May 2005 - main - earth.li

Re: [ALUG] Multi-card reader
by Brett Parker 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Walker <chris_linux(a)wymondham.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed 23 Mar, Brett Parker wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > <snip /> > > Chris Walker <chris_linux(a)wymondham.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > This has 4 slots in it too but I'm failing at the first hurdle. Trying > > > the command above gives me 'bash: modprobe: command not found'. > > > > Ahhh! I may have neglected to say that they need to be run as root, as > > it's loading kernel modules... > > > > I'm *assuming* that Mandrake has modprobe, it's part of the usual base > > system, so it should have. > > Ah. I missed that vital step. OK. Done that and now, having the steps you > gave me earlier, I now have loads of new icons on the desktop. > > I'll have a crack at editing the fstab file now to see if I can get it to do > all this automatically on boot up now. > > I appreciate both your help and that from Chris Glover. You'll probably want to add the modules to the /etc/modules file (or that's where I'd add them on a debian system, anyways... *goes look it up for Mandrake...*) OK - for Mandrake it appears that the file is /etc/modules.conf, and it'll be a line something like: probeall ehci-hcd usb-storage that you need to add, or expand the probeall line to include them. Then the modules should get automagically loaded on boot. Thanks, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCQYPlEh8oWxevnjQRAhZsAKDOTBJEh0gaGyHEeDz1bnMuVZZi0QCfbqRN xLL3iWeKsawO+NOjr0rdGP4= =qyPP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Hamachi (P2P VPN) OSS equivalent
by Mark Rogers 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

I don't know if anyone here has played with Hamchi: www.hamachi.cc Essentially its a closed source (but free as in beer) VPN system which uses a peer-to-peer infrastructure. Effectively it allows anyone to join a VPN (with the right passwords, etc) without any of the normal "fun" associated with VPN configuration. It has two major downfalls: 1. It's Windows only at present (a Linux client is coming, though) 2. As I said above, its closed source. The second point is the one that concerns me most. Security software which is not open source basically just bothers me. Of-course point 1 is also a side effect of point 2 (it's not the developer's priority, so it's not been done, where with the OSS model I'm pretty sure it would have been by now). Since I'm new to Hamachi, its quite possible that there are similar OSS projects. Does anyone here know of anything like it? [I will say that on Windows platforms Hamachi is very effective at what it does.] Mark Rogers, More Solutions Ltd

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Wireless network roaming
by Barry Samuels 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

I have a laptop with a wireless PCMCIA card which connects to my home network. This relies on a set of fixed parameters supplied by /etc/network/interfaces. I went away recently to a hotel that provided a wireless internet facility. It was then that I realised that I couldn't use it because I didn't know how to even though they gave me an access code - a single string of numerical digits. I assume that there must be a way of setting up my laptop to scan for wireless access points and connect to any available ones. How would the access code provided by the hotel fit in? What about things like machine hostname, IP address etc? Any pointers please? Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Ubuntu opinions
by Jenny Hopkins 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hi List, A friend of mine is trying out Ubuntu linux. I know there are some ALUG members who have tried Ubuntu and rave about it enthusiastically (you know who you are :-)) Anyway, I said I would ask what is so great about it and what the general opinion is and how it differs from, say, debian. Thanks, Jenny

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Forcing "Return-Path:" in sendmail
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hi Folks, I want to find a way to *force* sendmail to include a specified "Return-Path:" header in mail it sends to a remote [E]SMTP server. Specifically: Return-Path: Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk rather than the header it computes automatically. Thanks for any suggestions! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 21-May-05 Time: 21:05:22 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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inetd.conf and what's not in it
by Chris Green 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

I know quite a few daemons/servers are no longer started up by inetd, is there any logic to whether they are started this way or not? Further to this (and more importantly) how does one work out how an IP service is started if it's not in inetd.conf? In particular I can't see what starts the IMAP4 services but they most definitely do start. There's an 'imap2' entry in inetd.conf but not an 'imap4' one, is this the one that starts an connection on port 143? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Copying multiple files in a range
by Chris Glover 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi, Here's one for you... If I have a range of files named dcp_1100.jpg - dcp_1189.jpg and I only want to copy 1156-1183, how do I do it. cp dcp_11[56-83].jpg <dest> does not work, but cp dcp_115[6-9].jpg <dest> does. What am I missing? There's got to be an easier way than typing it out serveral times for the range needed? Thanks Chris -- Chris ---------------------------------- E Mail: chris(a)glovercc.plus.com SIP: 84411389(a)voiptalk.org IAXTEL: 17003366726

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Copying IMAP folders, and/or a hierarchy of folders
by Chris Green 31 May '05

31 May '05

I'm still banging away at this problem and haven't yet found a satisfactory solution. There is a lot of mail hosted on my company's web hosting service, it's kept in a Cyrus IMAP server and access is via Horde/Imp webmail. This works pretty well but I'd like to be able to get at it in other ways and to archive some of it. So I asked the sysadmin to open up the IMAP server so I can access it from my home machine, this he has done and I can access it via IMAP/SSL on port 993. Using an stunnel client I can also access it as an 'ordinary' IMAP server for clients that don't do SSL. My two main requirements are:- 1 - To be able to copy (large) IMAP folders containing old sentmail as archived by Horde to our home machines, it can then be backed up there (saved to CD for instance) and removed from the Cyrus server to save space. 2 - To be able to copy a complete hierarchy of a user's messages on the IMAP server to a home machine. This will enable access with a normal (as opposed to webmail) client, I may even move some users from the remote webmail service to a home machine. I can find no utility or mail client that does both of the above satisfactorily. Initially one would think that any MUA that handles IMAP mail should be able to do it but I can't find one that does. Even the simpler requirement 1 can't be handled by most mail clients, e.g.:- Thunderbird - if you drag and drop a folder from the IMAP server to a local folder the folder is copied but none of its contents are copied, they do however appear to be removed from the remote folder - instant loss of mail! OE (yes someone recommended this) - simply can't be made to move/copy folders as far as I can see. I've tried Balsa and Kmail but neither worked, I can't remember the exact details. mutt - does a reasonable job, you can tag all the mail messages in an IMAP folder and then copy them to a local folder. However it's a bit clumsy and isn't really dealing with folders. Moving a whole hierarchy is even more difficult because each MUA and IMAP server seems to have its own way of arranging things, some see INBOX as the root of a user's hierarchy, others see INBOX as just another folder rooted at the same place as the rest of the hierarchy. Some allow both folders and mail in a folder, some don't. Often the view of a remote IMAP server is different from a local hierarchy. There are a number of utilities (imapsync, iisync, imapcopy, offlineimap, etc.) which are supposed to copy IMAP hierarchies but none works for me yet. A while ago I *did* successfully copy some IMAP hiearachies from a UW-Imap server to my home system but the same utility doesn't work satifactorily running from a Cyrus server. One of the main problems is that Cyrus allows both folders and mail within a folder, this needs some workarounds when transferring to a server (or mailbox hierarchy) where this isn't possible. Does anyone have any suggestions (apart from writing my own utility in perl, which is where I seem to be going at the moment). -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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"tracker cookie" ???
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hi Folks, This may be a falsely started hare. However, while browsing with Google, I suddenly got a pop-up which informed me that a "scan" had revealed that my machine had a cookie stored which would allow "tracking", i.e. spyware which could transmit information from my machine. It then invited me to download a free scanner to cure the problem. I have more than a suspicion that this cure might turn out to be worse than the alleged disease, but I'd be interested to see other people's comments! Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 29-May-05 Time: 20:22:56 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Re: main digest, Vol 3 #555 - 2 msgs
by pam.kelly 30 May '05

30 May '05

Have a look at www.asterisk.org. Ott for what you want but it should lead you to the right places. Look for cheap cards - I got an X100P clone on ebay for about £18 a couple of years ago and it worked fine. Probably cheaper now. I don't think it's any different to a soft modem, just more expensive and has a driver that'll do what you want. ----- Original Message ----- From: <main-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk> To: <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 6:26 AM Subject: main digest, Vol 3 #555 - 2 msgs > Send main mailing list submissions to > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > main-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk > > You can reach the person managing the list at > main-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of main digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Use PC as a traditional phone (Steve Fosdick) > 2. Re: Use PC as a traditional phone (Wayne Stallwood) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:19:08 +0000 > From: Steve Fosdick <lists(a)pelvoux.nildram.co.uk> > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: [ALUG] Use PC as a traditional phone > > I'd like to use the PC as a phone, i.e. transmit sound from the mic-in on t= > he soundcard to the phone line, have the sound received from the phone line= > available for mixing in the sound card's headphone out and be able to dial= > from software. All this, of course, under Linux. > > Does anyone know what hardware I should look for for this. I am assuming s= > ome kind of modem or modem card but these seem a bit of a minefield. Does = > the little link cable that runs from a PCI modem card to the sound card do = > everything I need or do I need to be able to copy data digitally? How can = > I tell which modem chipsets have enough support to be able to do what I wan= > t? > > TiA, > Steve. > > > > > > > > > > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > From: Wayne Stallwood <ALUGlist(a)digimatic.plus.com> > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: Re: [ALUG] Use PC as a traditional phone > Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 20:07:05 +0100 > > On Friday 27 May 2005 12:19 pm, Steve Fosdick wrote: > > I'd like to use the PC as a phone, i.e. transmit sound from the mic-in on > > the soundcard to the phone line, have the sound received from the phone > > line available for mixing in the sound card's headphone out and be able to > > dial from software. All this, of course, under Linux. > > > Sorry I have to ask why ? Why not just use Skype (or perhaps a more Open VoIP > system) to make and receive calls (Skype even supports incoming and outgoing > calls to/from a regular phone now)...Perhaps you don't have a broadband > connection ? > > > Does anyone know what hardware I should look for for this. I am assuming > > some kind of modem or modem card but these seem a bit of a minefield. Does > > the little link cable that runs from a PCI modem card to the sound card do > > everything I need or do I need to be able to copy data digitally? How can > > I tell which modem chipsets have enough support to be able to do what I > > want? > > No if you have the audio link through to the Modem then that should be > enough,I am not sure quite how the software thing will work, Presumably it > can all be done with a few AT commands to get the modem to dial but not try > and handshake in the same way that the old dialler app on Windows did. I have > not seen or heard of any application similar to the dialler app on Windows > that do what you want, and even if it did I fear that the audio quality will > be behind that of a decent desk phone unless you invest some money in a > decent headset. > > In my experience the mic in on modern soundcards is pretty useles, so you > would be looking towards a USB headset, but then you are going to have to > mess about with your mixer on the system to link the output of the headset to > the input of the modem cards audio device and vice versa. > > Also I think that maybe most of the software winmodem cards (that seem to be > pretty much the only sort you can buy these days) won't have the audio > passthrough facilities you will need. > > There are still some old school voice/fax/data serial modems on the market > that would do what you want, but naturally the software that comes with them > is Windows specific and if anybody else here remembers "Supervoice" often > quite nasty. > > Googling shows that some mad people have actually managed to get supervoice > running under wine....but I wouldn't suggest that as a serious solution. > > > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > > > End of main Digest >

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