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Re: [Alug] Pingful success at last!
by MJ Ray 09 Jun '01

09 Jun '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > Perhaps a more detailed account of what was wrong and how it was fixed > could go on the web so that others who have this problem can get it > fixed. Email it to me. It may motivate me to fix the repository and bring the site up to date. -- MJR

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Pingful success at last!
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 08 Jun '01

08 Jun '01

Let me share my joy with you! After weeks and weeks of trying i have got the linux box at work networked. I'm sitting here with such a grin on my face. First I changed the DLink card for a 3com. Then I struggled with addresses and finally changed the io and irq on the card and matched up the box. Then i fiddled and diddled for ages not seeing what i had done wrong. Then SomeOne Who Knows looked at my box and found out it was using the AUI port rather than the BNC. Then I tried a 3c5x9config utility debian has but got tied in knots. Finally i did the boot-into-dos trick, and ran a 3com config exe file and changed the port. Now it pings, pongs, pangs. Happiness. Joy. Rapture. (sad, sad)

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Re: [Alug] ALUG Librarian stuff
by MJ Ray 07 Jun '01

07 Jun '01

brodders(a)cwcom.net writes: > This is a repost as the original didn't seem to turn up - or if it > did, no - one commented! Not that it didn't appear, just that I don't have enough time. > I don't like this - would you do it? - so I've been kicking around the > idea of allowing casual person-person item passing. These need to be > verified transactions on the database otherwise fraud is simple. The > protocol I suggest below is - good enough?? Comments appreciated. Peer to peer! Trendy. I can't see any obvious problems with the ticketing system, though. > I want to encrypt the lot; ideally the entire database. And the > transactions from server to client must be secure too otherwise login > accounts get compromised. Perhaps we can just find somewhere to run the web site over https connections and use the mailing list passwords? Or somehow else store details for it. Perhaps using encrypted email or something. Is there a security guru in the house? -- MJR

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Freemans Book emporium
by David Freeman 07 Jun '01

07 Jun '01

I can now also get the following Publishers as well. Sybex O'Reilly Harvard University Press MIT WW Norton Yale University Press University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton Chicago University Press Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Deadrat Transfers
by David Freeman 07 Jun '01

07 Jun '01

Can any one explain quickly how redhat configures its FTP server. I want to allow a user called ftpuser to ftp in but it wont let me. What do I need to edit? Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Alug] A Couple of responses in one :
by MJ Ray 07 Jun '01

07 Jun '01

Neill Newman <neill(a)entora.co.uk> writes: > well.. it's possible to do a network upgrade from a ftp/http/nfs server > if you want to give that a try, either way you will still need to use a > large quantify of bandwidth to get the files from a remote server to > your machine... OK, how? It's bound to be less than 650Mb of compressed packages... Bandwidth isn't a major problem, but wasting CDs and time is. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Using NFS on web-connected machines
by MJ Ray 07 Jun '01

07 Jun '01

"Mark Wilkinson" <mark(a)wiggis.com> writes: > Anyone got any advice/pros/cons on running NFS on machines that are > permanently connected to the net. I may be moving one of our clients to a > load-balancing situation at some point and need to share some directories > out to make this happen. Make sure that the outside world can't access nfs on the machines. Whether you do this with ipchains/iptables or try to use hosts.deny to limit it is up to you. That's the main thing to bear in mind. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Ref Meeting
by MJ Ray 07 Jun '01

07 Jun '01

Danny Thorp <danny(a)thorp.fsworld.co.uk> writes: > Where and what is The Hive? A bar at UEA. Sadly the actual bar bit isn't open at the meeting. Wait for the announcement and all should become clear ;-) -- MJR

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Every Sperm is Sacred: Misc thread mark 2
by David Freeman 07 Jun '01

07 Jun '01

OK first of yes I am listening to Montey pythons CD Montey Python Sings. 0) does anyone out there use LaTeX in anger? Thats LaTeX the typesetting language not LaTeX in anger the band Adam decided it was last night :o) 1) Dates for the BBQ, suggestions are 26/8/01 or 2/9/01, the latter is the day after Jo's birthday and two days after mine. I may be able to get a garden in Ipswich to use, but a better venue would be prefered. Perhaps we could persuade Jen to bring Horace X along to provide Music :o) 2) Contrary to what may seam I do know Coax and have used it. 3) As for the geek test, you guys do know what a geek is don't you? geek: Carnival performer who bites the heads off chickens. perhaps nerd would be more appropriate nerd: Person of above average intelligence with little in the way of socail skills and the art of small talk. 4) Would people like a demo of 802.11b i.e. wireless lan equipment at the next meet? 5) Are there any SQL experts out there who would mind helping me with some college work? 6) NOOO question six The concludes the reading of the rules bruce. oops sorry must stop typing what I am singing :o) Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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don't panic...
by Neill Newman 06 Jun '01

06 Jun '01

below is a conversation I just had with a friend.. /some/ people might find this interesting. It certainly fooled me ;).. (btw, this was a production web server!)... Neill > > > > > > Neill Newman <neill(a)entora.co.uk> on 06/06/2001 16:50:38 > > > > Subject: wrapping uptimes ?? > > > > okies, I've experienced something weird... > > > > just checked my web server, was up for just under 500 days a few weeks > > ago, checked today, uptime = 9 days "oh no I've been hacked" I > > thought... I looked all through the logs, nothing is strange, no > > discontigious log entries (although it seems), no reboot messages in the > > logs.. I realise that this could be the work of a clever hacker, but the > > file modificatin times on /etc/passwd and the like are months old... > > > > it looks as if the machine hasn't been rebooted, but uptime says that it > > was rebooted 9 days ago ?? > > is it possible that I've experienced a magic uptime wrap ?? please tell > > me so, I don't fancy rebuilding this box ;)... > > > > Sz > > > > > Linux messures uptime in hundredth of a second in a 32bit interger. > > 2^32 = 4,294,967,296 > 86,400 seconds in one day = 8,640,000 hundredths of a secon > Therefore, 4,294,967,296 / 8,640,000 = 497.1 days > > You have just encountered the end of the uptime interger!! > > Andi > > p.s. The shell may confused on file dates et cetera -- Open Source Specialists http://www.entora.co.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)701 0723686 Fax: +44 (0)870 3214368

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