Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

2016-08-26 Thread John T. Haggerty
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:06:15 +0200 Frederic Marchal > wrote: > > On Friday 26 August 2016 11:04:04 Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > According to: > > > > > >

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-26 Thread John T. Haggerty
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 8:38 AM John T. Haggerty <jpcoo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Any thoughts for or against Amazon? >> >> > Please don't top post on this list, it b

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-26 Thread John T. Haggerty
e this could be done for under 15.00 USD for a cost. Any thoughts for or against Amazon? On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:57 AM, メット <m...@pmars.jp> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > > > On 2016年8月25日 18:15:48 JST, "John T. Haggerty"

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-26 Thread John T. Haggerty
com> wrote: > On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 4:20:05 AM UTC-5, John T. Haggerty wrote: > > I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem > to differ): > > > > 1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever. > > >

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-25 Thread John T. Haggerty
So how do you dynamically specify getting a connection to be secured or not. If it's only Gmail, why van I telnet to their port and get their mail server? Seems counterintuitive. On Aug 25, 2016 5:54 AM, "Mark Fletcher" <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Aug

Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-25 Thread John T. Haggerty
I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem to differ): 1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever. 2. Postfix gets installed. 3. "Internet site " is enabled fqdn added. 4. Email cannot be sent out to my Gmail address since it magically

Re: Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

2016-04-08 Thread John T. Haggerty
-or-defined-by-a-module-not-included-in-the-server-configuration On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:10 PM, John T. Haggerty <jpcoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I was able to get into the advice on these installations but it seems > that I've hit another snag on this, namely activating fast cgi,

Re: Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

2016-04-07 Thread John T. Haggerty
So I was able to get into the advice on these installations but it seems that I've hit another snag on this, namely activating fast cgi, and getting it to be loaded by RT. Apparently fastcgi is installed in Apache, but getting Apache to load RT's call to fastcgi (? I guess) is failing. The

Re: Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

2016-04-07 Thread John T. Haggerty
t; Hi, > > On 04/07/2016 12:14 AM, John T. Haggerty wrote: > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 > > 20160123-19:03]/ jessie contrib main > > > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-2 > >

Re: Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

2016-04-06 Thread John T. Haggerty
wrote: > On 04/06/2016 10:23 PM, John T. Haggerty wrote: > > There is a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ but only have a chrome.txt or > something > > like that in there. > > That's good to know, but that doesn't answer my other questions: what > is the contents of your

Re: Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

2016-04-06 Thread John T. Haggerty
There is a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ but only have a chrome.txt or something like that in there. On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> wrote: > On 04/06/2016 10:12 PM, John T. Haggerty wrote: > > I would like to get request tracker working but t

Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

2016-04-06 Thread John T. Haggerty
I would like to get request tracker working but the main package fails to install. I am getting the following errors: sudo aptitude install request-tracker4 The following NEW packages will be installed: request-tracker4{b} 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Fwd: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread John T. Haggerty
Future proofing mostly. Blueray drives should be backwards compatible with DVD. -- Forwarded message - From: ken geb...@mousecar.com Date: Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 04:54 Subject: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray To: CentOS mailing list cen...@centos.org, Debian Users

Re: Issues with openvpn and virtualbox as the sole networking provider

2015-05-22 Thread John T. Haggerty
AM, John T. Haggerty jpcoo...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that this could get fixed fairly easily as this must happen a great deal On May 20, 2015 18:31, John T. Haggerty jpcoo...@gmail.com wrote: Also this workaround fails to work http://www.blackmoreops.com/2015/03/01/setup-vpn-on-kali-linux

Re: Issues with openvpn and virtualbox as the sole networking provider

2015-05-21 Thread John T. Haggerty
It seems that this could get fixed fairly easily as this must happen a great deal On May 20, 2015 18:31, John T. Haggerty jpcoo...@gmail.com wrote: Also this workaround fails to work http://www.blackmoreops.com/2015/03/01/setup-vpn-on-kali-linux/ Again provider agnostic On Wed, May 20, 2015

Re: Issues with openvpn and virtualbox as the sole networking provider

2015-05-20 Thread John T. Haggerty
Also this workaround fails to work http://www.blackmoreops.com/2015/03/01/setup-vpn-on-kali-linux/ Again provider agnostic On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:28 PM, John T. Haggerty jpcoo...@gmail.com wrote: For example here http://www.ibvpn.com/billing/knowledgebase/50/Set-up-the-PPTP-VPN-connection

Re: Issues with openvpn and virtualbox as the sole networking provider

2015-05-20 Thread John T. Haggerty
For example here http://www.ibvpn.com/billing/knowledgebase/50/Set-up-the-PPTP-VPN-connection-on-Linux-Network-Manager-GUI.html fails to work for me on Debian gnome. This is not the provider in question however. On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:31 PM, John T. Haggerty jpcoo...@gmail.com wrote: I don't

Issues with openvpn and virtualbox as the sole networking provider

2015-05-19 Thread John T. Haggerty
I don't know if I am able to convey this correctly but here goes: I have been using Linux for a while but had a hiatus of about 10 years so it's been a slow requisition of learned skills. To that end I was thrilled that VirtualBox technology came out recently in order to give this a much easier

CPU's and system monitor

2005-05-17 Thread John T. Moran
I installed Debian sarge today and the install went good. I couldn't get the system to boot with the 2.6.8 smp kernel so I changed the repository to unstable and installed the 2.6.11.1 kernel. Everything went fine and no problems. System shows no bad behaviour. The one thing I noticed is the

dazed and confused

2001-01-31 Thread John T
I am trying to install Debian on my pc without any success. When I am prompted to install after following prevoius instructions I am to select the install source. when I select CDROM as that is what came with the book, the response say cdrom mount failed. In the bookit says to usedselect alt+f2

Install problem (bug?) Mylex vs. Woody

2000-01-22 Thread John T. Croteau
I was very pleased when I saw that the Woody root disk now supports the Mylex block device driver (/dev/rd/*). This was to mean no more RH or Slackware for me. However, I have run into a slight problem with the Debian install script and looking for suggestions or wondering if it should be

2.2.x boot/root needed

1999-05-11 Thread John T. Croteau
Does anyone happen to have a rescue boot/root with a 2.2.x kernel on it that I could get a copy of? I am installing a new workstation with a fairly new SCSI controller with a kernel level driver, manufacturer supplied, that requires 2.2.5. The controller in question is a new DPT SmartRaid V.

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread John T. Croteau
I am going to stick with 2.0.7 until gnu makes 2.1 available again. I just love political issues. - JT

Re: Cannot get full speed download on ppp

1997-03-12 Thread John T. Larkin
I don't what i have done to my system. Recently i found that my download speed from our server at most can give me 2.6k byte/s ftp. You should try two things: 1) Use hdparm to optimize the performance of your disks. I recomend the '-u' option to unmask the IRQ for data transfers. Be

Re: running script files.

1997-03-06 Thread John T. Larkin
On Feb 7, A. M. Varon wrote It seems that shell scripts i have made in my debian distrib. doesn't run. you need to put ./ in front in order for it to execute. Bash will only execute programs which are specified in your path (to see what your path is, type echo $PATH). If . is not in your path,

Re: Weird: networking problem?

1997-03-06 Thread John T. Larkin
On Mar 6, Yanhui Liu wrote I connected my desktop and notebook computers, both are running linux 2.0.27, using the plip module. The desktop is set up as the gateway. The strange thing is that the notebook can ping the desktop, but the desktop cannot ping the notebook. I am new to networking.

Re: Running files

1997-03-05 Thread John T. Larkin
how can I run a file that is not a command file? Like I have a file called startup, how do I run it? What sort of file is it? If you know that it's an executable file, you probably need to set the execute bit on the file. You can do with chmod u+x filename. Check out the man page

Re: x windows

1997-03-02 Thread John T. Larkin
well i got 1.2.2 installed and i was wondering about x windows, could anyone tell me how much disk space i will need to run this. i have an old 386 with 4m ran and 20mb of swap space. am quite impressed with its abilities. I don't think I'd try xwin with less than say 300, 400 is

Re: Installation problem which now is network problem

1997-03-02 Thread John T. Larkin
Unfortunately it's not up and running to that extent I would like to. I have no contact at all with the network and with the Internet in particular. I think I have to make some changes in the network configuration. The question is: How do I reconfigure the network when I've already installed

Re: wu-ftpd

1997-03-02 Thread John T. Larkin
ls, I get no output. Only the following shows up: ftp ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. 226 Transfer complete. ftp This is probably because ls can't find the proper libraries it needs to load. When a user uses anonomous ftp, it chroots to

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

1997-02-26 Thread John T. Larkin
On Feb 26, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote Karl Ferguson wrote: At 07:03 PM 25/02/97 PST, Bruce Perens wrote: the Linux group. It looks as if we do have a chance. It would be real embarassing to beat them. So please, if you are participating, change your reporting address to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NT and Microsoft can go to hell!

1997-02-25 Thread John T. Larkin
On Feb 24, Robert Nicholson wrote Does anybody know how to run lilo once you've executed a shell from the rescue disk? Basically I'm having a problem because / is the /ramdisk0 and not my harddrive. I think I need to rerun Lilo. I don't know if this is the recommended usage, but I just did it

Re: HELP! XDM locked me out of Linux!

1997-02-23 Thread John T. Larkin
Is there any way to skip the XDM startup file? Maybe if I start up in single user mode? Is there a LILO option for that? Assuming that linux is your kernel image with lilo, at the lilo prompt, you can try one of the following: LILO: linux single or LILO: linux emergency single brings you up

Re: load now pegs at 1

1997-02-20 Thread John T. Larkin
Hi folks, little anomyly that I'd like to share. I had a few probs with dpkg, and bash, which are now take care of thanks to the list. :-) Only things is now I notice a load which doesn't drop below 1, even when I am not doing anything. First, run something like top to see if anything is

Re: IPX loading every 5 minutes

1997-02-20 Thread John T. Larkin
properly. Now I'm having a similar problem, except instead of not being loaded, it's being loaded every five minutes. An excerpt from my messages Okay, now does anyone have a good idea as to how to suppress it? :) The three ways I see of surpressing it: 1) Stop using IPX.

Finger?

1997-02-20 Thread John T. Larkin
I got an odd message today while using finger. While logged into tty1 on the local console, I typed in finger and got the response: No one logged on. This was obviously incorrect, since I was logged on. -- - John Larkin -

Re: Debian installation

1997-02-19 Thread John T. Larkin
Boot Begin Start End Blocks System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native /dev/hda2164 164 244 40824 Linux swap /dev/hda3245 245 1260 512064 Linux native /dev/hda4 1024 1261 2484 616896 Extended /dev/hda5

Re: Debian installation

1997-02-19 Thread John T. Larkin
This assertion is incorrect. If you want extended partitions, in either dos or linux, the 4th primary partition is labeled extended and the partition information for the extended partitions and the extended partitions themselves are contained within /dev/hda4. Then how come the kernel

Re: pppd and ethernet error (dialup)

1997-02-19 Thread John T. Larkin
Feb 18 20:46:37 uk pppd[1065]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: local IP address 194.247.41.27 Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: remote IP address 194.247.41.30 Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[0.0.0.0] So the connection

Bug with libraries?

1997-02-19 Thread John T. Larkin
Two friends of mine receintly installed the stable Debian distribution, and both had the same problem. (One installed about 2 months ago, the other 2 days ago from an updated mirror). The file /etc/ld.so.conf did _not_ include the line: /usr/X11R6/lib This was bad; everything linked with the x

Re: linux file systems - frag-up

1997-02-19 Thread John T. Larkin
Can anybody out there familiar with linux filesystem formats tell me if I need to be concerned with file system fragmentation. I've never had a problem with file-system fragmentation. As long as you leave some space free on the filesystem (this is part of the reason for 5%

Re: NE2000 compatible card problem

1996-05-23 Thread John T. Larkin
Dear Linuxer, I have try with several NE2000 compatible cards with 10BaseT and BNC autodetected. None of them works with the 10BaseT interface but works fine with the BNC interface. What kind of cards are these? Do they support _both_ 10base-t and 10base-2, or do you have 2 cards, each