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Firewalls
by Michael Long 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

After spending many hours this past week trying to understand ipchains and firewalling in general I have come to the conclusion that I am spending a lot of time trying to recreate something that probably already exists. Does anyone have any experience with either open source or commercial firewalling products that can be configured to work in a small office network and allow VPN connections to larger networks. I do not have a very big budget but would be willing to pay for the appropriate solution. Mike

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Startup issues
by Michael Long 02 Apr '01

02 Apr '01

I have been playing with my network settings today and have made a change that has caused my system to be unable to read this file during boot up. Also any script that tries to read from it is unable to. Unfortunately I have no idea what I did to cause this. The following is the out put from 'ls -l' -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 Jan 30 19:59/ etc/rc.config.d/idedma.rc.config I am running SuSE 7.0. Thanks, mike

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Richard Stallman will be speaking at Holy Cross
by Andy Stewart 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

Hi WLUG members, Richard Stallman will be speaking at Holy Cross soon. See the details below in an e-mail which I recently received. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder -o) | Being stoned on marijuana isn't very Worcester Linux Users' Group /\ | different from being stoned on gin. -- Worcester, MA, USA _\_v | Ralph Nader http://www.wlug.org | -------- Original Message -------- Subject: GNU/Linux Event at Holy Cross Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:51:33 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Hwang <ahwang(a)mathcs.holycross.edu> Reply-To: Andrew Hwang <ahwang(a)mathcs.holycross.edu> To: astewart(a)world.std.com As part of an ongoing series of talks on Computer Science and Ethics, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation will be speaking on Wednesday, April 18, at the College of the Holy Cross. The title of his talk is "The Free Software movement, and the GNU/Linux operating system" The talk will start at 3:30 and will run for about 2 hours (including Q&A). The location is 112 O'Neill Hall. The event is open to the public, and GNU software will be for sale. If you have questions about this event, please send me email at the address below. Hope to see you there! Andrew D. Hwang ahwang(a)mathcs.holycross.edu Department of Math and CS http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang College of the Holy Cross (508) 793-2458 (Office: 331 Swords Hall) Worcester, MA, 01610 (508) 793-3530 (fax)

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Help with NIS
by Leon Do 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

I have my NIS server running on a redhat box. Can somebody help me how to setup my win machines to use linux NIS server? Thanks -- Leon Do

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Problems
by Doctor Orbitz 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

I have Slackware 7.1 running on a an AMD 133Mhz box with 32Megs RAM. This is my webserver, shell server, Ip MASQ box, and it locks up alot. It seems to lock up when I'm downloading on a box in my network behind it. I am runnign Kernel 2.4.0 on an ADSL line. I have had this problem with all kernel compiles I have done. I used to run FreeBSD, then OpenBSD on this box with no trouble. I did not, however, have ADSL then, so those boxes were just using a dial-up. I think IP MASQ is lockign the box up at some point. There are no messages in /var/log/messages, it just stops cold. My PPPOE client, when running top, never appears to use more than 10% of my CPU. I do not think the problem is in the pppoe client because the box does not seem to lock up when I'm downloading on it. (as in ssh'ing in and using lynx). Does anyone have any ideas on this? Orbitz

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Looking for someone to assist in setting up a server
by David Dondero 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

Hello all, My name is David Dondero and I am looking for someone who can help me set up a Red Hat Linux server that can: Use the apache webserver to set up hosting customer's webpages as well as my own Run RealServer basic for streaming audio and video live and on demand Run Darwin Streaming server for streaming audio and video live and on demand in QuickTime Run a Shoutcast server for live audio streaming I currently have a Duron 650 with a 15 and 20 gig hard drive 7200rpm with 128 megs of PC100 memory. Anyone interested please get in touch by either e-mail: daviddondero(a)radio521.com or phone H) 781-934-7978 W) 781-934-7035 thanks, David Dondero

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REMINDER: Meeting on Wednesday, March 14th at 7 PM
by Andy Stewart 13 Mar '01

13 Mar '01

HI everyone, This is a friendly reminder: the next WLUG meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 14th at 7 PM in Kinnicutt Hall at WPI in Worcester, MA. Directions can be found on the WLUG website: http://www.wlug.org WLUG members Doug Waud, Stephen Daukas, and Chuck Anderson have been working together on the presentation for this meeting (at least that's the story I've been given). They will be discussing their experiences with home networking. Check out the WLUG website for a more detailed description of the focus of their talk. I expect that this will be a good meeting for someone who might not have setup a home network but is considering it. After the presentation, if time allows, we'll open the floor for a general question and answer session. At the conclusion of the meeting, a group of us will head over to the Boynton Restaurant for some pizza and beer. As always, the meeting and the post-meeting festivities are open to anybody who is interested in Linux. No secret handshake is required. :-) See ya later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder -o) | Aquadextrous, adj.: Possessing the Worcester Linux Users' Group /\ | ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and Worcester, MA, USA _\_v | off with your toes. -- Rich Hall, http://www.wlug.org | "Sniglets"

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Open Source XML Programming Tutorial
by Steve Litt 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

Hi all, Because most XML books and websites force the you to recite Microsoft incantations, I wrote an all Open Source XML programming tutorial using Linux and Xerces-Java from Apache Software Foundation. It thoroughly covers coding of DOM, SAX, and DTD's. http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200103/200103.htm Enjoy! SteveT Steve Litt Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com http://www.troubleshooters.com slitt(a)troubleshooters.com

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Set Date/Time
by Peter Nikolla 05 Mar '01

05 Mar '01

I would like to thank everyone that helped me with the setting of date/time. I think the hwclock command did the trick. thanx Peter N.

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Set Date/Time
by Peter Nikolla 04 Mar '01

04 Mar '01

Hi, I am having a problem setting the date/time on my Linux box. I set it using date 030310152001 for 3/3/2001 10:15. Everyting seems fine until I reboot the box. At that time it changes to some other time. I checked my CMOS and the time is correct. What am I doing wrong? thanx for your help. Peter N.

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