Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendations

Asrock ion 330 is great as it accelerates video using an nvidia ion. I use one as my xbmc box Dave -- 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] RAID and LVM

On 20/02/2010, at 11:53 AM, Brett Coady wrote: The trouble with Bonnie and IOzone is that they test the filesystem , for my example I was looking at the raw disk speed for raid results. Well if you keep the kernel and filesystem identical between runs you end up benchmarking the h

Re: [SLUG] Any Active Directory LDAP gurus?

> What I really need to know sooner rather than later is what data I > need > to store in our postgresql database. IE what the LDAP schema is. We > can > work out the other bits later. if you have an AD server you can point an LDAP browser at it and see the structure/schema In terms of making

Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM

Well i didn't want to plug myself, but we have pricing on our site if you are interested in the hosted version. You can get started for like $15/month easy. There are other Australian hosting providers linked off the Zimbra site as well, all with pretty similar pricing, so there is plenty of choi

Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM

I recently migrated our mail and stuff to Zimbra network edition. The nokia mail for exchange is a a great sync tool, and I get email synced in as well, crackberry style. This is using Zimbra mobile, which is a heavy handed and probably non-free solution to your problem. Just wanted to mention i

Re: [SLUG] Calendar Server?

davical works ok, but the interface sucks to use. zimbra is what we are using now for a caldav backend for lightning. lightning barfs when you have like over 10 caldav calendars. the backend for lightning could do with some work. dave Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings We are currently evaluating

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] IOWait definition]

Grant Street wrote: I have a machine with a good proportion of IOWait 20-30%. It does have local disks and it performs operations on NFS mounts. I just wanted to be sure if IOWait includes NFS activity or not. I also want a way if it is NFS to be able to say for sure if it is a bottleneck on th

Re: [SLUG] : Increasing filesystem reliability (was : Filesystem which allows online fsck?)

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Another option I'm looking into is the possibility of running the sync command at known idle times which follow a activity which results in disk writes. that should help. how about just not loosing power? Ie, some sort of built-in UPS/battery etc? It might be possi

Re: [SLUG] search engine for company network (OT)

Rev Simon Rumble wrote: However, nothing beats Google Desktop. It's changed my work life enormously! I'm forced to use that other, horrible OS and its even worse mail client, but by indexing the whole lot everything is just a very quick search away. Google Desktop can be pointed at network

Re: [SLUG] Minimal CentOS installation --- How?

Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I install the bare minimum --- something like the > result of debootstrap --- just enough to run yum? As it'll be in a > chroot I don't need any network utilities, etc, have you tried rpmstrap? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] WAN link optimisation

Visser, Martin wrote: I think that the technology Gavin is thinking of is more about economising on the content being sent rather than tweaking TCP parameters. Hi, I'm familiar with the Riverbed equipment and I have to say that its very protocol dependent. SMB/CIFS is very chatty in gen

Re: [SLUG] ripping a window$ media stream?

Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This doesn't give any errors, but mplayer won't play the file. Is this > the right way to rip using mplayer? Is there an easier way to do this > (maybe using another program)? > vlc can rip streams like this and it supports windows media dave -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] SLUG website down?

Hi, yeah we lost a disk in array on the server that hosts the VM. It kinda failed and un-failed and then finally died. Its OK now, just not redundant until we replace the disk tomorrow so it might go down again :) Sorry for any inconvience... thanks dave Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all,

Re: [SLUG] data recovery specialists?

Jon Wilson wrote: Hiya, Can anyone recommend any data recovery specialists, preferably in Sydney? We have a several boxes of ten year old DLTIII tapes, but have only been able to read the data we need off about half of them. Payam have been good for us http://www.payam.com.au/ dav

Re: [SLUG] Encrypted Filesystem

http://luks.endorphin.org/ this looks like being a step in the right direction. check it out and let us know :) dave LUKS is the upcoming standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a standard on-disk-format, it does not only facilitate compatibility among distributions, but also pr

Re: [SLUG] Encrypted Filesystem

I would steer clear of them still. The FUSE ones have the best chance of support going forward, I suppose though if you really want one. Truecrypt on loopback is a better option imho... http://www.truecrypt.org/ at least its going to survive future kernel changes and is cross platform dave Tre

Re: [SLUG] drilling down on disk io stats

Not sure about drilling down, there might be a plugin for it, but dstat was really useful for me recently in troubleshooting this type of problem. http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/ yeah it looks like dstat_app plugin might do what you want... dave Daniel B. wrote: Hi all, How do I work ou

Re: [SLUG] Backup System - Any recommendations

Trent for this scenario backuppc is what you want. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html is not an imaging solution though - for that you will need to pay money. For about 1-2K acronis true image enterprise server does what you want and more - live imaging to central server, without shuttin

Re: [SLUG] UUID / fstab

I don't think you need the UUID in order to put it in fstab. If you are confident it will be in the same place each time, you can use the traditional /dev/sda1 or /dev/hdb2 or whatever it actually is. Edgy just does this to make sure devices are mounted in consistent places, inline with upstart

Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter

John wrote: Yes, I know we tried that. Eventually we got round it by renaming the .exe .jpg and gmail accepted it - amavis didn't though! Dave, does mailzu require an SQL database? The documentation of mailzu would seem to indicate that one isn't neccessary. I don't have one installed at the m

Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter

Thats right John, amavis is the content_filter doing the filtering here. You can edit something beneath /etc/amavis/conf.d/ to allow zips and or exe's temporarily, as amavis has no decent quarantine by itself. Something like Maia Mailguard does this, however this purpose Mailzu is the product I

Re: [SLUG] OLPC to consider trialling laptops in Australia

Thats awesome. I hope they let us buy two get 1 dave elliott-brennan wrote: The SMH had some very exciting news today. http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/australia-trials-low-cost-laptop/2007/01/12/1168105153500.html The OLPC are looking at trialling the laptops in remote indigen

Re: [SLUG] NAS & SCSI/SATA

have learned the hard way is that clustering is very much a word that can mean lots of things, kinda like content management... so it all depends on what you are trying to do... dave Amos Shapira wrote: On 10/01/07, David Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, I have setup an HA vers

Re: [SLUG] NAS & SCSI/SATA

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.o

Re: [SLUG] NAS & SCSI/SATA

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] denyhosts feedback sought

I wouldn't bother with it. Just firewall off SSH to only your IPs or use portknocking. Makes the problem denyhosts tried to address go away. dave Voytek Eymont wrote: Just looking at denyhosts.sourceforge.net: seems like a good idea, is it ? anyone here uses it, or, something like it ? what o

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

If they run windows, I find logmein.com as the best remote support thingo by far. penetrates nat etc pretty well. https://secure.logmein.com/go.asp?page=support_faq#basics-04 client runs on linux, but server (on target PC) is windows only unfortunately. I think that a decent (read simple to use

Re: [SLUG] btlaunch...

You might want to consider Azureus, the overhead is a little big (java - hey its Free now!) but it will have all the features you need maybe with a plugin. dave Ken Foskey wrote: OK so I want to use BT efficiently. I want to keep seeding the files that I download (Ubuntu anyone :-) but I als

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

Funnily enough we have had a project just recently with the exact same problem. http://htmldoc.org/ htlmdoc is by the people who made CUPS and probably will do unless you have css up the wazoo or something more complex. For the ultimate in rendering ability, embeded mozilla engine via http://mi

Re: [SLUG] Multiple interfaces in iptables rules

Damn Pete, just use shorewall :) dave Peter Hardy wrote: Peter Hardy wrote: But I'd like a rule to apply to my eth0 and eth1 interfaces while ignoring all other ethernet interfaces. Rusty's Packet Filtering HOWTO doesn't specify any syntax for it. It's not possible to give multiple -i or -o

Re: [SLUG] [OT Winders question] SFS filesystem

I think if you search for dynamic disks and linux you will get best information from google dave Howard Lowndes wrote: Sorry, it's OT, but I should get some better sense from this list than a Winders list. Does anyone have pointers to the SFS filesystem on Windows 2003 server? -- SLUG - Sy

Re: [SLUG] Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus Advice

Penedo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this setup also addresses image spam? > (I'm asking because I see this subject raised on a parallel Linux mailing > list, I'm getting the feeling that the entire net is now trying to tackle > this problem right now). anything spamassassin supports, amavis

Re: [SLUG] Vodafone 3G/GPRS cards and Linux

I have a fair bit of experience with some of these things. search the archives and google for lots of info. also, if its just gprs you need, then you don't need the vodafone card, just a gprs/gsm modem will be fine - one of the ones from Intercel with a standard sim would work fine. dave "Ciril

Re: [SLUG] Looking for Linux Friendly ISP (dial up) covering Western Sydney

beagle.net.au is what you want i think dave elliott-brennan wrote: Hi all, I'm sure someone has mentioned this before, but after searching my mail I cannot find the one it was in: Can someone recommend a Linux friendly ISP (for dial up) covering the Western Sydney area. Regards, Patrick

Re: [SLUG] How do you remove GRUB?

James Gray wrote: I was going to say something like: sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda warning for the archives... don't do this. ever. (just in case someone isn't thinking one day :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: htt

Re: [SLUG] A comparison for fun ...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried a few, settled on guidedog, guarddog. I still see no way of adding these to my firewall rules: iptables -A INPUT -i tun+ -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i tun+ -j ACCEPT for shorewall in /etc/shorewall/zones add a vpn zone in /etc/shorewall/interfaces:

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux compatible Sydney 3G for notebooks

Matthew Palmer wrote: That page doesn't give exact model numbers, so it's hard to tell. It certainly looks more like the one I didn't get (Huawei brand, I think?); the Merlin I got has the SIM slot toward the back of the card. Both of them work fine with Dapper, though -- they appear to the ker

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu routing

If you want a good firewall, use shorewall. and have it do it for you dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I cant find anything that does the equivalent of echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward on my newly installed ubuntu box. Before I invent a way, does anybody know if I'm missing something. T

Re: [SLUG] shared internet folders

O Plameras wrote: http://www.openafs.org > O Plameras ROFL! dave -- 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] VPN server for Mac clients

Crossfire wrote: Teach them how to use Fugu to copy from sftp. :) I'm not sure if SMB works properly over openvpn. I think it does. Safari, however, does not for some strange reason. Camino is not afflicted by this issue however. I dunno about all these OSX things, but from memory OSX is j

Re: [SLUG] How to set runlevel in Breezy

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff my wurry here is that a very elegant and clever system invented by Tompson Ritchie et al is disgarded because the ubuntu developers don't understand why it was done, and trashed it as useless. Don't blame ubuntu devs for this. Its inherited from Debian. And its

Re: [SLUG] oracle ubuntu

ashley maher wrote: I'm completing an install of oracle onto ubuntu. I'm following the instructions from the oracle site: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/install/xe-on-kubuntu.html These suggest that the .deb package should "just work" on kubuntu-ubuntu breezy (Which is what I've go

Re: [SLUG] Re: A Sys Admin's worst nightmare

Simon Wong wrote: I have used separate VLANs on the switch to segregate all the PCs. Although, I think the VLAN may not be impenetrable but I think its adequate? vlans are fine. but seriously in an internet cafe, just rebuild the machines every day. imaging or scripted builds are possible. net

Re: [SLUG] debian-31r1a-i386-netinst ubuntu equivalent

David wrote: I don't quite get that... do you mean change sources.list from debian stable to ubuntu, then apt-get install ubuntu-standard, then ??? apt-get dist-upgrade? Everything I've read says that Debian and Ubuntu are sufficiently different to create some problems if you install one over

Re: [SLUG] debian-31r1a-i386-netinst ubuntu equivalent

David wrote: I'm having serious trouble installing ubuntu, but I've managed to get a Debian net installation happening using debian-31r1a-i386-netinst Is there an equivalent for Ubuntu? dunno about that, but you should be able to upgrade from that to breezy without too much troubles, as lon

Re: [SLUG] Re: Heads Up - troubles with time zones

Scott Sinclair wrote: I believe in Ubuntu, that /etc/localtime is a symlink, and thus why it probably didn't have this problem. So, would there be any problem not recopying the file and mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.old and resymlinking the file: ln -s (timezone) /etc/localtime ? is that

Re: [SLUG] LVM problems

Daniel Pottumati wrote: # vgremove storage returns: Volume group "storage" not found or inconsistent. Consider vgreduce --removemissing if metadata is inconsistent. had this problem just yesterday. what about lvremove /dev/storage? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - h

Re: Throttling??? Re: [SLUG] bittorrent clients

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What it really needs is a nice front-end compiler that builds all the nasty kernel-level filter and queue discipline stacks when you describe in more common language what you want to happen. Unfortunately, the necessary description language doesn't currently exist and nei

Re: [SLUG] Xscreensaver too advanced!

Simon Wong wrote: It's Ubuntu but I've only done a bare bones installation by a seed file. I'm learning how to do that so I've probably left off something there too! did you include ubuntu-base? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Distribution with maintained 2.4 kernel

Simon Males wrote: The closest thing to a maintained 2.4 kernel distribution I've found is Debian Sarge. Fedora 3 would be of being the preferred choice, but no luck in finding any prebuilt 2.4 kernels. Ubuntu has had nothing but 2.6 kernels, but I see Dapper has 2.4 kernel in its universe rep

Re: [SLUG] hylafax

Phill O'Flynn wrote: Has anyone had experience with configuring hylafax with a windows client. Some help would be greatly appreciated right now I've had a bit of experience, but you need to ask a more specific question... are you using whfc or one of the new ones? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Iptables

tuxta2 wrote: Hi sluggers, Im quite ashamed to say it, but for a couple of years now all my firewalling and routing has been done using either webmin or firestarter. I have no idea how to use iptables! I find I just dont feel totally in control when using gui front end and have now decided t

Re: [SLUG] Linux client and windows dhcp server

Morgan Storey wrote: yep that works here with a win2k dhcp server and at work with a win2k3 dhcp server. yeah I just checked - the win2k and 2k3 dhcp servers have an option (default to on) that updates the A and PTR record if requested by DHCP clients. If you didn't want to change the client

Re: [SLUG] Linux client and windows dhcp server

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Does anyone know what I need to do to get the Linux machine to publish its name to the windows dns? nsupdate should work. probably need the win2k dns server to allow 'non-secure' updates. not sure if you can get it to work with secure updates (probably need a kerber

Re: [SLUG] Moving o/s etc. (1.5gig) from 60gig ATA drive to 10gig scsi

Jamie Wilkinson wrote: * reboot, boot off the scsi disk, voila. before you do that, fix fstab so that root is /dev/sda instead of hda and like wise for any other partitions you might have... dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FA

Re: [SLUG] Timezone/Daylight savings query.

Christopher Vance wrote: Not yet fixed in Ubuntu 5.10. You can do the honors and lodge a bug here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/ thanks dave -- 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] Linux music appliances?

Luke Kendall wrote: Surely someone is putting together a small noiseless PC loaded up with software to make a music appliance? Surely? I could build one myself given time, but I'd rather take the quick way out if there was one. does a bit more than what you asked, but its probably as close as

Re: [SLUG] Email Cascading?

Kevin Fitzgerald wrote: I want to set it up so that scalix.company.dyndns.org periodically goes to mail.company.com.au, gets the mail and puts it in the appropriate mailboxes. I know that one way to do this would be set up forwarders at mail.company.com.au but this does not actually clear the mai

Re: [SLUG] Debugging init problems (on Debian) (fixed at last)

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: This machine is now under extreme suspicion. I'm going to pull the hard drive mount it on another machine and go over it with a fine tooth comb. Probably a good idea, but I would also consider NPTL - mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled does wonders when your glibc and ker

Re: [SLUG] Debugging init problems (on Debian)

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Anybody have any clues on how to get this working again? is there a chance your init is trojaned? dave -- 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] Help needed in transhorming a directive into or

Michael Lake wrote: The problem is that http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au:9090 does not work. It eventually times out but there is no error in the error log to tell me what I have wrong in the httpd config file. Either you just fixed it, or you have an a firewall problem or something, because that UR

Re: [SLUG] Kubuntu Hoary query

Michael Fox wrote: As I noticed some stuff is missing and even when I uncomment the existing lines for universe, I still cant find some items. how do you know they are missing? mirror.pacific.net.au and mirror.isp.net.au are both ok. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - htt

Re: [SLUG] Ibdriver for iBurst modem

Mark M Lambert wrote: Hi guys, I'm running Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 (off the CD, no updates) and trying to install the drivers for my iBurst PCMCIA modem. I downloaded the lasted ibdriver source from sourceforge, and the compile seems to go okay. I can get "make" and "make install" to happen with no e

Re: [SLUG] Dual PCI NIC?

> I'd steer clear of D-Link, at least the 580-TX. It caused us nothing but > trouble.. we ended up buying quad intel cards instead and have had no > problem > with them. > > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2003q4/010847.html > I had problems with the old sundance driver which that post is r

Re: [SLUG] minimal live CD

David wrote: I've looked at the Knoppix website, but that looks similar in concept to Ubuntu. There are a million Knoppix variants, but if you want a Knoppix shell you can simply boot knoppix with knoppix 2 at the boot prompt. it boots runlevel 2 I think - all knoppix root shell, with all har

Re: [SLUG] Presentation Mind Control - 21st September 2005

QuantumG wrote: Ok, I'll bite. WTF. If you have something worthwhile to say, geeks will listen to you. We don't need this motivational speaking crap. Or is this about making presentations to the mindless masses? I talk to plenty of geeks who have something worthwhile to say, but can't mak

Re: [SLUG] DHCP Client not working with unwired

Peter Rundle wrote: Link Data Logger --> unWired modem (Failure) 13:23:05 IP 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:01:c0:00:f9:8e, length: 548 13:23:06 IP 220.101.10.1.bootps > 220.101.12.219.bootpc: BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length: 300 that looks like it w

Re: [SLUG] DHCP Client not working with unwired

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if the unwired modem is a router or a bridge? I'm assuming it's a bridge and that the default gateway and the dhcp server is on the other end of the unWired connection. Its a bridge I think for all purposes. It probably can do some routing, but for you

Re: [SLUG] Technical Help Required

Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Samba does not allow (from memory) larger transfer greater than some size. When you mount a windows share to a linux box you must specify something like this: /bin/mount -t smbfs -o lfs,username=USER //MACHINE/SHARE /mnt/somedisk The lfs stands for LaRGE FILE SYST

Re: [SLUG] Re: SMB Client

Bill wrote: I've set up a SOHO File/Print Server using Mepis SOHO beta and have found that neither SMB4K or LinNeighborhood are 100% reliable for browsing Samba shares. Konqueror, however, never fails. Thats strange cos I thought SMB4K integrated with Konqueror nicely. it does on my Debia

Re: [SLUG] Nokia Mobile VPN client and Freeswan

Simon Wong wrote: Afternoon all! Probably a long shot but does anyone know if it's possible to setup Freeswan so it will accept VPN connections from the Nokia Mobile VPN client. you probably want one of the new freeswans (superswan or openswan I think). I don't use ipsec anymore - Openvpn all

Re: [SLUG] postfix

ashley maher wrote: I found some references on setting up postfix from postfix.org. However some references are better than others. Does anybody know a good reference for setting up a "decent" postfix server for a postfix newbe? (decent Imean spam filter, virus et al) there are a few guides aro

Re: [SLUG] Fw: Postfix, IMAP, Lotus Notes, Evolution & OfflineIMAP

David Kempe wrote: Sure, just get a recent version of postfix. can do crazy stuff like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :[192.168.1.1] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[192.168.9.1] @thisdomain:[192.168.1.10] all in the transport map. oh and another tip, if you want mail for users redirected outside, you

Re: [SLUG] Fw: Postfix, IMAP, Lotus Notes, Evolution & OfflineIMAP

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. At the moment I use an entry in the "transport" file for Postfix to direct all mail for our domain to the Notes server. I need to be able to this by user but can't see how it is done. Transport seems only to accept domains. Can postfix do this,and if so, how? S

Re: [SLUG] Monitoring postfix/sendmail

Carlo Sogono wrote: It's to be sent to the email add of our 'monitoring employee'. I use Perl to talk to "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t" like so: Perhaps your organisation needs nagios. I would be happy to provide some professional services around nagios for you if you like :) dave -- SLUG - Sydne

Re: [SLUG] Open VPN.

Peter Hardy wrote: From memory it was fairly simple to set up a routed network following the directions in the HOWTO[1] and win32 install notes[2]. But we did have a lot of problems using certificate authentication, and ended up going with a shared key instead. It was a while ago though, and I d

Re: [SLUG] Ideas for linux internet server hardware.

Ben Donohue wrote: Just wondering if there are any ideas out there about where to buy good "compatible with Linux" hardware. Possibly building a custom machine. Or how about 3 years warranty on a name brand server? HP? IBM? 4G Might not get much with a brand name. I wouldn't bother with virt

Re: [SLUG] cfengine DNS

Richard Heycock wrote: I'm trying to set cfengine to copy a file from one host to itself and I keep getting the error " Server returned error: Host authentication failed. Did you forget the domain name". Which it seems is due to me not having reverse mapping on my DNS server. it seems the sho

Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL bridge mode on Linux

Peter Rundle wrote: I actually want the IP available to the Linux box so that I can do cool and groovy network thinks like Masquerade, proxy, reverse proxy etc. I could let the Modem hold the IP but then it's not available to the reverse proxy. Sounds like Roaring Penguin will have to be it.

Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL bridge mode on Linux

Peter Rundle wrote: Is there any point in persuing this or should I try and work on ditching Telstra for one of the other vendors? You probably have a siemens modem/router and hence are on a 10.0.0.0 style subnet. odds on the router is at 10.0.1.138 or something like that. anyway, you can pro

Re: [SLUG] Problems with rsync

Howard Lowndes wrote: Agreed, but in this case I manage the whole LAN (it's very basic) and it only has hubs, not switches. Theres your problems. get switches dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailin

Re: [SLUG] This virus that's been going around.

James Gray wrote: Which simply means someone with you and/or SLUG in their address book has been infected. Doesn't really narrow it down much :-/ I agree with your sentiments though - it does increase the noise level. I run a fairly Unfortunately, its not just address books that these worms t

Re: [SLUG] pptp IP address assignment

Michael Fox wrote: So openvpn is the way to go? I want to setup something similar to Ryan, or atleast configure my linux machine thats currently serving files out to my lan to also do some vpn server end point stuff (for wireless and wan connected people). I am still researching on what way to atte

Re: [SLUG] pptp IP address assignment

Ryan Verner wrote: I'm in the midst of moving it to a completely different solution right now, actually, which probably is a bit more interesting :-) I hope its openvpn :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/

Re: [SLUG] WINE and Frontpage 2002.

John Gibbons wrote: Has anyone tried using WINE to run FrontPage 2002? John. http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibility/browse/name?app_id=253;forum=1 crossover office might help you. 30 day free trial dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Can anyone tell me what ns1.aztec.20.com is???

Kevin Saenz wrote: I wouldn't suggest a port scan. It is illegal to port scan another server without permission. really? where does it say that? what about if i telnet to each port in succession? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] SLUG BoF at LCA?

Peter Hardy wrote: Anybody interested in having a SLUG dinner one night during LCA? yeah. might be up for it. of course we could just meet up somewhere for a beer dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mail

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

Nick Croft wrote: They're from Russia, and can keep trying as long as they don't get in. I had someone from Russia get into one of my boxes once. Someone added an admin user then later on changed the bloody password to admin. of course it was 'brute' forced. The only thing that saved the box was

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

Dean Hamstead wrote: ahh script kiddies might want to put ssh on a non standard port. If you dig through the archives, you might find a suggestion i made about tcpwrappers only allowing australian subnets. this will cut this crap out pretty well. of course ideally, you only ssh from know ips da

Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting

Ashley Maher wrote: The laptop is realley what I want this for. Working on the desktop is loely (it proves it works) but not what i was looking for. the 2.6 kernel has some removable drive stuff broken if you ask me. have you tried mucking around with different drivers for your usb chipset? usb-s

Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting

Ashley Maher wrote: Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=04 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda

Re: [SLUG] Editing a windows registry file through Linux

I've not used them, but it claims to be an almost fully functional registry editor. Cheers, John yes, i happened to have need of that tool(ntpasswd) today and it does work well. scripting it to do useful things to samba profiles might be a challenge for another day, but at least it can make the od

Re: [SLUG] Range of Wifi

Howard Lowndes wrote: I am trying to get a wifi signal working between two BV houses about 20 m apart separated by a colourbond fence. I can get it to work but the signal is weak - typically less than 20% and drop outs are frequent. Am I asking too much of wifi? no, colourbond will destroy the sign

Re: [SLUG] freeradius cisco aps mac authentication

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a debian (sarge) server running free radius. I have a cisco wireless access point which is using mac authentication. I've gotten a test user being authenticated. What I'm not sure how to handle its the assigning of IPs. If possible I'd like to use my normal dhcp s

Re: [SLUG] Re: Weird login behaviour

O Plameras wrote: But it does not bother me to see that discussions arise about trivial items on symantecs which are not helpful as far as I am concerned. I'm more interested to learn what others are doing in terms of security, etc., the things that matters most rather than trivialities. well

Re: [SLUG] wireless pci card netgear wg311

Linley Caetan wrote: has anyone had some luck with this one? Running FC3 . its shite even on windows. take it back and get a linksys dave -- 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] Best document management system for small org

Howard Lowndes wrote: Two options might be Zope or some sort of wiki. use plone - its in debian and will work fine. requires a beefy box if you have lots of users. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailing

Re: [SLUG] Ghosting a disk

Howard Lowndes wrote: I think it's there because, before I started, I tried: fdisk /dev/hdc and it came back that it couldn't read the device. Now when I do fdisk /dev/hdc it comes back with a correct looking partition table that matches the master. well it wasn't there to begin with. what does ls

Re: [SLUG] Priner compatability

Russell Hudson wrote: Can you advise on a make of printer that is compatible with the Linux operating system, or even a particular model of mono laser printer, hopefully for less than $350? Hi Russell, You can find a database of compatible printers from www.linuxprinting.org. I would tend to recomm

Re: [SLUG] Incremental Backup Script

Lyle Chapman wrote: Can anyone point me to a good backup script or program that does incremental backups? I have a particluar directory I want to backup to an external firewire drive every night. cheers I use rdiff-backup for this. it works ok. it uses librsync and stores reverse diffs in a spe

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