Re: WiFi

2004-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Luke Kearney wrote: Hi List, I am looking to purchase a wireless PCI card for a new machine here at my home. I was wondering if anyone can share sucess or horror stories about the Elecom range of products. I am wanting to use one machine as what is its chipset

Re: WiFi

2004-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Luke Kearney wrote: what is its chipset - if you cannot answer that, than you're in for some fun AR5001X+ some/most of atheros chips uses the madwifi driver ... but you'd need to double check that particular chipset madwifi does NOT support ad-hoc,

Re: Wireless Access Point

2004-10-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya werner On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Werner Otto wrote: I am looking for value for money, who doesn't :-) used junk on ebay is the cheapest ... though i never buy there but i know what people paid compared to retail pricing and needs to have allot of security capabilities such as WEP, WPA,

Re: multihead

2004-10-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, John Floren wrote: I have tried multiheading in the past, without much luck. It seems that if I do not use the same resolution and bit depth on both screens, X will crash when I logout. Then, when I do use the same res and bpp, there is a huge increase in CPU usage

Re: sendmail problem

2004-10-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Oliver Fuchs wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Sebastian Wild wrote: Set up a sarge box for a customer. Installed sendmail onto it. .. [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00: .. dsn=5.1.2, stat=User unknown .. from=[EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Wireless interface not working

2004-10-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Werner Otto wrote: I installed debina on my Dell Latitide D505. I am unable to get my wireless working. Can someone please lead me in the right direction. we'd need more info if we do not have that dell box to do your homework for yoou - what is the output of lspci

Re: Automating wifi setup

2004-10-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Chris wrote: Debian unstable. 3com OfficeConnect 11g card together with CVS ndiswrapper (need CVS for Version 2.0 card). i'm not sure if 3com uses prism54 or not ... but if it does, you should use it instead of ndiswrapper ( last resort )

Re: Dual monitor

2004-10-11 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: Does anyone knows how to install dual monitor in linux ? Any links for it ? just modify your XF86Config file or X.org or equivalent files http://Linux-1U.net/X11 http://Linux-1U.net/X11/Dual c ya alvin -- To

Re: strange disk corruption - cables

2004-10-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The discussion concerning this thread tells me that my own understanding of the issues at play is far below that of certain other posters. However, I will humbly wonder aloud if the IDE cable is firmly seated in the connectors at both its

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. why it will figure it out for itself And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed file system errors and reboots the system. how do you shutdown ? ( exactly what

Re: strange disk corruption - problem

2004-10-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya brian On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 1 IDE cable with nothing but 1 HD and 1 CDROM on it. I keep things simple to avoid exactly such problems. take off the cdrom .. and i bet your problems will disappear and new disk does not imply it's a gooouuudd drive.. you

Re: Radius + wireless access

2004-10-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Gabriel Granger wrote: I've got a couple of wireless AP around the office, and would like to mange the laptop with wireless cards using Radius for authentication. all of my AP have the ability to talk to a Radius server. I have got my radius server up and

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

2004-10-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Niels wrote: Promise Netherlands told me today that the kernel 2.6.x.x drivers probably come next year. On a dutch forum they told me (2 secs ago) that the name of a non-true hardware controller is a firmware controller. dependin on your ideas/view... hw

Re: swapping master slave HDs: dd bs=446

2004-10-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya spamhog ( cute ) On 4 Oct 2004, SpamHog wrote: Interesting point: what's in bytes 447 and 448? - the boot records ( MBR ) is 512 bytes total - there is only 4 primary partitions ... each is 16 bytes ( 64 bytes is the total number of bytes needed to ( define your

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

2004-10-04 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Niels wrote: I want to buy a Promise Fasttrack TX2 plus RAID 0 controller with two SATA hard disks. The controller is a software controller. I want no other hard disks than these two in my PC. Can I boot of this setup with the 2.6 kernel? yes... Is it possible to

Re: Recommendations for Linux compatible wireless LAN PCMCIA card

2004-10-02 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: I have a Dell Latitude C640 laptop [1] that I would like to get hooked to the network via wireless. Any recommendations for good PCMCIA WLAN cards (802.11b/g/a)that are Linux-compatible as well (native drivers that is)? How would I configure

Re: Recommendations for Linux compatible wireless LAN PCMCIA card

2004-10-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya palolo On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: what is the output of lspci ?? :02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 :02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 that is probably your wireless card... you need to install the ti wireless

Re: swapping master slave HDs: what to change? (solved - pls comment!)

2004-10-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On 2 Oct 2004, SpamHog wrote: to swap disks ... == make sure you have a boot floppy and a boot cd == that can boot into that disk you are currently using /dev/hda -- /dev/hdb change hda-hdb in /etc/fstab change hda-hdb in /etc/lilo.conf

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jim On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jim Lynch wrote: I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last attempt was the testing distro and 2.6.8 on a box with the via 82xxx card build into the MB. I fiinally

Re: VIA sound problem - exactly

2004-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nate On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Nate Duehr wrote: SuSE does nothing Debian can't do... it just autodetects and hand-hold's better in this case. yup .. some distro likes to spend their r/d on hand holding gui or sometimes broken gui or wrong resulting files Easy to fire up SuSE,

Re: Best Way to Share Printers?

2004-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:40:25 -0400, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a LAN connecting three Debian systems. Until now there has never been a need to share printers as pre-LAN each system had its own printer. Now one

Re: netgear WG311V2 wireless card, any hope?

2004-09-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Thomas Stivers wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get a this card working, but I cannot tell for certain what drivers to use. I see many references, but many seem to be about another revision of the card. When I go to http://madwifi.sf.net I get a index of / page with

Re: partition second hard drive

2004-09-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:01:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is How do I reformat my second hard drive that is presently Fat 32 windows so that Linux can use it for backup. I tried cfdisk but linux cannot see the

Re: Steven Jones,John Summerfield,Alvin Oga

2004-09-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya goose On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, g00se wrote: I know that you all have some experience with installing on Dell Optiplex GX. I'm a Debian noob and wondered if one or more of you might be around to give a bit of advice at kernel module configuration time? think you didnt see the part about i

Re: 802.11g

2004-09-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Chris Evans wrote: Back on Debian-user for a bit with some questions. Quick vote of thanks for Debian which fuels my server and firewall in a home office set up. Background: I want to use 802.11g networking at home, sadly it'll mainly be to connect in three

RE: Tripwire

2004-09-23 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, David Baron wrote: RIght now, I have /var and /proc excluded because of their volativity. I assume there are specific items/directories in these which SHOULD be monitored. Can anyone tell me which ones? every directory should be monitored ... no exceptions because

Re: Debian sarge - raid

2004-09-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, victor wrote: I have one hdd and I inserted another to make a raid1. On short when I tri to start raid md_i, raid md_i-1 starts instead. So I do raidstart /dev/md3 and /dev/md2 starts. ypur kernel doesn't support raid ?? cat /proc/mdstat your raidtab is okay

Re: Bootloader for Sarge - partitions

2004-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya micha On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: - /boot should NOT be a separate partition That NOT true. The right line today is /boot no longer needs to be a separate partition. okay ... i'll bite ... It used to be required due to bios limitations on the location

Re: Bootloader for Sarge - partitions

2004-09-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote: Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - /boot should NOT be a separate partition Why? Please elaborate. even if you can boot, you do NOT have a root fs .. ( /etc /bin /sbin /lib /dev ... ) you can always use a fd or cd or network to boot

Re: Differences between binary images and compiled kernels - 5 min

2004-09-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Silvan wrote: Configging a kernel is an arduous process of booting and then figuring out what you got wrong. It's a pain in the ass. the pain can be minized by: - always start from a kernel from kernel.org unless you know what they did to it

Re: Bootloader for Sarge - partitions

2004-09-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, William Ballard wrote: I know what the reasons are for using seperate partitions, but I just can't bother. Linux isn't Unix, it's closer to being Windows than it is Unix. It's a crummy desktop O/S on commodity Intel whiteboxes. Just use one big giant / part and

Re: initrd / linuxrc: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

2004-09-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I been trying for what feels like ever to build an initrd to boot an LVM 2 root partition on a foreign architecture. Unfortunately, I keep seeing: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

Re: initrd question

2004-09-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Steven Curtis wrote: I can't drop this initrd problem because I've run into this before and I'm determined to figure out how to make it work correctly because until now, I've always bailed and compiled a new kernel. This time, I'm going to figure it out. In

Re: cheap network card supported by linux

2004-09-10 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:01:22 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janne Blomqvist) wrote: Most cards work fine these days. The thing is to avoid the really crappy ones. Plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests to avoid the rt8139 chipset based cards, which

Re: WiFi 802.11g Which One?

2004-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya roger On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Roger Creasy wrote: what is the chipset ?? ( run lspci ) I did run lspci. It did not find my wireless card. Could this be the problem? .. OK. I have the output from lspci, but I have to run it then write down the output and type it in, so there

Re: Using LILO on non-linux disk

2004-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, David Baron wrote: Right now, my c disk is a Win98 disk and my d disk has linux and windows audio data partitions. I use bootmagic. If I choose linux, I get the LILO screen which can boot my linux or do the windows, etc. Can I use LILO directly, bypassing the bootmagic

Re: Testing mailing list....

2004-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Will Ness wrote: This is a test only, please ignore and do not reply. (Newbie at work). your first task for work is to figure ut where to send test emails :-) c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: raid 1 setup.

2004-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Roger wrote: I'm trying to get raid 1 going on my Sarge unstable box. When I installed raidltools2 and mdadm doing a /proc/mdstat gave the following [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/network# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] ... 25728000 blocks [2/1] [_U]

Re: Using LILO on non-linux disk

2004-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, David Baron wrote: OK tried it. The results: Go the lilo menu OK. Boot to Linux partition OK. Boot to Windows -- Goes to the lilo menu again. whacky :-) but that's windoze 4u So I -U'd. Now I get the bootmagic menu once more. Boot to linux -- get the

Re: grub wants root=/dev/hde?? - map

2004-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Grub keeps putting my root on /dev/hde. Originally this is where my harddrive was. Now I have moved it to /dev/hda. Why won't Grub recognize this? I keep having to edit the root= line at each boot? assuming root is /dev/hda1 you need to

Re: WiFi 802.11g Which One?

2004-08-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Roger Creasy wrote: I have struggled for 2 months to get ndiswrapper to work on my box. I am throwing up the white flag. Can anyone suggest an 802.11g card that has a linux driver? ndiswrapper is a pain ... sometimes it works .. sometimes it doesnt works == it

Re: WiFi 802.11g Which One?

2004-08-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Roger Creasy wrote: Alternately, I have a dLink DWL-G510. Does anyone know of a driver? what is the chipset ?? ( run lspci ) I did run lspci. It did not find my wireless card. Could this be the problem? no ... there is data in lspci aboout your dlink ... (

Re: Tux logo, Nvidia drivers, and framebuffer

2004-08-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Brian Pack wrote: I'm making progress. By adding video=vesa vga=0x317 I get a blank screen up to the point that X starts. That's not a problem for now, because I know I'm on the right track. I'm recompiling a kernel right now that has vesa included, and not a module, as

logo - Re: Tux logo, Nvidia drivers, and framebuffer

2004-08-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Brian Pack wrote: I compiled a new kernel, with vesa included instead of a module, same for console framebuffer. Added video=vesa and vga=0x317 in menu.lst for grub. I've got Tux! :) congrats ... now add your own corp logo next to tux .. and or more fun playing

Re: Houston, I May Have a Problem (chkrootkit Results)

2004-08-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya scarledown On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Scarletdown wrote: I'm in the process of archiving and backing up my documents, images, media, and other stuff I want to keep now, about 425MB worth of stuff. cool ... luckily ... the culprit didnt do anything worst to your machine however, you

Re: Working backup solution?

2004-08-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:33:53AM +0200, Didde Brockman wrote: I'm trying to find a decent backup solution for our 5 Debian systems – all on Dell hardhardware. Been looking at the Dell PowerVault 122 as it seems to fit our needs quite good in terms of capacity (640Gb max). that

Re: Have I been sniffed?

2004-08-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Marc Shapiro wrote: The sender address on the SPAM message was my own. That, of course, is easy enough for anyone to find. The name of the sender, however, is what worries me. The first name was a word that I use for a LOT of my passwords, and the last name could

backups Re: Have I been sniffed?

2004-08-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Bradley M Alexander wrote: Depends. I have wireless, and three things I do, from least to most draconian: 1. Turn off SSID broadcasting. 2. Turn on WEP as high as possible (DLinks will do up to 256 bit). 3. Tunnel wireless traffic through a VPN (e.g. OpenVPN).

Re: Have I been sniffed? - reinstall

2004-08-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Carl Fink wrote: 1. Never use real words for your (non-trivial) passwords. passwd or pass phrase should be diffeent for each different purpose email passwd ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] for email ... ssh passwd .. jsmith is the ssh login vpn passwd

Re: backups Re: Have I been sniffed? - wl

2004-08-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya bradley On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Bradley M Alexander wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:25:21PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: ... i equate the wireless between to wirelss-pc to be the equivalent of 2 wired=pcs.. - anybody ( in the world ) can sniff the copper wire - anybody

Re: backup data to CD - golden platter

2004-08-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya sun ok ... i'll bite ... and solve your problem for you On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Mingzhai Sun wrote: Hello Debian-users, I did a full backup, and I want to do increamental backup every week. lets say you have a spare disk or a disk (partition) you call /mnt/BACKUP full backups

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ? - margins

2004-08-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya cw On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, CW Harris wrote: Kind of jumping in the middle here, but if you are looking to get a repository structure for the packages you use... yup .. or confirmation that one is heading the right direction $ find /var/cache/apt-proxy -type d -maxdepth 5 \ | sed

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, B Thomas wrote: Hi, I was trying to find a US vendor for debian non-free CDs . Looks like there were only 2, cheapbytes.com and linux-cd.com. However neither have non-free woody CDs listed on their web page. I am unable to get debian-cd to work or find jigdo files for

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya b On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, B Thomas wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:10:48AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: if i understand it correctly, jigdo is nice if it allows one to d/l only the new changed files on the cdrom (i have yet to play and test it ) but you could download full cds

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ? - margins

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya travis On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Travis Crump wrote: Non-US cds are available with lot of vendors and at many mirrors. But not a single Non-Free CD. B Thomas Umm, a major reason for a package going into non-free is a prohibtion on commercial redistribution. It would probably be

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, B Thomas wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:10:48AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: why not just d/l the entire cdrom collection onto the new debian.osu.edu connection and burn your own cd's ? debian.osu.edu is either not up or access restricted even from within

Re: New address

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:25:05 + Tal Amir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and the reason debian-user needs to know this is.?? Hey, maybe he wanted us all to send him confirmation? ;-) or it's a blatant not-so-fancy spam ... to get people

Re: ndiswrapper/Sarge Newbie

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Roger Creasy wrote: Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi ya roger On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Roger Creasy wrote: I am trying to set up ndiswrapper under Sarge. Do Debian specific instructions for this process exists? If so, can anyone direct me to them

Re: ndiswrapper/Sarge Newbie - link

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya roger On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:56:41PM -0700, Roger Creasy wrote: I have the cd set for Sarge. Where to I find the sources for the kernel? Do I merely copy them to the directory in the error? Or are there other steps? How do I link

Re: Real Time monitoring/alerting utility..

2004-08-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Michael Bellears wrote: We have a client who is wanting real-time notifications of FTP/SSH connections to there WebServer - Could this be achieved with a TCPWrappers script for those two services? Or is there a utility available that can do this? They will have a

Re: ndiswrapper/Sarge Newbie

2004-08-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya roger On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Roger Creasy wrote: I am trying to set up ndiswrapper under Sarge. Do Debian specific instructions for this process exists? If so, can anyone direct me to them? If not, can anyone who has had success with this send me the how-to? for a non-debian

Re: Software RAID using Sarge Installer

2004-08-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, John Fleming wrote: fun stuff Would someone help me, preferably off-list if the question's too simple, off-list would be too selfish as others can also benefit ?? if you check the debian archives ... this problem has been answered google-plex different times and

Re: on RAID1: is HDA+HDD okay? c: d:

2004-08-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya will On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: lemme check to make sure i grok the recommendation -- HDA and HDB are primary and secondary on the first bus (C: and D: in windows parlance), and HDC and HDD are primary and secondary

low volume - Re: List mail not coming to me either...

2004-08-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ken On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Last (but outside my personal account) is the fact that I have now subscribed to the list through my work, and have yet to receive an email here after the confirmation. yup.. seems there's less and less deb emails coming in i'm

Re: software RAID1: oops! - backup

2004-08-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: so we already have a working md* device using hda and hdb -- what settings need to be changed before we shut down and move hdb to hdd? backup the data to a spare disk ... shutdown boot into single user off a standalone boot cd that supports raid

Re: X client problem..

2004-08-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: on A -- xhost +B loggged into B(via ssh) and -- export DISPLAY=A:0; xterm display variable is: DISPLAY=ip#:0.0 -- note the .0 for screen 0 c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Securing SSH: How to enable FAIL_DELAY?

2004-08-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Ralph Katz wrote: In trying to further tighten-up SSH, I'd like to enable FAIL_DELAY that I see in /etc/login.defs but has no effect in ssh. I'm running ssh 3.8.1p1-8 and have already disabled RootLogin and enabled MaxStartups. i assume you have enabled tcp_wrappers

more fun - Re: Securing SSH: How to enable FAIL_DELAY?

2004-08-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Ralph Katz wrote: In trying to further tighten-up SSH, I'd like to enable FAIL_DELAY that I see in /etc/login.defs but has no effect in ssh. I'm running ssh 3.8.1p1-8 and have already disabled RootLogin and enabled

Re: [OT] DNS switching which

2004-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Nori Heikkinen wrote: [sorry if this is duplicate; i can't see that it went through the first time] i have a domain that i host off my own computer but for which i use a friend's nameservers. right now, those nameservers are down with an unspecified ETA of getting

Re: Filesystem recovery with ReiserFS

2004-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: whether *fsck works or not is a separate issue but critcal issue if your data is critical ext2fs (ext3fs) sucky e2fsck xfs xfs_check jfs jfs_fsck add reiserfsck and for guess which fs type nfs not a filesystem c ya alvin -- To

Re: raid 5 on boot? root?

2004-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya richard On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Richard Weil wrote: Is it possible to have both boot and root on RAID 5? I'm getting a kernel panic mid-way through boot. Assuming it's not possible, what about if boot is on a normal drive and root is on RAID 5? the better config is / 256MB /tmp

Re: on RAID1: is HDA+HDD okay?

2004-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya will On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: lemme check to make sure i grok the recommendation -- HDA and HDB are primary and secondary on the first bus (C: and D: in windows parlance), and HDC and HDD are primary and secondary on the second bus (E: and F: in windows parlance).

Re: Filesystem recovery with ReiserFS

2004-08-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: i'd still love to see an informed answer (i.e. not from marc wilson) on why reiserfs should be avoided. the instance discussed here may not have been recovered using the best means, i don't know. but blanket assertions (avoid it) and emotional

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alexei Chetroi wrote: in /etc/fstab /dev/md0/ ... regular stuff .. /dev/md1/swap ... regular swap stuff .. What are benefits of having swap on raid? none .. i suppose ... but if /dev/hda dies .. you can still be working off

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alexei Chetroi wrote: If you value low downtime, then swap belongs in RAID1 or a hybrid scheme (such as RAID 10). Just a newbie question. In a hybrid scheme, do I need 4 raid partitions on 4 different disks? Which raid level comes first, in other words: should I

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, WA9ALS - John wrote: Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - John if you're using the sarge

Re: problem installing Sendmail

2004-08-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: I've answered the config questions of course But I'm not sure if I answered it right... Here is my sendmail.mc Is there any thing wrong? you didn't answer the domain questions properly ... and supported virtual hosts - it'd be easier to

Re: woody - installed on DUAL-PROCESSOR software RAID!

2004-08-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya will On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: (yes, i'm also working on getting them to tune2fs -j this puppy as well.) good .. ext3 or reiserfs or xfs or jfs $ sfdisk -d # partition table of /dev/hda unit: sectors /dev/hda1 : start= 63, size= 192717, Id=83, bootable

Re: sysadmin job in SF Bay Area

2004-08-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote: Hey everyone, My company (http://www.wavemarket.com/) is looking to hire a sysadmin in a) you already posted this previously ... b) some/most of the debianite's is at the debian meeting in oakland probably 5-10 miles away -- why aren't you

Re: crack attempt?

2004-08-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya will On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: aha -- i think i actually attracted a script kiddie! nah... those are free one-time audits from summ-buddy with two much free thyme :-) and you should be happy you don't get those few dozen times per hour and even more happier that they

Re: raid Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

2004-08-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya john On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: Paul wants / and /boot on mdo and/or md0. I can do it, but the installer can't. Paul wants to be able to take either one drive out and boot. Always. if one can't boot off of either disk, its NOT raid ... and cannot claim to be raid ...

Re: grub/lilo - Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

2004-08-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya john On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: From the commandline, you can get lilo to boot a spefic menu item for donno .. i never used lilo on the command line to boot a specific kernel i always configure a lilo.xxx.conf and use lilo -C lilo.xxx.conf for whatever it's supposed

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya keep it in the list :-0 On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Yup. I realize this. I'm just so frustrated. If I request no cc's in my sig, I get tons of mail telling me that I should use the headers instead. If I use the headers, I get cc'd. Actually, I got cc'd even with

Re: grub/lilo - Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

2004-08-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya john On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: lilo -R something will boot only once ... 2nd time around will be back to that it would be normally I thought that's what I said. problem is one time solution is NOT what i need/want/looking for as long as you can write the MBR

scripts Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

2004-08-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya list comm On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW... maybe my demands are just too small, but I've been using MH mail for... for hmmm... 25 years, now? maybe? and because it's command-line oriented, whenever it does something I there's a gui for mh too (Just to

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jacob On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Jacob S. wrote: keep it in the list [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's your mail server or client changing localhost to Mail.Linux-x-Consulting.com. Her Reply-To shows up as [EMAIL PROTECTED] here on my computer. odd that only her localhost gets converted but

compared - Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jacob On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Jacob S. wrote: Yep, looks like one of the links in your chain is messing with the Reply-To when it shouldn't. yup ... looks that way, that my local pine is too too too old .. See below for a header from my mua. good to compare ... the only line that is

yup - Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-09 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: That's your mail server or client changing localhost to Mail.Linux-x-Consulting.com. Her Reply-To shows up as [EMAIL PROTECTED] here on my computer. What Jacob said. I'm not malicious/weird/industrious enough to hunt down domains from the

Re: Perfect mirror copy?

2004-08-09 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Kent Andersen wrote: what would be the procedure for making a perfect bootable copy of a primary linux drive? say I have two exact drives and want to make a backup of the first one so I could boot it in another computer? read the howto ... google for it ... try it

Re: Perfect mirror copy?

2004-08-09 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] Matt Johnson wrote: Newbie follow up: Would it boot in another computer? I always just assumed it would get stuck somewhere. its not supposed to :-) as long as you can get to the lilo or grub boot screen.. you can boot anything you want - if it doesn't

Re: restarting network connections

2004-08-09 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Ralph Katz wrote: Hmm... unlike the other responders, I've done this with /sbin/ifup, but I'm no expert, just a humble desktop user. Perhaps the experts can shed light on the different approaches? update-rc.d - used to fix (enable/disable) your init

Re: Duplicates driving me crazy

2004-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya brian On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Brian Pack wrote: A good 30% of the traffic I'm receiving on this list are duplicate posts. Usually immediately following the original message. What is going on here, and is there anything I can do to stop it? i bet verizon's mail servers get the incoming

Re: Whats with this new Debian installer? - moron

2004-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya thomas On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Thomas Adam wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 10:43:16PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:49:33PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: - grub as the boot loader Not for me -- I use LILO. This is the major thing that annoys me. Which moron is it

grub/lilo - Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

2004-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya john On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: This is the major thing that annoys me. Which moron is it that decided GRUB is better i still like that comment :-) lots of good and bad morons .. but all wants it to be better ... grub _is_ better. How could you think otherwise?

raid Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

2004-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Paul Gear wrote: Joey Hess wrote: .. - software RAID support But not on /boot or /. I find this just unfathomable. What do i do if the disk containing / dies? if raid is configured properly ... it will still boot ... if / is on /dev/hda and /dev/hdc ... and

Re: Linux Support Los Angeles

2004-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Kent West wrote: Scott Wiseman wrote: http://www.avidware.net They really need to get a proof-reader on their home page. Really. After about 16 errors before I got halfway through the page, I gave up. If they want to be considered professionals, they should

Re: Bogus reply-to - dups

2004-08-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya keep it in the list On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. It drives me bonkers when I get personal emails that are just copies of what I've already read on the list. shouldnt your get your (unwanted) cc mail before you get the mail from

Re: Bogus reply-to - fun

2004-08-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: I presume Alvin thinks that sending mail to halt;@their-domain.com might shutdown someone's system. Might. might was the whole point of the entertainment ( if it works, it'd be super hilarious - esp since its NOT supposed to work ) It's pretty

Re: Wireless AP not being seen

2004-08-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya alberto On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Alberto Alonso wrote: I have a BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03) card which is seen using the ndis driver bcmwl5 thats a broadcom chipset ndiswrapper -l reports: bcmwl5 present that's good .. but did bcmwl5 come from the cdrom that came with the pci card

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-06 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: I noticed you're setting replyto,I thought [EMAIL PROTECTED] a more fun address to send it to. Perhaps, though, root is even better:-) root usually is /dev/null'd by some folks that wanna do that for some odd reason use [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... or

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