gratuitous arp

hi all i need to send a gratuitous arp to facilitate an ip-address takeover scheme, so that other machines in the network will have correct ethernet/ip address association. before i write my own code to send out an unsolicited arp reply, i just want to check if some one has implemented this alrea

init process & directory

hi all earlier i inquired about running a process via inittab with an owner other than root. the suggestion of 'su - myuser -c mycommand' did the job very well. i now have a similar question. i want to run the same process but i want the process to think that it's on a different directory. sin

upgrade to 2.2.18

hi all i just finished upgrading my machine to the stable 2.2.18 kernel and everything seems to be working fine. i just have a bunch of little questions someone could shed light on. 1) CMD640 & RZ1000 IDE CHIPSET? when configuring the kernel, one has the option to include work

Re: xinetd vs. inetd

try tcpserver is suppose to be very secure replacement for inetd, it was written by the same guy who wrote qmail - secure replacement for sendmail. On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:05:17PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > "S.Salman Ahmed" wrote: > > > Finally, the sole reply to my posting. Thanks for the i

closing open ports

i just did an nmap to a machine i'm servicing and i have 2 open ports that i cannot account for. they are: PortState Protocol Service 781 opentcphp-collector 779 openudpunknown looking at /etc/services 779/udp is for moir

dpkg dependencies

i'm thinking of removing python, but before i do, i want to know which packages depends on it. is there a dpkg/apt command that will show me what the dependencies are? thanks pd -- "As a general rule, if you have trouble with the binary system, then probably it is because you do not real

swap size

a couple of days ago a was configuring a bunch of boxes with 1G ram and i allocated 1G of swap, because my boss said so. a co-worker then told me that the appropriate amount of swap to allocate should be twice the ram. i really don't see the point of having the swap to be twice the size of ram, e

Re: is there a linux clone of solaris ndd

yes i would like to know whether the NIC on the machine i'm currently using is physically connected i.e. the NIC is getting electrical signals. 'ifconfig' only tells whether the interface is configured. i would like to be able to detect network loss that is due to a bad uplink. i know that i coul

Re: Setting PATH file...

/etc/profile for bourne and korn based shells. On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 02:24:04PM -0600, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Do you know which is the file where I can add a path to wide-system, > including root? > > TIA > > Rogelio > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with