses or hosts into > >

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Firewall Device Opinions

2006-07-10 Thread Alexander Samad
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:45:36PM +0200, Ben Buxton wrote: > Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 10:02 +0200, Ben Buxton wrote: > > > I've just installed an Asus device running OpenWRT to replace my home > > > gateway box, and I'm very impressed. >

Re: [SLUG] Sudo broken in Ubuntu

2006-07-03 Thread Alexander Samad
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:17:02PM +1000, Billy Kwong wrote: > Muz, > > Have you tried booting Ubuntu up in single user mode and see if you can > login? > > Worst case scenario, boot the PC using any Linux live CD, then chroot to the > installed root partition on your HDD, and give the remaining

Re: Greylisting (was: Re: [SLUG] mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] slow)

2006-06-14 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:14:51AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:46:05PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > > > > SAV is different to VRFY, and the combination of SAV and greylisting is > > > > really broken. I suggested to

Re: Greylisting (was: Re: [SLUG] mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] slow)

2006-06-14 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:46:05PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > SAV is different to VRFY, and the combination of SAV and greylisting is > > > really broken. I suggested to Chris that he turn SAV off, because it ends > > > up > > > being more problematic than it's worth. > > > > What is SA

Re: Greylisting (was: Re: [SLUG] mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] slow)

2006-06-13 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:48:06AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:44:51AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > > > doesn't it mean that the slug smtp server has tried to verify > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a valid email adderss, by making

Re: [SLUG] mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] slow - 'unverified address'

2006-06-13 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:48:45AM +1000, Billy Kwong wrote: > Hi Sonia, > > Notice that it's a 4xx return code, meaning its a transient error. doesn't it mean that the slug smtp server has tried to verify [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a valid email adderss, by making a connect to the smtp server for snow

Re: [SLUG] Fonts selection with xfs and xorg

2006-06-07 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:30:55PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alexander> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:23:27PM +1000, Peter Chubb > Alexander> wrote: > >> Did it fix it a

[SLUG] Fonts selection with xfs and xorg

2006-06-06 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I am running debain etch amd64, using the urxvt package for my terminal. I have 2 machines in my network and for practice I have setup xfs so that I only have to load up my fonts once. My second machine has a tcp://xfs:7100 line in its xorg.conf (as does the machine with xfs but using unix soc

Re: [SLUG] extracting bootfloopy image from bootable dvd or cd

2006-05-22 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:26:16AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:17:59AM +1000, O Plameras wrote: > > Alexander Samad wrote: > > >Hi > > > > > >Does any one have any experience in extracting the bootfloopy image from > > >

Re: [SLUG] extracting bootfloopy image from bootable dvd or cd

2006-05-22 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:17:59AM +1000, O Plameras wrote: > Alexander Samad wrote: > >Hi > > > >Does any one have any experience in extracting the bootfloopy image from > >a dvd or cd, or might be able to suggest what tools to use ? > > > > > > Fir

[SLUG] extracting bootfloopy image from bootable dvd or cd

2006-05-22 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi Does any one have any experience in extracting the bootfloopy image from a dvd or cd, or might be able to suggest what tools to use ? Thanks Alex signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] spaces in filenames - bash scripting problem

2006-05-20 Thread Alexander Samad
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 05:34:52PM +1000, david wrote: > On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 15:25 +1000, david wrote: > > My latest attempt below... and it works all the way down to the mv line, > but then fails because of the spaces. I get this diagnostic: > > mv: when moving multiple files, last argument mu

Re: [SLUG] Best practise for ldap authentication

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:55:19PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:59:22PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:57:33PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Alexander Samad wrote: > > > >

Re: [SLUG] Best practise for ldap authentication

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:59:22PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:57:33PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Alexander Samad wrote: > > >but mail isn't part of account nor posixAccount nor top, it is part of > >

Re: [SLUG] Best practise for ldap authentication

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:57:33PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Alexander Samad wrote: > >but mail isn't part of account nor posixAccount nor top, it is part of > >inetorgperson - which is of no help to me cause i do libnss/libpam > >fi

Re: [SLUG] Best practise for ldap authentication

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:56:08PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > but mail isn't part of account nor posixAccount nor top, it is part of > > inetorgperson - which is of no help to me cause i do libnss/libpam > > filtering based on attr host which is only part of account. > > Just add inetOrgPe

[SLUG] Best practise for ldap authentication

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Samad
if I have a record in People dn: uid=alex,ou=People,dc=test,dc=com uid: alex cn: Alexander Samad loginShell: /bin/bash homeDirectory: /home/alex gecos: Alexander Samad objectClass: account objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: top and a record in Address Book dn: uid=alex,ou=Address Book,dc=test,d

Re: [SLUG] pam ldap question

2006-05-08 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:16:33AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:02 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > > my common-auth looks like > > auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure > > auth required pam_ldap.so ignore_unknown_user use_first_p

[SLUG] pam ldap question

2006-05-07 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi Just going through the process of setting up ldap authentication. Things seem to be working fine except when I go to do some fine controll over who can log into each machine my nsswitch looks like this passwd: files ldap group: files ldap shadow: files my common-

Re: [SLUG] photo gallery recommendations sought

2006-05-06 Thread Alexander Samad
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:09:22AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Saturday 06 May 2006 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm looking for a photo gallery, if anyone has any recomendations, > > > so far I've looked at Coppermine, which actually seems quite good, ?? > > > but, if > > > anyon

Re: [SLUG] Invalid credentials error code 49

2006-04-20 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi have you tried a slapcat to make sure the information is actually in the DB ? Alex On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:36:19PM +1000, Selim Jahangir wrote: > Hi > I have actually added the password just beside > Rootpw keyword. In my email the writing may be incorrect. > -selim > > -Original

Re: [SLUG] Xorg word selection

2006-04-18 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi Thanks, thought it was a function of X and not the app Alex On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 04:09:06PM +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote: > > On 18/04/2006, at 1:45 PM, Alexander Samad wrote: > > >Hi > > > >I have been trying to google for this, but to no success, I have

[SLUG] Xorg word selection

2006-04-17 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I have been trying to google for this, but to no success, I have FC5 on a machine and running Xorg X server, now when I double click on a word in a xterm or rxvt term the word selection is different to what I am used to. for example if I had a path /opt/oracle/staging/10.2.0.1/db/database/sta

Re: [SLUG] Re: DEC Storage Works

2006-04-06 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:59:36AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 08:51:05AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > OCFS2 and GFS are supported in Ubuntu from 5.10 onwards. > > > > Nice! > > > > I believe OCFS2 made it into the standard kernel very recently; 2.6.16? > > Yeah

Re: [SLUG] Re: bittorrent clients

2006-03-15 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 08:31:45AM +1100, Matt Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:45:55PM +1100, cmyers wrote: > > Just asking some advice on what BT clients you guys use? > > > > I have tried Azuerus and found it so slow it was a joke. > > > > So I thought I would throw the question out

Re: [SLUG] Special Interest Group: Asterisk

2006-03-08 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:54:38AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Is there a user group for Asterisk in Sydney? > > > >If there is, could someone send me the contact details. > > > >If there is not a group, would any one be interested in getting involve in > >one? > >

Re: [SLUG] ipv6

2005-12-18 Thread Alexander Samad
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:08:14PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 09:12:26AM +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:00:32AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 03:37:09PM +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: > > &g

Re: [SLUG] ipv6

2005-12-15 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:00:32AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 03:37:09PM +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: > > > > I also have 2 internet connections (1 static and 1 dynamic), I onyl use > > the ip6to4 addressing > > schema, which is a pain fo

Re: [SLUG] ipv6

2005-12-13 Thread Alexander Samad
f its a ipv6 aware app, then it will make a ipv6 connection first then fall back to ipv4. lot of the main tools are aware, X ssh exim apache like I said I did it for a bit of interest but now its in place its just there > > Dean > > Alexander Samad wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 13,

Re: [SLUG] ipv6

2005-12-12 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:03:29PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > im not sure if this is a chat topic or not > > but anyway, is anyone here using ipv6? im thinking of > using it here at home for curiosities sake. im running > debian and freebsd so they are ready. macosx and xp > (for the parents an

[SLUG] Distributed security Database

2005-12-12 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi Just wondering how people manage a userid's across multiple linux servers LDAP, NIS or ? I am currently using nis, tried ldap previous but had issues when the ldap server was uncontactable. Alex signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailin

Re: [SLUG] MTU size

2005-12-01 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:47:59AM +1100, John Clarke wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:43:35 +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > > Now I have been talking to one of the techies @ my ISP (internode) > > and he suggested to drop the MTU size down to 1000. > > If this works, then I'd guess that

Re: [SLUG] Shuttle XPC model recommendation for Linux

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Samad
hi I bought a SN95G5 V3 with these same questions in mind i went with the a dual core X2 3800+ with 1G of memory, I ran into a few small problems, setting up digital out for sound, the rest went smoothly, loaded debian and all has been well. Even thought about buying another one. They do have a

Re: [SLUG] Re: wifi router

2005-09-21 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:44:21PM +1000, Shaun Butler wrote: > I recently acquired a couple of WRT54G routers to create a wireless network > at home. I've flashed one of them with the dd-wrt firmware. The great thing > about using the open source firmwares out there like dd-wrt and OpenWRT is > th

Re: [SLUG] Amd dual core processors and Debiam {kernel, linux}-image deb's

2005-08-26 Thread Alexander Samad
simple solution upgrade bios! 8) On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:06:11AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > hi > > I recently bought a CPU AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+, Dual-Core 2.0Ghz 1MB > Cache S939 cpu. > > I was wondering which deb kernel package I shoudl be using to get smp > out

[SLUG] Amd dual core processors and Debiam {kernel, linux}-image deb's

2005-08-24 Thread Alexander Samad
hi I recently bought a CPU AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+, Dual-Core 2.0Ghz 1MB Cache S939 cpu. I was wondering which deb kernel package I shoudl be using to get smp out of this. I am using linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7-smp right now but when I look at /proc/cpu I get this processor : 0 vendor_id

[SLUG] Problem with DVD+R/RW

2005-08-24 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi Been having some problems with my new dvd-rw drive Model Number: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110D Serial Number: EGDC005617WL Firmware Revision: 1.08 I am using dvd+rw tools and so far I have made 6-7 coasters, the problem seems to show

Re: [SLUG] Multimedia machine (Shuttle)

2005-08-16 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:15:09AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > Hi > > Quick feedbackn onthe box, > ended up getting a > > SN95G5 v3, amd 3800+ 2000 (dual core) > nvidia 6600gt > > Everything is working fine except the sound. > > I installed debian of a n

Re: [SLUG] Multimedia machine (Shuttle)

2005-08-16 Thread Alexander Samad
up the sounds to play properly On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:57:48PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:38:44PM +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: > > Alexander Samad wrote: > > > > >On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:58:03AM +1000, Rob Sharp wrote: > > &

Re: [SLUG] Building nvidia kernel modules on a Debian x86_64 machine

2005-08-16 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:00:02AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > What I have done is install debian (2.6.11 base kerneL) I then upgraded > > the kernel to 2.6.11-amd64-k8-smp which is a x86_64 arch kernel so it does > > both 32 and 64 bit stuff ( I believe). > > If you've installed the i386 v

Re: [SLUG] Building nvidia kernel modules on a Debian x86_64 machine

2005-08-15 Thread Alexander Samad
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:50:35PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 15/08/2005 06:21:01 PM: > > > Hi > > > > wondering if any one has done this, still struggle through how to build > > a amd64 kernel that is actually part of the i386 arch Got this > > worked out, t

[SLUG] Building nvidia kernel modules on a Debian x86_64 machine

2005-08-15 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi wondering if any one has done this, still struggle through how to build a amd64 kernel that is actually part of the i386 arch Got this worked out, tried the same trick with the nvidia modules and it bombs out saying something about 32 bit kernel space - usually I change the arch to amd64 an

Re: [SLUG] Multimedia machine (Shuttle)

2005-08-11 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:38:44PM +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: > Alexander Samad wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:58:03AM +1000, Rob Sharp wrote: > > > > > >>You can probably get a USB sound 'card' breakout box that outputs > >>S/P-DI

Re: [SLUG] dual authentification

2005-08-04 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 06:13:14AM +1000, James wrote: > On 8/4/05, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Got this one today, strange one: > > > > "Do you know if it is possible to setup a Linux redhat server to require > > two passwords to gain root access? The responsibilities for the server

Re: [SLUG] Alpha SRM Question

2005-08-03 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:35:07PM +1000, Crossfire wrote: > Rajnish was once rumoured to have said: > > All, > > > > I've come in possession of an Alphastation 500/400 which has > > OpenVMS. I would like to install Debian on it > > however after hours of googling, I've discovered that I need to >

Re: [SLUG] Multimedia machine (Shuttle)

2005-07-25 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:58:03AM +1000, Rob Sharp wrote: > On 7/26/05, Alexander Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:00:30PM +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: > > > Samad, Alex wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >I have al

Re: [SLUG] Multimedia machine (Shuttle)

2005-07-25 Thread Alexander Samad
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:00:30PM +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: > Samad, Alex wrote: > > > > >I have also started to look at the mac mini, not bad on first look > > > The Mac Mini is quite a nice little machine. > > Did you want to hook the box into a TV to watch you movies, or were you > goin

[SLUG] RHEL3u4

2005-06-02 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi Installing rhel3u4 on some old hardware, and when the install gets to probing the monitor is locks the computer up. I have tried these options nofb skipddc text noprobe which worked on RHEL4, but seem to make no difference to the rhel3u4 install process. How can I get a totally text only no

Re: [SLUG] access ext3 partion from xp dual boot

2005-06-02 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi have a look on source forge I believe there is a package that allow windows machines to mount ext2 (maybe ext3 ) partitions, been a while since I looked at it A On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:36:09PM +1000, linleycaetan wrote: > I have just installed ubuntu as dual boot on my sony vaio. > Is there

Re: [SLUG] setting system binaries to 0700 ?

2005-05-22 Thread Alexander Samad
> following the awstats exploits, I'm setting wget/curl/lwp* to 0700 > > is there any reason I shouldn't set system binaries some/all to 0700 ? > like chmod/chown ? > silly question but why would you want to write to a system binary ? > > -- > Voytek > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailin

Re: [SLUG] Bridging/network on PearPC

2005-05-12 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:43:10AM +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: > Alexander Samad wrote: > >interesting - have your tried a bash -x > > look in bash searh for set in SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS and it takes an option of -x -x After expanding each simple command, display the ex

Re: [SLUG] Bridging/network on PearPC

2005-05-12 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 09:04:47AM +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: > >Peter Rundle wrote: > >> brctl addbr br0 > >> brctl stp br0 off > >> brctl addif br0 eth0 > >> brctl addif br0 eth1 > >> ifconfig eth0 down > >> ifconfig eth1 down > >> ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up > >> ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 up > >> echo

Re: [SLUG] Script Help

2005-05-10 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 02:10:40PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: > Simon scribed; > > >Why is the following script ripping out every directory rather than just > >those in 'studentfile' > > > >#!/bin/bash > >while read name; do > >cd $name > >rm -fvr * > >cd .. > >rmdir $name > >done < studentlist >

[SLUG] Multimedia machine

2005-05-05 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I remember a while ago somebody posted about putting together a multimedia machine and where they got the parts from, had a quick look through the archives and cant seem to find it. What I am looking for is a small via motherboard (is that going to be big enough to use mplayer ???) and s

Re: [SLUG] DVD iso img - how to play?

2005-05-05 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:19:30PM +1000, Jan Schmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:48 +1000, Bill wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've successfully copied a DVD as an iso image to my hard-drive, and have > > managed to mount it with the loopback device, but I have not been able to > > figure out how

Re: [SLUG] Partition advice

2005-05-05 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:15:21PM +1000, Michael Chesterton wrote: > Peter Rundle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > System has hardware raid with six drives. Two 36Gb and four 72Gb. Idea > > is to mirror two 36's as the system disk > > and the other 4 in a raid 5 for data. System will be a bit o

Re: [SLUG] ssh scan and iptables

2005-04-19 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 08:57:23AM +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:20:01AM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: > > what i want to achieve is to detect failed logins via SSH (e.g. with a > > limit of 3 attempts within one minute) and to drop/deny packages from the > > source IP

Re: [SLUG] ssh scan and iptables

2005-04-19 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:20:01AM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: > hi guys, > > last week was a discussion on this list about ssh scans and almost > everyone (including me) is ignoring the script kiddies. > > but i was thinking about this problem and came up with the (not new, i > know) idea to b

Re: [SLUG] Someone's bruteforcing my debian box...should I worry?

2005-04-12 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:30:23PM +1000, Nick Croft wrote: > * Rob Sharp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Funny you should menion it but: > > > > grep Invalid /var/log/auth.log yields > > > > Apr 10 07:05:36 islay sshd[3403]: Invalid user t from :::211.30.136.xxx > > Apr 10 13:00:41 islay sshd

Re: [SLUG] SB Live and Alsa

2005-01-14 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:11:56PM +1100, Simon Males wrote: > >Thing I read about this slider is it is for certain types of sound > >blasters and which dual use a port for digital and analogue. seems to > >make no difference weather it is on or off on my card ! > > When I run emu-config -d, analo

Re: [SLUG] SB Live and Alsa

2005-01-13 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:20:36PM +1100, Jan Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 23:10 +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:53:08PM +1100, Jan Schmidt wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 22:40 +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: > > > > Hi >

Re: [SLUG] SB Live and Alsa

2005-01-13 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:31:58AM +1100, Jan Schmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 01:16 +1100, Simon Males wrote: > > > I am trying to get 5.1 digital sounds out of my linux box, but I have so > > > many sliders in alsa mixer and they all seem to do strange things, but I > > > can't seem to get

Re: [SLUG] SB Live and Alsa

2005-01-13 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:53:08PM +1100, Jan Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 22:40 +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am trying to get 5.1 digital sounds out of my linux box, but I have so > > many sliders in alsa mixer and they all seem to do stra

[SLUG] SB Live and Alsa

2005-01-13 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I am trying to get 5.1 digital sounds out of my linux box, but I have so many sliders in alsa mixer and they all seem to do strange things, but I can't seem to get 5.1 to my amp. /var/lib/alsa/asound.state - in't any help either Has any one been able to do this ? There are lots of EMU10K1 P

Re: [SLUG] ifolder & tarpit

2004-12-27 Thread Alexander Samad
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:06:46PM +1000, hilton de meillon wrote: > Hey All, > > Has anyone ever got ifolder working on linux ?. I am seeking a program that > can sync data between multiple hosts in a secure manner with a master / > slave relationship (other than rsync and ssh). > > Has anyone e

Re: [SLUG] kernel-2.4 to 2.6 now no console.

2004-12-25 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi Did you compile your own kernel ? Sounds like maybe you missed a module (wild guess) A On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:36:55AM +1100, Karl Bowden wrote: > I am using debian-testing, and when I boot using a 2.6 series kernel > there are no virt consoles. > X is at console 2 i think. (I can get to

Re: [SLUG] RE: Netcomm np1400

2004-12-15 Thread Alexander Samad
wild guess but do you have a cross over cable between the 2 ? every time you try and tx you get a carrier error ! A On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 03:37:03PM +0930, Alan Millsted wrote: > Ok, I have done that and allthough I haven't fired up the modem yey I > can't see eth0 192.168.0.254 from anywhere.

Re: [SLUG] RE: Netcomm np1400

2004-12-15 Thread Alexander Samad
hi pppoa is ppp over atm pppoe is ppp over ethernet the former is usually only atainable when the adsl modem is a pci card. the later is usuall what you get when the interface between the modem and the computer is ethernet Both only apply when the modem is in bridged mode A On Wed, Dec 15, 200

Re: FW: [SLUG] Netcomm np1400 adsl router (new thread_

2004-12-14 Thread Alexander Samad
sounds like the rp-pppoe isn't started and you still have the default route set to the eth0 interface instead of the ppp interface On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 06:24:22PM +0930, Alan Millsted wrote: > There's something very wrong here, I tried to ping dns cerver > 230.12.160.35 and I got back > "From

Re: FW: [SLUG] Netcomm np1400 adsl router (new thread_

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Samad
e mode for me, nothing else! > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Alexander Samad > Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2004 5:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FW: [SLUG] Netcomm np1400 adsl router (new thread

Re: FW: [SLUG] Netcomm np1400 adsl router (new thread_

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Samad
try this pppoe -d -i INTERFACE where INTERFACE is the interface your modem is attached to it will test the pppoe connection and print out results to the screen Alex On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 06:56:05PM +0930, Alan Millsted wrote: > Just a thought befor I do that, should I change the IP of the mo

Re: [SLUG] Netcomm np1400 adsl router (new thread_

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Samad
Point your browser at it If you have the netcomm in bridged mode and are trying to run rp-pppoe on your linux box and you want to browse the web interface on the modem then you need to (note eth5 is the interface I have my netcomm on and I have assigned ppp0 [unit 0] to the adsl) I either se

Re: [SLUG] Netcomm 1400-TPG ISP

2004-12-07 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:44:12PM +1100, Elliott-Brennan wrote: > Alex wrote: > > > > > >Hi > > > >I am but using debian, was quite simple, changed modem to bridge mode > >and then install pppoe, setup parameters (had to set the mtu to the > >lowest value) and then bobs your uncle ! > > > > >

Re: [SLUG] Netcomm 1400-TPG ISP

2004-12-06 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I am but using debian, was quite simple, changed modem to bridge mode and then install pppoe, setup parameters (had to set the mtu to the lowest value) and then bobs your uncle ! Alex On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:27:25PM +0930, Alan Millsted wrote: > Hi is anyone out there using a Netcomm 140

Re: [SLUG] How to rename partitions

2004-11-06 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi your problem might be that your initrd is not loading the libata drive for the devices! Thus they do not exist at boot up time, there for you can not mount it. Some initrd's have an option to goto to a shell whilst still in initrd phase. Try that and have a look around, although the command

Re: [SLUG] Lusers grabbing IP addresses - stopping them

2004-10-27 Thread Alexander Samad
Why not use this but modify it slightly assign the pool of addresses to the interface and remove them as their are provided to a client, when the lease runs out re alias it to the interface, not guarantee of knowing when machine releases its ip address. A On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:30:55PM +100

Re: [SLUG] Banks colluding with Microsoft ?

2004-10-26 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:35:31PM +1000, Heracles wrote: > Simon Bryan wrote: > > > > > > >Similar issue with the Department of Education and their Back to School > >Allowance. It is an Access Database that you import the details into then > >export a file to disk. SOme genius decided that it wou

Re: [SLUG] question to mutt users

2004-10-24 Thread Alexander Samad
have a look at procmail, this is presuming the mail is local though ! On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 07:32:59PM +1000, Brett Fenton wrote: > there might be an easier way to do it, though not that i'm aware of. > > basically you need a separate mda like fetchmail, i prefer getmail as it's > config is e

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