Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:23PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: apt-get is deprecated. Says who? For a distribution upgrade, maybe, but I wasn't aware this was the case for day to day usage. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: system monitoring software

2005-06-14 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:12:15AM -0600, Cam wrote: I'm looking for some software that can do some basic system-monitoring tasks (check if services are up and running, hard-drive space, etc). I've been looking at some things like nagios, OpenNMS, and Cacti... they all look pretty good (i

Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address

2005-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:25:22PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: I didn't follow this entire discussion from the beginning, so maybe it's been said already, but if all these spoofed address messages result in you receiving a bunch of undeliverable returns, why not filter on the word

Preventing apt from storing too much locally

2005-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, I have a number of machines all pointed at an apt-proxy. Since any package downloaded from any of them will be available there on my local network, I would like to avoid keeping copies on every machine. I can see a number of files in /var/cache/apt on each machine; is there a way to

Re: Preventing apt from storing too much locally

2005-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:35:07AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: Dir::Cache::archives This contains references to pkgcache and srcpkgcache. You can turn these off if you wish, in favour of using apt-proxy, or apt-cacher or whatever. But I'd be more inclined to run: apt-get {auto,}clean

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:30:08PM -0500, Kent West wrote: John Carline wrote: Personally, I don't care where an individual posts. But, it would make my reading/following of threads much easier if I didn't have to scroll down to the bottom of post after post in a long string just to

Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address

2005-06-10 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:16:39AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Since last night my in-box is being filled up by dozens of bounced messages. Evidently someone or something is spoofing my address and sending out bogus messages. This is referred to as a joe job (google for more info). In your

Re: Network IP probem

2005-06-08 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:53:13PM +0300, Meni Shapiro wrote: What is it that you want to know?? If someone else (other then your computer) is using your pc's mac address?? Not posible. mac addresses are uniq. MAC addresses are trivially changed by the administrator, and

Re: Running daemons without root access?

2005-06-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:41:23AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Is it possible for a user to ensure that a certain app is (always) started after system start (and stopped before shutdown) without using root access? If so, how? Use sudo to give certain users root access to the daemon's

Re: Confusing email from MySQL corrupt table check

2005-06-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:03:33PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Am Montag, den 06.06.2005, 16:00 + schrieb Andy Smith: /usr/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1102: Incorrect database name 'DATADIR.link' when selecting the database Me too. When I looked at /var/lib/mysql

Confusing email from MySQL corrupt table check

2005-06-06 Thread Andy Smith
Every time I restart MySQL (mysql-server-4.1) on any of several of my sarge machines I get the following email: /usr/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1102: Incorrect database name 'DATADIR.link' when selecting the database Improperly closed tables are also reported if clients are accessing the

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