Re: [SLUG] Etherlink III card problem, On another point...

2000-07-09 Thread Peter Rundle
Thanks for all the tips on Window Mangers and browsers. Lwm looks interesting. So I might give that a go when I get home. I tried the alpha download of Opera here at work (the bz2 thing with just the program and the license.txt), but it just segment fault core dumps which is a bit sad (RH 6.1).

[SLUG] Debugging core (was Etherlink III)

2000-07-11 Thread Peter Rundle
Hi Dave, > The stack trace will almost always tell you what went wrong. > Not in much detail sometimes but usually enough to give you > a hint what the problem was (or at least where it was). $> gdb opera core GNU gdb 4.18 [snip] ... (gdb) where #0 0x401983b7 in QFontDatabasePrivate

[SLUG] Signal to Noise Ratio

2000-07-18 Thread Peter Rundle
Could I just politely ask (seeing as you've all just gone balistic about attachments) if people could develop just a little more netiquette and reduce the amount of noise in their e-mails. That last one had one line of information in 85 lines of resent text. So that puts the signal at just over 1%

Re: [SLUG] Weird Xwindows Colour Problem

2000-07-19 Thread Peter Rundle
What colour depth are you running? I know Netscape hates 24 bit, try going back to 16 bit (blah) or up to 32 bit and see if this helps. Pete. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Pasive mode ftp (ipchains alternative?)

2000-07-20 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Sitting at home with my RH Linux box masquerading for my newly acquired Mandrake box (with etherlink III card now happily working :-) I can't of course ftp from the Mandrake box to the world. Well I can make a connection but I can't do "ls" or "put" or "get" cause of the masquerade. Ob

[SLUG] SSH working with PAM

2000-07-30 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Does anyone know of any versions of SSH that work with PAM authentication? Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Samba as a PDC for windows domain

2000-08-01 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I've been busy converting my authentication system to LDAP for all my Solaris and Linux boxen. Converting NT however is proving to be a bit of a challenge. I was just given an off the wall suggestion that perhaps we should use the latest version of Samba (on Linux of course :-) as the

Re: [SLUG] Re: Samba as a PDC for windows domain

2000-08-01 Thread Peter Rundle
> > > getting the password change mechanism happening seamlessly > > is going to be a > > > whole new area of pain. > > > > i've got this working (no ldap, but using pam and nis) before. it > > wasn't fun. the easier path would be an ssl-protected web site where > > the user types the password int

Re: [SLUG] Lilo problem

2000-08-03 Thread Peter Rundle
Melinda, Can I suggest that you post your /etc/lilo.conf file to the list, this would help us come up with a lilo.conf that should work for you. I had my home box in your current state (windows boots of mbr on hda and linux on hdb boot from floppy) for ages. Had lots and lots of problems get

[SLUG] Clever trick with iso image.

2000-08-06 Thread Peter Rundle
Hey Sluggers, I know all the guru's out there had already thought of this but I felt it was such a neat trick I should share it among the rest of us mere mortals. Downloaded the lattest version of dead rat pinstripe as an Iso. Didn't have a cd-burner handy so I mounted it as a loopback file sy

[SLUG] Nautilis File Manager

2000-08-15 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, has anyone successfully downloaded Nautilis from the gnome cvs tree and installed it? I'm giving it go, but being a CVS newbie I can't figure out how to find out what modules to checkout. Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://

Re: [SLUG] RH6.0+Enlightenment+Gnome = Edge Flip Resistance

2000-08-21 Thread Peter Rundle
> I'm looking for edge flip resistance in RH6.0+Enlightenment+Gnome. > Can someone tell me where to find it? Right mouse on the desktop --> Left button on Virtual Desktop Settings. or Gnome Control Centre,--> Window Manger, --> Run config tool for enlightenment --> Desktop Settings P. -- SL

[SLUG] Sed Question

2000-08-23 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers This is driving me nuts, I've doen this before and do you think I can drag the command out of my memory! What's the syntax in sed that puts the wild card expresion matched in the first side of the substitute back in on the replace side? EG echo " Hello To The World,\nGday to Oz,\nHi

Re: [SLUG] Storage Area Networks

2000-08-29 Thread Peter Rundle
Other major benefits of a SAN You can add storage to any particular node that requires it. Traditionally if you have 100 servers each with say a 9gb disk (this is an example ok). then you have 900Gb of disk cost. However some of that disk will be full to bursting and others will hardly have 5% u

Re: [SLUG] Help with rm

2000-08-29 Thread Peter Rundle
> Apart from your example above, even simple things like: >if [ $f = 'y' ] > will bomb out if $f is blank. This is quite an important point for would be shell scripters. The above reads to most programmers as "if the contents of variable $f is equal to 'y'" But in fact what happens is the she

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Blown up power supply?

2000-08-30 Thread Peter Rundle
> Does anybody know exactly what happens if you plug a computer with a power > supply set to 115 V into an Australian power outlet? Yes there is a ruddy great blue flash and a hell of a loud pop and somke comes out of the computer. Now I don't know if you now anything about electrical devices b

[SLUG] StarOffice Net installation

2000-09-04 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Can any of the SO people our there tell me if the switch for the network installation of SO is "-net" or "/net". The documentation says /net but I seem to recall that the last time I did this I got it wrong and I had to un-install the whole damn thing and do it with the other option.

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice Net installation

2000-09-04 Thread Peter Rundle
Colin Humphreys wrote: > /net David Sainty wrote: > -net > Peter Rundle wrote: AAAHHHU#(*&@!U(*&(*!@#&$(! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice Net installation

2000-09-04 Thread Peter Rundle
John Wiltshire wrote: > Run 'strings' on the install. See which one you find? Neat idea but unfortunately it didn't return either, they must have coded the parser to read a character at a time. Oh well eenie meenie miney Cheers Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - htt

Re: [SLUG] fwd: Modem Problems

2000-09-05 Thread Peter Rundle
[snip] > it says that the modem is busy or that it cannot open the modem, i have > set up the dial up connection properly. I suspect that you are using the RedHat kppp dialup dialog. More than likely you have the lock file option selected under setup-->device. Try unselecting it. Pete. -- SLU

[SLUG] IDE cdrom gone AWOL

2000-09-06 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I just tried to upgrade from deadrat 6.1 to 6.9. Seemed to go ago but crashed with a few rpms still not installed. Re-ran the install and it crashed again in the same place. I managed to get the system back on it's feet and it has been running for about a week now. All is fine except I

Re: [SLUG] Re: Still is??: Re: linux jobs ##

2000-09-08 Thread Peter Rundle
One thing you should consider is that clients like to know that the company they are about to give their business to is staffed by quality people. So employers like to be able to quote the qualifications of their employees. At the moment this isn't a big issue with the job market place being th

Re: [SLUG] IDE cdrom gone AWOL

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Rundle
Dave wrote: > what happens when you type: > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt mount: block device /dev/hda is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda, or too many mounted file systems (aren't you trying to mount an extend

Re: [SLUG] LILO

2000-09-14 Thread Peter Rundle
> a friend just rang me up, his system boots but stops at 'LI' > i have heard about this before but i couldn't remember what it means... > please remind me how painfully sad my memory is... This usually happens when the boot directory is on a files system that exceeds the magic 1024 cylinders. Us

Re: [SLUG] Goobye to SLUG

2000-09-17 Thread Peter Rundle
> Well - goodbye to SLUG. Having subscribed to a number of lists over the years I suspect that there is in fact a natural life cycle that lists go through, I'm sure some behavioral science grad could put up a PHD on it. Lists usually start out with a small core of people who are deeply intereste

[SLUG] Wine with MS apps

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I'm running Wine on Rh6.2 using the 9th Sept 2000 release without a native windows install. I just downloaded the tarball and ran wineinstall. Seems to work ok for some applications like Winzip, Paint Shop 4, and Netscape 4.7 (yes I can see the irony of running the windoze version of

Re: [SLUG] Redhat on HP

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Rundle
Dave, > And a trciky one, can you have 2 servers connect to one to access it as > shared storage between them (RAID 10). I dunno if that last one is possible. > The HP netraid controller is supported fine by 6.2's default kernel. Just > dunno even where to find this info. I think the answer is n

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Distro Layout / Config Standards (was Re: Debian)

2000-09-20 Thread Peter Rundle
> of course thats exactly the same thing as changing to a suitably > configured runlevel.. are you ever likely to change enough services > to warrant a whole runlevel tho? When I was a lad at Uni, they had the Unix server there configured to change to different run levels (via crontab) at diffe

Re: [SLUG] Re: Distro Layout / Config Standards (was Re: Debian)

2000-09-20 Thread Peter Rundle
> I've also gone into single user mode to fix problems (or make them worse > :-) but I've never been into lvel 2 or 4. Never?! Sheesh you don't know what your missing ;-) Levels 2 & 4 are where it's at man!. Seriously, I put in a auto dial gateway for a friends little office and as they only ha

Re: [SLUG] Synchronous network ?

2000-09-24 Thread Peter Rundle
> It actually depends on the number of (transmitting) hosts on the network - > the more hosts, the lower the max utilisation. > A network with one main transmitting host can easily get 90% plus > utilisation (hook-up two machines and do an ftp from one to the other). > At the upper end ethernet ma

Re: [SLUG] win4lin (vs VMware)

2000-09-25 Thread Peter Rundle
> despite 700Mhz and 128MB, I find the performance quite bad. I'm running VMWare on a 200MHz Pentium Pro with 128M of RAM at home. This installation is just acceptable (the virtual Machine is running NT with Oracle and a CAD application). I used to run this app native on a Pentium 90Mhz 64Mb, a

Re: [SLUG] Execute a file

2000-09-26 Thread Peter Rundle
> [marshallj@datasrv bin]$ ./test.sh > bash: ./test.sh: Permission denied > [marshallj@datasrv bin]$ sh test.sh > test > > It almost seems as if my shell isn't using the first line to determine > what to use to execute the file. Now this is weird! Any thoughts? What happens when you do this?

[SLUG] SMS messaging Solutions?

2000-09-27 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I'm setting up an SMS messaging server, and I was looking for some advice/experienced comment on the best way to go about it. I've successfully created a simple shell that dials the modem and runs a chat script to connect to a text interface at Telstra and successfully send a message.

[SLUG] Arrghh! What's going on with my Display?

2000-09-27 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I have no idea how I did this but my display just went completely crazy with the mouse and display jumping all over the place. Then I realised that somehow I had two X sessions going at the same time outputting to the same screen (mouse/keybd). I started messing around with ctrl-alt-f1

Re: [SLUG] VMWare help

2000-09-30 Thread Peter Rundle
David, > Due to FDC problems, my system no longer has a floppy drive, and I'm trying out > VMware 2.0.2 (with Corel Linux) - the problem being I cannot install the vmware > tools without a floppy drive (and the vmware website offers no further advice > on this). You don't need a floppy drive to

Re: [SLUG] Arrghh! What's going on with my Display?

2000-09-30 Thread Peter Rundle
> Do you have two x start scripts in rc5.d? Zero X scripts in rc5.d, X is started from inittab. I'll keep looking, it's bound to be something that was done for the LTSP thing. Thanks anyway Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.

Re: [SLUG] Arrghh! What's going on with my Display?

2000-10-01 Thread Peter Rundle
Ok found it, simple really. Blindly following some instructions for setting up gdm for use with ltsp, I uncommented the "1=/usr/bin/X11/X" line under the [servers] section in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf. Now I get Display :0 and display :1 on the same physical screen. This starts out as a disaster as

[SLUG] Web Sentry function under Linux

2000-10-03 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Just had a friend ask what's available in this area on Linux. They basically are trying to put a Linux Demand dial and masquerade gateway into a small office environment. The customer wants to see reports of site usage and I guess ban/block access to certain sites. I figure that settin

Re: [SLUG] DSL to DSL connections

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Rundle
> You just need one trusted box somewhere with a static IP. How 'bout putting a modem on each box, when box A establishes it's adsl connection it dials box B and tells it what IP it was assigned. Box B then establishes the Vpn. Just a thought. Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] DSL to DSL connections

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Rundle
> Or have a central site somewhere with a static ip addres Sure that works too, I was just suggesting something that avoided the need for a third party. As they don't own any realworld ip addresses themselves they have to have someone else provide this service which they may not be comfortable w

Re: [SLUG] DSL to DSL connections

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Rundle
George Vieira wrote: > So either a PGP email or FTP encrypted file would do wouldn't it? Sure, thousand ways to skin this cat, you just have to pass 32bits of info from one office to the other. However all of the solutions depend on at least on of the ends having a real-world IP. How long b

Re: [SLUG] [SLIGHTLY OT] Machine Names

2000-10-08 Thread Peter Rundle
>Something to keep in mind is that underscore (ie, _ ) is technically not >a valid character in DNS, and thus should probably be avoided in hostnames. Not only just technically not valid, if you are using BIND (standard Linux named) then an underscore in a hostname will cause the name server to b

[SLUG] Queuing under Linux

2000-10-08 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I want to create a queue for an SMS messaging system. Can anyone point me towards documentation about queues under linux. I've done a man on lpq, fifo & batch but I need more info. Basically sms messages to be sent enter the queue (probably via e-mail) At the head of the queue a proce

[SLUG] Win4Lin on RH6.2

2000-10-11 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Has anyone managed to get Win4Lin running on RH6.2? There isn't a kernel for 6.2 on the CD so I tried to roll my own following the patch guidelines. When I did make menuconfig the Trelos support came up and I selected it. The kernel made ok, and I booted off it. However NFS failed to st

Re: [SLUG] Oracle through a firewall

2000-10-17 Thread Peter Rundle
Hi Kevin, > Hi has anyone had any joy allowing oracle plus/sql through a firewall? We have that configured here with a double fire wall, first firewall lets packets through from the big bad internet to port 80 on the web server, second firewall lets packets through only from the web server to p

[SLUG] One for the Kernel Guru's

2000-10-17 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Mehmet kindly found the link for win4lin pre-made kernels for RH6.2 and I have downloaded and installed one. However when I boot it I get lots of warnings from /lib/aic7xxx.o refering to smp, here's the last few lines of the boot output, /lib/aic7xxx.o:unresolved symbol panic_Rsmp

Re: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.

2000-10-17 Thread Peter Rundle
I think you will find that this applies to ftp as well. If you remove resolv.conf and ftp to the ip address lightning quick. Add a DNS server into resolv.conf that doesn't exist telnet, ftp slow as but they eventually connect. Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.or

[SLUG] Mozilla M18

2000-10-17 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Sending this message with M18 of Mozilla, looks pretty good so far. Anyone else tried it? Anyone got Java working with it. I went to a Java page and it said I needed a plugin which it downloaded and then subsequently went unstable on me crashing whenever I left the java page. Otherwis

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla M18

2000-10-17 Thread Peter Rundle
Dean, > java script looks good. So you managed to get this working? I have a java script on my home page (the spring that follows the cursor). It works fine in 4.75 but mozilla just ignored it. Did you download and build mozilla or did you grab a binary? I really need to get a java capable bro

Re: [SLUG] Associating filenames

2000-10-18 Thread Peter Rundle
>Is there any ability in Linux to associate filename extensions, or >similar, with applications. One of the things with Unix is that, unlike dos with it's 8,3 rule the "extension" is totally arbitary. Originally there was a 14 char limit to file names and whether you had a dot in there was enti

[SLUG] Kernel .config file

2000-10-18 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, is there a way to generate a /usr/src/linux/.config file that matches the currently running kernel? So that I can compile up a new kernel that exactly matches the one I've got and then start making changes from there. I can't for the life of me build a kernel that boots my machine. Ye

[SLUG] Program delivery with Sendmail

2000-10-19 Thread Peter Rundle
Does anyone have any good urls to on-line docs on program delivery using sendmail. www.sendmail.org is terrible. I've put an entry in the /etc/aliases file user: "|/bin/myprog" but I always get an error mailed back to root, the guts of which is, - Transcript of session follows ---

Re: [SLUG] Program delivery with Sendmail

2000-10-19 Thread Peter Rundle
> go into your /etc/sendmail.cf and change the execution line for programs to: > > Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=10/30, R=20/40, D=$z:/, thanks, George That did the trick :-) Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.

[SLUG] Distro for 20M Ram

2000-10-23 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I've been asked by my um...friend whether they could run Linux with a graphical web browser on an old Toshiba laptop (Pentium 90 with 20meg of ram). My experience with X and Netscape suggests that it would be pretty slow with only 20M. Anyone got any suggestions/opinions. Alternative

Re: mirror, mirror was: [SLUG] New User with a few questions.

2000-10-24 Thread Peter Rundle
Rodos, > Being always on the lookout for a good fast mirror I decided to compare > cse.unsw and mirror.aarnet to see how they fair. Without trying to start a pissing contest, the fastest I have ever downloaded anything came from aarnet at 1300KB/s (RH7 in about 10 min's). I just connected to aa

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: remote X and firewalls

2000-10-25 Thread Peter Rundle
> the terms "server" and "client" are sort of the wrong way around in > X. > > the X server is where the displaying is happening. X clients connect > to this to display stuff. so the terminal in front of the user is > actually the X *server*. Very important point!. (from a firewall point of view

Re: [SLUG] Debian fptd question

2000-11-02 Thread Peter Rundle
> What could be stopping the ftp from working? Check your pam configuration. Is there a file "ftp" in the /etc/pam.d directory? Otherwise is the file "other" in there? Make sure that they have the correct auth settings. (look on another box or at another service like telnet for examples). I do

Re: [SLUG] WU-FTP Configuration

2000-11-02 Thread Peter Rundle
Unless you are married to wu-ftp I would definitely dump wu-ftp in favour of proftpd. Put a single line in the single config file and every user is chroot'd. With wu-ftp you have to put a /./ entry in each users home dir in the passwd file. Forget to do this when you add a user and P. --

[SLUG] Serial Name Server Resolve on Linux

2000-11-15 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Does anyone have any insight into the serial nature of the DNS resolve on Linux and when this problem might be addressed. It's my current understanding that name to IP resolution is a single serial queue for all processes on the box. Thanks Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Ma

Re: [SLUG] Re: Netscrape 6 is here

2000-11-15 Thread Peter Rundle
> It's sad really. have to agree I'm afraid. Very disappointed with the Netscape browser and all the cruft. Also it still fails to do Java scripting on Linux. Mozilla (M18) on Windozes is very nice. The Linuz version however is not so good. Performance is slow and Java scripting doesn't work.

Re: [SLUG] You can tell it is Friday when .....

2000-11-16 Thread Peter Rundle
> BTW, any iPlanet/Netscape gurus out there? This shrinkwrap stuff is giving > me a migraine. Not quite a guru but we are running it here on half a dozen servers (Solaris/Linux) what's your problem? Pete. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: htt

Re: [SLUG] Re: Serial Name Server Resolve on Linux

2000-11-16 Thread Peter Rundle
[snip statement about serial nature of resolv on linux] > err.. its not. > > .. at all .. as in: it would actually be quite hard to make it that > way even if you wanted to. > > what made you think it was? I've managed to find a link that describes it in more detail, http://cs-people.bu.e

Re: [SLUG] Re: Serial Name Server Resolve on Linux

2000-11-17 Thread Peter Rundle
> >The libresolv library distributed with glibc2.1 suffers from some > >fundamental defects when linked against threaded programs. Namely, > > This only applies if you use threads of course. Of course, and webtrends would be one of those packages apparently. Haven't delved right into th

[SLUG] One for the smtp routing guru's

2000-12-06 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Here's a weird one. Does anybody know of any e-mail product that can make routing decisions based on the senders (mail from) domain rather than the recipients? On linux of course ;-) rgds Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://s

Re: [SLUG] One for the smtp routing guru's

2000-12-06 Thread Peter Rundle
Rodos wrote: > Peter can you give us an example? Are you after something in the MUA > (reader) or the MTA (sendmail)? The users outbound MTA. I.E using Mozilla at home I send a message with my from address as me at work. I want this mail to be forwarded to the work mta server first before it

Re: [SLUG] EXIT COMMAND

2000-12-06 Thread Peter Rundle
Alister Waller wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to create aun Uppercase EXIT that calls exit. Are you trying to do something like -- #!/bin/sh EXIT () { # remove temp files etc ... # Tell user why we are bailing echo Error:$1 exit } if [ some silly error condition ] then EX

Re: [SLUG] One for the smtp routing guru's

2000-12-07 Thread Peter Rundle
> That whoosh you just heard was the sound of the joke going way over your > head. No that whoosh was the sound of the sendmail config going way over my head ;-) Sendmail seems to be in the way way too hard basket (besides Rodos said it wouldn't work anyway). So perhaps I need to look at qmail o

Re: [SLUG] One for the smtp routing guru's

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Rundle
Thanks Tom for the info on libmilter, I will go have a look at it on Monday. I still have to work out how to combine it with the ldap authenticate smtp part (got that working in another mta). Cheers Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http:/

Re: [SLUG] PAM, LDAP.

2000-12-10 Thread Peter Rundle
Hi James, > I'm wanting to use LDAP with the pam_ldap module to authenticate all sorts >From the looks of your error logs I suspect that you haven't successfully set the password for that user in the LDAP directory. I'm not familiar with OpenLdap but I would suggest that you need to find a tool

[SLUG] PCI internal Modem?

2000-12-13 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I've been given a PCI internal modem and I was wondering if there is any obvious way to tell if it is a real modem or a dreaded win-modem. (like, before I stick in my linux box and give myself endless grief for no good reason ;-) It has lots of chips all over it, jumpers to set the co

Re: [SLUG] PCI internal Modem?

2000-12-13 Thread Peter Rundle
Doug, > This indicates it isn't a Plug 'n Pray modem - but I've never heard of a > non PNP PCI modem. It might be a really fancy one where it normally > uses PNP, but the user can manually set it up instead if they want. Hmmm... Here's hoping. "Crossfire" suggested that it was an ISA but I d

[SLUG] Re: PCI internal Modem (How embaressment)!

2000-12-17 Thread Peter Rundle
> "Crossfire" suggested that it was an ISA. And guess what, he was right! It is one of those "short" isa slot cards that was masquerading as a PCI ;-) Oh well I'm smiling now 'cause it went in and worked first time. thanks for the help rgds Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing

[SLUG] Using dd to copy boot sector

2000-12-20 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Scsi based system with dual hot swappable drives. I'm trying to make the second drive bootable dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 I then shutdown and swap the drives. But when I reboot I just get LI on the screen with the cursor stopped after the "I". What am I doing wron

[SLUG] SSH hint required

2000-12-21 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I've been given a script that looks like this for i in server1 server2 do ssh -l admin $i "df" done Can someone enlighten me as to how this might work in regards to the login password? Is there some certificate or something that you can store on the box running the script

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla 0.6

2000-12-28 Thread Peter Rundle
> This message is sent from Mozilla 0.6. It is certainly not completely > stable yet, but has improved quite a lot since M18. > Anyone else using it? I've tried it on RH6.2 and it is a lot more stable and generally better but has a couple of nasty bugs. Any dialog/form that you enter a "." into g

Re: [SLUG] Sending SMS Messages...

2000-12-28 Thread Peter Rundle
Telstra and Vodafone have a mobile number that you can dial which provides a terminal interface that you can send your message via. The telco's make their money off the mobile phone charge. Vodafone will send to any mobile, Telstras only sends to Telstra mobiles. Can't remember if the number bel

[SLUG] Problems with 2.4 kernel and Pix Firewalls

2001-01-08 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Bit of a heads up for those thinking about the 2.4 kernel, maybe someone can shed some light on this. One of the guys here has just upgraded his rh6.1 box to the new 2.4 kernel. Networking to hosts on the same leg of the Lan works fine, udp, icmp and tcp. However only udp and icmp work

Re: [SLUG] Problems with 2.4 kernel and Pix Firewalls

2001-01-08 Thread Peter Rundle
"Morton, Andrew [WOLL:4009-M:EXCH]" wrote: > CISCO bug. A patch is available. See > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.1/0485.html > > A workaround is > > echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Yet another fine example of open source support at work. Thanks muchly, (

[SLUG] Linux Shared Calendar SME

2003-11-10 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I'm looking for a shared desktop calendar solution for a small office (10users). Obviously has to run on Linux. Main critera is that calendars can be shared and that PDA devices (as yet not specified) can be synchronised. There seems to be two main approaches. The dedicated calendar

[SLUG] Linux FileServer Mac Clients permission problems

2003-11-18 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Not knowing a thing about Apple Macs I've been asked to look at a problem where a Linux Box is acting as a file server to a bunch of Macs. For some files, when the user on the Mac tries to open a file (in Word) a dialog comes up stating that the file is being modified by another use

[SLUG] Samba client access from remote linux box via pptp?

2003-12-07 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I'm trying to get smb client on a remote Linux box to connect to a windows 2000 server via pptp. Smbclient connects and lists out the server info e.g. "Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]", but when I try to do a directory listing I get this error; " Call timed out: server did not resp

Re: [SLUG] Samba client access from remote linux box via pptp?

2003-12-07 Thread Peter Rundle
Adding -j LOG to iptables on the remote linux box I get these errors in the syslog while waiting for the smbclient to time out; fileserver pptp[2624]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:397]: buffering out-of-order packet 3492 (expecting 3490) Any ideas? Thanks Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User'

Re: [SLUG] Samba client access from remote linux box via pptp?

2003-12-08 Thread Peter Rundle
Just to finish this thread. I've had the network access reconfigured so that the remote linux machine now has a real-world ip and the problem disappeared. I'd tested the pptp-client being nat'd but in the test case it was behind another Linux box and all worked ok. However at the site in questi

[SLUG] Reboot-on-Lan?

2003-12-10 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, This is kinda off-topic but I'd like to be able to remotely shutdown / reboot a PC from a Linux server (there see it's back on topic now:) but without necessarily having to know what OS it's running or to log-on to it. I've checked out wake-on-lan and etherwake.c which is ok if t

[SLUG] Courier MTA Alias

2003-12-17 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I have a Courier MTA installed and I want to add two more domains to it. However if I do them as local domains then every account on the system gets a new address in that domain. I don't want this to happen. Currently [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to add [EMAIL PRO

[SLUG] Problem with pptpd PoPToP

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Trying to connect from my Linux desktop to a remote Linux server running pptpd fails with this error in the remote linux servers syslog; pptpd[21127]: CTRL: Client 61.95.85.130 control connection started pptpd[21127]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE) pppd[21128]: pp

[SLUG] IPtables DNAT question

2004-02-19 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I'm D'nating access to my web server via my Linux Gateway with this statement. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 172.16.0.148 This works great as long as the default gateway on the web server (172.16.0.148) points to the Linux Gateway. However,

Re: [SLUG] IPtables DNAT question

2004-02-19 Thread Peter Rundle
Alexander Samad wrote: Why not something differnt and reverse proxy ? Because that means installing and configuring software such as squid or apache on the gateway, where as if I can do it with iptables that's a whole bunch less configuration I have to do. Also if I can figure this out with

[SLUG] Hyper Terminal Memory Refresh

2004-02-24 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Feeling like a newbie, I need a memory refresh. 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 commands etc.

Re: [SLUG] Hyper Terminal Memory Refresh

2004-02-24 Thread Peter Rundle
Minicom, Minicom! Thankyou! gawd I was having a brain lockout! Quoting Terry Collins As already suggested minicom, -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Fedora Core1 Video problems

2004-03-14 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, (getting broadband on in next few weeks, currently not subscribed). Got a couple of video problems, hoping someone can help me out. I've installed Fedora Core on a machine with an intel i740 video card. With the 1024x768 x 24 bit colour everything works great except when I try to run

[SLUG] Terminal Access to VMS from Linux

2004-03-18 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I need to access an openVMS machine by telneting from my Linux Box. So far I've tried several different terminal software programs but can't seem to get one that groks VMS. Gnome-terminal Doesn't advertise it's terminal emulation. On login vms complains %SET-W-NOTSET, error

[SLUG] Vgetty Problems

2004-04-04 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I'm trying to get vgetty to talk to a voice modem but it's failing in the chat. Snip of /var/log/vgetty.log.ttyS0 ... lowering DTR to reset Modem tss: set speed to 38400 (017) tio_set_flow_control( HARD ) waiting for line to clear (VTIME), read: [00] send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d] waitin

Re: [SLUG] Vgetty Problems

2004-04-06 Thread Peter Rundle
See what's set as per default by AT&V, use AT&F to reset to factory settings, ATZ to initialise to power on defaults. Use AT&W to write current settings to NVRAM (for next powerup or ATZ command). Thanks Grant, at&f at&w got me sorted. Turns out the modem(s) had both been configured for software

[SLUG] Clarification of VPN's and NAT's

2004-04-06 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Just need confirmation of my understanding of the limitations of VPN (pptp) and Nat'd networks. Linux Gateway to broadband (ADSL) masquerading for a bunch of windoze boxen. My understanding is that it's possible for one of the windoze boxes to estabish a pptp tunnel out through the m

[SLUG] Festival Voices

2004-04-07 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I've downloaded and installed different voices but how the do you get festival to use a different voice? trolled through all the docs but it ain't obvious, any heads up out there? TIA's P. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info an

Re: [SLUG] Festival Voices

2004-04-12 Thread Peter Rundle
use eval try -eval \(voice_us1_mbrola\) Thanks but no joy, festival: Unknown option "-eval" Same for --eval $ echo "Hello World" | festival --tts --eval \(voice_us1_mbrola\) festival: Unknown option "-eval" I'll try the festival mailing list Cheers P. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gr

[SLUG] Traffic Shaping Advice

2004-04-13 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Implementing a Linux gateway via DSL I'd like to do some traffic shaping and have been googling up some info, some of which is conflicting and some questions still remain un-answered so I thought I'd ask the collective wisdom of Slug. I'd like to rate limit the bandwidth available for

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

2004-04-14 Thread Peter Rundle
Malcolm V wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 23:52, Stephen Reynolds wrote: Why is K3b so slow to launch in Mandrake 9.2? I have two CD drives, a CD-RW and a CD-R. When I launch K3b it takes an age to launch while it tells me it is scanning drives. When it eventually fires up I get a message box tellin

[SLUG] Recording sound currently being played

2004-04-19 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, I've got an application that plays sounds that I'd like to capture into a .wav or similar file. Problem is the application doesn't have a file output option, it's just sending the data to /dev/dsp. Does anyone know of a way that I can "capture" the sound being played to the audio outp

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