Re: [SLUG] clone system to a vm?

2012-09-28 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: li...@sbt.net.au To: slug@slug.org.au Sent: Tuesday, 25 September, 2012 6:55:23 AM Subject: [SLUG] clone system to a vm? I have a Centos 4 machine, I'd like to try cloning it from a physical machine to a VM on another system, I've installed Centos 6 on

Re: [SLUG] cPanel like multi-host dashboard software??

2012-07-26 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: K L k...@attitia.com But would also want some type of software that could be used to administer each separate server ... effectively as a group ... from within a single UI. Whether that has an agent installed on each 'client' server or how it is

Re: [SLUG] curious spawning of cron caused server crash

2012-07-17 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: David da...@kenpro.com.au To: slug@slug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, 18 July, 2012 9:05:38 AM Subject: [SLUG] curious spawning of cron caused server crash root 388 0.0 0.0 3480 764 ?D04:50 0:00 cp

Re: [SLUG] Android PC's for hacking

2012-07-03 Thread Dave Kempe
I got one in the office - delivery was fast and it seems to work OK. Haven't had a chance to put Ubuntu on it yet, but it seems like a plausable option for some uses. Thin client perhaps. -- Regards, Dave Kempe - Original Message - From: David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com

Re: [SLUG] Job Management Apps

2012-05-09 Thread Dave Kempe
are interested. It does take some getting used to though - If you don't have the operational rigour to make it work, its a waste of time. Which is probably true for many systems. -- Regards, Dave Kempe - Original Message - From: Nigel Allen d...@edrs.com.au To: Slug slug@slug.org.au Sent

Re: [SLUG] List servers

2012-03-29 Thread Dave Kempe
These guys probably do what you want: http://communitylists.org.au/ -- Regards, Dave Kempe - Original Message - From: Edwin Humphries edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au To: slug slug@slug.org.au Sent: Friday, 30 March, 2012 9:41:28 AM Does anyone know of a decent free list server

Re: [SLUG] monitoring aspx website, how ?

2011-12-11 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au To: slug@slug.org.au Sent: Friday, 9 December, 2011 10:13:00 AM Subject: [SLUG] monitoring aspx website, how ? is wget the way to go for aspx site, or what's a good tool for that ? I reckon http://seleniumhq.org/ is what

Re: [SLUG] Affordable wireless AP hardware to support 30+ connections

2011-10-31 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name To: Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com Cc: slug@slug.org.au Sent: Monday, 31 October, 2011 10:28:33 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Affordable wireless AP hardware to support 30+ connections On 31/10/2011, at 16:09, Sridhar

Re: [SLUG] Text to HTML?

2011-08-29 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: DaZZa dazzagi...@gmail.com To: SLUG slug@slug.org.au Sent: Monday, 29 August, 2011 10:04:01 AM Subject: [SLUG] Text to HTML? Anyone know of such a beastie? It's be nice if it was CentOS compatible, since that's what I'm stuck with at work, but if it's

Re: [SLUG] Which Linux for Autonomous driving platform ?

2011-06-30 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com Hi people, I'm trying to choose the best platform for an open source autonomous driving project that I've been working on for a while. - https://bitbucket.org/djlyon/smp-driverless-car-robot/overview I'm

Re: [SLUG] Planet SLUG is down?

2011-06-24 Thread Dave Kempe
Hrmm $ host planet.slug.org.au planet.slug.org.au is an alias for www.slug.org.au. www.slug.org.au is an alias for ghs.google.com. ghs.google.com is an alias for ghs.l.google.com. ghs.l.google.com has address 74.125.71.121 Perhaps someone is migrating the slug site to a google app... I thought

Re: [SLUG] If we 'delete' SLUG as it stands:

2011-03-02 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: James Polley jamezpol...@gmail.com To: m...@elliott-brennan.id.au I would like to see the SLUG list hosted by LA on their infrastructure - again, reducing duplication of effort - but only if it continues to be in the slug.org.au domain name. My 2c on this

[SLUG] USB wifi N adapter? With benchmarks?

2011-02-08 Thread Dave Kempe
atheros cards I have tried have been a disaster. I need current purchasable hardware, USB only cos the boxes are little media centres. -- Regards, Dave Kempe -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Fax to Email server

2010-11-02 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: Kevin Fitzgerald k...@tcgtech.com.au Cc: slug@slug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, 3 November, 2010 11:43:19 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Fax to Email server Yeah. I have raised the external provider idea with the customer but got shot down So I'm back to looking

Re: [SLUG] Logic Analyser

2010-09-14 Thread Dave Kempe
Looks nice, but what do you personally use it for out of interest? -- Regards, Dave Kempe - Original Message - From: james j...@tigger.ws To: slug@slug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, 15 September, 2010 11:03:26 AM Subject: [SLUG] Logic Analyser It causes a warm glow when someone makes

Re: [SLUG] Backups

2010-08-22 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: james j...@tigger.ws So the file created on day 2 backed up on day 3 is lost. Can anybody point to the boat (I've missed) or confirm my vision. Seems correct, and the primary reason why we moved to rdiff-backup and disk based backup. We get to keep effective

Re: [SLUG] Backups

2010-08-22 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com How do you backup databases with that (I'm specifically interested to hear about PostgresQL)? Snapshot the filesystem every day? We have a 300Gb postgres database and growing rapidly, and I'm looking for better ways to

Re: [SLUG] A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p? -- thanks for suggestions

2010-08-10 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: Martin Visser martinvisse...@gmail.com Jon's experience probably really demonstrates why Linux isn't going to go mainstream anytime soon. While I would say 90% of people are going to have hardware that just works with the most current release of most

Re: [SLUG] Error in Time() command

2010-05-23 Thread Dave Kempe
250, on my Debian/sid system running 2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64. FWIW. Daniel A little off topic, but, I noticed that the CONFIG_HZ variable on openvz systems is often 250. I found 1000 to be a better setting for responsiveness on a heavily loaded openvz box. It felt like being able to schedule

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-14 Thread Dave Kempe
Hey All, relevant to this discussion may be an internal project I have been working on for sometime: Honcho. Honcho is a storage subsystem for virtualisation environments built on RAID1 over iSCSI. It is designed to run from stock Ubuntu linux, with no single points of failure. We have shell

Re: [SLUG] Linux-based 802.11n routers for WDS

2010-03-23 Thread Dave Kempe
- Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should be purchasing and setting up? http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=62217 TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND is an excellent router, and has a USB port for host mode USB, so you can get basic

Re: [SLUG] RAID and LVM

2010-02-19 Thread Dave Kempe
- Brett Coady bc196...@yahoo.com.au wrote: These read-times were all done with: hdparm -tT /dev/(device) Anyone know a good non destructive write test for benchmarking HDD ? Hope this helps Brett Bonnie++ is what we use. You can use IOzone if you like complex charts. hdparm isn't

[SLUG] GPT partions, losetup and mounting NTFS

2009-09-02 Thread Dave Kempe
Hi, I have a GPT partition like so: #parted /dev/mapper/storagevg0-ntserveriscsi GNU Parted 1.7.1 Using /dev/mapper/storagevg0-ntserveriscsi Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Disk /dev/mapper/storagevg0-ntserveriscsi: 1100GB Sector size

Re: [SLUG] GPT partions, losetup and mounting NTFS

2009-09-02 Thread Dave Kempe
as always :) Dave - Dave Kempe d...@sol1.com.au wrote: Hi, I have a GPT partition like so: #parted /dev/mapper/storagevg0-ntserveriscsi GNU Parted 1.7.1 Using /dev/mapper/storagevg0-ntserveriscsi Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p

Re: [SLUG] GPT partions, losetup and mounting NTFS

2009-09-02 Thread Dave Kempe
- Chris MacKenzie cmacken...@internode.on.net wrote: I prefer to use kpartx to create device mappings from lvm disk images, it's much easier than fapping about with offsets :) usage : kpartx [-a|-d|-l] [-v] wholedisk -a add partition devmappings -d del partition

Re: [SLUG] Slow booting from a degraded raid1

2009-08-02 Thread Dave Kempe
Make sure you have the updated mdadm, grub and other packages that fix the boot degraded raid array bugs in hardy. They also change the timings. you can also dpkg-reconfigure mdadm or edit the relevant scripts in /etc/initramfs/ for mdadm. Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Firewall Distributions, Questions.

2009-03-02 Thread Dave Kempe
Blindraven wrote: Based on my set-up, which of the following would you recommend and why? pfSense, MoNoWaLL, Clark Connect. (Do you know any others?) ubuntu-server and shorewall. the documentation for shorewall two-interface setup should be all you need.

[SLUG] fast hashing/checksumming tool

2009-02-24 Thread Dave Kempe
Hi, I need to checksum recursively alot of data, and store the checksums in a database. I can do most via a shell script, but was wondering if anyone could recommend a checksumming tool that was the fastest. I know about md5sum, sha1sum, cfv (not recursive enough). I want to be able to produce

Re: [SLUG] fast hashing/checksumming tool

2009-02-24 Thread Dave Kempe
(replying to myself) http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/ seems to be the answer, with a recompile to get the new CSV feature, and using sha1 not md5 seems fast enough. dave Dave Kempe wrote: Hi, I need to checksum recursively alot of data, and store the checksums in a database. I can do most

Re: [SLUG] HUAWEI E169 USB Modem on Fedora 10

2008-12-16 Thread Dave Kempe
Glen Turner wrote: If it works in Ubuntu, you might want to compare the FDI files /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-modem.fdi or simply look through that file paying attention to USB IDs. thats an awesomely useful post Glen. Thanks very much. Now all I need to do is figure

Re: [SLUG] Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

2008-12-09 Thread Dave Kempe
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Are there any good tools to backup/restore databases, with versioning, delta storage and so on just like you get with rdiff-backup? I'm currently running mysqldump and pg_dump in a shell script via cron job, but surely there's a better way. I've seen a few tools, but

Re: [SLUG] SMS messages.

2008-12-07 Thread Dave Kempe
sms-tools? you need an sms modem or 3g data card like a huawei e220 dave Chris Allen wrote: Can any one recommend an application that I can use with Hardy Heron to send an SMS message to a lot of mobile phones? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

2008-12-04 Thread Dave Kempe
Jake Anderson wrote: heh anybody know of VoIP software that will run on a 3G mobile? For that matter can I get these data plans on the same sim as my standard mobile? IE have the standard voice calling stuff but in the same device have the ability to suck a few GB worth of data at a sane

Re: [SLUG] Re: Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

2008-11-29 Thread Dave Kempe
Mary Gardiner wrote: Don't ever edit rdiff-backup's backups directly. Either: Tis true, however there are patches on the rdiff-backup mailing list that need testing, that allow --remove-older-than to specify subdirectories to remove. A client of mine donated money to have the feature

Re: [SLUG] Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

2008-11-28 Thread Dave Kempe
Mary Gardiner wrote: 2. Install the program called rdiff-backup. All excellent suggestions Mary. Sorry I missed the talk. As an additions to rdiff-backup, people might benefit from using backupninja. Its a front end to rdiff-backup and other backup tools (like mysqldump). That makes it

Re: [SLUG] Re: Ubuntu Ibex Network Manager Prepaid Wireless Broadband Question

2008-11-16 Thread Dave Kempe
bill wrote: See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=964920 There seems to be problems with Network Manager. Using the Kubuntu version of Intrepid Ibex I cant connect to my Ntwork LAN. yeah I have been following the bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259278 some very mixed results

Re: [SLUG] Uptime logging

2008-11-07 Thread Dave Kempe
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 down.(probably

Re: [SLUG] Where to buy cheap Cisco routers?

2008-10-27 Thread Dave Kempe
Amos Shapira wrote: We already have the xDSL modems. I think what I need is an Ethernet-connected box which can copy bits around more efficiently than the TZ170. hate to be obvious about it and all, but have you considered a linux box? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] DODO

2008-08-27 Thread Dave Kempe
Lindsay Holmwood wrote: I'm 99% certain they're using Squid, but I think they've either severely misconfigured it, or are running a dodgy hacked up older version. yeah I ran into the TPG proxy admin at my local woolies (overheard him talking to someone about it and had to interrupt!) He

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-07-13 Thread Dave Kempe
Crossfire wrote: I want to be able to set it up so /home (and maybe other filesystems) are replicated from one to the other, in both directions, in real time so they can run in an all-hot redundant cluster. I think I found something that might help you:

Re: [SLUG] How to load locale in ubuntu for German test environment..

2008-06-26 Thread Dave Kempe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I want to do testing of some python programs on Ubuntu (hardy i think) for a German client. Everything works fine for Australia, but I don't seem to have a locale for Germany loaded. I have no idea where to load it. Can anybody help ? apt-get install

[SLUG] wanted: 64bit support for IBCS/sco binaries

2008-06-13 Thread Dave Kempe
Hi, wondering if anyone has any pointers to people/companies/assembler gurus who can assist me in getting 64bit support for the linux-abi project? http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-abi/ I have a few clients that would like to run sco binaries on 64-bit linux and may have some funding for

Re: [SLUG] LaCie 2TB 2Big Dual + debian (LaCie SATA II PCI-Express eSATA cards)

2008-06-13 Thread Dave Kempe
david wrote: Every external firewire/usb drive i've used has ended up giving me hard drive failure, and in some cases heart failure. Other people whose opinion I respect have come to the same conclusion. I get the impression that the problem has to do with power supply on the external device,

Re: [SLUG] wanted: 64bit support for IBCS/sco binaries

2008-06-13 Thread Dave Kempe
Daniel Pittman wrote: Not only did RedHat drop the patches from their kernel quite some time ago due to stability issues, I can confirm from (my customers) practical experience that there are -- at least -- SMP issues with the project. yeah I have it running fine on 2.6.18 i think with SMP

Re: [SLUG] allowing controlled access from dynamic IP

2008-06-11 Thread Dave Kempe
Mary Gardiner wrote: The web server wants the browser to send a request for the correct host name. One way to get it to do this is to alter your steps: or you could just change your hosts file to 'poison' real.host.com to point to 127.0.0.1 then your browser will make the request to the

Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

2008-06-02 Thread Dave Kempe
Peter Miller wrote: iwill be the whole point/i. Unless we get in first. Will the parallel be: you get malpractice insurance, or you can have your future wages garnished forever if you get sued. Doctors have to pay their malpractice insurance to have their pro-bono work covered. I expect

Re: [SLUG] Linux client for Citrix Access Gateway?

2008-06-01 Thread Dave Kempe
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: We're trying to deploy a Linux server into an all-Windows company. Our client is actually quite happy with this solution, but we were informed a couple of days ago that they have a Citrix Access Gateway VPN server that we must go through in order to interact with

Re: [SLUG] Debian SSH vulnerability: act now!

2008-05-15 Thread Dave Kempe
Peter Chubb wrote: Just in case anyone missed it, there's been a major vulnerability for any SSH keys generated on a debian system over the last two years or so ... apparently the random number generator wasn't being seeded right, so only a few distinct keys were actually generated. For

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Dave Kempe
Crossfire wrote: I want to be able to set it up so /home (and maybe other filesystems) are replicated from one to the other, in both directions, in real time so they can run in an all-hot redundant cluster. The environment should be mostly read-oriented, so I can live with write-latent

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Dave Kempe
Dave Kempe wrote: I was thinking just yesterday some sort of fuse filesystem is what we need :) dave haven't tried it, but this is fuse http://www.furquim.org/chironfs/ dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem and half bridge mode

2008-02-27 Thread Dave Kempe
Is this the Linksys AM300? I found it a big buggy in this mode. Not sure what the problem is, but it doesn't work every time for some reason. Make sure you have the latest firmware. We have given up on half-bridge mode with many of these modems. dave Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I'm

Re: [SLUG] heuristics connecting to wireless networks, where only password known?

2008-01-11 Thread Dave Kempe
Sonia Hamilton wrote: The question is more they've told me the password, but not the network name or authentication method - what's the easiest way to get in without having try the n x m combinations in network manager? (n being the # of networks that appear, m the # of authentication methods).

Re: [SLUG] File server

2008-01-03 Thread Dave Kempe
Andre Kolodochka wrote: I'd like to know whether there are any existing solutions that would allow this out-of-the-box? We can pretty much configure 1-3 ourselves and with some help probably get 4 (http) going with just a linux box. However, if there's already solution - why reinvent the wheel.

Re: [SLUG] unwired and linux

2007-11-12 Thread Dave Kempe
Dean Hamstead wrote: do any of those $30 1gig things work in linux yet? i spent some time trying to get an optus then a 3 one working. (both use the same hardware). but with no love. 1 gig isnt enough, and the data charges after 1gig are just theft. This is what you need:

Re: [SLUG] migrating mail server Maildirs, howto copy ?

2007-11-08 Thread Dave Kempe
Voytek Eymont wrote: or, what's a proper way to do this copy ? why no just rsync it as root with -av and you preserve all the ownership and don't need to worry. OTOH, if you stuff it up, a recursive chown will fix it, so no need to worry. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Backing up over a WAN connection

2007-10-04 Thread Dave Kempe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Sorry to bother you all again. How does one do a backup over a WAN connection with latency for servers across the world and create an image of the entire system including SQL. What Linux free software will do the above for us. We have tried rdiff and that does

Re: [SLUG] what to backup on CentOS5 / EHEL5?

2007-10-02 Thread Dave Kempe
I would suggest backup-ninja http://dev.riseup.net/backupninja/ or just plain rdiff-backup (which backupninja uses) and a simple shell script. disk to disk is the only way to go i reckon and I would just backup the entire filesystem - its safer that way, and the binaries of a well setup

Re: [SLUG] Software RAID Questions

2007-09-18 Thread Dave Kempe
Hi, the proper way to do it is to generate an /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf config file and have udadm/udev do the right thing on boot. I have simply create the config file as per a number of howtos and from the manpage: echo 'DEVICE /dev/hd*[0-9] /dev/sd*[0-9]' mdadm.conf mdadm --detail

Re: [SLUG] Recommendation for a VPN for linux

2007-09-18 Thread Dave Kempe
Ian Brown wrote: Hi, - Can anybody recommend on a free VPN for linux ? There is no other choice aside from OpenVPN IMHO :) dave -- 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] Best place to get assistance with a kernel bug (kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to become free. Usage count = 1)

2007-09-05 Thread Dave Kempe
Hi Scott, searching for your bug on the kernel bugzilla yeilds some results: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ (I clicked query existing and put in unregister_netdevice) not sure if any of them are your exact problem. However one way or another thats the right place for it :) dave Scott Ragen

Re: [SLUG] scp -c null ??

2007-08-16 Thread Dave Kempe
There is such a cipher, but netcat will be a much much faster way to do what you want. google 'netcat tar' for many examples. not really resumable, so you may need to rsync it afterwards, but perfect for that first bulk speedy transfer dave Zenaan Harkness wrote: Is it possible to have a

Re: [SLUG] raid45 working on Feisty ? (dmraid)

2007-07-28 Thread Dave Kempe
Hi Larry, can you see the drives from fiestys default kernel? (fdisk -l) without reading the bug report, I would generally always recommend against nforce in general, and wouldn't hold much help out for their raid support. I would/have used mdadm for this chipset when i have needed to use

Re: [SLUG] reported memory and actual memory

2007-07-25 Thread Dave Kempe
we need to know kernel version, architecture and distro version to answer better Ben. dave Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, I have a server which has 5GB memory in it. BIOS reports 5120GB and that's fine. Top in CentOS linux reports 3632188 total. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] SpamAssassin - MailMarshall Replacement

2007-07-17 Thread Dave Kempe
Hi Trent, we use Maia Mailguard for this. works pretty well and fits the combo you are after. We have packages for Ubuntu dapper that work sorta ok :) http://www.maiamailguard.com/maia/wiki/AboutMaia thanks dave Trent Murray wrote: Hi all, I currently have a customer using MailMarshall

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-12 Thread Dave Kempe
I heard somethings about disabling ipv6 in about:config recently. check that out... dave -- 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] bypass SA ?

2007-07-06 Thread Dave Kempe
amavis has a spam_lovers acl i believe. you should be able to find that in the documentation and add people to it dave Voytek Eymont wrote: What's my easiest way to exempt some users from SA checks ? I currently have some users' 'internal' email rejected by exceeding SA score, I need to allow

Re: [SLUG] Can SAMBA 3.0.24 be a BDC for a Windows 2003 domain controller?

2007-06-25 Thread Dave Kempe
Amos Shapira wrote: And I'm not sure how relevant this is for my situation - is Windows 2003 considered NT4 PDC or is it something newer that Samba can cooperate with as a BDC? yeah win2k3 is considered to be an nt4 pdc in this case. so you are fresh out of luck with samba 3. you might have a

Re: [SLUG] Postfix question

2007-06-13 Thread Dave Kempe
Raphael Kraus wrote: E.g. in main.cf: relay_recipient_maps http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#relay_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/relay_recipients And ensure that you put the list in relay_recipients and run postmap on it. or you could make that an ldap lookup i think dave --

Re: [SLUG] Helpdesk software

2007-06-05 Thread Dave Kempe
Max Wright wrote: Hello slugs - Can anyone suggest a good opensource helpdesk app? Something with a web interface, problem tracking, knowledge-base would be good. Max we like the new version of RT. RTFM adds knowledge base stuff. http://bestpractical.com/rt email integration is RT's

Re: [SLUG] ADSL ISP hosts

2007-06-04 Thread Dave Kempe
DaZZa wrote: Head to http://bc.whirlpool.net.au , plug in your phone number and search for plans that suit you. There are literally hundreds of them. It also pays to surf the forums a bit to see if there is a lot of bad blood for a given ISP - Internode, for example, has just had a run of bad

Re: [SLUG] RSYNC Stats Output

2007-05-23 Thread Dave Kempe
Kevin Fitzgerald wrote: type of description if anyone can help. Specifically I want to know how much Data has actually travelled across the wire (Please note I have used the z option in rsync so the files are compressed as they cross the wire): I don't know what each field means, but I know

Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations

2007-04-19 Thread Dave Kempe
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: So does anyone have any recommendations? stick with blosxom, but get a decent html editor with web site publishing? nvu might be decent dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] off topic but urgent hardware problem

2007-04-19 Thread Dave Kempe
David wrote: please excuse the off topic post but the need is urgent. I've just attempted to reboot and my ASUS P5P800mx motherboard doesn't get past the splash screen. Can't enter the BIOS setup. No strange beeps. I'm guessing that's serious. Any diagnostic suggestions? In case of need, any

Re: [SLUG] PC h/w and s/w Inventory apps - OCS Inventory

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Kempe
Amos Shapira wrote: Can it be used to track also things like software licenses and DNS domain registry? software licenses yes, and you could probably use the contracts bit of it to manage DNS renewals dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] PC h/w and s/w Inventory apps - OCS Inventory

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Kempe
Simon Wong wrote: I just came across OCS Inventory in SF's top 30 list (http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=features) and was wondering if anyone had used it and hwat their thoughts were. It looks quite good on the surface. Does anyone have any alternate recommendations for this

Re: [SLUG] Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus Advice

2006-10-24 Thread Dave Kempe
Hi Lyle, We don't use Fedora in general (prefer Ubuntu/Debian) but we have very successfully deployed a number of postfix/amavis/postgrey and Maia Mailguard setups to clients. Stands up very well compared to commercial solutions and gives you all the spam/av you could ever want. Maia is a

Re: [SLUG] PCI Modem

2006-07-15 Thread dave kempe
the banksia/netcomm intra series are the only ones worth considering. actual real serial modems in PCI, with daughter boards making them 2,4,6 or 8 port dave T Murray wrote: Can anyone recommend a PCI Modem - im setting up a Hylafax server and need a modem with stable/good linux compatibility

Re: [SLUG] MS SharePoint Equivalent?

2006-06-23 Thread dave kempe
Many people call Plone this. For a massive jump in features and implementation thinking, Alfresco might also serve your needs. dave T Murray wrote: Hi guys, Microsoft has a server tool called Sharepoint that one of my clients has requested i install - however being that it is MS im not

Re: [SLUG] Open source e-commerce software

2006-05-15 Thread dave kempe
Howard Lowndes wrote: Is there any other open source e-commerce software available other than Interchange (I don't like its tagging ideas, and it doesn't like multi-thread Perl), or osCommerce (not updated since Nov 05 and still requires register_globals, and segfaults when it tries to

Re: [SLUG] Permission problems on linode (Ubuntu 5.10)

2006-04-30 Thread dave kempe
Robert Collins wrote: for future reference: 'dpkg --force-depends -P udev' will remove it and leave ubuntu-minimal and initramfs-tools in place. hrmm I thought it was a cardinal debian sin to use --force? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: Forcing package management [Was: [SLUG] Permission problems]

2006-04-30 Thread dave kempe
Robert Collins wrote: Well, the reason I would use --force in such situations is that reverse depends often are not equal to the forward depends. So what gets removed and what gets reinstalled will often not match. Yeah, in the fair amount of times I have had to do this (upgrading old systems

[SLUG] undelete fat32 files from linux

2006-04-30 Thread dave kempe
Hi, I am running Ubuntu Dapper beta on one of my machines here. Had the unfortunate experience of accidentally moving digital photos of my compact flash card into the ether. I dragged and dropped them onto Digikam and they disappeared. Anyway, the photos aren't that crucial I would consider

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-07 Thread dave kempe
Scott Sinclair wrote: SSH on port 443 for the win! :-) Openvpn on port 443 with proxy mode for the ultimate in proxy bypass lovin! dave -- 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] shared calendaring

2006-04-05 Thread dave kempe
Peter Hardy wrote: It does shared calendaring by way of a proprietary plugin for Outlook that'll set you back around $US30 per head for a handful of licences. Less for larger volumes. i hear the vtiger plugin is free dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: Does Bridging require ISP co-operation? Re: [SLUG] New User's Frustration

2006-03-20 Thread Dave Kempe
Howard Lowndes wrote: Yes you can, the DSL provider doesn't need to know about it. You can't - I think the OP meant RFC1483 bridging. which is correct as crossfire suggested (though pppoe still sucks). If you want to convert your equipment into an ATM-Ethernet bridge and terminate the

Re: [SLUG] hard links over the net

2006-03-08 Thread dave kempe
Julio Cesar Ody wrote: Hi all, I have a backup server in my LAN that keeps some rsnapshot (www.rsnapshot.org) backups. For those of you who don't know the tool, rsnapshot works by taking incremental backups, hard linking the files that don't change from one backup to the next (thus, keeping the

Re: [SLUG] SSH/Bash journal

2006-03-01 Thread Dave Kempe
Matthew Hannigan wrote: For ssh, putty has full logging ; log to timestamped files even! (Yes, you can get putty for linux now) yeah but its a shame ssh tunnels don't work (well they didn't last time I checked). It was going to be at least a half-assed gui ssh tunnel manager if the tunnels

Re: [SLUG] Accepting Nomination

2006-02-27 Thread dave kempe
nornagon wrote: I accept a place as an Ordinary Committee Member. um you have to get voted in for that... you mean you accept a nomination.. :) dave -- 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] POS software/hardware

2006-02-22 Thread dave kempe
Howard Lowndes wrote: I have need to set up Linux POS soft/hard ware for a customer. I'm thinking SQL-Ledger for the software as it has POS, but I need a Linux compat slip printer, barcode reader (probably k/b wedge would be best), and cash drawer. What experience is there out there and

Re: [SLUG] Spam

2006-02-17 Thread dave kempe
TongMaster wrote: The filters on a centralised server will always be behind current SPAM trends, as far as I can see because it's more difficult to train than your local SPAM solutions. Yes, we should have a centralised SPAM filter (and probably do) but without someone training it it's going to

Re: [SLUG] linux to linux shares

2006-02-16 Thread dave kempe
Michael Fox wrote: NFS So that UID/GID security can be retained between linux boxes on the exported filesystems. samba can deal with permissions in a sane enough fashion. You really think NFS is better than CIFS/smbfs? I have been thinking about this for a while and welcome some discussion

Re: [SLUG] Getting normal telephone numbers for a VOIP service.

2006-02-15 Thread dave kempe
Richard Hayes wrote: Dear List, I am playing with [EMAIL PROTECTED] and want to get a block of 'normal' Sydney / Melbourne / Brisbane dial-in numbers. Where can I purchase them from? Mynetphone seem happy to talk about Asterisk and supply inbound numbers dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Getting normal telephone numbers for a VOIP service.

2006-02-15 Thread dave kempe
dave kempe wrote: Mynetphone seem happy to talk about Asterisk and supply inbound numbers that would be http://www.mynetfone.com.au/ dave -- 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] RHCE exams

2006-02-14 Thread dave kempe
Michael Fox wrote: Anyone happen to know who in Sydney is certified to run the exams for RHCE etc? I've never done the training, but after all these years of using Linux I am thinking it might be wise to grab a book on the subject and learn what the exam might ask in relation to what I might not

Re: [SLUG] blocking recurrent attempted access ?

2006-02-13 Thread Dave Kempe
Voytek Eymont wrote: 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 ? ipt_recent netfilter module can help you there. or you could just setup

Re: [SLUG] website and mailing list issues

2006-02-12 Thread Dave Kempe
Craige McWhirter wrote: On the grapevine I've heard rumour of virtual hosting happening among other things. If anyone who is busting a gut on this right now could give a quick overview, that'd be great :) Hi, I don't know how it broke, but we have had a long offer to rehost the slug box for a

Re: [SLUG] Fedora + Postfix

2005-12-14 Thread Dave Kempe
Matthew Hannigan wrote: $ sudo su - # yum install postfix # chkconfig postfix on # enable postfix to start every boot # service postfix start # .. and start it now as well and you forgot, remove the inet_interface directive out of main.cf its set to localhost by default

Re: [SLUG] I hate udev!

2005-11-23 Thread Dave Kempe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't see any modules that pertain to tapes. Only the scsi driver and I'm not about to rmmod insmod that. I take it this is 2.6 - if its 2.4 you need to run the rescan-scsi-bus.sh script (google knows where it is) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Asterisk and inbound CLID - partial success

2005-11-03 Thread Dave Kempe
Howard Lowndes wrote: Has anyone got both CLID and DRTD working for AU PSTN systems? I have heard that either of those is a bitch. Word was you basically need isdn to get those features working nicely with asterisk. Its not all its fault - those things are hard on pstn as it is dave --

Re: [SLUG] Network Tool to aid Virus Detection

2005-10-20 Thread Dave Kempe
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Sounds like you want an IDS like snort or prelude: http://www.prelude-ids.org/ (winner of jaq's best artwork in an open source project 2005 award) an alternative to this is ossim http://www.ossim.net which seems to do the same sort of thing. I might compare them

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