Why automatic tools can change /etc/resolv.conf?
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 dnrd, that can connect to various DNS servers dynamically without modify any file! 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 him change in /etc/resolv.conf and be sure that a program not modify it, he remove the symlink and create his resolv.conf. ciao Michele
Re: Why automatic tools can change /etc/resolv.conf?
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 him change in /etc/resolv.conf and be sure that a program not modify it, he remove the symlink and create his resolv.conf. Be sure you do not have the option 'usepeerdns' enabled in pppd options. Yes, in fact I know that pppd (if I use 'usepeerdns') change /etc/resolv.conf, but also dhcp-client change it, and I don't know if other packages do so. But is correct that an application change /etc/resolv.conf even if the administrator write it entirely by hand? How can I prevent it? ciao Michele
wanpipe package
Did the package wanpipe work correctly and there is somebody that use
it on a Debian system?
I have some problem to detect and configure the card (S508):
- kernel 2.0.34 is not official and I don't know where to get it
- patch don't apply on 2.0.{32,33}
- kernel 2.1.89 have different naming of files (/proc/net/wanrouter
instead of /proc/net/router)
wanconfig give me a SYSTEM ERROR (even with sample config file).
There are other people using it, mailing lists or web pages?
If necessary, I can *try* to work on it, and if there are some other
people with same problems I'll be happy to collaborate.
Thank's
Regards,
Michele
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Re: XDM,KDM on DEBIAN 1.31
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Herr Detlev Scholz (ODIS) wrote: Now i installed the KDE-desktop on the box. The KDE is working well, when i start with startx. When i try to aktivate XDM or KDM, the Xserver starts, asks for login but after login it seems that the Xserver crashes and XDM is started 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Green monitor functions
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 /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/vesa_blank.c and modify the line #define DEFAULT_VESA_BLANKING_MODE VESA_NO_BLANKING in #define DEFAULT_VESA_BLANKING_MODE VESA_POWERDOWN and recompile the kernel. Ciao -- 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [OFF TOPIC] What happened to spam,abuse.org?
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 Michele Other info: finger://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 68 02 A9 C7 FB 05 9E 9C C7 B6 4A 13 61 25 5B 43 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ipfwadm question
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, browse, ftp, etc to external servers on Internet, being masquerade with the Linux IP. I'm using this sintax: # ipfwadm -O -a deny -S 0.0.0.0/0 -D some.site.denied/0 but isn't working, since I can connect the denied site from a inside machine. What is wrong? Have you tried: # ipfwadm -F -p deny # ipfwadm -F -a masq -S internal_net -D 0.0.0.0/0 # ipfwadm -F -i deny -S internal_net -D some.site.denied/32 (that is adding a forwarding rule before masquerading) Ciao -- 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up behavior
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 can I overcome this redirection to /dev/null? A solution may be saving the tty when starting the connection (tty /tmp/ppp-tty), and use redirection in ip-up and ip-down (echo x `cat /tmp/ppp-tty`). Ciao -- 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xlock and NIS
I have a net with NIS and clients running xdm. It work all without xlock (it say that there are shadow password) and wu-ftpd (non-anonimous, NIS-users). There are some .deb package that fix them or how I must recompile xlock and wu-ftpd for NIS support? (I've look for hours at the source of xlock, 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NSLOOKUP don't work
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 -- 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NSLOOKUP don't work
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 entry. -- 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: no color in xterms
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 package. How can I get color xterms back?? Upgrade to XFree 3.3 (Debian 1.3.1) -- 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
