Re: Security newbie?

Art Edwards wrote: I've been running debian @ home and @ work, for years, had no indication of attacks. Over the last few days, my iptables firewall seemed simply to stop. I checked my auth log file to find many, many attempts to break in. My firewall was very simple. I have since added rules

cheap scsi card recomendation

I've about 20 of old netserver lpr machines that have the old megaraid raid card. The kernal has dropped support for these cards. I'm tired of dealing with it. Can someone recomend a card that will work well with a stock debian that I might find on ebay? The drives are ultra3 18g (only raid

samba ldap howto

Looking for a fairly current debian > samba > ldap > pdc howto.. The ones I find for sarge and/or etch all say at the top. This document is not yet finished.. :) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by RCRnet, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCR

squid socks ssh connection

Looking for some thoughts... I've got a satellite connection from home. I use a debian server for squid, files etc. I'd like to use ssh to connect to the T1 at work and have my home squid use this to connect to the internet. (Trying to bypass the Hughes proxy we're all on) So, my question is: H

raid card

better? Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358- Proud ChannelVar member! www.ChannelVar.com

Smtp auth

w how I may set postfix to use my isp for outgoing? Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358- Proud ChannelVar member! www.ChannelVar.com

RE: suggestions on site management

s had some suggestions. I got a suggestion of Drupal from a gentleman on this list. It looks MUCH more friendly with MUCH better documentation etc... Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358-

RE: suggestions on site management

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:26:27AM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: > I need a site management tool to control group permissions, logons etc. > > I've installed and run postnuke, however, it seems to be a management > nightmare. Not friendly at all. Very confusing. Am looking f

suggestions on site management

s had some suggestions. Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358-

samba domain controller

It may be I'll need to join a samba group, but I thought I may get a quick answer. Am attempting to do a test install of samba as a primary domain controller. I can see the shares and navigate them. However, when I attempt to join the domain, WinXP says "username could not be found". I have a root

samba domain controller

It may be I'll need to join a samba group, but I thought I may get a quick answer. Am attempting to do a test install of samba as a primary domain controller. I can see the shares and navigate them. However, when I attempt to join the domain, WinXP says "username could not be found". I have a ro

samba domain controller suggestions

Would like suggestions on setting up a "preferably debian" domain controller. In particular, good tools, gui's, to manage it. Or should I look at something differant like sme server? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland,

Re: Recommended Firewalls

up with src "65.16.101.97/27 192.168.1.1/24" server ssh accept server webmin accept group end # client "icmp ftp ssh smtp dns http https pop3 althttp rsync webmin dhcpclient" accept client all accept -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.

debian friendly hot-swap tray for sata

Looking for a internal hotswap tray for sata drives that is debian friendly. Suggestions before I buy?? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: script execution on the machine when its boots

al start 99 2 3 4 5 . # Note - you must leave the period in with a space before it. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why do I bother?

rry. I'm so ashamed of myself... -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

install grub to second hard drive after raid installation

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-686-smp (recovery mode) root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686-smp root=/dev/md0 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686-smp savedefault boot /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb -- Hi

recipe program

Is there not a recipe program in the debian repositories. Trying to get wife "hooked". :) -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: help with Debian

gt; Quanta Plus is pretty good. It has a page editor that generates the HTML >coding, plus it has dialog windows for developing CSS files and other various >items like tables or forms. > > > > -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broa

Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

; in it. The /root/bash file has all my alias's etc. and the alias command works under root and my user account both.. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Testing and Flash plugin trouble

> > John > > I refuse to run flash. 90% ads, 10% content on those sites stupid enough to "require" it. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Backing up Windows using rsync

n server storage capacity would >> need to be at least 200 GB x 7 = 1.4 TB. >> >> Question: Is there a better way to do what I'm doing? And is there >> already a piece of software that exists on the NET that does what I'm >> doing better and I should trying t

Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

{ vi ~/.bashrc; } # handy grep function function gw { grep $@ /etc/* -d recurse -l; } function sources{ vi /etc/apt/sources.list; } # Handy function for doing ssh to multiple servers in the same domain function ssh-r {ssh -l root [EMAIL PROTECTED]; } # Shorten the line

Re: k3b in etch?

Joseph Smidt wrote: > It looks like k3b has been sitting in unstable never moving to > testing. Is k3b going to be in Etch or is Debian holding it back for > a reason? > I just did a new install on a machine a few minutes ago and took it up to testing. The upgrade removed amerok and k3

dependency hell dist-upgrade the "right way"

I've never before had such problems upgrading as I have lately. Testing and unstable both seem to have some problems.. Anyone do a fresh install the last week or two that's worked for them? Hints? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadw

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

all advice >on how to proceed. thanks! > >Matt > > > I cannot tell you how to fix it. I CAN tell you how to avoid it in the future. apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686 will always get you the latest kernal when you upgrade. In other words, make sure to upgrade your ke

what program to use kjots?

are on my webserver maybe? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: squid related question

hereafter, you can manage it using the dansguardian module for webmin. Note: ipcop is easier.. http://www.virtualmin.com/support/documentation/thebookofwebmin/ch12.html#sqtutsettingup --- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020

Re: group callander program

> Rodney Richison wrote: > > >I find many programs as I'm googling for a simple callendar program. > >Would like advice on what you guys find usefull. > > >I seen thunderbird callendar. > >kdepim > > >These are easy to install. Work with a gro

group callander program

ty to sync from offsite locations. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian install fixes

g. Answer, pull the silly thing out and put in a lesser card. Who wants to mess with compiling kernels every time they do a upgrade... As usual. Suggestings are welcome. Maybe I'm missing something... - -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broa

change from ide to scsi drive keep system

I've seen asked before and googling does not help. Here's how I just switched over a server from ide to a compag dl380 with smart array 3200 scsi card. Install base system on target machine. Install webmin On running server, install webmin. go to system/file-system backup make a backup to the loca

ultra320 controller suggestions

I'd like to get some suggestions for some ultra320 controllers that are very debian friendly for purchase from ebay. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

move debian to another machine

thing will now be /dev/sda rather than /dev/hda so I'm looking for thoughts on the easiest way to handle this. The new machine has debian sarge freshly installed already if this helps. Maybe use tar and exclude the grub directory? Thoughts? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Comp

suggestions for small library

ord to buy.. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

larger >>drive, if possible, but its not critical. >> >> >... > >Look at dpkg-repackage- a handy way to migrate apps complete >with your customized configs to your new box (or to a fleet >of new boxes). > > > > -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR

manually run e2fsck

My system wants me to run e2fsck manually. How to do this in debian? The machine boots and runs fine. S, with grub, can I boot somehow not mounted and run e2fsck without a rescue cd? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020

Re: fstab problem

I don't think this came up in the thread, but does it show up in dmesg at all? It should theoritcally show up a the same time as all the other disks Posting relevant portion of dmesg below...It seems it finds hdc ok. But maybe not in time before it runs fsck maybe? . *

Re: fstab problem

Bill Marcum wrote: >On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: > > >>Rodney Richison wrote: >> >> >> >>>Can any tell me why this works manually >>> >>>mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive >>> >

Re: fstab problem

Rodney Richison wrote: Can any tell me why this works manually mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive But this in fstab does not work /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive ext2defaults 1 1 or this /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive ext2defaults 0 0 or this /dev/hdc1

fstab problem

ext2defaults 1 2 -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

compaq dl380 howto

0 After booting, when grub says your partition may be corrupt or invalid, edit the grub entry to say hd0, not hd1 After install, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to read hd0 permanantly -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-3

Re: vnc repeater

Joseph H. Fry wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2005 1:15 pm, Rodney Richison wrote: Is there a vnc repeater available on linux(debian) like the ultravnc repeater? For customer support... And,,, this is probably a question in the ultravnc forum, but can you connect to a repeater using linux

vnc repeater

Is there a vnc repeater available on linux(debian) like the ultravnc repeater? For customer support... And,,, this is probably a question in the ultravnc forum, but can you connect to a repeater using linux xvncviewer? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N

Re: remote desktop

Jan Grant wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Rodney Richison wrote: What method would be good to control windows machines from my linux machine. Windows remote desktop sucks. Though it's easy to setup with tsclient on my debian box. You don't explain which features of wind

remote desktop

What method would be good to control windows machines from my linux machine. Windows remote desktop sucks. Though it's easy to setup with tsclient on my debian box. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358

simple console menu

I would like to make a simple console menu for a script I'm writing. While I see things like pdmenu, I'd like this menu to show up on a plain vanila new debian base install with now gui. Do you guy's know of some simple examples I might look at to accomplish this? -- Highest R

gui network scan

What gui program might be good for scanning a network to take an inventory of machines and ip address's etc on a network? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: fstab mount at boot

before the error. Sep 21 19:10:07 Files kernel: Capability LSM initialized -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fstab mount at boot

mount it -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

backup plan bare metal

bare metal. Though when it works, it's the cat's meow.. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash script

Almut Behrens wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:33:03PM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: Am trying to automate some stuff for future installs. I'd like to echo multiple lines to the end of a file. Like this echo '. /etc/bash_completion' >> ~/.bashrc But I'd like to

bash script

text file, but I'd like to make this script non-dependant of other text files. export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto' eval `dircolors` alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS -F' alias ll='ls $LS_OPTIONS -l' alias l='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lA' -- Highest Regards, Rodney Ric

Re: netserver lpr debian nightmare

n /boot and probably /lib/modules? Mondo sure helps on this sort of thing. :) -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

move from ide to scsi

- not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Do you think it may be because the megaraid I did with modprobe rather than build add it to the kernel which I don't know how to do yet? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358

Re: rack servers debian friendly

e100 and modprobe eepro100 still can not recognize it. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rack servers debian friendly

n which brand may be more friendly to debian? IBM, dell? or what? Or should I just resign myself to keep "rolling my own" :) -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Intelligent Pro Adapter driver

s out -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sarge usb hard drive rsync problem

ved so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(420) umount: /mnt/usbdrive: device is busy -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: samba open share

Ron Peterson wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:42:53PM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: I'm having trouble getting samba to quit asking for a name and password on an open share. How may I do this without affecting the other shares that do have name and password verification? The

samba open share

group = rodney guest ok = yes force user = rodney hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0 hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.0/24 public = yes browsable = yes -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 918-358

rysync laptop

I'm a bit confused, I want to be able to sync my laptop from anywhere in the world to my desktop but want the newest file from whichever to overwrite the other. Can rsync do this? I see -auv switch should work. Is it a reliable way to accomplish this? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Ric

ipv6 over ipv4 hang when guarddog enabled

At boot, debian unstable hangs at "ipv6 over ipv4 tunneling driver" when guarddog is enabled. Help! :) -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

debian based compatible distros

s. I guess they should be called, pre-tweaked debian distros.. :) Suggestions? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

sarge install grub problem

regular cd-rom hooked to the ide ports.) Ideas? BTW, I suggested putting the drive on the regular ide port, but he'd like to keep both cd's on separate ide ports... He's hard headed. -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Clevelan

weird time problem

Bran new machine. I'll try to describe the problem with the time. The logs are not helpfull because I cannot determine what happens first, the time going back to 1901 or 1938 (it differs) Or Courier imap screaming the .Maildir doesn't exit (which it clearly does) or it doesn't have permission. I

Re: Cloning a workstation

Dave Ewart wrote: Partimage certainly works very well. You can create a bootable CD which (assuming your image fits on a CD) you can use to install your image. If the image is larger, you can use it across the network. Run partimage daemon on one box, then boot up your unconfigured box(es) with,

install HTML Parser

Is there a "debian way" to install this rather than cpan? cpan install HTML::Parser Just curious -- Highest Regards, *Rodney Richison [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* *RCR Computing www.rcrcomputing.com <http://www.rcrcomputing.com/>* *PO Box 566 - 118 N. Br

kdm logout

I've got two machines with mepis which loads to kde. At the logout prompt, I get the choice to Logout, reboot, or shutdown. I see gnome has this also. I've found kdm so irritating, I boot to a prompt now and the startx for kde. Much less frustrating. Got a clue how I might duplicate that option

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

ms to be getting php to work on the debian machine. -- -------- Rodney Richison [EMAIL PROTECTED] 118 N. Broadway PO Box 566 Cleveland, OK 74020 RCR Computing - RCRnet http://www.rcrnet.net tel: 918-358- fax: 918-358-1112 -- To UNS

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

I run a list for techs/consultants. (ChannelVar.com) They are a VERY qualified bunch of guys. (Admittedly not linux users though) :) The preferred method is top posting. The preferred format is to allow html. -- ---- Rodney Richison [EMAIL PROTECTED] 118 N.

Re: grub problem

I attempted a repair floppy last night. It didn't work out real well. Ahhh, for a command like sys a::) Novel idea... Anyway here's what I did for future google searches. Maybe it'll help someone someday. How to Repair Grub boot loader after debian ghost restore I booted with mepis (Any live-c

grub problem

grub-install Since I used the sarge netinst, I seem to have no rescue cd. :( Would someone mind giving me a simply way, on this system, to get grub back? BTW, in the future, if I'm not dual booting, do I need a boot loader? -- -------- Rodney Richison [EMAIL PROT