[vox-tech] Connecting to port 1433 via 22 on an intermediary

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Crawford
I'm new to port forwarding, and I thought I had it down. Apparently I haven't got it quite yet. Now that I can use my Linux box at work to connect to our MS SQL Server database using dbbrowser, I'm trying to figure out how to get to that server from home over port 22 via an intermediary host.

Re: [vox-tech] Scary cron-deamon message

2005-04-20 Thread Daniel A. Lorca-Martinez
Hi Richard, I might be completely in the dark here, but it sounds like you might be the victim of a spammer a) using your machine to send garbage out or b) using a @stonegoose bogus return address. I think the former is likely though. Do you require authentication for SMTP from your server?

Re: [vox-tech] Scary cron-deamon message

2005-04-20 Thread Ken Bloom
Richard Crawford wrote: I have my server at home set to check my e-mail using fetchmail every five minutes. When it generates an error, the error message is sent to my account. I received this error message a few minutes ago. It scares me; should I be worried? -- Forwarded

Re: [vox-tech] Scary cron-deamon message

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Crawford
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 07:19, Daniel A. Lorca-Martinez wrote: I might be completely in the dark here, but it sounds like you might be the victim of a spammer a) using your machine to send garbage out or b) using a @stonegoose bogus return address.  I think the former is likely though.  Do

Re: [vox-tech] Connecting to port 1433 via 22 on an intermediary

2005-04-20 Thread Ken Bloom
Richard Crawford wrote: I'm new to port forwarding, and I thought I had it down. Apparently I haven't got it quite yet. Now that I can use my Linux box at work to connect to our MS SQL Server database using dbbrowser, I'm trying to figure out how to get to that server from home over port 22

Re: [vox-tech] Connecting to port 1433 via 22 on an intermediary

2005-04-20 Thread Jay Strauss
Ken Bloom wrote: $ links localhost:1 and I reached google in Links. What's links? I can't find a man page on it. Thanks Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Connecting to port 1433 via 22 on an intermediary

2005-04-20 Thread Ken Bloom
Jay Strauss wrote: Ken Bloom wrote: $ links localhost:1 and I reached google in Links. What's links? I can't find a man page on it. Links is an ncurses based web browser, similar to lynx but different. I could have put any web browser command in there, because the purpose was to

Re: [vox-tech] Connecting to port 1433 via 22 on an intermediary

2005-04-20 Thread Jay Strauss
What's links? I can't find a man page on it. Links is an ncurses based web browser, similar to lynx but different. I could have put any web browser command in there, because the purpose was to demonstrate how one would connect to the server once the tunnel had been established. --Ken Bloom Ah,

[vox-tech] CUPS error reporting

2005-04-20 Thread Ken Bloom
So I just tried to print a document 3 or 4 times using AbiWord 2.2 and CUPS. Each time, the job showed up in lpstat/lpq for a while but then disappeared without ever printing. To figure out what was going on, I had to disable CUPS, change the log level to debug, and restart cups. Then I found out

Re: [vox-tech] KDE footprint on lower end machines.

2005-04-20 Thread Donald Greg McGahan
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: I'm curious about the lowest powered machine that can handle KDE. Is there anyone running KDE on a PII or lower? If so, can you announce your CPU, memory and send a copy of one xterm worth of top output so I can see cpu and memory usage? Thanks, Pete I'm running KDE on