Re: debian pxe dhcp netinstall (debconf enterprise fai etc.)

2003-12-05 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Chad Walstrom said on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:05:15AM -0600: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:13:57AM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > FAI is good, but it doesn't handle updating the systems once you have > > them installed. > > You're absolutely right. The cfe

Re: debian pxe dhcp netinstall (debconf enterprise fai etc.)

2003-12-05 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Chad Walstrom said on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:17:55AM -0600: > > I did what you are trying to do using systemimager, cvs, and cvsup. > > ... There are a few rough spots (mostly in that I don't have a fully > > automatic way to restart daemons that have been updated in the golden > > client, so I h

Re: debian pxe dhcp netinstall (debconf enterprise fai etc.)

2003-12-04 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Tim Krieglstein said on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:10:57AM +0100: > I would like to have some feedback, especially on the topic of > doing automatic updates with an cron job. I would also like to hear of > some hints if there is an other tool which does the job (debix, > skolelinux,...: haven't looked

Re: [custom] Debian Enterprise - flavors

2003-12-03 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Zenaan Harkness said on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:58:18PM +1100: > Flavours (and sub-flavours/ tasks/ yadda) is as good a place to start as > any. So here are some proposed flavours: > > - Enterprise (base packages and more "neutral" config) > - Enterprise Desktop - with sub-flavours of: > - S

Re: Bug#215827: ITP: lartc -- Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Marc Haber said on Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:57:03PM +0200: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:24:25 +0200, Andreas Metzler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Being a normal Linuxdoc howto this has been available in Debian for a > >long time in doc-linux-html. > > And calling this document a HOWTO has been a jok

Re: faster boot

2003-10-20 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Robert Giardalas said on Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:55:52PM -0400: > I had some preliminary modifications of the parallel loading system > proposed by James Hunt from IBM working for Debian, but it looked like > it would speed things up less than 10%, which wasn't enough to lure me > away from SysV

Re: recent spam to this list

2003-10-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Manoj Srivastava said on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:40:15PM -0500: > Consider this use case: I travel a lot, and stay in hotels > with network connections. Unfortunately, these nigtly billed domains > have very poor mail gateways; I've been burned before. I now connect > directly and deliver

Re: Kernel weirdness

2003-10-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn said on Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:57:34PM +0200: > With all due respect for the our kernel maintainer, Herbert Xu, throwing > up all those ide-driver modules (on a scsi only box, or anywhere else) is > IMHO insane :( The IDE modules were there before, on your SCSI only box.

Re: Kernel weirdness

2003-10-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn said on Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 06:42:53PM +0200: > On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Rob wrote: > > > I've installed the kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 package. Until now, I've > > been running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. Though I didn't change what > > modules I load, with this new kernel packag

Re: Rotation of /var/log/mail.log

2003-09-23 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Matt Zimmerman said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:43:04PM -0400: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:59:02PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > > Please do this instead. I'm not sure why sysklogd does it's own > > rotation[...] > > Because sysklogd doesn't have a

Re: Rotation of /var/log/mail.log

2003-09-23 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Steve Kemp said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:45:11PM +0100: > > While /var/log/mail.log is rotated nicely on my (woody) boxes, > > I have no idea which package is responsible for that. > > Any suggestions ? > > /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd > > This script rotates all the files which are output

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP [Was: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?]

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Joe Wreschnig said on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:32:14PM -0500: > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 18:04, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > I'm not sure why ssmtp has TLS disabled by default; perhaps a bug should be > > filed? It seems like it would provide all of the needed outgoing MTA >

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP [Was: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?]

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Joe Wreschnig said on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:43:49PM -0500: > Interesting. I'm running unstable, but I can't find instructions on > enabling TLS anywhere (nor does SSMTP seem to link to any TLS > libraries). I see mention of it in the README (specifically, only a > credit for it), but not the manu

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP [Was: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?]

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Joe Wreschnig said on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:39:10PM -0500: > > And is a much better choice than expecting every user to locally > > configure smtp settings in the MUA. Lack of direct-SMTP support in mutt > > is a good thing. > > SSMTP is not acceptable for those of us that use SMTP AUTH+TLS, un

Re: FYI: www.infrastructures.org

2003-07-22 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Karl M. Hegbloom said on Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:01:19AM -0700: > http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/bootstrap/bootstrap.html While this is a good paper, and there are lots of interesting ideas contained within it that map well to Debian (I've got 50 or so Debian boxes in a configuration inspir

non-root syslogd?

2003-07-07 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Has anyone investigated what would be necessary to get a non-root syslogd working under Debian? It seems like this would be a good thing, but obviously there have to be some tricky bits, else it would have happened already. :) It seems like the steps would be: Add a user for syslog to run as. c

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
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