Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On 31 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: .. > My neighbor is a network administrator for a *large* Windows site > (10,000+ PCs), and he told me that the mail and firewall servers > had bad stability problems until he stuffed them full of RAM. my interpretation would be... it says that windoze has a

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Tom Allison
Andre Volmensky wrote: Hello all, I have to put forward an argument to management regarding setting up a firewall on some of our clients networks. What are the advantages of a linux firewall over something like Windows with WinRoute on it, or even a hardware based firewall. What are the disadvanta

installing debian though compiling most everything.....

2003-08-01 Thread tripolar
I recently tinkered with another GNU/Linux distro Gentoo. I was impressed with several features- especially having everything run super fast compared to other distros. I am sure there is a simple answer to this though I must ask to get it :-) I would like to go back to debian though start with a

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Tom Allison
Robert Storey wrote: A Linux-based firewall is probably good enough for the average home hobbyist, but in a professional environment it doesn't pay to "save money" by recycling an old PC with Linux installed in place of a router. regards, Robert That's a silly thing to say when you consider that ma

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Tom Allison
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 08:30, Rex Chan wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:50:21PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: [snip] The advantage of hardware firewall - most likely speed - specialised hardware to deal with packet processing and the like. So if a P2-233 w/ 32MB RAM doesn't ha

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Tom Allison
Mark Ferlatte wrote: For any small (read: DS3 or less), a PC based firewall will perform just as well as a hardware firewall. On the other hand, do you _want_ to be paged at 4am because your PC based firewall ate a disk? Don't know. My disk is 8 years old and still spinning. If the only thing I h

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Tom Allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Andre Volmensky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have to put forward an argument to management regarding setting up a firewall on some of our clients networks. What are the advantages of a linux firewall over something like Windows with WinRoute on it, or even a hardware ba

clamav install on Sid fails on retrieving database

2003-08-01 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings
Hi,   I am trying to install clamav, to be able to scan my email and files etc for viri. I am running Sid, all packages are fully updated. No funky apt-sources. I do a apt-get install clamav and get the following:   fourtytwo:~# apt-get install clamav Reading Package Lists... Done Bui

mozilla-firebird on stable?

2003-08-01 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings
Hi, Does anyone know an apt source for the above? Thanx! - PingWings - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - M:  06-28474259 E:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] I:  www.pingwings.nl -    

All-in-one flash card reader.

2003-08-01 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a usb flash card reader I bought for my debian box and I tried to plug it in with a flash card to test it and couldn't get it to work. I know the flash card is valid, it works on linux with a different single type flash card reader, but not wit

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:36:14AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Connor wrote: > > Spam is UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and stopping it can only > > be done with a Challenge-Response mail program, such as the one I > > put together. There isn't ANY other approach that

Re: FHS question

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:35:44AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > FHS says that this directory is for "binaries not needed in single user > mode". > But then I went over and looked at the /opt which also seemed rather > reasonable as a place to put things. > > It also seems a heck of a lot easier t

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone have recommendations about linux vs. openbsd? I have always used linux for everything and propably still will for the most part, but for security, would it be better to use openbsd? - From what I hear, openbsd is a variant off of netbsd,

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 01:30:57 2003 > > > * Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030801 14:17]: > > > > Please don't clutter your posts with pgp signatures. > > Clutter? Says he with the five line signature! Yes. You are partly right and I have corrected my sig. Thank you. But you

Trust 610 Cardreader USB

2003-08-01 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I am trying to get the above USB card reader to work under woody with a 2.4.18 kernel. Before I purchased the device, I did some searching on the web, and came up with this promising page: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1729&PHPSESSID=1568bb227d93770694b5b436529bbe33 Where a certain

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 02:00:32 2003 > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:36:14AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Connor wrote: > > > Spam is UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and stopping it can only > > > be done with a Challenge-Response mail program, such as

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:35:45AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Nick Hastings: > > * Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030801 14:17]: > > > and I, for one, don't give a rip if you are who you say > > > you are or not. We are exchanging info about DEbian/Linux, > > > > I guess you mean "Debian GNU/Li

Re: more install problems

2003-08-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 01 August 2003 06:45, Andrew McGuinness wrote: [...residue of previous snipped...] > > include/pcmcia/version.h isn't a problem. > > The errors you quoted from you compile are in code that shouldn't > be compiled unless LINUX_VERSION_CODE indicates a 2.2 kernel, at > least in the rtl8139.

Re: mozilla-firebird on stable?

2003-08-01 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Pim! Pim Bliek | PingWings wrote: > Does anyone know an apt source for the above? http://www.apt-get.org/ does: deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/backported ./ HTH, Flo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 02:29:38 2003 > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:36:14AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Connor wrote: > > > Spam is UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and stopping it can only > > > be done with a Challenge-Response mail program, such as

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 03:11:46 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These take an existing computer (Pentium 200 with 64MB RAM and 1GB hard > drive, some would argue it's hardly worth pulling from the dumpster). Oddly enough I'd argue that those are wasted on a router. :) --

Film Editting

2003-08-01 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Can anyone recommed some software which will allow me to edit an AVI file? Cheers Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Totally Customizable Technology e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | forums: http://forums.jvds.com 10% donation to

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:21:57AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > This is assuming you are under 256 users on a subnet. Why would it be a problem with more? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'`

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:04:28AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:36:14AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > > > Spam tends to be an automated, bulk emailing of addresses, but not > > > all > > > > Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people opera

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:38:10AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The domain name. > > Anyone mailing me from any address there wouldn't even know I was running > a C-R system. A fair proportion of my spam comes from debian.org addresses; spam

Re: Trust 610 Cardreader USB

2003-08-01 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Cath wrote: 2003. augusztus 1. 11:19 dátummal Peter Hugosson-Miller ezt írta: I am trying to get the above USB card reader to work under woody with a 2.4.18 kernel. Before I purchased the device, I did some searching on the web, and came up with this promising page: Hello! U have 2 download and i

Re: installing debian though compiling most everything.....

2003-08-01 Thread Shaul Karl
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:16:22AM -0500, tripolar wrote: > I recently tinkered with another GNU/Linux distro Gentoo. I was > impressed with several features- especially having everything run super > fast compared to other distros. I am curious about the hardware that Gentoo ran faster and th

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:21:23PM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > Because of such concerns, for small networks, I would recommend a > low-end x86 machine with a stripped down install of linux - basically, > iptables and ssh. For complicated routing, you'

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please avoid top-posting. On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:25:33AM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > But, use a desktop > firewall/IDS/IPS/whatever-they-decide-to-call-them-next system for > your end-users, as well. Windows XP has this built-in (I think t

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Tom Allison
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:21:57AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: This is assuming you are under 256 users on a subnet. Why would it be a problem with more? I don't know that it would and am doubtful that it would. But I'm certain of

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread TR
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:17:56 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone with a C-R program would just put the bug-tracking addresses > > on their pass list. What does C-R stand for? catch and remove? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Tom Allison
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please avoid top-posting. On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:25:33AM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: But, use a desktop firewall/IDS/IPS/whatever-they-decide-to-call-them-next system for your end-users, as well. Windows XP has this built

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Tom Allison
Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 03:11:46 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: These take an existing computer (Pentium 200 with 64MB RAM and 1GB hard drive, some would argue it's hardly worth pulling from the dumpster). Oddly enough I'd argue that those are wasted on a router.

Re: FHS question

2003-08-01 Thread Tom Allison
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:35:44AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: FHS says that this directory is for "binaries not needed in single user mode". But then I went over and looked at the /opt which also seemed rather reasonable as a place to put things. It also seems a heck of a lot

exim to exim4 smarthost question

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What would the exim4 equivilent of this? (in the Routers section) smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp domains = aol.com:netscape.net:furworld.org route_list = * smtp.comcast.net byname - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAI

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 06:43:55AM -0400, TR wrote: > On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:17:56 +0100 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [I didn't write this; Alan Connor did.] > > > Anyone with a C-R program would just put the bug-tracking addresses > > > on their pass list. > > What does C-R stand for

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 01:50, Alvin Oga wrote: > On 31 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > .. > > > My neighbor is a network administrator for a *large* Windows site > > (10,000+ PCs), and he told me that the mail and firewall servers > > had bad stability problems until he stuffed them full of RAM.

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 02:21, Tom Allison wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 08:30, Rex Chan wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:50:21PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >>The advantage of hardware firewall - most likely speed - > >>specialised hardware t

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:03:23AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Oddly enough I'd argue that those are wasted on a router. :) My current router is a Debian Sid box on an old HP Spectra 486. It handles DNS for my internal network as well. Optimally

Re: Future Debian default MTA?

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:51:35PM +0100, Mark C wrote: > I'm in the middle of planning a rebuild of a new mailserver, currently I'm > running sendmail, purly because its setup and works, yet I'm becomming > increasingly more fedup with exploits in sen

reading an ufs partition

2003-08-01 Thread mess-mate
Hi, I'm unable to read my ufs partition. like: mount -t ufs /dev/hdxx /FBSD Have I omit somewhat to do ? Thanks for your help. mess-mate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:22:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Wouldn't the DNS, DHCP, DHCP and Squid be on another box anyway? Optimally, yes, however if you're careful and you know what you're doing, you can make an almost as secure (read: just as s

Re: daten an logfile anhängen, es aber nicht löschen können

2003-08-01 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 31 July 2003 23:22, Yves Goergen wrote: > ich hab mal was von einer realisierung mit ACLs gehört (nur 'append' > erlauben oder so ähnlich), geht aber nicht mit ext2/3/reiserFS soweit ich > weiß. ACLs for ext2/3 are supprted in the 2.6 kernel; I don't know about support in the 2.4 seri

Ayuda

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Re: FHS question

2003-08-01 Thread John Hasler
Tom writes: > Wouldn't it be possible to utilize /opt for big packages (open office, > mozilla, KDE, Gnome, Java) and still leave /opt for system > administrators? That would violate the FHS. /opt was invented by the proprietary Unices. The FHS includes it as a concession to some proprietary pro

Re: Film Editting

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:04:29AM -0700, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Can anyone recommed some software which will allow me to edit an AVI file? avidemux (check apt-get.org for sources). - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread John Hasler
Colin Watson writes: > Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating the > Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond to > "challenges". And I can guarantee you that I will never respond to "challenges". -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse

Re: reading an ufs partition

2003-08-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 01 August 2003 14:33, mess-mate wrote: > Hi, > I'm unable to read my ufs partition. > like: > mount -t ufs /dev/hdxx /FBSD > Have I omit somewhat to do ? > Thanks for your help. > mess-mate grep UFS /boot/config-`uname -r` If it is not set, you will have to recompile your kernel. Choose

Re: Film Editting

2003-08-01 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Can anyone recommed some software which will allow me to edit an AVI file? > you can use avidemux (gui tool), mplayer/mencoder and transcode (and the tools they need to run on). I prefer to use some of the precompiled packages from: http://

Re: upgrade turned off lpd?

2003-08-01 Thread Qian Gong
My lpd stopped several times with unknown reason. Command /etc/init.d/lpd restart will let it work again. Now I suspect the reason is as you mentioned, due to upgrade. On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:27:17AM +0200, Ross Boylan wrote: > Earlier today, I could print. Then I did an apt-get upgrade in > t

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Aaron
On -6007-Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:57:30PM -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > What people mean when they say they are fed up with spam, is that they are > fed up with SOME spam, but want to get the others. > > There simply is no way that a "negative" approach will work. The "don't

Signing emails on the list [Was Re: Is there a *console* screen capture]

2003-08-01 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:57:25AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 01:30:57 2003 > > > > > > * Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030801 14:17]: > > > > > > Please don't clutter your posts with pgp signatures. > > > > Clutter? Says he with the five line sign

User Mangment: LDAP, AFS, Kerberos

2003-08-01 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I'm thinking about creating a central managed user and data system here. It should use AFS (OpenAFS) as virtual filesystem and LDAP (OpenLDAP) as User and Comuter info Database. I tried this earlier but it ended in more than one user database (LDAP and AFS (kerberos 4)). I thought of using K

Re: cron bash date

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to run a bash script in cron. I originally wanted > it to run at 11:59pm on the last day of every month. February > will always cause problems because of leap years. Therefore, > I decided to run cron on the first day of every month usin

Re: installing debian though compiling most everything.....

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
(This is a FAQ, as much as it's a question. See the archives of both debian-user and debian-devel about this.) tripolar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently tinkered with another GNU/Linux distro Gentoo. I was > impressed with several features- especially having everything run > super fast c

how to use debian-installer?

2003-08-01 Thread Miernik
My question is about how to use the files in people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i/images/daily/ ? I asked this on debian-boot, but nobody anwsered. I want to do a "Boot from floppy, install from net" install with d-i. I've searched archives of this group, I've read http://people.debian.org/~mbc/di.h

Re: dselect apt-get coordination

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
"DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The /etc/apt/apt.conf files is extremely customizable. See 'man > apt.conf' for all the details. > > The biggest problem I have with dselect over apt-get: it is easier to > pick which version of a particular package I want to install when > multip

Re: How to force a module to load at boot

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
Rich B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This has to be an easy one, but I'm lost. I don't know the correct > way to force a kernel module to load at boot. Add it to /etc/modules... > I got a new PCMCIA network card for my laptop. The old one loaded the > correct module automagically, but the new o

About: [SECURITY] [DSA-358-1] New kernel source and i386

2003-08-01 Thread moseley
What's not clear to me (unless I just missed in my coffee-less state) is what is required, if anything since I'm using: ii kernel-source- 2.4.21-2 Linux kernel source for version 2.4.21 with The advisory mentions 2.4.21 a few places, not not for all problems. For example: - - CAN-200

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-08-01 Thread Travis Crump
Alan Connor wrote: Most of us don't have the software to interpret them Speak for yourself. Well, very few people use pgp signatures on the list. Some may HAVE the software, but have the good taste not to use it when there is no point. For the record, roughly 21% of mail to this list is sig

Re: exim to exim4 smarthost question

2003-08-01 Thread David
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:23:36AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > What would the exim4 equivilent of this? > > (in the Routers section) > > smarthost: > driver = domainlist > transport = remote_smtp > domains = aol.com:netscape.net:furworld.org > route_list = * smtp.comcast.net byname I

Re: exim to exim4 smarthost question

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:57:23AM -0500, David wrote: > I don't know if this is what you need, but here's my smarthost > definition.. it was patched from my exim.conf by "exim2exim4" or > whatever the automatic updater was called.. Nope. I need to g

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-08-01 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:52:03AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > For the record, roughly 21% of mail to this list is signed. I am not > sure if that fits your definition of 'very few'... _roughly_ 21%? Can't you be any more precise? :) A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-08-01 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Alan Connor (Thu 31 Jul 02003 at 09:58:53PM -0700): > > Please don't clutter your posts with pgp signatures. > Most of us don't have the software to interpret them > and I, for one, don't give a rip if you are who you say > you are or not. We are exchanging info about DEbian/Linux,

Re: User Mangment: LDAP, AFS, Kerberos

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm thinking about creating a central managed user and data system > here. It should use AFS (OpenAFS) as virtual filesystem and LDAP > (OpenLDAP) as User and Comuter info Database. I tried this earlier > but it ended in more than one user database (

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-08-01 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 01:35:45 -0700 Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, very few people use pgp signatures on the list. > > Some may HAVE the software, but have the good taste not to use it > when there is no point. You know, for someone who ostensibly uses Debian, and thus is read

Re: upgrade turned off lpd?

2003-08-01 Thread Bob Hilliard
Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My lpd stopped several times with unknown reason. Command /etc/init.d/lpd > restart will let it work again. On a debian system, the canonical command is (as root, of course): invoke-rc.d lpd restart Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_R

dependency problem

2003-08-01 Thread Jacques Haubensack
Hello all, I have a "circular" dependancy problem with installation of debian packages/ I try to install the alsaplayer sound modules But alsaplayer-alsa depends on alsaplayer-common and alsaplayer-common depends on alsaplayer-alsa Same thing for alsaplayer-nas, alsaplayer-gtk etc,... How can I

Re: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz - update

2003-08-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
As an update with my inability to unarchive my copy of the kernel-source**.deb. Since I wasn't having any luck on this machine, I copied the *.bz file to my other machine (RH 7.3), and proceeded to "bzip2 -d" & "tar xvf" resulting in a good archive. I again tried on the debian machine, on the 3 d

How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?

2003-08-01 Thread David selby
Hello I have logged onto ftps before, but never an anonymous one. I need to log into ftp://archive.progeny.com/ I can view the files with mozilla, no passwords needed. I will be using wget, but initially I want to loggon with ncftp, which I have used before. I have tried [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ n

Using XFree86 4.3 server in /usr/local

2003-08-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm using mostly "testing" and have XFree86 4.2.1 installed via apt-get. If i compile XFree86 4.3 from source, what's the easiest way to find all the compile options suitable for it to work well in a debian system, yet have it installed in /usr/local? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: dependency problem

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
Jacques Haubensack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a "circular" dependancy problem with installation of debian packages/ > I try to install the alsaplayer sound modules > But > alsaplayer-alsa depends on alsaplayer-common > and > alsaplayer-common depends on alsaplayer-alsa ...installing wi

Re: How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?

2003-08-01 Thread Clement Hermann
David selby wrote: Hello I have logged onto ftps before, but never an anonymous one. I need to log into ftp://archive.progeny.com/ I can view the files with mozilla, no passwords needed. I will be using wget, but initially I want to loggon with ncftp, which I have used before. I have tried [

Re: How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have logged onto ftps before, but never an anonymous one. I need to > log into ftp://archive.progeny.com/ > I don't think the error is "real" I can loggin mozilla no probs. Is my > "anonymous" user ID correct ? do I need a password ? I don't use ncftp.

Slow SSH connects with testing

2003-08-01 Thread Rod Savard
I have noticed that there's a two or three second delay when establishing a SSH connection on Debian testing. Debian stable does not exhibit this problem. I have confirmed it on three different Debian testing boxes. If I do a ssh -v, I see the pause where indicated in the below debugging message

Re: dependency problem

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 05:12:43PM +0200, Jacques Haubensack wrote: > I have a "circular" dependancy problem with installation of debian packages/ > I try to install the alsaplayer sound modules > But > alsaplayer-alsa depends on alsaplayer-common > and > alsaplayer-common depends on alsaplayer-al

scanner problem w/ xsane

2003-08-01 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I recently bought a USB scanner, which is the Acer 3300 USB. The first time I ran xsane there was no problem but now the scanner won't work. I found I need a firmware file but it doesn't seem to be in the installation cd of the windows program :-( How should I get it ? The scann

Re: dependency problem

2003-08-01 Thread Miernik
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jacques Haubensack wrote: > I have a "circular" dependancy problem with installation of debian packages/ > I try to install the alsaplayer sound modules > But > alsaplayer-alsa depends on alsaplayer-common > and > alsaplayer-common depends on alsaplayer-alsa > -i

Re: How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?

2003-08-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello David selby (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have logged onto ftps before, but never an anonymous one. I need to > log into ftp://archive.progeny.com/ > I can view the files with mozilla, no passwords needed. I will be > using wget, but initially I want to loggon with ncftp, which I have >

Re: How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?

2003-08-01 Thread David selby
Many thanks everyone, now logged in Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FHS question

2003-08-01 Thread Todd Pytel
Tom, On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 07:18:45 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible to utilize /opt for big packages (open office, > > mozilla, KDE, Gnome, Java) and still leave /opt for system > administrators? > > I kind of like the idea of putting what you need for the b

scanner problem w/ xsane (2)

2003-08-01 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I recently bought a USB scanner, which is the Acer 3300 USB. The first time I ran xsane there was no problem but now the scanner won't work. I found I need a firmware file and I installed it (it was under another name than I thought at first sorry about the last post) I attached

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:48:36AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating the > > Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond to > > "challenges". > > And I can guarantee you that I will never respond to "c

Re: User Mangment: LDAP, AFS, Kerberos

2003-08-01 Thread Todd Pytel
Excellent comments by David. Just to add a few things... On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:26:21 -0400 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am not sure if it is possible for this three compnents (AFS,LDAP > > and Kerberos 5) to interact together us

Re: Using XFree86 4.3 server in /usr/local

2003-08-01 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Russell Shaw wrote: > Hi, > I'm using mostly "testing" and have XFree86 4.2.1 installed via > apt-get. > > If i compile XFree86 4.3 from source, what's the easiest way > to find all the compile options suitable for it to work well > in a debian system, yet have it installed in

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 10:39:44 2003 > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:04:28AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:36:14AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > > > > Spam tends to be an automated, bulk emailing of addresses, but not > > > > all >

Can't read large files from CD

2003-08-01 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Hi, I'm using debian testing, on an IBM thinkpad A31. I am attempting to copy large (>600MB) files from CD to my HD. I am getting i/o errors: cp: reading `/cdrom/The Fifth Element.avi': Input/output error In this case, it read 530MB of the file before giving me the error. Anybody have any ide

Re: upgrade turned off lpd?

2003-08-01 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My lpd stopped several times with unknown reason. Command /etc/init.d/lpd > > restart will let it work again. > > On a debian system, the canonical command is (as root, of course): > > invoke-rc.d l

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:11:18AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > >On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 03:11:46 -0400 Tom Allison wrote: > > > > > These take an existing computer (Pentium 200 with 64MB RAM and 1GB > > > hard drive, some would argue it's hardly worth pulling from the > > > dumpster

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 10:49:26 2003 > > > Colin Watson writes: > > Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating the > > Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond to > > "challenges". > > And I can guarantee you that I will never respond to "challe

Re: User Mangment: LDAP, AFS, Kerberos

2003-08-01 Thread Ken McCord
Turbo Fredriksson has a good write-up at http://www.bayour.com/LDAPv3-HOWTO.html regarding Kerberos and OpenLDAP. I'm working on a similiar project attempting to integrate OpenLDAP, Kerberos and OpenAFS. IBM Germany has an interesting project/product as well. Here's a pdf link to a product pr

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 10:55:48 2003 > > > On -6007-Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:57:30PM -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > spake thus, > > What people mean when they say they are fed up with spam, is that they are > > fed up with SOME spam, but want to get the others. > > > > The

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 11:10:43 2003 > > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Connor wrote: > >=20 > > Spam is UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and stopping it can only be do= > ne > > with a Challenge-Response mail program, such as the one I put together. > > There isn't ANY other approach

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 11:15:16 2003 > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:38:10AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The domain name. > > > > Anyone mailing me from any address there wouldn't even know I was running > > a C-R system. >

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:46:28AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > Anyone with a C-R program would just put the bug-tracking addresses on > > > their pass list. > > > > > > > > > That's how C-R programs work. The bug-track folks wouldn't even know > > > it was operating. > > > > Speaking as one

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:18:23AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 11:15:16 2003 > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:38:10AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The domain name. > > > > > > Anyone mailing me

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-08-01 Thread Shashank Bhide
Hi, I made the required floppy disksrescue/root/drivers etc.; However, when I boot using the rescue disk, the screen reads something like this. Unkown keyword in syslinux.cfg. (several times), Then, Loading linux and then it just reboots. Any thoughts? Thanks, Shashank At 03:11 PM

script to run at boot

2003-08-01 Thread hashi
Other Linuxes have a p;ace to put a file that is to be run after the usual bootup, where I can put extra commands that are also to be run at every boot. Is there such a place in Debian? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

/bin/bash: cvs: command not found

2003-08-01 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm trying to do a cvs checkout from a remote machine running SSH Version 1.2.25 [i686-unknown-linux], protocol version 1.5. Say the user is "foo", and they have cvs installed locally: >which cvs /home/foo/local/bin/cvs $ cvs -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/foo/local/cvsroot co somethi

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:38:15AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:22:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Wouldn't the DNS, DHCP, DHCP and Squid be on another box anyway? > > Optimally, yes, however if you're careful and you know what you're > doing, you can make an almost a

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