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Bye all, i am off on my big OE. thanx 4 all the help. Zane

copy to NT via smbfs problems

Hiya i am trying to copy lots of image files from my Debian box to a shared ntfs drive on my NT box. look at what happens : lelouvre /home/cdcut/CDWed# cp -af 00 /win2k/images cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652592a.tif: Operation not permitted cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652593a.tif:

SCSI tape errors

Hi i have set up a SCSI DAT tape onto debian slink with kernel 2.0.38 and nfs (no_root_squash) mounted an IBM AIX directory. I use a simple backup program which tars the files from the AIX directory onto tape. It works for a little while but i think it gets into trouble when it trys to proccess

smbmount

Hi i have installed samba-2.0.5a-1.deb and it does not contain either smbclient or smbmount. the debian search-contents feature on the debian home page has indicated that smbmount is in the otherosfs/smbfs which i presume is the module smbfs which i have installed under modconf/fs. but i cannot

Re: smbmount

thanx for the replies, it is all working now... it is weird how a redhat Samba rpm package would have smbmount/smbclient included whereas a Debian Samba package doesn't. BTW, what is more reliable as a means for copying great quantities of files : 1) smbmount from an AIX samba shared

lobotamy via HD swap

Hi is there any side-effects from transporting the HD from a working slink machine to another machine. Ie. our current box seems to be prone to the y2k bug and thinks it is 1994. What will happen if i grab the disk from that machine and plonk it into a newer machine which is y2k safe? Will it

Re: lobotamy via HD swap

i do not have hwclock... only clock as the debian version is 1.3 (bo) running kernel 1.3. old aye :) John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/07/2000 13:58:02 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64) Subject: Re: lobotamy via HD swap Zane writes:

reboots while backing up

Hi all I have a new server which has 2 scsi tapes attched to it and a backup package called sitback which uses the common tar/cpio commands to facilitate backups. I am using it to back up database files on a AIX system which has it's files shared through samba. To access the files i use the

Re: reboots while backing up

It is for no specific distribution : sitback is only available as a source tar-ball that uses Gnu automake/autoconf. Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/07/2000 12:49:29 To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: reboots while backing up I

Re: reboots while backing up

you can get it from http://www.mrbean.dk/sitback; i can backup the local /usr directory fine which is about 660MB but it reboots when it tries to backup an AIX samba shared directory of about 2Gig worth. Weird. Pperhaps i should try nfs sharing the AIX directory instead of samba sharing it.

server crashed

HI yesterday my email/web server decided to give up on me. Firstly i noticed this when our email wasn't getting out to the outside world...although the web server was still operational. I tried to telnet into the server but it kept disconnecting me. So i jumped into my car and drove to the

RE: squid errors

Hi but how can i identify who is accessing this site? I have checked in the /var/squid/access.log and all it tells me is that my firewall is accessing that site. Not particularly helpful is it. It is weird... i am sure that, in the past, the access.log revealed the ip address of the requesting

RE: squid errors

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squid errors

Hi In my syslog I am getting the following message which seems to appear every minute. Hence i am worried that it may be slowing down my squid server : Jun 26 12:34:53 server squid[13325]: urlParse: URI has whitespace: {http://chann els.real.com/getlatest.glh?PV=6.0.6.99OS=WINL=en-US, en,

mounting NT share SOLVED

Hi all i have managed to finally mount my NT share!!! I realised that i was not including a user name, hence the mount always failed. syntax was : #smbmount //server/share /mountpoint -Uusername -Ppassword -c 'mount /mountpoint' Sorry for wasting your time... funny that nobody suggested the

top

hiya's a simple question... why is it that when i use the 'top' command, somtimes it does not show the list of processes?? does it have to be running a special vt100 or something?? eg . 10:48am up 11 days, 20:28, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.04, 0.01 71 processes: 70 sleeping, 1

Re: top

Hiya i can leave it there all day and it still does not come up. I mostly telnet into the servers so perhaps telnet is not set up properly. Stephan Engelke [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 19/06/2000 11:55:37 To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: top

mounting NT shares

Hiya I am not too certain as to the correct way to mount a share from an NT box onto my linux server. I have been trying smbmount : //servername/share /mountpoint however this does not seem to work for me. Is this the correct way or should i be using smbclient or something similar? thank you

squid errors

Hi all i cannot work out why squid is having problems opening these swap files...see below : # tail messages Jun 14 17:12:05 server last message repeated 20 times Jun 14 17:12:05 server squid[31630]: storeSwapOutFileOpened: Unable to open swap file: /var/spool/squid/00/28/2839 ^I(13)

glibc

Hiya in order to install a newer version of lftp in order to get the recursive put feature... i need to upgrade glibc. Can a lower version of glibc run concurrently alongside the newer version, or will it replace it altogether thus requiring upgrading the other packages as well?? thanx Zane

Re: glibc

Thanx for the help... I'll see what happens :) Zane [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) on 31/05/2000 03:18:48 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64) Subject: Re: glibc Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

memory allocation error

Hiya i have just recently tried to telnet into one of my new slink 2.0.36 boxes and it comes back with the following error : Trying 10.42.215.136... Connected to chameleon.diag.co.au Escape character is '^]'. telnetd: fork: Cannot allocate memory . Connection closed by foreign host. i can

RE: squid maybe causing crash

Here is the required info : It is an old 486 DX/SX Dell machine with 16MB ram running Slink with 2.0.36 kernel. Disk space = total 837MB, free 339MB. Main software is : Squid version 2.1.2-1. Apache version 1.3.3-7. Smail version 3.2.0.102-1. I was unable to retrieve any relevant onfo from

recursive ftp put

Hiya i am testing out ncftp but have found out it can only recursive get i need to recursive put while ftp'ing... is there another ftp package out there which can do what i want? thanx Zane

ftp'ing subdirectories

hi i have ncftp on my redhat 5.1 server but it doesn't have the recursive get feature.. the latest version of ncftp does however it requires libc.so.6... same can be said for lftp. so i must install a later version of glibc. will install glibc with libc.so.6 on redhat 5.1 work?? ie, can

LLP Modem problems

Hi all Has anyone experienced the problem where uucp system produces Low Level Protocol (LLP) errors? ie. our system uploads hl7files to a mailbox via uucp... when i dial up the mailbox and download the hl7 files (emulating a doctors practice) i get a random amount of LLP/CRC errors. But most

ftp'ing subdirectories

Hiya i am writing a script which will transfer 500MB of image files to an NT workstation, but the files are in lots of subdirectories... would i be able to do put top_directory which will copy all the subdirectories and files as well?? Or would it be better if i made a permanent nfs connection

ftp'ing to NT

Hiya i am trying to ftp from my slink box to my NT fileserver but i get Connection Refused. Why is that? thanx Zane

file transfers to Win2K

Hiya what would be the best way to routinely (ie. daily) transfer 500MB worth of image files from a linux system to a Windows 2000 or NT? would ftp be the best choice or is it prone to bad behaviour if unsupervised? Zane

moving filesystem

Hi i am moving /home to an existing file system, /images, either by : cp
)a /home /images or find /home
)xdev | cpio
)padm /images My concern is the lost+found directory... should i retain it on the /images filesystem or delete it or what? thanx Zane

Re: moving filesystem

then how would i refrain from copying the lost+found file whilst using the cp -a or cpio commands? Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 27/04/2000 04:05:47 To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: moving filesystem The lost+found

cron.daily

Hi if i put in my own script into the /etc/cron.daily directory does that mean that the script will run on a daily basis? Also, some of my debian servers are comming up with a mail message saying that it cannot find a script to run... the message is generated from cron.daily. I have tried

samba drive mapped on Win2000

Hi I cannot map some debian samba shared drives on Win2000 although some i can map. Has anyone else experienced the same problem?? Zane

ftp / ip_masq_ftp

HI i am still having problems ftp'ing behind a slink masquariding firewall. I have added the module ip_masq_ftp to the kernel but that doesn't appear to have resolved anything... Do I still need a proxy?? or shall i use squid to proxy being that it is in the DMZ? Any help would be great. Zane

linux routing

Hi has anyone used the Linux Routing Project for their firewalls and routing etc? Is it safe to use? website : linuxrouting.org Zane

installing slink onto laptop

Hiya How can I install slink onto my laptop given that the laptop only has a floppy and no cdrom? If i can somehow get it going enough to configure the network... then I'll be able to access the install files via a remote shared cdrom or ftp etc. thanx Zane

ftp proxy

Hi I just found out that the reason why our PC's are unable to ftp to the outside (internet) is because they are behind a masquarading firewall. I have tried passive mode but that did not seem to work... so i guess the next option is to put a ftp proxy on the firewall. Has anyone had this

How to make SCSI only bootup

Hiya i have a SCSI only system and i am not too sure how to load the drivers for it to enable it to boot up. I have specified the SCSI disk to be the boot disk and it has written the boot/lilo onto it which is good, but when i boot the machine i only get 2FA: I presume the SCSI disk needs the

ipfwadm testing

Hi i am trying to open up the firewall to allow ftp for a particular server... if not all servers/pc's. currently i am typing in the ipfwadm commands on the command line but i am unsure whether it becomes active straight away... should i put the test rules in the ipfw file that is loaded via

root unknown

Hiya i have a laptop i got from work which has Red Hat on it... i know this is a debian news-group but the question is not linux specific How can i reset the root password. I do not want to have to reinstall to gain control of this system. I know a couple of logons on the system but i do

installing SCSI HD

Hi i am having trouble installing an IBM DRHS SCSI disk onto my slink-2.0.36 server. The adaptec scsi card is found ok but when linux starts to load it halts at : Downloading sequence code : 419 instructions downloaded. more info : SCSI adpatec adapter found at PCI 10/0 SCSI id:lun is 0:0

ftp access via Web

Hi I am trying to give our network access to ftp via the Web but it is not working. I use ipfw on slink. here is what i tried : IPFWACC=/sbin/ipfwadm -F -b -a accept ANYHOST=0.0.0.0/0 USERPORT=1024:65535 $DIAGNET is our network $IPFWACC -P tcp -S $ANYHOST $USERPORT -D $DIAGNET $USERPORT ftp

smtp error

Hi can someone please explain what this error means : TRANSPORT:smtp ERROR:(ERR175) host retry file locked i am using smail on our debian mail server... and we have just set a system where our hl7 result messages are emailed to the clients mailbox rather then use uucp. So.. does this error

at having problems

Hi i have recently found out that at is not working at all... ie the atd process cannot be started. I have purged and reinstalled at but it still does not work. Here are the relevant error messages : oldlelouvre:/home/prodwork# at 5pm warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh at echo me

ip spoofing protection

Hiya we are running a firewall on our debian slink server using ipfwadm. Is there any way to protect against ip spoofing. Ie. within the firewall rules we have allowed a certain ip address full access from the internet (mail/web server)... so if someone was able to obtain that ip address and

firewall access via internet

Hi Is the firewall supposed to allow access via telnet on the internet??? I just found out that i could telnet into our debian firewall server via the internet. If not... then what options do i have to disable that feature... i run slink 2.0.36 with ipfwadm. This is the only reference to our

time/date problems solved

i am running slink 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36 on a Dell Power Edge 2100 and i am having problems with the time. Basically what happens is that once i set up the correct date/time in BIOS...when i load up linux the time date get's corrupted. Hiya problem solved... i had to set GMT= in the

time/date problems

Hi i am running slink 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36 on a Dell Power Edge 2100 and i am having problems with the time. Basically what happens is that once i set up the correct date/time in BIOS...when i load up linux the time date get's corrupted. eg. real date time is 11-Feb 09:36. When i load

searching files for patterns

need your help is this the best/fastest way to search through 800,000 hl7 files? for each file i am grepping for 6 names... thus each file is scanned/grepped 6 times over. Basically i am searching for 1 name in 4 1/2 million files. Even though the server is fast, it is still processing on

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Re: silly samba

...but the original fileservers smb.conf has the security line commented out. If I add security=share then perhaps my valid users setting will not work. debian-user@lists.debian.org on 01/02/2000 21:34:16 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic labs/64)

silly samba

Hi all i basically cloned one samba fileserver onto another PC... copied the passwd, smbpasswd, smb.conf files over etc. Since i copied the smbpasswd file over to the new fileserver the samba connections using the valid users setting seems to work fine eg connections requiring passwords are

what exactly is SMP?

copying passwd files

thanx for taking the time to explain the difference between ascii and binary transfers. I appreciate it. Regards Zane

copying passwd files

Hi When copying passwd files (ie smbpasswd, passwd, group, shadow) from one machine to another via ftp... should it be via ascii or binary mode thanx

samba server

when duplicating a samba server... what needs to be copied across to the new server to re-establish the origional samba shares/passwords?

samba connections

Hi I have recreated a samba file server on another machine... ie cp -a for everything from an nfs mounted drive. I copied the passwd, group and smb.conf file as well. When i restarted samba on the new server and tried to map a drive via windows... it told me that my password was invalid. I

copy permissions

Hi i have nfs shared a directory on one machine and used cp -a to copy the directory to another machine...(to produce an identicle file server) What puzzles me is that although i was logged on as root... i was still unable to copy some files.. it saying that i was not permitted to copy due to

samba copy permissions

hiya when using samba to copy one directory to another server it loses it origional permission and owner settings. i guess it's like when copying a users file to another directory whilst under root... it allocates root as the owner of that file. is there any setting in samba to tell it to

rsh access

hi i asked this question before but no one answered... not too sure why as it is not a cryptic question. So, i will ask again. To rsh a Unix host from Debian i have to put the Debain server address in the .Rhosts file on the Unix Server and that works great. I now want to rsh a redhat linux

rsh

hiya what are the files needed to be updated to allow rsh (remote shell) to another linux server? is it hosts.equiv/hosts.allow? I use .rhosts for Unix servers but .rhosts seems not to work for Linux. thanx

multi-processor kernel

Hi does slink with kernel 2.0.34 support a multi-processor system with 2 power supplies? We currently have our file server set up on redhat 6.1 running xwindows..but it crashes almost everytime we reboot. So I am thinking about putting debian slink on the machine and not running xwindows as we

unstability due to large scsi disk

Hi I have just setup a redhat 6.1 duel pentium file server with a 36Gig scsi disk and up till now everytime it reboots it comes up with errors on the filesystem mounted on the scsi. I was wondering whether anyone else has found that large scsi disks are unstable to use as a mainstream image

Re: bad hdisks blocks

I managed to deal with the problem in the same way... ie. i just skipped a few blocks and voila! :) It's also interesting how when i created 3 partitions on the same device...the start block on partition 3 overwrote the end block of partition 2. I had to leave a gap in between which resulted in

scsi hdisk bootup

Hi i have added a 37GB scsi disk to our samba image server and I want to make that disk the bootup disk. ie i want linux to boot off the new disk as opposed to the smaller scsi that it currently boots off. What needs to be done to achieve this? I know you can specify which partition to boot

bad hdisks blocks

Hi is there anyway to label a particular block on a scsi hdisk as being bad? I am performing a mke2fs -c, which checks for bad blocksin this particular case it has found a bad block and has aborted the mke2fs process with an error message. thanx

upgrading kernel

Hi will upgrading my firewall kernel via the internet retain all of it's kernel settings or will i have to recompile it? thanx

kernel config

Hi, i have a few questions : is there any way to find out the configuration settings of an active kernel other than using the .config file.? Does the kernel for Debian have to be Debian specific or are Linux kernels used generically? ie. kernel used for Debian can be used for RedHat. is kernel

too many files open

Hi is there any way to increase the allowed amount of open files in Debian? Yesterday i tried to telnet to my samba server and it disallowed it returning with an error too many files open. thanx

VPN setup

Hi we are planning to establish a VPN using cisco routers to do PPTP (GRE). There is a debian firewall at our end which has 3 network cards.. one connects to our isp via isdn, the second is for our DMZ quarantine zone, and the third is for our local network. Where would be the best place to

deleting files

Hi does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of a directory other than the command find . -exec rm {} \; will rm -r directory be as quick? thanx

VPN firewall set up

Hi I have a firewall server which i did not set up and i want to set up a Virtual Private network between our company and a neighbouring company who i believe is on the same network. The sever is running Debian 1.1 with a stripped down kernel 2.0.33.fw. Are there any major concerns in what i

Firewall hinders access for IRC

Hi What needs to be done to allow my windows MIRC software to connect to the internet. I can access the Web via our debian proxy server via port 3128...but i am not too sure how to set up Mirc. I take it i have to have a connection straight to the firewall as apposed to the proxy server? Will

any need to upgrade kernel

Hi I am running slink with kernel 2.0.36. Is there any advantage to upgrading the kernel. If so, which kernel would be best? Or shall i just leave the kernel alone as things are working fine.. thanx

hdparm settings

Hi all i have set a few hdparm settings to tune up my ide drive.. i however do not know how to make those settings permanent as setting switch -k1 does not seem to work. Should i just set the settings everytime my machine is rebooted in an init script or something?? thanx

Sed script

Hi Not debian related but i need help nonetheless. i need to extract the number 997841138254, or any other number from that position, from an hl7 file. The file will look like this : MSH...OBR|0001||997841138254|..F I can use OBR as the starting point of the search and then use

Re: cron error message

that might be the problem as null was as follows : crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 3 Feb 23 1999 null i have changed it as indicated.. so hopefully it will be fine now.. thanx all for the help. debian-user@lists.debian.org on 20/10/99 15:36:01 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:

cron error message

Hi I keep on getting this message and i am not too sure why that is : /etc/cron.daily/smail: /usr/lib/smail/checkerr: /dev/null: Permission denied Any thoughts?? thanx

hdparm - hard disk tuning

Hi Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of your ide hard drives? Does it work and are there any drawbacks? Is there any software which can measure hard drive performance? thanx

Re: getdate

HI I did as you suggested and changed /etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh to K50hwclock.sh and once rebooted the time was 20:00 instead of 0800... hence it didn't work. One of the 3 servers doesn't even have the S50hwclock.sh file. debian-user@lists.debian.org on 11/10/99 13:50:18 To: Zane

getdate

Hi where can i find the app getdate? I have 3 debian fax servers which, via cron, reboot twice a week. When they come back up they are 1 hour behind and i have to manually reset the date. getdate may allow me to kinda fix this problem. Thanx

find | egrep

Hi Not a debian question, moreso a generic Unix question.. I need to be able to use find and egrep to scan a directory which has more than 3000 files in it. I read in the manual ie man egrep that the lines are limited to 2048 bytes. The error i get is /usr/bin/find: 0403-027 The parameter list

fax page size

Hi i am using mgetty/sendfax to send faxes but unfortunately it sends the faxes in a stretched format... Where abouts can i change it so that it faxes as A5? thanx

cyclades install / kernel config

Hi i am about to install the cyclades cyclom-y driver but after reading the README file it refers to the install program pointing to the /usr/src/linux directory. I have installed slink with kernel 2.0.36 from the cheapbytes CD and I appear to have no /usr/src/linux directory. After running the

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g32pbm - gs - pbm2g3 - newslock

Hi where can i find the above files?? are they part of a utils package?? they are used for fax conversion etc. Thanx

tar

Hi what is needed in order to tell tar not to include specific files/directories? i am intending to copy the /home directory off of one server and onto another but i do not want to copy everything in /home. thanx

rsh - permission denied

Hi I have added the machines name into .rhosts file but i still get a permission denied mesage when trying to rsh -l It's just strange that this particular PC is having problems whereas rsh works fine on the rest. Is there any other validation file that i need to change apart from .rhosts

killing dormant/dead processes

Hi I am trying to shutdown a server and it says it is already shutting down... i discovered a shutdown process but it seems to be dead and i cannot kill it off with kill -9. ie 993 ? D 0:00 sh /usr/local/bin/faxrunq 15546 ? D 0:00 shutdown -r 0 w 18153 ? D 0:00 sendfax

Re: killing dormant/dead processes

No i tried init 1 and it just started another shutdown process... so in total i had two dead shutdown processes :). I used the power off switch... risky, but it worked. debian-user@lists.debian.org on 23/09/99 19:19:57 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic

timezone

Hi How does one change the timezone setting? thanx

daemon/initd

Hi Can someone properly explain to me the differences between how a process starts up as a daemon as apposed to a process which starts up via initd as i am a little unsure. thanx

tofrodos

Hi does anyone know where i can find the util tofrodos. it converts text files between Dos and Unix Formats.. todos - fromdos. thanx

Mount question

I have created a directory off root called /share and then mounted a second drive to it. I then shared it using samba... what will happen if /share is not mounted to the second drive and someone writes to it using a samba connection?? how can i tell samba to stop allowing access to /share if it

mount

i have mounted a second drive to /share but i cannot create a file in /share i can however create a directory and then create files within that subdirectory.. ie /share/images/test.txt . Why can i not create a file in /share?? This second drive is 37.5Gigs and i have mounted it on 1

ftp

Hi does anyone know what the settings are for ftp so that mget will create subdirectories as well??? When i do a mget * it doesn't grab the subdirectories so i have to manually create them on the receiving server. thanx

ssh

Hi Does anyone know where i can download the debian package ssh (secure shell) thanx

gpm2

Hi thanx for the info for ssh... now i need the .deb for gmp2 as ssh requires it. Thanx

Samil relay setup

Hi I have just upgraded to smail 3.2.0.102 for the soul reason of using it's anti-spam-relay option smtp_remote_allow. I have set it to the default smtp_remote_allow=localnet which seems to do the trick as i can see in the logfile that it is rejecting the spam relays. So this is good :) The

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