Re: [Nolug] [nolug] topic for novemb

Why not get an old 486 and use a firewall such as Freesco? You could
set it up to be your gateway, so that any machine inside the network
reached the outside world through it.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org
-----Original Message-----
From: the Professor <nyghtgolem@bigplanet.com>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Monday, November 04, 2002 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] [nolug] topic for novemb

>Ok, my personal situation.
>
>I have two desktops that my wife and I use regularly. I have 3 linux
>computers (my cluster which has yet to be named) one will have a
modem in it
>and be the dial on demand. I would like to share this connection and
>ability to have it connect at need to the two desktops. From there,
>learning how to set up the email filters and firewall and such would
make it
>that much better.
>
>Any know where I can get a cheap 19" rack?
>
>~
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joey Kelly" <geek@joeykelly.net>
>To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
>Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 7:09 AM
>Subject: Re: [Nolug] [nolug] topic for novemb
>
>
>> On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 13:33, the Professor wrote:
>> > Would you be showing how to setup spam assassin to filter out
junk email
>> > from a remote pop3?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> >
>> > ie: you have a home lan and you want to filter all of your email
through
>> > your linux box running spamassassin.
>> >
>> > This involves the sharing of the internet connection and other
such
>things.
>> >
>> > Anyone have a link to a good how-to on setting up a linux box as
a proxy
>for
>> > dial up internet?
>>
>> I'm assuming you're a lan behind a linux box that's got a modem in
it,
>> and you want to share your connection.
>>
>> Which kernel? If you're still 2.2.x, ipchains is your friend. The
howto
>> has a chapter on that. 2.4? Well, iptables is what to use, perhaps
we
>> can give you the right iptables config for that.
>>
>> As far as using a linux box for dialup, the best app for that is
wvdial.
>> You might be able to get diald working if you want dial-on-demand.
>>
>> --joey
>> >
>> > ~the Professor
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Joey Kelly" <geek@joeykelly.net>
>> > To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
>> > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 6:17 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [Nolug] [nolug] topic for novemb
>> >
>> >
>> > > John,
>> > >
>> > > I didn't have to set up anything in MySQL when I did this
yesterday.
>Do
>> > > you have a link for this? Perhaps you are referring to an older
>version
>> > > or forked implementation?
>> > >
>> > > AFAIK, SpamAssassin uses a user_prefs file that is copied into
the
>> > > user's directory upon first usage, and everything (conf-wise)
is
>stored
>> > > there.
>> > >
>> > > --Joey
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 12:00, johns@sstar.com wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Hi Joey.
>> > > >
>> > > > > I'm going to show how to set up SpamAssassin to filter out
junk
>mail
>> > > > > from your inbox.
>> > > >
>> > > > A pre-meeting question, if you don't mind. I've looked at
>SpamAssassin
>> > very
>> > > > briefly. One thing which I noticed was that it uses a MySQL
>database
>> > with all
>> > > > of the users in it. Is this required or can I run it without
it?
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks,
>> > > >
>> > > > John
>> > > >
>> > > >
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% % %
>> > > > % John Souvestre Southern Star
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>> > >
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>>
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ones,
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