Sshd2 group restriction

2000-10-01 Thread Dr. Orange
Is there a way to set sshd2 to only accept logins from users in a specific group? Thanks, -S-

Re: tunnel gizmo won't die

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> > DUH!, stop and restart bind > > great teaching tool, that one syllable: "duh!" > > cool. so i suppose that somehow i restarted named/bind > when i'd tinkered with the tunl0 gadget? > > i don't recall having done so, but considering > lsof | grep 1.2.3.4 > you'd think i'd've concluded

Re: tunnel gizmo won't die

2000-10-01 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:31:34PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > reasonable guess, thanks for the try: > > > > # rmmod ipip > > # ip tunnel ls > > sit0: ipv6/ip remote any local any ttl 64 nopmtudisc > > gre0: gre/ip remote any local any ttl inherit nopmtudisc > > dav

Re: exim and libdb.so.3

2000-10-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 07:33:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The last time that everything functioned normally was before I > did "dist-upgrade". Anything involving "libdb.so.3" doesn't work. > Perl won't work, Exim won't work, and Apache won't work. I upgraded > to the newest version

Re: tunnel gizmo won't die

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> reasonable guess, thanks for the try: > > # rmmod ipip > # ip tunnel ls > sit0: ipv6/ip remote any local any ttl 64 nopmtudisc > gre0: gre/ip remote any local any ttl inherit nopmtudisc > dave: gre/ip remote 208.7.139.219 local 208.33.90.85 ttl 255 > > g

Re: tunnel gizmo won't die

2000-10-01 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:15:45PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > # ifconfig tunl0 down > > # ip tunnel del dev tunl0 > > ioctl: No such device > > # ifconfig tunl0 > > tunl0 Link encap:IPIP Tunnel HWaddr > > inet addr:1.2.3.4 Mask:255.255.255.255 > > NOARP MTU:1480

Re: tunnel gizmo won't die

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> # ifconfig tunl0 down > # ip tunnel del dev tunl0 > ioctl: No such device > # ifconfig tunl0 > tunl0 Link encap:IPIP Tunnel HWaddr > inet addr:1.2.3.4 Mask:255.255.255.255 > NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >

tunnel gizmo won't die

2000-10-01 Thread will trillich
how do i kill this tunnel tunl0 thingie? # netstat -a Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 1.2.3.4:domain *:* LISTEN udp0 0 1.2.3.4

printing to a windows printer

2000-10-01 Thread David Erdman
hi all. i have done this in suse, and redhat but am thus far unsuccessful. I need to print to an HP722C (win printer) that is hooked up to windows 98 on an internal lan. looking at logs Oct 1 19:31:11 ganymede pnm2ppa[1192]: No pages printed! Oct 1 19:31:12 ganymede lpd[1195]: cannot execv

Re: PS/2 Mouse

2000-10-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, What is your mail address??? Are you from Japan?? Mailheader is crypting and your host address does not resolve from USA. Anyway, Try disable gpm! by editing /etc/rc2.d/ I could booted from my SMP (BP-6) with this trick. Otherwise, kernel crashed hard in my case. Just an idea. Osamu BT

Re: debian: mail spool directory ???

2000-10-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
One should be a symlink to the other, depending on whether you have a fresh install or have upgraded from < potato. /var/mail is the standard under FHS now. Just make a symlink to fix the problem. -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found

Re: debian: mail spool directory ???

2000-10-01 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:21:19PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > why the change? i dunno. as long as the symbolic link is there > you should be fat-dumb-and-happy still, like me. (not necessarily > in that order.) The filesysten hierarchy standard specifies that the user mailbox should be in /va

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:25:39PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: > MediaOne (now AT&T) probes for open relays on port 25 frequently. In Silicon Valley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] cable poke NNTP port from 2 servers Their hostname was like authorized-scan.athome.net or something. (I got linuxconf, h

Re: gpm locks out console keyboard

2000-10-01 Thread W. Paul Mills
Not sure. I know that some hardware with ps2 mouse, lockup the mouse, and you also lockup the keyboard. I learned this the hard way -- one keyboard, one mouse on two computers! Dale Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Does anyone know why gpm would completely hang : console logins on a machine? I

Re: offtopic : disecting an iptables log message

2000-10-01 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 06:42:11PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Here's an example: > > Oct 1 18:30:09 stimpy kernel: Firewall:IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:80:5a:e6:33:00:08:00 SRC=24.216.244.211 > DST=24.216.244.255 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=17211 PROTO=UDP > SPT=137 DP

Re: xdvi wrapper not working - yes, there's a bug filed

2000-10-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Ok, I had searched for bugs aggainst tetex-base and found none, but xdvi is in tetex-bin! And I just found that there's a bug filed against it already)! So, that was the problem. J. :: On 01 Oct 2000 22:36:59 -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello. > It seems that the xdv

Re: debian: mail spool directory ???

2000-10-01 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:55:04PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > What is the official mail spool directory ? > /var/spool/mail ? > /var/mail ? > > I'm running a PowerMac G4 with exim. Things were working fine till I > tried to install zmailer. I had a few errors so I switched back to exim > fo

tunnelling / vpn?

2000-10-01 Thread will trillich
Amaury Darsch wrote: > > Ok, > > Looks like you are really suffering with this one - I'll try to do my best > to help you. We will go step by step ... > > a) I assume you work with the kernel 2.2.17 > > b) Check the kernel network config - the "ip" command is very picky about this >Note tha

Re: gpm locks out console keyboard

2000-10-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I had few lockups and hard crashes with gpm previously. 1. conflict with PCMCIA on Toshiba notebook (2.2 kernel) --> Solution: changed sequence of of daemon in rc?.d/. (I think gpm -> PCMCIA was good, but I forgot) Also inserting BASH script with readline between these daemon initi

new Debian user, problem with internal modem

2000-10-01 Thread Peter
I think I installed Debian OK on my computer, but when I got to WVDIALCONF I got a message saying that it did not detect my modem. I tried PON, got message "abort on (no dialtone)" I wonder if the problem is that I have an internal modem. When I installed Windows 95 it couldn't detect my modem

new Debian user, problem with internal modem

2000-10-01 Thread Peter
I think I installed Debian OK on my computer, but when I got to WVDIALCONF I got a message saying that it did not detect my modem. I tried PON, got message "abort on (no dialtone)" I wonder if the problem is that I have an internal modem. When I installed Windows 95 it couldn't detect my modem

debian: mail spool directory ???

2000-10-01 Thread Brendan J Simon
What is the official mail spool directory ? /var/spool/mail ? /var/mail ? I'm running a PowerMac G4 with exim. Things were working fine till I tried to install zmailer. I had a few errors so I switched back to exim for the time being. I could no longer read my mail through an IMAP client runnin

Re: Panics under kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-10-01 Thread Bob Bernstein
Get an uptodate rtl8139 driver and the reboots will disappear: http://gtf.org/garzik/drivers/8139too (A friend declined to take my advice and buy Intel PRO/100's, and he paid the price you're paying right now. ) -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I., USA

Re: ps/2 mouse

2000-10-01 Thread serge delorme
Bingo! Recompiled the kernel to get rid of unused stuff. I now added ps/2 mouse support, works OK. Thanks. On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, serge delorme wrote: >Xwindow gives me that message: >"Cannot open mouse" (no device of that type)" > >Any ideas ? > It sounds like kernel support is missing. Are yo

xdvi wrapper not working - is it related to some recent upgrade?

2000-10-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. It seems that the xdvi wrapper isn't working in this woody machine as it was last week. When called, it echoes the command line: socrates$ xdvi xdvi.bin -name xdvi socrates$ So I have to use this: socrates$ `xdvi` And it works. Can this be related to the recent libc upgrade? Maybe some

User privelidges

2000-10-01 Thread ObeseWhale
How can I let users run X and mount drives? Thanks in advance. Matt "ObeseWhale" Grinshpun Site Director: The Darker Sector www.3dactionplanet.com/darksector Coming soon... Hyperleap - An opensource Quake 3 mod from Team Corrosive

Re: How to handle exim frozen messages?

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
exim -Mt t means thaw. On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > Due to the problems that were seen in the last few days with unstable I have > lots of messages in /var/spool/exim/input. I believe all those messages are > seen in /var/log/exim/mainlog as frozen. My question is how to handle

Panics under kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-10-01 Thread Craig McPherson
(I know I should probably ask this on one of the kernel mailing lists, but you folks are nicer, and smarter. Please CC me if you reply to this, because the list server won't seem to let me resubscribe right now.) I have one old Debian box running up-to-date Woody with kernel 2.4.0-test6. I have a

Re: exim and libdb.so.3

2000-10-01 Thread lbredeso
The last time that everything functioned normally was before I did "dist-upgrade". Anything involving "libdb.so.3" doesn't work. Perl won't work, Exim won't work, and Apache won't work. I upgraded to the newest version of libdb2 while I still could use apt-get. This didn't really fix anythi

RE: Netscape - libstdc++

2000-10-01 Thread ObeseWhale
well I did apt-get install netscape4 off of the cd, and it installed netscape-base, yet I'm getting the same error. Do I need more? -Original Message- From: Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 12:26 PM To: ObeseWhale Cc: Debian List Subject: Re: Netscape - libstd

Re: Need advice on Postscript/PCL printer

2000-10-01 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Thanks a lot for replying, I'll check out what equivalents/evolutions have the Brother HL-730 and the HP LaserJet 6MP, I'll also investigate more on the Lexmark warranty and characteristic... but frankly speaking I'm seriously turning towards the 1200dpi Epson, crossed fingers for it not to break

RE: How to handle exim frozen messages?

2000-10-01 Thread Steve Barr
> Is there a command line to instruct exim to try and send them > again? Perhaps some cron job or maybe exim itself will try to > handle it for me? I generally try: exim -qff >From the exim manpage: -qff This option operates like -qf and may appear with or wi

Re: debian: dos2unix and unix2dos utilities.

2000-10-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:48:23AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > Are there any dos2unix and unix2dos command line utilities in any of > the debian pacages ??? I've done an "apt-cache search ..." but can't > find anything suitable. For lots of flexibility and lots of files, look at recode. If it

Re: How to handle exim frozen messages?

2000-10-01 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: >Is there a command line to instruct exim to try and send them again? > Thank you. /usr/sbin/exim -qff This will force the delivery of frozen messages. Brent

Re: debian: dos2unix and unix2dos utilities.

2000-10-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
its in the package sysutils nate On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Brendan J Simon wrote: brenda >Are there any dos2unix and unix2dos command line utilities in any of the brenda >debian pacages ??? brenda >I've done an "apt-cache search ..." but can't find anything suitable. brenda > brenda >Thanks, brenda >B

How to handle exim frozen messages?

2000-10-01 Thread Shaul Karl
Due to the problems that were seen in the last few days with unstable I have lots of messages in /var/spool/exim/input. I believe all those messages are seen in /var/log/exim/mainlog as frozen. My question is how to handle it? Is there a command line to instruct exim to try and send them again?

Re: offtopic : disecting an iptables log message

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Here's an example: > > Oct 1 18:30:09 stimpy kernel: Firewall:IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:80:5a:e6:33:00:08:00 SRC=24.216.244.211 > DST=24.216.244.255 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00

debian: dos2unix and unix2dos utilities.

2000-10-01 Thread Brendan J Simon
Are there any dos2unix and unix2dos command line utilities in any of the debian pacages ??? I've done an "apt-cache search ..." but can't find anything suitable. Thanks, Brendan Simon.

offtopic : disecting an iptables log message

2000-10-01 Thread William Jensen
Here's an example: Oct 1 18:30:09 stimpy kernel: Firewall:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:80:5a:e6:33:00:08:00 SRC=24.216.244.211 DST=24.216.244.255 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=17211 PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58 I'm reading that as: -coming IN to my eth0 -going OUT my MAC

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Brian May
> "Debian" == Debian Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Debian> You could set up an alias. HTH That doesn't work to well if you are starting X via gdm... Yes, you could alter /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, but this often gets changed upstream (forcing you to merge the changes each time). Y

Re: flamewar ;-? (Re: firewall (fwd))

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> And I switched to the MAPS anti-spam lists after I found out that they > were blocking entire networks who were blocking the very aggressive ORBS > relay tester ie above.net, who hosts a very important mailing list called > BugTraq, and a company called RoadRunner, who is becoming of one of the >

RE: Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> > i guess the trick questionis did that guy get in...or was it just > a failed attempt > - again some people say check your binaries against the cdrom > installs ALWAYS add security.debian.org to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and do an update after the CDROM install. This

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya phil... thats assuming that the guy with the open relay is able to fix it...cause mediaone told um they had an open relay... oh well...have fun linuxing.. alvin On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy

Configure APM wake-up events?

2000-10-01 Thread Philipp Lehman
Here's another one: Is there a way to configure the events that will break a standby/suspend state? APM works quite well on my machine, but I don't like the fact the moving the mouse will resume it. That happens every time I accidently hit my shaky desk. APM control is disabled in the BIOS, so this

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Some kind Guru once posted a script that I tried and after finding it >sooo useful I added that to my .bashrc and replaced the above alias. [snip] ...does even more than I asked for, thanks. -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: flamewar ;-? (Re: firewall (fwd))

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:17:08 +0200 > Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Actually, I don´t think Alan[0] is braindead. He does a quite good job, > > he just hasn´t his scripts

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > - only two reasons ??? > > a. they want to add that open relay box for more advertising to be > > sent thru it... > > b. they want to tell the customer to close the open relay ?

Re: flamewar ;-? (Re: firewall (fwd))

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:17:08 +0200 Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I don´t think Alan[0] is braindead. He does a quite good job, > he just hasn´t his scripts under control[1], sometimes... > Always remember, you don´t _have_ to use ORBS, although it´s cutting > spam about 6

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > hi ya pollywog > > if the ISP did accidentally scan your box with their new linux box... > which linux distro is installed that way where it comes up in a mode > that scans everything ar

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > whats the point for mediaone to scan for open relays ?? > > - only two reasons ??? > a. they want to add that open relay box for more advertising to be > sent thru it... > b. they wan

flamewar ;-? (Re: firewall (fwd))

2000-10-01 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 14:40:02 PDT, George Bonser writes: > c. intimidated by the brain-dead idiots at ORBS Actually, I don´t think Alan[0] is braindead. He does a quite good job, he just hasn´t his scripts under control[1], sometimes... Always remember, you don´t _have_ to use ORBS, although i

RE: Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... just re-installing and rebuilding the new box wont help because... the hacker got in before... they probably can still get in again unless something is done differently.. - simple things can prevent it from happening again would - be to implement all the common thi

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: How to set Xserver resolution Date: Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:00:07PM +0200 In reply to:Philipp Lehman Quoting Philipp Lehman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:38:36PM -0400, Wayne Topa wro

Re: PS/2 Mouse

2000-10-01 Thread I. Tura
At 08.32 1/10/00 +0900, Jack Morgan ha escrit: >I just installed a new motherboard. I'm running woody on the only HDD. When i plug in the PS/2 mouse the system hangs during the boot strap process. If I unplug the PS/2 mouse it boots fine, but hangs when I use X-windows. >Is this an irq issue or s

Re: more sound difficulties

2000-10-01 Thread Christopher Fonnesbeck
Thanks for the help. I will try your configuration. > > First off, why does a production machine *need* sound unless you are > doing sound work? Some users will be doing sound work. >Servers probably shouldn't even have sound cards. Its a laptop, not a server > Secondly, ALSA is still beta

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> > - only two reasons ??? > a. they want to add that open relay box for more advertising to be > sent thru it... > b. they want to tell the customer to close the open relay ?? One more ... c. intimidated by the brain-dead idiots at ORBS

Re: mounting /home?

2000-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dale.. if your partition names /dev/hda1.../dev/hda2...etc is the same as on the old box and the new one... and /dev/floppy and /dev/cdrom and /dev/pts and other things in /etc/fstab is the same...yeah...you can copy it but by the time you find all the differences...you are already done a

Re: Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Looks like funny thing might have happened. Next time you install system, make sure to plug all services to the Internet. Edit /etc/inetd Check /etc/init.d/* Also, I set up packet firewall by "ipchains" plugging all ports 1-1023 and allowing only needed ones. This way no buffer over flow a

Re: traceroute & ping fail

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, William Jensen wrote: > Another update to myself and others that may want this information: > > This update concerns traceroute. If I added the following rules I can now > traceroute to anywhere, but traceroutes to me fail: > > $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type time-excee

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi y pollywog.. yeah...now that makes sensethat someone added something to the linux box.. good... have fun linuxing alvin On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Pollywog wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:24:21 -0700 (PDT) > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > hi ya pollywog > > > > if the ISP di

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:26:45 -0700 (PDT) > whats the point for mediaone to scan for open relays ?? > > - only two reasons ??? > a. they want to add that open relay box for more advertising to be > sent thru it... > b. they want to tell the customer to close the open relay ?? Or they are tir

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi ya pollywog > > if the ISP did accidentally scan your box with their new linux box... > which linux distro is installed that way where it comes up in a mode > that scans everything around it ??? ( a startrek bor

Re: ssh configure error

2000-10-01 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 05:02:23PM +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: > i get an error message when doing a ./configure with ssh. > > "checking for xauth... no" > "configure: error: configuring with X but xauth not found - aborting" > > what's wrong here? i have no X installed and also don't want to do it

Re: Problem with Lucent winmodem on debian 2.2

2000-10-01 Thread I. Tura
At 11.25 30/9/00 -0400, Shaji N V ha escrit: >From insmod -f ltmodem >-- >Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ltmodem.o >Warning: kernel-module version mismatch > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ltmodem.o was compiled for kernel version >2.2.12-20 > while this kernel is version 2.2.17

Re: List of packages..

2000-10-01 Thread I. Tura
At 01.57 27/9/00 -0700, Bob Brown ha escrit: >> p.d.: Where can I obtain a Dselect HOWTO?. If you install few packages in the first times you use dselect, the info it will give you wil be less enormous and it will help you to understand the basics of dselect and dependencies/suggestions/etc.

Re: traceroute & ping fail

2000-10-01 Thread William Jensen
Another update to myself and others that may want this information: This update concerns traceroute. If I added the following rules I can now traceroute to anywhere, but traceroutes to me fail: $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type time-exceeded -j ACCEPT $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type port-unrea

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya allan... whats the point for mediaone to scan for open relays ?? - only two reasons ??? a. they want to add that open relay box for more advertising to be sent thru it... b. they want to tell the customer to close the open relay ?? just more rambling on a sunday afternoon... thanx

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya pollywog if the ISP did accidentally scan your box with their new linux box... which linux distro is installed that way where it comes up in a mode that scans everything around it ??? ( a startrek borg-based linux ?? ) wonder which distro they used... ... if they can say that "it would no

mounting /home?

2000-10-01 Thread Dale Morris
This is probably embarassingly simple, but I'd better ask.. I'm thinking of doing a reinstall of 2.2 and would like to use my existing /home directory. That will allow me to keep lots of existing info. I tried this once before w/ Redhat but it didn't work right after the reinstall. Do I just do a r

Re: ps/2 mouse

2000-10-01 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, serge delorme wrote: >Xwindow gives me that message: >"Cannot open mouse" (no device of that type)" > >Any ideas ? > It sounds like kernel support is missing. Are you running a custom kernel? Brent

Re: traceroute & ping fail

2000-10-01 Thread William Jensen
An update to myself...in case others are having this problem: I added the following rule to my script: $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 0 -j ACCEPT My understanding is now the box will accpet 'echo replies' that I would generate by 'ping debian.org'. I then went to another pc on the net and tr

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Debian Linux User
You could set up an alias. HTH Curt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:00:07PM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:38:36PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > >> > >> startx -bpp 16 -dpi 120 > >> > >> Woul

ps/2 mouse

2000-10-01 Thread serge delorme
I have a new optical mouse that refuse to work. Its a logitech ps2/usb...ps2 for my setup. For gpm and Xwindows I gave them /dev/psaux for device and ps/2 for protocol...but no cigar. Works OK in windows98, the part I'm not sure is /dev/psaux (I always had serial mices) Xwindow gives me that messa

Re: more sound difficulties

2000-10-01 Thread Chris Gray
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:01:30AM -0400, Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote: > Unfortunately, I have been unable to get the ALSA sound working either > in an IBM thinkpad, or on a desktop system with a standard > soundblaster. I have installed all of the relevant alsa packages, but There is an emu10k1

RE: Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
At first glance, this appears to be an attempt to exploit rpc.statd. If they *DID* get in, you have no way of knowing what may or may not have been modified. I just dealt with a machine about two weeks ago that had a very extensive rootkit installed. The only way it was noticed that the machine

RE: Masquerading

2000-10-01 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
Assuming you're using a stock kernel or kernel with support for IP masquerading, these three lines should get you started with masq: /bin/echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/ipchains -P forward REJECT /sbin/ipchains -I forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d ! 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ You may need to

Re: offtopic: OCR on linux

2000-10-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 06:45:41PM -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote: > Try this: > http://www.ime.usp.br/~ueda/clara/ > > More informations, e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "A. Demarteau (linux rules!)" wrote: > > Does anyone have any good ocr-package for Linux which gives very good > > results on all k

Re: tr '\verb|\|000' '\verb|\|\n'?

2000-10-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 12:49:04PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JS> but what is '\verb|\|000'? And the use of |\|? > > Are you reading this out of the source of a LaTeX document? No. It is a postscript document. Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel/Faks +2

Re: IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> > The "ip neigh {add|del|change|replace} ..." sequence? Yeah. Look in /usr/share/doc/iproute and print off one of the cref (command reference) docs (note the .ps file wants A4 paper) > > > Problem is that it burns another external IP address. > > Um... not good. Well, yeah. That is the thin

Re: [OFFTOPIC] small fetchmail problem with popsneaker - SOLVED :)

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 19:27:56 + Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no problems retrieving mail with fetchmail, but when I try to do this > in conjunction with popsneaker, fetchmail issues these complaints: > Nevermind folks All of a sudden, it hit me what I had done incorrec

[OFFTOPIC] small fetchmail problem with popsneaker

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
I have no problems retrieving mail with fetchmail, but when I try to do this in conjunction with popsneaker, fetchmail issues these complaints: (d3) Connected to postoffice.myisp.com (d3) Disconnected from postoffice.myisp.com fetchmail: pre-connection command failed with status 256 fetchmail: Qu

Re: last log?

2000-10-01 Thread montefin
Also, it 'appears' enormous, but if you do du -k /var/log/lastlog you will see that it's actually quite small. montefin Pollywog wrote: > > It shows recent logins; when people last logged in to their accounts. > see 'man lastlog' > > -- > Andrew > > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 12:20:16 -0700 > steve

Re: Netscape - libstdc++

2000-10-01 Thread Brad
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:12:04AM -0700, ObeseWhale wrote: > It seems as if I can't install netscape 4.75 on my Potato box because the > version of libstdc++ that comes with debian is too high. I get a dependency > error when trying to run netscape. Has anyone had a similar problem, or > better

Re: IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > The problem is, as I said before, kernel 2.2 doesn't like to do NAT on IP > > protocols other than TCP and UDP. > > Almost true. Using the iproute2 tools, you can do a static NAT of an >

Re: last log?

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
It shows recent logins; when people last logged in to their accounts. see 'man lastlog' -- Andrew On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 12:20:16 -0700 steve winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in /var/logs, what is lastlog? > -- > Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

last log?

2000-10-01 Thread steve winston
in /var/logs, what is lastlog? -- Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:38:36PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: >> >> startx -bpp 16 -dpi 120 >> >> Would be one way. Is there a way to make that permanent as well? Something in XF86Config? -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: exim problems with latest version

2000-10-01 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, David Bellows wrote: > >2000-10-01 14:46:49 13fp4T-Su-00 Failed to create spool file\ >/var/spool/exim/input//13fp4T-Su-00-D: Permission denied > >Something is very wrong. Even if I change the permissions, the errors >still occur in /var/spool/exim/input//* > One of th

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do you determine what the proper dpi should be? How do you calculate it? Take a ruler and mesure the visible screen width of you monitor. Convert this value to inches if you're using a cm ruler (multiply by 2.54). Then divide the

Re: Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> So, do you think my machine has been cracked? It looks as though they've > been trying to cover their tracks, but not doing it very well. If it is a > crack, what can I do about it apart from wiping the machine and rebuilding > from the ground up? wiping and rebuilding is the safest thing to do.

Re: Problem with Lucent winmodem on debian 2.2

2000-10-01 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 11:25:30AM -0400, Shaji N V wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to configure Lucent Winmodem on my HP Pavillion (6735) box with > Debian 2.2. I have followed the instructions from www.linmodems.org for > installing the binary only driver provided by Lucent, but still have problem

Re: IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> The problem is, as I said before, kernel 2.2 doesn't like to do NAT on IP > protocols other than TCP and UDP. Almost true. Using the iproute2 tools, you can do a static NAT of an inside box to outside. You can then use standard packet filter firewall rules to block various ports you don't want a

exim problems with latest version

2000-10-01 Thread David Bellows
Hello all, I just today upgraded my version of exim (I didn't mean to, upgrading kword caused exim and I just let it happen). I did have exim working perfectly, now it does nothing. Here is the error: 2000-10-01 14:46:49 13fp4T-Su-00 Failed to create spool file\ /var/spool/exim/input//13fp

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> This isn't necessarily the case. It certainly appears to vary by > region. They don't do it here (Denver, Colorado). Perhaps this is > because DSL is so easily available :} One interesting thing that many providers are doing is not allowing any VPN traffic. If you want to "telecommute" and wo

Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
I just realised my earlier tries at sending this message were full of almost 300K of control characters. I am trying again. Apologies if it repeats. * Hi all-- I arrived home tonight to see the following message plastered across all my terminal windows on my webserver, ludism.org: Message f

traceroute & ping fail

2000-10-01 Thread William Jensen
I think it's my firewall blocking them going _out_ because when I take the firewall offline both ping and traceroute work fine. Ping works on localhost, though traceroute does not when the firewall is up. Unfortunetly I am too new at both debian and firewalling to know where I went wrong. I'm tr

Re: Bitchx and screen do NOT cooperate in 2.2

2000-10-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i get the same...never used /window create before though, never needed it looks like it loads a new screen for me i just detach and load a new screen. also have you tried this using bitchx's internal screen code rather then screen itself? use /detach to detach and scr-bx to re attach ..again i don

Re: IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I ran into some trouble using a Debian box as an IP Masq gateway (also > running Squid) to a network which uses a VPN box employing IPsec. The > ISP's tech support said that GNU/Linux was i

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Mike Leone wrote: > @home, the largest cable ISP in the US, *routinely* scans their > customers, aggressively checking that no one is breaking their service > agreement by running a server OF ANY KIND. This isn't necessarily the case. It certainly appears to vary by region.

Re: exim and libdb.so.3

2000-10-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I type "locate libdb.so.3" it says that "/gnu/lib/libdb.so.3" and > "/usr/lib/libdb.so.3" exist, but when I check myself, they actually > don't. Don't know about exim, but if locate thinks it's there, it probably was until recently. locate maintains a database that

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