Debian Centralized Management

Hi! I looking for a package/program/whatever that it will allow me to manage many Debian boxes remotely and centrally. Somewhere I could say: install this package on all the systems with only one command. Or a centralized view of dselect, etc... Also, any good monitoring software

squid, snmp and mrtg

Hi! I've managed to get squid's snmp daemon running so far. However I can not get mrtg to work with it. cfgmaker doesn't work and I don't know enough of mrtg to start scripting stuff. Can anybody that has got this working send me his /etc/mrtg.cfg file? FYI, I'm running

Linux: static NAT and proxy-mac

Hello! I'm quite experienced in using ipchains as a static packet filtering device and Linux masquerading for our hide NAT (1:n) needs. However, I am now in the need of doing full static (m:m) NAT and I'm wondering if there's any way to get Linux to do it. I haven't researched

Intel PRO/100 VM

Hi! Can anybody tell me what driver to use to get the re NIC working? Thanks! -- p.

default font size for X

is always big, on twm, ice, anything... even after configuring the control panel. Thanks! ps: please reply directly to my inbox as I'm not subscribed to the list due to its high traffic. Thank you. -- p. Pere Camps Schlumberger Omnes @ London mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel

possible netstat bug

Hi! I'm running Debian Slink with the 2.0.38 kernel on a AMD K6 and I found a weird problem. When executing 'netstat -a', I get (from other usual stuff): tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* CLOSE That should mean that the SMTP server

limiting directories in a virtual host

Hi! I've got many Directory directives in my main apache config. Now I've got some VirtualHosts and I want them to be able to access what I want... that is, deny everthing and tell them what they can acces on a per VirtualHost basis. I fond out that I had to make a deny

virtual domains under exim

Hi! I'd like to setup a virtual domain with exim. So far I've managed to make it able to accept emails for the virtual domain, but it now sends the emails to the local users. I'll give an example: The machine is named machine.org and has tons of local users that receive email to

HP Laserjet 1100

Hi! I'm in the process of buying a new printer, and as I can not afford a Postscript one, I was wondering if the HP Laserjet 1100 is well supported by magicfilter. Has anybody used it? Does it work allright? What printer do you choose on the magicfilter config? Thanks

Re: HP Laserjet 1100

Cyrus, Yes, the HP1100 is very well supported by magicfilter. I use the hp4l filter and it has so far handled everything I have thrown at it. Ok. Thanks for the info. -- p.

slink ssh linked against RSAREF2?

Hi! Is slink ssh linked against RSAREF2? I can't find any place where it says something about it, either yes or no. Does anybody know for sure? Thanks! ps: please reply directly to me as I'm not subscribed to the list now as it has too much traffic. -- p.

web email packages

Hi! What's the best GNUd web mail program you people know? Where can I find it? It would be ideal if there were a .deb for it, put I can also cc it if necessary. Thanks a lot for your help. -- p.

full duplex sound

Hi! I'm trying to find out if the /dev/dsp interface for playing/recording sound is full duplex if the Sound Card is. Can anybody confim it and/or give me some references on where to find the specifications of the /dev/{dsp,mixer,etc} devices? TIA! please email replies

apache-ssl or mod_ssl

Hi! Can anybody give me some advice/hints/personal opinion about which SSL http server to choose? Thank you! -- p.

kernel series v2.2 and new deb packages

Hi! Does anybody know where to get the deb packages needed to run linux v2.2.x which don't need libc6 2.1? I want to install 2.2.13 but I can't install libc6 2.1 with the slink system as I'm worried that it will break too many things. Thanks for your help. -- p.

Re: kernel series v2.2 and new deb packages

Phil, You don't need to install any glibc2.1 packages to run kernel 2.2 - I'm doing it right now. You just need to update some programs as per the kernel documentation (best by compiling from scratch, imo). Yup, you're right. I didn't explain myself clearly enough. I have

ipfwadm rule

Hi! I'm trying to set up my home box (connected via PPP to the internet to do the following): a) Deny everything incoming (tcp,udp,icmp) b) Accept only DNS udp connections c) Accept incoming tcp data for only the connections that I have initiated. So far

Re: ipfwadm rule

Hi! set your default policies to DENY (instead of ACCEPT) and try again ..everything will be blocked except what you specifically state should be allowed in (dont try this from remote! you may lose access to the machine) I've already tried that way, but it doesn't work out the way I

ipfwadm rule

Hi! Finally I got the question from my previous message working. I had to deny only the packets with the SYN set. -- p.

Re: Running MySQL not as 'root'

Joachim, What about the mysql-server.preinst script then?: I'm running slink's mysql-server. Doesn't add new users. :-/ I can't wait for potato to freeze. -- p.

mailman error

Hi! Whenever an email is sent through the mailman interface to the news server I get to classes of errors: Exception os.error: (2, 'No such file or directory') in method FileLock.__del__ of FileLock instance at 8172f70 ignored Exception NotLockedError in method FileLock.__del__ of

Running MySQL not as 'root'

Hi! I've just installed MySQL and I'm trying to run the server not as root for security reason (any bug in a MySQL running as root could compomise the system securirity). I'm brand new to MySQL so please don't blame me for obvious work-arounds. I've read the manual page

Re: Running MySQL not as 'root'

Uurcus, safe_mysqld --user=nobody Might be better if you use the pseudo-user `mysql': safe_mysqld --user=mysql Doesn't work. (root) ~ # safe_mysqld --user=mysql Starting mysqld demon with databases from /var/lib/mysql mysqld demon ended I believe the default Debian config

xemacs20 and default font

Hi! I'm trying to set up a default font under xemacs20. I've changed the default font to my tastes with the Options menu, but even after using the same menu's Save Options option, my font doesn't come back after relaunching xemacs. I'm very new to xemacs (and emacs too) and I'd

exim's .forward ulimit

Hi! Does anybody know how to limit the resorces available for the program that runs when somebody uses the ability of the .forward file to pass the contents of the email onto a program? TIA! -- p.

Re: apache + cgi

Nathan, If you want to limit by actual clock time, you could use alarm and catch the signal (I know how to do it in Perl; I'd have to stumble a bit to do the same thing in C :) The problem is that I have an 'untrusted' user base I everything has to be implemented by the parent process

Re: apache + cgi

Nathan, :Apache United Enterprise? ;) Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. Don't have that one. Myself: KR C 2nd edition, man pages and looking at tons of .c files. I'm very interested in your problem since I see that to some degree I have the same problem :)

Re: apache + cgi

Brian, Perhaps you can set the ulimit manually (don't ask me how to do this from C...). And make Apache use those values for every son with user www-data that it breeds? ... too much work. :-/ This is only read (AFAIK) by /bin/login. It doesn't even work for ssh logins (I could be

cron'ed, at'ed, exim'ed user limits

Hi! How can I set user resource limits a la /etc/limits for the programs executed by cron, at and exim's .forward? This is to avoid possible DoS by massive resource grabbing by untrusted users. Thanks in advance for your help. -- p.

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

Joe, 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. There's a deb package for it too. The problem is that it has a not standard log

Re: apache + cgi

Aphro, i have found that ulimit works very well with apache. i have my default ulimit set to a max of 12 processes per user, but with apache i gotta increase it to 40-50 before i start it or it may puke with cannot spawn child process on some cgis. How do you ulimit apache? Editing

apache + cgi

Hi! Is there any way to limit the execution time/child processes of an CGI executed by apache? I want apache to be able to run the following... void main(void) { while (1) { fork() } } And after too much time of CPU usage and/or child processes,

UDP logger

Hi! Does anybody know of connection loger like 'iplogger', but also for UDP? TIA! -- p.

building a package

Hi! I trying to learn to build packages from their source packages and I've run into trouble. I've just downloaded an source package from my mirror and now I'm triying to make a compiled package. The package is ppp from the unstable tree. After downloaded I've executed:

RE: building a package

Sean, a) debian/rules binary b) dpkg-buildpackage -us That will make the deb for you. Be prepared to install other debs to meet compile time depends. Got it. Thanks for such a quick reply. -- p.

strange xkb problem

Hi! While running X as root I get the following error: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Error:Cannot open compiled/server-0.xkm to write keyboard description Exiting Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap And my

2.2.* on slink

Hi! Can I run 2.2.12 on slink without problems or do I have to update some packages from potato? Thankx! -- p.

syslogd mail

Hi! How can I make syslogd mail somebody an incident (aka log) when it happens? TIA! -- p.

Re: xinetd rpc.mountd/rpc.nfsd

Robert, Well, I don't have a solution to offer, unfortunatly, though xinetd currently is my concern, too. I have looked at the FAQ page of http://synack.net/ (the maintainers of xinetd), and according to what they wrote, your problem seems to be generally unsolved. Too bad that I can't offer

limiting connections for each IP

Hi! Is there anyway to place an upper limit in the number of connections from a machine? Let me explain myself, I want to limit the number of tcp connections from a machine to my server in order to limit possible DoS attacks from a single IP. How can I do that? TIA!

problems with htaccess

Hi! My apache seems to be ignoring the .htaccess file. Everythings correct (the permissions, etc). I've even tried to copy the same .htaccess to a different server and it worked there. Then I looked into the configuration files of the other server and everything seems like mine.

xinetd rpc.mountd/rpc.nfsd

Hi! Has anyone got working the re:? If so, would you please send me your /etc/xinetd.conf. I've tried almost all combinations without any luck. :-/ TIA! -- p.

email acknowledging/confirmation

Hi! Can somebody point me to the place where an standard for automatically acknowledging/confirming email (that is, I want to know if my email has been read by the receiver) is -it there exists one-? I'll be also be very grateful if you point me to software that supports it and

Re: email acknowledging/confirmation

Jonathan, That is not a standard e-mail feature. There are a VERY FEW Microsoft-ish e-mail clients that have a Request return receipt feature, but that ONLY works when the receiving mail client supports that feature as well, and has it enabled. That's why I was asking. Too bad. :(

Re: silly question about /dev/log (fwd)

Hi! Is debian prepared for having these special kind of permissions for /dev/log? -- p. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:58:56 +0100 (GMT) From: Chris Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: silly

weird booting question

Hi! I've got a weird question for all the 'booting gurus' in the list. My question: is it possible to make a hard disk that's mounted on /dev/hdc to be bootable if it gets plugged into /dev/hda? If so, how? TIA! p.d.: the application? a ready-to-boot backup of

ATX power on

Hi! Does anybody how to make an ATX motherboard boot without having to press the 'power' button everytime? That is, I want an standard AT behaviour: if there's power in the line, then I want the machine running without having to press anything. TIA! -- p.

UPS suggestion

Hi! I need an UPS for my system (say 300 W plus 15 monitor) and I would like to spend as little time seting it up as possible. What UPS do you reccomend me in order to plug it, connect it to the serial port (the UPS should bring the cable, I don't want to use the soldering

Re: loggin 'su'

Steve, By default all these attempts are logged to the /var/log/auth.log. I suppose that if you wanted to, you could edit the /etc/syslog.conf file and change the log choice for auth,authpriv.* from /var/log/auth.log to /var/log/syslog. The problem was that slink's 'su'

login 'su'

Hi! Is there any way to log with syslog all attepts (good bad) to user 'su' ? TIA! -- p.

loggin 'su'

Hi! Is there any way to log with syslog all attepts (good bad) to user 'su' ? TIA! -- p.

Re: loggin 'su'

Wayne, If you can, it would be in the manual page, right. man syslog.conf. I've already looked, but nothing's show. I don't mind if it's not via syslogd. cu! -- p.

/tmp symlink problems in man

Hi! Is debian affected too? For the message it seems it is as slink uses 2.3.10. Any confirmation would be appreciated. -- p. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 22:02:19 +0200 From: Marc Heuse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /tmp

security problems in innd

Hi! I've just installed innd and besides the tipical allowing of access for some hosts that I guess it must exists, are there any other security considerations I should follow? I've noticed that it runs as user 'news' which is an advantage. TIA! -- p.

redirecting ports from machine to machine

Hi! What do I use in order to transparentely forward all packets that connect to machine a on port 1 to machine b on port 2? I have to make believe the client that the server is really machine 1. TIA! -- p.

Re: redirecting ports from machine to machine

Hi! Please ignore the previous message. I've already found the way with rinetd. -- p.

mounting nfs when server down

Hi! I now have a mini NIS-network with /home directories mounted from a central server. Imagine this sceneraio: the two systems boot up together. The server is slower while booting up and the clients can't mount the nfs-partitions, but 2 minutes after the server is up and

Re: mounting nfs when server down

Joey, hard The program accessing a file on a NFS mounted file system will hang when the server crashes. The pro­ cess cannot be interrupted or killed unless you also specify intr. When the NFS server is back online the program will continue undisturbed from where it

netscape, navigator, communicator...

Hi! Can somebody explain me what's in each package and what are their inter-relationships? What's the bare minimum if I want to have just a 'lightweith' netscape 4.5 browser? TIA! -- p.

majordomo

Hi! I'm trying to setup majordomo and I'm having difficulty with it. Can somebody please send me his configuration for a working list? Please send me /etc/aliases, /etc/majordomo.cf, and the contents of the /var/lib/majordomo/lists/sample-list* files? Thanks a lot in

VB asp on Apache

Hi! Can apache serve VB asp pages? TIA! -- p.

limiting per user CPU time

Hi! Is there any way to do that? I've read ulimit(1), but that only applies to bash(1) and it's sons (and it can also be changed). Another option would be automatically nicing proceses that use more CPU time than their quota. TIA! -- p.

hard drive test

Hi! I need a hardware-intesive testing program for hard drives. One of my drives has just blown, and I want to try to figure out what has happened. Does anyone know of any program that would do the job? TIA! -- p.

Re: cd-to-cd burning

Hi! dd if=/dev/cdrom1 of=/dev/stdout bs=1048576|cdrecord dev= speed=?? -v -xa2 /dev/stdin An straight: cat /dev/cdrom1 | cdrecord ... - Will work. :) cu! -- p.

system load

Hi! Can anybody explain me how the system load is measured? For example, for this statistic, is it the same to have 3 processes wanting 100% of the CPU with a 0 priority than having 3 with, let's say, 10, 15 and 20 priority? If there's a FAQ or README please point me to

apache: browsing only what you want

Hi! I've found that if an user makes a soft link from his public_html directory into /, then an external user can browse throughout all the directory hierachy. Can anybody tell me how to make apache server only the pages which are directly under the public_html directories and

alarms: disk full

Hi! Does anybody know of a prgram that monitorizes the use of hdd, and when one of the gets full it sends an email to a designed address? Is easy to do it in a shell script, but why do it if it's already done? Thanks a lot for your help! -- p.

Re: alarms: disk full

George, mon Thanks for the input. I'll take a look at the program. -- p.

cdrom problems

Hi! I'm getting these reports whenever I access my new cdrom (Samsung 32x max). I'm using kernel 2.0.37prelatest. Everything works fine, I just get these annoying messages and the access to the CD-ROM is slower. Can anybody help? Thanks! -- p.

test - please ignore

This is a test. please ignore.

bash: /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc,

Hi! In /etc/bashrc, do I put anything else than the 'aliases'? I've put all the rest in /etc/profile, but if I do a non-login interactive shell, all the 'exports' don't load so all the rest. What exactly goes where? TIA! -- p.

remote X programs

Hi! What do I change in order to prohibit running X programs in any place except the console? ie: no export DISPLAY=... Thanks in advance for your help, -- p.

very stable AGP or PCI video card

Hi! I need a very stable and cheap AGP video card for my system. I currently have a S3 Virge GX/2 AGP which curruntly crashes the whole system every once in a while. Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- p.

Re: xfs and fonts

Branden, Needless to say, you can have the X server use local fonts AND a font server. xfs is in no way required to have a functional X installation. Thats what I needed. Thanks for the input. :) -- p.

mailing list software

Hi! berolist, majordomo or smartlist? This will be a very low traffic mailing list server, so I prefer it to be easy to install/manage/use than to be lightweight. Any hints would be greatly appreciated! -- p.

Re: mailing list software

Padraic, I like GNU mailman (http://www.list.org/). All commands through web interface and subscriber commands also through email. Any .deb for it? -- p.

xfs and fonts

Hi! Does xfs need to be running in order to have the fonts installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* in your system or with the references in /etc/X11/XF86Config is enough? I suppose is the later. TIA! -- p.

re: exim and smarthost

Hi! (this is a reply to message I accidentally deleted, please try to find the original in order to understand it). I consider an email is difficult to send when it has been more than 4 hours in my mailq or when it's something like uucp. All of these mails I'd like to send to the

exim user

Hi! Exim runs himself in inetd.conf as user 'exim'. This user doesn't exist in my /etc/passwd, so I've changed it to user 'mail'. Am I doing the right thing? TIA! -- p.

Re: exim: smarthost

Grep, Run eximconfig and select the proper option is the easiest way. I've seen the option, but I dont want to send _all_ outbound mail via the smarthost, only the 'difficult' ones. -- p.

exim: smarthost

Hi! Any easy way of configuring exim so it sends all the mail it has not being able to send for himself to a smarthost? Something like smail offered before... -- p.

cdrecorder

Hi! I want to buy a CD-R drive, and I'm between these two: Panasonic CW-7502-B 4X Recorder / 8X Reader TEAC CD-R55S 4X Recorder / 12X Reader TEAC CD-R56S 4X Recorder / 24X Reader What's best supported? Does anybody around have anything to say in

I need a kernel guru

Hi! Does anybody know where do I have to write / what mailing list can I join in order to find somebody who understands of Linux's General Protection Faults and Ooops! messages. I need to know what's going on with my system (and its not signal 11...) TIA! -- p.

S3 Virge/GX2 + AGP

Hi! Is this supported by hamm? If so, do I have to install anything special? I've tried choosing the video card directly from the list of xf86config, but it doesn't work. Thanks for your help! -- p.

killing all processes on a tty

Hi! What can I use in order to kill all the processes on a tty using only one command? Something like: killall /dev/ttyS1 ? Thanks! -- p.

accepting talk from only some users

Hi! I'd like to accept only talk from a list of users I specify... something like: if you're not on the list the your party is refusing messages pop-up shows up, and if you're on the list the as usual. Does anybody know how to make this? TIA! -- p.

pine y ispell

Hola! Alguien ha conseguido hacer funcionar el ispell en español con el pine? Yo lo he conseguido hacer funcionar, pero no me coge las palabras con acentos del pine. Gracias por adelantado por vuestra ayuda. -- p.

smail and time

Hi! Does anyone know how to make smail put your local time in the emails and not the GMT time plus your time. For example, to put 22:00 CET and not 23:00 GMT-1. Thanks in advance for your help! -- p.

upgrading to slink from hamm

Hi! What update procedure should I use in order to upgrade to slink from hamm? Just point dftp to the new ftp directory and upgrade? What are the main differences between the two releases (ie: smail vs exim), that I need to look up to make sure they work after upgrading?

VFS: iput: trying to free free inode and so on...

Hi! Can anybody explain me what's going on here? The system hals after spitting for some time these messages... It has already happened thrice. My Computer data: AMB K6-200, 96 MB RAM, Linux 2.0.36, Debian hamm Any clue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.

lynx + cookies

Hi! What do I touch in order to have lynx accept all cookies always? I've looked at the /etc/lynx.cfg file, and the cookies options looks like it makes lynx 'ignore' cookies. TIA! -- p.

chmod script

Hi! Does anybody have a script for changing all the dirs and subdirs into mode 700 and all the files into mode 600 ? If I do a chmod 700 -R then all the files get changed to 700... :-/ TIA! -- p.

Re: chmod script

Ben, chmod -R og-rwx /path But if my files are 400... Thanks for your help anyway! -- p.

vfat32 support

Hi! Does anybody know if there's a patch for being able to access vfat32 formated partitions? Thanks! -- p.

password security: john, cops, etc

Hi! Is there any debianized program to check the 'strictness' of passwords. Something like john, cops, etc. I'm also looking for a passwd replacement that enforces 'strict' passwords. TIA! -- p.

Re: password security: john, cops, etc

Jean, There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that it checks passwords as the users set them. Currently there are several bugs for the package but I'm actively working on them. Should see a new upload in a few days. Please tell me when you do. Thank you very much.

Re: Regrabadoras en linux

Jordi, Hay software especial para estos dispositivos? Si, el cdrecord. Se ve como si fuera un disco normal? Para lectura sí, pero para grabar has de utilizar la combinación mkisofs+cdrecord. Solo se pueden usar como grabadora? Nope. Para modo

fileutils + w95

Hi! I know this is not the appropiate forum but... I'm trying to find a compiled version of fileutils that runs under a DOS box in W95. I currently have an old version of the fileutils that doesn't support long filenames. Can somebody point me to the right URL?

Re: vfat - cp: file: Operation not permitted

Hamish, (I would prefer VFAT to silently ignore that) Me too. Yes, quiet in the options line does this IIRC. Great! Problem (almost solved)! zip for example encounters the same problem when creating a zip on FAT/VFAT, and removes the created zip file! Most annoying.

umask: file dirs

Hi! Is there any way to have a umask that creates files in 640 by default and directories in 750 ? TIA! -- p.

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