On the uk.comp.os.linux newsgroup recently, a gentleman remarked that he
re-initialised his (type -P input DENY style ) firewall every ten minutes
from a cron job. When asked why, he said because of ipchains -F; ipchains -X
In other words flush rules one by one then delete rules one by one. I
I have a SCSI CDRW (Yamaha CDW4416S) on my Advansys board.
It worked fine on Slink but hangs the kernel on boot-up every time with
Potato.
I left it disconnected but now it irritates.
My SCSI cdrom is fine.
Why should this be?
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Regards from Chris
I use nfs for various drives/directories but if I nfs mount a cdrom, when the
client has finished I can't umount it. It says device is busy even when the
client computer has been switched off. I have to reboot the server.
What am I doing wrong?
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Regards from Chris
Does Debian work with SCSI CDR's?
I have a Yamaha 4/4/16 and it hangs the 2.2.x kernel on bootup.
Slink was fine.
A mate told me there was something in lastmin.html about it but
I never found it myself.
regards Chris
There has been a lot of traffic about Exim, so I apologise if this is old hat.
I use sendmail (with the 'expensive' option) to deliver local mail immediately
and queue Internet mail until my cron job connects to my dial up ISP and then
does a sendmail -q
Can you do the same with Exim?
Incidentally
How do i run apacheconfig to load modules?
the --force-modules dosen't seem to work and it always comments out the php4
module. I uncommented it and restarted apache but it will only run php code
if the file extension is .php
I didn't get the option to load specific modules at install time, I gu
> The default 'server' config for logcheck ignores almost all of these things.
> Perhaps you should reconfigure your logcheck package? I suspect that you
> chose the 'utterly paranoid, report _everything_' configuration last time
> around...
Just to show my complete ignorance, how do you reconfig
In addition to a firewall (pmfirewall) and portsentry I now have
logckeck running. Unfortunately I get a lot of mail saying I am under attack
when I am sure I am not. I can't figure out what it is objecting to and so
put it in the ignore file. Her are a few snippets:
Oct 27 06:12:45 defiant --
After a hardware problem (which I might, or might not have fixed) I have
reinstalled potato on one of my computers. This is used to export /home.
Unfortunately now I can't; I get
rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Function not implemented
Guess I missed something on the re-install. Anybody know what?
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My /var/log/syslog is filing up with lots of:
Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane nmbd[1753]: ERROR: nmbd is already running. File
/var/lock/samba/nmbd.pid exists and process id 1546 is running.
Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane inetd[205]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1
Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane nmbd[1754]: co
I installed it on an AMDK62/333 with 128Mram in /usr/local.
Using Potato Test cycle 1
It installed no problem. Vmware complains about AMD chips and Win95, say
don't use the patch supplied by Microsoft. I haven't 'optimised' it yet
and runs too slow in window mode, just about acceptable in full sc
As an ex Rred Hat user, my midnight commander left me in the current working
directory when I F10 out of it. The Debian version dumps me back to
the original directory. Is there any way to convert my Debian potato MC
to the redhat style?
regards Chris
As user chris I have an .xsession as follows:
#!/bin/sh
panel &
gmc &
#exec sawmill
gnome-session
which seems to work ( potato cycle 1 )
but hangs on exit with no 'save etc window'
As user cgc I have an .xsession with just:
gnome-session
which seems to work ok
If I remove all the other bits from us
OK so i can 'suck' selected newsgroups.
But I have forgotten how to download the 'active' file
so that I can select appropriate new groups.
How do I do that?
regards Chris
I am knee deep into upgrading from slink to potato (test cycle 1, because
I have the CD's ) Previously I had given up on inn and sort of had leafnode
working. I was considering inn again. Fundamental question is does inn
download everything? In other words. I want a news system that downloads
se
Usually I pick up my e-mail by a cron job (Slink, sendmail) but I happend to be
on-line doing something and I noticed 3 e-mails coming in. There are notes in
the log files but the messages have gone missing. I do export
/var/spool/mail. Nothing in /var/spool/mail or mqueue Anybody have any ideas
I bought the Storm Linux box and tried installing on various hardware.
The graphical install, randomly, failed writing the packages. I got the text
based install to 'work' but the the reboot failed. I finally 'installed' it by
installing my Debian slink2.1r1 disc's and 'upgrading' to storm. It w
I have sendmail running on my local network and sending mail to my ISP
every day in a cron job. But local mail only gets sent once a day as well.
So I would like to send local e-mail immediatly and defer (queue) Internet
mail for the cron job. I saw an article which said comment out the followin
All of a sudden fetch (leafnode) reports:
LIST ACTIVE done 586750 seconds ago, issueing NEWSGROUPS
then it seems to repeatedly get the list of newsgroups from demon newserver
until it fills up syslog (>85M) and the var partition.
I do a /usr/sbin/netdate before so the clock should be ok
This now ha
After trying and failing to use INN, I removed it using dpkg and installed
leafnode. I had to use fetch -f but after that it seemed to work fine when I
manually kicked it. But when I added it to my cron.daily job ( su news -c
"/usr/sbin/fetch" ) I get: shell-init: could not get current directory:
I would like to set up a computer with two SCSI cards,
probably an Advansys U2W and a NCR. i.e. two different
makes. I know recent Red Hats can cope with this but am
not sure Debian can. Are there any gotchas?
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Regards from Chris
I tried to upgrade to X version 3.3.4( samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/
xfree86-334-slink/ )
as per a recent mailing but failed.
dselect returns the following failure:
mv: `ld.so.1.9.10' and `ld.so' are the same file
dpkg: error processing ldso (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script retu
Don't know the answer to the problem but,
my NIS client couldn't bind to my NIS server (itself)
until one day I set up a DNS server (another computer)
for my Intranet. Then NIS started working.
Both computers are in /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf
says try hosts first.
I'm confused.
I have problem connecting to my ISP.
I am new to debian having used (mostly) Red Hat; I am using 5.2 with exmh
and sendmail to generate this. The problem stems from trying to set up a
gateway between my local network (via eth0) and the Internet ppp0
i.e. this computer has two names and two i/p add
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