[techtalk] How do I make the first ssh connection?

2001-04-26 Thread Conor Daly
Hi, I've opened ports 21, 22, 23 and 80 in my firewall and forwarded them to port 22 on an internal host. I all cases, ssh to the firewall from *inside* the firewall gets forwarded to the ssh server and I get to connect but from *outside*, it's a different matter. The outside machine I'm going

[techtalk] Netscape 6.01 + Flash Plugin

2001-04-26 Thread Victor Stratan
Hello ! I have tried to install Flash Plugin for Netscape 6.01 Browser. After i downloaded tar.gz file and put everything acording to README but it does not work. It will not show up in 'about:plugins' One thing i suspect: one of the two files from the plugin instal is a .class file Do

[techtalk] Doing NAT in CBOS

2001-04-26 Thread Samuel Tesla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Now that I've got NAT figured out on my linux firewall, I'm encountering a slight nuisance. (I'm using non-routeables in this example on purpose...) Packets for my subnet get routed to my Cisco 678 (DSL Router) by my ISP. My Cisco has the IP addre

Re: [techtalk] light laptops for linux?

2001-04-26 Thread Conor Daly
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:21:08PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Telsa Gwynne thought: > o It turns out that adding extra RAM is very easy indeed on > my Vaio, (and I'd already denied myself support by installing > the warranty so invalidating the guarantee by letting the dear > one

Re: [techtalk] light laptops for linux?

2001-04-26 Thread Molly Tomlinson
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:21:08PM +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:54:16AM -0400 or thereabouts, Molly Tomlinson wrote: > > Does anyone have a recommendation for a good, slim laptop? [...] > > I have a Sony PCG-SR1K (which in the US is a "5K", not a "1K", cos > Everything

Re: [techtalk] Backup strategy

2001-04-26 Thread jennyw
Thanks to everyone who replied! It turns out that the tape drive has issues ... the DOS diags from Seagate had troubles with it, too. Oh well. Teaches me to buy cheap stuff from eBay ... Hopefully I can get it fixed without it costing too much ... Amanda definitely sounds great for a lot of mac

[techtalk] Samba Woes

2001-04-26 Thread email
Hi everybody. I've finally done it. I've removed my Windows NT4 server and replaced it with a Linux server. Yay. It currently handles all of my internet sharing and NAT, but I'm having problems setting up Samba. This machine will be acting as the server for a Workgroup at my home. The other

Re: [techtalk] light laptops for linux?

2001-04-26 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
You might want to check out: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ There is a database of known laptop howtos and information about all sorts of models. I'd recommend running whatever you're looking at through the database to find tips or problems. I have had experience with linux on very few laptops: mi

Re: [techtalk] pine and virtual domains

2001-04-26 Thread Akkana
Makiko Itoh writes: > He's rapidly getting to be somewhat of an annoyance, since now he > wants to set up forwarding with a subject prefix with a procmail > script. (why didn't he tell me he wanted the mail to be forwarded James A. Sutherland writes: > If procmail is already installed and he h

RE: [techtalk] light laptops for linux?

2001-04-26 Thread CATHERINE BRITT
www.emperorlinux.com sell Sony VAIO's preconfigured with Linux. (I haven't bought anything from them, though. Anyone else know if they're any good?) www.emperorlinux.com sell Sony VAIO's preinstalled with Linux. (I haven't bought anything from them, though. Anyone else know if they're any good?)

RE: [techtalk] Backup strategy

2001-04-26 Thread Brian Sweeney
Jen- We're currently using Amanda here and I've been pretty happy with that so far. It lacks in a few features, but it really nicely manages the backup scheme for you (dynamically creating the levels based on need), and it's recovery procedures are also quite straightforward. It also uses a hol

Re: [techtalk] Samba Woes

2001-04-26 Thread ktb
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:46:41PM -0400, email wrote: > > Hi everybody. > > I've finally done it. I've removed my Windows NT4 server and replaced it > with a Linux server. Yay. > > It currently handles all of my internet sharing and NAT, but I'm having > problems setting up Samba. > > This

Re: Re: [techtalk] The manager to send flames to:

2001-04-26 Thread Tami Friedman
I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear in my original post. I loaded NOTHING onto the TWC machine. THe telnet daemon (or whatever M$ calls it) was already running. I merely took advantage of an ALREADY INSTALLED PROGRAM in order to read email as part of my job search (an activity which has been t

Re: [techtalk] light laptops for linux?

2001-04-26 Thread Molly Tomlinson
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:51:03AM -0700, jennyw wrote: > I read (I think in Linux Journal or something like that) that Tuxtops was > getting out of the laptops business? Their Web page even says that they've > given that segment of their business to someone else. Yup - I called and talked with

RE: [techtalk] Samba Woes

2001-04-26 Thread Stacie Turner
I found Using Samba http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/index.html very very helpful when I set up Samba. -Original Message- From: email [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [techtalk] Samba Woes Hi everybody.

Re: [techtalk] Doing NAT in CBOS

2001-04-26 Thread minae
> I want to set up NAT for the 176.16.0.0/16 network on my linux firewall, but > this doesn't work without configuring some NAT on the Cisco. I need to make it > so that the Cisco sends all the packets for 176.16.0.0/16 to 176.16.0.2 (so it > can handle all the NAT), but I can't figure out *how*.

Re: [techtalk] light laptops for linux?

2001-04-26 Thread jennyw
I read (I think in Linux Journal or something like that) that Tuxtops was getting out of the laptops business? Their Web page even says that they've given that segment of their business to someone else. Generally when it comes to laptops, I like to stick with brands that are mass produced. I fi

[techtalk] What can cause a computer to turn off on its own?

2001-04-26 Thread jennyw
Here's an interesting hardware question. My computer has this habit of turning on by itself and turning off by itself, and I'm not sure why. I'm using an Antec case, and thought there might be problems with the power supply. Then again, it could be the motherboard ... Another interesting thing i

Re: [techtalk] How do I make the first ssh connection?

2001-04-26 Thread Jen Hamilton
A couple of things, First, Do you want to be ssh'ing to the ftp port (21)? Secondly, authorized_keys is used for allowing one machine to ssh into another machine without using a password. You should still be able to connect without populating the authorized_keys file with the identity.pub key

[techtalk] FastTrak100 rant

2001-04-26 Thread Brian Sweeney
As the subject implies, this isn't so much a question as a general frustration rant. BEGIN RANT ARG! Promise claims to have all this great linux support for their stuff. But I've got a FastTrak100 ide RAID card that might as well be a paperweight for my RH7.1 (yeah, I know it's broken ;

[techtalk] 2 Q: xinetd and Gigabit linux NIC?

2001-04-26 Thread Brian Sweeney
'Lo all- I have 2 questions. The first has to do with Xinetd configuration. What I wanted to do is specify that the default policy is to Deny for any services on any address, so I setup no_access=0.0.0.0/0 in defaults. Then I want to allow per-service, so I put in only_from=0.0.0.0/0 in my wu-

[techtalk] RE: 2 Q: xinetd and Gigabit linux NIC?

2001-04-26 Thread Brian Sweeney
Oops...forgot to mention; I'm looking for fiber, not copper gigabit... -Brian > -Original Message- > From: Brian Sweeney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 2 Q: xinetd and Gigabit linux NIC? > > > My second (much sho

RE: [techtalk] FastTrak100 rant

2001-04-26 Thread Angela Nash
You aren't missing anything. The Promise (as well as most other IDE RAID cards) are software based. The driver does all the real work, not the card. They don't have chips on them to offload the RAID processing like a "real" SCSI RAID card...so you end up using a lot of CPU time anyway. The only

[techtalk] init process in 2.2.19

2001-04-26 Thread Subba Rao
Hi, I am trying to add a process which is to be managed by init. I have added the following entry to /etc/inittab SV:2345:respawn:env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan /service dev/console After saving, I execute the following command: # kill -HUP 1 This does not

Re: [techtalk] Doing NAT in CBOS

2001-04-26 Thread Samuel Tesla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually, the Cisco documentation is very unhelpful. I managed to figure out a way to do it, though. I just set up IP Aliasing on the firewall. Then it all works. Not the *most* elegant way of going about it, but it works. - -- -=--=--=--=--=--