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Re: [wlug] IRC channel
by Greig McGill 14 Mar '01

14 Mar '01

> > Good call - is it registered with X? Perry? ;P > > > > Nope, why needs X? just gline anyone who wanders near... Oh you and your funny talk. +------------------------------------------+ | Greig McGill | | Systems Engineer - Compel Automation Ltd | | Ph. +64 7 838 3747 Fax. +64 7 838 3737 | | web: http://www.compel.co.nz | +------------------------------------------+ ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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Re: [wlug] Linux (or anything) vs Windows on the preinstalled PC
by Jon Tocker 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

On 8 Mar 01, at 14:10, Bruce Kingsbury wrote: > From the network side Linux can be made _very_ secure, but the default > for most distributions is slightly less secure than a default 'doze > install, and it's only luck and obscurity that has saved us so far, imho.. Tell me about it - Shields Up website informed me I had more open ports than Venice. > The problem is that the big distro makers have a default install where > everything is enabled, including one or two well-known root-exploitable > services. In this enviromnent viruses and worms are inevitable but we can > make -our- boxes secure, and be sure that -we- never get them. Right - all the more reason for modifying whatever distro we use when we configure the OS and apps for any machine we set up. Regards Jon Tocker ***There is no spoon*** ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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Re: [wlug] World Domination and other matters.
by Jon Tocker 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

On 8 Mar 01, at 12:02, Andreas wrote: > I don't see the assambly and installation as something I could not be > bothered to do...it gets boring after a while, that is true but I'd be in > for that. However, how would you deal with warranties on hardware? Heh, it's just that I've built too many computers and repaired too many - I *was* a programmer before my job changed. Software, programming and OS work are more to my taste. Hardware warranties - hmmm, repairing equipment for free because it didn't survive burn-in - what *joy*! That's why I told someone who suggested I make my own range of computers that I wasn't interested. > Further I agree to a rather small range of hardware combinations as you > want attractive specs but also compatibility. Essentially this means you > have three or four sets of hardware and install each once and create an > image. This minimises the time for installations. That was what I thought myself. Configure the OS for the systems and mass produce it. Doing all the builds from the ground up would be both time consuming and open to error should a step be forgotten. Preplanning the software would be important - like the comment made at the meeting regarding firewalls and sewing them up too tight to allow the user to install ICQ - preinstall ICQ, factor it into the firewalling and it's there if the user wants it. If they don't, they don't have to use it. Yah, OK, so there's stuff on there they won't need, taking up space - like that's going to be a problem considering 20Gb is about the smallest HDD you can get these days :) Regards Jon Tocker ***There is no spoon*** ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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Re: [wlug] Linux (or anything) vs Windows on the preinstalled PC
by Jon Tocker 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

On 7 Mar 01, at 21:48, Craig Box wrote: > Something you forget in the word-of-mouth sale approach to PCs: > > 1. "Hey, I got this cool new computer with Linux pre installed!" > 2. "Sweet. Hey, heres this disk with a game/cool program/document on it" > 1. "Erm.. I can't load it or use it sorry" 2. "That sucks dude. Get > Windows, everyone I know uses Windows (perhaps hands over warez Windows > CD)" Doze is not worth pirating. > Vicious cycle. Until Linux can interact 100% with Windows, how are you > going to sell it as a desktop OS? By pointing out that the viruses that infect Windows also won't run on Linux - especially VBS-based email and Word viruses. In order to make Linux 100% interactive with Windows, you'd have to make Linux as brain damaged as Windows. WinE has made some good advances in getting some Windows-based software running. Documents and graphics files are generally no problem. Providing our Linux box has Arial and Times New Roman fonts (they have extended characters in them that do not display if viewed using some Type A fonts - makes the conversion of some Word docs to Star Office problematic) most Word docs can be converted into Star Office or Applixware Office. Graphic files - jpg, gif etc - can be read without problems. Even animated gifs can be read. There are plenty of Linux games out there, including a lot that are popular on Windows that have been ported across or a similar game has been written from scratch. As to accessing the disk - my standard for Linux installs is to add another mount point: /mnt/msfloppy - same as /mnt/floppy but the type is VFAT. This allows a disk formatted on a doze box to be read and any *legitimate* stuff copied onto the linux box. Most the "cool programs" in the public domain that don't have a Linux equivalent are pure fluff (such as exe files that give a short video clip of someone stripping/having sex etc). Those that aren't in the public domain aren't allowed to be copied - what's the problem? You can get mpegs with people stripping if you're into that sort of thing - and they run fine on Linux. (oops ;P) The great joy about Linux is that the stuff written for it is largely free to be distributed, tested and modified (with a few exceptions) being able to pirate copyrighted software on your Linux box seems to me to defeat the purpose. The idea I have is to enlist more people in the notion of having a great community where you're *allowed* to circulate stuff that people have freely given, not to promote stealing stuff that people have invested moiney in and expect a return from. Hackers and Warez-d00dz both agree that software should be free. The main difference is that hackers say "here's what I've created, take it, distribute it, if it suits you, use it, if you can improve it let me know. This is my gift." A warez-d00d says "here's something I stole from someone else, I don't think they deserve to get a return on their investment." I for one agree with the hacker outlook. Many hackers are paid to create programs for those companies that charge money for their software; what the hacker creates during *free time*, for the love of hacking, is what is given away. But to eat the hacker maybe works for Broderbund or Adobe. I do not begrudge those companies who invest money in their product making a fair return. Let those who wish to charge for their creations do so, let those who wish to give their creations away do so as well. Let's try this scenario: 1. "Hey, I got this cool new computer with Linux pre installed!" 2. "Sweet. Hey, heres this disk with a game/cool program on it" 1. "Erm.. I can't load it or use it sorry" 2. "That sucks dude. Get Windows, everyone I know uses Windows 1. "And look at how many people voted for [insert favourite political scapegoat]! Actually, I've already got a Linux version of that game and I'm not interested in stealing someone's stuff when I've got a whole community out there giving me cool stuff for free. You can spend the rest of your life worrying about whether you'll get busted, if you like, I don't have that worry. The Linux-based software I've looked at so far that is not freely distributable is extremely well priced. Compare Applixware Office - $220 - with M$ Oriface 2000 - $1080. Gee, I wonder which I'd rather buy... Photoshop - certainly worth stealing IMHO, but the GIMP is free, so why bothr? AutoCAD is bloody horrifically priced, the Linux equivalent is free. Regards Jon Tocker ***There is no spoon*** ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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IBM
by Morticia 05 Mar '01

05 Mar '01

Even IBM are getting on the bandwagon... well up front at last maybe http://www.wirednews.com/news/business/0,1367,42156,00.html Cheers Alison ~~World Domination Through World Co-operation~~ ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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Re: [wlug] A quick question...
by Perry Lorier 03 Mar '01

03 Mar '01

> I think the following are innovative: > > CORBA is reputed to be a better technology than Microsoft's COM and is > free at www.corba.org CORBA is I guess. I wonder how old CORBA is. > I believe text-to-speech is better with the open source community but > this same open sourced technology is available for both Windows and > Linux Hrm, dunno about this, I've watched bruce battle with this and fail miserably :) > Perl\Python scripting is better than anything Microsoft has come up > with. I am not sold on Microsoft's Visual Basic. Now thats a good point, perl predates linux by a pretty good margin, but python obviously doesn't. -- No one can put you down without your full cooperation. ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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Re: [wlug] A quick question...
by Perry Lorier 03 Mar '01

03 Mar '01

> What about the ext2 filesystem? Keeps defragmentation to a minimum > without the need for defragging. Long file names at the CLI level. > Compare that with VFAT. While this isn't really a 'linuxy' innovation, ReiserFS obviously is. So I guess we can chalk one up for Linux here. > What about Shared Objects better than Windows DLL files? Two > libraries of different versions can be in RAM both at the same time. yeah, except this is something that came from the BSD's. > I might think of some more later. It had me stumped, and if we're gonna laugh at MS for saying that they demand the freedom to innovate, we should at least know ourselves a lot better :) -- Scenery is here, wish you were beautiful. ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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Re: [wlug] Slackware 7.1
by Greig McGill 27 Feb '01

27 Feb '01

Sweet as Matt - where are you, when are you available, and what do you want in return? My soul is unavailable, due to a prior deal with some large red dude... >:-> Greig. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Brown" <mattbrown(a)wave.co.nz> To: <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [wlug] Slackware 7.1 > I've got Slackware 7.1 > > and a CD Writer so I may be able to help you out, > > drop me a line and we'll see what we can sort out. > > Matt > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greig McGill" <greig(a)compel.co.nz> > To: <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:06 PM > Subject: [wlug] Slackware 7.1 > > > > Hi all. > > > > Does anyone out there have a copy of Slackware 7.1 on CD? > > I need to experiment with a few things for a job on a mission critical > > server running Slackware, and I really don't want to screw it up through > > lack of familiarity! :-) > > > > I can pay or provide blanks, or trade this nice shiny FreeBSD 4.2 ISO. > > > > Anyone? > > > > +------------------------------------------+ > > | Greig McGill | > > | Systems Engineer - Compel Automation Ltd | > > | Ph. +64 7 838 3747 Fax. +64 7 838 3737 | > > | web: http://www.compel.co.nz | > > +------------------------------------------+ > > > > > > > > ------------ > > WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group > > To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message. > > > > ------------ > WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group > To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message. > ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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Re: [wlug] Can anyone recommend good offline news browser
by Gavin Denby 11 Feb '01

11 Feb '01

Is star office reader offline?? SO can do news and e-mail, S.O. will also allow the word doc to display in the e-mail panel which I find usefull, I get lots of e-mail in this format too, thus my reliance of SO for e-mail. (I'm possibly interested in about a tenth of what i'm sent so this saves time for me anyway) But as I am hidden from the real world by a proxy, I have no idea if it is off-line capable or not, I get newsgroups direct off my HDD. Sorry, But it would solve the e-mail query. Have you considered setting up your own news server on the linux box ?? > Actually the attachment problem could be a wider issue because people > will send me Word documents as attachments but I suppose I could open > them in Star Office. Not sure how I would make that at automatic > 1-step click from the email program though. ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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Minutes of February Meeting.
by Gavin Denby 08 Feb '01

08 Feb '01

Being our first meeting the agenda of the meeting was constrained to the goals of setting a plan for meetings. It was decided to : 1. Meet Monthly Monday evenings at 7pm 2. Alternate meetings between the BTM building (Presentations, and How-To sessions) and the Amateur radio clubrooms (Hands on and Technical sessions) 3. Try to take over the world, by encouraging others onto open source and linux use. The following Individuals either Volunteered, were guided, or just plain old got the hard word, to put together a presentation on the following topics The Linux Kernel: What it does, What can be done to it, How to Compile/Use your very own Kernel & OOPS - Thanks Raymond Text-Speech on linux. Glen & Bruce Shell Scripts (Pipes?) Pearl and other neat tricks. - Thanks Jonathan IP Chains/Tables and other address Translation tips from the Guru's - Wow isn't Greig McGill Kind :-) Security for your Box: Do you really need it, How to do it, how to audit a problem. - Thanks Perry X-Terms, (Hands on at Clubrooms) - Some will be up for sale afterwards, with any proceeds going to the LUG's costs. - Team Jono and Gavin Clustering ?????? - We are really gonna grovel here, but may get a demo arranged. Linux in the embedded Market. An Overview - Gavin (maybe) Windoze Connectivity. Volunteers Please - How about it Greig ??????????? Squeezing Linux into Tight spaces, Small HDD/Memory installs - Volunteers & stories please. And as things come to mind we can include them too. So the next meeting is Monday 5 March, 7pm. B T M Building 1130 Victoria Street - on the corner next to Claudlands bridge. Subject: The Linux Kernel Courtesy of Perry See you all there ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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Re: [wlug] When/Where is next Linux meet?
by Jon Tocker 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

On 30 Jan 01, at 10:42, Bruce Kingsbury wrote: > I'd agree with that, but he referred to using windows devices from > Linux.. EG printing to a WinPrinter from your Gnome desktop.. I've had to > do this in the past, and it's really painful. groan! That's what I'm proposing to do (not being able to afford a replacement for my Star Dozetype 4000) I think I'll try hanging an a4 refill and a biro of the back of my Linux box parallel port - it might be easier. I can't wait for the day when I can consign Windows to the rubbish bin entirely but before then I need to get a Linux-compliant laser- printer (inkjets don't measure up, never will) and convert all my M$ Oriface documents into something that Linux apps can read (#$##$% Microsoft Word's "smart quotes" and other "helpful" characters don't seem to come across into Star Office documents.) For the sake of the blissfully ignorant (and I hope there are some of you out there) "smart" quotes is M$'s option that automatically turns ' and " into "sixes" and "nines" or "sixty-sixes" and "ninety- nines" - depending on whether the apostrophe or double-quote appears to the right or left of a space. Dunno what character set they use, but it doesn't convert back across to ASCII char-set *even* when you tell Word to SaveAs "Text" (which loses all font formatting). Word-produced RTF files can't even be reliably imported into editors that use ASCII. Other "smart" punctuation includes en- and em-spaces, en- and em-dashes and other typographical marks. OK, It can be turned off, but any docs created while it was turned on need to have every single smart punctuation mark replaced before converting to Star Office files. (The only way I've discovered how to do this so far is to use global replace to first of all replace every " or ' or em-space with a character not used anywhere in the document (I used the tilde) then go back and replace all instances of that character with the correct one - assuming "smart punctuation" is turned off ther characters will be standard ASCII. You can't replace " with " in Word) So, regrettably, until I've edited every single document I have on my Windows box and scraped up enough for a real laser printer, I'm going to need to learn how to send my print output down the wire to a doze box to print. Regards Jon Tocker ***There is no spoon*** ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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Re: [wlug] Linux equivalent of MS Exchange Server
by Felix & Rita Hohener 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

Has anybody tried out Lotus Domino for Linux? Felix > I need an open source replacement for MS Exchange Server, preferably running > on Linux. ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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Re: [wlug] Administrivia
by Glenn Reed 02 Sep '00

02 Sep '00

Hi all, What do people think about Corel Linux? Apparently it is attracting a bit of flack even from the linux comunity? Regards Glenn. ==================================================== Glenn (Email: g.reed(a)clear.net.nz) ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.

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Re: [wlug] clipboard
by Matthias Dallmeier 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

gascoigne wrote: > > Anyone know if Linux has a clipboard to cut and paste between applications? > I have tried one X clipboard but it did not seem to work. ... you mean other than gpm? -- Matthias

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Remote Logins
by Bob Brown 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

Hi, I know this is probably a FAQ, but which file do I modify to allow root to login from otherplaces other than the console. I'm "su"ing to root at the moment which works but it's a pain... Cheers, - Bob - --- Bob Brown, bob.b(a)clear.net.nz, Guru Extraordinaire Computer Tutor, Programmer, Techncian, Consultant etc ... PO Box 880, Napier. http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~bobb

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Xanim - libs
by Simon 03 Sep '99

03 Sep '99

Can someone please tell me how I find out what libraries my system is using? I want to compile in the cinepak support for xanim and hav to which file I have to download. Im running a 486 with RH 5.2... I thought x86 Linux ELF maybe but theres also x86 Linux AOUT etc etc... Cheers Simon

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RE: [wlug] RH6.0 & DNS?
by Daniel Lawson 26 Jul '99

26 Jul '99

>Yeah - I realised I hadn't mentioned that when I sent the message :) no problem >I've got it config'd as a dialin server and want to be able to use virtual >hosts etc for remote callers. I've already got them to put entries in their >c:\windows\hosts files but it's messy. Hmm, okay. >Okay - so how do I find out what IHUG's are? I can look it up on their web >site but there must be an easier way - either using W95/98 or RH6.0. Oh, i assumed your isp was clear because of your email address :) 203.29.160.4 203.29.160.2 :) >Yeah, I'd appreciate that - please do. Start with "You add entries to your >DNS by ...." <sigh>. :) this will be a LONG post i feel... Its probably worth sending to the mailing list however, so that anyone else who is curious about setting up DNS can have a look... First of all, redhat 6.0 ships with bind-8.2-6 do 'rpm -qa | grep bind' as root to see what bind rpms you have installed, if any you should have bind-8.2-6 bind-devel-8.2-6 bind-utils-8.2-6 or something very similar (ie, the revision number might have changed for your release of rh6.0) if you dont have these then install them.. (either use an X-based package management tool like gnorpm, or use rpm from the command line..) put your rh6.0 cd in the cdrom drive mount /mnt/cdrom rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Redhat/RPMS/bind* and you should be away :) right... now for the config files at this point i VERY strongly recommend you go away and read the docs for bind at www.isc.org here's some pointers Some config hints for bind 8.2.1 (slightly newwer version that the rh6.0 one, but still applies) http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/BIND/misc/config_hints.phtml Bind 8.2 configuration guide http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/BIND/docs/config/index.phtml bind 8.2 master file format http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/BIND/docs/bind8.2_master-file.phtml The BOG (BIND Operations Guide) was a very useful resource for bind-4.9.7, but this version of bind is oldish and you should probably use 8.2 series. the configuration guide tells you what to do, more or less, but we can have a look at them here too... i'll add comments, these are indicated by // preceeding ------ /etc/named.conf ------ // make sure you get all the {'s and ;'s in the right place here options { directory "/var/named"; // this tells named where to set its base dir to. }; logging { category lame-servers { null; }; / these send all the boring errors that you dont category cname { null; }; // care about to null, rather than actually logging them }; zone "." in { type hint; // the 'hint' file is a set of root servers. these are important if you file "named.cache"; // want your dns server to work on address outside your zones }; // i'll show how to get a named.cache file later zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in { // the 0.0.127 zone is the reverse zone for your localhost type master; // its a master file notify no; // dont notify file "slave/127.0.0.in-addr.arpa"; // the file name }; zone "foo.org" in { // forward lookup for your 'domain' on your local network type master; //master file file "slave/foo.org"; //filename }; zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in { //reverse lookup for your domain, on 192.168.0.xxx type master; // note the reverse order of ip addresses file "slave/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa"; }; ---- eof----- right, now in /var/named you should have some files... /var/named/named.cache there is possibly already a named.cache file, but we should update it anyway.. anonymous ftp to ftp.internic.net cd domain get named.cache cp named.cache /var/named/named.cache -f okay, thats your cache file set up. now to set up some zone files first of all, make a directory in /var/named to hold the zone files.. mkdir /var/named/zone cd /var/named/zone now.. there are two types of zone files.. forward lookup (which contain mappings from hostnames to ip addresses) and reverse lookup (which contain mappings from ip addresses to hostnames) first we'll look at the forward zone files. /var/named/zone/foo.org (or whatever you call it, make sure the entry in the named.conf file points to the right place tho) ; denotes a comment in these files ------------------- ; ; /var/named/zone/foo.org ; zone file for foo.org ; 27/7/1999 @ IN SOA server. root.server. ( 1999072701 ; Serial 8H ; Refresh 2H ; Retry 1W ; Expire 1D) ; minimum ; first of all, lets look at these. ; the @ inserts the domain information by default. so, it expands out to foo.org ; the rest of that line says that the Start Of Authority (SOA) for the domain is server ; and the admin email is root(a)server ; the serial number is important. when you change a zone file, change its serial number, ; otherwise bind will not reload it. ; also, bind will only load /higher/ serial numbers. you can number any way you like, for ; example starting at 1, but it is sometimes handy to put them in the format yyyymmdd ; where yyyy == year, dd = day of month, mm = month, rr = revision number. ; the refresh, retry, expire and minimum values are all required by named, it tells it how ; often to do the related action. ; ie, Refresh this zone every 8 hours. rertry an ip on this zone every 2 ; NS server.foo.org. ;specifies that the NameServer for the domain is server.foo.org. MX 10 server.foo.org. ; Mail eXchange for the domain is server.foo.org. the number is the priority, 10 is a good ; number to leave there. NOTE both of these have a trailing '.' - if you DONT include this it ; will expand out with your domain name after it (ie, to server.foo.org.foo.org ) !!! localhost A 127.0.0.1 ; A records point from the hostname to its ip. this is the ip of the localhost (the server) server A 192.168.0.2 ; this is the A record for the server, assuming its ip addresss is 192.168.0.2 HINFO "Pentium" "Linux 2.2" TXT "Gateway / Server" ; these lines aren't needed, but add extra information. There are a lot of extra lines like this ; dont worry about them if you like - not including them is perhaps a /good/ thing. mail CNAME server www CNAME server ftp CNAME server proxy CNAME server dns CNAME server ; CNAMES are records that point to an A record. Not needed really, but sometimes is nicer ; (and more obvious) to use 'proxy' for your proxy settings, and 'mail' in your mailclient setup. ; Various DNS experts discourage the usage of CNAME, because it can lead to trouble if ; you do things like point your MX record to a CNAME. ; You could use multiple A records (eg, 'ftp A 192.168.0.2' but that gets messy, ; and you only have one reverse lookup anyway windows A 192.168.0.1 ; A record for your windows computer dialin1 A 192.168.0.10 dialin2 A 192.168.0.11 ; A records for your dialin ip addresses. ; I forget how dialing into a linux server works, particularly with regards to ip allocation, ; you may only be able to specify 1 ip address for each dialin device. ------ EOF ----- thats the end of it! there are a lot of things you COULD include in there, but thats all you need. now, onto the reverse lookup zone files /var/named/zone/0.0.127.in-addr.arpa --------------- ; ; /var/named/zone/0.0.127.in-addr.arpa ; zone file for 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa ; 27/7/1999 @ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost ( 1999072701 8H 2H 1W 1S ) ; note, we condensed everything down here. the whitespace in the previous example ; is for clarity, you dont need it or the comments at all. NS server.foo.org. ; nameserver entry. note the trailing '.' 1 PTR localhost. ; PTR record. this is a reverse lookup for 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa (ie, if you do 'nslookup ; 127.0.0.1' - it'll look in this file, find the PTR entry for '1', and reply with the given value. ; again note the trailing '.' - if you forgot that it would expand to localhost.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa ------ EOF ---- /var/named/zone/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa ---------------- ; ; /var/named/zone/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa ; zone file for 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa ; 27/7/1999 @ IN SOA server. root.server. ( 1999072701 8H 2H 1W 1D) IN NS server.foo.org. ; NS for zone is server.foo.org - again, note the trailing '.' 1 IN PTR windows.foo.org. 2 IN PTR server.foo.org. 10 IN PTR dialin1.foo.org. 11 IN PTR dialin2.foo.org. -------- EOF ----------- once you have created all these files, try starting named by going /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start if you check the output of /var/log/messages , it should display some information about whats happening (tail -f /var/log/messages on another console to look at it, ctrl-c to break out of 'tail' ) it should give you some output along the lines of... Jul 27 02:22:40 server named[12344]: starting. named 8.1.2 Thu Sep 24 02:47:08 EDT 1998 ^Iroot(a)porky.redhat.com:/usr/src/bs/BUILD/src/bin/named Jul 27 02:22:40 server named[12344]: cache zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0) Jul 27 02:22:40 server named[12344]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1997072701) Jul 27 02:22:40 server named[12344]: master zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1997072701) Jul 27 02:22:41 server named[12344]: master zone "foo.org" (IN) loaded (serial 1997072701) Jul 27 02:22:41 server named[12344]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo) Jul 27 02:22:41 server named[12344]: listening on [192.168.0.2].53 (eth0) Jul 27 02:22:41 server named[12344]: listening on [203.109.198.21].53 (ppp0) Jul 27 02:22:41 server named[12344]: Ready to answer queries. okay.. now, make sure your /etc/resolv.conf has the line 'nameserver 192.168.0.2' at the TOP of the nameserver lists. then do.. nslookup server.foo.org you should get the response -- Server: server.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.2 Name: server.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.2 -- now do nslookup localhost -- Server: server.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.2 Name: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 --- (or something similar) nslookup 192.168.0.1 you should get -- Server: server.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.2 Name windows.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.1 -- if thats all go, then forward DNS works. now try reverse.. nslookup 192.168.0.1 -- Server: server.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.2 Name windows.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.1 -- as you can see, it looks the same :) So, all you have to do now is set up your dialin clients to use your dns server - i'm not sure if this can be forced upon them when they dial in, or if they should set it manually, but that's for you to work out :) I've led you through this entirely - thats because I was very bored tonight, and had nothing else to do :). I do urge you to go and read the documentation on www.isc.org, and the docs that come with the bind rpms. UNDERSTAND them... no point in doing things like this if you dont understand them.. Good luck. you shouldn't have many problems (unless i included some typos there), but if you do, read the docs, work it out, and then report back to the list telling us what went wrong and how you fixed it :) Daniel Lawson

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RE: [wlug] redhat 6.0
by Craig Mckenna 05 May '99

05 May '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > [mailto:owner-wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of Greig McGill > Sent: Thursday, 6 May 1999 08:58 > To: 'wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz' > Subject: RE: [wlug] redhat 6.0 > > > Hey. > > Yep, it clearly is a long time - so long you've forgotten how to spell > my name! ;) > > Anyway... > Your comment about not having much time stirred something in the "tech" > inside of me... > It seems that a good proportion of would-be linuxers are put off by "not > having enough time" to play with Linux in order to get to a point where > they are comfortable using it. > Oh for enough time to fiddle :) > I think the cause of this is the microsoft world. People are often > scared to take that leap away from windows, and may need to fall back on > windows apps for productivity/compatibility reasons. I think people in general are afraid of change, If the software they currently use does what they want they see no reason to change to something else. Also with the majority of people using computers today being only semi computer literate (or even Illiterate), most people arn't interested in investing the time to learn a new interface/method of work, even if it is 1000 times better > > This in turn hinders the spread of linux, and in effect, adds to the > problem... > > What do you all think? How can we help (short of nuking M$!)? I recon the best way to help is to get in at grass roots level, it the newbie's just starting, ie school kids, tech students. If they are introduced to things before they get into the full workforce, cause once they get out there they will be taught one way of doing things and if that way is MS your stuffed. Just my $0.02 worth -- Craig Mckenna IT Systems Manager Tintz Graphics Limited craigm(a)tintz.co.nz

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Re: [wlug] redhat 6.0
by Gavin Denby 05 May '99

05 May '99

> Your comment about not having much time stirred something in the "tech" > inside of me... > It seems that a good proportion of would-be linuxers are put off by "not > having enough time" to play with Linux in order to get to a point where > they are comfortable using it. > > I think the cause of this is the microsoft world. People are often > scared to take that leap away from windows, and may need to fall back on > windows apps for productivity/compatibility reasons. > > This in turn hinders the spread of linux, and in effect, adds to the > problem... > I think your right. for Linux to really catch on in the mainstream there is a need for a office compatable GUI interface. I think that star office 5.0 is on the right track as it is fully cross compatable with M$ office and has versions in windoze, mac, .... ad infinitum, and of course Linux. With interfaces like KDE you can have a user interface that seems "normal" to an average user, as a result they can use it, then drop down to the "guts of the OS" to play with it later. Personally my approach at present is twofold, I am trying to get a stable reduced kernal size desktop enviroment, that will boot to a graphical desktop with my apps ......netscape, dial up PPP, Mail, Star Office .... etc and not carry too much "fat" ( so it loads quicker with out requiring huge memory) on it for a single desktop machine (the most common win95/98) system. While this seems crazy, it is a start point that gets a person using linux in some form. Later they can add the server/ network features if thy need them or want to play with them. ........... Oh no another dist .... AARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH ( Not really) Interesting that Caldera have moved a similar direction with col 2.2 ... Which I am planning to get installed this weekend to see how they have done ..... Sadly I think it will still be fairly bloated (Gut feel from reading the 151 problems I get from the caldera-users list) My other arrow is that I have been trying to push for a regular "Linux" ... not PC, or Mac, or ..... gathering where people can play with/learn about/obtain Linux in a form that is not too much like a meeting for software engineers. Sadly interest from the list has been very poor. Maybe once we are up an running I will be able to get some of you who know what you are doing to come and sort out our mess :-) Main problems to be solved . - Hardware support !!! The list on the Net are just too old, We need to know what new hardware works with linux, and what doesn't ... before we start installing this. Perhaps someone should start a local NZ database . ( Why are you all now looking at me that way ???????) Ok that is at least a start with my 2 cents worth .... I guess that shows how bad inflation really is . But I am a technician and a manager, not really a software person, so please consider that as you shoot me down in flames, ok ?

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Re: [wlug] [Fwd: GNU Lecture]
by root <Glenn Reed 07 Apr '99

07 Apr '99

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Stuart Inglis wrote: > Public lecture sponsored by Computer Science Department, University of > Waikato > The GNU Project and the GNU/Linux Operating System > Richard Stallman > Free Software Association, GNU Project Founder > Monday 12 April 1999 > 7.30pm, C&LLT > Can someone tell me where this lecture theatre is, roughly which block. I am reasonable familiar with the campus layout but no longer with the building names. I know the different gates amd better still the street names. Is there any cost involved in these lectures and do I have to register? Regards Glenn.

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RPM installation
by Simon Gascoigne 06 Mar '99

06 Mar '99

Anyone know what to do when you try to install an RPM but you get the message " cannot get exclusive lock on database" "failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm"??? Simon G

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Linux course.
by Gavin 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

Just saw the caldera training outline, Thought it might help layout some options to add/go with the planned content. Course Description The Linux System Administration course provides five days of training for System Administrators and VARs who wish to gain practical, hands-on Linux training. The course is not specific to a particular Linux distribution and presents information about using Linux in a commercial environment. The last day of the course focuses on OpenLinux Installation. Additional courses will be announced as they become available. Linux System Administration (five days) Cost: $1995 Day 1 Introduction to Linux, The System Environment. LILO Boot Manger, user accounts, logging in, logging out, shutting down the system, mount, unmount, Linux directory hierarchy, directory listings, devices, device drivers and files, setting up Linux partitions, handling file system errors, Linux shells, and customizing the environment. Day 2 Essential Commands, Administration of Users/Groups. Essential commands, including man, cd, ls, mkdir, pwd, find, locate, updatedb, cp, mv, rmdir, rm, alias, cls, ln, cat, file, more, less, and grep. Superuser functions, adding users, setting up groups, changing users in groups, setting up user, group, and global permissions, and deleting users. Day 3 Networking. Serial connections, inittab, gettydefs. Setting up virtual consoles and serial terminals, connecting to a TCP/IP network server, connecting to a time server, connecting to NT and Windows, Samba, setting up the domain name server, an email gateway, and masqueraded mail server. Setting up a POP server, configuring a telnet server, an FTP server, and a web server. Using CGI. Internet security. Introduction to configuring a firewall. Day 4 Printing, Package Management, System Initialization, Customizing the Operating System, Troubleshooting. Printing, package management, DOS shell, reading a DOS disk, copying a DOS disk. System initializing, including using sys V initialization, modifying the boot loader using LILO, manually loading and unloading modules, navigating /etc/sysconfig, backing up the kernel, booting with LILO, configuring your system, compiling and installing the kernel, automatically loading and unloading modules, redefining the init process, and troubleshooting. Day 5 Detailed OpenLinux Installation. Preparing to install, preparing the hard disk, and installing/upgrading OpenLinux.

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