Re: Apache-SSL: NameVirtualHosts: separate certificates?

2000-11-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to have different server certificates for all NameVirtualHosts running on my external IP. That is technically impossible. It can't be done. If you want multiple virtual hosts with SSL support, they need to be

Re: SSL in mozilla M18 and Netscape 6

2000-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jan- Hendrik Palic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When Mozilla or galeon provide good ssl- connections, then, I hope, I'm able to throw the F** Netscape 4* away... :) Well, M18 crashes more often than NS4 still, and it uses quite a bit of memory as well: USER

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, the thing is that /etc/init.d/portmap doesn't get run. symlinks to it from within the rc.\.d directories do. i guess i could just blow away the portmap script, and that might do it once and for all. but it's wierd

Re: /etc/cron.daily/squid - zipit rotate

2000-11-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious about /etc/cron.daily/squid - What's the logic behind the zipit and rotate functions when the script still relies on savelog for squid.out ? Good question. No idea. Well squid.out isn't really being used anymore so the 2.3

Re: Debian + isdn = ? (a waste of time, so far!)

2000-11-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some problems setting up my isdn. Here is the configuration: o Debian 2.1r4 (Kernel 2.0.38 + the patch -2.0.39 from kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tao) I think you might need a 2.2 kernel. Mike.

Re: Squid authentication

2000-11-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], plutoplanet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: proxy squid[1284]: WARNING: authenticator #1 (FD 1) exited The relevent lines in my squid.conf are as follows authenticate_program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/shadow acl trusted proxy_auth REQUIRED http_access allow proxy_auth

Re: rc.boot

2000-11-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Knights [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently installed debian for the 1st time after using redhat and then SuSe for a few years. I have just installed ssh to my new Debian box and would normally add a line in rc.local for redhat or boot.local for SuSe to

Re: where to put shell scripts?

2000-10-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also question the historical accuracy of 'sbin' as static binary - Unix has always had /sbin, but it hasn't always had dynamic linking. How soon they forget. Not all Unices have always had /sbin. Not even Linux. In the

Re: /bin/false (was Re: security questions)

2000-10-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], sena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard that Jonathan Markevich wrote this on 29/10/00: However, writing one in C proved to be simple, and an afternoon's worth of fun. --(snip - false.c)-- int main() { return 1; } --(snip - false.c)-- 10 seconds writing

Re: Halt / Reboot: other user

2000-10-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pad=F3?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I run xdm as my x login manager and I would like to be able to reboot and halt from it (like kdm allows it). My idea was as follows: I created two new users, reboot and halt, whose .xsession only

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

2000-10-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like (to me) that making shutdown setuid root means anybody can shutdown the computer, from any location, as /etc/shutdown.allow is only checked when -a is passed. Am I wrong? No, that is correct. Shutdown wasn't really

Re: ypbind memory

2000-10-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Douglas Eck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know if it's normal for ypbind to spawn four daemons that eat up 16Mb of memory? It works fine... but seems like a lot of overhead. I'm running woody... From memstat: 4180k: PID 6497 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) 4180k: PID

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was Mutt's Editor

2000-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still use nvi on occasion 'cause it will show me ^M's in a file and it's easier to `nvi file` than to look up how to get vim to do it. ;- vim -b file (binary mode). Also handy to edit binaries to change hardcoded strings or

Re: ypbind problem

2000-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas Eck wrote: Anyone know if it's normal for ypbind to spawn four daemons that eat up 16Mb of memory? It works fine... but seems like a lot of overhead. I'm running woody... From memstat: 4180k: PID 6497

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ethan Vaughn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: Dear debian-users, The disk space for my root-partition is 40 MB, while I supplied 80 MB for my /var-partition. I would like to make a symbolic link from /tmp, which resides in the root

Re: How widely is Debian used for production?

2000-09-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Willson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeking help identifying installations that use Debian in production. Specifically, for database servers, and ideally for web sites that read from and write to a database. Cistron Internet and Cistron Telecom in the

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Billson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had very good luck with courier. Setting it up can be a little tricky especially with getting authentication to play nice. I do have a question. What is a good POP server to use with maildir mailboxes? I have few users

Re: shell program help wanted!

2000-09-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam Lazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use $(( )) ever since I found $[ ] and got used to using $( ) instead of ` ` Yes however $(( )) is Posix (posixized ksh-ism) and $[ ] is a bashism. $ ash $ echo $[2+3] $[2+3] $ echo $((2+3)) 5 Mikeism. -- Deadlock, n.:

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Christian Pernegger: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:19:23PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: There is a README in /etc/init.d for a reason, you know .. I fully understand that you as the Grand Master of the Debian init system might be annoyed by such a question, but why reply

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Oh well. According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:49:41 +0800 X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Sir/Madam Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box storage limit has

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Pernegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I uncommented the debug line in /etc/init.d/rc and noticed that all scrips in rc6.d / rc0.d were called with stop on shutdown _regardless of prefix_. Now I'm totally confused. Why don't you simply read the documentation?

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? The printer should have no problems with manpages. And if you use 'man -t blabla' you even get nice postscript output. When I do :r! man blabla in vi, I get funny

Re: re-exec init??

2000-09-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sep 1 23:03:26 debian init: Trying to re-exec init Isn't it true that init should only be started at boot time and when changing runlevels? Or have I misunderstood? What could bring about an attempt to restart it when the system is up and

Re: 'init s' froze keyboard forcing cold reboot

2000-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Geordie Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was experimenting with changing runlevels and exec'd 'telinit' from an non-login bash in xterm. When I used a number as an argument nothing happened. I used 's' and the keyboard froze. You are not supposed to use

Re: Debian site down?

2000-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Guettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:17:44AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Is the www.debian.org down for long? (do you know?) according to a mail in debian-dev until tomorrow morning. You can use one of the mirrors, ofcourse.

Re: Debian site down?

2000-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Geordie Birch: THUS SPAKE Miquel van Smoorenburg, on Sep 1: You can use one of the mirrors, ofcourse. www.country-code.debian.org doesn't work for the canadian one: http://www.ca.debian.org is in chinese. there are a lot of chinese speakers in canada but i don't think that's

Re: NIS - yppasswd not working right

2000-08-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nathan Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble with yppasswd in NIS. The setup is this: passwd, shadow, group, etc. files are in the /var/yp/ypfiles directory. Of course there are corresponding files in /etc on the ypserver, but they do not contain

Re: slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Usually it's a problem in the inclusion of nameservers (do you include localhost?), and the order directive in /etc/host.conf: order hosts,bind Host.conf isn't used with libc6 anymore (i.e. for the last 2 years). It's now

Re: non-packaged daemons

2000-08-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the correct way to get a non-packaged daemon (ie on I've compiled from source) to start on startup like the packages with an entry in /etc/init.d? Can I just add a file to here that does what I want? What about the rc.x

Re: Help needed

2000-08-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], USM Bish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The init process in debian does not differentiate levels from 2 to 5, as a consequence, I am forced to boot into x-windows thru xdm. I am presently bailing out to console using the /etc/init.d/xdm script with the option stop. I do

Re: Is newsgroup linux.debian.user broke ...

2000-08-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Mosley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the newsgroup linux.debian.user broke everywhere or just here? The linux.* hierarchy has been shut down a couple of years ago. But ofcourse once those groups exist it's hard to remove them on all news servers. Old

Re: questions about Exim

2000-07-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been playing with Exim fora while now, read the docs, looked at some of the examples and as yet, have not found a way to create or use virtual addresses on my server in the same way that apache can handle virt servers. Is this

Re: grep crashes machine

2000-07-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Pernegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just stumbled upon the following. If I do # cd / # grep -r * stuff it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning device

Re: shell script at boottime

2000-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the insight. Itmt I found a very easy way to set some parameters at boottime: I amended /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh and put hdparm and aumix entries at the bottom. Works fine. It works fine until sysvinit comes with a new

Re: libssl09 vs libssl095a

2000-07-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Whelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install libapache-mod-ssl, but am unable to for the following reason: libapache-mod-ssl depends on openssl and libssl09. openssl depends on libssl095a. libssl09 and libssl095a conflict with one another, making the

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harald Thingelstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First: The 10.x.x.x network range is, due to standard ip ranges, class A. You have used a subnet mask to divide it into 2^16 sub-ip-ranges, using four of them. So a simple solution might be (i've not actually done this) to

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Walter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to break in on this thread and being off-topic, but... CIDR is 10 years old! Anyone still thinking in class A and class C is probably still using COBOL too... sigh Excuse me, for butting in, but, all the documentation

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: snip Still, it's simply wrong. It's like assuming the sun revolves around the earth simply traveling along a weird path (remember Keplers equasions?). Kepler's equations were for the orbits

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harald Thingelstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to break in but.. Looking upon the earth as flat is a fine assumption if you're working on a small scale. And yes, it's rather popular to think of the earth as (approximately) round these days, but we may not always

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am finding the latter to be correct here. The '-a' arg to shutdown strikes me as not very useful, since the presence of a root login will circumvent whatever is in /etc/shutdown.allow. It would seem to me that it is precisely

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in /etc/shutdown.allow, none?) Simply don't use the -a switch then. I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Without the -a switch it's

Re: question on sysvinit

2000-06-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sven specification for this? Or does it simply not matter? :) AFAIK there's no written standard for this yet, but soon there will be (the Linux Standard Base). You can check their drafts. Read /etc/init.d/README and

Re: Can NIS go through firewall

2000-06-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're trying to get NIS to work arround here. When testing locally everything is ok, but we wan't it to work across two different networks and there is a firewall in between. We've tryed to open up the firewall but

Re: qpop and netscape clients

2000-05-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], deja luser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does any one know of problems using netscape mail clients with qpopper? Didn't see anything in bugtrack. The clients can read mail, but not send. Sending mail doesn't have anything to do with POP3 - SMTP is used for that. You

Re: how do I get high uid support

2000-05-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Draper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My group just recently switched to using 32-bit uids. My understanding was that kernel 2.4 would support that. Will support, when it gets released in a few months. Right now the 2.3.x series (and 2.4-test1) are still NOT

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Oswald Buddenhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have as my new mail program. RTFM! ;-) look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete config example. Or run 'eximconfig'. A

Re: squid maybe causing crash

2000-05-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just had my mail/internet server crash. It took a while for fsck to fix the problem... but most of the errors point to squid caching directories is there a connection here??? Well yes, squid is a process that has a lot of files open.

Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Ethan Benson: /me boggles, i have not heard of this one before, this is wacky! where can i find more info on this, and what uses/advantages it has? Try http://google.com/ and enter unix sparse files That returns e.g. http://www.nic.com/~cheah/hole.html Mike. -- Denial. It's not

Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else encountered this situation? Yes, almost everyone. I was looking at my /var/log directory and this popped out at me -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 18692964 May 17 04:19 lastlog I'm still tweaking a recent

Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else encountered this situation? Yes, almost everyone. I wonder how come no one in #linux knew about it? Too bad no one in #debian ever speaks

Re: mutt and courier-imapd

2000-05-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so the version you need is 0.32beta1. and look according to freshmeat you can download that version at: http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/courier-imap-0.31.32pre1.tar.gz so don't even bother with the patch, just recompile

Re: mutt and courier-imapd

2000-05-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian == Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian I did see one listed in Brian http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/63/63376.html, but doesn't it Brian doesn't apply cleanly to courier-imap-0.31 (probably Brian cutting

Re: /var/spool/popbull?

2000-05-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone knows what this and $HOME/.popbull are for? Read the manual page of qpopper, and read the docs in /usr/doc/qpopper/ ... it's all documented. Mike.

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 07:26:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Course if you're a burnt-out 60's druggie then it's pretty easy to guess that the song is Stairway to Heaven :) Ok, so who

Re: where is rc.local ?

2000-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: mathieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, i have seen that rc.d like on slackware doesn't exist, and that rc.* are directly in /etc. But where must i put my line command to be executed when the system boot ?? Like num

Re: NIS issues

2000-04-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Cabatoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting mail on some slink machines from cron jobs, e.g. the test -f /proc/modules /sbin/rmmod -a one. They contain the single line: yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer Anyone

Re: mod_ssl help

2000-03-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jaume Teixi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once time I've the package mod_ssl and openssl, where can I find the step by step procedure for build ssl on my apache ? Simply install the latest apache debian package and the latest libapache-mod-ssl debian package (available

Re: Support to UNIX Termcap system.

2000-02-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
gateway addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)

Re: Squid on Slink a little sick

2000-02-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
news2mail gateway addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)

Re: Samba upgrade, password issue

2000-02-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
are internal news2mail gateway addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)

Re: Primary and Secondary DNS one 1 server...

2000-01-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)

Re: Primary and Secondary DNS one 1 server...

2000-01-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to aphro: On 27 Jan 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: miquel That means that 50% of the people trying to reach one of those miquel sites saw an initial timeout of one minute when trying to resolve miquel a host in one of those domains when they tried to talk to the miquel non

Re: Debian equivalent of RH's rc.local?

2000-01-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:57:13PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net wrote: Put your one-time script links in /etc/rcS.d and the actual scripts in /etc/init.d. DO

Re: Debian equivalent of RH's rc.local?

2000-01-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. No, /etc/rcS.d scripts are definitely not executed every runlevel. There are READMEs in /etc/rcS.d and /etc/init.d. That's good advice, now follow it ;) Mike. -- The From: and Reply-To: addresses are internal news2mail gateway addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van

Re: That old /usr/include/linux linking thing...

2000-01-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
are internal news2mail gateway addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
: and Reply-To: addresses are internal news2mail gateway addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)

Re: must squid.conf be world-readable?

2000-01-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
the same as I outlined above (give read-access to the group only) Mike. -- There's a lot to be said for not saying a lot. -- The From: and Reply-To: addresses are internal news2mail gateway addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)

Re: [potato] rdate problem

1999-12-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
that rdate tries to connect to is not running (or firewalled off) on tock.usno.navy.mil, or that the entire system is unreachable. Mike. -- The From: and Reply-To: addresses are internal news2mail gateway addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing an SMTP / POP3 / Finger server that run on Linux M$ WinNT that support an unlimited number of users and that is not linked to system user accounts. It is written in C++ using gcc in Linux and Visual C++ in M$-Win and

Re: Why is /dev/console linked to /dev/tty0?

1999-11-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: recently, I wanted to use an Eterm as a substitute for xconsole. Eterm -C lets it listen to /dev/console. On Debian systems, however, /dev/console is linked to /dev/tty0: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 7 1999

Re: Why is /dev/console linked to /dev/tty0?

1999-11-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I lied when I said that I have a plain slink system: I compiled 2.2.x kernels myself, and not using a Debian package for this. Shame on me :-) Would the Debian kernel package have removed that link and created that

Re: Squid or DNS

1999-11-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I installed DNS and Squid in my server and when a client is browsing the web, sometimes the following error occurs and the client has to reload the page two or three times to load the

Re: qestion to squid?

1999-10-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Nixdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use Squid-Cache as http/ftp proxy. The problem is, that the currently running squid is very slow (128MB RAM, 2GB HDD). Squid should be very very fast on a machine like that. If it isn't something is wrong with the

Re: Stateful Packet - Firewall

1999-10-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul McHale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a Stateful packet inspection firewall for Linux (preferably debian) ? Well there is Sinus - http://www.sinusfirewall.org/ Never used it though Mike. -- First things first, but not necessarily in that order.

Re: HELP: Free space zero no matter what

1999-10-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 03:57:39PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: Okay, I'm back and running, and I figured out my problem. ext2 filesystems have reserved blocks, though I don't know what they're for. It seems only

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH faster and more stable

Re: minicom lockup

1999-10-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul McHale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bart, I had the same issue with minicom. It didn't exactly lockup for me, it would refuse to access the port. WDYM with refuse to access Or the port (device) would be unresponsive. Define unresponsive A few things to check:

Re: minicom lockup

1999-10-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bart Raatgerink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with minicom: I fire up minicom and do stuff (dialing). Then i quit. Now when i fire minicom up again it locks up Any ideas ?? How does it lock up. Can you be a bit more specific Mike. -- First things

Re: Hardware Clock to GMT instead of local time

1999-10-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jairo Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to change the line in /etc/default/rcS which states the CMOS clock configuration, haven't you? # Set GMT=-u if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT= if not. GMT=-u

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:18:26PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: I have the +:: line at the bottom of my passwd file, and all the yp tools work fine (e.g. 'ypmatch pauls passwd' brings up the right response.) Have you tried

Re: 8N2 communication?

1999-09-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gerhard Kroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: recently i had to configure a cisco isdn router, wich requieres 2 stopbits (at eight data and null parity bits) as communication parameters. the only communication programm avaliable on my 80mb deb2.1 was minicom, which didn't

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'd really like is some little daemon on the machine connected to the headless machine that watches and logs the serial port output, and that you could connect to whenever you wanted (access would be exclusive) to

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul McHale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you boot Linux without a video card installed ? I would have thought the BIOS would have had a problem with that ... Yup, works just fine. In fact, if you have the serial console support compiled in, the kernel will detect

Re: IMAP Interface

1999-09-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Cabatoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lots of them out there, you just gotta look. Horde's IMP is pretty mature from what I hear, but it's php based... Plus that it builds up and tears down a connection to the IMAP or POP3 server for *every damn page/click* which

Re: limiting NIS access

1999-09-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a method in limiting NIS access. Now every user who has account on Sun machine can log on to debian box with homedir=/ Don't put +::: in /etc/passwd, but list users individually: +miquels:::

Re: Mutt and NFS (reprise)

1999-09-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Obi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I know this topic already showed up on the mailing list but the solutions weren't really up to mu case: that is having the file on the local FS!! The situation is /home NFS mounted and mutt refusing to do anything to every file

Re: speaking of qpopper...

1999-09-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am finding these messages in my logs. I use Exim with fetchmail and qpopper. Debian Potato. Sep 6 22:35:19 lilypad in.qpopper[18514]: @localhost: -ERR Too few arguments for the auth command. So fetchmail is sending a command

Re: traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted

1999-09-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I tried to use traceroute and got the message: traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted This has happened only recently. I tried running the command as root, but got the same message. - Your traceroute binary

Re: Limited Bandwidth for Linux-router

1999-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alex V. Toropov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all, Need a quick answer for my boss about possibility to limit bandwidth for special kind of ip-traffic (for specific source/dest network) . Linux-box is gateway from LAN to Internet. So this limitation is needed on

Re: is malloc() reentrant ?

1999-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 17:41:01 -0400, Seong Hoon Kim wrote: is malloc() reentrant ? I strongly suspect it is. Read info libc 'Feature Test Macros' on how to compile for threadsafety. Thread safe and using from a

Re: PPP speeds; nice-ness

1999-08-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Seth R Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 07:01:14AM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: This prompts me to ask, is there a concept of niceness for TCP/IP connections? No it doesn't exist. How does apt arrange to have a priority, as apparently

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hwei Sheng TEOH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that certain messages are not recorded by dmesg: such as isapnp messages. (I've never been able to see the board ID and activated OK message in dmesg -- only on the console.) Anybody can explain why?? Yes. There are

Re: e2fsck w/out boot?

1999-08-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Guilherme Soares Zahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I was wondering if there' s a way to run e2fsck w/out booting the machine... I know I'd have to remount my / partition as read-only, run e2fsck remount the partition as rw, but I can't seem to be able to

Re: How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount

1999-08-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joseph Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've set up a more or less fool-proof Debian box for my parents for their word processing (WP8) and internet access needs. As I predicted when I first insisted that they use Linux, they hardly need to call me at all to fix

Re: rc?.d policy?

1999-08-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No Debian has no policy about runlevels, which is pretty strange if you ask me, they rejected a bug against policy on this issue. Nothing is stopping you from changing your own system around. But be aware that whenever you

Re: clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-08-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People think that the NIS package does far more than it actually does; the only thing it does is keeping an eye on the current nis server (ypbind). All NIS access

Re: clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-07-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Max: After upgrading to the new 3.3.3 version of nis in potato, I started getting the following errors when logging in or doing an su on nis client machines: yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out That's an error produces by glibc. I also upgraded to libc6 2.1.2 recently, but the

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Andrew MacIntyre: Source of both agetty and mgetty is available on all debian mirrors. Could you tell me where then please. AFAICT, getty is packaged as base/getty, however such a package appears not to exist, either source or binary. mgetty I found w/o any probs. It's in

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrei Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount script (it's the script that will get executed upon the shutdown to umount all the partitions). This should already be in place on a Debian

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew: I believe that this is exactly how lock files are supposed to work. When getty is active, it is using the serial port, and no other application should be able to access it. Well, yes, that's probbaly what it doesn, but

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