Re: Adding new network service - how?

2000-06-27 Thread Chester Hosey
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Art Sackett wrote: > Greetings, All: > > Please forgive me if this is documented somewhere -- a pointer to the > documentation would be greatly appreciated! > > I've got a custom (just wrote it) standalone TCP/IP server daemon that > listens > on a high port and works f

Re: inittab weirdness?

2000-08-23 Thread Chester Hosey
Try something like egrep -r ttyS3 /etc or similar to see what files reference this. If some script is running at boot and adding this line to inittab (or rebuilding inittab entirely), you can find out where this line is coming from by grepping around /etc. If a line in a script adds this line, com

Re: How do I start | stop a daemon under debian

2000-09-06 Thread Chester Hosey
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, R. W. Rodolico wrote: > mv /etc/init.d/mysql /etc/init.d/mysql.original > echo #! /bin/bash > /etc/init.d/mysql > chmod 777 /etc/init.d/mysql Ouch, I hope you mean 755 or at least 775. Permissions 777 would allow any user to write to the file. A user could simply watch for the

Re: Adding new network service - how?

2000-06-27 Thread Chester Hosey
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Art Sackett wrote: > Greetings, All: > > Please forgive me if this is documented somewhere -- a pointer to the > documentation would be greatly appreciated! > > I've got a custom (just wrote it) standalone TCP/IP server daemon that listens > on a high port and works fin

Re: inittab weirdness?

2000-08-23 Thread Chester Hosey
Try something like egrep -r ttyS3 /etc or similar to see what files reference this. If some script is running at boot and adding this line to inittab (or rebuilding inittab entirely), you can find out where this line is coming from by grepping around /etc. If a line in a script adds this line, co

Re: How do I start | stop a daemon under debian

2000-09-06 Thread Chester Hosey
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, R. W. Rodolico wrote: > mv /etc/init.d/mysql /etc/init.d/mysql.original > echo #! /bin/bash > /etc/init.d/mysql > chmod 777 /etc/init.d/mysql Ouch, I hope you mean 755 or at least 775. Permissions 777 would allow any user to write to the file. A user could simply watch for th

Re: ppp nameserver?

2000-11-03 Thread Chester Hosey
> --- > > pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself > > pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do > so. > > pppd: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP addre