[SLUG] backing with rsync after ssh root disabled: permission denied

2006-02-14 Thread Voytek Eymont
I was using like: rsync -avze [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home /home to backup the server, after disabling root's ssh, I tried: rsync -avze [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home /home however, that fails as 'myself' has insufficient permissions; what the best way to handle this ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Use

Re: [SLUG] blocking recurrent attempted access ?

2006-02-13 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Tue, February 14, 2006 2:25 pm, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Glen Turner wrote: > One word of caution, esp if you are using a laptop; make sure that your > private key on your lappy is passphrase encoded. It will be the same from > any site you might access from but it does lock out casual passi

Re: [SLUG] blocking recurrent attempted access ?

2006-02-13 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Tue, February 14, 2006 11:52 am, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 12:05:25PM +1100, Dave Kempe wrote: >> Voytek Eymont wrote: > You probably want DenyHosts : http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ > But you're far better off whitelisting than blacklisting,

[SLUG] blocking recurrent attempted access ?

2006-02-13 Thread Voytek Eymont
as of few weeks ago, my log watch has swollen up well over 500k, full of dictionary ? attempted atacks like below: is there much I can do ? like to prevent multiple attempts from same IP ? RH73, ipchains --- Failed logins from these: root/password from 202.30.108.64: 85 ti

Sablotron/ xml Re: [SLUG] rpm vs source install, backlevel version, any gotchas ?

2006-01-26 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Wed, January 25, 2006 12:56 pm, Rob Sharp wrote: > You might be interested in some benchmarks for various parsers: > http://xmlbench.sourceforge.net/results/benchmark/ > In the XSLT benchmarks, Expat+Sablotron appear considerably slower > than libxml + libxslt. YMMV. > > From memory, PHP is n

Re: [SLUG] ocassional network failure: network unreachable

2006-01-26 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Thu, January 26, 2006 9:58 pm, Chris Deigan wrote: > quote("Voytek Eymont"); > In that case you'll have to set a default gateway, you can do this on a > one-time basis with route: route add default gw router.ip.address Chris, thanks, that got me going, BUT,

Re: [SLUG] ocassional network failure: network unreachable

2006-01-26 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Thu, January 26, 2006 8:21 pm, Chris Deigan wrote: > quote("Voytek Eymont"); >> but, now that I powered up the ocassional machine, I can't get past the >> router... what am I missing...? >> >> I can ping the router, but, when I try to go outside,

Re: [SLUG] Fedora vs RH Enterprise - consultants advising to change

2006-01-26 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Thu, January 26, 2006 12:03 am, O Plameras wrote: > Simon wrote: >> AT the risk of starting a flamewar.I am being advised by >> consultants that I need to 'upgrade' my Fedora Core servers to RH >> Enterprise as it >> is 'more robust', 'better supported', 'easier to upgrade' etc etc. We are

[SLUG] ocassional network failure: network unreachable

2006-01-26 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have a RH73 that I ocassionally power up, initially, it was on a 192.168.x.x LAN/router, subsequently, the router was replaced with a 10.1.1.x unit, I manually edited setup (from 192. subnet to 10. subnet), and, as far as I recall, it was working at that time... I think it was.. but, now that I

[SLUG] rpm vs source install, backlevel version, any gotchas ?

2006-01-24 Thread Voytek Eymont
I needed to install some additional PHP functionality on RH73, specifically, 'xslt' as it is, the functionality is provided by package 'sablot' as I couldn't find rpm for the required 'sablot' and 'expat' (pre-req); I downloaded source and compiled both expat ver.2 and sablot 1.02 of course, as

Re: [SLUG] rpm looping dependencies

2006-01-24 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Wed, January 25, 2006 11:30 am, O Plameras wrote: > Voytek Eymont wrote: > advisable (As this may result in lose of software functionality at the very > least or even lose of employment under extreme circumstances.). >> php = 4.3.4 is needed by php-mysql-4.3.4-3.mortenp.rh73

[SLUG] rpm looping dependencies

2006-01-24 Thread Voytek Eymont
what's the best way to update php and it's dependencies with rpm ? # rpm -U php-4.3.8-1.mortenp.rh73.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: php = 4.3.4 is needed by php-standalone-4.3.4-3.mortenp.rh73 php = 4.3.4 is needed by php-mysql-4.3.4-3.mortenp.rh73 php = 4.3.4 is need

Re: [SLUG] PHP XSLT help

2006-01-24 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Tue, January 24, 2006 8:22 pm, Michael Chesterton wrote: > "Voytek Eymont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Check that you have "extension=php_xsl.dll" in php.ini and that > phpinfo() says "XSL enabled", otherwise I have no idea. thanks, Michael,

[SLUG] PHP XSLT help

2006-01-24 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm trying to install a PHP application, in the stated requirements it says it needs PHP with XSLT support; according to phpinfo I have: PHP Version 4.3.4 Configure Command ... '--enable-xslt=shared' '--with-xslt-sablot=/usr' ... I guess that means I have XSLT ? I'm not sure if I have all it

Re: [SLUG] Timezone/Daylight savings query.

2006-01-01 Thread Voytek Eymont
my 'up-to-dated' RH73 falls in the former category, Mar 25/26 is there a way to hand correct that ? On Sat, December 31, 2005 6:02 pm, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Rather looks that way. When did you last run an update? I think it is > part of the glibc package. Here's the one off the latest FC4:

Re: [SLUG] Timezone/Daylight savings query.

2005-12-30 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Sat, December 31, 2005 2:00 pm, Voytek Eymont wrote: > > On Sat, December 31, 2005 1:46 pm, Chris Deigan wrote: > >> ntpdate -s au.pool.ntp.org > > thanks, Chris, yes, I rogot the '-s' oops, I'm still missing something, /var/log/messages has: Dec 31 13:5

Re: [SLUG] Timezone/Daylight savings query.

2005-12-30 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Sat, December 31, 2005 1:46 pm, Chris Deigan wrote: > ntpdate -s au.pool.ntp.org thanks, Chris, yes, I rogot the '-s' > > On 12/31/05, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.

Re: [SLUG] Timezone/Daylight savings query.

2005-12-30 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Sat, December 31, 2005 12:18 pm, Ken Foskey wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 09:04 +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: > ntp is network time protocol. It keeps UTC in sync not daylight savings > which is offset from UTC. > > ntpd will only reset the clock by a few microseconds. you

Re: [SLUG] Timezone/Daylight savings query.

2005-12-30 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Sat, December 31, 2005 7:57 am, Michael Fox wrote: > Hi, > > > Someone mentioned something that I thought might be relevant to a few > others. Basically we all know the /usr/share/timezone/Australia/Sydney is > encoded with relevant daylight savings changes. on this subject, apart from the fac

[SLUG] ot: [Fwd: Please vote against software patents]

2005-10-20 Thread Voytek Eymont
just in case this is of interest Original Message Subject: Please vote against software patents From:"Norbert Bollow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Fri, October 21, 2005 7:19 am ---

[SLUG] oscommerce b2b ?

2005-08-24 Thread Voytek Eymont
Any oscommerce experts here ? I need to install oscommerce for a b2b/wholesaler use, with access to prices only for predefined customers, I see there are some plugins towards achieving that, just curious if anyone here done anything like that, what with -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] is a floppy inserted ?

2005-06-14 Thread Voytek Eymont
how do I asses %subject% (from remote acces) -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] BusyBox ADSL routers

2005-06-08 Thread Voytek Eymont
I've just set up a DLink G604, I was pleasantly surprised to find the box had a GPL licence inluded inside. anyhow, telnetting to the device, it anwsered with: 'BusyBox v0.61.pre (2005.02.25-04:09+) Built-in shell (ash)' hmmm, so this is an embeded Linux router, I guess. any 'useful things'

[SLUG] system binaries attempt to exec on login ?

2005-05-24 Thread Voytek Eymont
I've copied some system binaries from one system to another, scp (as root) through my /home/voytek dir, then, copied to wherever they were supposed to live, /bin, /usr/bin, and, chmoded as ---x-- that worked fine, EXCEPT, now, when I ssh to the system, I get this when I log in as root, I don'

[SLUG] not so good ouchstats

2005-05-21 Thread Voytek Eymont
I just found how my server was exploited, through awstats. even though I've set it as per warning to dissalow browser updates: # grep 'AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=1' * # grep 'AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=0' * awstats.common:AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=0 awstats.conf:AllowToUpdateStatsFromBr

[SLUG] recursive tree log grep ?

2005-05-21 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have tree like: /home/domain.tld/logs/ /home/domain2.tld/logs/ ... how do i run a grep across all logs, as in 'grep a-string /home/*/logs/*' -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] clamd dead but subsys locked

2005-05-20 Thread Voytek Eymont
I've just tried to update my clamd but it fails to start now: # service clamd start Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon:[ OK ] # service clamd status clamd dead but subsys locked messages has: May 20 23:06:08 koala clamd[25045]: clamd daemon 0.85.1 (OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: i

[SLUG] command line file sending ?

2005-05-19 Thread Voytek Eymont
what the easiest way to send files from command line: - text 'in line' - text as attachament - binary files " for text, I'm currently using 'mail' with '~rfilename' (which generaly works once I remeber to use ~r) -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] auto reponder advice sought

2005-04-10 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have Postfix/CourierIMAP/Squirrel, one of user would like an auto-reponder, what the simplest/easiest way to set it, preferably, with self-admin if possible -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mail

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Voytek Eymont
> I am just about to try my hand at setting up an email server on fedora 3. Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program that is cheap, effective and simple to setup? I'm using Postfix & amavisd with clamav and BitDefender free edition simple to setup ? it was a lot easier to setup than a fri

Re: [SLUG] anti virus

2005-03-22 Thread Voytek Eymont
> I am just about to try my hand at setting up an email server on fedora 3. > Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program that is cheap, effective > and simple to setup? I'm using Postfix & amavisd with clamav and BitDefender free edition -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Maili

[SLUG] reg exp q on eml

2005-03-21 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have something like this in my header checks: /^Content-(Disposition|Type):\s+.+?(?:file)?name="?.+?\.(386|ad[ept]|app|as[dpx]|ba[st]|bin|btm|cab|cbt|cgi|chm|cil|cla(ss)?|cmd|cp[el]|crt|cs[chs]|cvp|dll|dot|drv|em(ai)?l|ex[_e]|fon|fxp|hlp|ht[ar]|in[fips]|isp|jar|jse?|keyreg|ksh|lib|lnk|md[abetw]|

[SLUG] typo3 developer ?

2005-02-24 Thread Voytek Eymont
if there is anyone here familiar with typo3 cms, pls email me off list -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] WRT54g Speedboost ?

2005-02-09 Thread Voytek Eymont
(I'm sort of thinking about getting for own use a WLAN;) looking at Linksys range, I see they now have WRT54G as well as WRT54G with 'Speedboost' how relevant is the Speedboost thing once a 3rd party firmware is applied to the device ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

[SLUG] mixed case web tree

2005-02-08 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have a web user who seems to insist on using mIxEd caSE files/tree... he asked me to symlink '/path/lowercase' to real '/path/LOWERCASE' will that work properly, what do you fellow think ? Original Message We're a little concerned about

[SLUG] ftp upload facilities for 'certain users'

2005-01-30 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm using ProFTPd, my 'webuser' has fpt access to his web root he now needs to allow his contractors to upload files to him, (rather than email attachement) what the best way to accomplish that: I am thinking of creating an 'ftpuser' (not anonymous) with a password that he will give to his contr

[SLUG] perl upgrade, mysql support missing

2004-12-30 Thread Voytek Eymont
after upgrading Perl, it seems i'm missing some libraries: -- Can't locate Mysql.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /u

[SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-23 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm looking at some date/time values in an MySQL tables that are represented like: 1076022093 1076020027 1081207440 are these... the *nix seconds things ? how can I interactively convert a single value to human readable format ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http:

[SLUG] scripting ftp login

2004-10-12 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have a simple backup script like: cd /home for i in *.* ; do echo 'now processing' $i tar cfz $i.tar.gz /home/$i echo 'finished processing' $i done - at completion, I'd like to login to ftp and mput *.gz; how do I script ftp user/pass/commands ? -- Voytek

[SLUG] remotely removing attachments from stored mail files ?

2004-10-01 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have a remote mail/web server that I get my mail from. I do not have any email client configured (to my knowledge) on this host; I have large attachements sent as email, that I need on the web server, what can I run against the stored email file to detach attachments on the remote server, to sav

[SLUG] script to insert data into MySQL

2004-09-05 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have a REXX script that inserts 'tide events' from tide tool into MySQL table, essentially it parses tide's output into event/date/time/height, and, inserts into MySQL table. I'm guessing it could be just a shell script to do it, rather than my current script. (and, suspect the writing the shell

[SLUG] mounting HPFS: not supported by kernel

2004-09-04 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm trying to mount an HPFS disk, but get: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# mount -t auto /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# mount -t auto /dev/hda5 /mnt/os2 mount: fs type hpfs not supported by kernel if I wanted to mount an HPFS drive... does tha mean I need to ... recompile the kernel ? --

[SLUG] USB memory storage devices

2004-09-04 Thread Voytek Eymont
how do I determine whether this RH8 has support for USB MSD ? and, how do I mount it ? -- Voytek -- 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] 'named' problems (dns)

2004-08-28 Thread Voytek Eymont
> And you shouldn't need to restart BIND to make any changes, if you have > rndc > set up correctly then 'rndc reconfig' to reload any changes to named.conf > and 'rndc reload domain' to reload the zone without interrupting > nameservice. Jamie, I have # rpm -q bind bind-9.2.1-1.7x.2 # rndc

[SLUG] pdf problems with IE and Linux Apache

2004-08-25 Thread Voytek Eymont
perhaps someone might have some ideas: I have transferred a user site from my Apache OS/2 server to Linux Apache 1.3x; it's an HTML/ flash 'static' site. everything is working OK, EXCEPT: the user has several directories with PDFs, these do not have a top level HTML page, just a bunch of PDFs in

[SLUG] testing for file existanace, and an 'and' in a script

2004-08-18 Thread Voytek Eymont
I want to check if two files exists, if so, run awstats, how do I put an 'and', and, is that the way to check it ? if [ -s /home/$DOMAIN/logs/2004-$j-$i-access.rog ] AND [ -s /etc/awstats/awstats.www.$DOMAIN.conf ]; then /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=www.$DOMAIN -update f

[SLUG] trailing comments in scripts ok ?

2004-08-18 Thread Voytek Eymont
are trailing comments OK to use ? as in: esac # this is this and not that Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] sending output to both screen and log file, how ?

2004-08-18 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have something like: echo "$now $0 executed for $DOMAIN on in $exectime sec" >> /var/log/awstats.log how can I also send it to screen without repeating the echo line ? Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.

[SLUG] lowercasing file names, directory names, how ?

2004-08-10 Thread Voytek Eymont
how can I lowercase: all file names ? all directory names ? recursively ? I have user's web data in miXED CAse, and, I think I'd rather lower case it now I've found this: # apropos lowercase iswlower (3) - test for lowercase wide character towlower (3) - convert a wide

[SLUG] allowing web users change their ftp password remotely, how ?

2004-08-01 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have several web users, all they have is an ftp access to their webpages, no shell access. what would be the simplest way to setup so they can alter their own password ? I guess it can be done with webmin/usermin... though, all I need is the password edit, I suspect they may be some web script

[SLUG] Apache log processing & logresolve, awstats

2004-07-23 Thread Voytek Eymont
thanks for the loop scripts for my catch up logresolving ! I'm catching up on log processing, BUT: I'm trying to (finally..) complete my web log processing and reporting. I'm using cronolog to split web logs, most vhosts have something like: CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/cronolog /home/domain_name.tld/l

[SLUG] ot: syslogd for windoze ? t/s BP cable with dlink 704

2004-07-22 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have a user with win98 on telstra BP cable with dlink 704p; he looses connectivity apparently once a day or so; after he power cycles everything, it's OK again on a couple of ocassions he tried to power cycle cable modem only; on one ocassion it did fix it, on another, it didn't he says before d

[SLUG] simple runfor loop, how ?

2004-07-22 Thread Voytek Eymont
just another dumb question: I often use a 'runfor' utility, which I do not seem to have on the Linux machine, how do I make a simple loop to catch up processing of web logs with logresolve: I have a bunch of web logs in the format of: 2004-05-31-access.log 2004-06-26-access.log 2004-07-11-acce

Re: [SLUG] neophyte considering Xandros as a way out of Windows

2004-06-19 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from SL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:37:10 +1000 > The modem is a D-Link ADSL modem DSL-302G > connected by USB (as directed by TPG). > HOWEVER!... a bit of preliminary homework...incl looking at some > screenshots of Xandrossuggests to me that I am going to

[SLUG] ram/swapper usage criteria

2004-01-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm not really sure how to asses RH's swapper usage, since increasing PHP values, my swapper usage increased somewhat, how much swapper usage should I see before deciding to get some additional RAM ?? 10:53pm up 55 days, 9:13, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 111 processes: 110 slee

[SLUG] upgrading PHP: Apache 1.3x, RH7.3, RPMs

2004-01-12 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have PHP Version 4.1.2 on RH7.3 Apache 1.3x, which is about the latest PHP build as available from RH RPMs via RHN; I'd like to install a more recent PHP build with the current Apache 1.3x; as it seems I can not get it from rhn's RPM, what do other do in similar predicament ? does the PHP binar

[SLUG] Imagemagick and GIF, how

2003-12-24 Thread Voytek Eymont
How do I enable support for compressed GIFs in Imagemagick ? I have Imagemagick that came with RH73 that doesn't support GIFs, Version: @(#)ImageMagick 5.4.3 03/05/02 Q:16 http://www.imagemagick.org Copyright: Copyright (C) 2002 ImageMagick Studio LLC looking at IM's home page it says: --- Not

[SLUG] editing ISO Latin2 8859-2

2003-11-24 Thread Voytek Eymont
text ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] does cron runs as root ? cron's home dir ?

2003-11-22 Thread Voytek Eymont
oot1 Sep 13 22:34 /root/.disableXTidediscl aimer # ls -l /etc/cron.daily -rwxr-xr-x1 root webmaste 97 Nov 5 22:54 tide_daily # ls -l /etc/cron.daily/tide_daily -rwxr-xr-x1 root webmaste 97 Nov 5 22:54 /etc/cron.daily/tide_dai ly Voytek Eymont -- SLUG

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

2003-11-17 Thread Voytek Eymont
it must be the (external) firewall, I'll wait till it's looked at thanks, Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] enabling ntpd through firewall ?

2003-11-12 Thread Voytek Eymont
ble to get time from these server, I though I'll use them for now) Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] cron entry troubleshooting: missing libpath ?

2003-11-05 Thread Voytek Eymont
ib/qt-3.0.5/lib /usr/local/lib I should then : REMOVE ? whole last line I added, OR, EDIT ? to '/usr/lib' ? I'll wait till 4 am to see what happens.. thanks again Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Recommended .com.au registrar

2003-10-23 Thread Voytek Eymont
> incredible acumen and skill, but you never know, do you? it's my understanding that even if your regisrar goes belly up, the names will be registered for the full 2 years, regardless, Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Telstra bigpond adsl Mandrake 9.1

2003-10-10 Thread Voytek Eymont
d ADSL and T-supplied Alcatel SpeedTouch I'll need a winblows computer to configure the router... (They also told me I'd better of with winblows as mac are really not very good on networks...) Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http:/

OS 9 ? RE: [SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open

2003-10-08 Thread Voytek Eymont
with my experience. Rachel, how different is OS 9, is it still *nix based ? (I just learned my Macs are Imacs using OS 9 ) Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open

2003-10-07 Thread Voytek Eymont
er > > Tom and, thanks everyone ! with what I learned today, combined with the little O;Reilly MacOSx booklet I picked, I feel better now Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open

2003-10-06 Thread Voytek Eymont
ak would be prone to some of the MS malware there is ? anyhow, any advice appreciated, apologise for this far off topic, perhaps replies might be directed directly to me if that is too far off here Voytek Eymont Checked for Virus's by Asoft Email Scan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gr

[SLUG] de-duping history file, will I break anything

2003-10-05 Thread Voytek Eymont
tory stack ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] dealing with a 'locked up' machine B4 big red switch ?

2003-09-30 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 29 Sep 2003 18:52:51 +1000 > I'm not sure if it's present in standard distribution kernels, but it > may be worth trying the alt-sysrq key combos. Peter, yes, RH73 includes the magic key combo, yes, it works, t

Re: [SLUG] dealing with a 'locked up' machine B4 big red switch ?

2003-09-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
nd the like: I finally flipped the switch to send my mail over to a RH/Postfix host, with some of the UCE /BL stuff enabled, only to find any traffic to me via the backup MX server, a teltra.net mail host gets bounced ny my own Postfix as the telstra host is apparently both an open relay, as well as

Re: [SLUG] dealing with a 'locked up' machine B4 big red switch ?

2003-09-29 Thread Voytek Eymont
c/sys/kernel/sysrq # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq 1 anyhow, as I do not have physical access to the machine at this time, I best leave it alone at this point, though, I'll try tommorow as it was, I ended reaching for the big red switch, even though, it was neither red nor big. it actually came u

[SLUG] kill procesname, how ?

2003-09-22 Thread Voytek Eymont
ality, all I want is to reload the config, for that can I just send 'sighup' instead of kill/start ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] PALM

2003-09-20 Thread Voytek Eymont
or telnet/www AS for installing Linux on Palm, I have no idea. Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Too early for easy PDA Linux installs?

2003-09-17 Thread Voytek Eymont
hardware is half the price of Palm hardware and twice as powerful ? if so, can you pls elaborate a little on the 'twice as powerful' assertion ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ot: web/php doc management system ? doc imaging system

2003-09-13 Thread Voytek Eymont
e doc management. I guess I should;ve included aboce info in my original post, sorry. Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ot: web/php doc management system ? doc imaging system ?

2003-09-13 Thread Voytek Eymont
maging system ? > > I'd say gallery(.org) is best for this. > http://slug.org.au/gallery/ is powered by Gallery. thanks, I'll follow that. what I'm after is scanning single and multi page docs containg text and/or images, I guess something not unlike Caere's Pagekeepe

[SLUG] ot: web/php doc management system ? doc imaging system ?

2003-09-13 Thread Voytek Eymont
any suggestions/recommandation for a web/php doc managment system ? what about a doc imaging system ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Telnet

2003-09-12 Thread Voytek Eymont
> I had to actually install a telnet server. Is ssh some sort of > extension of telnet? I didn't seem to have to install a ssh server? most linux distros have sshd as a default enabled, telnetd, disabled try 'ssh localhost' Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User'

[SLUG] pipe into convert resize ?

2003-09-12 Thread Voytek Eymont
how do I pipe into 'convert' to resize an output image from another tool? I have tide -l sydney -f p -m g >tide.png and convert -resize 480x120 tide.png small_tide.png but I'm not having much success pipeing one into the other Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux U

Re: [SLUG] Telnet

2003-09-12 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Chris Deigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:10:41 +0800 > Otherwise look at X forwarding. is that like running remote X ? how much bandwith does one needs for usable remote X/KDE ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slu

Re: [SLUG] Telnet

2003-09-12 Thread Voytek Eymont
s root. Is it not > possible to telnet to a machine as root? I believe not, if you use telnet, telnet as as a user, then su (I don;t think you're supposed to use telnet, but, ssh) Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] seg fault in passwd, can I 'rpm passwd' ?

2003-09-10 Thread Voytek Eymont
6744072216379392, 0xbfff8040, SEEK_SET) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argu ment) write(2, "(data fseek failed): Invalid arg"..., 38(data fseek failed): Invalid a rgument ) = 38 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Syd

Re: [SLUG] seg fault in passwd, can I 'rpm passwd' ?

2003-09-09 Thread Voytek Eymont
gcc and all dependancies as identified by rpm, and, then, it 'just worked'. Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Server Stats

2003-09-09 Thread Voytek Eymont
'mrtg' might do what you want. there is a script that will calculate traffice bewteen specified dates Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] seg fault in passwd, can I 'rpm passwd' ?

2003-09-09 Thread Voytek Eymont
segfault but a lib that pam > uses might cause it if its faulty. > > What was the alst thing that was upgraded or changed on your system? Postfix, BUT, the 'passwd' has been broken for a while now Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] seg fault in passwd, can I 'rpm passwd' ?

2003-09-09 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:29:25 > how can I 'verify' the pam_stack.so ? I've now also d/l 'pam-0.75-46.7.3.i386.rpm', then, deleted '/lib/security/pam_stack.so', then, extracted 'pam_stac

Re: [SLUG] seg fault in passwd, can I 'rpm passwd' ?

2003-09-09 Thread Voytek Eymont
12471 Feb 7 2003 /lib/security/pam_stack. so how can I 'verify' the pam_stack.so ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] seg fault in passwd, can I 'rpm passwd' ?

2003-09-09 Thread Voytek Eymont
lts then. Mike yes: # su voytek $ passwd Changing password for user voytek. Changing password for voytek (current) UNIX password: New password: (data fseek failed): Invalid argument Segmentation fault $ I've already removed and reinstalled 'passwd-0.67-1.i386.rpm' though it doesn&#

[SLUG] seg fault in passwd, can I 'rpm passwd' ?

2003-09-09 Thread Voytek Eymont
tfix by re-installing Postfix, hence, I'm thinking I should do same with 'passwd') Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] how to re-install RH73 with minimum disruption

2003-09-08 Thread Voytek Eymont
ated was a pre-req dependency; I then 'rpm installed' everyting I remove in previous step in reverse order. then, it 'just worked' (much to my surprise, though, I won;t admit to the surprise part) Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] how to re-install RH73 with minimum disruption

2003-09-08 Thread Voytek Eymont
s is a RH73 with all relevant 'up2date' installed do I boot from RH7.3 CD, select 'UPGRADE', DESELECT apps, following completion run 'up2date' ? OR ? RH 'upgrade' preservers all /etc and /home, as far as I know? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux U

Re: [SLUG] Postfix, SMTP, ipchains firwall or postfix.conf ?

2003-09-08 Thread Voytek Eymont
yes, I did have it wrong, though, it didn't help. HOWEVER, as I've run out of ideas, I ended re-installing Postfix, and, guess what: I can now telnet to it from another host. now i can start trying to config it... hope you'll lend a hand again ! Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] Postfix, SMTP, ipchains firwall or postfix.conf ?

2003-09-07 Thread Voytek Eymont
nput -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 6000:6009 -y -j REJECT -A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 7100 -y -j REJECT Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RH9 vs RH7.3 Re: [SLUG] Redhat 9 install

2003-09-07 Thread Voytek Eymont
and stuff like that ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] default snmpd read community ?

2003-09-07 Thread Voytek Eymont
.level prefix read write notif access notConfigGroup "" any noauthexact systemview none none - so, which is the string I need to use instead of 'public' ? 'systemview' ? 'com2sec' ? ? I've tried most of above strings with no success

Re: [SLUG] slug archive searching seriously broken

2003-09-07 Thread Voytek Eymont
es me. I'm serious. Google finds slug posts easier amd more > correctly than the slug archive searching does. (and I thought it was me, and, was too embarassed to admit ) ditto X 2 Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] starting a process over ssh, multiple ssh

2003-09-06 Thread Voytek Eymont
ening say 4 separate ssh sessions to the remote machine (which is a bit of PITA having to logon 4 times), someone here pointed at 'screen' which I guess gives me similar functionality, is that the way to run multiple sessions to the same host ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

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

2003-09-03 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:19:58 +1100 > We're using squirrelmail - I've never heard of sqwebmail. > No IMAP here, only POP3 Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] which kernel archive do I need, 386 or 686 ?

2003-08-30 Thread Voytek Eymont
up2date -f -d kernel* # up2date -f -d kernel but it just says: None of the packages you requested were found, or they are already updated. Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

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

2003-08-27 Thread Voytek Eymont
$6-$2-$3.sql" gzip "/backup/database/mydb_$6-$2-$3.sql" # Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

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