[ubuntu-uk] IPTABLES

2008-04-18 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi there folks, Just a quicky. I've been mucking around with iptables for a while, but I'm still a bit shaky with them. Would anyone mind checking this over for me please? I want to be able to accept incoming connections on port 22, accept any connections which are a reply to a connection that I

[ubuntu-uk] Graphics Card Problems

2008-04-18 Thread Craig
Last Christmas, one of Santa's elves made a mistake. Instead of buying a Linux-ready graphics card to give to Craig Horner for Christmas, he brought him an ATI Radeon X1550, which so far, has been extremely annoying. I have managed to set it up so that it works as far as running Compiz using this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Graphics Card Problems

2008-04-18 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
- Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last Christmas, one of Santa's elves made a mistake. Instead of buying a Linux-ready graphics card to give to Craig Horner for Christmas, he brought him an ATI Radeon X1550, which so far, has been extremely annoying. I have managed to set it up so that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPTABLES

2008-04-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chris, On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:51:19AM +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: Just a quicky. I've been mucking around with iptables for a while, but I'm still a bit shaky with them. Would anyone mind checking this over for me please? Looks pretty good. I would add RELATED to the ESTABLISHED bit so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPTABLES

2008-04-18 Thread Tony Arnold
Chris, Chris Rowson wrote: Just a quicky. I've been mucking around with iptables for a while, but I'm still a bit shaky with them. Would anyone mind checking this over for me please? I'm not sure about how correct these rules are, but have you considered using something like fwbuilder or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPTABLES

2008-04-18 Thread Huw Selley
On 18 Apr 2008, at 13:15, Andy Smith wrote: snip On a side note, I've added a symbolic link called S95firewall to this script in /etc/rc2.d/, but it doesn't seem to run this script at startup? Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I would use the 'update-rc.d' tool to add the correct

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPTABLES

2008-04-18 Thread Huw Selley
On 18 Apr 2008, at 14:27, Tony Arnold wrote: snip Oh, and if you are allowing ssh, then consider running fail2ban or denyhosts to stop dictionary attacks via ssh, which are very common. Or only allow key based logins and disable password logins, renders dictionary attacks useless although

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPTABLES

2008-04-18 Thread Tony Arnold
Huw Selley wrote: On 18 Apr 2008, at 14:27, Tony Arnold wrote: snip Oh, and if you are allowing ssh, then consider running fail2ban or denyhosts to stop dictionary attacks via ssh, which are very common. Or only allow key based logins and disable password logins, renders dictionary

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPTABLES

2008-04-18 Thread Huw Selley
On 18 Apr 2008, at 14:52, Tony Arnold wrote: snip I'd do both! Yeah, that gives a better solution. I however am lazy and happy to tail auth.log for a giggle when I am bored ;) Regards Huw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] joining flv files

2008-04-18 Thread Javad Ayaz
Hi, Not so long ago i was told of the following cat /path/to/file1.vob /path/to/file2.vob /path/to/output.vob for joining vob filesim just wondering does this work for flv files as well? i cant seem to get it to work so im thinking maybe its not possible! Any ideas? Regards Javad

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPTABLES

2008-04-18 Thread Chris Rowson
Thanks as always guys. I'll try the update-rc.d tool to add the symbolic links. I'd forgotten about denyhosts, I'll do that too! I'll also take a look at adding the related rule to the firewall. Tony, using the script as is, I can still ping the server. I guess the rules don't block the ICMP

[ubuntu-uk] (marketing) Government minister FOSS meeting - Hants LUG

2008-04-18 Thread alan c
Hants LUG have held a meeting with John Denham MP, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills today. His constituency is - in Hampshire. He attended for about 45 minutes, was actively interested, and asked relevant questions, giving a clear impression that he had some basic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Motherboards dying ( was:Re: possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?)

2008-04-18 Thread Farran
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 22:01 +, James Dalley wrote: On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote: andylockran wrote: Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the

[ubuntu-uk] DVD playback

2008-04-18 Thread Farran
hello everyone again... got ANOTHER problem (oh the woes of Linux :/) DVDs will not play at all. I've tried everything I know without going out of my comfort zone - I presumed I could make it work in that zone because I've done it before! However, I can't. I had all the gstreamer plugins installed

[ubuntu-uk] boot screen... invisible!

2008-04-18 Thread Farran
hi again unusual issue, probably a bit pointless as I don't think it affects the running of my pc at all: On boot up, I have no screen. The monitor actually turns off. I've tried both output ports on the graphics card, I have the right graphics driver installed, and I have reinstalled the usplash

Re: [ubuntu-uk] joining flv files

2008-04-18 Thread Mark Fraser
On Friday 18 April 2008 15:55:59 Javad Ayaz wrote: Hi, Not so long ago i was told of the following cat /path/to/file1.vob /path/to/file2.vob /path/to/output.vob for joining vob filesim just wondering does this work for flv files as well? i cant seem to get it to work so im

Re: [ubuntu-uk] boot screen... invisible!

2008-04-18 Thread Rob Beard
Farran wrote: hi again unusual issue, probably a bit pointless as I don't think it affects the running of my pc at all: On boot up, I have no screen. The monitor actually turns off. I've tried both output ports on the graphics card, I have the right graphics driver installed, and I have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD playback

2008-04-18 Thread norman
hello everyone again... got ANOTHER problem (oh the woes of Linux :/) DVDs will not play at all. I've tried everything I know without going out of my comfort zone - I presumed I could make it work in that zone because I've done it before! However, I can't. I had all the gstreamer plugins

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD playback

2008-04-18 Thread Farran Lee
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 19:54 +0100, norman wrote: hello everyone again... got ANOTHER problem (oh the woes of Linux :/) DVDs will not play at all. I've tried everything I know without going out of my comfort zone - I presumed I could make it work in that zone because I've done it

[ubuntu-uk] {Spam?} Strange disk problem...

2008-04-18 Thread LeeGroups
I've got a small Ubuntu file server which has developed a strange problem with one of it's drives. The OS runs on one drive, and there are two data drives, the first data drive hdc, is now full. However, I've deleted 20GB of stuff off it, but a df -h still says the drive is full. I've deleted

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD playback

2008-04-18 Thread Farran Lee
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 20:51 +0100, Farran Lee wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 19:54 +0100, norman wrote: hello everyone again... got ANOTHER problem (oh the woes of Linux :/) DVDs will not play at all. I've tried everything I know without going out of my comfort zone - I presumed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Motherboards dying ( was:Re: possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?)

2008-04-18 Thread James Dalley
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote: andylockran wrote: Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the last 20 years. I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind