Re: Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: ... I'll be using it for high-end 3D visualization, high throughput data processing (filtering many Gbytes) and at night our developers will run their builds on it. Should be fun... The system I want to see is a bunch of Apple G5s doing distributed

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d (SOLVED!)

2003-09-27 Thread Michael Hipp
Well, problem solved. Turns out things were NOT authenticating correctly on normal logins, hence ipop3d couldn't either. It fooled me because everything I was doing used ssh keys to get in. Anyway, it does not work to copy the user entries from /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group,

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d

2003-09-27 Thread James McDonald
Michael Hipp wrote: I just did a clean install of RH9 on a server that was running RH8, everything is working great except that ipop3d won't authenticate any users. Just says Bad authentication. This was working fine on RH8 and I don't remember putting any real effort into getting it working.

Re: Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Michael Hipp
Alan Jackson wrote: Well I got a Linux box at work last week. On my desk. This is significant, because we are looking to replace all Unix desktops with Linux over the next couple of years (about 5000 systems). I'm the local guinea pig. It's a pretty good box. It's an HP with dual 3 Ghz Xeons,

Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Alan Jackson
Well I got a Linux box at work last week. On my desk. This is significant, because we are looking to replace all Unix desktops with Linux over the next couple of years (about 5000 systems). I'm the local guinea pig. It's a pretty good box. It's an HP with dual 3 Ghz Xeons, 4 Gb ram, and an

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d (SOLVED!)

2003-09-27 Thread burns
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 20:49, Bill Campbell wrote: FWIW, tcpflow is a program that's very useful for debugging things like this. It is very similar to tcpdump except that it creates files for each connection (e.g. one for the connection from the pop/imap client to the server, and another for

Re: Swen

2003-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: Oh, this is just *too* ridiculous. I log my spam rejections and keep a graph of rejected connection attempts to my SMTP server. Thanks to Swen, on 24 September, Postfix rejected 4628 attempts just from hosts lacking hostnames that resolve to known IP address.

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d (SOLVED!)

2003-09-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth burns: On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 20:49, Bill Campbell wrote: FWIW, tcpflow is a program that's very useful for debugging things like this. It is very similar to tcpdump except that it creates files for each connection (e.g. one for the connection from the pop/imap client to the

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d (SOLVED!)

2003-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Well, problem solved. Turns out things were NOT authenticating correctly on normal logins, hence ipop3d couldn't either. It fooled me because everything I was doing used ssh keys to get in. I'm glad you figured it out. FWIW, tcpflow is a program that's

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d (SOLVED!)

2003-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003, burns wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 20:49, Bill Campbell wrote: FWIW, tcpflow is a program that's very useful for debugging things like this. It is very similar to tcpdump except that it creates files for each connection (e.g. one for the connection from the pop/imap

Re: Swen

2003-09-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Bill Campbell: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: Oh, this is just *too* ridiculous. I log my spam rejections and keep a graph of rejected connection attempts to my SMTP server. Thanks to Swen, on 24 September, Postfix rejected 4628 attempts just from hosts lacking hostnames that

strange problem with checkinstall and spamassassin

2003-09-27 Thread M.W. Chang
I was trying to install Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60 from tarball. Perl Makefile.PL make checkinstall I ran into this error: Installing RPM package... FAILED! *** Failed to install the package Do you want to see the log file? [y]: error: cannot open file

[Fwd: samba-3.0.0]

2003-09-27 Thread toylet
Original Message Subject: samba-3.0.0 Date: 26 Sep 2003 21:33:09 +0800 From: toylet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Hong Kong PC User Group http://www.hkpcug.org Newsgroups: hkpcug.linux anyone successfully compiled it from source? I hit an error: Linking bin/smbd

Re: strange problem with checkinstall and spamassassin

2003-09-27 Thread Federico Voges
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 13:17:41 +0800, M.W. Chang wrote: I was trying to install Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60 from tarball. Perl Makefile.PL make checkinstall I ran into this error: Installing RPM package... FAILED! *** Failed to install the package Do you want to see the log file? [y]: error:

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d (SOLVED!)

2003-09-27 Thread Keith Morse
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Well, problem solved. Turns out things were NOT authenticating correctly on normal logins, hence ipop3d couldn't either. It fooled me because everything I was doing used ssh keys to get in. I must have glossed over that part of your mail. I thought

Re: strange problem with checkinstall and spamassassin

2003-09-27 Thread M.W. Chang
I don't have the error with other packages. that's really strange Federico Voges wrote: error: cannot open file /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60-1.i386. rpm: No such file or directory why would there be a redhat word when I am using caldera OpenLinux system? Nope, it's just

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d (SOLVED!)

2003-09-27 Thread burns
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 21:19, Kurt Wall wrote: http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/tcpflow/ domo aregato, kurt-san (or something like that) -- burns ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: Networking issues

2003-09-27 Thread David A. Bandel
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:25:43 -0700 (PDT) Brad De Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a network of WinXX PC's with a single Linux box acting as the gateway/firewall/dhcp server/e-mail server/etc. My Linux box connects to the ISP via 128K ISDN dial-up line (too far away for DSL and cable is

Re: Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Alan Jackson wrote: Well I got a Linux box at work last week. On my desk. This is significant, because we are looking to replace all Unix desktops with Linux over the next couple of years (about 5000 systems). I'm the local guinea pig. It's

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d (SOLVED!)

2003-09-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth burns: On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 21:19, Kurt Wall wrote: http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/tcpflow/ domo aregato, kurt-san (or something like that) You're welcome, I think, Burns-san. Kurt -- Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny--

Re: Can't authenticate to ipop3d (SOLVED!)

2003-09-27 Thread Michael Hipp
Keith Morse wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Well, problem solved. Turns out things were NOT authenticating correctly on normal logins, hence ipop3d couldn't either. It fooled me because everything I was doing used ssh keys to get in. I must have glossed over that part of your

Re: Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Ben Duncan
Same reason some of my Servers that exposed to the internet run COL E2.3 - with all the latest patches/security updates - of course. BFWIW - I am deploying SuSe 8.3 on desktop/Workstations these days. It seems to be really stable and flat out WORKS with everthing I have thrown at it, at the

Footers in Enscript

2003-09-27 Thread Joel Hammer
I may be missing something obvious, but: The enscript (1.6.3) man page claims that the footer option works just like the header option, but, when I try it I get no footers in the output. Looking at the postscript output shows that although my footer string is indeed in the postscript file, there

[OT] Re: Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Shawn L Johnston
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 10:30, Ben Duncan wrote: Same reason some of my Servers that exposed to the internet run COL E2.3 - with all the latest patches/security updates - of course. BFWIW - I am deploying SuSe 8.3 on desktop/Workstations these days. It seems to be really stable and flat out

Re: Footers in Enscript

2003-09-27 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, it looks like if you want footers you sorta have to roll your own. My solution is attached below. I guess there is no do_footer routine because the do_header routine does the footers, too, at least in some circumstances. There happens to be a supplied fancy header a2ps.hdr which also prints

linux network administration guide

2003-09-27 Thread zohar
I want to know about various configuration files in Linux. I tried Linux network administration guide of Orally but that book was made in 2000 and also does not over many of the configuration files of system utilities. Can you please help me to go to correct web page . Thanx in advance. Zohar

linux network administration guide

2003-09-27 Thread zohar
I want to know about various configuration files in Linux, its various variables and values it mean and what all values it supports. I tried Linux network administration guide of Orally but that book was made in 2000 and also does not cover many of the configuration files of system utilities. Can

onfiguration files

2003-09-27 Thread zohar
I want to know about various configuration files in Linux, its various variables and values it mean and what all values it supports. I tried Linux network administration guide of Orally but that book was made in 2000 and also does not cover many of the configuration files of system utilities. Can

Re: Networking issues

2003-09-27 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I've had issues using ifconfig to set MTU. Also, if the problem is MTU, you'll want to set your Windows system MTU down as well... I believe Windows is not very good at responding correctly to the ICMP messages which control transmission size. It just makes everything cleaner. Try the Linux

fmt: How to skip some text?

2003-09-27 Thread Joel Hammer
I want to use fmt in vi to format text, eg: :1,$ ! fmt -w 130 Without vi, this command would look like: cat file ! fmt -w 130 I want it to format everything except lines which begin with at least two blanks, like this: 1. My list First Second Third Is

Re: fmt: How to skip some text?

2003-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: I want to use fmt in vi to format text, eg: :1,$ ! fmt -w 130 Without vi, this command would look like: cat file ! fmt -w 130 I want it to format everything except lines which begin with at least two blanks, like this: Extend your