[LinuxISP-BR] FreeBSD Security Advisory: SA-96:21 - talkd (fwd)

Just got this cert advisory... it's for talkd, and although from the FreeBSD advisory, applies to most talkd's... Will debian fix its talkd so we can reinstall a package? Ricardo -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 19:00:05 -0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Linux

weird su behavior

Hi, recently I've been having problems going into root... When I do a 'su' and type in the passwd, it kicks me out with a "Broken pipe" When this is happening, I also can't telnet into the machine; the telnet session gets closed. What could be causing this? Where could I look to diagnose the pr

Re: how to install PGP?

Hi! I couldn't find the pinepgp package under contrib... :( Anyone else know where it is? On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Hakan Ardo wrote: > > Another way is to install the pinepgp package, resently uploaded to the > contrib section. It contains script to will, decrypt and check signatures > on incommim

how to install PGP?

Hi, I tried installing the mailpgp package but it complains about not having pgp-i or pgp-us. How do I install these, and how can I "automate" pgp into something like pine, for example? Thanks Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

SECURITY: Important bug fix for /sbin/login (fwd)

Guys, has this been fixed in debian? If not, can anyone explain how to install an rpm package so I can try out rpm within debian? ;-) -- Their is a buffer overrun in /bin/login which has the potential to allow any user of your system to gain root acce

Re: using fork in cgi & perl

Hi... Thanks for the help. I've tried different combinations of using wait. And they all work fine for making the child exit. But now the problem is that the parent for some reason is not going to completion. It seems the very first statement in the parent (after the child) executes, but the rest

using fork in cgi & perl

Hi, I'm having a hard time getting fork to work correctly in a cgi script. Basically I have a time consuming process which I want to be done in the background. I have something like this: unless (fork) { # print out result html page exit 0; } else { # do time-intensive stuff } What's happen

status of hylafax?

Hi, I remember someone was working on a hylafax pkg for debian... What's the status? AFAIK no distributions for linux have a hylafax pkg... (does redhat?) but freebsd does have one... Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

problems with st0 - HELP! :)

Hi, I'm having problems using my DAT tape drive under 2.0.25 This drive used to be in a 1.2.13 system and worked fine. Ever since I moved it to a newer server, with 2.0.23 and then 2.0.25 I've had problems using the tape drive. Right now I'm getting errors like these: Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine ke

stubborn innd problem wont go away... HELP!

Hi guys, I'm getting frustrated with this... :( Every night my news server will basically stop because it gets throttled. I keep getting the error innd: SERVER throttle File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling I've upgraded to inn 1.5 in the hopes of clearing some of this stuf

success with inn 1.5?

Hi, Anyone have success in building inn 1.5? I haven't found any binary distributions and having a rough time getting the distribution to compile properly... TIA Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: problems with innd

mode? Thanks again, Ricardo On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: > In your email to me, Ricardo Kleemann, you wrote: > > > > Why does the server keep throttling? :( I can't find any error messages > > that point me to my problems... But I've been finding that ever

Re: problems with innd

; does it start back up... Help! ;) Ricardo On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: > In your email to me, Ricardo Kleemann, you wrote: > > > > I ran > > ctlinnd renumber "" > > > > and got the message "Must be running". > > > >

Re: problems with innd

I ran ctlinnd renumber "" and got the message "Must be running". This is the second time I've seen this message... what does it mean? innd is up and running and receiving articles. Why would ctlinnd say that? On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Robert Stone wrote: > > preforming a: > ctlinnd renumber

problems with innd

Hi, I'm using Debian 1.1, with the supplied innd package. I'm having problems posting articles, getting the message Can't send article to the server: 441 400 File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling (Article not posted.) According to the INN-FAQ, Linux must not use MM

more problems with newsfeeds

Hello, In my testing of feeding a site, it is apparent that the articles are not being fed in their entirety, rather going in 16K chunks. Why would that be? Where is this configured? thanks! Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

Re: checksecurity in cron.daily/standard HELP!

Thanks! I went to try to upgrade it to the frozen version (and also to get the man page), but couldn't find any packages named check* when I did a find... What's the package that I should install? Ricardo On 6 Dec 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: newsfeeds help!

for sending and when articles get sent? I've run nntpsend and the send-nntp script and it basically starts and stops right away. Where would I look to see if anything actually got sent? Ricardo On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: > In your email to me, Ricardo Kleemann, you wrote: > > &

newsfeeds help!

Hi, I've set up a test feed to another provider... I configured my newsfeeds file like this: testfeed:!*,comp.*:Tf,Wnm:feed.domain.com (of course "feed.domain.com" is replaced with the FQDN of the site) Anyway, when I look at the .outgoing directory, it lists all these groups which are not con

checksecurity in cron.daily/standard HELP!

I see no man page for checksecurity... I see that this program goes thru all my file systems using a find... Is there a way to prevent the find from going to certain directories/filesystems? I have news running on my system, and basically any find running thru my news spool simply just skyrocket

Re: making disk bootable

Thanks! How do I install the mbr package? Is it a normal .deb package? Right now my /dev/hda does NOT have an MBR... I need to install it in order to use lilo. Will liloconf help me out? Ricardo On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Hi, > > > How do I go about inserting an mbr if my

making disk bootable

Hi! How do I go about inserting an mbr if my current setup isn't using LILO (and thus hasn't made the hd bootable)? Does toggling the bootable flag in fdisk take care of that? I'd like to install lilo on my system and up to now I haven't used it, so my hd is not bootable. TIA! Ricardo -- TO

libc 4.7 available?

Hi, I'm having trouble compiling the virtual ftpd, but I do have a working binary, execpt that it is expecting to see libc-4.7 and my debian system has libc-4.6.27. I do have libc-5.2.18 as well, but I guess that it only looks at a minor version of the major version (meaning that even though I

Re: libc

Thanks! But I installed the debian ELF system and what it put in as default is 4.6.27. I have 5.2.18 in there (as the ldconfig -v shows) but it is not being used as default. How do I go about upgrading/changing the default? Ricardo On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Rica

libc

Hi, I've installed the stable debian 1.1 release and noticed that my libc is defaulting to libc.so.4.6.27 Is there any reason why it's not using a later libc? Are there bugs with libc versions > 4.6 (either 5.x or 4.7)? I have another system running 4.7.x and it seems fine. Should I upgrade l

Re: rdist as root?

I just did this. You'd have to set up root with permission for rsh by putting a .rhosts in the root home directory. Beware of security issues though... On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Dirk Luetjens wrote: > > How can I invoke a rdist command as root to distribute the /usr/local/ > tree to the other comp

radiusd

Is there a HOWTO or detailed info on how to setup radiusd? I tried a web search but it returns basically 1,000's of ASCEND and portmaster realted stuff... nothing really on how to setup and configure it. TIA Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

Using users/passwords from freebsd

Hi, Anyone know of a tool/library that allows linux to use freebsd passwords? If I'm not mistaken, linux uses DES encryption and freebsd uses an MD5 encryption, right? Is there a way that linux can make use of the freebsd passwords or maybe the other way around? Thanks! Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSC

using NIS

Hi guys, I've set up a Debian linux system to be NIS master and have a FreeBSD system trying to act as client. How do I test/debug this? I tried logging into the FreeBSD system with a user account from the master system, but it didn't work... First time with NIS for me, so I'm looking for poin

Re: too many open files?

Thanks!!! I did su to root! That must be the reason! I'll give it a try! Ricardo On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > : > : Hi guys, > : > : I tried running apache and got back the "too many open files" error. > : >

Re: too many open files?

Thanks for the help!!! So now I'm puzzled! :( here are my values: irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-nr 192 irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr 16801502 irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-max 1024 irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max 3072 I'm only running about 15 virtual WWW domai

too many open files?

Hi guys, I tried running apache and got back the "too many open files" error. How can I check/monitor the number of file descriptors being used?? Where do I change it if it needs to be increased? thanks. Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

SMC cards

Hi guys, Which SMC PCI card is the one mostly used? (Is it the tulip model?) Which model SMC, Etherpower, EtherEZ? Thanks ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Linux-ISP] NCR 825 ctrler

Thanks! On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Jon Lewis wrote: > > > Anyone use it? Is it worth to buy it? > > I've not gotten an 825 yet, but I have around a dozen 810's in use. > They've become the standard FDT SCSI card. At about $59 each, they're > hard to pass up. I'd get the 825 if you want fast-wide on

NCR 825 ctrler

Hi guys, I saw a price list which had the NCR 825 controller, and it said it's a Fast & Wide controller. Is that true? Why is it so much cheaper than the Adaptec, for example? Is it a poor performer? The price was about $100 cheaper than the adaptec. Anyone use it? Is it worth to buy it? Thank

O'clocking P6-180 to P6-200... safe?

Hi guys, Many of us are out trying to buy/put together a Pro200 system... However, I've run into a bit of trouble I suspect many others also have. The P6-200 is OUT OF STOCK! Back-ordered everywhere I've checked. I've had some decent price quotes, but then they say they don't have it in stock

analog log analyzer?

I heard something about a program called "analog" in debian which does httpd log file analysis? Does it exist? I tried to look for it in the debian ftp area but couldn't find anything (at least in the packages file). Thanks Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "uns

ftp statistics

Is there a program out there to compute FTP statistics, similar to what is done for www statistics? Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

shadow for debian

Does debian have a shadow package which would simplify installation of shadow? Or do I have to install it manually? Thanks, Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

1.1.9?

What's the difference between Debian 1.1.8 and 1.1.9? I see the i-connect page still refers to 1.1.8, so is 1.1.9 not "official"? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Buslogic SCSI

Thanks! So what would you say is the best performing SCSI controller (in wide or ultra flavor)? Is the 2940UW the best? Ricardo On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > Don't buy a FlashPoint for Linux. If you do buy one, BusLogic will > upgrade it to one of the MultiMaster controllers for a

BusLogic SCSI

Hi, Anyone know if the Buslogic FlashPoint (wide scsi) controllers are supported? What is the price compared with Adaptec 2940UW? Thanks! Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Linux SMP

Hi guys... I'm wondering if attempting to use Linux-SMP is any good. Afterall, for real efficiency, don't the programs/daemons/utilities have to be designed in such a way that they'll make use of SMP capabilities? For example, if I have sendmail, pop3d, httpd daemons running, on a dual process

Using reserved addresses

Hi, I have a client who would like to use the reserved addresses internally throughout his LAN... My question is, will the workstations which use reserved IPs be able to go out into the net? If those reserved IPs are not routed "outside", then how would a workstation be able to properly commun

Version 2.0

Hi, Some are saying that 2.0.20 may be the final 2.0 version... Does debian already have 2.0.20 in its stable tree? If I buy a Debian CD, will it come with 2.0.20? Thx. Ricardo

RAID in Linux (was Re: SCSI and EIDE)

Hi guys, starting a new thread about the subject... ;-) I'm still trying to get a grip on this... Few questions: 1. can raid0/raid1 be done on either scsi or ide or both? 2. what's the difference between raid0 and raid1? 3. what exactly does it do? Does it mirror data accross multiple devices,

Re: SCSI and EIDE

That's wonderful! Now will Linux implement anything greater than RAID0? Would you say your performance is significantly increased with striping? How many drives can be striped? On 15 Aug 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >

RE: SCSI and EIDE

Good point about RAID0. I know linux's implementation of RAID0 is with the MD program. Do you know if that's fully functional, and if so, is there a Debian package for it? How is it used? On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Al Youngwerth wrote: > Given equal drive parameters, the IO throughput (what matters

dump for a.out?

Hi guys, I'm really needing to use the dump utility to schedule my backups. My problem is that dump requires libc5.x, and I'm still running libc4.x. I tried upgrading libc, but it runs into other dependency conflicts, and it seems to me that unless I start upgrading *everything*, which I can't

More questions on upgrading...

Hi! I've mirrored most of the debian distribution, and I've gone thru the select process in dselect. Basically I'm ready to perform a full upgrade to Debian-1.1 now. But I'm still weary of doing it because I don't want to have much downtime since my server is used for others dialing in. My ma

pppd2.2.0f Patch (fwd)

Guys... saw this in linux-ppp mailing list... Has this patch been incorporated into the debian pppd?? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 19:58:33 +0200 From: Michael Lausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: pppd2.2.0f Patch This is a patch w

Re: dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP

Thanks! I've actually tried running dselect with ftp, but it didn't work. It looks like my version of perl may have some problems as can be seen in the error messages below. Since I'm still using Debian-0.93 and am trying to upgrade, I'm not sure how to upgrade perl because all the packages in

Re: mirror

Hi! First, thanks for the pointers... But I'm still having problems. I've done an unpack and install on mirror-2.8-0.deb (that's the version that I have here for 0.93), but there's nothing under /etc/mirror (as a matter of fact, that directory didn't even exist). There's also no README.debian u

dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP

Hi guys, I grabbed and installed dpkg-ftp. But I see no mention of any ftp usage when I run dpkg --help. Is there supposed to be a separate binary called dpkg-ftp? Because I can't find any... I'm trying to download the latest Debian distribution via FTP, but I've had problems both with ncftp a