Adding new network service - how?

2000-06-27 Thread Art Sackett
n internet-connected machine.) I know it has to be an easy, probably obvious, operation to get this port opened up, I just cannot find it. Any help anyone can provide would be appreciated. -- Art Sackett

Re: Adding new network service - how?

2000-06-27 Thread Art Sackett
is keeping me awake... I know it's asking for trouble to keep pounding on it, but staring at the ceiling wasn't doing me any good, anyway. Need more coffee... 8^| -- Art Sackett

Re: Adding new network service - how?

2000-06-27 Thread Art Sackett
, by printing to STDERR on every connection before anything else happens. When it doesn't work, it's not making any noise at all, and all I see is iplogger making notes in /etc/syslog. Back to hair-tearing and swearing... -- Art Sackett

Re: Adding new network service - how?

2000-06-27 Thread Art Sackett
to all who took the time to try to pull my head out! -- ---- Art Sackett

Re: pop3 server,

2000-06-27 Thread Art Sackett
e since we're a small shop and all outbound mail comes from the local net. -- Art Sackett

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-12 Thread Art Sackett
make me right, just serves to illustrate why I feel my opinion might be worth considering. I could be wrong, but I highly recommend Western Digital EIDE drives. -- Art Sackett

Re: only POP3

2000-07-18 Thread Art Sackett
o administer than sendmail or smail, and it's allegedly a lot more secure, too. -- Art Sackett

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread Art Sackett
ngs so that the right signal lines are paired, and have seen more noise-related problems as a result of illogical pairings than short runs of parallel conductors. -- Art Sackett

Re: fiber

2000-07-26 Thread Art Sackett
y respected names in the business to believe that just because they're selling it, it's right. -- Art Sackett

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-21 Thread Art Sackett
(the 'idepci' image) but I'm kinda nervous now... -- Art Sackett

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-21 Thread Art Sackett
m quite a few folks that the 3C905C is unsupported, but in each case have found that they were trying to use the common Linux driver, not the one provided by 3Com. Whether or not potato's '905 driver is the old one or something newer I don't know. -- Art Sackett Art S

Re: how to restrict user logons

2000-08-28 Thread Art Sackett
l (in /etc/passwd) to be a symlink, say, /bin/timelock, then just wiggling the symlink twice per day via cron to target either /bin/false or /bin/bash, as appropriate? -- ---- Art Sackett

Re: how to restrict user logons

2000-08-28 Thread Art Sackett
ion, but (perhaps incorrectly) assumed that there was some reason that the OA didn't want to go that route. Every now and then, I get the overwhelming compulsion to put one or both feet into my mouth... -- Art Sackett

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-29 Thread Art Sackett
constantly interrupted and more-or-less autopiloting my way through the procedure, trusting it to be a lot like it has been in the past... it worked, I'm happy, can't ask for much more than that. -- Art Sackett

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-29 Thread Art Sackett
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:08:53PM -0600, Art Sackett wrote: > ('compact' is sporting a 2.2.14pre-something Dump typo from a poorly-skilled keyboard operator. 2.2.17pre-something. -- Art Sackett

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Art Sackett
gt; to generate dynamic websites. If you don't need record-level locking, rollbacks, etc. then I would recommend MySQL, simply because it's very fast. -- Art Sackett

Re: Little script help please

2000-09-07 Thread Art Sackett
r of CGI.pm. I don't wish to offend, but don't really know what else to say. I don't even see why the thing you wrote does anything at all... seems like it should bark and die straight away. It surely would if you had warnings enabled. Back to the ole drawing board, I think. Have a

Re: Qmail and Debian

2000-09-12 Thread Art Sackett
er modified /etc/init.d/qmail to put the thing to work, which now requires going in and manually editing. It's easy if you know to do it, but it would be easier if the installer asked which services you wanted to enable. Art Sackett

Re: Qmail and Debian

2000-09-13 Thread Art Sackett
ort-agent will want to go with it unless you work around it somehow. I'm one who'd just as soon never use dpkg --force, and can't see installing the equivs package when I'm only going to need it for about a minute. Art Sackett

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-14 Thread Art Sackett
those kinds of things. > > Are these things just malformed packets / frames sent to some machine > or what? > I think versions of WinDos are vulnerable. http://www.insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html -- Art Sackett

Re: logcheck

2000-09-19 Thread Art Sackett
st PAM_unix[322]: (su) session opened for user nobody > by (uid=0) Likely, it's logrotate or somebody else who starts as nobody but has to get root to move things around. At least, that's the normal, non-threatening thing that probably happens every morning at about the same time, I'd guess. -- Art Sackett

Re: which dns server to use ?

2003-04-08 Thread Art Sackett
n using djbdns for a few years now, and I'm not aware of any interoperability/compatibility problems between it and BIND. I've been perfectly happy with djbdns. -- Art Sackett http://www.artsackett.com/ PGP/GPG Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (autoresponder) There are no winners in life, only survivors.

Re: daily apache-ssl reload is causing probs

2003-04-16 Thread Art Sackett
fi So, there's at least one way to get a USR1 sent to apache-ssl. -- Art Sackett http://www.artsackett.com/ PGP/GPG Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (autoresponder) In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart. -- Ann Frank

Re: daily apache-ssl reload is causing probs

2003-04-16 Thread Art Sackett
/crontabs/* perhaps? The files in that directory are the per-user crontabs, BTW. -- ---- Art Sackett http://www.artsackett.com/ PGP/GPG Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (autoresponder) Many people are desperately looking for some wise advice which will recommend that they do what they want to do.

Re: Help een dwerg

2003-05-01 Thread Art Sackett
7;s an interesting bit of logic, blaming the list server software for not working around the limitations of your mail reader. I dunno... -- Art Sackett http://www.artsackett.com/ PGP/GPG Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (autoresponder) A company is known by the men it keeps.

Re: Help een dwerg

2003-05-02 Thread Art Sackett
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 02:49:44PM +1000, Tarragon Allen wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2003 02:20 pm, Art Sackett wrote: > > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:00:18AM +1000, Tarragon Allen wrote: > > > > 8< snip >8 8< snip >8 > > It's an interesting bit of log

Adding new network service - how?

2000-06-27 Thread Art Sackett
n internet-connected machine.) I know it has to be an easy, probably obvious, operation to get this port opened up, I just cannot find it. Any help anyone can provide would be appreciated. -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: Adding new network service - how?

2000-06-27 Thread Art Sackett
is keeping me awake... I know it's asking for trouble to keep pounding on it, but staring at the ceiling wasn't doing me any good, anyway. Need more coffee... 8^| -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adding new network service - how?

2000-06-27 Thread Art Sackett
, by printing to STDERR on every connection before anything else happens. When it doesn't work, it's not making any noise at all, and all I see is iplogger making notes in /etc/syslog. Back to hair-tearing and swearing... -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Adding new network service - how?

2000-06-27 Thread Art Sackett
to all who took the time to try to pull my head out! -- ---- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pop3 server,

2000-06-27 Thread Art Sackett
e since we're a small shop and all outbound mail comes from the local net. -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Art Sackett
make me right, just serves to illustrate why I feel my opinion might be worth considering. I could be wrong, but I highly recommend Western Digital EIDE drives. -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: only POP3

2000-07-18 Thread Art Sackett
o administer than sendmail or smail, and it's allegedly a lot more secure, too. -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread Art Sackett
ngs so that the right signal lines are paired, and have seen more noise-related problems as a result of illogical pairings than short runs of parallel conductors. -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fiber

2000-07-26 Thread Art Sackett
y respected names in the business to believe that just because they're selling it, it's right. -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-21 Thread Art Sackett
(the 'idepci' image) but I'm kinda nervous now... -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-21 Thread Art Sackett
m quite a few folks that the 3C905C is unsupported, but in each case have found that they were trying to use the common Linux driver, not the one provided by 3Com. Whether or not potato's '905 driver is the old one or something newer I don't know. -- Art Sackett Art S

Re: how to restrict user logons

2000-08-28 Thread Art Sackett
l (in /etc/passwd) to be a symlink, say, /bin/timelock, then just wiggling the symlink twice per day via cron to target either /bin/false or /bin/bash, as appropriate? -- ---- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to restrict user logons

2000-08-28 Thread Art Sackett
inclination, but (perhaps incorrectly) assumed that there was some reason that the OA didn't want to go that route. Every now and then, I get the overwhelming compulsion to put one or both feet into my mouth... -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-29 Thread Art Sackett
ng constantly interrupted and more-or-less autopiloting my way through the procedure, trusting it to be a lot like it has been in the past... it worked, I'm happy, can't ask for much more than that. -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-29 Thread Art Sackett
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:08:53PM -0600, Art Sackett wrote: > ('compact' is sporting a 2.2.14pre-something Dump typo from a poorly-skilled keyboard operator. 2.2.17pre-something. -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Art Sackett
gt; to generate dynamic websites. If you don't need record-level locking, rollbacks, etc. then I would recommend MySQL, simply because it's very fast. -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Little script help please

2000-09-07 Thread Art Sackett
r of CGI.pm. I don't wish to offend, but don't really know what else to say. I don't even see why the thing you wrote does anything at all... seems like it should bark and die straight away. It surely would if you had warnings enabled. Back to the ole drawing board, I think. Have a

Re: Qmail and Debian

2000-09-12 Thread Art Sackett
er modified /etc/init.d/qmail to put the thing to work, which now requires going in and manually editing. It's easy if you know to do it, but it would be easier if the installer asked which services you wanted to enable. Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Qmail and Debian

2000-09-13 Thread Art Sackett
ort-agent will want to go with it unless you work around it somehow. I'm one who'd just as soon never use dpkg --force, and can't see installing the equivs package when I'm only going to need it for about a minute. Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-14 Thread Art Sackett
those kinds of things. > > Are these things just malformed packets / frames sent to some machine > or what? > I think versions of WinDos are vulnerable. http://www.insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: logcheck

2000-09-19 Thread Art Sackett
st PAM_unix[322]: (su) session opened for user nobody > by (uid=0) Likely, it's logrotate or somebody else who starts as nobody but has to get root to move things around. At least, that's the normal, non-threatening thing that probably happens every morning at about the same time,