Re: Timeservers in the Netherlands

2000-01-28 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 01:30 PM 1/27/00 +0100, Remco van 't Veer wrote: [snip] -- Northold Saddam Hussein amfetamine Roel van Duin Honduras PLO Kosovo thrust supercomputer NSA Beatrix FSF XTC hacker semtex You KNOW that you're being logged... Euh, SH*T now I'm logged too!!! Sincerely, Usama Bin Laden.

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Most of the time servers are I/O bound. So it would be wise to spend your money on a good NIC, SCSI adapter, SCSI hard disk, fast (IO wise) MOBO, etc. If you can re-use the P166 then do it, otherwise put a nice celeron in your server and spend your money on the I/O stuff... Regards, Onno At

Primary and Secondary DNS one 1 server...

2000-01-27 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Because of an upgrade of our computer network I must run the primary and secondary DNS one 1 server with two NIC's for a while... Has anyone experiance with this? My guess would be to run named twice and point to two config dirs and edit the named.conf seperatly to run each named on the right

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

2000-01-25 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 10:23 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Joe Block wrote: You aren't. Count me as a vote for $HOME/mail I can't keep flip-flopping on this. The default mailbox root will remain $HOME. You have three choices. 1. Learn to live with it. (Remember you can always

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Onno Ebbinge
IP forwarding and IP masq-ing are enabled in the kernel? Regards, Onno At 10:29 AM 1/24/00 +, Patrick wrote: I can't get ipchains to work and get no error messages when I run echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 01:56 PM 1/24/00 +, Patrick wrote: ip masq is definately enabled in the kernel but not sure about ip forwarding. My real question is how can I diagnose the error. Where can I get a message what setting I've missed as I know this is Operator Error. If 'ls /proc/sys/net/ipv4' yields a

Re: how many users per apache proc?

2000-01-20 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 10:11 PM 1/19/00 -0800, aphro wrote: i was wondeirng if anyone knew approx how many connection 1 apache process could handle? just 1? or is it more.. As far as I know just 1, they [apache team] are working on threaded processes for increased performance while using less memory. However they

Re: Transparent network bridge+filter?

2000-01-20 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 08:49 AM 1/19/00 -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: You have an interesting idea, but it won't work in my case. I have to put this between a pair of Cisco routers running EIGRP. They won't see each other if the router discovery packets (etc.) aren't forwarded by a bridge. I also can't guarantee that

One step further (WAS: Re: Advanced hard disk mirroring!)

2000-01-20 Thread Onno Ebbinge
The high quality replies I received (especially from Jens B. Jorgensen) solved my problem. (see http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-0001/msg02027.html) It also gave me an idea: Wouldn't it be great if there was ONE Linux boot-floppy that would mount (SMB or NFS?) a complete

Strange LILO question

2000-01-20 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Is it possible to set LILO on a DOS floppy disk with the default boot for the hard disk and an alternate boot for the DOS floppy itself? Regards, Onno

Re: Strange LILO question

2000-01-20 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 01:43 PM 1/20/00 +, Ethan Benson wrote: On 20/1/2000 Onno Ebbinge wrote: Is it possible to set LILO on a DOS floppy disk with the default boot for the hard disk and an alternate boot for the DOS floppy itself? if you mean install the lilo boot sector on the DOS floppy then no, dosfs does

Re: Transparent network bridge+filter?

2000-01-19 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 02:08 PM 1/18/00 -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: Can anything that runs on Linux do reliable network bridging filtering? I need a transparent filter that I can drop into an existing network. Ipfilter will do the job with Open/NetBSD. It may work on Linux, but requires kernel 2.0.35 and isn't

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-19 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Hmmm, does incremental backups sound good in this situation? Anyone? Regards, Onno At 07:44 PM 1/18/00 +, John Gay wrote: I've got some good suggestions, and apparently raised a few questions as well. Let me outline my reasons for asking and what I hope to do: I've got a CD-RW. I plan to

Advanced hard disk mirroring!

2000-01-18 Thread Onno Ebbinge
I'm a sysadmin and have two Debian GNU/Linux potato servers and 50 windows 95 workstations under my care. My problem is with the 50 workstations: (the 50 workstations have the same hardware) I want to install ONE workstation and then mirror the hard disk to all other workstations. The first

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Sometimes I don't understand the stratagies used in disk partitioning. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought that you split the partitions by long term usage: 1- 2 GB / 1- 2 GB /var 1- 4 GB /var/spool rest on /home Then I link /tmp

Re: help -- UDMA install....

2000-01-17 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Just a few things you should check: Master/slave settings, isa card interferance, broken PCI cards, BIOS init, BIOS: NO PNP OS, broken chipsets, etc I hope this helps... Regards, Onno At 01:26 PM 1/14/00 -0600, Marc D Chapman wrote: I'm currently trying to help a friend install Linux onto

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Try lsattr and chattr... Regards, Onno At 12:57 PM 1/17/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-10 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote: OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I [snip] I look in my /etc/limits and see a way to restrict just about all those [snip] Where can I find more info on /etc/limits ? Regards, Onno

Ignore this test...

2000-01-10 Thread Onno Ebbinge
I'm very sorry but I have to do this test. One of my email filter failed and I have to see if they work properly now. I hope you understand... Regards, Onno

Ignore this test...

2000-01-10 Thread Onno Ebbinge
I'm very sorry but I have to do this test. One of my email filter failed and I have to see if they work properly now. I hope you understand... Regards, Onno