Re: Daemon rpc.nfsd dies / GLIBC bug

1998-11-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a known problem -- the problem has to do with a bug in the glibc code, and not rpc.nfsd. You have two options to avoid this bug. The first is to use the old rpc.nfsd from the bo distribution, which uses libc5 instead.

Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

1998-11-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward Ing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... And Debian has no equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. That's not completely true. Debian has an /etc/rcS.d/ which is a general equivalent to rc.local. No, it is something COMPLETELY

Re: Debian Linux 2: shutdown unmounts unclean!

1998-11-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sebastian Canagaratna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I recently upgraded to Debian Linux 2: the upgrade at home went smoothly, but I had a problem at office. I seem to be solving most problems, but this one I do not understand: When I shutdown with shutdown -h

Re: yp libs?

1998-11-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daryl Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: folks, i am trying to find a yp library (for linux) to link against. specifically i am looking for the following functions: yp_get_default_domain yperr_string yp_match any ideas, tips, faqs, rtfms (with a pointer to the fm)

Re: upgrading libc6

1998-12-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to upgrade libc6 from 2.0.7t to 2.0.7u to use apt and wine. But when I type: dpkg -i libc6_2.0.7u-6.deb , it prompts libc6 conflicts with sysvinit ( 2.75) sysvinit (version 2.72-3) is installed. dpkg: error processing

Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard L. Alhama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: seems like I'm in big trouble here. I've experimented update-rc.d and now init doesn't know it's runlevel. Well, I can boot but when I issue reboot it coughs up something like: couldn't determine runlevel... doing soft

Re: shutdown -r instead of reboot? (was Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:33:53 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Besides, it is good practice to use shutdown -r now instead of reboot. Or just press ctrlaltdel, because then init just calls the command shutdown -r now

Re: less shows fortune

1998-12-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stef Hoesli Wiederwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I put these lines echo \n fortune -a echo in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc, less gives me a fortune and the newlines instead of the contents of a file: sos:~ less ei The two party system ... is a triumph

Re: Serial consoles

1998-12-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shane Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted here a few months ago about getting the Debian installation process to work on a serial console over a null modem connection to a vt100 terminal. Someone replied suggesting I replace the linux image provided with a

Re: Learning about/modifying drivers

1998-12-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a crash course on Linux drivers. I'm frustrated with the fact that the driver for SCSI CD-ROMs doesn't allow direct access to audio tracks. Well, it does. I've created my own audio CDs under Linux. You just need the right

Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?

1998-12-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running system doesn't work very

Re: NIS and /etc/hosts

1998-12-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I get the most bizarre problem with NIS. If I put ypserver 192.168.1.2 in /etc/yp.conf everything works just fine. If I put ypserver mynishost in there, I get lots of YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound errors. Sounds

Re: Suck/INN Configuration Problem: Can't Post

1999-01-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerry Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get inn to stop putting references to every article it receives from suck (via innxmit) in /var/spool/news/out.going so that rpost won't try to post it back to my ISP? You need to put the Path: header element of your

Re: What tools are useful for script debugging?

1999-01-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, folks The subject says it all. Depends on the script language. With plain shell scripts I use sh -x script to debug. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

Re: libodbc PostGres SQL

1999-01-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jose Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm using the Postgres SQL database under Debian, and would like to convert my machine in a Database server. I would like to serve other machines which run under Win9x . One solution for this is via odbc. However,

Re: sysvinit: rc vs. r2d2 bahavior

1999-01-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland Rosenfeld wrote: Another question about runlevels: Is there any chance to preserve locally preserved changes? For example I changed the links (in reality I use runlevel.conf instead but this doesn't matter) to

Re: Fwd: xfs_force_shutdown(md(9,0),0x8) called from line 1070 of file xfs_trans.c.

2004-01-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], alberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we're having nasty problems an our new raid on a linux box: When performing hevy i/o (in present case was scp -r), the disks get disconnected with this kernel message: - Dec 3 15:55:34 machine sshd(pam_unix)[1791]: session

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention the fact that the US is following more than one thread by being by far the largest donor of aid to poorer nations Google for foreign aid usa denmark netherlands and you'll find things like

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:29:02PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention the fact that the US is following more than one thread by being by far

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

2004-01-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:53:43PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: Configuration: Internet with smarthost Append .domain? No Smtp relay host? My ISPs smtp server Final destination domains? default choices ---Force synchronous

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-01-30 09:03:28 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Exim does not need an MDA and has its own user-level filtering. But the man page is far from being clear and incomplete (compared to the procmail man pages). First, what

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-01-30 18:34:17 +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: See http://www.exim.org/ . Click on Documentation and FAQs. There are several things I don't like: You're probably right on most of those, exim filtering isn't

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:21:46AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2004-01-30 14:57:37 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: Aha, that explains why the 2nd message worked: I have a mutt rule that adds the correct From for list-replies. I

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the expectation of the System V init system is that every service have either an S or a K symlink in each runlevel. If there is no symlink for a service in a particular runlevel then the behavior of sysv's invoke-rc.d

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-02-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg miquels () cistron ! nl wrote in part: A thought just hit me. What if we added a update-rc.d name enable|disable command? This has already been wished for. See sysv-rc wish #214757 No, that's not what I

Re: Missing /var/log/wtmp

2004-02-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cheryl Homiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am running debian unstable. I seem to be missing /var/log/wtmp from my system. I have searched debian and found no file by that name in the package contents searches. I searched google; I did find some correspondence on

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on Etch. If your PC is fast enough, why not use dosbox instead. It uses cpu-emulation

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: help: clock resets on reboot

1999-05-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My clock resets when I reboot, pretty much at random. Doesn't matter how long it's been off; when I check in the CMOS before it boots, it's still right. But sometime between when lilo loads and I get a login prompt, it sets,

Re: fstab, nfs

1999-05-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johan Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have put this string in my fstab: localhost:/win/dir /ftp/site/dir nfs But it does not work! (I can mount when type mount -t nfs localhost:/win/dir /ftp/site/dir) NFS mounting through fstab is done very early in

Re: getting around a firewall?

1999-06-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a little dilemma.  My work PC (windoze) is on a (gov't) network.  The firewall blocks all ports save http, ftp, telnet, and maybe a few others  -- ssh is most certainly blocked.   I want to be able to securely connect to a remote

Re: qpopper error message

1999-06-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, mail.mattyt.net(doma) is running slink with qpopper installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] can retrieve their mail just fine, but when they do, xconsole says: Jun 13 00:33:22 doma in.qpopper[710]: connect

Re: POP3 server

1999-06-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Varga Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't use qpopper version 2.51 since it has security holes in it. there is a qpopper 2.3 debian package in stable, contact the maintainer to know whether it has fixes to close the sechole, if it is not fixed, then try to use the

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: Johann Spies wrote: I got this message after recompiling my kernel and I cannot find out what is causing it. I have a single computer that uses a dialup ppp connection to the ISP. Before the error message in the

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Johann Spies: On 26 Jun 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: It also says (because of request_module[block-major-22]) that IDE disk support was not compiled into the kernel, which ofcourse poses a small problem if the root file system is on an IDE disk. Thanks Mike

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to David Teague: Device with major 22 and minor 2 is /dev/hdc2 My reason for jumping in is to ask: Will somebody please tell me What the 16 in 16:02 means? 0x16 == 22 Mike. -- Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.

Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?

1999-06-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, this is getting nonsensical. First, you tell me that the reason that [rant deleted] Why can't you simply use -I/usr/src/linux/include if you need those specific kernel includes. Mike. -- Beware of Programmers who

Re: POP3 server

1999-07-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Leszek Gerwatowski: On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 04:04:23PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Most of the 2.4 and early 2.5 qpopper packages had a license that made it impossible to include it with Debian, so Debian shipped with a fixed 2.3 instead. Now with latest version

Re: Squid hogging memory with children

1999-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded Squid (to 2.1.2-1, the newest in stable). It's started to spawn a bunch of (16) child processes that consume a lot of my memory. Despite my best efforts with the config file, I can't change the number of

Re: RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gordon Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theres lots of excellent reasons to want to do it though. Eg. I want to copy a file to a dozen other Linux boxes and now I have to use scp which is a lot slower than rcp. Recently I had to move 20GB's of data from one machine

Re: squid question

1999-07-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there anyway to rebuild the index file swap.log.0 file from the actual cache?? We have accidentally removed the swap file, and we still have 32GB of cache... we don't want to waste all of that... I think

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

Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Andrew MacIntyre: As I was used to agetty and minicom cooperating nicely on an ancient Slackware box, I expected this to work on this much more recent Debian box sigh. That is because that worked with the cua/ttyS devices (kernel based locking between dialin/dialout) which has

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: '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: 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: /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: /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?.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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: /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: 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: 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: 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: /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.

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