February 2003 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Next meeting ...
by Marc Hughes 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

So LAN party next meeting ... I'd love to get into the security stuff & some of the gaming .. But for the gaming ... what are people planning on bringing or planning on playing? Figure I should get those working on my laptop before I show up. Personally, I'd love to see the games that you can't play on windows. -Marc -- www.geek4.com - News by anyone!

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RE: [Wlug] Sony floppy disk memory stick adapter
by Keller, Tim 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

I'd suspect that because the thing came with windows drivers that it looks close enough to an MSDOS filesystem that windows won't scream so much, but when it comes to actually interacting with the filesystem/toc on the device it's nothing like that at all... Can you fdisk the device and format it? Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@attbi.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 22:40 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group Subject: [Wlug] Sony floppy disk memory stick adapter Hi everybody, My brother-in-law just obtained a Sony floppy disk memory stick adapter (MSAC-FD2MA). You put a memory stick into this "thing" which then plugs into the floppy drive. He put it into the floppy drive and it mounted OK, but 'df' thinks the device is full when indeed its empty. There was a Windows driver supplied with it also. Attempts to copy files to it while mounted failed with errors indicative of no remaining space. Does anybody know anything about this little toy? I can't find anything on the net, but I'll keep looking. It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to figure out and make work with Linux, if one were so inclined. Thanks! Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Sony floppy disk memory stick adapter
by Andy Stewart 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

Hi everybody, My brother-in-law just obtained a Sony floppy disk memory stick adapter (MSAC-FD2MA). You put a memory stick into this "thing" which then plugs into the floppy drive. He put it into the floppy drive and it mounted OK, but 'df' thinks the device is full when indeed its empty. There was a Windows driver supplied with it also. Attempts to copy files to it while mounted failed with errors indicative of no remaining space. Does anybody know anything about this little toy? I can't find anything on the net, but I'll keep looking. It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to figure out and make work with Linux, if one were so inclined. Thanks! Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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Getting OpenOffice, ODBC and MySQL to play Nice
by Bill Smith 11 Feb '03

11 Feb '03

Okay... Most of you may already have heard of this (especially if you watch Slashdot), but it's worth posting for those that don't: http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0207.barr.html Here, the author talks about getting OpenOffice.org, ODBC and MySQL working together (on Red Hat 8.0)... It looks like the first of two articles; the first explains what he did, the errors that resulted, and what he did to get around it. Next week, he's supposed to talk about using his new-found functionality, and whether it was worth the effort. FWIW, he said that he started using a how-to by John McCreesh, but there were enough differences between RH 7.3 and RH8.0 that it was almost useless. The article is certainly worth reading. It's getting late now (11pm EST), so I know what I'll be doing in the morning! ;) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com Random BOFH excuse: NOTICE: alloc: /dev/null: filesystem full * TAG! v3.1 *

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qmail - several domain!
by Aramico - pop3.nomadss.com 10 Feb '03

10 Feb '03

Hi all, I've got my qmail server run so well, it's all nice. Ups, I've got something that bother me alyways! I have several domains hosted in my server where my qmail server running on too, The mail problem is, If somebody send me a message where the address is one of the my listed domain in my server, then.. if I read the mail from one of the available account from my server, here,. I'll receive all the email that attach to my username, so all my email address from the available domain are received in on of the account that I use to open the mail. So, how can I open one of my email address and I just receive the mail that attach to the address where I mean to ? Thanks Man.

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floppy question
by Michelle Vadeboncoeur 10 Feb '03

10 Feb '03

I hope you guys don't mind a hardware-related question... The short of it is, if a floppy controller appears dead, short of getting a new motherboard how do I get a floppy drive to work on that system? I recently upgraded my home computer so that I could play the new game I got for Christmas... So, the usual course of events is to play hand-me-down computer parts in my family, so my old computer would go to upgrade my mother's computer (admittedly a Windows98 box, used for Juno email/web and playing Solitaire... so no heavy usage). My old box is old in computer terms, but it's a heck of a lot faster than the P200 that my mother currently has. I rarely used my floppy drive (the last time prior to taking that box down was a few months prior). When transferring files from my old box to my new computer, I needed to run a Windows app off of a floppy - and discovered that the floppy drive didn't work on my old box. I tried swapping the 3.5" floppy drive out for another one that I had lying around, and that one didn't work either... I also tried swapping out the floppy cables, and that didn't work. BIOS sees the 3.5" floppy drive, but the box won't boot off of a boot floppy (that is readable on other computers) or read anything off of the floppy drive (makes nasty searching sounds) when in Windows... So, my guess is that the floppy drive controller on the motherboard isn't working... My mother is adamant that she needs a working floppy drive (old files saved, and so she can transfer stuff from work to home and back). I'd really like to give her my old box for a nice CPU/RAM upgrade, but unless I can get it to use a 3.5" floppy drive, she won't take it... Any suggestions as to how I can get a floppy drive to work on my old box? Or am I just out of luck for upgrading her with my old box? -- --==*==-- --==*==-- Michelle R. Vadeboncoeur --==*==-- --==*==-- mrv(a)kluge.net: http://www.kluge.net/~mrv/

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RE: [Wlug] Disable telnet and ssh, but ftp and email still enable !
by Keller, Tim 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Aramico, I'm taking the guess that your users are using pop3 to access their email. If you set their shell to /bin/false this will allow them to access email and ftp, but they won't be able to login. Hope this helps, Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Aramico [mailto:aramico@duahati.com] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:33 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Disable telnet and ssh, but ftp and email still enable! Hi all, I have several user in my linux machine. And now, I've just finished configure my qmail server. qmail only works for the user who has the home directory. by this, I've got to create several users with their directory if I want to create an email address for them. It's not secure! How can I make disable ssh and telnet to my user ? By this my user still can access the email and ftp, but can not login via telnet and ssh service. what configuration that I need to do ? Thanks Man.

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Disable telnet and ssh, but ftp and email still enable!
by Aramico 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Hi all, I have several user in my linux machine. And now, I've just finished configure my qmail server. qmail only works for the user who has the home directory. by this, I've got to create several users with their directory if I want to create an email address for them. It's not secure! How can I make disable ssh and telnet to my user ? By this my user still can access the email and ftp, but can not login via telnet and ssh service. what configuration that I need to do ? Thanks Man.

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webmasters.com web hosting
by Brett Russ 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

Anyone have any experience with http://www.webmasters.com? I am considering transferring from logicinternet.com, the services promised by the former are seemingly much better, so I am looking for some local testimonials. thanks! Brett

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Virtual Hosting
by jose sanchez 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

Hello All: I am experiencing a weird problem with Name based virtual hosting with apache. I don't know if I am doing this correctly. The webserver is behind a firewall that is NATing traffic to it. I have three domain names, example: domain1.com, domain2.com, and domain3.com. I have the registrar of the domains forwarded to my external ip (24.31.xx.xx). The webserver's ip is 192.168.2.50. This is what the http.conf file looks like: NameVirtualHost 192.168.2.50 <VirtualHost 192.168.2.50> ServerName www.domain1.com ServerAdmin wilsan816(a)yahoo.com DocumentRoot /home/domain1/www </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 192.168.2.50> ServerName www.domain2.com ServerAdmin wilsan816(a)yahoo.com DocumentRoot /home/domain2/www </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 192.168.2.50> ServerName www.domain3.com ServerAdmin wilsan816(a)yahoo.com DocumentRoot /home/domain3/www </VirtualHost> Somehow the virtual hosting is not working. When I type www.domain2.com or www.domain3.com on the browser I get the content or pages of domain1.com. I don't know why is doing that. When I type www.domain1.com, obviously works. Now, the address bar changes from www.domainx.com to 24.31.xx.xx/index.php. The registrar where the domains are registered doesn't offer free "Domain Masking" (when the domain name stays on the browser' address bar). I don't know if this is why I am having this problem. If anyone have experienced this before please let me know. Thanks in advance. ===== "An ounce of gold cannot buy an ounce of time." - Anonymous www.whmicro.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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