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Re: [RndTbl] November 12th Meeting
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

According to Mel Seder: > I enjoyed to-nights meeting. Both presentations were interesting and I > learned/saw things that I never knew before. > > Thanks to whoever arranged Tuesday's topics. My thanks are also > offered to the guys who answered my newbie type of questions. Thanks for the positive feedback, Mel. You may want to check out the meeting write-up on our web site, which I've just updated to include a description of Bill Reid's "show and tell" demo, with links to sites for the HomePlug products... http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/02-03.html#nov -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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November 12th Meeting
by Mel Seder 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

I enjoyed to-nights meeting. Both presentations were interesting and I learned/saw things that I never knew before. Thanks to whoever arranged Tuesday's topics. My thanks are also offered to the guys who answered my newbie type of questions. ===== MelSeder(a)yahoo.com "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone (1899-1947) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2

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MUUG Meeting, Nov 12, 7:30PM -- Essential Unix for Sys-Admins
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

[Posted to man.unix.general and other new groups] ------ Forwarded Article <aq8spk$4s$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, November 12. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Essential Unix for System Administrators Sean Walberg, who presented GPG in March 2002 and Netfilter in April 2001, will be our guest presenter again this month. This presentation will focus on some of the lower levels of Unix such as files and filesystems, processes, and the boot procedure. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our new meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15 PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or you may not get in. Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce" and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you to subscribe now: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/ The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG members. The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective, we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay involved! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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OpenBSD 3.2
by ve4drk＠mb.sympatico.ca 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

Has anyone tried the openbsd 3.2 ... haven't gotten that far to download and install it yet, but curious as to if anyone else has had any results. Dan.

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Looking for MUUG Lines Back-issues
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

Calling all MUUG members who were around in the mid-90's: We're looking for paper copies of some of the back-issues of the MUUG Lines newsletter which we appear to be missing. Our goal is to eventually have a complete collection of back-issues available online for downloading. We've already had success in locating many back-issues, and have produced PDF files out of some of these by scanning the pages in and running them through OCR software. However, we're still missing the following issues: May 1994 Jun 1994 Nov 1994 Dec 1994 Jan 1995 Feb 1995 Dec 1995 Jan 1996 Feb 1996 If you were a MUUG member during that time, and have kept back-issues of MUUG Lines, please look for these. If you have them, please let us know, so we can arrange to borrow them from you for scanning. Your help in completing our collection would be most appreciated. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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New kernel for Red Hat 8.0
by Mel Seder 19 Oct '02

19 Oct '02

I let the automated up2date agent on my panel do it's thing on both my PC's. I was able to boot one PC but not the other. It just sat there with the HD activity light on after I selected, actually it was defaulted for me, to load the newest kernel. I did a three finger salute and re-booted using the prior kernel version. I'd like to be running the newer version and am wondering if installing the new version by using the RPM for it would be easier than re-installing 8.0 and letting Red Hat go out and do it's own update of the kernel again. What are your suggestions and thoughts? ===== MelSeder(a)yahoo.com "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com

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query on mrtg ...
by Dan Keizer 17 Oct '02

17 Oct '02

G'day eh ... I've been running mrtg for a little while now on a machine at work .. it's logging my ethernet traffic and another couple of boxes just fine ... but ... I'm not sure how to change a setting and can't seem to find any reference to it that makes sense ... so I'll ask ... during peak transfer rates, the graph will be automatically scaled so it displays the full range of the transfer rates (ie: it'll show 900Kbps peaked) .. normally, my bandwidth utilization on an idle system is anywhere from 3K to 30K depending on the application being used (don't ask!) ... the problem then, when it peaks, it will make the rest of the graph utilization very small (ie: scaled down) to fit in the large transfer rate -- which makes it very difficult to visualize the now small differences. What I'm looking for is to cap the transfer rate on a specific image (target) so that I can more easily identify it's normal running state and the small effects during the course of a day/week (regardless of it's peak transfer rates) .... I've seen some references to items that sound similar, but cannot easily identify which ones might be pertinent ... rather than going through all the different permutations and trying them out on a day by day basis, anyone have any ideas as to what options I might be able to use to accomplish this?? Thanks. Dan.

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Router Config Confuses me
by Mel Seder 14 Oct '02

14 Oct '02

D-Link DI-701 I have three open ports that I added using the vserv command of my router's software. I can use all the other main ports ie 80, 25 and various IM programs and I never had to go in and add these ports to the open list. The show command doesn't show ports 80 or 25 as being open. How do some programs have the ability to use these ports without them being in the allowed list and others such as ftp (20 & 21) need to be added with the vserv command? ===== MelSeder(a)yahoo.com "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com

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Sendmail or nameserver problems?
by Raymond J. Henry 14 Oct '02

14 Oct '02

After setting up chroot jail, I noticed a problem with my mail inbound and outbound for sub-domains. I have multiple domains on my server, some with sub-domians. The primary domain mail traffic is not effected by this latest problem, just the sub-domains. The system is runing RH 7.1. Users of the sub-domains access their mail via Squirrel mail. Here's an example of one of my DNS zone entries: $TTL 3D @ IN SOA ns1.manitobamall.net. root.manitobamall.net. ( 12 ; Serial 1H ; Refresh 2H ; Retry 4W ; Expire 1D) ; Minimum TTL ; NS ns1 MX 10 mail; ; A 206.45.64.137 ns1 A 206.45.64.137 www A 206.45.64.137 mail A 206.45.64.137 winnipeg A 206.45.64.137 www.winnipeg A 206.45.64.137 me2u.winnipeg A 206.45.64.137 www.me2u.winnipeg A 206.45.64.137 maac A 206.45.64.137 www.maac A 206.45.64.137 mpa A 206.45.64.137 www.mpa A 206.45.64.137 The sub-domains are reflected in /etc/mail/local-host-names. Attempting to send mail to a sub-domain results in this showing on my server end: qfg9ELg9X01184 Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:33:33 -0500 "Raymond J. Henry" <rayhenry(a)mts.net> <rhenry(a)maac.manitobamall.net> 2 b host map: lookup (maac.manitobamall.net) deferred So, the mail appears to be be arriving at my server, and then being "deferred". Attempts to force the queue (/usr/lib/sendmail -v -q) result in: Running /var/spool/mqueue/g9ELg9X01184 (sequence 1 of 4) <rhenry(a)maac.manitobamall.net>... maac.manitobamall.net: Name server timeout <rhenry(a)maac.manitobamall.net>... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery Last time I *know* that mail for the sub-domains was working was last weekend, so this has just come up since then. No changes have been made to sendmail or DNS entries. The only changes on the server was to set up the chroot jail stuff, and I can't see how that would effect this... What am I missing????? You can reach me directly at rayhenry(a)nashmet.com

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Red Hat Road Tour 2002
by millward 12 Oct '02

12 Oct '02

Red Hat has some guys in an rv touring around starting October 31. Maybe they might be persuaded to visit MUUG ? Maybe they'll bring some free goodies. Anyway, we'll get to tell them what we like/dislike about Red Hat and how to run Red Hat. They need our advice! It's the best advice they can get and I'm sure we'll enjoy giving it to them!

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