RE: stopping exim4 from hanging on startup with no network

2004-01-29 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I don't know if this is related or not... Sendmail used to hang on me with no network (for a min or so) until I put an entry in the hosts file to cover the domain name. Sendmail was trying to look up the mailname on the nonexisting network. Ian -Original Message- From: Micha

Sendmail and TLS

2004-01-29 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, It appears that Sendmail in Debian 3.0 comes with TLS enabled. I have been through sendmail.org to no avail. Is there an easy way of disabling it ? and what are the consequences. I don't have roving users, and the network is static so entries in the relay_domains would suffice. Ian --

RE: Sendmail and TLS

2004-01-29 Thread Ian Perry
' Subject: Re: Sendmail and TLS On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Ian Perry wrote: Hi, It appears that Sendmail in Debian 3.0 comes with TLS enabled. I have been through sendmail.org to no avail. Is there an easy way of disabling it ? and what are the consequences. I don't have roving users

Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I know this question is subjective to personal preferences Is there an advantage to exim over sendmail or vice versa for ease of setup/maintenance etc ? I would be interested in comments from those who have used both. Is there something better than either of them ? I have very little

RE: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Ian Perry
Over the weekend, I will 'play'. I just came across this comparison of the four which I found interesting. http://shearer.org/en/writing/mtacomparison.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
Does anyone know what this is ? Or is it just elaborate spam ? Or am I now on yet ANOTHER spam list ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 5:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: registration confirmation Thanks for

RE: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
: Thursday, 29 January 2004 9:56 AM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: FW: registration confirmation... Incoming from Ian Perry: Does anyone know what this is ? Or is it just elaborate spam ? Or am I now on yet ANOTHER spam list ? FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, THINK! The From: says lists.debian.org

RE: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
with windows. You have to use something decent. -Original Message- From: s. keeling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2004 11:20 AM To: Debian User Subject: Re: FW: registration confirmation... Incoming from Ian Perry: Firstly... my apologies to the list. Well

Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have a mailbox here where someone sent a 141MB (yep.. 141 meg) message to it, and now we cannot delete that message. Mail(x) responds with, fseek: Invalid argument panic: temporary file seek Segmentation fault client email programs time out. Other than deleting the entire mailbox, does

RE: Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
. PS: After the telnet session... what's the command to leave pop3 ? Regards Ian -Original Message- From: Brian Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2004 12:40 PM To: Ian Perry Cc: Debian Users Subject: Re: Mailbox problem... messgae too large Ian Perry wrote

pppupd... where has it gone ?

2004-01-27 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I noticed that pppupd is not in Debian 3. Is there something different, or has pppd been modified/updated to take care of redialling after a connection is broken on a modem ? Thanks Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

pppoe

2004-01-27 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have been asked to set up a box with a pppoe connection to an ISP, never having used it before. Does pppoe keep the connection alive automatically, or do I need a script to redial ? If so, where can I find one. Any information or pointers on pitfalls and setting up, other

Thanks for alll your help

2001-09-02 Thread Ian Perry
Guys and Gals, I am off on leave for a while so have unsubscribed (hopefully successfully). Thanks for all your help... Take care and talk to you when I get back. Sun, Sand, Surf, no phones... bliss h... I wonder if my PC will fit in the suitcase... Ian

RE: netcard

2001-08-21 Thread Ian Perry
A little more info would be helpful. What card is it ? What is the number of the surface mount chip on the card. Ian -Original Message- From: Tandex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:01 AM To: Debian-User mailing list Subject: netcard

RE: Preventing logins /bin/false ?

2001-08-20 Thread Ian Perry
From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 8:18 AM * Ian Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010816 20:11]: Hi, Quick question. I have been using /dev/null to prevent shell logins (yet still leave pop3 etc running) as follows: username:x:1000:1000:Mr User

RE: Preventing logins /bin/false ?

2001-08-20 Thread Ian Perry
From: Martin Fluch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Fluch Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:19 PM I would rather give people as little information about the system as possible. There is also a risk (however slight) that /bin/false could be replaced with a bash program. I don't

RE: How to answer

2001-08-16 Thread Ian Perry
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:28 PM Personally I set Reply-To on a per mail basis, in fact I use it much like Followup-To in usenet. If I want to get Cc´ed I simply Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can´t

RE: How to make ppp0 default gateway automaticly?

2001-08-16 Thread Ian Perry
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:07 PM On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:05:07 +0800, Tao Liu writes: snip but how can I make ppp0 the default gateway automaticly when ppp0 is up? snip [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep def /etc/ppp/options defaultroute

RE: How to make ppp0 default gateway automaticly?

2001-08-16 Thread Ian Perry
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:31 PM snip but how can I make ppp0 the default gateway automaticly when ppp0 is up? snip [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep def /etc/ppp/options defaultroute I also believe that route add default ppp0

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1151

2001-08-16 Thread Ian Perry
From: dman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:17 AM On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:35:12PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | I've found that the listmanager can be slow to respond, and this has | caused problems in the past. Persistence and civility is helpful, as is |

Preventing logins /bin/false ?

2001-08-16 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, Quick question. I have been using /dev/null to prevent shell logins (yet still leave pop3 etc running) as follows: username:x:1000:1000:Mr User,,,:/home/homedir:/dev/null I noticed that the shell can also be put as /bin/false as in ftp I prefer /dev/null as the user is instantaneously

RE: How to answer

2001-08-15 Thread Ian Perry
From: Gilles Pelletier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 2:36 PM I'm used to a web - news interface, but not to email - news. I can't post directly to th enewsgroup. I suppose that's normal. I received two copies of some posts, none of others. Answering to any any

Getting off the list

2001-08-15 Thread Ian Perry
Mike send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the single word unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line Do not put it in the body of the text. See the last line of this email Ian -Original Message- From: Michael Hambe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 8:52 PM To:

RE: Fwd: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-14 Thread Ian Perry
For once I am ashamed to be Australian.. No, I will never be ashamed of being an Australian. I am however ashamed to be living in the same country (and the same state) as someone who is so rude and naive and abuses the rest of the world like a spoilt child who believes that he is the only one who

RE: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Ian Perry
I have used Slackware in the past and I will NEVER use it again. It was just so damn unreliable (windows spent more uptime than the slackware system), and it became difficult to maintain... as for upgrading... to your newbies... all I can say is I wish you the best of luck you will need it,

RE: wierd returnings

2001-08-12 Thread Ian Perry
Guys, I have beed talking to Mario and Karsten about this, and have apologised to Mario for going off the deep end. I have also gone through my sendmail configs and noticed that Masquerade envelopes was set to Y. Might be config issue on both ends. Ian

RE: Searching in dselect

2001-08-12 Thread Ian Perry
-Original Message- From: Michael Heldebrant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 11:56 AM On 12 Aug 2001 20:59:11 -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: Is there any way of searching for a string in the short or long descriptions of the packages in dselect ? Use

RE: dselect and hda:irq timeout

2001-08-10 Thread Ian Perry
From: Michael Mueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 2:36 PM While dselect is installing, I get intermittent errors. The dselect process continues to completion and I seem to be able to use what has been installed. The error messages are as follows: hda: irq

FW: dselect and hda:irq timeout

2001-08-10 Thread Ian Perry
Michael, This should have gone to you cc to list Ian -Original Message- From: Chun Kit Edwin Lau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 3:49 PM To: Ian Perry Subject: Re: dselect and hda:irq timeout Hi, Long time ago, I have the same problem, and I fixed

RE: dselect and hda:irq timeout

2001-08-10 Thread Ian Perry
From: Michael Mueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 2:36 PM While dselect is installing, I get intermittent errors. The dselect process continues to completion and I seem to be able to use what has been installed. The error messages are as

RE: CrushLink Welcome!

2001-08-09 Thread Ian Perry
I bet it was Bill Gates OK. Who signed in? Are you going to post the password? On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:09:24AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear asdlh, Welcome to CrushLink! We wish you the best of luck as you search for your secret crush. To manage your CrushList in the

RE: code red goes on

2001-08-09 Thread Ian Perry
I have noticed a new entry in the apache access logs as follows. Also the CR2 accesses have dropped off to almost zero. 210.204.88.105 - - [09/Aug/2001:14:54:44 +1000] - 408 - 210.72.200.39 - - [09/Aug/2001:15:04:31 +1000] - 408 - 210.182.140.14 - - [09/Aug/2001:15:05:15 +1000] - 408 -

XDM Crash... How to recover

2001-08-09 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, Last night I had a major panic attack with xdm (whoch starts automatically) I had edited the sample .xsession file and added exec fvwm95 to the end. It did not start due to the other settings above for twm (I am working from memory here) The login screen would appear and on login the screen

RE: wierd returnings

2001-08-09 Thread Ian Perry
in the future and not a real one which would inconvenience others. Ian Perry IT Manager -Original Message- From: mario [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mario Vukelic Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 8:36 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: wierd returnings On 09 Aug 2001

Is this an attempted DOS

2001-08-09 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I posted a log similar to this yesterday, but the packets are coming in more regularly now, and only a few seconds apart. A 408 I have found out is a Request timeout. Does this hang one of the apache tasks up ? Is it something I need to be concerned about ? My thoughts are that it is a

Sendmail directories... /var/state/sendmail...

2001-08-08 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have noticed some wierd directories on one of our mail servers, and so I checked the others. hey are on all of them in some varying degree or another. /var/state/sendmail then ae. at. au. etc then in au. asn. com. edu. gov. then in com. aapt. acay. then in acay. job which contains

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Perry
-Original Message- From: William T Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 2:01 PM To: Nathan E Norman Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only. On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: I have to agree

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Perry
On 7 Aug 2001, John Hasler wrote: William T Wilson writes: In states with Good Samaritan laws you are likely to be shielded from liability as long as any action you take is clearly intended as help. State laws are irrelevant. It's a Federal law, enforced by the same people who

Recommended applications needed under X

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, My X system is now up and running. Even though it is runnig on a 6x86 100MHz with 32Meg of memory, I am pleasantly surprised with the speed at which it runs. I found Abiword, which I quite like. Can anybody recoomend good applications to run under X such as.. Excel like spreadsheet Access

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Perry
Ian writes: Consider this case A web page /default.ida exists on a server which when requested (via Code Red)pops up a message on the affected computer. How can it be illegal when it was the affected machine which requested the script in the first place ? It was not the owner or

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Perry
From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 9:12 PM True... Seems like a pretty grey area though. He is ultimately responsible for it. There has been enough publicity about CR to ascertain that the system admin was negligent in his duty. Ian

RE: am i being wormed? aaugh!

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Perry
-Original Message- From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 2:47 AM At 05:05 PM 8/4/01 +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: Just to the record: there seems to be a new variant of the worm, with all 'N' being replaced with 'X'. The last 117 (er, now

RE: Linux on less than 8MByes of Memory

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Perry
-Original Message- From: Aaron Traas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:54 AM To: dman; debian Subject: Re: Linux on less than 8MByes of Memory You're right, I did mean to send to the list. You must be looking in the wrong places for RAM... Crucial.com

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Perry
rundll32 user32.dll,ExitWindows Meh. Doesn't quite work, even on 95. For one, it's ExitWindowsEx. And then it only shuts down if you click OK. And then it only really logs out if there's more than one account. There might be some other way like that that works, but it's probably a

RE: code red goes on

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Perry
I just had a look at another site I look after. It appears from the apache logs that Code Red has not hitting there since 5th August, yet web requests are getting through. It is being filterred ate the ISP level. Ian

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Perry
| What about just popping a message onto the console ? What console? (It's windows, not dos) DOS... I remember the time... :) OK point taken... monitor, screen, window, TV, visual display, LCD... Did I miss any ? ;) I saw it on /. : net send user message will pop up a

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Perry
-Original Message- From: Titus Barik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:06 PM To: Ian Perry Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only. On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Ian Perry wrote: rundll32 user32.dll

RE: code red goes on

2001-08-05 Thread Ian Perry
-Original Message- From: Alan Shutko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:18 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: code red goes on Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: Anyone noting trends between 7/20 and 8/2? I've got 30 v. 49,

Linux on less than 8MByes of Memory

2001-08-05 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have an old 486Sx dog which I want to use as a printserver. Potato recomments at least 12MBytes of memory to do an install from CD. Is it possible to install Potato on 8MBytes ? Do I need to create special boot floppies or is it not possible ? Thanks Ian

RE: code red goes on

2001-08-03 Thread Ian Perry
I have had 47 in the last 24 hrs. -Original Message- From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 12:54 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: code red goes on if you grep your http access log for default.ida (good sign of a code red

RE: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's? Thanks....

2001-08-02 Thread Ian Perry
Your comments seemed a little strange...??? I, for one, was extremely glad you posted. A lot of good suggestions came out. I would have never thought of using Lynx. I don't think that there are BIG and LITTLE problems on this list. At the risk of getting flamed I will say that Linux is not the

RE: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread Ian Perry
-Original Message- From: Sam Varghese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sam Varghese Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet] On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:54:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread Ian Perry
-Original Message- From: James Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:33 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:05:11PM +1000, Ian

RE: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread Ian Perry
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:58:06AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:54:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I set up my Win98 machine to share its internet connection to my networked Linux machines? Pardon me for asking but wouldn't it better and

Changing Servers - passwd, shadow, group

2001-08-01 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I am about to physically change some machines from slink to potato. Can I simply copy the passwd, shadow, gshadow and group files over to the new machine and have it work, or do I have to laboriousely enter them again. The allowed downtime of these machines is zero, so I do not want to just

Attaching to a Novell server through linux.

2001-08-01 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have an intranet server currently running on Win95, which has links to selected files on a Novell Server (E.g User and Tech manuals, Release notes etc) It is running scripts wriiten in java. I would like to move this setup to linux (for stability reasons). Is it possible to attach a linux

RE: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Ian Perry
None of my machines give MHz... only bogomips Next Question What is a bogomip ??? processor: 0 cpu: 686 model: NULL vendor_id: GenuineIntel stepping: 3 fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug: no f00f_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid : yes wp : yes flags

RE: networking

2001-07-25 Thread Ian Perry
Shouldn't your network be 192.168.0.0 ? -Original Message- From: Michael W. Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:47 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: networking I am using linux 2.2.19-20010521 on a IIci and am trying to have it recognize my

X11 config - no VGA16 found

2001-07-24 Thread Ian Perry
I hjave no doubt that I did something stupid somewhere along the line. I have used anXious to configure X and am getting an error message. It seems that X thinks it needs a vga16 card (I have a Tseng Labs ET4000 W32P card) Does anyone know where that setting of vga16 might be coming from ? I

RE: X11 config - no VGA16 found

2001-07-24 Thread Ian Perry
Many thanks... solved -Original Message- From: Robin Gerard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:58 AM To: Ian Perry Cc: 'Debian Users' Subject: Re: X11 config - no VGA16 found On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:05:46PM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: I hjave no doubt

RE: TIME, DATE and CRON... trap for the unwary

2001-07-22 Thread Ian Perry
... trap for the unwary On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:15:00AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: Hi All, Just came across a point about Time and Date and CRON which could cause a problem for those who are unaware. If you have CRON running and you set back the Date or Time backwards, CRON

RE: CRON - Can you make CRON run faster than every minute

2001-07-20 Thread Ian Perry
faster than every minute Thus spake Ian Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi Debianers, I need to make CRON run faster than every minute. Every 15 seconds would be good. Is this possible ? On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:20:48PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: Don't think you can speed

TIME, DATE and CRON... trap for the unwary

2001-07-19 Thread Ian Perry
Hi All, Just came across a point about Time and Date and CRON which could cause a problem for those who are unaware. If you have CRON running and you set back the Date or Time backwards, CRON will not run until at least the old time has been reached again. A quick reboot solves the problem.

RE: floppy

2001-07-19 Thread Ian Perry
Check the rights of your mount point. Check that the floppy is not write protected. Have you tried a different disk ? Ian -Original Message- From: markus [mailto:markus]On Behalf Of Markus Hansen Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 8:08 AM To: Debian Mailinglist Subject: floppy i dont know

CRON - Can you make CRON run faster than every minute

2001-07-19 Thread Ian Perry
Hi Debianers, I need to make CRON run faster than every minute. Every 15 seconds would be good. Is this possible ? Thanks Ian

RE: Date Problems...

2001-07-18 Thread Ian Perry
The #uname -a command also gives you the version and date of compilation (installation ?) eg one our old machines gives Linux router1 2.0.36 #1 Thu Sep 2 09:28:09 EST 1999 i686 unknown one of the newer gives Linux router2 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown I often use the

RE: [OT] detecting the RAM speed

2001-07-12 Thread Ian Perry
. Ian -Original Message- From: 'Martin F. Krafft' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:32 PM To: Ian Perry Cc: debian users Subject: Re: [OT] detecting the RAM speed also sprach Ian Perry (on Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:05:55PM +1000): The RAM chips should be marked

RE: [very very OT] noisy power supply

2001-07-11 Thread Ian Perry
Joerg, Do not reverse the fan in the P/S. The Power supply is the most robust piece of electronics in a PC and is actually designed to run 'HOT' (well hotter than a CPU or motherboard anyway) and reversing the fan will just blow hot air into sensitive electronics. Depending on the case style,

Modem Loopback Problem - a trap to be aware of

2001-07-03 Thread Ian Perry
Hi All, This is a little long but was an interesting problem. I believe it is now fixed and will try it tonight. I have also created a normal shell account so that I can dial in using minicom for maintenance. I have a dialin connection to get access from home and was having problems when ppp

RE: kernel install - unres. symbols

2001-06-28 Thread Ian Perry
I have found this in the past when I have installed the standard system with modules etc and then recompiled the kernel with these modules in them, or recompiled with the modules disabled in the kernel. On reboot it tries to load the modules and cannot. Try using modconf to remove the unwanted

RE: squid authentification

2001-06-27 Thread Ian Perry
Have you thought about using IP numbers to verify access ? Attached is sections of my squid.comf I use 2 files... /etc/allowedsites sites which everyone can access.. yellow pages, whitepages etc /etc/allowedusers users which can go anywhere Squid.conf -snip-

RE: upgrading award bios to see ide 40mb disk

2001-06-26 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have also tried this several times on a few machines. The best way is to go to the motherboard site and d/l the upgrade, and burn the new BIOS with a programmer. your motherboard will have some numbers on it like GA-60XM7E. The most common motherboards used around here ase Gigabyte

RE: Using different DNS per ISP

2001-06-26 Thread Ian Perry
Here are just a few rip.psg.com IP address = 147.28.0.39 NS.RIPE.NET IP address = 193.0.0.193 B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET IP address = 192.33.14.30 C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET IP address = 192.26.92.30 E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET IP address = 192.12.94.30

Routing IP Packets by port numbers

2001-06-25 Thread Ian Perry
Hi All, I have a need to route packets to different places depending on the port number. For example: Router1:192.168.2.1 etho A.B.C.D ippp0 running sendmail, pop, apache etc PC: 192.168.2.2 gw 192.168.2.1 Router2:192.168.2.100 gw

RE: IPX over the Internet

2001-06-22 Thread Ian Perry
... That is an interesting question I'm not sure how it would be setup... but wouldn't you have to setup IPX to be tunneled through TCP some how? Mike - Original Message - From: Ian Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Debian Users' debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:21 PM Subject: IPX

IPX over the Internet

2001-06-21 Thread Ian Perry
Hi All, I have a few questions and hopefully you can help me. I have two debian system acting as an internet gateways connecting 2 offices via the internet. Both are set up with IPX turned off and IPX not in the kernel. Is it possible to pass IPX packets over the internet to give outside users

RE: Strange logs - General Protection Fault

2001-06-19 Thread Ian Perry
for 18 months. Ian -Original Message- From: Ethan Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 5:55 PM To: 'Debian Users' Subject: Re: Strange logs - General Protection Fault On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:57:42PM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: Hi all, My first General

Strange logs - General Protection Fault

2001-06-18 Thread Ian Perry
Hi all, My first General Protection Fault since Windows 3 !! Can anyone shed some light on this ? It occurred right after an ISDN reconnect. The machine appeared to still be working !!! Named, Sendmail, POP, IMAP, Masquerading... The machine is in a different state, so I had the operator there

RE: Sudden problem with bind

2001-06-14 Thread Ian Perry
I had this a while ago and never found the problem. named would simply either stop working or just unload itself (normally the latter) with nothing in the logs at all. I updated to bind-9.1.1rc1 and all has been fine since with the exception that an nslookup would not return to a prompt after

RE: Why can't I?

2001-06-14 Thread Ian Perry
I totally agree. I have been involved with Novell for several years, and their default policy when creating a user is that they cannot see anything other than their home directory. It does make setting up a little harder, but then isn't that why the idea of groups was invented? Accounts group

Running Windows Apps on Linux

2001-06-14 Thread Ian Perry
Is it possible to run Microsoft Windows Apps (such as Excel etc) in XWindows or is there a utility which allows this ? Ian

RE: All packages ... again.

2001-06-13 Thread Ian Perry
You said: Listen to the voices of experience. A few years ago I actually did what this person wanted to do... tried installing them all. After several weeks of tooling around and getting nowhere with an extremely unstable system, I ended up getting out my setup disks, killed the partitions and

RE: Route problem

2001-06-12 Thread Ian Perry
route del ipnumber or are you talking about the ipfwadm or ipchains ? -Original Message- From: Brian Schramm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 12:30 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Route problem Is there a way to remove a route from the route table

RE: Route problem

2001-06-12 Thread Ian Perry
try route del -host 192.168.0.100 reject I just checked it out...it worked here -Original Message- From: Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 12:59 PM To: Ian Perry Cc: 'Brian Schramm'; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Route problem

RE: [OT] windows networking issue

2001-06-07 Thread Ian Perry
You've probably looked at this already...but... Have a look in Control Panel / System / Device Manager on the 95 machine and go Properties on the network card. See if it reports that the network card is operating correctly. Chech the settings for the card, I/O, IRQ etc. Windows occasionally

RE: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-06-07 Thread Ian Perry
I have been running Linux 2.0.36 for the past year on 3 sites and have had ext2 go down on each of them after a power failure. Much of the time running fsk manually fixed the problem, other times the systems were totally unbootable. The problem has gotten so bad that we have had to put UPS

RE: adsl

2001-06-07 Thread Ian Perry
Also have you set up your input/output rules ? -Original Message- From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 3:08 AM To: wayne Cc: Debian-User Subject: Re: adsl At 03:07 PM 6/6/01 +0800, wayne wrote: i setup a debian server,i used rp-pppoe to connect

RE: How to change domain name???

2001-06-07 Thread Ian Perry
The spots which come immediately to mind are change the entry in the /ets/hosts file this change the entry in the /etc/hostname file --- and this should match mailname in /etc run sendmailconfig (or the config for your mail program) Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: install

2001-06-04 Thread Ian Perry
Try the main website http://www.debian.org There is a link on the left Installation Instructions, Debian Packages, Download with FTP Make up a set of base disks http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ima ges-1.44 Install from these disks and then ftp the remaining

RE: Currency of packages

2001-06-04 Thread Ian Perry
Just be thankful that it's not the Windows definition of stable. Remembewr that you can only 'tickle a system' just so much, before it dies laughing at you. Ian -Original Message- From: Steve Kowalik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 3:03 PM To: Noah L. Meyerhans

A little off topic - Microsoft Networking Problem

2001-06-03 Thread Ian Perry
I know this is a little off topic but... I have a network of 100+ operating Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, Netware Server, Linux (here I have to add that the machines running linux and netware have been up continuously for over 11 months and never missed a beat unlike the others mentioned) On the

RE: A little off topic - Microsoft Networking Problem

2001-06-03 Thread Ian Perry
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Petr [Dingo] Dvorak Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 12:22 PM To: Debian-User Subject: Re: A little off topic - Microsoft Networking Problem On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Ian Perry wrote: IP I know this is a little off topic but... IP IP I have a network

Email Problem

2001-05-31 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, Its so nice to be back in the land of the linux. I have been asked if it is possible to monitor specific outgoing email ? By specific I mean either from a specific email return address, or a specific IP number. We are using sendmail, SMTP, and POP3 It is easy enough to monitor the

Satelite

2001-05-31 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have been asked to get satelite internet reception working on a linux box. Currently it is working on a 98 box but is not 'sharable' across the network. Any clues as to where to go for the drivers etc ? Ian

Just some thoughts, and I could be wrong

1998-03-21 Thread Ian Perry
I have watched with interest the comments passed back and forth, after the resignation of one of our members. I am by no means a competant C Programmer, or a Linux Guru, but do feel quite comfortable here in the Debian Community. As a user I appreciate deeply the work and dedication which has,

Re: I am leaving Debian

1998-03-20 Thread Ian Perry
Bruce, On the Thursday, 19 March 1998 8:00 you said. but I feel that my mission to bring free software to the masses really isn't compatible with Debian any longer, and that I should be working with one of the more mainstream Linux distributions. Your statement

Re: modules

1998-03-18 Thread Ian Perry
Also have a look at the modules file in /etc to make sure you are not loading modules which you do not want. I found that this file was not recreated on installation of the new kernel. Ian -- From: Robin Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: David B Wilson

Re: LINUX Proxy

1998-03-17 Thread Ian Perry
I have used socks, and ipmasq and transproxy (just to toss another one into the pile) If you are only after ftp or http proxying then squid or transproxy or socks is possibly the way to go, although if you are connecting through a modem from the linux box to your ISP, you may be better off

Re: PPP Configuration: Getting Hooked Up to my ISP

1998-03-12 Thread Ian Perry
If your ISP requires pap authentication, you need to uncomment the +pap line in your options file. Also he may not require you to run a script.. You might try taking out the login and password references in your script, as ppp authentication should take care of it. My ISP does it this way. Try

Re: POP3 server

1998-03-12 Thread Ian Perry
There is a package called qpopper in mail -- From: Rob Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: POP3 server Date: Thursday, 12 March 1998 20:06 hi folks, can someone tell me where i can find the information i need to set up a POP3 server. First

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