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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: Operation not permitted cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652591a.tif: Operation not permitted cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652594a.tif: Operation not permitted As you can see... i get this error message Operation not permitted which i don't understand... the files do seem to be successfuly copying regardless of the error message. permissions on /win2k/images is : drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Jul 18 2000 /win2k/images Total files to copy is about 350M but when it gets to about 150-190M it suddenly stops copying files...df -h hangs too as it will not bring up the ntfs share /win2k. It is as if the mounted drive has fallen off. There is nothing in the event log of the NT box either. Anyone know what is going on? thanx Zane
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 a large file (200MB). I started the backup at 9:30pm and it started having problems by 11pm. Here is the error message : Jul 13 23:11:40 tapier kernel: ASC= 4 ASCQ= 1 Jul 13 23:11:40 tapier kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0e 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x04 0x01 0x00 0x00 Jul 13 23:11:40 tapier kernel: st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error st09:00: sns = 70 2 Backup program errors are : tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error tar: Too many errors, quitting tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I tried doing a tar listing of the tape this morning and it said the the start record was unable to be read. Does anyone know what is going on... it is a simple proceedure i am doing and am frustrated and perplexed as to why i am having difficulties. Thanx Zane
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 find it through updatedb/locate so how can i install smbclient/smbmount? Thanx Zane
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 directory or 2) nfs mount from an AIX NFS shared directory with no_root_squash? Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/07/2000 21:20:29 To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: smbmount smbfs is actually a package - apt-get install smbfs You also need SMB support compiled into the kernel for those commands to work. (I dont know if you can do it as a module, havent tried). Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 find it through updatedb/locate so how can i install smbclient/smbmount? Thanx Zane -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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 start up and work properly? thanx Zane
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: Ie. our current box seems to be prone to the y2k bug and thinks it is 1994. Have you tried the --badyear option to hwclock? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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 command mount -t smbfs //aixserver/share /mountpoint. 5 minutes into the backup... the backup server reboots!!! why is this happening?? I have checked the messages, syslog files but they do not contain any relevant info related to the reboot. Perhaps I need a better backup package, or perhaps backing up samba shares is not a good idea. Any ideas??? thanx Zane
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 just checked, sitback isn't in woody... is it a debian package?? Anyway, is it a script?? If it is, I guess you add some commands to see where it reboots... (I would do this by adding echo lines). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 command mount -t smbfs //aixserver/share /mountpoint. 5 minutes into the backup... the backup server reboots!!! why is this happening?? I have checked the messages, syslog files but they do not contain any relevant info related to the reboot. Perhaps I need a better backup package, or perhaps backing up samba shares is not a good idea. Any ideas??? thanx Zane -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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. Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/07/2000 13:36:01 To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: Subject: Re: reboots while backing up Where can you get it?? On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 just checked, sitback isn't in woody... is it a debian package?? Anyway, is it a script?? If it is, I guess you add some commands to see where it reboots... (I would do this by adding echo lines). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 command mount -t smbfs //aixserver/share /mountpoint. 5 minutes into the backup... the backup server reboots!!! why is this happening?? I have checked the messages, syslog files but they do not contain any relevant info related to the reboot. Perhaps I need a better backup package, or perhaps backing up samba shares is not a good idea. Any ideas??? thanx Zane -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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 site where the server was situated and tried to log in. It let me type in the login but when i pressed Enter it came back with another login prompt and no password prompt...hence i couldn't log on. CTRL-ALT-DEL wouldn't work as well so i turned it off via the power switch. When it came back up it went through a fsck and fixed a few problems on it's single filesystem... then it started going through the startup proceedures but stopped when it tried to process the init stages... it went something like this : init 1.no more to process in this init. init 2.no more to process in this init. init 3.no more to process in this init. init 4.no more to process in this init. init 5.no more to process in this init. init 6.no more to process in this init. getty failed to init...waiting 5 minutes... It didn't get any further! luckily i had a standby machine handy and a recent tar backup.. luckily :) Anybody out there who has experienced this occurance? perhaps it was a virus...anyone know of a good virus checker that would run on slink 2.1 with ancient kernel 2.0.36? I have apache, squid and smail as my main packages. Thanx Zane
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 PC.
C. Falconer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 26/06/2000 19:53:01
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Subject: RE: squid errors
It means one of your clients is running realjukebox or something like
realplayer. It is periodically checking that huge URL for new info, but
theres a space in it somewhere. Just tell that copy of realplayer to stop
updting channels.
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Sent: Monday, 26 June 2000 12:55 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: 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,
*LID=1033ch=120+54+
0+0+0ch=72+39+0+0+0ch=44+287+0+0+0ch=52+505+0+0+0ch=33+393+0+0+0ch=73+
19+0+
0+0ch=98+27+0+0+0ch=94+244+0+0+0ch=16+478+0+0+0ch=113+46+0+0+0ch=51+11
6+0+0
+0ch=97+108+0+0+0}
if anyone has any clue as to what this is telling me, it would be much
appreciated.
thanx
Zane
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RE: squid errors
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Zane Drysdale
27/06/2000 11:27
Sent by: Zane Drysdale
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Subject: RE: squid errors (Document link not converted)
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 PC.
C. Falconer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 26/06/2000 19:53:01
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64
cc:
Subject: RE: squid errors
It means one of your clients is running realjukebox or something like
realplayer. It is periodically checking that huge URL for new info, but
theres a space in it somewhere. Just tell that copy of realplayer to stop
updting channels.
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Sent: Monday, 26 June 2000 12:55 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: 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,
*LID=1033ch=120+54+
0+0+0ch=72+39+0+0+0ch=44+287+0+0+0ch=52+505+0+0+0ch=33+393+0+0+0ch=73+
19+0+
0+0ch=98+27+0+0+0ch=94+244+0+0+0ch=16+478+0+0+0ch=113+46+0+0+0ch=51+11
6+0+0
+0ch=97+108+0+0+0}
if anyone has any clue as to what this is telling me, it would be much
appreciated.
thanx
Zane
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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,
*LID=1033ch=120+54+
0+0+0ch=72+39+0+0+0ch=44+287+0+0+0ch=52+505+0+0+0ch=33+393+0+0+0ch=73+
19+0+
0+0ch=98+27+0+0+0ch=94+244+0+0+0ch=16+478+0+0+0ch=113+46+0+0+0ch=51+11
6+0+0
+0ch=97+108+0+0+0}
if anyone has any clue as to what this is telling me, it would be much
appreciated.
thanx
Zane
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 use of a Username :))) Zane
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 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 3.4% user, 5.3% system, 0.0% nice, 91.6% idle Mem: 14056K av, 13588K used,468K free, 13204K shrd,292K buff Swap: 109868K av, 15248K used, 94620K free 2080K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND nothing else comes up. thanx
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 Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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?? how long did you wait for the screen to show? Top need one sample period before it displays the first process list related output. On a loaded sysetm, this may take a few seconds. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Die Frauen haben es ja von Zeit zu Zeit auch nicht leicht. Wir Mnner aber mssen uns rasieren. -- Kurt Tucholsky ***
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 Zane
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) Permission denied Jun 14 17:12:05 server squid[31630]: storeSwapOutFileOpened: Unable to open swap file: /var/spool/squid/00/28/283A ^I(19) Operation not supported by device Jun 14 17:12:05 server squid[31630]: storeSwapOutFileOpened: Unable to open swap file: /var/spool/squid/00/28/283B ^I(13) Permission denied Jun 14 17:12:05 server squid[31630]: storeSwapOutFileOpened: Unable to open swap file: /var/spool/squid/00/28/283C ^I(13) Permission denied Jun 14 17:12:06 server squid[31630]: storeSwapOutFileOpened: Unable to open swap file attributes are : /var/spool/squid/00/28/283Acr-Sr-S-w- 1 8753 16718101, 122 Dec 9 2023 /var/spool/squid/00/28/2839br-sr-xr-- 1 2750215726 97, 109 Mar 11 2028 /var/spool/squid/00/28/283Cbr-xr-x--t 1 8801 28492117, 111 Mar 6 1988 As you can see, there are really strange umask settings as well as weird incorrect date/time stamps. The Hard disk is mysteriously loosing space too. Any help would be appreciated. Zane
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: 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?? bdg:~# dpkg -l | grep libc ii libc-client4.7 4.7-7 UW c-client library for mail protocols ii libc5 5.4.46-3 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr ii libc6 2.1.3-2GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libc6-dev 2.1.3-2GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea However, libc6-2.0 can't run alongside libc6-2.1, and if the original poster was asking about installing potato's lftp on a slink system (at a guess), then this won't work. (Note that libc5 is not glibc ...) You'll either need to upgrade glibc and pretty much everything else, or you could try building lftp from source against your current version of glibc. Get the source packages for lftp (add a deb-src line to /etc/apt/sources.list similar to the deb line for your Debian mirror, then 'apt-get source lftp'), make sure you have gcc, make, etc., dpkg-dev, fakeroot, and any development packages associated with lftp's dependencies installed (as a quick rule of thumb), and then change to the top-level source directory for lftp and type 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot'. That's a very quick guide :), but you might find it useful. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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 connect via ftp but when i do a ls -l i get : ftp ls -l 200 PORT command successful. 550 /bin/ls: Cannot allocate memory. there is practically nothing running on the box so i do not know as to why this sudden memory allocation would come up?? Any ideas?? thanx Zane #
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 the log files, sorry. thanz C. Falconer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 19/05/2000 21:12:02 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: Subject: RE: squid maybe causing crash May I ask you to post the specifications for the machine? IE, how much ram, what CPU(s), how much ram, hard drive specs (used and free), brand of mainboard, how much ram, etc And versions are important too... what kernel, what version of squid, any strange software running on the machine? ...and any relevant lines from /var/log/squid/access.log -- from memory my home server is spitware -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 May 2000 1:43 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: squid maybe causing crash [- =-Hiya i just had my mail/internet server crash. It took a while for fsck to fix the problem... but most of the errors point to squid caching directories is there a connection here??? thanx Zane -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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 libc.so.5 and libc.so.6 work side by side? thanx Zane
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 of the files are ok. I have tried changing modems and playing with the modem settings etc. but to no avail. So now I am asking around... BTW, this is an AIX box... sorry if this offends anyone. Zane
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 to the NT box and use cp -a top_directory instead? Zane
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 directory is created for use by fsck. When fsck runs if it finds orphaned fragments and things like that it will put them into lost+found, creating a file for each cohesive chunk. So, you probably don't need to copy it from /home to /images. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 looking for the script in question but with no avail. How can i get rid of the mail message? thanx Zane
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 problem? Is there an easier way then setting up a ftp proxy? thanx Zane
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 drivers loaded in order to make it boot/run.. but the drivers cannot be loaded because they are stored on the SCSI :) hmm Load the system via floppy which has the SCSI controller on it? what other alternative is there to make the SCSI boot up without the need of a floppy? Thanx Zane
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 booting or will typing them in via command line work straightaway? Below is what i am trying out but it is not working. We use masquerading and the ip address i am putting as variable $MYSERVER is the real ip address. Perhaps i need to use the command $IPFWMSQ instead of $IPFWACC. Is there a way to log what is happening... it is hard to know what the hell is going on when you type in anther rule and it does nothing :) IPFWACC=/sbin/ipfwadm -F -b -a accept IPFWMSQ=/sbin/ipfwadm -F -b -a masquerade ANYHOST=0.0.0.0/0 ANYPORT=0:65535 USERPORT=1024:65535 $IPFWACC -P tcp -S $MYSERVER ftp ftp-data -D $ANYHOST $ANYPORT $IPFWACC -P tcp -S $MYSERVER $USERPORT-D $ANYHOST ftp ftp-data Thanx Zane
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 not have root. I heard something about rebooting and holding down the shift/ctrl keys... I did that and it stopped at the lilo prompt...when i didn't enter anything it just loaded up as per normal. At the lilo prompt is there a way to load up linux in a different init state. Perhaps that is what needs to be done. Thanx Zane
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 thanx Zane
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 ftp-data $IPFWACC -P tcp -S $DIAGNET $USERPORT -D $ANYHOST $ANYPORT ftp ftp-data any help would be appreciated. thanx Zane
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 mean that the receiving end is too busy to recieve the message.. ie. i am sending too many emails at once? thanx
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 at EOT job 1 at 2000-02-15 17:00 Can't open /var/run/atd.pid to signal atd. No atd running? syslog : Feb 15 15:44:41 oldlelouvre atd[252]: Error redirecting I/O: Permission denied any ideas as to why this simple program is having diffuculties in running?? thanx
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 use it as his/her own to get in, he/she will succeed. Is that really what ip spoofing is?? an outsider assigning his/her PC a valid ip address of a companies in order to get inside the network??? If so, how would I protect against this?? Thanx
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 firewall in the ipfw rules : # # Anybody inside can access the firewall # ipfwadm -F -b -a accept -P all -S $DIAGNET -D berus (berus is the name of the firewall server) # thanx
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 /etc/default/rcS file to turn off the GMT feature... thanx to Ethan Benson and all that replied.
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 linux up it shows 12-Feb 04:28. When i go back into BIOS it shows 11-Feb 15:31 what the hell is going on? :) i have tested the bios clock by setting it up correctly and booting with a windows boot disk and it keeps the correct date/time. I can only surmise that it is the linux software that is corrupting my date/clock. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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
average 2 files per second.
here is my script... any thoughts would be appreciated as we have a tight
schedule.
cd /backup/Loaders/Ld21/HL7FILES
#for file in `find * -print`
for file in `ls`
do
while read name
do
search=`cut -d | -f 20 $file | grep $name` {extracts name from
field 20 of hl7 file}
if [ $search /dev/null ]
then
dir=`pwd`
echo $name - $dir/$file /home/zane/found.list {adds found
names
and relevant filenames}
fi
done /home/zane/scripts/filelist{file containing the six names to
search for}
done
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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) Subject: Re: silly samba chang line security= to security=share in smb.conf (global section) At 99-12-30, you wrote: 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 fine. The problem is with the non-passworded shares they now prompt for a password to connect. This is there setup in smb.conf : [share] comment = public shared directory path = /share writable = yes public = yes why would the above share now require a password to connect?? thanx -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://termit.ie.tu.koszalin.pl/~twister +48606345464 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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 fine. The problem is with the non-passworded shares they now prompt for a password to connect. This is there setup in smb.conf : [share] comment = public shared directory path = /share writable = yes public = yes why would the above share now require a password to connect?? thanx
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 then realised that the origional server had a file smbpasswd... so i copied that across to the new server and tried to map a drive again... but it still did not work. So, due to lots of annoyed users i have had to go back to the origional server...wasting hours of time copying live data to to the new server. here is a share entry in smb.conf...the security setting is not set. [suesharon] comment = sue shared directory valid users = sue lindsey path = /home/sue create mask = 0770 directory mode = 0770 force group = sue writable = yes public = no does anyone know why it thinks that the passwd for this share is wrong... even though i have copied the passwd, group, and smbpasswd files? thanx
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 lack of permissions. I thought that as root i would be able to copy everything. Is there any way around this as it is time consuming to change the permissions on every file/directory that it has a problem with. thanx
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 keep it's origional permission/ownership rights?? else i will have to use tar in order to recreate this new server. thanx
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 server from my debian server...and i have no idea how to get it to work. I have added the debian server address in the hosts.allow/deny files... but that does not seem to work. Is there a step that i am missing???
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 think xwindows may be a contributing factor to it crashing. thanx
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 fileserver? There may be a problem with the duel pentium server itself . ie. i manually fsck the scsi and fixed the filesytem problems then rebooted... when i went to log on the entire system crashed... the screen went blank, keyboard died, front panel power switch couldn't be used to reboot. i had to reboot from the power switches at the back of the server. Luckilly it came back up smoothly after that. So basically i am concerned as to the reliability and integrity of large filesystems mounted on scsi disks and of duel pentium servers with linux os. any thoughts would be appreciated
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 a few more unused blocks. thanx for the help oki etc. debian-user@lists.debian.org on 08/12/99 15:36:11 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic labs/64) Subject: Re: bad hdisks blocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Hi, I had the same problem, but mkfs didn't just quit, but hung the system. I don't understand why. Long ago, I had the same experience; on Slackware 3.4 I think. The disk had more bad sectors, but the formatting was done correctly. It seems that mkfs couldn't handle the SCSI time out. Since I didn't know how to built a filesystem on this particular bad-sector'ed disk, I just skipped the block, and everything was fine. Of course, about 50MB was lost on my 300MB disk. Oki -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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 off via lilo.conf, but i am not too sure how to tell linux to boot off a specific hard disk. OS is redhat 5.0 thanx
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 2.0.37 a stable kernel? are kernels version specific? ie... can a 2.2.x kernel work on debian 1.3(bo)? thanx
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 setup the cisco router? would it be in the DMZ? Debian version is old 1.3 with kernel 2.0.34 which uses ipfwadm as opposed to the more secure ipchains...at present i am not too sure how to upgrade to use ipchains so i am temporarily using our current setup so as to quickly establish the VPN...at a later date i will look into upgrading to a newer Debian version/kernel that supports ipchains. I do not think we need ipmasquerading as we connect to the outside with a registered address via the first ethernet card... the following ipfwadm commands is what i am going to add to the ipforwarding rules : # Allow the PPTP control channel in and out. ipfwadm -I -a accept -W eth1 -V 200.200.200.200 -P tcp -S 199.0.0.2/32 -D 222.0.0.2/32 1723 ipfwadm -O -a accept -W eth1 -V 200.200.200.200 -P tcp -D 199.0.0.2/32 -S 222.0.0.2/32 1723 # Specify the acceptable clients explicitly for tighter security. # Note that this is too open since we're forced to # specify -P all rather than -P 47 or -P 50... # Allow the PPTP data channel and IPsec ESP traffic in and out. ipfwadm -I -a accept -W eth1 -V 200.200.200.200 -P all -S 199.0.0.2/32 -D 222.0.0.2/32 ipfwadm -0 -a accept -W eth1 -V 200.200.200.200 -P all -D 199.0.0.2/32 -S 222.0.0.2/32 Are there any other considerations that i have not thought of...? i appreciate your help as VPN/firewalling is new and slightly cryptic to me. thanx
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 want to do? Is there a firewall setting that will allow this VPN to go on a particular port? thanx
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 there be any security issues ie. will a mad IRC'er be able to gain access to my network through my careless connection? thanx
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 the | to move to the begginning of the number... What would be the best way of doing this.. maybe i can use a vi script to search and extract the number for me. I don't know how to select a segment of a line and write that to a file though.. i am not too familiar with sed although i would like to be as it seems rather powerful :) Any suggestions would be appreciated. thanx
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:(bcc: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic labs/64) Subject: Re: cron error message [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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?? What are your permissions on /dev/null? Should be: $ vdir /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jul 20 1998 /dev/null -- *** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * * pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? */ -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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 Drysdale/Diagnostic labs/64, debian-user@lists.debian.org
cc:
Subject: Re: getdate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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.
I've found a problem(*) with Debian's hwclock.sh scripts.
jekyll:~$ /bin/ls -1 /etc/rc*.d/*hwclock*
/etc/rc0.d/K25hwclock.sh
/etc/rc6.d/K25hwclock.sh
/etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh
Mine are modified. The hwclock.sh links in rc0.d and rc6.d are called
when you're shutting down or rebooting. The ones that Debian put there
start with an S (S25hwclock.sh), which means they're called with
a start parameter when shutting down or rebooting. This does the
opposite of what you want it to do -- it reads from the hardware clock.
By renaming them to start with K (as above), I made sure they *write
to* the hardware clock when I'm shutting down.
This may not fix all of your problems, but it's a good start.
(*)Hey, where's my bug? I sent it in... I know I did, because I got
a copy. But it doesn't appear to have been received. Hmm... I'll
resend it.
Jean-Yves BARBIER ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
You could fix it by installing package xntp3 on a server, but be
carefull, if your time server is down you'll have troubles to starts the
fax machines.
If this is likely to be a problem, perhaps you should use the ntp package
from potato instead. Either that, or comment out any calls to ntpdate in
/etc/init.d/xntp3. The (x)ntpd daemon itself won't cause any problems --
it will run patiently in the background, even if the time servers are
not reachable.
--
Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET
http://www.distributed.net/
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waste.
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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 is too long. Is there any way i can work around this? Thanx
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 install script I have to configure the kernel with the make config command executed from the /usr/src/linux... My concern is that i do not think the install script will work because i do not have the kernel files in the /usr/src/linux directory. What shall I do? Thanx
Bye Seth, thanx for the help
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 and /etc/hosts.equiv? thanx
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 23480 ? D N0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendfax -v 33,5208215 f1. 24464 ? D 0:00 /sbin/shutdown -t1 -r now 6252 2 D 0:00 rlogin yumchar any thoughts? thanx
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 labs/64) Subject: Re: killing dormant/dead processes Can you init 1 or init 0? On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 03:26:17PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 23480 ? D N0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendfax -v 33,5208215 f1. 24464 ? D 0:00 /sbin/shutdown -t1 -r now 6252 2 D 0:00 rlogin yumchar any thoughts? thanx -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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 is no longer mounted to the second drive. ie. i don't want anything written to the first drive. Does the mount point /share have to exist in order for me to mount my second drive?
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 partition /dev/hdb1. Using fdsk i used the x menu to change the last block to 36628168. I get duplicate block errors everytime i e2fsck it. Any thoughts?? thanx
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 problem i have is with my users who use Eudora. They cannot send out any external mail as they are considered by smail to be outside of the localnet. Hence they are treated as relay-spammers and smail rejects their mail. What option in smail can i set to include the Eudora users?.. can i add their IP network to the smtp_remote_allow option.. ie smtp_remote_allow=localnet:10.43.?.? are the parameters separated by a colon or a space?? Thanx
