Getting squid to ignore cached sites

2000-05-17 Thread Nathan Ridge
We have a series proxys caching our internal website (around 11 pops / proxys ) all running cisco routers so we can use transparent proxying in each location. We when make the changes at the main location it can sometimes take up to 3 days for the changes to filter through to the others pops. Is t

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

2000-05-17 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:43:20PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > At 07:29 PM 5/16/00 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote: > >Autoinstall (Red Hat's kickstart) > > This is also something fairly important. We need this as we do a > > lot of mass installs. > > For mass installs, just make a standard issue CD,

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

2000-05-17 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:44:18PM -0700, David Lynn wrote: > 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

What tape drive & backup tool ?

2000-05-17 Thread Eric Ravelomanantsoa
Hi all, I'm about to set up a Dell 1300 server and I'm wondering what tape drive should I buy for backup purpose. Suggestions from their e-commerce site are DAT 20/40 with autoloader, DLT 4000 20/40 or DLT 7000 35/70. Does anybody know if those are supported/any good ? Any success stories about a

Re: LDAP on debian

2000-05-17 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> Debian is using LDAP to authenticate users but I couldnt realize how it's > done. apt-get install pam-ldap, or sth like that, and then switch to ldap authentication using /etc/pam.d/* files.. i tried it, it works like a charm. it even supports md5 hashing, and i like it. > How to add/remove e

Re: mail server w/ 65000++ users

2000-05-17 Thread Robert Varga
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Mark Brown wrote: > 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,

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

2000-05-17 Thread tps
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:28:54PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:43:20PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > > At 07:29 PM 5/16/00 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote: > > >Autoinstall (Red Hat's kickstart) > > > This is also something fairly important. We need this as we do a > > > lot

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

2000-05-17 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris Wagner wrote: > RPM is a piece of crap compared to dpkg, and now we have apt (advanced > package tool). Can we please not be so negative about rpm? I'll agree that dpkg is better (and of course I'm completely not biased here :), but rpm is not a piece of crap. Wichert. -- ___

Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Welcome, my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs) daily. And it can't be done via network due to 'secret' nature of that data. I considered IDE disk put in hot-swap bay, but I found that's not the best way to do that: i got system on scsi disc, compiled ide-d

RE: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Ben Simpson
what about a Sony AIT tape drive. Kind of expensive. Not sure about the linux support. We have two of them and they are great and fast. Ben MCSE, CNA -Original Message- From: Dariush Pietrzak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:38 AM To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Dave Brookshire
| Welcome, | my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs) | daily. | And it can't be done via network due to 'secret' nature of that data. Umm...how about encrypting it prior to sending it across the network. I've used schemes such as piping data across an SSH proce

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

2000-05-17 Thread t s a d i
--- David Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > >

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

2000-05-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 19:29:39 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote: > Dpkg vs RPM > Both managability and build packages. I have heard a lot > of "good things" about dpkg. Have a look at http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp/ for a detailed overview by Joey Hess of various package management

Re: LDAP on debian

2000-05-17 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi > P.S. Does anyone know if there is there something wrong with the default > configuration of OpenLDAP in potato? I cannot connect to my server with > any of the command line (or other) tools. After a long time fiddling around I've finally managed to get it running. As far as I can tell now t

Re: LDAP on debian

2000-05-17 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 16, Christian Hammers scribbled: > Hi > > > P.S. Does anyone know if there is there something wrong with the default > > configuration of OpenLDAP in potato? I cannot connect to my server with > > any of the command line (or other) tools. > After a long time fiddling around I've finall

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Russell Coker
>| my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs) >| daily. >| And it can't be done via network due to 'secret' nature of that data. > >Umm...how about encrypting it prior to sending it across the network. >I've used schemes such as piping data across an SSH process to

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

2000-05-17 Thread Steve Morocho
I agree, rpm is not a piece of crap. deb packages are a lot harder to create for the novice users. There is not much documentation to help in this area either. Also, when updates are released .debs are usually the last to be released (because someone usually has to hack an .rpm or something s

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs) > daily. We do something similar to this. > And it can't be done via network due to 'secret' nature of that data. We do it by having a second NIC card on the machines using in

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

2000-05-17 Thread Chris Wagner
I have to disagree there. I've found Debian packs to be extremely up to date, atleast on the security end. And even on routine maintanance, the lag is not that bad. At 08:44 PM 5/16/00 -0700, David Lynn wrote: >I agree - dpkg and apt are great compared to rpm's. However, that's all >assuming th

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

2000-05-17 Thread Chris Wagner
The only real difference between stable and unstable is that unstable has up to date packages. The only thing stable has over unstable is the track history of "yeah all this stuff has worked together for a LONG time". At 12:16 AM 5/17/00 -0400, Will Lowe wrote: >Actually, unstable is usually pret

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

2000-05-17 Thread Chris Wagner
Sorry, but I was so underwhelmed by rpm's capabilities and my reaction was so one sidedly negative that I can't describe it any other way. It is what I typed. At 02:55 PM 5/17/00 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >Previously Chris Wagner wrote: >> RPM is a piece of crap compared to dpkg, and now we

Re: What tape drive & backup tool ?

2000-05-17 Thread Chris Wagner
I used a standard low cost IDE HP Travan tape drive using TR4 cartridges and it worked fine. Though every once and a while it would complain and I'ld have to take the tape out an put it back in. For non-insane applications this would be adequate. A simple tar script run out of cron kept me alive

Transparent proxy question.

2000-05-17 Thread Nathan Ridge
Have setup transparent proxy using an access-list on a Cisco 1603 and running ipchains to forward packets to squid on the proxy. When I have the proxy set ( manual http proxy ) it works fine, but when proxy is disable and transparent should take affect this is what happends: Packet gets forwarded

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

2000-05-17 Thread Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta
Folks, I have used dpkg, and been forced to use rpm, and rpm is just as good, more or less. The problem is that there is nothing equivalent to dselect or apt in RedHat. I rarely call dpkg directly, unless libc6 is stuck again ;-), but the nearest that RedHat has to a mid-level tool is GnoRPM, whi

Logging a POP3 session

2000-05-17 Thread Daniel Quinlan
hi, we have a client who is claiming he's not receiving all his email. people are apparently sending him messages and he's not receiving it. oh, and his PA is reading his mail as well, but she 'swears she never deletes anything' I've checked the exim logs and all the mail is delivered t

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta
Dariush, Assuming you are worried by people with promiscuous ethernet cards, packet-sniffing. Put in a second NIC, run a crossover UTP? I assume the machine's are close by. Hotswapping a hard disk seems risky, if you do it daily. On the other hand, if you are not CPU constrained, run PPTP or

Re: Logging a POP3 session

2000-05-17 Thread Chris Wagner
At 02:11 AM 5/18/00 GMT, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > system: > Debian 2.1 > exim 2.05-2 > qpopper 2.3-4 CuCiPOP tells you how many messages were downloaded by default. :) If that log says 10 messages were pulled, then HE DID download 10 messages. If that number syncs up with what exim says it de

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread cfm
Have you looked at the swappable disks broadcasters use? > > - Original Message - > From: Dariush Pietrzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Cc: ; > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:37 PM > Subject: Transfer data between two comps without network > > > > Welcome, > > my problem is that I hav

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

2000-05-17 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Sanjeev Ghane Gupta: > I have used dpkg, and been forced to use rpm, and rpm is just as > good, more or less. Actually, from what I've been told, rpm has at least one serious technical flaw: The order of execution for pre-install and post-install scripts is nonsensical for upgrades.

Mass install / Autoinstall (Was: Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.)

2000-05-17 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeremy> Autoinstall (Red Hat's kickstart) Jeremy> This is also something fairly important. We need this as we do a Jeremy> lot of mass installs. The best way to do that that I've found so far is to set up a box wi