Re: [OT]: UUCP

take a look at it from an historical point of view :-) UUCP also works quite well over TCP/IP and is very handy for getting your domain's mail if you don't have a static IP. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Central Florida School of Optics/CREOL Network/Systems Administrator Social

Re: Security of sudo [was: Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?]

Phil Brutsche wrote: sudo rocks, btw. It should be standard equipment on any and all Linux/unix systems. But only on OpenBSD is that so :( Fyi, MacOS X public beta ships with sudo as well. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Central Florida School of Optics/CREOL Network

Re: Which MTA to use?

secure. And in my opinion, much easier to configure than qmail. And before anyone bashes me, I ran qmail for a couple of years with multiple virtual domains, and postfix is a lot easier to configure. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet

dpkg dselect refuse to delete or install a package

are otherwise the same. Thanks, jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Quick Dirty Guide to making your own apt source directories (was Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines)

if you don't list one of your packages in override, other than that you don't control where they show up in dselect's listing. When you make a new deb, copy it to the binary-i386 directory, cd there and run make. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

on the webserver system itself? chgrp the files to www-data and set their permissions to 640. -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: MacOS X (was Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?)

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:49:59PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: nothing else running on commercial Unix that comes close (I'm not counting Mac OS X as it's not based on X Windows and isn't a full Unix despite its Mach core

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

writing. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

to use cgis and don't have the time/knowledge to secure them. I still don't see where having all the users share one uid for their cgis is better than having them use their own id - at least the damage is limited to one user rather than all of them. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System

Re: Happy Valintines Day!!!

The Insider's Guide to Advertising for Free on the Internet ORDER REPORT #1 FROM: Send them a brick postage due. Or send a letter to the postmaster at each of those area codes telling them there is someone running a pyramid scam through the mail. -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator

Re: newbie has graphics card problem

to your /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update;apt-get upgrade It'll upgrade your XFree86 to 3.3.6 which supports the diamond viper in the SVGA server. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

problems with remote printing lpr

the occasional need to print and they complain about it. None of them have root, and I've re-configured the printcap (and restarted lprng) since they reported the problem. Anyway, does anyone have any ideas? jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet

Re: Majordomo Trouble

is gpl and a lot less hassle to configure. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: postfix/sendmail

binary packages without Bernstein's consent) and frankly I personally find postfix to be a lot easier to configure than qmail (you are in a maze of .qmail-* files, all alike). I've been extremely happy with postfix. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces

Re: postfix/sendmail

Michael Meskes wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:52:26PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: It depends on how customized your sendmail installation is. Postfix Almost nothing other than adding /etc/mail/peers for ppp setup. Uses only the standard Debian features. I haven't used sendmail in years

Re: dynamic IP's, IP masq and mail, can it be done?

work with (http://www.communiweb.net). jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: Trouble with X Windows

unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: Trouble with X Windows

Mann wrote: Try this : 0 edit /etc/apt/sources.list, adding the following URI: deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main 0comment-out the other URI's in that file. Joe Block wrote: You don't need to comment out the other URIs. apt is smart enough

Re: Attention: imapd gpoing back to $HOME as mailbox root

, I can't be the only one who sees the benefit in having all of the tools look in the same location for the Sent Mail folder, and Drafts, etc. You aren't. Count me as a vote for $HOME/mail jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers

Re: terminals

could be wrong on that one. But this should at least point you in the right direction. I think you can just kill -HUP 1 as root jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

Evan Moore wrote: there is the problem, xanime can not play Sorenson Video because apple will not release any docs on it. It isn't Apple's to release docs on - they just license it from Sorenson Vision (www.s-vision.com) jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social

Re: rsh access

- if the boxes in question are on the internet, you really want to have them use ssh instead of rsh for security reasons. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: Adding a superuser

machines, not the ones people are doing classwork on. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.7 dies silently.

and erasing the disk cache from inside netscape does not seem to clear things up btw. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: crontab

Bernd Überbacher wrote: hi again what do i have to write into /etc/crontab that cron will cp a file every 5 mins?? i have 5 * * * * root cp ... */5 * * * * root cp ... -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: MTA

back when I still ran RedHat, but switched to postfix a few months before I switched to Debian. postfix is a lot easier to configure and has the advantage of being designed from the beginning for security. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces

Re: locking the console

Rob Mahurin wrote: Yeah, screen is a pretty rad program. I was looking for something with a timeout, though, so my dumb self could go away and not have to worry about mischeif happening. install idled and remove the console from the exempt ttys in /etc/idled.conf jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL

Re: /root - /home/kmfahey; /usr/doc - /usr/share/doc

on the old directory structure. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: Is Corel Off Topic ?

Neomagic chipset and set it up perfectly. One weird thing that I didn't realize until someone mentioned it here, is that the corel system doesn't show debian's menus in the kde menu. I checked, and menu is installed. Any ideas on a fix for that? jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System

Re: What video card do I use?

Rick Dunnivan wrote: I have a winmodem and thus have not configured ppp yet. How do I go about doing this without being on the net? In short, you don't. Winmodems only work with windows - get an external modem and you should be good to go. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System

Re: How can I change a password from a script?

- obviously this won't work if they're actually using their shell accounts. No suid root cgi that way, no having to worry about the security issues. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: Adding a lot of users in a single operation.

the /etc/passwd entries for you (and nis auto_home entries as well), including encrypting passwords specified on the command line. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

mod-auth-mysql

Has anyone gotten mod-auth-mysql to build correctly on slink/x86? I'm trying to puzzle out what I need to tell configure so it'll produce a working makefile. I looked and didn't find a deb for it in stable or unstable. Yes, I have mysql-dev apache-dev installed. Thanks, jpb -- Joe Block

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

3.3.5 to its sources.list and update upgrade. Thinking back, I don't recall whether I just used 'apt-get upgrade' or if I remembered to do a dist-upgrade. Didn't have any problems other than not getting sound working on the machine (yet). jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System

Re: FW: Help with a Dell Latitude CPia

these laptops use some Neomagic sound chip. We didn't get the sound working. Then again, we didn't try too hard either. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: security and guest accounts

; } -- cut here -- jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: Help with a Dell Latitude CPia

cannot detect a sound card. I think these laptops use some Neomagic sound chip. If you figure out how to get sound working, please post to the list, I didn't get Darin's laptop sound working either, mostly due to lack of time. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social

Re: deleting files

of screwing up and nailing the wrong directory. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

...and what about Stormix?

Stormix just came out with beta4 this week, also debian based. Has anyone had a chance to tinker with it yet? I burned stormix and corel cds to do an install for a friend this weekend. If I can talk him into it, we'll try both. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator

Re: How to mirror Debian across a firewall

in /etc/wgetrc jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: test

the folks hosting the list) and wasting bandwidth on your tests is rude. Something about the debian lists not being acceptable test mail recipients needs to be put in the confirmation email you get when you're subscribed. /rant jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

?) a nifty tool that converted AVI - QT and back(free) but it doesnt work with most of the new (past 2-3 years) codecs from QT. Again, Apple doesn't invent most of the codecs in QT, they license them from other people. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

aphro wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Joe Block wrote: jpb In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. They license jpb the sorenson codec from Sorenson Vision (http://www.s-vision.com) who jpb are the ones not giving it away. It might be possible to talk the jpb s-vision folks

Re: IP Alias and Slink - ARGH!

a route for the new ip? for example: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.31 up netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/route add -host 192.168.1.31 dev eth0:0 jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

and remove the S**xdm file, which is really a link to /etc/init.d/xdm Then you can go into /etc/rc3.d and do 'ln -s /etc/init.d/xdm S99xdm' Once you've done that, you can telinit 3 to start up the graphical X login, and telinit 2 to go back. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System

Re: managing multiple ISPs

- the only thing I use an isp for anymore is usenet. -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: ip tunnel 10.10.10.0 network

from the remote site as well as machines on the 216.128.8.0 network to be able to access the 10.10.10.0 network. Look into vpnd and vtun They're both secure - there is no particularly good reason not to secure the vpn. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces

Re: Good books to learn python

Andrew Clark wrote: Any recommendations for good books to learn python for a programmer with a background in C/C++ ? I like and still use _Programming Python_ by Mark Lutz. I hear they came out with _Learning Python_, but haven't read it. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System

Re: Printers..

by using a postscript printer, especially when you're using Adobe programs. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: time is 5 hours ahead (using ntp)

me how to switch that back? Make sure your /etc/timezone is set up properly. On my machine, /etc/timezone contains EST5EDT I'm using tick.usno.navy.mil and tock.usno.navy.mil for my timeservers in ntp.conf jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces

Re: Utilities for keeping time sync for a machine behind a firewall ?

Patrick Kirk wrote: xntp3 is excellent. Just type apt-get install xntp3 and it will take you through configuration. If you need a server, try salmon.math.tcd.ie and sundial.columbia.edu tick.usno.navy.mil tock.usno.navy.mil Easier to remember :-) jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL

Re: Making a local debs directory

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 07:22:24PM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: Have a look at dpkg-scanpackages out of the dpkg-dev package... thanks, that was exactly what I needed to know. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Limiting cgi resource usage (was Re: apache + cgi)

programming. Use cgiwrap. You can configure exactly how much cpu they get to use. I used it on a solaris machine that we were teaching a course on digital media on, and magically the load problems disappeared. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet

Re: How to diable mail relaying in smail

for - if you want to relay only for machines in 192.168.1.* for example, you specify 192.168.1.0/24 jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: slink and potato

distribution, and unstable to the current unstable distribution. That way when potato is stabilized, no one has to edit their /etc/apt/sources.list -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Diamond 770 X Window

Does anyone have a working config file for the Diamond Viper 770? I'm running slink if it matters. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: (very) remote install

know, he's had 20+ years working with Unix and Ive only two years on Linux. But he has not suggested any other method. If you do manage to get it switched, it'd be nice if you wrote up exactly how you did it. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces

Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

or the day before on freshmeat that is supposed to specifically deal with getting ntloader to play nice with linux. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: test don't read

to the list. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: telnet banner

connections. I recommend that you _not_ include your OS in the issue.net, though with nmap and queso that's getting to be a moot point security wise. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Making a bootable rescue CD

- naturally I have to cope with many different cards, and while I'm willing to have several different boot floppies, it'd be a lot more elegant to have just one. thanks, jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Getting source deb files

. Thanks, jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.