Re: q ad ftp- w/o system-accounts

2001-07-30 Thread Haim Dimermanas
Hey Robert, I strongly suggest you take a look at ProFTPd with the LDAP or MySQL modules. You can put all your users information in a directory or an SQL database (homedir, username, pass, etc) and have the FTP server look in there. For more info on how to set it up, take a look at the doc I w

need advise: productive HDD is down

2001-07-30 Thread Dmitry Litovchenko
Hello All! On Friday during thunderstorm productive HDD on our mail machine, though being connected through UPS, fallen down with interesting symptoms. Is boots as usually, LILO and other stuff but when it is time to mount root partition, kernel panics with error "Cannot mount root". When connec

Re: Little Exim questions

2001-07-30 Thread Robert Davidson
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:05:18PM +0300, Antti Tolamo wrote: > At 22:32 29.7.2001, you wrote: > > >What could pause Exim server to slow down considerably when sending > >mail? > > > >I just fixed problem with hosts file, and it worked well but few hours > >later it has > >started to slow despit

help with ssl

2001-07-30 Thread Kris Blackwood
Hi, I just installed ssl with the command: apt-get install openssl and here is the message I got: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: webmin: Dep

Re: help with ssl

2001-07-30 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Hi, I would suggest starting dselect, Update, Select, press , and look at the dependencies. HTH -- Sanjeev Gupta Brainbench Linux MVP On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Kris Blackwood wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed ssl with the command: > > apt-get install openssl > and here is the message I got: >

Unidentified subject!

2001-07-30 Thread Kris Blackwood
Hi.I just installed debian and thought I had things worked out. I am having problems using apt and not sure if I installed it. How can I check? Thanks Kris __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Mes

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-07-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Kris Blackwood wrote: > I am having problems using apt and not sure if I > installed it. > > How can I check? Run /usr/bin/apt-get and it will tell you the version and options. "dpkg --list apt" or "dpkg --status apt" will also tell you if it is installed. Please use a s

a few newbie problems

2001-07-30 Thread Kris Blackwood
I checked to see if apt is installed and it is. Everytime I try to apt-get install xxx I get this error: Here I tried to install Imagemagick debian:/home/mo# apt-get install imagemagick Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to

Re: a few newbie problems

2001-07-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Kris Blackwood wrote: > debian:/home/mo# apt-get install imagemagick > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct > these: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet > dependencies: > imagemag

Re: a few newbie problems

2001-07-30 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Kris, You mention this is the first time you are on Debian, so excuse the basics: Can you do an apt-get update This should show you between 3 and 9 lines of [Hit] or so. Reply back, we will nail thin ;-) On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Kris Blackwood wrote: > I checked to see if apt is installed

Re: q ad ftp- w/o system-accounts

2001-07-30 Thread Robert Waldner
>Robert Waldner wrote: >> (This is probably a PAM-question, too, but..) >> >> I just got cyrus to work w/o having system- (eg shell-) accounts, but >> now I need to get ftp to work also :/ >> >> proftpd uses PAM, which is good as there´s pam_userdb.so. This far I´m >> sufficiently clued. But