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Next WLUG Meeting: Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam for Linux (Monday 27 October)
by Craig Box 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

Hi everyone, Because I want to see a big "Happy Birthday to me" audience, based on current relevance and suggestions prior to the AGM we're cobbling together a great topic for the next meeting: "Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam E-Mail Filtering on Linux". Suggestions for what to talk about include: * server side filtering options (MailScanner, Amavis, ClamAV & SpamAssassin, probably presented in a "How To" format with Debian Woody, Exim and Courier IMAP) * client side filtering (how bayesian filtering works, Mozilla Mail's implementation, plugging SpamAssassin into Evolution or Kmail) Since I've been doing this at work lately, I don't mind presenting it (and might even drag Greig into it too), unless anyone else would specifically like to. Seeing there are a lot of new users in WLUG lately, and that it would seem a lot of you start with KDE on Mandrake; can you let me know what email client you use? If you're interested in this topic and can't wait till the meeting, I've put some preliminary notes up at http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2003-10-27. Craig

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The Hamilton Computer Club meeting is tonight
by Meeting Reminder Bot 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

The The Hamilton Computer Club meeting is tonight This is an announcement about the Hamilton Computer Club, not the next WLUG meeting. Feel free to ignore it. If you're interested in the Computer Club, they meet about 7:30pm on the second Wednesday of each month at St Peters Cathedral Hall which is up the hill at the South End of Victoria Street. For further details, see http://www.hamiltoncomputerclub.co.nz/

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Hamilton PC Users Group meeting is tomorrow night
by Meeting Reminder Bot 06 Oct '03

06 Oct '03

The Hamilton PC Users Group meeting is tomorrow night

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Re: Next WLUG Meeting: Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam for Linux (Monday 27 October)
by Gerwin van de Steeg 06 Oct '03

06 Oct '03

Another addition would be about the modification for the dansguardian content filter available which adds antivirus scanning of webpages visited using the MailMonitor system so supports both ClamAV and other AV software. Craig, If you need some help give us a yell Gerwin

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2 hard drives
by Gene Smith 02 Oct '03

02 Oct '03

Hi Guys. If I got another hard drive how would you dual boot with windows 98 on one and linux on the other? _________________________________________________________________ Need more speed? Get Xtra Jetstream @ http://www.xtra.co.nz/products/0,,5803,00.html !

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FW: Motherboards et al
by Lindsay Druett 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi All, Have any of you had and bad/good experiences with building a Linux Workstation using any of the following motherboards ? > -----Original Message----- > From: Garry Konings [mailto:Garry.Konings(a)nz.logical.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 30 September 2003 18:41 > To: Lindsay Druett > Subject: RE: Motherboards et al > > > Thanks Lindsay > > I have been looking at some Intel P4 MoBO options:- > > Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 > Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 > Gigabyte GA-8INXP > Asus P4S8X > Asus P4C800 Deluxe, or P4C800-E Deluxe > Abit IC7, or IC7-G > Intel 865PERLL > AOpen AX4SPE > > Anybody you know used any of these for Linux before? Which distro? > > Cheers > > Garry >

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Testing
by Craig Mckenna 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Sorry to interrupt, just testing some changes to our mail server :) -- Craig Mckenna IT Systems Manager Eforms Limited

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Linux Kernel 2.6.0
by Daniel Lawson 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

The new linux kernel stable branch, 2.6.0, is nearly here. It is currently in the 2.6.0-test stage. I've been running a 2.6.0 test kernel on and off for a couple of weeks now, and thought I'd mention it on list to encourage those who feel up to it to try it out. Some new features that I've noticed: * Crypto API support, for encrypted filesystems and IPSec * (IPSec) * /sys filesystem - like the contents of /proc/sys * Much better ACPI support * STCP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) * Improved networkin * IPv6, netfilter for IPv6 * netfilter for bridges? * ALSA sound drivers have been merged * ext2 / ext3 extended attribute and ACL support * (I think) better firewire / usb2 support * ATAPI cdwriting - no need for scsi emulation any more There's a whole lot more too, i'm sure -thats just what I can remember. It seems stable, although I have odd things happen every now and then (like, a segmentation fault when rmmod'ing a module - all subsequent module operations (lsmod, rmmod, modprobe) lock up. reboot needed. oops). Certainly, once the test kernels have finished and 2.6.0 is declared "stable", this should be a good kernel. On my gentoo box, the only thing I needed to upgrade was modutils. Your mileage may vary for other distros, so make sure to read the kernel changelog and update any packages required! I think some distros (RedHat ?) have binary kernel targets for 2.6.0 already Daniel

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Slackware 9.1
by S Swami 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

The latest version is now out. I'm thinking about subscribing to support my favourite linux distro: approx US$35 per release (includes postage) - 1 or 2 releases per year. If anyone wants to share in the subscription, please mail me offlist. Cheers, Sid Swami. (poor student)

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RE: [wlug] linux within windows
by Jodi Thomson 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

It's been a while since I've played with it but Peanut linux may do the job. Can be installed on an existing windows partition http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ Jodi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- Jodi W. Anderson, Mr (BA, A+, MCP) - Computer Systems Consultant Waikato University Library - Computing Operations Group Ph: +64 7 838 4323 email: jodi(a)waikato.ac.nz "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before." > -----Original Message----- > From: John R. McPherson [mailto:jrm21(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz] > Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 1:10 p.m. > To: wlug > Subject: Re: [wlug] linux within windows > > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:05:35PM +1200, David Nicholls wrote: > > Basically my problem is this: > > I have an academic who is running win2k. He also has just > purchased a > > scientific program that runs in linux. However he also > does not want > > to have to dual-boot or purchase anthing more. Thinking > along these > > lines > > > as far as both he and I could remember, mandrake allowed > you to create > > an image that you could load to from within windows and was doing a > > lot of marketing on this ability a while back. I haven't seen > > anything more about this on their site, so I don't know about this > > anymore. In the end I just need to know if it can be done > with any of > > the distros rather than a VM of some sort. > > Ah, academics eh? > > an early way to run linux was to run it from dos, using the > loadlin.exe program. However, that is pretty much equivalent > to dual booting. > > I would suggest that he runs the linux software remotely on > linux machine and use an X server for windows to access the > remote machine and view the result. > > The cygwin xfree86 port works very well. > > John >

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