On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:23:30 +1000, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net
wrote:
Adding the following line to /etc/rc.local is a solution to this
problem, but seems ridiculously clunky:
/etc/init.d/networking restart
Surely there's something more elegant?
There is a network configuration file
I attempted to get the following to run as Facebook application,
http://svn.facebook.com/svnroot/platform/samples/smiley/
As you probably know Facebook Apps that hooks to Facebook API
can be tested live only on a Web Server that's exposed to the Internet.
I have a Web Server hosted that's
Shell is a set of functions that includes a text-based user interface.
It hides the function details and complexities of the inner core or Kernel
of the Operating System (OS). The Kernel is comprised of the device
drivers to access various types and brands of disk, printers, networks,
and other
For a perspective of OpenLDAP, OpenSSL, Digest-MD5(Cyrus-SASL), and
Kerberos5(GSSAPI) all integrated into one, you may check this web site
http://sites.google.com/site/openldaptutorial/Home
I have even a script to enable a setup of Kerberized OpenLDAP on
Fedora 10. Let me know if you want it. I
I would be interested in ppls views on how much of a sysadmin cardinal
sin is it to have your primary and secondary name servers co-located,
and even more so, on the same subnet - as in /30.
Don't worry, I don't do it, but I am assessing another operation.
RFC2182 by Robert Elz and
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The list of member's Slug is sending is that the mailing list or the
paid
member list?
My understanding is that the committee handed over the entire email
address list to the SCO organisation.
If this is true then PRIVACY LAW has been
From: Crossfire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Oscar Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Difficulty in configuring ADSL
Oscar Plameras was once rumoured to have said:
NAT does one-to-one translation. IP-MASQUERADING does
one
From: Dennis M. Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 3:47 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Difficulty in configuring ADSL
Hi,
Running Red Hat 7.1 currently with a permanent dial-up link (56K) to my
ISP. I have had ADSL provisioned but am having difficulty
From: Grant Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Dennis M. Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Difficulty in configuring ADSL
What Oscar says is mostly true. It is not a requirement to have a firewall
to solve the routing problem,
From: Dennis M. Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Oscar Plameras' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Grant Parnell'
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 7:27 PM
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Difficulty in configuring ADSL
I certainly intent to turn the firewall (ipchains) back on. I only
From: Danny Yee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 1:47 AM
Subject: [SLUG] ssh over ADSL weeirdness
II've justt set my girrlfriend's ADSL coonnection up, and it appeears
to be working finne -- 50ms flat pings to Sydney Uni, an 25kb/s
downloads. The
From: Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED]
** Reply to note from Oscar Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 3 Nov
2003 12:21:44 -0800
/etc/ld.so.conf,
includes
/usr/local/lib
If not add that line and do a,
#ldconfig
Oscar
thanks, oops, seems someone might have given wrong info to you
shared
object file: No such file or directory
I guess I need to do likewise with this one, locate where he lives and add
his address ?
Yes.
Do an,
#ldd tide
This will tell what and where these modules are. Then update
accordingly.
Oscar Plameras
http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html
Does your service support Layer2 ADSL ?
Oscar Plameras
http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html
From: Grant Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm only mentioning this because people have asked about it in the past.
Yesterday EverythingLinux put on it's first paying ADSL customer
or hung connections). With my Layer2 these problems
have disappeared.
Does your service support Layer2 ADSL ?
Oscar Plameras
http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html
From: Grant Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm only mentioning this because people have asked about it in the past
the
relevant, timely, and comprehensive data to make it
worthwhile in terms of investments as the data
becomes obsolete very quickly.
If you can come up with a solution you may have a
worthwhile product.
Good luck.
Oscar Plameras
http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp
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Does anyone know if there is linux driver
for
Netgear MA521 Wireless Card ?
Or the chipset manufacturer ?
Have enquired from
Netgear but no response yet.
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.
It is free too.
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WORKFLOW STEPS.doc
-rwxrwx---1 nobody staff 19968 Oct 15 16:30 Year 11 Retreat.doc
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From: dencar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:40, Oscar Plameras wrote:
I've prepared a presentation called About Gentoo for people who think
its a crazy idea. It's on offer as a SLUG talk if anyone is
interested.
So, I'd be keenly interested to know what Gentoo has
and applications because
I follow the latest versions of 'apache', 'php', 'mysql', 'cyrus-sasl',
'ldap', 'postfix', and 'horde' and I cannot be bothered building rpms.
So, I'd be keenly interested to know what Gentoo has to offer.
Oscar Plameras
http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html
From: Mike MacCana [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 05:40, Oscar Plameras wrote:
I hardly use 'rpm' to build components and applications because
I follow the latest versions of 'apache', 'php', 'mysql',
'cyrus-sasl',
'ldap', 'postfix', and 'horde' and I cannot be bothered
Thanks, Mike.
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 06:41, Oscar Plameras wrote:
From: Mike MacCana [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 05:40, Oscar Plameras wrote:
I hardly use 'rpm' to build components and applications because
I follow the latest versions of 'apache', 'php', 'mysql
there must be a list of allocations.
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From: Sonia Hamilton
I've looking for a package that allows me to do per-user accounting (ie
bandwidth used for each user in /etc/passwd for different time
periods/protocals/etc). Any pointers to a package I could use?
Check,
http://www.freeradius.org
and/or
http://www.fwtk.org
Oscar
, outgoing traffic in bytes, and
other things that get recorded into a log file. A script
could then be written to summarise the log file info to
obtain desired results.
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and alternatives are better than one.
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-2.4' is the script that kicks off when script
on '1.' is selected with a 'start' parameter
Please note to modify 'rc.firewall-2.4' for your requirements.
Please also note Linux Kernel version requirements and
all legal stuff as indicated within these scripts.
Oscar Plameras
http://www.acay.com.au
,
http://www.nodedb.com/australia/nsw/sydney/
More and more hobbyist are only willing to share resources.
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Oscar Plameras wrote:
This is not a personal attack on anyone!
doug foskey wrote:
Lucky city-ites with cable ADSL.
Most people in the city can not get ADSL either.
a) Because they are too far from an exchange and
b) The technology only allows a few adsl
Under /usr/src after installing the kernel source package in SuSE 8.1,
you get a directory 2.4.19.SUSE, but I can't find the config file that
shows what options they compiled it with.
There is also a hidden file like,
'.config'
that holds options compiled into the kernel in
that or
corrections here,
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/2623
7.PDF
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Try this:
#strace passwd xx 21
enterpassword
enterpassword
#more xx
will advise what's happening and correct accordingly.
** Reply to note from Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:50:00
as root, strace passwd voytek, see how far it ges before segfaulting..
it won't work as a
we can not do without and for free ?
Has anyone got additional info on this
?
Thanks in advance.
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supplier ASAP and advise of the situation. I'm pretty sure they
can help as you have contracted them to supply the service and
I assume they have accepted or committed.
Good luck.
Oscar Plameras
http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html
Today I finally had the phones connected at our new house
There is another disadvantage.
You pay two X installation fees instead of one.
Oscar Plameras
http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/rss.html (May Take Minutes on Slow Networks)
Hi Bill,
ADSL as the technician advised use copper line and is not good
with RIM. ADSL is digital (ISDN technology
One approach is to format each line command as follows:
su username -c mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/mailout.$$
This assumes your system knows to append '@mydomain.com' to
yield '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and you are running in super shell.
Oscar Plameras
www.purl.org/net/aboutme
: Please contact the ISP for more information
X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
Status:
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. Perhaps, an
associative array.
Oscar Plameras
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tremendous time
and
effort.
So, after all, Gentoo's are like nice guys to me. And so, are most Linux
distro's.
Oscar Plameras
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as a directory under your htdocs
like so:
htdocs/phpinclude
Oscar Plameras
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looking at some of the Apache docs on vhosting states in part:
-
/manual/vhosts/mass.html
...
The main disadvantage is that you cannot have a different log file for
each virtual
host; however if you have very many virtual hosts then doing this is
dubious anyway
because it eats file
Can anyone recommend a UPS for a linux environment?
I suggest to check this,
http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/howto/UPS-HOWTO
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There are tons of ways to 'skin a cat' they say.
Bash'yer and simpler, the better for me.
I rely on 'shell' or 'bourne' scripts the 'natural' language
for my ways.
Renaming of files posed in this thread, for example, I have:
$cat /appl/bin/mv.sh
#!/bin/bash
# rename files with
#route add -net 172.31.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.0.252
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From: Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible to setup a linux box as a transparent bridge?
Yes you can.
Check http://bridge.sourceforge.net
Oscar Plameras
http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30 Jun, Oscar Plameras wrote:
The reason is as follows:
Number of IPV4 addresses = 255*255*255*255 * 50 bytes (your
allocation)
= 4,228Mb * 50 =
202,280MB
A cache isn't a complete copy. You store what you
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We had some problems at work with system lockups during periods of high
email delivery load, due to the cost of the DNS lookups - on Linux. If
a few hundred emails arivved for delivery at approximately the same
time, it brought the machine to its knees, and took a
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 29 Jun, Oscar Plameras wrote:
Ideally, one would want all list to be stored in the local Memory but
we
know this is impossible and with the internet growing in leaps and
bounds
the list is growing bigger and faster by the day. Also, you would want
a
DNS
Title: Message
Hello Steve,
I have used MYOB Premier on Samba Server
previously.
I have used it for about 7 years.
There were 6
personssharingthe range of
financial database, General Ledger, Payroll,
Accounts
Receivable, and Accounts Payable, and Asset
Ledger.
There were about 100
From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 04:04, Oscar Plameras wrote:
It is also a good idea to take the /usr/local/sbin/named
away to another FreeBSD/Linux box. DNS lookups is
always a slow process and queues other processes
particularly during Internet peak hours
From: Ben Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Slugs,
I have a Mandrake 9 box. Turn it on and after a week or so of running
the hard disk access light seems to stay almost constantly on. This will
continue for about a week and then stop back to normal ie very low
activity. Give it another week
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:19:25AM +1000, James Gray wrote:
We are running into problems when we get a flood of
messages (50/minute)
as the whole mail filtering/scanning thing quickly chews up
all CPU time
Are you running SpamAssassin as a
From: Oscar Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here's the pertinent details for the system concerned:
# ps aux | awk '{print $1 \t $3 \t $4 \t $10 \t $11}'
USER%CPU%MEMTIMECOMMAND
nobody 78.114.70:11.69 /usr/bin/spamd
root0.0 0.0 0:28.50 (pagedaemon)
root
From: Simon Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
logwatch reports the information below for email I understand most of them
because
they are misspelling of usernames however the second one is ocurring daily
(always
on my username) and it has me intrigued. Does anyone know if this is
something I
- Original Message -
From: Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:22 AM
Subject: [SLUG] exchange migration pointers?
My work is going through a painful multi-site MS Exchange migration at
the moment, and me being the Linux person, I said
The most important reason for having a second, etc
MX record is,
When the primary mail server is down, incoming mail
will not bounce in the meanwhile. So, when the faulty
mail server is up the seconday server may immediately drain
the queued messages to the mail server or servers without
any
From: Andrew McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the event that a remote mail server is not immediately contactable,
mail generally just stays on the queue at the sender's end for up to a few
days until it can be delivered. So If your mail server is offline for a
while then mail's going to get
This might interest you to know.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-linux.html
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You may register it is free.
You have the choice. So, don't worry too much !
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Oscar Plameras wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-linux.html
There's no point in posting things from the NYTimes, because it requires
registration to get
From: Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 10:18, Oscar Plameras wrote:
You may register it is free.
I think the point which Matthew was making was that it would be nice to
mention what the article is about.
That way they could decide for themselves if it is worth
From: Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oscar Plameras wrote:
You may register it is free.
You have the choice. So, don't worry too much !
You have to supply your e-mail address, demographic information
(country, zip code, age, sex; household income, industry, job title, job
function
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18-06-2003 10:57:32 AM:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:18:29AM +1000, Oscar Plameras wrote:
--snip--
But not an informed choice. For all we know it could be something
obscure. Links without comment will have one of four effects
From: Colin Humphreys [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:05:11AM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
Also just a short paragraph included from the article would help
sluggers here to decide if they wanted to click on it - especially if
they are on a dialup from home. These news sites
From: Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm well aware I have the choice. I'm just letting you know that posting
URLs that can't be viewed without jumping through hoops is largely
useless -
a waste of your time, and the bandwidth of SLUG and every subscriber. The
few people who are already
Hi Simon,
I have RH8.0, source linux-2.4.21, and gcc3.3.
I installed gcc3.3 lib at '/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib'.
In the beginning, when I build linux I got the same error
as you have.
So, I renamed '/usr/lib/gcc-lib' which was for gcc3.2
to something else. I symbolic link '/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib'
From: Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMTP auth would be the right solution here. A uname/pw combo tells the
MTA to allow relaying for that connection.
I don't know how to do it with postfix, but with sendmail you need sasl.
SASL will also do the job on postfix.
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Hopefully encrypted there is an organisation in Western Sydney
that uses wireless networking without encryption. They are a
distribution centre. Would hate to see someone get to their
databases and screw up their inventory.
I would use Public Networks like the Internet on a secured
Campus computing? Think 'WIRELESS' now !
From: Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To the network guru's out there
I am working at a school that is currently expanding. There are some new
buildings being added to the campus (almost finished) that are now being
wired. The question is what is the
On the rosy future of Linux, this might interest,
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoositeid=yhoodist=yhooguid=%7B28239171%2D6590%2D47D3%2D8DCD%2D2195590DB09D%7D
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/tech/billsnyder/10091808.html
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From: Simon Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
As one of the final steps of my project I need to get winbind running on
my LTS
server. I have installed and configure Samba and Winbind in exactly the
same way as
on a full workstation (which works fine) - however even though wbinfo
gives all the
From: Minh Van Le [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This the topology I have in mind for my network. (Maybe minus Firewall 3
and
Firwall 4). Is there something wrong with it ?
Should I design efficient and optimum security I start
by defining what I want to achieve with my security.
I may do this with a
From: Alex Balayan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
Recently I had the pleasure of installing the Slackware 9.0 on my IBM
ThinkPad 600E (128Meg/RAM). Kernel 2.4.20 running XFree86 4.3.0.
It seems X-Windows starts to run really slow when I use Mozilla. Allot of
lag. TOP shows X and mozilla-bin
From: El 4Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sydney LUG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Apache Error
Hi All,
I configured an apache seerver in an intranet, and the server works, but
it is terribly slow to requests. For every request I get this error
From: El 4Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Oscar Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Sydney LUG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Apache Error
The FQDN was already in place with the ServerName directive. I tried
staring it directly, apachectl start. Still
From: Sychev Maxim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use postfix 2.0.10, cyrus-sasl 2.1.13
I set up SMTP AUTH using saslauthd -a pam. Everything works fine,
except
a
bothering warning in syslog stating that database file
/var/sasl/sasldb
can not be found.
Your sasl library tries first the
From: Oscar Plameras
And how to tell it to use saslauthd( and not sasldb)only?
The command,
# saslauthd -a pam
CYRUS-SASL already told the client application like postfix(smtp)
or CYRUS-IMAP not to use the sasldb database.
# saslauthd -a sasldb
tells client application to use sasldb
You have a large disk storage to leave it up to
default installation process to decide for you
the partitioning, allocation, and configuration of
of your disk and location of your software.
If it is up to me I will choose custom for install.
In this way you can plan to locate your application
From: Oscar Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I will do,
ln -s /appl/apache /usr/local/apache
I will add this,
ln -s /appl/apache/include /usr/local/apache/include
echo /appl/apache/lib /etc/ld.so.config
ldconfig.
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From: Adam W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have always wondered why the default installation of mandrake or other
distro's, partitions your drive into all these different partitions, if
you choose the auto allocate feature.
For example, different partitions for /home and /var and /
I have
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