Mass installation procedure for Debian?

2002-02-02 Thread Oliver Andrich
Hi, I have to deal in the near future with a lot of Debian machines, that I will setup and configure for two customers. I like to develop or use some mechanism for mass installation of these machines, and for easily setting up a spare part machine if one crashes. Basically, I like to do somethin

Re: Mass installation procedure for Debian?

2002-02-02 Thread Alexander List
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Oliver Andrich wrote: > I have to deal in the near future with a lot of Debian machines, that I will > setup and configure for two customers. I like to develop or use some mechanism > for mass installation of these machines, and for easily s

Re: recheck for new partition without reboot?

2002-02-02 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 06:09:15PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I added a new partition (/dev/sda8). (Other partitions were already in > use.) > > Is there any tool or kernel module to recognize this device without > rebooting? I guess cfdisk calls some ioctls to force kernel to reread the new

Re: unstable is "unstable"; stable is "outdated"

2002-02-02 Thread Ivan Jager
Donovan Baarda wrote: > > What do you think of having a mini distribution that limits the number of > > packages allowed? > > Why not just call it "debian-core". Then you can have "debian-gnome", > "debian-kde", "debian-xfree" etc. Each of these can be implemented as > seperate distro's with thei

Re: Postfix Remote Client Relay

2002-02-02 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01/02/02, Gene Grimm wrote: > We are trying to configure our new Postfix mail server to allow relay for a > new remote client. Our configuration file currently includes the following > directive in main.cf: > smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, > check_client_access hash:/et

Re: Mass installation procedure for Debian?

2002-02-02 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Oliver Andrich wrote: > I hacked up a crude solution for this yet. I took the dpkg -l output of an > existing machine, put it in a "this depends on that table" and selected all > packages which nothing depends on. So, I have the list which installs the Have a look at dpkg(8)'

Re: recheck for new partition without reboot?

2002-02-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 02:02:31PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 06:09:15PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > I added a new partition (/dev/sda8). (Other partitions were already in > > use.) > > > > Is there any tool or kernel module to recognize this device without > > re

postfix with LDAP smtp authentication

2002-02-02 Thread Paul Fleischer
Hey, I am considering using postfix as mail server, working completely with LDAP as database backend. I got everything working, but smtp authentication with LDAP. I have searched around, but could not find anything related with direct LDAP authentication, only SASL which too me looks like introd

*****SPAM***** Re: unstable is "unstable"; stable is "outdated"]

2002-02-02 Thread Jason Lim
Hi, Thank you for telling me. Unfortunately, Spews and OSIRUS (they use Spews' list, so essentially the same applies) have listed many ISPs in Hong Kong and around Asia, meaning many of us over here are blocked from sending emails to the USA if a company uses Spews. That is why we suggest that b

Re: unstable is "unstable"; stable is "outdated"

2002-02-02 Thread Jason Lim
> > > > This paritions the dependancies, making it all easier to manage, speeding > > the release cycle and potentialy allowing people to mix-n-match stable-core > > with unstable-gnome if they wish. > > So do you mean that these sub-distros don't have any dependencies on any > packages within th

Mass installation procedure for Debian?

2002-02-02 Thread Oliver Andrich
Hi, I have to deal in the near future with a lot of Debian machines, that I will setup and configure for two customers. I like to develop or use some mechanism for mass installation of these machines, and for easily setting up a spare part machine if one crashes. Basically, I like to do something

Re: Mass installation procedure for Debian?

2002-02-02 Thread Alexander List
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Oliver Andrich wrote: > I have to deal in the near future with a lot of Debian machines, that I will > setup and configure for two customers. I like to develop or use some mechanism > for mass installation of these machines, and for easily se

Re: recheck for new partition without reboot?

2002-02-02 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 06:09:15PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I added a new partition (/dev/sda8). (Other partitions were already in > use.) > > Is there any tool or kernel module to recognize this device without > rebooting? I guess cfdisk calls some ioctls to force kernel to reread the new

Re: unstable is "unstable"; stable is "outdated"

2002-02-02 Thread Ivan Jager
Donovan Baarda wrote: > > What do you think of having a mini distribution that limits the number of > > packages allowed? > > Why not just call it "debian-core". Then you can have "debian-gnome", > "debian-kde", "debian-xfree" etc. Each of these can be implemented as > seperate distro's with their

Re: Postfix Remote Client Relay

2002-02-02 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01/02/02, Gene Grimm wrote: > We are trying to configure our new Postfix mail server to allow relay for a > new remote client. Our configuration file currently includes the following > directive in main.cf: > smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, > check_client_access hash:/etc

Re: Mass installation procedure for Debian?

2002-02-02 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Oliver Andrich wrote: > I hacked up a crude solution for this yet. I took the dpkg -l output of an > existing machine, put it in a "this depends on that table" and selected all > packages which nothing depends on. So, I have the list which installs the Have a look at dpkg(8)'s

Re: recheck for new partition without reboot?

2002-02-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 02:02:31PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 06:09:15PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > I added a new partition (/dev/sda8). (Other partitions were already in > > use.) > > > > Is there any tool or kernel module to recognize this device without > > reb

postfix with LDAP smtp authentication

2002-02-02 Thread Paul Fleischer
Hey, I am considering using postfix as mail server, working completely with LDAP as database backend. I got everything working, but smtp authentication with LDAP. I have searched around, but could not find anything related with direct LDAP authentication, only SASL which too me looks like introdu