Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread David Hart
g/documentation/HOWTO//packet-filtering-HOWTO.html written by Rusty Russell, the initial author and one of the current main developers of iptables/netfilter. He shows a simple six line firewall script at http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//packet-filtering-HOWTO-5.html. -- David Hart

Re: question about dns server at home

2007-02-28 Thread David Hart
On Wed 2007-02-28 10:05:13 -0500 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:00:07PM +0000, David Hart wrote: > > > > Perhaps I've misunderstood the OPs questions but if he means hosting his > > own domain within the public address space (.org, .com etc.) then

Re: question about dns server at home

2007-02-28 Thread David Hart
thin the public address space (.org, .com etc.) then he will need publicly accessible static IPs. -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question about dns server at home

2007-02-28 Thread David Hart
t your domain registrar will include basic dns within the registration fee. -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smtp time spam filtering

2007-02-28 Thread David Hart
On Mon 2007-02-26 14:26:58 -0800 Paul Johnson wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > On Sat 2007-02-24 21:03:11 -0500 Greg Folkert wrote: > >> > >> Bouncing... bingo. If the sender doesn't handle it properly, it isn't my > >> problem. > > > >

Re: smtp time spam filtering

2007-02-28 Thread David Hart
On Mon 2007-02-26 16:41:40 +0100 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On 23.02.07 19:15, David Hart wrote: > > > > AFAIU no, but that's the way I do it with postfix. Both my primary > > > > and secondary MXs do RBL checks and stuff like recipient validation &

Re: smtp time spam filtering

2007-02-26 Thread David Hart
On Sat 2007-02-24 21:03:11 -0500 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 23:24 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:33:00PM +0000, David Hart wrote: > > > > > I must be missing something here. In order to scan an email

Re: smtp time spam filtering

2007-02-26 Thread David Hart
On Sat 2007-02-24 23:24:15 +0100 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:33:00PM +0000, David Hart wrote: > > > > I must be missing something here. In order to scan an email you must > > > > receive the email (I don't mean

Re: smtp time spam filtering

2007-02-23 Thread David Hart
On Fri 2007-02-23 08:16:48 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:33:00PM +, David Hart wrote: > > On Thu 2007-02-22 12:57:34 -0500 Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:38 +, David Hart wrote: > > > > On T

Re: smtp time spam filtering

2007-02-23 Thread David Hart
On Thu 2007-02-22 12:57:34 -0500 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:38 +0000, David Hart wrote: > > On Thu 2007-02-22 10:33:34 -0500 Greg Folkert wrote: > > > I can't see any advantage in scanning during smtp connect time. > > By the time you'

smtp time spam filtering (was: How does Cron send email?)

2007-02-22 Thread David Hart
b'd from (most) Debian lists I > subscribe to, for "bouncing" the SPAM. This is an example of hurting the good guys. I think once you've got past the RCPT TO: you might just as well accept the email and deal with it later. > I guess it is a fine, fine line. We have t

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-22 Thread David Hart
snipped. There's no reason to disbelieve it ;-) -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Email receiving problems

2007-02-20 Thread David Hart
te the trailing forward slash on the mailbox name as this tells postfix to deliver in maildir format. If this doesn't work, post the output of the command 'postconf -n' which will show where your config deviates from default. -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-09 Thread David Hart
On Thu 2007-02-08 09:54:28 -0500, Stephen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:28:33PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote: > > > Snipped from my config.py: > > > > # 1: Use SMTP_SERVER to send mail. > > # 0: Call /usr/sbin/sendmail to send mail. > &g

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread David Hart
On Wed 2007-02-07 15:57:07 -0500, Stephen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:22:01PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote: > > > > Ehh? For such a simple program I think it's well documented. 'man r2e' > > and the self documented config file ~/.rss2email/c

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread David Hart
On Wed 2007-02-07 13:57:42 -0500, Stephen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:26:44PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote: > > On Wed 2007-02-07 12:47:55 -0500, Stephen wrote: > > [ ...] > > > > Does it do mbox format and are URLs included ? > > > > I

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread David Hart
On Wed 2007-02-07 12:47:55 -0500, Stephen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:01:00PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote: > > > > For the few RSS feeds that I need to read I use 'rss2email'. > > Looks great -- Without looking at the package, just a couple qui

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread David Hart
27;. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rss2email [snip] Description: receive RSS feeds by email rss2email is a simple program which you can run in your crontab. It watches RSS (or Atom) feeds and sends you a nicely formatted email message for each new item. -- David Hart <

Re: CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2007-01-17 Thread David Hart
On Wed 2007-01-17 21:36:09 +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: > เมื่อ พ. 2007-01-17 เวลา 12:43 +0000, David Hart เขียนว่า: > > On Wed 2007-01-17 12:20:58 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > > > > > I'm using duplicity to run a backup of some of my data to a remote ftp >

Re: CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2007-01-17 Thread David Hart
essage (repeatedly, every few seconds) last Sunday after installing Etch on a friend's box. Turned out to be dust blocking a perforated sheet behind the cpu fan. -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-07 Thread David Hart
On Sun 2007-01-07 02:31:48 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 02:13, David Hart wrote: > > > > Besides being memory hungry, KDE applications spit out all sorts of > > > errors both on the konsole terminal and in .xsession-errors. Wonder if >

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-06 Thread David Hart
for a while the memory usage would settle down again to something like it is above. > Besides being memory hungry, KDE applications spit out all sorts of errors > both on the konsole terminal and in .xsession-errors. Wonder if etch has been > tested as much as it should be... Are yo

Re: /tmp is looking full but du doesn't show why - SOLVED

2007-01-02 Thread David Hart
; > 324M/tmp > > > > Am I missing something obvious? > > Apologies for the noise - du doesn't show files only directories and I > have: > -rw--- 1 clive clive 337007035 2007-01-02 11:42 FlashX8Lk0X It does if you use the -s option. Try '

Re: lvm vs traditional partitioning

2006-12-24 Thread David Hart
ot contiguous with anything else, I have no > choice but to give it its own partition. You could symlink /opt into somewhere else such as /usr -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVDs - err what gives?

2006-12-12 Thread David Hart
.list > bash: cat/etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory There should be a space between cat and the first forward slash. -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to find package name for files

2006-12-02 Thread David Hart
On Sat 2006-12-02 17:37:29 +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: > Given an existing file, Is there any method to find out which package the > file comes from? If I can find out which package the file is from, maybe I > can guess the name of the newer package. dpkg -S /path/to/file -- David Har

Re: localhost in /etc/hosts

2006-11-25 Thread David Hart
gt; > Never tried to install leafnode then? What use would leafnode be on a non-networked box? -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: brute force ssh login attempts and how to Disrupt them

2006-11-16 Thread David Hart
to allow access from a dynamic IP. http://www.zeroflux.org/knock/ -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Weird system clock problem...

2006-11-10 Thread David Hart
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:35:36AM -0500, Louis-David Perron wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > Disabling APM cured the symptoms. > > Up to now, it seems to work perfectly! I guess that this IBM desktop machine > has some similarities with a laptop. Thanks for your reply and I&

Re: Weird system clock problem...

2006-11-09 Thread David Hart
een running kernel 2.4 and NTP for about a year with no problems. On upgrading to 2.6 the clock drifted so much that NTP refused to sync. Disabling APM cured the symptoms. -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: kernel 2.6 and amd K6-II

2006-11-05 Thread David Hart
or (really last) to return > to 2.4. The bug report mentions problems with loading the initial ram disk with RAM equal to or less than 48MB so I very much doubt that that is your problem. If I remember correctly, the k6 doesn't support all 686 instructions so you need to use a ke

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-11-03 Thread David Hart
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:37:46AM +, s. keeling wrote: > David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I didn't explain that fully as it didn't seem relevant to the point I > > was trying to make. I receive the vast majority of my mail directly > > b

Re: top(1) and the meaning of columns

2006-11-03 Thread David Hart
more useful (even if that is just disk cache). Thrashing is always bad as it means you don't have enough RAM for what the running processes need _immediately_. Disk access is several orders of magnitude slower than RAM access. -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-28 Thread David Hart
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:43:21PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-10-26 12:56:07 +0100, David Hart wrote: > > I'll be the first to admit that mutt is not ideal for reading pop > > accounts but I've found it very useful for things like testing when > &

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-28 Thread David Hart
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:43:23PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > I have no need to read the archives as I have a threaded view of this > > conversation in front of me as I write. > > Uh, doesn't help when it wasn't *IN* this conversation.

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-28 Thread David Hart
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:44:52PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > Most of what you say kind of proves the OP's point. You mention 'hooks' > > which means using programs _external_ to the email client. > > Er, no. Hooks in the client

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread David Hart
kind of proves the OP's point. You mention 'hooks' which means using programs _external_ to the email client. -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread David Hart
accounts but I've found it very useful for things like testing when setting up pop/imap servers. For the small amount of mail I receive currently via pop I use fetchmail dumped into the local mailspool. -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not a mutt zealot but simply a contented

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread David Hart
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:41:48AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > Been there, done that, look at the third link above to see why it does. > > ;-) > > Doesn't keep mail separate. Please, read the archives before going > further. I'm sick

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread David Hart
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:58:11PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#pop > > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#imap > > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#account-hook > > Been the

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread David Hart
manual.html#pop http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#imap http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#account-hook -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: md5sum lots of files

2006-10-20 Thread David Hart
d5sum > /tmp/dest.sums > >>diff -u /tmp/source.sums /tmp/dest.sums > > > >Might need a sort in there before redirecting to files. > > > > > >/Allan > > How should I go about sorting it? Pipe it though 'sort'. find . -type f -print0 | s

Re: Sarge Install | From floppy & DVD | Not finding hard drive or wireless (RESOLVED)

2005-07-02 Thread David Hart
it is missing a load of files: > >ata_piix > >ide-scsi > >ide-mod > >ide-probe-mod > >ide-generic > >ide-floppy Solution - The default kernel is 2.4 for the installer. Booted with 2.6 (linux26) which then had the SATA modules installed and smooth from there. Thanks for the help, David Hart

Sarge Install | From floppy & DVD | Not finding hard drive or wireless

2005-07-01 Thread David Hart
floppy, so it is def. mounted. Am I missing an installation option? The machine is a Dell 5000 with SATA HDD on SATA -0, CD-Rom on IDE (primary) and DVD writer on IDE (secondary). Thanks a lot, David Hart

Re: CVS Server on SSL?

2002-03-11 Thread David Hart
> How is ssh-agent different from just running ssh-keygen to create a > key pair with an empty passphrase and putting the public key into > ~/.ssh./authorized_keys on the cvs machine? It just means that your private key isn't lying around on your disk unencrypted. -- David Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread David Hart
might find http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/ of some help. Why not install sshd on the linux box though and ssh into it from NT? A good windows ssh client that comes to mind is PuTTY - a google search should find it. -- David Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]