Re: [SLUG] Website

I agree with you Heracles. In fact not one of the menu items (on the top of the page) works. Most pages simple tell the world that nginx is being used as the web server. A bit sad really. Regards, Rick On 09/09/15 23:12, Heracles wrote: I must congratulate the webmaster for turning an

Re: [SLUG] Recommendations for Australian Based VPS

On 26/03/15 07:57, Jake Anderson wrote: On 25/03/15 10:15, Rick Phillips wrote: Hi all, I run a small hosting service for about a dozen rural based customers. I will be moving my premises to a new site but have to wait until construction is completed. My premises are sold and under contract

[SLUG] Recommendations for Australian Based VPS

Hi all, I run a small hosting service for about a dozen rural based customers. I will be moving my premises to a new site but have to wait until construction is completed. My premises are sold and under contract so I need to find a temporary home for my services. A VPS is probably the best

Re: [SLUG] WiFi problem.

at the software in Windows for the solution to your problem. Happy hunting. Regards, Rick Phillips -- 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] Kmail 2

Hi Gerald, On my workstation. I have PCLinuxOS 2012.06-64 bit na kmail2 just does not work. No error messages it just does not send or receive mails. I appear to have it set up correctly but nothing happens. It does appear that Kwallet is not there although it is installed, and the only

Re: [SLUG] updated kernel causing problems

Hi Thanks all. Much appreciated. For future reference in the archives I did the following... rpm -qa | grep kernel yum erase kernel-2.6.XX then rebooted. All clean and nice. Do another yum update to make sure the erased kernel isn't going to be reinstalled. I don't know

Re: [SLUG] notebook Linux distro suggestion?

Voytek, I have a user with Win7 notebook, I'm trying to encourage them to 'try a Linux', what Live USB/SD boot distro should I get them to try ? Try the Zorin-OS 5 installable live DVD. The menu system is very Win 7 like and it is also a nice distro to use. Will even boot a Macbook. Lots of

Re: [SLUG] KDE gui package manger in Debian

We ended up settling on Mandriva, my son is able to keep it up to date and install software through easy gui tools. It installed easily, everything worked and with the PLF repo's we have everything we could want software wise. I have found urmpi to be a capable alternative to apt. I'm so

Re: [SLUG] Tape Backups and Scripting

Hi James, I've attached a rewritten, but logically similar script you can try...or not :) DISCLAIMER: it is untried - I don't have a tape-equipped Linux system to test on! I like scripting and your approach is a fairly common and relaxed way to run a backup. Not needing to do hot

[SLUG] Tape Backups and Scripting

Please excuse my use of HTML formatting - it's the only way I could fit the script as written. I, probably like most, have only ever used tar for uncompressing files but have never actually used it with tape drives. We have a brand spanking new top of the range Dell server with 1.6Tb of disc

[SLUG] Release for CentOS-5.6 i386 and x86_64 - for those who might be interested

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.6 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. CentOS-5.6 is based on the upstream release EL 5.6 and includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier

Re: [SLUG] Travelling Overeseas - USB Modems

Hi Paul, I'm currently travelling around Europe, and I've been buying pre-paid sim cards for internet access in almost every country I've spent more than a few days in. I've been using both my phone (Nokia N85) tethered via a usb cable, and my Huawei E169 USB 3G adaptor which I bought

[SLUG] Travelling Overeseas - USB Modems

I presume some people on this list travel to the UK and Europe. We will be travelling in Europe on a guided tour where the use of free internet in coffee lounges is not an option and my experience of a couple of years ago was that buying Internet time in the hotels where we stayed was

Re: [SLUG] Backups

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:54 PM, james j...@tigger.ws wrote: I've spent many hours with pencil and paper, I certain, but am asking in case someone older-n-wiser can offer sage words: If I want to backup a system for n days, and be able to recover any particular days files the

Re: [SLUG] mysql restore

Hi Ben, I'm doing a mysql restore to a new server that has a mysql database on it. As in just installed mysql. show databases shows two databases mysql and information_schema. My backups from a previous server has many db's including two called mysql and information_schema. Do I

Re: [SLUG] Linux Print Payment Solutions

Hi Paul, I'm trying to find a Linux based solution that enables users to pay for print jobs. Solutions exist for Windows and Mac but I can't find anything suitable for Linux. Perhaps my Google foo is weak, but I can't seem to find anything that fits the bill. The closest is a library

Re: [SLUG] Perl Modules

1. Which distro is it? CentOS 5.4 and yes, I have followed the recipe. Strangely, on this install, things haven't gone well 2. Have you looked for distro packages for RT? Yes but they are older than I want/need i.e. they are out of date. Are you referring to RPMForge

[SLUG] Perl Modules

I am trying to install RT (Request Tracker) on a new server but have found myself in Perl dependency hell. RT uses a lot of Perl modules but I have successfully installed RT a few times and for some reason this one is harder than usual. I have another server with the identical environment with

[SLUG] IPTables

I am not very good at IPTables and was seeking opinions as to whether this formula would work to fully block a connection from computer A to B but allow ssh and web only from B to A. The tables would reside on A. iptables -A INPUT -m multiport -p tcp --dport www,ssh -i ethX -j ACCEPT iptables -A

Re: [SLUG] IPTables

HI Dean You most likely want to allow outbound dns and the subsequent reply Keep in mind that blocking outbound usually requires a few more allowances than just the basic service you plan the box to provide. NTP also springs to mind, so that you can keep the clock in sync. You can also

Re: [SLUG] Penetration Test

Daniel, First, let me say that I am sorry you didn't appreciate the response, and the implied criticism of your plan. It was absolutely not my intention to offend, but rather to continue to question my own assumptions in the face of someone who disagreed with me. I regret that my

[SLUG] Penetration Test

Would any member be interested in conducting a penetration test of a server I administer? If so, please contact me off list and I will explain the circumstances. Thanks, Rick Phillips -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] Penetration Test

Just of out of interest, what kind of server are you talking about ? It's a CentOS 5.4 box. Briefly, we have been running this server for 5 years principally to serve learning materials to students. Initially, the server was sanctioned by the Education Department and it has grown in

Re: [SLUG] Asus Eee PC 900

Hi Leslie, A friend who had one of the above, but thought it unsuitable, gave it to me. I find it very suitable for certain things and want to continue using it. However, it came with Windows XP and I'd prefer to run Linux on it. At the same time, I don't want to wipe XP and then find the

[SLUG] BBC News: 40 Years of Unix

BBC News is running a front page story about how Unix turns 40 this month. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8205976.stm I think it's pretty amazing to see the 40th birthday of Unix get such high-profile exposure... Regards, Rick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Scripting mystery

James, Searching for works from command line but not via cron shows that you're not alone :) Usually, this stems from the fact that cron doesn't execute your various shell initialisation scripts - ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.login, etc. A common problem is thus that $PATH

Re: [SLUG] Burn .ISO to install USB

Kyle, As I say, I haven't used UNetBootin because it apparently only supports Debian based distros and I run a RedHat based distro. I'm trying to put eeeBuntu on the Netbook. Dunno where you got that information from. I run Mandriva (RPM based ex Red Hat a long time ago) and it works just

[SLUG] Scripting mystery

Apologies for the HTML posting - it is necessary to get the command scripting to show more correctly. All of the commands in the script are one liners. I have a situation I am trying to deal with via automation .i.e.cron. The story to be brief is this - my boss is paranoid about security. A

Re: [SLUG] Clients accessing web server

I have never allowed FTP, SFTP nor SSH access to the server for security reasons (other than myself) but this customer wants to directly edit his new web site from time to time. We had a very similar prob on a machine running many guest hosts on Linux Vserver. It was trivial to set

[SLUG] Clients accessing web server

I have a small mail and web server which is used by some paying customers and also some friends. It currently is running Mandriva Server 3 which is getting old and I am in the throws of setting up a new server using Centos 5.2. Most of the web based stuff that I serve is based on Joomla but one

Re: [SLUG] scanner for Linux

Hi Lisa, My HP3300C A4 flatbed scanner has just died, and I am seeking something to replace it. Can anyone advise on a currently available scanner that will work with Linux? New or second-hand is OK. My venerable HP Scanjet 2100C died recently and I purchased an Epson Perfection V350

Re: [SLUG] Recovering data from failed hard drive

Leslie, My two-week-old sole hard drive has failed. I know this is more than a software thing, because the drive's not found either during boot-up or by fdisk. The clincher is that it keeps making a sound like the sound that you hear from someone's iPod earphones when you're sitting next

Re: [SLUG] Uptime logging

Peter, why not rather ping with just a few packets, and datestamp it? Something like, while : do date ping -c 3 a,b.c.d sleep 60 done logfile Thank you - that's perfect. I have changed the intervals a bit to ping every 5

Re: [SLUG] Uptime logging

Jeff Waugh wrote: Even better, install collectd and use its ping plugin -- now you can do the same thing, but with beautiful (and *SIMPLE*) graph output. :-) Or you could use Nagios and have the alert notification send a form letter to the person concerned every time it went

[SLUG] Uptime logging

or even insert an hourly stamp in between lines? Thanks in advance. Rick Phillips -- 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] Just Works flatbed scanner for Hardy (standalone or multifunction)

Mandriva, an RPM was there and the unit just worked after RPM install. Epson seems to have better support than most through the AVASYS site. The SANE site is well out of date for most scanner drivers. Rick Phillips -- The manual said Windows 98 or better so I installed Linux With sufficient

Re: [SLUG] Can I be comfortable with this log message

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 14:01 +1000, Michael Chesterton wrote: On 17/04/2008, at 6:09 AM, Rick Phillips wrote: 1 possible successful probes /long_path_to_file/../../../etc/passwd HTTP Response 200 With the environment (described above) in place, should I be worried

[SLUG] Can I be comfortable with this log message

I run my own web server and have done so for a number of years. The OS is Mandriva Server 3 which is now 3 years old but still supported and I keep it fully patched and up to date. I receive the security advisories and act within hours on those. I have recently updated OpenSSH. I am planning

Re: [SLUG] image content management

Gallery has worked well for me on several web sites. I have used both the version 1 and version 2 series with good success. The version 1 series IMHO is the easiest for personal sites. Version 1 is a doddle to set up. 2 is a little harder but not much. You can find them here

Re: [SLUG] support for Dell 725 printer?

Amos, We got a free Dell 725 printer when I bought a desktop a few months ago but we can't make our Windows ME (an old laptop we want to use in the office) to talk to it, we can't install Windows XP on that ancient laptop, and now that I wanted to finally install Ubuntu on it I discovered on

Re: [SLUG] BWOI: Hi

2003 auto starts. It has been three months and not a service call needed. Rick Phillips -- 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] On buying a colour printer.

models as well. Regards, Rick Phillips -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Domain Name Servers

and the boss does not want anything other than a web port open to the world. My experience has always been that the server in question is at least the primary DNS. Is this possible or do we have to think again? Rick Phillips -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Domain Name Servers

Jeremy, This seems to contradict your previous statement. If you don't wish this server in question with the sensitive information, to run DNS services, why not set up the configuration that you already established as probable, with the DNS hosted entirely by different servers? I don't

[SLUG] Using Perl scripts to send mail

I have a friend who uses my server as a host for his volunteer organisation. Being a coder by profession he has done his own thing with perl to construct his whole web site. We have a query about mail. The scenario is that people who wish to act as volunteers fill out a web based form which

Re: [SLUG] Compiz Fusion vs Beryl

Lee, Which one of the following is more stable Compiz Fusion or Beryl. I have always found Compiz to be the most stable but that's become a moot point as the two have re-merged and this new merged offering is a part of the soon to be released Mandriva 2008.0 I have been beta testing the

Re: [SLUG] access to internal web server

Hi Ben, Oh, I do love this one :) I searched for an easy answer for a long time and everyone gave me help which was both convoluted and difficult to implement. When I choose the www.sitewhatever.com.au address (not the internal 192.168.x.x) it goes to the ADSL modem. That's from internal.

Re: [SLUG] access to internal web server

James, Nope, I run Gallery too and it all works. I can upload internally to the server just by having the entry in /etc/hosts. The answer is so simple and it works very well. No need for internal and external views in DNS - been there, done that and it is too complex for a lot of

Re: [SLUG] Programming language

phpSurveyor which is a very powerful web based tool which builds many different types of questionnaires including multiple choice, how do you rate etc. It is fairly easy to use and can produce statistics. It is (obviously) php and mySql based - easy to set up as well. See http://www.phpsurveyor.org/ Rick

Re: [SLUG] Programming language

Davie I can see why it is obviously PHP based, but why would it obviously use MySQL - it could use, for example, Postgresql... DSL You could use Postgresql. I really meant the obviously to be paired with the php. Tsk - the English language can cause problems some times if we are not oh