Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-16 Thread Will Lowe
[i've removed the cc's to -user and -dpkg] > I agree - dpkg and apt are great compared to rpm's. However, that's all > assuming that there are debian packages out there that are up to date > (which they're generally not). Actually, unstable is usually pretty close to up-to-date. I know (of) q

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:48:02PM -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote: > > I'm a long time Red Hat user. Basically the company I'm working for is > currently using Red Hat but for some reason they're considering switching > to Debian. I personally don't have any experience with Debian abd > honestly I'm

Re: oracle and debian

2000-05-16 Thread Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta
Trimming CCs I was running this in my old company, and it's still up and going. Debian Slink, with some potato stuff, but not libc. 256MB RAM (please do not skimp). Oracle 8.0.5 mostly, although installing OAS 4.0 forced many upgrades, so I think we may be closer to 8.1.5, actually. Need to ch

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-16 Thread David Lynn
I agree - dpkg and apt are great compared to rpm's. However, that's all assuming that there are debian packages out there that are up to date (which they're generally not). But this seems to be the only major drawback I've found to Debian. --d

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-16 Thread Chris Wagner
At 07:29 PM 5/16/00 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote: >I'm a long time Red Hat user. Basically the company I'm working for is Sorry about that. :) >Dpkg vs RPM RPM is a piece of crap compared to dpkg, and now we have apt (advanced package tool). It's a handler for dpkg, but it's intelligent. The ki

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-16 Thread Nathan
Dpkg beats RPM hands down for anyone who has to actualy administer a number of boxes and wants everything as automatic as possible (for upgrades). As far as being able to customize the distro - go all out. You can of course edit config files at the "vi" level ;) There are also tools to take the

Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-16 Thread Jeremy Hansen
I'm a long time Red Hat user. Basically the company I'm working for is currently using Red Hat but for some reason they're considering switching to Debian. I personally don't have any experience with Debian abd honestly I'm open to anything but I was hoping for some positive feedback from people

Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-16 Thread Jeremy Hansen
I'm a long time Red Hat user. Basically the company I'm working for is currently using Red Hat but for some reason they're considering switching to Debian. I personally don't have any experience with Debian abd honestly I'm open to anything but I was hoping for some positive feedback from people

Re: Satellite connection....

2000-05-16 Thread Patrick Vermeij
Hi I get since last week this message (by mail and in console): Warning: OperatorChars is being redefined. It should only be set before ruleset definitions. What doet is mean a what can I do about it? Patrick

Re: mail server w/ 65000++ users

2000-05-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 12:28:40PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > Its documentation is a joke I think. It is 800 pages, but unusable for > anything but reading it from the start, but if you want to search in it > quickly and haven't read it before, because you just want to put in > something, then i

RE: POP3 Authentication to a remote server

2000-05-16 Thread Robert H. Clugston
I've gotten it to work. I just added the PAM-RADIUS module, setup my conf. file for cucipop to use PAM-RADIUS, then added a host entry for my machine in my radius server. I'm using Debian 2.2 because the PAM setup is 10 times easier than 2.1 . -Original Message- From: Nathan Ridge [mai

Re: Tape Backup Problem

2000-05-16 Thread Kevin
I had the same problem, but I had a scsi HP and I only tried taper. I was using 2.2.12 with slink. Kevin - Original Message - From: "JoeCool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:18 AM Subject: Tape Backup Problem Hi All, I've been trying t

Tape Backup Problem

2000-05-16 Thread JoeCool
Hi All, I've been trying to get tape backup working on a server and almost everytime I attempt to backup files to the tape drive the machine goes crazy. The load goes sky high (way over 100.00) and it stops responding to everything. Maybe someone out there has some insight on the problem. Specs:

Re: LDAP on debian

2000-05-16 Thread Fraser Campbell
Carlos Barros wrote: > Is there any HOWTO's > Is there any text explaining how does it work? I mean The guide explain how > to get, untar, configure, compile, install, run, change things, what it is, > netscape... The beginnings of a HOWTO is available at http://www.ice-works.com/personal/LaterDu

LDAP on debian

2000-05-16 Thread Carlos Barros
Well, I don't know where to start. Well... There's someone who want to learn LDAP (ME :) Debian is using LDAP to authenticate users but I couldnt realize how it's done. The LDAP-guide is not well documented and I don't understand it very well... The first problem is to setup an LDAP server. H

Re: Satellite connection....

2000-05-16 Thread Torsten Krueger
Hello, On Tue, 16 May 2000, Jerzy Miszczyk wrote: > Hello all > > Is there a Linux solution utilising satellite technology? Normaly it > requires a standard connection (modem, leased line) to an ISP and data > download happens via satellite. Solutions known to me support MS Win > environm

Re: Satellite connection....

2000-05-16 Thread Cherubini Enrico
Ciao, Tue, May 16, 2000 at 12:43:30PM +, Jerzy Miszczyk wrote: > Hello all > > Is there a Linux solution utilising satellite technology? Normaly it > requires a standard connection (modem, leased line) to an ISP and data > download happens via satellite. Solutions known to me support M

Satellite connection....

2000-05-16 Thread Jerzy Miszczyk
Hello all Is there a Linux solution utilising satellite technology? Normaly it requires a standard connection (modem, leased line) to an ISP and data download happens via satellite. Solutions known to me support MS Win environment. It is possible to configure with a special card a "satellit

Re: mail server w/ 65000++ users

2000-05-16 Thread Robert Varga
Exim: Its documentation is a joke I think. It is 800 pages, but unusable for anything but reading it from the start, but if you want to search in it quickly and haven't read it before, because you just want to put in something, then it is unusable. Features: probably rich enough. Speed: much sl