Re: [SLUG] updates to RH7.3 ?

2004-03-17 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:16:32 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now that RedHat stopped support for RH7.3, are there any sources to keep RH7.3 current ? fedoralegacy.org. Cheers, John -- I am a firm believer in black magic. That's the only way you can go with computers. Sacrifice the goat

Re: [SLUG] Maybe off topic but one of them is a redhat box

2004-03-17 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 04:55:18 +1100, Jeff Allison wrote: OK bought a surftv box which is a set top web browsing thingy works ok but it only has a modem. Can I get two modems ie the one in it and the one in my redhat box to talk without going via an exchange like a kind of null modem but

Re: [SLUG] Maybe off topic but one of them is a redhat box

2004-03-17 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 05:28:42 +1100, John Clarke wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 04:55:18 +1100, Jeff Allison wrote: OK bought a surftv box which is a set top web browsing thingy works ok but it only has a modem. Can I get two modems ie the one in it and the one in my redhat box to talk

Re: [SLUG] Why is K3b so slow to launch, and why do I need SCSI emulation?

2004-03-10 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:22:24 +1030, Stephen Reynolds wrote: How do I enable scsi emulation and why do I need it? Neither of my drives are scsi drives! SCSI emulation is used for IDE CDs. You need the sg, sr_mod, scsi_mod and ide-scsi modules, and you need to tell your kernel to use

Re: [SLUG] rxvt weirdness

2004-03-08 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:33:06PM +1100, Benno wrote: Now the weirdness happens when one of these programs outputs some control character (not sure which but lets say 0x4, or something around there). Now normally, rxvt will just echo characters to the screen, however when it recieves this

Re: [SLUG] Disabling colours in xterm

2004-03-08 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:55:47PM +1100, Rajnish Tiwari wrote: How do I disable the coloured fonts that display in my xterm (rh 9.x) ? It was cool once .. but now it is getting annoying. I assume you're asking about 'ls'. If so, read the man page: --color[=WHEN]

Re: [SLUG] Hyper Terminal Memory Refresh

2004-02-24 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:24:41PM +1100, Peter Rundle wrote: So I've got Hyperterm on my 'doze PC, when I launch it I can connect it to COM1 at 9600/8/N/ etc and talk to my modem. What is the equivelent setup in Linux. I.E What application do I launch to talk to the modem, issue AT

Re: [SLUG] anti virus tool

2004-02-23 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:22:57 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: The clamav project is really good with virus updates. They even had stuff out for MyDoom and Bagle before a lot of the big guys. There was quite a bit clamav was the first to detect MyDoom:

Re: [SLUG] anti virus tool

2004-02-23 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:56:36 +1100, James Gregory wrote: So there's a clamav-virusdb mailing list that sends emails when the virus-db is updated. The idea was just to setup procmail to catch posts to that mailing list and run freshclam every time there's a new virus Why not just run

Re: [SLUG] anti virus tool

2004-02-23 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:45:53 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=John Clarke Why not just run freshclam regularly via cron? It first checks the md5 sums of the two databse files, and only downloads updates if the md5 sum has changed

Re: [SLUG] anti virus tool

2004-02-23 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:01:29 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, John Clarke wrote: Here was I feeling honoured to receive praise from Jeff for the second time in a week or so, and you have to spoil it by pointing out that he got it wrong. Thanks. No problems

Re: [SLUG] Re: DSPAM vs SpamAssassin FYI

2004-02-21 Thread John Clarke
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:48:18 +1100, James Gregory wrote: I'm using only bogofilter. I stopped using spamassassin because it was just too CPU intensive on my little laptop where I run {fetch,proc}mail. If you weren't using spamd/spamc, give it a try. It's *much* faster. Cheers, John --

Re: [SLUG] A Driver for a Scanner.

2004-02-16 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 07:05:21 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Been at Jaycar today. The only appropriate (exact match) adapter is a multi There's no such thing as an exact match in plugpacks. I've yet to encounter one that was within even 10% at rated load, and with no load it's more like +50%.

Re: [SLUG] A Driver for a Scanner.

2004-02-16 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:58:12 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Thanks dudes, I guess I'll throw an 18v/1A adapter at it and see how it goes. Only throw it if it lets the magic smoke[1] escape after you plug it in. Otherwise you might break the glass, then your scanner really would be stuffed.

Re: [SLUG] bash programming question

2004-02-16 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:13:28 +1100, David Kempe wrote: echo $ERRORNUM #this prints 54 which is the correct string value of $ERRORNUM #if (( ERRORNUM = 1 )) if [ $ERRORNUM != 0 ] != is a string operator. You want to do a numeric comparison: arg1 OP arg2 Arithmetic tests.

Re: [SLUG] OT: Computer hardware stores in Syd CBD

2004-02-08 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:00:37PM +1100, ksaenz wrote: Harris can deliver to you ( http://www.ht.com.au ) if you are in a hurry and don't mind the extra delivery cost. But who with non internet exploder browser can visit that site? I have boycotted them because I can't view their site.

Re: [SLUG] rpm for setclock for RH9?

2004-01-26 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:00:00 +1100, Broun, Bevan wrote: the /usr/sbin/setclock command was part of the timeconfig rpm for RH8. There doesnt seem to be a corresponding rpm for RH9. Can anyone tell me what the RPM is for RH9 or point me to source to compile. /usr/sbin/setclock (attached,

Re: [SLUG] resizing batch images

2004-01-06 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:44:31PM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote: can anyone advise a command line that will allow me to duplicate, resize and change the name of the duplicate image? ImageMagick's convert, e.g: convert -resize 50% original_image_file new_image_file Cheers, John -- whois

Re: [SLUG] Kernel 2.6.0 graphical config problems

2003-12-21 Thread John Clarke
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 09:22:49 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: scripts/kconfig/qconf.o(.text+0x2b): undefined reference to `QVBox::className() const' scripts/kconfig/qconf.o(.text+0x66): undefined reference to `QObject::badSuperclassWarning(char const*, char const*)' Install qt and

Re: [SLUG] Kernel 2.6.0 graphical config problems

2003-12-21 Thread John Clarke
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:05:00 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 Dec, John Clarke wrote: scripts/kconfig/qconf.o(.text+0x2b): undefined reference to `QVBox::className() const' scripts/kconfig/qconf.o(.text+0x66): undefined reference to `QObject::badSuperclassWarning(char

Re: [SLUG] 7000+ /var/log/samba messages in 6 weeks (?!)

2003-12-15 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:26:47 +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: Hmm probably, they're not in my /etc/services file do you know what they're for? (ie 135 136) Port 135 is Microsoft's DCE locator service, a service similar to the Sun RPC portmapper. It was the target of one of the recent worms.

Re: [SLUG] Copy over network maintaining owner group etc

2003-12-14 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:32:29AM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: You can also use tar. AFAIK you can choose (in tar at least) to preserve names instead of uids/gids, which might work better if the uids/gids aren't synchronised between the machines. GNU tar uses user/group names by default,

Re: [SLUG] Copy over network maintaining owner group etc

2003-12-11 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:25:49PM +1100, Peter Vogel wrote: I used scp -pr but all the files end up being owned by root. I thought -p will preserve everything. But the man page on my RH8 installation does not say it does. Is this a version problem? -p Preserves modification

Re: [SLUG] find crapping itself

2003-12-10 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:43:25 +1100, Terry Collins wrote: find /opt/spool/smtpd/spam -name smtpd00* find: paths must preceed expressions There are at least two files matching 'smtpd00*' in your current directory and your shell is expanding the wildcard. *Always* escape or quote wildcards

Re: [SLUG] find crapping itself

2003-12-10 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:17:36 +1100, Benno wrote: On Thu Dec 11, 2003 at 12:55:46 +1100, John Clarke wrote: The shell will only pass them unchanged if it can't find a match. And some shells (like my zsh setup) don't even do that. What does it do instead? Cheers, John -- whois

Re: [SLUG] editing users' home path, is that a 'GI' ?

2003-12-09 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:49:13PM +, Voytek wrote: using webmin, I've edited home dir to '/home/project/www' (from /home/username) (hmmm, why did the prompt change to 'bash-2.05a$' ?)(after altering home dir ?) Because the prompt is probably set in /etc/bashrc sourced from

Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 04:42:33PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Kevin Waterson Do I get $0.25 refund if I format my flash card as ext2? Why do you think your vendor will charge you for the format of their media? Because http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp says: A

Re: [SLUG] Status of Debian servers?

2003-11-26 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:35:52 +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: quote who=Matthew Palmer http://www.wiggy.net/debian/status/ When I try the above URL it doesn't resolve. Can anyone quote an IP for www.wiggy.net? It resolves for me: 213.244.168.210, but it won't help you. It's a name-based

Re: [SLUG] ntp/ntpdate no suitable server ?

2003-11-18 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:53:12 +, Voytek wrote: For ntpd, I'd limit incoming packets to the ip address(es) of your time server(s) and source and destination ports 123. For ntpdate, you'll need to allow source port 123 and destination ports 1024:65535, but still limit it to the

Re: [SLUG] ntp/ntpdate no suitable server ?

2003-11-17 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:44:49PM +, Voytek wrote: my ipchains has: -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 ntp -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT ^^^ *Sigh*. You've been told this several times already, by me and others. This should be *udp*:

Re: [SLUG] ntp/ntpdate no suitable server ?

2003-11-17 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:59:51PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # /sbin/service ipchains stop Flushing all chains: [ OK ] Removing user defined chains: [ OK ] Resetting built-in chains to the default ACCEPT policy:[

Re: [SLUG] getting root's bin paths after su ?

2003-11-17 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:25:54PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, id I ssh as 'voytek' the su, is there a way to aquire same environment I get as root ? su -l Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] enabling ntpd through firewall ?

2003-11-12 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:56:10 +, Voytek wrote: I'm trying to enable ntpd on RH73, what port do I need to allow in the ipchains for ntpd ? 123 or ntp - you can use either, the name to port number mapping is in /etc/services: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ grep -w ntp /etc/services ntp

Re: [SLUG] enabling ntpd through firewall ?

2003-11-12 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:39:46 +, Voytek Eymont wrote: # service ipchains status: .. ACCEPT tcp -y 0.0.0.0/00.0.0.0/0 * - 123 You need to allow udp too, both incoming and outgoing, and either source or destination port 123 - ntpdate uses a high source

Re: [SLUG] enabling ntpd through firewall ?

2003-11-12 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:14:02 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: server ntp.saard.net restrict 203.21.37.18 nomodify noquery notrap noserve This has been fixed in the latest version (4.2.0). You can now use names in restrict :-) Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id:

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 9.0 kernel installation part two

2003-11-05 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:46:45 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi greg, When booting a newly built kernel, it stops with the following message: Cannot open root device LABEL=/ or 00:00 [snip] kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/

Re: [SLUG] Martians

2003-11-03 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:15:24 +0100, Ben Buxton wrote: John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: dropbear kernel: martian source 150.101.124.189 from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth1 dropbear kernel: ll header: 00:00:e2:14:a6:b6:00:90:1a:40:6c:d9:08:00 What are the MAC

[SLUG] Martians

2003-11-02 Thread John Clarke
Hi all, Since upgrading from dialup to adsl last week, I've been seeing this: dropbear kernel: martian source 150.101.124.189 from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth1 dropbear kernel: ll header: 00:00:e2:14:a6:b6:00:90:1a:40:6c:d9:08:00 in /var/log/messages occasionally. 150.101.124.189 is my gateway's

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Monthly Meeting Friday 31 October 2003

2003-10-27 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:28:49 +1100, Jan Schmidt wrote: Jan, 7:10pm: Vote regarding mailing list policy Following recent events on the SLUG mailing lists, there will be a formal vote to decide future policy. More details below is it possible for those of us who

Re: [SLUG] Inbuilt macros/defines in gcc

2003-10-01 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:24:44PM +1000, Tiwari, Rajnish wrote: How can I quickly find out what internal #defines are set by gcc during compile ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ touch tmp.c [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gcc -E -dM tmp.c #define __USER_LABEL_PREFIX__ #define

Re: [SLUG] Inbuilt macros/defines in gcc

2003-10-01 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:31:38PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: Aren't they part of the .h files? Yes, but the compiler also defines some - some are internal (compiled into gcc when it was built), some are based on command line switches (try adding -march=i686 and see what changes) and others are

Re: [SLUG] routing problem

2003-09-30 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:59:37AM -0700, Craig wrote: But the real problem is the routing with debian, I can ping the adsl/router modem but cannot ping either a internet site or the DI-624 access point/router. Does cannot ping mean that your dns lookup fails, there's no response to the ping,

Re: [SLUG] HTTP_REFERER not found [Repost]

2003-09-29 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:19:01AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q2. The order page calls a Perl script say orderpage.pl, I want the script to capture the hop=some_data. I got the script to print the whole %ENV, and I see no HTTP_REFERER. I thought HTTP_REFERER would show the That's because

Re: [SLUG] Training Spamassassin's Bayesian classifier

2003-09-29 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:46:08PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: Is there any good way to seed things up? I'm seeing 40 to 50 SVEN worm emails an hour; around 10 get through to my INBOX, the rest are classified correctly. score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 100 :-) Another thing to look for is the

Re: [SLUG]

2003-09-28 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:23:24PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: Dare I ask if any progress has been made on accepting membership remotely? From http://www.slug.org.au/membership.html: On the other hand if you wish to join and are currently unable to attend - simply send your name, address,

Re: [SLUG] Yuk

2003-09-26 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:35:10PM -0700, Jared Pritchard wrote: John was only expressing his dislike for such spams... Now go back and READ THE ENTIRE THREAD. Do you see where you went wrong? If not, go back and READ IT AGAIN. Repeat as many times as necessary. I DID NOT complain about the

Re: [SLUG] Yuk

2003-09-25 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:10:00AM +1000, Richard Ames wrote: They should be filtered before the listserver. We had this discussion a couple of weeks ago. All of you, stop whinging about the tiny bit of spam that makes it through the list filters. Something like 99% or more of spam *is*

Re: [SLUG] kill procesname, how ?

2003-09-23 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:38:12PM +, Voytek wrote: OK, we know you can use other commands to kill processes by name, but can anyone answer Voktek's question, or explain why the documentation for kill seems to imply that the kill command can kill by name if it can't? bash has a

Re: [SLUG] RH9/Apache2 apr_bucket_read failed

2003-09-21 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:20:33AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can tell perl is broken for a lot of things in RH9. It doesn't like UTF-8 charsets which, AFAIK, are enabled by default on RH9. In /etc/sysconfig/i18n, drop the .UTF-8 suffix from $LANG and reboot, e.g. if it's

Re: [SLUG] apt-get Older versions of redhat (freshrpms question)

2003-09-18 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:11:15PM +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: Check the RH website - security updates. Pretty sure it says 7.1 thru 8.0 are being supported till Dec 31 2003. They are. Updated packages for 7.1 and above have been released. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key

Re: [SLUG] PDA / Video 3G phone thingies

2003-09-18 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:29:31AM +1000, Grant Parnell wrote: Turns out it's an OS called Symbian (see www.symbian.com) which is backed by most of the phone manufacturers and has an open API (whatever that means) if not the complete OS source code. This is often combined with Definitely

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH

2003-09-18 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:09:03PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: oohh, I really hit a nerve here didn't I? Apologies to the list. This is a response to a private email and Shaun should have kept it private. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F

Re: [SLUG] installing Tcl

2003-09-16 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:56:48PM +1000, Lucas King wrote: i have RH9 install on my PC. it has been running fine for the last several months. i am now attempting to install Expect. in order for that to happen i need to install Tcl. i have found the Tcl/tk rpm files on the install

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH

2003-09-16 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:30:02PM +1000, David wrote: 2: how do I figure out the version number of ssh there doesn't seem to be a -v option of anything equally sensible :( There is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ssh -V OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f Not being a

Re: [SLUG] Postfix + amavisd + virtual hosts

2003-09-15 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:24:50PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: it's probably better to use the transports table. Ah, thanks Jeff, I think I finally understand what I need to do. Setup the transports (amavis out and in) in master.cf, but instead of using content_filter, I add an entry in

Re: [SLUG] Postfix + amavisd + virtual hosts

2003-09-15 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:42:56PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Yep! That should work very nicely. :-) Thanks Jeff, and everyone else who contributed. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Oh Complier ... where out thou?

2003-09-14 Thread John Clarke
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:42:47AM +1000, mick wrote: I'm trying ti install Xine under Redhat 9.0. I downloaded a Tar file and unzipped it to my home directory. I typed the ./configure command as instructed in the readme and the process ends with gcc no cc .no You need to

Re: [SLUG] Postfix + amavisd + virtual hosts

2003-09-14 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:52:39AM +1000, Wim Pranata wrote: Is it possible to configure postfix to pass mail to amavisd for only one of its virtual domains, and if so, how (or where do I look to find out how)? I'm not a postfix guru but I'll try to answer this anyway :) Thanks :-) If

Re: [SLUG] Postfix + amavisd + virtual hosts

2003-09-14 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:07:44PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: did you check out google and enter in the search query amavis postfix Yes (actually not quite, I tried amavisd postfix virtual host). I have no problem figuring out how to install amavis and have postfix run it.

Re: [SLUG] Postfix + amavisd + virtual hosts

2003-09-14 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:09:50PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: or this one :) http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ensl=fru=http://www.com.univ-mrs.fr/ssc/info/cours/install-amavis-postfix.htmlprev=/search%3Fq%3Damavis%2Bpostfix%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG I love

Re: [SLUG] Postfix + amavisd + virtual hosts

2003-09-14 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:18:03PM +1000, Wim Pranata wrote: You can try to use the header_checks hack from the README_FILES/FILTER_README eg: /mydomain\.com/ FILTER smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024 Thanks, I'll have a look at it. I've never tried this before though :-) I was planning to

Re: Members only (was [SLUG] Slug, Lisa sucks)

2003-09-11 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 03:55:39PM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: I can see what Richard is saying - if we can't stop it at the source (i.e. the slug server), then you need something that can delete spam What we don't know is how many spams the filters stopped. No filter is perfect, but if they've

[SLUG] Postfix + amavisd + virtual hosts

2003-09-11 Thread John Clarke
Hi all, One for the postfix gurus ... I have a mail server, running postfix, handling mail for the primary domain and several virtual domains. I want to setup amavisd (with clamav) to scan mail for only one of those domains. I've found lots of info on how to scan mail for all domains, but I've

Re: [SLUG] Postfix + amavisd + virtual hosts

2003-09-11 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:31:04PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, Thanks for your suggestions. Absolutely, check the basic instructions - also check the the Sophos/Postfix web pages - and the page put forward by our own Mike McKana I've done all that and can still only find info on

Re: Members only (was [SLUG] Slug, Lisa sucks)

2003-09-10 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:11:33PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: I would be more interested in knowing why the filters haven't picked it up by now. It seems that we had the same message about 5 (?) times . No, only twice, once each on slug and slug-chat, but they referred to the same site as

Re: [SLUG] Redhat 9 install

2003-09-07 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:50:07AM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: when we try to install on a 512Mb system, the install kept coming up with CD read errors I installed RH9.0 on a machine with 512MB of RAM without any problems at all. So the question is: has anyone come up with a work-around

Re: [SLUG] Adding a network card

2003-09-04 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 04:54:00PM +1000, Paul Davies wrote: I then tried to add another identical network card so I can connect it to my LAN. Unforunately the addition of this card into the system is seemingly not permissable. If I ever try to activate the new card I lose my internet

Re: [SLUG] kudzu modem type toggle on power up

2003-09-04 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:24:01PM +, Voytek wrote: on every other boot, kudzu sp? changes modem from 'Cirrus Logic' to 'standard modem', and, v-v on subsequent boot any ideas why ? No, but chkconfig kudzu off or rpm -e kudzu will fix it :-) Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] can any one help me with Tcpdump

2003-09-03 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:20:21AM +1000, Jan Schmidt wrote: I'm not sure where you'd find rpms for ethereal. On the Redhat CDs (or ftp site or mirrors). Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Time Servers

2003-09-01 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:35:27PM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: What public secondary time servers are useful for those of us on AEST? Many ISPs run time servers for use by their customers. Have you asked them? Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F

Re: [SLUG] Apache 2.0

2003-08-29 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:26:48PM +1000, Scott Ragen wrote: Is Redhat 9 even stable? I have found all (Well since I had been using it, from 6.0 - 8.0) major releases to be unstable, unreliable and buggy. That's not my experience. I've had a RH9.0 server running for the last few months

Re: [SLUG] /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied

2003-08-28 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:17:44PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 20:03, Andrew McNaughton wrote: * Most non-linux systems don't have a file at /bin/bash. /bin/sh will always be there. Then you can code this in your if statements if [ -f $FILENAME ] ; then fi And it

Re: [SLUG] SquirelMail without IMAP ? POP ? /Maildir ?

2003-08-28 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:35:26PM +, Voytek wrote: can SquirelMail run with only Postfix and /Maildir, no IMAP, no POP, like, accessing mail from /Maildir ...? No, it needs an imap server. sorry for asking lot of perhaps trivial Qs, BUT, I have been trying to look up docs on

Re: [SLUG] simple graphic utility ?

2003-08-26 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:46:11AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: what's a good simple graphic tool for basics stuff such as resizing, croping etc ? convert, part of ImagMagick. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] what tool to mirror/sync data with ?

2003-08-18 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:18:55AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: what should I use to mirror user data to another Linux machine ? rsync. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] sendmail request

2003-08-17 Thread John Clarke
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 07:37:02PM +1000, Jim Lemon wrote: I, like many others, am stuck with a sendmail problem. I realise that this is probably OT, but can anyone suggest where I could ask what is probably a risibly simple question about sendmail? It's not OT. This list isn't just for

Re: [SLUG] Sony Vaio PCGV505GP and Linux

2003-08-17 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:43:16PM +1000, ramon buckland wrote: The mailing list linux-sony @ (something) is the BEST place for all these gritty details. http://returntonature.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-sony Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F

Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:04:15AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: OK, do I need _all_ of them back ? You'll need gcc, glibc-devel and probably gcc-g++. You also need binutils so make sure that's installed. If you're compiling kernels, you'll need dev86 too. I've been developing software on

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:35:15AM +1000, Gonzalo Servat wrote: At the moment it's sitting on -29C (so it says anyway) I don't believe that. I'd expect it to be more like +35C to +45C. Mine (2GHz P4) is normally +40C, rising two or three degrees when under load. Cheers, John -- whois

Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:57:06PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're 100% correct. They've each been assigned the other's IP address. :-) Okay, thanks, I will try to prod dhcp to get this sorted. If I'd realised you were using dhcp to assign addresses I'd have suggested that you look

Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:39:16PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:39:16 +1000 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice? To: John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version

Re: [SLUG] Spamassin hogging disk

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:55:37AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Laurie Savage When I download my mail via fetchmail/procmail spamassassin chokes my system (lose mouse, keyboard input takes over a minute to respond etc). It records lots of PIDs when I run top. Yesterday it did this

Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:20:07PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But restarting sshd on the 7.2 RH system gives this error: # /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start Generating SSH2 RSA host key: [ OK ] Starting sshd:Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key

Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:41:19PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a good information resource on setting up host keys and user keys? I find the man pages don't quite describe how to do that, and nor do the FAQs I could find via Google or on the OpenSSH web site. If you're using

Re: [SLUG] time setting on Redhat 8

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:02:54PM +1000, Perry, David J wrote: Is setting up NTP time synchronisation just a matter of entering the ntp server name in the etc/ntp.conf file and then starting ntpd? Yes, but it's a good idea to restict what various hosts can do with your ntp server, e.g. for a

Re: [SLUG] time setting on Redhat 8

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:03:02PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Have you also got a ntp.conf for the client machines? ntp is both client and server. The config I posted last night is from a local machine which is a client of the upstream hosts, and acts as a server to our internal hosts.

Re: [SLUG] time setting on Redhat 8

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:30:46PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Yeah, I've just found the ntp.conf syntax to be deliciously arcane and was Me too. That's what put me off running it for such a long time. Once you get the hang of it, it's pretty simple, and you can use the same config file

Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:47:22PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please stop doing this. I'm on this list, don't send me a separate copy. + echo -n 'Generating SSH1 RSA host key: ' Generating SSH1 RSA host key: + /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -q -t rsa1 -f /etc

Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 07:05:44PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Aug, John Clarke wrote: So does your sshd_config point to the same key file that the script is generating? I was going to say yes, but I have to say no. In /etc/ssh/sshd_config: HostKey /etc/ssh

Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:29:12PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, this shows some weird results. With sshd running on coo (192.168.1.101), and on posh (182.168.1.100), if I telnet to coo on port 22 I get: : /home/luke; telnet coo 22 Trying 192.168.1.101... Connected to coo.

Re: [SLUG] Setting up ssh advice?

2003-08-14 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:05:01PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the info on that link, and the man page, still omits important info. E.g. in the description of the Host section, and the patterns that can be used to nominate hosts, there's no mention of what the pattern separator

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-08 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:59:37AM +1000, Gonzalo Servat wrote: Thanks to all who replied and keep the suggestions coming :) Power supply. I had a system which would randomly fall over with no apparent cause. I replaced the RAM, video and network cards, motherboard and CPU but nothing

Re: [SLUG] mv ---.dat foo.dat

2003-07-31 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:55:32PM +1000, Andrew Monkhouse wrote: The readline() call stops interpreting command line options after it sees a -- on it's own. So you can do: mv -- ---.dat foo.dat Then the ---.dat will be interpreted as a filename, not as an option. (Now if only I

Re: [SLUG] Statement of Attainment in Linux

2003-07-31 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:50:33PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: Sendmail's the last thing I think we should be handing to another generation of net.geeks. I don't care what we *do* give them, I just care that it *isn't* sendmail. I disagree. Everyone should be taught sendmail as an example

Re: [SLUG] anti-nida apache conf mods ?

2003-07-17 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:35:41PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: are there any worthwile httpd.conf mods to minimize impact or ? This rejects the request without logging it: http://www.torkington.com/vermicide.txt Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F

Re: [SLUG] Apache vhost logs managemt

2003-07-17 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:05:27PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: The perl script jdresolve http://jdrowell.com/projects/jdresolve might do you for the name resolution, but if it was me I'd modify it so that it only concerns itself with the first field in the http logs. There must be

Re: [SLUG] Apache vhost logs managemt

2003-07-17 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:25:25PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: I said to do the job well. Depends upon your definition of doing the job well. Voytek's likely to already have it, it does what he needs, and it's fast enough for what he wants to do. I'm all for efficiency, but sometimes it

Re: [SLUG] ssh-agent passphrase-on-demand

2003-07-08 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:40:03PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Does anyone know of a way to have a single ssh-agent running on a machine per user, so that when they log in on the console, or via {k,g,x}dm, or ssh, only one ssh-agent is running? At boot time start one agent per user: su

Re: [SLUG] umask and pam_mkhomedir.so

2003-07-06 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:07:19PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: I also need a simple bash script that creates a directory if it doesn't exist if directory/path does not exist then mkdir directory/path endif [ -a $dir ] || mkdir -p $dir -a tests that nothing called `$dir' exists

Re: [SLUG] .art files

2003-06-24 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:39:24PM +1000, Erich Schulz wrote: I have been sent some photos in .art format, does anybody know what these are and how to view them in Linux, tried gimp, but not very sucessfull so far. It took less than five seconds to find this with Google:

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