LSB init script virtual facility for name switch service resolution

2012-09-03 Thread Jamie Thompson
Not sure where it's best to start this discussion, but here seems a good a place as any. In brief, I have all my account information in LDAP. Problem is, I have to manually add slapd into most of my init scripts to make sure the ordering is correct and that my accounts DB is up in time for

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-29 Thread Jamie Thompson
On 2011-05-23 3:04 PM, green wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-05-23 08:28 -0500: Camaleón wrote: And IMO, too useless/time consuming also. I want a phone not a game console :-) A computer with hardware I can't access is a computer I don't want. Right. Someone gave me a blackberry

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-12 Thread Jamie Thompson
On 2011-05-11 5:05 PM, Γαβριήλ Τασιόπουλος wrote: The problem with social software is that you need to support the platforms non-technical users are using. That inevitably means Windows and Macs. I use a mac and I'd like to think I'm a technical user. Isolating Linux users from the rest of

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-11 Thread Jamie Thompson
On 2011-05-11 4:23 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:17 PM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote: So Skype has been bought by Microsoft. I expect the Linux version of Skype to be abolished in

Re: Network stalls

2009-11-30 Thread Jamie Thompson
So, I've spent all weekend looking into this, and I'm still no closer to solving it. I've tried replacing the NICs, swapping the switches, removing the switches, isolating the machines, replacing the wiring, and logging the iptables traffic. That last one was quite interesting actually. I added

Network stalls

2009-11-21 Thread Jamie Thompson
I'm experiencing a strange problem that I think my Debian server may be responsible for, but I've no idea how to troubleshoot it! For the last month or so, I've been experiencing stalls - all access to the internet stops for a minute or two. It happens frequently...but intermittently. I assumed

Debian multi-domain authentication (using a LDAP backend)

2009-06-14 Thread Jamie Thompson
Just throw-out for some thoughts I was musing on. In the windows world of old, you had your domains, each with a SID, and thus your users ended up with unique SIDs as the domain SID is prefixed to their user SIDs. Domain trust accounts could be established to enable users from other domains to

NFS Not mounting at boot

2008-11-25 Thread Jamie Thompson
Hi all, I did my upgrades as normal a couple of days ago, and now NFS doesn't seem to automount my /home any more, where previously it was all working fine. Here's what I installed at the time: 2008-11-23 16:37:52 status installed perl-tk 1:804.028-1+b1 2008-11-23 16:38:04 status installed

Re: CUPS and Device Permissions

2008-06-29 Thread Jamie Thompson
Nathaniel Homier wrote: Is the printer known to work in Debian? Not directly, but it's a Canon IP4200, which has Linux drivers (abet RPMs which I've found repackaged (old) by a kind Japanese fellow, though I'm just using the Canon RPMs and alien for the time being). Few niggles aside, seems to

CUPS and Device Permissions

2008-06-25 Thread Jamie Thompson
Hey. I've been trying to get the printer working on my parent's PC, which is now actually using their Debian install now that their XP install has died and I'm in no hurry to reinstall it. ;) Interesting issue though, namely, the printer device and cups. Basically, I have cups using the

The hot potato of init script actions...

2006-06-03 Thread Jamie Thompson
Hi, I'm well aware this is a hot potato of sorts, but has anything changed of late regarding the actions mandated in debian init scripts? There was mention of some changes being required for LSB compliance a while back, but nothing seems to have come of it. My particular need/desire is for the

Re: Kernel problems

2006-05-13 Thread Jamie Thompson
Well, I had a better run with my current kernel, it ran for 26 days before things started going haywire this time. Instead of just panicking, instead I kept getting random process deaths, some swap-related errors, and a few oops', which I've attached for posterity. I eventually had to reboot

ISC Executable Statements Reference?

2006-04-11 Thread Jamie Thompson
Hi. I'm looking at using dhcpd's events to update my ldap-based DNS, however I can find no documentation on the syntax of this scripting language other than the actual code itself (which as ever, is woefully lacking comments). It doesn't look too complicated if I have a few hours spare to work

Re: proftpd auth failing via libpam-ldap

2006-03-17 Thread Jamie Thompson
Miro Dietiker, MD Systems wrote: Hello People I have a ProFTPD Version 1.2.10 on debian sarge (standard). After some days of runtime, proftpd hangs in a manner accepting connection and asking for user credentials, but always failing to authenticate. After a simple restart

Re: samba/ldap/nss

2006-02-26 Thread Jamie Thompson
requiredpam_unix.so use_first_pass nullok_secure common-account: account sufficient pam_ldap.so account requiredpam_unix.so use_first_pass common-session: session requiredpam_unix.so pam_ldap.conf: host 127.0.0.1 base ou=Accounts,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc

Re: samba/ldap/nss

2006-02-25 Thread Jamie Thompson
Chris wrote: OK - I've decided to look into using a debian box as a PDC using a combination of samba and openldap (this is on sid). snip Yeah, I did this as well, though I stick to testing. Works nicely. 1) If users and groups are moved into ldap - what about aptitude installation of

Re: Kernel problems

2006-02-20 Thread Jamie Thompson
If he hasn't rebooted his Win2k box in three years, he has some serious Security Issues!! There have been a huge number of security patches requiring reboot in the last three years Well, yeah. I thought of that after a few months of our little rivalry...and he replied that as it

Changelog access

2006-02-20 Thread Jamie Thompson
Whilst packages.debian.org is down, is there any way to get a hold of the changelogs? All links seem to point back to packages.debian.org, which makes me nervous before upgrading packages where I don't know what the changes are... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Changelog access

2006-02-20 Thread Jamie Thompson
Alex Nordstrom wrote: http://pdo.debian.net/ Nope, already spotted that one as the url was given in the link on the packages.debian.org placeholder page. Case in point: http://pdo.debian.net/changelogs/pool/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.21a-4/changelog signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Kernel problems

2006-02-18 Thread Jamie Thompson
Ok, I'll start by saying that I adore the Debian Way(TM). However, I have a long-standing problem that is pretty much the only blight I can find with Mr Debian. My server PC is old. Really old. Cyrix M2 old. That said, it does the job until newer spare hardware becomes available. My first foray

Re: Kernel problems

2006-02-18 Thread Jamie Thompson
Whoops! My apologies, I left return receipt on. My bad. Oh well, at least its only me who gets to suffer the flood, not the list :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: (OT) UK broadband with open port 25

2005-12-27 Thread Jamie Thompson
Richard Lyons wrote: A quick OT: Anyone here found a UK broadband supplier (=2G) who can provide an open port 25? Freedom to Surf, Zen, and quite a few others do, I believe. - Jamie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: ldap conversion strategy

2005-11-29 Thread Jamie Thompson
John Smith wrote: Hi All, I'm in the process of designing a plan to move a lot of debian workstations (all with local users configured) to a ldap managed en- vironment and have some choices to make, some easy, some tough. Here one of the last category: In order to keep the