On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote:
Has anyone used woody for mission critical stuff? I know some people run
woody-based web servers, eg, but I haven't.
i've run a server for four years on unstable; the last two i've been on a
different continent to the box. it's reliable enough that
Hi,
Is the above possible? That is, when a user's password has expired, they
should be prompted to change it somehow. Works with telnet but that seems
to defeat the point entirely.
The behaviour as is is that sshd just gives access denied when the
password has aged, even if the second
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All,
Im running potato with kernel 2.2.15. I have three nic card
installed(two for DSL connection and the other for Lan connection). I
want to load balance between the two DSL lines. And if one connection
fails the network switches over to
in a rash moment at 2am i upgraded my apache, forgetting about mod-ssl
which still depends on 1.3.9. does anyone know where i can find apache
and apache-common 1.3.9? dpkg-repack'ed packages would be fine too if
anyone feels like doing so.
thanks in advance,
thomas lakofski
phew; managed to fix it with tactical installation of packages from
frozen. i guess that's why it's called unstable ;-)
cheers,
-t
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Mental wrote:
I did something like this too. I simply backed up my config files, then
purged apache-common, apache, and apache-ssl, the did
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Mike Norris wrote:
Can someone HELP me with a simple IDIOT-PROOF guide on connecting up!
put the word 'debug' in /etc/ppp/peers/provider (or whatever you're
using) and then post what appears in /var/log/ppp.log when you try to dial
up.
-t
..
who's watching
hi,
your problems sound like you may actually have some broken hardware, more
than a problem with debian. in my personal experience of using debian
since august 1996 the only time it has ever gone wrong on a stable release
is when the hardware of the computer i was using was broken somehow (bad
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, eric k. wolven wrote:
I've noticed the same thing. When booting the system hangs at /dev/hda5 and
/dev/hda7 on my system during e2fsck check. If I C-c, the system continues
booting normally.
When doing shutdown, I get a message that /dev/hda7 is busy and is being
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Carl Mummert wrote:
Note that this is a Bad Idea (to get the usernames or passwords)
since it tends to 1) give you a list of the users' passwords and
2) give others a well-known place to look for them too.
Any user can run lastb.
you can fix that with chmod o=
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Gary van Blerk wrote:
I am running sendmail and the problem I have is I can send mail from the
server but when I try send from a workstation it says Undeliverable -
no transport provider to deliver messages to one or more recipients
[EMAIL PROTECTED] My server can send
i'm missing the original message, but 'rinetd' might help in what you're
looking for. works for me.
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
I use statements like
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP pop-3 -R $INT_IP pop-3
ipmasqadm is a potato thingy. I'm still doing slink.
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Thorsten Manegold wrote:
1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That
way powersaving will never take effect.
cron, update, syslog, maybe others. update is the main problem.
2) How can I change the setup, so that the HD will not be needlessly
acsessed?
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote:
Are any of the earier versions of Netscape more stable than 4.6?
I'm willing to use whatever is stable. I haven't yet tried earlier
Netscapes.
same thing happens to me with 4.51
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote:
Are any of the earier versions of Netscape more stable than 4.6?
I'm willing to use whatever is stable. I haven't yet tried earlier
Netscapes.
same thing happens to me with 4.51 and 4.08, both linked with glibc2. i
think it's a glibc2.1 issue.
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
We installed ssh on our new Debian 2.1 (slink) powered server. We do not
have X on it at all, but I get this message every time I log on through
ssh. The login works fine though.
Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding, perhaps xauth program
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Kent West wrote:
A friend sent me some images compressed into one file using PKZIP (for
DOS/Windows); is there a tool on Linux to unzip that, or do I need to
dual-boot into Windows and unzip it there? Thanks!
there's an 'unzip' (also 'zip') package available in non-free
not sure exactly what happened on your system, but the best thing to do is
probably not to set your timezone to EDT, but tell your box what location
it's in and it will work out the rest from there. ie, my laptop is set to
Europe/London, it knows the daylight savings rules for my location, I
On Sat, 22 May 1999, moron wrote:
I'm trying for the fiftieth time to set up an internet connection for the
first time. Could someone tell me if the message peer refuses to
authenticate signifies something specific and easily correctable or just
that I'm still a long way from getting things
you need an access database to create some exceptions allowing relaying:
create a file called /etc/mail/access with your favourite editor, put
something like the following in it:
example.com RELAY
host.example.orgRELAY
anotherhost.example.net RELAY
172.16
hi,
there's a large chinese isp with a domain name similar to mine, 188.net.
consequently I get a lot of mail bounces. I'd like to be able to
customise the message that sendmail sends back to them, adding a small
boilerplate like: 'my domain often gets confused with 188.net, maybe you
meant to
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Philip Lehman wrote:
How enlightening. KDE bashing is pretty trendy at the moment, isn't
it?
i think it'll be nice to have the choice of either. commercial adoption
of debian as a base can only lead to good things, i think (judging by what
corel's saying).
Please, let's
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, JonesMB wrote:
I have setup a couple of Debian/Linux systems in the lab at work.
They are used for many things, including acting as telnet and FTP
servers for various test programs. The test engineers complain that
when an attempt is made to connect to the Linux box,
On 5 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ESR wrote:]
Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like
that kind of disruptive asshole in public, insult me, and jeopardize
the interests of our entire tribe, I'll take it just as personally --
and I will find a way to
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Richard Black wrote:
which _seems_ to work. But when I reboot, the time and date are
incorrect. I have also tried using date with similar lack of success.
Two things that I have noticed is that hwclock is slow and hwclock
--show doesn't return anything.
is it quite an
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
It's not just old PCs with discrete batteries -- I'm reasonably sure I've
seen photos of new motherboards with these lately. I was a bit surprised
myself. I think my ASUS Super7 board may even have one (but I don't have
the case open to check
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Jianbo Wang wrote:
When I played with redhat, it has netcfg to create and config a network
interface, does anyone know if there is a software in debian to do the
same thing? Or how can I create a network interface and activate it?
dinstall on the rescue disk does the
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote:
vi is acting weird, and I just discovered that vi on my system is not really
vim. Isn't vi really just a symlink to vim on most systems?
vim works well, but vi is weird. It acts buggy.
/usr/bin/vi is linked to /etc/alternatives/vi; take a look at what
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Stefan Langerman wrote:
Ok, I'm installing slink right now, and I'm currently in the part where
you install device drivers. Now, How do you know which are the ones you
need? most of them have only one short line of explaination, (one even
just has a '.'), and several
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Chris Brown wrote:
Our drives have occasionally been going nuts with disk access.
They would for no reason just start reading the disk and go solid for
10 minutes. Is there a utility like top to check for who or what is
accessing the disks?
actually, top will do
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Chris Mayes wrote:
This means that the dialout group can read it, right? So, I did this to
the dialout line of /etc/group:
dialout:x:20:cmayes:
close:
dialout:x:20:cmayes
you would separate users by commas if you had more than one in that group.
the 'adduser' command
hi,
before i try and do all the legwork on this one, i just wanted to check
that no-one had a prerolled solution to this one:
i'm trying to let myself connect to my linux box from work through our
Apache proxy's https tunneling. i've set up a port redirector that points
port 443 on the box to
hi,
before i try and do all the legwork on this one, i just wanted to check
that no-one had a prerolled solution to this one:
i'm trying to let myself connect to my linux box from work through our
Apache proxy's https tunneling. i've set up a port redirector that points
port 443 on the box to
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Bob Bernstein wrote:
Aha. Thanks for the tip. Stupid me though, it dawned on me, when I got the
pppupd package, that I'm using a new OpenBSD box for dialling up and that this
Linux machine is not the place I want to do the 'keepalive' work from.
Any clue as to a script
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
when I am logged on to my ISP and do a ps a I get the following:
/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
Does this mean I have something set wrong. My modem connects at 44-48000, so
this puzzles me.
This line refers actually to a program which is listening on
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Max Kamenetsky wrote:
This is truly bizarre, but I can't get rvplayer to work on my system. I'm
using kernel 2.2.3 with glibc2.1.1 and rvplayer segfaults every time I try
to start it. I'm attaching the full strace in the hope that someone knows
what's going on. It
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Simon Martin wrote:
1) sendmail.cf has been moved from /etc to /etc/mail, but the script
/etc/init.d/sendmail checks for the existence if the /etc/sendmail.cf
command before it executes anything.
There should be a file /etc/init.d/sendmail.dpkg-new -- you might want to
there's a debian package for it, `pppupd':
pppupd - Keeps a ppp connection alive
PPPupd, is a simple daemon which maintains a dialup PPP connection. PPPupd
is able to:
+ Execute a redial script, should the connection drop.
+ Send out periodic pings to keep a connection up, which
Probably a good idea long-term to subscribe to BUGTRAQ, or at least,
debian-security-announce. usually you'll have some leeway between
discovery of an exploit and potentially being attacked with it, but if
you're wide open for weeks it's definitely asking for trouble.
it's also worth shutting
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote:
I have never heard of linx
hugely off-topic, LINX is a big network access point (like
mae-[east|west]) in the u.k. (london internet exchange?)
..
please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is
xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this
has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or
not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly confidential?
It was confirmed by MS. See slashdot.org
hi,
not having much time, i thought i could shortcut the process of creating
myself a muttrc by asking someone to send me theirs (preferably someone
who subscribes to a lot of lists). i'm somewhat fed up with pine, but
don't want to devote the necessary time to learning (yet another) rc file
If you use sendmail, put the following in your sendmail.mc:
FEATURE(local_procmail, /usr/bin/procmail)dnl
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `procmail -Y -d $u')dnl
If you don't use sendmail, I don't know where to make the config change,
but you want to pass procmail the arguments above. $u is... uh,
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Michael E. Touloumtzis wrote:
Wilson Tuma wrote:
I just installed sendmail on my linux mail server. The problems is it only
accepts mail for my domain name (i.e local mail). My domain name name is
douala1.com and my mail server is m1.douala1.com
How do I
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
Is it possible to set some parameter to overcome this time
zone difference? The xntp3 docs did not give an aswer, so
I am assuming that it should be on the Linux side.
Erik,
Try 'tzconfig'.
..
please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Ionutz Borcoman wrote:
After installing some packages from Debain-JP, my delete and backspace
keys changed their behavior under X. Now they delete the character in
front of the prompt. Even Netscape behaves like this. Can somebody
please tell me where should I make the
Netscape Communicator's IMAP email client works very nicely with
Exchange's (rather strange implementation of an) IMAP server. Works with
public folders too...
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Leandro Dutra wrote:
From: Leandro Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'DebUsr' debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Sun,
set netscape to use 'play %s' in the 'helper applications' section of the
preferences. 'play' is in the 'sox' package.
this isn't the only answer, just the first off the top of my head.
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Ionutz Borcoman wrote:
From: Ionutz Borcoman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Debian Users
I have a couple of messages with about 1200+ messages in each as
MIME-digests (thanks to the braindead forwarding of microsoft exchange
server)
I was wondering if anyone had suggestions of a way to split these digests
up into folders of individual messages. Sadly, the obvious candidate, the
Physical security of the box in question is the only real measure you can
take (lock it in a box). Failing this, get a machine (some newer Compaq
workstations have this) that lets you restrict floppy booting with BIOS
and has a software case-lock.
It's hard to suggest any other measures other
Hi,
I'm trying to convert a colleague of mine from Slackware to Debian 2.0r2,
but we're not getting beyond the 'Loading Linux: ...' line with
the Tecra floppy. Likewise with 'linux floppy=thinkpad' or 'linux
floppy=nodma'. Tried booting into DOS and running d:\install\install.bat,
the
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote:
Is there a way to have mgetty (or something else) counting the number of
RING's it receives on the modem line? I want it to write the results with a
timestamp in a logfile, if possible.
You could use xringd to run a command every ring, something
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
I've a Postscript printer connected to one of the NT4.0
box in my local network. I'd like to know how would setup
my linux box so I can print from my Linux box to this
printer.
I'd suggest you
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Carroll Kong wrote:
utmp to work with sshd? I am using debian 2.0 glibc2... can that be affecting
sshd if sshd was compiled in libc5? Thanks in advance guys.
yes, you need ssh for hamm on a hamm system if you want utmp and wtmp to
work properly.
-thomas
--
To
On Sun, 3 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From what you just said, you question would better be worded: When will
2.x be reasonably stable for a non-experimental user? As a non-developer,
let me give you my best estimate:
Never. History will probably repeat itself and the project
4.0? using the staroffice3.deb package? how?
staroffice 4 on my hamm system just segv's (installed with its own
installer)
-thomas
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
I've installed both 4.0 and 3.1 in hamm using the debian installer with
minimal problems. I had installed 3.1 into bo
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
But weren't Microsoft found to have breached Stac's patent, rather than
stolen actual code? I think actual code would be harder to prove
than infringement of a patent.
Hmmm, from what I remember they had just lifted whole code segments from
Stacker
You might want to try this instead:
http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/
it's a little lcd display going for about $70 which will show you all
kinds of system information, including whether you have mail, etc.
-thomas
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
From: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
I have this in a file called `/etc/rc.boot/consoledpms':
#!/bin/sh
setterm -blank 15 -powersave powerdown
I couldn't get it to do anything other than 'suspend' on the console, and
'off' in X... probably depends on your videocard and monitor.
-thomas
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
shutdown -h 0?
just remember to save stuff first...
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Jorge Daniel Ruckj wrote:
Hi all.
How I do a shutdown if I use xdm?
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On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. I am planning to write in Java. Does the fact that Sun seems to have
control over the language itself affect the ability to apply the GPL or
similar liscences to Java software?
I don't believe the status of the language you code in affects
(Not wishing to contribute further to that pine thread...)
So, since we've got to have some packages distributed only as sources, how
about a little bit of extension to Debian's package management to handle
it nicely? One of the major reasons I use Debian is because I can make
sure I'm up to
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
As I understand it, the license forbids distribution of a modified
source or binary, but allows the distribution of patch files.
Did anyone ask UoW what their position is? I've not heard of them
prosecuting, and I'm sure there must be someone there who's
I've just upgraded my home system to the latest KDE available in hamm.
Most of it seems fine, except that certain elements no longer respond to
mouse clicks, or do not respond initially and can be 'coaxed' by lots of
clicking. Unfortunately, ony of the elements which doesn't respond is the
task
One of my debian boxes is becoming increasingly unstable, with general
protection faults and segfaults almost every day now.
I checked the RAM a couple of weeks ago with the memtest utility included
with hwtools (i think), and it didn't find any faults -- but I know this
doesn't mean the RAM's
ipfwadm -I -a reject -P udp -S 0.0.0.0/0 -W eth0 -D 209.109.31.9 177
works for me...
(btw, it's not a broadcast -- the client sends a UDP broadcast.)
-t
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
From: Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Kevin Traas wrote:
None of these dialin users (Win95 or WinNT WS) can browse the network
using Network Neighborhood. They get a Can't Browse Network message.
However, everything else works fine. I've got a WINS server running and the
Linux is a DNS server, so name
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Kevin Traas wrote:
Thanks for the comments. My apologies for not providing enough information.
I do have everything set properly as mentioned above. The Win95 clients
have the Log onto Network option checked and running winipcfg on them
reveals that DNS, WINS, IP,
Hmmm, I just upgraded some hamm packages (don't remember which, but they
changed in the last few days) and now my syslog gets
Feb 27 12:55:14 mu -- MARK --
in it every 20 minutes. Anybody else getting this?
TIA,
Thomas
M$ slips up in true Freudian style...
Seminar attendee: Why is
Hi,
Has anyone got diald running with an ISP who does not give you a static
IP? From what I can see the slip proxy that diald uses requires you to
know what address your localhost will be assigned beforehand -- which is
tricky if it changes every time you dial up. Has anyone experienced this
On 24 Feb 1998, Erv Walter wrote:
The slip proxy can have any ip you want. They are only used to trap
the network requests while the net is down anyway. For example, I
ahve remote set to 127.0.0.2 and local set to 127.0.0.3 for the
proxy. Diald will detect the new ip when you connect and
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, matthew tebbens wrote:
Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ?
I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 !
I heard that there is a portscand out there somewhere, if so where ?
You can't stop them beforehand. You can
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone else was feeling constrained in their choice of
MTA's on debian because of complaints about RFC1035 and their FQDN.
Neither smail or exim will work on my system, because, apparently, my
domain name does not comply to RFC1035 (if this is so, neither does
3com.com or
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
Heh.. thanks for the laugh.. I needed it today. But, yes, bo's biff is busted.
Nice rhyme... but actually biff does work if you use procmail as your MDA
instead of deliver (at least with sendmail). Send me mail if you want to
know the details (won't
I could append a ` -- -bpp 16' to in the xdm and other X
configuration files, but I'm not having much luck.
Any ideas?
TIA,
Thomas Lakofski.
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in computing since the Difference Engine! See http://www.opensource.org
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Thomas Lakofski.
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On 1 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The lady down the hall here at Pixar wrote biff, and she says that Biff
the Dog, after which it was named, wasn't very good at spelling. Any
inarticulate sound will do.
I don't suppose there's any surviving audio recording of Biff, is there? I
can't
is my #1 priority, however. Please contact me if you're
interested in putting something like this together.
Thomas.
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From: Thomas Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Anthony Landreneau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 13:48:31 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re
Probably a problem with the tcp wrappers and the dns entries for your
win95 box. By default on a Debian system, the wrappers look up the
hostname of incoming connections from the IP address, the lookup the
hostname to check that it matches the original IP (not much of a security
measure really).
No idea about the filter (sorry), but the kernel is easy. Grab
kernel-source and kernel-package packages, cd /usr/src/linux, 'make
menuconfig', make your choices (best to make everything you can but root
filesystem driver (ext2fs) and storage subsystem driver (scsi or ide)
in to modules. Then run
I think you're confusing the network client with the network protocol.
Win95 will quite happily see lanman servers running on TCP/IP, IPX/SPX or
NetBEUI, so it'll see samba just fine. If your machine is having a
problem with this, try adding TCP/IP to its network configuration, and
making sure
On 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam
and the mis-directed mail. What do you think?
Ummm, I guess we could:
- shut down the news gateway, and restrict posts to debian-user to those
who are subscribed to it, and make
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