RE: apache won't start although no errors

2004-02-07 Thread John M. Purser
When I was experimenting with Apache it would show up in ps as "httpd" not "Apache". -Original Message- From: Kevin Coyner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: apache won't start although no errors On Sat, Feb 07, 2004

RE: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-24 Thread John M. Purser
Excellent! Thanks for the post. John -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:45 PM To: Debian Users List Cc: Antonio Rodriguez Subject: Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:41:33PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wro

RE: The threat to our national security

2004-01-23 Thread John M. Purser
Yep. Kind of amazing. Thanks for the post. -Original Message- From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 5:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SCO: The threat to our national security Sorry if this is old news or already posted and to those burned ou

RE: HOWTO make a server

2003-10-29 Thread John M. Purser
Good Morning, My Debian box provides DNS, Firewall, and NAT for my home network like I think you're planning to do. The HOWTO's are a great place to start but you need to read (or at least scan) the BIND, IPTABLES, etc. documentation as well and don't forget the README.Debian. Many of the HOWTO'

RE: Joining a windows domain from behind a debian NAT box

2003-08-18 Thread John M. Purser
I'd like some more details. Are you connecting to the windows domain via vpn? John Purser -Original Message- From: Anand Atreya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Joining a windows domain from behind a debian NAT box Hi, I ha

RE: Samba running under inetd and init.d

2003-08-18 Thread John M. Purser
init.d On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 21:37, John M. Purser wrote: > Good Morning, > > A few days ago I installed Samba on my Woody box. All was well for a couple > of days then smbd stopped running with an error message that said port 139 > was already in use. With help from this group I

RE: What service is using a port? - Solved

2003-08-18 Thread John M. Purser
Thanks Nate. fuser worked perfectly. What it turned out to be was inetd watching the port so it could run samba on demand. Unfortunatly Samba was also in the run level scripts. I installed from the .deb using stable sources so I'm kind of puzzled about how this happened and why it worked at fir

Samba running under inetd and init.d

2003-08-18 Thread John M. Purser
Good Morning, A few days ago I installed Samba on my Woody box. All was well for a couple of days then smbd stopped running with an error message that said port 139 was already in use. With help from this group I tracked down inetd as the culprit and sure enough there were lines to start Samba i

What service is using a port?

2003-08-17 Thread John M. Purser
I apologize. I know this was a thread a while back and I believe it was on this mailing list but now I can't find it. I'm getting this error message from samba: [2003/08/17 12:15:26, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(789) bind failed on port 139 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0. Error = Address already

RE: Name resolution on a dual homed host - Solved

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Patterson Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 4:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Name resolution on a dual homed host On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:20:10 +0200, John M. Purser wrote: > I've got a Debian woody box acting as firewall for a small home

Bind Error message: update '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN' denied

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
Hello, My /var/log/messages has a lot of lines that look like: Aug 12 08:29:55 lan named[244]: client 192.168.1.10#2083: update '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN' denied Aug 12 08:34:55 lan named[244]: client 192.168.1.10#2094: update '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN' denied The client involved is my win2k m

RE: test.mydomain.com ???

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
I got similar errors from kde using an internal name. The problem was dns resolution as the dhcp client was over writing my resolv.conf. Bottom line, the place(s) you told your computer to look for addresses didn't come up with one for that name. I'd say you could run your own dns server making

RE: Bind Error message: update '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN' denied

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
message: update '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN' denied On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 15:46, John M. Purser wrote: > Hello, > > My /var/log/messages has a lot of lines that look like: > > Aug 12 08:29:55 lan named[244]: client 192.168.1.10#2083: update > '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa

Name resolution on a dual homed host

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
Hello, I've got a Debian woody box acting as firewall for a small home network. It has two ethernet cards with the internal network one being static and the external one configured by DHCP. I use a cable modem for internet connectivity. I'd like the Debian box to use the dns server it's running

RE: Bind9 on Woody - "Bad dotted quad" - Solved

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
In my zone files I wrote the addresses in the "A" records as 192.168.1.41. with a trailing period. I was sure that was right so never questioned it. Removing the last period fixed everything. Thanks to all who replied. John Purser -Original Message----- From: John M. Purser [mai

RE: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
Ooooh! A blanket call for opinions! Finally a letter I'm qualified to respond too! I got on Woody when it was testing because a project I was involved with was using it. We had several people from HP on the project and too a man their Unix was Debian. It was my introduction to Debian. About a

RE: Bind9 on Woody - "Bad dotted quad"

2003-08-03 Thread John M. Purser
x27;ll go back to the documentation again to see what I can see. John Purser -Original Message- From: Richard Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 4:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bind9 on Woody - "Bad dotted quad" On Saturday 02 August 2003 23

Bind9 on Woody - "Bad dotted quad"

2003-08-02 Thread John M. Purser
I've installed the bind9 package and tried to configure it to work with my little internal network. When I start it up I get an error message telling me "bad dotted quad" saying it's from the zone configuration file for my network which uses the 192.168.0 network numbers. When I replace this with