Re: Cisco logs to Debian-3.0 server problems..

2003-07-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Family, Been having a hell of a time trying to figure out why a (x86) Debian-3.0 box will do remote logging for other Linux boxes but will not log for a Cisco router. The same setup worked in the past with another

Re: how to deny CTRL-ALT-DEL

2003-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 July 2003 09:44, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: Hi, small question. How can i deny a CTRL-ALT-DEL when i am on the login screen ? This question because I have a server and some technician who had to work on

Re: Dpkg without sysv-rc

2003-07-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ahmed Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, one more question, by a strange set of circumstances, I have sysvinit (testing version), initscripts (testing version) installed, but didn't install sysv-rc (testing version) at the same time. How is that possible?

Re: Squid - a bit off-topic

2001-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They now wonder if this same group on the PDC server can be used with Squid for the same purpose without dismantling that magnificent :-( NT server or - which is worst - duplicate list of users? Any suggestion? The Debian squid

Re: mod_ssl vs. apache-ssl

2001-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Sackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With something as important as apache, I'd *alway* suggest compiling it from source. Along with OpenSSL, and mod_ssl, then follow the instructions, and it should work fine. Well, we run quite a few webservers here at Cistron

Re: ext2 filesystem

2001-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:06:27PM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote: | Hi All, | I'm looking for a filesystem to put on a some-what embedded system. I | was considering ext2 but IIRC there is a minimum 4K file size. Does I think that is a

Re: pine and Maildir

2001-07-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a box with exim, qpopper and imapd for email services. Users can read email through pine, IMP/Horde, or pop3. I would like the change over to Maildir format, using lower footprint servers,

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DvB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only other similar problem I can think of is vmware related. There's also the possibility that they're thinking about DHCP. A number of admins can tell stories of the time someone was trying

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], User zos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since debian offers so many lists to look at and to subscribe to, why not have the name of the list appear in the subject automatically? For instance this list would be: [Deb-User] Subject Not again .. Mike. -- dselect has a user

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timo \Blazko\ Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, I am using ssh/scp and NFS for syncing data between my woody desk and my FreeBSD thing. My question: is there a distributed fs that combines the advantages of both techs? A google search for crypto

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, yeah. I'm not worried about congestion on my home LAN, I was just curios about (theoretical) reliability knowing it used UDP. To give you a perspective: Lots of people run mission critical stuff over NFS and have done so for

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

2001-07-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could further limit your rules by specifying the source address of you cable modem provider, something like: -A INPUT -p icmp -s provider.cable.net -j ACCEPT Just figure out from your logs what ip address(es) they use

Re: Force viewing of web page

2001-07-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matheson Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing this thing on my network, and I was told that I need to find a way to force people to view our webpage everytime they log onto the network (or use the internet, to be more specific). Anyway, I was wondering if

Re: exim won't relay mail

2001-07-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I setup exim on my system this weekend, but it's not working quite right. I had a school assignment to create a simple smtp client so I setup exim so I could test it without blocking the phone line. exim delivers locally just fine.

Re: exim won't relay mail : FIXED

2001-08-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added dman: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /etc/email-addresses and now the envelope-from is valid (for me anyways). I would need to add a similar line for all other users on my system, if they were to send emails. I always recommend

Re: shutdown permission to users?

2001-08-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Kalusha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I give my users or a group permision to shutdown and halt the machine? I have added /etc/shutdown.allow containing the users names, as per Running Linux 3rd Ed. page 77. (I seperated the names with newlines.) That is

Re: shutdown permission to users?

2001-08-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another idea, as you all have physical access: map either CTRL ALT DEL or ALT UPARROW to the shutdown command. For the first solution, in /etc/inittab (as root): # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.

Re: Exim catch-all recipient

2001-08-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brooks R. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Okay, I give up. I've RTFM. I've tried. I've played. How do you get Exim to redirect mail from an unknown non-user to a given account instead of bouncing it. I need a catch-all recipient, and I can't

Re: Help - Large Files Support

2001-08-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dmitriy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:15:18PM +1000, CaT wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:04:02PM -0700, Dmitriy wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:08:27PM +1200, David McNab wrote: Can someone please point me in the right direction for

Re: Help - Large Files Support

2001-08-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After installing the 2.4 kernel do an apt-get -b source glibc in a work directory and then install what's spewed out. :) Two questions: 1. Does the 2.4 kernel allow larger file by default or do

Re: kernel 2.4.x

2001-08-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Akintayo Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oren Gozlan wrote: any info about kernel 2.4.x ? any one have tried it ? THNX Yes, I tried it with testing and it messed up my modem config, it also does not allow my local filesystems to unmount at shutdown. Note

Re: rlogin delays

2001-08-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:44:06PM +, Iain Smith wrote: DNS lookups? Pam is the whinger... No it probably isn't Aug 29 19:15:57 angel rlogind[392]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_cracklib.so) Aug 29 19:15:57

Re: Whence ypchfn?

2001-08-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just discovered that the debian nis package doesn't include the ypchfn or ypchsh commands. According to man yppasswd, it appears that these should just be symlinks to yppasswd. Is this correct? If so, shouldn't the links

Re: /dev/log

2001-08-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Could anyone enlighten me as to what type of file /dev/log is? ls -l gives the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/include/linux$ ls -l /dev/log srw-rw-rw-1 root root0 Aug 29 08:54

Re: Why is it called extended filesystem

2001-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is the native filesystem of Linux called Extende filesystem ? Linux originally came with (a clone of ) the Minix filesystem. Then some people developed the Extended File System. I'm not sure who they were, but probably Remi Card and

Re: Native filesystem of SCO Unix

2001-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By what name is the native filesystem of SCO Unix known as ? If I remember correctly EAFS Mike. -- Answering above the the original message is called top posting. Sometimes also called the Jeopardy style. Usenet is Q A not A Q. -- Bob

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin F Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, why does the following not work: tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep something | while read i; do myprog $i; done It's because grep uses stdio, and it buffers the output at some blocksize (1K / 4K / 16K or something) before

Re: OT - blocking mail from specific email addresses

2001-09-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would be grateful if any of the assembled could advise me or point me to docs to find out what syntax to use in the exim.conf to block email from specific email addresses. Look up sender_reject. Note that that works on the

Re: logrotate wtmp,btmp,lastlog

2001-09-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that the stock /etc/logrotate.conf includes explicit configurations for wtmp and btmp after this comment: # no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here Until recently, this file included a rotator for

Re: extending yppasswd max password length?

2001-09-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric Boo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using sid's nis package. I noticed that when changing a password using yppasswd, it seems to truncate the password, even if one keys in a password that consists of say 12 characters. So after the password is changed (password =

Re: About NFS -NIS

2001-03-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a Debian potato as my LAN server (proxy,DNS) and I want to configure it as a NFS+NIS server. I want my server has all my user account instead to have all the user account repeated in all my workstations. I know

Re: initial console

2001-03-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], pplaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after getting a kernel panic, as a result of trying to boot a custom kernel (2.2.18), i managed to fsck dev/hda1 (using a rescue floppy). when i try to boot via lilo, i can't open an initial console: fs: mounted root (ext2 filesystem)

Re: Envelope-To header in Exim

2001-03-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Liam Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of turning on Exim's feature whereby it adds an Envelope-To header to indicate the local address that caused the delivery. I want to do this because I use several mail addresses and when someone sends me something (e.g.

Re: NIS Server can not work in unstable?

2001-03-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], phinex hung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using unstable with kernel 2.4.2. I try to setup my NIS server all day long, but still can solve my problem. (It is a easy task when I using Redhat. ) It appears that the latest libc6 in unstable breaks NIS. So in this case,

Re: should /var/spool/mail/ have a the sticky bit set? ...

2001-04-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem is you updated to the mailx package in security.debian.org, the old one had a security hole that allowed users to get gid=mail. since mailx's code is a pile of crap as far as security is concerned debian (and some

Re: Boot parameters

2001-04-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shawn Garbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want a script to be executed once at boot time, (i.e to do /sbin/hdparm setting). Where would this go? If I use a command like update-rc.d foo.sh default 19, then it would be executed at all init levels and at all changes

Re: Maildir POP3 server

2001-04-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, anyone know of a POP3 server capable of serving out of $HOME/Maildir/ and which isn't part of qmail? The Courier mailsystem comes with an IMAP and POP3 server that do Maildir. In the unstable distribution there's a

Re: init / rc0.d

2001-01-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Benjamin Pharr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously I was running Slackware, so I'm used to the BSD style of init, however Taking a look at the symlinks in rc0.d in appears that S35networking would be starting up the network. Not quite. Runlevel 0 means halt.

Re: init process directory

2001-01-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: earlier i inquired about running a process via inittab with an owner other than root. the suggestion of 'su - myuser -c mycommand' did the job very well. i now have a similar question. i want to run the same process but i want the process

Re: minicom

2001-01-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Xucaen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I did not. what does -s do? I could find any documentation. Hmm? Did you do man minicom ? Mike.

Re: Hi, how can I disalow ping request on my domain / ip apache web server ?

2001-01-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Willi Dyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to deny icmp (ping to say it your words :)) requests add an ipchain rule similar to this one: $IPCHAINS -A input -p icmp -s $REMOTENET -d $REMOTENET -j DENY (denieing icmp requests from the internet) Never *EVER* do this. ICMP

Re: du and df not in sync?

2001-01-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Olof Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know the answer to this question for sure but in UNIX in general you can have files with holes in them. If you create a file and move the file position pointer 2 billion steps forward and write one byte your file will be

Re: du and df not in sync?

2001-01-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the du and df report quite a different amounts of data on my root partition: jojda:/home/erik# du -s -h -x / 110M/ jojda:/home/erik# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 1.0G

Re: /etc/netgroups format.

2001-01-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick questions regarding /etc/netgroups and nis. In a previous life (using solaris) it was possible to have a netgroup file like.. 8- hostgroup1 (host1,,) (host2,,) hostgroup2

Re: port scare

2001-02-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 08:11:23PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): PortState Protocol Service 22 opentcpssh 111 opentcp

Re: [OT]: UUCP

2001-02-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joris Lambrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UUCP stands for Unix-to-Unix-CoPy I've used it nearly 8 yrs ago in a specific situation, even then it was considered out-dated. I figure it's mostly replaced by TCP/IP on all devices. From what i remember (did not use it

Re: rc.local

2001-02-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David B. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To quote Vittorio De Martino [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Having experience of Linux RedHat, is there anyone out there able to tell me # where is the equivalent of the rc.local file in Debian and where can I find # it? There's

Re: [OT] What is he talking about ? - debian and kernel headers

2001-02-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just read an article at - http://linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2001-02/lw-02-penguin_4.html about apt-get. The article was all right for the most part but at the end of the article is a link - Discuss this article in the LinuxWorld.com

Re: RADIUS Proxy

2001-06-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am hoping someone can help me out with RADIUS. What radius server are you running (radiusd -v) ? Mike.

Re: Init not behaving the way man says it does?

2001-06-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in february of 2000 (when the manpage for init was last tweaked, from what i can tell) init may have operated they way it's describe there. but the way it works on debian potato is that it calls a script (/etc/init.d/rc) that

Re: Hiding init 1 safely

2001-11-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:29:00AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear members , Is there any safe way , whereby , I can hide init 1 from all others who access my mac ? It sounds like you're trying to secure against

Re: nis problem on woody

2001-11-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dariush Forouher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a small problem with nis on woody: at shutdown the network-deconfiguration takes about three minutes. This occurs only if nis is somewhere in /etc/nsswitch.conf The nis-server (192.168.0.1) runs with potato. the

Re: nis problem on woody

2001-11-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Dariush Forouher: On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: The above messages would be generated if networking was shutdown while there were still active NFS mounts.. are you doing NFS? Yes, but these messages have nothing to do with my problem. They disappear, if I

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously Emil Pedersen wrote: If program want to use lsf, do they need to use other syscall names (e.g. fseek64() instead of fseek(), ...)? I assume that's the case and necessary for compatibility. No, glibc does that

Re: Ext3fs and fsck

2001-11-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's precisely the above warnings that make me rather nervous of using ext3 (though I have it on all my filesystems at the moment, mainly to cope with the frequent lockups I am experiencing, for unknown reasons). The

Re: Ext3fs and fsck

2001-11-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paolo Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok... I've done remounting root as read-only compared to deleting the journal. It's much easier to delete the .journal file (since you can have it reinstalled with the tune2fs command) but it's quite Deleting the .journal file

Re: NIS and device permissions

2001-11-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], francisco m neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm implementing a NIS at work and some issues about device permissions ocurred to me. I'm willing to give permission to users to use the sound hardware on the local machines. However, due to

Re: NIS and device permissions

2001-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], francisco m neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: » Miquel van Smoorenburg disse isso e eu digo aquilo: I'm willing to give permission to users to use the sound hardware on the local machines. However, due to the fact that they are registered users only

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Josh Everist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I can take responsibility for the messages from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', however if the Debian User mailing list didn't send out viruses in the first place, there wouldn't be the automated reply. The same goes for the YODA

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Most of these boil down to the TCP/IP stack. The *BSD stack is damned good, and the rest of the world drools after it. Linus himself admits that Linux kernel networking code is a mess, and that he's not personally a

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to ben: all of this garbage is coming across european servers (ecrc.net and cistron.nl--use dig, ping, traceroute, etc., to verify this. What, garbage coming from cistron.nl? Are you out of your mind? check the mail headers for appropriate addresses). i vote for a universal ping

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption) [BANDAID]

2001-11-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Veit Waltemath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 10:11:06AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: 2.4.15: FS corruption on EXT2 Only on EXT2 or on all fs, i'm using EXT3. All filesystems. The broken versions are

Re: BSD inet services?

2001-11-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], craig duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to enable rlogin/rcp etc on a debian box i have running woody/2.2.19. This should be very easy, thinks i, but going to inetd.conf i find: #:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols. and that is all. I make my

Re: /etc/init.d/rc.2 command not found....

2001-12-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Problem I run into after I installed a HPT370 driven Card, details can be found in my other post (HPT370 and other problems), I had to install a new Kernel with umda-100 patched with A. Hedrick, I got that Kernel and

Re: /etc/init.d/rc.2 command not found....

2001-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Josef Oswald: Checking the whole thing during boot-up I found that the error message is actually: /etc/init.d/rc:2: command not found also I have some other (linux and winXX partitions) which are mounted automatically during boot up, and I get a error to check it

Re: /etc/init.d/rc.2 command not found....

2001-12-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first startup call +startup /etc/rc2.d/S10ipchains + ´[` N '!=' N ´]´ What is this -- ´ -- character ? In iso-8859-1, which is the charset you're using in this message it's a z with a ~ above it. That is what I see. +

Re: /etc/init.d/rc.2 command not found....

2001-12-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Andreas Fjogstad Brandstadmoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg, What is this -- ´ -- character ? In iso-8859-1, which is the charset you're using in this message it's a z with a ~ above it. That is what I see. In ISO-8859-1 (which I use

Re: /etc/init.d/rc.2 command not found....

2001-12-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I think I know what's happening. Something is setting the debug environment variable to 2. Could you edit /etc/init.d/rc and put 'debug=' at the top? I think that might fix it. I'm not sure what exactly sets the

Re: mount --bind and fstab

2001-12-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Ferlatte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I can't figure out is how to mount tmpfs on /dev/shm, and then do the equivilent of mount --bind /dev/shm /tmp in /etc/fstab. I think this should do it: none/dev/shmtmpfs defaults0

Re: NIS broken in debian 2.2?

2001-12-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brent Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running the 'woody' distro on a PC with Linux 2.4.12-ac6. I installed the 'nis' debian package, and followed the nis.debian.howto that comes with that package. The setup went smoothly, and ypbind was able to contact the

Re: pcmcia partial troubles

2001-12-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BUT.. I downloaded from D-Link support site a revised pcmcia-cs-3.1.15r3.tgz file in which is included the needed module for my pcmcia card: tulip_cb.c (in the documentation is written that it requires 2.0,2.2,2.3 kernels, no word

Re: NIS broken in debian 2.2?

2001-12-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brent Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:09:03AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brent Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running the 'woody' distro on a PC with Linux 2.4.12-ac6. I installed

Re: NIS broken in debian 2.2?

2001-12-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Brent Kearney: Thanks to your reply though, I realized I forgot to take the +:: entries out of /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Now that I've done so, ldap is working for authentication, and I don't need NIS :). OK. However, as far as I can tell, NIS is indeed broken in this

Re: NIS and initgroups

2001-10-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bristow Paul-BPB007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've recently installed debian on a spare PC at work and I'm having real problems getting NIS to work properly with groups. I'd appreciate any advice on the following problem. After installation I set up NIS

Re: NIS and initgroups

2001-10-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bristow Paul-BPB007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks but I don't think there's a problem with the group map as it's working with a lot of other machines (hp-ux/solaris/mandrake). I did But perhaps mandrake is using a 2.4 kernel with 32 bit uid/gid support? the

Re: Upgradeing for largefile support?

2001-10-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a machine that I installed Stable on a while back. The kernel is 2.2.19pre17. What do I need to do to upgrade this machine to have largefile ( 2G) file size support? You need to install a 2.4 kernel and the 'unstable'

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives?

2001-10-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm administrating a network of Debian potato machines using NIS/NFS at a small high school right now. We're behind a pretty beefy firewall, but I still know it's not very secure. I couldn't get LDAP authentication working and

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives?

2001-10-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Alvin Oga: for more secure rpc... secure portmapper etc.. ( bottom of link ) http://www.linux-sec.net/Harden/services.gwif.html That's a portmapper with tcpd/libwrap support. In other words, the portmapper that Debian uses already. It doesn't have anything to do with secure

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives? - dhcp

2001-10-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Alvin Oga: hi ya miquel if you are worried about security - disable dhcp and use all ip# defined by the mask That doesn't make much sense. if one has a class-C ip# ..and only using 20 ip# out of the range.. it is easy for someone to plug in an unauthorise

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives? - dhcp

2001-10-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 02:45:38PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: | Even if you use a switch and put MAC address filters on the | switch an attacker can simply unplug an existing PC / laptop | and take over its MAC address

Re: Large fonts in Mozilla/Galeon after upgrade

2001-10-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded galeon and mozilla to the latest version in sid and now I cannot get galeon to show webpages with a small font. I choose size 10-12 but it still shows the pages like it was size 14-16. I didn't have this problem

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect. ROTFLMAO!! Mike. -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former -- Albert Einstein.

Re: 2.4.6 NFS problem

2001-10-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen E. Hargrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the 2.2.18 kernel, mount /swlf works perfectly. I recently upgraded the kernal to 2.4.6, and now all of my mounts time out. The following appears in my /var/log/messages: Oct 24 09:10:17 calypso kernel: portmap:

Re: exporting /usr NFS for small network

2001-10-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: best thing i can reccomend is just to test it out. the biggest drawback to nfs on linux is it seems very unreliable. up until recently i had my /home mounted via nfs to another system on the local lan at home(100mbit 48port switch). my

Re: Woody and kernel 2.4.13 ide cmd erros on shutdown

2001-10-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], S.Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HJ == Hanasaki JiJi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HJ Has anyone noticed the same problem I am having? When I do a HJ shutdown.. the ide driver says that there is a cmd error... I HJ end up needing an e2fsck on reboot

Re: Radius

2001-10-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Davi Leal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What command could I use to check if my GNU/Linux radius server answer accurately? telnet IP PORT? What port? USER user? PASS password? No, radius uses UDP, and you need a specialized client to query it. You didn't say what radius

Re: Woody and kernel 2.4.13 ide cmd erros on shutdown

2001-10-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Hanasaki JiJi: I wish it was harmless fsck runs for all the filesystems, becuase they were not unmounted cleanly, on reboot. The bad news is that there are quite a few errors that show up. Never happend in Potato with the stock kernel. Thoughts? Comment out the hdparm

Re: Problems getting NIS working with debian

2001-10-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'v got a Debain potato + Progeney + 2.4.3 kernel on my home lan. All uer accounts on this are served via NIS. I am able to get the Debian box to bind, by runing ypbind 0broadcast (why is that not the default!). Because it's

Re: How to confirm ncurses installed properly

2001-11-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rupert Heesom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unable to find the ncurses libraries. You must have ncurses installed. make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1 Install libncurses5-dev That error message should be fixed to say 'You must have the ncurses development

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:06:14 -0800 (PST) nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would be helpful if you gave error messages. i am writing this email from squirrelmail(web email) running on apache-ssl, composing from Opera 5.0/linux

Re: init.d: writing custom init-scripts

2001-12-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin == Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin In Debian, runlevels 2-5 are identical by default, and Colin configuring any differences is left up to the system Colin administrator. What does single user mode

Re: init

2001-12-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure I missed this memo, but why is init suddenly showing in the process list as `init [2] --init'? Ie., with the spaces and --init Hmm, haven't seen that. Might happen, some of that code was changed recently. Ignore it,

Re: the bell in console mode..

2001-12-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Petre Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can i shut off the console bell? or control it somehow.. Use 'setterm'. 'setterm -blength 0' disables the bell Mike.

Re: INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast .....

2002-01-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam F. Bogacki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently installed kernel 2.4.14 on hdb, fixed up a minor LILO problem - and for a while it worked. I was impressed with the boot speed and the number of drivers... Yesterday, however, when I tried to

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upgrading your kernel to 2.4 and using ReiserFS will give you the 64-bit filesystem, but your libc may not be compiled to support large files. Also ext2 and ext3 support 64-bit filesizes just fine and have done so for

Re: init 5 ?

2002-01-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Theo Bierman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When starting the machine up my default init level is X and not level 3. I thought perhaps it would be a setting in /etc/inittab however nothing really sheds ligt there where should I be looking? X and runlevels don't have

Re: init 5 ?

2002-01-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Ron Johnson: On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:48:51 + (UTC) Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Theo Bierman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When starting the machine up my default init level is X and not level 3. I thought perhaps it would

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Holger Rauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Miquel! On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Also ext2 and ext3 support 64-bit filesizes just fine and have done so for years. They are very stable filesystems, while reiser is experimental. Reiser can

Re: Mozilla fonts huge--'File' menu item takes up most of screen

2002-01-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joseph Dane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel == Daniel Farnsworth Teichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel When I start up Mozilla, the fonts are *huge*. I'm running at Daniel 1600x1200, and the 'File' menu item takes up the majority of Daniel the screen (nice

Re: exim query

2002-01-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jijo Jose A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all have any one know the syntax of exim 'smarthost' director /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz Or http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec.html Mike.

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