Why automatic tools can change /etc/resolv.conf?

2001-08-01 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
A little question. Only the Root (the human) should modify a file in /etc, and dpkg ask when it may change a config file. This should be good. For /etc/resolv.conf, instead, many programs pretend to modify it (script from pppd, dhcp-client and so on). But for use dynamic dns server one can use

Re: Why automatic tools can change /etc/resolv.conf?

2001-08-01 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:38:58PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote: If is not possible to put dnrd in any installation, why not modify a file like resolv.conf in /var/somewhat and make a symlink in /etc/resolv.conf? If an administrator want to make

wanpipe package

1998-03-08 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
to collaborate. Thank's Regards, Michele -- Dalla Silvestra Michele Key fingerprint = 68 02 A9 C7 FB 05 9E 9C C7 B6 4A 13 61 25 5B 43 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL

Re: XDM,KDM on DEBIAN 1.31

1998-01-15 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
again asking for username. Look in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, and add export KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde or the right dir. ciao Michele -- Dalla Silvestra Michele finger://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 68 02 A9 C7 FB 05 9E 9C C7 B6 4A 13 61 25 5B 43

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-09-01 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On 1 Sep 1997, Gilbert Laycock wrote: Is there any way to configure this outside of X? I know about setterm blank n which is fine as far as it goes, but I think it only blanks the screen rather than using the more advanced power saving features. You have to modify

Re: [OFF TOPIC] What happened to spam,abuse.org?

1997-08-28 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: Anyone know what happened to abuse.org? Were they attacked? They seem to be removed from DNS ... at least, my servers think so. abuse.net. ^^^ ciao -- Dalla Silvestra

Re: ipfwadm question

1997-08-27 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: My linux box acts as a ip-masq for the internal sub-net of Windows machines. It has 3 cards: one for output to Internet, with a valid IP address and 2 for the internal sub-net. IP-Masq is working OK; all machines can telnet,

Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up behavior

1997-07-17 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: The pppd man pages say that the ip-up and ip-down scripts are executed with standard input, output and error streams redirected to /dev/null. I would like to use these scripts, but I want them to echo messages to the console. How

xlock and NIS

1997-07-16 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
, and tried without success, and I haven't tried with wu-ftpd yet.) Thank's. Michele -- Dalla Silvestra Michele Other info: finger://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 68 02 A9 C7 FB 05 9E 9C C7 B6 4A 13 61 25 5B 43

Re: NSLOOKUP don't work

1997-07-16 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Tony Koehn wrote: I do have nameserver 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/resolv.conf file. If you are quering bind at 127.0.0.1, bind *must* resolve 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. in localhost. This is done enabling localhost entry when configuring bind. Ciao

Re: NSLOOKUP don't work

1997-07-15 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Tony Koehn wrote: After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this message: *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent host.domain *** Default servers are not available. What did I do wrong? You have to enable localhost

Re: no color in xterms

1997-07-15 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote: Before I upgraded to 1.3, I had a package installed called color-xterm. When I upgraded to 1.3, dselect said that the package color-xterm was obsolete, so it was purged. Now, I don't have color in my xterms, and I can't find the color-xterm