Re: Security newbie?

Art Edwards wrote: I've been running debian @ home and @ work, for years, had no indication of attacks. Over the last few days, my iptables firewall seemed simply to stop. I checked my auth log file to find many, many attempts to break in. My firewall was very simple. I have since added rules

cheap scsi card recomendation

I've about 20 of old netserver lpr machines that have the old megaraid raid card. The kernal has dropped support for these cards. I'm tired of dealing with it. Can someone recomend a card that will work well with a stock debian that I might find on ebay? The drives are ultra3 18g (only raid

samba ldap howto

Looking for a fairly current debian samba ldap pdc howto.. The ones I find for sarge and/or etch all say at the top. This document is not yet finished.. :) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by RCRnet, and is believed to be clean. -- To

squid socks ssh connection

Looking for some thoughts... I've got a satellite connection from home. I use a debian server for squid, files etc. I'd like to use ssh to connect to the T1 at work and have my home squid use this to connect to the internet. (Trying to bypass the Hughes proxy we're all on) So, my question is:

raid card

better? Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358- Proud ChannelVar member! www.ChannelVar.com

Smtp auth

I may set postfix to use my isp for outgoing? Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358- Proud ChannelVar member! www.ChannelVar.com

RE: suggestions on site management

suggestions. I got a suggestion of Drupal from a gentleman on this list. It looks MUCH more friendly with MUCH better documentation etc... Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358-

suggestions on site management

suggestions. Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358-

RE: suggestions on site management

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:26:27AM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: I need a site management tool to control group permissions, logons etc. I've installed and run postnuke, however, it seems to be a management nightmare. Not friendly at all. Very confusing. Am looking for alternatives

samba domain controller

It may be I'll need to join a samba group, but I thought I may get a quick answer. Am attempting to do a test install of samba as a primary domain controller. I can see the shares and navigate them. However, when I attempt to join the domain, WinXP says username could not be found. I have a root

samba domain controller

It may be I'll need to join a samba group, but I thought I may get a quick answer. Am attempting to do a test install of samba as a primary domain controller. I can see the shares and navigate them. However, when I attempt to join the domain, WinXP says username could not be found. I have a

samba domain controller suggestions

Would like suggestions on setting up a preferably debian domain controller. In particular, good tools, gui's, to manage it. Or should I look at something differant like sme server? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone

Re: Recommended Firewalls

# client icmp ftp ssh smtp dns http https pop3 althttp rsync webmin dhcpclient accept client all accept -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

debian friendly hot-swap tray for sata

Looking for a internal hotswap tray for sata drives that is debian friendly. Suggestions before I buy?? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: script execution on the machine when its boots

in with a space before it. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why do I bother?

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recipe program

Is there not a recipe program in the debian repositories. Trying to get wife hooked. :) -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

install grub to second hard drive after raid installation

/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-686-smp (recovery mode) root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686-smp root=/dev/md0 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686-smp savedefault boot /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb -- Highest Regards, Rodney

Re: help with Debian

coding, plus it has dialog windows for developing CSS files and other various items like tables or forms. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

]; } # Shorten the line to restart a service function restart{ /etc/init.d/$@ restart; } -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Backing up Windows using rsync

a piece of software that exists on the NET that does what I'm doing better and I should trying to re-invent the wheel? :-) rsnapshot should do it. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Testing and Flash plugin trouble

on those sites stupid enough to require it. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

. and the alias command works under root and my user account both.. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: k3b in etch?

Joseph Smidt wrote: It looks like k3b has been sitting in unstable never moving to testing. Is k3b going to be in Etch or is Debian holding it back for a reason? I just did a new install on a machine a few minutes ago and took it up to testing. The upgrade removed amerok and k3b.

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

is beyond me. You get caught in a loop. Cause's much grief from those upgrading.. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

dependency hell dist-upgrade the right way

upgrading as I have lately. Testing and unstable both seem to have some problems.. Anyone do a fresh install the last week or two that's worked for them? Hints? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358-

what program to use kjots?

? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: squid related question

.. http://www.virtualmin.com/support/documentation/thebookofwebmin/ch12.html#sqtutsettingup --- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

group callander program

to sync from offsite locations. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: group callander program

Rodney Richison wrote: I find many programs as I'm googling for a simple callendar program. Would like advice on what you guys find usefull. I seen thunderbird callendar. kdepim These are easy to install. Work with a group. What would you use to connect in a multi-platform 10-user

Debian install fixes

wants to mess with compiling kernels every time they do a upgrade... As usual. Suggestings are welcome. Maybe I'm missing something... - -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

change from ide to scsi drive keep system

I've seen asked before and googling does not help. Here's how I just switched over a server from ide to a compag dl380 with smart array 3200 scsi card. Install base system on target machine. Install webmin On running server, install webmin. go to system/file-system backup make a backup to the

ultra320 controller suggestions

I'd like to get some suggestions for some ultra320 controllers that are very debian friendly for purchase from ebay. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

move debian to another machine

will now be /dev/sda rather than /dev/hda so I'm looking for thoughts on the easiest way to handle this. The new machine has debian sarge freshly installed already if this helps. Maybe use tar and exclude the grub directory? Thoughts? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http

suggestions for small library

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Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

to migrate apps complete with your customized configs to your new box (or to a fleet of new boxes). -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

manually run e2fsck

My system wants me to run e2fsck manually. How to do this in debian? The machine boots and runs fine. S, with grub, can I boot somehow not mounted and run e2fsck without a rescue cd? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020

Re: fstab problem

Bill Marcum wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: Rodney Richison wrote: Can any tell me why this works manually mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive But this in fstab does not work /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive ext2defaults 1 1

Re: fstab problem

I don't think this came up in the thread, but does it show up in dmesg at all? It should theoritcally show up a the same time as all the other disks Posting relevant portion of dmesg below...It seems it finds hdc ok. But maybe not in time before it runs fsck maybe? .

compaq dl380 howto

, when grub says your partition may be corrupt or invalid, edit the grub entry to say hd0, not hd1 After install, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to read hd0 permanantly -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358-

fstab problem

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Re: fstab problem

Rodney Richison wrote: Can any tell me why this works manually mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive But this in fstab does not work /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive ext2defaults 1 1 or this /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive ext2defaults 0 0 or this /dev/hdc1

vnc repeater

Is there a vnc repeater available on linux(debian) like the ultravnc repeater? For customer support... And,,, this is probably a question in the ultravnc forum, but can you connect to a repeater using linux xvncviewer? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N

Re: vnc repeater

Joseph H. Fry wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2005 1:15 pm, Rodney Richison wrote: Is there a vnc repeater available on linux(debian) like the ultravnc repeater? For customer support... And,,, this is probably a question in the ultravnc forum, but can you connect to a repeater using linux

remote desktop

What method would be good to control windows machines from my linux machine. Windows remote desktop sucks. Though it's easy to setup with tsclient on my debian box. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358-

Re: remote desktop

Jan Grant wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Rodney Richison wrote: What method would be good to control windows machines from my linux machine. Windows remote desktop sucks. Though it's easy to setup with tsclient on my debian box. You don't explain which features of windows remote

simple console menu

I would like to make a simple console menu for a script I'm writing. While I see things like pdmenu, I'd like this menu to show up on a plain vanila new debian base install with now gui. Do you guy's know of some simple examples I might look at to accomplish this? -- Highest Regards, Rodney

gui network scan

What gui program might be good for scanning a network to take an inventory of machines and ip address's etc on a network? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

fstab mount at boot

it -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fstab mount at boot

: Capability LSM initialized -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

backup plan bare metal

metal. Though when it works, it's the cat's meow.. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bash script

to make this script non-dependant of other text files. export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto' eval `dircolors` alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS -F' alias ll='ls $LS_OPTIONS -l' alias l='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lA' -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020

Re: bash script

Almut Behrens wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:33:03PM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: Am trying to automate some stuff for future installs. I'd like to echo multiple lines to the end of a file. Like this echo '. /etc/bash_completion' ~/.bashrc But I'd like to add multiple lines at one

Re: netserver lpr debian nightmare

/lib/modules? Mondo sure helps on this sort of thing. :) -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

move from ide to scsi

- not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Do you think it may be because the megaraid I did with modprobe rather than build add it to the kernel which I don't know how to do yet? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358-

rack servers debian friendly

be more friendly to debian? IBM, dell? or what? Or should I just resign myself to keep rolling my own :) -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: rack servers debian friendly

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Intelligent Pro Adapter driver

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sarge usb hard drive rsync problem

] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(420) umount: /mnt/usbdrive: device is busy -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

samba open share

= rodney guest ok = yes force user = rodney hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0 hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.0/24 public = yes browsable = yes -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358-

Re: samba open share

Ron Peterson wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:42:53PM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: I'm having trouble getting samba to quit asking for a name and password on an open share. How may I do this without affecting the other shares that do have name and password verification? The below

rysync laptop

I'm a bit confused, I want to be able to sync my laptop from anywhere in the world to my desktop but want the newest file from whichever to overwrite the other. Can rsync do this? I see -auv switch should work. Is it a reliable way to accomplish this? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison

ipv6 over ipv4 hang when guarddog enabled

At boot, debian unstable hangs at ipv6 over ipv4 tunneling driver when guarddog is enabled. Help! :) -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

debian based compatible distros

they should be called, pre-tweaked debian distros.. :) Suggestions? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

sarge install grub problem

-rom hooked to the ide ports.) Ideas? BTW, I suggested putting the drive on the regular ide port, but he'd like to keep both cd's on separate ide ports... He's hard headed. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358-

weird time problem

Bran new machine. I'll try to describe the problem with the time. The logs are not helpfull because I cannot determine what happens first, the time going back to 1901 or 1938 (it differs) Or Courier imap screaming the .Maildir doesn't exit (which it clearly does) or it doesn't have permission.

Re: Cloning a workstation

Dave Ewart wrote: Partimage certainly works very well. You can create a bootable CD which (assuming your image fits on a CD) you can use to install your image. If the image is larger, you can use it across the network. Run partimage daemon on one box, then boot up your unconfigured box(es)

install HTML Parser

Is there a debian way to install this rather than cpan? cpan install HTML::Parser Just curious -- Highest Regards, *Rodney Richison [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]* *RCR Computing www.rcrcomputing.com http://www.rcrcomputing.com/* *PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway* *Cleveland, OK 74020

kdm logout

I've got two machines with mepis which loads to kde. At the logout prompt, I get the choice to Logout, reboot, or shutdown. I see gnome has this also. I've found kdm so irritating, I boot to a prompt now and the startx for kde. Much less frustrating. Got a clue how I might duplicate that

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

machine. -- Rodney Richison [EMAIL PROTECTED] 118 N. Broadway PO Box 566 Cleveland, OK 74020 RCR Computing - RCRnet http://www.rcrnet.net tel: 918-358- fax: 918-358-1112 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

for techs/consultants. (ChannelVar.com) They are a VERY qualified bunch of guys. (Admittedly not linux users though) :) The preferred method is top posting. The preferred format is to allow html. -- Rodney Richison [EMAIL PROTECTED] 118 N. Broadway PO Box 566

Re: grub problem

I attempted a repair floppy last night. It didn't work out real well. Ahhh, for a command like sys a::) Novel idea... Anyway here's what I did for future google searches. Maybe it'll help someone someday. How to Repair Grub boot loader after debian ghost restore I booted with mepis (Any

grub problem

-install Since I used the sarge netinst, I seem to have no rescue cd. :( Would someone mind giving me a simply way, on this system, to get grub back? BTW, in the future, if I'm not dual booting, do I need a boot loader? -- Rodney Richison [EMAIL PROTECTED] 118