Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Karl Ferguson
. The gateway was set up after approval by Bruce. How about mangling the From headers in the news postings? Would be a lot nicer, and of course, a lot less Spam for people. That is, if that's what's causing the problems here. Regards -- This message is Copyright (C) 1997 by Karl

Re: debian mirror via http ?

1997-08-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
/pub/mirrors/debian in the US. You could try that, or if you find another mirror that has web access that isn't listed please email me. Regards -- Karl Ferguson - Mirror Site Co-Ordinator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Quotas Mail Spool file

1997-07-30 Thread Karl Ferguson
this with smail I'd like to hear it :-) Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61 8 9456 [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61 8 9455 2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Apache + CGI

1997-07-23 Thread Karl Ferguson
that _you_ install under /usr/lib/cgi-bin . There should be heaps of documentation about that at http://www.apache.org and in the actualy config files itself. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61 8 9456 [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61 8 9455 2776

Re: 1FA: prompt at boot

1997-07-19 Thread Karl Ferguson
line (or whatever partition it is). To read up on some LILO documentation browse the /usr/doc/lilo directory. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61 8 9456 [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61 8 9455 2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

routed in netstd and gated compilation problems.

1997-07-11 Thread Karl Ferguson
be best to keep it off the list. Thanks -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61 8 9456 [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61 8 9455 2776[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)

1997-06-12 Thread Karl Ferguson
it defaults to yes if you press enter). Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61 8 9456 [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61 8 9455 2776[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)

1997-06-12 Thread Karl Ferguson
with all your passwords in it or not. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Setting limit on mailbox size with smail

1997-06-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
it'll receive the whole message and bounce the whole thing back) - have a look at the max_message_size variable in /etc/smail/config . Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Karl Ferguson
, a 'fresh' install of 1.3 (and making sure there's nothing later in bo) I can't setup a slave server. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Shadowconfig

1997-05-23 Thread Karl Ferguson
it and export to an xterm, but for now I want shadow passwords :) I looked at the script and figured I could comment out the lines pertaining to xdm ... but I need some opinions. Is this a bad idea? (Admitting cluelessness pertaining to all things X) Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking

Other remote passwd servers?

1997-05-15 Thread Karl Ferguson
Hi... Other than NIS itself, are there any other NIS-like administrations out there? From and administrators point of view, NIS works great - but users can simply examine the passwd file by using ypcat (sure, all be-it a mangled passwd field) - is there any way to stop that? (Hence my question

Re: samba whoes ...

1997-05-14 Thread Karl Ferguson
using dpkg with the --force* commands - however, I don't recommend it unless it's a last resort. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Shadow installation.

1997-05-05 Thread Karl Ferguson
, but installing these don't convert my system to shadow. Can someone enlighten me? Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61-8-9456-[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61-8-9455-2776[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: utmp troubles

1997-05-01 Thread Karl Ferguson
is still logged into. [...] I take you you've got sysvinit version 2.70-1 installed. I reported a bug on this and I'm pretty sure it should be fixed in sysvinit-2.71-1 try installing it - it'll be in the archive soon. Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61-8-9456-

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Karl Ferguson
ideas? Best way (the way I do it) is to do this: clear /etc/motd However, make sure you make a backup copy of your original MOTD so you can then edit the file and after all the ascii characters put it back. Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61-8-9456-[EMAIL

RE: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 05:58 PM 29/04/97 +0100, Alec Clews wrote: I think /etc/issue might be a better choice 'cause it gets displayed by getty I believe Sorry - my aplogies - I meant /etc/issue, hey it's 1am here :-) -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Karl Ferguson
original issue, as appends to the file rather than writing over it). This won't work right - appends to the end of the file and what'll happen is that the issue will spit out and then clear with name login: Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-28 Thread Karl Ferguson
the offender forcing them to re-subscribe again where as you can't get rid of them from Usenet (this has been the basis in discussions of 'The end of Usenet'.) Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61-8-9456-[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61-8-9455

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
. That's certainly not the case with me :-) I take it your logging into this box via a serial port? I believe that's the cause of it - Consoles and telnet logins appear fine for me. -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
stuff for the rest of your life :( Thankyou to whoever shut it down :-) Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
, really agetty in disguise) and found the exact same thing - if I downgrade, it works a treat. Baffling. -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
a real mess. I'm not *entirely* sure about the sequence of the utmp corruption - but the wtmp I'm sure of. However, they're both corrupted - suddenly a user appears in a 'who' and then they disappear into thin air (after another user logs in). Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
, if not I'll do so. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Apache web server POSTing.

1997-04-16 Thread Karl Ferguson
, and there's not much about this on their web site. Does anyone know what options I must enable to allow apache to accect these requests? Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61-9-456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61-9-455-2776

Re: Apache web server POSTing.

1997-04-16 Thread Karl Ferguson
or whatever... -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-9-456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-9-455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Apache web server POSTing.

1997-04-16 Thread Karl Ferguson
hope this helps. I don't know why this wouldn't be configured correctly as apache worked fine for me 'out of the box'. -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-9-456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-9-455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: finger from remote site will not list .plan

1997-04-02 Thread Karl Ferguson
- ie: drwx--x--x 23 karl staff2048 Mar 31 19:31 /home/karl -rw-r--r-- 1 karl staff 364 Aug 4 1996 /home/karl/.plan Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-9-456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-9-455-2776 [EMAIL

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-31 Thread Karl Ferguson
ID and the USER who's controlling it (and what the process is - ie: named). Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-9-456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-9-455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do Ienable NIS (client) on my Debian system.

1997-03-30 Thread Karl Ferguson
for me anyway. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-9-456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-9-455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to boot single-user

1997-03-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
-- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au ___

Re: Unarj

1997-03-20 Thread Karl Ferguson
an experimental thing that the author was working on and seems to not want to support it anymore... I just read a reply you got about unarj'ing each a.0x and that's probobly the best way to handle it. Regards -- ___ Karl Ferguson

Re: My screen gets messed up :-(

1997-03-18 Thread Karl Ferguson
you back a readable prompt. Works for me anyway. Regards -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9

Re: nis problem...

1997-03-13 Thread Karl Ferguson
. -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au ___

Re: NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
/passwd file: +::/bin/bash -karl Just a follow up note: this actually DISABLES the login (just says login incorrect all the time) but the finger information remains. -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd

NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-05 Thread Karl Ferguson
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Re: NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-05 Thread Karl Ferguson
directory `/var/yp/tower.net.au' NIS Map update completed. This however does work fine and it does get to the slave. -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online

Re: PLIP setup?

1997-03-01 Thread Karl Ferguson
plip0 Slow machines like mine need klogd -c4 to stop plip errors from going to the screen. To take the network down: /sbin/ifconfig plip0 down rmmod plip -!- -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

1997-02-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
said before, if we exploit our name a bit we may start getting donations of machines from big companies like other groups. Just my 2 cents worth. -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

1997-02-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 07:03 PM 25/02/97 PST, Bruce Perens wrote: It was OK for us to participate as [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the RSA Data Security Challenge as long as we didn't have any chance of beating the Linux group. It looks as if we do have a chance. It would be real embarassing to beat them. So please, if you

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
, we're going to be able to get to number 3 easily - however, I'm not sure if we'll be able to get any further! In any case, if you would like to get started at cracking please do so. Regards -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower

Re: poppassd_1.2-4_i386.deb bug?

1997-02-24 Thread Karl Ferguson
much, I would say.) Please submit this as a bug to our bug tracking system. I just installed the package and I can't change the password with Eudora either. It times out waiting for the server to respond. Regards -- ___ Karl

Re: Debian logo?

1996-11-22 Thread Karl Ferguson
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Re: What does Debian mean?

1996-10-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
already. The Debian project was started by Ian Murdock - his wifes name was Debra (I think that's the spelling of it - not sure) so hence forth Debian was formed. And as such it should be pronounced Deb-ian and not Dee-b-an as so many do :-) Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
that have 16bit cards and when they upgraded them both to a PCI (I can't remember what it was now) they went from 250kb/sec on their lan to around 600kb/sec. I think that's a substantial increase IMO. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
to be NE2000's though... You might consider a 100MBPS/10MBPS card that is a PCI bus-master. For sure! If you've got the money that is :) Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
definately the CPU that judges speeds. I say again though, there's no substitute for quality between ne2000's and smc/3com cards :) ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-24 Thread Karl Ferguson
or 3com's (then again, I suppose you're paying for quality). Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http

Re: resetting a virtual console

1996-10-11 Thread Karl Ferguson
and it should reset it - works for me. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au

Re: Can't getty on ttyS1

1996-10-05 Thread Karl Ferguson
flexable. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: scd0 not recog. as block dev. (what is insmod driver)

1996-10-01 Thread Karl Ferguson
(maybe `insmod driver`?) # I take it that you've tried to insmod iso9660 and then try to mount the cdrom as you have there just above? When I re-installed Debian with my cdrom I had to do this and it worked. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072

Re: Scsi errors

1996-09-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
never had any trouble since then. Perhaps it could be the hard drive, but then again, I wouldn't know about that - both my scsi disks are SCSI-2 and yours is a SCSI-3, perhaps it doesn't like them for some reason? Regards ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760

Re: Dr. Paul Vio, Paediatrics

1996-08-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
mailing list? Have you got a question Linux related? ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au/

Re: Isn't it a security hole...

1996-08-14 Thread Karl Ferguson
however have run it fine and it does seem to work (though I'm not using it now because I reformatted). ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9

Re: debian mirror in Australia

1996-08-13 Thread Karl Ferguson
a few days after we've isolated the problem further - in the mean time you may like to try getting them from ftp.it.com.au:/mirrors/linux/debian, however I don't know how up-to-date they are. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The Game is afoot

1996-06-19 Thread Karl Ferguson
is basically an exact copy of the buzz directory, but that's where the newer packages will go and where 1.2 is now being developed (that's right - we don't stop working) :-) ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760) [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services

Re: superuser telnet login refused

1996-06-11 Thread Karl Ferguson
binnxr9gL1hks.bin Description: application/pgp-message

Re: Cron

1996-05-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
of it. Works here anyway :-) ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED]Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 Network Manager, A/h: +61-9-480-5958 Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760) | Internet

Re: Quotas problems

1996-05-23 Thread Karl Ferguson
documentation, could he send me all the useful informations. I mentioned this to the devolper a while ago. Aparantly the new quota package will have a how-to-do-this type file in /usr/doc/quota. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED]Tel: +61-9-455-3446

Re: BUG? /etc/cron.daily/find doesn't run

1996-05-18 Thread Karl Ferguson
on. Thannks, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED]Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 Network Manager, A/h: +61-9-480-5958 Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760) | Internet Providers

Re: Australian mirrors

1996-05-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] might help? ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED]Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 Network Manager, A/h: +61-9-480-5958 Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322

Re: uudecode?

1996-05-06 Thread Karl Ferguson
/bin/uuencode sharutils So, it's in the sharutils package which is in the misc directory. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED]Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 Network

Re: Avance Logic

1996-05-04 Thread Karl Ferguson
box (I doubt that'll help, but listen anyway). The unfortunate problem I had was that I needed specific drivers for it - I'd give up if you are going to try to use it for X-windows I think. Unless there's a specific driver in X for it. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED