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USB to Ethernet - works!
by Chris G 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Well my new, cheap, generic USB to ethernet dongle 'just works', excellent! It was about a fiver from Lambdatek (along with some other stuff to avoid carriage being too significant). It's branded "Dynamode" USB-NIC-1427-100 if anyone is interested. It means I can add extra NICs to my little Acer Aspire Revo to my heart's content, I only need the one for the moment. By the way I have Ubuntu Server 9.10 (last release candidate) installed on the Revo, went without a hitch. I tried xubuntu but that fell in a heap, I suspect the display drivers are not fully up to it yet and, as I don't really need X, I just went for the server installation. Next to configure it to actually start doing useful things so I can turn my desktop machine off when I'm not using it and the rest of our little network will continue to be happy. -- Chris Green

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Searching a web host for possible exploits
by Mark Rogers 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

In the past I've used a little script here: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=92678 .. to scan my virtual hosts for any exploits that might have been uploaded (eg any PHP Shells, etc). It's quite a simple but effective script (just searching for keywords and emailing the offending section of code to me to investigate) but it isn't maintained and there's probably better tools out there. My question is: what tools do other people use/recommend? -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Naive Wireless LAN question(s)
by Chris G 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Up until now I have avoided using Wireless LANs as far as possible, I find wired ethernet much easier to understand and get my head around. We have occasionally turned on the Wireless on the router to allow my wife's laptop to connect when she's out in the garden but have always turned it off again after use. I now want/need to do something a bit more difficult and really don't quite know how wireless will handle it (or even if it can). I'll try and explain what I want to do. I have two phone lines each with ADSL from two different ISPs. Currently it's all hard wired with a Draytek Vigor 2820n on one and a BT Business Hub (2Wire) on the other. The 2820n provides simple load balancing sharing requests between its ADSL and the BT/2Wire ADSL which is connected to the second WAN port on the 2820n. What I want to do is do load balancing/sharing in a Linux 'server' box rather than using the 2820n as the 2820n's load balancing is a bit limited and I think that (maybe) I can do better using something like Zeroshell or Smoothwall in a dedicated Linux box. I'm aiming to try using an Acer Aspire Revo as the 'server' box but it only has one wired ethernet NIC (as do nearly all reasonably priced low power boxes) so I'll need to use its wireless LAN too. I'd like to use its hardwired Gigabit interface to connect to my existing LAN with our desktop machines, NAS etc. So, I want to use the wireless LAN on the Acer Aspire Revo to talk to both the routers, is this possible? I.e. will they all talk together in the same way as they would if plugged into a switch? Or would I be better off getting the Revo to talk to one of the routers using wireless and then use the switch in that router to get the other router onto the same subnet? Any all advice welcome (if anyone has waded through this so far!). -- Chris Green

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And now for something completely different - an iPlayer problem
by Barry Samuels 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

I'm having a BBC iPlayer problem. If I try to access content, using Iceweasel, I get a message "This content doesn't seem to be working" but my wife can access the same content from her computer connected to the same router. We are running the same versions of Debian and Iceweasel. I do have Flash enabled and I can access the ITV and Channel Four equivalents with problems. Any ideas? -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Any experience of USB to ethernet converters with Linux?
by Chris G 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Has anyone here used a USB to Ethernet converter with Linux? I want to add a second ethernet interface to an Acer Aspire Revo and the most obvious way to do it is to use a USB to ethernet thingy. Will it 'just work' or are there issues? A quick Google search suggests that I should have no problems but it would be good to have specific recommendations if anyone has any. -- Chris Green

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BBC iplayer desktop
by Bev Nicolson 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Because the BBC programmes play back so badly if I watch them online I thought I'd try installing the desktop version of iplayer. However, towards the end of the process a message comes up saying 'Enter password for default keyring to unlock.' I had thought this would go away eventually but it hasn't. Googling tells me that this is used for wireless connection but of course all I wish to do is download a programme and I'm not able to. What do I do? Thanks. Bev.

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Re: [ALUG] And now for something completely different - an iPlayer problem
by Barry Samuels 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

On 23/10/09 14:24:57, Dennis Dryden wrote: > > Can you access it from the same machine under a different account? > Might be a plugin or something. > > Dennis Dennis set me on the right track. I logged in as a different user and iPlayer worked so then I logged in as my usual user and set up a new iceweasel profile and iPlayer still worked. So far I was accessing bbc.co.uk by typing the URL then I imported my bookmark list and selected my bookmarked URL and I got that error message again. I realised at this point that the bookmarked URL was bbc.net.uk not bbc.co.uk and changing 'net' to 'co' cured the problem. I don't know how I got onto bbc.net.uk in the first place but that's the one I bookmarked by chance and that was the cause of the problem. A bit of a weird one that. Thanks to Dennis for the initial clue and to the others who tried to help. -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Re: [ALUG] And now for something completely different - an iPlayer problem
by Barry Samuels 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

On 23/10/09 14:24:57, Dennis Dryden wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Barry Samuels > <bjsamuels(a)beenthere-donethat.org.uk> wrote: > > I'm having a BBC iPlayer problem. If I try to access content, using > > Iceweasel, I get a message "This content doesn't seem to be working" > > but my wife can access the same content from her computer connected > > to the same router. We are running the same versions of Debian and > > Iceweasel. > > > > I do have Flash enabled and I can access the ITV and Channel Four > > equivalents with problems. > > > > Any ideas? > > Can you access it from the same machine under a different account? > Might be a plugin or something. > > Dennis That's something I hadn't thought of. Tried that and got a little further to a picture with a 'Play' icon in the centre and a play button on the windows status bar but clicking either does nothing. -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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blacklisting in Spamassassin
by Jenny Hopkins 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hullo, I'm finding mail headers a tad confusing. If the header of a mail is as below, what is the actual address that needs to be entered in a blacklist file in SpamAssassin? Or for the local user to enter into an evolution blacklist file on their local machine? info(a)courier.org smtpgw.nic.in ciyang22(a)yahoo.co.uk vastu3.nic.in wb.nic.in ? Many thanks, Jenny Return-Path: <info(a)courier.org> Envelope-To: user(a)dream.mydomain.co.uk Delivery-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:01:09 +0100 Received: from stoneboat.mydomain.co.uk ([80.68.88.63]) by dream.mydomain.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <info(a)courier.org>) id 1MzDaM-0005TE-SQ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:01:03 +0100 Received: from smtpgw.nic.in ([164.100.17.13] helo=vastu3.nic.in) by stoneboat.mydomain.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <info(a)courier.org>) id 1MzDZG-0007Kq-6R; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:59:55 +0100 Received: from vastu3.nic.in (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by vastu3.nic.in (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n9HGohnY005375; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:20:50 +0530 Received: from wb.nic.in (wb.nic.in [164.100.199.2])by vastu3.nic.in (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n9HGnfAp005107;Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:19:42 +0530 Received: from wb.nic.in (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by wb.nic.in (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id n9HIAXt6014677;Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:33 +0530 Received: (from apache@localhost)by wb.nic.in (8.13.5/8.13.5/Submit) id n9HI9PTm014656;Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:39:25 +0530 X-authentication-warning: wb.nic.in: apache set sender to info(a)courier.org using -f Received: from 118.98.215.130 (proxying for 62.56.132.24) (SquirrelMail authenticated user pao-coochbehar) by wb.nic.in with HTTP; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:39:25 +0530 (IST) Message-id: <44260.118.98.215.130.1255802965.squirrel(a)wb.nic.in> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:39:25 +0530 (IST) (19:09 BST) From: Mr. Tomo Sand Nori <info(a)courier.org> Reply-to: ciyang22(a)yahoo.co.uk

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Cron format to run something every ten minutes, but not on the hour?
by Chris G 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

I thought I had this sussed:- 3/10 * * * * news <command> to run <command> every ten minutes starting at three minutes past the hour but it doesn't. It just runs the command at three minutes past the hour and not again until three minutes past the next hour. (Note this is in a file in /etc/cron.d, hence the 'news' for the username to run the command.) I thought that the first time I set this up it worked every ten minutes, but looking at my logs it seems I was wrong, oh well. I have to admit re-reading the man page I can't see how I expected it to work the way I thought. So I can change it to:- */10 * * * * news <command> but that means (presumably) that the command will run on the hour which I'd really prefer to avoid. Is there no way to say run at x minutes past and every ten minutes thereafter? I suppose I could do:- 3,13,23,33,43,53 * * * * news <command> Is that the only/best way to do it? -- Chris Green

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